Warren Ellis's Blog, page 361

A little piece of deep time, from way back in my formative past. Good night.

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The weekend doesn’t stop strange people saying things on the internet, oh no:

* Solstice Night Open Mic (21jun09) - indeed, this is the weekly open thread for people to say things on the internet, usually ranting about their lives, declaiming peculiar manifestos of the future or showing inappropriate photos of themselves

* Unconventional Recipes - some of these are just worrying

* Tumblr - feed your tumblarity

* 8tracks Mixtapes - because you like music and so do we

Fucking hell, that’s savage stuff.

That is yes nine fucking percent of someone basically gathering eight tons of hops and punching you repeatedly in the face with them. This beer is just fucking madness in a bottle. There are tones of toffee and chocolate in there, but mostly it’s just successive regiments of evil and vengeful hops detonating landmines inside your head.

Possibly shouldn’t have sunk half a litre on an empty stomach no.

If you like bitter, Hardcore IPA is essentially the uber-bitt

It’s a good day: "musical travel agent" Philippe Petit has new sounds up on his MySpace player.

For some months I have been working on soundtracks whose focus be upon the use of sound and dimension. "Cordophony" is a series gathering contemporary/acoustic "stringed grandeur" + wing instruments with movements of masses of sound, filled with collected field-recordings, vanguard soundscapes, manipulations of glass and vinyls…

I am not a musician and even if I create some original music I’d rather be

1. beware of dog and bears, 2. bodies aligning, 3. look up

Kieron Gillen just got published in MARVEL HEROES, a British-created Marvel anthology kid’s comic for the British market. And it’s published in the British tradition for such things, as Gillen explains:

…it’s a proper comic. That being, a comic with a free gift on the front. A gun which fires a foam rocket! People often wonder how they could improve Watchmen. My answer would be to attach a foam-rocket launcher to the front. Hell, it’s a way to improve anything. I dug Anna Karenina, but I’d have

Via Chairman Bruce, this is actually a bit creepy. Stweet: a fusion of geolocative Twitter and Google Maps, utilising Street View wherever possible. Fascinating.

Happy Solstice Day, internet scum. Weekend broadcasting commences.

(Madame Zo)