I don’t think poor Zo has stopped screaming yet.

Good morning, sinners. This is warren ellis dot com.

Perhaps apposite to today’s earlier mutterings, Ben Terrett:

I don’t think blogging is as good as it used to be. It’s lost a little magic.

I know this is down to rise (and ease of use) of Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and all them but I miss blogging. Proper old fashioned blogging, like this and this and this.

If you’re in or around Brighton tonight, go to THE OUTER CHURCH, held upstairs at The Freebutt, for an indoctrination into the kosmiche, the hauntological, the confusing and the electronic as prepared by Joseph Stannard, writer for THE WIRE magazine and The Quietus. I would be there if I could, and, in fact, in the near future, I might be.

This design has always been peculiarly popular.

Artist/writer Katelan Foisy says: "I’ll be on the H2O Network Friday Sept 17th at 6 p.m. talking about my book Blood and Pudding and self transformation. For more info on the H2O network and a call in number click here."

The PAR AVION split CD by The Ithaca Trio and Machinefabriek is a rather lovely thing, too. Atmosphere, classical instruments, ambience, things heard from another room.

And oh my god there’s a new Philip Jeck album out today and Secretly Canadian just sent me a new album from a new band Warren is happy this afternoon oh yes

Memory9 – Crash by Outpost Music PR

UK Kindle. Probably the easiest way to find it in the UK, too. US Kindle. Much easier to find in print over there, but you might want to fill your little slate up.

Delighted to see my friend Ryan Keely interviewed at AICN about comics. Important note: Ryan Keely also buys her round, and can match an Englishman drink for drink.

Also, I am declaring this as today’s theme, as I feel a bit slow and fragile and am now crawling to the pub. "Endless Spring," by Houses.

Houses – Endless Spring from Houses on Vimeo.

AND THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HIS ACTUAL UNIFORM, TOO

(memo image via Katie)

Brian Cox. I got to see footage from his first scene with Mr Willis in Toronto. They just locked a camera off on him and he did about five minutes of dialogue in a single take. This still seems to sum it up nicely.

Of course, as with much of the film, his character didn’t exist in the book. But Ivan Simanov does tie into the book’s themes: retired and distrusted by those who came after, and very much both the threat and the wreckage of the 20th Century.

Anyway, I’m posting this because they haven’t really released any of Mr Cox’s work on the film yet. And also, you know, vodka + knife + possible Russian Mafiya smoking jacket = good times tonight.

MECHANICAL GARDENS, the debut album by Altar Eagle. John Twells (Xela) was recommending it on twitter, so I thought I’d give it a listen. Listen along if you like.

ALTAR EAGLE – Mechanical Gardens by _type

If Something Awful goons crew-rate a spacelaunch vehicle on August 31st I am going to laugh and laugh and drink and laugh some more and send Elon Musk a box of flaming turds and then laugh even more.

Author TA Pratt did a donor-funded online serialisation of a novel, the fifth instalment of a sequence whose first four books were published by Bantam Spectra. The postmortem numbers are very interesting.

All quiet here today, as I’m in the middle of many things. Twitter’s off too. Back Monday.

Evelet on Whitechapel posts proof-of-life for the GODLESS SEX INFIDELS shirt.

14-minute video of Jamais Cascio speaking at the Activate conference, demanding money from fellow speakers and terrifying people with his shoes while talking about the futures of the internet. Is very good.

How in the hell did I not notice until last night that China Mieville has a blog?

The new RxRy EP, MEMORY LANDSCAPES, is rather pretty, a sketch of the summer we didn’t quite have (at least over here in the UK). And it’s free. You kind of want to write liner text for it that is a list of bullet points of things that reflect off the shiny notes.

Bidding is still running on these beautiful Eliza Gauger art pieces.