Fishmen
February 24th, 2009 | researchmaterial
A one-minute-thirty-eight-second musical version of HP Lovecraft’s THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH. Really. By the clearly mad George Taylor, lyrics by the HP Lovecraft Historical Society:
February 24th, 2009 | researchmaterial
A one-minute-thirty-eight-second musical version of HP Lovecraft’s THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH. Really. By the clearly mad George Taylor, lyrics by the HP Lovecraft Historical Society:
WARREN ELLIS is the award-winning creator of graphic novels such as FELL
, MINISTRY OF SPACE
, PLANETARY
, and TRANSMETROPOLITAN
, and the author of “underground classic” CROOKED LITTLE VEIN
.
Kieron Gillen - 09 Feb 10
The whole run of Plan B magazine has been released as a single 670Mb PDF. That’s 46 issues of some of the finest music writing of the decade. And a lot of posturing pretentiousness too. It’s like two of my favourite things for the price of one. Or none, as it’s a free PDF.
If you’ve any interest in music in the 00s, or music full stop, this is a great thing to just have on file. You’ll discover a new band every time you browse it.
Hell, it’s even worth getting if you’re one of the games journalist sorts. For the first 10-20 issues or so, I was doing games stuff for it. And Quinns and Mathew Kumar too, who I bullied into contributing. Very much written for the non-gamer about games which get pretty much no coverage, we had fun trying to decode the concept of Outsider Games.
Whole thing here. Go gets!
Coilhouse - 08 Feb 10

Back around the time of Issue 03, we launched the Small Business Advertising Program to create affordable ad space for indie companies in the print version of Coilhouse. By the time Issue 04 rolled around, the number of advertisers had grown significantly – by this time, we had record labels, jewelry and clothing designers, sculptors, other magazines, web hosts, toy makers and graphic designers advertising in our pages. Click here to see them all. With editorial duties taking up more and more of our time as the weeks go by, the moment has come for us to seek help with the advertising side of running the magazine. We’re looking to hire an Ad Manager for our Small Business Advertising Program, starting with Coilhouse Magazine #05… and possibly subsequent issues.
Full details after the jump!
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jwz - 08 Feb 10
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Open The Future - 08 Feb 10
For those folks who are interested, here's the Slideshare version of the presentation I gave last week at the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute annual meeting. I was asked to talk about foresight thinking, as the event theme was "The Big One of 2056: What Went Right?" a look at a fictional 7.8 quake in the SF region that was handled as well as they could imagine possible.
My goal was to offer a bit of reassurance to the audience that there is some real utility to thinking about the future, and to spell out (in a cursory way) the kinds of big picture issues they should keep in mind while looking ahead forty-six years.
By and large, it was a successful talk. The post-talk questions were engaged, with little push-back, and I'm told that the overall response from the audience was quite positive.
The talk was video recorded, and I'm told will eventually be available to the public. I'll link when that happens.
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I am quite without words.
This is great. It appeals to two of my passionate loves: H P Lovecraft and Vaudevillian nonsense.
Priceless.
[...] Uncle Warren posted that this is “the best thing on the internet today.” And he was right. Please watch. [...]
Oh praise Cthulhu that is awesome. :D
Wow. Feels as good as first love!! ::weeping::
@warrnellis on Twitter – “this is the best thing on the internet today and you should see” – You, sir, are a fount of surprisingly accurate information.
Holy crap. Nightmares tonight…
Very well shot. Awesome!
Man i’d love to see a rats in the walls musical.
That was awesome. Very catchy HP Lovecraft tune with Vaudeville thrown in.
Holy Crap. Must…watch…again…
This is probably the best thing on the internet this week at least.
Hah, Gillman House.
This is effing amazing…. completely made my day.
I, for one, welcome our fishy overlords.
I just shit myself.
Very nice. A perfect counterpoint to the nightly news.
Some people have some weird things inside their heads!
Have my fish-babies.
(Jaw Drops)
(Drools)
Dang!
[...] through some guy named Warren Ellis, here – the Shadow Over Innsmouth, in 1 minute thirty-eight seconds, as a musical. Lyrics by The H.P. [...]
Thank you. Just….thank you.
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Mr. Ellis, you have made my friends George and Colin two very happen men today.
Wow! That was thoroughly bizarre. Wonderfully creative, and imaginative, but also bizarre!
Genius! Best thing I’ve seen in ages. :0)
Splendid!
Distephano, re “Man i’d love to see a rats in the walls musical.”
then you should check out Alexander Hacke & The Tiger Lillies ‘At the Mountains of Madness’
“itstheratsratsratsratsratsratsratsratsratsratsratsratsratsratsratsratsratsratsratsratsratsratsinthewalls!”
The Skipper & I were cracking up: it’s priceless! Thanks!
Can’t wait for the off Broadway version:
Joss Whedon – Lyrics
Danny Elfman – Music
Mike Mignola – set design and art direction
Love it!
This made it into the Metro this morning. Life is… odd.
Absolutely awesome. A very good idea, the whole story included in such a few time and even funny…
That’s just brilliant.
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