| From The Novel Due Out This Summer |
[Jan. 23rd, 2005|01:06 am] |
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| | Sidecar - I Have Known Love | ] |
(Mike and Trix are in Texas, being driven around by Mike's old acquaintance, the possibly-mental Bob Ajax.)
"Does nobody walk here, or what?"
"Ah, well, you've come here at an exciting time, Mike. There's a surplus in the city budget this year, so you know what we're gonna do? We're gonna pour us some sidewalks!"
"No sidewalks," Trix muttered. Trying out the phrase on her tongue.
"You East Coast types," Bob smirked. "You're like little weakass colonies on the edge of Real America, you know that?"
"Walking makes us weakass?" I laughed.
"Fine for your cramped little towns like New York," Bob proclaimed, sitting up taller in his seat. "But this is the big country, and we need big cars, and the space for 'em. This sidewalk thing, it just means we ain't too proud to make things a little easier for our visiting cousins from Weakass Country. We're big people like that."
"You're from fucking Minneapolis."
"Texans are born, and Texans are grown, and they're all Texans nonetheless. I fucking love it here."
A few minutes later, he started crying, and had to pull over the car.
"They hate me," he gasped between great painful heaving sobs, his big soft face contorted in agony. "God help me, Mike, they all fucking hate me like I was Hitler's fartcatcher."
(c) Warren Ellis 2005 all rights reserved back off shiteyes |
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[Jan. 23rd, 2005|11:11 pm] |
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| | The Meltdowns - Battle Hymn | ] |
From the Bad Signal mailing list, which you can subscribe to here:
For the period I was on MySpace, it basically wasn't working right.
http://www.myspace.com -- is one of those social network systems, like Friendster. Like Friendster, it operates mostly as a meat market. It didn't work right. A LOT. But, towards the end of my time as a member on the system, the MySpace people -- which I suspect is actually just one guy called Tom -- developed something the other Fuckster clones don't have.
If you're a musician, you get one of their special music pages, and it has a standalone mp3 player built into it, where you can stream your music.
And now MySpace isn't choking all the fucking time, and things like bookmarking favourites is working reliably, it's actually become a good place to hunt for new music.
Right away, I found this:
http://www.myspace.com/sidecarlilidelamora
Where the band Sidecar do a wonderful cover of the Silver Apples' "I Have Found Love". Which you can also download off the player as a mp3.
If you've got the time, just wander around in the music listings for a while. I'm adding it to my list of places I look for new music in, and will probably mention the stuff I like on warrenellis.com (which, scarily, has had 1.4 million hits since Jan 1).
(Note: I just logged on, and MySpace, amazingly, isn't working right. Ah well. Try again.)
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