C'mon C'mon (play very loud)
My new band, Deathline's first reasonably complete demo track has been uploaded to our MySpace page. Check it out and let us know what you think!
We're trying to achieve a much harder and more pared down aesthetic than my previous band, Electric Shocks; perhaps more similar in sonic quality to some of the Six Inch Killaz stuff of yore. Jennie's Nordic accent works well with the backing, I think.
More tracks follow as we mix and master them.
We're now trying to get bookings to start gigging from around mid August onwards. Promoters! get in touch: book@deathline.co.uk
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Thrilling adventures in Time & Space
Following on from the trip to Mars, the Doctor took Siobhan and me to the remote planet Clerkenwell out past the Eastern rim.
Near a deserted tribal gathering area, we were astonished to find a crashed TimeShip. Could this be evidence of the ongoing existence of the Doctor's race? The Ship's outer shell had burst, allowing its inner dimensions to spill out, pulsing with light and leaving the merest hint of music on the air.
The dying TimeShip was calling to us for help. The Doctor reached out to try and replenish the ship's alien engines; perhaps there was one last hope of regeneration...
But it was too late. All we could do was sit and watch her die.
We returned in silence to the TARDIS to embark on further adventures.
Clerkenwell remains a dead world.
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Copyleft vs Copyright at Rose's
Siobhan's polite rant about the fine points of her Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial ShareAlike License (which I also protect my works under) made me want to highlight this important initiative for protecting whilst allowing fair use of creative works.
I've had arguments about this before, so I thought I'd present as illustration one such that I had on Rose's Forum a couple of years ago. The thread concerned transgender fiction, and at one point someone raised the issue of copyright on digitally published works, to which I replied:
To which I got this reply, which took me aback more than a fair bit:
I felt this completely missed the point and felt I had to point out the significance of CC in the realm of digital creation:
I appreciate that for the person replying, who was creating, a monolitic, "old media" piece of work, a "novel" (albeit publishing it online), that Creative Commons might not be the corrcect framework.
However, it did rankle that they moved from there to calling Creative Commons, the exemplar of the concepts of fair use and free culture a "racket", a "license to steal".
That made me absolutely LIVID.
I know, I know. I should avoid discusion forums.
All bloggers and other people sharing creative works on the web should at least consider Creative Commons as a licensing framework. CC licensing is built into the flickr app, for example.
If you want to read further, start at free culture advocate and CC founder Lawrence Lessig's Wikipedia entry and start clicking.
Oh, and if you want one reason why Copyleft has to be right, go no further than Bill Gates' condemnation of it :)
Attribution: Thanks to Siobhan who got me thinking about this again.
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I'm a Musician, writer, photographer, designer, transgendered z-list celebrity. Insomniac's boyfriend. Tragic glamour and sleepless nights are my fellow travellers. Skinny jeans and pointy shoes are my mode-us operandi. I like cats. Especially the ones who talk. Oh, and David Lynch.
