Google Fiber and its ilk may be the final straw that will break the back of broadcast television. Once high-speed video downloading becomes widely available, instant access to VOD services will make them even more appealing…
…What makes this possible is the complete paralysis of the broadcast dinos. All the majors are frozen in terror, repeating old behavioral patterns that turned self-destructive years ago. NBC spent the annual defense budget of Mauritius to promote “Ready for Love,” a tired Bachelor clone. ABC is going to build its autumn slate on “Scandal”, “Revenge” and “Betrayal,” as well as a hasty spin-off of its fading “Once Upon a Time” franchise. ABC also handed Robin Williams a comeback vehicle. Sensing desperation, audiences are tuning out in disgust.
”Not untrue, so far as it goes. And, without figures to hand so yeah pinch of salt, but I think the US network tv “hits” of last season, like REVOLUTION, would have been woeful cancellation fodder even four years ago.
Cable, both basic and premium, have gotten their whacks in, but the full-on “disruption” of American tv by deep-pocketed internet business is going to be really interesting, not least for what disrupts them.
SPEKTRMODULE 22: The Deeps
SPEKTRMODULE
SPEKTRMODULE
22
The Deeps
44 minutes and 13 seconds
If you don’t know what you’re looking at: SPEKTRMODULE is a podcast of haunted, ambient and sleepy music I compile for my own amusement.
@warrenellis / warrenellis@gmail.com
Feel free to tell other people about this podcast for sleepy people if you like it.
1. logotone
2. “Nord I” – Montag (album: Hibernation)
3. “Tidal Wave” – Grouper (album: Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill)
4. “Floating Around” - Firetail (album: Learning to Cheat)
5. “Late Night” – Belong (album: Colorloss Record)
6. “Untitled 3” - Eddies In The Water (album: Untitled)
7. “The Slave Quarters” - Moscow Abandoned Hotel (album: The Salem Witch Trials Vol. 2)
8. “Porta Vox Umbra” - Black Seas Of Infinity (album: Amrita - The Quintessence)
9. “The South Sound” - British Sea Power (album: Man Of Aran)
10. logotone
All previous SPEKTRMODULE podcasts live under this category header or at spkmdl.libsyn.com .
SPEKTRMODULE 21: Pathological Heart
SPEKTRMODULE podcast
SPEKTRMODULE
21
Pathological Heart
29 minutes and 53 seconds
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If you don’t know what you’re looking at: SPEKTRMODULE is a podcast of haunted, ambient and sleepy music I compile for my own amusement.
@warrenellis / warrenellis@gmail.com
Feel free to tell other people about this podcast for sleepy people if you like it.
#SPEKTRMODULE
1. logotone
2. Auscultation of the Heart (excerpts) - J. B. Barlow and W. A. Peacock (album: Auscultation of the Heart)
3. “heart whispers” - Gkfoes vjgoaf (album: Light Weaving)
4. “Okono” - The Dead Sea (album: The Dead Sea)
5. “Cambrian Sea” - Peter Klausmeyer (album: Electronic Music, Vol. V)
6. “African Tribal Dances 11” - Pondo (album: v/a - African Tribal Dances)
7. “Caverns Of Tsyr” - Nubiferous (album: The Black Mountaineer)
8. 2. Auscultation of the Heart (excerpts) - J. B. Barlow and W. A. Peacock (album: Auscultation of the Heart)
9. “Crystals (Mahr Dream Mix)” - Vortex Rikers (album: Her Embrace)
10. logotone
Yes. I had a novel, GUN MACHINE, come out in January of this year. It was a New York Times, ABA and Barnes & Noble best-seller. It’s still in development for TV at Chernin Entertainment, too. I am currently working on another (untitled) novel for the same publisher, Mulholland Books. I am also writing a non-fiction book, with the working title of SPIRIT TRACKS, for Farrar Straus Giroux, nominally about the past and future of the city. The film version of the GRAVEL graphic novels is still in active dev at Legendary Pictures, where I’m working alongside director Tim Miller. I just recently finished a six-month stint as a columnist for VICE UK, having also written a feature for VICE magazine. Also a few other things.
Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. #2 by Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen
Sometimes I genuinely wonder what the fuck was wrong with me, that year.
SPEKTRMODULE 18: Leaving
SPEKTRMODULE — SPEKTRMODULE
SPEKTRMODULE 18. A sleepy music podcast. Track listing.
Since a few people asked me to make it rebloggable.
