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CASTLEVANIA Season 3 Cast Announcement

Warren EllisworkFebruary 20, 2020

Richard Armitage, Alejandra Reynoso, James Callis, Ade M’Cormack, Theo James and Jaime Murray are back.

They are joined by Yasmine Al-Massri, Ivana Milicevic, Jessica Brown Findlay, Bill Nighy, Navid Negahban, Toru Uchikado, Rila Fukushima, Jason Isaacs, Lance Reddick and Barbara Steele.

Now that is a cast. Them are some serious fucking actors right there. I was amazed that any of my actors even took the goddamn job, and remain amazed by them as people and artists.

I got to write for and work directly with all these people, and, let me tell you, it was a learning experience and a fucking joy. Absolutely wonderful humans.

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Warren EllisstatusFebruary 20, 2020

Drying mushrooms. Starting a ten-day diet reset, which mostly involves cutting bad habits like eating delicious crap. Drying these off and tossing with a little thyme salt (which I made last year) and smoked salt (which I didn’t make and should learn to) will help manage the craving for delicious evil crisps. Remember, in my country, crisp technology is highly evolved. It’s not like your fucking Ruffles or whatever. This is the seat of civilisation we are talking about here.

That said, I also note that this half of Southend is cut off from London by landslips on the train line, so we could be full Mad Max by the weekend.

Inbox at a girthy 21 because I haven’t even attempted to clear it yet. I had studio notes and overnight confirmation of a CASTLEVANIA social media drop at 5pm UK time, so it’s been reading and messaging so far today, and talking to a friend about a project that doesn’t have a codename yet because it is purely notional at this time. Which reminds me, I need to start the newsletter. And also get ahold of the new functions on the WordPress theme the site is now using. Okay. More water. Here we go.

Wed, 19 Feb 20 17:01:50

Warren EllistimestampFebruary 19, 2020

I once again installed Typology as the site theme, some time after WordPress Special Circumstances helped me get the place on solid ground. Once again, Typology has weird kinks in it that I can’t iron out — apparently if I don’t somehow turn the first page into a static webpage instead of running latest posts, I can’t get rid of the stupid red “Read Later” button, and it doesn’t load images past the first page unless you click into a post and click back out. Why did a basic scrolling blog become so fucking hard to implement?

(Edited to add, I just bought a copy of Alia and stuck it on here instead. Not quite as pretty or fun, but it seems to work well and I finally have a working search box again!)

COALESCENCE OF FORM, Visionary Hours

Warren EllislibraryFebruary 19, 2020

Visionary Hours is a project of Hayden Berry, a musician from Hebden Bridge, UK that combines the sound of strings, guitar, voice, flute and clarinet, to create slowly-evolving modern classical pieces, full of space and gently revealed micro melodies.

Hypnotic. Magnificent.

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Warren Ellislinks and bookmarksFebruary 19, 2020

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Warren EllisstatusFebruary 19, 2020

Spotted at the Hope & Ruin on Sunday.

I’ve started keeping a written log of what I do at the desk all day, and today’s page is already half-full. Inbox 13 after two hours’ grinding, the boards are marked up and I had a small breakthrough on something I’m developing for a friend — one of those small details that appear completely unnecessary internal logic / dressing until you get it and you realise it speaks to the whole thing. And to get it, I had to go against one of my long-standing rules, which is: “hyperspace” is magic handwavium bullshit. Sometimes you have to give up old thinking to get at the new idea, right?

I want to get some notes down later about “blogs,” which also goes against the long-standing rule of us old internet dinosaurs — “blogging about blogging.” But I need to get some thinking out in front of me where I can see it properly and work with it.

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Warren EllisstatusFebruary 18, 2020

Well, this was a surprise. A promo CD from Clay Pipe Music! Doesn’t seem to be online anywhere yet — maybe I’m not even supposed to be posting this! But thank you so much for sending it to me. It’s going into the machine as soon as I’m done typing this.

It’s pushing noon – have already processed some show design material and the new social media assets from our team at Netflix, been insulted by Molly Crabapple, and wrestled the inbox down to 15. I have a phone conference later, but now I must descend into a Batman script and lock down the back end.

Day After

Warren EllisjotterFebruary 17, 2020

We went to Brighton, connected with the child and her partner (who made me two lovely hand-trimmed hand-stitched notebooks with thick art paper), ate an excellent meal at an out-of-the-way Argentinian steakhouse where my dessert (ice cream with walnuts in whisky) came with a lit candle, and then went to see Amigo The Devil play live at the Hope & Ruin, which was superb. Generally, a pretty damn good way to start my fifty-second year.

Got home this afternoon, made some booking and schedulings, cleared email, ran around social media, and then, while I was still in a peaceful and proactive frame of mind, started switching things off.

(And then did notes on someone else’s pitch document, because LA may be closed but it’s still a work day out here on the Thames Delta.)

(And talked to the phone a lot – iOS Reminders app is getting a workout this month)

Yesterday I was told I look “excessively nautical” so tomorrow I’m trimming the winter beard, an act which should summon Spring. But won’t.

Next phase of 2020 begins now. Feels good.