Via Warren Ellis, I found an interesting site called Ethnopoetic Soundings, which has assorted weird ethnic music in MP3 format.
(Because I use Firefox, and installed the Greasemonkey extension, and installed this cool inline MP3 player script from the script repository, I get a cool little flash button next to each mp3 link in a web page, which can stream and play the file when you click it. Very cool for browsing something like that. Or reading
Warren Ellis also points to Blind Shrike, a (free) novel by Richard Kadrey. From Kadrey’s introduction:
Back around 9/11, when I saw such disparate fantasies as Hellblazer and Preacher, American Gods and Carrie, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Donnie Darko living together in happy harmony in friends’ homes, I thought it would be a swell idea to write a little fantasy novel in a modern American prose style.
Damn, was I wrong.
Talking of music and free stuff, there’s also an unpublished Fiona Apple album you can download. And also a Kleptones album which photomatt has mirrored. I like Revolverlution best, I think.