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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO “IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING” + SATURDAY MATINEE MUSIC VIDEO: “I Talk to the Wind (Take 2)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRk9lxEmxg4
#KingCrimson #IanMcDonald #petesinfield #GregLake #JudyDyble #jonimitchell #progressiverock #jazzrock #folkrock #Britishrock #classicrock #johnnyjblair #singeratlarge #pianist #sanfrancisco #courtofthecrimsonking #wind #birthday
In the Court of The Crimson King
#kingcrimson #inthecourtofthecrimsonking #60srock #70srock #classicrock #progrock #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky #robertfripp #greglake #ianmcdonald #michaelgiles #barrygodber October 10, 1969 ~ the debut album from King Crimson ~ considered by many to be the first and ultimate progressive rock album. It pioneered the progressive rock and art rock sound by fusing rock with elements of jazz, classical, and symphonic…
https://robinbannks.com/2026/10/10/in-the-court-of-the-crimson-king/
"Long, Long Way from Home" is a song written by #MickJones, #LouGramm and #IanMcDonald that was initially released on #Foreigner's debut album. It was the third single taken from the album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMbP5woz7S8
"Long, Long Way from Home" is a song written by #MickJones, #LouGramm and #IanMcDonald that was initially released on #Foreigner's debut album. It was the third single taken from the album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE1osvu95ZE
"Dirty White Boy" is a song recorded by British-American #rock band #Foreigner, written by #LouGramm and #MickJones, and produced by #RoyThomasBaker, Jones, and #IanMcDonald. It was the first single taken from the band's third studio album, #HeadGames (1979). The B-side, "Rev on the Red Line" has also proven to be very popular among fans, but was never released as an A-side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_qh3K60ZTQ
"Waiting for a Girl Like You" is a 1981 #powerBallad by the British-American #rock band #Foreigner released as the second #single from the album 4 (1981) and was co-written by #LouGramm and #MickJones. The opening motif was written by #IanMcDonald and the distinctive #synthesizer theme was performed by the then-little-known #ThomasDolby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lllwj_gkKpY
There are two ultimate fears, the annihilation of solitude and the annihilation of the crowd. We lose our identities if we are alone with no one to reflect us back on ourselves... or we lose our identities if we are in a mass of others; anonymous, corporate, overwhelmed by the babble.
-- Ian McDonald
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #IanMcDonald #Crowds #Solitude
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah
"Dirty White Boy" is a song recorded by British-American #rock band #Foreigner, written by #LouGramm and #MickJones, and produced by #RoyThomasBaker, Jones, and #IanMcDonald. It was the first single taken from the band's third studio album, #HeadGames (1979). The B-side, "Rev on the Red Line" has also proven to be very popular among fans, but was never released as an A-side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQoURkhD7b0
"Dirty White Boy" is a song recorded by British-American #rock band #Foreigner, written by #LouGramm and #MickJones, and produced by #RoyThomasBaker, Jones, and #IanMcDonald. It was the first single taken from the band's third studio album, #HeadGames (1979). The B-side, "Rev on the Red Line" has also proven to be very popular among fans, but was never released as an A-side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQoURkhD7b0
‘Woman Of The Hour’s Ian McDonald Sells Cult Thriller Pitch To Netflix With Andrea Berloff & John Gatins On Board To Produce
#Acquisitions #News #AndreaBerloff #IanMcDonald #JohnGatins #Netflix
https://deadline.com/2025/12/ian-mcdonald-sells-cult-thriller-pitch-netflix-1236633271/
There are two ultimate fears, the annihilation of solitude and the annihilation of the crowd. We lose our identities if we are alone with no one to reflect us back on ourselves... or we lose our identities if we are in a mass of others; anonymous, corporate, overwhelmed by the babble.
-- Ian McDonald
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #IanMcDonald #Crowds #Solitude
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Protest #MarchForOurLives #Florida
HAPPY HEAVENLY BIRTHDAY to Greg Lake, legendary singer-songwriter, pioneering influencer of bass and guitar, co-founder of King Crimson, and lead vocalist for Emerson Lake & Palmer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmMKFaBS5a0
#KingCrimson #IanMcDonald #petesinfield #GregLake #JudyDyble #wind #progressiverock #jazzrock #folkrock #Britishrock #classicrock #johnnyjblair #singeratlarge #pianist #sanfrancisco #courtofthecrimsonking
‘River Of Gods’ Creates A Mythology For The Future
River Of Gods (2004) by Ian McDonald is a story like India itself. Full of complexity and contrasts. At times confusing and misleading but ultimately enriching unlike any other experience. McDonald layers a story that spans not only the globe and space but time and reality. River Of Gods is a densely rich story readers will find difficult to escape.
One hundred years since India regained its independence from the British Empire it faces many new challenges. Drought, war, and enemies from within and without. Then there are the datarajas and rogue aeais.
As India tries to cope with its problems something new has appeared. An object in space contains something impossible. An artefact older than the solar system itself. An artefact that starts the hunt for a new god.
India rests on a knife edge. On one side lies war and destruction. On the other side economic ruin and international humilation. The lives of strangers will now decide the future of India, the world, and an entire universe.
River Of Gods is as ambitious as it is compelling. McDonald envisions a future for India that, on the surface, seems haphazard and chaotic. However, looking deeper there is much more going on and with a real direction.
McDonald does a marvellous job capturing the scope and scale of India by having multiple protagonists instead of one. River Of Gods opens as several disconected stories at first. They range from the seemingly mundane to the imperative.
This method of storytelling aides McDonald in his goal of showing the vastness of a culture like India. This is important as the story progresses. Without this sense of scale the later events aren’t quite as meaningful.
As each story evolves the protagonist in each faces ever increasing difficulties. In some instances these are quite personal, in others they have a much wider effect. In all cases they sprial around one another until they begin to intersect. As each thread gets closer the plot tension increases.
The worldbuilding of River Of Gods is effortless. This is because McDonald doesn’t dwell on it. He provides enough points to allow the reader build the world in their imagination. This makes the world unique to each reader.
River Of Gods contains elements of cyberpunk, hard SF, and literary SF. McDonald blends these elements in a way that is remincent of Philip K. Dick. And like Dick he questions reality and our definition of it.
McDonald makes use of non-binary gender, or nutes, and artifical intelligence to explore identity and racism. In both cases they are seen as not human and in both cases they are openly reviled. However, they are also used by the world to meet its own ends. The hipocracy is open and evident.
In the case of Aeais they face heavy restriction and regulation. Forbidden from becoming too powerful they are also have a great deal of freedom. The number one soap opera in India is the aeai creation Town and Country. The lives of its aeai ‘characters’ are followed as closely as cricket scores.
Yet rogue aeais are hunted down and ‘excommunicated’. Much like Dick’s use of the word retirement when referring to the killing of replicants in Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (1968) McDonald’s choice of word makes the killing of aeais easier for the killer. It absolves them from the act of killing. In this case excommunication becomes a religious act.
In the case of nutes McDonald uses them to explore personhood. Nutes alter themselves to have no identifiable gender. Viewed as something alien and unwanted and they are often subjected to discrimantion and violence. McDonald is years ahead of the problems such people face today.
River Of Gods is a book that deserves more attention and respect than it recieves. I credit this through the use of India and Indian culture. The thought that India might become a dominate country creates a degree of increduality among some readers. The same thing occured with David Wingrove’s Chung Kuo series in the 1990s. The thought of a Chinese dominated future was too much for some people to accept. However, both McDonald and Wingrove have accurately touched on some aspects of their futures.
Ian McDonaldRegardless of how people view the possibilities of India’s future River Of Gods is an exciting and thoughtful story. McDonald is creating a mythology not for humanity but for technology. If humanity ever succeeds in creating, or initiating, true artificial intelligence how will it see us? McDonald wonders how our treatment of AI will affect that view.
River Of Gods is dense and satisfying. There is a lot going on but it never loses the reader. Even when events seems unrelated McDonald has a plan. When the story reaches its ultimate climax its feels like it should have been obvious from the start. McDonald and River Of Gods are both vastly underrated and as such will come as surprise to new readers.
I have nothing but praise for Ian McDonald and River Of Gods. It is a huge sprawling story that will entertain and enlighten. For readers stuggling with a rut River Of Gods is the perfect way to break out. This is SF the way it is meant to be.
Seperated By Space & Time
Several years ago I randomly discovered these two images, one a photo from 1973, the other a painting from around 2009. I was struck by the similarity of the two men separated by space + time!
The photograph of the young man leaning against a houseboat was taken by UK Photographer lan McDonald in Middlesbrough.
The painting is by Martha's Vineyard resident Heather Neill. Titled The Bogcutter it is a portrait of the artist's son!
#ianmcdonald #heatherneill #ianmcdonaldphotography #heatherneillart #youngmen #photograph #painting #art #artist #photography #marthasvineyard #middlesbrough #thebogcutter #bogcutter #peinture #kunst #künstler #menofthesea #seamen #fotografia #modernart #artworld #lifebythesea #blackandwhitephotography #photographer #fotografie #portraits #portraiture #portrait #twins
SATURDAY MATINEE MUSIC VIDEO: “I Talk to the Wind (Take 2)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRk9lxEmxg4
#KingCrimson #IanMcDonald #petesinfield #GregLake #JudyDyble #jonimitchell #progressiverock #jazzrock #folkrock #Britishrock #classicrock #johnnyjblair #singeratlarge #pianist #sanfrancisco #courtofthecrimsonking #wind
https://www.patreon.com/posts/youre-there-for-134426910?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link #johnnyjblair #singersongwriter #singeratlarge #love #mortality #family #holiday #time #eternity #glencampbell #jimmywebb #mellotron #flute #wind #kingcrimson #ianmcdonald #tapevaultstudio #chrisvonsneidern #blackish
MY SONG OF THE WEEK “They Were There For You”
https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/they-were-there-for-you
#johnnyjblair #singersongwriter #singeratlarge #love #mortality #family #holiday #time #eternity #glencampbell #jimmywebb #mellotron #flute #wind #kingcrimson #ianmcdonald #tapevaultstudio #chrisvonsneidern
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXrpFxHfppI
The wall on which the prophets wrote
Is cracking at the seams
Upon the instruments of death
The sunlight brightly gleams
When every man is torn apart
With nightmares and with dreams
Will no one lay the laurel wreath
When silence drowns the screams?
Confusion will be my epitaph
As I crawl, a cracked and broken path
If we make it, we can all sit back and laugh
But I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Yes, I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Yes, I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Between the iron gates of fate
The seeds of time were sown
And watered by the deeds of those
Who know and who are known
Knowledge is a deadly friend
If no one sets the rules
The fate of all mankind, I see
Is in the hands of fools
The wall on which the prophets wrote
Is cracking at the seams
Upon the instruments of death
The sunlight brightly gleams
When every man is torn apart
With nightmares and with dreams
Will no one lay the laurel wreath
When silence drowns the screams?
Confusion will be my epitaph
As I crawl, a cracked and broken path
If we make it, we can all sit back and laugh
But I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Yes, I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Yes, I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Crying
Crying
Yes, I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Yes, I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Yes, I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Crying
#KingCrimson #PeterSinfield #RobertFripp #GregLake #IanMcDonald #MichaelGiles
Rocznice:
»65 urodziny Iana McDonalda«
Sześćdziesiąt pięć lat temu w Manchesterze przyszedł na świat brytyjski pisarz science-fiction Ian McDonald.
https://www.fahrenheit.net.pl/aktualnosci/rocznice/65-urodziny-iana-mcdonalda/
#Fahrenheit_zin #IanMcDonald #pisarz #DesolationRoad #EmpireDreams #SpeakinginTongues #CyberabadDays #Łuna #KingofMorning #QueenofDay #Everness
There are two ultimate fears, the annihilation of solitude and the annihilation of the crowd. We lose our identities if we are alone with no one to reflect us back on ourselves... or we lose our identities if we are in a mass of others; anonymous, corporate, overwhelmed by the babble.
-- Ian McDonald
Terminal Café
https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/12/27/terminal-cafe-2/
#book #CaliforniaLosAngeles #CityAndTownLife #CityAndTownLifeFiction #fiction #IanMcDonald #immortalism #ImmortalismFiction #ImmortalismeRomansNouvellesEtc #LosAngelesCalifFiction #review #ScienceFiction #TPolyphilus #VieUrbaineRomansNouvellesEtc
There are two ultimate fears, the annihilation of solitude and the annihilation of the crowd. We lose our identities if we are alone with no one to reflect us back on ourselves... or we lose our identities if we are in a mass of others; anonymous, corporate, overwhelmed by the babble.
-- Ian McDonald
How ‘Woman of the Hour’ Decided Which Rodney Alcala Murders to Depict on Screen and the Level of Violence They Should Show
#Variety #News #IanMcDonald #RodneyAlcala #WomanoftheHour
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/woman-of-the-hour-rodney-alcala-violent-murders-1236182852/
Film Review: WOMAN OF THE HOUR (2023): Anna Kendrick's Film is a Chilling and Fascinating Portrait of the True Events it Covers
#FilmBook #AnnaKendrick #AutumnBest #DanielZovatto #DenaldaWilliams #DylanSchmid #GeoffGustafson #IanMcDonald #JedidiahGoodacre #JessieFraser #KarenHolness #KathrynGallagher #Kelle...
‘Woman of the Hour’ Writer Explains “Obligation” To Approach True Crime Genre With “Empathy”
#News #AnnaKendrick #IanMcDonald #Netflix #NicoletteRobinson #TrueCrime #WGA #WomanOfTheHour #WritersGuildOfAmerica
How ‘Woman of the Hour’ Screenwriter Ian McDonald Turned a Horrifying Serial Killer Story Into a Modern Tale of Toxic Masculinity
#IndieWire #Features #InterviewsCelebrityInterviewsInsiderTakes #Film #IanMcDonald #Interviews #WomanoftheHour
Anna Kendrick Recalls “Actively Shoving Down” Urge To Make Directorial Debut ‘Woman Of The Hour’ & Drawing From “Absurd” Hollywood Experience
#News #AnnaKendrick #Exclusive #IanMcDonald #Netflix #QA #RodneyAlcala #WomanOfTheHour
https://deadline.com/2024/10/anna-kendrick-woman-of-the-hour-interview-1236116395/
A Diamond Films lança A Garota da Vez nos cinemas de todo o país nesta quinta-feira, 10 de outubro. O longa conta a história real e bizarra da jovem atriz Sheryl Bradshaw (Anna Kendrick) que, participando do programa de namoro The Dating Game nos Anos 1970, ganhou um encontro não com um pretendente charmoso, mas com o perigoso serial killer Rodney Alcala.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSamHLAefHI
Estreia de Anna Kendrick na direção, o longa é uma alegoria sobre como as aparências enganam. Por isso, conforme narra as etapas até Bradshaw entender que está em perigo, A Garota da Vez faz questão de trazer as histórias de outras das centenas de vítimas que Alcala fez. Dessa maneira, o longa coloca o espectador para sentir os riscos e a tensão da protagonista, enquanto revela as artimanhas do assassino e a humanidade das mulheres que morreram em suas mãos.
Enquanto Kendrick interpreta Bradshaw, o papel de Alcala fica a cargo de Daniel Zovatto. O elenco ainda conta com Tony Hale, Pete Holmes, Kathryn Gallagher, Kelley Jakle e Autumn Best. Já o roteiro é assinado por Ian McDonald.
Com 90% de aprovação no Rotten Tomatoes, A Garota da Vez estreia nacionalmente em 10 de outubro. O filme é distribuído pela Diamond Films, a maior distribuidora independente da América Latina, que em 2024 foi responsável pelos lançamentos de Longlegs – Vínculo Mortal, Entrevista com o Demônio e Imaculada no Brasil.
#AGarotaDaVez #AnnaKendrick #AutumnBest #Cinema #DanielZovatto #DiamondFilms #Filmes #IanMcDonald #KathrynGallagher #KelleyJakle #PeteHolmes #RodneyAlcala #SherylBradshaw #TonyHale
Ian McDonald and Michael Giles - 'McDonald and Giles" (1970)
#NowPlaying #IanMcDonald #MichaelGiles #KingCrimson #SteveWinwood #vinyl #vinylrecords #progrock @vinylrecords
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgWHYEBS4HPMYuEw56DElQ9YK3AoEpHcb&si=iW6L7TTPlyrW7kJh
@pluralistic
Happy birthday to Ian McDonald (British novelist). Here's to Hope!
#IanMcDonald
#DesolationRoad
#TerminalCafe
#Hopeland
I just had my mind well and truly blown. I'm reading Ian McDonald's latest novel, Hopeland, and about a fifth of the way through he introduces the Music, a machine to play a piece of music that will take a thousand years to complete.
It's like the Long Now Foundation's long clock in a way, but McDonald's conception is more evocative and his description in the book is stunning in its beauty and power. It's the most striking thing I've read in a decade.
V. Hopeland by #IanMcDonald
Seriously what the *fuck* is this amazing, uncategorizable, unsummarizable, weird, sprawling, hairball of a novel? How the *hell* do you research – much less *write* – a novel this ambitious and wide-ranging? Why did I find myself weeping uncontrollably on a train yesterday as I finished it, literally squeezing my chest over my heart as it broke and sang at the same moment? The stars of *Hopeland* are members of two ancient, secret societies.
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YouTube helping #India become the #cyberpunk #dystopia novel #IanMcDonald already wrote.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/10/16/youtube-is-autogenerating-videos-for-songs-advocating-the-expulsion-of-muslims-from-india/?utm_source=mastodon
54 years today 😵💫⏳
King Crimson - ‘I talk to the wind’ (in “In the Court of the Crimson King”, 1969)
#music #KingCrimson #RobertFripp #GregLake #IanMcDonald #MichaelGiles
I came across these two images, one a photo, the other a painting, and I was struck by the similarity of the two men separated by space and time! The photograph of the young man leaning against a houseboat was taken by UK Photographer Ian McDonald in Middlesbrough in 1973. The painting by current Martha’s Vineyard resident Heather Neill, titled The Bogcutter is a portrait of the artist’s son!
#ianmcdonald #heatherneill #ianmcdonaldphotography #heatherneillart #youngmen #photograph #painting #art #artist #photography #marthasvineyard #middlesbrough #thebogcutter #bogcutter #peinture #kunst #künstler #menofthesea #seamen #fotografia #modernart #artworld #lifebythesea #oilpainting #huile #oleo #Ölmalerei #artists #painter #worldofart
"Dirty White Boy" is a song recorded by British-American #rock band #Foreigner, written by #LouGramm and #MickJones, and produced by #RoyThomasBaker, Jones, and #IanMcDonald. It was the first single taken from the band's third studio album, #HeadGames (1979). The B-side, "Rev on the Red Line" has also proven to be very popular among fans, but was never released as an A-side.
https://youtu.be/pDGNmE2SGiQ
"Long, Long Way from Home" is a song written by #MickJones, #LouGramm & #IanMcDonald that was initially released on #Foreigner's #debutAlbum. It was the third single taken from the album.
https://youtu.be/vMbP5woz7S8
Have you ever read a novel that was so *good* you almost felt *angry* at it? I mean, maybe that's just me, but there is one author who consistently triggers my literary pleasure centers so hard that I get spillover into all my other senses, and that's #IanMcDonald, who has a new novel out: *Hopeland*:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780765375551/hopeland
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* #Edinburgh: I'm speaking at #Cymera23 with #IanMcDonald and #NinaAllan on 3/6:
* #London: I'm speaking at the #BritishLibrary with #MarthaLaneFox on 5/6:
https://www.bl.uk/events/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow-techno-thriller
* #Berlin: I'm keynoting #Republica on 7/6:
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