If you read my book WILD MASSIVE and are curious about What Happens Next, you might enjoy a recent short story I wrote
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...because it's smaller than my other books.
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As you can see, I was cheeky in my youth.
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Today Tordotcom revealed the cover to my next book, a stand-alone novel called WILD MASSIVE. Here's a little description to hopefully pique your interest:
Scotto Moore’s Wild Massive is a glorious web of lies, secrets, and humor in a breakneck, ...
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This Newsletter Cannot Save You is sent roughly every other Friday, featuring an adventurous selection of short films, music videos, and experimental video art, plus a perfunctory and painless personal update now and again. This newsletter presumes the apocalypse is imminent and it's time to jack the good videos straight into our veins.
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Tuesday, January 11, my debut novel BATTLE OF THE LINGUIST MAGES is released! You can join me and my friend K. Brian Neel for a virtual book launch event sponsored by Elliott Bay Book Company. Join us if you would like to hear a snippet of the book a...
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The new book got a starred review.
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Uh, I hang out on YouTube a lot.
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I was on the Made You A Mixtape podcast recently, ostensibly to talk about my novella, YOUR FAVORITE BAND CANNOT SAVE YOU...
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Recently I found a music video that particularly delighted me, published to YouTube back in 2012, with zero comments on its page. I was particularly enamored of the video, so I decided to leave the first comment.
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I recently spent a lovely hour chatting about art on the Seattle-based Perfect Bound Podcast.
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While consolidating files to make my laptop less confusing to me, I discovered that my career in playwriting & theatrical production is represented by a total of 12,343 files on disk.
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Tor.com announced my debut novel today. It's called BATTLE OF THE LINGUIST MAGES, and I literally could not be more excited at the thought of seeing it out in the world.
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The Sept 2, 2016 performance from the Bumbershoot Festival is available for you to enjoy!
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About the author.
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Tackling an important Twitter meme in a no-character-limit format.
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It's been a wild ride, and I have the feels about it.
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Take this little tour of a typical writing day for me.
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Secrets revealed! Music discovered! Old school ambient for the win!
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You can still get the
2019 Debut Sampler from Tor.com, which features
YOUR FAVORITE BAND CANNOT SAVE YOU, for a little while longer. It's free. Go on, snag it!
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My short play
All Out Of Second Chances is being produced as part of Love Travels Fast, an evening of short plays directed by Jennifer Jasper. If you happen to be near Bennington, VT,
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I'm in Toronto for a progressive house music festival. A guy named Jimmy struck up a conversation with me...
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My short play
Exactly What You Would Do was selected to be a part of PARAGON: The Largest Science Fiction and Fantasy Play Festival in the World (November 9th and 10th, 2019 at
Otherworld Theatre in Chicago, IL). Go see it!
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A couple years ago, I was asked to participate in an experiment called Audition Armory, organized by the
Pocket Theater, in which a small group of playwrights met up with a small group of actors, in order to write tailor-made audition monologues that these actors could choose from. I thought I'd post these for posterity's sake.
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One of my favorite short plays,
Sending A Message, is appearing in Pleasance Theatre's
Science Fiction Theatre Festival in Islington at the end of May, 2019. Go see it. What do you mean you're not in Islington. What do you mean.
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Over on Tor.com, I write about five great sci-fi music videos, including videos from the likes of Janelle Monae, LCD Soundsystem, and Massive Attack. Go forth and check it out!
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Silhouette won the Outstanding New Play award at the 2018 Gregory Awards. It's my first win, after being nominated twice before (for
Duel of the Linguist Mages and
When I Come To My Senses, I'm Alive!). Deeply proud of this show.
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1. Preface every email you send with the salutation "GREETINGS, CAPITALIST SWINE!" like no one's watching.
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Just going to drop this here before I forget.
8/29/2018
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Hey I'm writing a new musical! It's called Silhouette, and it's going to be produced as part of Annex Theatre's 31st season in the spring of 2018.
The rough elevator pitch goes something like: "Magic and technology collide on a distant world, whe...
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I'm participating in a unique evening of theatre soon (Oct 13-15), produced by a science-focused theatre company called Infinity Box. The evening is called Thought Experiments on the Question of Being Human, and the topic is:
"The Science of Chang...
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2017 update: We stopped posting this weekly webcomic a while back, but I realized I still have the prelude stories online at Tumblr and wanted to archive that fact here on the blog. So here you go!
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I'm actually maintaining four distinct Tumblr sites now, which I realized I'd forgotten to really mention here.
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OK, I bit the bullet and started publishing mixes on Mixcloud. I have several mixes to choose from: eclectic mixes, house mixes, an ambient mix for example. However, by far, the only mix that anyone cares about is my
one hour mix of "Africa" covers.
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“Studies Show: Reality is Mutable” is a cinematic virtual reality experience by artist/software developer Jacob Fennell, combining spherical video and a multi-path science fiction story.
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here we see, rarely found on this wretched material plane, a donut that is blessed with the Shimmering Icing of the Heavens.
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A long lost a cappella cover of Apparat's "Komponent" magically resurfaces!
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Majesty: An Intergalactic Aerial Odyssey was performed by the students at Versatile Arts in spring 2017.
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In which the end of 2016 is handily summarized for your convenience.
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Comics, theatre and the arts - a rundown of 2016 through the end of May.
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Music, comics, and theatre over the back half of 2015 - which has turned out to be a very busy year.
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"Buy you a drink? Let's enjoy ourselves before Cthulhu rises..."
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ITEM: Annex Theatre produced my latest play, H.P. Lovecraft: Stand-Up Comedian! The script is posted for your convenience, and we actually recorded this one, so you can watch opening night on YouTube or listen to it on Soundcloud. To promote the sh...
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Apparently I couldn't be bothered to update this site since August 2013. OMFG I'm so, so sorry. Please know that I understand you people have been waiting patiently. And by "you people" I mean "search bots". BUT SERIOUSLY, here's a quick tour of what I got up to during that long dark web-site-ignoring phase.
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I recently got a chance to direct a piece called The Half Brothers Brand Old-Time Variety Show, which ran throughout August 2013 at Annex, described as:
Neo-bluegrass trio The Half Brothers (Rick Miller, John Ackermann, and David Nixon) step throu...
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I've started a new Tumblr called "Much Preferred Customers," named after the Dissociatives track "We're Much Preferred Customers."
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I got a chance to play the Narrator in a "Princess Bride" themed aerial show last weekend. The photo shows me in my Peter Falk costume, and is probably the last time you'll ever see me wear a moustache in public.
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With 14/48 Kamikaze weekend upon us, I wanted to throw out a few suggestions for anyone lucky enough to be a virgin writer this weekend. These are just things I try to keep in mind every time I sit down to write a new play for 14/48.
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We open the doors at 7:30, at 8pm we kick things off with Chinese New Year, and from that point until midnight, we celebrate almost 20 different holidays in succession.
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There was a time in history when the entire Internet was sufficiently limited that publishers believed its entire contents & functions could be described in 817 pages.
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The High Seas perform Cee-Lo Green's "Fuck You" barbershop style. The High Seas are Darren Davis, Brian Kinyon, Rick Miller and Scotto Moore. Arranged by Darren Davis. Live at Annex Theatre's Spin The Bottle, Dec 2, 2011.
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I'm singing the lead on this piece, written by Chris Jeffries, recorded back in 2006.
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They came to Seattle to do a fashion spread with technology dudes and my promoters managed to wrangle me a spot.
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I was invited to direct a vignette in the 2nd annual Halloween extravaganza at the AND household in north Seattle, and my contribution was a twisted clown surgery scene where toy props like dolls and robot dogs - as well as fake intestines - were extracted from a helpless victim.
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I'm singing the high tenor on this piece, written by Chris Jeffries, recorded back in 2006.
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14/48, the Gregory Awards (again!), and a brand new musical on the horizon.
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A parody of
this that I cooked up this a.m.
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Harlequin Productions of Cayuga Community College in upstate New York will be producing my play,
When I Come To My Senses, I'm Alive! the weekends of March 17-19 and 24-26, 2011.
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In a completely unexpected twist, I have been nominated in the "Outstanding Playwright" category for the Gregory Awards!
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After years away from the web video world, I am super stoked to be in post-production on a new sci-fi comedy web video series!
The Coffee Table will be fifteen 5-minute episodes about a family that discovers that their new coffee table is actually an ancient alien artifact, and they inadvertently activate it, sending their entire house hurtling through the void.
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After six years, say goodbye to Comfort Music.
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A few exciting events happening in the near future:
My new play, When I Come To My Senses, I'm Alive! is opening April 23rd at Annex Theatre, directed by Macha Monkey's executive artistic director and long time pal of mine, Kristina Sutherland. ...
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Global Ignite Week, Spin The Bottle, and more.
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A new version of Elegant Catastrophe Singers appeared recently at Annex Theatre's "60 Seconds Max" edition of Spin The Bottle, in which 50+ performers were given no more than 60 seconds to perform in rapid fire succession.
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"Mark Siano and the Freedom Dancers will take audiences back to an era when music was softer and fashion was louder - and when dancers had the power to move space and time."
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I'll be presenting a new digital fairy tale at tonight's Ignite Seattle, and then again this coming Friday at Spin The Bottle. The piece is called CPU, and is a cautionary tale about the dangers of modern neural malware. (8/3/09)
Update: I also...
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The itinerary for the next couple weeks.
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I've been writing a music blog called
Comfort Music for the last 4.5 years or so, and it's nice to get a little shout out from the blogosphere after all that time: I was included in Little Gray Pixel's list of top 10 music sites, amidst some pretty good company.
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Come see me in
Kid Simple, an excellent modern fairy tale about a girl who invents a machine for hearing sounds that can't be heard.
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My life's work is complete - I have finally been sampled in a trance track.
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Let this post be the unofficial landing page for the one album that Pukka left behind for the world to discover, an album called
Space Is My Accomplice. Today, I am also their accomplice.
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A review of every single artist I checked out at the Sasquatch Music Festival earlier this year.
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The itinerary for the next several weeks and slightly beyond.
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The itinerary for the next several weeks and slightly beyond.
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In which I attempt to recount the events of two intense weeks of hot hot creative creative action action in May of 2008.
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Kevin Kelly recently posited that a core group of "true fans" in today's day and age could keep an artist afloat outside the world of mass market promotions and contracts. Ambient artist Robert Rich is living that life, and produced a wonderful response to Kelly's assertions.
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If you missed my performance of "intangible method" at ETech (like, oh, 98% of the people at that conference), you can catch it Friday, April 4th, at
Annex Theatre's late night cabaret,
Spin The Bottle. The show starts at 11:00 pm at our new space: 1100 E. Pike St (on 11th Ave. at E. Pike). Admission is still only $9!
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My acappella group,
Elegant Catastrophe Singers, will be appearing this Friday night at
Annex Theatre's monthly cabaret,
Spin The Bottle. We'll be performing two songs: an original tune entitled "Voicemail," and of course, a two-part arrangement of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean." What's not to love?
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If you're planning on attending the upcoming
ETech conference in San Diego, don't miss the
Ignite talks that are happening Monday night, March 3rd, at 8:30 pm. I'll be performing a 5-minute adaptation of my short story
"intangible method," using nothing more than 20 slides, photos by Jen Moon, and the modeling skills of
CHERUB alumnus Brynn Hambly to tell the tale of a young woman who discovers first-person video footage of her own life is being posted to YouTube from the future.
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After wrapping up
CHERUB, the intrepid production house
Caution Zero Network went to work on its second Internet video series: an 11-episode, 114 minute serial called
What The Funny. Join us for a screening on March 1st of the whole series at Northwest Film Forum!
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