Notes from 2002

The Guardian review of Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides:

Jeffrey Eugenides‘ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Middlesex is out in paperback in September and it’s well worth reading:

Domino are set to release a double-DVD Pavement retrospective entitled Slow Century, featuring every video, two complete concerts and a full length…

The Village Voice interview Haruki Murakami about his recently published short story collection After the Quake and his 10th novel, Kafka on the Shore:

Sherry and Robbie Williams karaoke? Elsie Mo and the Mountain Goats, more like. Also witnessed more of the creeping gentrification of…

Off to Newcastle-under-Lyme for a few days. While you’re here and I’m not, how about feeding me weird things?

Gabba.net, the people behind Plug and Play, are keeping a temporary, online archive of selected mp3s from their Winamp playlists. Current top selections…

Leaf’s new label compilation Lost for Words features tracks from Boom Bip & Doseone, Susumu Yokota, Murcof and The Sons Of Silence and is only three whole…

The Guardian interviews Sarah Waters about her new novel, Fingersmith, and the BBC adaptation of Tipping the Velvet:

Robert Tubbs, ‘musician’. Not to be confused with Robert Tubb, musician.

Mount Fuji, a UK-based online shop carries an extensive range of Japanese food products (including confectionery!).

Yabuno Kensei and 326 – Mi tsu ru, have an exhibition running at The Spitz from 29 September to 13 October, 2002.

The Online Etymology Dictionary:

Angry Bed Positions, an extract(?) from Mil Millington’s Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About (due on 3 October, 2002).

While discussing a New York Times article on L33T speak invading schools, one slashdotter ends up reworking The Lord’s Prayer with modern idioms:

Pulp, Warp and Eat Your Own Ears have got together to put on Auto, a huge party in Magna near Sheffield on 14th December:

The League of Gentlemen start their third season on Thursday 26th September on BBC TWO. Related: visiting Royston Vasey (aka Hadfield, Derbyshire).

Midnight Eye’s review of Katsuyuki Motohiro’s botched-heist film Space Travelers:

A virtual tour of Keele University.

Trailer for Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, the television series sequel to the film. Related: Bandai press release.

How did I miss this? Logan’s Sanctuary is the soundtrack to an imaginary Logan’s Run sequel.

Extract from Zadie Smith’s second novel, The Autograph Man. Reviews: This is London, The Observer, Salon.

Resonance104.4fm, a project from the London Musician’s Collective, is “London’s first radio art station”:

Torrez reckons that even you can do it:

The Right to Know from the Information Commissioner purports to “give information on how to access files and records held on you by people and…