Notes from 2002

New official site for Iain Banks. Should eventually feature information on his fiction and science fiction works, but currently light on fresh content…

What is The Animatrix?

The Times interviews Martin Sheen about his role as President Josiah “Jed” Bartlett in The West Wing.

Emperor Norton have some Realaudio versions of three tracks (Seventeen, CrackedLCD and Turn It On) from the forthcoming Ladytron album “Light and Magic”,…

Extract from Once More, With Feeling, in which two twentysomethings from the Erotic Review decide to make the “greatest porn film ever seen”.

Still strangely fascinated by the idea of Neurobics. Related: Turns of Phrase – Neurobics.

Higuchinsky’s Uzumaki looks like it might be worth watching out for. The Midnight Eye review summarizes: “a particularly loony film, irrational, macabre,…

Cursor Miner has been thoughtful enough to provide a decent selection of mp3s from his recent album, Explosive Piece of Mind.

The Hustler is available in the UK on DVD on the 19th August.

At last! A picture of Mousehole‘s very own fish-headed delicacy, Star Gazy Pie. Also: all you need for a Cornish Feast.

The Jazz Messengers (another excellent Cowboy Bebop fansite). Related: CowboyBebop.org, a mirror of the deceased official CowboyBebop.com site, including…

From Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer.

Dead tree versions of the Zebraface cartoons spotted in the newly Borders-ified ground floor of Foyles just the other day. The copyright notice inside the…

One last thing; Whelk (the best of Upsideclown).

Busy for a while. In the meantime, a new low in lazy weblogging: all the links I've never slept with (or, um, weblogged).

Big Uncharted Audio update follows. Cursor Miner’s new album Explosive Piece of Mind (Lo Recordings) is in shops now (Independent review). The Remote…

Matt Groening is curating next year’s U.S. All Tomorrow’s Parties festival (June, UCLA).

An explanation and guide of the Peters World Map (or why the standard Mercator projection may be a tad inaccurate, as mentioned in last week’s episode of…

While we’re on the subject of 70’s kiddie sci-fi, it should be noted that a full episode of the anime-style puppet show Star Fleet (aka X Bomber) is…

Battle of the Planets released (again – this time by Universal Playback) on DVD and VHS. Despite rumours, “there are no Gatchaman or G-Force episodes…

“Ludology is a new discipline that studies games in general and computer games in particular. Here you will get news, opinions, upcoming conferences and…

iCandy reviews Six Feet Under at Screenburn. Related: official Six Feet Under website.

The Zebra Face cartoons, from Invisible Spies.

Coasteering on the Pembrokeshire coast sounds like it might be fun.

Warp/Creative Review animation microsite.