Notes from 2002

Black Dog’s seminal 1993 album, Temple of Transparent Balls, gets a welcome re-release on 1 July. Parallel, the compilation featuring odd bits of GPR…

WaiWai is “a section of the Mainichi Daily News that brings articles from Japan’s weekly tabloids to foreign readers”. Cheeky, punning nonsense.…

The Times on John Lanchester’s new novel, Fragrant Harbour.

Random Word Generator. Favourites so far include wagenegle, framelechable, scrudicturns, bylarlous, lubbses, sistral, bitwences, tection, lovememons and…

Gottfried Benn’s Morgue & Other Verse (1912-13), available in PDF and iSilo formats from Supervert.

The new Ladytron album, Light and Magic, is currently set for a US release on September 17th. No word on the UK release date yet.

Keele University’s h2g2 entry.

Go to Sonomu Presents… Lo And Behold! on Friday 21st June, featuring Cursor Miner, Andy Drumboy (Stereolab), They Came From The Stars (I Saw Them), Lord…

Gamer.tv are looking for game-literate people to appear as contestants on their new television gaming quiz show.

Coldcut have updated the website for their excellent Solid Steel radio show. It now includes all the playlists since 1998 and archives of some shows.

Rephlex’s lektrogirl are holding dj workshops “for people who have never touched decks in their lives before and want to know how to make some noise”. The…

nerve.com on Henry Miller’s Opus Pistorum.

Terrible chat-up lines, dating dos and don’ts and hints & tips from Nathanial Merriweather’s Lovage, a Prince Paul/Automator project.

Fabulous Sound Machines at the Croydon Clocktower.

A Few Notes on the Culture by Iain M Banks. Related: Culture Ship Names and Culture Inspired Ship Names.

Back. Highlights: Tate St Ives (including the altogether more impressive Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden and David Shrigley postcards);…

Anglepoised, More Beer and Uncharted Audio are off to the delightful village of Mousehole in Cornwall, to escape from celebrate the Jubilee and World Cup.…

Odd, bootleg-style MP3s from Leila.

The history of Pocky (that’s Pocky, not pocky).

Currently listening to a couple of albums from John Zorn’s Tzadik label; Memories Are My Only Witness by Yuka Honda (of Cibo Matto fame) and Dreams by…

The Independent on noodles.

Headlessness interview on Chuck D’s SlamJamz venture.

The National Post on the problems with the Star Wars prequels. In short: where’s the Han Solo types?

The Rat King, where “young rats close to one another in the nest sometimes get their tails entangled and become a living Gordian knot”. Related: The 1963…

Post questions for Mil Millington’s live online talk this Friday (May 31 at 2pm). Related: Mil’s archived columns in the Guardian.