Notes from 2003

The video for Rock and Roll is Dead (WMV, 3.5 meg) by Kings Have Long Arms and Phil Oakey, in which Phil has his head attached to a robot and destroys a…

An edited extract from the Elite/Braben/Bell section in Backroom Boys: The Secret Return Of The British Boffin.

Earworm: The Divine Comedy’s Lost Property.

Fällt Publishing’s Invisible Cities installation “offers the opportunity to experience an intimate series of portraits of the world’s cities painted with…

Kyoichi Tsuzuki’s Happy Victims is on at The Photographer’s Gallery until Nov 16th.

Been busy and having connection issues but back in the game, for all that’s worth. Highlights of the past few weeks:

Earworm: Super Furry Animals‘ Do Or Die.

Have been busy with work one, work two, work three, setting up a company, moving flat, getting slightly older and sundry other bits. Thanks for being…

Side-by-side review of two recent Orwell biographies in The Times:

The Birmingham-based Default Response network have a selection of mp3 recordings taken from their live events, including sets the excellent Russian duo…

Consuming Bodies: Sex and Contemporary Japanese Art:

Quint Buchholz postcards (including One Morning in November).

V/Vm Test Records are one of those nice record labels, the kind that publish the bulk of their nutty back catalogue as mp3s after they’ve been deleted.…

“My name is Julio, Julio Gottstein,” he said, his smoldering eyes aflame in the victory he would soon celebrate. “And soon, I shall have you.” Her heart…

Pierced man told to wear box on his head:

Thomas Pynchon on Orwell’s 1984:

The Guardian profiles William Gibson:

The novelist Alan Warner dreams of the perfect novel:

Filming on the Tube, including Location, location, location, a gallery of the London Underground’s “more photogenic locations” such as Charles Holden‘s…

Herb vs. ‘erb:

The Times on large-scale construction debacles:

I’d still like to know why Cai Guo-Qiang’s ‘Ye Gong Hao Long’ (Mr Ye who loves dragons) firework explosion project at Tate Modern on 31st January went so…

Ever had that urge to turn your life into one big project?

Jonathan Meades’ A-Z of British gastronomy:

What’s the deal with New York and New Jersey?