Notes from 2003

Quick Raymond Queneau link dump:

Enooze – the site for “experimental electronic music & experimental journalism on experimental electronic music” – is back with a new look and new toys…

Extensive George Orwell archive, including complete novels, articles and essays. If only this type of resource had been around five years ago...

Well, service would have resumed had I not been distracted by the edited highlights of Gallipoli, Karaoke Box Dai Chan, Heaven, The Goldhawk, 93 Feet…

Jam, Chris Morris’ TV follow-up to the Blue Jam Radio 1 show, is being released on DVD in April. The extra features (including ‘Undeleted Scenes’,…

Foundation have announced details of next year’s All Tomorrow’s Parties festival, The Directors Cut UK 2004. There’s no word on the line-up so far (as is…

Goodness, it all comes at once, doesn’t it? Apologies for this latest interruption in service – life has been rather busy recently. Regular posting will…

Links culled from Death Writes:

From a review of Spring Heel Jack, J Spaceman, Matthew Shipp, Evan Parker, William Parker and the incredible Han Bennink at the Queen Elizabeth Hall:

A review of Sue Barr’s gaikoku mura (‘foreign country villages’) photographs at the Architectural Association:

Ever since the nasty NTL people took away CNX and replaced it with The Biography Channel, I’ve had to satisfy my cravings by listening to Zorak’s puerile,…

Babel Guides: a new site for world literature in translation. As well as information about Babel’s guides to French, German, Dutch and Flemish, Brazilian…

The Independent on Foyles, London’s most eccentric large bookshop.

The Cursor Miner track pressedRetina features on Pre-set, a new compilation of electronic music taken from demos received by Mute Records. Another track…

Radio 4’s recent adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy is now available as an unabridged 26 CD (35 hour) box set.

Londumb was established to campaign against the BBC’s gradual dumbing-down of their London station, GLR London Live BBC LDN. As part of the ongoing…

Takashi Murakami’s enjoyable Kaikai Kiki exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park finishes on the 26th of January. I wouldn’t recommend going…

David Shrigley’s new(ish) book, Human Achievement (with sample pages at The Redstone Press).

Eleven O’Clock Rooibosch Tea is strangely addictive despite being caffeine-free. I’m not too bothered about the reputed health benefits; it just tastes…

Warp Records look set for another successful year if the WARPWIFOF2003 promo mix (RealAudio) is anything to go by.

Guardian profile of Nicholson Baker:

A Japan Times interview with Haruki Murakami, in which he discusses the conflict between closed systems and open systems in society:

William Gibson has an official web presence to complement the launch of his new novel, Pattern Recognition. There’s even a shiny new weblog and forum to…

Elihu Vedder’s drawings for the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám:

Aw, look: the first edition of O’Reilly’s 1996 Web Master in a Nutshell in handy searchable HTML! Comes as part of the complete Web Developer’s Library.