Notes
2004
- Keep It On Ze Rinky-dink· Time passes. Things happen. Beer is drunk. No functionality is added (to the weblog, at least). Re-design? Don’t even go there. Just get that twig out of…
- Universal Opaque Escape Clause· Can’t post at the moment, I’m afraid.
2003
- Some Machines Have Big Knobs· 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…
- Lave Trader· An edited extract from the Elite/Braben/Bell section in Backroom Boys: The Secret Return Of The British Boffin.
- Stay Loose· Earworm: The Divine Comedy’s Lost Property.
- Urban Style Music· Fällt Publishing’s Invisible Cities installation “offers the opportunity to experience an intimate series of portraits of the world’s cities painted with…
- We Float· Kyoichi Tsuzuki’s Happy Victims is on at The Photographer’s Gallery until Nov 16th.
- You Like This Machine· Been busy and having connection issues but back in the game, for all that’s worth. Highlights of the past few weeks:
- Hello Sunshine· Earworm: Super Furry Animals‘ Do Or Die.
- Plug Myself In· 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…
- Have You Really Thought About Utopia?· Side-by-side review of two recent Orwell biographies in The Times:
- RU.ELECTRONIC· The Birmingham-based Default Response network have a selection of mp3 recordings taken from their live events, including sets the excellent Russian duo…
- Self-annulation· Consuming Bodies: Sex and Contemporary Japanese Art:
- Eines Morgens im November· Quint Buchholz postcards (including One Morning in November).
- Lady In Red (Is Dancing With Meat)· 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.…
- Majestic Seven Fingers· “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…
- Box Elder· Pierced man told to wear box on his head:
- Accidents Don’t Happen· Thomas Pynchon on Orwell’s 1984:
- Cybergen· The Guardian profiles William Gibson:
- These Demented Lands· The novelist Alan Warner dreams of the perfect novel:
- Their Manor· Filming on the Tube, including Location, location, location, a gallery of the London Underground’s “more photogenic locations” such as Charles Holden‘s…
- Orseradish· Herb vs. ‘erb:
- Metroplex· The Times on large-scale construction debacles:
- Bahamut· 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…
- Motion· Ever had that urge to turn your life into one big project?