Notes

2003

• Pasty-related Dementia

  20 Apr 2003 · Jonathan Meades’ A-Z of British gastronomy:
• Woooop-woop-woop-woop-woop!

  20 Apr 2003 · What’s the deal with New York and New Jersey?
• She Swears An Awful Lot

  20 Apr 2003 · Quick Raymond Queneau link dump:
• Endlessnessism

  31 Mar 2003 · Enooze – the site for “experimental electronic music & experimental journalism on experimental electronic music” – is back with a new look and new toys…
• Books vs. Cigarettes

  31 Mar 2003 · Extensive George Orwell archive, including complete novels, articles and essays. If only this type of resource had been around five years ago...
• You Are A Light

  31 Mar 2003 · 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…
• Meeja Hors D’Oeuvres

  19 Mar 2003 · 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’,…
• Ultimate Mixtape

  19 Mar 2003 · 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…
• Work And Non Work

  19 Mar 2003 · 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…
• Temporary Insanity

  29 Jan 2003 · Links culled from Death Writes:
• There Are Strings

  29 Jan 2003 · 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:
• Naturland

  29 Jan 2003 · A review of Sue Barr’s gaikoku mura (‘foreign country villages’) photographs at the Architectural Association:
• GhostBastards

  29 Jan 2003 · 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,…
• Glossolalia

  28 Jan 2003 · 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…
• Philobiblon

  28 Jan 2003 · The Independent on Foyles, London’s most eccentric large bookshop.
• Pluck

  26 Jan 2003 · The Cursor Miner track pressedRetina features on Pre-set, a new compilation of electronic music taken from demos received by Mute Records. Another track…
• In The Tartar Style

  26 Jan 2003 · 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.
• FCK JN GNT

  21 Jan 2003 · 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…
• SuperFlat

  20 Jan 2003 · 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…
• Deranged Nutty Crap

  20 Jan 2003 · David Shrigley’s new(ish) book, Human Achievement (with sample pages at The Redstone Press).
• 11 : 11

  20 Jan 2003 · 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…
• Millionaire Dogs

  17 Jan 2003 · Warp Records look set for another successful year if the WARPWIFOF2003 promo mix (RealAudio) is anything to go by.
• A Small Good Thing

  17 Jan 2003 · Guardian profile of Nicholson Baker:
• Close Up Over

  15 Jan 2003 · A Japan Times interview with Haruki Murakami, in which he discusses the conflict between closed systems and open systems in society:
• Chiba

  15 Jan 2003 · 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…