2002

  • Fancy A Brew?
    · Mark and Lard corner, including The Sanctuary for Abandoned Mark & Lard Catchphrases. That’s the bunny.
  • You Can Fall
    · The Guardian interviews Lynne Ramsay and Samantha Morton about the forthcoming adaptation of Alan Warner’s Morvern Callar:
  • Slipper Sleaze
    · The Cartoon Network’s new spin-off channel CNX launched in the UK earlier this week.
  • Clouds Up
    · The Guardian review of Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides:
  • The Obscure Object
    · Jeffrey Eugenides‘ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Middlesex is out in paperback in September and it’s well worth reading:
  • Conduit For Sale!
    · Domino are set to release a double-DVD Pavement retrospective entitled Slow Century, featuring every video, two complete concerts and a full length…
  • Gritty Shaker
    · The Village Voice interview Haruki Murakami about his recently published short story collection After the Quake and his 10th novel, Kafka on the Shore:
  • Further Back And Faster
    · Sherry and Robbie Williams karaoke? Elsie Mo and the Mountain Goats, more like. Also witnessed more of the creeping gentrification of…
  • Norra Potter
    · Off to Newcastle-under-Lyme for a few days. While you’re here and I’m not, how about feeding me weird things?
  • Look Out Weekend
    · Gabba.net, the people behind Plug and Play, are keeping a temporary, online archive of selected mp3s from their Winamp playlists. Current top selections…
  • Future Tiger
    · Leaf’s new label compilation Lost for Words features tracks from Boom Bip & Doseone, Susumu Yokota, Murcof and The Sons Of Silence and is only three whole…
  • Hot Waters
    · The Guardian interviews Sarah Waters about her new novel, Fingersmith, and the BBC adaptation of Tipping the Velvet:
  • Librarians Are Often Sexy
    · Robert Tubbs, ‘musician’. Not to be confused with Robert Tubb, musician.
  • Know Your Chicken
    · Mount Fuji, a UK-based online shop carries an extensive range of Japanese food products (including confectionery!).
  • I Am Not Afraid
    · Yabuno Kensei and 326 – Mi tsu ru, have an exhibition running at The Spitz from 29 September to 13 October, 2002.
  • Aye
    · The Online Etymology Dictionary:
  • Why We Fight
    · Angry Bed Positions, an extract(?) from Mil Millington’s Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About (due on 3 October, 2002).
  • Put My Comp-Sci Skills To Work
    · While discussing a New York Times article on L33T speak invading schools, one slashdotter ends up reworking The Lord’s Prayer with modern idioms:
  • Steel Factory Mayhem
    · Pulp, Warp and Eat Your Own Ears have got together to put on Auto, a huge party in Magna near Sheffield on 14th December:
  • Dole Scum
    · The League of Gentlemen start their third season on Thursday 26th September on BBC TWO. Related: visiting Royston Vasey (aka Hadfield, Derbyshire).
  • Suspicious Bear
    · Midnight Eye’s review of Katsuyuki Motohiro’s botched-heist film Space Travelers:
  • Hillside
    · A virtual tour of Keele University.
  • Kusanagi
    · Trailer for Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, the television series sequel to the film. Related: Bandai press release.
  • Exit The Sandman
    · How did I miss this? Logan’s Sanctuary is the soundtrack to an imaginary Logan’s Run sequel.
  • The Autograph Man
    · Extract from Zadie Smith’s second novel, The Autograph Man. Reviews: This is London, The Observer, Salon.