Infoglut 2006

What I read, saw, listened to or did this year ...

Read ...

  • The Losers: Ante Up (Volumes 1 & 2) - Andy Diggle
  • Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets - David Simon
  • Why Bother? Getting a Life in a Locked-down Land - Sam Smith
  • Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
  • The 100 Simple Secrets of Healthy People - David Niven
  • The Corner - David Simon & Edward Burns
  • A Bear called Paddington - Michael Bond
  • Down to a Sunless Sea - David Graham
  • The Undercover Economist - Tim Harford
  • On the Origin of PCs - Rich Burlew
  • The Motivated Mind - Raj Persaud
  • The Ruby in the Smoke - Phillip Pullman
  • The Man in the High Castle - Philip K Dick
  • Spares - Michael Marshall Smith
  • Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
  • Screw It, Let's Do It - Richard Branson
  • An Unpopular War - JH Thompson
  • Marvels - Karl Busiek & Alex Ross
  • True Tales of American Life - Paul Auster (ed)
  • The Authority v1-20 - Warren Ellis et al.
  • The Algebraist - Iain M Banks
  • Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. v1-6 - Warren Ellis
  • Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
  • Monster Island - David Wellington
  • The Compassionate Brain - Gerald Hunter
  • The Losers (Issues 13 - 32) - Andy Diggle
  • Children of God - Mary Doria Russell

Saw ...

  • Breaking News
  • Downfall
  • The Tick
  • Crimewave
  • Ong-Bak
  • Team America: World Police
  • Dodgeball
  • Unleashed
  • Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
  • A Bittersweet Life
  • The Talented Mr Ripley
  • Croupier
  • Farscape v2
  • The 40-Year Old Virgin
  • Harold & Kumar Get The Munchies
  • The Constant Gardener
  • Syriana
  • The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
  • The Proposition
  • Doom
  • Aeon Flux
  • King Kong
  • Lord of War
  • Edison
  • The New World
  • Narnia
  • The Producers
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
  • Fun with Dick & Jane
  • Bad Santa
  • Mirrormask
  • 36
  • Farscape, Season 3
  • Born to Fight
  • Primer
  • The Produccers
  • Dr Strangelove
  • District 13
  • Thank You For Smoking
  • Renaissance
  • Kiki's Delivery Service
  • Brick
  • The Warrior King
  • The Castle of Cagliostro
  • Inside Man
  • V for Vendetta
  • Flight of the Phoenix
  • A Prairie Home Companion
  • Poseidon
  • Mission Impossible III
  • The Peaceful Warrior
  • The Aristocrats
  • Wing Chun
  • Gangster No 1
  • Bangkok Dangerous
  • Red Dragon
  • Fiddler on the Roof
  • Crank

Heard ...

  • Live at Angel Hall - Ida
  • A Retrospective: 1995-2000 - Son Volt
  • Living on the Edge - Stephane Pompougnac
  • Saks Fifty Avenue - Stephane Pompougnac
  • Extraordinary Ways - Conjure One
  • Fox Confessor Brings The Flood - Neko Case
  • Draw Them Near - Jess Klein
  • Close Ups - Stephen Cummings
  • This is the Place for a Song
  • As Far As a Life Goes - Lisa Miller
  • Sunshine Harvester
  • Big Star - Small World
  • C'etait Ici - Yann Tiersen
  • A Collection: 1984-1989 - Jane Siberry
  • A Retrospective: 1995-2000 - Son Volt
  • Afterglow Live - Sarah McLachlan
  • Akasha - Isobelle
  • All the Roads Running - Mark Knopfler
  • Miero - Värttinä
  • Um Interpreta o Outro - Dorival Caymmi & Ary Barroso
  • Having - Trespassers William
  • Feast of Silence - Vas
  • Live Session - Trespassers William
  • Niyaz Remixed - Niyaz
  • Elysium for the Brave - Azam Ali
  • Jo-Delay - Alpendub
  • 2005/5/4 The Backyard - Calexico
  • We are the Pipettes - The Pippettes
  • Putting the Days to Bed - The Long Winters
  • Half the Perfect World - Madeleine Peyroux
  • Cutting Back - Don Walker
  • Rabbit Fur Coat - Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins

Went to ...

  • Alegria (Cirque de Soleil, Royal Albert Hall)
  • Kelly Auty (Lamond, Northcote, Melbourne)
  • WOMAD (Rivermead, Reading)
  • Guy Fawkes Night (Lewes)

Visited ...

  • Stockholm
  • Sunshine Coast (Australia)
  • Melbourne
  • South Africa
  • Rome
  • Cornwall (UK)