Infoglut 1998

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

Read ...

  • Prozac and the New Antidepressants - William S Appleton
  • Touched With Fire - Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Gaia's Toys - Rebecca Ore
  • Mendel in 90 Minutes - John and Mary Gribbin
  • Strange Days #2
  • Arthur C Clarke's Chronicles of the Strange and Mysterious
  • Bizarre Beliefs - Simon Hoggart and Mike Hutchinson
  • The Dictionary of Misinformation - Tom Burnam
  • The Book of Answers - Barbara Berliner
  • Imponderables - David Feldman
  • Why People Believe Weird Things - Michael Shermer
  • Wonderful Life - Stephen Jay Gould
  • Freeware - Rudy Rucker
  • Data Smog - David Shenk
  • Robotman: Primary Crullers - Jim Meddick
  • Mistakes, Misnomers and Misconceptions - Rudolph Brasch
  • Overcoming Depression - Caroline Shreeve
  • Diaspora - Greg Egan
  • The Fortean Timez Book of Life's Losers - Ian Simmons
  • Bully for Brontosaurus - Stephen Jay Gould
  • Excession - Iain M Banks
  • I'm Not Anti-Business, I'm Anti--Idiot - Scott Adams
  • The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly - Jean-Dominique
  • Lost Prince: The Unsolved Mystery of Kasper Hauser
  • Think Like A Dinosaur - James Patrick Kelly
  • Labyrinths of Reason - William Poundstone
  • Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • The White Abacus - Damien Broderick
  • Labels - Louis de Bernieres
  • Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
  • Slant - Greg Bear
  • Travels in Dreamland - Phil Patton
  • Secret Harmonies - Paul J McAuley
  • Lux the Poet - Martin Millar
  • The Liar - Stephen Fry
  • Splashdance Silver - Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • Inversions - Iain M Banks
  • A Soldier of the Great War - Mark Helprin
  • Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland
  • The Last Thing He Wanted - Joan Didion
  • Blameless in Abaddon - James Morrow
  • City of Glass - Paul Auster
  • Brightness Falls - Jay McInerney
  • The Profession of Violence - John Pearson
  • Touched by Fire - Kay Redfield Jamison
  • The Joy of Work - Scott Adams
  • Winter's Tale - Mark Helprin
  • Fortean Studies 4 - (ed) Steve Moore
  • A Mouthful of Mysteries: Fortean Times 73-77
  • Mindreading - Sanjida O'Connell
  • Journey To Cubeville - Scott Adams
  • The Fortean Times Book of Strange Deaths - (ed) Steve

Saw ...

  • Colonel Chabert
  • The Castle
  • Body Melt
  • The Usual Suspects
  • The Jackal
  • Spice World
  • Sommersby
  • Gettysburg
  • Gattaca
  • Starship Troopers
  • Titanic
  • Copland
  • Happy Gilmour
  • The Gentle Art of Extortion
  • Hard Rain
  • House
  • Replacement Killers
  • Jackie Brown
  • Turbulence
  • Star Trek: Generations
  • Crash
  • The Hidden
  • Fallen
  • Addicted To Love
  • Posse
  • Lost In Space
  • Sphere
  • Conspiracy Theory
  • The Big Lebowski
  • Touch
  • Mimic
  • Screamers
  • Robocop 3
  • Girlfriend From Hell
  • Tremors
  • Godzilla vs Monster Zero
  • Two Days in the Valley
  • Waterworld
  • Latcho Drom
  • Wings of Desire
  • City of Angels
  • Baraka
  • Wild Things
  • Sabrina
  • Wild Target
  • Godzilla
  • Casino
  • Deep Impact
  • Merlin
  • Waiting For Guffman
  • Hotel Sorrento
  • Peter Pan
  • The Big Hit
  • The Assignment
  • The X Files
  • Darkness in Talinn
  • Dark City
  • Armageddon
  • Event Horizon
  • The Postman
  • The Last Days of Disco
  • Hana-Bi
  • The Truman Show
  • Snake Eyes
  • Blade

Heard ...

  • Shorelife - Mouth Music
  • Europe 1990 - Cowboy Junkies
  • Mo-Di - Mouth Music
  • Diaspora - Natacha Atlas
  • Spiorad - Talitha MacKenzie
  • Fat City - Shawn Colvin
  • The Alan Lomax Collection Sampler
  • Texicali Rose
  • Weaving My Ancestor's Voices - Sheila Chandra
  • The Big Wheel - Runrig
  • Closer - Edain
  • There's Life - Mighty Servant
  • Several Shades of Pastel - Pastel Vespa
  • Howl, USA - Kronos Quartet
  • The Ghost of Tom Joad - Bruce Springsteen
  • La Haine
  • Bothy Culture - Martyn Bennett
  • Out On My Own - Sheila Chandra
  • Fratres - Arvo Pärt
  • Miles From Our Home - Cowboy Junkies
  • Manic Celeste - Tulipan
  • Take Me To the Place - Tess McKenna
  • Jazz a Saint Germain
  • Songs From the Cold Seas
  • Sunyata - Vas
  • Suas e! - Mary Jane Lamond
  • Surfacing - Sarah McLachlan
  • Trampoline - The Mavericks
  • Gordon - Barenaked Ladies
  • From the Choirgirl Hotel - Tori Amos
  • Carry On Up the Charts - The Best of - The Beautiful
  • Towards the Within - Dead Can Dance
  • Spiritchaser - Dead Can Dance
  • The Masters - Van Morrison
  • Born On A Pirate Ship - Barenaked Ladies
  • Up - REM
  • Aion - Dead Can Dance

Went to ...

  • "Standup Spectacular" (Comedy Club, Carlton)
  • "Double Disillusion" - Rod Quantock (Trade Union)
  • GIT (Rainbow Hotel, Fitzroy)
  • "Best of the Fringe" - Ed Byrne (National Theatre)
  • Madam Butterfly (ENO, Covent Garden)
  • Anam (Windsor Arts Centre)
  • Warblefly (Silwood Park)
  • The Levellers with Rhino and the Fish Bros. (Hexagon, Reading)