Infoglut 2001

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

Read ...

  • Rocketship Galileo - Robert Heinlein
  • Reeve the Just - Stephen Donaldson
  • My Goodness - Joe Queenan
  • Dead Girls - Richard Calder
  • Kowloon Tong - Paul Theroux
  • No Logo - Naomi Klein
  • Longitude - Dava Sobel
  • Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
  • Creation - Steven Grand
  • Right Ho Jeeves - PG Wodehouse
  • Down Under - Bill Bryson
  • Therapy - David Lodge
  • End the Struggle & Dance With Life - Susan Jeffers
  • We Are Still Married - Garrison Keilor
  • Neither Here Nor There - Bill Bryson
  • Dervish Is Digital - Pat Cadigan
  • Nature's Numbers - Ian Stewart
  • Undoing Depression - Richard O'Connor
  • Headlong - Micheal Frayn
  • LA Confidential - James Elroy
  • Meditations of a Solitary Walker - Rosseau
  • Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
  • Made in America - Bill Bryson
  • The Antipope - Robert Rankin
  • The Nudist on the Lateshift - Po Bronson
  • Tender is the Night - F Scott Fitzgerald
  • Souls Belated - Edith Wharton
  • Regeneration - Pat Barker
  • The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying - Sonjay Rinpoche
  • The Year 1000 - Robert Lacey & Danny Danziger
  • The Accidental Theorist - Paul Krugman
  • Lake Wobegon USA - Garrison Keilor
  • Every Dead Thing - John Connelly
  • The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
  • Write It Down Make It Happen - Henriette Anne Klauser
  • The Gap into Conflict: The Real Story - Stephen Donaldson
  • Icestation - Matthew Reilly
  • The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
  • The Education of Frederick Douglass - Frderick Douglass
  • Hannibal's Crossing of the Alps - Livy
  • The End of Time - Damian Thompson
  • I am Jackie Chan - Jackie Chan
  • Bridge of Birds - Barry Hughart
  • The Panic Hand - Jonathan Carrol
  • The Wild Place - Kathryn Hulme
  • Veronika Decides To Die - Paul Coelho
  • High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
  • The Underground Man - Mick Jackson
  • The Straight Dope - Cecil Adams
  • Triumph of The Straight Dope - Cecil Adams
  • The Diversity of Life - EO Wilson
  • Anil's Ghost - Michael Ondaatje
  • Dangerous Liasons - Christopher Hampton
  • The Subtle Knife - Phillip Pullman

Saw ...

  • Red Planet
  • Unbreakable
  • Titan AE
  • Supernova
  • Best in Show
  • Woman on Top
  • Bedazzled
  • Jiang Hu: World of Traids
  • Cannibal: the Musical
  • Wonder Boys
  • Bait
  • Traffic
  • Carrie
  • Sex: the Annabelle Chong story
  • Scarface
  • Hannibal
  • Dungeons & Dragons
  • In the Mood for Love
  • Mr Nice Guy
  • 13 Days
  • The Straight Story
  • La Jetee
  • Alphaville
  • Ring
  • Audition
  • Lift to the Scaffold
  • Thunderbolt
  • The Terrorist
  • La Nouvelle Eve
  • Magnolia
  • End of Days
  • The Mummy Returns
  • Shrek
  • The Claim
  • Hana-Bi
  • Momento
  • Down to Earth
  • Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
  • Lethal Weapon 4
  • Planet of the Apes
  • The Juror
  • To Live and Die in LA
  • AI
  • GI Jane
  • Dearly Devoted
  • Moulin Rouge
  • GalaxyQuest
  • Amelie
  • Brotherhood of the Wolf
  • Blood the Last Vampire
  • A Self-made Hero
  • Taxi
  • The New Age
  • I Know What You Did Last Summer
  • Pitch Black
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  • Shadow of the Vampire
  • Momento
  • Baseketball
  • Dune

Heard ...

  • Beat the Retreat: A Tribute to Richard Thompson - various
  • Under Starters Orders - Mick Thomas
  • Ovo - Peter Gabriel
  • Poverty Deluxe - The Backsliders
  • Kite - Kirsty MacColl
  • Bliss - Various Artists
  • Crazy Love - O'yaba
  • Diaspora - Natacha Atlas
  • They Were Better Live - Weddings Parties Anything
  • Downtime - The Backsliders
  • The Rough Guide to Tex-Mex - various
  • Dead Set Certainty - Mick Thomas & the Sure Thing
  • ... Gifted and Black - Nina Simone
  • Trophy Night - Weddings Parties Anything
  • Wierd Food and Destruction - The Connells
  • As Good As It Gets Cajun - various
  • Out of Hell - Baterz
  • A Rough Guide to the Music of Scandanavia - various
  • Nordic Roots 2 - various
  • More Sounds of the New West - various
  • Everlasting Arm / Deadman - Mercury Rev
  • Air - Alan Parsons Project
  • Ambient Moods - various
  • Kite - Kirsty McColl
  • All the Rage - General Public
  • Voices from Long Distance - General Public
  • Ethnodance - various
  • Reencarnacion - various
  • Passion Sources - various
  • Passion - Peter Gabriel
  • Songs of Sanctuary - Adiemus
  • Jajouka Between the Mountains - Master Musicians of Jajouka Fea
  • @ Montreux Jazz Festival - Ofra Haza
  • Solas - Solas
  • Tried and True - Suzanne Vega
  • Dusk till Dawn - Capercaillie
  • Elemental - Loreena McKennitt
  • Maire - Maire Brennan
  • Hourglass - Kate Rusby
  • Musik aus Zeit and Raum - Jean-Michel Jarre
  • The Best of Sade - Sade
  • The Cross of Changes - Enigma
  • Elements - Mike Oldfield
  • The Best of the Pogues - The Pogues
  • Riskolde Festival 2000 - Calexico (bootleg?)
  • New Deal - John Wesley Harding
  • Solas - Enya (bootleg?)
  • Ballad of a Thin Line Man - Giant Sand
  • Pacifique - Deep Forest
  • A Day Without Rain - Enya
  • Lucinda Williams - (eponymous)
  • Mojave - Willard Grant Conspiracy
  • Ambient 2: the Plateaux of Mirror - Harold Budd & Brian Eno
  • Peter Gabriel (melt) - Peter Gabriel
  • The Celts Strike Again - The Orthodox Celts
  • As Time Goes By - Bryan Ferry
  • (eponymous) - Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts
  • No More Shall We Part - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
  • Tourist - St Germain
  • Movimento - Madredeus
  • Further In Time - Afro-Celt Sound System
  • This Sentence is True (The Previous Sentence is False) - Sheila Chandra
  • III - Soren Mull
  • Open - Cowboy Junkies
  • Nascente 10th Anniversary - various artists
  • Rough Guide to Americana - various artists
  • Taranta Power - Musicanova
  • Dust On My Shoes - Mick Thomas
  • Live 1980/86 - Joe Jackson
  • Beyond Nashville - various

Went to ...

  • Vartinna (Bleackheath Halls, London)
  • Brendan Burns (Etcetera Theatre, London)
  • Chicago (Adelphi Theatre, London)
  • Sing-a-long Sound of Music (Prince Charles, London)
  • Lincoln, Neko Case & Calexico (Ocean, London)
  • The Vagina Monologues (New Ambassador, London)
  • Bewilderness (Lyric Hammersmith, London)
  • WOMAD (Reading, UK)
  • Mick Thomas & The Sure Thing (The Garage, London)
  • A Winter's Tale (National Theatre, London)
  • Mick Thomas (Filthy McNastys, London)
  • A Day in the Life of Joe Egg (Comedy Theatre, London)

Visited ...

  • Melbourne (Australia)
  • Singapore
  • Cambridge (England)
  • Canterbury (England)
  • Sardinia
  • Belgrade and surrounds
  • New York
  • Tennessee
  • Devon & Cornwall
  • Prague
  • Heidelburg
  • Paris
  • Lewes (England)
  • The North of England