Infoglut 1997

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

Read ...

  • Maverick - Ricardo Semler
  • Life After God - Douglas Coupland
  • Our Town - Thorton Wilder
  • The Drive-In - Joe Lansdale
  • Lethe - Tricia Sullivan
  • Small World - David Lodge
  • 500 Nations - Alvin M Josephy Jr
  • Disclosure - Michael Crichton
  • Georgia On My Mind and Other Places - Charles Sheffield
  • Signs of Life - Cherry Wilder
  • Reports From the Holocaust - Larry Kramer
  • The Fortunate Fall - Raphael Carter
  • Pastwatch: The Redemption of Chrisopher Columbus - Orson Scott Card
  • Automatic Teller - Carmel Bird
  • Bombardiers - Po Bronson
  • Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman
  • The Two Georges - Richard Dreyfuss and Harry Turtledove
  • What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School - Mark McCormack
  • The Gutenberg Elegies - Sven Birkets
  • Uncharted Territory - Connie Willis
  • The Human Element - Thomas Cleary (ed)
  • Prophecies and Polemics 1964-1969 - IF Stone
  • The Stone Canal - Ken Macleod
  • A Machynlleth Triad - Jan Morris and Twm Morys
  • River of Dust - Alexander Jablokov
  • Richter 10 - Arthur C Clarke and Mike McQuay
  • A City in Winter - Mark Helprin
  • Final Blackout - L Ron Hubbard
  • I Love Paul Revere, Whether He Rode or Not - Richard Shenkman
  • When Do Fish Sleep? - David Feldman
  • Queen City Jazz - Kathleen Ann Goonan
  • Galatea 2.2 - Richard Powers
  • Kalimantan - Lucius Shepard
  • Firestar - Michael Flynn
  • Monster Trucks and Hair-In-A-Can - Bill Geist
  • Mastering the Winds of Change - Eric Olesen
  • Strange Angels - Andy Bull
  • Flux - Stephen Baxter
  • Bible Stories For Adults - James Morrow
  • Great Unsolved Mysteries of Science - Jerry Lucas
  • Ecology For Beginners - Stephen Croall and William Rankin
  • The Dilbert Future - Scott Adams
  • Celestis - Paul Park
  • On Democracy - Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers
  • Pythagoras' Trousers - Margaret Wertheim
  • Memento Mori - Shariann Lewitt
  • The First Man in Rome - Colleen McCullough
  • Games, Sex and Evolution - John Maynard Smith
  • Not So! - Paul F Boller Jr.
  • 7 Years of Highly Defective People - Scott Adams
  • Yendi - Stephen Brust
  • Cobweb - Stephen Bury
  • Exit the Rainmaker - Jonathan Coleman
  • The Calcutta Chromosome - Amitav Ghost
  • Milton's Teeth and Ovid's Umbrella - Michael Olmert

Saw ...

  • Daylight
  • A Very Brady Sequel
  • The Frighteners
  • The Road Killers (aka Roadflower)
  • Hackers
  • Gunhed
  • Joe's Apartment
  • Independence Day
  • Bordello of Blood
  • Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow
  • Scream
  • L'Appartment
  • Mars Attacks
  • Breaking the Waves
  • First Strike
  • High Risk
  • Bound
  • Trust
  • Une Pure Formalite
  • Black Cat
  • Iron Monkey
  • Vagabonde (Sans Toit Ni Loi)
  • Prison on Fire
  • The Wedding Banquet
  • Dragons Forever
  • Unforgettable
  • Monster in a Box
  • Lost Highway
  • Prison on Fire 2
  • The Relic
  • Barb Wire
  • Wild Palms
  • The Fifth Element
  • If Lucy Fell
  • Damned in America
  • The Lost World
  • Beavis and Butthead Do America
  • River's Edge
  • (Mr) Nice Guy
  • Maximum Risk
  • 12:01
  • Bad Taste
  • La Separation
  • Chasing Amy
  • Ghost In a Shell
  • Fallen Angels
  • High Heels
  • Con Air
  • The Master
  • Chain Reaction
  • Georgia
  • True Lies
  • Fong Sai Yuk
  • The English Patient
  • Heavenly Creatures
  • Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
  • The Long Kiss Goodnight
  • Lone Star
  • Breakdown
  • Under Siege 2
  • Addicted To Love
  • Timecop
  • Face/Off
  • Ransom
  • All About Ah Lung
  • The Phantom
  • Men In Black
  • Return of the Living Dead
  • Gun Smith Cats 3
  • Gall Force, the Movie
  • Mars
  • Lone Star
  • Breakdown
  • A Life Less Ordinary
  • The Game
  • Irma Vep
  • The FuIl Monty
  • The Shadow
  • The Fortune Code
  • Comrades, Almost A Love Story
  • Full Alert
  • Theft Under the Sun
  • Air Force One
  • Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion
  • Trainspotting
  • The Ghost & the Darkness
  • Grosse Pointe Blanke
  • Tomorrow Never Dies
  • Snow White

Heard ...

  • Sólas - Talitha McKenzie
  • A Few Small Repairs - Shawn Colvin
  • The Afro-Celt Sound System, Vol. I
  • Wrecking Ball - Emmy-Lou Harris
  • Call of the Valley - Shivkumar Sharma et al.
  • East and West - Charlie Chan
  • Windham Hill Sampler '82
  • Musta Lindu - Värttinä
  • Mouth Music
  • The Best of Marta Sebesty»n
  • Quiet Girl With a Credit Card - Lisa Miller
  • Behind the Closed Eye - Anuna
  • Kind Hearted Woman - Michelle Shocked
  • The Book of Secrets - Loreena McKennitt
  • Courtesy Move - Sherry Rich

Went to ...

  • Wedding Parties Anything (Red Room, Northcote)
  • Laurie Anderson, "The Speed of Darkness" (Concert Hall)
  • Texicali Rose (Fairfield Amphitheatre)
  • The Well-Oiled Sisters (Fairfield Amphitheatre)
  • Weddings Parties Anything (Corner Hotel)
  • The Band That Knew Too Much (Fairfield Amphitheatre)
  • Bill Hicks - A Retrospective (Lower Melbourne Town Hall)
  • Rhona Cameron (Lower Melbourne Town Hall)
  • Värttinä (Comedy Theatre)
  • Capercaillie (Odeon)
  • "Over in the West" (Fitzroy Town Hall)
  • Weddings Parties Anything and Sherry Rich (Central Club, Richmond (Melbourne))