Infoglut 2000
What I read, saw, listened to or did this year ...
Read ...
- How to be a Superhero - Mark Leigh & Mike Lepine
- Dark Life - Michael Ray Taylor
- All Tomorrow's Parties - William Gibson
- Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
- Forests of the Night - Andrew Swann
- Empire Wilderness - Robert Kaplan
- Conspiracies, Cover-ups and Crimes - Jonathan Vankin
- C++ Templates and Tools - Scott Ladd
- If Pigs Could Fly: Fortean Times v45-49
- Bonfire of the Oddities: Fortean Times 52-56
- Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
- Unconquered Countries - Geoff Ryman
- An Unquiet Mind - Kay Redfield Jamison
- The Sky Road - Ken Macleod
- Blizzard of One - Mark Strand
- UFOs, JFK and Elvis - Richard Belzer
- Weird and Tragic Shores - Chauncey Loomis
- The UFO Mystery - Hilary Evans & Denis Stacey (eds)
- Cyberselfish - Paulina Borsook
- Dave Barry's Greatest Hits - Dave Barry
- The Princess Bride - William Goldman
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson
- The Fortean Times Book of Life's Losers - Ian Simmons
- Unexplained Phenomena - Bob Rickard & John Michell
- Look To Windward - Iain M Banks
- Movie Megacheese - Mike Nelson
- The Even Bigger Book of Movie Cliches - Roger Ebert
- Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
- Life 101 - Peter McWilliams
- I Hated Hated Hated This Movie - Roger Ebert
- Dark Shadows Falling - Joe Simpson
- The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg - Mark Twain
- Look to Windward - Iain M Banks
- Harry Potter & the Philosophers Stone - JK Rowling
- Democracy - Joan Didion
- Song of Myself - Walt Whitman
Saw ...
- Pushing Tin
- The Tichborne Claimant
- Bowfinger
- Mystery Men
- Apollo 13
- Nell
- Fight Club
- Sleepy Hollow
- GalaxyQuest
- American Beauty
- Dr Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred Leuchter Jr.
- Mission to Mars
- The Insider
- Being John Malkovich
- Ghost Dog
- Battlefield Earth
- Mission Impossible 2
- Chicken Run
- Dante's Peak
- Gladiator
- Sleepy Hollow
- Ghost in the Shell
- RKO 281
- Beavis & Butthead Go America
- Coyote Ugly
- X-Men
- Boiling Point
- Brother, Where Art Thou
- The Hudsucker Proxy
- A Better Tomorow III
- Beast Cops
- Charlies Angels
- Mrs Parker & the Vicious Circle
- Ma Petite Entreprise
- The Fantasticks
- Conman in Tokyo
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- The Girl on the Bridge
- Arabian Nights
- Wonder Boys
Heard ...
- My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - Brian Eno & David
- Offerings - Vas
- Rarities, B-sides and Sad, Slow Waltzes - Cowboy Junkies
- Chroma - Laurel McDonald
- Ghost in the Shell
- Bareback - Hank Dogs
- Trä - Hedningarna
- Made on Earth - Barbara Grogan & Hector Zazou
- Coming Up Close: A Retrospective - til Tuesday
- Mass Ensemble - Mass Ensemble
- B-Sides, Rarities and Sad, Slow Waltzs - Cowboy Junkies
- Karelia Visa - Hedningarna
- Voices of the Real World
- Spanish Dance Troupe - Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
- Music for Airports - Brian Eno
- Return of the Grevious Angel
- New Sounds of the Old West, Vol. 2
- Sacrifice to Love - Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali
- Sacred Voices
- Bollywood Flashback II - Bally Sagoo
- 11 out of 10 - Various Artists (Realworld)
- 69 Love Songs - Magnetic Fields
- Desert Road - Justin Adams
- Tropical Brainstorm - Kirsty MacColl
- Ilmatar - Värttinä
- Hardlands - Martyn Bennett & Martin Low
- Until the End of the World - Värttina
- Nordic Roots 2
- Nascent World Sampler
- If I Were a Carpenter - Various
- Rough Guide to Global Dance
- Maroon - Barenaked Ladies
- We are Three - Joi
- Niya Yesh - Axiom of Choice
- In the Gardden of Souls - Vas
- Music for Films - Brian Eno
- Arvo Part / De Profundis - Theatre of Voices
- Hot Rail - Calexico
Went to ...
- Unconvention (London)
- Songs and Tales from Moby Dick - Laurie Anderson (Barbican)
- Sacred Voices festival (Richmond, London)
- Suzanne Vega (Richmond, London)
- WOMAD (Reading, England)
- Art (Wyndham Theatre, London)
- Andy Hankdog & Sonarfly (Ivy House, London)
Visited ...
- Chicago
- New York
- Cambridge (England)
- Brussels
- Chester (England)
- Indiana
- Santa Barbara & Los Angeles (California)
- Bath (England)
- Battle / Hastings / Pevensey (England)
- Sunshine Coast & Melbourne (Australia)