Infoglut 2002

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

Read ...

  • The Amber Spyglass - Phillip Pullman
  • The Screwtape Letters - CS Lewis
  • Letters to a Young Contrarian - Christopher Hitchens
  • Undoing Drepression - Richard O'Connor
  • Cosi Fan Tutti - Michael Dibdin
  • Ramses: Son of the Light - Christian Jacq
  • Them - Jon Ronson
  • The Marketmaker - Michael Ridpath
  • The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman et al.
  • Redrobe - John Courtney Grimwood
  • Wings of a Dove - Henry James
  • Resurrection Man - Eoin McNamee
  • The Choking Doberman - Jan Brunvard
  • The Sandman: The Doll's House - Neil Gaiman et al.
  • Cadillac Jukebox - James Lee Burke
  • Dark Night in Toyland - Bob Shaw
  • The Sandman: Season of Mists - Neil Gaiman et al.
  • Bitterroot - James Lee Burke
  • Seeing Beyond Depression - Jean Vanier
  • The Sandman: A Game of You - Neil Gaiman et al.
  • The Sandman: Dream Country - Neil Gaiman et al.
  • The Straight Dope - Cecil Adams
  • One Minute Stress Management - David Lewis
  • The Sandman: Brief Lives - Neil Gaiman et al.
  • God Save the Queen? - Johann Kari
  • Zlata's Diary - Zlata Filipovic
  • The Art of Possibility - Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander
  • Batman: Thrillkiller - Howard Chaykin and Dan Brereton
  • The Sandman: Fables and Reflections - Neil Gaiman et al.
  • The Sandman: Worlds End - Neil Gaiman et al.
  • Cosmonaut Keep - Ken McLeod
  • Xenocide - Orson Scott Card
  • Cythera - Richard Calder
  • Death: the High Cost of Living - Neil Gaiman et al.
  • Nemesis - Isaac Asimov
  • Lake Wobegon Days - Garrison Keilor
  • 21 Dog Years - Mike Daisy
  • The Unkindest Cut - Joe Queenan
  • The Swords of Lankhmar - Fritz Leiber
  • Swords and Ice Magic - Fritz Leiber
  • The Prestige - Christopher Priest
  • The Architecture of Desire - Mary Gentle
  • Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Dark White - Jim Schnabel
  • A Short History of England - Phyllis Hesse
  • The Mechanical Turk - Tom Standage
  • Sandman: The Kindly Ones - Neil Gaiman et al.
  • Hellboy: Seed of Destruction - Mike Mignola & John Bryne
  • Stupid White Men - Michael Moore
  • Cotton Comes To Harlem - Chester Himes
  • Manual of the Warrior of Light - Paul Coelho
  • Beyond Heaven's River - Greg Bear
  • The Blasket Islands - Joan and Ray Stagles
  • Hellboy: The Chained Coffin and others - Mike Mignola
  • From Hell - Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
  • Ares Express - Ian McDonald
  • Flashman - George McDonald Fraser
  • Which Lie Did I Tell - William Goldman
  • Sandman: The Wake - Neil Gaiman et al.
  • Flashman and the Mountain of Light - George McDonald Fraser

Saw ...

  • The King Is Alive
  • Gladiator
  • Wilde
  • Fellowship of the Ring
  • The Rock
  • Payback
  • Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
  • Payback
  • Proof of Life
  • Platoon
  • The Cell
  • Traffic
  • Spaced - Series 2
  • Unforgiven
  • Panic Room
  • To Die For
  • Ferris Beuller's Day Out
  • Spiderman
  • Ring 2
  • Chopper
  • Minority Report
  • Swordsman
  • Mystery Men
  • Goldmember
  • Swimming With Sharks
  • Deliverance
  • Office Space
  • Man Bites Dog
  • Apt Pupil
  • License to Kill
  • The Substitute 2
  • Narrow Margin
  • A Knight's Tale
  • Rounders
  • Nowhere To Hide
  • The Last Supper
  • The Opposite of Sex
  • Spaced - Series 1
  • Signs
  • Casino
  • Black Mask
  • Beau Travail
  • Don't Look Now
  • Wing Commander
  • Silence of the Lambs
  • Exotica
  • Ultraviolet
  • 28 Days Later
  • Living In Oblivion
  • Avalon
  • Trees Lounge
  • Fellowship of the Ring (extended edition)
  • Bicentennial Man
  • Book of Life
  • The Last Broadcast
  • Peut-etre
  • The Others
  • Insomnia
  • The Two Towers
  • Witchfinder General

Heard ...

  • My Shirt Looks Good On You - Catie Curtis
  • Big Drum Small World - Dohl Foundation
  • Buddha Beats
  • Remixed - Odda Hamis - Maire Boine
  • The Ghost of Tom Joad - Bruce Springsteen
  • The One and Only - Kirsty MacColl
  • Remixes - Le Tigre
  • Audible Sigh - Vigilantes of Love
  • Car Wheels On A Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams
  • Lights In The Dark - Hector Zazou
  • La Revancha Del Tango - Gotan Project
  • Vespertine - Bjork
  • The Human Game - Dead Can Dance
  • The Sinking of the Titanic - Gavin Bryars
  • 12 (Las Vegas is Cursed) - Hector Zazou and Sandy Dillon
  • Duality - Lisa Gerard and Pietr Bourke
  • Resist - Kosheen
  • The Remix Collection - Natacha Atlas
  • Music Detected - Deep Forest
  • O What A Thrill - The Mavericks
  • Wings To Fly And A Place To Be - Nanci Griffith
  • Close To Silence - Thomas Otten
  • Seka Vol 2 - various
  • Dancing With Them That Brung Me - Stacey Earle
  • Compass - Vigilantes of Love
  • Redlands Palomino Company
  • Blue Horse - The Be Good Tanyas

Went to ...

  • Mother Clap's Molly House
  • Unconvention (Commonwealth Institute, London)
  • Salute '02 (Olympia, London)
  • East of Ealing, Recliner, JD Lazar (Winchester Hall, London)
  • Son Lumerious (Barbican, London)
  • Return to Forbidden Planet (Richmond Theatre, London)
  • Homeboy / Kabul (Young Vic, London)
  • Le Tigre, Slumberparty (Astoria, London)
  • Bachai (National Theatre, London)
  • East of Ealing, Touchwood, Mike Rogers (Winchester Hall, London)
  • Lieutenant of Inismore (Garrick Theatre, London)
  • The Bearcats, Yabba, East of Ealing, Chacón Y Su Timba (On the Edge, London)
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (Globe, London)
  • Redlands Palomino Company, The Snakes, Bill Mallonee and the Trophy Wives (Borderline, London)
  • Calexico and Mariachi Luz de Luna (Barbican, London)

Visited ...

  • South of Scotland
  • Manchester
  • Bournemouth to Weymouth (UK)
  • Hay-on-Wye, Cardiff and surrounds (UK)
  • St Petersburg (Russia)
  • Dorset and surrounds (UK)
  • Republic of Ireland