Infoglut 2015

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

Read ...

  • The Story of Your Life - Ted Chiang
  • Across Realtime - Vernor Vinge
  • A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula LeGuin
  • 10% Happier - Dan Harris
  • Dear Leader - Jang Jin-Sung
  • Hawkeye, n1-18 - Matt Fraction & David Aja
  • Saga, n13-24 - Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples
  • Underbelly 11 - John Silvester & Andrew Rule
  • My Antonia - Willa Cather
  • Batavia's Graveyard - Mike Dash
  • Who Goes There? - John W. Campbell
  • A Simple Introduction To Data Science - Lars Nielsen & Noreen Burlingame
  • The Tombs of Atuan - Ursula LeGuin
  • Driven to Distraction at Work - Ned Hallowell
  • Satan's Circus - Mike Dash
  • The Peripheral - William Gibson
  • Reamde - Neal Stephenson

Saw ...

  • Fabio Montale
  • Toast of London, season 1
  • Anna Karenina
  • Edge of Tomrrow
  • La Famiglia Perfetta
  • Expendables
  • Miss Sixty
  • Wrath of the Titans
  • Edge of Tomorrow
  • Oblivion
  • Gravity
  • Salt
  • Automata
  • Police Story 2013
  • Polisse
  • Drug War
  • Life of Pi
  • Bitter Lake
  • Life of Pi
  • The White-haired Witch of Lunar Mountain
  • Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
  • Bastards (Les Saluds)
  • Fargo, season 1
  • Trailer Park Boys, season 3
  • Leviathan
  • Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
  • The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst
  • Interstellar
  • Rectify, season 1
  • Upstream Color
  • The Grand Budapest Hotel
  • Birdman
  • Korengal
  • Død Snø 2 (Dead Snow 2)
  • Banshee, season 2
  • Anno 1790, season 1
  • The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, season 1
  • Archer, season 6
  • Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons
  • Sightseers
  • Snowpiercer
  • Pain & Gain
  • Kingsman: the Secret Service
  • Avenged
  • Kung Fury
  • What We Do in the Shadows
  • The Hotwives of Orlando, season 1
  • The Wild And Wonderful Whites Of West Virginia
  • Prisoners of War, season 1
  • Rectify, season 2
  • Below
  • Kill List
  • My Life in Film, season 1
  • Real Humans, season 1
  • Une affaire d'état
  • Spiral (Engrenages), season 5
  • Mammon, season 1
  • Fortitude, season 1
  • Hard, season 1
  • Shaolin Soccer
  • Kung Fu Hustle
  • Wild Tales (Relatos Salvajes)
  • Cordon, season 1
  • 1992, season 1
  • Searching for Sugar Man
  • The Martian
  • Ghost in the Shell, the New Movie
  • Jupiter Ascending
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens
  • Mea Culpa

Heard ...

  • Americana UK Review January 2015
  • Americana UK Review February 2015
  • Stolen - Lotte Kestner
  • Americana UK Review March 2015
  • China Mountain - Lotte Kestner
  • So Frenchy So Chic 2014
  • Americana UK Review April 2015
  • Edge of the Sun - Calexico
  • A Forest of Arms - The Great Lake Swimmers
  • Americana UK Review May 2015
  • No Cities To Love - Sleator Kinney
  • Living With Ghosts - Patti Griffin
  • Go! (Remixes) - Public Service Broadcasting
  • Xoa - Anais Mitchell
  • Americana UK Review June 2015
  • Indian Ocean - Frazey Ford
  • The Brightness - Anais Mitchell
  • Robin - Efrat Ben Zur
  • Stay Gold - First Aid Kit
  • Be My Thrill - The Weepies
  • Americana UK Review July 2015
  • Americana UK Review August 2015
  • The Forgotten Arm - Aimee Mann
  • The War Room - Public Service Broadcasting
  • Barricades & Brickwalls - Kasey Chambers
  • Impossible Cures & B-sides - Lotte Kestner
  • Americana UK Review September 2015
  • Americana UK Review October 2015
  • Until - Lotte Kestner
  • 1989 - Ryan Adams
  • Voyageur - Kathleen Edwards
  • The Nashville Acosutic Sessions - Raul Malo, Pat Flynn, Rob Ickes & Dave Pomeroy
  • Cabin Fever - Corb Lund
  • Escape From Dragon House - Dengue Fever
  • Strong & Mighty - Margot Moir
  • Americana UK Review November 2015
  • Pony Tricks - Jason Collet
  • Tall Tall Shadow - Basia Bulat
  • Let England Shake - PJ Harvey
  • Thirteen Cities - Richmond Fontaine
  • Sundown Over Ghost Town - Eileen Jewel
  • Eilen Jewell Presents: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn
  • There Is Love In You - Four Tet
  • From Country Hai East Cotton - Hiss Golden Messenger
  • Something More Than Free - Jason Isbell
  • Same Trailer Different Park - Kacey Musgraves
  • Pyramid Electric Co - Jason Molina
  • Alien Lanes - Guided By Voices

Went to ...

  • Velvet Picture House, Messengers of God, Morton Valance (Finsbury, London)
  • Dom Kippur, Cocos Lovers (The Courtyard Theatre, London)
  • King Salami & the Cumberland 3, Daddy Long Legs (The Shacklewell Arms, London)
  • The Persecuted, East Lonesome Drifters, Follow The Crows, Drew Morrison and The Darkwood (Spice of Life, London)
  • Banjo Nick, Gary "The Slide Guy" Smith, Black/Scarr, Chance Kelner and The Heartlands, David Santos, Katie Nicholas, Chelsea Lovitt, Lady Luck Lexy & the Riverside Boys and East Lonesome Drifters Grand Old Stokey July 4th Independence All-Dayer (Mascara Bar, London)
  • The Alan Tyler Band, Rhett Miller, The Old 97's (Borderline, London)
  • Ealing Blues Festival (London)
  • Cat Meat, Country Ryde (Countrier Than Thou, Lock Tavern, London)
  • Twelfth Night (Turnham Green, London)
  • Jack Grelle, Golden Spike, Davey James, Elasticated Waste Band, Ags Connolly, Jack Harris, Lil' Lost Lou, Country All-Dayer (Locke Tavern, London)
  • CASH (Jazz Cafe, London)
  • The Mavericks (Shepherds Bush Empire, London)
  • East Lonesome Drifters (Walthamstom, London)
  • East Lonesome Drifters, Ghostown Showdown (Mascara Bar, London)
  • East Lonesome Drifters, Comancheros, The Heartlands (Mascara Bar, London)
  • Neko Case, Basia Bulat (Union Chapel, London)

Visited ...

  • Brisbane, Sunshine Coast & Melbourne (Australia)
  • Essen, Munich
  • Copenhagen
  • Sienna, Florence (Italy)
  • Eastbourne, UK