27/3/00 - We've just received this album at the station, it sounds like it will be interesting:  (via UNPOPULAR)

"It's a conceptual music project that would've made late pop-art icon Andy Warhol proud: Send a weird-looking sequencer to Beck, Cibo Matto and other musicians, ask them to write a song using it and little else, and collect the results on an album."

"By way of illustrating how the country's dental health is improving, the British Dental Association recently announced that only 13 percent of British adults have no teeth at all, down from 28 percent in 1979."

26/3/00 - Interview with Henry Rollins:

"Small wonder then that, as far as Rollins is concerned hard rock is a dying art. "Music has become such a visual thing," he sighs, flexing his tattoos. "It's how a band looks on video, how their beards are braided, how perky their breasts are. But you look at guys like in Zeppelin or Sabbath, or the Pink Fairies. These were ugly dudes who just showed up and kicked ass.""

"'[Being John] Malkovich' co-producer Sandy Stern read out a rejection letter from an anonymous executive letter at an unidentified studio who said the 'Malkovich' script 'probably would be hailed as an inspired piece of work on the planet on which it was written. Unfortunately I do not have sufficient quantities of the medication necessary to allow this story to make sense to me.'"

"Police using riot shields and horses dispersed a pitch invasion by hundreds of Hull rugby league fans, who goaded rival supporters and tore down goalposts at Huddersfield's McAlpine Stadium."

24/3/00 - A couple of interview with Delia Smith, in The Times and the Pink 'Un, (surprisingly not Norwich's Gay and Lesbian newspaper).

24/3/00 - I wonder what would happen if this was read out at a US high school.

24/3/00 - This could mean people checking their email a little more carefully:

"Dozens of electronic messages racing across the Internet this week carried what's believed to be an unprecedented payload--a subpoena and other documents approved by a judge, warning that the recipient's Web site may be violating a federal court order."

"Mattel is trying to rid the world of a "cphack" program that lets customers view what its CyberPatrol blocking software says is off-limits. The toy giant has filed suit in Massachusetts federal district court, and won a temporary restraining order against cphack's authors. Now Mattel attorneys are bulk-emailing subpoenas even to people who linked to the cphack code."

24/3/00 - How to live without a bank account in Britain.  (via linkmachinego)

24/3/00 - Places that you never usually see in the press.  Diss!

"PRIMAL SCREAM stopped off for a head-to-head with one of their fiercest critics during the first leg of their British tour - in a record shop in Diss..."

24/3/00 - An interview with Margaret Atwood concerning screen adaptations of her novels.  (via Arts Journal)

24/3/00 - After all the stuff about loss of privacy and government clampdowns it's nice to hear this:

"If a Freenet user has a copy of a file on their machine, it doesn't mean they published it. In fact, they might not even know it's there. Clarke argues that at no point can any one computer user be held responsible for Freenet files, because there is no way of knowing their origin. "It's a perfect machine anarchy," says Clarke. "No single computer is in control.""

24/3/00 - The wonderful VW commercial with Nick Drake's 'Pink Moon'.

24/3/00 - A tour through the new Tate Gallery courtesy of The Times.  My favourite is this David Hockney:

It features the designer Ossie Clark with his wife.

24/3/00 - It looks like Red Bull is finally going to hit Tallahassee, but no mention of TVRs.