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This is interesting. On lucid dreaming, try Stephen LaBerge - it's meant to be the key stuff tho I haven't read it. "Dreaming Realities" by John Overdurf and Julie Silverthorn is good too if you ignore the stuff about quantum physics. Also "Conscious Dreaming" and its sequel "Dreamgates" by...

GTD might work if you stick at it. Check out this site for the interface between GTD and computer geekery: www.43folders.com Computers work for some people and not for others - I don't think you can generalise. I generally love computers, PDAs and gadgets but I'm finding that paper works best...

A few years ago I read "I was Dora Suarez" by Derek Raymond. I wish I had never read it. Not because it was a waste of time but because I had nightmares when reading it de to its sense of nastiness, and some of its images have never left me. In some ways it must be a successful book because I...

Dizzee Rascal featuring Cleo Laine. Nnice!

Acid Mothers Gong at Royal Festival Hall a year or so ago. I'd heard that AMT were a great live band and having seen them recently I can vouch for that (those guys Know How to Rock), but this was absolute shite. OK, not the best venue for that I know but it would have sucked in any venue. Daevid...

Damo Suzuki sings in a mixture of English, Japanese and some made up language. More so recently than in Can days I think (on the made-up stuff).

Nagoya is worth thinking about. Not an exciting place but a good and comfortable place to live. it's big, but its unfashionable and often overlooked so there should be lots of jobs there. Handy for travelling around: 2 hrs from Tokyo, less than 1 hr to Kyoto/Osaka, on the bullet train, also good...

Well, so far it is ... I've now read Amaryllis Night and Day and Kleinzeit and neither of them comes anywhere close. Anyone read Kleinzeit? WTF is that about?

I loved and still love MHTRTC. One of my favourite records of all time. Geogaddi I like but I found it something of a disappointment. Beautiful Place .. is good but not up to the standard of MHTRTC. Listening to Headphase now for the first time. Too early for a verdict, but so far coming in...

Looking for some tips on which of Russell Hoban's books is his best. I read Riddley Walker, which is an astonishing book, well worth the effort of getting used to the language he uses. I then read Amaryllis Night and Day, because it looked interesting in the bookshop. It was OK, good in parts...

Didn't some band do a cover of a Simon & Garfunkel song? Mrs Robinson? Poppy, but worked quite well tho not DNA-altering ... sorry can't be more specific, mind is mush at the moment. Also, I think there's a big difference between a genuine cover version, however out-there (e.g. Devo's...

Yeah, John Eden beat me to it ... Devo's "Satisfaction" is an awesome cover. Redefined the song & makes you hear the original in a new way. Must try to find it. I remember when it came out - the more "traditional" folks around my way hated it, really hated it. "Mongoloid" too. No-one tried to...

Surely that is "pump" my bicycle ...

Quick Live Question ... Just started playing with the demo of Live 4, and it looks like I will be moving towards a purchase. I've been using Reason, which I like, but I find the sequencer a barrier to creativity in compositions. A quick and very specific question on Live 4: if I have a midi...

FFS! I can't believe I just read that, or that no-one here has picked up on it. I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but leaving aside the question of the rights and wrongs of mocking or loathing chavs, I can't see a meaning other than that you're saying that these people's lives are somehow...

I saw the Queen a week or so ago in a fuck-off big Bentley on her way to the Tsunami memorial service at St Pauls cathedral. The Bentley was driving up the wrong side of New Bridge Street, and with all those rozzers around too ... it's a wonder she didn't get nicked. Prince Phil was there too...

Rambler - totally with you on "out there" when used by radio "personalities", because it completely destroys the one-to-one relationship between the radio and the listener and demonstrates a tragic lack of understanding of this relationship on the part of the presenter. MMS - completetly agree...

I love most of his stuff but Dolls left me cold.

Most of Hunter S Thompson but especially Fear and Loathing. PJ O'Rourke - Republican Party Reptile, especially the one about driving. His other books are OK (except the CEO of the sofa which is shite) but this was his peak IMHO. The title of the driving story is "How to Drive Fast On Drugs...

Infinite Jest is worth the effort. I agree w/everything Jenks said about it but would also add that it's damn funny too. A tip: read the footnotes in the right place (i.e. don't ignore them and then read them at the end) as they add to the plot. Even the filmography. Supposedly Fun Thing is...