240103 _

aye well, it's goodbye to all that ::: it's my last day in the uk, off to tokyo tomorrow, and then off to sydney to enjoy the forty degree heat - factor sixty is locked and loaded.

the last six years in london have expanded my mind in a wide variety of trajectories - some healthy, others not-so-healthy, but all worthwhile. all part of the ride. lest i forget : simon + helen from the OLP days; phil + cameron, one time of 'the stage'; the family of psychos from 24:7; the mighty-good people of the royal court (emily, helen, neil, giselle, ola, aoife, clare, vikki, penny, simon); mark + lewis from tangerine; the mccabes escapees (esp. elaine + clare); tyler nugent (always there when the world needs him); the AAA and space 1999 crew; all the ex-pat glasgow team (alan, karen, stephen, jenny, adrian); scooby-doo mark; andy smith; julie bacon; roddy hunter; the span2 people; all @ midnight to six; pauline; sass; dom + sarah and my dear chief buddy ken. and a shout of course to those that already made it out: to vic and lisa, non-weegie types on an international mission.

and the highlight? it will always and forever be meeting the other half of my brain ::: my beautiful future wife, rob.

see you on the other side ::: so it goes xx


160103 _

link _ wired news
and finally the world catches up. the association of autonomous astronuats quite rightly once explained that 'space is the place'. now NASA have performed a u-turn and are announcing their plans to take the paying public into space. naturally, they'd do well to heed the words of the foundation for art in zero-g.

link _ adventures in modern music
from 230103, the wire magazine takes to the airwaves on resonance fm. london towners can tune into 'adventures in modern music' on 104.4FM at 9:30-11pm GMT on thursdays. rest of the world can listen to the stream at resonancefm.com. highly recommended.


140103 _

link _ indymedia
unsurprsingly, italian police have admitted planting petrol bombs during the 2001 Genoa G8 riot - in order to justify the subsequent raid on the demonstrators' school-house encampment. 72 protestors were injured during the raid. archive report: nadir.org

link _ rootingoutevil.org
as part of their campaign to expand the search for 'weapons of mass destruction' rooting out evil is sending a weapons inspection team into the U.S. to "inspect the chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons produced and concealed by the Bush regime". join them in person "or in spirit" via their web site

130103 _ link_ www.klf.de the much sought-after (by me at least) original soundtrack to the klf's rarely seen 'white room' movie has turned up on this german fan site. the album, featuring early versions of the singles and a few unreleased tracks, has been 'remastered' and the mp3 quality is excellent. more cheesy italian piano house than transcentral's transcendental techno, but an intersting cultural artefact nonetheless. (bill drummond's spoken-word version of 'born free' is a particular highlight...)

090103 _

primer updated with new piece on grant morrison and THE INVISIBLES. MORE

works updated with text + images from Scrubber, A Design For Multi-Dimensional Living, This Is My Confession, Year Zero / Polaroid Haiku, Done & Dusted and Treaty for the Use of Space by Nomadic Individuals. MORE

link_ www.clandestina.com
clandestina: artists in conflict. beautiful site, well worth a look. esp caracas pictures in the 'trips' section.

link_ www.deepleafproductions.com/utopialibrary
deepleaf productions have produced a documentary on the life of robert anton wilson and have also put together the 'utopia library' which they describe as "a collection of texts and interviews exploring possibilites and boundaries of social evolution". features links to texts from john cage, noam chomsky, buckminster fuller, aldous huxley, r.a.wilson and many more.


040103 _

a new site for the new year :: welcome to zero-g.03

an overview of what's new :: the audio section is all new, and celebrates the release of the first album on the new zerogaudio label. the album is a sampler compilation entitled MUSIC FOR DOGS and will be made available free in the near future.

the hesitency to say 'come and get them now' is entirely due to the fact that i'm emigrating across the other side of the world, all the way to sydney where i'm assured that there's no snow at this time of year... so once there's a house under my feet, distribution will bea little easier.

also new is the primer section which will take some time to build, but will ultimately feature background notes on the people, philosophies and movements that have sparked my interest over the years. it's largely a way to retain knowledge and not to to watch it fade away as my body consumes more alcohol and dope. i'd be delighted to receive links, ideas, even full entries for the primer from anyone wishing to contribute.

web section is largely as was, but i'd obviously like to point out the softish launch of the latest site from the house of zero-g, namely the new site for mute records' goldfrapp [built by a team including lady mrs b - robyn scherf, steve claydon (add n to x), neil chapman and alison goldfrapp herself].

works features all the historification you could ever want (not that you knew you wanted it in the first place), with more archive additions due over the next couple of weeks.

so it goes _
stuartb

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