Mental Notes: May 2003

HONG KONG–After finally working out a reliable way to get analogue cassette archives of radio interviews onto my machine, here they are streaming online, under the title Broadcast: The Eels’ E; The Posies‘ Ken Stringfellow; Weezer‘s Brian Bell; The 3Ds‘ Dave Saunders; Shonen Knife‘s Naoko Yamano; Butthole Surfers‘ King Coffey; Lush‘s Phillip King; Tripping Daisy‘s … Continue reading “Mental Notes: May 2003”

Mental Notes: April 2003

HONG KONG–Excellent, some voices of sanity have returned following the recent bout of “regime change”: US anger at Annan remarks where Annan fleetfootedly refers to “occupying forces”; BBC chief attacks US media war coverage – “If Iraq proved anything, it was that the BBC cannot afford to mix patriotism and journalism,” Greg Dyke – oh, … Continue reading “Mental Notes: April 2003”