Parenthetical

My first submission to the The Mirror Project:

Isn’t it brilliant that, apart from a few set-up costs and the infrastructure, the only things that need to be brought to the Internet are imagination and time? [Sounds like something from the Fast Show — Ed.] No other raw materials required! As complex or as simple as you like, as intricate or raw as you want. Armed with a collection of stylesheets you can dabble with a multiverse of possible takes on the same subject — just look at the CSS Zen Garden.

‘Meeting people is easy.’ has reminded me that some artists seem to have a direct line to my sub-conscious: Radiohead, REM, Portishead, Sparklehorse for instance. Pink Floyd did it to me with ‘Darks side of the moon’ back in the ‘70s, and ‘Momentary lapse of reason’, the same a decade, or so, later. Comfy and expected progressions.

William Gibson’s ‘Pattern recognition’ is another case in point. Reads with the feel of a comfy sweater.

• Cast of Shadows | Kevin Guilfoile
• Stop Stealing Sheep & find out how type works | Erik Spiekermann & E M Ginger
• the Zen of CSS design | Dave Shea and Molly E Holzschlag
• Gravity’s Rainbow | Thomas Pynchon
• A Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson
• Pattern Recognition [Again! — Ed] | William Gibson
• The Elements of Typographic Style | Robert Bringhurst

• Laphroaig
• Lagavulin
• The Glenlivet

• Turn on the Bright Lights | Interpol
• Antics | Interpol
• Black Cherry | Goldfrapp
• Wallpaper for the Soul | Tahiti 80
• Around the Sun | REM
• Waltz for Koop | Koop
• COM LAG: 2+2=5* | Radiohead
• Storm | Heather Nova