Barry Kavanagh
Contributing Writer
(Dublin, Ireland)

2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: No More Shall We Part album & live show. Cave is reunited with the Bad Seeds for nights of fire and noise.

3. Kristin Hersh Sunny Border Blue album. A cohesive acoustic-electric catharsis.

4. The Divine Comedy Regeneration album. Neil Hannon is a great songwriter and this time he's experimenting with very direct messages. Nice.

5. Edward Gibbon's Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire. Skeptical, witty, ironic, written in the 1770's and '80s but still definitive.

6. Turin Brakes The Optimist album. Melodious maladies.

7. Knut Hamsun's Mysteries. The classic novel from 1892, Bothmer translation. The people of a small Norwegian town have to listen to the main character's dreamlike stories - and he can't shut up.

8. The films of "Beat" Takeshi Kitano, especially Sonatine(1993), Hana-Bi (1997) and Kikujiro (1999). Visually stunning, genre-annihilating, idiosyncratic and imaginative.

9. Voting against the Treaty of Nice. This is the third European treaty in nine years. What's the damned hurry?

10. Existence.

Amy Jarrell
Freezone Curator
(Austin, Texas, USA)

2. Cool For You by Eileen Myles
Print book, Soft Skull Press, 2000.

3. Fertile LaToyah Jackson Video Magazine
Directed by Rick Castro, 60 minutes, VHS.

4. Papier-mache’ing styrofoam heads with tasteless visual pornography.

5. Consumer Defense Corporate Poetry
Print ’zine by Rev. Richard J. Mackin. Self-published, 2000.

6. Valencia by Michelle Tea
Print book. Seal Press, 2000.

7. Spreading SUV-angst with the help of bumper stickers and obnoxiously real violation notices from Bay Area Action and www.changingtheclimate.com.

8. The Velvet Underground ~ White Light/White Heat
Polydor Records, 1968.

9. Being blamed for the disappearance of a circular saw that was left outside of my townhome by a slack-jawed builder.

10. Getting inspired to go trainhopping thanks to Alternative Press Review . Print magazine, A.A.L. Press.

Rudy Rucker
Signum’s Lil’ Helper
(San Francisco, California, USA)

2. CycleCide.com - Drunk punks make choppers, tall bikes, and put on quite a Bike Rodeo.

3. Anton Maiden - A teenage kid from Norway does karaoke to Iron Maiden turns which he has turned into synthed-out midi tunes. May I recommend Spar 9 - Can I Play With Madness to you?

4. Furbeowulf - Okay, now you are going to think all my Top 10 things are website related... oh well! This is a site about parallel computer technology (based on Beowulf Clustering) which is fun by modified Furbies.

5. Shrimpmeat.net - My sister, Isabel, runs this site. It has lots of neat photos, articles, and life advice. May I recommend you read up on Feng Shui, drink 4 coffees, and then rearrange your room?

6. Vaginal Croutons

8. Tultepec, Mexico - This is a small city about 2 hours north of Mexico City. 70% of the town's residents work in fireworks factories. This is the main fireworks production center of Mexico. In the first week or two of March, they have a ten day fireworks festival. I went there this year. See you there in 2002?

9. Cephalopods - Suid, Octopus, and Cuttlefish make are in the Mollusca Phylum and -- more specifically -- in the Class Cephalopoda. Here is a site with a bunch of photos:
http://is.dal.ca/~ceph/
TCP/index.html
here is a rather cute Cuttle Fish:
http://is.dal.ca/~ceph/
TCP/scol.JPG

10. Mame (okay, this was hip a couple of years ago, but I'm catching on!)
http://www.mame.net/
(for windows users)
http://www.classicgaming.com/
mame32