Issue Three, October 2002

Stuff You Might Be Interested In

Heavy Rotation

What's Happening in the Catboy Office

We all need something to keep the creative juices flowing. Sometimes we even think other people might be interested in what inspires others. If you are bothering to read my work, let me be indulgent enough to tell you what work by other people inspires me further. Each issue I will share what has been read, listened to, and read the most while creating my pages.

Music

• "Lost in Space" - Aimee Mann. Issue 2 will have proved just how much I love this artist. Her latest album continues the spark of genius encapsulated in a fragile human body. Songs for the prozac nation who still hope.
• "Blaxploitation"- this isn't the real name of this compliation, but it is what I called the folder on my itunes player that I copied from a cd owned by my friend Erin. Contains such great songs as Barry White's "Can't get enough of your love", The Jackson Five's "I want you back", and Aretha Franklin's "r-e-s-p-e-c-t". Groove on.
• "Scarlet's Walk" - Tori Amos. An album with a theme, as Tori explores America by the means of a car. Wonderful.

DVDs

• Star Trek: The Next Generation Seasons One and Two. For the sci fi geek in all of us, and in such beautiful collectible packaging that you will have no problem in realising why dvd collecting is my drug addiction. This is a programme that makes you remember why so many kids wanted to be astronauts.
• Grease. Relive your youth, and even more of it as the widescreen format shows us bits formerly chopped off the sides in video versions.
• Kath and Kim. Kimmie, look at moie, look at moie. That's noice, that's differunt, that's un-ewes-yuall.
• Mulholland Drive. (again) Because you can never have enough Lynch. Shut up, Mel.

Books

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon. A deft tale that covers the Holocaust and how two jewish teenagers in America created their own comic book hero that encasulated their hopes to save their own people.
• Atonement - Ian McEwan. Not always the most digestable of authors, this story of how a young girl misinterprets the events of a hot summer's day is his most accessible novel.
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers. Heartbreaking? Yes. Staggering Genius? Maybe.. One of the best memoirs you will ever read.
• The Devil's Candy. One of the best books ever written about the film making process. The best selling novel The Bonfire of the Vanities becomes a Hollywood flop.