Like everybo dy else, my relation to the Internet has changed quite a bit over the last few y ears with the rise of Dot Communism, so I thought I should update this page a li ttle, just to make sure that you can actually go places from here.
It 's very important to like soccer, particularly if you're American. To keep up to date with the latest scores from the all important English Premier League, you can go to Soccernet (http://www.s occernet.com) which has some well-written match reports and a lot of silly g ossip. I don't necessarily support the page but I get most of what I want from i t. What is most important is, of course, Arsenal, the team I have supported sinc e I was four years old. They have a good fan page called Arseweb (http://arseweb.com) and an official page called AFCi (http://www.arsenal.co.uk). But if you want t o see a great goal scored by someone called something like Nwanko Kanu, Dennis B ergkamp or Marc Overmars, then go to http://user.tninet.se/~tdz627s/, and if you ever want to see soccer on US te levision then the best place to find out what and were is SoccerTv.Com (http://www.soccertv.com).
Music:
- Sometimes I get the dim urge to find out what songs Bob Dyl an played last night. For that I go here: http://www.execpc.com/~billp61/boblink.html. And if you ever want to hear something unreleased but legal: http://www.bobdylan.com
- And of course you don't need me to tell you that Serge Gainsbourg is French, which means that it is very useful to have this web page around for when you want to read what he's going on about: http://alpha.univ-lille1.fr: 28080/~gi155/Gainsbourg.html
- Not only am I a Steeleye Span fan but I al so often need to get their lyrics for a Minstrel In The Galleries show. I think I get them here: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/%7Ezierke/steeleye.span/ index.html
- Fish Records might have what you want, particularly singer-so ngwriters (http://www.fishrecor ds.co.uk/fish.html)
- And if you ever want to find out when an acoustic gu itar is being played anywhere in America this evening, Dirty Linen will have it listed, except if it's me apparently but no hard feelings about that! (http://www.dirtynelson.c om/linen/special/by-state.html)
- I don't really go there but I hear that www.wesweb.net is really great.
Of course, you all know about Ebay (www.eBay.com) and if you need a copy of It Happened One Night or Here Comes The G room on CD or a Collected Stories book, then I recommend that you get one by searching for 'John Wesley Harding' on Ebay. It's probably your best bet, in fact. Anyway, the site is a lot of fun.
I collect books, and the p age I go to is Bookfinder (http://www.bookfinder.com), which searches all the rare and second hand sites with one huge sweep and then gives you all the results at once. Basically it's just like having the largest second hand bookstore in the world in your home but without the smell and you can 'waste' (or 'spend') a lot of time and money there and be extremely happy. Here are some individual author's pages:
- Charles Dickens: http://lang.nagoya-u.a c.jp/~matsuoka/Dickens.html
- Thomas Pynchon: http://www.rpg.net/quail/libyrinth/pynchon/
- Laurence Sterne. To find out why Sterne is my favourite writer, start at http://www.let.uu. nl/~Peter.deVoogd/shandean/gallery.html but you could also read Sentiment al Journey or Tristram Shandy.
- For fans of The Minstrel In the Galleries, don't forget to check out The Medieval And Renaissance Food Home Page at http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/food.html. It's nothing to do with books but it seems literary to me.
- To do a bit of great writing yourself, forget all the above and immediately head h ere: http://www.speakeasy.org/~worden/cutup/. I have an entry in there somewhere!
As in real li fe, the best magazine is the Fortean Times (http://www.forteantimes.com). I haven't spent a lot of time on its on-lin e version but it'll be easier to get than the magazine is in America, unless yo u subscribe, naturally (and even thenÉ.). The magazine always has a great list o f web sites of Fortean Interest. On the subject of which, if you want to spot th e Loch Ness Monster now, and short of flying to Scotland, then go to http://www.lochness.scotland.net/camera.html immediately and look closely for any ripple at all.
If, on the other hand, you want to laugh, I have been a big fan of The Onion, and you c an find them online at http://www.theonion.co m. I don't know whether it will translate over the web, but the funniest TV show I've seen in the last few years, apart from Knowing Me, Knowing You With Alan Partridge, is The Fast Show, and you can check the BBC Fast Show Page out at http://www.comedyzone.beeb.com/fastshow/. They show The Fast Show on BBC Digital, by the way, if you get that channel. Everyone in England knows exactly what I'm talking about (except for BBC Digital, which means nothing to them at all.)
And, finally, the most useful page in the world is The Universal Currency Converter. If you need it, you need it: http://www.xe.net/ucc/
Enjoy any of the above.
For a complementary perspective on JWH, take a look at Weslist, the unofficial John Wesley Harding email list.
Rose has compiled a couple of lists of links as well. Check out the mixed media page for obscure television shows, even mo re obscure magazines, and downright hard-to-find audio and visual art. The resources and references page is just perfect if you happen to be interested in Balkan folk music, Dorothy Parker, mood disorders, secular humanistic Judaism, or basically anything else that Rose is into.
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997 Rose Ellen Auerbach/Sometime Yesterday Productions
