MY FAVOURITE LINKS

Friends and family

• Mikey
• Roman
• Kate
• Colin

Culture

The Arts and Letters Daily site sifts the cultural wheat from the chaff - a useful digest of articles on all aspects of culture.

Sites with loads of good links:

• Labyrinth (Medieval links)
• The Victorian Web

Music

For an overview of what's worth listening to, try The Wire.

Some good sites for individual artists are:

• Brian Eno
• Captain Beefheart
• John Cage
• Harry Partch
• Pere Ubu
• Sonic Youth
• Stereolab
• The Velvet Underground

And some more general sites that are particularly good:

• Early women composers - Hildegard et al
• Hyperion Records
• Red Hot Jazz - Audio files of early jazz: Sidney Bechet, Jelly Roll Morton etc.

Art

Some good sites for particular artists:

• Paul Cézanne
• Robert Smithson
• Richard Long

This glossary of art terms is useful.

Also good:

• 'Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry'
• The Aberdeen Bestiary

Literature

Some good sites for particular writers:

• Fernando Pessoa
• Jorge Luis Borges: The Garden of Forking Paths
• James Joyce: 'Ulysses' for dummies
• Vladimir Nabokov: A-Z (the sort of sad list you find on this site!)

E-texts (out of copyright so mainly classics and old translations): Project Gutenburg

And more generally

• Early Japanese Women Poets
• Troubadours

Film

Some good sites for particular directors:

• Robert Bresson
• Sergei Paradjanov