Since no one wants to add anything, I'll just continue.
One of the best bits of trivia I learned from the book was that Aleks contributed a key bit of lyrics to Romance is Boring, among the best on the whole album. On Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #2, she came up with the "I've learned more from toilet walls than I've learned from these words of yours/your feelings are buried in scriptures and fiction/it's all in the words but I'm here for the pictures"
That is some damned good stuff.
I still miss Aleks.
Did some cyberstalking and she wound up finishing her medical degree and PhD, and is doing some interesting work now:
How bizarre it must be to be working in this field and like 10 years earlier you were rocking out on stage with a bunch of indie kids.
Prior to Nesta, Aleks spent two years working on international knowledge transfer and policy engagement for a European Commission project about citizen science in the fields of biodesign and environmental sustainability. Before that, she was at the Science Policy Centre at the Royal Society, focusing on emerging technologies and the societal and ethical implications of machine learning. She holds a PhD in Neuroscience from Imperial College London.
Aleks is passionate about the intersection between the arts and sciences. She has co-curated community-facing Art & Science events programmes and recently collaborated with the artist Stine Marie Jacobsen on the educational project Pidgin Tongue for the inaugural Riga Biennial. In her spare time you can find her looking at art, yoga-ing or running along the canals of London.
Looks like I need to fly to London and take up jogging...
And in case you're wondering, Ellen is the host of a weekly comedy night and accompanying podcast called Dear Harry/Spock which is about people writing genre fanfic. According to FB she got engaged over the summer. Sorry GAF or Impy or whoever it was that was Team Ellen.
Yesterday I watched the bonus DVD that came with Beautiful/Doomed and that amateur video tour diary really took me back. So cool seeing these kids in their early 20s getting to play internationally and you can tell that already they have a devout cult following, I loved seeing the girl in the front row at a show in Tokyo mouthing the lyrics, or the other Japanese girls that geeked out to Harriet afterwards and asked for pictures with her.
Anyway, I'll take their discography over any post-2000 band.