What! Nobody remembers Furniture? Ah well... Well, I'm sitting here in the office drinking Budvar (a present from our avuncular boss, playing Santa for the afternoon) and doing very little else coz the server's down. See, even computers can get into the Yuletide spirit if they really try. A good time to look back over the year and, before you groan, I don't mean assess the state of the trains or climate. 2000 has been not just GRATE but the GRATEST in a sinisterish sorta way, being the year I discovered the joys of picnicking, in Greenwich (twice), Oxford and Primrose Hill (well *almost* in the last case, so I only made it to the Spread Eagle, it still counts). What a year for gig-going too...Stereolab, super furries (both in Toronto); Tompaulin; Sodastream; Lollies and Baxendale last Saturday (pity about the sound, but still very memorable). Hey but next year's going to be even better! A chance to find out whether strangefruit London is as good as strangefruit Oxford used to be for example. And I really must visit Glasgow... We're connected again and I'm getting dirty looks, so after that brief hiatus it's back to the grindstone. Before I go though....if anyone knows of anything going on in Londinium for New Year's Eve (this is the REAL millennium New Year's after all) then e-mail me privately. I'm going to sleep all over Christmas (that's the way I feel anyway) but I should be hitting the ground running come the 31st. Back to the International Journal of Dermatology (yum), Mark. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+