I would just like to start this message off by saying Laura Llew has lost it (or maybe never had it) and that I find her New Year's resolutions quite advantageous. I think the idea to succeeding at your resolutions is to make your goals attainable. As a result, I have resolved two things: 1. To take chances this year and actually live for once in my life. 2. To stop using Microsoft products when home computing. See? Attainable goals. Anyway, my New Year went something like this. Listened to Belle and Sebastian all the way on my drive from Cleveland, OH to Bowling Green, where my chums would be having a party. Ran into my friend Ben. Drank coffee with Ben. Got free soup at the coffee house. Went to my friend Keith's house to buy a video game off of him and ended up peeling apples and staying for a vegan potluck dinner. Went back to Ben's house. Ate a "mad" brownie. Went to party at Ginger and Ed's. Listened to loud bands and whigged out. Went to my brother's to ring in the new year (and in a very clever moment, some of the guests tripped a breaker and made the power go out--simulating a Y2K disaster. All I could sit and think to myself in the dark was "But I was so right. Nothing was going to happen!" Then the power came on again and I had to watch the incubus Carson Daly ring in the new year and then have No Doubt butcher the end of the world as we know it even though we know that's a big load of crap.) Anyway, shook off most of the brownie at my brother's, then popped back to Ginger and Ed's. Ended up sleeping at my friend Becky and Brandi's house and then went home the next day. Boring eh? My Belle and Sebastian resolution is not that the release a new album, but that they tour. Specifically tour the US. When told that they would not be touring last year, it was said, "the band wants to know would you rather have another album or a tour?" meaning that a new album was on the way. But it wasn't, so since you didn't give us the album, give us a tour. Then again that breaks my rule of attainable goals right? Brandt +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+