Sinister: Have you ever been to a Harvester before?

[Mark Hester]

....as a matter of fact, I haven't, and the fact that I haven't was contributive
to me gaining a rather high score on an "How Much of a Snob Are You?" on the
modern interweb some time ago.  Now, Beefeaters, they're different.  I've been
to plenty of those.  In fact, when I move offices in a couple of months' time
the nearest thing approximating a pub will in fact be a Beefeater called the
Longwall.  A couple of weeks back we all headed down to the new building to see
what it's like.  Seriously odd is the answer.  Whereas our current place has a
pond, the new one has a Water Feature, which is no good for fish as it consists
of a very, very shallow sheet of water moving over a metal plateau.  With
coloured lights.  The new office also takes open plan to new heights (or depths)
as there are NO DIVIDES AT ALL, not even between the restaurant and the
reception area, which'll be, erm, *interesting* when there's fish on Fridays.

All the references to Harvesters in the archives are about combine harvesters,
unfortunately....

Anyway, those of you who've heard the new St Etienne offering "Finisterre" will
recognise the line at the top from Michael Jayston's spoken parts, which he
utters with such gravitas that they seem of the utmost import.  I had no idea
who Jayston was, so I went a-googling, natch, and discovered that he was a
"character actor" who'd been in loads of stuff without actually being the real
star.

Donnie Darko has real stars - Drew Barrymore and Patrick Swayze.  It's a really
great film and v. funny in places - go see it.


There's a bunch of kids in Oxford right now called Trademark who look like the
Cuban Boys, play eightiesish synth-pop (a bit like Nemo) and fill the gaping
hole left by the (presumably) defunct Holy Roman Empire in the wackiness stakes.
 They even gave a physics lecture in the middle of their set last night, to
precursor their song "Sine Love".



Stuart Djing at TIHIFTBL?  Yay!  

Mark.

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