How will you be celebrating the millennial New Year's Eve?

Dance on the rooftop naked. Prepare for the worst in a cable-ready bomb shelter with enough food to last a year. Pay $70 a head to spend with strangers at the local Knights of Columbus. None of these were ideas that our celebrities have planned for the New Year's Eve, but they do have some interesting ideas that you may want to join in on. Check out our latest Cafe Contemplations, where we ask the simple question: "How will you be celebrating the millennial New Year's Eve?"

Pamela Ewen, author
I'm just going to stay home with my family and a few friends and take a deep breath.

Holly Figueroa
Staying home with my family, a generator, and lots of bottled water!

Brigitte Darlington
We're supposed to perform a concert with our friends The Staggers, and Lower Class Brats may headline. I don't know if its gonna happen, but I hope it does. And hopefully I'll be spending the night with a beautiful girl that I'm head over heels for.

Kin Eagle's Danny Adlerman
We will go over to the same couple's house that we have been going to for
many years now and just hang out and eat and watch TV. Then right after
12:00, we will come home and go to sleep.

David Niall Wilson
Have a lot of levels of new beginnings in my life this coming year. I will probably spend the New Year with old friends and new dreams. I plan to write something that night, if only a poem, or a very short story -- just to say I did. Love the way the question is worded.
"...This year's Millennium," thus acknowledging that there is (in the eyes of many) the real one to come next year.

Cat Hall of Dissonance
New Year's Eve will be spent at home having a sip of champagne with a few friends - hiding from the rest of the world in general. But wait, that's what I do every day. Just exchange the champagne bit with a nice cabernet. Kooky and wild … that's me.

Bill Leverty of Firehouse
Hopefully with my wife and a bottle of good champagne!

Larry Kirwan of Black-47
I'll be celebrating it onstage with Black 47 at Connolly's, 14 E. 47th St., New York City. You're all welcome.

Bruce Campbell, actor
Very simply - before that midnight, I want to go out in my back yard, away from all the clocks and let the damn thing pass without me knowing it. The whole affair is way too overblown - it's the year 2000 to some folks, but not others, so it all seems very confused. To me, it's just another day.
To quote the Chicago song, "Does anyone really know what time it is? Does anyone really care?"

Jeanine, of Paris By Night
In my home with a few friends, the fire burning, the champagne flowing.
Away from the crazies. I expect great things in 2000.

Ann Seaman, author
I like the way you put it -- how I'm going to celebrate "this year's millennium." Of course, many maintain that the real millennium is next year, when 2000 years will actually have elapsed since we started counting in this manner. But even if you waited until next year to ask the question, my answer would be the same: I will spend the eve of the millennium reflecting on the future of our planet.

Von Babasin, of OnOffOn
I'm not sure exactly what I'll be doing on that fateful night, but I do know that I will be with my family. Only four or five generations out of every 400 are alive to see the turning of a millennium - so I believe it's important to experience something so significant with those that are most important in your life. And, of course, even though it is changing to the year 2000, it won't officially be the end of the millennium until 2000 ends, at which point we can do this again - we'll all just have to celebrate the millennium for the entire year!

Jennifer Perry
I generally make it a habit to hermit away on New Year's Eve, read true murder stories and if I'm not too scared after that sleep through it all!
However - this year I'm being lured to perform at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Atlanta for a private party while my No. 1 guitarist, Denton Perry, will be performing with New Orleans' Code Blue - I don't know where!

Bob Mithoff
A quiet evening with my wife and dogs. If the world doesn't burn, we'll use the fireplace.

Shane Inwood of Tripod Jimmy
Well, I am going to be hanging in Morrocco with a bunch of friends. We will be in Marrakesh getting fried and watching the fire-eaters.
Then off to Amsterdam to meet my old drummer Gabe for more eating and partying. See you there.

David Michael Ross
Uh … next year's millennium?
I just love nice round numbers, and we have one just around the corner. I hope to spend a lot of time listening to "2000 Man" and "2000 Light-Years from Home" by the Rolling Stones and contemplating the appropriateness of the base 10-number system considering the number of human hand-digits.
In celebration, I hope to review many of the optimistic and totally incorrect predictions of life in 2000, which have been made over the last 75 years.
Other numerologically interesting years are 2001 (if you were a moviegoer in 1968), 2002 (best symmetry since 1991), 2020 (best 2-digit repetition since 1919), and 2048 (probably the best in the information age, since is equal to 2 to the eleventh power).
I am also interested to find if there will be 10 billion humans on Earth in year 2011. But, in binary numbers, 2000 is just 11111010000.
More interesting is 11111011111, which is 2015. This binary number resembles the center hole of a pinball machine, or maybe a space-time portal, and might also be a possible time frame
for humans to go to Mars.
Of course, 2000 years is a long time by most standards, but is only about 100 generations (80 if a generation is 25 years). Two thousand years in the past, I should have had between 1.2 X 10^24 and 1.3 X 10^30 ancestors, which means I'm related to everybody who lived then!

Rich Gordon of Rippopotamus
With a fabulous show at The Whitehorse Tavern in Allston, MA

Mike Merz
I'll be hanging out with my friends on KFAI's "Friday Night Poker Party" community radio show here in the Twin Cities (90.3 FM Minneapolis, 106.7 FM St. Paul), which will be the final show of the millennium (10:30 - midnight Friday, Jan 31st, 1999). The year 2000 thing is pretty silly if you ask me. "It's always the centennial of something." --Robertson Davies

Kimberla Lawson Roby, author
I will be celebrating the new Millennium at home with my husband, probably watching old movies and reminiscing about the past.

Robin Spielberg
On Stage! I'll performing in Montclair, NJ.

Michael Bechtel
The perfect Recipe for 2000:
1) Nice Warm Fireplace
2) Low Lights
3) My Lovely wife
4) Let your Imagination run wild

Elizabeth Elkins, Alastor
At home, with a nice glass of champagne.

Richard X. Heyman
Every New Year's Eve, for as long as I can remember, I've celebrated the same way. After a sumptuous home-cooked vegetarian meal, I would settle down on the couch with my wife and watch TV. This year being the turn-of-the-century, millennium, etc., we decided to break with tradition and go out. We are going to our good friend Jayne's apartment, where we are having a sumptuous home-cooked vegetarian meal, and then we are going to settle down on the couch and watch TV.
Isn't life wonderful?

Halley DeVestern
For New Years Eve, my band and I will be vacationing on a farm in the middle of nowhere. We'll chill out, write some songs, hang out with the cows and chickens, and go sledding with the sheep. If there's civil unrest or food shortages, we'll be just fine.

Doug Bierer, Zelfe
"At first cut, I was planning on spending New Year's Eve in Thailand. According to the Thai calendar, this year is 2542. Next year will be 2543. No Y2K problem. No planes falling out of the air. No electrical grid going wild. On second thought, however, I realized that that would be pretty boring ... especially since the Thai new year is celebrated in April ... so I decided to spend the evening in London instead."

Rose Polenzani
No one has invited me to any parties. Are you having any? Why haven't you invited me?