OK then, New Year, what's everyone doing?

Duane- you going to be in Timaru then? or risk soaking up in Dunners?

boy band huh? I'd like to see the advertising for that!

I shall not be going there either, I think after the 29th and ZigZag on the 30th - is that still going on? - that I might possibly be lying somewhere in a ditch (OR 'THEEE DITCH'*!!!!!!) moaning and weeping.

* = SHOREDITCH as any fule kno.

I shall also be at Strange Fruit, and have just made a very threatening phone call to my brother Noboru Wataya after he said he would turn up.

New Year? Probably a quiet one in, but you never know.

i will be sober.

I really need to get out of the house tomorrow so can someone mail me their mobile number or tell where you might be meeting. Thanks.

I SHOULD HOPE. Otherwise this whole ruling the world scam of mine has been for nought.

I think most of Dublin will be there.

*does so* I am still hoping we can grab a bottle of Moet et Chandon, but we'll see...

Have a good time if you are venturing out this eve! :)

Side question: That bloody awful Spearmint record: Classic or Dud?

(I suppose you wouldn't have known it. The second song after Baxendale finished "Don't Stop Moving")

I'm curious, and for quite practical reasons i.e. I have nothing to do this New Year's and unfortunately I don't really have the option of staying at home as the quiet solitude that I'd be craving if I did would be disrupted by my annoying flatmates.

So if anyone from the Groke crowd is doing anything in London and don't mind me tagging along, I'd love to hear about it. And I'd be fascinated to hear about the New Year plans of anyone living in more exciting places, too.

I'm taking the bus from Boston to New York on New Year's Eve, God help me, and joining in whatever plans my best friend there is organizing. It may just be four or five of us drinking wine in her apartment, which would make me pretty happy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfUL3kxSNX4

looking forward to going out this new year's -- i've been a bit of a hermit these last few. planning to hit little dom's for a cozy italian dinner and the virgil for the whole "midnight champagne toast" deal with DJs and silver lake shabby chic.

Eating homemade macaroni & cheese with Italian sausage, watching Wattstax.

that sounds great too, on both counts.

this is the virgil. picture it packed with people and that's NYE:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8211/8326537577_43a528e37a.jpg

Wow, that looks amazing.

Off to Ewer St warehouse to see Blawan, Appleblim and Untold. Haven't been London dancing in ages. What sort of thing do people wear? I'm serious!

big joint birthday party of two mates in a snug in a pub in dublin

I could set my watch to Facebook posts like these:

So today I’m posting my New Year’s Resolution.

It is…

…to stop trying to please everyone and just live my life how I want to.

hanging out at home, try to helen and pat to play board games, prob watch a movie or two. i would not mind finishing fanny & alexander tbh

try to CONVINCE pat &helen

cool I didn't know they made a fanny & alexander board game

Was thinking about a friend's party not too far from here but last night I was up with friends after a concert until about 2:45 so I think I already have celebrated a day early. Which is fine.

i did get a RIDICULOUSLY DIFFICULT lord of the rings trivia game for xmas -- manufactured by fantasy flight -- this one:

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6608/lord-of-the-rings-trivia-game

Counting individual guitar strings for store inventory, hating

1.) working until i can't justify working any longer. 2.) hopefully having a couple drinks if some money comes today. 3.) keeping it low-key as hell otherwise. 4.) spending some time with my moms so she's not alone on nye. 5.) double-hopefully ringing in the actual new year by seeing someone very important to me.

About to put kids to bed, then we're making some cacio e pepe, opening a bottle (or two), watching a movie. Should be nice.

And for Happy New Year wishes, it's hard to beat these amazing Soviet postcards: http://ressuns.blogspot.com/2010/12/happy-new-year-from-soviet-gundam-era.html

Still counting things, tired, dying

happy new year, ilx

had some drinks, watching Father Ted repeats, thinking I should probably remember to go to bed soon

celebrating early at my local since I won't be out tonight

eating salami & crackers, drinking a bottle of chardy mum sent for christmas, reading jack reacher
party time
excellent

plz don't die jjjusten

nm, jc

looks like pretzels & Gatorade at home, alone

Watching the NHK red and white song contest on TV Japan

NYE has always been hard for me especially when it's been a good year (harder to leave) and as I get older, I just get more and more afraid the new year will bring deaths in the family.

In the 4th grade I did an "Audio Journal on Tape" thought that was so catchy, of my NYE and got recordings of family in conversation and did interviews then would sneak away to my bedroom and just go on and on about the passing of time, changes coming and getting older and waxing nostalgic and how I was afraid of people I loved dying etc... it's so down and sad for a nine year old. I haven't changed. There was a time in my 20's when I went to parties and threw parties and thought I was over sad NYE's but then it all returned in 1999. Turned out my parents divorced and those holiday gatherings stopped, they are what I remember the most from childhood too, food, music but not feeling like it would go on forever.

This year though, I have my own small family to spend it with and we are cooking and baking up all sorts of lil appetizers and goodies and will watch movies, eat, countdown and drink champagne. Made my calls.

my ny sucks monumental balls but fuck it i'll survive

whoa that took a long time to type out legibly

hny to everyone, ilx is this thing in my life

Taking it way easy tonight, last night was kinda my after-midnight party with friends one day in advance. Best to all.

Sitting on my couch writing. Wife's already in bed. (It's ~11:10 PM where I am.)

half a bottle of wine in, many moar to go

Bored, bored, bored.

it's already new year's day here and in a minute i'm going to make the pastry for a cherry pie, the cherries this summer are perfection.

happy new year, ilx<3

Case of Sapporo tall boys, Magic Mike and Amour on queue, Tera beside me and August chipping away like Sweet Pea. Happy New Year ilx!

getting glammed up and listening to the gun club.

i love the gun club so much.

hny

phillip and i stayed home and made dinner: a parsnip, turnip & kale curry baked in a piecrust. i am dancing around to italo disco and old house and afx

happy new year east coast bros

woo happy new year east coast!!!

I am home alone and it sounds like new york is getting attacked

cloverfield would look even better in 2k13 thanks to iphone 5s with nice hd video

- was on call
- stopped by to hang with friends
- home alone
- patsy cline
- p chill

t-minus 45m

apparently SEA has fireworks off the space needle, contemplating going up to the roof to check it out

for some reason every new years DJ is playing '212' ... a year after it was popular!!!

Watching The Golden Compass, eating chocolate, drinking champagne + drambuie, texting wishes to people in other time zones

Listening to NPR's Toast of the Nation 2013, times EST
11 p.m.: Wynton Marsalis with Vince Giordano: The Louis Armstrong Continuum — Music of the Hot Fives and Sevens. Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, New York City. Presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center.

12:30 a.m.: Dee Alexander's Funkin' with Electric Soul: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix and James Brown. South Shore Cultural Center, Chicago. Presented by the Jazz Institute of Chicago. (currently: "Lickin' Stick", and it's tasty--she's not trying to sing like JB, which is cool)

1:30 a.m.: Clark Terry and Red Holloway Ring in 1990. From Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase, Chicago. A reprise to celebrate the trumpet great — living in Arkansas, still teaching and dreaming up projects — and his brother on the bandstand, the late saxophonist Red Holloway (1927-2012).
Then they'll replay John Scofield's Uberjam, which is vamp on nice riffs with tiny diffentations, meh-ish
2:30 a.m.: Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band. Presented by the 55th Monterey Jazz Festival.

Whoops--Scofield's re-run is actually after Gordon Goodwin.

Finishing bottle of wine
Cabin in the Woods commentary
eating candy
yay

Gah, wish I'd stayed awake for that NPR dealie! I saw Terry at the Showcase almost exactly a year after that, co-leading a group with Louis Bellson. To say his horn filled the room would be an understatement.

Thrilling: attempted to watch 42 Up from a box set I bought a few months ago, found out it was a PAL disc my player wouldn't read, watched Fargo instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpQIfWgnijs

i did everything on my list up there. pretty good nye tbqfh.

Hope it's a great year, for all of you.

Had a nice night, personally, went to a friend's house for dinner though it was only three of us since three other pals had the norovirus and couldn't make it. Turned out to be really fun though, probably my two closest friends and we got wasted on really good beer and wine, plus there was an amazing meal.

Then wandered into a pub, with no plans, for the countdown, which was surprisingly fine. They played Snoop Dogg as the first song of the year and I met some other friends by chance, went back to theirs and drank champagne. Don't remember getting home.

Today I'm going to cook something meaty and unhealthy for dinner and watch movies with a beer or two. Not back to work till Monday :)

three other pals had the norovirus

Ah, I contracted that on New Year's Eve of 2002. Woke up thinking I just had a really bad hangover. If only. The first few days of 2003 were memorable in all the wrong ways.

I spent it at a good friend's sister's place; she wouldn't let me drive home, which was a nice gesture. I awoke at 7:30 a.m., as is my wont, drove home, prowled ILX for 15 minutes, and did what I never do: went to bed. I awoke anew an hour ago and am listening to Angel Haze while drinking honey ginger tea. Lovely morning.

jesus fucking christ kids, somebody come round and shoot me please

Happy New Years to all ILXors! I've resolved to quit smoking and so far i still haven't had one today, so i think i'll make it. I've actually quit before for a few years but then there was this woman i was interested in who smoked and for some reason i thought it would help my chances. It didn't.

I know I'm going to feel like a million dollars this weekend, i can't wait.

good luck!

Thanks! I've been saying "I gotta quit smoking cigarettes" multiple times over the past few months and then I saw my brother who just celebrated 7 years sober and damn i am proud of him. It's really good motivation for this undertaking.

my NYE was fun. i had a delicious hanger steak and some maple panna cotta and two manhattans. didn't get drunk, didn't get hung over. woke up at noon today.

What is it with Andre Rieu (ridiculously kitschy Dutch composer) all over the telly this Xmas/new years?

Blackeyed peas, cabbage and cornbread consumed. Now where the fuck's my money!

HNYILX

London fireworks voiceover was like a Chris Morris parody.

nachos, bunheads marathon

hny

Forgot all about blackeyed peas this year...been in pj's all day too. Not off to a more ambious start. It'll get better.

no black eyed peas here, but my first cooking project of 2013 will be tinga de pollo with scrambled eggs, which is one of my favorite dishes at my neighborhood mexican restaurant.

basically, i'm cooking some bone-in chicken legs (browned lightly on the stove) in the dutch oven, with a mixture of tomato paste, chipotles in adobo sauce, mexican oregano, garlic, cumin, guajillo chili powder, salt and pepper, bay leaves, cilantro, and a little milk for extra liquid (recipes recommend chicken broth, but i didn't have any). giving it about 3 hours at 200 degrees, then i'm gonna shred the chicken with a fork and scramble it into the eggs.

Yeah i just noticed we have black eyed peas but they're dry and it would take until tomorrow to cook them.

Yesterday a friend of mine was so into eating tater tots, and we went out and got some, and it was great, but i had no idea if that is a tradition or not. Sounded like one!

i like inventing new traditions. my tradition with my bf is going out for indian food on major holidays.

Threw a party at ours, played 'Got Your Money' at midnight, danced in the front room until 5am. Managed not to completely trash the house.

i wore a sweet Hawaiian shirt which looked less sweet as i staggered round Hull crippled with hangover this afternoon

several friends down with dublin norovirus reported upthread, but enough of us remained to see it in safely. Spent today in a chinese restaurant that was promised mindblowing, my mind remained entirely untroubled by anything resembling blowing (or, indeed, flavour)

http://www.soundcloud.com/rhythmplate/black-rocks

I should think that south asian would be a much safer bet in Dublin than chinese.

We did vegetarian Hoppin' John and stuffed cabbage leaves for dinner, and drank up the rest of the champagne from last night (since we barely stayed awake long enough to drink one NYE toast). We also did not leave the house today. No reason to. I figure the rest of the world will still be there tomorrow.

My NYE: my boyfriend and I DJed a ridiculous warehouse party in Baltimore at a space called The Coward Shoe. Also Djing: Co La, John from Art Department, and Amanda with video stuff by GSP (video dude for Dan Deacon and Animal Collective). Silly fun was had. Our countdown soundtrack was James Tenney's "For Ann (Rising)" slamming into Mariah Carey's version of "Auld Lang Syne". The PA was struggling and eventually crapped out for a while- subwoofer cables kinda weak, one speaker getting fried. Eventually PA got sorted and John Ehrens did a footwork/juke DJ set and some people with skills did the crazyleg stuff at blinding speed. My friend got so drunk that he was puking a *lot* so we drove him home and put him to bed then went back for more partying. Bummer: I lost my bowtie on the dancefloor and it was really pretty and made out of feathers. Good bit: not all that hungover today honestly. Memorable songs of the night: Backstreet Boys, Ghostbusters Theme and driving home to Ghost Town DJs "My Boo".

now that's how you do it.

when we were driving him home on a mission of mercy our drunk friend was kind of puking and drooling out the passenger window of the car and we pulled up to a stop and a very freaked out rich lady in an SUV looked at us and was clearly thinking that our car was full of loathsome disgusting savages and man she gave us a long cold look. that's when I realized that I had been so busy dj-ing that I hadn't had a single sip of champagne even though I arrived at the party with three bottles, most of which wound up in my sick buddy's stomach- maybe it's unsympathetic or smug but I'm kinda glad that I'm middle aged and able to pace myself because man I hate barfing

it's been quite a long while since i've puked while drunk. (i think the last time was in baltimore, actually.) it's not something i'm particularly nostalgic for.

trying to remember if i did last night or not

I mean if you're drunk and feel sick, then puking is a great thing to do and does bring relief, I just hate being in that situation- especially the paranoia about where to barf when you're not near a toilet bowl and that weird time-accelerating feeling that imminent vomiting induces.

+ I made steak bernaise, haricot verts and cucumber salad, and we had a bottle of Bougey-Cerdon
+ had a house party with many friends from Toronto visiting
+ "Come on a cone" into countdown
+ s1ocki's DJ night
+ walking in the snow swigging cognac
- my friend got roofied
- feel absolutely brutal today, can't think straight or socialize
+ had monte cristo sandwiches for lunch, sausages and bubble + squeak for dinner
+ still feel like a butt, but a happy and well-fed butt

I didn't puke but I apparently I looked into somebody's soul and said "you don't got it"

i made you all a fun new year's day mixtape:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/bbu06i