I hate new year's eve

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They have always be rotten.

I hate it.

:(

dear abbott,

why do you hate NYE?

cap'n agree-with-abbott over here.

I'm not a fan: pubs charging just to get in the door, big queues at the bar, woohoo another year and got nothing done. If you're going to a party you're okay as long as you remember to stock up on booze and cigs. Anything else: what's the point?

But spending the evening in playing Mario Party with the kids = classic.

very very cheesy tv (xp)

New Year's Eve = Amateur's Night

My annoyance is the PRESSURE: too many people decide that it must must MUST be the most fabulous night of forever, and it never will be, because EVERYONE wants it to be fabulous, and so it's like it's everyone's birthday on the same night, and the sheer level of attention placed on Having The Best Time Ever turns the whole thing into an awful chore.

well i'm going round with friends to drink and play pro evo 2008 long into the small hours = good times, minimal expenditure

you guys should try actually having fun

Nabisco explained why without using the word "hate" as often as I would've! Thank you nabisco.

That is the thing Jordan, it is all about TRYING to have fun.

I have NYE date <-- hoping all the pressure cancels itself out <-- so not gonna happen

Fun can't be forced, it is a shy beast.

I dunno, my friends rent out a small neighborhood bar every year, charge maybe $5 at the door (so the bar can provide some snacks and champagne), and we hook up an iPod for the night (complete with the "musicians who died this year" playlist). Usually a pretty good time.

My annoyance is the PRESSURE: too many people decide that it must must MUST be the most fabulous night of forever, and it never will be, because EVERYONE wants it to be fabulous, and so it's like it's everyone's birthday on the same night, and the sheer level of attention placed on Having The Best Time Ever turns the whole thing into an awful chore.

-- nabisco, Monday, December 31, 2007 1:04 PM (Monday, December 31, 2007 1:04 PM) Bookmark Link

try reckoning this with it being your actual birthday! kinda sucks, but i am determined to have fun, damn it! (i say that every year and usually fail but oh well!)

(complete with the "musicians who died this year" playlist). Usually a pretty good time.

DJ Mo'Collier

ooh, happy birthday! we should get the thread-title changed. it would be nice and positive.

This might be the first year I go to bed before midnight.

Only one more year to go before we're done with those 20-0X glasses.

Oh man, that is kind of a curse! Happy birthday, though! But then I actually feel kinda the same way about my birthday, so possibly having them on the same night would be kinda two birds / one stone! I am using exclamation points!

My worst New Year's Eve turnout was ... I think 2001? Because I got roped into paying a bunch of money to go to some giant party, but by the time we bought tickets there were only VIP slots available, but then everyone got the VIP tickets, which means that the line to get drinks in the VIP section was about 45 minutes long (I got TWO DRINKS, ALL NIGHT), whereas the general area was totally empty and you could get drinks straight away, but then we were apparently too important for them to let us go over and do that. If I could remember which friend instigated the giant-party plan, I would fire off a really angry retrospective email right now. (And yet the night was a fun one, to be honest.)

gonna bring a flask
and smoke a j
and probably go to some hotel party
and smooch on my baby
probably i will dance

FUCK THE HATERS

hahaha wow. i think one of my winners would be the year i had to fly out to philly for my grandmother's funeral, then flew back home to rochester at like 10 pm, rushed home from the airport, changed, went to gay club where i drank as fast as i could to make up for lost time, new year's toast, went to other bar where i was served a pint glass sized long island which then led me to stand outside in the snow with no coat to talk to boy on the phone for an hour. then my roommate drove me home and i puked. great times.

oh that was an xpost to nabisco

Actually, I've had some really good New Year's this century. The worst one may have been going into '04 since my future wife was in New York and I was stuck at a backyard party in Little Rock.

the best NY was probably a party at my friend's house...we had a sit-down dinner w/seafood gumbo, then a dance party and a spontaneous second line parade through the neighborhood at midnight, then more dancing. ice cream sundaes for breakfast.

Best NYE = C4rry 0n Up the Ch4rts celebration party in pub + shroomz.

Wife + me have been a bit too slack in inviting ppl to our yearly party this time, which combined with 1) lots of people here being sick this xmas, and 2) many of our friends having become parents last couple of years, augurs a rather reduced turnout. Totally fine by me personally really, just hope those who do come don't get all disappointed or anything.

Werkin tnite

i hate NYE but otoh i have just got more dressed up than i ever have been for an NYE just to go down to local bar (for tonight's spag western theme).

NYE is a great bonus to an event you'd otherwise care about a lot, but as an end unto itself is pretty ignorable

pros: there are usually better bands and bills in town, and also the bar might have food.

We've just returned from a cider farm having purchased a 5 gallon barrel of the roughest, cloudiest fermented apple juice somerset has to offer.

That combined with JungleBook dance mat on the PS2 and a rousing game of Articulate guarantees a low pressure, relatively inexpensive evening.

Wish I'd been able to find GuitarHero3 in town earlier tho.

I now pretty much refuse to do anything that isn't a house party these days. A truckload of booze will probably help as well.

House parties are pretty great, especially when the floor caves in underneath the dancers.

apparently someone coming to the party i'm going to is a sommelier, and the host is a beer importer. my friend has already told me she plans on making me manhattans. i think i will be wasted by like 10.

10 a.m.

went to a pub in mare street last year: fuck that noise.

Just received a text from a friend saying he's staying in, I’m slightly jealous!

YOU WILL HAVE THE BEST EVENING EVER, so I’m told…

New Year's >>>>>>>> July 4

no way

fuck nye. so overhyped. i dont really get why the passing of one year to the next is such a big deal to begin with. but i like the socialising aspect. the paying extortionate prices to get in bars or clubs and get even more extortionate drinks, not so much. which is why im going to a house party this year. the pressure to pull at nye is more intense than the pressure to have fun. which is why i dont give a shit about nye this year. tis just another party.

july 4 imposes a communal obligation rather than an individual one

yeah, july 4th mandates grilling out so it pretty much wins over anything.

Some great stuff on this thread. Nabisco's brilliant "everyone's birthday at once" and Pleasant Plains' correct assessment of New Year's Eve as "amateur night' both eloquently sum up my hatred for the pointless holiday itself.

But make the best of it, dudes! Twilight Zone, Law and Order: Criminal Intent AND Honeymooners marathons! Stay in, drink up, watch TV, zone out - fall asleep before midnight if you can.

Flight to India leaving at 4 am 1/1/08 = no fun for me tonight. :(

Abbott otm. NYE is the holiday when all the things you normally do for fun when you are feeling frisky are transformed into mandatory activities that are almost certain to feel anticlimactic and disappointing in the context of New Fucking Year's Eve Fer Chrissake. it gets a little better around your late 20s and then tails off again.

It looks like I may well stay at home and watch DVDs alone tonight, as plans fell through. But I don't hate NYE. Hating NYE is surely as silly as loving it.

hmm. i am, interestingly and not necessarily by choice (although it'll be a damn sight better than many of the alternatives), spending a large part of it with two (hard-drinking) septuagenarians and a (teetotal) octogenarian. rock! roll! more rock! ooh, where's me slippers!

happy new year, ILE.

I used to try to spend NYE in a different city every year - was able to for 6 years running, but yeah forced fun = no fun. This year my daughter and her guy are getting our extra-loud apartment over the clubs while Mr. Jaq and I repair to a quiet hotel room with a bottle of champz and a giant jacuzzi, after I make us all a tasty roast chicken dinner.

Happy, prosperous, adventure-filled but low-drama 2008 to all.

New Year's >>>>>>>> July 4

otm. this thread reminded me of my own failed Anti-4th thread I fockin' hate standing around sipping beer while someone cooks barbecue

I'm thinking of having a Dexter maration.

I was going to make a thread for it but it would be redundant:

C/D Going to sleep at 11:30 on New Years.

Unless something absolutely magical comes up, and it's under $20, those are my plans.

NYE is fine and all but I'm skipping my sole NYE party invite t'nite 'cause I just drove from New Mexico -> SF and I'm a zombie.

if you let the rest of the world get to you NYE can easily be shit. I allow this to happen for the whole Xmas buildup and climax (HOW DO I PICK UP SCROUGARS? see what I did there) but NYE is always a laugh. I just loaded up on beer and liquor and prosecco for the after-party at my place but I have to head back out to replenish the wine arsenal. Be safe!

it's the one night of the year where I fully expect people to party til they puke and accept it with an open bucket by the futon. totally justified. the vomit represents all the stupid bullshit of the last 52 weeks.

I'm gonna be in transit at the moment of turnover. wooo

I was on guard duty in basic training for the Y2K turnover. beat that, everyone. Me + a crappy flashlight vs. the end of the world.

If all the electrical equipment had shut down you'd have effectively held the conch.

Best NYE story I have is from the second or third time me + the crew went to the Black Cat shindig and Tony was all psyched up to kiss this one girl next to him at the ball drop, he turns, fully prepared to be the tall dark handsome stranger for all time, and she immediately yaks on the floor. I would say that's where his descent turned into a full-on spiral but that's just some sub-easton ellis schmaltz

Tom, I can't decide if that is horrible or awesome.

My Y2K new year was spent with a friend who hosted a "nineteenth century" party. She made us read poems from the 19th century out loud. She also made a plum pudding with odd things hidden in it (the one that I remember best is "a small piece of a rag" - if you found that one, you were "the slut.") The best part about the plum pudding is that half of the things she allegedly baked into it were never found, including a small piece of lead.

And... guess who is hosting the party again this year? Yes, same woman.

dammit, xpost

anyway to those who are concerned Tony is ok he's just not living up to his potential.

Jaymc, is there a "musicians who died" collection of mp3s floating about somewhere? Because that would be interesting.

Y2K:

Went to this house party that was in this dark two-room cinder-block house. There must've been 100 people in this 600 sq. ft space. People were outside, throwing empty gallon-sized wine jugs onto Markham Street.

Of course the cops showed up. Dudes were getting thrown up against cars. People were flipping the cops off through the windows, screaming "You can't come in, PIGS!" It was so loud in there, and here I was, just trying to keep a steady hold on my beer.

Somewhere along the line, I noticed that the lock on the door wasn't in the doorknob, but was an actual padlock. Somehow, I realized that if that lock got locked, I'd be stuck in this pit for the rest of the night.

So my friend and I made a drunken run for it, cops be damned. We pushed everyone to the side and edged out the door.

Outside, it was serenity. The cops were just hanging out like it was a doughnut shop, laughing at the punk rockers flipping them off.

We made our way down to my car. Went home and laughed at Phish playing in Florida. An hour later, we returned to the house party to find everyone gone, like it was Jamestown or something. My 12-pack was still stashed under the tree I hid it under, and we moved on to the next house party.

The Gregorian calendar is an artificial construct.

Nothing worng with staying in. It's only fun when you're with really close friends, and when you're old, they're with their SOs anyway. wooooom hom,kmhhhhh

i still have no plans, so i guess i will not be wearing my sparkly beaded dress. there is really no other time of the year i can get away with it. oh well, there's always next year (as long as i dont get to fat or something).

linds i go to dinner party thing but call me and i will go somewhere and dance with you late night! i am trying to decide if i can pull off this ridiculous gold shirt, so your sparkly dress would make me feel better :)

this thread was a nice read. i hate NYE as well, and i think i'm about alone (except for my partner whom i live with - so that's nice).

my problem is i always feel like i'm supposed to be doing something special or symbolic, even though i hate being out (amateur night is what we call it, too).

our usual hang-out-on-the-holiday friends are in vegas this year, so i'm thinking this year we will cook a spaghetti dinner, stay in, watch some netflix, have some lambic, make some love, and call it a night. the fact that this is so appealing to me, makes me feel old.

I haven't been really sick in a couple of years and I woke up this morning with a fever and my sinuses completely clogged and I feel like shit.

lol I think my party plans are supposed to include me dressing up I just remembered so I checked the closet and CONUNDRUM

black shirt + black pants (this is what is available that is not wrinkled all to fuck:

do I wear

1. solid black tie (country)
2. solid silver tie (new wave)
3. black tie with silver diagonal stripes ("contemporary")

please picture model all three for us

#2 will make you look like a member of Interpol so... no.

lol, herpes

Well, it is getting late and no one is around here to kiss but two stupid lizards. That is my day.

I vote for #3. I'm kind of picturing #1 as more of a Mafia look, though, so this might be a distortion in my brane thing.

xpost I do not recommend kissing the lizards. Who knows where their lips have BEEN?

I have seen where their lips are going, ha. I have raised them! I won't kiss them, probably. I will go to bed, in fact.

Abbott is, as is so often the case, correct.

I just got kicked out of my local pub for drunkenly putting "Hey DJ, I can't Dance To The Music You Playing" by Cookie Crew feat Betty Boo on the TOTP jukebox, which upstaged "Fairytale of New York" while people were singing along to it. For Christs sake why do they even put a jukebox if they don't want people to used it,g

There's a Pål Útlendi now?

hahahahahaha JTS I'm sorry that sucks but is completely hilarious

I can't believe they just kicked you right out

And to you, "Pleasant Plains!"

Well not so much kicked out as hounded out... I think it might be safe to go back now.

Have a fun 2008!!

i also hate new year's eve

i hate every day of the year, though

Visiting family for the next 3/4 days = I could do with a drink really. This flat champagne is nearly finished, may have to hit the SoCo.

should i take LSA even though i might get sick? would that be rad/ i think so

My y2k: with then-GF at her sister's house in cleveland, helping the sister's landlord set off fireworks in the street until the cops rolled up.

Cops left, and landlord promptly went back to lighting shit off.

Most of my NYEs are banal affairs. My good ones are the one I got paid for running a show, or when we saw the Yo La Tengo NYE shindig in detroit.

Tonight i'm still at the parents house in TN. May go into knoxville for fun, but probably not, having spent every night since Boxing Day in michigan running up a large bar tab and breathing in other people's cigarrettes. Ann Arbor lags behind portland in terms of indoor air breathability. Tonight would be a great night for playing Wii over at the friends, but they're three timezones away, so oh well.

My new year's day will consist of me finally arriving at portland just before midnight, then having to go back to work 8 hours later. Hooray!

i like new year's eve! i have never made actual plans and it pretty much always turns out fine. no expectations + good people, i mean, i'd be happy enough to stay in and listen to music and stuff but i like dancing and there are plenty of dance parties in this town tonight

go dance with slocki! and prop him up if his cold starts to knock him out!

ok guys...
earrings
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or no earrings
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i never wear earrings so i feel weird but they look ok right?

and now is also a good time to tell me if my hair looks stupid

hair and earings: a+

your earrings look good!

also, i vote for tie #3

little kids + cold + sick friends = http://i18.tinypic.com/539tnpf.jpg

i'm officially doing nothing tonight. just me and me.

My friends, with whom I had last-minute planned something casual, seem to have canceled. Well, oh well! Such was 2007.

i'm officially doing nothing tonight. just me and me.
Just like when Jemaine went to the trade fair without Bret and sang "Who Likes To Rock The Party?" along with the boombox!

Oh, except that Bret's voice is on the boombox.

happy bday tehresa
rock the earirngs b.l.
I'm full of BBQ and sipping champagne w/DVD looming on the horizon
have a good one and all

earrings look great!

this yr: feeding baby at 12 and 4 am. not that much diff from other nites except at 12 am i wasnt alone. a few ppl awake cuz they wld have otherwise awoken cuz of bonfire. anyway i am tiiiiiiiired.

Don't forget The Twilight Zone marathon, haterz!

Am bringing in the new year by playing a 16 year old RPG about victorians wandering about the face of Mars:

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/5/52/225px-Ultimamd.jpg

I wonder if there's any more beer in this house.

i had a real sobering moment tonight at NYE! It was kind of brilliant

i felt proper grown up

I am working new year's day....

I have about ten days left in this 2 month stopgap retail job, and since I have finally got a good job I start in March I now can say with full conviction, as loudly as possible...despite the fact the people in my current job are nice

FUCK RETAIL FOREVER

FOREVER

Aside from having to worry about getting up tomorrow I had a good new year's, 4 or 5 friends, a bottle of moet, and some beers. plus nintendo wii.

I just read the NYE disussion above...I thought that everyone had long ago accepted that NYE was shit because people assume it "should" be a good night.

The only amazing NYEs I've ever had were when I used ecstasy to make it seem optimistic and youthful and incredible.

Now they're even worse.

Unfortunately I didn't make it to bed by 11:30 as I had planned, but it's not that bad. I missed the ball dropping because I was enamoured in producing, ironically enough, some very 2002/3 sounding microhouse.

Bringing in the new year in style at least.

new years eve at our place

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for the first time in about 3 years I didn't do shit for new years. I'm in a bad mood, tired, and just don't feel like partying until the weekend.

Hung with a friend who was sick and he petered out at 10:30.

HNY, suckaz!

Happy new year! Mine is far from happy tonight. I have a stomach bug and can't step more than a couple of feet from the bathroom. Was supposed to be hanging with fam and DJing and going to parties. I was up all night last night with a vomiting child. This may be the worst new year's I've ever had. Just watching Dick Clark's Rockin' Eve by myself on the couch (like I have done some years) was way better than this. I'm going to try to not take this as a bad omen for 2008. Christmas was lots of fun though and I went to a great party the other night. I'm going to try to remember that party as my happy new year's event.

:(

it can only get better.

wow i just slept through new years.

i spent last year's (er, this year's) driving across the red river at exactly 12:00 AM. this year (er, next year) i will spend it probably watching the weather channel or eating some cereal.

Only one more year to go before we're done with those 20-0X glasses.

-- Pleasant Plains, Monday, 31 December 2007 18:11 (Yesterday) Link

But what if they keep going with this indefinitely in various ill-conceived ways? Like for 2010, there's still two zeros for eyes to go in and then 2011, they could maybe fit an eye in the round part of the 2, etc. I am very curious about how their gonna work this one out. Another reason to keep on living, I suppose.

wow i just slept through new years.

-- max, Monday, December 31, 2007 11:31 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Sometimes new year's is fun. It really sucks this year though.

i had a shitty nye but now it's new year's day/evening and i am getting drunk on nice wine and talking with my guy on webcam. much better than nye.

i'm such a lite weight nowadays. half bottle of wine and i feel shitfaced.

I am drunkz, listening to Rosanne Cash's "Hold On," and full of love for you all.

Happy New Year's Eve.

I had so much fun performing a show on NYE last year...Tonight I just walked around in the cold, acted uncomfortable at a party of friends and went home with a headache, depressed about the past six months and my lack of accomplishments. But now it's a new year, and I can create some resolution, right?!

I'm temporarily quitting the Internet so that I can finally get started and finish a project.

^see you in 15 minutes.

my date looked like audrey tautou + daft punk at midnight; a little early of a night but can't complain.

I'm temporarily quitting the Internet

-- Tape Store, Tuesday, January 1, 2008 1:10 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

never works

Tonight I just walked around in the cold, acted uncomfortable at a party of friends and went home with a headache, depressed about the past six months and my lack of accomplishments.

me 2

I now pretty much refuse to do anything that isn't a house party these days. A truckload of booze will probably help as well.

-- Matt DC, Monday, 31 December 2007 19:00 (Yesterday) Link

what he said. house party at some friends' flat in marylebone, walked up to primrose hill for midnight to watch fireworks go off across all of london (stunning, seriously, made even more fun by not being in the middle of the masses in trafalgar square), back to the party having accumulated a bunch more people.

i felt like crap all night and left at 2.30 though :/

went to a party, got home at 5 am, but somehow didnt have that much fun? now am hungover. :(

i had a grand time

me too!

Worked. here. It was depressing to see everyone really trying to have a good time. Just admit you picked the wrong bar folks.

Excuse me, that was me^. Learn to log out please!

Great time as well. And some fine Amoeba scores earlier in the day didn't hurt.

i was working, "on call" at home. listened to the sounds of a party going on upstairs, people going "whooooo wooo! WOO!" i both hated and envied them. at one point i almost went upstairs to check it out (if my phone rang i could dash outside to take the call), to the point where i even put on my shoes and had a hand on the door knob.. but i bottled it.

There's nothing like watching an eighty-year old stroke victim count backwards and then kissing his wife. And then kissing Ryan Seacrest.

i ended up having a good night doing not much of anything. my upstairs neighbors were going at it 'til 3:30am. i bet i feel better than they do right now.

Hooray! My friend will actually be able to pick me up from the airport after midnight!

I had a great one, people round to ours early evening for champagne and, erm, 'beer science' then off to a party in Crystal Palace where we were the only people there not dressed like we were from a Parisian circus in 1923. Lots of dancing, enormous level of booze consumption, hugged lots of strangers, collapsed about 6am.

I now feel beyond shite, though.

ate mussels, played a really big show, ate a rice sandwich, made out with some girl. for some reason things didn't feel especially "new yearsy" (maybe 'cause i was really busy with show stuff) but i had a great time.

had some good russian food, did three flights of gourmet vodka, went home, drank bubbly, pissed outdoors because I had two dudes crashed out in my bathroom, let everybody else crash at my place, acted inappropriate as usual, got some sleep, woke up, kicked everybody out, showered, came to work.

my first meal of 2008:
http://www.wendys.com/food/Product.jsp?family=1&product=168

fuck the haters

my first meal of 2008:
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What is it?

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n18/Gorefan_2006/faithnomore.jpg

sunny, I really hope you actually ordered everything on the Waffle House menu. Or just ate the menu.

had a fun night at the bar. drank too many free JD-based cocktails tho. getting to dance on packed floor to Cry Sisco's 'Afro Dizzi Act' among the highlights. have felt predictably horrible all day but ordered two pizzas and watched Top Gear repeats which helped.

nye was good!

"Gabbnebb": XD

I went to a goth club, it was 42 degrees that afternoon (107F), so thankfuklly the club had great aircon and the heat kept a lot of wankers out of the city. Free champers, free food, and goth/industrial music (inc some punk version of Auld Lang Syne and a snog from my boi at midnight) made it a pretty fun night. Not mindblowingly awesome but nice and relaxed and fun.

NOTE TO SELF: Don't ever order a WH chili cheese omelet ever again.

All is not quiet on New Year's Day.

I was hoping to make it through at least 24 hours of 2008 before ever hearing our commander in chief speak but cnn just fucked that up for me

omg can someone teleport me waho for first 2008 meal?

can someone make my food get here faster?

First meal of 2008:

http://www.indwes.edu/Faculty/bcupp/LOGO/BIG_LION.GIF

NYE is great. Ridiculous counting down of something! Rampant smoochery! Champagne and champagne accessories!

I wish we had had fireworks last night.

I spent NYE at a Clcokcleaner show.

er, Clockcleaner.

i had a great time! also, pies n thighs burger for first meal of 08.

in mtl!
how are ears?
i felt i could not deal with that kind of nye intensity tho. was spurred by friend's insistence on playing guy lombardo nye record to finally move stereo into livingroom. made a lot of noise in small apartment. and dancing to the slocki et al beats in totally packed casa ruled.
xpost

my first meal of 08 involved chips and ginger ale

my ears are still a little muffly, for the first time in ages. I shoulda brought ear buds.

clockcleaner and american devices good, panopticon eyelids...not so good (or maybe just not my bag.)

in general the night was ruined by 3+ hours of waiting for public transit. booo.

best new year's in mtl ever for me is still two years ago at the acadian elf jamboree.

o_O

ditched by dude friend for another girl; there goes NYE kiss. forgot it was midnight because we were dancing to "funkytown." bought tinfoil frog sculpture from man on street. drank a lot of whiskey. passed out sometime after 2, woke up at 8:30 and somehow managed to be at breakfast at 9:30.

best NYE was still 1999 into 2000, senior year of high school, smoking unbelievable amounts of marijuana, ridiculous jam session and singalong, in a hunting lodge in backwoods maine.

2008 was my second really great one in a row. I actually don't mind NYE, but I refuse to feel any pressure to have a good time.

Not the first meal, but my first dinner, from scratch:

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urrrgh! Bender!

my NYE was great. i got drunk, saw friends, relatives, people i didnt know and did poor salsa dancing. also learnt i have two admirers in the form of a gay man and an extremely cute 15 year old. im not gay and im im not young enough (or inclined in that r kelly kinda way) for either but it was nice to know anyway.

bloody hell that's ace ledge!

Thx! Time spent making costume: probably about six days. Time spent wearing the full thing: less than half an hour (couldn't eat or drink with head on).

Robot dancing to Daft Punk wearing robot costume = AWESOME. I had an epiphany, a whole new understanding of the Daft Punk programme. It really is robot music for robots (even if it works for people too).

Sadly the plan to have martini on tap inside the costume body didn't come off (had a camelbak full of martini but couldn't manage to put the costume on over the top of the rucksack).

Great costumes!

We sensibly stayed at home, had a couple of friends over and drank vast lakes of beer until about 6am, by which time I was drunk enough to go to bed still wearing 1 contact lense.

Went for greasy spoon breakfast and somehow seemed to avoid getting a hangover, although I'm suffering a bit today, delayed reaction/having to get up at 7am for the first time in nearly 2 weeks :(

OMG Grady I think I was wearing that creepy silver mask on NYE. I had to steal it from the seven foot dude also wearing a black cloak because frankly he was too scary otherwise.

^see you in 15 minutes.

I lasted a week. I started to despise the real world.

fuck nye and all of you who had fun on it

i always have fun ON new years, or at least, usually, but i hate the 2-3 weeks of planning that goes on cuz it always gets thrown out at the last minute anyway

I've realized that this year, due to my plan to visit my family over New Year's and all of my hometown friends being gone, I have to resign myself to going to bed around 11 PM with the parents or going out with my brother and his creepy friends. It is a hard choice.

Why do your parents make you go to bed with them?

they are jealous that she goes out with her brother

haha yes my incestuous family.

actually the last couple new years have been pretty lame too. two years ago i went on a trip with my boyfriend at the time that we'd planned well in advance, visiting some of his friends, but by the time we left we were in "are we breaking up?" territory. and then last year i was on a bus from boston to nyc and it broke down at a rest stop in connecticut for four or five hours, so we made it to the party in ny around 12:30 (which was at least early enough that everybody hadn't gone home) and i proceeded to make up for lost time and give myself literally the worst hangover of my life.

so maybe bed at 11 isn't such a bad idea.

another transatlantic flight on new year's day (same last year, cheapest day to fly at that time of year). fallen out with someone back home which will make the pub near my folk's place that i usually go to off limits. this one is going to be laaaaaame.

i like the primrose hill option this time

I've got Jury Duty from 12/28 to 12/31. weird.

recommend me a quiet bar in nyc to hide whilst the new year comes and goes?

amateur night otm

america's quarterly amateur nights and drinking holidays

halloween
new year's eve
st paddy's day
fourth of july (or, really, summer in general)

If "all summer" is a drinking holiday to you, you no longer qualify as an amateur.

well i kinda meant that any given weekend during the summer is when some amateur tries to go pro---it doesn't have to be the 4th

otherwise, tho, the other three are def days when ppl who do not otherwise drink suddenly overcorrect and remember what hangovers feel like and go back to bein pretty str8

Aaaaaugh New Year's.

Also my birthday, also in winter, also almost always during periods of ~change~, so this day is usually a complete depresso mindfuck of "wtf r u doin w/ yr life" punctuated by drinking and anticlimax.

I used to date someone who's birthday was new year's day (mine's eve, if not clear) so midnight just had way, waaaaaay too much expected 'meaning'

Even if you just stay in there's no escape; drunk people yowling outside, atrocious TV, bleh.

It's especially bad in Scotland because lots of ppl here take it as a point of national pride to get v drunk and act like fannies.

(Saying that, best one I ever had was staying in with gf until 11.30, then suddenly changing our minds and going on a club and bar crawl and getting hammered fast.)

I am looking forward to it in Texas this year because it's rained enough that the really good fireworks will be available for purchase. I am going to blow an entire paycheck on fireworks.

Even if it's not yr birthday there's still a whole "now you must summarise your achievements of the year and yr aspirations for the next one" vibe going on which is great for the "wtf r u doin" depressofucks. Plus as noted there seems to be pressure on for everyone to have BEST NIGHT OF YEAR which is doomed to failure.

And unless you live in major city there are no (or v. few) buses on, taxis are like gold dust and charging 4x the normal rate, nobody wants to stay sober and drive other people around (fair enough, nor would I) and walking is too full of aggressive drunks everywhere to feel like much fun, so either the whole thing is a logistical nightmare or you resign yrself to going to that weird kind of shitty place round the corner and being stared at by the locals because it's the only place in walking distance.

The place I went to 2 years ago and actually had an A+++ NYE is not doing it because no staff want to work on NYE, so the only offer we have had so far is a party which I figure there is a good chance my least favourite ex will be at (<-- still in 0% chance of good time in same building as ex territory), but obviously I do not wish to appear bitter enough to have to ask the organisers if he's going

this thread = remnant of a nice ILX era. ah time goes on...haven't even THOUGHT about NYE yet.