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― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 8 May 2003 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

dud as fuck. my life's nadir, possibly

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 8 May 2003 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

classic, from that point on my life just kept getting better

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 8 May 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

(sorry)

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 8 May 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I suspect it may actually have been Classic for me. Graduated High School and started at the University of Tennessee. Several firsts:

1. sex
2. my own radio show
3. not living at home
4. alcohol poisoning (not really classic, but the lead-up was)
5. went to Austria in the summer (where I got alcohol poisoning)
6. got my first computer of my own
7. played in a jazz combo at coffeehouses in Knoxville
8. our senior prank ended up in the high school Time Capsule and we all got in-house suspension
9. Traveled quite a bit (being a band fag has its advantages sometimes)
10. after prom we went and toilet-papered a house, which unbeknownst to us had a burglar in it at the time
11. I stopped wearing jeans (I just started again last summer)
12. I started smoking

It was a pretty exciting year. I don't think things really get good again until 1999 when I dropped out and enlisted.

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 8 May 2003 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

1996 was pretty damn dud for me, too. I walked out of a 4-year relationship (and it imploded messily), started living on my own, drank too much, had a nervous breakdown, ended up on anti-depressant medication and quit my job (which I hated anyway but you know). The only good thing was my arts diploma in professional writing I was in the middle of doing, and the fact I discovered the internet that year too.

Oh, wait...

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 8 May 2003 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, I forgot that one.

13. the internet/my own stupid home page

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 8 May 2003 01:26 (twenty-two years ago)

very possibly the best year of my life

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 8 May 2003 01:30 (twenty-two years ago)

the year i died, and it seems i shall never awake

― Aaron A., Thursday, 8 May 2003 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

very possibly the best AND worst year of my life

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 8 May 2003 03:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I will onlt say that I should have said "No, I don't, I DON'T" and that is all.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 8 May 2003 03:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Jesus, Millar, you're a UT grad? Wot th'... where'd your jazz combo play? I probably heard you. I was working for the News-Sentinel then. (Look, I was young, they paid OK.)

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Thursday, 8 May 2003 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

In 1996, I dropped out of college, split up with my fiancee, blew the money my family had given me to find my own apartment on groceries and school clothes for her kids, spent a month drunk on Bushmill's (that's where the -rest- of the money went) and almost fell off the balcony, and had my only one-night stand.

But ... I ended up dropping back in somewhere better, met someone better, moved to New Orleans because I didn't have anywhere to live in Mass, lost my taste for top-shelf whiskey (this saves money, in the long run), didn't fall off the balcony, and had sex.

Still, 1996 was pretty crap.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 8 May 2003 04:42 (twenty-two years ago)

BEST. YEAR. EVER.

― buttch (Oops), Thursday, 8 May 2003 05:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, BEST YEEEEAR EVER-ER-ER-ER-ER-ER for me too.

First drinking marathon (in Berlin, no less), got drunk lots listening to shitty garage bands at a god-forsaken underage venue called EV's in Melbourne's outer suburbs, met a lot of cool people and went through several hair colours.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 8 May 2003 05:41 (twenty-two years ago)

THE. SPICE. GIRLS. 1996 was my awakening.

― di smith (lucylurex), Thursday, 8 May 2003 05:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I lost three family members in 1996 and was hospitalised twice. It fucking sucked... which is a shame because everyone else around me looked like they were having the time of their life in 1996.

The football was fun, though.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 8 May 2003 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Erm... I can't actually remember which one was 1996.

― kate, Thursday, 8 May 2003 08:48 (twenty-two years ago)

thats awful Matt - i've gone by so long without major bereavements i'm dreading they'll all come in one year like that :( :(

1996 for me is everything you'd expect - Trainspotting and Born Slippy (but also the Underworld album it wasnt on), Gareth Southgate, obsession with jungle/d n'b/house/techno in general, fucking up A levels, NOT getting laid, starting university, wearing crap clothes, making my first webpage (a seminal moment indeed), stacking fucking shelves in fucking Iceland (no not the country)...

yep, great year

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 8 May 2003 09:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha... on the plus side, I lost my virginity in 1996.

(This may of course be too much information...)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 8 May 2003 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: THE MANICS

Destroy: my high school and all the shallow sheep who populate it!!

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 8 May 2003 09:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha... on the plus side, I lost my virginity in 1996.
(This may of course be too much information...)

or not enough...but thats another thread...

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 8 May 2003 09:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember it being a great year, but that may just be blocking out the dying-dad bits.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 8 May 2003 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)

The football was fun, though

First thing I though of when I saw this thread was Cantona's goal at Wembley against the scousers. But you probably meant that minor European tournament that took place a few weeks later.

― James Ball (James Ball), Thursday, 8 May 2003 09:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I was 13, I think I probably started secondary school. I remember the summer would have had lots of young peoples discos and "will you kiss my friend" style stuff. I'd say I probably kissed more girls from age 13-14 than I have in the last 6 years.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 8 May 2003 09:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Gah... 1996 was also the year of my ill-advised experiment with LONG HAIR, of which we will never speak again.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 8 May 2003 09:44 (twenty-two years ago)

the lad 96 to thread?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 8 May 2003 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Shit music, good summer, living in London for the first time, relationship taking a bad turn, finances fucked, getting out a lot, not a bad year - I think I underrate it.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 8 May 2003 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Good year, graduation, happy relationship, gf moving to london, Euro 96. Unfortunately, it then turned into 1997.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 8 May 2003 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)

It was a great year! I moved out of my parents house & in with my best mate! Went to Ibiza. Was going clubbing in London loads. Passed my driving test. Basically did loads of partying & other stuff that your mum wouldn't aprove of & stuff u can get arrested for!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 8 May 2003 10:21 (twenty-two years ago)

1996 was the year i graduated, met a bunch of great people, met a very special person who is still very special, and raved me nuts off. CLASSIC.

― rener (rener), Thursday, 8 May 2003 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Personally, an annus mirabilis. I also thought that it was culturally OK until a repeat of I Love 1996 the other day did its best to remind me otherwise, fuckwits going on about how great the actually shit Trainspotting film was, and.. the bloody Girlie Show for about 20 minutes.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 8 May 2003 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

1996 culturally was the year of Knebworth, plus Cast, Ocean Colour Scene and Kula Shaker actually being taken seriously.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 8 May 2003 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a copy of SPICEWORLD for you, N.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 8 May 2003 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't remmeber what happened last year, never mind 1996.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 8 May 2003 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yes one thing: I went on with 'living'. I know this bcz I'm not dead and therefore able to type this.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 8 May 2003 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

It was excellent and hard work at the same time - working hard and playing hard towards finals, all 15 finals exams within 16 days, then playing very hard, graduating, then falling into what's turned out to be my career, working for peanuts, but spending every friday night in the pub straight from work, my friends coming to meet me, then heading over to the garage about 11pm, to dance the night away.

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 8 May 2003 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Horrible, terrible, eclipsed only by 2002.

― smee (smee), Thursday, 8 May 2003 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I started smoking in 1996, pretty stupid.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 8 May 2003 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i was hooked on the show IRON CHEF, or it may of been 1997

― kephm, Thursday, 8 May 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh, I think that was the year I first started watching too! It was also the year I left grad school, thank heavens.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 8 May 2003 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Julio - unless I'm very much mistaken you were at college with me in 1996.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 8 May 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

1996 was a big transitional year for me. It was the year I stopped temping and sleeping on friends' floors and got a real job.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 8 May 2003 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, i think '96 was quite a good year. the first half, especially. i liked my secondary school more than my primary, and i'd have been in first year, then.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 8 May 2003 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

''Julio - unless I'm very much mistaken you were at college with me in 1996.''

yeah well I've been at college/uni for a long time now. its the one constant thing.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 8 May 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

First half = weird. Finishing A Levels, spending lots of time in pubs and clubs having not a very good time, snogging inappropriate boys, not getting to snog appropriate ones, general itchy feet). Second half = grebt. Travelling, starting university, falling in love, internet, JOINING IN. Music sucked ass that year of course but I liked it.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 8 May 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Best year of my life up 'til that point. There were points that summer that could've turned crap (turning 30, having to leave my NYC apartment), but it all turned out amazingly well. Met my future wife, had lots of friends, made first trip to the UK, formed my first band with my Hoboken roommate, discovered lots of great music (Bellle & Sebastian especially sticks out from that time period). Great.

― mike a (mike a), Thursday, 8 May 2003 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

1996...gradjeeated high school (barely), drank my first drinks and smoked my first "smoke" and other somesuch, got my first job, had a great summer full of fun and realized within hours of graduation that all those people who told me "trust me, once you get out of high school, everything changes" weren't just whistling dixie. I worked and played and loved (although of the unrequited variety...it still made for some of the best songs I ever wrote) and played some more and made more music than ever before in my life. In fact, it was prob'ly about midway through '96 when I had that moment where my brain finally acknowledged what my heart & soul had been trying to tell me; music is my thing, my calling.

I know LOTS of bad shit happened also, but that aside, '96 was quite a classic year for me.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 8 May 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I lost my virginity too in 1996. To a musician! ewwwwww.

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 8 May 2003 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah the virginity thing. Actually that may have been '95. Either way it was Dud.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 8 May 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

i think i may be the only hetero male i know who honestly wants his virginity *back*.

1996 i was obsessed with Trainspotting. i remember thinking how much the 'choose life' monologue said everything to me abt mine < / Morrissey>. went to my first rock festival that summer (EdgeFest - hah) and lurved it. changed high schools in the fall, had to make all-new friends for the third time in eight years. began series of unrequited crushes on every female in sight (three of whom were named lindsay!). erm, neither C nor D really. it was just kind of ...there.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Thursday, 8 May 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Re: the music. Most of us liked it at the time, whatever we may think of it now. I ran an indie club night at Warwick University, and while we played largely commercial stuff, we were packed out every time and it was fucking great fun.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Since when does losing one's virginity to a musician = "ewwwww"? I lost my virginity to a musician, and it was great!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Depends on the musician...

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

1996 was my friends jr year in college and I lived with him in his dorm wednesday through sunday. So people thought I went to school there. It was the best year of my life. The parties, the ass, the parties, the ass. I also met my wife.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Not even dud. Just crap. But then, to me, most of these years kind of form a homogenous mass of putrid crappiness, so...

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

1996 was a mega dudduddud... I gained about 40 pounds that year, put BLONDE STREAKS at the front of my hair, had a crush on three boys in my German class who constantly made fun of me, was a junior in highschool, somehow lost ALL my friends - they just stopped talking to me, I dunno, I always ate alone in the hallway of the Cafeteria, not the actual cafeteria itself (and read Bret Easton Ellis novels while doing so, which is probably why no one was talking to me), but I DID get my braces off so I had nice teeth the entire time. I can't really remember what sort of music I listened to but I remember one of the aforementioned boys in my german class found a Smiths tape in my backpack (he and the other boys would look through my bag and steal stuff) he pointed at the cover and said "Morrissey is such a fag." then proceeded to stomp up and down on it until it cracked. Yeah, I loved him. One day I wore pretty lipstick trying to get the attention of one of the other german class boys and he said "You look scary today." 1997 was much better.

― Mandee, Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Mostly very very classic. Summer of '96 is the last time I remember feeling 100 percent happy and carefree.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 8 May 2003 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

What a fun year! Personally if not culturally, anyway.

It is making me kind of nostalgic for the way things were back then for me = I am an old fogey.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 8 May 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Albums I listened to waaaaaaaaay too much in '96:

Genius/Gza Liquid Swords
Cake Motorcade of Generosity
Pharcyde Bizarre Ride to the...
Soul Coughing Ruby Vroom
Beck Odelay
Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness
Tribe Called Quest Beats, Rhymes, & Life
Medeski Martin and Wood Shackman

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 8 May 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

1996 was very DUD
The new year (aka second semester of sophomore year of high school) saw me recovering from a very serious unrequited love that had culminated in a very serious rejection at the tail end of 1995 (in december during exam time right before break). The rest of the school year was spent messing up in classes, especially biology, where, if i remember correctly, I chose to read Anna Karenin instead of disecting the baby pig. Also, I think I walked in the woods and talked to myself a bit... first of failed try-outs for Varsity tennis team... one of best friends kicked out for drug violations (caught smoking weed, which was funny because he was using harder stuff and needed help but nobody was aware because he got caught for the weed...)
Summer was dud. It took me a long time to get my shitty busboy position and i had to quit after three weeks due to dire mistreatment. The summer can be best expressed by the July 4 of that year... go to work at 5:00pm, was told at 5:30 that I was not needed that night, go home and find that I am locked out, walk back downtown, eat too much pizza and ice cream, walk back home for no reason and arbitrarily try the back door, which is unlocked, vomit, put clothing in washing machine and shower, discover that wallet was still in pants when placed in wash... (parents were at Riverdance the whole time... I told them not to go, for obvious reasons, but they still did but at least admitted I was right when they returned)
went back to high school and resolved not to fall in love... had two roommates, one of which fell apart and had to leave, other was from Germany... spent most of semester actually doing well academically, i think, and spent many moments bonding with dorm-mates over bad late-night movies and playstation 1... no punx friends left (all kicked out for drug violations by this point), played drums in organ groove combo...
oy I talk too much.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 8 May 2003 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

''especially biology, where, if i remember correctly, I chose to read Anna Karenin instead of disecting the baby pig.''

was it worth it?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 8 May 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I had nightmares about those pigs

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 8 May 2003 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I made out with a cute redheaded girl and an Australian boy that year, so it was ok.

― rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 8 May 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

yes it was Julio!
i think I should have jsut quoted ESOJ..."dud as fuck. my life's nadir, possibly", though actually 1998 or 1999 was probably it...

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 8 May 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic. I was at uni as a mature student and breezing my way through at the top of the class. I was very happy in my wonderful marriage that I was starting to believe would last forever (in fact: 5 more years). All good.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 8 May 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Re: the music. Most of us liked it at the time, whatever we may think of it now

I stand by everything I liked at the time, fatso.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 8 May 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I was graduating from UT, recently married, had an awesome new job, living on my own in a new city. Top of the world!!

― That Girl (thatgirl), Thursday, 8 May 2003 23:24 (twenty-two years ago)

The virginityb thing was '92. Now that was a shit year.

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 8 May 2003 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Really full-on year - friendship circle suddenly became incredibly unstable and full of negative vibes, first started admitting to my close friends that I was gay, realised my best friend was a bit of a dick, had just started getting into music full on, did no work at school (who does work in year 9?) but co-wrote and directed a play which really defined the second half of the year for me. Probably the most emotionally fraught year for me until first year uni (which was all documented on Skykicking, ha ha).

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 9 May 2003 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

horrible year. my father fell suddenly into a coma early in the year, kind of recovered half way though, but then eventually died on christmas day. I drank pretty much every day of the year even though I was supposed to have stopped completely, I dropped out of college, continual near break-ups with my girlfriend, some dicey incidents that landed me in lots of trouble, oh and I just stopped going to the job I had because I couldn't be bothered to get up in the morning. TERRIBLE YEAR. Thank you for letting me relive it today!

― kyle, Friday, 9 May 2003 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I graduated from university, fell in love for the first time, had my heart broken for the first time, and listened to the Manics a lot. Watched Scotland v England in a room full of English people, singularly failed to get a decent job, and spent far too much time in dodgy pubs with dodgy metallers (otherwise known as first-love-of-life's mates). Spent an inordinate amount of time going to shitty folk festivals in my clapped out car with the broken stereo, meaning hours of driving up and down the M6 listening to "Good Enough", "Wannabe" and "Freedom" on the radio.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 May 2003 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

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