Half Year Review: 2001

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

So, what do you think of 2001 so far, what's been good, what's been bad? Comment on anything you like, in your own life, in society anywhere!

― james e l, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

renting in sydney wise - it's bitten the acid dust big time; realising how valuable true friends are - priceless; launching my webpage and blog - a mind fuck, and haard but worthy work; getting no 1 on the google search for "shopping for bras" + blog - what can I say?

― Geoff, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All the same old hassles, bugbears and issues, gradually getting worse, but maybe also getting bad enough that I'll be forced to do something about them. 2001 is a dud on the job-home-life-stuffdone face of it - but on the other hand I've come to appreciate friends a lot more. My hunch is the second half of 2001 is going to be "interesting times" in the Chinese sense.

― Tom, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I cleared the air with David,had a kick ass vacation and have been living off savings. It has been a perfect fuck-it-all, where am i going, transition half year !

― anthony, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

job: same as last halfyear music (others): above average music (own): best ever sex: poor travel: above average health: below average wealth: rapidly improving haircut: poor

― christopher, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Decent year so far. Healthy, no money issues, stellar love life, kids are happy, job is good, found a decent hobby in blogging, finally beat Metal Gear Solid, new Neil Gaiman novel, and tons of great comic books. On the other side, we still have George Bush in the White House, still suffering from nightmares, ex is still a pain in the ass, and with the exception of Radiohead, every cd I was anticipating this year has sucked.

― michele, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm getting paid more for my music reviews, I'm editing FT now, my girlfriend and I are still an item and I'm planning on buying a condo - - conclusion, life be good this year.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

everyone else is doing their own lives, so I will too.

Surprise Hit of the Year: Lovelife. fall in love with fantastic boy, move in together. (OK, much of that was last year, but the still being together and moving in together it this year.) Dud of the Year: My Health. Mysterious bloodloss ailment which no one can seem to solve let alone cure. Ultra-dud beyond dud, still dealing with psychological aftermath of related issues. May Look Like Dud But Is Classic: Quit job that I'd hated for years, and have not found another. May Look Like Classic But Is Dud: My band. When we were a gang of cute girls who couldn't play, people wanted to put out our records. Now we've become musically adept, no one will touch us. Tour in August will basically make or break us.

God, apart from the lovelife thing, it's dud, dud, dud, and if I think about it, I'm going to get depressed. What a difference from previous few years, which were all classic, classic, classic except for love life.

― masonic boom, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Eh. Actually, if I shut up my Bitchomatic 2000, I can actually point out some highlights. Graduated from community college. Will be getting at article published for moolah - in a periodical some people might READ, even. (A SOLICITED article, at that! They really like me!) Music was wonderful, as always - to heck with those whiny "this year sucked" people; they just don't buy enough music! Moved into a super-nice condo with my best friend. Improved ever-so-slightly at playing guitar (though I still feel like I'm reading hieroglyphics). Started working on my website(s) again. And, um, yeah.

Any topic not touched on in the previous paragraph can be assumed to be a thorn in my side and a surefire way to start me moaning & groaning.

― David Raposa, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm having the best year of my life. If I was Bryan Adams, I'd write a song called The Summer of '01, except that doesn't sound as good as '69. I look great, it's been the first year I've been almost 100% healthy in about 5 years, I've got a new and much improved love life, doing loads of crazy shit, making new friends, basically becoming a whole new person. I attribute it to my steadily growing smoking habit.

― Ally, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Year's first half mostly spent preparing for second half, which should be my most eventful ever - getting married, move to new country, new everything really. Really exciting stuff - my girlfriend has found us a very nice apartment down there (Clearwater, Florida) - can't wait to move !

― Patrick, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lots and lots of good things: new cat, new apartment, happy relationship, etc. Bad things: Very busy schedule with school and work = no sleep and health problems. Oh, and cracking my jaw open at the beginning of the year wasn't exactly fun either.

― Nicole, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My 2001 is just a series of Gluecifer songs. Year begins "Chewin' Fingers" to a "Deadend Beat" amidst "Head to Head Boredom" in the heart of "Suck City", so I go "Rip-Off Strasse" trying to be a "Rock 'N Roll Asshole" ("Clean Gone Mean", ya know) and get on some "Silver Wings" to be a "Go Away Man". Buying "Ace Wheels" (not even) leads to "Bounced Checks". No "Red Noses, Shit Poses", but there were shit poses leading to red noses. "Drunk and Pompous", I was always "Stuck to the Floor" at the "Critical Minute". It's a "Dog Day, Dog Night", I'm a "Monoman", and it's "The Year of Manly Living." This is the real meat. No places for the tightass talkers. The schemer of the scene won't get a single seat. Just an alley for the action walkers. I gotta move and I'm feelin' so hot in heat. As the song goes.

― Otis Wheeler, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have a terrible feeling that it has been dud.

― Robin Carmody, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Half amazing, half terrible. My life is like a sitcom with all these recurring characters and crazy events. Oh wait, not really a sitcom. More like a teen drama. Since I don't feel like going into much detail, I'll just say, flying to England next week: Classic. Possibility of neurosurgery: Dud.

― Melissa W, Friday, 29 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

at least nobody's life resembles the bridget jones' diary

― Geoff, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Got a new car, a new apartment, my little sister moved to NY from SF and that makes me really happy and proud for some reason, no one I love has died-a BIG plus- (except famous people I love like Joey Ramone and Walter Matthau), my father's licked cancer for now, my best friend came out west for a visit, I'm not too much in debt...so yahoo, semi-classic. Compared to the last five years, that's for sure.

― Arthur, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wait, I'm a drunken idiot tonight...I mean JACK LEMMON!

― Arthur, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I feel myself sympathizing with what Robin C says above. There's a pathos about his uncertainty there.

― the pinefox, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Which was how I was feeling. I'm fundamentally quite happy at the moment, but I shudder when I look back to the list of things I set myself at the start of this year which I aimed to do by midsummer, and which I haven't done. So I was trying to convey the same feeling you detected.

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

six years pass...

Jeez, everyone was happy in 2001. I think I was too. I'd just discovered ICQ/MSN. "Hey Baby", "Heaven is a Halfpipe" and "Bohemian Like You" were the hits of that summer, the summer I spent in Torquay with my cousins(who I hardly see anymore). And it was only a year and a half away from the 90s, so what could be bad?

9/11 changed everything.

― JTS, Sunday, 27 January 2008 00:05 (seventeen years ago)

Oh I had some bad unhappiness before said date, and others had far worse. And as I've muttered a couple of times before due to a random reference in an old FT article of mine in early summer of 2001, I had this hunch that something was about to go spectacularly wrong geopolitically...

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 27 January 2008 00:17 (seventeen years ago)

best i can remember, 2001 sucked pretty thoroughly

― mookieproof, Sunday, 27 January 2008 00:20 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, for me it did, too. I mean, really, really bad.

― dell, Sunday, 27 January 2008 00:23 (seventeen years ago)

But the question everyone wants to ask, Ned, did you get the condo?

― JTS, Sunday, 27 January 2008 00:36 (seventeen years ago)

Nope -- things were almost lined up and then a lawsuit got filed on the whole complex. Lenders got nervous, pulled out, and I stuck with renting. Which, frankly, was the right decision in the end.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 27 January 2008 00:37 (seventeen years ago)

My hunch is the second half of 2001 is going to be "interesting times" in the Chinese sense.

-- Tom, Thursday, June 28, 2001 12:00 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Link

― s1ocki, Sunday, 27 January 2008 01:06 (seventeen years ago)

this thread is weird

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 27 January 2008 01:14 (seventeen years ago)

reading it is weird, i mean.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 27 January 2008 01:14 (seventeen years ago)

BAN NED FOR USING THE VERB "MUTTERED" TOO MANY TIMES THIS WEEK.

― Rock Hardy, Sunday, 27 January 2008 01:17 (seventeen years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.