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18:15 / 28.12.02

What is everyone doing for New Year? Not sure what I will be doing myself.

I'm going to be in Edinburgh and the street party is always an option...but after several years of being bodily crushed and taking two hours to travel 300 meters to catch a glimpse of Ocean Colour Scene or Texas...well, not sure if it is really worth it...

A night in with a few friends is probably the best bet. Easy access to beer, free movement of arms and legs and no risk of losing everyone in the blink of an eye.

So anyone else got any exciting plans?

wembley can change in 28 days

18:26 / 28.12.02

Due to antibiotics, I'm going to have my first sober new year's since I was 16. But I'm not bitter!

18:30 / 28.12.02

Seeing the new year in is really important to me. There was someone I'd arranged to spend the evening with, but we're now several hundred miles apart, so it won't be happening. St Ives goes mad, apparently, with beach parties and people in fancy dress getting very drunk. I might go for a wander around the town on my own, or maybe I'll go for a drive and see 2003 in by the sea. It's going to be a strange one.

Tryphena Absent

18:33 / 28.12.02

Haven't got a clue. Really, might go in to London Town and watch the people, might do something. I hate New Year anyway, it's awful, you're meant to have fun and I generally rebel by having the worst night of the year without fail.

20:02 / 28.12.02

Celebratin' me 21st b-day, that's what! Ha-haaaaaaaaaa!....

And so forth...

20:31 / 28.12.02

Nowt. Get a video if I'm lucky.

Happy birthday, Utopia...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:26 / 28.12.02

Going to work. But it should be a piece of piss, so I'm bringing booze in with me for the ceremonial singing of "Ace of Spades" at midnight.

The Return Of Rothkoid

21:54 / 28.12.02

I have the sneaking suspicion that I'll be alone for the thing. The person/people I want to spend it with are all overseas, and everyone here seems to be keeping mum/doing other stuff.

Which means I'll be drunk, and posting on here, no doubt. Or propping up a bar and plotting my demise.

So, a standard (save last three) NYE for me.

22:07 / 28.12.02

Edinburgh too, just not sure where yet and with whom. Certainly won't be the street party since we've not been around to obtain passes but also because the crowds in your face get tiresome, as you said, Buk.

I am looking forward to seeing my family and saying hello to friends but it's odd, I would really rather be here in London. This is home now and I get sentimental at the New Year. Will be with the God of New Beginnings either way, so that's cool.

22:37 / 28.12.02

The only thing I don't want to do is sit in with my parents! (Actually I can't, they have a party lined up.) Erm... but also I don't want to go to a pub that serves bad beer. I'm not up for that.

A

01:22 / 29.12.02

I've done bugger-all on new year's for the last four or five years, so this year, I aim to actually do stuff. My rock group's playing at a party, so I'll take it from there and see what happens.

03:43 / 29.12.02

Good question. A friend of mine will be up from LA, which is almost a guarantee of a good time to start with, but I don't know what we'll actually be doing.

The local Guerrilla Queer Bar group seems to have organized a pub crawl in my neighborhood; it may be the easiest way to have a silly good time. I mean, if two bright and beautiful bisexual model type girls can't have a good time surrounded by a bunch of partying gay boys, the world might as well end now. Right??

The Return Of Rothkoid

06:43 / 29.12.02

Now, even my plans to be Barbelith's own Moaning Myrtle seem to have been thwarted. I may not be able to get online here thanks to house guests. Sweet unholy fuck.

09:07 / 29.12.02

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

07:40 / 31.12.02

Arrr. I've decided I like my job again. Me and a bunch of other people had hatched an elaborate plan to take some booze in.
Then as I was leaving this morning, my actual boss said "I think we're all gonna bring some booze in tonight, but just don't overdo it."

Therefore sneaking no longer required. Cool!

12:15 / 31.12.02

I was supposed to plan something, but I'm lacking everything but money. Usually this is the other way around. But I just can't think of anything, and I only really know one person in Baltimore, and a couple of venues none of which look that exciting, and frankly the last week or so has been so spine-bitingly tiring that inspiration... she not come. So probably not a lot. At least this means there will be no further attempt at the "worst hangover of my life" record this year.

12:32 / 31.12.02

Bah! Wanted to go for a drive and sit by the sea somewhere while the new year tootled along, but my bad toenail was clipped back yesterday and it hurts, so I probably can't go anywhere. Perhaps it's best that I save my strength for Saturday and my trip to the big smoke.

14:25 / 31.12.02

all the kids and I are going down to the Tritone, where they'll be rotating very different DJs every half hour...

14:49 / 31.12.02

This year, oi shall be moastly drinking alcohol.

No change there, then.

16:21 / 31.12.02

Nothing, nothing at all. It's just another year; nothing to get excited about.

Tryphena Absent

16:22 / 31.12.02

I want to lock myself in my bedroom and watch Neverwhere and Gaudy Night and The Lost Highway and instead I'm going to some shit party. I fucking hate the 31st of December... hopefully something really over the top will happen and I'll be able to escape. I'm going to stand in the corner of the garden and chain smoke wrapped in a giant coat. Why oh why does New Year exist??

wembley can change in 28 days

16:25 / 31.12.02

I'm going to go dance my bum off - why else does new years exist?

16:57 / 31.12.02

As long as you can find it again afterwards. I suggest tying it to your ankle with string. You'll look a bit silly without a bum tomorrow, after all.

Regrettable Juvenilia

17:05 / 31.12.02

Stolen from own blog, cos lazy:

So it's New Year's Eve and I am *not* going out tonight. This is quite a conscious decision on my part, despite circumstantial extras like half the people I know in London being outside it tonight. Funnily enough, it's actually the first NYE I'll be spending *in* London, as although I've been living here for nearly three years I was in France for the first and somewhere near Harpenden for the second... But no, no going out and about for yrs truly tonight: I have a mere pittance to get by on in January now that Xmas is over, and I'd rather save what disposal income I do have for occasions dictated by who's around and what's actually going on, rather than an arbitrary date.

Mind you, I am the most fucking susceptible and weak-willed person I know, so let's see how long this lasts.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

17:27 / 31.12.02

I don't celebrate the New Year as it means less than most of the other Hallmark days, most of which don't matter, NYD wasn't the day the earth came together out of floating dust and shit, and wasn't even the same day a millenia ago, so I shall be at home watching videos because there's shit on TV. I dislike going out on New Years because everywhere is packed and more expensive than usual, so I'll just wait for the weekend thanks.

18:32 / 31.12.02

"I thought it was you and your optimist's view of the clock
And how it's always another day
Just after twelve o'clock's struck..."

It always amuses me that people go thru these bastardised rituals, having lost their original meanings. Then again, I count the midwinter solstice as New Year - which is kinda "midnight" in year terms.

Then again, people tend to resurface around this time... old links are reaffirmed, old grudges reassessed - and everyone wants to party. Ahhh, that old Pavlovian reaction to not having to work.

To those who do have to work, take heart from the fact that it is just a faulty construct in other peoples' heads

"When it's someone else's weekend
That's the best you can expect"

Lyrics by Elvis Costello

18:40 / 31.12.02

Hahahaha! Just got a call while posting saying that everywhere is packed and nobody can get in anywhere.

Guess I'll be ringing it in with you, beloved Barbe.

Murray Hamhandler

19:51 / 31.12.02

I was going to see Guided By Voices in Indy, but it appears that I'm not invited to ride w/those I know who are going... Don't know what that's about.

So I'll be hanging out w/the small band of friends still left in town today and hopefully I'll crash somewhere that I don't mind spending the subsequent 24 hours (no buses, no eating out...1/1 is a bust for doin' stuff).

19:52 / 31.12.02

Damn all you party poopers! Who cares if NY's isn't a "real" holiday, it's the best way to blow off steam leftover from your fucking relatives on X-mas (now there's a real holiday: nothing but stress, eggnog and bullshit!). Besides, if you believe it's real, doesn't it become real? Eh, chaos magicians? I began drinking at 2:40, I hope many of you did similar.

Matthew Fluxington

23:28 / 31.12.02

Well.......I'm watching tv. I've got some comics to catch up on. I'll probably fall asleep before midnight. I didn't really have many options tonight, honestly. But my sister's picking up the slack - she's out in Las Vegas.

12:11 / 01.01.03

wow i didnt know what i was doin untill 9pm, then i went 2 sum1s house, went out for a street party, spoke 2/hugged/kissed many random people, got raaather wasted, walked up a huuge steep hill 2 get 2 sum1 elses house when my luvver boyo txtd and said 2 meet him at the bottom of the hill.. and i said id b there in 20 mins, and i took ages coz i kept falling over, so by the time i got ther, he'd gone 2 a different p@rty,so i walked for 1/2 an hour 2 my sisters 2 sleep (at half 4) and the minute i got in he called me. I was kinda pissed off..but when out again NEway, and it was muchas fun :0)

Hooray for new year... i mean xmas is groovy...but nu yr ROX!

13:22 / 01.01.03

I watched TV in the end. 'The Office'? Number one tv treat of the year? In whose universe??? Though Channel 4's 'Top 100 TV Treats of the Year' was worth watching for the clip of 'Tipping the Velvet' (as I missed the whole thing) - very pretty leather dildo...not sure about the hygiene issues though, but Victorians weren't very into that anyway, were they?

Then I went to bed shortly after twelve and dreamed about m/m sex...which was nice...

Happy New Year, folks. May it be a good one for all...

wembley can change in 28 days

14:26 / 01.01.03

Christ's flaming hairdresser: I said it, I did it, and soon I'll be really damn sore.

After standing at a bus stop for half an hour in -18C weather, with the soundtrack to the Gaza strip played by every ten-year-old in the neighborhood's arsenal(!) of fireworks, I met up with friends and got to a drum and bass club three minutes after midnight (new year's in a taxi with The Doors blasting), and danced my bum off until 4, when the club closed. I chickened out of the afterparty, went home and had a nap, during which my bum apparently grew back with more stamina than ever before, and by 9:am (after getting fined €50 on the metro for riding sans billet) I was at the afterparty club with all the strung-out boys and girls, my earplugs lodged so deep in my head they may have pinched my corpus callosum, suffering from loud, bad house music. Around 12 we decided to suffer no more, went and had a spot of lunch, and then went to another day club with less loud, not bad house music from 1:30 until 5, when I decided that even though I was not actually in pain, I probably would be if I continued. And the kicker: stone cold sober. Who knew it was possible? My bum is gone for at least a week, I think.

Oh yeah - 90% of house music sucks - anyone can "dance" to that rhythm especially when a DJ's idea of shaking things up is to mix a new track in so the 1 and 3 beats become the 2 and 4. Yucky. Helsinki needs a mod night. But I had a great New Year's - full of friends and optimism.

Goodness Gracious Meme

17:07 / 01.01.03

argh.

had fun. I *think*

hangover from hell.

Woke up about 2 hours ago, at a friend's place. took me 15 woolly-headed minutes to work out that I was wearing someone else's jeans

Memory? what memory?

18:00 / 01.01.03

Actually, I was thinking today how refreshing it was to not have a hangover on new year's day, though it doesn't help that I can't handle my drink these days. Walked up a hill overlooking St Ives, then went down into the town, watched the gulls in the harbour and blessed the day I left godawful London town.

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