I Love The 90s/New Millennium
Okay. So I have always kept a journal, right? Mostly for my own personal reflection and as a tool for my memory, but every once in awhile you gotta wonder, if you've ever kept a diary, "if I'm ever famous will they want to publish my memoirs?" or, if you're me "will this ever be archived away in a historical society as a window into the world of a girl growing up between 1998 and 2008?" (wow, for a minute when i realized that my entries don't really become regular until 1998 I was a little disappointed they didn't go back further but holy crap that's a decade of diaries from middle school to college!)
But now, I'm watching I Love the New Millennium on VH1, and I am realizing, watching this endless list of millennium fads '02, 03 and '04, that I didn't participate in or enjoy hardly ANY of these things! I mean, I remember them. But I was never into any of this stuff, and I realized, I've often tried to resist popular stuff - for the most part (like when I was in middle school and refused to listen to boy bands like N'Sync or Backstreet Boys and thought I was "punk" loving Blink-182.) But, then, if someone wanted to look back at my diary as a girl growing up in this time period, I'd be a TERRIBLE example because I wasn't into hardly any of the stuff that most kids growing up in this time period were into! My diary would not be a good historical example. Cause I'm kind of lame!
Some things highlighted on this program I never experienced -
-I didn't read Harry Potter or the Da Vinci code.
-I never wore ugg boots, crocs, or a trucker hat.
-I hardly ever played video games, and tried DDR only twice, (and was bad both times).
-I don't like hip hop or R&B.
-I have never seen an episode of Laguna Beach.
-I refused to watch Survivor or Joe Millionaire.
-I never let a thong peek out of my low-rise jeans (haha, whale tales - "nobody wishes!").
-I've never eaten a McGriddle, and I didn't see Supersize Me.
-I can't booty dance. (I think I can count on one hand the number of times I went out to the bars in Iowa City, and never stayed long).
-I don't do Sudoku.
-I don't have a myspace page. (though I do have facebook)
Anyway, this isn't to say I haven't participated in any crazy popular things, or that there's anything wrong with the great fads of the millennium. But of each episode/year of I Love the New Millennium, there's about one or two things in the whole hour I actually participated in. I saw LOTR, Zoolander, Memento, POTC, and Gladiator and most of the movies they featured. And I watched the O.C., I thought Orlando Bloom was hot, and I liked Clay Aiken the one season I watched. But all in all, I Love the New Millennium makes me feel like a pretty bad participant in popular culture.
Oh well, I'm still proud of it all.
[Edit: Oh yeah, my diaries would also be not good for anyone to read, because so many of the entries are about whatever guy I had a crush on at the time at LZMSS, LZHS, CHS, EHS, or Cornell. It was kind of fun looking back and seeing what my "type" was then, and how Casey in some ways is right along those lines, and in other ways, so very different from any of my highschool or middle school crushes. Haha. So unless a historian wants to read about how cute I thought Jordan or Andrew or Steven or Casey were, there's no point!]
But now, I'm watching I Love the New Millennium on VH1, and I am realizing, watching this endless list of millennium fads '02, 03 and '04, that I didn't participate in or enjoy hardly ANY of these things! I mean, I remember them. But I was never into any of this stuff, and I realized, I've often tried to resist popular stuff - for the most part (like when I was in middle school and refused to listen to boy bands like N'Sync or Backstreet Boys and thought I was "punk" loving Blink-182.) But, then, if someone wanted to look back at my diary as a girl growing up in this time period, I'd be a TERRIBLE example because I wasn't into hardly any of the stuff that most kids growing up in this time period were into! My diary would not be a good historical example. Cause I'm kind of lame!
Some things highlighted on this program I never experienced -
-I didn't read Harry Potter or the Da Vinci code.
-I never wore ugg boots, crocs, or a trucker hat.
-I hardly ever played video games, and tried DDR only twice, (and was bad both times).
-I don't like hip hop or R&B.
-I have never seen an episode of Laguna Beach.
-I refused to watch Survivor or Joe Millionaire.
-I never let a thong peek out of my low-rise jeans (haha, whale tales - "nobody wishes!").
-I've never eaten a McGriddle, and I didn't see Supersize Me.
-I can't booty dance. (I think I can count on one hand the number of times I went out to the bars in Iowa City, and never stayed long).
-I don't do Sudoku.
-I don't have a myspace page. (though I do have facebook)
Anyway, this isn't to say I haven't participated in any crazy popular things, or that there's anything wrong with the great fads of the millennium. But of each episode/year of I Love the New Millennium, there's about one or two things in the whole hour I actually participated in. I saw LOTR, Zoolander, Memento, POTC, and Gladiator and most of the movies they featured. And I watched the O.C., I thought Orlando Bloom was hot, and I liked Clay Aiken the one season I watched. But all in all, I Love the New Millennium makes me feel like a pretty bad participant in popular culture.
Oh well, I'm still proud of it all.
[Edit: Oh yeah, my diaries would also be not good for anyone to read, because so many of the entries are about whatever guy I had a crush on at the time at LZMSS, LZHS, CHS, EHS, or Cornell. It was kind of fun looking back and seeing what my "type" was then, and how Casey in some ways is right along those lines, and in other ways, so very different from any of my highschool or middle school crushes. Haha. So unless a historian wants to read about how cute I thought Jordan or Andrew or Steven or Casey were, there's no point!]