(Top 5 & Bottom 5: 2008) "It's the end of a year... - Oldschool

LOS ANGELES/CA
Joined: Old School
Posts: 8117

January 2nd, 2009 - 11:06 AM

...there's another one coming." -Embrace

What's up? Hope everyone had a happy and safe New Years... I ended up at a diner drinking coffee and eating ice cream, and I think I was probably playing Gears of War II at midnight. Sweet.

Anyway, that's beside the point - what I wanted to talk about was 2008. Best and worst. Top 5 Bottom 5. We've done it before, so let's do it again. Anything goes really... It can be your five best and worst personal experiences, albums, movies, moments, girls/guys, sexual conquests, school papers, whatever. As always, feel free to include images.

Move it!

gibby

LOS ANGELES/CA
Joined: Old School
Posts: 8117

January 2nd, 2009 - 11:15 AM

Top 5:

- WoTLK
- Fable II
- Fallout III
- Crushing my enemies
- Finishing the Louderbach album

Bottom 5:

- Lame ass neighbor with secret ways
- A bad sex encounter that shall remain anonymous and undetailed
- Finding sandwich bag in El Pollo Loco burrito
- Finding sandwich bag tie (the plastic thing) in a Sandwich Shop sandwich
- hating the smell of one of my own farts. (that only happened once, but it was so putrid it scarred me forever)

Pierre

IRVING/TX
Joined: 05/20/08
Posts: 710

January 2nd, 2009 - 2:30 PM

top five:
- possible girlfriend right now
- my bike
- The philosophy/religion and drug/biology sections at the public library. Or maybe just the library in general.
- my garden
- college being in the future

Bottom five:
- Being in highscool
- losing people
- Living in this shit hole they call San Antonio
- Getting in trouble constantly
- Being broke

njcharliebabe

LOS ANGELES/CA
Joined: 11/20/08
Posts: 14

January 2nd, 2009 - 2:53 PM

top 5:
winning best percussion,
field hockey starting line,
befriending people i wasn't friends with anymore,
not failing physics,
&davidd.

bottom 5:
losing best percussion by .1,
physics,
the whole kyle fiasco,
the weird scarf trend taking over school,
&mike.

glitterxgirl_xo

CALIFON/NJ
Joined: Old School
Posts: 59

January 2nd, 2009 - 5:50 PM

Top 5:
1. Art student of the month, in both the photography and ceramics field.
2. Learned French and some German.
3. Finished writing a short story, that I have been working for a while.
4. Planned a summer trip to Europe
5. Learned how to play lacrosse

Bottom 5:
1. A friend died...
2. Left the one person I loved, and looked back on it just to find that the choice I made was a really fucking stupid mistake.
3. Ended up in a horrible relationship.
4. Lost my only 35mm camera.
5. Didn't earn enough money to take up fencing last year.

scenebeanz

HEMPSTEAD/NY
Joined: 01/28/08
Posts: 172

January 2nd, 2009 - 6:25 PM

Top 5:
1. Beginning and loving college
2. Set lists from: Say Anything, Alkaline Trio, the Hold Steady and As Tall As Lions
3. Being named my school paper's Asst. Photo Editor
4. New/awesome boyfriend
5. Last Presidential debate at my school

Bottom 5:
1. Sarah Palin's existence
2. spending all the money in my bank account
3. waking up in my friend's bed wearing nothing but an apron
4. agony &irony
5. gaining the freshman 15.

idunnolols

CORONA/CA
Joined: 12/01/07
Posts: 5173

January 2nd, 2009 - 6:43 PM

Top 5:
1. had money in the bank all year, even when changing jobs money was always ok
2. good job at a new company
3. still rent a great house from wonderful landlords
4. made it back eastcoast to visit friends and family
5. no car accidents

Bottom 5:
1. still did not register my car, sell it or unload jenn car
2. my friend dans motorcycle accident, hes ok but it did some damage to his bank accounts
3. the 6 months of hell i put myself through at my old company.. i should have just left but im glad i held on till i found what i wanted
4. i dunno.. it was a pretty damn good year.. i cant really think of anything else "bad" that happened to me or those close to me
5. but i dont want to jinx myself by leaving these empty

2008 was the best year ive had in a really really really long time...

deadcityradio

BAKERSFIELD/CA
Joined: Old School
Posts: 2526

January 2nd, 2009 - 6:44 PM

1. matt and kim + the deathset + free colt 45
2. not my baby
3. new tires/new girlfriend
4. finally going back to school
5. quit smoking

1. DUI/spending birthday in jail second year in a row
2. senior citizens
3. chlamydia
4. giving shitty ex another chance to be shitty
5. fines

drunkenough

CHICAGO/IL
Joined: Old School
Posts: 6074

January 2nd, 2009 - 9:28 PM

1. awesome job
2. awesome apartment
3. traveling
4. mastering the city
5. another year pregnant free

1. had to break up with my crazy boyfriend
2. all the other guys are crazy too
3. awesome job ended
4. did not become super athletic and slender like
5. parking tickets

Doran

DENVER/CO
Joined: 11/30/08
Posts: 95

January 3rd, 2009 - 12:32 AM

+
1. Graduating High School
2. Moving out
3. Mount Eerie concert in church basement
4. New guitars
5. Obama/ Amendment 48 Fail
-
1. Unnecessarily long break from school
2. Not being able to get a job on said break
3. No love
4. Halloween
5. Silkscreening abandonment due to new tiny living space

pommegranate

SCRANTON/PA
Joined: 11/05/08
Posts: 610

January 3rd, 2009 - 12:44 AM

Highs
1. Seeing Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley band
2. Making a best friend
3. Changing schools
4. My first job
5. Quitting said job

Lows
1. My grandpa getting lung cancer for Christmas
2. Stabbing a couple people in the back :(
3. Buying cod4. WASTE OF MY TIME/MONEY.
4. Having a panic attack for four days straight.
5. Not listening to Neutral Milk Hotel sooner.

gibby Said:

Top 5:
- Fable II

WHAT ENDING DID YOU CHOOSE,GIBBY, I MUST KNOW!

diy_xx

AUSTIN/TX
Joined: Old School
Posts: 800

January 3rd, 2009 - 12:47 AM

good:
-lost virginity
-realized i can pass for 21+
-cuter clothes
-new memories
-found my sister

bad/ugly:
-boyf of 18 months dumped me via facebook
-spent too much money on said ex boyf
-mom is still crazy
-can't really talk to father
-tattoo was ghetto

Bokonon_Pokemon

SAN MARCOS/TX
Joined: 09/17/08
Posts: 1451

January 3rd, 2009 - 2:30 AM

gibby Said:

Top 5:

- WoTLK
- Crushing my enemies

I agree 10,000 fold. -Maly

Hand in hand, baby.

Bokonon_Pokemon

SAN MARCOS/TX
Joined: 09/17/08
Posts: 1451

January 3rd, 2009 - 2:39 AM

Warm and cuddly:
1. College.
2. Got an Underwood original typewriter
3. Rediscovered myself in many ways
4. Made new old friends, and old new friends!
5. Concerts/ Saw The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Sticky and raw:
1. Totaled my car, and almost killed friends when doing so.
2. Macbook Pro snapped in half ^
3. I'm allergic to dogs?!
4. Cat was bit by a snake, died the next day
5. No moneys.

tofuhero

LOS ANGELES/CA
Joined: Old School
Posts: 1951

January 3rd, 2009 - 4:07 AM

top 5:
* mom surviving breast cancer
* new beginnings
* moving to Silverlake
* writing some stuff that was not completely horrible
* my bloody valentine show

bottom 5:
* divorce
* mom getting breast cancer
* still at the same fucking soul-sucking job
* haven't had any physical intimacy in over 8 months
* fake people and their fake ways

xleighxcorex

WINCHESTER/VA
Joined: 11/20/07
Posts: 4715

January 3rd, 2009 - 7:58 AM

top 5:
-lost virginity and it was not an awful experience
-possible romance at the moment (from the tail end of 2008)
-got a free trip to africa
-became vegan
-raised my gpa considerably

bottom five:
-financial problems which are almost over with
-havent seen my friends from home in year
-got my car broken into
-realized i dont have the same relationship with my mother that i used to
-fractured a bone in my foot which is still giving me problems

Taangerines

stockholm
Joined: 12/30/08
Posts: 6

January 3rd, 2009 - 8:57 AM

Highs

1. Seeing Mucc when they where in sweden

2. I got a new cat

3. A new start at a new school

4. Making new friends in school

5. Still having fairly good contact whit my old friends

Lows

1. My Bf broke up whit me

2. My ex started to hit on one of my best friends.

3. My dearest friend commited suicide

4. Got unhappy in love whit a guy in my class

5. I don't dare to say what I feal for this guy...

BrodieLafours

WEST COLUMBIA/SC
Joined: Old School
Posts: 11213

January 3rd, 2009 - 12:28 PM

Top 5
+Bringing all of my Marines home from Iraq
+Austin City Limits Festival
+Doing well on the LSAT
+Finding my awesome Harley, 1983 FXR Shovelhead
+Paying off all my student loans and my truck loan

Bottom 5
-Being an emotional train wreck and fucking things up with a couple different women
-Motorcycle dying constantly b/c it is 25 years old and I don't know how to fix it (it's still an awesome bike, just sucks when I can't ride)
-gaining like 20 lbs since getting out of the Marine Corps
-loosing a good chunk of money in the stock market (still own the stocks, they are just practically worthless now, hopefully they will go back up eventually)
-the back and forth breaking up and getting back together with the ex-girlfriend

nasty

CHICAGO/IL
Joined: 09/08/08
Posts: 1445

January 3rd, 2009 - 2:35 PM

good
finished college
satin bed sheets
falling in "fake" love (it was nice for a good month or two)
learned to clean up my messes
eeehhh

bad
too much alcohol
being a bad friend
having bad friends
meeting a ton of jerk ass dudes
not having money for a new car

pacing

ROHNERT PARK/CA
Joined: Old School
Posts: 810

January 4th, 2009 - 1:33 PM

Top 5
1. A Song of Fire and Ice
2. My radical video store job where I can read all day
3. Summer Portland biking
4. Obomb
5. Fallout 3

Bottom 5
1. Sister in dire straits.
2. Snow and rain
3. Radical video store job closing soon
4. The Happening
5. Alone for the billionth year in a row

wavesxaway

GARLAND/TX
Joined: 09/25/08
Posts: 3337

January 4th, 2009 - 1:38 PM

top 5:
i have a sweet boyfriend
i'm back at home
i get to start over
i found some good new music
i get to see my real friends

bottom 5
parents treat me like i'm 14
i never see my bf (its almost hard for him to even call me)
guys at home are falling for me
i'm broke and can't have a job
my sister is dying

RoboBiker

MILWAUKEE/WI
Joined: 03/13/08
Posts: 3

January 5th, 2009 - 12:18 PM

Top
- going to college
- falling in love
- fixing up my bike
- finding new friends
- finding an old friend

Bottom
- getting my heart broken three times consecutively
- getting hit by a car
- feeling alone
- feeling like a fool
- the possibility of losing someone I cared about forever

Nadbash

MANCHESTER/NH
Joined: Old School
Posts: 12681

January 5th, 2009 - 1:02 PM

top:
Son born 6/22/08
WOTLK

Bottom:
I lost a tooth due to shitty dental work and face trauma
Two car accidents on New Year's Eve, one of which resulting in a court date for me
Back injury and food poisoning during my vacation.
Almost went default on my school loans.
Prospect of getting perfect apartment vanished.

hathos

HUMPTULIPS/WA
Joined: Old School
Posts: 7548

January 5th, 2009 - 3:37 PM

top(in no particular order):

koley
visited family in Okinawa for the first time in 8 years
multiple trips to SF
new job
giant lcd tv for cheap

bottom(also in no particular order):

constantly breaking out in hives
ruptured disk wrecked my baseball season
volvo having issues
new job working with that faggot drew
living paycheck to paycheck

emosnugglez

SAN ANTONIO/TX
Joined: 12/31/08
Posts: 1

January 6th, 2009 - 4:56 AM

top

got new swords
reading
watching anime
drawing
sleeping

bottom

skool
life
seeing family
gong on a date
going out side

mariyell

WESTFIELD/NJ
Joined: 01/04/09
Posts: 3

January 6th, 2009 - 7:04 PM

we used to play this game at work... except that it was one up- one down. oh
the memories of past adventures in gainful employment.

five up:
-various campaigns all kicking gop butt
-got my dragonfly tattoo
-"narrow stairs" death cab
-discovered tao lin's writing
-wrote an amazing research design

five down:
-failing major in the boyfriend department
-living a la parentals (again)
-being told i'm impossible to love
-sam ronson and lilo
-miley cyrus

sleepyzombie

SOUTHWICK/MA
Joined: 07/09/07
Posts: 1155

January 6th, 2009 - 7:15 PM

Top five:
-Lost my virginity
-Moved to a house that gave me all the freedom I wanted
-Towards the end never ever paid for pot
-Gas went down and I went to Boston and a week before went to Providence just for the drive.
-Fell in love for the first time

Bottom five:
-Was semi-homeless(twice)/Found out both my parents are basically pieces of crap
-Laptop stolen
-Dropped out of College
-Had the hives on and off for no apparent reason (still have them)
-The economy hates us all and I am poor as a motherfucker with student loans renewing my car insurance food gas blah blah blah blah I grew up.

drunkenough

CHICAGO/IL
Joined: Old School
Posts: 6074

January 6th, 2009 - 7:55 PM

jatieee Said:

drunkenough Said:

5. another year pregnant free

any year without babies is a good year.

high five

Rosco

Edinburgh
Joined: 01/07/09
Posts: 5

January 7th, 2009 - 6:06 AM

TOP 5
Met my girlfriend Eva,
Got a new car,
Moved into my new flat,
saw kings of Leon and
Had amazing christmas dinner!!!

Bottom
Broke my hip snowboarding
spent loadsa time in bed cos i couldn't walk
missed Biffy Clyro cos of it
My computer got sick and died
Fell out with a good friend for good

ryanage

PALM COAST/FL
Joined: 09/08/08
Posts: 8690

January 7th, 2009 - 11:04 PM

top
1. this is for you fest
2. getting a banjo
3. aids free
4. house shows/potlucks
5. sunday nights with a twelver of peeburs and no electricity

bottom
1. laid off on new years eve
2. became single again
3. got fucked over by finacial aid
4. still live in florida
5. one of my mice died

AlexEli

BOURBONNAIS/IL
Joined: 11/25/08
Posts: 32

January 8th, 2009 - 11:51 AM

5 best moments of 2008:
-Making out with my best friend (now boyfriend!) that I'd been cruching on for three years and then having him ask me to be his girlfriend.
-Meeting Pete Wentz in a convienient store check out line!
-Getting really, really, really wasted and then walking through the mall with my friends screaming at random people and hugging a gumball machine with a bag on my head WITHOUT getting arrested.
-Filling condoms with yogurt with my best guy friend and then dropping them on passing cars from the top of his apartment building! =P
-Everyday during the summer at Ceci's pool with Becca, Luke, Cody, Elli, and everyone else... Ha... Especially when we were pirates and lit that towel on fire.... XD

And the 5 worst moments of 2008:
-Those rumors.
-Homecoming at my highschool.
-My best friend attempting suicide.
-My other friend going into a coma (she's still not out).
-My mom's face when she had to pick me up from the hospital and when she saw me in handcuffs.

Increase the Peace!
Alex

AlexEli

BOURBONNAIS/IL
Joined: 11/25/08
Posts: 32

January 8th, 2009 - 11:51 AM

5 best moments of 2008:
-Making out with my best friend (now boyfriend!) that I'd been cruching on for three years and then having him ask me to be his girlfriend.
-Meeting Pete Wentz in a convienient store check out line!
-Getting really, really, really wasted and then walking through the mall with my friends screaming at random people and hugging a gumball machine with a bag on my head WITHOUT getting arrested.
-Filling condoms with yogurt with my best guy friend and then dropping them on passing cars from the top of his apartment building! =P
-Everyday during the summer at Ceci's pool with Becca, Luke, Cody, Elli, and everyone else... Ha... Especially when we were pirates and lit that towel on fire.... XD

And the 5 worst moments of 2008:
-Those rumors.
-Homecoming at my highschool.
-My best friend attempting suicide.
-My other friend going into a coma (she's still not out).
-My mom's face when she had to pick me up from the hospital and when she saw me in handcuffs.

Increase the Peace!
Alex

phonographstopS

LITTLE FALLS/NJ
Joined: 10/27/08
Posts: 9

January 8th, 2009 - 7:46 PM

Swell!
- Good shows/lame shows.
- Good jokes/bad jokes.
- Hello, car!
- Narrowly avoided rock bottom.
- It's finally over!

Lame.
- Marley and Me.
- Terrible boys.
- Goodbye, car!
- Pending rock bottom.
- Developed a twitch.

"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt."

EpicFail

FORT WAYNE/IN
Joined: 01/08/09
Posts: 1109

January 8th, 2009 - 7:49 PM

Cheers:
+ achieving professional dog trainer status
+ cute puppy
+ moving to a place where there are no words for "snow"
+ still being real hot and smart
+ my sister getting all fat with a baby in her

Jeers:
- the past 24 hours
- smoking and quitting and smoking and quitting

I don't really have a lot of jeers.

Cinematiks

Banff
Joined: Old School
Posts: 1829

January 8th, 2009 - 8:03 PM

top 5
1. train trip across canada
2. moving to banff
3. getting a sweet ass job in banff
4. my new snowboard
5. throwing tricks on my new snowboard in banff...

bottom 5
1. lame ass girlfriend in halifax
2. lame ass girlfriend in halifax
3. getting fired from the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel
4. snow in August
5. having to leave all my shit behind when I moved

Cinematiks

Banff
Joined: Old School
Posts: 1829

January 8th, 2009 - 8:04 PM

Cinematiks Said:

top 5
1. train trip across canada
2. moving to banff
3. getting a sweet ass job in banff
4. my new snowboard
5. throwing tricks on my new snowboard in banff...

bottom 5
1. lame ass girlfriend in halifax
2. lame ass girlfriend in halifax
3. getting fired from the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel
4. snow in August
5. having to leave all my shit behind when I moved

also qotsa show and getting to quit my call centre job in an oh so awesome way are tied for 4 and 5 respectivly

savethepeace

SHEBOYGAN/WI
Joined: 01/09/09
Posts: 1

January 9th, 2009 - 1:48 PM

Top Five:

1. Graduated High school
2. Fell in love
3. Sweet parties
4. Got a new job
5. My tattoos.

Bottom Five:

1. Got my heart broken
2. Drunken Regrets [uck.]
3. Still in Wisconsin
4. Lost friends from High School
5. Gained a terrible habit.

hathos

HUMPTULIPS/WA
Joined: Old School
Posts: 7548

January 9th, 2009 - 9:32 PM

I'M REALLY IMPRESSED WITH HOW THE BROADS IN THIS THREAD SEEM TO THINK NOT GETTING PREGNANT OR STDS ARE ACHIEVEMENTS

UH...CONGRATS, I GUESS

moar

Utopia
Joined: Old School
Posts: 808

January 9th, 2009 - 10:58 PM

I managed to convince myself to drop out of college and eventually transfer into another one - eventually.
Got myself a Wrangler for Christmas.
Depleted enough brain cells to mull out a rough draft I was working on.
Lucked out with an asian who can cook.
Moving to Barcelona.

I can't narrow down the lows. :/
Being MOCless? Nah.

di_classe

GRAND RAPIDS/MI
Joined: Old School
Posts: 562

January 10th, 2009 - 10:35 AM

Radical:
*New job / more money
*Spending a lot of time with old friends
*$0.75 cans of Black Label at the Meanwhile
*Friend's band finally releasing their first album and winning Local Album of the Year
*Being able to laugh a lot

Lamecore:
*New job / less time, obnoxious boss
*This Michigan winter
*Not having left the state since last New Year's
*Very out of shape
*Car that could suicide at any second

piggytron

cacafornia
Joined: 11/08/08
Posts: 2641

January 11th, 2009 - 11:31 PM

Yes

1. Red Sox game
2. Enrolling back to school after 2 years
3. Meeting my future husband
4. Having my family alive, safe and sound.
5. Not being broke

No

1. I still live in California
2. Still working at the same place
3. California being warm when it should be cold
4. Spending so much $ on school
5. Norma Jeans album

CMRuiz

SEATTLE/WA
Joined: Old School
Posts: 8487

January 12th, 2009 - 11:14 AM

+

Hardly Art/Subpop "internship"
Bumbershoot's Seattle-Tehran poster show
Shred Yr Face UK Tour(Los Campesinos!, No Age, Times New Viking) 7". tour poster, shirts, print ad, website designed. Big paycheck.
Moved into a house and got an entire living room full of stuff for $30 because my friend was moving to Brooklyn and needed tto be out of her old apt
Post No Bills documentary on poster artists interviewed me

-

been way too flaky on sending stuff in the mail
my laptop died
anonymous slutbag girl
Fresno, CA is a drag

-----------I had way more ups than downs. I was trying to think of more downs and even these were a stretch----

GodDamnPolly

LOS ANGELES/CA
Joined: Old School
Posts: 183

January 12th, 2009 - 11:43 AM

Top Five:

1. my baby nephew shane was born.
2. meeting my boyfriend.
3. going to the beach alot.
4. being happy.
5. getting a new lap top.

Bottom Five:

1. bad sex with an asshole.
2. concussion days before my b-day ]=
3. spending to much money on things i dont need.
4. hangovers that last to long.
5. my work being to busy around christmas.

Zebrapulse

Sarpsborg
Joined: 01/09/09
Posts: 7

January 13th, 2009 - 11:51 AM

TOPP
1. Riga with my Boyfriend on our one year anniversary
2. Getting the best cat ever
3. Getting a new cat since the other one got shot.
4. Become a good friend with Line, and all of her friends
5. Seeing Tess in AZ. US

BOTTOM:
1. My babykitty got shot
2. One of my best friends told me hes going to Iraq to fight.
3. Stressing around christmas because of school.
4. My navel piercing grew out.
5. Too high expectations.

tbh, I got a pretty grate life..

horla

Canterbury
Joined: 12/28/08
Posts: 1

February 1st, 2009 - 4:37 PM

Top 5 (in no order) :
Deathbeds - Wesley Eisold
Dig Lazarus, Dig - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Finding hope in education
Rot In Hell records
Her (but for how long?)

Worst 5:
Losing my wallet
Stained coats
Being ill and missing converge/integrity
Things falling apart
Losing friends

smoke on. peace and love.