After re-seeing Kathryn Bigelow's film Strange Days (which takes place around New Year's Eve 1999) last night, I got to remembering what that resonant fin du siecle year had been like for me.
So, as always, let's revisit my madeleines.
For me, 1999 was:
- tuna sandwiches on crusty rolls and strong coffee, bought from a deli every afternoon on a week-long trip to Germany I made in March.
- the soundtrack to Bertrand Tavernier's film Round Midnight, a former favorite LP on vinyl, which I replaced in my music collection as a CD in summer.
- Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, read in paperback over the holidays.
- Sam Shepard's play Seduced; I played the lead role in a graduate school production in December.
- my old Gateway 2000 laptop, which proved to be Y2K compliant.
- Tiger Stadium, which I visited for the last time in September, with my family.
And what, may I ask, was 1999 for you?
2 comments:
Strange Days was a very good albeit offbeat movie. Fiennes was perfect in his role.
For me 1999 was a transition year between living in Georgia and moving to NC to get a job with a dot com. Too bad that was also when the dot com boom went bust. Oh well.
wow... i can no longer remember how 1999 was for me... but im sure i learned tons.
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