Anyone feeling 2000s nostalgia?

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You began to see the 1930s depicted as a period in movies in the 1950s, The Fifties in the Seventies in Grease, American Graffiti and the show Happy Days, The Sixties in the 80s (Sixties Motown was rediscovered then), The Seventies in the nineties. After that ...I dunno.

But yes...the pattern did seem to be "nostalgia after two decades" until the end of the Twentieth Century. Maybe its broken down.

So we should be reviving interest in the early 2000s. George W. Bush. The feud between Toby Keith and the Dixie Chicks. I think that the X files was running back then. Friends straddled the decades from 1994 to 2004. Boy Bands were big then. And there is a TV commercial that exploits female nostalgia for boy bands -that girl who talks to her framed picture on the wall of a Savage Garden type band who...sing advice back to her about laundry additives...in harmony. She must be psychotic.

An except was the 1940s. There was no uptick in interest in the Forties in the Sixties. Probably because the Forties had been dominated by the War. The distinctive film noir Bogart type movies of the Forties werent saluted and spoofed much until around 1990 (Dead Men Dont Wear Plaid, Roger Rabbit).

The early 2000 were dominated by 9-11 and the war on terrorism. So it was kinda similar to the 1940s.

What were the 2000's though?
Nothing stands out to me.

I was checked out dealing with trauma from 2002 onward.

All I can think of was the Y2K nonsense, 9/11, and the War on Terror.
I can't even name any music or clothing trends.

Oh - I remember one thing.

Zig-zagged hair parts on women.

That's about it.

I feel nostalgic about the last third of 2009 when I was really getting into The Kinks and I was at my best.

i think i remember short hair for women was "in" too around 2010
short hair + zigzag = a phase i think most would like to forget

I've never had short hair.
I started growing it when I was about 8, and missed all those fads.

I didn't know how to do the zigzag for the longest time.
Finally figured it out when it was out of style.
It looked cute with a messy bun or butterfly clip.



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* bee-stung lips, singlets, dopey men with emotions
Now it's coming back to me

Also lace-up flat leather ankle boots with pantyhose
The starving waif look (Ally McBeal)

I'm doing a little experiment. I'm pretending that I prefer music over television for the next 19 hours. If I like having The Kinks for an avatar, I'll keep the one I'm using now. If I really love Schultz, I'll switch back to him. I'll see if The Kinks make me feel young.

The experiment is over. I've just realized who I really am. I'm going to make peace with my love for Germany and the 1940s instead.

I suppose I am, although it would mainly be due to my computer being a potato and only being able to play games from around that era. IRL, my mom & stepdad had forbidden me from playing video games around that time, and television was likewise "of the devil!", so I didn't get to play most games I'm finally able to now. Well, I suppose I could have as well back in 2009 when I had a proper gaming computer, but I was more interested in like Sins of a Solar Empire then.

The Barack Obama years were the best.

I don't think you're comfortable with picking either or because you love them both.

What you need is Mick Avory in a German helmet, or Schultz dressed as a mod.

I liked the 90's better, but I have no major hate for the 2000's either. I divorced one ex and married another. Some of the music was good. I liked an apartment I had in the early 2000's. I miss that place sometimes. The maintenace man and I were buddies and there were only like 3 other people in my entire building, and I didn't have to stress things like fixing the roof when it went to hell and needed replacing. That was nice. But beyond that? Nah. I'm much better off now. I'll not go back, thank you much.