paddy Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 The comedy thread got me thinking about how 2004 was generally, so... Was 2004 a good year for you? Obviously every year has its ups and downs, but 2004 was certainly an eventful and productive year for me, and I'd put it very much in the "good year" category, one of my best to date I reckon From a personal point of view: Started off not great with one hell of a lot of cleaning up from a very messy new years party Started to come along quite nicely with Villa's improving form Turned 18 in February, spent my birthday in the pub (all day) and then had one hell of a joint party a couple of days later joint with my cousin who's 4 days younger than me, one of the best nights of the year I reckon Villa obviously continued to provide excitement building up hopes of champions league football I passed my driving test (and haven't crashed yet either) Took a bit of a downer when my hockey team finished 3rd in the league, the top 2 go up, absolute scandal that was, can't be bothered to explain the details but "we was robbed" Took a bit of a downer when Villa missed out on europe so narrowly but it was still fantastic to do so well having started the season so badly Did my A levels, didn't get as worked up about them as most people (parents and teachers) would have liked, but still came out with 2 As and a C, and got into my first choice uni (Leeds), can't complain at that really Spent an absolutely fantastic week in the Lake District with some mates and my old school helping out on a D of E expedition, some things that happened really can't be repeated on here but alcohol was a major factor (as always), long road trips are always good and we just had a great week annoying the locals (not intentionally), going to the beach, playing football, drinking the local cider and just generally having a laugh A couple of weeks after that I went to Malaga for 8 days with 2 good mates of mine, free accomodation so lots of spare money for booze (recurring theme anyone?), had a great week even if i did get mugged, met Led Zepplin while in a drunken haze Spent 28 days seeing my mate every day over the summer (including those 2 weeks), somehow we managed to not get too pissed off with each other in that time, we even went a week without spending money, just playing pool and doing very little generally Took kind of a turn for the worse when most of my mates went off to uni, there was the end of the drinking most nights of the week either at the local or up town, lost a stone in those few months though so shows how unhealthily I was living before Then I thought having spent so much over the summer and as I was going away in January I really need to earn some money, night shift at asda it was, very tiring, very depressing really, but it had to be done and is almost over now Took another upturn when I started "seeing" a lot of a very lovely young lady, but a huge downer that we both know that as of January we can't see each other for 8 months, which is absolutely gutting Kind of got boring towards the end of the year with only spending time with her and my best mate coming back from uni most weekends keeping me sane (along with still having the band and hockey) Hockey team is thrashing everyone this season, going to win the league by a mile, nice one Band is going well, recorded a good demo (click here for 2 of those songs) this year and played some very good gigs, had a great year with them Obviously ups as villa started well, bit of a down losing the derby game and a bit of a downturn in form Not a bad christmas either, very hungover christmas morning which wasn't good but the rest was good From a more general point of view: TV: Comedy was obviously a huge plus point, all discussed on another thread, absolutely superb, say no more Great sporting moments on TV as well.... I actually got interested in women's tennis, 1) because it was nice to see someone playing so bloody well at such a young age and just playing great tennis 2) well.... i'm sure Rob can elaborate on what I mean And not forgetting the Olympics, I really enjoy the olympics, the whole thing, I'd never watch badminton at any other time! But Kelly Holmes winning the 2nd race had me jumping out of my seat, and the 4 x 100 was just breathtaking, absolutely superb, great stuff Euro 2004... We could and perhaps should have won this, choose your scapegoat as is customary, Urs Meir is no doubt top, Beckham up there as well, Vass completely unfairly up there, I blame Sven, when you go 1-0 up and everyone just goes "oh shit" because you know that you're going to sit back the whole game is so annoying, but there were some great times watching that, loving the france game until the final minute, portugal was good for a while, it's nice to watch football with your mates and actually all be supporting the same side for a change Reality TV was shit, all of it, I usually like BB, but hated it Radio: Kerrang started up in brum, which isn't bad sometimes, makes a nice change Sara Cox disappeared off Radio 1, even better! Current affairs (i wanted a better heading than that): George W was re-elected... hmmm, Madrid train bombings.... hmmm, annoying toffs complained about banning fox hunting... hmmm, our parliament wasted loads of time discussing it... hmmm, Fathers For Justice put in a few appearances, not too bad, plenty of other boring rubbish, they don't really report good news, either that or there isn't any, currently dominated by the massive earthquake in the Pacific, that sort of thing certainly doesn't come around very often, shocking So there you have it, my review of 2004, no doubt I missed out something really important, but I can't think what, no doubt I will later Obviously 2005 could be even better what with moving to New Zealand, but 2004 was amazing, and I really did love it, so it was definitely "Good year" for me, roll on 2005! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RantinRob Posted December 27, 2004 Share Posted December 27, 2004 he's on about Maria Sharapova, droooool :-) Good post Paddy I'd go for "average " year overall - personally it was a VERY good year Footie wise it was same old same old, we won **** all and Ellis is still alive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted December 28, 2004 Moderator Share Posted December 28, 2004 average, it was groundhog year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockingbird_franklin Posted December 28, 2004 Share Posted December 28, 2004 generally a slightly below average year, personally it was a bad one, which would makes it sort of average seeing as about 6 out of the last 10 have been bad years personally. things have got to change around sooner or later i suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paddy Posted December 30, 2004 Author Share Posted December 30, 2004 I forgot one section I meant to put in.... it was a particularly bad year for "celebrities" passing away, there were obviously many more than this, and arguably some bigger names, but these were the 3 that got me (in order) 1. John Peel - Absolute legend 2. Marco Pantani - Yes he was a drugs cheat but he was a hero of mine, still can't believe the pirate has gone, haven't watched cycling since he gave up 3: Brian Clough - The best manager ever? Well he said he wasn't but he was "in the top 1", whether he was the best ever is debatable but there's no doubt he was one of the best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villaninireland Posted December 31, 2004 Share Posted December 31, 2004 Not too bad considering I turned 40 in July. Good things included 2 weekends away with the other half , 2 weeks in Ibiza , my dad recovering from a stroke, getting me parrot to shout shit on the city and up the villa. bad things - death and destruction on a big scale & Elies OBE still not pushing up daisies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbaldie1 Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 Well my 2004 was utter plop, my 19 year marriage went tits up But things are looking up & im sure 2005 will be far far better (apart from the maintainance :wink: ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted September 17, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted September 17, 2009 It lives! It lives! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 now you're just being silly!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 Oh not you as well Mooney, dredging up these pointless threads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 2004, the Creation of the first Lego Villa team Sorensen De La Cruz - Delaney - Mellberg - Samuel Hendrie - McCann - Barry - Hitzlsperger Vassell - Angel David O'Leary Hercules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HJ Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 I don't remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heystally! Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 Good year I'd go for. First full year playing in a band and doing local gigs. The music scene was actually alive back then, people would just go to gigs to support the bands and have a good night out, whereas now it's all about hanging out on the street and trying to buy alcohol underage. But speaking of alcohol, I celebrated my 18th that December. Only planned a quite one, in terms of people, but pretty heavy drinking. Me and my best mate were pissed by 11:30, missed two trains to Birmingham (and each time missed it we returned to the pub for drinks). Managed to get to Brum for an afternoon gig, and I managed to catch the headlining act which was all I was bothered about. Kept drinking too. Train back home for the evening crawl. I only invited about 4 people, but my one friend wanted it to be bigger, so tried to get loads of our friends out on a Sunday night. Suffice to say, he got about three more people. So to compensate he got more drunk than anyone to entertain us (the night ended with him diving across my Dad's bonnet, getting stoned with a South African tramp and passing out for half an hour on his walk home). But we just spent most of the evening in an Austrian bar, drinking litre tankards of Austrian beer. Very drunk but awesome night. That pretty much sums up 2004 for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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