Like countless twenty-somethings, we threw a party. The clock ticked-because we used clocks before smartphones-and that was that. The Y2K crisis might incite a worldwide revival that would lead to the rapture of the church.” And yet, the ’90s ended with the proverbial whimper instead of a bang. Jerry Falwell suggested that Y2K would be the confirmation of Christian prophecy,” The New York Times reported in 1999, “God’s instrument to shake this nation, to humble this nation. Conspiratorial types braced for disaster. Others stockpiled weapons and bought Y2K insurance. Y2K predictions included airplanes falling from the sky and elevators dropping down shafts as the world’s financial systems crashed and government records got scrambled and released. The way computers formatted numerical calendar data was flawed, so if computers got confused when the date turned from 1999 to 2000, it might cause a global systemic collapse resulting in food and gas shortages and power outages. Y2K was shorthand for a potential worldwide computer programming glitch that many people believed would wreak havoc on everything from utilities to banking to healthcare-anything involving microchips. In the preceding months, New Year’s got nicknamed Y2K. The ’90s and the 20th century were ending simultaneously, and many people thought the world would end with them. That show marked the night when my 1990s truly ended.ĭecemwas an important New Year’s Eve. Fittingly, after spending months listening to this album, Modest Mouse was the last concert I saw before moving to the Pacific Northwest, two days after the show. The Moon & Antarctica was my album of transition, exerting a feeling of eternal winter on a soul that was used to permanent summer. Modest Mouse’s third studio album, The Moon & Antarctica, will always remind me of the most depressing summer of my life and how, when I couldn’t take it anymore-the loneliness, the listlessness, the depression after getting dumped and getting sober at age 24-I permanently left my native Arizona for Oregon. In the motions and the things that you say
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