The Decade for me:
2000:
- Y2K scare.
- 2000 presidential election recounts.
- started playing ice hockey.
- started high school.
- Dance tour with StarPower - Sr. PowerPak
- Performed on Carnival Cruise ship the Imagination
- first job coaching skating skills.
- 9/11
- Read first HP book in August after seeing trailer for film.
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone hits theaters 11/16.
- Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring hits theaters 12/19.
- American Cinema class with Mr. Bansak as a sophomore in high school -- discovered I want to work in film industry.
- Kelly Clarkson wins American Idol
- my favorite senior prom... and i went as a sophomore.
- Salt Lake City winter olympics.
- ENRON.
- 2 weeks in southern England -- in search of Harry Potter.
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets hits theaters.
- Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers hits theaters.
- Daily Show with Jon Steward premieres on Comedy Central
- Science trip to Costa Rica.
- Loss of the Challenger.
- August 14 electrical blackout.
- Lord of the Rings: Return of the King hits theaters
- Watched 'Living In Oblivion' and knew my life would never be the same.
- NYC day trip for Red Carpet Premiere of HP3
- Graduate high school
- Tsunami of 2004.
- Red Sox win World Series.
- Napoleon Dynamite hits theaters
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban hits theaters
- Start working for Starbucks
- Hurricane Katrina
- Start college
- College trip to Canada
- 3D craze begins
- Worked Boston International Film Festival as Special Event Coordinator -- met DB Sweeney
- Attended Nantucket Film Festival -- Q&A with Steve Buscemi
- Worked Rhode Island International Film Festival as intern -- met Jess!
- met Danny Trejo after screening of Champion
- Bradgelina!
- TomKat!
- Colbert Report premieres on Comedy Central
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire hits theaters
- volunteered as PA in production office for Hard Luck a Mario van Peebles film
- Suri Cruise!
- Inconvenient Truth is released.
- Pluto demoted from planet to dwarf star.
- High School Musical premieres on TV
- Hannah Montana is introduced to the world thanks to Disney
- Traveled to NYC to audition for 3rd season of So You Think You Can Dance
- Auditioned to be a Celtics Dancer
- Spent a month in Greece. 3.5 weeks on an island that changed my life and 3 days in Athens.
- High School Musical 2 -- the craze continues
- Virginia Tech
- Rock Band
- casted as an extra in My Best Friends Girl (FKA Bachelor No. 2)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix hits theaters
- Sichuan province earthquake.
- Spidie! -- Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montage
- Beijing Summer Olympics.
- Michael Phelps wins 8 Olympic medals
- Presidential race - McCaine and Palin, Obama and Biden.
- Obama announced winner of presidential election!
- Mass Layoffs and unemployment skyrockets. =o(
- Internship at MTV working in the studio (Jan-May 1)
- Was working in the studio when news of Heath Ledger's death came. Cell phones, blackberries and TVs were all tuned for any updates. such a tragic event.
- Graduated College -- did not attend ceremony.
- Hired as Production Associate for America's Best Dance Crew season 2 Launch Special. (May)
- Rock Band 2
- Started writing my novel.
- Production Associate at MTV (June 1-present)
- worked 2008 VMAs on the Paramount back lots. AMAZING!
- My Best Friends Girl hits theaters -- First movie.
- worked MTV Concert for the BRAVE show.
- worked TRL Finale. The end of an era!
- worked 2008 mtvU Woodie Awards.
- Casted as extra in Paul Blart: Mall Cop
- High School Musical 3 -- big enough to hit the silver screen 10/24
- Hannah Montana craze hits it's highest point with movies and her 16th B-day
- Tina Fey as Sarah Palin
- TWILIGHT!
- Barak Obama sworn into office
- Paul Blart: Mall Cop hits theaters
- Christian Bale flips out
- first feature film job -- additional PA on The Sorcerer's Apprentice
- Lady Gaga
- Met Mr. Francis Ford Coppola. Sat in during interview and it was AMAZING!
- Octomom
- Year of scandals
- Speidi vs. Al Roker
- Miss California - Carrie Prejean vs Perez Hilton
- Michael Jackson dies. - was on set while working and news went over channel 1 like wild fire. NYPD waiting over night for the paper trucks to drive by and waiting to see what the front page would look like.
- Jon and Kate Plus 8 ends with scandal and divorce.
- Worked 2009 VMAs in NYC
- Kanye did what?! incident with Taylor Swift
- President Obama calls Kanye a Jackass!
- TWEET THAT! -- the twitter craze
- Work HP6 Junket -- Met cast and director
- Miracle on the Hudson.
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince hits theaters
- hired as PA on Yelling to the Sky
- Balloon Boy!
- Tiger Woods scandal
- Susan Boyle!
- Swine Flu!
- Twilight moms
- Jersey Shore
- Rock Band: BEATLES
- Entered 2009 NaNoWriMo -- completed 1st draft of novel.
- New Moon hits theaters
- Avatar
- Brittney Murphy dies.
Top 25 songs of 2009 - Mashup
MY PICK:
Top Films of the Decade:
Juno
Tropic Thunder
Slumdog Millionaire
me, you and everyone we know
Crash
Pan's Labyrinth
High Fidelity
Hotel Rowanda
The Last King of Scotland
Billy Eliot
Center Stage
Ratatouille
memento
There Will Be Blood
Almost Famous
Best TV Shows of the Decade:
Deadwood
Family Guy
Glee
Friday Night Lights
Madmen
Sopranos
West Wing
Firefly
Big Love
South Park
American Dreams
The Decade in Memory:
Ronald Regan
Pope John Paul II
Gerald Ford
Ted Kennedy
Rosa Parks
Walter Cronkite
William F. Buckley Jr.
Peter Jennings
Tim Russert
Bob Hope
Milton Berie
Johnny Carson
Richard Pryor
George Carlin
Julia Child
Charles M. Schulz
Fred Rogers -- Mr. Rogers
Bob Keeshan
Ted Williams
Sam Snead
Dale Earnhardt
Sir Edmund Hillary
Althea Gibson
Gordon Parks
Richard Avedon
John Updike
Arthur Miller
Norma Mailer
Saul Bellow
Kurt Vonnegut
George Harrison
James Brown
Luciano Pavarotti
Bo Diddley
Ray Charles
Mary Travers
June Carter Cash
Johnny Cash
Katherine Hepburn
Marlon Brando
Rosemary Clooney
Gregory Peck
Paul Newman
Charlton Heston
Christopher Reeve
Heath Ledger
Farrah Fawcett
Patrick Swayze
DJ AM
Michael Jackson
Brittany Murphy
2009: That Really Happened - remix from Vh1
Fun Videos and clips from 2009:
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