With this up and coming depression that might be going next year, will this year be a very dark moment of the 00s, or will it be just like any other year?

Looney Tunes back on tv on regular schedule 8)

With this up and coming depression that might be going next year, will this year be a very dark moment of the 00s, or will it be just like any other year?


2009 will be 1929.  :-\\

It will be dark in some ways, but at the same time there will be a light of hope when Obama steps into the White House on Jan. 20. I really can't wait for that day! However with the economy, I know Obama won't realistically be able to fix it overnight. It will take a few years, and it will get worse before it gets better. I think there will be a surge in violent crime due to the rise in poverty and unemployment. Along with that, there might be a resurgence in the early 1990's style gangsta rap with violent lyrics.

A lot of people will wake the f**k up and realize they are not middle class, they are working class.  The will not identify with the Donald as a peer and indentify with the mailman, postman, office worker, and the people next door.  They will end the shop 'til you drop, and instead share 'cause you care.  That is what I hope.

With this up and coming depression that might be going next year, will this year be a very dark moment of the 00s, or will it be just like any other year?


You ask culturally, don't you? From a cultural point of view, I guess the Western world will keep on becoming more and more deteriorated as a general rule.

I hope I'm wrong.

With this up and coming depression that might be going next year, will this year be a very dark moment of the 00s, or will it be just like any other year?


"It is really quite simple. We have been compiling a list which shall contain all the possible bailout schemes of the Federal Reserve.  Call it ritual, if you like, but it’s a fundamental part of our belief.  All the many names of the Bailout -- AMLF, CPFF, MMIFF, EESA, PDCF, TAF, TALF, TARP, TSLF, ZIRP and so on -- they are only bank-made labels. There is a philosophical problem of some difficulty here, which I do not propose to discuss, but somewhere among all the possible combinations of letters, which can occur, are what one may call the real names of the Bailout. By systematic permutation of letters, we have been trying to list them all."

  - With apologies to Arthur C. Clarke's Nine Billion Names of God.

The sky is always darkest just before it goes pitch black.

Culturally, what will 2009 be like?


a sh!thole :(

Hopefully a better year for me.

But as for everyone else...I'm unsure!

It will be dark in some ways, but at the same time there will be a light of hope when Obama steps into the White House on Jan. 20. I really can't wait for that day! However with the economy, I know Obama won't realistically be able to fix it overnight. It will take a few years, and it will get worse before it gets better. I think there will be a surge in violent crime due to the rise in poverty and unemployment. Along with that, there might be a resurgence in the early 1990's style gangsta rap with violent lyrics.



I hope too that Obama kicks ass during his time at office.  I might welcome gangsta rap back, but I could see a resurgence of alternative rock being brought back too which would make the traditional 20 year revival cycle(this time the 90's) start.

I hope too that Obama kicks ass during his time at office.  I might welcome gangsta rap back, but I could see a resurgence of alternative rock being brought back too which would make the traditional 20 year revival cycle(this time the 90's) start.


I do also see a rise in alternative rock over the next few years. In fact, it's already happening now with a rise in indie rock bands on the charts, such as The Ting Tings.

I do also see a rise in alternative rock over the next few years. In fact, it's already happening now with a rise in indie rock bands on the charts, such as The Ting Tings.


I wouldn't mind it honestly.  Down here in Tampa, we had an alternative station that lasted for a very long time before it got converted to another hip-hop station.

I had a conversation with my nephew this afternoon about how rap is pretty much dead. Afterwards, we gave each other a high five!  8)

When I turn on the radio now, only about 15% of the songs are r and b or rap.

And about alternative rock? I welcome you back rock and roll!  http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/02/beerchug.gif

Let's just wait and find out...