[Gib_Papazian]

Any optimism I had for 2013 evaporated this morning when Ben Sims fouled my mailbox with confirmation that the apocalypse is upon us. As it turns out, the Mayan's were correct, for the world has ended - and only the sharp eyed have sensed the frightening signs. Mother Earth is not going to spontaneously combust, but slowly suffocate like an enormous avalanche rumbling over civilization. The surest sign was detonated by providence last night; Scotty Clem and I (who thought to hide from the inevitable in our lair) bear witness to the conclusion of humankind:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOyo7JD7hjo    

Trifling squabbles about golf architecture are no longer relevant. The next epoch plummets towards the basement at terminal velocity.

[Sven Nilsen]

Gib:

You negative ninny.

That video is from November, 2012.  Out with the old and in with the new, as they say.

Sven

[Ronald Montesano]

I personally can ride the horse and swing the lasso, but I have trouble with the lean shoulders back and waggle hips move.

Not that big a deal. Good to see Hammer and Psy together.

[Mark Bourgeois]

I guess we shouldn't show you the Alan Simpson video then.

[Gib_Papazian]

Sven,

My mistake:

Watch and weep, for the end is near:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUb2UYa_Oho

The Macarena was the opening gambit, a seemingly innocuous trial balloon - a dog-whistle appealing only to the lower orders. Now, the world follows a false profit, who spews unspeakable evil in tongues.

And yes, I know how to spell prophet.    

[Rick Shefchik]

Not my kind of music at all, but for some reason Gangnam Style makes me smile whenever I hear it or see a video (or a parody video). I like to see people having fun. Like the Macarana, the Hustle and the Twist, this is a momentary blip in the culture, not the end of the world. Or, to put a negative spin on it, this isn't anywhere near the bottom.

[Ben Sims]

Sven,

Yes, that is in November.  However, they did it again last night on Dick Clark Rockin' Eve.  I almost yakked up by taquitos and my Labrador, Bogey, pawed at his ears like a meth addict.

Between that horrendous telecast with Seacrest and McCarthy, the absolutely inconsequential fiscal deal, and the fact that more 15-22 year olds know who Justin Bieber is than know who the President is, we have issues.  Hence my renewed interest in mountaineering, ice climbing, etc.  Only place to get away.

[Mike Hendren]

Gib, I immediately feared for your well being when I saw the Sun Bowl results.  Tough to swallow getting whupped Ganghan style by the 6 and 7 Yellow Jackets. 

You and Clem just need to pull out a freshly pressed table linen and sketch golf holes on it in pencil as you did at KP II (boy was that waitress pissed).

Happy New Year, Gyro.

Bogey

[Ronald Montesano]

And yes, I know how to spell prophet.    

do you also know the apostrophe rule, o great Mayan?

[Jud_T]

The song is actually pretty catchy and the video is also funny.  Cecil Taylor it ain't, but it's a lot better than most of the crap that passes for music these days.  The guy actually went to Berklee College of Music.

[Sven Nilsen]

Sven,

My mistake:

Watch and weep, for the end is near:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUb2UYa_Oho

The Macarena was the opening gambit, a seemingly innocuous trial balloon - a dog-whistle appealing only to the lower orders. Now, the world follows a false profit, who spews unspeakable evil in tongues.

And yes, I know how to spell prophet.    

Gib:

Ahh, I see your problem.  You didn't activate the "No Ryan Seacrest" option on your remote.  Makes a world of difference.

Ben:

Justin Bieber?  Never heard of it. - http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20005847-17.html.

[RJ_Daley]

I started watching some of that debacle with Kathy Griffin and Anderson Cooper, until I near vomited (without really drinking much at home) then switched to the "Live at the Lincoln Center" which was better for a short while until the schmaltzie cloying sugar cuteness of show tunes also started to bring up some bile at work from eating too much Porterhouse, so I ended up watching C-Span's year end video clips of eulogies for 2012 earth exiting Senators (Rudman, McGovern, and Inoye) given by surviving lions of the Senate, current and past, and Pres., in Inoye's case.  

When you start watching eulogies at midnight on C-Span, generally sober, on New Years eve at the drop of the Sardine from Maine... well, I reckong Gibby is correct.  This old grey mare has spit the bit..   :-\and slipped the harness.

[Bill_McBride]

Sven,

My mistake:

Watch and weep, for the end is near:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUb2UYa_Oho

The Macarena was the opening gambit, a seemingly innocuous trial balloon - a dog-whistle appealing only to the lower orders. Now, the world follows a false profit, who spews unspeakable evil in tongues.

And yes, I know how to spell prophet.    

Holy shit!  The sound of the apocalypse. 

[Ronald Montesano]

Didn't know that the old ball drop had a revival tent over it. I'll have to catch the prophet/profit next year.

[Gib_Papazian]

I think the Sun Bowl was my own personal Waterloo, casting a grotesque palor over my unusually sunny disposition and optimism for 2013. Actually, I'm generally a dyspeptic twat and getting beat by a shitty ACC squad has only reinforced my gloomy negativity - that and an 11am meeting in the morning with a lawyer. Only in California do the lunatics run wild.

The combination of MC Hammer and that pudgy Korean on national television was probably a siren call to awaken the zombies. Within a week, America will look like a Robert Rodriguez movie. Has anybody thought to run Gangnam Style in reverse? There is backwards Satanic masking embedded in all that Korean drivel, I can sense it.

You read it here first.    

[Colin Macqueen]

Dear, oh dear, oh dear,
I must now be officially a member of the old fart brigade. I had to flee to Wikipedia to find out what the hell Gangnam style was! Maybe I will get some more insights (or even incites) when I visit my 8 year old grandsons today. Have I missed the boat or am I living in a fool's paradise?

Gib, I have not dared to look at the video yet but by all accounts it seems dreadful and fills me with dread but as for Auld Lang Syne that will be preserved for posterity ..... Leave well alone!

Happy New Year to one and all,

Cheers Colin

[Brett_Morrissy]

Gents,
Try to open thy mind to something new, because there is no new, just different colors on the original ideas, doin' it gangham style is fun, my kids love it, just put those wrists together and start hoping along on your pretend horse. No doubt Pete Dye and RTJ back in the day were discussing how the world was about to end listening to all this new rock n roll garbage and how ot signalled the end of all mankind - what is truly amazing about this song, which I will assume was played at 70% of all New Years parties this year, is its meteoric rise thanks to free access called you tube.

Love it for what it is, a massive one hit wonder. There is a golf course architecture thread here somewhere...

Col - c'mon mate, have a look - watch it on a big screen, and see it for what it is, harmless popular music.

[Gib_Papazian]

Brett,

I might have mentioned this on a thread a couple months ago but cannot remember.

Knowing we were shooting a music video as an add-on for our film, one of my friends sent me a You Tube link to this Gangnam Style abortion. I watched it twice and forwarded it to everybody on our film crew with the comment that at the very least we had not created the worst music video in history, because this fat Korean had beat us to it.

I was particularly impressed by the hermaphrodite in the Aussie bush hat and cut-offs doing a carefully choreographed pelvic thrust dance. Elvis has got to turning over in his grave - in fact, Ed Sullivan too.

Naturally, our crew of snarky youngsters took delight in pointing out the 932 million hits this musical train wreck had generated.  Now, it is up over a billion, which proves my zombie theory. This is like the apes and the monolith except in reverse, we are all headed back to microbes in the primordial soup.  
  
  

[Sean_A]

I rather like the death knell (for those of us calling it 50 in 2013) of Big Ben before WWIII breaks loose.  Not convinced by the music and quotes, but the visual display never disappoints. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e8vfRTsFU4

Ciao

[Mike Hendren]

Gib, if it will cheer you up I'll have Kathie post a video on you-tube of me doing the dirty hitch-hiker (a dance, just to clarifyiy).  

Bogey

[Ivan Morris]

Not to my taste but live and let live. The generations that went before didn't do such a great job - let the next generation rule - okay?

[Jason Thurman]

[Gib_Papazian]

When I was in college, a debilitating virus called "The Way International" swept through my fraternity, cleverly cloaked as a religious organization. Actually, it was a totalitarian cult of jackbooted robots, hypnotized by the promise of eternal happiness - provided they obeyed and conformed to the "church" doctrine and cut off all contact with all but fellow cultists. It had the same look as radical Muslim theocracy, except without the directive to kill infidels.

Being the curious type, I agreed to attend one of their bible study gatherings - if only to gather information and hopefully rescue my (frat) little brother from their poisonous claws. Having been raised on Star Trek, I noted those afflicted with "The Way" walked around in an identical trance as the populace in "Return of the Archons;" "LANDRU, guide us!"

I was the mark when we all sat down around the table. Everyone was instructed to hold hands and recite a prayer in Latin - the meaning of which was lost on me. Then, one by one, each cult member took turns "speaking in tongues." This was not incomprehensible gibberish, but a language with its own peculiar cadence and rhythm. The odd thing was each person in turn seemed to be reciting a different dialect.

It was explained to me that "Speaking in Tongues" is perfect prayer to God. Blank stares all around when I suggested that God speaks pretty good English. Pressing the issue, I asked the group leader if anybody knew what they were saying in these perfect prayers. He snapped that earthly souls are not privy to God's communications.

Evidently, I'm inoculated against conformist drivel.  

So, with tongue in cheek, I suggested that everyone in the room may be inadvertently praying to Satan - under the theory that God would not hide behind an arcane ancient language. The guy with cloak of knowledge quickly ushered me out of the room, carefully explaining that maybe The Way was not for me. My little brother spent four years under their spell, but eventually wised up, found a nice girl and now practices law in San Diego.

What does this have to do with a pudgy Korean shouting incomprehensible verse sitting on a toilet? Well, it occurred to me that because I cannot understand the tongue that PSY is expelling at full rip, it might be worth researching the English translation of Gangnam Style. 99.9% of the people who dance around to this dogshit have no idea what the "song" is about. Over a billion empty-headed nitwits being led down the path by a meaningless ditty; it makes the Macarena look like Mozart.

So here is the final straw in the degradation of our once great culture:            

Oppa is Gangnam style

A girl who is warm and humane during the day
A classy girl who know how to enjoy the freedom of a cup of coffee
A girl whose heart gets hotter when night comes
A girl with that kind of twist

I’m a guy
A guy who is as warm as you during the day
A guy who one-shots his coffee before it even cools down
A guy whose heart bursts when night comes
That kind of guy

Beautiful, loveable
Yes you, hey, yes you, hey
Beautiful, loveable
Yes you, hey, yes you, hey
Now let’s go until the end

Oppa is Gangnam style, Gangnam style
Oppa is Gangnam style, Gangnam style
Oppa is Gangnam style

Eh- Sexy Lady, Oppa is Gangnam style
Eh- Sexy Lady oh oh oh oh

A girl who looks quiet but plays when she plays
A girl who puts her hair down when the right time comes
A girl who covers herself but is more sexy than a girl who bares it all
A sensible girl like that

I’m a guy
A guy who seems calm but plays when he plays
A guy who goes completely crazy when the right time comes
A guy who has bulging ideas rather than muscles
That kind of guy

Beautiful, loveable
Yes you, hey, yes you, hey
Beautiful, loveable
Yes you, hey, yes you, hey
Now let’s go until the end

Oppa is Gangnam style, Gangnam style
Oppa is Gangnam style, Gangnam style
Oppa is Gangnam style

Eh- Sexy Lady, Oppa is Gangnam style
Eh- Sexy Lady oh oh oh oh

On top of the running man is the flying man, baby baby
I’m a man who knows a thing or two
On top of the running man is the flying man, baby baby
I’m a man who knows a thing or two

You know what I’m saying
Oppa is Gangnam style

Eh- Sexy Lady, Oppa is Gangnam style
Eh- Sexy Lady oh oh oh oh

[Brent Hutto]

As it was, is and ever shall be. Amen.

Faces along the bar
Cling to their average day:
The lights must never go out,
The music must always play,
All the conventions conspire
To make this fort assume
The furniture of home;
Lest we should see where we are,
Lost in a haunted wood,
Children afraid of the night
Who have never been happy or good.

And in case I feel any stirrings toward "pollyanna bullshit" of my own...

Exiled Thucydides knew
All that a speech can say
About Democracy,
And what dictators do,
The elderly rubbish they talk
To an apathetic grave;
Analysed all in his book,
The enlightenment driven away,
The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again.

[Carl Nichols]

I assumed they included MC Hammer to mollify all of the crotchety old-timers, but apparently that didn't work. 

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