IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT (AND I FEEL FINE)

 
Let’s get this party started. This is our last day on this earth, so what better song to start our day with. TBP should go out in a blaze of glory, shit throwing, and the return of Smokey.
 
Here is some background about the song.

The track is known for its quick flying lyrics beginning with four apocalyptic references:

  • Earthquake: An earthquake accompanies the opening of the sixth seal in the Book of Revelation, and earthquakes are noted as signs of the impending apocalypse in the Synoptic Gospels.
  • Birds: In the Alfred Hitchcock film, The Birds, a character associates the birds with the end of the world, referencing Old Testament scripture.
  • Snakes: In Ancient Egyptian religion, the god Apep, represented as a snake, made daily attempts to devour the sun. The Greek name for this god has been given to the Near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis.
  • Aeroplane: The modern prospect of Nuclear holocaust.

It continues with what appears to be a stream of consciousness rant with a number of diverse references, including a quartet of individuals with the initials “L.B.” (Leonard Bernstein, Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.) In a 1990s interview with Musician magazine, R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe claimed that the “L.B.” references came from a dream he had in which he found himself at a party surrounded by famous people who all shared these initials.

That’s great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane –
Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn. World serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs. Feed it off an aux, speed, grunt no, strength, the Ladder structure clatter with fear, fight, down height. Wire in a fire, representing seven games and a government for hire and a combat site. left of west and coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. Team by team reporters baffled, trump, tethered, crop. Look at that low playing! Fine then. Uh oh, overflow, population common food but it’ll do, Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed, dummy with the rapture and the revered and the right, right. You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty psyched.

It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine

Six o’clock – TV hour. Don’t get caught in foreign towers.Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn. Lock it in uniform and book burning, blood letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate.Light a candle, light a motive. step down, step down. Watch your heel crush, crushed. Uh-oh, this means no fear- cavalier. Renegade steer clear! A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies.
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline.

(chorus)
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it
(it’s time I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
it’s time I had some time alone)
I feel fine

It’s the end of the world as we know it
(it’s time I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it
(it’s time I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
(it’s time I had some time alone)

The other night I dreamt of knives, continental drift divide.Mountains sit in a line. Leonard Bernstein, Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs.
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom!
You symbiotic, patriotic,
slam, but neck, right? Right

It’s the end of the world as we know it
(it’s time I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it
(it’s time I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
(it’s time I had some time alone)

It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
(it’s time I had some time alone)

It’s the end of the world as we know it
(it’s time I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it
(it’s time I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
(it’s time I had some time alone)

It’s the end of the world as we know it
(it’s time I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it
(it’s time I had some time alone)
It’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
(it’s time I had some time alone)
(fade)

 

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Thinker

I read somewhere that Camping said the Rapture will begin at 6:00pm (yes, really). He didn’t specify if that was Eastern or Central daylight time.

The looting parties are scheduled to occur sometime after that.

StuckInNJ
StuckInNJ

12,000,000 hits on this hilarious 2 min vid, so you’ve probably seen it. But, in just in case ….

The End of the World As We Know It

newsjunkie
newsjunkie

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AKAnon
AKAnon

Re time zone-I saw somewhere that it was local standard time. Since bus sign dude is in NY, I assume Eastern. Or maybe it doesn’t happen all at once, just rolls through each time zone at 6:00 AM. That would be nice, I’m 4 hours behind so I could get a heads up for last minute repentance. But I plan to be sleeping at 6:00 AK time, much less 6:00 Eastern. Fuck it.

matt
matt

I got this whole end-of-the-world thingy pushed back to Monday so Jim can watch the NASCAR All-Star race this weekend.

AKAnon
AKAnon

Matt-Thanks, I got shit to do this weekend and TEOTWAWKI would really cramp my style. Monday is just another work day-expendable.

Kill Bill
Kill Bill

I saw where some atheists were making money by saving the raptured [rapio or rapiemur] pets.

Pirate Jo
Pirate Jo

@Kill Bill,

Well good for the atheists. I *heart* ceiling cat.

Axel
Axel

Time for a glass of Jack, a fine cigar, kickin back and watchin’ the eerie glow over the horizon…

Pirate Jo
Pirate Jo

@Hope@ZeroKelvin,

Your sense of humor is wicked when you are in good spirits. Keep it up!

Pirate Jo
Pirate Jo

Hey, they missed Lloyd Blankfein.

KaD
KaD

The CRAPture always reminds me of a story from a few years back and another ‘end of the world’ scare; some college guys were having a toga party and got a truck full of blow up dolls with (white) togas on as part of the festivities. The dolls came loose. Some woman saw this, thought it was the rapture, stopped her car and got out, then got hit by a passing car and died.

Doesn’t the bible say ONLY the Father knows the time?

Imaginarium
Imaginarium

A version of Rapture to live with:

Buckhed
Buckhed

I’ve bought to bottles of Patron for the big event….I figured I’d be in “Good Spirits” when it happens. Wasn’t Rapture a song by Blonde…yep it was…I wonder if that song will be playing at 6:00pm ?

AKAnon
AKAnon

6:00 P.M., not 6:00 A.M.-my bad. Then I will be awake. Someone from the East coast please send me an e-mail when the rapture comes-I’ll need to start cramming for the worthiness exam.

Thinker

Time Zone… getting right on that, Jim.

Okay, AKanon has it correct. It’s 6pm wherever you are. God apparently needs a rolling schedule in order to allow “the Lamb to gather 144,000 who have his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads.” (Rev. 14:1)

Oy, vey.

Thinker

Time will tell, Jim. Time will tell.

Check Revelations for that 666 number. That should give you some clues, though… 😉

You know, I was thinking (imagine that)… if nothing else, even the concept of the Rapture / TEOTWAWKI isn’t such a bad thing. Here you are, putting some of your best work out there. Others are enjoying the finer things in life instead of saving them for “some day.” Others are doing things they’ve always wanted to do but never had a reason to.

All in all, not such a bad thing.

AKAnon
AKAnon

Thinker-Yep, I think I’ll go out & buy some expensive shit on credit. Bwahaha! Or maybe a Bible would be a better choice. Hmmm.

howie didder
howie didder

I still can’t believe Old Smokey rolled over like a cur. With the shit he handed out it is hard to imagine he was so thin-skinned…

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