Happy New Baktun!

So we're a few days into the new Mayan calendar, or a few days past the end of it, depending on how you view things. Nothing really happened, although some people who are now forced to live on through tragedies, wars, disasters, and famine would disagree. None of it however has to do with the calendar hitting a particular random date. It just happens as per the regular news cycle.

Do you prefer one big cataclysmic event that you know with certainty will happen? Or rather an end of days that you just don't know when it will hit and how long it will run?

Probably the road chosen most, will be the one where people just stop worrying about it, and get on with their lives, doing what they believe needs to be done.

2012 in Music

2012 in Music was dominated by basically one Korean man. Gangnam Style took the world by storm and didn't let up until it became the most watched Youtube video in history.

It was not the best Music had to offer this year, but for laughs and giggles it was good enough. Never thought it would get picked up outside Seoul though. Much the same as the K-Pop girl bands that seem to grasp hordes of Asian teen girls (and women... and men).

It was a great counteract for the foreign language wave that swept Dutch hit stations... especially the Brazilian  heartthrobs that speak in a language that few if any understand without proper training.

Moving on to my most ear-catching music of this year:

1. Handsome Poets - Sky On Fire (mostly because of the Olympics coverage in NL)
2. Jason Mraz - The Freedom Song
3. Ed Sheeran - Drunk 
4. Leah LaBelle - Sexify 
5. Clement Marfo - Champion (my new ringtone selection)

So no Passenger (just discovered a couple of days ago - otherwise would have made it), The Script, or Skyfall...