Nostalgia is a helluva a drug!
Nobody does meta like BeachGrit and so how wonderful was the just wrapped Bells contest at Bells Beach just off Torquay, Australia? A two-ish hour drive from Melbourne also in Australia with the best avocado toast I’ve ever had?
How much did you love? How good did you think it was?
I’ll answer for you.
So good!
Between Jen See, Sam George, Steve “Longtom” Shearer (obviously and mostly. Raising surf journalism to a place today’s children will speak about in hushed tones (through crazy new voice-optics machines (sorry, I’m so technologically behind that I still use an iPhone 4 and don’t know what voice-optics would even begin to mean))) and you, The People™, the coverage was the best ever.
But mostly you, The People™, (and Longtom, The People’s Person™™).
A professional surf contest never better covered.
Ever.
And so can we talk about nostalgia?
Should we?
There were many in the comments, ex-surf journalist/Hollywood screenplay-writer Ben Marcus chief amongst them (alongside Sam George), comparing this Bells contest to other Bells contests mostly from the early 1970s. And other surf contests from 1967. And other surf contests from when the Peruvians invented surfing long ago (buy here!)
But it was Ben Marcus, ex-surf journalist/music critic, who also weighed in on the relative glory of music in the 1970s, comparing the just wrapped best surf contest ever to the shit of music today.
On the Credence Clearwater Revival being better than Ariana Grande.
Fuck you, nostalgists.
Credence Clearwater Revival is an old wo/man band for old irrelevant times.
Just like Bells when Simon Andersen was surfing it.
Old-timey things are easy to praise because the book has been closed. The clock has stopped. It’s all over and, like old Coca-Cola before New Coke before Coca-Cola Classic, the memory grows in value even though the memory is artificial and mostly worthless.
Viva Ariana Grande.
Discuss.
haha…you bloody meerycans always measure success by $’s and empty rhetoric…..it’s not about what you have done , but what are you doing now with all that knowledge and experience …nada!
who Kelly?
he made that donkey wave in cowshit land.
thats not much hasn’t done much at all really
smelly kater is blowing it. he should retire and becum a guru legend shaper cunt.
that’s worth doin’
never make $’s , but couple of stepups went pretty good..as all surfers have sponsors it’s a very sensitive subject making boards without logos!
There are definitely good musicians today and there will always be talented people. It will always depend on people’s tastes and how they match up with new artists and new styles of music.
Shut your hole for cocks
America is a truly beautiful place. Like most places, has good and bad people, but sadly for you the world does not revolved around it, rather the opposite from where I’m from. We all think your leader is a dick.
Just too hard not to poke the bear that is you!
Now the two shots below is a real bottom turn from Bells 1981, totally laid up, with fin nearly exposed (which Simon’s new board could not do).
https://imgur.com/5RfuyIp
And you could actually see the aids crawling through the jizz
Someone fly a plane into this cunt
Peruvians didn’t invent surfing. Where’s the genetic, lingusitic, archaeological evidence? There is none. The Kon Tiki theory was shot down decades ago; certainly when I took South American Archaeology in the early 90s, Thor Hyerdahl was viewed as a crack pot, like that Aussie “Historian with an interest in Archaeology” who thought he had found Noah’s Ark but it was just a rock formation.
They totally did and Thor is an iconic legend who can do no wrong.
Maybe they used the bifrost to get there!
I will shut up about it from now on. Sorry it’s one of the few things I can comment about on this site that I actually know about! #triggered 😜😂
I’m sorry. I love kicking hideous theories down the road……. Love!
The Peruvians might have ridden waves in their canoes, but surfing is Hawaiian.
I’m not Australian dipshit.
Righto mate, you went too far. It’s happening. There is no room for this shit.
Is it memorable music?
Is it music that holds up?
The fact that Superbowl commercials are using 30+ year-old music tells you that people relate to that more than mumble mouth Post Malone.
Is his music bad? No. But is it catchy and memorable? My opinion is that it isn’t.
Also look at rap. Is anything today better than Public Enemy, NWA, the Beastie Boys, Run DMC, etc.? Is anyone out there redefining the genre the way those groups did?
what ever your smoking, its working.
Keep on Chooglin’!
Googles “someone”. How do you tell someone they are patently and wholly wrong when they’ve made it their life’s work to have their infantile head up their ass? “I know everything” unfailing means “yes, these blinkers do go tighter, see?”.
My grammar and what-not is terrible, as is my surfing. I’ve done nothing with my life, full stop. Music is an amazing thing, and often restores my faith in humanity. One’s personal preference does not make a defining overview. Especially when the tether is only long enough for bathroom trips.
Hahahahaha! This is the greatest! Have you seriously been editing it for over an hour? You have been! Hahahahahaha!
Let me know when you’re done editing this comment and I’ll respond!
Up for Cruel Sea !
Creep. That’s their worst song.
Just another manic monday