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So, I missed the first half of the second Eurovision semifinal. There is An Anecdote behind that, but first, more inane blathering!
1. What the hell was up with the results of the second semifinal? There were so many shitty/mediocre songs that went through and many pretty good ones that got left out.
2. Ones I was sad to see go: Lithuania, Switzerland, maybe Sweden.
3. Ones I'm damn glad got the boot: Slovenia, The Netherlands
4. There are some pretty good songs in the final. I like Iceland (for sheer camp), Germany (I like the Lily Allen vibe she has going on.), Israel and Turkey. The only ones I think have any chance of winning are Germany and Israel.
5. I CANNOT STAND Russia, Ukraine, Spain and Azerbaijan.
6. This year's top trends: bare feet, violins.
7. I hope the kid from Norway has learned to enunciate better: on the video it sounds like he's saying 'my hard is yours', which is bad enough, but the lyric a few lines later is 'I feel it rise again' and I AM TWELVE.
And now for my Interesting Anecdote. I'm a bit of a space cadet at the best of times, and on Thursday I was seeing my friends for the first time in like a month, and obviously I was looking forward to Eurovision because I'm ridiculous like that.
Both my parents needed cars that day, so I took our 30-year-old Mini. It's a fantastic car and great fun to drive, but has an unfortunate tendency to stall when you're slowing down. (Take notes, there will be a test.) There are a lot thing to remember that there aren't in more modern cars.
Like the lights.
So, yeah. When I left four hours later, the battery was totally dead. Luckily my friend's parents were there to give me a jumpstart. However, I was already a bit late, and despite the owner's manual it took the three of us TWENTY MINUTES to find the battery on their car and a further five to figure out where the positive and negative bits were. Now, to put that in context, I want to be a theoretical physicist and both my friend's parents are engineers. :P
I'm telling you, driving a car that nearly stalls every time you take your foot off the accelerator and you know is not going to start again, with basically no lights, in the middle of the night, is kind of terrifying.
ALSO ALSO I found a really cool video set to that one Finnish Eurovision nominee I really liked, with passable English subtitles.
1. What the hell was up with the results of the second semifinal? There were so many shitty/mediocre songs that went through and many pretty good ones that got left out.
2. Ones I was sad to see go: Lithuania, Switzerland, maybe Sweden.
3. Ones I'm damn glad got the boot: Slovenia, The Netherlands
4. There are some pretty good songs in the final. I like Iceland (for sheer camp), Germany (I like the Lily Allen vibe she has going on.), Israel and Turkey. The only ones I think have any chance of winning are Germany and Israel.
5. I CANNOT STAND Russia, Ukraine, Spain and Azerbaijan.
6. This year's top trends: bare feet, violins.
7. I hope the kid from Norway has learned to enunciate better: on the video it sounds like he's saying 'my hard is yours', which is bad enough, but the lyric a few lines later is 'I feel it rise again' and I AM TWELVE.
And now for my Interesting Anecdote. I'm a bit of a space cadet at the best of times, and on Thursday I was seeing my friends for the first time in like a month, and obviously I was looking forward to Eurovision because I'm ridiculous like that.
Both my parents needed cars that day, so I took our 30-year-old Mini. It's a fantastic car and great fun to drive, but has an unfortunate tendency to stall when you're slowing down. (Take notes, there will be a test.) There are a lot thing to remember that there aren't in more modern cars.
Like the lights.
So, yeah. When I left four hours later, the battery was totally dead. Luckily my friend's parents were there to give me a jumpstart. However, I was already a bit late, and despite the owner's manual it took the three of us TWENTY MINUTES to find the battery on their car and a further five to figure out where the positive and negative bits were. Now, to put that in context, I want to be a theoretical physicist and both my friend's parents are engineers. :P
I'm telling you, driving a car that nearly stalls every time you take your foot off the accelerator and you know is not going to start again, with basically no lights, in the middle of the night, is kind of terrifying.
ALSO ALSO I found a really cool video set to that one Finnish Eurovision nominee I really liked, with passable English subtitles.