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Badchild
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woke up in a good mood !
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BBP
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Nice!
Watched Eurovision Song Contest. Feeling disgruntled.
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Badchild
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who won ? Albania or litheuania ??
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BBP
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It was the first semi-final. Israel, Azerbaijan, Norway, Poland, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Armenia, Finland, Romania, Russia, Greece are through. As usual,
some deserve it, some don't. It pissed me off slightly because the competition level was much lower than last year, or the year before.
And another reason I was grumpy was that irritating Belgian entry. In our house we'd put a ban on playing it, singing it, and even naming the title.
It really gets in your head. And unfortunately DED insisted we'd play it during emission. So it was in my head all night, during my newspaper round
and even for a while after that.
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scallopino
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I don't understand Eurovision Bonny. Is it a competition to see who can sing the song that most makes you want to kill yourself? That's what it seems
like. The only Eurovision song I've ever liked was Waterloo.
The song that won this year sucked a huge ammount. There are a huge amount of talented people and talented songwriters in Europe but Eurovision
somehow finds the worst.
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BBP
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WATERLOO!! You just lost my respect sir.
Eurovision is becoming more and more of an interesting mish-mash of different musical styles. Aside from the Abba-clones, there are also ballads,
there's some dance, some rock, and we've even had some country, soul, blues, latin, Irish folk, Slavic folk and even metal. In fact the 2006 winners
were the Finnish metal band Lordi with Hard Rock Hallelujah.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6VzdtmrP6Y
I never laughed so hard.
It's in general an entertaining watch, but I find it depressing that the bad song & bad singing from Russia always ends high because of televoting
and large amounts of Russian immigrants around the globe. And this time they even won, while some of the entries which were good didn't do well at
all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwmRD5Gt4Vc
The fine, cheerful Croatian entry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bhL3ei0w7M
The nice folky Serbian entry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEWzGBpLrKI
Best rock this year: Turkish entry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx9btAB-4-0
Bulgaria 2007.
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punknaynowned
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why ohh why do I let myself get all spun up about the idiocy at the zforum?
It's worse than the Dangerous Kitchen . . .
I'm sick of jimmied today trying to kill the forum, been I'm not gonna step in that goo.
Notice how he and trendie are trying to police their version of reality and shove it down everyone's throat? disgusting
ok, I'll not whine any more
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polydigm
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I have to agree. I used to respect Jimmie D, but he's turned into one of the forum assholes.
Good news though, that an announcement is coming soon on the new release.
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Badchild
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Storm last night! No hot water this morning.....Sore throat, headhach (how the fuck to you spell ache?)
I'm sooooo tired.....i work too much, drink too much, smoke too much....
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punknaynowned
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oh wow!
I thought I'd replied to this already;
I was juts telling a friend I needed to quit smoking and start . . . swimming or something, do yoga as a habit and start eating garlic, ginger and
carrot smoothies instead of coffee . . .
or something
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polydigm
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| Quote: | | Originally posted by polydigm: Good news though, that an announcement is coming soon on the new release. |
Ha ha!! Gail announced something totally unexpected, which is good news of course, but we're still none the wiser about One Shot
Deal.
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BBP
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Survived the fierce storm yesterday, and today I got soaked on my round. I made a picture of it, but I don't really dare to publish it; I'm like a
Fembot in a Wet T-shirt.
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scallopino
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But watch out for the ice pick in the forehead.
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scallopino
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BBP
WATERLOO!! You just lost my respect sir.
Eurovision is becoming more and more of an interesting mish-mash of different musical styles. Aside from the Abba-clones, there are also ballads,
there's some dance, some rock, and we've even had some country, soul, blues, latin, Irish folk, Slavic folk and even metal. In fact the 2006 winners
were the Finnish metal band Lordi with Hard Rock Hallelujah.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6VzdtmrP6Y
I never laughed so hard.
It's in general an entertaining watch, but I find it depressing that the bad song & bad singing from Russia always ends high because of televoting
and large amounts of Russian immigrants around the globe. And this time they even won, while some of the entries which were good didn't do well at
all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwmRD5Gt4Vc
The fine, cheerful Croatian entry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bhL3ei0w7M
The nice folky Serbian entry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEWzGBpLrKI
Best rock this year: Turkish entry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx9btAB-4-0
Bulgaria 2007. |
Hey! I really like (some of) ABBA! 
I remember Lordi. I thought it was really funny as well, and even funnier that they won. I agree that it's getting more interesting, but I wish the
countries would choose songs that reflect their own music traditions more. Some of them do of course, but a lot of them just go for some general piece
of crap that has nothing to do with their country; even worse is when they do it in English!
I liked the Serbian one. She has such a generic voice though. The lead singer in that Turkish band looked like a combination of k.d. lang and Sinead
O'Connor...
The Bulgarian thing was quite amazing. Really interesting. I don't understand why they put that Indian vocal bit in towards the end, but I liked it
anyway. That woman sure was a great performer.
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BBP
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Ohh their English accents can be so crappy!
But it was more or less common practice for years to have Slav folk, which is beautiful. Most Bosnian entries have that, for instance. Surprising to
find only one this year.
I feel with most ABBA music that it's badly produced. I preferred the intro to the Gimme Gimme Gimme sitcom over the original.
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punknaynowned
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| Quote: | Originally posted by polydigm
| Quote: | | Originally posted by polydigm: Good news though, that an announcement is coming soon on the new release. |
Ha ha!! Gail announced something totally unexpected, which is good news of course, but we're still none the wiser about One Shot
Deal. |
but wait, there's more
[I first typed 'mote' instead of 'more'!]
| Quote: | Originally posted by BBP
Survived the fierce storm yesterday, and today I got soaked on my round. I made a picture of it, but I don't really dare to publish it; I'm like a
Fembot in a Wet T-shirt. |
Awwww, don't be ashamed
I seriously don't see how you live in all the constant rain. It would drive me nuts.
| Quote: | | Originally posted by scallopino . . . I wish the countries would choose songs that reflect their own music traditions more. Some of them do
of course, but a lot of them just go for some general piece of crap that has nothing to do with their country; even worse is when they do it in
English! |
I bet they get tired of hearing the local flavors and so do other things in the competition. What would be neat for us might not be so much for them
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BBP
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Maybe...
Today I went to the petting zoo. They have these baby goats that are the cutest!
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scallopino
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Yeah, but baby goats grow up to be goats... surely amongst the most Awful of God's Creachures.
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BBP
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Ah no! They're sweet! They've got horizontal pupils.
 Watch quick before I get too nervous and toss it off.
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scallopino
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And up next is the lovely Bonny from Canoga Park
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