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I've made it sadly plain I worship bad pop music and I have a long running obsession with Eurovision. I have ever since I stumbled upon it when I was sixteen and I would LOVE to actually go and see the contest live someday. But with someone who actually wants to go with me. lol. I don't care if it's a friend or a gf. When it comes to something as goofy and over the top as Eurovision I really only want to go there with someone who will truly worship and revel in the hilarity of the event with me. Not someone who will sort of roll their eyes and put up with my lame love of it because I amuse them or something. The love of Eurovision must be pure if they are to join me on this epic musical journey!
Why the fuck am I babbling about this? I won't have nowhere enough money to attempt doing this for probably at least another seven years. Whatever. It's fun to babble. It's what I do.
Anyway. I'm glued to the Eurovision Today website, I'll link it later, and watching all the various semifinalists that are showing up. My early favorite is Silvia Nott who is an actress/comedian from Iceland. A lot of people are peeved about her because she's basically parodying the typical Eurovision song entry styles. The parody entries don't tend to do well in terms of winning the overall contest but I must admit I find them really amusing. Plus Silvia is just unbearably adorable in the performance of her song Til Hamingju Ísland. Here's the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDCmIBIRqOU&search=eurovision
If you want to see the site I'm glued to lately this is the link:
http://www.esctoday.com/
You can register on the site for free and if you do that you get access to a lot of exclusive and cool stuff. The only bummer about it is I had to lie about what country I'm from because United States isn't an option on the drop down list. Normally I would just not put anything but filling out what country you're from is a requirement of opening up an account. So what country is Nic now from? I come from France! Hah. No, I didn't do that because I carry a perverse torch for that stupid SNL sketch. My mother's side of the family is almost entirely French, although an Italian snuck his way in there, and I've gone to visit family there a few times. I figured that was as close as I could get.
Though part of me wanted to say I was from Estonia just because.
For the random ass sake of it I'm now going to link a really fucking high quality video of Eurovision 2004 winner Ruslana and her semi-live performance of Wild Dances. It's not from the actual contest but it's hella cool. And please, don't even try to tell me it's not hella cool. She's deliciously dressed up like Xena: Pop Music Warrior Princess, it has a super dramatic tension filled intro, fucking crazy fast cut aways, warriors who appear to be having a grand old time despite being consumed in battle, and Ruslana flashing her 1,000 watt smiles constantly. This is quality, I tell you! lol. Quality!
Wild Dances Video by Ruslana:
http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2ETNX21TB1LA91H2JTE8DL2YMO
Why the fuck am I babbling about this? I won't have nowhere enough money to attempt doing this for probably at least another seven years. Whatever. It's fun to babble. It's what I do.
Anyway. I'm glued to the Eurovision Today website, I'll link it later, and watching all the various semifinalists that are showing up. My early favorite is Silvia Nott who is an actress/comedian from Iceland. A lot of people are peeved about her because she's basically parodying the typical Eurovision song entry styles. The parody entries don't tend to do well in terms of winning the overall contest but I must admit I find them really amusing. Plus Silvia is just unbearably adorable in the performance of her song Til Hamingju Ísland. Here's the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDCmIBIRqOU&search=eurovision
If you want to see the site I'm glued to lately this is the link:
http://www.esctoday.com/
You can register on the site for free and if you do that you get access to a lot of exclusive and cool stuff. The only bummer about it is I had to lie about what country I'm from because United States isn't an option on the drop down list. Normally I would just not put anything but filling out what country you're from is a requirement of opening up an account. So what country is Nic now from? I come from France! Hah. No, I didn't do that because I carry a perverse torch for that stupid SNL sketch. My mother's side of the family is almost entirely French, although an Italian snuck his way in there, and I've gone to visit family there a few times. I figured that was as close as I could get.
Though part of me wanted to say I was from Estonia just because.
For the random ass sake of it I'm now going to link a really fucking high quality video of Eurovision 2004 winner Ruslana and her semi-live performance of Wild Dances. It's not from the actual contest but it's hella cool. And please, don't even try to tell me it's not hella cool. She's deliciously dressed up like Xena: Pop Music Warrior Princess, it has a super dramatic tension filled intro, fucking crazy fast cut aways, warriors who appear to be having a grand old time despite being consumed in battle, and Ruslana flashing her 1,000 watt smiles constantly. This is quality, I tell you! lol. Quality!
Wild Dances Video by Ruslana:
http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2ETNX21TB1LA91H2JTE8DL2YMO
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