Eurovision

[louiselux]

The Swiss entry for the Eurovision semifinals is called 'Vampires are alive' by a band called DJ BoBo. It must be the cheesiest thing I have ever seen. Sorry Switzerland, but what were you thinking? Apparently it is a favourite to win! Amazing. My favourites so far have been Bulgaria (drumming, chain mail, lavish use of quarter tones) and Serbia (KD Lang-alike surrounded by leggy models). Oh, and Georgia was impressive too. There is a lot of leather clothing being worn generally.

Also, randomly, I had to buy some emergency tights from Boots today, because I got a ladder. On the packet it said they were imbued with the property of 'light shaping'.

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[aonekosama.livejournal.com]

The vampire song is stuck in my head. Argh. Serbia was my favourite, but all in all I found most of the songs (and performances! how come they all have to have the maximum of six people on stage?) very boring. I'm having a hard time remembering which is which. ^^'

But imagine my anxiety as a Finn when the broadcast begun! We were all so sure it would be a highly embarrassing experience! (I'm very un-patriotic, and even still I was nervous.) There were a small bunch of my friends watching the semi finals, and we all thought the 'postcards' were quite nice (even though we played cliche bingo with them!) - however, I feel compelled to ask what you non-Finnish persons thought of them. (No need to be nice! Just bring it on!)

Woo, I learned something today! Mainly that a 'ladder' can be something else than the thing you climb with. :D

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

A lot of them were boring, it's true. Just dull songs, which is why DJ BoBo stood out, at least.

Noo, you should not worry! I thought the two Finnish presenters were adorable, and our presenter on the BBC was saying 'ooh, look, they've got chemistry'. The crowd in the hall was massive too. I kind of loved their enthusiasm.

it's that english literalness again. it looks like a ladder, call it a ladder!

[aonekosama.livejournal.com]

I wondered why I enjoyed watching the show this time so much, but then I realized there was a lack of stupid (voice only) presenters! A couple of years back there was a scandal when the Finnish presenters talked rudely of some of the performers... ^^' But 'adorable' and 'chemistry'? Hmmm, interesting. :D

A ladder in tights is called 'silmäpako' in Finnish, which approximately translates to 'a running stitch', but a very literal translation would be 'eye escape'. :D Thus it didn't occur to me to think of it as a ladder.