It was a bit much. Often bordering on mime (shudder). But the stage setups were cool and of course the music was great. So many people walked out of it. Many left at the intermission. Rude!

This is probably old news but the rather glorious winners of the Eurovision.

I broke a wine glass toasting their victory.

Lordi won? Holy shit!

Sour grapes from Malta: [link]

One of the members of Lordi looks like a Predator in that picture.

Finland rules!

The country that brought us Linux and Lordi....

Ian Copeland died: [link]

Ian Copeland died

so sad. He certainly helped shape the music of my youth.

Back to Lordi, this is a better quality video, plus excellent commentary from the Brits: [link]

plus excellent commentary from the Brits

I'm a big fan of understatement, but that video needs commentary by Mike Judge: Butthead, it's Gwar! It's Gwar!! Except Gwar was more entertaining. I liked "the rockalypse" but the music was pretty lifeless. I kept thinking they should be singing "Immigrant Song" because a) it's much better, and b) I'd love to see the guy in foot tall boots singing "Valhalla we are coming!"

I think it's a pretty darn catchy song. I mean, yeah, it's mired by murkiness but when the zombie keyboardist's gravity-defying vocals swoop in, I get the goosebumps.

In a completely unrelated but much more bizarre story, I saw Marlena Shaw, three or four weeks ago, in a Galway nightclub called Cuba. She was terribly good and terribly sexy. Anyway, it seems that when the nightclub sent her performance fee to her account, the US bank blocked it because the transaction referenced Cuba. She was only allowed her money after the bank had been assured that the venue had nothing to do with Cuba, the nation.