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Eurovision 2007: The Twitters
By Nick Hodge | May 14, 2007
Eurovision 2007 is over, and Moldova was robbed. Others in the office think that Ukraine was a shoe-in; some liked Sweden.
Europe instead chose Serbia, with kd lang and Harry Potter’s love child: Marija
Whilst Australia’s SBS didn’t broadcast live, Australians being children of the world watched and listened to the delayed broadcast and immersed themselves in the dark corners of European music.
Much to my on10.net colleague Paul Foster’s chagrin (I love that word): using Twitter, I micro-blogged my thoughts from the Preliminary and Final:
Preliminary
/eurovision: piano-accordians, chicks half dressed and a beat boxing willy wonka. Eurovision has started
/eurovision: bulgarian that cannot sing. do not want
/eurovision: israel guys fell out of The Young Ones. Either that or its Beatles on acid.
/eurovision: piano-accordian count == 2
/eurovision: cyprus is good. like the guitarist’s hair. songs good too
/eurovision: belarus: style intro, but he’s not that smooth. Emotion / motion lyric count == 2
/eurovision: ah, that’s where Journey ended up — Iceland
/eurovision: tiger tapped in an cage / actor on an empty stage. lyrics ©dictionary.com
/eurovision: georgia: a cuter version of Bjork
/eurovision: montenegro: the cars meats anthony callea
/eurovision: switzerland: starts out chick does Meatloaf
/eurovision: moldova: I don’t know what she’s wearing, but she’s the sexiest goth I’ve ever seen
/eurovision: netherlands: finally, we’re into the mid 1990’s
/eurovision: albania: 1962 called, they want their hair style back
/eurovision: defined: lots of old blocks + young chicks wearing either gowns or next to nothing.
/eurovision: denmark: Drama Queen. Wonder Princess Mary thinks? ooh, robotic dancing.
/eurovision: croatia: fleetwood mac with another ugly dude
/eurovision: poland: rap just doesn’t go with Britney
/eurovision: poland has mixed skank with 50c and mulan rouge. But picked all the bad bits
/eurovision: serbia has kd lang!
/eurovision: actually, serbia looks like kd lang + harry potter’s love child
/eurovision: czech republic: thrash metal without the thrash. or the metal
/eurovision: czechs sound like plastica, not metalica
/eurovision: portugal: one word. legs. or two words. whatever
/eurovision: I wonder if the Mum’s of the Portugese backup dancers know what they are wearing?
/eurovision: FYR Macedonia: legs are the new black… and waiting for the goatee guy to pop out on stage.
/eurovision: wind machine count == 1
/eurovision: norway: have to agree with @Calypso. now its a leg contest
/eurovision: malta: buff blokes, violins. 1970s called and want their bad taste back
/eurovision: windmachine count == 2. Straight backup dancer count == zero
/eurovision: andorra: oh, yeah, Now we’ve actually arrived in 2004
/eurovision: andorra: these guys would be big in Japan
/eurovision: hungary: blues meets Tennesee Williams props
/eurovision: hungary is actually OK. She can sing, and the band is good. Shame they are not American
/eurovision: Estonia: (previously bought us Ruffus, “80s coming back”)… wind machine count == 3.
/eurovision: Estonia: melody sounds vaguely like something else.… she looks like a good looking Posh Spice
/eurovision: belgium: my eyes cannot describe what I am seeing here. indian guy doing disco in a … I just don’t know… lovepower
/eurovision: slovenia: … or translyvania? this chick should have been in the switzerland backup dancers
/eurovision: slovenia: why do I get the feeling she is singing a national anthem or something?
/eurovision: dear turkey: stereotypes of harem girls is not working for me.
/eurovision: turkey: slapping girls on the bottom must be a cultural thing I don’t get
/eurovision: austria: kylie called and wants her costume back
/eurovision: hey, all the backup singers from Austria have beards or goatees.
/eurovision: latvia: we are all gilbert + sullivan
/eurovision: hmmm, Latvia + Hungary + Goth Chick best three for me
/eurovision: yeah, goth chick from moldova and the israel guys
/eurovision: tomorrow: sweden, romania france looks good. UK all I remember is boobs
Final
/eurovision: 9 minutes away… I am so excited!
/eurovision: Terry Wogan is commentating tonite’s show down of European countries as they throw their larynxes at each other.
/eurovision: LORDI opens.Hard Rock Hallelujah
/eurovision: bosnia: goes a greek/mt olympus theme with bazuki.
/eurovision: bosnia singer looks like a toilet roll cover my mum uses.
/eurovision: bloke with soul patch looks like a Joseph from a kids christmas play
/eurovision: spain: been done before. where is ricky martin?
/eurovision: belarus: 007 intro theme anyone? I wonder if he has written a 007 script to fit the 007 music?
/eurovision: emotion / in motion / potion. Rub lotion.
/eurovision: belarus guy looks like Bob Downe
/eurovision: Ireland. Bugger, no “My Lovely Horse” — but too Irish for Europe. Accordian count = 1
/eurovision: irish chick isn’t in this band for her voice… but I can see two other reasons why she’s there
/eurovision: finland: vaguely commercial. this could sell, if not win
/eurovision: finland goes evanesence in an attempt to win. Although more melodic than evanesence, if that possible.
/eurovision: FYR macedonia: trying to work out why the ballet dancers are in the background.
/eurovision: slovenia: wasn’t she the lead singer for the Finland band, too?
/eurovision: hungary: bus stop. waiting for Marilyn Monroe to pop out of this tennessee williams song
/eurovision: hungarian singer reminds me of a young Chrissy Hinde.
/eurovision: hungarian t-shirt says “thank god I am a VIP“
/eurovision: hungary and finland best so far.
/eurovision: lithuania: missy higgins escaped and has gone chic french with silouettes
/eurovision: greece: he’s not a lead singer because he can sing, either.
/eurovision: greece: where is that nice wholesome Nana Miskouri?
/eurovision: finland has lots of geeks and goths
/eurovision: georgia: that’s right, she was on last night. she’s cute.
/eurovision: georgia: a cuter version of Bjork 09:02 PM May 12, 2007 from web
/eurovision: she only has to sing every second word thanks to the digital echo
/eurovision: sweden: ABBA?
/eurovision: marilyn manson meets garry glitter
/eurovision: or a cross between the Darkness and ABBA
/eurovision: waiting for molly meldrum to rave about these boys
/eurovision: half way thru. I am sad already
/eurovision: france: singing in english. flacco!!
/eurovision: I think the french are having a lend of us english speakers…with all the french wordz.
/eurovision: latvia: il divo meets gilbert+sullivan meets the five tenors meets eurovision wierdness
/eurovision: dress down il divo with jeans.
/eurovision: from russia with love. their uniforms look like school uniforms. or nuns. Freud watch out
/eurovision: germany: hmmm, german cool. wie sie gehen?
/eurovision: how do you scat in german?
/eurovision: serbia: that’s right: kd lang and harry potter’s love child
/eurovision: I wonder if she chose her backup band personally?
/eurovision: serbia: charlies angels + charlie
/eurovision: ukraine: accordian number == 2. I think this song is slightly political.
/eurovision: why am I thinking Berlin early 1930s decadance?
/eurovision: UK: BOOOBS
/eurovision: UK: scooch. there is something that I don’t get… why?
/eurovision: bucks fizz. how referential
/eurovision: benny hill meets buck fizz
/eurovision: if he wasn’t coding in Java, but .Net, he’d be home by now
/eurovision: romania: where is Borat?
/eurovision: gypsy song from the home of the Rom, Romania
/eurovision: bulgaria: they must have got their best buskers to represent bulgaria
/eurovision: bulgarian guy keep looking at the singer chick thinking “look at how cool I am”. She cooly ignores him.
/eurovision: terry wogan said “aydjiot“
/eurovision: turkey: butt slapper. strange turkish song is almost the same as greece’s. You’d thought they’d call each other first.
/eurovision: I don’t think the turkish main singer dude is singing, it’s the guy on the side.
/eurovision: hey armenia, 1974 called and they want their shirt back
/eurovision: … and they want you to return it without the stain
/eurovision: moldova: GUYS you will love this lead singer. Seriously, dudes, its so freaking cool.
/eurovision: this has to be the best GOTH chick I’ve seen since Winona Ryder.
/eurovision: moldova song suX0Rs. But I’m not listening
/eurovision: all the music is over. ++moldova
/eurovision: I though santa was american.
/eurovision: I’d say the quality is actually better than last year — but no Lordi
/eurovision: latvia reminded me of a a bunch of drunk blokes at a B&B
/eurovision: OMFG they’re using Skype to call in votes from Montegro
/eurovision: armenian chick is cute
/eurovision: eastern europe has yet to get over stockholm syndrome.
/eurovision: remind me never to visit andorra.
/eurovision: zero for the UK. you woulda thought they would have scored something for their looks.
/eurovision: portugal guy has teeth that could light up europe, alone!
/eurovision: I have to visit Romania. Andorra, not so much
/eurovision: UK still on zero.
/eurovision: serbia is rockin’ the show… and I cannot work out why
/eurovision: I can listen to an irish accent all day
/eurovision: malta voted 12 for the UK. WTF?
/eurovision: australia should be the independent judges for 2008 eurovision. at least we’d be fair and honest.
/eurovision: hm, must visit iceland one day. Russia, not so much
/eurovision: moldova has skyscrapers? WTF
/eurovision: terry wogan says romanian song was absolute rubbish. I agree
/eurovision: UK votes 10 for greece and 12 for turkey. WTF?
/eurovision: Serbia wins! KDLANG+HARRY POTTER wins
/eurovision: Ireland gets the golden spoon award. “My Lovely Horse” next year, ireland!
/eurovision: HD wireless cameras by Gigacameras. Imagine the bandwidth those suckers are pushing out!
/eurovision: it’s over.
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Topics: eurovision, technology | 2 Comments »
May 14th, 2007 at 11:27 am
Haven’t used toilet roll covers for years !!
May 14th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
oops, sprung by my mum!