Line Out - Comments on Eurovision: decent songs about peace (or piss) and exquisite talent. http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/05/eurovision_decent_songs_about_peace_or_p Ooh, action in Eurovision land! The rehearsals have started today. For those obsessives, you can read reports of the rehearsals on All Kinds of Everything over on Livejournal. They're Irish, so they'll go mad over the turkey. What have I... Copyright 2008 Sun, 11 May 2008 09:00:29 -0800 Mon, 12 May 2008 14:10:49 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Abby Denmark is definitely boring this year. A decent song isn't really the point, is it? Especially if it's sort of a boring, generic pop song. But maybe people like that.

I vaguely remember reading that the Georgian singer is blind. So that's something. Last year the Georgian dancers had swords, and that was pretty cool.

I find Hungary a bit boring myself, but a ballad has to be really, really fantastic for me to get into it. Normally I don't like any of them.

]]> Abby http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/05/eurovision_decent_songs_about_peace_or_p#c1022176 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/05/eurovision_decent_songs_about_peace_or_p#c1022176 Eurovision Sun, 11 May 2008 16:05:51 -0800 Comment by terry miller omg. abby, the moment i saw that georgian video i was like, that woman is blind, otherwise there is just no excuse for flailing your arms at nameless crowds. and notice when she walks off the sheet, she is holding the hand of one of the dancers.

well, disability = points right??!!?!?!

we'll see, the song is a bit dry though.

denmark is to boring really.

hangary. blech. ballads. yuck.

]]> terry miller http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/05/eurovision_decent_songs_about_peace_or_p#c1022457 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/05/eurovision_decent_songs_about_peace_or_p#c1022457 Eurovision Mon, 12 May 2008 12:09:18 -0800 Comment by Griet As I was watching the video I kept thinking "what the hell is she wearing those ugly sunglasses for", until I read her bio.
I could be rude and say blind singers at Eurovision are yet another of the vote grabbing mechanisms, but I won't because really, it generally doesn't work. I only remember Corinna May for Germany a few years back (also with a horrible song) and that didn't do much. Thankfully.

]]> Griet http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/05/eurovision_decent_songs_about_peace_or_p#c1022625 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/05/eurovision_decent_songs_about_peace_or_p#c1022625 Eurovision Mon, 12 May 2008 14:10:49 -0800