Brits, Eurovision, and Soler

Watching: crap Chinese music playlist on youtube
Listening: crap Chinese music playlist on youtube
Reading: American Anticommunism by M. J. Heale

News of the Day:

• Damn, British students revolt because unis are skimping on teaching duties.
• Damn, British poets revolt. Actually, they don't but they do get their pants in knots over sexual misconduct - of the harassment sort and the kind that involves a kitchen, honey glaze over a supermarket duck, and a fuck. All because of some poetry post at Oxford. American poets don't fight over this stuff......because who ever heard of an American poet?
• Damn, British would-be terrorists revolt. Actually, this is a revealing a revealing article from the inside about how British youth are being recruited by terrorists.
• Damn, British protesters revolt (hence, protester). In classic Looney Toons style, they spread carpet tacks along the roadway of a charity bike race.
• Stupid criminal alert: teenage robber pulls the my banana is really a gun trick.
• Humans eat Neanderthals, so say some scientists.. Sounds like next summer's blockbuster.

Eurovision........Oh, my music IQ might equal that of Sarah Palin's real IQ and I may subject myself to endlessly to Cantopop, but is there really a good excuse for Eurovision? I blame the fog machine and laser light lobbies for this saccharine spectacle. It's cheesy, camp, and amateur, which I think is kind of the purpose. But that formula works in say Hong Kong because the market is small, people outside the city would rather watch their movies (the really good ones not the crap Wong Jing ones), and who really understands Cantonese anyway? It's a bit unsettling to watch the entire European continent indulge in this, however. Eh, maybe I'm an unfair critic, which is probably the case. Judge yourself.

Norway's winning entry. Really, what are those other 3 guys doing?!!



Britain's 5th place entry. Lyrics by Diane Warren, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, winner chosen by a tv talent contest.......



The after dinner mint to a shitteous entree and side dish - Hong Kong music that doesn't suck! I think the name of this song by Soler is: 惹我. It's not the original video but it kicks the original video's ass.