Eurovision

Another year of Eurovision has come and gone, accompanied by the usual parties, trash, and crappy music. The winners were Serbia with a dykey woman in a suit singing while surrounded by femmes in suits standing very close and occasionally stroking her. It was interesting for a country still struggling for real GLBT rights!

Other noteworthy entries:

• The Bulgarians had a pint-sized amazonian woman with amazing vocals (without words, I think) and cool drumming - very powerful act.

• The Ukrainians came second with "Dancing" sung by a drag queen going for the traditionally built eastern european woman look, complete with house coat. Except it was all made of tinfoil. Including the futuristic hat with a star that he wore on his head. It was really quite extraordinary, but I can't find a picture to include, so I'll just have to post the Youtube clip. This will also allow you to hear the incredibly complex lyrics, which seem to be in terrible broken English, French, German. The recurring refrain is "seven seven, one two, seven seven, ai lyu lyu". In any language. Full lyrics here.

• The French entry included costumes by Gaultier, apparently, though I have to say they were bloody awful, and a lovely set of Frenglish/Franglais lyrics

I remember jolie demoiselle
The last Summer comme tu e'tais belle
I remember nous la Tour Eiffel
So beautiful with your sac Chanel

• The Irish had a pretty song - and very very Irish, but the woman who sang it looked utterly terrified on stage, so it wasn't too surprising that they came absolutely last, with 5 points (thanks Latvia).

• The Brits were second last, and managed to get a total of 19 points, with a song that was definitely in the novelty category. My British friend who lives in Finland has an interesting discussion of British and Finnish attitudes to the whole contest. And a fuller description of the British entry!

Enough trash talk. Back to something real. Like the translations I'm trying to get done this week. Sigh.