Rae on Monday, 22 May 2006 at 2:48 pm said:

Oh yeah…they were funny too. They had a robot for no discernible reason. . .it all becomes a bit of a blur to be honest.

You don’t necessarily need a reason to include a robot, especially if it’s a dancing robot.

Rae on Monday, 22 May 2006 at 11:01 am said:

Which reminds me…the lyrics to the Latvian entry this year ran “We are the winners of Eurovision…Vote for us”…it didn’t work. Even with the golden megaphone.

In the world of cartoons/comics, that sort of thing (where the character is aware that he or she is in a comic) is known as “breaking the 4th wall.”

In roleplaying games, if a character is being played as though he had some knowledge of the game mechanics, it is called “meta-gaming.”

I guess meta-music doesn’t fly with European audiences.

(By the way, I was looking at the press kit, and it appears that the meta-musicians were from Lithuania, not Latvia. The Latvians — a group called Cosmos — apparently performed without the aid of musical instruments.)

Miscellaneous G on Monday, 22 May 2006 at 9:14 am said:

I’m disappointed that Zlad once again was not able to win for Molvania.

Alas, I fear that Molvania will forever be thwarted in their attempts to enter Eurovision. I believe the phenomenon is called “the glass partition”.

Rae on Monday, 22 May 2006 at 2:51 am said:

Go KJ! Spread the word of Eurovision!

Although the best men(?!?) clearly won this year the political voting process can cause some upsets (and a lot of the fun). For example Greece and Cyprus usually award each other 12 points regardless of song quality and all tiny Balkan countries vote for each other. This year Russia came second as most of its bordering countries enjoy having a regular gas supply. The UK usually provides the superior music but since Tony and G.W. became best friends we have fared rather poorly. I mean this year we gave them a 40 year old white rapper flanked by half a dozen schoolgirls in Britney style uniforms!!! How could that have failed? (we came 29th…)

Keep spreading the word of the Arockalypse and we’ll see you in Finland to do it all again next year!

Wow. I want to be a fly on the wall in the meeting where the Russian ambassador tells one of his neighbor countries that their gas is being turned off because they didn’t vote for the right song in Eurovision.

Although the best men(?!?) clearly won this year the political voting process can cause some upsets (and a lot of the fun). For example Greece and Cyprus usually award each other 12 points regardless of song quality and all tiny Balkan countries vote for each other. This year Russia came second as most of its bordering countries enjoy having a regular gas supply. The UK usually provides the superior music but since Tony and G.W. became best friends we have fared rather poorly. I mean this year we gave them a 40 year old white rapper flanked by half a dozen schoolgirls in Britney style uniforms!!! How could that have failed? (we came 29th…)

Keep spreading the word of the Arockalypse and we’ll see you in Finland to do it all again next year!