You had plenty money 1922

Americans, if you ever see this, don't judge us. You have toddler beauty pagents. And the really important thing? Everyone watching is drunk. We wouldn't like it half so much if we couldn't take the piss. And now, the commentary!

1 Finland - Paradise Oskar -da da dam - acoustic guitar boy. folk eco stuff. YAWN. dying of smug boredom.
2 Bosnia & Herzegovina - Dino Merlin - Love in Rewind - ...is this yodelling to start? there is a tambourine and a faint air of hillbilly with added line dancing. and a random dancer. I feel like I'm stuck in an italian restaurant...
3 Denmark - A Friend in London - New Tomorrow - decent pop tune, slightly slowed down MCR. not really stand outy enough, sadly.
4 Lithuania - Evalina Sasenko - C'est ma vie - nice dress, a bit J-Lo in looks... and yes, very musical theatre. Attack of the Christine. Oh, and a bloke with a white piano. Er. what's with the sign language?
5 Hungary - Kati Wolf - What about my dreams? - this is totally eurodance with added 80s power ballad. tall blond in a short blue dress with a... sleeve.
6 Ireland - Jedward - Lipstick gun - um. wow, they're nearly movin in time....
7 Sweden - Eric Saade - Popular. oo, nice staging. square frames with nice dancers. reasonable song, cute singer. and now they've shut him in a glass box. now he's out.
8 Estonia - Getter Jaani - Rockerfeller Street - ooo, magically appearing cane. I like it. dancers have attack of broken doll syndrome.. v bouncy pop
9 Greece - - BREAKDANCERS! with growly sub-rapping by stereo mike. and bloke in a suit singing some power-ballad-ish thing.
10 Russia - it's a james dean lookalike reject! with added iglesias singing, and black clad dancers.
11 France - Amaury Vassili - cute, military jacket, great voice.... hang on, did someone steal whatsisface from Les Mis?
12 Italy - Raphael Gualazzi - bloke doing soft jazz on piano with backing instruments. dinner jazz. rather good, but not goign to win.
13 Switzerland -Anna Rossinelli - in love for a while - ooo, bouncy, decent song, nice girl in red sparkly dress, a bit lily allen vibe for the song, and there's a ukelele.
14 England - Blue - I can - decent bland blue song. er?
15 Moldova - so lucky ..there is headgear of pointy cones. garden gnomes with monocles and crappy punky two-tone-ish singing. and fairy girls on unicycles. IT MUST WIN.
16 Germany - Lena - - silver-jumpsuit condomed people skipping and doing strange modern dancing. Lena attempting sexy. and reasonably succeeding.
17 Romania - David Bryan - robert palmer dancers, pinstriped trousers and mid-radio 2 song.
18 Austria - Nadine Belier - the secret is love - acapella beginning. looks like she escaped from ute lemper's stylist. power ballad time! also a chorus of nuns from sister act
19 Azerbaijan - Ell/Nikki - Running scared - white dresses and armography. bro + sis combo, j-lo ballad, boy from del monte, twins singing it and now it's gone a bit flowers in the attic. yawn. OH FSM. HOW DID THIS WIN?!?
20 Slovenia - No-one - metal sequinned bodice dress! and thigh boots! song v average. I am a woman in love.
21 Iceland - Sjonni's friends - coming home - a pub band from the 70s has entered. with waistcoats and faded jeans.
22 spain - lucia perez - bouncy! pink dress! cute dancers in white suits also bouncy! it's gloria estefan's little sister come to save us all! and roman candles!
23 Ukraine - Mika Newton - Angel - sand painting. pale pink long dress, feather shoulder pads. sand painting more interesting
24 Serbia - Nina - sixties mod pop. with miniskirts tights and accurate backing dancing. someone help, the feed went down and they replaced it with a clip from teh 60s.
25 Georgia - Eldrine - one more day attempt at rock + rap with added tron stylings. matrix and tron had a baby, that's what this is.

:mutter: You know when you change breakfast because you're vaguely bored with what you currently have, and go for something you haven't had in a while? And then after a couple of days of it, you remember precisely why you stopped eating it? And sadly, it being cereal, you've still got a week's worth to get through... Special K. The red berries make it nicer, but it's still way too sweet and gums up your teeth something chronic. Going back on the cheerios as soon as I can. (can't just shove it to one side as lodged at parents')

Hmmp. After having to do emergency repairs on sandal, have concluded that it's a rule that you always get a bit of superglue on your fingers. Which you know will come off in a couple of hours, but while it's there, it's bloody irritating.

Spent a large proportion of weekend asleep. Mostly due to inability to get self on decent sleeping hours during week.

Watched a bit of that eurovision dance contest thingy. Vaguely interesting, but kind of confusing what with it being a mix of pros and amateurs. But it did live up to the finest tradition of Eurovision with some very dodgy outfits (though sadly this is part and parcel of ballroom dancing rather than specially for Eurovision).

Went down the lock as is my wont on weekends (equivalent of Regents Park, the Regents Park bits originally to compensate for there being no lock) and saw that the flooding effects had pretty much dried up in the river meadows. Came home, read a bit of the latest rant in the media guide about the latest directors cut of Blade Runner. Which got me thinking. Blade Runner has an idea that you only really see as a blink and miss it design bit at the beginning, that there's been climate change which has changed the coastlines - I'll have to dig up my Blade Runner theory guide to see whether it was hotter or what. Which got me thinking about the fact that pretty much anything set in the near future in the UK would really have to make some vague acknowledgement of the flooding/bake that leads to drought leads to flooding cycle that we're in, because that's the weather conditions we're going to be pretty much stuck with for the next generation or so. It took a couple of generations to get like this, and it's not going to be settled for another couple because there is no quick fix. Either a random comment on the tv/media source or an expectation of what usual weather is for that time of year. Because we really haven't had any mid-point, and we pretty much expect floods somewhere in the country once a year.