Eurovision Entertainment

As I have said the weather has been nicer and with Karen's new BBQ Amy and I headed to her house for some good eats. It was important for my Irish friends to meet my American friends and it was perfect that it was just the three of us for a BBQ. Amy got to see how amazing Karen is (she is the little sister I never had) and vise versa. As we had some good food, and chats we tucked in for some tea and some Eurovision.

Eurovision is a new phenomenon for both Amy and I. Think Star Search from the 80's in American, but have it be adult singing and dancing acts representing each country. We tuned in just as the second act was going on, and there were about 20. Azerbaijan was our front runner with an angel and a devil singing. Most countries sang in English though. Belgium, which has 3 national languages Flemish, French and German, actually sang in a made up language, which was great! Of course I had to cheer for Ireland which used to have the most winners ever, but this year they put in a bogus contestant just to take the piss. Dustin the Turkey, which is an ugly Turkey puppet singing a terrible song with half dressed men, drag queens and strange looking women. Terrible!

One of the last acts was Russia which much to my surprise, they were singing on an mini icerink and was being circled by none other then the Olympic gold medalist and three-time World Champion Evgeni Plushenko, who did a wonderful skate performance to a Tom Jones's 'Sex Bomb' song while stripping down to a muscle costume and gold speedo. I am sure my mom remembers that. How it works is, each country phones in, but cannot vote for their own country and have 12 votes to distribute as they see fit. In the last few years Eastern Europe have been sticking together and have been winning it. Russia ended up winning in the end, and it was great watching the different acts go through. Next year then Russia will hold the event since they were the past winners. That night was definitely an experience of pure eurotrashness!