El Camino Del Ray - you won't catch me up this

Truly astounding

Eurovision

I know it can be awful but that is not part of its charm; it is all of its charm. Below are my views on tonight's 'contestants'. 10 countries make it through.

	Montenegro RTCG	Stefan Filipović Mild rock nonsense	Zauvijek Volim Te
02	Israel IBA	Boaz - quite different and could be a contender	The Fire In Your Eyes
03	Estonia ETV	Kreisiraadio - competing on the joke entry side of things	Leto Svet
04	Moldova TRM	Geta Burlacu - jazz singer does mild torch song.	A Century Of Love
05	San Marino SMRTV	Miodio -	Complice
06	Belgium VRT	Ishtar - singing in a made up language! Again! Quirky but bland	O Julissi
07	Azerbaijan İctimai	Elnur & Samir - there is a emo/goth influence to the look of some of the acts and this is one of them	Day After Day
08	Slovenia RTVSLO	Rebeka Dremelj - takes too long to get running and is very run of the mill fare.	Vrag Naj Vzame
09	Norway NRK	Maria - power ballady	Hold On Be Strong
10	Poland TVP	Isis Gee - she has great teeth as all Americans do and God does she try and show them	For Life
11	Ireland RTÉ	Dustin the Turkey - coming after the Poles might be no bad thing.	Irelande Douze Pointe
12	Andorra RTVA	Gisela - more bland fare	Casanova
13	Bosnia & Herzegovina BHRT	Laka - A bit Hazy Fantazie in look, and the vocal from the chicken is weak, but I liked it.	Pokušaj
14	Armenia AMPTV	Sirusho - the start promises but it aims straight for the middle of the road	Qele, Qele
15	The Netherlands NOS	Hind - Ok, the video is playing with some suspect and confused imagery but I like the song.	Your Heart Belongs To Me
16	Finland YLE	Teräsbetoni - Lordy Part Deux.	Missä Miehet Ratsastaa
17	Romania TVR	Nico & Vlad - God it was dull	Pe-o Margine De Lume
18	Russia RTR	Dima Bilan - Man they really want to win this. And man I don't think they will	Believe
19	Greece ERT	Kalomira - At one point she sings that she's not easy, in underpants that are larger than her skirt! Could do well.	Secret Combination

So I'm saying Greece, Israel, Russia, Netherlands, Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Armenia, Finland, Poland

And depending on whether the UK gets to vote or not, Ireland or Norway.

New Water drink ad featuring Brains from Thunderbirds

More video brilliance, caught this last night and guffawed out loud.

Something good is going to happen - 08

A strange happened over the weekend. I was watching moving picture box and it turns out Utah Saints have made a video based on an experience of my Co-Op in Carlow! Ok only in part and even then it is probably just accidentally similar rather than based on. Read the text and then watch below



I was in Carla as it is known locally back in 1989 and I was only there under a week when the June bank holiday came along. As I didn't know anyone so I thought I would wonder into town relatively early and see what the cool spots were before the crowds gathered. I had a scoop or two in a few places and ended up some disco bar type thing. It was maybe 9 o'clock at this stage and there were a good few people gathering at this point and some nifty tune came on, yet no one dancing and since I wasn't known I felt all touristy and reckoned what the hell. So I got up and danced, by my self. Oddly enough some young ladies who were there decided to join me and the night ended up being quite fun. I didn't have quite the most stylistic of clothes though. The other peculiar thing is that this clip mirrors my experience of the arrival of dance music in Ireland in the late 80s. I was in London in '88 for the 2nd Summer of Love as it became known, not that I partook all that much what with living in Caterham, in fact my own direct experience was pretty much confined to one trip to Heaven then located near Charring Cross station. Excellent night in truth. Bit intimidated by the blokes in lycra cycling shorts on the podiums though. Anyway, back in the old home town disco after that summer those who had been away
got up for the new dance tunes while others were aghast at the silliness of it all.

Charlton Heston has passed on, did someone get the gun?

Charlton Heston has gone on to meet his maker, or should I say meet him again as he was bumping into him so often during Ben-Hur that he was particularly an apostle. So I'm wondering if anyone has tried to take his gun yet.



After all he did urge us to.

Battlestar returns to our screens and SG-1 sneaks back for a last looksee

Kudos to Alexia for alerting me to this.




Strange that the return of SG-1 tonight with "the Ark of Truth" on Sky One hasn't remotely been promoted to the same degree but I guess that's what happens when you get cancelled and have to scrabble about the meejasphere for attention.

Odd coincidence that I had left the old hair quite long up to the middle of last week and then finally decide that spring was here enough for me to cut it. And it would seem such a change may be about to overtake my favourite political figure of the moment, Gaius Baltar. Part of my fascination with the character of Baltar goes back to the original series when I mistook Baltar in the original series for Baltazzar from the Book of Daniel and Plus he had all those cool ship and pointed headed folks had to do things "by your command". Ah the reassurance of old fashioned megalomania. Not that I'm suggesting for one moment that I would sell out the human race for some floozies and the control of the remnants...

The portrayal of the character in the new series is excellent particularly in depicting someone led away from doing what is truly right into doing what is very wrong simply by their own weakness and unwillingness to come clean with a mistake they've made. Fear of consequences. I'm a real sin's of omission kinda guy.

Someone is doing something to Ben Affleck

Seems you can't diss Jimmy Kimmel