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Eurovision 2011

There went another good edition, though I think not as good as last year’s. It would appear that many countries are starting to learn the kind of songs that may have a chance and selecting accordingly, which is a good thing. On the other hand, I wasn’t exactly pleased by the overall show value of […]

Eurovision 2010

I really should start with the good and state that this was the best edition I have ever seen. It started pretty poorly, with a rather weak first semifinal, but the second one was very good and the final was even better. Quite frankly, there was a single song I didn’t like that made it […]

Eurovision 2009

Once again, I knew all the songs before the show, but this time I didn’t try to find out what any of the presentations was going to be like ahead of time. When ranking, I used the same system I have been using for all these years, which I explained last year so there’s no […]

Antichrisis Is Gone

Sid posted the announcement on the official site over two weeks ago, but I only looked last night. It would appear to be one more result of the “economic crisis”, though there is also the expected rant about piracy. I won’t get into that again, wrote quite enough about piracy and how it’s not like […]

New Finds – II

This is going slowly. If I find something good I get stuck on it for a while, if I find something bad I get jaded and it’d be a bad idea to listen to something else too soon… But I am finding interesting things. I’d like to start with the changes since the previous post. […]