May 22, 2006

How do you unite Europe?

Lordi, from Finland, unlikely winners of The Eurovision Song Contest 2006
And I don't mean the European Union. I mean the whole bloody continent (more or less). Well, let's think. I suppose you could teach everyone Esperanto. Or pick someone everyone likes and make him Emperor of All Europe. Or reintroduce Brown Bears and Wolves everywhere so we'd all have to huddle together for safety. Or (I know! I know!) hypnotise everyone. Or you could spend three hours in makeup, perform a jaw-droppingly cheesy song called Hard Rock Hallelujah and wait for the votes to pour in. Amazing. Quite amazing.

May 22, 2006 01:07 AM

Comments

Oi - where's your umlaut gone? I liked it.

Posted by astrid at May 23, 2006 12:11 AM

The lead singer / rapper for the Russian act looked just like Kevin Bacon circa 1984...

Posted by Russ at May 23, 2006 12:05 PM

It's funny that you mention Esperanto here. Lordi's keyboardist was formely in the band Dolchamar which sang in Esperanto! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolchamar)

Posted by J at May 24, 2006 12:03 PM

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