Monday, May 22, 2006
Recent findings since I last posted anything. My reason for not posting, by the way, is the fact that every assignment for every class this terms seems to have been due in the past week or so, with one more left to go before I am sitting in the sun, sipping on a frozen margarita and enjoying the best Tex-Mex that Dallas has to offer. Also, K and I have been working on the rewrite to the script that should be shooting this summer.
Okay, but I went off subject, back to the updates. I think I have a cavity and that totally sucks. The back molar on the left side of my mouth has become quite sensitive to cold water, especially when I brush my teeth, or strangely enough when I eat a cold grape. I cannot remember the last time I had a cavity, probably highschool? I sure as hell hope I don't have more than one, as it has been probably way too long since I last went to the dentist.
Other things that have happened on a scale larger than my teeth. Finland's representative for the Eurovision contest, Lordi - see picture - just made history. Now growing up in Texas, the Eurovision song contest doesn't get much print or publicity, but over here? It is huge. Absolutely huge and Finland has never won it, let alone advanced far enough to even think about winning. So, on a what the hell, this band Lordi, wins and becomes Finland's representative and all hell breaks loose here in Finland and all over Europe. The monsters from Finland are in the wrong competition. But then something funny happened, people really liked the monster and voted for the monster and the monster advanced to the semi-finals. Finland was bubbly. People here have been watching this competition since there was only one television channel and they have always been disappointed. They've sent their best and never made it. And now they send their monsters? And they advance. But surely the monster has no chance to win the whole thing? Well, last night history was made. "Hard Rock Hallelujah" took Europe by storm and Finland finally won the thing.
Now as someone who has no history with this competition it was a fun thing to witness, but for K? Well, let's just say that when the voting began and Finland was in front, she kept waiting for the slide. Apparently Finland's representative usually gets like 4 points total and now the monster was over 100. Now I think it's appropriate to say a little something about the politics of this thing. Well, it's political. Russia's representative was terrible - not to say that the monster was good, but the monster was Finnish and that's good enough - but the Russian kept quite close throughout. Even though the home country cannot vote for its own performer, there were enough former Soviet possessions to keep Russia in it for the long run. And whenever Russia got close, the look on Karoliina's face was genuine anger. Well, maybe not anger, but rather the look of someone who is protecting their little brother from a bully and will do anything to protect the brother. Again, this is not to say that Karoliina's brother is a monster. I like Karoliina's brother, but this is just an example.
Okay, but I went off subject, back to the updates. I think I have a cavity and that totally sucks. The back molar on the left side of my mouth has become quite sensitive to cold water, especially when I brush my teeth, or strangely enough when I eat a cold grape. I cannot remember the last time I had a cavity, probably highschool? I sure as hell hope I don't have more than one, as it has been probably way too long since I last went to the dentist.
Other things that have happened on a scale larger than my teeth. Finland's representative for the Eurovision contest, Lordi - see picture - just made history. Now growing up in Texas, the Eurovision song contest doesn't get much print or publicity, but over here? It is huge. Absolutely huge and Finland has never won it, let alone advanced far enough to even think about winning. So, on a what the hell, this band Lordi, wins and becomes Finland's representative and all hell breaks loose here in Finland and all over Europe. The monsters from Finland are in the wrong competition. But then something funny happened, people really liked the monster and voted for the monster and the monster advanced to the semi-finals. Finland was bubbly. People here have been watching this competition since there was only one television channel and they have always been disappointed. They've sent their best and never made it. And now they send their monsters? And they advance. But surely the monster has no chance to win the whole thing? Well, last night history was made. "Hard Rock Hallelujah" took Europe by storm and Finland finally won the thing.
Now as someone who has no history with this competition it was a fun thing to witness, but for K? Well, let's just say that when the voting began and Finland was in front, she kept waiting for the slide. Apparently Finland's representative usually gets like 4 points total and now the monster was over 100. Now I think it's appropriate to say a little something about the politics of this thing. Well, it's political. Russia's representative was terrible - not to say that the monster was good, but the monster was Finnish and that's good enough - but the Russian kept quite close throughout. Even though the home country cannot vote for its own performer, there were enough former Soviet possessions to keep Russia in it for the long run. And whenever Russia got close, the look on Karoliina's face was genuine anger. Well, maybe not anger, but rather the look of someone who is protecting their little brother from a bully and will do anything to protect the brother. Again, this is not to say that Karoliina's brother is a monster. I like Karoliina's brother, but this is just an example.
// posted by Howard @ 12:27 AM 
