Man, you don't see the really bonkers ones like that any more. Remember Vampires Are Alive? https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Yodelai yodelai!

Damn. That would be an awesome place for a wedding, I wish my friends who are getting married in Rotterdam soon hadn't already picked a venue..

I was really happy to see that the last couple of times I've been home. Some of them go a little hard on the barnyard (which I'm less into), but in general it's a trend that makes me very happy.

I hope it stays open long enough for me to go when I come home during the holidays…

There's a bar/restaurant in Antwerp that I really like and they have Grand Cru on tap. It's one of those places where I feel like I should try different beers, but I find it really hard to just not have another Grand Cru, I just love it so much.

Apparently there was a favorite that wasn't picked, and there were some shenanigans - I wasn't watching so I don't know the whole story, but I think the way he won their competition really turned the pubic against him. Plus, the song is fucking terrible.

It's just smug as hell, especially considering his predecessor, which was a much more challenging song in my opinion. Don't act like you're better than everyone else because you do a slightly different pop style, especially at a venue where people actually do like pop music. It really ruined the win for me.

My friend rolled his eyes when this episode's Very Special Moment started, as it's always the same thing at the same time. It feels like such a formula now.

I can't imagine Sasha not knowing who those people are.

Agreed! She'd shown some flashes of humor before that made me less worried than I would have been, but I'm glad it actually went really well.

The sister had a better voice! They should have done it as a duet, except I guess it won so who needs my advice.

I'd like Portugal's entry more if he didn't immediately do a douchey "this is for real music" acceptance speech. Fuck you, dude, you're still in Eurovision. Surprised Italy ended up so low after the initial hype about it, but I guess it doesn't connect if you don't know what the lyrics/monkey is about (and also I…

Jude Law was fantastic though.

In the Netherlands, they seem to have a lot of fun with the street naming of new neighborhoods. For a while my friends lived in an area I called "Dead Revolutionariesbuurt," on Aartsbisschop Romerostraat, which was by Steve Bikostraat, Che Guevarastraat, Augusto Sandinostraat, and several others. There's also…

Isn't that, in theory, why these guys do those ill-advised blockbusters?

Sounds like scruffy early-medieval Guy Ritchie movie would be great if it didn't have to have the King Arthur baggage. Just some smalle-tyme crooks causing trouble.

This is truly the stupidest timeline.

The Le-ba-non!

Sasha has shown some ability to drop a one-liner (the Meryl Streep line today), so I have some hope she can figure it out. I like her a lot, though, so I really hope she does.