Tonight I will be watching -casually not fanatically- the final of the eurovision song contest. I love this contest with its politics, its rituals, its bad music, its good music. Every year -because our contribution mostly is bad- the Dutch moan about these things. As if Frans Bauers music (a Dutch, local world celebrity) is so wonderful. Of course, liking alternative music, there are not many songs I like on a personal level. With the odd exception like Brainstorm’s My Star (with Jarvis Cocker-esque dancing):
I haven’t seen any songs from the two semi-finals. Well…only one…the decent
Note that this is the first post that should be automatically tweeted into the world.
Christian Bokhove 