Oh Lordi

World, or at least Europe has gone mad, it's official now. Eurovision song contest has long been a lame attempt to raise some feelings for one's nationality. Funny that, as if people in their countries on this continent already would not possess those feelings. Europe is a very diverse continent with rich and complex cultural mixture and the peoples of Europe have always known this and stuck to their own countries with some exemptions of course so that the point of such contest still remains very unclear to me...

However, Lordi, with some nice assistance from their record label, caused such a stir even before anyone had heard any of the songs that few were left in darkness about their mission - to rock the stagnant and largely pointless contest. To be honest, it was about a time for someone to really do this and to question the necessity of such thing on the whole.

Well, I can't really say that much more about the song or the band except that as for the rest of the contestants, it had some more comedy and showbusiness value than most and therefore, it won. Oh, just maybe, there's also a helluva big group of people around Europe who happen to like monsters and semi-hard rock too... or not?

On another note, I will be turning 30 next week and will be visiting the city of Dublin with Xinola Mon-Tue next week. The highlight of the trip will be a meal at Patrick Guilbaud's restaurant. More on that next week once we're back. I'll write a little review of a place that I've never even thought that I'd be visiting and I am of course talking about the restaurant here.

Mad world, and it's only getting crazier as we get older....