Eurovision yay

[winter]

Eurovision wasn't nearly as fun as last year's (the first time I actually voted \m/), but it was entertaining - sometimes in the fun way, sometimes with actual fun.


The French guys apparently had costumes designed by Gaultier. Meh, seen better :P

I think the Ukrainian entry is easier to understand when you know the guy is making a living dressing up as a stereotypical Ukrainian peasant woman and performing in Russian nightclubs.

Someone should tell the Swedish guys that while the song is nice, the glam rock theme was O.o

I was quite amused by the Russians - rock-style girlsband, but they did have fire to them.

Belarussian guy can't sing particularly, but I still watched because his backup dancers deserved to win. Total pros.

The Slovenian girl actually made me gape - song is forgettable though nice, but she has a coloratura soprano and showstopping vibrato.

But I gotta admit my favourites were the Latvians. 7 tenors singing in Italian, what's not to love?


Of course, Serbia won. So? Still was fun to watch all the ways people tried to top Lordi \m/

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[winter]

Not speak as much as understand ;) I can get through most films and such all right, though, and get a lot of Russian operas, plus read Cyryllic though it takes concentration. And I've actually read Master and Margarita in Polish many times; it's my favourite book ever.

I'm still waiting for a proper version of both to compare :) Guy who sent me the Russian version managed to bollix up the sound on my copy. From the quick browse-through, Tybalt looked interesting, and a lot of the voices (what little I could hear of them...)

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:) Yay, definitely with you there! It is trully a perfect book, both hilarious and romantic and very very deep. Some scenes never fail to squeeze tears out of me.

Have you watched any movies based on it? I know there is a Polish and an Italian version, and Webber thought about making a musical out of it but gave up the idea. In Russia we have two versions - more recent TV series that many dislike and an older movie, considered to be really good but totally failing my expectations. Have you seen any of those? I have the older movie on my computer and could try uploading it if you are interested. It was never officially released.

Do you have an audio of Russian R&J? I've actually never seen teh video but the lyrics just did not tickle my fancy :)