Eurovision 2009 Live Blogging!

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To break in the new Kittysneezes Twitter Feed, we’re going to LiveBlog Eurovision! It starts at 12 Noon PDT, which is, as I type, in about an hour and a half. Once it’s over, I’ll copy/paste it into here, and we’ll be good to go! Yay!

And if you want to watch — click here to stream — you’ll have to download the Octoshape plugin, but that’s it!

OK — It’s over! But if you missed it, you can read the archive here… but it might not make much sense without the feed. But I believe Eurovision’ll have it up for streaming for a while, so you can pretend you’re watching and reading in real time!

11:14 Wow, sponsoring Eurovision — Taft’s doin’ pretty good for himself, for a long-dead ex-US President. #
11:14 Yes, screen, I am getting excited yet. “Wohoo!” indeed. #
11:44 I’m thinking, since Ben’s coming over to watch, too, we might both be liveblogging under the same account. #
11:46 It seems that, as we’re getting closer to airtime, the Taft ads are getting more and more frequent. (Also, same with Raiffeisen BANK…) #
11:47 From their ad, I think Raiffeisen BANK isn’t a traditional money-bank, but one that steals music away and stores it in a cast-iron lockbox. #
11:52 The lockbox is apparently painted yellow and has wrenches on the side. #
11:53 Oh, the Eurovision feeds’s beginning to act weird. I wonder if it’s my connection or if they’re getting ready to switch over. #
11:55 Ah, my connection. Fixed now — hopefully. #
11:56 I like to think the sound on the Raiffeisen BANK ad is the screaming of people as RBANK takes the music away. #
11:57 IT’S STARTING!!! WE HAVE LADY!! #
11:59 The audience has glowsticks. Eurorave! #
12:00 @oddharmonic – lady wasn’t singin’, though, she was just smiling and doing mic check, I think. #
12:01 AAAHHHH DON’T KILL ME LETTERS!! #
12:04 The feed is tweaking out. Hopefully it’ll settle down. At least it’s doing it during Cirque D’Soleil. #
12:10 OK! I think it’s settled down.. just in time for last year’s terrible winner to shut up! #
12:11 Moscow is treating me fine as I’m not there right now! #
12:22 OK! Technical problems… better? We missed the bulk of Lithuania’s Shitty Harry Connick, Israel’s not-drum drummers, and now it’s… #
12:23 FRENCH LADY!Seriously — y’all see the bumper with the French Paris Hair thing? That was kinda scary. #
12:23 Also — I think, at least from the tail end of Israel, it sounded like they were ripping off “Killing Me Softly”. #
12:24 Why doesn’t anyone in the US run Eurovision? Aside from the fact that it’s awful, it’s awful in an AWESOME way. #
12:26 Whoo! Sweden! Lasers and explosions beats the hell out of that French Piece Of Shit! #
12:26 She’s GLOWING! They might have lights in her dress!Welcome to Sweden, where we’re WHITE! #
12:27 Sweden rocks. All… Discopera. #
12:28 What is this, Phantom Of THe Klan Rally? #
12:29 Wow… Croatia’s Horrible Hair Bumper just looked sad. #
12:35 Portugal’s singer is a little ray of darkness in all that sunshine. #
12:36 I really do like the stage design though and the light-up floor. #
12:37 What Russia thinks of countries is kinda hilarious. I also just realized now that the “SNEG/SNOW” things are not titles, but random words. #
12:38 I like how Iceland’s singer is all happy and cheery singing this sad breakup-type song. Maybe the dude she’s dumping just really sucks? #
12:39 What’s with that hideous, tacky ring? #
12:39 Ben: I see you’re still new to Eurovision, you still start sentences with “what’s with that hideous…” #
12:40 Greece’s random words are: GOOD LUCK! #
12:42 This is like that one Robbie Williams video where he starts taking off his skin, only not interesting. #
12:44 Armenia’s gonna sing JAN JAN! #
12:45 Ben: This is a Eurovision Genre I like — traditional folk music mixed with generic techno. #
12:45 So far, I think I’m voting for Armenia. #
12:46 Jump it up, indeed! #
12:46 LAZERS!! #
12:48 I wonder if anyone thought the Eurovision Hair Bumper Theme was a good idea. #
12:55 Anyone else getting a Tim & Eric kinda vibe off of Azerbajan? #
12:56 Apparently Boznia/Herzegovina’s is a love song to the concept of Communism? #
12:58 Dancing girls are marching soldiers! This is awesome! No wonder they love Communism! If Communism is about Revolutionary War guys rocking. #
13:00 hahahah, the Russian Correspondent is HILARIOUS! “I tell you why Russia win the Eurovision! Our neighbors vote for us or we kill!” #
13:00 Not every Russian can, but we all love to sing! We also love kill Moose & Squirrel! #
13:02 Moldova! Technofolk! That’s really the best Eurovision Genre. #
13:03 OK — I think Moldova stole my heart away from Armenia. #
13:04 Their stage show is awesome too. A+! #
13:05 I think Andy Partridge was born in Malta. They shoulda got him to sing instead. #
13:05 Sucks for her, following Moldova. #
13:06 1988 would just eat this song up. #
13:08 Estonia’s word is Gagarin… translated as Gagarin! #
13:10 bland oontz bland oontz bland oontz bland oontz #
13:12 Denmark == SANTA CLAUS! #
13:12 Ben: “Oh. More shit from Denmark.” #
13:13 Apparently Denmark’s entry last year though was so much worse. #
13:14 “…so you’re suggesting an open relationship?” #
13:15 Denmark guy is SO SERIOUS. #
13:16 Miss Kiss Kiss Bang! That’s an awesome title.HEY KIDS! LET’S DANCE #
13:17 Oh, Germany… Germany….Ben: “I liked it better when they sent country musicians. That should be their schtick”. #
13:18 SHINY PANTS GERMAN #
13:18 I think that’s the new Dumm Comic. #
13:19 hahahaha, the fake tap dancing. Is that actually Dita Von Teese? That’s what the monitors on the set said? #
13:20 Turkey — How are you?! #
13:21 This… is not so good. Apparently the Turkish singer is a big pop star in Holland. #
13:22 Or Belgium, sorry. Not Holland. #
13:22 Either way, she’s kinda bad. #
13:22 Ben says this will do really well. BOO TO THAT. He doesn’t know if it’s gonna win, but he’d be really surprised if it’s not in the top 3. #
13:23 Apparently in this year, 50% of each country’s votes are determined by “Music Industry Professionals”. Erm. #
13:24 Albania is Caviar. Also, trying to be SexyBack. #
13:24 DANCING DISCO BALL MAN OH GOD NIGHTMARE FUEL #
13:25 HE’S GOT MIME HENCHMEN! OH GOD WE’RE GONNA DIE #
13:26 BREAKDANCING MIME OH GOD #
13:26 Albania is WEIRD. #
13:27 What the hell WAS that? Albania thought that was the best for Eurovision? What? #
13:28 Norway == Grandmother. WHERE ARE THEY GETTING THESE WORDS?! #
13:30 Norway Guy’s backed up by twin I Dream Of Jeannies! #
13:31 Devil went down to Norway! #
13:32 The hostess’ dress has a tumor! #
13:33 UKRAINE! Glamour! With the song Be My Valentine! (ANti-Crisis Girl!) #
13:33 Oh my god… Ukraine’s a trainwreck! The Stripper Centurions In The Pole-Dance Hamster Wheels! #
13:39 Romania! I’d say something, but during their song I’ve been fighting with the connection on both the stream and the wi-fi. #
13:46 England: Even from the half-second snippets were getting, Ben can tell it’s not going to do well at all. #
13:46 Finland — this isn’t lordi! #
13:48 I like the guy in the audience with the sparkly finn suit. #
14:11 OK! We lost connection, so Ben and I walked down to Specialty’s. #
14:13 Yay, more cirque d’so lame. #
14:20 What the hell, Spain? 10 points to the UK? DRRR> #
14:28 Norway… really? REALLY? #
14:30 I like how Russia calling Russia was like that one Mr. Show sketch with the award shows in the same room. #
14:31 haha, Latvia judge sounds like Yakov. #
14:34 Hee, finnish cowboy judge! #
14:41 The air is NOT getting dense with tension… Norway won, inexplicably. #
14:42 hahaha,a the t.A.T.u. cover is AWESOME. #
15:09 Hooray. Norway. Somehow. At least they’re a different sort of bad than the bad that usually wins? #
15:09 Of the three leaders, I’d be Azerbaijan (Tim & Eric!!), Iceland (happily sung sad song), then Norway (boo). #
15:10 But seriously, fuckin’ Moldova should have won. #
15:10 I will be curious to see the fallout — if Norway’s win was due to the Music Industry Sorts, or if it was what The People actually wanted. #
15:11 END. #

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