I *heart* Eurovision!

I love the Eurovision song contest, if only because it's one-stop-shopping for beautiful Euro-boys, but I especially love it this year. Here's why:

1. Sakis Rouvas

Athens is the host city (Greece won last year- what can I say? They their shit together every 2,000 years or so) and the event is being MC'd by my favorite Greek pop star, Sakis Rouvas. Sakis, incidentally, was once a Eurovision contestant himself, and his perfomance included being lowered from the ceiling, shirtless, dressed in white Valentino, as described by my roomate (an androgynous greek boy himself) "like a beautiful gay angel."

Anyway, here's Sakis:



Yeah, that's niiiice.

2. Lordi

Finland usually bites the big one in Eurovision, mostly because of their insistence on entering native folksingers, and admittedly, it's not the most dance-able language. This year though, Finland is playing to its strengths and entering Lordi, the ass-kickingest black metal band I've never heard of. And in a field heavily biased towards fake blondes (see the participants here), they are a breath of fresh- I mean, dark, dank air directly from the bowels of Hades!

Here's the performance that won Lordi their Eurovision spot. The A-rock-alypse begins now!



Stay tuned for more Eurovision updates, and place your bets below!!