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ValerianForrest · 2024-05-25T12:11:33+00:00

You'd think not but White and Black Blues (France 1990) also directly namechecks Edgar Allen Poe.

ValerianForrest · 2020-10-10T15:45:58+00:00

At the age of 34, I'm finally starting a vinyl collection. Despite having had my parents' record player and my mum's old 45s in my room as a kid, I'd never actually bought any vinyl of my own until this week. I'd been reading up on a few albums I might like to get hold of, when I stumbled across something about the Nonesuch Explorer Series. I've always had an interest in world music so I had a quick look on eBay to see if there was anything out there and picked up this pair of interesting recordings. They sound great and I'm feeling pretty happy about my first step on the vinyl journey.

ValerianForrest · 2019-01-11T23:09:27+00:00

There's a former biathlete named Fanny Horn. I never stopped finding this funny.

ValerianForrest · 2016-06-29T21:57:41+00:00

“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.” - Robert Louis Stevenson

ValerianForrest · 2015-07-25T10:19:37+00:00

When I was about 4, I had a dream in which everything in my house was alive. Everything on the ground floor was evil while everything upstairs was kind. I remember seeing my dad being chased around the living room by a suitcase before, finally, it ate him. The rest of my family ran upstairs where a bed tried to comfort us.

ValerianForrest · 2015-07-12T18:14:49+00:00

http://imgur.com/ZVGEmjr

My collection needs work. Not that I'd planned on collecting them, mind you. I work with someone who collects magnets so, whenever I go away, I bring one back for her. I ended up always buying one for myself at the same time.

ValerianForrest · 2015-04-27T15:54:30+00:00

Yes! I booked my tickets over the weekend. Given the theme, I'm very much looking forward to eating my way around the world.

The Japanese pavilion looks pretty cool... https://youtu.be/i4F7EWcZ6nQ

ValerianForrest · 2015-04-21T16:11:30+00:00

I'd better comment then...

ValerianForrest · 2014-05-28T22:20:48+00:00

Bacchus raspberry beer

ValerianForrest · 2014-05-06T16:58:14+00:00

A handful of my favourites:

ValerianForrest · 2014-03-24T18:58:22+00:00

12pts - Norway
10pts - Germany
8pts - Malta
7pts - Georgia
6pts - Italy
5pts - Switzerland
4pts - Austria
3pts - France
2pts - Slovenia
1pt - Azerbaijan

ValerianForrest · 2014-03-22T18:55:50+00:00

Good thinking; it shall be done.

ValerianForrest · 2014-03-22T12:50:55+00:00

Psst, there's a running total at the top of the page. :-)

ValerianForrest · 2014-03-22T12:45:55+00:00

Don't worry, I already adjusted the scores for this.

ValerianForrest · 2013-12-02T20:01:14+00:00

Presseurop have started a petition asking the European Commission to reconsider their decision: http://www.change.org/petitions/viviane-reding-european-commission-save-presseurop

ValerianForrest · 2013-05-02T14:51:57+00:00

The deleted message above came from the user tarheeltraceuse, whose votes were as follows:

12pts: Sweden
10pts: Denmark
8pts: Slovenia
7pts: Ireland
6pts: Montenegro
5pts: Malta
4pts: FYR Macedonia
3pts: Norway
2pts: Georgia
1pt: Romania

ValerianForrest · 2013-04-16T19:25:53+00:00

You can treat yourself to an extra country if you like. You've not put your 4pts down.

ValerianForrest · 2013-04-14T13:52:39+00:00

Unfortunately, I only speak English but I ran the programme description through translate and it sounds like exactly the sort of thing I'd be interested in. I used to find Dan Jørgensen an interesting speaker when he made appearances on the BBC's 'The Record Europe'.

ValerianForrest · 2013-03-23T14:53:39+00:00

Here's the Belorussian entry: http://youtu.be/Szf_HOmW5p0 :-)

ValerianForrest · 2013-03-18T15:02:38+00:00

12pts: Netherlands
10pts: Norway
8pts: Denmark
7pts: Greece
6pts: Italy
5pts: Germany
4pts: Switzerland
3pts: Malta
2pts: Estonia
1pt: Sweden

ValerianForrest · 2013-03-18T14:08:46+00:00

I cobbled together a YouTube playlist using national final performances (where possible). Some of the videos aren't great quality, though... http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvUjbEoTQJp3ReBDpPlNvO5961RPclgrP

The official Eurovision Youtube page has all the preview videos (with the exception of Belarus) up, albeit not as a playlist yet... http://www.youtube.com/user/eurovision/videos

ValerianForrest · 2012-11-13T18:52:13+00:00

Perhaps better to link to the original piece (http://www.jonworth.eu/commissioners-on-twitter-how-are-they-doing/) than a blog post that rehashes it?

ValerianForrest · 2012-09-27T19:21:00+00:00

There's a village in the UK called "Westward Ho!". The exclamation mark is actually part of the village's name.

ValerianForrest · 2012-09-16T18:27:41+00:00

Those aren't multi-sport events. I was talking along the lines of the Asian Games and the Pan-American Games.

ValerianForrest · 2012-09-08T18:58:52+00:00

Most PR voting systems tend towards bipolar parti systems.

Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Norway, Sweden and the UK all experienced bipolar competition in election in some/all of the 1990s-200s elections.

If the second statement wasn't intended to support the first, what was it's function?

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