RJ’S TOP 5 EUROVISION SONGS
Number 5
In preparation for Saturday’s Eurovision final, I am going to go through my top 5 Eurovision songs. Feel free to share yours too!
This is from the 2003 contest, held in Riga. It was the Turkish entry. The song is often compared to the popular Holly Valanace song from the time called “Kiss Kiss”, well at least the beginning sounded like it.
I think half the reason why I love it so much is because it was the first Eurovision I really got into! It was a held around the same time as my Confirmation, and with the money I got for the day I went and bought myself the official Eurovision CD and always listened to this song on it, and nothing else. No, I lie. This was the t.A.T.u year, so I did listen to their song quite a bit.
Funny how things have evolved eh? 2003 “lesbians”…2012…Grannies and an oven. Oh Eurovision!
I have always said that if I was super rich, I would love to buy an aircraft, ideally a 747 or similar. I would have it parked down the back of my garden, which would obviously be massive.
This photo is the closest thing I could find that is similar to my crazy idea.
A few things I would do with it would be:
- Turn the cockpit into a fully interactive version of Flight Simulator.
- Turn the upper deck (if it was a 747) into a cinema.
- Have a large bar and disco area along the middle part of the plane.
- Use the emergency slides as real slides to enter a swimming pool which would be located underneath the plane.
A boy can dream!
This photo here has been the cornerstone of my entire research, sort of a starting point. This (plus a few others) were the original BBC Radio 1 DJ’s. I have known of this photo for years.
In the last few months, I have not only got to be in contact by email with some of these, I got to speak to some of these people for an extensive amount of time. Some of them even DJ’d on the phone for me and did sketches that they did when they were on Radio 1.
These people and a few others inspire me to do what I love to do. Getting an experience like that really makes writing a couple thousand words not really seem all that bad at all.
Give Us Back Our Airwaves
I think it is safe to say that radio is my life. I confirmed that during the past weekend. If I am to serve any purpose on this earth, it is to broadcast. I have no other uses, limited talents in other fields and little ambition to do anything else. Working with forty-odd people of a similar age to mine all just as passionate about radio as I am was possibly the most inspiring and fascinating experience of my life to date. Yet at the same time, it was one an eye opener for the wrong reasons.
CAO? Crap All Over (Best I could do really)
I am shocked to think that it was circa this day two years ago since I had that CAO malarkey looming over my head. Not only is it pointless to keep aggravated students waiting four extra days to find where their life is going, it is also stupid to assume that one’s life path is determined by less than a month of stressful work done under the most stupid circumstances ever. Yes, I called the Leaving Cert stupid. But it is.
The X Factor- Episode 1 Highlight
Can you spot me? :P
“Hey nerds, guess who’s got two thumbs, speaks limited French, and hasn’t cried once today?”
The Best President We Never Had?
We were all full of hope, full of excitement; dare I say it? We were almost as excited about #aras11 as we were about #ge11! Why? Because of the colourful characters battling it out to seek the approval of the elite of this country- the great men and women whose privilege it is to tell us what we can and can’t do, who we can and can’t marry, when we can and cannot eat or drink- the list is endless. I will cease the sarcasm here now, but you get the gist of what is being said. However, the colourful aspect is something I can’t be sarcastic about. We had the most colourful of all, Senator David Norris.
HAHAHHAHA
