Theme Meme
A new blogmeme’s doing the round, to pick the theme-tune of your blog.
Here at the Virtual Stoa, there can only be one choice — this complex yet sensitive meditation on the dialectics of national identity in a globalising era, as performed at the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest by Scooch:
I’m speechless. And those planes look like bombers coming to get you.
I think a Eurovision song about Eurostar would be far more suitable. Has anyone written one?
↓ Quote | Posted 26 April, 2010, 12:24 pmSpeechless and appalled, or just speechless?
↓ Quote | Posted 26 April, 2010, 9:45 pmSpeechless as in appalled and aghast.
Surely this blog already has the Monty Python Philosopher’s Song as its theme tune. Re-elect the MP Phil. S!
↓ Quote | Posted 27 April, 2010, 8:27 pmIt was a peculiarly duff choice for the year the contest was in Serbia.
↓ Quote | Posted 28 April, 2010, 11:17 amOh, I liked the Andy Abraham song (though it was never going to come close to winning).
http://www.eurovision.tv/event/artistdetail?song=23995&event=1469
↓ Quote | Posted 28 April, 2010, 11:23 amBizarrely, the ECPR coincided with the Eurovision Song Contest in being based in Helsinki that week. It was a very odd experience watching Scooch from a Helsinki bar…
↓ Quote | Posted 29 April, 2010, 8:43 am[...] In the meantime, I’m aware that I’m still supposed to have picked a blog theme tune. Now seems as good a time as any, though I don’t pretend to attain such heights of musical horror as this. [...]
↓ Quote | Posted 31 May, 2010, 7:03 am