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:

7 Comments


  1. 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 pm

  2. Speechless and appalled, or just speechless?

    Quote | Posted 26 April, 2010, 9:45 pm

  3. Speechless 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 pm

  4. It was a peculiarly duff choice for the year the contest was in Serbia.

    Quote | Posted 28 April, 2010, 11:17 am

  5. Oh, 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 am

  6. Bizarrely, 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

  7. [...] 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

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