Your Eurovision party sounds like fun. That sounds like it would be a challenge to find foods from so many of the countries (there's a European grocery store in my area but it definitely stocks certain types of products more than those of other origins), but it sounds like you were able to find a few different things. 

I thought of you when I was watching the points come in and seeing Germany get so few. I was hoping they'd do better, though they have done better than the previous two German entries in terms of points.

I didn't know that about the Georgian singer. I think it's cool to hear about some of the performers also being involved in other things besides music.

It's funny, when they were adding the televote points to each country's score, I felt that most of them were pretty low. Even though Ukraine ended up with way more televote points last year than Sweden did this year, I didn't perceive it as lopsided as it seemed to be this year, maybe because Finland took so many and they were near the end?
I was looking at the voting breakdown on Wikipedia to see how my region, "the Rest of the World" voted. In the final, I ended up casting 10 votes - 9 for Belgium and 1 for France. The French singer is from Montreal and I thought she was pretty good, but I was concerned about distributing my votes too thinly and not helping anyone win. Watching the final performance for Belgium, I got the sense from their staging that they wouldn't make it, but their song was the one that stayed in my head the most so I still voted mostly for them. The Rest of the World ended up giving France 1 point and Belgium no points! While it would be too much work, I'm kind of curious how the different countries' people voted, and how many. I wonder how many votes for France were from Canada.
To be perfectly honest, I know a lot of people like Loreen, but I wasn't a fan of her song so I was a little disappointed with the results. Finland was kind of unique and had creative costumes so I wo

I can imagine they wouldn't all be Beatles, since they're not the only group from Liverpool that's famous. I wouldn't be surprised if there's more than one song of theirs, though. I'm looking forward to hearing what Go_A does as well.

I would like to share something kind of amusing (perhaps) that happened on tonight's episode of the quiz show, Jeopardy!. There was a clue asking for the names of the leads playing Sherlock and Watson on Sherlock. The first person to ring it guessed Benedict Cumberbatch and Jude Law. When they got deemed incorrect, another contestant rang in with the correct response. At first I thought mistaking Martin Freeman for Jude Law was odd, but then later on I remembered that Jude Law is in the Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes films. So he just got them mixed up, or conflated in his mind somehow. It reminded me I haven't actually watched any of them.

Glad your cast is getting better. My cat was sick at the end of her life and that was tough to deal with. And even the times when she was sick and still had some life left to live, it was stressful.

I hadn't listened to Blood & Glitter until you mentioned it here, except for I guess a small excerpt. It's not really my type of music, but it was growing on me as I listened and I agree with you about the lyrics. More original than the generic, perhaps cliché, phrase "We are one."

Speaking of Cornelia last year, her song was definitely one I listened to many times after the contest and that has stayed with me, even though in the run-up to the contest it wasn't a favourite of mine.

I hadn't been paying attention to the songwriters. That's amazing how many songs some of them have written! I really loved Poland's song last year, but I haven't actually checked out Switzerland this year (I mean, it was in the "all 37 songs video" but I don't remember what that one sounded like). Interesting that the songwriter for Ireland is Scandinavian and hast written for all those famous people. I remember it coming up in interviews in 2021 that Tix had been involved with writing a US artist's hit song. You don't always realize how people get around, writing for others, since it happens behind the scenes and unless you're in the know, you don't necessarily know who writes a song, you just associate it with the performer.

Thanks for the congratulations on the job. It's related to what I studied in university as well as my interests and things I like to do generally, so I'm really happy with what I'm doing. And it's work from home, so I don't have to commute, which I also like.

Yes, from what I've read, they both are pointing out pretentions of rich people and how people talk about things they think are sophisticated.

I was not aware of that, though I knew that one of Lisa Marie's sons had committed suicide, I think. So much sadness for one family, although I suppose there are others with similar stories who aren't famous.

My mum suspects it probably was genetic. Elvis died in his 40s of arrythmia, I believe, plus his body took abuse from drugs and such over the years so he was in his 40s. I believe Lisa Marie died of a heart attack as well. Elvis' mum also died of heart failure, I believe. Obviously, I don't know about any conditions they had or any diagnoses, but because of that pattern my mum thinks it's likely genetic.
This must be so hard for Priscilla. She and Elvis and a bit of a problematic relationship in some ways, but it's also clear that she loved him a lot, and it would have been tough to lose him so young, and now to lose her daughter... I can only imagine.

Yes, I think it's kind of limited in its view in that way. I think everything will represent the writers in some way, because it's coming from their minds, but not in the way TJLC says it. And I think when a show or film has an ensemble cast, even if Sherlock isn't as much of an ensemble as some other shows, it's reduction to see their stories only serving that of two other characters instead of some broader theme.

I remember finding the conviction that some people had about being certain of their predictions quite interesting, even if I don't agree with it.

Glad you found something worth reading! I think I saw your previous reply before you deleted it, but I understand not wanting to be too off-topic. I might check out those videos you mentioned just to see what they are like. It can be fun to revisit things in a new perspective, or see others revisit things.