SOUNDTRACK: TIX-“Fallen Angel” (Norway, Eurovision Entry 2021).
Eurovision 2021 is upon us. It’s hard to really follow Eurovision in the States, but you can see highlights and most official entries online
I tend to think of Eurovision as over the top and campy.
And, yep, I’d say this falls into that category. It’s an over the top ballad–a remarkably simple melody and very straightforward lyrics (you’re an angel, I’m a fallen angel, will you ever notice me?).
The over the topness comes because as he sings this song he is wearing massive white angel wings and he is surrounded by half a dozen demons dressed in black with giant horns.
Upon hearing the song my daughter commented that his English was very good. This is not surprising, him coming from Norway, but you can’t hear a hint of an accent. And his lyrics are sung so clearly you can make out every word.
The whole thing is really quite mockable and yet it is so sincere it’s hard to hate.
Especially when you learn that Tix is called Tix because he suffers from Tourette’s syndrome and as a child he was bullied and called “tics,” which he has since embraced.
UPDATE: This judges were not moved by his story as this song came in 18th.
[READ: May 10, 2021] “Let It Snow”
I found a stash of old David Sedaris pieces and since they’re all pretty old, they’re quite funny.
This short piece is very funny and, obviously, it’s about snow.
He says that winters were always mild in North Carolina when he was a kid. But one year there was a snowfall that lasted for a few days–which meant the kids were home from school.
They quickly got on their mother’s nerves and were thrown out of the house.
They pounded on the door and rang the bells demanding to be let back in, but she just pulled the drapes and enjoyed her solitude (which meant wine, mostly):
Drinking didn’t count if you followed a glass of wine with a cup of coffee, and so she had a goblet and mug positioned before her on the countertop.
They decided the best revenge would be if one of them got hit by a car–“It was really the perfect solution.”
They asked Gretchen and then Amy to do it but the obvious choice was the youngest, Tiffany: “Her eagerness to please was absolute and naked.”
When they asked her to lie in the street just just asked “Where?”
They chose a dip between to hills and she lay down.
The first car was a neighbor who slowed and asked if that was a person lying there. Lisa said, “Well, sort of.”
The kids explained that they were locked out by their mother and he seemed to accept that but, no doubt, he told their mother since she came marching through the snow a few minutes later.
She didn’t own pants, so she came out calves-deep in the snow wearing loafers.
She raised a bare foot, “I was wearing loafers.”
One moment you’re locked out of the house, the next you’re rooting around in snow looking for a shoe.
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