Everything you need to know about Eurovision 2013

There is NO POINT watching this year's Eurovision Song Contest, because the obvious best song, from Estonia, was knocked out in that country's qualifying round.

I smell a conspiracy. It's probably because the Estonian government knows the song would blow all others out of the water and they'd need to pony up the dough to host next year's competition.
And that's why you won't hear Winny Puhh's transcendent "Meiecundimees üks Korsakov läks eile Lätti" on May 18.

So hear it now.

Using Disney's works to explain copyright

OK Go have too much time on their hands

This can't be one shot. Two, maybe?

Finches rock out

Apparently I'm on a "cute animals playing kick-ass rock 'n' roll" tear these days.

From The Guardian:

French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot has strategically placed plugged-in electric guitars as perches, and cymbals containing water and seeds as feeders. As the birds fly around and land on the instruments, or even wipe their beaks on the strings, the visitor will hear the amplified results.

Look out, Thurston Moore!

Videos Canadians consider cool

On our recent trip to Montreal (which, admittedly, as as much "Canada" as San Francisco is "America"), we stopped in at MAC, the Musée d'Art Contemporain, to check out their exhibit of music videos. Here are the three most interesting.

Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton: Our Hell.



Kaiser Chiefs: Love's Not a Competition (But I'm Winning). Lovely use of the single shot. And the guy sitting by the Columbus Circle fountain is pointedly reading Viz. Sadly, Big Record doesn't like embedding, so you'll have to watch it here.

And the winner for nerdiest, Grip: zZz is Playing:


There's also a nine-minute making-of piece, so you can see how it's done (Levon, I'm looking in your direction).

FlamingBaconLanceOfDeath!

I'm sorry, Elmer, but this knocks SpearAndMagicHelmet into a cocked hat.

Whatever that means.

Sing-along-a-global-financial-meltdown

MOBA's West Wing

There's really no way to describe these totally crappy paintings of our new president. Let's just say the words "monkey" and "tweeter" come to mind.

Sweary Sopranos Swear-a-thon

If you knitted together every expletive from all 86 episodes of the Sopranos into one long thread, it would be 27 minutes long. Which is less than one might expect.

Ads you will never see on American television #452

Mildly NSFW.

All work and no play

They finally published Jack Torrance's book.

Kinda sorta.

Monkey jockeys for all your promotional needs

"If you love pig racing, you'll go ape for the Banana Derby!"

No future for you

"God save the Queen/She ain't no human being ... eeh, do you remember her Coronation, Ethel? Lovely it was, wasn't it?"

I Knew I Was Supposed to Remember Something...

Al Qaeda has so much to answer for.