Ukraine winning this year's Eurovision is a foregone conclusion even BEFORE the show start though. How can it not be. And with Turin stopping a few voting anormally/rigging (Estonia, Georgia, and some other countries iirc) by Russian hacking group only ensured a Ukraine win.

With that, Norway and a few entries might've though "F*ck that, let's have some FUN! If we can't win ESC this year, we might go for the win on the viral/meme award instead."

Boyanka Angelova, ball final EC Torino 2008 (Turin)

Music by London band, Turin Brakes, according to YT.

To me, every vampire fiction universe has some flaws that keep it from being ideal to my tastes, although I do enjoy at least parts of all of them. For example:

Buffy - I don't like the idea that vampires (with a few exceptions) are inherently evil because they don't have a soul. That cheapens them and turns them into guilt-free cannon fodder. Vampires should be generally evil because they have power, and have had time to be corrupted by losing their (potentially limited) human reluctance to abusing power.

Anne Rice - Look, the occasional person is actually firmly heterosexual, and no amount of time spent being undead would chip away at their inhibitions to reveal a raging omnisexual being within. Not that there's anything wrong with that. In addition, while the series starts out well with old vampires that know nothing of any god and have 'never learned any secret that would save or damn their soul', the later books are shroud of turin, god and devil obsessed dreck.

Blade (based on movies not comics) - Blade's origin doesn't seem so unique that he would be the only 'daywalker'. I also don't really like silver as a weakness for vamps -- one silver bullet grazes an arm and they are dusted? Also, 'born' vampires and vampires that can age annoy me.

Twilight - The whole weakness to sunlight thing comes down to vampires being sparkly in the sun? ...Right. In addition, Edward requires massive fortitude to resist the temptation of eating Bella if she draws blood from a tiny scratch, but there is no mention made of him having to avoid her for ... ahem ... several days a month.

Vampire the Masquerade (based on PC games) - Although I am an atheist and personally dislike Rice's later books due to overly strident religious references, the treatment of Cain of Cain/Abel as the original vampire, and his 13 fledgling vampires as the founders of 13 'clans' with different traits in VTM is quite cool. A negative is that I can't actually imagine that the masquerade-enforcing Camarilla would be able to completely keep vampires off of the human radar with anarchy loving Sabaat around. Plus stake to the heart = paralysis makes no sense.

But since we're talking fiction, there is some suspension of disbelief required anyway, so all of these flaws don't necessarily ruin the final product for me.

Anyway, sorry for the off-topic (sort of) ramblings.

1. Juicebox - The Strokes
2. Locked Out - Crowded House
3. Fancy Footwork (Crookers Remix) - Chromeo
4. Painkiller - Turin Brakes
5. Eternity One Night Only - Cut Copy
6. Pieces Of You - Islands
7. Tessellate (Field Music Remix) - Tokyo Police Club
8. Mr Pitiful - Otis Redding
9. Brainy - The National
10. An End Has A Start - Editors

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wow. i've always used xguitar.com but chordie seems much much better. and it passed the turin brakes test.

cheers dag, i will now massacre my favourite songs with more ease.

1. Arcade Fire
2. Turin Brakes
3. Radiohead
4. LCD Soundsystem
5. Pixies
6. Tom Petty
7. Interpol
8. REM (Old School)
9. Editors
10. Kings Of Leon

The order changes on a regular basis.

i recently saw a wonderful show on PBS here in the states about the shroud of turin. i'll look to post some of it later.