Jarkko Lehmus Diary

Praise The Lordi!

Saturday 20th May, 4pm: "Yeah, dad... I hope they do well against the Chezk Republic. So, if they win, they'll be against either Canada or Sweden in the final? I hope it'll be Sweden... Heh, heh... What? The Eurovision Song Contest? Lordi? That's crazy! They don't stand a chance, but it'll be a great laugh! Apparently the Greeks are trying to ban them from performing, the local presenters say that hell will freeze over before Finland wins and if they do, they'll get Lordi tattoos! Yeah, I'll be watching it. We'll have a little Nordic get-together at Paula's and Graeme's house. Food, booze and Terry Wogan... Oh, of course. He's this sarky old codger of a presenter. Funny as they come. Ok... Enjoy the match. Talk to you later."

Saturday 20th May, 11pm: "FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND!!!! HARD! ROCK! HALLELUJAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!"

Mr Lordi and his jolly monsters of rock!

The whole idea of the evening was to get all mashed up, ignore the rubbish music, make jokes about the inbred political voting and the ridiculousness of the whole institution, giggle at Terry Wogan and cheer at Lordi when they came last. Talking about getting sucker punched: Lordi is the first ever Finnish winner of the Song Contest and, just to piss on the traditional cheesy power ballad values, they cleaned up with the biggest ever points total in the history of the competition! I tip my hat to the Finnish nation for having enough balls to unleash these monsters to wreack havoc on the gayness of Eurovision, to all the independent donors who pooled enough money together to pay for the pyros the band couldn't have otherwise afforded and finally to the 100 000 000 Europeans who watched the show and voted the freaks to win!

Who gives a flying flopsie about icehockey anyway? I'm proud to be a Finn! We might not be pretty, but we sure as hell rock! While the devil is freezing his nuts off and the Greeks are admiring their fresh tattoos I'm gargling with the left over tequila to regain my voice and planning the trip to Helsinki in May 2007: lunatics on pogosticks and stagediving the Eurovision way!

Posted by Jarkko at May 21, 2006 11:14 PM