As promised I spent Saturday going to see Van Helsing and Kill Bill 2, both very enjoyable films, although for two different reasons. Van Helsing was good, old fashioned comic book fun; Kill Bill however had me captivated by Tarrantino's grasp of dialogue and story.
Then I stayed at my brother's place to watch the Eurovision song contest (for the Americans in the audience this is a cross-Europe song contest where a number of countries try not to win by, showing off god-awful songs)
A bottle of port, a bottle of wine and most of a bottle of vodka were finished off during the night. There were only two songs that I liked; the Malta entry and Ukrainian "Xena - warrior princess and her Goth backing dancers". The Ukrainian entry managed to win, which was nice for them, but unfortunate for the Ukrainians as a whole, because they have to pay to run the show next year.
Turkey's entry was a nice bit of Ska; Bosnia's entry was sung by a spiky haired, dyed blonde boy in a pink tankini - and I'm sorry, with a get up like that you will look gay no matter how much the female backing dancers grope at you. The Russians entered their version of Avril Lavine, while Romania won the prize for "singer wearing the least amount of clothing".
As always it was the commentary by Terry Wogan which made the night entertaining - typical gems were...

"The Netherlands haven't won in 29 years - well make that thirty" - Just after the Netherlands had performed.
"Well 1 out of 3 ain't bad" - After attempting to talk live to three different countries, and failing to make contact with two of them.
"Good idea they are bigger than you after all" - After Belorus gave Russia the full 12 points.
"No they are having a terrible time" - After the presenters asked Germany if they were enjoying the contest.
And of course the near constant calls he made to be allowed to lay down in a dark room and given another stiff drink, while his commentary degenerated into hysterical laughter.

The voting went along the normal political lines, and the UK didn't get "null points" unlike last year (quite possibly something to do with a little war in the middle East this time last year). To be honest I think the UK song was like a poor Dido track on Mogadon.

A very enjoyable night ruined for my brother by a crippling hangover the next day - he has spent almost all of today laying in bed.

Now I'm off to listen to some ABBA.