0.19.2 - London calling, and we ain't got no swing
Dashboard! Throughout the years, I've had people ask me why I enjoy Eurovision. " I thought you liked music!" they say with a sarcastic smile, " Isn't it all just trashy Europop?" , and if I'm honest, I've never really known how to respond to that without finding a way to offend the person asking the question. Because what I want to say is " What you mean is that it's different from the narrow view of music you confine yourself to, that you are not open to the idea of things outside of your very nation-biased viewpoint also having value which isn't immediately clear to you, and that you can't see past your own preconceptions to understand how incredibly entertaining it can be. I do like music; what you like is some music." That kind of unnecessarily confrontational rant is hard to pull off. A few years ago, I heard the hosts of the podcast My Brother, My Brother and Me (yes, I am referencing them again) talk about Eurov...