Ke'ilu Kan sung by Boaz, the Israeli Eurovision 2008 Entry

Hey folks. I recently wrote about the ridiculously silly Eurovision Song Contest. It was great fun with plenty of wild and whacky songs, and at least a handful of good ones. Unfortunately, the voting is horribly politically biased and basically eastern european countries win now. They really should fix that.

Whatever the case, I wanted to highlight my favorite song - the Israeli entry. It was called Ke'ilu Kan (The Fire in My Eyes) and was sung by Bo'az Ma'uda. You can listen to the song at this link here:

Ke'ilu Kan sung by Bo'az Ma'uda

Eurovision 2008

Oh my sweet holy pickles, batman...

A year ago (or a little over that actually) I moved from the USA to the United Kingdom. I arrived on a Friday, wandered around like a lost foreigner for a day. And the next evening on Saturday night I caught the last hour or so of the Eurovision Song Contest. Considering the bizarre nature of the contest, it would have to be one of the most comical things to run into on television less then 48 hours into my immigration experience.

For those who are unaware, the Eurovision Song Contest is a massive cross-continental music competition that takes place annually in Europe. This year is the 53rd instance of the contest, having began in 1956 with 7 contestants: Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy and Switzerland. Since then it has grown to dozens of countries including 2 semi-final shows and a finals.

Well, this year my wife and I are going to watch perhaps some of the semi-finals and most of the finals. And I am going to have to throw my support behind Ireland and their singing turkey... :)