I am a dung beetle.... constantly pushing shit around

realistically though, if you are not in the top 4 in the semi, you wont do well in the final. it is rare to win when you did not finish first in your final. it can be done, 'Wild Dancers' and 'Running Scared' finished second in their respective semis and won. 'Believe' won from third in the semi in 2008. generally you need to win your semi.

I would really like to see the jury v televote results. but at the moment. there has been the question of if the first semi had the right amount of neighbour countries. some think neighbour voting it ruining Eurovision. the truth is though that if you dont qualify now, you wont win in the final if the semis are stacked better anyways. is it better to allow neighbours to stack themselves in the final so they have to spread their votes amongst more neighbours. this means that the non-aligned countries that do qualify for the final have a better chance to win.

there were heaps of countries I wanted to see qualify, namely Croatia (13th) and Latvia (17th) but if they couldn't get the votes to get out of the semi, they would not have got enough votes to win and what is the use of going into the final if you don't win? if you are not competing in the final, you can get drunk all night so win-win.

not like much of Eurovision is a win, but anyways

Semi 2 is this Thursday and dress rehearsals have been competed. this is a quick rundown of what to expect from the second semi

Latvia: More than enough cheese to please. what a way to start, Glittery suits and a keytar.. A KEYTAR!!! love it
San Marino: maybe they are meant to be wings, maybe they are meant to be extreme tuck shop lady arms
FYR Macedonia: this is really beginning to stand out as a toilet break
Azerbaijan: dude in a box.
Finland: the background comes across as brighter than the song... which isn't hard
Malta: for the Karaoke fans, the background is providing the lyrics.
Bulgaria: if yo are going to use a drum on a Eurovision stage, grandma needs to bang it, not a mullet man
Iceland: He has such pretty long hair. Women and 80's rock bands should be jealous
Greece: well... we couldn't really expect a mass of stage props, Greece can't afford that much
Israel: she is still torturing the same dress she wore in the official clip
Armenia: this is on fire...
Hungary: the Burton-esque images from the clip appear in the background which appears to be the most interesting thing about this performance
Norway: this is the favourite from this semi. there is lots of lights.
Albania: out of the bands, this is possibly the best presented. awesome background
Georgia: thats a fairly expensive looking dress. i don't get the hips. smoke and cliches
Switzerland: so thats how you avoid any emblems of the Salvation Army and still look like a Salvation Army band
Romania: oh my...

Country: Malta

History...
Debut: 1971
Previous Appearances: 25
Wins: 0

2013...
Artist: Gianluca
Song: Tomorrow

To start 2013 I have found the most annoying ear worm encouraging geeks to stalk women. Well that's all I got out of the song anyways. 'Its time to follow her tomorrow'... seriously, that's a little creepy.

Talking about creepy, the singer is appears to be an evangelist style christian complete with the shit eating smile they always seem to wear. whats with that? go back to your prayer group son, and take your face with you. gah! I just want to punch him.

Other than the stalkeriness of the lyrics and the shit eating smile of the singer... oh and that it features a ukelele and I hate ukeleles... but other than that the song is reasonably inoffensive. if the ukelele is smashed over the face of the singer in the performance, I would vote for it. the only other positive about the song is the actor in the clip because he wears a bow tie and bow ties are cool.

Malta likes to be annoying. 1975 was the first time they didn't finish last Singing this Song