Current mood:	hyper
Current music:	KMFDM -- Juke Joint Jezebel

Turkey wins Eurovision Song Contest!!! Besiktas wins Premier League!!! The Fenix reopens!!!
My mom called me last night to tell me that Turkey won the Eurovision Song Contest! In the US this is absolutely not a great deal at all, in Turkey it is somewhat big (it would have been huge about ten years ago when Turkey was still aspiring to be accepted into applicant status for the EU, now it is an applicant, a long shot at that). Sertab Erener, a well known Turkish "diva", won the contest with a song that was half Western (it was sung in English, with a lot of synth) and half Turkish (belly dancers and Arabic song motifs all the way). Turkish newspapers, of course, chose to announce this feat with headlines such as "The dream of 25 years comes true!"

In other news, the soccer team that my dad and my bro support (somewhat fanatically I might add) won the Premier League Championship. I hope they enjoy that while they can, Besiktas sucks in European Cups, it is no Galatasaray.

The Fenix reopened last week with some fanfare, I wonder how it is getting on. It is ironic that the original vehement opponents of the club's reopening (for example, other bar owners, cops etc.) are now in full support of it, especially after the owner reportedly spent 2.5 million dollars and is going to "clean up" Pioneer Square. I was going to go out tonight to the Fenix Underground, but they are having a concert with SMP and a fetish bazaar, while I like SMP, I am not interested in bazaars or paying more than 5 bucks to get into the Fenix. I guess it will have to wait until the next weekend.