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I was bored and decided to make a Terry Jones collage featuring my favourite pictures of him using the new Pinterest collage feature

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Eurovision 2007 - Number 61 - Les Fatals Picards - "L'amour à La Française"

I love a chaotic national final and very few national finals have been as chaotic as Eurovision 2007 : et si on gagnait, France Télévisions new idea for selecting their Eurovision contender. I'll go into the final in more detail later, but suffice to say - it's nuts and one of the best things I've seen.

The winners emerging, clawing their way out of the chaos were Les Fatals Picards, one of the two contenders picked by public TV channel France 3 as their candidates. They were a group of five men from (I presume) Picardy and since the 1990s, they'd been writing, performing and touring their own comedic and parodic songs across France. Their style was alt-rock, light-punk, a hint of ska and a lot of tongues firmly wedged in cheeks.

In 2007 they would go on to release their third album with one of the all time great titles, Pamplemousse Mécanique, a record which Discogs classifies as chanson/punk. First though they'd submitted a song to the French national final as for the first time in a few years, France Télévisions had an open call for submissions. L'amour à la Française (Love, French Style) was one of the ten picked from more than 1,500 entries.

In the band's own words, it was a song meant to combine French romance and punk, for beginners. It's really a song about Parisien cliché finding time to mention in its Franglais patois, the Eiffel Tour, Les Champs Elysées, Chanel handbags, the Seine and the Moulin Rouge. A pastiche of everything non-French people picture when they think of France.

It is a lot of fun, swinging from wistful memories of times lost to melodramatic declarations of love to swinging through les rues de Paris with the giddy pulse of love flowing through their veins. If this had been a year packed full of ballads, the song would have stood a mile for it's gentle punk charm and the fact they seem to have a ball on stage with their faux fur, angel wings and pink neckerchiefs.

They went into Eurovision with high hopes. They're quoted as saying France has been humiliated and flouted for 30 years by countries that deserve less. It is time for France to shine the torch of European culture with blue, white and red (the colours of the French flag). The colours of love.

Alas 2007 was a year after 2006 and everyone was trying something new. The ballads and the pop were being dumped in favour of rock, metal, and anything and everything else. If anything Les Fatals Picards were just too lightweight among all of this. They also had the misfortune of being from one of the Big Four countries and hence never gaining the advantage of trial by semi-final.

They finished twenty-second and even more ignominiously, in a tie with Scooch. Their sudden rise to fame was a little bit too much for them and founder member Ivan Callot left a few months after Eurovision. The band, though, continued and rode that fame to record deals and many more albums. Their latest was earlier this year (2024). Here's a live performance of one of their more recent songs Les Playmobils Complotistes (The Conspiratorial Playmobil) - which should give you a taste of the more regular output.

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Reblog to make him lose another 200 billion, like to make him lose 1 billion

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Metatron deserves fanart, too!

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the shimp got too much attention and now there are transphobes in my notes, this is a transgender blog run by a transgender dyke. fuckers.

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Today is International Women's Day 2025

These women represent all the punk rock women who helped shape this genre and made something special out of it.

Thank you ladies ♥️

Btw, what would the world be without women?

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ! !!!!!!!!🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Happiest of Happy Birthdays to my beloved mutual and soulmate of nearly 2 years now, that being my beloved Commie (aka @commonguttersnipe ) !!

Hope you have a most WONDERFUL and LOVELY special day today Commie darling <33 🥳🎉🎂🎁🎈🎊!!

As a lil present from me, here’s both the IRL AND HFC Pythons who’ve come to celebrate with you!! (plus they’ve both brought cake too!! Yum!!)

MANY MORE HAPPY WISHES FOR YOU COMMIE <33

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Wow I really just happened to look him up at the right time cause

HE IS THE REAL AZIRAPHALE

Good to know with all the stuff happening recently we can count on him

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Douglas Adams was an English author, humorist, and screenwriter.

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In honor of the Ides of March approaching, here’s the trash can I wrote on 2 years ago and only touch up in March

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tumblr, every first of march:

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I finally got around to watching Gladiator 2.

During the week of the Ides of March.

I didn’t plan on this timing but it is kinda perfect.

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5 more days until they reunite…

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wanted to sketch some random guys… made it into a Cap thing

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BOYS NIGHT, 15th March, Senate! bring your own booze! remember what happens in the senate stays in the senate ;). BOYS NIGHT BOYS NIGHT BOYS NIGHT

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Happy Birthday Douglas Adams !!!!!!🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Thank you for making me laugh so many times