Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Felt like I was struggling a bit to loosen up this morning, although back seems somewhat improved on the weekend. Probably a better morning to be doing things inside than outside (although the heaviest of the rain had cleared by the morning).

Earworm of the day came thanks to news that the Vengaboys "We're Going To Ibiza" has become a theme song of left-wing protests in Austria (this is a reference to a scandal, which has led to the collapse of the coalition government they were part of, which involved the leader of the hard-right Freedom Party being caught on tape meeting in Ibiza with someone posing as the niece of a Russian oligarch, and discussing a deal which involved said oligarch buying Austria's largest newspaper and turning it into a Freedom Party propaganda sheet in exchange for government contracts), and that this week the Vengaboys themselves had turned up in Vienna and parked the Vengabus in front of the Chancellry to perform it at a protest. In turn this led to a possibly inevitable Twitter thread putting Vengaboys lyrics to use in the name of anti-fascism, the best being:

The Vengabus is coming
And everybody's jumpin'
We're playing at your rally
The Internationale

(Seeing far-right politicians going down in (metaphorical) flames anywhere in the world is something which gives me a certain amount of Schadenfreude, as the Austrians would put it).