Also, mine is bright and happy and makes a colorful noise, so I put it on top of yours that is droopy and leaky and makes a noise like the dishwasher. Looney of the Tunes is more actual, on account of how aliens live in your big Danesh-head and bunny rabbits live in Coventry. One makes eggs that go BANG! One makes Acme traps that go BANG! See? Sameful. “ Jee han, but they are the same! One hunts, one runs one chews the carrot, one chews the Sir John Hurt. He was raised by his grandma, and there’s a funny segment of her lecturing him about why Looney Tunes is better than the Alien franchise: He’s genderqueer and pansexual and born in the UK to a Pakistani-Nigerian dad and a Welsh-Swedish mom. I had never heard of Eurovision before and only looked it up after reading, but basically it seems to be a lot of pageantry and weirdness, where making waves and gaining attention is the goal.ĭanesh Jalo is a mix of elements from Prince, Freddy Mercury, and David Bowie. The inspiration for this novel comes from the Eurovision song contest, so if you’ve never seen it it’s worth watching a couple Eurovision songs on Youtube to get the gist before reading this. If they lose… well, let’s just say there will be an EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM! If they win, they prove that humans are sentient enough to earn a seat at the intergalactic table. This all changes when an alien that resembles the Road Runner from Dess’s childhood cartoons appears in his living room, reads his memories, and tells him he (well, his old band) has been chosen to represent Earth in a song contest. His band, Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeros, has dissolved and Dess has dissipated into alcoholism and nostalgia. Our protagonist, Danesh Jalo (aka Decibel Jones), is a down-on-his luck former rock star. It is in fact very cartoony, but it’s also got a lot of good queer representation, interesting scifi ideas, alien races, and glam rock craziness. I’d seen this plot before in the Jimmy Neutron movie, so I wasn’t sure if it would be too cartoony for a novel. It’s a scifi novel about some Earthlings who get abducted by aliens and are forced to compete in a singing contest. It seemed like everybody was posting about it, but I didn’t buy it when it first came out because the premise didn’t appeal to me. When this was published last year (2018), it took the Twitter world by storm.

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