Thoughts on the ceremony:
- Those drums were bad as hell! (This link has a clip of the drums!) I can't even imagine how much practice it took to get everyone together.
- I've always wanted to "fly" on stage hooks. It would be especially cool to fly covered in lights!!
- The vision of the children handing off the Chinese flag to the soldiers really creeped me out. The thought of such a huge nation and the future of that nation as a military power just scares the hell out of me. They could overpower anyone just by their sheer numbers.
- The section with the guys in the gray/white dresses kinda freaked me out as well. Did they look like the grim reaper to you?
- They said they embrace harmony. Did you just disagree? Seriously, did you just disagree? Well, off to prison with you!!
- I wonder how heavy those paddle things were for the sea-faring section.
- The guy playing the piano had hair the very closely resembled the Heat Miser!! Not really a good look!!
- Ohhh - I want a light suit!!!!!!!!
- I'm starting to get bored because of all these commercials!!
- And my battery is about to die.
- What is up with those hair extensions on Sarah Brightman? That hair looked like it belonged on Elvira.
- Did you see those outfits on the Hungarians? They looked like a herd of red and white cows.
5 comments:
Lori I didn't watch and I now believe I'm glad I didn't.
Hehe..I always secretly wanted to be Dorothy Hammel - even got the haircut. But my biggest aspiration was Nadia. I so wanted to be a gymnast on the Olympic team.
8oz. at a time baby!!!
I was underwhelmed with the whole thing. The whole thing seemed to be in slow motion. I went to bed half-way through. I shouldn't be so critical. The fireworks were pretty spectacular.
I only got to watch a little but loved the drums too. And I couldn't believe it when the Chinese printing press turned out not to be mechanical or computer-driven but by people--it must have been kind of hot under those things and hard to remember when to move. I'm looking forward to watching more of the Olympics--let us know what you like the best!
I LOVE THE OLYMPICS! I wanted to be a gymnast in the summer, and a figure skater in the winter!
I was fortunate enough to be able to watch the opening ceremonies at home. Alone. With a bottle of wine. And cheese and crackers. GO ME!! The drums were BY FAR my favorite!
Thank you so much for the link to the drum show (COOL!) and for the blow-by-blow description. I missed the opening ceremonies for some reason, and the YouTube pickings are rather slim.
JD at I Do Things
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