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Aug. 10th, 2008 05:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heywilmaHai, can't talk, busy watching sports. And radio assginment. At the same time. But mostly sport.
Seriously though, I think the Olympics is one of the only times I will watch sports with any enthusiasm. During the Athens games there were a bunch of times I stayed up to watch something, and I am a sucker for all the patriotic warbling ads that we always get, even if they're for unpatriotic commercial gain. And with these games there's an added dimension of 'omg must watch', because y'know, I was born in the city. Most of my family still live there, and for all the times I knock it and its people, I love it, and I will get defensive about it. I still cheer on the Chinese athletes (as long as they're not competing against an Australian that I like, cough Grant Hackett cough >.>) and come the 110m hurdles day you can bet your ass I'll be glued to the TV to watch Liu Xiang.
That said though, guys, can we get someone else besides Zhang Yimou to direct shit? There were some stand-out moments during the opening ceremony, like the drummers and the dancers on the scroll and I kind of liked the parasols >.> But the rest was kind of all big-production and 'meh' for me, besides the costumes there weren't any really great representations of the culture as the commentators seemed to think there was.
Sarah Brightman's hair was amazingly crazy, though.
And you know how the athletes took over two hours to fill the stadium? Americans, not helping with your single-file.
Seriously though, I think the Olympics is one of the only times I will watch sports with any enthusiasm. During the Athens games there were a bunch of times I stayed up to watch something, and I am a sucker for all the patriotic warbling ads that we always get, even if they're for unpatriotic commercial gain. And with these games there's an added dimension of 'omg must watch', because y'know, I was born in the city. Most of my family still live there, and for all the times I knock it and its people, I love it, and I will get defensive about it. I still cheer on the Chinese athletes (as long as they're not competing against an Australian that I like, cough Grant Hackett cough >.>) and come the 110m hurdles day you can bet your ass I'll be glued to the TV to watch Liu Xiang.
That said though, guys, can we get someone else besides Zhang Yimou to direct shit? There were some stand-out moments during the opening ceremony, like the drummers and the dancers on the scroll and I kind of liked the parasols >.> But the rest was kind of all big-production and 'meh' for me, besides the costumes there weren't any really great representations of the culture as the commentators seemed to think there was.
Sarah Brightman's hair was amazingly crazy, though.
And you know how the athletes took over two hours to fill the stadium? Americans, not helping with your single-file.
