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I'm SomeGuy, and I may be the original Vancouverite here at theO. Now that we're this year's Olympic City, I think I'll share my night where I actually went somewhere Olympic-esque.
Yesterday a guy at work mentioned Our Lady Peace...
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First off, respect for Georgia - my thoughts go to their lost team member. If anyone's interested, I had to look this up after I heard about what happened:
Olympic Games Deaths: List of Athletes Killed During The Olympics
That out of the way . . .
Alright, opening ceremonies impressed me. Despite the epic HYDRAULICS FAIL, the show went amazingly well. I gotta say, I'm amazed that Vancouver could pull it off so well. From everything I had seen up until now, Vancouver has always seemed like such a welfare venue where we were always over budget and running late. The spoken word was probably one of the most inspirational things ever. k.d. lang knocked one out of the park with the "sad Hallelujah song" (as Kei put it). The fiddlers and step dancers were hardcore. Donald Sutherland narrated. The anthem included the badass French lyrics that included the bits about "taking up the sword and the cross". Mr. Freaking Man In Motion Rick Hanson wheeled the flame into BC Place.
And then Wayne lit the cauldron. And the Canadians in the chatroom peed a little.
Yeah, it's official: I've got my Olympic boner. I'm ready for this.
Also, I totally bought Olympic mittens. They're quite warm.
Further addendum to the post below . . .
Since everyone's busy on the Sunday (police brother and his girlfriend are working), we're having our Chinese New Year dinner on Monday night, on the 15th.
Same night as the Stanley Park performance.
Fuck. I hate it when things get complicated.
Adding another date to the pile:
Monday, February 15, 8pm - lion dance at Stanley Park for the Chinese Olympic Team (or something). No pressure or anything.
Anyway, Tuesday show was fun. We were just running a dragon around a field of 20,000 people waiting for the torch to arrive; we were pre-show entertainment, so to speak.
And then we swooped in on world famous CTV weathercaster Tamara Taggart while she did her weather thang and circled her whie she did so.
We also sniped Quatchi in a similar manner. Silly sasquatch.
That said, being a performer, I now have a tag and lanyard that I can keep forever to say I was there for the Olympics. That's gonna make for a good story to tell down the road.
Gotta say, I'm officially getting excited for this stuff now. It's gonna be fun.
Oh yeah, also . . . Tamara Taggart is crazy pretty in person. Just saying.
