My response to the 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremonies
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Yes, folks, I do cry - but usually, my tears are sad ones. But not last night.
Oh no. Those tears I shed last night - like I'm shedding now - are happy ones. I completely understand why Sarah Brightman cried when she first heard the song. Hopefully, one of these days, I'll be able to sing it without crying half-way through it. and No, today is not that day.....
As for the rest of the ceremonies - oh yes. China surely knows how to put on a show when they want to! Especially the fireworks of "feet walking" down the street - the STREET! We Americans couldn't do that without making the firemen sweat! - from the Old capital to the Bird's Nest. But then again, they invented the stuff....
I cried several times during the ceremonies - just for the sheer beauty that was created. Did anyone realize that each segment had Two thousand, eight dancers in each one? And the Tai Chi Masters! To me, they were not only in synch, but they moved just as accurately as our Blue Angels pilots - with almost as much danger. (One misstep, and you'd get a chain reaction, domino-like fall for a few feet -with just as many headaches.) The only difference is that it probably wouldn't have been as fatal as it is for the pilots.
Then there was the technology, and not just on the floor! The floating rings... the floating people (like Chou Chou - no fear on her face, just joy)! And of course things ended with a bang.... I think the sky over that whole city lit up with fireworks!
Uh-oh --Lightning. Not a good sign when one is using a computer. Any road: if you're reading this far, please get you & your friends to deluge NBC & ask them to put all of the ceremonies - with NO breaks - on DVD. Please? That was the one part about the show I hated. I wish I could have been there - but they wouldn't let me in the country, much less near that Stadium.
Why? Damn ADHD! Oh, well... their loss.
p.s: that kitty is my reaction to the Ceremonies - not my actual mood right now.