fannish nutshell

[proteinscollide]

Things I have been squeeing/being emo about:

* figure skating!

The coverage on Australian TV has been useless. >:( I did get to see the Chinese pairs duel it out for the gold and silver, and I saw the short programs from Plushenko, Weir and Lysacek. I really wanted Johnny Weir to do well because he really does skate so beautifully.

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[pirateyes]

Of all the male figure skaters I was most enthralled with Adrian Schultheiss from Sweden.

If I were to ever read figure skating slash I would want some with him so hard. His routine was so off the wall and bad ass. I think he would be so much fun to play with . . . I mean, in a writing way.

[i_naiad]

Yes! Finally someone else talking about that Schultheiss routine. I know nothing about ice skating, but that routine seemed head and shoulders above the rest for creativity and musicality.

I was completely irritated with one of the commentators I was listening to who thought the routine was 'just hilarious'.

[pirateyes]

I agree! But then I don't know much about figure skating, either. Maybe we're the weird ones ;)

I still thought the originality was great and he had such fantastic performance quality.

The TSN announcers didn't have much to say about him but they were positive over all.

[i_naiad]

Possibly we are. I'm okay with that, because it was fantastic.

I think the commentator I was listening to is quite old school and just didn't quite get it. She certainly seemed to prefer the more traditional style. Over all she's been an excellent commentator, so that may have been why it was so jarring.

[proteinscollide]

I managed to download a copy of the NBC coverage of the men's short program, but it starts from Plushenko. So I may need to see if YouTube has the Swedish skater's routine up. :(

[pirateyes]

Yeah, NBC has the full coverage but it's not accessible to us non-Americans. Bah! Apparently his short wasn't very good but I never saw it.

I found a video with most of the free routine here. Although I don't feel like it gives the best representation of the routine, it kind of loses the performance aspect. There's also a pretty cool article about him here.

I mean, come on. Straitjacket! Piercing! Awesome music choices! The more I go back and look up stuff about him the more I develop a strange attraction to this boy. He's just so pretty!

[proteinscollide]

Thanks for the links! That is a pretty interesting routine, and he seems like a pretty interesting guy! He's still a young skater so hopefully he's got a good career ahead of him.