Kevin M. (RPCV)
On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 10:42 PM Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, there's accordion music in both places. In heaven, it's the work of > Weird Al, John Linnell, and cumbia bands composed of women who look like > Salma Hayek and/or Sofia Vergara. In hell, it's performed by everyone else. > A fair point, and one I cannot criticize > > I probably should have turned it off at about the point that Kelly > Clarkson just couldn't believe that they'd come up with the brilliant new > idea of combining heavy metal and classical music. > It was one of many things she found “incredible”. > > It seemed really odd that NBC had a big "commercial-free coverage" setup, > complete with sponsor logos, for about the first hour, and then they > abandoned it. Guess Coca-Cola and Delta were only willing to pay so much. > The five minute in-ceremony advertisement for Louis Vuitton must’ve cost a nickel or two. > I also didn't hear them explain why the U.S. team wasn't sailing in until > near the end of the parade (because future host countries now go at the > end, just before the current host country) until the broadcast actually got > to that point. I knew the U.S. was supposed to be with the E's in French, > so I was in a state of mild confusion for quite a while. > > > On Jul 26, 2024, at 10:26 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > > The irony of Steven Spielberg’s opening narration, talking about the > importance of good storytelling, then leading us into a cacophony of > disjointed audio/video gibberish. > > The dancers were the opposite of synchronized. They were so asynchronous > that they must’ve rehearsed to be that out of sequence with one another. I > mean, it had to be intentional to be that bad. If you put 100 gorillas in a > chorus line, statistically one or two of them will move in unison, but not > so our professional dance troop. > > There was an angel on a bridge playing an accordion. If heaven is filled > with accordion music, I’m ok being sent down to the bad place when I die. > > Several minutes devoted to celebrating threesomes. Is group sex an Olympic > event this year? > > A singing, decapitated head of Marie Antoinette is odd, but she was > smiling. Severed heads should not be smiling… that’s just creepy. Then the > simulated blood-soaked building. Kids are going to be describing this > moment to therapists. > > It’s France’s oldest marching band, but rather than hear them perform, > they are going to awkwardly engulf a French pop singer, because nothing > says France like a claustrophobic woman surrounded by a gang of men in > funny hats. > > Kelly Clarkson used the word “incredible” to describe everything. You know > what I find incredible? That Kelly Clarkson gets paid to speak. Somebody > buy the woman a thesaurus. > > The torch … it was a giant joint. It wasn’t a torch that looked a little > bit like a joint… it was a giant joint that was only a little bit like a > torch. > > After 90 minutes, they’d only gotten to athletes from countries starting > with the letter C. For my own sanity, I had to turn it off. > > I remember during the opening ceremony for the London games, watching a > musical number featuring dying children in hospital beds, I thought that > was the weirdest moment in Olympic history. Here we are in 2024, and I can > only say: Where the hell are the singing dying kids? > > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4AXHD2g-4CNbgOQcjwh6NQUE3%3DJJDWUpFWsHz5dR9pq_w%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4AXHD2g-4CNbgOQcjwh6NQUE3%3DJJDWUpFWsHz5dR9pq_w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/9C39E671-8270-47BA-9B8A-ACDA6732E904%40ellwanger.tv > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/9C39E671-8270-47BA-9B8A-ACDA6732E904%40ellwanger.tv?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4DfNVSMW1Hqr1SsUnrF%3D6cJowCjETCiMYGw31BgXy61xQ%40mail.gmail.com.
