FOR RUINING BJORK'S PERFORMANCE!!!!!









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[This message was edited Fri Aug 13 20:16:22 2004 by Tessa]

i can't believe he and that kewpie doll talked through the whole fucking thing

o snap the olympics did start today didn;t they? its gonna b reruns of it?

i'm definitely going to be sending that MF a sternly-worded..... boot in the ass!!!!!

Bob Costas rules!!

Opening ceremonies are a

I WANNA SEE TRACK AND FIELD!

I WANNA SEE GYMNASTICS!

I WANNA SEE BASKETBALL!

I WANNA SEE SOME ASSES WIGGLIN!

I WANT PERFECTION!

Supernova said:

certainly. and to sit through that yawn-fest for 3 hours waiting to see Bjork, only to have Bob Costas and Katie Couric talk over it ..... but other than that.....





yes!

can we get a camera and go on the road and make a buddy picture? move over, Thelma & Louise.....

Supernova said:

i read this seconds before reading your comments:



http://www.cnn.com/2004/S...index.html

Damn. I guess I'm glad I missed that...

It fucking pissed me off!!! And they further ruined it by that in the editing room (since the show was tape delayed in the US) NBC mostly chose camera angles that didn't focus on Bjork at all! I'm not kidding, they only showed her for about 20 seconds! They would pan to shots way above the arena, the sky or to the audience. They treated that performance like it was just background elevator music for Katie and Bob chitchatting. They lowered the sound of her singing and music way down so we can hear such witty banter as "Mr Blackwell better get a look at this" or "All of the blue color symbolises water".
[This message was edited Fri Aug 13 21:42:20 2004 by Slyguy]

Slyguy said:

when a broadcaster is less interested in the event being covered, and more interesting in doing shtickle, it's time to hang up the credentials.....

Tessa said:

I just saw that about 15 minutes ago (I'm out west), and I don't ever remember opening ceremonies being THIS long! I guess introducing all the countries is necessary tho, and I actually like the lighting of the torch...but all this other stuff is getting on my nerves! Move it along people, get to the games, dayyuumm!

And Bjork shoulda sang "MOTOR CRASH"! At least she would have drowned Costas out!






Yeah, it'll be called Looking For Bob Costas, and in it we beat the crap outta him along with whoever at NBC is responsible for this!

Why can't they show this LIVE on NBC anyway...nothing else on that network I wanna see...until football season.

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[This message was edited Fri Aug 13 23:31:37 2004 by Supernova]

Slyguy said:

At least her dress was pretty. But I did notice that too (not focusing on her).... Bjork was the only reason I recorded the Ceremony in the first place.

't was a bit dissapointing...lip synching isn't Björk's thing...

Supernova said:

Track and Field:
Wednesday 8/18 (Women's Shot Put Qualifying)

Gymnastics:
Monday 8/14 (Men's Qualifications)

Basketball:
Saturday 8/14 (Women's Prelims)

Asses Wigglin:
Olympics AfterParties - Acropolis Hill 8/14 - 8/28 ($75 Nightly)
Closing Ceremonies Afterparty - "Party at the Parthenon" - 8/29 ($500)

Btw Morris, tell the doorman...

Caligula Bootyopoulos (mixed marriage), I sent you.


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

Thank God I live in Britain they showed the entire performance in its entirety without bullshi* commentary.


Thank God 4 Bjork!

Slyguy said:

Well what did you expect?



tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

Supernova said:

bwaahaaaaa!

i watched most of the opening ceremonies (i flipped back n'forth between those and beavis and butt-head)...it was pretty damned long n'boring.

YODAHENDRIX said:

I switched from Dutch to UK too. Isn't it great to have multiple sources, living in Europe?

The Dutchies were talking rubbish.

The entire passage with the boy in the paper boat went like this;

Screen shows water.

Commentator; We see water.

Screen shows boat.

Commentator; We see a boat.
Screen shows boy on boat.

Commentator; We see a boat with a boy in it.

Etc etc

I was watching with a friend, reached for the remote and said; We see Gooey switch the channel to the BBC.

Just like the Eurovsion Songfestival is hilarious seen on Belgium tele.

theAudience said:

Excellent!

I just downloaded the performance online. I don't know what country it's recorded from but it's a huge difference from the NBC footage. They actually show Bjork and there is no "The blue symbolises water" chichattering.

Tessa said:

i really hope their big-ass mouths get ten times the browbeating that bjork got when she wore her swan dress to the oscars. i'd hope she'd get a kick out of that, but i'm sure she couldn't be bothered to care.

They even felt compelled to announce over the loud speakers at the club I was at Friday night how he completely butchered this.

The Olympics just started and I'm already starting to feel sick of them.

Bjork's performance and the opening ceremony as a whole would've been great without any commentary. Make people think and not spell out everything. It's exactly how Gooey was saying-"We see a boat" and every little bit spelled out.

I'm not asking for high art on network TV here, just some sort of option for them to keep their oh so "witty banter" to a bare minimum. Nobody cares but them. If Bob was talking about an athletes history-great, tell us more about their background. Not when somebody's performing though.

Beautiful imagery I thought but it ended up sounding like a badly acted 2nd grade play with Bob and Katie sounding like the kid's that got chosen as narrators stumbling through their lines.

They don't need to rerun the stuff we missed at night either. I had to leave after the opening ceremony for work and then I come home and it's on again. Unless I'm wrong and it just took hours and hours for them to get to flag ceremony still.

This year was a little better with a gorgeous presentation-but it would've been so much more powerful without the blind commentary.

"We see a boat."

"What?!? Where? Earl is that you!?"

Australian coverage on Channel 7 showed the whole thing without any interruption or commentary.

Australians all let us rejoice...

MrSquiggle said:

Lucky bastards.

Fucking sports! They think that sports cannot possibly be interesting without a play by play, even when we're not actually watching sports (like, for instance, when we're watching a musical performance).

Idiotic comments (i'm paraphrasing here):

"I hope they know when to stop pulling at the dress or she'll go flying off the stage"

"Central African Republic, as we like to point out, is in Central Africa"

When will they realize that play by play was designed for radio, and is not necessary when you're actually watching the event?