AUGUST 13: not enough cycling!
Days have passed now, how many? Im back to my usual routine now, up at tenish, up til three. I live half in my time and half in olympic time, but that’s just a coincidence. And lets face it: post-midnight is certainly my time.
Phelps took two gold in two hours, was that only yesterday? Tuesday night is Wednesday morning, Wednesday night is Thursday. The cbc loses the signal sometimes, their commercials irritate me to no end. I prefer radio canada in terms of packaging, but they’re always at least 30 minutes in the passed. With all these channels, one would think that live, thoughtfully commentate, cinema-verite style LIVE sportscasts would be abundant. But everything in a package or a rerun already, and the events are happening live. “bold” is quite good for live, sustained coverage, though it for mostly aristocratic sports like sailing (somewhat neat) and equestrian events (not so neat, but i’ll watch it. Olympics!)
Phelps now has the most gold medals. Phelps now has the most medals. See phelps swim. Swim! Phelps, Swim!
Somewhere in the smog today i missed the road time-trial. Yesterday, i was urged by the cbc to watch it live, streaming on their website. Hi, cbc, its nick... if i wanted to watch webcast quality tv, WHY WOULD I HAVE FUCKING CABLE!
I find the radio-canada guy very soothing, the primetime-latenight one, with the manicured beard. He’s very gung-ho and pleasant, and his naivite to sports makes his questions to experts all the more charming. His tossing is very possitive, it makes me think he’s actually 1. interested in and 2. has seen already the packaged clip they’re about to run. Ron mclean in a pro, but ian handsomemanthing seems very uncomfortable in the cbc’s sky-pagoda studios, and seems at ease only when emptily and listlessly thanking an absent presented for their clip he clearly didn’t watch. No wonder the cbc didn’t keep in the olympic bidding, they don’t know what they have anyhow.
If i was the cbc, i would be cutting the live footage like a music video, koyaanisqatsi BAM BAM BAM. Five minutes of diving, ten minutes of cycling, back to diving, toss in some weighlifting. ALL OVER. This is why they don’t let me into the editing truck.
What am i even talking about. Olympics rock, but tv sucks. Who is right?
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