I’m all confused at the moment. Yesterday being a public holiday has thrown me right off.
But for anyone who thought that the long weekend was going to be fun, sadly, the weather had other ideas. A couple of big cold fronts have left us underwater, and with plenty of damage outside, including what looks like a bent rail under the solar panels, which will need some fairly urgent attention.
Not like anyone can get up there today though.
But I keep thinking that it’s Sunday, and that means that tonight (tomorrow night) is the Olympic Closing Ceremony.
And after that Opening Ceremony: I CAN’T WAIT.
Because, let’s face it, it can’t be any more cringeworthy than the Breakdancing, can it?
And whereas there was no indication of what was going to happen at the Opening Ceremony, we already know the narrative for the Closing Ceremony:
The closing ceremony will feature performers, dancers and circus artists taking part alongside famous headlining acts, both French and American.
Snoop Dogg, who has been prominent throughout the Games, is expected to perform – as are French artists Air and Phoenix.
Nothing new here. Just your usual music, lights, and dancing. Yawnsome.
But then…
Artistic director Thomas Jolly said the show was called ‘Records’, and it promises to take the audience on a science-fiction dream-like immersive journey through time, that will begin from the origins of the Olympic Games and will go to a dystopian future when the Olympics have disappeared and must be reinvented.
Now that’s more like it. I do hope it annoys some more religious people.
Presumably, Dionysus will feature prominently in the “origins” bit, because you can never have enough blue scrotum in any accurate reenactment of Olympic history. And no-one quite does “dystopian future” like ironically named French Artistic Directors: I’m guessing that it might well involve some colourful genitalia.
As would an artistic French depiction of any other sort of future, you’d imagine.