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[Feb. 18th, 2010|01:04 am] |
So usually I don't really watch the Olympics as most of the sports don't interest me but I do love figure skating so I've been watching it this year. I used to skate when I was a kid and loved it (I even wanted to do it when I grew up back in the day) and I loved watching Tara Lipinski and Sasha Cohen years ago. But I haven't been following it lately so I'm trying to find all my favorites and seeing whose around now. I watched pairs and after watching the story of Zhao and Shen, I really wanted them to win the gold as this was their last shot. Their short program was AMAZING, I was just in awe at how flawless and beautiful and in sync it was. By that point I was in love. Although their final wasn't as good, I was just so happy they had enough of a cushion to win. It was so scary to watch their performance, I had forgotten how nervous I could get for them not to fall. I also liked the German pair, the guy in particular was really hot, heh. There is a LOT of hot ice skating guys actually. It's fun :) I also loved that the Ukranian woman wore pants which was just so refreshing.
And then came the mens' short program where I promptly fell in love with Johnny Weir. He is totally my type: fun, entertaining, beautifully artistic, fashionista, funny comments, sexy, just perfect. Well, almost, I do hate how he likes fur but I am trying to ignore it. He has been compared to Adam Lambert but he actually reminds me of Brad, Adam's first love, in both face/body and personality although he definitely has aspects of Adam in him. And I love how he speaks his mind and gives the best quotes especially to the media. Once he called one of his performances something like vodka and coke and then when people complained, he was like you can't look to all people to be perfect, we can't be Jesus...then in a later skate, he WAS Jesus!! It was amazing.
Anyway, his outfit was to die for (he co-designed it):
The pink tassle and corset and skin! I'm in love with it sooo much. Once he's done with ice skating, he's going to do fashion which I can't wait to see what he comes up with. And the amazing part is that he's only been skating since he was 12. 12! That's so old for figure skating. But wow, is he amazing. I just love his artistry and the beautiful way he moves through the ice and jumps. He just adds such a wonderful passion and sparkle and personality to his performances. Of course the popular one that I actually had seen before the Olympics is him doing an exhibition to Poker Face by Lady Gaga which is brilliant and full of sexy.
Loved his performance at the Olympics yesterday, so beautiful and fun. Even though he didn't make any obvious mistakes, the judges only put him in sixth place which is totally bullshit. But whatever, I try not to let myself get too worked up over judging. I just hope he skates a flawless performance tomorrow night and one of the top guys does really bad so he can medal because he totally deserves it. I'm afraid he peaked when he didn't yet have the maturity for the Olympics (2006) but what can you do.
Thankfully for me, there is source! He did a eight part documentary for the Sundance channel, Be Good Johnny Weir and it is AWESOME. The promo for it is one of the best videos I've ever seen and pretty much sums him up in a nutshell at least his more in your face side. Watch it here, I swear you won't be disappointed. There is glitter and sparkles, amazing quotes (see subject line), half naked guys, great outfits! Johnny is definitely unafraid of being himself and it totally shows in the show (there's 4 episodes so far). Lots of him being half (and less) naked in which he looks damn good. If you need help acquiring it, let me know and I'll let you know where to find it.
As for the other guy skaters, I liked the first guy I watched, Florente Amodio who definitely seems like he could be good in future years (not to mention perfect Olympic story). I loved Evgeni Plushenko's jumps (I love quads) but he lacked passion on the artistic side. I loved Stephanie Lambiel for his spins which were amazing as advertised. I thought Jeremy Abbott and Patrick Chen were really cute and wanted them to do well but was disappointed in the falls. Evan Lysachek I got an evil vibe on at first and what do you know, I was right as watching Johnny's show, I found out that he is kind of an ass and his archrival so I definitely don't want him to do well. I found his program kind of meh and have no idea how it scored higher than Johnny's but whatever.
If you want some fic, try ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) ice_slash which has lots of fic. Of which there REALLY needs to be some Adam/Johnny fic cause really, that would be hot. It is really fun to be falling in love with a new guy and finding a new little fandom as I haven't been feeling that fannish spark lately for Glee and Kradam and most of my other shows. I love the honeymoon phase :) |
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