The 2020 Summer Olympics Closing Ceremony Pt.4

To be read as a direct continuation of Part 3; https://watchitdie.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-2020-summer-olympics-closing_31.html

Life Beyond The Wire.

The Olympics grant athletes an opportunity. To compete against other athletes from all four corners of the globe. Hopefully proving themselves to be the best.

However the Olympics also give athletes another opportunity. To visit all sorts of far-flung places. Places that many of them could normally only dream of visiting.

Some of the richer nations even pay to have athlete's friends and family join them.

So if your event is at the start of the games. Like the Womens Cycling Road Race. Then you're just on an all expenses paid luxury holiday for the next two weeks.

Even if your event comes towards the end of the games. There's still only so much time you can spend training and preparing. Leaving an awful lot of downtime to fill.

This is how I found myself to be in Seville, Spain. During, what Google now informs me, was the 1999 World Athletics Championships.

Sitting in a bar watching an England v New Zealand Cricket match. With a load of New Zealand Pole Vaulters.

It was perhaps as we left the bar. That we were walking across one of those sun drenched squares. With people dining al fresco.

When my younger brother accidentally backed into one of those tables. Knocking it over and pouring scalding hot coffee right into the crotches of the people sitting at the table.

Those people were;

Convicted sleazebag Jeffery Lord Archer. His personal friend. Not yet convicted sleazebag Sebastian Lord Coe. 

Sebastian Coe is the current President of the International Amatuer Athletics Federation (IAAF). Supposedly a well respected man within the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Their reaction was less than dignified.

Given my family's history of vacations. Grenada, 1979 etc. This, obviously, sounds a little suspicious. Not least because the family vacation was to Portugal.

However I think it was just a coincidence.

For a start it was only through talking to those New Zealand Pole Vaulters. That we learned that there was an Athletics competition going on in Seville at the time.

Also. If Britain had wanted to pour scalding hot coffee right into the crotch of Sebastian Coe. As I'm sure it must want to now.

It wouldn't need to go all the way to Spain to do so.

Either way. Sebastian Coe seems to have had it out for me ever since. Even though I wasn't the one who spilled the coffee.

At these 2020 Summer Games the athletes have been denied that second opportunity. The opportunity to experience Tokyo in all its glory.

The Pandemic has meant that the games have taken place in a; "Biosecure Bubble." With no-one from the Olympics allowed outside of the bubble and, really, no-one from Tokyo allowed into the bubble.

So in this section. The hosts tried to give the athletes a taste of what they would have experienced.

Had they been free to roam the streets of Tokyo. Watching Cricket matches in bars and pouring scalding hot coffee into crotches.

Japan's national flower is the Cherry Blossom.

During the Edo Period the fragile beauty of the Cherry Blossom (mono no aware). Gave rise to the practice of Hanami (Flower Viewing). In which the aristocracy would gather to picnic in the shade of the pretty and sweet smell of the blossoming Cherry Trees.

The joy of Hanami soon spread throughout all sections of Japanese society. Like so many other aspects of the Edo Period it continues to be popular to this day.

It is really common for Japanese people to gather in public parks. To picnic, meet up with each other and generally relax.

This section saw the arena being turned into an example of a Tokyo park. On, presumably, a Sunday. The Closing Ceremony took place on a Sunday.

We were guided round the park by a pair of young Japanese women/teenagers. As the strolled around. Checking out the sights, the sounds. The Boys!

Definitely the Boys.

Basically. Super-Aging Japan wants grandchildren. So desperately wants grandchildren.

No pressure.

This use of young women/teenagers as a guide or; "Cipher." Was another reference to the Opening Ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics. Held in PyeongChang, Republic of Korea (RoK/South).

That used very young children as a guide through the ceremony. Each child representing an element of the Wu Xing.

These Child-Like Ciphers. Stood in stark contrast to China's QUESS Quantum Cryptography/Encryption communications satellite.

Although more advanced and well developed than South Korea. These Japanese Child-Like Ciphers also paled in comparison to China's QUESS satellite.

Even though they were significantly better looking. Than the US/UK's insistence that Miley Cyrus and I can't speak directly. 

Using electronic communications such as email or Social Media Direct Messages. As those would be a secret.

Which, obviously. Has got to be more than a bit of a worry. If, like Japan, you find yourself trapped in a military alliance with the US/UK. Against China.

These young women/teenagers were very fashionably dressed. As they promenaded around the park they passed many other similarly fashionably dressed boys and girls. Particularly the boys.

This was a reference to one aspect of Japanese, particularly Tokyo, culture. That westerners may be familiar with.

Within Tokyo you have the Harajuku District. Which is considered the centre of Japanese youth culture.

Rather like Carnaby Street in the British capital, London. During the; "Swinging Sixties." The Harajuku District is where all the fashionable young people go.

To buy all the latest fashionable clothes. Along with hanging out to show-off to each other all their fashionable clothes. Some they brought, some they've made themselves.

The people who do this are known as; "Harajuku Boys" and; "Harajuku Girls."

Harajuku Girls were popularised in the west by Gwen Stefani. The one-time lead singer of the US Ska Punk band; "No Doubt."

When Gwen Stefani went solo. She brought four (inauthentic) Harajuku Girls into her entourage. 

Including them in live performances and music videos. Mentioning them in songs and even doing a song about them; "Harajuku Girls."

In February 2021 Gwen Stefani announced that she was getting married. To Blake Shelton.

Miley Cyrus responded, on Twitter. Not just by inviting herself to the wedding. But also seeming to try to invite herself into the marriage.

In an effort to fuel rumours that she may be gay or bisexual. Suggesting that she's got a massive crush on Gwen Stefani. 

This was going to form the basis for the Outrageous Lockdown Gossip! That I was planning for around the time of the 2021 Super Bowl.

Rihanna and I would be the married couple. As we are in the eyes of the international Olympic/Para-Olympic movement.

An interracial married couple.

Very important that. If you remember the main theme of the 2021 Super Bowl.

Miley Cyrus, a former judge on; "The Voice" TV show. Would have to audition for us both. Trying to find a way to win each of us over, individually.

As quite a few people have mentioned. Miley Cyrus seems to be constantly trying to shock us with how sexual she is. As if she's trying to prove something to her father.

While Rihanna and I. Are constantly trying to tone it down.

Not all of Rihanna's Instagram posts contain special, hidden messages for me. But the ones that do. Are absolutely filthy.

This would also have contributed to that big #MeToo issue at the Oscars. Alongside the Super Bowl that other big event of the US annual Cultural Calendar.

That #MeToo debate was concerned with how to mitigate the negative impacts. On the people who have to perform in nude/sex scenes. The use of things like intimacy coordinators.

So Rihanna, Miley Cyrus and I would be acting out these absolutely outrageous love/sex scenes. On screen, for your entertainment.

Something which I think risked being rather cruel on all of my ex-girlfriends. Particularly the ones who broke up with me. Thinking they could do so much better.

Also, as we now know. At the time Rihanna was trying to find a way to go public. With the actual romantic relationship she's in with A$AP Rocky.

So what I wanted to do. Was for us to coordinate discreetly before 'shooting' the scenes. Just to make sure everyone was comfortable with what was going to happen. A sort of rehearsal.

I would certainly have been the one in the group. Pushing for it to be made as clear as possible, without spoiling the magic. That we were only messing about. Playing it for laughs and gossip.

Including by making some of the rehearsal footage available to our biggest fans. As a sort of DVD extra.

That would have involved me talking, directly, to Rihanna and Miley Cyrus. About my ex-girlfriends on, essentially, the Internet. Explaining why certain things might make them particularly uncomfortable.

My relationships with my exes. Are significantly less well documented on the Internet. Than Rihanna and Miley Cyrus' relationships with their exes.

Learning the intimate secrets of, particularly The World Famous Thrupple™. Was really the one of the main things the US/UK were trying to achieve. In their attempts to hijack my relationship with Miley Cyrus.

Something I'd made the conscious decision to just give to the US, for free. As a sort of service to the community.

The only condition I imposed. Was that it was done in a way that wouldn't attack my ex-girlfriends personally. Along with the gay community in general.

All that though was cast aside. In pursuit of that all consuming, overwhelming, obsessive fixation the US/UK have got.

Proving, once and for all. That they are sane.

By proving that I am insane.

My belief that I have any sort of relationship with Miley Cyrus, Rihanna, Kim Kardashian etc. Being conclusive proof of my delusional state of mind.

Gwen Stefani's interest in Harajuku Boys and Harajuku Girls began in the early-2000's. She went solo from No Doubt in 2004.

It was part of that shortlived western interest in Japan and Japanese culture in the late-1990/early-2000's.

The one that was fuelled by that 1999 Samurai Sword attack on my childhood Church.

Which allows us all to have a really good laugh at Miley Cyrus. Really the entire Cyrus clan.

Reminding them that I have this long, 20 year, relationship with Japan. 

So collaborating with me really isn't going to hurt Miley Cyrus in negotiations with Sony Music. That massive Japanese company.

Not only that.

It might also give me a bit of an; "in" with her supposed crush.

At arounhd 18:10 on 2/1/22 (UK date) I'll pick this up tomorrow. 

Edited at around 19:10 on 4/1/21 (UK date) to tidy the above and copy & paste;

The performers in the park were engaged in all sorts of leisure activities.

However I, along with the camera operators and director. Were particularly taken by the girls Skipping. Playing Jump-Rope, Double-Dutch.

Around the time of the 2021 Super Bowl I was ready to entertain you all. With some absolutely Outrageous Lockdown Gossip. 

Something that would have involved me talking to Rihanna and Miley Cyrus directly. On, essentially, the Internet. Including about my ex-girlfriends.

Really one of the main things the US/UK were trying to find out about. Through their desperate effort to hijack my relationship with Miley Cyrus.

Then. Nothing Happened.

To fill the time I started teaching people about the Cavaletti method of horse training. The one that allowed Reiner Klimke to win Gold at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

During the games. Through to The Great American Bell Ringing of October 4th (4/10/21). I was teaching everyone Japanese. Including the System of Kanji Indexing by Pattern (SKIP).

It was one of the things I used to do with my lesbian best-friend. Before we met our future ex-girlfriend. Forming the World Famous Thrupple™.

We used to smoke a lot of Marijuana. While, really, pretending to teach each other Japanese.

Probably the only thing that either of us remembered. Is that Japanese uses the same symbol for; "Analgesic" and; "Hemp/Marijuana." "Ma" (3-3-8).

There is a traditional Irish folk song called; "I'll Tell My Ma." Of which the version by The Dubliners is probably the most famous.

On one level this song is about teenage girls skipping, playing double-dutch on the street. All the attention they (trying to) attract from the teenage boys.

On another level. It's also about what all those teenage boys do to prove themselves worthy of the girl's attention. Boxing.

Did we mention?

Super-aging Japan wants Grandbabies!

No pressure.

Part of the chorus of the song is about how this girl will get a boy; "by-and-by." As in; "Soon Enough."

However it does sound exactly like; "Bi." As in; "Bisexual."

A big part of the US' attempts to hijack my relationship with Miley Cyrus. Was putting around the rumour that she may be Bisexual.

Thinking this would shock the World from its axis. Prompting a dazzled planet to prostrate itself at the feet of its new Messiah, Joe Biden.

While, at the same time. Trying to learn the intimate details of the World Famous Thrupple™.

Apparently not realising. That is something that has been part of me throughout my 20 year, global career.

So anyone who was going to be shocked by that sort of thing. Has been shocked by it and gotten over it. A long time ago.

The Opening Ceremony. In a section I entitled; "The Rose of Allendale." Looked at the 2020 "Last Night of the Proms" concert. Part of the annual; "BBC Proms" series of concerts. 

This was really the only cultural event that occurred in 2020. When Britain thought the Pandemic was over. Forgetting that Wu Xing truism. That Metal follows Fire.

In a year when not much else happened. This started something of a long-running discussion about the history of music.

From Work-Songs/Sea-Shanties through to modern Pop. Via the tradition of people singing at home to entertain themselves. Along with the first recording artists. During the Jazz/Blues age. Really the basis for all Pop/Rock music.

This was a big theme of the 2021 Super Bowl. Along with the 2021 Oscars.

In a year when there really wasn't much going on. There was also a lot of interest in the US TV show; "Boardwalk Empire."

This tells the story of Enoch "Nucky" Thompson. So you could, almost, describe it as; "The Book of Enoch."

The apocalyptic book recognised as Biblical by only Judaism and the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Church. Very Messianic it is the book of Noah's grandfather. Predicting, amongst other things, the Great Flood.

The TV show Boardwalk Empire is set during the US Prohibition Era. In response to the Pandemic a lot of countries. Most notably South Africa. Responded with their own Prohibition Era. Banning the sale of alcohol.

Many South African bars and restaurants simply carried on selling alcohol. Only listing it on special 'tea & coffee' menus and serving it in chinaware. It was the Portuguese Black Ships that brought the first glasswares to Asia.

This solution to South Africa's Prohibition Era. Was exactly the solution used in the TV show. I like to think they deliberately copied the TV show.

There was really nothing else going on in 2020.

The TV show Boardwalk Empire actually uses the song; "I'll Tell My Ma." To illustrate that tradition of people singing together at home to entertain themselves.

Throughout the Opening and Closing Ceremonies Japan sneaked in lots of references to/adverts for the Para-Olympics.

Expressing their desire for parity between the Olympics and Para-Olympics. Viewing them not as two separate events but one continuous event.

The British Para-Olympic broadcaster, Channel 4. Were promoting both the Para-Olympics and their coverage of it with a big advertising campaign.

This used a version of the song; "So You Wanna Be A Boxer." From the musical Bugsy Malone. 

Expressing their desire for what the Olympics/Para-Olympics would be like for me. An opportunity to put me in the ring, let me feel the sting. Pulp me to bits.

That big, orgasmic moment. Which would finally make up for each of those 15 years they've spent kissing the canvas.

In doing this they very badly misread the room. The tone of the Olympics/Para-Olympics. An Intervention For Britain.

Providing it with a safe-space. To help it explore how it came to be punched-out tramp. To help it pick itself up and start participating in reality again.

Also. "Boxer" is an, admittedly outdated, term of racist abuse for an Asian person. Particularly a Chinese person.

In 1899-1901 the Chinese people rebelled against British Colonial rule. 

Imposed at the end of the Second Opium War (1856-1860). A war fought by British Company States to force people along the Silk Road to buy Opium grown in Britain's India Colony. 

Something which, I've got a feeling. Might be on a test soon.

The British Colonialists dubbed this 1899-1901 rebellion the; "Boxer Rebellion." Due to the fancy-prancy "Chinese Boxing" (a mix of martial arts) they were being forced to fight against.

The Imperial Japanese Navy sided with Britain. Sending 18 warships and 24,000 troops to crush the rebellion. Almost half their entire force.

This continues to be a source of tension between Japan and China. Along with the 1937; "Rape of Nanjing."

So the oh-so-tolerant Liberal, Progressive Virtue-Signallers at Britain's Channel 4. Got that so spectacularly wrong.

Even at this point in the Olympics the entire campaign had been scrapped. At great expense.

After the commercial partner, Toyota. Explained it to them.

Really slowly. With lots of pictures. 

At around 19:35 on 4/1/22 (UK date) I'll pick this up tomorrow. 

Edited at around 16:05 on 6/1/22 (UK date) to tidy the above and copy & paste;

Other performers were engaged in other leisure activities. Such as Football/Keepy-Uppy, Hacky Sack and Poi.

The scene reminded me of many times I spent in parks in Brighton, UK. Sometimes picnicking, sometimes drinking, sometimes 'learning Japanese.' Both as part of the World Famous Thrupple and as not.

I did briefly, technically use to live in a Brighton park. In a purple van, solving mysteries. With a dog named; "Screwby-Ru."

Something which was mentioned at the 2021 Oscars. With all the praise being showered on; "Nomadland." Along with its Brighton based director Chloe Zhao.

Due to its large number of English as a foreign language schools. Brighton is actually quite a popular destination for Japanese students. Being cheaper than the capital, London.

So even the presence of large numbers of Japanese people in this scene. Reminded me of time spent in Brighton parks.

It also reminds me of time spent, drunk, in a park in Madrid, Spain. In 2005. With one third of the World Famous Thrupple. Who was living in Spain at the time.

Due to very cheap but convoluted tickets. I actually travelled to and from Madrid via Barcelona. Which also led to me spending time picnicking and drinking in a Barcelona park. A grubby one near the airport.

This was due to my flight back to the UK, along with most flights in European airspace, being horrifically delayed. By a massive, US$72m diamond armed robbery. At Amsterdam's Schipol Airport.

It was shortly after returning to the UK. That I was stripped of my passport. I honestly think that if I wasn't so globally famous. I would have been stripped of my citizenship by now.

It's strange though. How all those British members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) and associated groups. Have been able to hold onto theirs.

It was that third of the World Famous Thrupple's return to the UK from Spain. Which prompted Britain to just, completely withdraw from reality.

To emphasise that point. During this section the camera operators and director. Seemed to be very taken with both Spanish and British athletes.

However the main point the hosts were trying to make. Is that this supposedly typically Japanese scene. Was in fact very western. You could supplant it into any European country.

The Japanese park itself still had the Pitcher's Mound stage and pathways of a Baseball field overlaid on it. As if this Japanese Reality had been Augmented by some sort of digital lie.

Baseball was brought to Japan by occupying US forces at the end of the Second World War. Its popularity was spread by the continuing, sometimes controversial, presence of US military bases in Japan.

Japan really looks back at the Edo Period as its sort of golden age. An age defined by the "Sakoku" or; "Locked State" policy. When Japanese society was firmly locked away from any foreign influence.

So this served as a talking point about how welcome western influences are on Japanese society. 

Influences that have been frequently imposed at the barrel of an America gun. Perry's Black Ships and the surrender signed aboard the USS Missouri.

Japan seemed to be particular opposed to the US culture of mythical 'President' Joe Biden. That digital lie that some are still trying to impose.

This was illustrated through the use of Poi as one of the leisure activities.

Poi is actually Maori in origin. The indigenous people of New Zealand. From there it was picked up by Pacific Islanders. Then annoying western tourists on gap years.

As was discussed during the Opening Ceremony. In the section I entitled; "The Strength From Within."

The US Democrat Party are the Party of Slavery.

After mounting an Insurrection against the US Constitution. Just as they did in 1861. Stealing the 2020 US Election.

The US Democrat Party unleashed a campaign of racist violence. To beat the Asian-American community into submission. With Democrat Party activists carrying out racist attack after racist attack.

Treating us as if we all must be stupid. The other part of the Democrats campaign was to present themselves as the saviours of the Asian-American community. 

Through the astroturf campaign; "Stop Asian And Pacific Islander (AAPI) Hate." Intended to recruit people to the Democrat Party.

It showed the Democrat Party's utter contempt for both Asians and Pacific Islanders. That they would lump this two very large, very disparate, very different ethnic groups together.

As if they're all just something that can be coloured in with crayon. On an electoral map with which the Democrat Party can build a Reich to last a thousand years.

We're all hoping the Republicans will rediscover the courage they showed in 1787, if not 1861.Forcing the Democrats into a compromise.

That they can only use crayon to fill in the ballot papers of three-fifths of the slaves they own. 

 

To be continued in Part 5.

16:30 on 6/1/22 (UK date).