I wanted some classic rock. BTO would have been cool doing Blue Collar, Taking Care Of Business, or better yet, You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet.

Rush would have made my day.

It is completely beyond me why they would program the national anthem in a vocal style that others can't sing along with. I love the girl's voice, but the pseudo-r'n'b-lounge vocal stylings of one singer trying to out-do the next is irritating enough at hockey games. Setting it against an over-orchestrated accompaniment was pretty out there.

The opera singer's vibrato was so wide her intended pitch was indecipherable. I suspect this is a big reason that folks dislike opera to start with.

I am decidedly NOT a KD fan (unless it means Kraft Dinner), but she was fantastic. Great song too.

Nelly and Brian looked good, but I don't dig the styles, except for that dress.

The First Nations stuff was fantastic, and so appropriate. We sometimes go to Pow-Wows that make us feel the same way...a direct line to our past and a wake-up call to the present.

Young people aren't supposed to die at the Olympics. We send them to war for that. At least there was an acknowledgment of the young man's sacrifice. Pray there is no more.

Peace, Mooh.