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Hazy Shade Of Winter: Are The Vancouver Olympians Listening To These Songs?

Rocks Off has Olympics on the brain. After hearing the theme from Chariots of Fire at the Houston Symphony and watching the bizarro Opening Ceremonies featuring Nelly Furtado, Bryan Adams and Sarah McLachlan, all we want to do when we get home from a long hard day is watch men in Vera Wang one-piece jumpsuits pussyfoot around on the ice. We even stayed up until 4 a.m. the recent Balaclavas show to watch the replay of Apolo Ohno's lucky win against two clumsy Koreans.

We've never been much into figure skating, always considering the sport kind of quaint. But then we heard about Johnny Weir, who one commentator called "too flamboyant" for the Olympics. Too flamboyant for male figure skating? How is that even possible? Sadly, we missed his performance to Lady Gaga's "Poker Face."

Last Thursday, we were utterly charmed by U.S. snowboarder Kelly Clark, who was singing at the top of her lungs to her iPod before dropping into the halfpipe, as a way to psych herself up for her run. It must have worked - Clark won the bronze on a night when there were a lot of falls in the pipe. The NBC announcers called it "Clark karaoke" but we were just trying to found out what she was listening to.

Could it have been one of the songs below?

"Ice Ice Baby," Vanilla Ice

Don't hate us. Ya know you know all the words.

"Jump," Van Halen

We would like to see Johnny Weir perform to this. DLR is as flamboyant as they get, and one flamboyant man deserves another.

"Hazy Shade of Winter," The Bangles

Simon and Garfunkel's original is pretty friggin' awesome with their harmonizing and lyrics, but the Bangles could melt ice with this version.

"Winter," The Rolling Stones

Maybe part of Rocks Off's fascination with the Olympics is all the white stuff on TV that we never get to see around here. Rocks Off has never even been skiing before.

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Shey is an experienced blogger, social media expert and traveler. She studied journalism at Oklahoma State University before working as a full-time reporter for Houston Community Newspapers in 2005. She lived in South Korea for three years, where she worked as a freelancer.
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