Bringing the Drama

so i didn’t exactly wake up as planned at 1:30 this morning to watch the gold medal basketball game. i had set my computer to tape the game though, and when i was awaken by a video message on my phone at 6 am, i couldn’t go back to sleep because i had to know how the game turned out. i got out of bed and began watching the game. it was amazing, esp how i actually cheered for Kobe Bryant as he took over the game in the 4th quarter to put the game away. it was great!

later in the morning, i went to watch the water polo final, after avoiding finding out a final score. i went to the NBC website to watch the video only to see that the headline on the video was “Hungary defeats USA for the gold medal”. WTF? i’m trying to watch the game in suspense, and the only way i can watch the game is telling me what the end result is. thanks a lot NBC jerks! oh well. it’s still cool that the USA water polo team got to the final. the more i watched some of the sports, the more amazed i was when a US team would do really well in spite of not having a professional league like other countries.

so the Olympics have finally come to a close, and i can’t remember watching and being more involved in an Olympics before. i watched everything i could live or online, and it was great. i had discussions with a friend to go to London in 2012, but we’ll see if that actually happens.

in other news, the video message mentioned earlier was from my friend Marika who made it to the Ryan Adams show in SF last night. she sent me a 15 sec clip of a new song. this got me thinking, i should look on youtube for clips of new songs. i ended up during my search finding a video of a band (Company of Thieves) doing a cover of a RA song. i checked out more of their stuff on their myspace, and am thinking about buying the album.

speaking of RA, it’s about a month and a half until i see him in Tuscaloosa. he’s been keeping a blog, that gets updated at a frenetic pace. he posts videos sometimes of new songs, or old songs, or random stuff. recently he posted a version of my favorite song, and it’s below….enjoy.

Sylvia Plath cover by WereWolph from Wilson Wolf on Vimeo.