Hank Kingsley

I was right. On second viewing, it's a 10. Fastest 3 hours ever. Respect the cock and tame the cunt!

Musical moments in non-musical movies: 1. Magnolia - "Wise Up" 2. Almost Famous - "Tiny Dancer" 3. Goodfellas - "Layla" 4. Boogie Nights - "Sister Christian"/"Jessie's Girl" 5. Shaun of the Dead - "Don't Stop Me Now"

Edited June 6th, with a comprehensive bio that surprised even the author with how much he remembered about this guy. Board Name: The Superstar Wrestlers Name: Charlie "Grappler" Matthews Height: 6’5” Weight: 306 lbs. Hometown: Kansas City, Missouri Age: 36 Face/Heel: Old School Heel Manager: James Matheson, an old school manager prick bastard (think James Cornette) who does Matthews' talking. Stable: soon Weapon(s): Steel chair, usually Looks: For matches, he's decked out in the oldest of the old school: black short trunks, black boots, and black kneepads. For face and build, think Bruno Sammartino, with a super-hairy chest, big schnoz and short black hair. Outside of the ring, for promos and whatnot, he can be found in a classy ensemble of a button-down and dress pants. Ring Entrance: The famous guitar riff and stomp-and-start style of Muddy Waters' "Mannish Boy" hits and Charlie emerges from backstage. Like a typical no-nonsense heel, he marches down the ramp, climbs the stairs to the apron (wiping his boots first, of course), and climbs into the ring. If he's feeling really confident, he might raise his arms in the air victoriously. Stats: Strength: 8 – Still an extremely powerful beast, even if he lost a little bit of it in his time off. Can manhandle just about anyone. Speed: 2 – What he maintained in power, he lost in speed. A cruiserweight will probably make his head spin. Vitality: 7 – Not quite as long-lasting as before, mostly due to the neck injury. Still, if the stakes are high enough he'll push it to the limit. Charisma: 3 – He tends not to talk, since he's not the most captivating speaker. He can keep the crowd in the palm of his hand, though, mostly with their antagonizing "Booooring" chants during his restholds. Style: Old school heavyweight. Big power moves, slow manuevering, and oh yeah, restholds and restholds and restholds. They might even become more frequent now, because Matthews is both rusty and injury prone. He suffered a major neck injury (a Demonstar Driver from Kibigami, exacerbated by a 20-foot flipping neckbreaker from Crowe at Genesis IV) from which he never completely recovered. It was only further aggravated during his comeback match against John Duran the next year. So, yeah. Signature moves: Bearhug (Matthews' favorite resthold. The recipient of the heaviest "boring" chants) Piledriver Double-Arm DDT (Out of nowhere, Foley-style) Side belly-to-belly suplex Powerslam Lariat Airplane Spin Giant Swing Stalling Vertical Suplex Common moves: Vertical suplex Rear chinlock Camel clutch Big Boot Swinging neckbreaker Most any strike except knife-edge chops. Especially fond of punches and headbutts. Bodyslam Surfboard (the boring, opponent-seated version) Back suplex Inverted Atomic Drop Atomic Drop (...I think you get the gist here. Any boring move by a boring heavyweight would apply) Rare move: Sleeper hold - This shit put The Boston Strangler down in a submission match once. If he really wants to be a prick he'll add on a body scissors, too. Finishers: The Wake-Up Call - The Jackhammer, or vertical suplex to powerslam. The Powerbomb - The one and only, perfected after years of old schoolness. But now he's shaken things up! He can do it kneeling or chain two or three powerbombs together. Evolution is a mystery! Bio: Debuted to little fanfare in the SJL on April 20th, 2003, defeating Leo Breslin. Still, in only his third match, he made people take notice of him and his boring, old school tactics by triumphing in a fatal fourway for the SJL Television Championship against Breslin, Blazenwing, and the champion John Duran. This would be the first of many other faceoffs between the two. Anyway, Matthews continued a dominant run with the Television title before finally losing the title to newcomer rival Breslin in a ladder match somewhere in Japan. From here, however, he quickly advanced, winning contendership and defeating European Champion Aecas for the title. Somewhere in here he turned face and dumped mananger prick James Matheson. He fought Duran once or twice more during this reign, too, further defeating him. Grappler never lost the European Title, as he vacated it once he...oh yeah, defeated Spike Jenkins for the vacant SJL World Championship. It was a pretty fast rise to the top, all things considered. SJL Wrathapalooza came along and Matthews defended the title successfully against Aecas, in some ballpark. Afterwards, however, perennial rival John Duran attacked him with a cinder block along with other men whose names escape me now. They declared themselves Urban Decay, the first SJL stable in forever. Still, the blowoff between the two men never actually occured as Matthews was bumped to the SWF because he ruled. After a debut loss in a tremendous match to William "Judge Mental" Hereford, Matthews was kidnapped by the aptly named Quiz and brainwashed through hours upon hours of televised game shows. Matthews was reborn as Show, joining with Quiz to form Double Jeopardy. The team didn't start off too strongly, losing to Dace Night and Va'aiga, but asserted dominance at the pay-per-view Ground Zero, defeating the teams of Dace & Va'aiga and CIA & Mak Francis to win the SWF Tag Team Championships. In the resulting month or so, they started a mini-feud with the dominant Nathaniel Kibigami, resulting in a Demonstar Driver and the onset of nagging neck troubles for Matthews. Still, they eventually kicked his ass in a handicap match. Double Jeopardy started facing some harsh criticism and negative feedback due to the perceived fluke nature of their reign, but they silenced all the critics at Genesis IV with the showstealing American Gladiators contest, triumphing over Crowe & Dante Crane. The match was highlighted by the climax, in which Crowe completed a twenty-foot jump resulting in a huge flipping neckbreaker on Matthews, further aggravating his neck and taking him out for months. The titles were in a sense vacated, as rival John Duran took Show's spot, creating the short-lived but brilliantly-named Sinquizition. In wrestling, though, injuries are easy to heal, so Matthews returned at the November PPV Ashes 2 Ashes as, well, Charlie "Grappler" Matthews, complete with James Matheson and full old-school heel attitude. He went on a tear, defeating Annie Eclectic and The Boston Strangler, amongst others, culminating with a feud and win over Dace Night at the Christmas PPV to win the Intercontinental-Television Championship. He defended the title with valor and held onto it for a former record of 88 days, before he was forced to vacate at From the Fire. Still, he entered the coveted #20 spot at the 2004 Clusterfuck and actually won the damn thing, pinning Janus despite Michael Craven's superhuman efforts. So, he was #1 contender, but Va'aiga wasn't happy, since, oh yeah, Va'aiga, Matthews, and Duran formed a stable called the Unnamed and dominated. But now that Va'aiga won the title against Danny Williams, he was pissed. So they kicked Matthews out and he was a face again. The build to From the Fire began, and a two-straight falls match was sanctioned. It was epic, if I do say so myself, finishing with Matthews forcing Va'aiga to tap out, winning the championship. Yay. He defended the title in a really good match against Landon Maddix, but kickstarted his feud with Duran again, and The Notorious One finally won the big one, pinning Matthews for the first time and winning the title. Grappler took some more time off to heal his neck and returned as a surprise opponent for Duran at Genesis V, but both men's necks gave out during the match, resulting in a draw. Matthews hadn't been seen since, until he returned in aide of Tom Flesher. Dominance ensued.

Okay, I'm pissed off. How the hell can we wait until January after that? Really not cool. I was hoping Jordan being pregnant wasn't the huge swerve since it was too obvious, but the real swerve...bombshell. JD is going to have to actually take responsibility with a woman in his life. Props for Dr. Acula ("Isn't this racist?" "No! Now do it again, blacker!") and Floating Head Doctor making appearances (though I'm not a huge fan of the latter), and for the Janitor being awesome again, both with the baby cage and the "Gay? Love decks?" posters. "The ultimate Cox-block" and "Elliot Reed: Moment Killer" were great too. A really strong finale...but yeah. Fucking midseason schedule.

So Scrubs will be midseason again?

Yeah, he wrote "Diversity Day" amongst others.

Magnolia - 9/10 I'm going to have to watch it again to be able to fully take everything in, and I'm sure I'll like it even more after that. Tremendous movie. Tom Cruise was awesome, as was John C. Reilly (surprise!), Julianne Moore, and whoever played Claudia. The Aimee Mann singing scene was spectacular, as was the stuff was Cruise/Robards ("I'll dropkick the fucking dog!") and the .

Scrubs season 3 Magnolia The Laugh Or I'll Shoot collection (Airplane, Top Secret, Naked Gun)

I would like to sincerely thank The Czech Republic for blessing me with The Bends. I don't know how I went this long without it.

Well, allow me to be the first to say that the cover art for season 3 is atrocious. Elliot's head looks photoshopped onto her body and everyone is too damn happy (especially Cox). Anyway, the new episode's on tonight at 9, and the rerun is at 9:30 (with Jason Bateman and his ostriches).

The limo scene built on both Rollergirl's and Jack's characters. It showed how low Jack had gotten, where he lost not only his star but his star's replacement, and so has to try to make something out of whatever he can find. It also showed how he's had to change his outlook on film, first with the format (notice the way he says "We're making history on...videotape.") and with how he'd always want to make a "real movie" with a story and characters (now he's doing unscripted amateur stuff). As for Rollergirl, it was basically a reminder of her high school days, and it made her realize how she's been spending her life since she rolled out of class at the beginning. Either way, it's a pretty essential scene. The creepy ringing bells in the background for both that and Dirk getting beat up are perfect for the tone of those scenes.

Philip Seymour Hoffman tops the box office. Hell yeah.

Well, now I have "You've Got the Touch!" stuck in my head.

Right now, yeah. There will probably be a price drop when season 2 comes out.

So at work tonight I saw the meat platter in person, and it looks completely fucking disgusting. First of all, it's $17.49, which is a complete rip-off. Secondly, the sausage is flimsy and burnt and cut in half. 8 oz. steak, a third of a rack of ribs (couldn't even spring for a half), the sloppy joe potato skins (with pico de gallo on top?!) and overcooked string beans and broccoli for the vegetables. Avoid at all costs (like I needed to tell you).

Yeah, it's been helpful for me in meeting people going to the school next year as well as finding people I haven't talked to since elementary school. Awesome.

You know what Euro's was? How Europe perceived organized sports from 1860-1940. Organized sports. Seriously.

I was trying to find a picture of Sitwell but there weren't any good ones.

I love it when Michael brings up Toby's divorice. Great stuff. "Well here in this office, it's till death do us part."

Nice. The music in that movie is great, but I especially liked that scene, with the incessant firecrackers, Molina's horrible singing, and Dirk/Reed's paranoia.

Movie/music question that's bugging me: what's the name of the 80s power ballad playing in Rahad Jackson (Alfred Molina)'s house in Boogie Nights? The one before "Jessie's Girl."

Ahahaha. I took US last year, and the DBQ was something ridiculous about how the Revolutionary War changed American society. Hmm. And the year before with World it was something obvious dealing with Buddhism. Now, I'm not so sure about the Euro one I have to do tomorrow. I really haven't studied as much as I should have. But yeah, if it deals with women and/or mass society, fuck.

Hmm, the AP Lit test pissed me off today, slightly. All of the open-ended essays I wrote/read in class usually dealt with a theme or a character. Last night I looked over several books (Slaughterhouse-Five, 1984, Macbeth, Glengarry Glen Ross) for details, themes, and characters. The prompt? About a book with a "country setting" that shows either virtue/innocence or ignorance and primitivism. Now, the question was worded poorly such that some people thought they meant as in a "countryside" while people like me extrapolated that to mean a country or just a setting in general, so I did Heart of Darkness. It's hard scrambling for details when you didn't review the book. Oh well, over and done with, finally.

What are everyone's favorite Shakespeare dramas? I'd probably go with Othello because 1) Othello says "Holla" and 2) Iago is probably my favorite literature villain ever. Overall though, I enjoyed Macbeth more. As for other dramas, I loved Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross and want to check out The Duck Variations and Orleanna. I also wanted to attempt some Goethe so I could have some background on my dream screenplay about a street racer who sells his soul for success. The Faust and the Furious.