Corey_Lazarus

No, that's due to the people themselves. It's the same hypocrisy that means gays can't get married, but you can go have a lobster dinner, and steak dinner on a Friday.

The breakdown in Slayer's "Skeleton Christ" is completely fucking wrong. Guys, you're fucking Slayer. You're not Unearth. You're not a hardcore band. No chugga-chugga, dudes, just riff-riff-shred. The little skit intro before Dre/Cube's "Natural Born Killaz." It takes about 30 seconds or so, but it kills any momentum of listening to the song on repeat, and could be done without entirely. About half of most songs during the Graves-era Misfits could be cut out and I wouldn't care. It would only be an improvement.

No, the worst part was the Alien-Predator hybrid and the scene where everyone believed the Predator was about to propose marriage. I hate the AvP series, it killed what could have been the greatest ALIEN franchise movie DEAD. I actually loved the hybrid. That's taken straight out of the AvP comic series, too. To link the original AvP series to (what I believe is) the final AvP series, Dark Horse released a 2-issue title called Aliens vs. Predator: Duel. It focused on a group of marines trying to find the lady from the first AvP series, finding a shitton of aliens instead, and then the Predator flying in to lay waste to all for releasing the hybrid from inside a crashed ship that was turned into a hive. The hybrid looked badass, too...even if it got defeated by a marine and a one-handed Predator via hand-to-hand combat and small arms fire...wow, comic books get so much lamer when you're older... Re: trailer DID I SEE THE FUCKING HYBRID IN IT!? ROBERT JOY?! Eh, it won't be anywhere near as good Aliens or Predator, the fact that it's on Earth does sorta destroy the whole backstory to the original Alien flicks (that nobody had any idea about them until the Nostromo crew), but hey...at least Ripley's not a fucking clone.

I still wear all my old ECW shirts (the original "Join the Revolution!"; Taz's "SURVIVE if I let you"; a black Triple Threat (Bigelow, Douglas, Candido...wow, that's a sad thought that 2/3 of one of my favorite stables is dead) shirt; a retro Raven silhouette where he has the ECW title around his waist; and the "Surgeon General's Warning" shirt, which is now sleeveless), because they're just fucking cool. Period. Austin 3:16 I still wear, ditto the original DX "Suck it!" shirt that has the old WWF block logo (so it's back from late '97/early '98), and one of the local NE indy guy's shirt Michael Sain (it's a goofy-looking grey smiley with an X on its forehead and one colored eye, like Sain himself, and the back reads the definition of the term "PSYCHO," followed with the phrase "ME!") that I like to wear now and again. I also don't mind wearing the WWECW Sabu "Homicidal, Genocidal, Suicidal MANIAC" shirt, though that, too, is now sleeveless. Most wrestling shirts are fucking awful, though. And it seems like the current trend is to follow what a lot of the scenester band shirts are doing, which is having designs run diagonally or up the shoulders, which are fucking hideous and will be laughed at in 5 years time.

We should get Michael Moore to do a documentary of how Russo is to blame for ADD/ADHD and anything else he can't even really be attributed to, but he could be a scapegoat for.

I actually like how John Morrison makes the pseudo-intellectual babble seem forced, since I always found Jim Morrison's lyrics to be fucking lame as shit.

Those aren't restholds. Rest holds involve resting and Orton looks like he's putting every effort in trying to strangle Cena until he passes out. I love Orton's chinlocks. Go back to watching your lameass Petey Williams flipping Piledriver shit. Ok, I will considering it's an actual movie that is supposed to knock your opponent out for long enough to pin them. And those chinlocks are considered rest holds. A rest hold is a hold where you are not moving giving time for you and the opponent time to catch your breath enough to do another big move, no matter how much effort it seems the person is putting into the move. The only problem with that in this match was after the chinlocks it was back to more punching and kicking, no big power moves or chain wrestling. They're only considered restholds when they don't make sense in the terms of the match. Any time Orton wasn't systematically pounding on Cena's head, he was choking him out, ie. cutting off oxygen flow to the brain. A chinlock also does that. In the context of the match, it made sense for Orton to wrench those chinlocks in whenever Cena started making comebacks. I do believe the term is called psychology, or something to that effect. A chokehold variation used on somebody whose head is the main target makes a lot more sense than being dropped on your head and thrown outside of the ring...only to flip over them and give them an incredibly fake-looking piledriver.

I wouldn't say that the inevitable Shane/bastard match should be totally one-sided towards the bastard, but the bulk of it should be. Let Shane get some surprises here and there, but once the bastard's head is back in the game...he's completely fucked.

Ah, Glamorama. Fucking beautiful in . Trying to finish up Jim Norton's Happy Endings, which is the first book I've ever openly laughed at outside of the first time I read Foley's first, but since it's just a collection of journal entries that have no true linear placement (meaning that it jumps from 10 years ago to a few months before it was published, with no rhyme or reason), it's sorta hard to go through all the way. After that it's Less Than Zero, which I should've read years ago, and then maybe I'll try to get back at Lords of Chaos.

Like others have said, since more and more people have bad grammatical ability, those that have what amounts to a 7th-grade mastery of the language are viewed as above-average in most writing classes, and even by most people who would read otherwise. That, and whenever somebody decides to write about something that others around them aren't, they seem like better writers. When I took creative writing my senior year of high school, there was, like, 6 people in that class of 20 (including myself) who didn't just repeat the works of Hunter S. Thompson. Everybody in that class who were in it for an easy grade just blatantly stole from Thompson. It was obvious who did it, since they'd reference snorting a lot of coke, and one kid even flat-out plaigarised the laundry list of drugs from the beginning of Fear and Loathing. Nobody seems to try too hard, so it's easy to stand out.

It used to. Then they decided kids don't get enough schoolin'. Nevermind that most teachers go through the motions, or that parents want their kids to be better educated but don't want to fork over the cash to pay for the school's upkeep and staff, they want them to know what 2 + 2 is, dammit! I fucking hated school. Spent the whole summer walking around trying to figure out shit to do, and by the time all the parties were getting ripe it was time to go back.

...you don't remember the band name by any chance, do you? Because I'm getting a punk-ish White Zombie vibe in my head from your description, but only because Rob always says "yeah" a million times in every song. Municipal Waste is touring the States now, and they're doing three dates up in New England in a week-and-a-half span. September 26 they're at the Living Room in Providence, the 27 they're at the Palladium Upstairs in Worcester, and on October 5 or 6 they're in Springfield at the Waterfront. I won't even try to make it to Springfield, but I fully intend on doing the back-to-back dates for Providence and Worcester.

Was Prince mentioned? Judging by the comments said about him during An Evening with Kevin Smith, he's so fucking "out there" crazy that only the select few can actually handle him.

Ellis' Lunar Park is something I finished a week or two ago. I can honestly say that it's probably the best book I've ever read, and easily his most emotional. It's a weird blend of autobiography, his usual "sex, drugs, rock n' roll" style, and horror, and it all revolves around the relationships forged, bent, broken, and molded of a father and son. A little bit of everything, with an ending that nearly had me in tears.

Off iTunes... Gwar - America Must be Destroyed "Meat Sandwich," "Gor-Gor," and "Road Behind." 'Nuff said. One more Gwar album to go, aside from Slave Pit-exclusive live stuff, Live From Mt. Fuji, and the rarity of demo's called Let There be Gwar. But yeah, one more studio LP. Send More Paramedics - Feast for the Fallen The first LP by soon-to-quit Brit zombiecore pioneers, and one of my favorite bands, Send More Paramedics. I've only heard one song thus far off of it, "Aim for the Head," which is 8 seconds of madness, and I'm listening to the 25-minute untitled track. It's two of the band members doing bad American accents (you can tell every here and there that they're insanely British), with one being a driver, and the other being a hitchhiker who witnessed a zombie outbreak in the fictional town of San Lazarus (hey!), New Mexico. Detailed, by-the-numbers zombie outbreak story, but it's entertaining as shit. It's sad that they're calling it quits by Halloween, especially since they'd be perfect for Rock and Shock (but I believe they have two gigs in the London area around then).

Pacman is NOT Mike Tyson. Mike Tyson was a world-famous boxer known to have a bad temper and being prone to violent outbursts. Pacman Jones is a semi-well known NFL player who got into legal trouble for causing a ruckus at a few stripjoints. Pacman Jones is not Mike Tyson. Pacman Jones is not Mike Tyson. Trivium is not Metallica. Andy Samberg is not Adam Sandler. They're all famous, just the latter is much more famous than the former. That's why Pacman will not do for TNA what Tyson did for the WWF: Tyson is a household name, Pacman is not. That, and the WWF booking up to Tyson's involvement was helping them gain viewers, with Tyson's involvement helping to put it over the top. Yes, Lance Hoyt is not a draw. Yes, nobody in TNA has been proven as a draw. But who - outside of cast-off's from WWE and has-been's from WCW - have been given the chance to become draws? Nobody. And with the horrible booking TNA has had for the better part of the last year, who in their right fucking mind WOULD WATCH?!

Ernie: The shooting happened right around 7:45 or so, maybe a little earlier, which is partially the reason Steph got so fucking freaked. She did also fall for the Project 161 deal, so that's working really well. Garth: From what I saw, Hero/Nigel stole the show. It wasn't the best match, per se, but it was the most entertaining. Hero is hereby my new favorite heel.

I can't fucking stand her. I find her to be annoying and grating. And yeah, Milky, most people with Misfits tattoo's...yeah. I don't get it either. Most people just want it for "cred," it seems, and not because they actually like the band, or that it means anything to 'em. To me, it symbolizes an entire point in my life, that being ages 14-now, since The Misfits have been my favorite band since then.

He either wears entirely 80's skater gear (too-short jogging shorts, sleeveless bright-colored shirt, hat with the brim flipped up), or t-shirt and jeans. Either way, Tony Forsta (frontman) is fucking great live. Crowd-surfing...via boogeyboard...with a beer-bong...he's fucking amazing.

FUCK. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK. I was at the Roxbury show, but we left during intermission because my girlfriend was having a fucking anxiety attack over the shooting that happened right when we got there. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK. Then we get back to South Station to find out that we just missed our fucking train, and we didn't have enough money on the Charlie-card to go back. FUCK. Matt Cross going over Edwards WAS weird, though. Delirious fucking ruled it.

A little clarification. David Flair, Brian Lawler, and Erik Watts came in as a "second-generation" stable. David allegedly had Ric's NWA belt (it was really Dusty's copy of it, but for storyline reasons it was Ric's) and claimed he was as good a champion as anybody, and Dusty took offense, saying "you haven't earned the belt, so don't go around wearing anything you haven't earned." It was a shitty feud that could easily be made to look decent with some nice editing (which they ended up doing before the blow-off Lawler/Rhodes ladder match), but nowhere near as good as what Dusty would (later?) say regarding Jerry Lynn, AMW, and Jeff Jarrett at the height of the TNA/SEX feud (along the lines of "every man has his chance to take tradition and turn it into something new, and that what these men are doing"; sounds lame, but it was actually a fucking amazing promo, with a legend in Dusty Rhodes putting over TNA's top four faces at the time), but I digress. The blowoff was Dusty Rhodes and Brian Lawler in a ladder match, which Lawler challenged him to knowing his weight, age, and history of injuries. The match was awful in a workrate sense, but a decent amount of fun to watch. The highlight of the match was Dusty bringing out a step-stool, maybe three steps high, and then climbing it after hitting the Bionic Elbow to Lawler. Lawler was out cold, and Dusty shrugged, climbed up the step-stool, and hit an elbow drop off of it. At least I'm pretty sure that was the blowoff. Please note that AJ Styles had NOTHING to do with this feud. At the time, he was feuding with Jeff Jarrett, then Raven, and then SEX after leaving them (he had a cup of coffee in SEX). I thought the TNA/SEX feud was actually pretty good. Very much a ripoff of the WCW/nWo feud, but with TNA actually winning here and there and SEX didn't dominate every single show. I just wish there was a blowoff instead of Russo just re-appearing after a month-long absence and saying "SEX is no more."

...are you a fucking idiot? These reactions are the kind of "I'm severely turned off by this product, and I won't give them any more of my money" reactions that companies should NEVER get. And TNA gets them more and more, and to greater degrees, as time goes on. How is it GOOD that the bookers booked the obvious finish, thus pissing off their entire fanbase and weakening the worth of the one man who SHOULD be their top player? How is that GOOD?! How the fuck is that GOOD BOOKING? Every single star TNA spent time building up into main event talent - Ron Killings, AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, Christopher Daniels, James Storm, Chris Harris - they've thrown to the outside in favor of WWE cast-off's who were fired/released FOR A REASON (with Angle it was refusal to go to rehab and take time off, with the Dudley Boyz it was that their act was dead, with Scott Steiner it was that he was useless). A run-in or screwjob finish here and there, when the feud is building and is garnering more and more interest, is alright. It makes SENSE. But to have your face - the one guy the fans actually DO get behind, and have been getting behind less and less since you started booking him as a fucking bitch to a past-his-prime alleged drug addict - get jobbed in EVERY big match is fucking horseshit. There's no real emotion to this feud, there's no real sense of urgency to watch, and there's no reason for anybody that's ever invested so much as a fucking dollar in TNA to continue doing so. We pay, and we pay, and we pay, and we get shit on more than Vince McMahon would EVER do to us. Even in the darkest times of the WWF and WCW, there were still workers with heat that put on good matches, there were still feuds here and there worth watching. TNA hasn't had a fucking thing worth watching since the end of the LAX/Styles & Daniels feud, which ended, oh...8 fucking months ago. I didn't even order this show and I feel ripped off. Fuck you, TNA. Fuck you up your stupid asses.

Yep. IIRC, the plan he, Vince, and Shawn agreed to was that SurSer would end in a double-DQ after interference by both DX and the Hart Foundation, and then as soon as they were back in the States (either the next night or a week later) there'd be a rematch where Shawn would win the belt. Vince agreed, but obviously, at the show, he didn't...

Detailed drawing. I can do cartoony stuff, even semi-detailed to a degree, but I absolutely suck at trying to make something look realistic. Running. I feel too awkward when running, and since I walk pretty fast anyway, I just do a quick jog or walk fast to where I need to "run" to. Keeping rhythm. I really, REALLY suck at it. Which is odd because I'm actually a decent guitarist. Either that or my friends (the bulk of which are damned fine musicians, some even Berklee students) are lying to me. Talking. I mumble a lot, which I'm partially blaming on formerly being tongue-tied. The little skin-thing under your tongue is supposed to be very small and end a little behind the halfway point at your tongue. Until I was 10, it ended at the tip of my tongue. So I learned to speak not being able to fully move my tongue, so now I trip over it all the time. That and the fact that I often think too quickly about what I'm saying to properly say them, and yeah. Getting shit done. I'd much rather sit down and play guitar or watch a movie or surf the net than do work that needs to be done, or even finish shit I've started. I have quite a few ideas or screenplays, short stories, novels, etc., and I've always been told I'm a good writer, it's just I never actually finish what I start.

It was an avoidable thing, too. A non-finish, albeit horrible, would have extended the feud since I do believe the reason they didn't put the belt on Raven was that his contract was almost up and he didn't sign a new one yet. Imagine both men kicking the ever-loving shit out of each other for 20 minutes or so, and then they both fly off the balcony through some tables, with neither man able to make the 10-count. Non-finish, and puts over Raven as the only man thus far that has even come CLOSE to getting the belt off of Jarrett. Since Jarrett was supposed to be the face at the time ("supposed to be" since the fans were cheering Raven 100x more than they were Jarrett), it would make the feud seem more interesting since Raven took him to his limit in their first one-on-one encounter. Another month or two later, save the rematch for the 1-year anniversary show (so roughly 2 months later) rather than doing the Styles/Jarrett/Raven match (which was good, but a Raven/Jarrett rematch would have made more sense), and have Raven go over after much bloodshed. As it was, Raven's title reign in '05 was entertaining, but it lacked the impact that a reign - even if only a few weeks long - would have had in late spring/early summer '03. And yes, the team of Russo and Jarrett Sr. produced some great programming. Mantel, however, took all life away from the company, and with the restrictions placed on the X-Division workers (they were told to slow the matches down to tell a story, but then were chastised for using psychology since the heavyweight workers couldn't) and emphasis put on talent that either the fans were sick of (Jarrett, Sonny Siaki) or weren't ready for the pushes they received (Michael Shane, Kevin Northcutt), it's no wonder both live attendance and PPV orders went WAAAAAAAAAAY down. There were some highlights, such as the initial America's X-Cup (Team TNA vs. Team AAA, which not only produced some solid matches but, unfortunately, also made Abysmo Negro a regular on TNA broadcasts and lead to Jerry Lynn's nagging shoulder injury) and the return of XXX, but mostly just...blah. It was awful, awful TV, made even worse when you remembered that you were paying $9.95 a show. And it didn't even really turn around until just before the debut of Samoa Joe, so that's a few months shy of 2 years of bad product.