Corey_Lazarus

puroresupower.com and strongstylespirit.com are good for you. I'm not into much puro, a KENTA match here and there on YouTube, but whenever I've asked I've been pointed in those directions.

Last concert you attended: Slayer/Unearth, amazing metal show Last person you ate breakfast with: My girlfriend Last time you hated something: My stomach Saturday night when I WASN'T drunk and wanted to drink more but didn't feel good at all Last night on the town: Never really had one, kinda hard to do when you ain't 21 Last movie you saw: The Toxic Avenger Part II...horrible piece of shit, my girlfriend wanted to see ALL of 'em after I showed her part 4 Last book you read: And finished...Controversy Creates Cash by Eric Bischoff Last album you listened to: Gwar - Violence Has Arrived Last time you wore a tie: Uh...I don't even remember...I think my grandmother's funeral Last time you cried: When I found out my mother had brain, breast, and lung cancer Last piece of clothing you bought: An $11 pair of jeans from Wal-Mart Last vacation you took: Uhhh...a long weekend at the Holiday Inn in Mansfield last year when we got FUCKED with snow up here Last food you ate: Cinnamon raisin bagel Last promise you made to yourself: Quit smoking (hasn't worked yet) Last TV show you watched: The Winner last night Last time you lied: This morning when I told my girlfriend that I didn't fart Last time you got into a fight: With my co-worker Jim this morning because the dumbfuck couldn't find the icescraper in the van, when all I had to do was move an empty skid an inch to grab it Last time you were in the hospital: A few days before my mother was released Last time you witnessed anarchy: New Year's Eve when all of my friends were completely wasted and my girlfriend made a drunken ass of herself Last magazine you read: Terrorizer Last time you got ripped off: When I gave my friend Sam $17 in singles and then had none left (I actually GAINED $3, but now have no singles) Last thing you drank: Lime Gatorade Rain Last web-site you visited: TSM Last thing you killed: No idea, likely a fly Last person you talked to on the phone: My friend Suzy Last song you listened to: Slayer - "Raining Blood" Last time you were confused: This morning when my co-worker Mark tried to explain something that happened Friday when I wasn't in the office

This is kinda iffy...since it's TECHNICALLY the band's third album, but since the first one was an indy release and most of their "fans" don't even know it exists... Shadows Fall - The Art of Balance Not necessarily a slump in the sense that it's not successful, because it was even more successful than their first Century Media release Of One Blood, but it's not nearly as good as Of One Blood. So it doesn't count per se, but it does because of the huge drop off in quality. S.O.D. - Bigger Than the Devil Though it does have my favorite song by the band, "Shenanigans," on it...no. It's especially a disappointment considering how much of a classic Speak English or Die is in both the metal and hardcore circles. Oh, and take into account the 14-year span between albums, and that makes it an even bigger disappointment. Dope - Life Dope's debut, Felons and Revolutionaries, really started making them a decent name on the nu-metal circuit in the late 90's, when nu-metal was at its prime. A good blend of punk ethics, industrial production, rap influences, and a genuine intensity from Simon and Edsel helped the band out...but Life is just another generic nu-metal album. Radio-friendly sing-along's, mid-tempo hammer-on riffs galore, and lyrics poorly sung about heartache rather than the screamed anger from Edsel on the debut. There's a third album that is just remotely better, and a fourth that isn't all that awful (bad, but not as bad as Life), and...they're still around, amazingly enough.

It makes me fucking sick, and sad as a wrestling fan, to know that a company I once paid $40 a month to see 8 hours of original programming from has gone from being a solid wrestling product similar to WCW in its dying days (and I mean it: WCW from December 2000 until its last broadcast was oftentimes more exciting than the WWF, if only for the higher-quality wrestling) to WCW in the days when it was killing itself (Sullivan-to-Russo era 2000). I don't even care about Joe losing so much as I care about the fact that he lost not to further a storyline to really put heat on Christian but rather to punish him for a small, 2-second comment he made disparaging TNA booking. That's a bullshit thing to do to a guy that your existing fanbase fucking loves. If The Rock said something negative about the WWF when he was just becoming a truly big deal in 1999, would he have been made to look like a complete joke? No, he wouldn't have. He'd have Vince talk to him about it, and maybe job one match that doesn't matter, only to win a bigger one later that month. Joe got fucked because TNA management is seemingly filled with people so full of their own shit, so intent on hating WWE, that they don't realize that most fans these days are sick of the way the business is presented, and that most of their core fans are sick of the way the show is going.

To TNA we go: Lynn MADE Styles. I won't talk about his career elsewhere, but considering that Styles was "just another indy guy" before Lynn feuded with him...yeah. In 3 weeks Styles went from upstart babyface rookie to the top heel in TNA.

Bungle's s/t...it freaked my girlfriend, and her brother's girlfriend, out so bad Saturday morning that they begged me to put anything else on, even Amputated or Zombie Apocalypse.

Well...Kataklysm is likely out. They're on tour with Dimmu Borgir and two bands I don't give a rat's ass about. So yeah. I heard that the best way to get the free Ozzfest tix is by signing up for their e-mail list, plus they'll also send updates of confirmed acts. Might be worth going to this year, since it's free and all.

Wow...I wanna go now if they come to New England. Never seen RATM live, don't care much for Wu (but prefer them over most rap acts), but it sounds enjoyable. Plus the novelty of somebody with long hair, a goatee that's in the process of growing to ridiculous Scott Ian lengths, and a vest with patches for Slayer and The Misfits on it going to a rap concert might be worth seeing.

Well...what do the two kinds, trenbolone and nandrolone, do exactly? Because there is a SLIIIIIIIGHT possibility that they were used for legitimate purposes. He DID break his neck a couple of times, remember? I'm not defending him, don't get me wrong, it's fucking obvious he's used something from when he debuted in October '99 to even mid-2000 (his hair thinned a decent amount, and his forehead sloped forward), but let's just not jump the fucking gun.

5 Favorite Thrash/Thrash Metal Songs at the Moment: 5. Despotic Robot - "Thrashmaticians" 4. Uhwarria - "Tick Attack" 3. Slayer - "Post Mortem" 2. Send More Paramedics - "Zombie vs. Shark" 1. Municipal Waste - "Unleash the Bastards"

Ahem...Black Label Society has. Slayer, The Haunted, Unearth, and Lamb of God are all on tour throughout the summer. Ditto Cannibal Corpse. Gwar refuses to do Ozzfest, preferring Sounds of the Underground (quote Dave Brockie, AKA Oderus Urungus: "The difference between this tour [sotU] and other tours like Ozzfest is...well, this tour doesn't suck!"). Shadows Fall is with Stone Sour on the Jagermeister Tour. I cannot think of a single band that'll be free in the states to do Ozzfest that would warrant me even remotely wanting to go. So unless they get Send More Paramedics, Darkest Hour, and/or Kataklysm...fuck Ozzfest.

A rock band...at a hip-hop festival? Considering Zach de la Rocha isn't that good of an MC, albeit the owner of a very distinct delivery and a decent lyricist (though Immortal Technique would OWN his fucking ass, and Necro would make him cry), I can't see this ending that well.

Emo. Tool and the people that worship them but can't explain why besides "dude, they're fucking killer, your music sucks!" Yeah, I know you fucking hate thrash, but god damn, dude, at least I can EXPLAIN why I like thrash. Try coming up with a decent argument as to why Tool is anything other than a piece of shit. If you can? Cool, but if not? Don't ever bring them up around me, because I'll likely try to kill you. Uhhhh...yeah, that's it.

I'm still holding out hope that, one day, there'll be released a DVD chronicling the greatest feud in the history of ECW: Raven vs. Tommy Dreamer. I've only seen, like, two of the matches from that feud (High Incident, and yes it was part of the feud; and the WrestlePalooza '97 blowoff), but I'll be damned if just watching clips here and there of it doesn't have me salivating like a motherfucker. Maybe another Foley disc, one that has a 2-hour feature about his life and career, and then 2 discs of his favorite/best matches (but don't double-dip nearly as much as they prolly will). Then again, why doesn't WWE Films just produce an adaptation of Have a Nice Day? It might actually bring some decent bank at the box office considering how popular the book was.

That...and the booking is lame. The same crowd, so long as they're given quality new things to digest, will continue to be enthusiastic about the product. It's all about giving them more of the same, but changing it ever so slightly each time so it seems new. I remember Kash/Styles. Wasn't that great of a feud, but Kash was so GREAT as a heel that I bought the PPV each week (until the first King of the Mountain match, FUCK JEFF JARRETT) just to watch him be a dick.

IIRC, Llakor works for the IWS, or at the very least he works for the website. Former TSM reviewers the Paradise City Ninjas (Sandman9000, I believe Evenflow, and somebody else) are huge marks for the IWS, and plenty of people at TSM are fans. It makes sense to hype IWS events on the 'net, since the I initially meant "Internet" as opposed to "International." Plus, even if I'll never see an IWS event live, buy a tape/DVD, and only read the "When We Were Marks" hypes and view clips of the action, it's still an enjoyable read. Better than any Scott Keith review, better than any Rush I ever did for TNA (save for the one where I was pretty fucking drunk by the end of it since the show was so awful), and better than a lot of the columns at 411. Llakor, rock on.

That's true. Which is why 2004 sucked ASS for TNA. Dutch Mantel, Russo coming back and not having nearly as much creative juice as he did his first TNA run, the agents telling the X-Division guys to slow down and not do highspots (when the entire division was created FOR highspots), Jeff Jarrett uber alles...shit, '04 has been their worst year. The only thing I remember from '04 that was any good was the short ICP/Jarrett's Posse feud that culminated in Monty Brown debuting, hitting the Alpha Bomb on 2 Tuff Tony onto a ladder, and Kid Kash being YOUR NEW FAVORITE WRESTLER. Come to think of it...Kid Kash was the best thing going during the Dirty Dutch era. I know Mantel's still with 'em, but c'mon...we all know it's mostly Russo. At least during other areas of awful booking (Duthtay Whodes, anyone?) there was still some solid fucking matches. Dirty Dutch era? I can only think of Ultimate X 2 and a few brawls here and there, and the 8-man from the first America's X-Cup.

The beards of Mastodon own all other fashion statements. Especially the beard + mullethawk. I can't think of any tours this year I'm too excited about. Sounds of the Underground's bill hasn't been made/released yet...OzzFest will suck, as always, though it'll be interesting to see who the "old school" band on the main stage will be (I'm hoping for a White Zombie reunion, but that'll never happen since J and Sean hate Rob). Uhhh...yeah. Misfits gotta tour sometime this year, Municipal Waste/The Haunted are in Europe for most of the year (the fuckers), Slayer already came around and left (and left me with a fat lip and a BAD bangover)...yeah. Unless Billy, Charlie, Scott, and Dan put their differences aside to make some money and do another S.O.D. reunion tour (it's been fucking 7 years already), I have no idea.

They're alright. Lyrics are really fucking tight, even if the music itself is kinda meh. "Sound of Silence" is killer, and I actually prefer the original to Nevermore's cover (though their cover is great).

Black Snake Moan looks to be the first flick that I've thought Christina Ricci is hot in. I thought she was cute in a few movies when she was a teenager, but now...I think she's hot. Looks better blonde than dark-haired, which I usually don't say. Grindhouse will be amazing. There hasn't been a bad movie from either Rodriguez or Tarantino - lesser-quality, but not BAD - and ROSE FUCKING McGOWAN and KURT FUCKING RUSSELL. MACHINEGUN LEG and DEATH CAR. I will love this piece of shit.

Mathematical equations applied to moral issues? No, that's wrong. Mathematics should never be applied to anything that isn't black and white. Citrus, you're trying to compare stealing a candy bar with robbing some old woman of her life savings and sending her onto the street. Downloading a song, movie, TV show = stealing a candy bar. Yes, it's TECHNICALLY wrong, but it doesn't really affect the "victim" in a major way. Makes their product/service more well-known, and thus more likely to make money. Stealing somebody else's work and claiming it as your own = robbing soem old woman of her life savings and sending her onto the street. It's reprehensible, and you're taking somebody else's product and then kicking them in the teeth while saying "it's mine, it's mine, HAHA!" I don't understand how somebody can't see the difference between victimless crime and life-wrecking crime. That's like saying there's no difference between purse-snatching and murder, dude. That's not even really a stretch, either: you're either taking something replaceable or ruining somebody's life.

I second, third, fourth, AND fifth this suggestion.

Yeah...I actually told my girlfriend the long history as to why TNA was better off in its first year (despite the midget wanking in the trashcan and the horrendous "Miss TNA" and Dupp Cup angles) than they are now - despite having big-name talent like Kurt Angle, Christian Cage, Sting, and despite having awesome new-to-TNA workers like Samoa Joe and Homicide - and how TNA turned their back on their core fanbase numerous times in '03 and '04, and how they've never really been as exciting.

So...when do you think a Mike Awesome DVD is coming out? I'd say in a few years, maybe even released with the next era of entertainment technology.

Almost like Final Fight...nah, Haggard smokes Hogan.