Corey_Lazarus

Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt." Gary Jules' cover of "Mad World," as Harley said. The entire Darkest Days album by Stabbing Westward is my "depression" album. The Smashing Pumpkins' "Today." Fear Factory's "Timelessness." Acid Bath's "The Bones of Baby Dolls." Pantera's "Cemetery Gates" and "Hollow."

I'd say Bret and Shawn helped bring it out, but in 2000 it was put at the forefront, as Benoit, Guerrero, Jericho, Rock, Trips, and Angle were all top stars and could GO. I still don't think pure wrestling ability has much to do with whether or not fans like a wrestler - that's more to charisma and character - but it certainly does help more than anything else could.

Throw Foley into the mix, since I'm of the thought that nobody could really draw out such raw emotion as Foley could. My dream booking team of ex-wrestlers/managers are Mick Foley, Raven, and Paul Heyman.

I think he'd take offense to that...

And they need to make their decisions stand. They're going about the whole "tradition/Sports Entertainment" hybrid all wrong. The earlier shows, as in the first year or so of TNA's existence, worked because the hybrid of traditional, old-school wrestling programming and the edge of rapidity of Sports Entertainment was in good balance, with angles taking longer than just a few weeks to blowoff (usually), but within the start and finish of the angle there were SENSICAL twists and turns to keep the SE fans interested. Remember those days? Those were the days.

Exactly, DK. I've recommended more people I know to come to New England Championship Wrestling shows than to check out TNA. My friend Jason used to love wrestling, but now can only watch it with me because I'm the one that got him into wrestling and it seems more "fun" to him, and he loved the NECW show we went to (which, honestly, was one of their worse shows). Hell, more of my friends watch my puro tapes (admittedly, I only have three FMW DVDs, two FMW tapes, one pure-puro tape, and one RoH tape that has Kobashi/Hansen on it) and my RoH tapes and my old ECW tapes/DVDs than would ever watch TNA. The key to being a successful promotion is in storytelling, marketing, and offering something different than the norm. TNA has poor storytelling, decent marketing (I will give them credit there, as quite a few of their ideas - especially the e-mailing fans on their mailing list as to the card and reasons for the matches on PPVs - have been very good), and offers nothing better than WWE, RoH, IWS, CZW, PWG, and other indy promotions do.

Because TNA is giving you worse matches (because they're longer and they still won't let the workers do what they do best) and more Jeff Jarrett?

I didn't get as many good bands out of my real name. Plus, if I used my real name, I wouldn't have been able to put down Shadows Fall or Zombie Apocalypse. And it's ghey-ass and I filled it out because I was incredibly bored last night and read a few livejournals.

This year needs a SmackDown winner, since the WM main event has been set in stone for the past few months. So, if they'd have a midcarder do it, who would be a good idea? Cena? Mysterio? Van Dam? I'd love to see Eddie do it, actually. Have Eddie enter at #30, and then he cheats constantly to make sure he doesn't lose (eyerakes, lowblow's, going THROUGH the ropes and getting weapons, etc.). Final two are Eddie and 'Taker. Team Angle 2.0 interferes, but they don't know who to attack, so they attack both. Eddie gets tossed over, 'Taker gets tossed over, but Eddie skins the cat back in. This does two things: 1) Gives Eddie Guerrero the rematch with either JBL or Angle for the WWE Title at WrestleMania (either way, it would be a pretty good match with a solid story behind it), and 2) Emphasizes that the 30th entrant has an advantage over others. Not ONCE has #30 won a Rumble, and I think it's time that happens.

You know, I can't hear the phrases "viva la raza" or "arriba la raza" without laughing anymore. On one of the Best of BYW videos, I think it's #4, there's a wrestler doing a Mexican gimmick, and he comes out with a tiny American flag going "VIVA LA MEXICO! I HATE AMERICA! MEXICO FOREVER! ARRIBA LA RAZA!" over and over again. Then lights the flag on fire, puts it on the ground, and starts jumping up and down going "MEXICO FOREVER! MEXICO, MEXICO, MEXICO!" It's something that's funnier when you see it.

If record companies hadn't found a bunch of shitty-ass grunge-ish bands and signed them all up, grunge music would still be somewhat popular outside of kids listening to Nirvana now and then. Also, all of these things really did contribute to grunge's demise. People got sick of the music because it was becoming overexposed, displaying the lack of true depth the music had (you can only try to be "deep" and "meaningful" for so long before you NEED to party), and then Cobain blew his fucking head off with a 12-gauge while on heroin, and since he was grunge's poster boy it fucked things up, but record execs still pushed grunge because they didn't want variety in their music, the depressed kids grew up and realized that being suicidal drug addicts wasn't the best thing to be considering now they're going to be working at a 7/11 or a Jiffy Lube for the rest of their lives, and people wanted to have fun again so dance-pop made a big bang, and then John Popper went "But Anyway" and ate a ham sammich.

Return of the Living Dead. Tarman. Suicide. Tarman: BRAINS! **Tarman grabs Suicide by the head and takes a chunk out of his skull, eating the yummy insides. The punks scream in terror, and throw a bucket at Tarman.** Tarman: MORE BRAINS! ---------------------------------------------------- The Evil Dead Pencil to the achilles tendon. ---------------------------------------------------- Freddy Vs. Jason **Jason cuts off Freddy's arm in the dream world.** Freddy: NOT MY ARMS!

I didn't quit. TNA made me stop with their terrible product.

Oh, right. My spelling is ANOTHER thing.

I wouldn't call local indy workers Steve King or Johnny Idol anything above "average" workers (aside from King's psychology and selling, and Idol's heel schtick that he has down almost as good as Kid Kash does), but they had a "Wave the Flag" match (where their flagbearer would wave the flag whenever they felt their respective wrestler - in this case, King chose "Brutal" Bob Evans, and Idol chose Ru Starr - couldn't take anymore) that was around **3/4.

Dark Age, it wouldn't be Raven. Raven would admit it himself, since he doesn't care what bridges he burns (considering most of those bridge get repaired because promoters realize how good the guy is). Also, Raven's gripe isn't with how fans interact with the wrestlers, but what the wrestlers do in the ring. I'd guess either Daniels or Modest, more than likely Modest. I don't think Daniels does too many SoCal bookings anymore, considering the "major" California promotions are SoCal promotions, and TNA has issues with their talent working for rival promotions.

No, you can have all of that with wrestling. It's just TNA you can't have that with.

I can't be the only one that thinks Dynamite Kid looks like Billy Kidman with a spicstash in that pic, can I?

How about to Baltimore? I hear the crabcakes are tasty.

1) using band names, spell out your name C - Cannibal Corpse O - Opeth R - Rob Zombie E - Exodus Y - Yes L - Lostprophets A - Amen Z - Zombie Apocalypse A - Alice In Chains R - Rammstein U - Unearth S - Shadows Fall 2) have you ever had a song written about you? I wrote a song about myself, once. It was called "Ode to Ye Olde Sandwiche." It was actually about a true story of my midnight cravings for a sandwich, but not being able to find bread in my house. 3) what song makes you cry? Gary Jules' cover of "Mad World," because I first heard it after hearing my friend Jeff died. 4) what song makes you happy? Slayer - "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" 5) what do you like to listen to before bed? Any CD I have. Lately I've been on a Stuck Mojo kick. height: 5'11" hair color: Dirty blonde skin color: Scotchuguese eye color: Gray piercings: None tattoos: None yet r i g h t n o w what color pants are you wearing?: Stonewash what taste is in your mouth?: A blend of lemon-filling and, for some reason, bleach what's the weather like?: Cold and foggy how are you?: Tired but can't fall asleep get motion sickness?: No have a bad habit?: Cracking my knuckles/neck, staying up until sunrise regardless of when I woke up, biting my nails, posting constantly on a wrestling messageboard get along with your parents?: Sometimes like to drive?: Yes f a v o r i t e s tv show: South Park, Futurama conditioner: Whatever I got book: THE RULES OF ATTRACTION by Bret Easton Ellis non alcoholic drink: Kool-Aid thing to do on the weekend: Come home from work and go out for a sub with my friend Sarah h a v e y o u broken the law: Yes ran away from home: No snuck out of the house: Every night, practically ever gone skinny dipping: Not yet, too cold made a prank phone call: Yes ever tipped over a porta potty: No used your parents' credit card before: No skipped school before: Yes been in a school play: Not since 3rd grade l o v e boyfriend/girlfriend: Yes been in love: Yes had a hard time getting over someone: Yes been hurt: Yes your greatest regret: Not going to college right away gone out with someone you only knew for three days: No r a n d o m do you have a job: Franklin Pizza & Deli, Bob's Stores your cd player has in it right now: Discman has Slayer's Live - Decade of Aggression Disc I in it. Stereo has Stuck Mojo's HVY1 live album in it. Car stereo has Drezmania 7, a mix I made, in it. if you were a crayon what color would you be?: Smoke what makes you happy: sho Eating a really good sub what's the next cd you're gonna get?: Shadows Fall's The War Within w h e n / w h a t w a s t h e l a s t time you cried: July 10th, 2004 you got e-mail: An hour ago thing you purchased: 10.5 gallons of gasoline tv program you watched: Futurama movie you saw in the theater: Alien vs. Predator y o u r t h o u g h t s o n teenage smoking: Go for it drinking: Go for it weed: Go for it mushrooms: "Note to self: never shroom again. It only causes trouble." - Sean Bateman e: Jeff Hardy acid: What kind? everything else: "Morphine is an amazing drug." - David Radford, 11th grade English teacher

I'm surprised at a lack of Banky, but not surprised at a lack of L-A-Z. Not even Kido. **cries**

I forget who said it, probably Al Franken, but on the PETA episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit, there's a quote that fits into this.

Bringing in over-the-hill stars will NOT bring in buys. The only reason WCW succeeded with Hogan and Savage was because they presented them in different lights than the WWF had, and put them at the forefront of an exciting new angle. Look at the largest money draw in wrestling history: "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. He was a practically undiscovered talent that became a huge draw within two years of his arrival with the WWF, the hugest draw of all time, and that is because of him connecting with the crowd, and company being smart enough to acknowledge it. TNA needs to learn that pushing "proven" draws (that haven't drawn much but nostalgia pops for the past couple of years) over undeveloped talent is what lead to WCW's demise.

But you could easily say the same for Jeff Jarrett, could you not? And Chris Harris. And Monty Brown. And even for Truth. During D'Lo's first run with TNA, he was more over than all of them have been since. Also, you're basing whether or not he was over on one match where everybody knew he would be the weak link? Why don't you try finding his other matches from around that period, such as the series he had against Styles, or his match with Jeff Jarrett, or even just his staredown with JJ when it was unclear whether or not D'Lo was going to join SEX or not?

Pretty decent read. I can't say I'm truly 100% convinced, but if he's as serious about finding God and reforming as he says he is, then good for him. He's found something that makes him happy.