Corey_Lazarus

Three. And they're all Converse. One pair of black high-top Chucks. One pair of white high-top Chucks. One pair of the new Converse XII's, white, which are, as I call them, "Combat Chucks."

What's this? A SMART gimmick poster?!

KSE is pretty lame, really. I can't tell most of their songs apart, and the guitarists downright refuse to solo. Oh, and during Unearth's set, people on the side of the stage kept spraying one of the guitarists and the vocalist with silly string. Not as funny as when members of The Damned and The Dickies cracked eggs and poured honey over the vocalist of DI at FiendFest '03, though.

treble, I'd just like to add that you and Mole have my favorite sigs.

Iraq: The friendliest place on Earth.

Mmhmm!

I'm just getting over a small (but nasty) case of bronchitis, which included severe coughs and weezing so bad I thought I was having an asthma attack. Oh, and my neck is sore from headbanging last night at Shadows Fall.

I agree. What he did was perfectly acceptable, and could have possibly saved hundreds of lives.

Michrome, considering that Styles/Ki have had three singles matches in TNA (one for Styles' X-Division title, one non-title on Week 12, and one for Styles' World title), which one blew? I liked them all.

I haven't pinned Jericho. ...I made him tap.

I don't know, I don't want to know, and Ian McKellen shirtless frightens the hell out of me. But, on the upside, it does look like Alan is dropping a duce...

XXX vs. F'N Amazing (Lynn/Red) Solid ****1/4 match. I don't think anything else TNA has done, not including the 3-way between Lynn, Styles, and LowKi anyways, has even come close.

bps, you sure? I seem to remember Collyer being on PPV once during one of the many X-Division clusterfucks...

So me and my girlfriend are dropped off by my dad (neither of us have our license yet) around 6:55, 5 minutes before the doors open. We both smoke a BUTT in the line, and then enter. We stand around for nearly a fucking hour before Unearth decides to come out. But, before Unearth came out, they were introduced by somebody famous. Somebody that has sold out lounges in Las Vegas more times than Frank Sinatra. Somebody that made even Andy Kauffman step back and say "wow" due to his showmanship. This man was Tony Clifton. Tony introduces Unearth, and they're pretty damn good. The end of their set was better than the beginning, as the songs towards the end were more death/thrash than the first songs were (which seemed to try to be a bad Gothenburg cover band). Unearth's set is over, and they plug their new album. Tony then came out before Killswitch Engage, but me and Heather left the floor because I needed to piss and she needed water. About halfway through KSE's set we bought some merchandise (I bought a Shadows Fall hoodie, she bought a Shadows Fall hoodie and beanie {and to let you know, I plan on stealing the beanie one day}), and then went back to the floor after KSE closed their set. The final tune was "My Last Serenade," and the vocalist (I forget the new one's name) didn't feel like singing, so he let the crowd sing the entire song. Fun stuff. Me and Heather got back on the floor when people were leaving en masse to use the bathrooms, buy merchandise, and get drinks. Tony was back onstage, and introduced Lamb Of God. This set made me a Lamb Of God fan. It was insane, and the music was just perfect. A huge circle pit started halfway through the set, and the vocalist came on stage during the first song wearing this inflatable cowboy costume (which made me laugh, seeing a man dressed in an inflatable cowboy suit growling and all). Brian from Shadows Fall and the vocalist from Today Is The Day came out for a couple of songs, and then Lamb Of God ended the set. And next...THE band everybody came to see. S H A D O W S F A L L . I forget the order of the songs, but they played the following tunes: "Of One Blood," "Fleshold," "Revel In My Loss," "A Fire In Babylon," "Stepping Outside The Circle," "The Idiot Box," "Destroyer Of Senses" (GAH!), and "Crushing Belial." For the encore, they played "Thoughts Without Words" and "I'm Alive" (Motley Crue cover). A circle pit started during "Idle Hands" and "Crushing Belial," and I joined in both times. GOOD, GOOD, GOOD, GOOD SHOW. Unfortunately, no "First Noble Truth" or "Art Of Balance," which was a downside, but Brian came out dressed like a skeleton king, or something (skull mask with a crown of bones, skull shoulders pads, and a belt with a medallion of a bone and a skull on it; Brian referred to the belt as the "Metal World championship," which made me mark). All in all, out of 10, 9.5/10. And the .5 deducted is just because "The First Noble Truth" and "The Art Of Balance" weren't played. Everything else about the show was INSANE. If any of you get the chance to see this tour...GO, DAMMIT, GO.

Actually, Russo's influence didn't start to show until he joined the company. I forget where, but there's actually an interview when Russo, in regards to Puppet beating off in a trashcan and the Dupp Cup, said "I knew that the internet was going to say that was my fault when I wasn't even with TNA yet."

Kash/Abyss. Every other match bored me.

Think what? That they're fed up with the fact that they are supposed to feel bad because of what some white people did years ago that probably aren't even related to them? I guess that makes me a white supremacist if I think people need to stop talking about their fucking skin color as if it's a handicap. I know racism exists, and it's an ugly thing, but the only way to kill something like that - and not give people reasons for believing in it - is to not care. Apathy: My defense. I've known people that have died from drugs, cigarette smoking, alcohol, and know people with STDs. That doesn't stop me from having the occasional toke with my friends, finishing a pack of Reds in a week, drink now and then, and fuck my woman. If you're going to go sXe, go ahead. But nobody's forcing you to take drugs or not, so stop acting like getting high on weed and shooting up black tar heroin are the same thing. I know enough sXe kids that think that, and I blow my cig smoke in their face.

See, the Blaze songs were good...but they don't fit. There's something "off" about them. Like, they wrote the music as if Bruce was going to sing to it, but Blaze doesn't sound like Bruce. Remember how Priest made the music darker and heavier when Ripper replaced Halford? I think Maiden should have done that.

Why the hate for Agent and not for Laz, when Laz saw the same tour earlier?

I don't know why news about current events are ever moved to the General Chat folder. I mean, so what if they don't have anything to do with politics or the fate of the world? If they're current, and they happened, they're current events.

I actually didn't mind the show when SEX dressed in camo. For one thing, a hot angle that everybody was interested in was advanced. Now? Bad matches and boring angles that few care about. There's a difference. I don't know about the others (although Week 16 was rather pitiful, as were a good portion of the shows during the SEX vs. Tradition angle), but 10/29/03 (this past week's show) is the worst.

How can you say the worst X-Division champion was Waltman when he had two matches with the title, both of which were ***? I've NEVER seen Shane come close to even a **1/2 match when he wasn't being obviously carried, and Waltman held his own in his matches with Styles. As for Ace Steel...I haven't seen his Wildside work, which I do hear is good, but his TNA work was the drizzling shits.

Hey, they've written songs about Vikings, a whore, and Satan's child ("Invaders," "22 Acacia Avenue," and "The Number Of The Beast," respectively), so let them write a song about Steve's track days.

Yeah...every time they want to act like something didn't happen, it involves ice cream. Although, really, Kenny should have stayed gone. I would've probably preferred that. If only because the gang trying to find a new friend was hilarious.

I've seen the Street Fight in question...and it sucked. Seriously. Paul London carried Shane kicking and screaming to a ** match (and those ** are just for London being great). It says something when you can't even have a fun match using WEAPONS (which are the standard go-to's for bad workers). Dames, you were EASY on this show. Hell, I gave every match but Kash/Abyss between DUD and *3/4 (for Kash/Abyss, I gave it **1/2, because I thought it was very fun, the two had good chemistry, and both men bumped like hell for each other).