Corey_Lazarus

It was '01 when the PPV matches really took off again. I'll forever remember Jason Jett (EZ Money) vs. KweeWee (Alan Funk) as being one of the downright HOTTEST openers to a PPV I've ever seen.

Aye. You would need to reasonably prove that you were possibly in danger, and be sure not to beat the intruder down TOO much. If you do...then, uhhh...stab yourself a few times and put the knife in the intruder's hand.

Because it's my favorite release this year.

I'd also like to say that I volunteered for TNA mod. While MikeSC was a friend of mine on here, this poor troll isn't doing the schtick right. Mike would've at least said what exactly was bad about the DVD and not just make some blanket statements like "none of them are good."

I'll clarify and agree with you, pegasus, about physical pain. If somebody is fighting a losing battle to cancer or AIDS, let them off themselves and die with dignity. Jack Kervorkian was right. BUT if somebody just off's themself because they're sad or have manic depression (which is, you know, TREATABLE)? Good. Didn't need 'em around anyway.

Cannot say I have, but I saw Nevermore live not too long ago, and all of their songs played (save for "River Dragon...") were from This Godless Endeavour and Enemies of Reality. I was bored. Not because I didn't know the songs, because I can get into a band who plays new songs or whose work I'm not familiar with so long as it's good. I just could not, for the life of me, get into it. Not the point I'd wanted to. I would throw the Zombie Apocalypse/Send More Paramedics split Tales Told by Dead Men into the "best of '05" category, but Zombie Apocalypse is a hardcore band, and Send More Paramedics are kinda lame. Fun to listen to because they basically just rip off Slayer, but not fun enough to listen to because it gets redundant as hell.

That was a good show. Season 2 wasn't as bad as some people make it out to be, but Season 3...damn that was awful. Only one or two people from the original cast returned (I think just Roy Scheider and Ted Raimi, actually).

Stasiak/Booker (Last Man Standing) was surprisingly good at Great American Bash. I heavily dug Vampiro/Mike Awesome from Halloween Havoc, too, especially the Super AwesomeBomb finish and Awesome beating the FUCK out of a fan that decked him in the crowd. Some praise should be thrown towards Booker/Nash (Cage) from Fall Brawl for being as good as it was considering it was NASH.

Exactly. Get a ring, get some attire...and tell the people in it to get some talent...and then come back to us.

That's what my junior English/senior Creative Writing teacher always said: "...when men were men, and women loved 'em for it." I think if anybody commits suicide that they were probably a waste of space anyway.

Ewwww...post-Dead Heart Nevermore... Of course, you know my love for my hometown heroes in Shadows Fall, so I'd have to say that The War Within is also one of the best metal albums of '05. Not only because I love Shadows Fall, but also because the more I listen to it the more I like it. Has a nice blend of old-school metal with some hardcore breakdowns and only a couple generic metalcore-moments, once again proving why they're the best metalcore band around.

I concur. Elitist punks are funny, because they're the ones who don't UNDERSTAND punk, but dress "punk," act "punk," and listen to "punk."

Don't mind Leena. She's just mad because she doesn't understand that quality matches get people over in TNA and not an assload of overbooking. In fact...overbooking is what leads people to not like wrestlers in TNA. Jarrett was at least RESPECTED until it became perfectly clear that all of his matches were going to be overbooked, and since then fans have just shat on him whenever he does something, even if he does something that would be considered entertaining. Here's to AJ/Tanahashi being a fucking good match. I'm not ordering Final Resolution, but I may get the one after it (Hard Justice is it?) if the card looks alright. I'm actually having quite good luck financially as of late, so I could afford to throw down $30.

See, the one wrestler I don't get the love for 'round here is Roode. I think he's just average with no discernable qualities besides being in Team Canada with a man who can bump his ass off (Young) and a man who is a pretty damn good heel (Williams, although he's nowhere near as good an X-Division heel as Kid Kash was). Somebody mind explaining to me why they dig him?

FUCK THE OLD FOLK'S HOME! That's the best thing you've ever posted here. Seriously. And Orton can get away with it because, well, it occurred OUTSIDE of the event. You work at Walgreens. Some old lady comes up to you when you're down the street at the QuickStop buying a pack of smokes because they're cheaper at QuickStop than they are Walgreens, and then says "oh, you work at Walgreens, you suck" and proceeded to bring up something about your past that's a personal insult, and THEN you say "fuck the old folk's home" and call her a cunt before trying to get her to get into a fight with you...you wouldn't be fired, or even spoken to, at work. It didn't happen when you were working, much like how Orton did this when he WASN'T working. That, and I think the fan should've been bitch slapped anyway by Orton. Bringing up a personal attack on talent is one thing, but about somebody's past? That's just low, man. That'd be like me staggering around and then doing the drinking hand gesture whenever I see Scott Hall.

Because the White Stripes have recorded the same fucking song over and over and over again, beyond the ridiculous AC/DC levels of redundancy, and they get praised for it. I could record the same exact bullshit over and over, but I wouldn't get praised for it. Hell, half of my band's songs sound alike aside from two parts of a riff here and there, so why aren't we topping the charts? Oh, I forgot: our drummer isn't some robotic piece of shit sister of an overrated indie fuckhead that doesn't know what the sun actually looks like.

It's funny, because some Cramps songs I love ("Surfing Dead," for instance), but others I downright despise. ...yeah, that's my whole post.

Tack, where are you getting these definitions/explanations of genres? Slayer's always been referred to as a thrash metal band. I've never heard them called ANYTHING else. They're pretty different from the likes of Megadeth and Exodus, speed metal bands, in that while the songs are played (usually) at a fast pace, the focus is on dissonance rather than consonance to create the disjointed feeling, that aura of uncertainty. Whereas speed metal created songs played faster than your average metal band with acoustic/clean breaks and singing, thrash had vocalists that either used semi-growls, screams, or Lemmy-inspired raspy-voiced singing. Though I will agree entirely with that definition's description of the lyrical content of thrash metal (that being political and more day-to-day life rather than mythological or spiritual like most other metal bands at the time), and that it lead to metalcore in the mid-90's. Also, there doesn't need to be TIGHT restrictions on what makes a metal band a metal band, because if we made it tight enough everything BUT the swamp scene bands wouldn't be labelled metal, since the founding fathers of heavy metal - Black Sabbath - had a more slow, doom, blues-y feel to their music than nearly any metal band that followed, and the swamp scene was basically all about that. Throw stoner rock into that pit of "real metal" too, since stoner bands are HEAVILY influenced by Sabbath to the point where most stoner bands basically just play music that sounds entirely like "Paranoid" and "Sabbra Cadabra."

Sonjay, Truth, and Joe... ...DUDE! POSSIBLE STABLE FOR THE FUTURE! Truth and Joe trade off who goes after the World title, Joe and Sonjay trade off who goes after the X-Division belt, and Sonjay and Truth tag up here and there. 1. Joe is awesome. 2. Truth is awesome. 3. Dutt is pretty good. YAY~!

I never said they did. In fact, the only indy guys I'd say look physically imposing are the 'roided freaks and the ones who carry themselves as complete and utter badasses (ie. LowKi, who we know is a trained martial artist, and is booked as being practically deadly in every company he works for; and Homicide, who has the edge of being a thug who can obviously brawl, but also has a damn good knowledge of ACTUAL wrestling so he's good all-around). I'm saying if I saw Samoa Joe cracking his knuckles and glaring at me, I'd likely shit my pants more so than if, say, Randy Orton was. It doesn't matter that I know Orton could kick my ass (great athlete, very strong and pretty fast, and used to be in the military so he has at least a basic knowledge of hand-to-hand combat), I'd mentally believe I'd have a chance in taking him. With Joe? I'd know I'm fucked.

Nekromantix are very good. Horror-based psychobilly. Very reminiscent of some Cramps stuff. Why the "ugh" after Transplants? I dig 'em because they're kinda different from Rancid (who I can't stand), but too much. Catchy-as-hell, and they have a rapper guest on quite a few songs (or maybe he's actually in the band, I dunno too much about 'em), so it's fun to hear punk and rap. And yes, "Diamonds and Guns" is my favorite song by them. WOO-WOO! Also, if you haven't already heard it, check out the Dead Kennedys song "Chickenshit Conformist." It takes the "you sold out" punk elitist fuckers and rips them a new one. Some lines from the song that stand out and I've committed to heart: "Punk's not dead, it just deserves to die" (opening line) "Harder core than thou until it's time to get a job" or "Harder core than thou until you're 25" (I forget which one, but it's just as great a line either way)

Actually, Agent, you just made possibly the greatest point ever in regards to metal. There's no real set criteria, just a few things in common (that being distortion and palm-muting...because everything else varies sub-genre to sub-genre). And Slayer, the reason Reign is considered Slayer's best is because of the overall feel of the album. Sure, everything in between "Angel of Death" and "Raining Blood" is filler, but it doesn't really matter if they're great songs or just filler, because the whole album is a heavy blitzkrieg of anger, which is what thrash is all about. It essentially personifies thrash in every aspect.

Because it wasn't an all-out ECW bonkers event, and didn't feature a lot of the talent that made ECW what it was. But that's because, you know, a lot of that former ECW talent either has issues with McMahon or were under contract to TNA at the time. Hence why the Hardcore Homecoming show occurred. Overall...WCW 2k. So much crap, but you could at least sense that a lot of the guys were trying their damnedest to make the company do a turnaround and be #1 again. Say what you will about Russo, but he accomplished something all of us only dreamed of in WCW: getting rid of Hogan. Hogan was booted; Booker had a great couple of matches with Lance Storm, a better-than-expected cage match with Nash, and a pretty damn good feud with Scott Steiner that lasted until the very last Nitro; the cruiserweight division was starting to get built back up as something to watch WCW for; 3 F'N COUNT; Natural Born Thrillers; Nash PUTTING PEOPLE OVER (a continuation of his better-than-expected cage match with Booker and the NBT); and people giving a damn about Hugh Morrus/Bill DeMott/General Rection/whatever you want to call him for once.

AJ and likely Daniels if it's available to get yet. The new X-Division DVD doesn't give me the same vibe that the old one did, maybe because the new one is just Styles, Daniels, Sabin, Williams, and Joe. They're the only ones that did anything in the past year worth of actual note in the X-Division, really, whereas the first year or so had a shitload of pretty damn good matches.

Yeah, the tags are tricky sometimes. IMO, I think somebody who's just BIG and isn't that well-toned is more physically imposing than somebody who looks like they torture themselves to get toned. I don't think Samoa Joe would look nearly as big of a bad motherfucker if he lost the gut and the flabby mantits (which'll be hard to do, since pretty much every Samoan has 'em). Something about the look of just somebody who is physically large, but not well-toned, says to me "I don't need to look like a Greek God, I'll just beat your ass." Gives me an old-school wrestling vibe where it was more about being tough than it was looking good. Also...Lesnar was massive? I'll agree. But Joe isn't that much smaller than Lesnar is/was, if you think about it. Isn't Brock only 6'4" or 6'5"? Joe can't be much shorter than that, and I'd say they're about the same weight.