Corey_Lazarus

Dutt, but not by much. He at least has charisma, and had a pretty good match with Chris Cash in CZW (dunno the date or the event, but it's on the Aerial Assault DVD that XEG put out for CZW). I've yet to see a Bobby Roode match that I haven't yawned during.

Exactly my point, Vyce. Emo bands, at one time, were actually punk and hardcore bands, they were just more emotional in their music and lyrics than their punk/hardcore brethren. Now? It's not even punk or hardcore, it's just emo. Emo just may be the worst sub-genre of music created since Bill Haley & His Comets brought rock n' roll to the world.

While I agree with you to an extent on the nostalgia comment, I do have to say that Peace Sells... as an album is heavily underwhelming. It's listing is there purely for impact and importance (that being that it's Megadeth's most widely-known album before Rust In Peace).

My girlfriend's brother pissed his pants in her room the night we went to Bodom after being refused entry due to being shitfaced. Then he fell asleep on her bed, pissed pants and all.

Better than the last couple. Started off with a shitty part-time job and a girlfriend who I was always fighting with. Broke up with her and stayed single as I played the field, and got really trashed over the summer. Made an assload of new friends, and started hanging out with my current girlfriend more and more. Joined TDR. Totalled my '97 Outback and then started dating my girlfriend two days later. Got a new full-time job that pays pretty good and I don't mind too much at all. Kicked some ass at the few shows TDR has played. Drank more. Got a new car, a '98 Outback. It nearly died on the trip up to Ludlow, VT (MA/VT border, whereas I live on the MA/RI border) and on the way back. Can't get it fixed until Friday. Lame. Saw a lot of old friends I haven't seen in forever. Overall, a really, really good year.

Sorry, but "Hollaback Girl" doesn't TOUCH "Trapped In A Box."

Emo and punk get lumped together because "emo" is a shortened form of "emotional punk." It's funny, because early emo bands were just good punk/hardcore bands that wrote some melodic and emotional tunes...and then bands decided to rip them off...and then we get Fall Out Boy. Fuck Green Day. Fuck Fall Out Boy. There's a huge list of bands I hate. I think I should put it in my sig at some point.

I voted for a current face that will turn. Why? Because Abyss needs some heavy rebuilding after being Jeff Hardy's bitch for most of the earlier parts of the year, and after losing the feud to Sabu a month or two ago. He'll need to work his way back up and be pushed as what Tenay and West try to make him out to be - an unstoppable monster - in order to be a serious World title contender. By the time Joe's challenging for the World title, he'll be a face. No official turn will be taken, but since fans already continue cheering him, he's a face by default. Neither Chris Harris nor James Storm of AMW can be taken as serious singles competitors. They're far too limited of workers, and they compliment each other TOO WELL as a tag team to be effective anywhere else. Nobody in the current incarnation of Team Canada should be near the main event in the next 5 years. Not unless Petey Williams miraculously turns into an amazing worker from the above-average spotmonkey he currently is. Brown won't win the belt as a heel anytime soon, IMO. When he does, he'll be a face. He's so over with the fans, and Jarrett's smart enough to keep him heel whenever he has the belt so that Brown isn't a contender. No other heel on the roster is over enough to challenge for the belt at this point. Hell, the only over heels on the roster (that are over AS heels, thus eliminating Joe) are allies with Jarrett, so hey. TNA would be dumb to bring in somebody from WWE or the indies, push them to the main event as a heel, and have them win the belt. There are too many others on the roster right now that deserve the shot that we'd be looking at WCW redux: so many top-level talent, and not enough room for all of them. Jarrett won't have stroke forever. He just recently got it back by making a huge power play, and if I remember correctly, Dixie Carter is more in favor of D'Amore than she is Jarrett as head booker.

He doesn't look legitimately tough. If you really think he looks tougher than most of the wrestlers on TV today, you're crazy. It's more that he's a fat slob like most of you losers... and he gets to beat up other guys, and go all "stiff" on them. Joe is the epitome of anti-WWE. And "unbiased" sources like Meltzer giving his work 5*, and people here following it, only proves my point. He doesn't? Oh, okay. So I guess Vader didn't look legitimately tough either. Or any member of Hell's Angels. Or any big guy that you'll see in your local pub. Or Bam Bam Bigelow. Notice the direction I'm going? Guys who are just MASSIVE are, more often than not, tougher than those that spend hours toning themselves. I'd rather get into a fight with somebody that tortures themselves to look like a Calvin Klein model than some big guy with a scowl on his fast that can run fast as hell. And yes, I do think he looks tougher than most of the wrestlers on TV today, and for the very reason I just stated. Would you say Mick Foley looks tough? No, of course not. But people that tortured their bodies to look physically magnificent would be crippled after taking the HIAC bumps he did, and yet Foley got back up after BOTH of them. He's a tough bastard, and he's also a big guy, so that only further proves my point of "overall big = tough." Yeah, he probably is the epitome of anti-WWE: strong, hard-working, can work with wrestlers of very different styles to put on varied matches, and is respected heavily by all who've been in the same company as him because of his work ethic, his in-ring talent, and his attitude backstage. Meltzer's biased towards non-WWE workers? So I guess that's why he considers Austin, Flair, Benoit, and Hart to be some of the greatest workers alive, and will talk about how most indy workers are just spotmonkeys, eh? Sorry, Leena, you're treading on ground you know nothing about, so stop acting like you know anything.

If you can track it down, get yourself a copy of the first "Best of the X-Division" DVD that was released in late '03. Has all of the early X-Division stuff that mattered, including the (mightily fucking impressive) debut of Chris Sabin, as well as a man TNA was dumb enough to release who happened to be their best heel: the Notorious K-I-D, Kid F'N Kash.

I like how they included AJ's moonsault inverted DDT in the game. Makes it mucho easier to make AJ.

People respected him because he came to America and lived out of a shithole in LA, and then out of a shithole in San Fran, while Metallica toured their asses off, pausing only to write new material.

Go on January 21st. We're playing Club Raw.

Well, for Joe, it's more-or-less the mentality of "hey, here's a guy who LOOKS legitimately tough, is having really good matches with everybody, and is one of the few X-Division workers that is getting a good push without being overexposed," not to mention the whole ***** match he had with Kobashi (which I need to see), and the 60-minute time limit draw last year with CM Punk that got a 5* review from Meltz.

I just think it's funny that one of the icons of modern ska, Gwen Stefani, recorded a pop album because she "wanted to make music you could dance to." Because nobody can dance to ska, of course.

Yeah. Most of the people I know that are/were big into jambands are complete fucking idiots. There's a trend of people becoming hippies because they like to get stoned, and then listen to jambands to further that, rather than being a hippie because you actually share the beliefs of the subculture (peace, harmony, usually vegeterianism, equality, etc.).

Outside of the first album, they're not worth even downloading. Well, the new one released earlier this year isn't TOO bad, but it doesn't have the anger the first one did. "Now Or Never" fucked them over bad. A bunch of inked-up, dreadlocked-mohawk sporting, skinny white guys - two of which are former drug dealers from NY - crooning about loving some girl and not knowing where to go from there? Ruined it for me. That would be like Metallica recording a country song. ...oh...

Shinedown...is a weird case. Singer's really good, but that's it. The music is lame, the lyrics are fucking awful (the line "someone save me if you will / and take away all these pills" would be good if it weren't in complete contrast to the rest of the song, since no other part of the song mentions drug use), and they're just popular because they did an acoustic in-studio cover of Skynyrd's "Simple Man," recorded it acoustically in their studio, and then released it as a single.

IMO, jambands are bands that take a combination of blues, jazz, and folk and make music that, for the most part, is relaxing. String Cheese Incident, Moe, etc. I wouldn't necessarily count DMB as a jamband, more like pop, but they do have a very jam-ish sound. Most jambands tend to be able to write a song on the spot by just flat-out jamming, knowing enough about blues and jazz to be able to improvise at any given moment without it sounding too out-of-place. Most other styles of music are very focused and dead-set on songwriting, because a lot of styles come from the blues/country/classical combination, but jambands have the tendency to improvise more often than bands of other styles of music. If the only criteria being used to call a band a "jamband" is that they jam out, then that's stupid fucking criteria. Every band jams out: it's how they write their songs. And yes, a lot of people do think every metal song sounds the same. There is a similarity between all metal songs, hence the banner "metal."

Because Devil Driver sounds like what they are: a bunch of nu-metal fans trying to be brutal by playing generic, watered-down death metal. I actually preferred Coal Chamber over that shit, and I hated Coal Chamber. In Flames is very "meh" from Cloud Connected and on, but there's no denying the awesomeness of the first few albums. And Trivium is amazing live. I've definitely heard of them. I'll search around on MySpace to see if they sound familiar (though I know I haven't seen 'em). Whereabouts in MA/RI are you?

Which he defended, more or less, by saying Rob Zombie accomplished what he set out to do: make a movie that pulled no punches. He also said that the acting was heavily factored in, specifically Forsythe, Haig, and Moseley (since, let's face it, Sheri is charismatic and sexy as sin, but she's not a great actress by any stretch). That, and Devil's Rejects isn't nearly as violent as a lot of people make it out to be. It's a great homage to 70's exploitation: just enough gritty violence to make it disturbing to those not used to it at all, but not so much that the movie's plot is lost in it.

Daniels was chosen to compete with Angle because the two have several of the same strengths and several of the same weaknesses. Both men can go on the mat, there's no denying that (especially with Angle, since he IS an Olympic gold medalist), and both men can take a crowd that's pretty dead and make them give a fuck by some solid timing. But where both men faulter is that Daniels has given up a lot of the psychology he used to use in RoH and some early TNA matches (particularly XXX tag bouts), and Angle has never truly grasped onto it like he could have/should have. Well, it's harder to explain than I thought it would be. But, in my opinion, nobody in TNA is a better match for Angle than Daniels would be. I'd also make an argument that Styles/HBK would be a good competition to talk about the strengths/weaknesses of both workers (both bump terrifically, are considered one of the flagbearers for their respective companies, and can challenge at any time for the top belt and have it be credible). As for why Joe wasn't chosen to compete with Angle, here's why: it'd be a fucking massacre. Joe's work in the last 2 years surpasses EVERYTHING Angle's ever done by itself, and the only strengths that Angle has over Joe is publicity (since Angle's on well-rated national TV every week, and has been for the better part of the last 6 years, whereas Joe debuted on national TV a few months ago when Impact came to SpikeTV) and interviews. A more fair comparison would be Joe/Benoit than Joe/Angle (even if I think Benoit would kill Joe in every possible category for the entire body of work he's had in the last 15 years).

No, I mean in the WWE folder. Last I checked, it was tied at 42 or 43 a piece.

Well, my band's playing Club Raw (right next to the Palladium) on January 21st for PhilanthropyFest (I think that's the name), but as far as big shows...I dunno. I was going to go to Rock and Shock this past October, the second night of it with GWAR and Zombie Apocalypse and God Forbid, but my buddy Crawford's band Inheritance was set to play their final gig in Bellingham so I promised him I'd be there. Right after tickets were sold out, I get the word that his band cancelled and they just split without a farewell show. It was fucking lame seeing as how I worship ZA. I might go to Nile/Hypocrisy/Soilent Green on Feb. 4, but the last Nile album I wasn't that fond of (I can't even remember the name of it), and outside of a handful of songs I don't care for Hypocrisy or Soilent Green too much. In Flames/Trivium (AMAZING LIVE, like I said)/Devil Driver (teh suxorz) on Feb. 18th is probably the best bet I've got. My local crew loves In Flames, my bandmates love Trivium, and we all hate Devil Driver so we'll be there to bring the fingers and drunken tomfoolery. Oh shit...Friday, March 10th of 2006... Bleeding Through Every Time I Die Between The Buried And Me Haste The Day ...fuck BTBAM and HTD...BLEEDING FUCKIN' THROUGH...I'm there. And oh, deliciousness abounds on April 8 as Morbid Angel/Behemoth/Krisiun (heehee, stoner death) is downstairs.

Oh, of fucking course. All of the killer thrash and speed albums that came out from 1985 to 1989 is a who's-who and what's-what of metal. Speak English Or Die, Reign In Blood, Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?, Master of Puppets...damn. And I agree with Agent: Bolt Thrower is fuckin' awesome.