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If TNA doesn't hype this all the fuck up...then yeah. IMO, they should go for a Lovett/Buck vs. Naturals feud for a little bit. It's quite easy: "you broke my neck, and now you pay." I don't mind Lex Lovett, either, and I dig the chemistry between Douglas and Stevens (though I don't think either man would do that good by themselves, since they just compliment each other too well), and Buck...I don't know who the hell he is, but since he's apparently Lovett's partner, run with it.

I'm not ruling out that either of Stallone's sequels will be quality as long as Sly writes a GOOD script for Rocky 6 (ie. Rocky Balboa losing to the younger champ and passing the torch to him) and Rambo IV (ie. training some newbs, or whatever). I'd like to see Rambo more like Sly's character in Copland, personally...just sorta normal.

The whole series is nothing more than "hey, this is a cool way to kill somebody...let's create some shitty-ass fucking story with shitty-ass fucking actors playing our shitty-ass fucking characters, and hey!"

Way to go, Chase. TNA should hype this up on air.

The only positive I can see for Springfield is that it isn't Weymouth. Weymouth just eats balls, man. I have to deliveries to Weymouth for work regularly, and man...I couldn't imagine living there. It's not, like, Blackstone or Woonie (Woonsocket, RI for you non-Massholes, or at least the Massholes that aren't from SE MA), but...it's close to being Framingham. A lot of businesses, but nothing else, really. It's what Framingham would be like if it were filled with honkies instead of Brazilians, really.

These two bands, possibly the finest horrorcore bands around, released a split EP together earlier this year (mid-August or so) entitled Tales Told By Dead Men. 5 songs from each, and I just bought it last night. ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE 1. Just Meat Good track, only 45 seconds long or so. Starts off with a George Carlin quote (Zombies! Where the FUCK are the zombies!?), and then it's spaztastic hardcore insanity. Longer than a good chunk of the tracks on their debut EP, This Is A Spark Of Life, that came out last year. 2. God I Hope The Data Is Lying Oddly enough, this one seems like a more CONSTRUCTED song than the band's usual work...until it breaks down into chaos, which seems to be their trademark. Not my favorite track of theirs on this split, but definitely catchy, and possibly the most melodic of them. 3. Breaking Off Fingers Starts off thrash-y, then goes right into hardcore. More "punk" than what ZA usually does, but it's still a nice track. Definitely something to get the pits going, accomplishing the creation of an urge to mosh in me better than most of their other stuff does (which should say a lot, considering every song is mosh-worthy but ONE song), so it's good. 4. Murder Be A Lady Tonight A metal start, then right into hardcore, and again: more constructed than their usual stuff. Ultimately better than the entire Spark of Life EP put together, but one of the things I admired about ZA originally was their complete embrace of chaos in their music. It's still there, just not as big, although still an entire soundtrack the oncoming raising of hell. 5. Tale Told By A Dead Man My favorite track of theirs so far, and it's because it sounds NOTHING like them. Garage rock-y intro, then slow, plodding hardcore...and clean verses with spoken word over them (mixed with screaming). There's actually a good solo in it, and if you're into heavy music and don't love how they randomly break out into the intro of "South of Heaven," then you're not REALLY into heavy music, are you? Either that, or one of the few "heavy" fans that doesn't like Slayer...stupid cunts, all of 'em. But yeah, good song. Melodic solo over moderately paced heaviness, and I guess this could be Zombie Apocalypse's "ballad"...but it's better than a ballad. Slow hardcore + "South of Heaven" + PIANO + melodic solo = I love it. 6. ... Just a bagpipe drone to lead into the first Send More Paramedics track. SEND MORE PARAMEDICS 7. From The Void AWESOME intro as the ambient solo goes over the thrash breakdown nicely...and then BAM! You're spazzing out and wanting to mosh. If you hate vocalists like Paul Baloff, Steve Souza, or Tom Araya, you'll HATE SMP's frontman. If you like thrash (although their production leaves much to be desired, as it sounds as though the guitars are coming in over some shoddy practice amp and a cheap distortion pedal, or something), you'll dig them. Weak drumming (but that's present in all of their work). Good arrangement of the riffs and solo's in this song, and I dig the gang chant at the end as the ambient solo returns. 8. Zombies vs. Shark I love the name of this song. Slow, plodding bass intro to set the tone of unease, then the guitars come in to bring the heaviness. I can definitely see SMP doing the soundtrack for a horror movie better than most other horrorcore bands could. I like the flow of the vocals throughout the song, and the chorus is, actually, the best part of the song. 9. Funeral If you like thrash, you'll like this song. Short, fast, heavy, and filled with moshy goodness. The one song that probably couldn't be in a horror movie, oddly enough, as it's a pure thrash tune with little-to-no ambience or true unease (outside of the dissonance that comes with playing thrash). 10. Nothing Tastes Like This Good intro, but a little too reminiscent of "Zombie vs. Shark," and then the verse is pure 80's thrash goodness. Hardcore chorus with some cheesy solo stuff over it that sounds like they lifted it from an emo band, and yeah. GOOD solo part as there's dueling solo's (at the SAME TIME) going right into a rather generic hardcore breakdown. Good gang chants at the end. And then...a VERY subtle bass solo/dance track that leads right into... 11. This Is The Place of Wailing and The Gnashing of Teeth GREAT intro to get the pits going. Pure hardcore song for a lot of it, but that actually works to their advantage as its hardcore in the "hardcore punk" variety more than it is of the "HONOR, DESTINY, BLOOD" tough guy bullshit. A good ender to the album as the breakdown is nice, but I think that "Nothing Tastes Like This" would have worked as an ender better, or maybe have ZA as the last 5 tracks. Wait until the VERY end of the track for another Carlin quote, too. Overall, a worthy purchase if you're into these bands, and the songs are at least worth a download if you're not into them but into heavy music.

My band's MySpace is in my sig, and mine is linked off of that in the friends list.

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I like the idea of me and Dames trading it off week after week, but I'm never around to watch the show (I'm usually in bed during the replay, and out with friends during the initial airing). Once it gets a better timeslot, you damn skippy I'll make a move to recapping it weekly. And yeah, I still do have the first Rush on my old Angelfire account. Why, want a link?

When was this? I thought Sugar Shane was a face. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> He was heel at first. (I think) Not sure when he turned or if it was a gradual thing cuz people loved the vertabreaker. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> As the resident 3Count mark, allow me to explain: -3Count debuted as heels, with Evan Karagias being the only one of the three previously in WCW for any length of time. Fans were indifferent to them because of the lame gimmick. -Tank Abbot became 3Count's abusive manager in an angle that could have worked were it not Tank Abbot and instead somebody with SOME range of acting ability. -3Count got fed up with Tank, as Tank costed them many matches against their rivals the Jung Dragons (Kaz Hayashi, Jimmy Yang, and Jamie Noble as Jamie-san), and beat him in a 3-on-1 hardcore handicap match...BARELY. -The feud with the Jung Dragons continued following a short feud with Norman Smiley over the Hardcore title, and dissention within the ranks of both teams began. -In late 2000, 3Count became, basically, 2Count as Evan Karagias and Shannon Moore kicked Sugah Shane out of the "band" for "getting an ego." Likewise, on the Jung Dragons, Jamie-san was booted out by their manager, Kimona Wanalaya (I forget her name in WCW at this point, but it's the same person) for being the jobber of the group. -3-WAY WARFARE! Evan/Moore, Hayashi/Yang, and Helms/Noble (who unmasked following his departure) was a common match on Nitro and Thunder. -Sugah Shane finally got revenge over Evan Karagias on a Nitro before SuperBrawl: Revenge, and revenge over Shannon Moore on a Thunder before WCW Greed. So yeah. I pretty much just made the whole gimmick seem THAT much better, but, in truth, I was a mark for 3Count, right down to the terrible theme music, awful entrance video, and insynchronized dancing. WRESTLING NEEDS ANOTHER BOYBAND.

No, he's too metal to just do that. He'd probably rape their wife, slay their children, and THEN fire them.

Danzig is, pretty much, an icon to old-school punks. Former frontman of The Misfits, former frontman of Samhain, and frontman of his self-titled project. Guy's a prick, but he's the only rock star left that people still think could probably kick their ass in a fight (despite the North Side Kings proving otherwise).

1. Ron "The Truth" Killings I have a feeling that WWE will EVENTUALLY get a good booking/writing team together, and when his contract is up in TNA? Wouldn't surprise me if he was offered a spot on the WWE roster. Guy has charisma, is VERY carryable in the ring, and, unlike our current WWE Champion, actually CAN rap, so there's a part of his gimmick right there, possibly. Oh, wait, I forgot...he's black. Pfft...he'll never main event in the E. 2. Johnny Nitro I've marked for him since TE3. Hell...everybody on TE3 that lasted until the last episode I marked hard for. They all actually WANTED to be wrestlers, and you could tell. Great look, good charisma, getting better in the ring, and HOMEGROWN. 3. Bobby Lashley Not based on talent, of course. Based solely on the fact that he's huge.

As in the shotgun head dress?

Kanyon and Saturn should be signed to TNA and pushed as a top tag team. Not only are they damn fine in the ring (hell, for a while in TNA, the best match the company put on outside of the X-Division was Saturn vs. Mike Barton), but they both are selfless and will place themselves in harm's way to help total strangers.

Yeah, Barber. Because NOBODY at TSM has ever heard of Danzig... ...I mean, it's not like he has something to say, and he just killed your baby today. Well, I suppose it doesn't matter much to him, just so long as it's dead.

Why not just give him the popstar-who-can't-sing-or-dance gimmick back?

Hopefully they learned from BFG to never take a shitload of gimmick matches and throw them onto one show. Sure, it DOES make the show seem bigger to have a lot of gimmick matches on one event, but really: it just ruins the show since then every match is about the GIMMICK and not the WORKERS. Sooooo hey. Sounds like a good card, so far. Be interesting to see Sabu/Abyss, if only because Sabu is the best he's been in years, and Abyss is damn good. I'm expecting bloodshed in no less than three matches, and I wouldn't mind a draw for Sabu/Abyss. Think about it: re-do the Born to be Wired finish...sorta. Sabu is too wrapped in barbed wire to continue, and Abyss is COVERED in thumbtacks and is beaten pretty much unconscious. Both men get put over because they fought until they couldn't continue, and it leaves open another rematch.

Hrmmmm...depends, really. Motion capture for SOME moves could be good, but others, well...Acklame, anybody?

Hrmmm...this could be interesting. I wonder why the EA deal fell through...maybe because EA has a wrestling game series with Def Jam? Dammit...that would've been []D [] []\/[] []D. A TNA game with Def Jam: Fight For New York controls and similar gameplay (though that game engine would lend itself more to a UFC game than anything else).

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Ah, I misread ya. Well, that'd be cool if I could stop partying every weekend and don't mind coming to work Tuesday morning strung out. Actually...I DON'T mind coming to work Tuesday morning strung out, since there's no long-lasting effects and a cup of coffee wakes me right up.

And I'm going to pay for these PPVs how? I may have just gotten a steady job, but expenses, man...

That's always been the way it is with the X-Division, though. Like, there were clear-cut faces and heels for a brief period (the faces being Jerry Lynn, Red, Los Maximos, and Styles; the heels being Kid Kash, Christopher Daniels, Elix Skipper, and LowKi), but after that...yeah. Just sorta hit purgatory. I wish TNA management didn't hate Kid Kash, and vice versa. The Notorious K-I-D ruled (well, I've made my Kash markdom known very well) as he had consistently good matches and got over that he was a complete heel while STILL doing some amazing spots that would make the fans cheer for him, but then boo him as soon as he went back to being his prick self.

Eh...personally, I think the next time Raven wins the belt, it should be from around Jarrett's waist. Would make the match seem THAT MUCH better, IMO, seeing the finish we all wanted and were utterly denied at Destiny.