King Kamala

Saw Dylan again tonight. Really good show hampered by me standing near a bunch of weirdos.Most notably an incredibly high twenty something girl who kept dryhumping the 60 year old white guy with dreadlocks next to her and groaning. Her boobs fell out twice! And there was a group of like eight fifteen year old girls wearing matching bandanas who charged together down the floor and knocked me out of my spot. After the show, I stopped at a Burger King and they were there and recognizing me, they decided to take a picture. I'm probably now in some 15 year old girl's MySpace profile picture... Anyways, a good time was had by all. Since he had no opening act, the show was over by like 9:20. It was good to go to a show for once and be home in time for the eleven o'clock news. Here's the setlist for anyone curious 1. Watching The River Flow 2. Lay Lady Lay 3. The Levee's Gonna Break 4. Shelter From The Storm 5. Rollin' and Tumblin' 6. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll 7. Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum 8. Mississippi 9. Highway 61 Revisited 10. Workingman's Blues #2 11. It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) 12. Spirit On The Water 13. The Ballad of Hollis Brown 14. Summer Days 15. Ain't Talkin' Encore 16. Thunder On The Mountain 17. Blowin' In The Wind

I don't think JBL is a ring general but I think he's a capable one and is certainly carryable. Honestly, I've had a small soft spot for the guy since the Justin Hawk Bradshaw days. As for Big Show/Mark Henry, I think Show wins a relatively short match. It seems like they're building him up for 'Taker or Edge. Mark Henry, like he has been in 11 1/2 of his 12 years in wrestling, is really going nowhere.

I feel like the biggest problem with this stint has kind of been understated by all of us. Good, bad, mediocre- whatever you think of his direction, it was the exact opposite of what WCW fans wanted at that time. The WCW fans still left picked Nitro over RAW for a reason and the WWF fans would never switch over because it was basically a watered down version of WWF. IIRC, right after Bischoff got canned in August '99, WCW sent out a survey at live events asking fans what they wanted to see. And the result basically was they wanted more in-ring action and less backstage segments and promos and whatnot. That was WCW for ya. I know I bagged Summer of '99 WCW a bit in this thread and rightfully so. But the short one-month or so period after Bischoff got canned and before Russo and Ferrera came in wasn't all that bad. At least not as bad as what came before and after (that's becoming a theme in this thread...). I still maintain that Sting's heel turn was fairly well done, from a booking standpoint. It bombed because WCW fans would never ever accept Sting as a heel and Hogan's act was tired at that point that it was hard to muster any enthusiasm for him. Actually I remember the Nitro before Russo came in (the one highlighted by the Owen Hart tribute match between Bret Hart and Chris Benoit) was one of the best Nitros they did in months.

I was never particularly bad or good at dodgeball but my favorite mundane sports achievement happened at the sport. So one day in 7th grade, we were playing and my team was stinking on ice that day. I was employing the strategy of hanging in the back and chucking any ball that came way. Eventually, everybody on my team is eliminated except me and there's still about 12 kids left on the other team and they have all of the balls. Somehow I manage to dodge three or four of 'em and then manage to catch one to let the rest of my team back in the game and we proceed to kick ass and take names. I also ripped my shirt off on a dare in middle school P.E. I was an odd kid.

Plus Mama Mia is opening that same day!!!

Yeah but the Undertaker's already dead really...

I did that Hogan picture 2nd, HTQ you hack! What if Hogan never jumped from the AWA to WWF? (Hogan Vs Inoki at WrestleRock?) Who could have saved WCW? Carlos Zambrano Vs Goldberg= Money, I guess.

How could anyone forget the time when Curt Hennig lost a Loser Leaves Town match to Buff Bagwell at Mayhem only to wrestle the next night. I'm trying to remember the Powers That Be. I can remember the members (Curt Hennig, Creative Control, Jeff Jarrett, La Parka, the mysterious shadowed Russo) but I can't remember any of the specifics of that angle.

As bad as it got at times, Russo's first stint was a hell of a lot better than what came before it (Summer of '99 crap) and what came after it (Kevin Sullivan's downright horrible stint which IMHO is the worst television WCW ever produced). Given that, maybe it's understandable why WCW brought Russo back.

"Can't Touch This" was a much bigger hit but I've always liked this one more for some reason. Must be all the cameos by early 90s sport superstars at the end. Wait...is that Jerry Glanville at the end!? And I could never understand whether Hammer was trying to start a feud with Michael Jackson or buddy up to him... Can you get more 90s than this one?

God Bless America. God Bless Luther Campbell

I think poor Skee Lo came out about five years too late. He would have been a perfect fit in the late 80s/early 90s goofy pop rap scene with Tone Loc, Young MC, Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff, Kid 'N' Play, etc.

We all know who the king of 90s hip hop was... And this thread is quickly turning into Right Said Thread/I'm Board A Ba Da A Ba Di 1.5

Guys, stop feeding the troll. Anyways, here are my Top 5 Favorite Latter Day WCW Saturday Night Wrestlers 5. Mark Jindrak (the angry basketball player gimmick days) 4. Kid Romeo 3. Shark Boy 2. "Hard Work" Bobby Walker 1. Barry Darsow Honorable mentions: Barry Horowitz, Emory Hale, and Elix Skipper

Man was The Adventures of Pete and Pete the ultimate 90s show or what? I rented the first season on Netflix about a year back and surprisingly, it still holds up reasonably well. Anyway, here are my contributions to this thread

While we're doing album covers...

Eagles-esque sound. Country Rock sounds retarded. I get the others but what the hell's wrong with country rock? Anyways, generally any band that's compared to Guns 'N' Roses is bound to suck.

I really hate underground rap but a lot of that can attribute to its fans (See The Atmosphere thread).

Not sure if it was announced earlier but color me surprised that King of The Hill got another season. It seems like it's been on the ropes for almost its entire run. It may be the least heralded show that's lasted a decade.

I read that as Jay Mohr and Penny Marshall at first. If that was a sitcom and it got a slot on the fall schedule, I think I'd quit watching television forever.

Ironic Is professional wrestling racist? Which professional wrestler will next enter the world of politics?

fuck.you.

I feel like an ass for thinking at first that luke-o was talking about Friday (The Ice Cuba/Chris Tucker movie). I was wondering if Hollywood had truly gone mad for remaking a movie from 1995. Did anybody see the short lived Friday:The Animated Series? That may be a contender for worst prime-time animated series. I mean really what audience were they targeting there? Wiggers?

Dude, Ross Perot won everybody's mock election in 1992. I voted Perot in '92. Of course, I was in 1st grade. Shit, you're way older than I am. I don't remember who won ours, but I do remember that I voted for Clinton/Gore because of Al Gore's youthful energy and boyish good looks. I was a weird five year old. I wasn't yet in '92 but Ross Perot came in a close 2nd place in my 2nd grade class' mock election in '96. I led the Perot contingent because he looked goofy. In our 6th grade mock election, Ralph Nader got in 2nd place over Bush. And in the '04 high school mock election, my younger brother's campaigning (and bribary) gave the Libertarian candidate 3rd place. Much like Czech, I've kind of repressed a lot of my middle school memories. I know I have some mildly amusing anecdotes but I just can't think of them right now.

Actually, I was kind of going for a Larry Bird circa 1986 look, the three or four times I decided to grow a mustache. I set my expectations low when it comes to facial hair.