godthedog

it depends on who's wrestling in the cage. bret and owen used the escape rule PERFECTLY, and i don't think it would've been half as good otherwise.

cause stone cold said so.

not at all. this story's provided me with months of masturbation fantasies.

a better question is, what the hell was john thinking?

dear god. are you karen carpenter?

oh my god. this looks incredible, i may have to call in sick at work just to catch this shit thursday.

kawada chono choshu tsuruta kurosawa my grandfather was shot down in a hail of gunfire at okinawa. i don't like the japanese.

massive attack - 'mezzanine' if only i'd gotten into this trip-hop thing while it was popular.

i am so there. this will be like reliving a moment from my childhood that never really happened.

shut your mouth, fool. that's 90 minutes of badasssss goodnesssss. my cheesiest movie is probably 'the lady from shanghai'. great, great movie, but it's about as cheesy as any other b-movie of the time.

a little bit of that is fine, but it would get old pretty quick. fans would rightfully start nodding off, and i don't think either guy has that kind of endurance anyway. incidentally: i predict a sharpshooter spot. if angle gets a fall from it, i'll mark the fuck out.

bret/hbk was the better match, but angle & lesnar NEED to take rock/trips as their model, because a) it fits the current wwf style better, and b) neither of them is half as snug a worker as shawn or bret. i'm not saying they're bad workers, but they're sloppy. they're better off playing to their strengths (i.e., brawling and trademark big spots, with some mat wrestling thrown in) than trying to emulate something that just isn't going to happen. the booking needs to keep the fans into it, neither one of them has the moveset or the experience to think of ways to keep the crowd interested for 60 minutes. hell, even bret & shawn were blanking out--shawn was doing powerbombs & shit, and bret went back to the camel clutch one time too many. come to think of it, even bret and flair blanked out more than once. there's a double KO spot from a shoulder block like 55 minutes in that's really out of place, & i think there's a couple other spots like that. shit, i'm rambling. anyway: booking will save this thing. neither guy has the kind of grasp for fundamentals to have an interesting pure match for 60 minutes.

why can't you be the people i call? i get the most boring, mundane rejections.

please, you KNOW all the boys get the girls in the back. i would say "revolution 9" by the beatles, but i kinda like it some of the times i listen to it. so i'll say "don't pass me by" instead.

curiouser and curiouser...

don't feel like going into my criteria, but the absolute ESSENTIAL thing is the drama. execution, innovation, etc., only help inasmuch as they add to the drama, and anything that takes away from the drama (something like botching a move or changing the pace in a way that doesn't feel right) knocks it down. i think flair/steamboat from wrestlewar is THE classic example of this; everything that was done, was done to build the drama. (i wouldn't give that match 5*, but i think it's the most obvious example of how the little things can add so much to the drama of a match when everything clicks). the last wwf match i'd give 5* to is the bret/austin submission match.

The problem is that I don't want to hear Justin Timberlake doing his faux-Michael Jackson voice singing "Folsom Prison Blues". "When I hear that whistle blowin', I hang my head and CRY ME A RIVER!" I don't want to hear Staind butcher "I Walk the Line" with their acoustic-emo-numetal blend. I really don't want to hear "Cocaine Blues" slaughtered by The Ataris. His music was too good, too important, too influential to be fucked with by artists in the current day and age. the beatles get covered by shitty artists all the time. we find a way to carry on. same with dylan. won't be that big a deal.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/1...obit/index.html : NASHVILLE, Tennessee (CNN) -- Country music legend Johnny Cash died early Friday of complications from diabetes at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, hospital spokeswoman Nicole Bates said. He was 71. Cash was sent home Monday from Baptist after a week's stay for a stomach condition, according to his official Web site. Bates said he was sent home to "rest and recover." His family was with him when he died Friday morning at 2 a.m. (3 a.m. EDT), she said. Cash had suffered for several years from autonomic neuropathy, a diabetes-related disorder that attacks the nervous system in much the same way that Parkinson's disease does. John R. Cash, the sharecropper's son from Kingsland, Arkansas, sang with Elvis and Bob Dylan, hosted his own TV show, played for presidents and prisoners during his career that spanned almost 50 years. Cash was early to realize the blurred lines between country, folk and rock and roll. He was one of Sun Records' early signings, and laid down several groundbreaking sides with the Memphis, Tennessee, label, including "Cry, Cry, Cry" and "I Walk the Line." Later, refusing to be pigeonholed, he recorded songs by Bob Dylan, leading to a duet on Dylan's 1969 "Nashville Skyline" album. On his television show, which ran from 1969 to 1971, he went well beyond Nashville, providing appearances for such divergent artists as Ray Charles and Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Linda Ronstadt.

now THAT'S a nice little analogy. so banky is hawkeye? but who's hot lips?

had this been a one-post thread that was unedited, it would be THE classic thread for all time.

radiohead - "street spirit (fade out)," "like spinning plates" bob dylan - anything from disc one of 'live 1966' except "mr tambourine man" pearl jam - "yellow ledbetter" bjork - "big time sensuality" (shut up) jeff buckley - "last goodbye," "so real"

i never thought she was particularly talented, & seriously doubt her stuff would be recognized so much if she hadn't done some of it for hitler. 'the blue light' (or 'da bloo lyte', as my german-born professor called it) and what i've seen of 'triumph of the will' bore the shit out of me.

"it's all over now, baby blue" (live 1966 version" "idiot wind" "sad eyed lady of the lowlands" "subterranean homesick blues" "cold irons bound"

actually, the heroin thing reminds me...i got the chance to actually see someone on heroin this past saturday. not a pretty sight.

i was thinking the exact same thing. too bad his mom didn't accidentally put a knife through the center of his head.