JLowe
-
Posts
3,232 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
3
Posts posted by JLowe
-
-
Y’all, Mance opened up Mox’s never-healing cut hardway before the .3 Muta bladejob. That was a fun fight, and I also get the sense that was to set up Mox losing to Jericho (and hopefully leading to Eddie’s big win at Grand Slam).
Lard Lad! Guess they realized that they needed to give him a TV win, even though he’s looked so amazing in losing the big matches. We get Pretty Peter on TV! I don’t think there’s any question Claudio-Takeshita will be MOTN tomorrow.
After the super hot, super good tag match on Wednesday, the Rayne-Gray match was...not so good and was very close to losing the crowd. Rayne’s finisher looked pretty good though.
Street fight kind of dragged early on, didn’t really pick up for me until that Swerve 450 onto the stack. Like Woods and Nese are fine but just so bland. The protein powder felt very WWE in a not good way, and the fact that Nese no-sold it while Lee acted like he’d been hit with three kinds of mist and a sack of salt didn’t help. I do like Sterling as neo-Heenan. The big table spot was fine. Again, this just felt like a waste of a “street fight” and didn’t really do anything to make Lee and Swerve look like champions.
-
3
-
-
27 minutes ago, Quantum said:
Goldberg and Sting masks
OK, disembodied Goldberg mask is more terrifying than the Nash head lamp.
-
5
-
-
OK, I made time to watch Emi-Shida and that was a fun 7 minute match and goddamn do I love watching Emi. She's so great at everything, and her evil cackle slays me.
-
6
-
-
Also, Bob Mould worked for WCW when Flair was there so we've come roundabout!
-
5
-
3
-
1
-
-
33 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:
I was caught completely off guard when a friend handed me a CDR of Zen Arcade one day. Even though I'd read about them in Stephen Blush's American Hardcore book and Chuck Eddy's Stairway to Hell I had no idea what they sounded like. One of those DNA changers of a record.
You know thinking back, I might've already bought Land Speed Record before that and STILL wasn't prepared.
My first exposure to Husker Du was on the Blasting Concept 2 SST sampler, which is when the label shifted from Black Flag to a bunch of weird or boring bands who were friends with Ginn. I also was very much a 16/17-year old kid whose idea of hardcore was skewed towards NYHC and early 7 Seconds. I was not open to very fast melodic punk, and I kind of wrote them off even as I got into pop punk and melodic hardcore; I also wasn't a huge Sugar fan when they were out although I did see them play and it was one of the 3 loudest shows I've ever seen (Dino. Jr/MBV, Mission of Burma).
Anyway, I now have just about everything, although Flip Your Wig is my favorite. And I've seen Bob Mould play "solo" like half a dozen times now and cry every time he plays "If I Can't Change Your Mind" and lose my shit when he does "Hate Paper Doll". And thanks to this thread, I just learned that he's playing in Austin next month and I bought a ticket!
-
4
-
-
1 hour ago, Pete said:
One of the first movies I ever saw in a theater. I'M NOT OLD @DEAN, YOU'RE OLD! Head for Denny's, I think the Early Bird ends at 4!
I had the youth novel adaptation of that movie that I got from Scholastic book fair.
-
2
-
1
-
-
8 hours ago, Matt D said:
They should pull the trigger on her. For one thing, you need an actual title change on one of these Battle of the Belts. Run it for a couple of months where Baker gets more and more jealous of her being champ. You can use ThunderStorm as an attraction and feud them with TayJay or something. Rosa doesn't need the belt right now.
I was thinking having her upset Rosa at BotB3 would be a slightly shocking but very smart move. Lead to some tension with Britt, still have Storm and Rosa chasing the belt.
-
7
-
-
4 minutes ago, John E. Dynamite said:
I'm gonna try to be a good boy and not bite a hole through my lip, but RAW has/is going to be fawned over for awhile for producing competent wrestling and good Dynamites like this are gonna receive the no small amount of entitled bellyaching.
Not that I can't bellyache. Did you hear JR bury the concept of the superplex?
I thought he was doing pretty good until then, too.
-
1
-
-
I seriously wonder sometimes if I’m watching the same show as some people.
-
11
-
1
-
-
10 minutes ago, The Natural said:
That was amazing camera work. Someone on Facebook said that getting a kid to cry is a sign that wrestling is back.
-
7
-
-
5 minutes ago, Krone Meltzer said:
That womens tag team match *chefs kiss*
On a night of very good to excellent matches, that was my MOTN. They brought the stiffness, and I get the sense that Rosa and Storm enjoyed laying it into Britt.
-
7
-
-
Canada had Pointed Sticks, kind of their version of the Buzzcocks. In the 90s, you had awesome garage/punk/indie bands like Smugglers, cub, Bum, Chixdiggit, and then there’s the living legend Nardwuar.
-
1
-
-
9 minutes ago, Technico Support said:
NICE. My only memories were of being really far from the stage and Catherine Wheel doing Black Metallic; something about the tempo of the song and how hot it was just made the song feel like it was going on FOREVER.
Much like an AEW thread last month turned into a rumination on cheesesteaks, only on DVDVR can a thread about Ric Flair's last match become a discussion of late 80s/early 90s pre-grunge alternative.
I have an Apple Music playlist that I made solely by Googling WHFS playlists from that era and it's beautiful.
@JLowementioned George Clinton...I remember seeing P-Funk at HAMMERJACK'S in Baltimore (the old one, which was razed to build the Ravens' stadium) in maybe 95. It was a hilarious show because it was so long and nobody felt any obligation to stay and the vibe was go ahead and check out when your P-Funk meter was filled. My friends and I were there for maybe 2-3 hours and dipped out like, "yep, we've had our fill of George & the All Stars, we're good, thanks everybody byeeeeee."
I interviewed Clinton for the Daily Texan in advance of the show in Dallas (we had to earn our free press wristband and extra free ticket somehow) and while he was a trip, he also mentioned that he had taught his white 60-something chauffeur to rap for part of his show, so I went in with extremely low expectations and was therefore not disappointed.
I was a college radio DJ from November '89 until May '93 (plus a short stint at 4 am in Austin in '94) so I knew about all the mainstream alternative bands and even some underground hip-hop but, because of being in BFE Pennsyltucky, very little truly underground punk/alternative. We were excited that we could get Sub Pop and Epitaph to send us stuff to play, and for some reason Shimmy Disc sent us stuff, but that was about it.
-
8
-
-
Just now, DEAN said:
WHOA! John Lowe didn't like the Didjits?!
Rick Sims gets on my nerves. Didn't like when he joined the Supersuckers, didn't like Gaza Strippers.
-
1
-
-
31 minutes ago, odessasteps said:
Would also accept "UT meets some kids at local Halloween party."
Don't think there are kids who would dress as luchadors in the gated Austin suburb where he lives.
-
1
-
-
I was at Lolla '94, which had Smashing Pumpkins as headliners, plus George Clinton, Nick Cave, Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Breeders, and Green Day (the tour was split with half dates Rage ATM, half Green Day). Side stage acts I saw included Shonen Knife, Stereolab, and Shudder to Think.
Other '90s content was seeing the Spin Doctors/Soul Asylum/Screaming Trees tour in '93, I think that was MTV Alternative Nation. Never saw one of those radio station fests, closest was some summer party at Case Western headlined by The Didjits, who I didn't like.
-
2
-
-
Can't leave out Catherine Wheel, a solid second-tier shoegaze/dream pop outfit with Bruce Dickinson's cousin on vocals!
-
4
-
-
30 minutes ago, Tabe said:
Not sure about that. Certainly possible. But the arbitrator did say that the NFL had proven their case.
They only presented testimony from 4 of the accusers. Defector has a good article on this.
-
2
-
-
28 minutes ago, Kevin Wilson said:
Needless to say I don't agree with the punishment given and I am the last person in the world that would normally defend the NFL...
BUT
I don't think we can really compare this to past suspensions, for example saying "Why did Zeke get this" or "Why did Big Ben get that" because its a totally different process. I have no doubt that if it was up to Goodell he would have been suspended Watson for the season, what I wonder is if Sue Robinson was around then is if Ben would have gotten one game and Zeke two or something. All suspensions going forward, as long as she is the one deciding them, may be less than what we have seen in the past and what the NFL would have done if it was up to them.
Unfortunately, the NFL's past suspensions is what got us to the point of needing a "neutral" third party, as many many people complained about the suspensions that Ben, Brady, and Zeke got. Its just that no one expected the new decider of punishments to go so easy on Watson so fans went from "thank goodness its not up to Goodell" to "I miss Goodell's punishments" just due to how much worse what Watson did compares to the other examples given.
All this, but I also have a sneaking suspicion that the NFL didn't present the strongest case possible in order to stir up public opinion against the NFLPA and the new process.
-
1
-
-
Rampage thread is locked but I finally saw it last night and it really was a great episode top to bottom, although using valuable backstage promo time to set up Youtube angles is a choice I wouldn't have made. Ruby and AJAS gelled pretty well and had a great story throughout.
Satnam moves pretty well for a giant wrestler and has a lot of personality.
-
3
-
-
35 minutes ago, Technico Support said:
Are they disciplining or getting rid of whatever writer(s) screamed at them and called them spoiled or whatever?
I feel like Jericho is hitting his stride balancing his character work with actual decent color commentary. Between all the screaming and gimmickry, he covered for/reigned in JR a few times and did decent job explaining why certain things were happening in the context of the match.
Agreed about Jericho. Taz was super annoying a few months ago, but has now really gotten away from being the heel announcer and settling comfortably into the color commentary role. Jericho is doing a good job of putting everyone over, being funny, and still getting his angles in.
I don't think Henry is every going to be more than what he is now, he can be kind of funny but he doesn't add a lot when he's on commentary other than comedy and a little bit of awe. Wight is getting there. I think Regal is served best in guest spots, he's more valuable I think backstage.
I've enjoyed Coleman's guest spots on AEW and that episode of Dark, but I thought he was a little rough at the PPV, lots of stumbling and pauses.
-
1
-
-
1 hour ago, (BP) said:
This Terry Boobyer character must have been Arn Anderson’s attempt at an Andy Kauffman/Tony Clifton alter ego.
I'm pretty sure one of the DVDVR issues had a paragraph about Arn Anderson in the 80s being like the foreman at the plant, some asshole wearing blue blocker shades and a Members Only jacket chewing your ass out, knowing how badly you wanted to knock his teeth in but that you needed the work.
-
1
-
-
8 hours ago, The Natural said:
ROH World Champion Claudio Castagnoli defends against Konosuke Takeshita at AEW Battle of the Belts III this week with the build to AEW All Out 2022.
I think this might be the last chance we'll get to see our beloved Lard Lad before he heads back home.
-
2
-
-
Overcorrection of past excess by the NFL. Doesn't lose a cent of income, and the Browns have a hot garbage schedule for the first 6 games.
Rampage - 8/5/2022
in ALL ELITE WRESTLING
Posted
His high knee against Nemeth was brutal. And agree that might be his best blue Thunder bomb. But my favorite move is still his explosive shoulder tackle, he launches like Lester Hayes hunting heads.