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Hot start to the show, and we got Kenny's good music back, yay! So we got Omega & Ospreay vs Fletcher & Takeshita at Grand Slam and Ospreay vs Cage next week! Let's go! New tag champs! In a dominant fashion, at that! This reminds me of Rockers vs Power and Glory, only with More talented Rockers and less talented Power and Glory... just kidding! Or am I? These guys facing Murder Machines, Brody and Murphy or Gates of Agony is money right there and something totally different from what AEW tag scene has been. Is that good or bad? It's different. Harley Cameron, the girl with the Ti... pping Point, oh yes, it's plain to see! The sales pitch for the TBS title shot was awesome, but Not Sasha was absolutely right to turn her down with zero victories, and all! Jamie beats Julia and somewhere down the line, they will settle this! Jarrett with less embarrassing performance this week, but getting past Claudio is going to be hard, unless MJF sticks his nose in. Well, I'm sure he will, but not to help Jarrett win. Hangman retired The Fallen Angel. Happy now? PAC vs Cope was good and intense stuff, too bad the post match didn't go so well for the good guys. Well, it's not going so hot for the good guys globally, at the moment, so it figures.

Would not surprise me in the slightest if he did. The change in his physique is so noticeable, even compared to his previous top forms.

It DID, the first two were a double cd re-issue, but now my collection starts with Ceremony of Opposites, which I also used to own as an LP before I even had a CD player.

They are still doing at least decent stuff after all this time, The 69 Eyes, that is.

@Gordi the recovering AEW f They sure have! Not necessarily MANY more than 7, but I believe I have 8, one of which is a double CD called "25", which has 25 songs from their (at the time) 25-year career. Pretty underrated, much like Simple Minds.

I've got at least 10 (maybe closer to 15, actually). And I love the stuff they have been putting out since 2005. Similar career resurgence like Killing Joke since 2003.

Holy shit! Roxanne Perez and Cora Jade are hanging out now? That's like Iconic Duo, if they had been credible...or hot! And just so you get that this was partially sarcastic, this is similar to the joke I had when I first learned that Ariana Grande existed: "It's like someone looked at Jessica Alba and went 'This won't do! Now, try again and this time make her hot!'"

At the risk of whatever, I was trying to get back to sleep so I started listing the bands/artists that I still own 7 or more CD's by at the moment. I didn't fall asleep, but came up with: The 69 Eyes, A-ha, The Birthday Massacre, Christian Death, Clan of Xymox, The Cult, The Cure, Danzig, Diary of Dreams, Eminem, Fields of the Nephilim, Girls Under Glass, HIM, Hocico, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Killing Joke, L'ame Immortelle, Megadeth, Metallica, The Mission, Pain, Paradise Lost, Samael, Saxon, Sentenced, Simple Minds, Tiamat, Type O Negative, Unheilig, W.A.S.P. Yeah, got up and made some coffee...

Oh hell yeah! Thanks a million!

Has Zoey Stark faced Ivy Nyle yet? Last time I was watching a coupleof years ago, I was really looking forward to that match and never got it, as of then.

https://youtu.be/5ofeVC44kxs?si=mUQu-GExFlm5Fa_U Here's my first attempt at a YouTube training video. I hope it works! I mean I did this later than others but these are the very first clips I actually recorded. The weights and/ or sets have gotten better since then, but there would be no point in showing this to anyone after they had seen the better ones. The song is Dragonaut by Judas Priest from Redeemer of Souls. Enjoy(?)

I did not feel like going to gym today, and yet... 5 sets of incline dumbell bench with pairs of 39,5's, 53's, 66's, 75's and 84's. Sets of 12 with everything but the 75's which was 16. I did a set of sitting hammer curls with the two lightest weights and a set of standing hammer curls with the rest. Plenty of resistance band stuff and relatively good ab work at the end. Got the two of the heaviest sets on video.

Powerhouse Hobbs, you son of a bitch!!! So, if Bowens has 5 tools and Caster is one giant tool, which one wins that measuring contest? Tony was just about to ask Toni the hard questions when Toni Time started! Damn, they have even made Toni's makeup younger than it was before! Let's see how the meeting with The Glamour goes this week?

Damn, another blow to TNA, although that's probably not going to matter much, now that the deal with NXT is in place. Still, sad to see him go, especially if he didn't leave on a good note.

And about 3 pushed tag teams out of those 40. Well, it could have been awesome.

Holy shit! I'm not sure if I have ever seen that before, but thank you! I must admit that the brain not functioning properly without carbs was from some movie or recent Netflix series, but this one is new and very coincidental!

What I miss about physical media, is the objective truth that dropping 20K+ in 10-15 years to achieve a decent CD collection and thousands more for a half decent DVD (or VHS) collection made you a really super cool person. Now, not only is the collection basically worthless (memories aside), having the said collection makes you a fucking dinosaur. Well, being 47 makes one a dinosaur, but that has nothing to do with AEW or physical media.

Now, I don't have any proof of this and at this point it's more just an observation than a theory but: The worse this storyline seems to get, the better shape Moxley seems to be in. Like, against Hobbs, he seemed even more cut (not just the ear, mind you) than he has before, and the match ended in a total downer moment for the viewing audience. I have no idea if this also would apply in reverse, but maybe Moxley has taken his diet too far and it's ruining this whole thing? Maybe more carbs into his system will be what turns this around? Is there anyone whose character revolves around food, except for that pizza guy (who Moxley should attack just to prove his and my point at the same time)? Because that who should go after him right now! "Moxley, your brain needs carbs, you are not thinking clearly and this shit is getting way out of hand!"

Hurt Syndicate will eradicate Death Riders once they feel like interacting with them, but I doubt they'll be caught dead teaming with them. Learning Tree has no shame but Jericho was rightfully a bit suspicious of Moxley. The real question is why would Death Riders team with anyone that isn't anointed by Moxley at this or any other point? Shouldn't they at least have like a serious discussion with The Learning Tree to set this up? "Look, we don't have big enough crew to go against six guys, so you can step in, this time. But I swear if you screw this up for us, we will string you up like spaghetti!" It would still be a mess, creatively speaking, and probably shouldn't happen. Although, Hurt Syndicate losing their patience with this shit and go "Let's smoke these fuckers!" definitely should.

Yeah, for the longest time they were in the business of not giving the customers what they pay for, so I'd say even LESS respectability!

Ok, some nice things here and some...yikes! Yeah, I definitely liked Kenny vs Cage and there will be a tag match or more out of this with Kenny and Ospreay. MVP still has it. Granted, he didn't do anything spectacular, but when did he ever? That was a very solid performance. Samoa Joe is back. I thought there would be a return, but I was wondering if it could be Killswitch, if he has crawled out from under the asteroid that hit him a while back? Taz almost having to step in was nice. Jarrett-MJF exchange, holy shit. That was embarrassing. I was like, OK I can see what you are trying to do, but OMG this is not working! They had to bring Dustin backstage to try and salvage some of it afterwards. Shit! And I was so looking forward to this feud a week ago! The Women’s Gauntlet was awesome, but I could have taken a few more entrants. I think I saw that Payne lady at 2019 All Out Women’s battle royal and was thinking "Wow, who's this now?" back then (this was late last year, not in 2019, mind you). If Kamille is out for good, I'll gladly take her as a suitable replacement. Main Event Harley Cameron has her own music now! Wonderful! As expected, Reset Rookie Toni Storm took the win. I really hope that Harley gets her first win at Grand Slam, though! The main event was good enough, and at least it washed away the disappointment of the previous match with the knee injury. But with the same result, it was still a very crowd deflating moment (not Live but at home). Rated FTR were totally late for that save. Can Hobbs even get to the tag match at Collision now?

Yesterday's Trapbar was a bunch of new record lifts from (mostly) new heights as 9 out of 12 total lifts were deficit. Granted, I only had the time to get up to 671 from the legit half blocks. My new from the floor record is 603 and my heaviest deficit lift (from maybe an inch or less deficit, but still) is 581,5. The best lift off the padded blocks was 625,5, obviously a new record from those as well! I guess next time I will concentrate mostly on the heavier lifts off the blocks and try to crush some of those records, too!

Harley Riders?

More general upper body stuff today, as I started with single arm dumbell overhead dumbell presses. I did the right arm first and went up to 61,5. It wasn't exactly giving me trouble, but I opted not to go beyond that. With the left arm, I did a quick warm up of 3x44, 5x57, 3x66, 1x75 and then 6x84, which I recorded. Then I did 1x88 and then 12x44. Then off to hammer curls with 12x110's and 23x88's. Both sets recorded. Scott bench bicep curls 10x35 with the right arm and 10x70,5 with the left one. The left arm set was recorded as well. Some resistance band push downs between sets, and some abs and grippers at the end. Made a new video set to Judas Priest's Blood Red Skies from this week's recorded material.

It's that Disney Russian Immigrant cartoon mouse from the '80s, right? In Japanese.