Curt McGirt

This was on TCM and has been sitting on my DVR for a minute now. I stopped reading the review to keep myself in the dark. Thanks for inspiring me to finally watch this. Good god we had that as a standard in music class in middle school. The only one worse was "We Are the World". (Addams Family Values is glorious btw, and smokes the first one, which is already incredible.) Every time I hear "John Garfield" I think of Señor Esteban Vihaio in Kill Bill 2.

This came to mind from blotting a bit of water on the floor -- because you blot that shit -- and I thought it'd be a great thread for posting clips. A lot of things Denzel's did, like capping Idris Elba in this, or the coke scene in Flight, or the entirety of Training Day, could fall into this category. There's a lot of room for interpretation, so take this as inspiration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8OMHtUg9sU&ab_channel=Movieclips

Okay. To counter the grimness of that, here is the Colbert Questionnaire of one of the most recalcitrant, and funniest of all interviewees. (Side note: I redo these questions in my head every time I ever hear them and feel like I'm working towards some final response, once at a time... slowly. So yeah, I like this show a lot. ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iwCqpw5PnM&pp=ygUlY29sYmVydCBxdWVzdGlvbm5haXJlIGpvYXF1aW4gcGhvZW5peA%3D%3D EDIT: Some more of these, now that I'm on a roll. I've never been a fan of Sandra Bullock in anything, but hearing this, she's totally someone I'd vibe with. It's this sarcastic, deadpan feel to her responses that I love so much, and the speed with which she just spits it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2QMUX-aasE&pp=ygUkY29sYmVydCBxdWVzdGlvbm5haXJlIHNhbmRyYSBidWxsb2Nr This one is so good. Sting is again, besides the big Police numbers, not my favorite artist, but he just kills it. This is why the questionnaire is a real legitimacy test of how you might like a person in real life. If you say 'aisle' instead of 'window', for example, it says a lot. Then again, sometimes someone you don't agree with at all is still the coolest person you could ever disagree with. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyXr1vrT8G0&ab_channel=TheLateShowwithStephenColbert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl0x9Swgfgw&ab_channel=TheLateShowwithStephenColbert And not just because he started the whole thing, but because he has some of the best responses (song and film) and the best autograph answer, because my dad also asked for George Carlin's autograph at the airport one time, and got it. My dad said to him "My wife is gonna shit!" and he responded "Don't let her shit on your ticket!" (Plus, can you imagine the balls you must have to ask Lou Reed for an autograph? I'd have imagined him to have just spit on the floor and walked off!)

Yeah, especially since Comedy Central is already running on fumes for years now, posting no original material at all besides one or two bullshit shows, and relying on nothing but entire-day marathons of South Park. This is scary. If Trump has the juice to cut the balls of one of the top three networks, then your libraries, your internet resources, everything that opposes him informationally is at risk. I've never once been a conspiracy theorist, until now, because this shit feels legit. Especially the day after Colbert had an entire episode (and Daily Show, too!) on how Trump was a child molester involved with Epstein. I suppose, as Bill Hicks once said, I'll see you at that meeting on the docks? Maybe?

Jesus H. Christ. https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/17/media/cbs-cancels-stephen-colbert If this is what it looks like, we all need to be very worried.

I am stunned. This feels like I just got kicked right in the balls. Why? Is this political? Is it a change in leadership on a corporate level? Either one of those are frightening. Is Stephen going to do a show online or something? Is he just gonna retire? What the fuck?

Also, if anybody has interest in the topic, check out the books Tokyo Vice and The Last Yakuza by Jake Adelstein. They're crazy and fascinating. Tokyo Vice is his experience as a foreign journalist integrating himself into Japanese press and the underworld, and The Last Yakuza is from the perspective of a Yakuza's personal... career, could you say? up until the modern era, an actual gangster who decided to come clean and be represented in print after the demise of his profession. Wild stuff.

I'd say about 100% of Japanese indies were Yakuza fronts. I mean, if they had their fingers in New Japan and All Japan, and of course PRIDE, they had to have been exploited by them. The '90s were a boom time for Yakuza before the extreme crackdown from the government to where they are pretty much extinct now, besides the hardcore Yamaguchi-gumi (largest Yakuza organization) sex and arms traffickers and drug dealers, which were always the extreme edge of the Yakuza instead of your typical extortion and gambling operations. Japan enacted laws that were even more impactful than America's RICO and it pretty much disabled all the smaller organizations. But they were so involved in all entertainment ventures back then that I don't see how they didn't have a part of W*ING, IWA Japan (see Foley's first book), Pancrase, etc.

The W*ING tape just gets better and better. There is a Sandman vs. Jason Knight match after the above where Sandman defends himself against charges of not deserving the ECW championship belt, after the longest interview in the world from Jason, and because it's Japan he has an enormous Ultraman figurine that he actually brings to the ring with him and defends like it is a sentient being with its life in danger. Yes. And then all the luchadors have a tag match where everybody wipes out doing high spots. I'm not all the way finished watching the main event but the idea of guys with a Jason Voorhees and a Michael Myers gimmick having to run to the ring, and Savio Vega (I think?) fighting them over a barbed wire bat is the coolest shit ever. EDIT: The main is awesome. Michael Myers does a plancha. There's an abdominal stretch using a barbed wire bat. Jason the Terrible bleeds all over the place -- literally -- and comes off as the hugest babyface in the world after Sander comes out to save him by caning the hell out of everybody. I forgot to mention that Anthony Pitbull had a chain match before that even! The card as a whole might be a dog's breakfast, but everyone goes at it super hard even if they can't pull off everything they want (Jason doing an Asai Moonsault is... rough). It's admirable, and the whole vibe rules. I have no idea why I've never watched this before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkJiokAem8M&ab_channel=LIVE4W*ING W*ING - THE CURSE OF THE BARBED WIRE BAT This is for Tromatagon (he hasn't been around in awhile and I'm definitely misspelling the name, but he's the biggest W*ING fan. I've definitely seen his real name before but can't recall). I was reminded of it from an old DVDVR where Ray, I think, did a transcription of Jason the Terrible's broken English promo at the beginning of this, which is hilarious, along with the Japanese speech he gives later which is clearly a voiceover from somebody else. Then I started watching the rest and there is not only a Damiencito and a Cicloncito Ramirez but MR. NIEBLA in the flesh doing the best moonsault ever. I'm not done with the video but if it is as good as the start then holy shit.

Also: I love being there to watch on the Discord. Thanks to everyone for being there; you're the best. We might be hurting right now but we have wrestling, and each other.

For some reason I thought this was gonna start at 6 o' clock or so, and came into the show right then... which would be three hours into the show. It's okay though, the last two matches were worth three hours of wrestling watching, they were so good. Okada/Omega was what I always wanted from seeing them wrestle each other. They took their standard match and slowed it way way down to emphasize the impact of everything, let it breathe, made it sing. Okada is such a great prick heel now too. And Hanger/Moxley. Wow. Every single person involved made sense and worked in the story of the match. Callis was such a goof, wailing like a goober with both arms on Hangman. As a complete opposite Claudio was brutally laying it in! It's the little things sometimes, beyond the great match at hand. Damn, that was good.

Hey, the Paul Jones Army/Boogie feud has new interest from those Youtube postings, let's do it! Will, I know you're reading this! (Personally, I say fuck that, give us all the Way of the Blade matches instead) I've always been fine about getting a whole stack of unlabeled DVRs with no packaging in the mail as long as they got the goods. Y'all wanting anything special need to put the brakes on. Just sayin.

I never come over here anymore, but this showed up in my Facebook feed and tickled me, so here you go. The Shavers quote is the best ever.

Dude, can you imagine hearing about that Bergman thing, being him. That had to feel like vindication for any wrong move he ever thought he made in his entire career, if not entire life.