Curt McGirt

Watched the Omni footage. The two big things I got from it were 1. woof, Dusty would bleed from a non-match that lasted less than 30 seconds and smear his head all over the mat, and 2. HAWK COULD SELL! Amazing. Matt pretty much covered everything else in his Segunda review. Really cool stuff, great video and audio.

How many varieties of the RnR/Midnights/Blowjob Babyface '80s Tag Team were there? We had Rock'n'Rolls Midnights Original Midnight Express Fabs Fantastics Midnight Rockers Rock'n'Roll RPMs and that's where my knowledge hits a wall EDIT: Oh man. There were a NEW Rock'n'Roll RPMs too. And catch this little tidbit:

I pulled up the older photos of Peter and Ace to see if they looked similar, but they looked dessicated, he just looks like one of their wives. EDIT: Dale Torborg probably made less money for Gene Simmons than Vinnie did?

Yeah Wiki said that Bobby moved his whole family to Atlanta, bought a house and everything, and Ole shitcanned him. One, that is the coldest thing ever, and two, why in the world you would fire the best talker the best manager and who respected vets said was plain the best WORKER of all time.

Finally, finally finished Girl In A Band by Kim Gordon, of course right after they re-upped for me at the library. Man what a book. If Thurston's is the ultimate music fanboy book this is the almost exact opposite. Kim is so much more personal and affecting than just a bunch of tour stories and namechecks. She had a retrospectively damaged childhood, particularly due to her brother who eventually went full schizophrenic after years of building to it. She moved around a lot and was always a bit of a fashionista and definitely a free spirit in contrast to probably what people think is a cold persona -- those chilly Nordic looks and her seeming passivity never helped. Hell, she was involved off and on with of all people Danny Elfman for awhile. With her it's really art, art, art, as much as she loves music and fashion. You can see where they overlap at times -- both scenesters who know everyone, road dogs for a lot of their lives, musical partners for sure. Thurston comes off as kind of a simpleton in comparison, a nice guy, but when she finally drops the hammer about their marriage breaking apart due to his secret lover, it's as damning as anything like that I've ever read. In his? He says next to nothing about it and those brief chapters are basically "I met someone else, we tried to work it out, it's over, I'm happy now". She nails his ass to the wall. Text messages, videos, the hiding, the lies. It's nice to know his book came AFTER as well, so any accusations about hers being a response (which any sexist male would throw at it I'm sure) is null and void. And man he barely even says anything about their kid in his book where she goes in depth. I suppose it's not necessary to be either Team Kim or Team Thurston, this is their matter, but it feels like he got played for a chump and she's way smarter and more interesting than him. I'm not a woman but if you are, you'd probably end up getting way more out of this than me, as well.

Man I tried to watch this too last night and it didn't click either. Guess I'm just not interested in Jade Cargill or LA Knight or Jimmy Uso or Nia Jax matches.

They should bring back the Texas Chainsaw Deathmatch belt, if even just for Halloween.

I tried to watch Rampage but none of that interested me. Not even the match with the goat-man.

He was I believe the first big new choice to replace Ace Frehley on lead guitar in Kiss. Total shredder in the '80s mold. Turns out he had a colossal ego and wanted proper pay, and everybody knows there's only room for two colossal egos that get paid in Kiss. He got shitcanned and started his band Vinnie Vincent Invasion. (And no, he isn't on the ballot ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGh07C2f0n8 Here is "Boyz Are Gonna Rock". The chaos ending is utterly hilarious.

That Vinnie Vincent video -- you know the one -- was on MTV's Metal Mayhem recently and my jaw dropped. I didn't even have the sound on and it was amazing.

That's something else we used to drink: Gin. Ugh. I can smell it now, all these years later. A pair of us went through an Old Crow/Old Granddad phase too. Then when I kicked it with a lady friend of mine, only vanilla vodka. And prior to quitting my job when I was in that house, a box wine phase!

I wonder why it took you the whole cut til you realized it was Missy; then again I wonder how long it'd take me in that situation myself.

Proof

I think having Stokely on the air no matter his client is a success.

I drank those grenades like water but we drank any and everything. 8-Ball, Colt, King Cobra, St. Ides, Magnum, 40s of High Life and PBR. Four Loko did a wreck on us when it came out. We drank GALLONS of Beast Ice more than anything.

Joanie was still alive, and she's been gone for years. That pretty much says it all. Hook retired it

Yeah, but I don't see a mask burnt into someone's flesh coming off. Well, in my mind, but given the examples above I'm sure they'll find some way and we'll just have Downey looking like Freddy Krueger.

The thing is, the fans didn't just throw trash, they took their seat cushions, lit them on fire, and threw them at the ring. That's WAY more serious. That sounds crazier than people in Roberto Clemente Stadium chucking whatever urban legend item of your choice. Another funny bit I've heard is that Inoki's first choice for Big Van Vader was *drum roll please*... Jim Hellwig. Oh how that would have gone.

I lived on Steel Reserve for about six months one year, unemployed in a house with a feuding couple next room over, bottom floor infested with roaches. It was $2.50 for two tallboys and I could walk down to the Circle K to grab em, rain or snow. That shit isn't beer. It's a bunch of chemicals. And it will fuck you up mentally and physically, badly. If you wanted a 40 you should have just went for the champaign of malt liquor: Mickey's!

I have nothing but disdain for Anthrax but Joey could probably belt 'em out doing that.

Just thought of this. You gotta be willing to find an actor willing to play mostly behind a full mask where you only see their eyes. Not sure many actors have the... well, lack of ego to do that. Even the Iron Man flicks had the "inside the mask" shots constantly, and the mask being open.

The skydiving segment of VHS: Beyond definitely sounded cool.

There's probably gonna end up being a good supercut of all the Terrifier murders and certain shots of Lauren LaVera, and that's it.

I was 'meh' on Terrifier, Terrifier 2 was waaaaaaaay too long but absolutely disgusting, so Terrifier 3 sounds like... Terrifier 2.