Curt McGirt

Yeah, the Axe Bomber was Hogan's finish in Japan, not the leg drop like in the States. Of course compared to the Western Lariat-o it was shit, but it was over with the fans there so whatever. You know, off the top of my head I can't think of another wrestler that had a different finish for a different country...

I'm leaving this here because it's just out and people are making their lists: American Mary was pretty damn good. I recall it getting a lot of press in Rue Morgue and Fangoria a couple months back but I couldn't recall a damn thing about what it was about, so I just rented it blind. It features Katherine Isabelle (Ginger Snaps, Freddy vs. Jason) as a harrowed med student on her way to be a surgeon who... kinda goes to the dark side. There's a great deal of humor in this but the nasty twist in the middle sends you right down the rabbit hole. Apparently it was directed by twin sisters who also feature in the film and have you wondering just what the fuck is going on (like most of the film in itself). Maybe I got the rated version but this had a surprising amount of taste in that it leaves you squirming but does it with psychology.

You know what, fuck Margaret. This show is so much more active without her and her subplots. I didn't watch it (and I don't think anyone else) last Sunday due to Breaking Bad but this was another solid episode with a Dawn of the Dead kill at the end as the cherry on top. Plus, Patricia Arquette... UNGH

It depends. Backlund is crazy and a freak for language so it could be really weird. But if not, it'll probably suck. He was pretty straight-laced so any road stories would be ones he witnessed. EDIT: As in, ones he didn't participate in. Then again Jericho did say he got plastered on that Japan tour due to Murdoch and it was pretty funny... Also, I really wanna read that Downtown Bruno book. Talk about road stories!

So THAT is the Husker Du board game? Has anyone here ever owned it/played it? It looks trippy and fun... and kinda hard, no matter what Mean Gene says.

Hall not only wearing his name on his shirt in Botchamania lettering but also his name ON HIS HAT is just too much. I could make some really horrible jokes behind this. That Schamberger page is just fantastic.

Orton powdering to stall as soon as RVD started to do his pick-a-spot routine was pretty great. It was like him saying out loud "Jesus, can you let me build some heat for a minute? You can get to your Rolling Thunders and monkey flips later." This Raw was all about trying to get the undercard roster over and I'm 100% behind that. Plus you can't go wrong with them burying the Miz, only to disinter him and fuck the corpse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1UP7TMTOFM

Cabin was an absolute riot in a theater packed with college kids. Definitely a film to watch with a crowd.

Paperhouse is an AWESOME Halloween Havoc pick for anybody who can find it.

Aside from the script, what pissed me off was that there was little of Kuklinski's arrogance and the poisonous charisma that comes through in his interviews. They should have at least tried to make some scenes showing that instead of just going for him feeling remorse during the open/close parts. I hate to say it, especially considering how much I love Michael Shannon, but he just didn't seem dangerous enough.

Naked Meg Foster would be great 25 years ago. Doesn't mean I'm not gonna watch it though haha. I think my expectations were just too high/different for The Iceman. Don't get me wrong, it's a good film. It's just not what I think it should have been, which is: really really fucked up.

Okay I waited until this one opened up. Satanico got up from a piledriver. In Mexico. I will round the wagons for the angry villagers.

Fuck a statue, we all know where Cranston stands.

Bob's Burgers is great and one of those shows that friends pimped forever and I never decided to look into. Then it showed up on Adult Swim, I saw it and loved it. Kristen Schaal is just too good.

Man you are tripping. Green with an afro, I guess it does work in making him a better rudo but that shit is awful.

I thought this was pretty middle-of-the-road overall, some good submissions but the first fall seemed really sloppy. However the end is worth it all as Chicana seems to demand a hair match while still being sportsmanlike to Ringo, then they start picking up coins in the ring. Somebody throws a cup and Chicana starts to put money in it, then there is a shower of money with seconds and little kids start scooping it up, and finally the ring is invaded by young fans surrounding Chicana. Also someone decides right after the final fall to "make it rain" and you see three or four bills drifting over the ropes. Surreal.

Tracy Smothers talked in the ECW book about the Southern Boys wearing Confederate flag masks in Mexico if I recall. I cannot imagine the heat they would have gotten.

That just made me imagine WCW pulling in all the FMW guys instead of the AAA guys. You'd get Victor Quinones instead of Sonny Onoo and have Mike Awesome fighting Goldberg. Think of the possibilities!

On a side note I'm sitting here and Above the Law is on TV. Henry Silva just said "If you told anybody about our plans to kill the senator WE CANNOT KILL HIM." I cracked up.

Well I'll be damned, that is him.

I had Trance in my hand at the video store yesterday but opted for other things: The Iceman, American Mary, and Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp. The Iceberg doc (made by Ice-T) was fantastic. I read a little of Pimp at a friend's house years ago and tried to find it at the local library to no avail. That's about the extent I knew about Iceberg Slim until this. It's a fascinating watch that'll give you flashbacks to reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X through the entire beginning, which is filled with animation in the style of the Johnny Cash Folsom Prison doc. There's a lot of good stuff with his gorgeous daughters, who obviously don't all get along as one is interviewed separately from the other two, and his ex-wife who started getting him to write. You can see the man himself's intense magnetism in the old footage of him. Really good. The Iceman I really really wanted to like but it was just shit. Michael Shannon's great, Winona Ryder is fantastic, but they give the old Hollywood attempt to humanize the monster and it comes off like some garbage like Kill the Irishman. This film should have been like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer instead. I mean this is a movie with Roy DeMeo as a main character and they don't even mention the fact that the dude's main job was to cut up bodies in a bathtub and vanish them. And not only that they make him a nemesis to a non-made-man. It's not all bad but goddamn this was a disappointment. American Mary is for later. Getting an early jump on October I guess...

That '60s book looks like something I'll be getting ahold of. Eyes Without A Face should be on everyone's list this year if you haven't seen it. It got a Criterion release so hopefully shouldn't be too hard to find. So wanted to be Eddie Furlong's character in Brainscan when I was a kid, with tons of metal and horror shit and that girl next door haha. I looked it up and John Flynn also directed The Outfit, Lock Up, and Rolling Thunder (!).

The UWF series with Fujiwara smokes anything else I've seen from Sayama. For what it's worth I actually like recent fat Sayama.

Going under the supposition "you never know when you're gonna want to watch something" I bought the Heroes of Mid-South set today. So I've got that, the lucha set, a Schneider comp, and the unfinished War Games collection sitting in the house. I need therapy. Decided I'd at least watch the interview sections and they were typically fine. Terry Taylor's story about Flair showing up too hungover to work and then bringing it to the point he blew Terry up was really funny, and the second time on the set Flair was referred to as a "man from Mars" or something similar (the other was Cornette). They have Dr. Death and Buddy Roberts on here talking through their voiceboxes. Video quality on here is stellar. I did end up watching three things, the DiBiase face turn again, Dr. Death/Terry Gordy and OMG/Bossman. Doc and Gordy I'd never seen oppose each other and of course gelled perfectly. OMG/Bossman had the crowd thinking it was the war of the gargantuans, and it was. The rest of the matches here I'll save for a rainy day but none of them look disappointing.