Curt McGirt

I think they got the hookup from the local porn store that dabbles in bondage gear on the side. Eddie Gilbert went in looking for Sick Sexy Sisters 6 and came out with the phone number for a leather worker and a new pill connect.

Yes, we have a CHAZ sighting! We are spared the thong-esque tights however. This is post-Christmas '93 so we're close to the end here. Now all of the sudden we're back in '91? They switched the tapes during the commercial break mid-match and now we have Raven and Eddie Gilbert on commentary. Raven is rambling like a fool and Buff Bagwell's in the ring going under the Handsome Stranger name. Apparently his finisher was the "Stranger-plex" which was a fisherman's suplex. And now we have Hot Stuff! I had no idea Raven had a speech impediment. Or maybe it's just the drugs. God his character is obnoxious. Ref bump and we get three visual pins before Eddie knuckle-dusts the ref for a FOURTH visual pin and then a fifth, a sixth, a seventh, then Eddie uses a hair-sprayed handkerchief for the knockout and the pinfall while Raven rambles about Eddie's new "face-claw" finisher. That was a fun little affair. Now we have Terry George and Butch Blackheart vs. the Renegade Warriors who bust out an apron dropkick to the floor and a Dragon suplex while they're squashing their opponents. Short and sweet. Bull Pain and his valet have the full-on bondage gear (plus tassles!) and Bobby Blackstone talks to a human deer caught in the headlights. A slightly competitive squash with Bull pulling up his opponent twice. Bull busts out the Randy Orton rope DDT only on the top rope, which was cool.

Okay so Maniac Mike Davis is a "former resident of Bellevue" which explains the horrible gear/hair and the hand puppet he brought to the ring. Well, nothing explains the hair. The guy from the infamous bungee match is on commentary and because of his last valet they're talking about AIDS and safe sex on commentary. Jesus this promotion is ghetto. Davis is good at stalling and jawing with the crowd. "Steve Simpson is very cautious hooking up with Mike Davis again" is something I really didn't need to hear. Aaaaaaand they cut the feed right as a guy jumps Simpson after the pinfall as bungee dude says "I gotta go pick up a phonecall".

Did he manage the Ebony Experience? He just came out with them but they're babyfaces. Their ring gear clashes so bad: half gold/half purple trunks with red boots. And the robes are black with red fringe. GODDAMN did they almost kill that guy with the finish. Stevie holds him like he's almost gonna powerbomb him and Booker drops a toprope elbow, dude basically goes headfirst into the mat. It was like a Thunder Fire powerbomb done really bad. Mike Davis looks and acts just like Jake the Snake only missing a tooth and with the worst haircut. And he does a DDT! Apparently one of his boots is missing as well because he's wearing a sneaker on one foot. Thank god they gave the TV title to Villalobos. It was probably due to Davis' crimes against fashion. ...yeah, when the wrestling is this middle of the road, I will be talking about people's clothes more

I have the whole day off so I'm watching all of this and posting about it. Fat Tire brews in the fridge and wrestling on the TV, good times. ROBES WITH TASSLES~! It's funny that Gaston Means is talking about people going to jail while Booker's in the ring.

Yeah that faceplant he did was nice. It's really weird seeing young Booker and young Bradshaw Man, Gary Hart just don't give a fuck. His pin assist consisted of him limply laying his hand on dude's boot as it was on the rope with the most flat and bored look on his face possible. He's still a great promo though.

What was the one where Hash got pissed and they almost started shooting? Please don't tell me this is my imagination, I know I've seen footage.

Just because you guys wrote about it, I did the armpit dance. I had no control. It was some kind of evil German witchery...

Yeah so I see a kitten suffocated in a plastic bag in a movie the other night and last night I watched my friend's cat die. And then I took it bagged up in the back of my truck for disposal. Life is fucked up. Also fucked up is something else I watched last night, namely House of Whipcord. I haven't seen a lot of Pete Walker stuff, only Frightmare when I was a kid, and I remembered this from the video box at some store ages ago. It's about a naive young French girl in Britain who gets lured to a former county jail that has been taken over by psychos who use it to imprison, whip and eventually murder women for ridiculous reasons -- the girl in question is thrown in for being caught in the nude in a photo shoot. I was really expecting something more lurid, some Ilsa type shit, but this is tame. However it is incredibly creepy. Walker really knows how to put together a crazy horror film with emphasis on the crazy. The actors in this really weirded me out: the two jailer underlings respectively looked like the FBI handler gal from The Sopranos and the guy who played the nutbar Mormon son in Big Love and is now the main federale in Magic City. Yes, she looked just like that guy. There's some mean twists in here and though it's a little long in the tooth, really worth a watch.

Jos LeDuc vs. the Stomper must've been a horror of violence as yet unseen by human eyes. It's also funny that Dr. D muscled his way to the top of a Stampede card against a jobber (well, it was probably Leo Burke's kid, but same diff).

Prison was pretty choice for some buried '80s horror. I hadn't seen it since I was a wee pup so didn't have any memory of it. In one of his earliest roles, Viggo Mortensen plays a car thief who ends up in a prison that's being reopened after sitting empty since '68. It's haunted by the ghost of a guy who went to the electric chair behind shit the warden did and carnage ensues. This might've been John Carl Buechler's best effects job as the gore gags are just awesome. As long as you can take into consideration that this is certainly not Oz (nothing prison-wise makes much sense) it's a fun little flick. Shoot First, Die Later is from the second box-set of Fernando di Leo's Italian poliziotesschi/crime films and was one of the best ones I've seen yet. The main character is this hot-shit cop being feted in the papers and by his superiors who is secretly working with the mafia behind the scenes. His dad is also a cop, but never made lieutenant and is stuck being a paper-pusher. Needless to say one of these papers ends up being very important to the mafia and this presents a lot of trouble for everyone involved. This starts with a bang-up chase scene, one of the great French Connection-style ones you only get in films this old and this foreign where it's high octane as hell and cars are getting bashed up all over the narrow streets of Milan. There is a scene in this that totally stopped the movie for me though. The mafia goes to kill a guy. They suffocate him with a plastic bag. Then they see his kitten, and decide to do the same. Honestly, I see a lot of really bad shit in movies, but this took the cake... I had to stop the film for a minute and collect myself. It almost turned the whole thing off for me, but I went ahead. Anyway the rest of it is great, solid acting, wild twists and the final twist could very well have been stolen for a very modern crime film released in this country. Watch it if you can handle the cat scene.

Naimark

Yep, I had it saved. Just remembered I had it, so in absence of all the others, here you go. I am NOT editing this thing to make it more pleasant to read, sorry. I'll try and do it in sections

Two Texas death matches on one show? Weird.

You got Flair jerking the curtain that day!

December 8th, 1983 AWA in Winnipeg 1 Bulldog Bob Brown defeated Bill White 2 Billy Graham defeated Steve Olsonoski 3 Masa Saito defeated Baron Von Raschke 4 David Schultz vs. Mad Dog Vachon ended without a winner as a no contest 5 Bunkhouse Match Blackjack Lanza defeated Bobby Heenan 6 AWA World Tag Team Titles Match High Flyers (Greg Gagne and Jim Brunzell) vs. Jerry Blackwell and Ken Patera © ended without a winner as a no contest 7 AWA World Heavyweight Title Match Nick Bockwinkel © defeated Rick Martel JCP in Norfolk 1 Mark Fleming defeated Kelly Kiniski 2 Brett Hart defeated Jerry Grey 3 Johnny Weaver defeated Gene Anderson 4 Angelo Mosca defeated Don Kernodle 5 Assassins [3] (Assassin #1 and Assassin #2) defeated Jimmy Valiant and Rufus R. Jones 6 Dick Slater and Bob Orton Jr. defeated Ricky Steamboat and Jay Youngblood 7 Roddy Piper defeated Greg Valentine PNW in Salem, Oregon 1 Rip Oliver defeated Jerry O 2 Al Madril vs. Tapu ended without a winner as a time limit draw 3 Scott McGhee defeated Tia 4 Dynamite Kid defeated Siva Afi 5 Billy Jack defeated Matt Borne 6 The Assassin vs. Jules Strongbow ended without a winner as a time limit draw and the finale of New Japan's 4th MSG Tag League 1 Shunji Kosugi defeated Kazuo Yamazaki 2 Ryuma Go defeated Masanobu Kurisu 3 Haruka Eigen and Nobuhiko Takada vs. Kuniaki Kobayashi and Isamu Teranishi ended without a winner as a time limit draw 4 Otto Wanz and Wayne Bridges defeated Osamu Kido and Yoshiaki Fujiwara 5 Seiji Sakaguchi defeated Bobby Duncum 6 André the Giant and Curt Hennig defeated Killer Khan and Tiger Toguchi 7 Tatsumi Fujinami, Kengo Kimura and Akira Maeda vs. Riki Choshu, Animal Hamaguchi and Yoshiaki Yatsu ended without a winner as a double countout 8 MSG Tag League, Final Antonio Inoki and Hulk Hogan defeated North-South Connection [2] (Dick Murdoch and Adrian Adonis) That's a pretty rad batch there. I wonder if any of the AWA and NJPW matches were filmed, and if so were watched for voting on their respective sets. Piper/Valentine, Bockwinkel/Martel, hell the pre-main tags on three of these shows all sound dope. I'd even watch Dynamite vs. Siva Afi! I have a morbid interest in seeing Fujiwara vs. Tony Atlas now. EDIT: HA! The six-man from NJ is on the set. Now I'm gonna have to go watch that again.

There's no way they're dumb enough to base a Scarface remake on the Matamoros killings. I hope.

Okay, it's true, the Phantasm series is really the best. Don't know how I missed that one. I thought the Subspecies films were pretty good. Those sequels (shot at the same time) were awesome.

The last episode of Donovan ("The Golem") was awesome. I like the concept of a 'fixer' having everything fall apart on him engrossing, and I think that's why they put so much stuff in a single episode. A day in the life of Ray Donovan involves so many problems that they constantly push him to the breaking point, and before you know it he's at the bottom of the whisky bottle again. And then something WORSE happens. Since I keep tying these two together, the last episode of Magic City was a firecracker and the final three are gonna be great. After such a wait it's nice to see the simmer come to a boil and shit starting to hit the fan.

They should wait 20 more years to keep the time distance from the first to the second. EDIT: and if it doesn't star Michael K. Williams I am not aboard

Yeah I came home from work just in time to see those replays and the RKO bump was great. On second watch it went from devastating to hilarious.

HOLY SHIT YOU NAILED IT! I knew he looked like something creepy I'd seen before! I couldn't find a pic of him freaking out smiling in the window so this is as good as it gets

He stole the show when he did color for Foley vs. Funk on Raw back in, I want to say, '98. "Beat some ass and go to the beer store" was a tremendous line from that one.