Curt McGirt

Looks like Corbin has moved up from being the O'Charley's waiter to working in the back as head line cook. The one who begs the brunch staff to fill a cellophane cup with rail vodka for him on Sunday morning.

Watched the match last night (because I sat here and ignored it while it was actually on like a dummy). Pretty good WWE TV match, Roman looked good, Buddy looked good. I'm not seeing stars or Benoit or whatever you guys are but it was a fine match. Buddy needs to lose the falling double knees, they look like they are gonna hurt him way more than his opponent. "Here, you lay here and I'm gonna land with my shins on your shoulders while my knees directly hit the mat or the floor." Sorry, that just doesn't work for me even wrestling-logic wise. EDIT: Matter of fact, just remembered I was reading while the match was on, looked up to see him hit the knees to the outside, said "well that's stupid" and went back to what I was reading. So it actively had an effect on why I didn't watch the match.

Holy shit, I finally realized who Scotty Riggs in that photo reminds me of: my friend Robert back when he still drank. He sobered up and grew out a crazy grey beard with weird giant mustache part now, but he used to hang out and drink with us 20 year olds (when we were in our 20s and he was in his late 30s). Imagine a guy who had an expression like that most all the time on his face walking down the main avenue of a college town hammered at six in the morning barefoot and wearing a dress for no reason. That was Robert back then.

Just finished Make My Day: Movie Culture In the Age of Reagan by J. Hoberman. This is the third in a trilogy of books preceded by The Dream Life and An Army of Phantoms talking about film history and the title is pretty self explanatory, he starts with film in the mid-late Sixties and follows its American development through to 1990 while at the same time charting the life and career of Mr. Reagan, who it is pretty clear he despises (as do I). Lots of jaundiced opinions about both film and politics in this one (he does NOT like Ghostbusters or Indiana Jones, for example) and being reminded of the shit that Reagan pulled while in office will make you want to throw the book on multiple occasions. Interesting read though, and a complete dissection of '80s blockbusters and Reagan's simultaneously manipulative and pie-in-the-sky psychology. Hoberman's included original passages written for the Village Voice at the time are absolutely scathing. Here's a link if you wanna snag this one: https://thenewpress.com/books/make-my-day I got mine used from Abe Books. The New Press is a non-profit so they could use the dough if you wanna throw 'em a donation, too.

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It made #6 on the '80s Other Japan list, sandwiched in between two Fujiwara/Sayama matches. If it's anywhere near as good as those two... (I've probably seen it but time to watch again) EDIT: Yeah, that kicked ass.

Well, at least we know everyone at the PC will now know how to properly apply a cross armbreaker.

Yeah, I think she was on one of the late shows talking about it? Sounds familiar anyway.

Was gonna post this last night but it was like three in the morning and I had shut everything down except the TV already -- and of course what else was gonna come on TV but this.

This?

"Hanging pig" is pretty strong. I mean his hair and the mouthpiece (which I mistook for missing teeth for a while) don't help, but damn.

I want Orton and Kofi to both grab Ziggler and double pin him within seconds Then again everybody probably wants that EDIT: OOOO! OOOO! Trouble in Paradise into RKO into double pin. Then he complains and they do it again

That was looooooong for a squash, and yeah them guys got tore apart. Also, they mentioned Mike Samples and I thought Bert Prentice was him at first when he wandered by because of the outfit. Then I was like "that guy is way too short and fat to be Mike Samples"... though I bet Mike Samples had a mullet once upon a time. Methinks the Stump Puller, even though it doesn't look very good, really really hurts. Your hammies after that have to be screaming. Also you gotta love Corey Macklin calling Doink "Donk"

The Terminator's on while I'm dicking around on here and I just want to say, they missed a big opportunity to try and whack out Arnold in not rigging the hotel door with a pipe bomb. You know Reese had to have knowledge on how to rig something like that up.

Yeah, pretty much. But even a lot of these themes are terrible. That one for Black is the shits.

Any Gammell art during the credits?

Where does the term "senton" come from and who coined it?

I'm a metal fan and the only WWE theme that is remotely good in that vein (as in supposedly "heavy") to me is Strowman's. The last one before that was... uhhh... hmmm... Vader's?

Masters was the first film my dad ever took me to at the age of five. Of course he didn't know about the whole "parents dying in a plane crash" plotline haha Entombed deserve an extra award for recreating the theme instead of sampling it along with integrating it into the end of the song Hell, Entombed deserve an award for being Entombed

If you feel so obligated. Just saying, whether you do or you don't, there's more than enough free awesome stuff floating around to more than keep you occupied.

Between the Wrestling Not from the Now thread and the 2019 Wrestling threads on this very board I don't see why anybody has to go signing up or looking for jack shit.

Seriously. Another one for the "this fucking company..." pile

Just remembered another soundtrack I have wax of: Colors. Herbie Hancock did a good job, and there are a lot of great original songs on it from multiple genres, but the Hancock stuff is nowhere to be found. So, here's Phantasm