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I am ever the optimist when it comes to the Pistons, but you hit the nail on the head. They've shown that they can hang with the best teams in the league this season, but they also get shook by injuries and there's been nights where Blake is having to put the entire team on his back just to even be competitive. They're laced with some awful contracts, have made some terrible decisions in the draft, and goddamn, do I want Reggie Jackson gone.

Yup, that was Dakota's best showing. Great selling and fire. That SAMCRO vs Mendoza/Carillo match was pretty damn nifty, too. The Sons found themselves some mean as hell offense, and Mendoza continues to steal the show whenever he gets in the ring. Dude straight up rules. Between Lorcan and Burch, Street Profits and Heavy Machinery, there's been three face teams ready to get heated up and take down UE for the tag straps and have the crowd lose their shit. Mendoza and Carillo are gonna get themselves to that level sooner than ya think. LOVED that quick pan over to Mauro during Ciampa's promo. Bad things are afoot at the announce booth. Awesome episode.

Just watched Ronda vs Charlotte. God DAMN. That was RINGS meets JCP. That match had damn near no build, but was a hate-filled, violent fight for no damn reason except to see who the fuck is the goddamn best, then Charlotte SNAPPED. Way I see it, they just showed Gargano, Black and Ciampa how it's really done. Round 2 is gonna be a motherfucker.

It ain't perfect, but yeah, I'll take a 2 outta 3 falls match between those two any day of the week. Shayna's one of my favorites right now and I was just thinking recently that they haven't had a 2/3 in forever. I miss 'em, big time.

And I haven't seen a single game. If and when the other shoe drops, five bucks says its after I get cable re-installed.

Here's mine.

Bartended one of those Hair Nation tours tonight. Enuff Z'Nuff, Bulletboys, and Jack Russell's Great White. WOOF. Not that I expected it to be good. I expected to be a little embarrassing, honestly, but at least entertaining on the people watching front. However, Chip Z'Nuff was a close talking, overly touchy, creepy punisher, dressed up like a no-budget Jervis Tetch. Jack Russell looks really, really bad. Considering how bad off he was, I guess it's good that he's walking on his own power and actually pulled the whole show off, but damn. So rough. His band looks like he found them all at various Guitar Centers. The soundguy brought the goods between bands, though. And I made decent money for an easy night.

Shayna's Bolt Thrower shirt. Goddamn.

His tan might give you cancer. Dude looks radioactive.

Haha! It's not completely out of the realm for them, though. If you've ever heard their song "Birds," that was probably going to be the gist of it, just with a lot more improvisation and soloing. Bill Stevenson has also done a few interviews talking about being really into the era of jazz from Miles' Four and More through Mahavishnu's Birds of Fire.

There was talk of an instrumental ALL record around the early 2000's. It was supposed to be ALL meets Mahavishnu Orchestra with a Miles Davis' Second Great Quintet influence on the songwriting. I was REALLY REALLY stoked for it, but for a lot of reasons, it never came together. Supposedly, some stuff was tracked, but it'll likely never see the light of day. Fugazi's sessions with Steve Albini for the In On the Killtaker were a minor legend for a while, but that's easily available despite never being officially released. It's cool to hear, but I can see why they shelved it. Albini's approach doesn't really work for Fugazi and the songs weren't fully formed yet.

This. I went to the show in Detroit a couple weekends ago and that was the first thing that stood out to me: The heels wrestled like heels. There were hardly any big spots in the first half of the show, but the matches got heat and the character work was over. It was such a simple, stripped down approach that I wish I saw more of. Then, towards the end of the show, when the big spots happened, it seemed they got more of a reaction. That show RULED. The only thing that stopped it from being more fun than the last time they came through was the fact that I was dead tired from not getting enough sleep the night before. I'm not used to matinees and I sleep in too late.

Ha! Yeah. I was like "Pipe Dream? Ooookay." I'm at the very tail end of Arkham Knight and have been playing the crap out of it. There are a lot of similarities, but it's actually a big adjustment switching over to Spider-Man. I've been getting my ass kicked a lot, which I didnt really see coming. Web swinging is the damn truth. Especially at night.

The game store down the street from me put their Spider-Man stock up for sale a day early. Download has about thirty minutes left. I'll be postin' later.

I'm going to the Detroit show on Sunday. The last time they came through smoked the ROH War of the Worlds show.