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  1. John E. Dynamite
    I can't help but fantasy book a years-long feuid in which Mike Perry usurups Donald Cerrone as King Stupid Hick of the UFC (fans notwithstanding).
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    Reptilicus didn't do it for me. Jonah, while I'm surprised how well his nice-guy character works during the skits, can fall into that aggravating modern-nerd mush mouth when he's trying to squeeze an overlong riff in before the next bit of dialogue kicks in. Doesn't this dude make his money on what's essentially the radio? As I am a TRAIN-ED ACTORRR, his poor diction bothers me a good bit. But that ties into the problem of "too many riffs", which I think every review has mentioned. Still. The very next episode, I finally had that moment where everything clicked and it felt just like watching the old stuff. Somewhere between stories of a young boy bonding with Bigfoot over Coca-Cola and rock 'n roll and the Samuel Taylor Coleridge albatross riff it all felt like home again. It's also been a good mix of genres. Weren't the Sci-Fi years kinda... sci-fi heavy? Avalanche felt like such a nice departure. I don't remember another movie that was quite that star-studded. Plus, y'know, there was that part with the avalanche.
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    Which is a hell-of-old European folk song, but Jimmy Page based their version on Fred Gerlach's version, which was based on the *amazing* Lead Belly version. I assumed for a long time Zep was doing it as a straight-up Lead Belly tribute but I guess Page only got into that stuff once he heard white English folkies perform it. I'm assuming most Zep heads have heard one of Lead Belly's recordings of it so here's Gerlach's! This version, while showcasing plenty of talent, is so derivative that he even keeps the spoken-word intro.
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    Part of it has to do with the fact that most blues structures don't put much emphasis on the chorus. When the Levee Breaks is probably their best known 12-bar blues track and that doesn't have one. Same goes for their covers/unfortunate rip-offs like Dazed and Confused. But they did cover *so* many Willie Dixon songs and he certainly liked to use refrains if not all-out choruses. There's also a lot of Zep songs that use instrumental riffs as functional choruses, like The Ocean and Black Dog.
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    Beat it with all the shrines completed. I'll go back and knock out the side quests once I clear up my backlog of three-quarters completed Japanese 100+ hour epics - having BotW, Yakuza 5, Pokemon Sun AND Dragon Quest VII (dear lord) going at the same time was a bad idea. Really liked the Gerudo region, wish I hadn't done it last. Looking for every treasure chest in Hyrule Castle was admittedly more fun than the final boss. The high point of the game? Eventide. Easily.
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    Attempting to think of as many songs as possible with a "Hey Jude ending", an eight-bar phrase that is repeated ad nauseum until a fadeout. The Police- Message in a Bottle Grand Funk Railroad - I'm Your Captain Donovan - Atlantis The Decemberists - Valerie Plame Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away And not just mini-Judes like Crimson and Clover or Ashes to Ashes, real friggin' long ones.
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    What a deep card. <3 <3 Mighty Mouse but Waterson/Rose is the main event in my household. Duquesnoy is a hell of a cherry on top, plus Jacare/Whittaker, Green/Magomedov, Elliot/Smolka, Aljamain Sterling trying to get back on track and a somewhat-intruiging Heavyweight fight
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    BUSHI ain't Yoshitsune/Shanao/El Blazer/Hustle Ranger Red/AJII/The Zest. BUSHI is Tetsuya Bushi, formerly T28 of AJPW. The other dude, the no-good flippy snitch of many masks is Takuya Sugi.
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    Fair, horrible examples, but the stiffness of the late-90's to early 00's left a number of workers seriously injured or dead and I don't want to see it happen again, not so soon after Honma. I was watching the match with the girlfriend in the room, and I'm commenting (at the time) how they're gonna kill each other and she kinda laughed but I meant it. I love the drama. The stiffness adds to it. I taught myself to love this stuff on Kawada and Hasimoto shit-kickings. After the match ended I drank deep from my overpriced ale and proclaimed it a full five stars. Today I feel complicit.
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    Shibata did it to the top of Okada's head, It was a weird angle of attack. Usually it's hairline-to-hairline.
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    As much as the matches are great, that's two near-death moments in a month. That's enough, boys. You earned your snowflakes. Be.a Takayama and wise up, don't be a Misawa.
  12. John E. Dynamite
    If you knee bar Joe Warren and he starts screaming to God as to why he was forsaken, that ought to count as a verbal tap.
  13. John E. Dynamite
    Wondering what the most popular "order" is in this game. I wound up initially exploring the relatively beast-less southeastern part of the map and then did the Zora dungeon/elephant beast first, and I'm about to start the Goron/iguana. Am I doing it wrong? I've beat *almost* every Zelda before this so I didn't find my first beast to be a huge challenge - killing that Lynel with the shock arrows, however...
  14. John E. Dynamite
    Welp, this is my life now. I haven't binged a game this hard in ages. Once I had some freedom I just started flying around like a fool, finding overworld bosses I'm barely equipped for and cooking strange dishes just because and I even have a HORSE named DUMP-A-LING. Gaming has peaked.
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    Props to Honma for breaking his neck instead of having to wrestle a 10+ minute singles match with Roa.
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    If those two were wrestling in my bathroom I'd have my girlfriend come watch and tell her it's her birthday present. Obnoxious hairdo-ace snowflake-machine that I deep-down love vs. obnoxious hairdo-ace snowflake-machine that I kayfabe hate. Tanahashi, please.
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    Khabib hospitalized before weigh-ins. There is no God, only Satan.
  18. John E. Dynamite
    Haven't kept up with all the rumors after Kenny's re-signing, but is it pretty much a lock that they're gonna make Kenny the champ heading into those US G1 Climax shows?
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    Weird card cause IMO, Carla won, Ferriera won, and Lombard won but I wasn't mad about any of those calls. That's the upside of witnessing the birth of a folk hero. Think of it, Derrick Lewis as Delta blues-standard namesake, punchin' woman-hitters, almost makin' boo-boo and holding up the levee in the span of 12 bars. He's just that kind of guy.
  20. John E. Dynamite
    I keep having this recurring daydream that there is a one-in-less-than-a-million chance that Holly Holm secretly learned to wrestle at a junior-varsity level and somehow, some way that will matter.
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    That loss to Schevchenko was so utterly damning that I can't get behind Holly one bit in the main event. Every time I read a Connor Ruebusch article trashing Holm's decade-and-a-half of bad boxing technique I believe even less. The knocks on her, for the record, are that she generates *no* power in her hands and has this weird lean-in stance that prevents her from closing distance well. I don't know if I can wrap my head around Germaine de Randamie, UFC Champion, but I'm expecting it.
  22. John E. Dynamite
    The main had some good stuff going for it, but it didn't wow me like I'd hoped. The crowd was a little bit languid, and I demand gnarlier Rainmaker bumps or I just don't buy it as a finish.
  23. John E. Dynamite
    Antonio Inoki held the NWF Heavyweight Championship throughout most of the 70's. From 1973 to 1983, Tiger Jeet Singh and Stan Hansen were the only others to have (brief) reigns.
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    Reminded of this the other day; Kensuke Sasaki's two minute and twenty-nine second IWGP Heavyweight Title win over then-champ Kazuyuki Fujita. This was 2004, so it was right before the Inoki house-of-cards toppled. Fujita had won the belt in a decision match over a baby Hiroshi Tanahashi in June, but the real reason he got the belt was because he had beaten the shit out of Bob Sapp in an MMA match when Sapp was the IWGP champ (yup, that happened) earlier in the year, causing Sapp to vacate the belt in shame. Anyways, Fujita and Sasaki are the main event at Sumo Hall the crowd has been molten all night. The match starts, Fujita takes Sasaki's back but doesn't realize his shoulders are down. 1-2-3, title change, two and a half minutes. The logic was that Fujita was such a tough-guy shooter he momentarily forgot the rules of pro-wrestling. 11,000 fans simultaneously go "eeeeeh???", it's one of the most unique filmed crowd reactions I've ever seen. And now that I think about reigning IWGP Heavyweight Champions getting jobbed out in MMA matches, what about a 23 year old Shinsuke Nakamura becoming the youngest champ EVER! on December 9th, 2003. Then he's made to fight at a K1 NYE MMA card where he's TKO'd by the 6'5" 250lb Alexey Ignashov (who was in the middle of a 16-2 kickboxing run that included wins over Peter Aerts, Badr Hari and Semmy Schilt) and then made to wrestle FOUR DAYS LATER in the TOKYO DOME MAIN EVENT against YOSHIHIRO TAKAYAMA. You'd never believe it, but Nakamura had to vacate the title a month later because of injuries. From title win to Nakamura's whole body being fucked up, this took less than a month. That very well may be stupider than anything Nagata ever went through.
  25. John E. Dynamite
    In a more general sense, Inoki-ism involves the importance of "legitimacy" over more sensible things like entertainment value. The original concept of "strong style" wasn't stiffness and head drops but the idea that pro-wrestling was its own form of martial art that could stand up to and defeat other disciplines. Booking matches where regular roster members face off against judoka/boxers/Olympic wrestlers/etc. There's usually a reliance on "shoot" moves like armbars and sleepers. It also involves this nonsensical, markish tough-guy attitude that thankfully can no longer exists as it did due to modern MMA exposing Inoki's bullshit. Some really, REALLY dumb stuff went down from about 1997 to 2004 in regards to Inoki's booking. The Shinya Hashimoto / Naoya Ogawa feud, hot as it was, featured a non-wrestler absolutely CHUMPING NJPW's biggest draw of it's hottest period. Another great example is the 0-2 MMA record of one-time top dog Yuji Nagata. He wins the G1 Climax in the fall of 2001, and on NYE gets knocked out in 21 seconds by some guy named Cro Cop. Then, in 2003, after holding the IWGP Heavyweight Title for nearly a year and defending the title a then-record ten consecutive times, he's knocked out in a little over a minute to some other guy named Fedor.
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