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  1. 1 hour ago, Curt McGirt said:

    Dude City Gardens is legendary, even had its own documentary made about it. A concrete bunker practically made for hardcore shows. Jon Stewart used to bartend there! And take in mind, Ramones in '89 had nearly outsped the bands that were current, they had cranked the live tempo up to minutes faster of a full set. You experienced quite something there.

    It was awesome. I hate being smashed up in a crowd, so the only spot where I had enough room was all the way to the left in front of the speakers, right by the bathrooms and the door to go outside and get some of that Trenton fresh air. I had to fold my earlobes into my ears and secure them with the bandana I had around my head. Oh, and The Dickies opened, and they were a blast.

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  2. This is all fascinating. I spent my youth at Dead shows and The Wetlands in NYC. The Wetlands scene had its wild moments being right outside the Holland Tunnel in the 90's, but violence wasn't part of it. The threat of violence if you wandered too far away was definitely there. I did go to City Gardens in Trenton to see the Ramones in 89. That was fucking insane. The mosh pit bloodied my pal Court, and my best friend Brad who was a bad mother fucker loved it. " Dude! I punch these motherfuckers and they love it!" That place was legendary. It was the ECW Arena for punk shows, but in an even worse part of town than South Philly.

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  3. 1 hour ago, EVA said:

    During the Elite/BCG 6-man, I couldn’t help noticing how hard Jay and Juice were working Rick Knox to cover for the Elite’s extended teamwork sequences. Details guys.

    That goes to show how good Juice and Jay are.  They worked around the worst ref who doesn't do anything and tried to make sense out of it.

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  4. 47 minutes ago, DJ Hero Morganti said:

    House shows are much better than TV tapings.  Can confirm.

    Yeah, over the last year and a half we went to a RAW and a house show in Denver, and the house show was way better. They do a full production just like a TV taping, but without backstage segments or commercial breaks.

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  5. 51 minutes ago, username said:

    I am uncomfortable with the notion of like... rating tribute episodes and such. I think with the advent of social media there isn't really the same need to get his friends and coworkers to sit in the back and pour their heart out to a camera if they want to, which is basically what WWE generally did.

    I was thinking about that as well. I was thinking earlier how much I kinda liked those " Hey, your co worker and maybe friend died yesterday" shows. And it bothered me for a minute , but it's off my guilt pile, so I'm feeling good.

    Some of those one cam confessionals were moving but most of it was uncomfortable. Some of it was hilarious, like the 9/11 shit with not just Stephanie. She gets a lot of shit, but almost all of those reaction to tragedy spots are awful. Regal being all shifty eyed because he's no dummy during the Benoit one is also fucking hilarious, at least to me. It was the exact moment I knew my Carbon Dioxide idea was out the window. 

    People shouldn't be asked to do that during a time of shock and mourning. You give that job to Cole, Graves, LA Knight, and Cody Rhodes. 

  6. I'm not anyone to tell anyone else how to feel, but I really loved that show. Normally the whole " The show must go on" bullshit is awful but for whatever reason it felt right to me this time. And I have a lot of reasons. The tribute videos were great. Sure, the Terry one definitely had a lot of stuff from his HOF video but Cody was fantastic. The show really touched me and I cried a bunch. My favorite two wresting things were LA Knight giving an amazing tribute to Bray Wyatt while keeping Kayfabe and the Terry Funk Hardcore Match being a Texas Tornado match where they worked fucking stiff with no weapons until it ended with one table spot. Dollars to Doughnuts Heyman helped book that. 

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  7. After an amazing season of SNW, I'm waiting with bated breath for the next season of Lower Decks that's about to start. Meanwhile, I just put on the H&I network on antenna TV. It's one of the score of rerun channels on free tv, and they do a Star Trek block every night. TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager, and Enterprise every night are right there for me. I just tuned in for an Enterprise S3 Ep I never saw since I gave up on the show around halfway through S3 and this one is pretty fucking good, despite the whole Xindi 9/11 storyline that's kinda fucking awful. 

    And it's HILARIOUS that they thought that making the terrible theme song more of an acoustic take was how to fix the problems with the show and the song. I've heard that S4 actually gets on track, but it was too late. And the only thing anyone remembers is the awful last episode that I did watch.

  8. I don't want to say anything yet about the season finale because I know I'll spoil it for someone somehow, but Holy Shit. It was awesome. And let's hope the AMPTP gets their heads outta their asses sooner rather than later. If you thought it was a long time between Best of Both Worlds parts one and two, get ready.

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  9. 1 hour ago, Mister TV said:

    Wow! The Bobby as a model and Bobby kicking everyone in the balls are both in my top 10 of funniest episodes of any tv show. Also, Buck Strickland is one of the funniest semi-recurring characters in tv history and Gilbert Fontaine Dauterive was one of the funniest one off characters.

    King of the Hill is one of my favorite shows to this day. It's the only show I currently watch on live TV with ads. There's two big blocks of KOTH that air daily and I usually catch a couple of episodes every day. I just watched the one where Bobby might be a Lama, and it's so funny and so sweet. RIP Johnny Hardwick.

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  10. I just started watching this and turned it off halfway through this contrived " everyone quits one at a time and tells Jericho why as Jericho is standing in the middle of the ring as it goes back and forth forever. " bullshit. The fucking angle is that he's a glory hog washed up asshole who needs a lot of on screen time who will do anything to remain relevant and the TV is unbearable because of the same reason.

  11. FYR vs. Cage and Bill was good before it became infuriating. All the rules of a tag match got tossed out , Edwards stood around doing poses instead of making five counts, ....I had to fast forward through it. And that sucks because if they had at least tried to make sense within the rules of this shit? It would have been a really good match.

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  12. I just put on ME TV for something to fall asleep to. It's a Quincy and that's new to me on the channel. It's also now going to be regular viewing.

    " He shtumled on the show by accident! It's a clear case of edibles, Sam."

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  13. I haven't seen the finale of Gemstones yet, but there's a scene in the 8th episode that's genuinely wonderful. I don't want to spoil it, and I can never do the spoiler tags in my phone. But if you saw it, you know what I'm talking about. 

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