Isaacduke

It's Valentine's weekend. When Mom rounds up a babysitter for her and Pops to go to the movies Saturday night, it's not going to be for John Wick 2.

Why Gotch for sure? That backstage fight give him a rep as a locker room cancer or something? And surely both members of Ascension would be cut if one is...

Good Lord. Hasn't Quinn appeared on a handful of ROH shows, around the mid-to-late 2000's?

Is there a chance of this becoming an IPPV?

Ah, see, THAT I understand! I thought Wash had something on his record I hadn't heard of or something...

Does Wash have a reputation or something that would spell out why this is a terrible idea?

I definitely think there is an argument to be made there, but I always feel better about a coach that is fired at the completion of a season rather than within the season, like the office still has faith in him to turn it around until the very end. Also, of his three years of head coaching experience, he *did* have a 7-9 record there in the middle, which while not great at least nods toward not being a complete failure...

Okay, so I worked way too hard on this today while on deadline for something that I am actually getting paid for, but I thought it was important to tell all of you that I have figured out the best hires for each coaching vacancy... Rams: Yeah, Sean Payton. I have no idea what they would have to give up to get him, but do it. He's the best fit for a would-be telegenic football club. Jags: move Def Coordinator Todd Wash up to the big job. The Jags actually had a really good defense this year, and maybe Wash could turn that into a defining trait for the team longterm. Bills: hire away DC Steve Spagnuolo from the Giants. Fans in the area would be familiar with him, he has produced miracles with this Giants team, and since Tyrod Taylor is getting all of the Bills' money next season they can save on moving costs for the new coach. Broncos: hire away OC Bill Musgrave from the Raiders. He has helped make Carr look like a world-beater, and helped Del Rio look like a competent coach. Also, he seems like the type of dude that Elway could handle working with. Chargers: hire away DC Kris Richard from the Seahawks. Honestly, Richard is probably better off staying with the 'hawks and waiting for a better job opening to come along, but sadly black coaches don't really have that luxury in the NFL. Richard has proven his bonafides, and he's due a head coaching job. Maybe his defensive prowess would be enough to help the Chargers make a couple of close games fall their way for once. Niners: honestly? The club is such a shit show, I can't see a "real" coaching talent signing up to head a team that is terrible at all parts of football. My solution is to give RB coach Tom Rathman the ball. He's respected, he knows the team, and RB was the only spot that wasn't completely disastrous this year. Worse case scenario, the job comes open again after you've drafted some new blood onto the roster.

As an ECU alum, I can tell you that the only people happy with this firing are A) the AD, and b) boosters. East Carolina Univeriaty sits in a part of NC where there are only a handful of rich folks, and they're all assholes. According to a friend in local sports media, the boosters have been wanting to fire Coach Ruffin for the past two years, but you can't fire your football coach if you are a school of ECU's size and you make bowls. Well, they finally have a losing season (5-7), so they took their chance. Coach Ruffin was a former ECU player who got us into the top 25 last year for a spell, and he was known to walk up to strangers wearing ECU apparel and tell them "thank you." The AD basically said during the press conference, "Yeah, he loved the school, but that's not hard to replace." Oh well, can't wait to see who the white guy is that they hire.

Yeah, I mean, I understand if you don't want to come off "elite" or something, but you don't have to EMBRACE bullshit.

Also, it's worth pointing out that everyone involved in FGL's career were behind Nickelback too, and have already warned the guys that their music is going to get really old, really fast. I think someone said it best in another forum I read: what we're seeing in country right now is merely the "hair band" era. All o these bro-country dudes are basically just striving to release albums with ten cuts of "Dr. Feelgood". Probably what it's going to take is a more photogenic version if a Jamey Johnson to bring about the "grunge" era.

The same way those of us that were around during Billy Ray Cyrus' heyday did: keep telling the fans, "You know this is terrible, right?", with the knowledge that they will get there on their own someday.

Tim, the highlight of moving to Nashville so far was running into Foster, Sam Bush, and Jim Lauderdale discussing shingles in the frozen section of Whole Foods about a week after I unpacked.

So apparently NPH was only asked to host after Ellen and Chris Rock turned it down. Also, the only screener to be released since the two mentioned above has been CHEF, which I had totally forgot was even released this year.

I'm a member of two critics groups, so just to let you guys know: The only film screeners that have been sent out by studios so far have been: SNOWPIERCER, quite a few months ago; and Sony Picture Classics' LOVE IS STRANGE and MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT. While I think MitM is pretty much a non-starter, don't be surprised if the first two receive a nod or two. Last year Fox beat everyone to voters' mailboxes with THE CROODS, which led to everyone wondering how in the hell it received as many award noms as it got, Simple: send a voter a disc at the beginning of October, there's a chance they'll watch it. Send it around 12/1, when you are liable to find five DVDs in your mailbox each day, it will get lost in the shuffle.

The article I wrote for the Nashville Scene: Edit: Nevermind, it won't let me link.

Virgin Suicides - damn near great Lost in Translation - a beautiful film, but not everyone's cup of tea Marie Antoinette - a film that will hopefully find its audience one day. I was blown away by it, but there was pushback on the film due to its soundtrack, and also because this was around the time the nepotism talk really picked up Somewhere - never saw it, but to be fair, no one saw it The Bling Ring - great idea for a movie, and it turned out to be a pretty good flick, but folks acted like it STARRED Lohan and Paris Hilton, and stayed away

I enjoy the fact that you guys think Sofia Coppola is getting work because of her dad. Yes, because the accountants that run Hollywood are scared of upsetting the director of JACK.

Just the fun little tale of a small town preacher hiring hit men to kill his wife, and the aftermath that entails.

Hopefully Vimeo links work; if not, I'll figure something out. Edit: Yay, they work. As far as the song goes, you have a guy who takes what could be a paint-by-numbers tune, about "drugs are bad," but the way Jamey lays out the small details, like getting high in the Baptist church parking lot...man, that's good shit.

The song that Prine described as, "I wanted to write a song so sad that it would wind up pretty."

Oh, if we're gonna talk Prine... A tale of love steadily dying, and failed attempts to keep it alive.

A song that is all about one woman BEGGING another to leave her man alone, because she knows he would leave her for the other woman in a heartbeat.

Clarence Carter is known for two things: giving white guys a soul song to dance seductively to with "Strokin'", and dropping some real talk on growing up poor in the South here.

What's the code to embed a Youtube video again?