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in Miles Davis' own autobiography he is a self-admitted total asshole. sometimes when they're like that it's better that they're assholes when you meet. not if they stiff you though. tour managers are paid to be assholes. they have to make split second decisions all the time so they just appear curt and unfriendly. never had many good dealings with them as a promoter or a musician touring (we don't have one, or I am it) but I get why they are like that. most obnoxious was probably the guitarist from Interpol. was doing an assignment on a package tour they were on with The Datsuns, Polyphonic Spree, and The Thrills, and the photog. hadn't shown so I was doing double duty. he took my camera off me mid-soundcheck and only gave it back afterward. didn't want pics around of them not in their sophisticated suits. fine - ask then!

completely rearranged my bodyclock for this series. last few weeks of teaching are going to be hard. worth it. predicted AUS 3-2 at the outset. If Stokes comes back then it's evenly-matched. Our middle order would be better, but their bowling is better. The top 4 are sort of the same in some respects: #1 matchwinning left-handed batsman who looks and talks and plays like an opponents' caricature of what a person from that country would be like #2 watchful, proven quantity in the English game but yet to establish themselves in the national team #3 look absolutely brilliant in the nets, textbook form and can slaughter a middling attack, but will die trying to prove a point and thus far found out by decent or unconventional attacks #4 best batsman and captain, can go big, can dig in, both sort of shit at bowling spin, look too young to be doing what they're doing

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Father John Misty is my least favourite contemporary musician. I can't think of a single thing to like about him and would hate his music if it were sincere/not-tryhard smartass/"woke" bullshit.

If I remember Hiromu's yung lion pic had him look the same too. Thought he looked like a total weed and would never make it in this biz. IDIOT.

Brand battles are utterly pathetic and there is no just drama inherent in them. Partly because I watch neither RAW nor Smackdown so I have absolutely no dog in the fight - and mostly because it is complete false metal. On top of that having each brand's actual real life figureheads ultimately go over (the standings of HHH, Shane, and Stephanie ultimately all rose) is just completely and utterly depressing. If you're going to do the phony brand rivalry, take a leaf out of nWo or even the original Nexus storyline where it did at least for some amount of time look like these cool upstarts are going to smash the heads of the nerds in charge. I watched it because I was having trouble sleeping but by the end I was just regretting the whole 'being into wrestling' thing. Is it always this interminable and joyless? Or am I just as far away from WWE as it is possible to be? Honestly guys I sit down and think "I hope this is going to be good" rather than "please let this be bad so I can moan about it". Check my other posts - I am a total enthusiast. And there were some fine matches in the middle but we were told, basically, that they don't really matter. All they were were simple McGuffins to get you to the MAIN EVENT A BATTLE FOR BRAND SUPREMACY WITH THE SCORES TIED. Even worse - they slightly wrecked the Smackdown world title just for this expressly forgettable and meaningless storyline aspect. No historic cool person ever cared about brands. Full stop. Al Pacino in The Godfather did it for family. Captain Ahab did it because he was a delusional wreck. Winston Smith in 1984 did it for love. Macbeth for ambition, and Macduff for honour and vengeance. So why did Shinsuke Nakamura fight for Smackdown and prat around like an indy schlub in a blue vest? IT GOES AGAINST EVERYTHING WE'VE EVER LEARNED. Everything about the main event was miserable. I didn't even enjoy the apparently strong opening where a bunch of guys just went and got their shit in without having any kind of match. These WWE big main events that are just a load of spots while Vince yells DON'T FORGET - HE'S THE MODERN DAY MAHARAJ! in some slimy suited shit's ear are the very dictionary definition of style over substance. When I last watched regularly The Shield were - inasmuch as it is possible to be - absolutely cool dominant guys. Here, with their half-branded shirts, they looked like a bunch of hack phonies. The work in that match was fine but Jesus I just didn't care. I'd rather The Shield did a 'pissing on the legacy' gimmick (not pissing on Legacy, that would be poor) than this total faking of the funk. Brock-AJ was good. Can't fault Styles' ethic and approach. He makes it feel real and good. I think Brock's general standing is falling and it should be approaching time where someone beats him clean for the rub. Owens/Zayn vs. Fashion Police was a house show match featuring two guys made to look like NEEEEEEEEEERDS in the main event by SHANE! 10-woman was garbage. Corbin-Miz was dreadful. Usos-Bar was solid, better than a lot you'll get in the NJPW Tag League (maybe wrestling in the last 6 weeks of the year sucks, idk) Flair-Bliss was so goddamn long. I'm sorry, this is probably not what a lot of you guys want to read and if you enjoyed the show then I'm honestly glad. I just can't.

well jokingly I was going to say when Scott Steiner dropped him on his head at WrestleWar. but by the mid-00s, maybe even earlier - he was a concussion wreck, which explains why he just does not take a single bump ever. Inoki tried to push him as a legit sambo guy (LOOOOL) but it didn't work so he changed his gimmick in 2008 to what we have now but he was on that path for a while. sure he's 51 but I've honestly never seen him even take a proper breakfall drop from a strike.

seen some matches of his when he was Daemon. not that good. unusual character though. sort of feels like he should be in DDT.

who is Black Tiger VII again? Is it Taikawa?

Ishii v Keith Lee from Rev Pro last week is definitely worth a look if you're into that sort of thing. Good G1 style match, Lee more a brute than doing flipz.

Much more of an open feel without all the WK headliners in but that is counteracted by it feeling completely second-rate. My guess is an EVIL/SANADA vs. KES final though I think for a better match I'd go EVIL/SANADA vs. Cobb/Elgin or War Machine - there's no point telegraphing the WK result by having KES lose in a final, and you could actually generate some steam by having some booking options rather than closing it down in a predictable fashion. Feel like I say the same thing every year though and this year doesn't really even have the WTF factor of Billy Gunn working it. Could have gotten an All Japan team in, could have gotten some Mexicans in, but no, gotta have Nagata/Nakanishi and Makabe teaming with a barely-recovered Henare. Sigh. Worst part of the New Japan year for me.

I bet Jericho does WK12 and Dash to turn up to say hey to everyone, thanks for having me, listen to Talk Is Jericho and by the way have you heard about this great mattress company

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yeah I think this is all a thing leading to an angle ultimately. Jay White is unaligned, but also a heel, which doesn't really sit. I can see him being brought in as a leader of a heel BC with Omega & the Yungbuxx and some other guys maybe in a face thing?

so back to Colin Stetson and how he gets that sound - a combination of circular breathing which allows for continuous sax playing - and his throat/larynx is mic'd and he is singing, of a fashion, through effects. on the records he even contact mic's the keys so you get the percussive element amplified. fav LP of the year :

probably will suck as a match but a good bellwether to see if Yoshitatsu has any commercial juice. not going to run out of my way to see it.

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this blog about said promotion is gr8 too http://kingdomofshoot.blogspot.co.uk/

that's true. no real needle movers anywhere except maybe the old guys who can still just about lace up their boots and even then they've mostly been done. I bet there'd be curiosity in a Maeda appearance. Kawada too. but 0.001% chance of occurring. even the bright lights of Japanese shooting have faded - imagine Satoshi Ishii on a well-booked path would have been major. if Hisayoshi Harasawa (ex-All Japan Judo champ, 2016 Olympian) expressed an interest in a one-off crossover like Willy Wilhelm vs Maeda then that would probably be worth a few thousand seats more.

loved Power Struggle. best show since G1. Jericho-Omega is a good way to get eyes on Okada-Naito and to a lesser extent Jay White. yeah I might have gone Kota-Kenny and Tana-Jericho if I have to book Jericho but I am reasonably sure this will be the biggest WK for a while. going to lightly argue that the Dome needed some star quality, as it is rarely wanting for quality elsewhere.

this looks like a solid card actually, more up for this than I was KOPW or Destruction.

yes, it is a stoner reference. NJPW apparently found out (? now ?) about his UFC weed issue and his refusal to stop and cancelled him.

confession, but for all his obvious ability and influence on the business, I never got into Tiger Mask.

yeah I think NJPW could use a few fundamentals & intensity w/charisma guys to counteract the balletic/anime-heavy work of recent vintage. give Bas Rutten a call, maybe he can tag with Jeff Cobb (who is still working the tour).

Riddle off the WTL tour. Reason: 420.