GRIFT

I thought he died last year, and up until about a week ago I thought that. So for a week he was alive in my book... before dying... again.

Man that sucks.

RIP

I loved the guy who played Sabertooth in the first movie-- he also happened to be a pro wrestler.

David didn't impress me with Troy, but he more than wowed me with his book The 25th Hour. I think the reason that they panned out so differently on screen breaks down to directing. 25th Hour became Spike Lee's baby, and with the help of Ed Norton came off brilliantly whereas Wolfgang and Pitt failed to deliver with troy.

Maxwell Murders, Ruby Soho, and Time Bomb are their best known songs. As such I suggest checking them out.

Oh what a shame poor man's Conan O'brien is calling it quits... Good riddance.

Oh, and Cross is the funniest man alive. I see shades of Carlin in that man.

The Good: The matches were all ok. They could use a little more detail-- but for some people short matches do it.

The Bad: A major debut on Heat? tsk tsk tsk-- bad booking. HHH on heat? tsk tsk tsk-- bad booking. Jericho on Heat? tsk tsk tsk-- bad booking.

The Ugly:

Personally I find using death in a backstory extremely untasteful.

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I agree with many others who have said Hurt by NIN-- Johnny Cash's cover and haunting music video are amazing as well.

The song is with ease one of the most emotional songs I have ever heard and strangely tell two completely different stories ranging on who is performing them.

Pearl Jam sucks? No way... I love the Beastie's but I would chose to see Pearl Jam live over them 99/100 times simply because they are a better live band.

I am going to go see Mitch Hedberg and Stephan Lynch in November but...

I am also going to the sold out Fleet Center show to see PEARL JAM!

Eddie Vedder>AdRock, MCA, and Mike D.

I would love to see Smallville translate into a movie: Metropolis which would have more focus on Superman than his growing up-- Further I would love to see the the Batman Superman Crossover: Gotham...

but alas... tis only in dreams.

Although I like your screen name, and dislike Sum 41... I don't agree. The song sucks and I think that is what it has in common with most Sytem of A Down tracks.

I have seen alot of bands live... but OLP are by far my favorite. I saw them in Portland when they friggen debuted Benoits theme music... It was so intense. Raine was standing on the amps and everyone was chanting jump.

In that they have Maynard Keenan as a singer yes.

Prize Fighter Inferno is Claudio Sanchez's side project...

Streetfighter staring Sonny Chiba... That movie rocks. The main character is such a bad mother fucker. He hands out ass kickings to everyone... women, men, midgets. He doesn't care.

I love them. I honestly didn't think that Drunken Lullabies was weak at all. Granted it wasn't Swagger.

I am looking foward to the new album.

William Golding > All others to ever put pen to paper.

Teardrop - Massive Attack featuring Portishead

Life in Tenament Square - Flogging Molly

Baby I got Your Money - Ol' Dirty Bastard

2113 - Coheed and Cambria

Summer - Alien Ant Farm

An Attempt to Tip the Scales - Bright Eyes

Bombs over Bagdhad - Outkast

Fairy Tell Tales - Cursive

The Distance - Cake

Automatic Flowers (acoustic) - Our Lady Peace

Satellite - Dave Matthews Band

Nothing Better - The Postal Service

Black - Pearl Jam

Calm Like a Bomb - Rage Against the Machine

Division St. (acoustic) - Thursday

Perfect World - Sublime

Stealing Babies - Our Lady Peace

Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan

Shiver (acoustic) - Coldplay

Concertina - The Mars Volta

Moonlight Sonata is the most beautiful piece of music ever to be played...

Followed closely by Ave Maria.

Oh, I thought your post was serious...

Either way mine was. I have been on a hump lately that hopefully I will write over but the hump is pretty evident by my lack of posts.

Maybe a secondary diary would help.

APOX ON YOU KANEANITE, OUR EVER LASTING FEUD SHALL BE FUELED BY A NEW FIRE...

Actually, thanks for your critique. I alwas like to here what people are thinking even if it is negative.

To be honest, I have felt kind of strung out on the diary front lately and have a big urge to start a WWE Diary-- but it is so hard to escape the bustle there and I prefer not to cluttler the board any more than it already is with WWE diaries unless I could add something extra special.

I am seriously considering the abandonment of this diary. I am just feeling really bogged down as I write the upcomming ROH show.

I love the concept, and I have been looking foward to some of the plans I have, but most are unfortunately too far off to keep me focused.

I am going to try to stick with it for a while longer, and if I do leave it I imagine I will do a revisited version later as I have found plenty of places I would like to be able to go back and change.

Chapter 6: Parallels of Feigned Animation

Raven and I rolled into our next RoH show on high. It was our first scheduled singles match against each other and as it stood it was to end with no interference. All eyes would inevitably be on us, and from one vantage this was the biggest chance of my career to make an impact, but on the other it would be my biggest blunder if I managed to botch the match up. As I drove down the highway he began to speak.

“You have been quiet, and by my guess your silence is precipitated by a sense of anxiety. You are worried about our match,” he said. “Well don’t be. You will be fine, you have been endowed with all the talent in the world– That is why I chose you,” He then added emphatically.

I sat there their in silence. I never knew what to say when he talked about me being his ‘legacy.’ What does a person say to that?

“Do you like comics?” Raven asked.

“Comics? Like comic books? Yeah, I guess why?” I asked.

“Because they are the subject matter for today’s lesson,” Raven responded.

“Comic books? What the hell do comics have to do with wrestling?” I naively asked.

Raven then sat silently, and casted a cold look towards me before rolling his eyes. “What do comic books have to do with professional wrestling? Every thing my friend. On the surface, most might think the two have little in common but in actuality, they are staggeringly similar.”

“How so?” I skeptically asked.

Raven simply grinned and started back in, “What is at the base of almost every professional wrestling feud?”

“A series of matches?”

“Simpler than that, kid. Think simple.”

“Um, conflict?”

“Yes, more specifically a conflict of good and evil– and at times evil and eviler as well as good and better. Good versus evil is the cornerstone of just about every storyline in wrestling and comics, as are the concepts of the triumphant underdog, damsel in distress, and the backstabbing tyrant. Our current arcs just modernize all those concepts and bring them to larger than life status. Do you see where I am taking this?” He continued.

“I think so.”

“Both are based on the triumphs and tribulations of icons of mythological standards. Which leads me to my next point: of alliteration of titles. When Marvel Comics reinvented itself in the 1960's, Stan Lee, the man responsible for creating many of it's currently popular characters, used to make life easy on himself by giving his characters alliterating names. We had “Spiderman” Peter Parker, Reid “Mr Fantastic” Richards, and Bruce– wait for it– “The Hulk” Banner. Then in wrestling we find the likes of Hunter Hearst Helmsley, Brutus Beefcake, and of course Hulk Hogan.”

I continued to listen attentively.

“But the biggest part, is that we tell a story through action. We tell stories with facial expressions and imagery and at times our words. In comics, you could have the best script in the world to work with, but if your artist can’t pen the underlying emotion of each statement, then the story fails.”

Suddenly it clicked.

“I get it! It is like, if you stick two wrestlers in the ring, with a big finish planned and plenty of spots, and they go through all the movements, and hit all the moves but skip the emotion– if they skip the psychology the story is lost. If you can’t paint a beautiful match, the story is lost.” I said.

“Very good. But you um, you just missed our exit.”

Crap.

Are you Sad by Our Lady Peace

Your life has been so hard. It's

Dried up angels that can't keep guard

And I'm trying to reach your hand, but

I'm on fire - I never meant to

Fade...away.  Wait...for me.

Oh, just stop pretending

When they say you're nothing.

Yeah should be fun to see Keanu in a non matrix role again... (no I don't count that movie where he was inlove with dian keaton as a film... really now.)

I like them... Tristy you should check out Bright Eyes. Similar deliveries, very emotional and Conner Oberst is quite possibly the best lyricist of our generation.