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3.1.02 - 3.30.02
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March 30th, 2002
My friend is an absolute freak when it comes to the rock band RUSH.
Since the new album Vapor Trails is due out in stores on May 14th,
and buzz about a tour has started online,
he and all of his message board idiots have all gone mentally retarded over having the album/tour on the immediate horizon and the even earlier release of the first single "One Little Victory".
He spent all last week checking online every half-hour to see if anyone had leaked the single out early because he has to be the first one of the freaks he knows to have heard it (my assumption being then that it means radio stations will probably be playing it starting this coming week???).
Anyway, he finally found someone more fanatical and resourceful than him who had it up premature to a radio premiere as streaming audio on the web.
He sent me the link, and you can listen to it here.
I actually like the song, and that's saying a lot because even though Rush is one of my top 5 or 10 favorite bands,
usually their stuff really has to grow on me and I only start to really dig anything new only after hearing the album a dozen times or more.
Also, having to deal with my OCD friend being stalker-level creepy in needing to hear it (before the rest of the world does) might have put the stink on the single with me before I even heard it.
This one I liked right away (even wanting to already claim it as something for me to poop on) which is a good sign,
as he and I can agree that their initial first radio offerings (as singles) from new albums in the past have always been way overproduced and always end up being what we eventually like least on the
ablum.
Well, if you want to hear the single before radio stations start playing it next week, click the link...or right click/save target as here for a less compressed and cleaner-sounding version.
March 28th, 2002
Wow, I hadn't realized I had basically blown off doing any updates to the site in almost a month...
especially with all that's been going on with the buildup to Wrestlemania, Wrestlemania itself, and now the draft.
I should probably stop downloading all that porn it seems to be really distracting me.
Here's something interesting that happened locally...
I opened the paper and went to the sports page as I usually do during football's offseason hoping beyond hope to read something new concerning the Dolphins.
Its drips and drabs most days even with us signing Ricky Williams and courting Cris Carter and this day there was no NFL news.
A headline in the upper right corner of the front page caught my eye that read "Weight-Room Smackdown".
You can read the entire article HERE.
Its basically about a incident between Marlins pitcher Antonio Alfonseca and the strength/conditioning coach Dale Torborg who wrestled in WCW as the Kiss Demon.
I found it entertaining for wrestling news about as far removed from wrestling as you can get.
Its nice to see people willing and able to stand up to the big-money egos in professional sports instead of placatively ass-kissing them.
I found Wrestlemania to be a great event and am still surprised at the reactions the Canadian fans gave to both Hogan and the Rock.
It was definitely a "goosebumps" kind of experience to watch.
I've always been a big fan for Hogan and never really got tired of him...
possibly in-part because I've always had positive in-person experiences with him back when I used to run after these guys getting autographs.
I understood some of the backlash he was getting from fans back in the final days of his WCW run but they aren't and never were the true WWF fans who might have grown up watching him.
I find that there are many very loyal WWF fans that stayed with the promotion (with the kind of blind loyalty usually seen in vapid Hollywood Democrats) and didn't watch WCW even back when all the WWF talent went there...
They missed Hogan and have now treated him with their big accepting welcome.
It was pretty amazing that the two old-timers Hogan and Flair upstaged all the other talented wrestlers at
Wrestlemania.
Its too bad the nWo thing doesn't seem to be working out too well but I truly love seeing Scott Hall on tv all the time and he's so fun to watch "sell" for the other guys.
I finally caved in and paid for the ads-free subscription to 1wrestling.com and just like when I switched from dial-up to cable internet service the thought "what made me wait so long" kept echoing through my thick skull.
I really don't feel like there's a need for me to mention their site every now and then but it is the only one I really go to for news and I find them to be pretty bright,
and they're very responsible about what they report.
The draft seemed a little kooky to me.
I knew they'd split the belts and the nWo as one pick made sense and should have been a high pick for the simple reason that you get 3 men under 1 pick.
What I thought they should have done was maybe have made it more thought out and less emotional and reactionary with some of Vince's picks.
If for once you treat something with some measure of seriousness (is that a real word?),
maybe the fans...even knowing its fake...may get more into caring about who's next to be picked and for which team.
- I was really surprised in a good way that Chris Benoit was drafted so high with him not even being ring-ready for another month or two...
but in thinking back he was on the cusp of being a world champ when he went out of action.
- I thought what might have been a good idea was for the show before the actual draft to allow for tag teams to register as solo members or as a team...
Then, as a team, they're protected, and would count as both for one pick.
And I think splitting up the Dudleys is a bad idea and nobody wants to see the APA not able to play cards together.
- Kane was picked way too high. Even if thinking this was real, and he's one of the biggest and strongest, I still think he went way too high.
I may be one of the few who is fine with X-Pac being in the nWo as he has ties with these guys both as an early member of the original
nWo, as a friend of the original klique,
and as a bridging member between the klique, nWo, and D-X.
He is really in great shape but that faggy half-shirt had got to go.
Again, I think Shawn Michaels and HHH should join and with or without Hogan,
that's a pretty great (yet still elite and exclusive) group and would do better than they are now.
I don't believe HHH would suffer as a single and as a world champ being part of a group,
it worked in the 4-Horsemen, D-X, and the original nWo where some were tag and some had solo matches, and all did well.
A heel turn by Hunter now would be great and really help elevate the nWo.
I know Vince would like the nWo to be better recieved than they are right now,
and from a marketing standpoint, that nWo logo has good legs under it if they don't ruin it with bad storylines.
I sincerely hope these "brand extensions" work but they should have maybe done this for WCW instead fo destroying that name.
I'm probably also too realisitc to not see that this is destined to fail as I think the writing has sucked for more than a year,
and backstage politicking and dissention seems to be rising.
People who only get one show or another because of where they live and what stations are available to them may become alienated fairly quickly when not being able to watch their favorites that are featured on "the other show" that they don't get in their area.
March 1st, 2002
Congratulations to Chris Arcemont who was the winner of last month's free autograph, the Vampiro signed 8x10.
The new drawing is for a signed Kurt Angle 8x10, the link is at the top of this page if you want to see it.
I got this email today...
I love your
photos of Scott Hall's arrest at Tampa's Marriott. I saw Scott that night,
moments before his arrest. He had just come out of the bathroom and was several
steps behind me. Once we rounded a corner and entered the lobby section, some
girl started to argue with him saying "Scott give it a rest." Anyway, some
friends told me that moments later they saw Hall laying face down on the ground
with cuffs on. I missed it my a minute!
GREAT PHOTOS
This email reminds me of the game where you sit in a circle and whisper something to the person next to you and by the time it gets back around to you,
whatever you initially said has been changed as it passed from person to person.
While I'm sure he was talking about the same incident (as Hall couldn't have been arrested twice at the same place),
he seems to have a diiferent account of what happened based on what someone told him who claimed to see it.
True, he was with a woman who was trying to diffuse the situation but at no time was he "laying face down on the ground".
Believe me, if he had been on the ground, that's what you'd see in those photos.
Anyway, I'm not making fun of this guy who emailed me,
I appreciate hearing from people who visit my website,
but I guess the point I'm trying to make is how this email illustrates how quickly accounts of these things can get distorted...
especially with these "news sites" on the internet.
Greedy ebay scumbags...
I found someone auctioning off these old promotional sheets that film companies send to theaters to use as images for their local advertisements.
I thought they were really cool pictures and wanted them to scan and use for the website.
I honestly could have cared less about having them as orignal collectibles.
I had to go to the warehouse and wasn't home for the last 2 hours of the auction...
I like to bid as close to the end of auction as possible to try and get things cheaper but couldn't this time.
I put a ridiculous bid of $150.00 thinking nobody else would be crazy enough to bid up that high but when I got home I had lost the auction to someone else.
I figured if someone else wanted them that badly,
then they're more than welcome to them.
Quite frankly, I would have probably freaked out if I had won but had to pay more than $100 for these anyway so I'm kind of glad that with the bidding having gone so high that I lost.
I looked up the bid history and the times the bids were placed and saw that if I had been home in time to do a last minute bid,
that I would have won them for around $25.00.
So essentially, I helped the seller make an extra $125.00 on this auction.
I emailed the seller, explained that I really only needed a reproduction of these images as either high quality scans or
lasercopies,
and after some story about being busy, needing to ask an employee whether they would do it and what they would charge, etc.,
they wanted me to pay $50.00 to scan them to disc plus another $2.00 shipping.
While I understand that a zip disc costs around 10-15 bucks,
to ask to charge me $35.00 for 14 scans that would take them no more than 15-20 minutes to do is brutal.
That would end up being an hourly rate of close to $150.00!
I'd actually be paying more for reproductions than they would have sold the originals without my bid.
I also had helped them sell the originals for an additional $125.00 and they want to charge me out the ass and to add insult to injury can't even include shipping with the 50 but tack on another $2.00.
That's some really greedy shit.
I didn't even respond, I knew I'd write something rude and obnoxious so I just blew them off instead.
I went to Orlando for the weekend and when I got back I emailed the high bidder to see if he could do me the same favor.
I had offered both seller and buyer to pay for their expenses and time, but the buyer never replied either way,
and the seller was a greedy bitch prick.
So the end result is I missed out...
but my life isn't over and I didn't spend (and never will again) money with those rat-bastards.
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