Archive for April, 2008
The Daily Show addresses the ‘Elitist’ ‘Controversy’
I love the line “for the first time in history, well-educated, affluent, white males are going to have their say”!
Though, have other people been finding that the player the ‘Daily Show’ uses needs to be refreshed every so often? It took me four gos to get that clip to play fully…
Forever Hardcore
Seek and you shall find I guess. It’s interesting how in the opening clip alone, there are nearly more people than appeared in the ‘Rise and Fall’ and how people involved seem to back up Paul Heyman’s claim that he created ‘attitude’ in wrestling… Update: For example, this dvd shows up two of the main faults I have with the WWE produced stuff, there’s a proper explanation for what happend with the NWA and its championship AND they mention whats apparently the ‘first’ 3-way dance in the U.S between Sabu, Shane Douglas and Terry Funk. Now apparently its an hour long but why hasn’t the WWE put that on the ‘Rise and Fall’ disk? I mean, if it’s simply just becuase of the fact that they weren’t working for them its a bit of a blow to the fans…
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The Rise and Fall of ECW part duex
So as a few of the posts I have done before might suggest, I’m somewhat of a fan of ECW. Now, I have covered the ‘Rise and Fall of ECW’ before in the book form, but I recently picked up the DVD version of the same.
As I said in the book review, the DVD works better because wrestling is a visual medium, and the whole documentary works really well as a talking heads example of history. Now plently of the history and things that happened there are covered, though you can’t help but feel that the lack of Raven, Sabu and Shane Douglas harms the production somewhat (many wrestlers who weren’t under contract to WWE at the time were not involved in the DVD). In some ways, its an advertisement for the ‘Forever Hardcore’ documentary that Douglas did afterwards. Yet, despite the fact that it is a ‘WWE produced’ dvd, it seems to cover most of the bases pretty honestly. Many of the individuals involved are quite critical of each other, and so on, but to be honest, until I see ‘Forever Hardcore’ and see what that says about things, I won’t really know how to feel. Basically, its 3-odd hours of solid documentary and well worth a look.
There are one or two serious complaints though, both of which appear in my other reviews of ECW material produced by WWE. Firstly, as I said in the review of the ‘Rise and Fall book’ the whole ECW seccedding from NWA isn’t covered, while it’s mentioned in the book, it has no real role in the DVD. Secondly, I’m fairly sure they have the same ‘Bam Bam Bigelow VS Taz’ match on both the ‘Rise and Fall’ and ‘extreme’ dvds. Seriously! If your going to put out these dvds, try minimise overlap! ECW ran long enough that there should surely be enough good material to go around. Still though, the matches available on the DVD are quite enjoyable, with plenty ‘holy shit!’ moments so….
Marylin Manson - The Beautiful People @ the MTV Music Awards 2007
Really good live version of the song:
The ‘Grindhouse’ Fake Movie Trailers
Grindhouse plays in Cork in a week and a half - who’s interested in going to see it? The fake trailers are just class, I really hope the plans to make some into ‘real’ films happens. Especially ‘Werewolf Women of the SS’ - what a title!
Fox News attempts to re-write history of George W., Daily Show looks at Fox instead…
Gotta love taking the piss out of Fox ‘News’:
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Ah, Memories - Dial M For Monkey
While I’m supposed to be studying, I instead went looking into some old Cartoon Network stuff and came across some fairly entertaining shorts. Like this old ‘Dial M For Monkey’ ep. What was weird was how well hearing Dexter’s (of Dexter’s Lab fame) voice and the music brought back the feeling of being a kid again.
Apparently you don’t actually need to be, you know, capable of having sex to commit sexual harassment
This is insane:
Randy Castro was not apprehended until he was six, so who knows how long his reign of sexual terror lasted? Sixteen months ago, a school official in Texas accused a four-year-old of sexual harassment after the boy was observed pressing his face into the breasts of a teacher’s aide when he hugged her before boarding the school bus. Fortunately, the school took decisive action and suspended the sick freak. By the way, is that the first recorded use in the history of the English language of the phrase “accused a four-year-old of sexual harassment”? Well, it won’t be the last: In the state of Maryland last year, 16 kindergartners were suspended for sexual harassment, as were three pre-schoolers.
Man, that’s crazy… I mean, how can you commit sexual harassment if your not in any way, capable of being sexualy aroused. And are at such an age where such a concept doesn’t exist?