Scott’s Blog of Doom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLd22ha_-VU

This is truly awesome because Yellow Ledbetter is my all-time favorite Pearl Jam song and yet, yeah, I have no idea what the fuck he’s saying through the entire song. 

Thanks to Chad Bryant for posting a link via Facebook.

Are you happy the Canucks resigned the Sedin twins? They have a decent core but I think they need something else to get them over that hump and beat Detroit and make a run for the Cup. The Blackhawks will be tough to beat now that they signed Hossa but the lost of Khabibulin hurts their goaltending. I don't think anyone has any faith in Huet.
I am a huge Rangers fan and was less than pleased with the Rangers signing Brashear and losing Orr. I don't know how I like that Gaborik will be on the team now, especially since their only playmaker (Gomez) has been shipped off to Montreal. If this fits with Torterella's style of play it may work but it's not like the Devils where they can play a system and just switch out whomever and still be competitive.

 

I think everyone knew the Sedins would re-sign, because there’s very few other teams that had the kind of cap room to take them on as a unit, and Vancouver is their home now.  That being said, they’re the core of the team and I’m very happy they’re still around.  Losing Ohlund to the Lightning obviously hurt, and I was kind of hoping that Neidermeyer might go with the Canucks instead of the Ducks as a replacement, but obviously that didn’t pan out.  Really, if they can find a good defenceman to replace Ohlund, they can always move Hodgson up to replace Sundin and they should be in good shape for next year.  Taylor Pyatt is probably gone, but that’s no big loss. 

Sorry I've been away but I promise I will have some rant-filled goodness for you tomorrow if someone can help me disinfect my home business computer.

It's got a variety of shit in there apparently. You name it Trojan horse, etc. etc. It's a Malware buffet.

Reinstalled and updated Malware Bytes and it scans fine but crashes when I try to remove.

Spybot ran through once, deleted all but 2, couldn't get it to run again, tried to reinstall and crashes on reinstallation.

Decided to try Avira Antivir Personal. Same thing, crashes on installation.

It's one particular file that continues to spread its nasty little seed every time I delete the other crap. I gotta knock it out!

Someone help!

P.S. My thoughs on the trade -- Highly pissed off to lose bumping machine Gail Kim and Shelton Benjamin. But there's more room to push Benjamin on ECW and since they seem to be trying a half-assed R-Truth push I think it's against policy to push more than one of "those kinds of people" on a brand. Which means Kofi Kingston and MVP are fucked by Mark Henry's odd addition. Happy to have Matt Hardy back (that RAW thing did not work out) but he needs to get in shape. Losing Edge and Jericho from full-time Smackdown status sucks too but at least it raises the profile of the tag titles. Intrigued by the Hart Dynasty.

Anyway guys, free my computer!

Happy Canada Day!

Hey Scott,

Searching Netflix today, I noticed they had added The Rise and Fall of WCW dvd to save. Under details, these were the descrips of each disc.

WWE: Rise and Fall of WCW: Disc 1
This disc includes segments about the birth of Jim Crockett Promotions, the sale of WCW to Ted Turner, the arrival of Hulk Hogan, Vince McMahon's purchase of the organization and more.
WWE: Rise and Fall of WCW: Disc 2
This disc includes "Ric Flair vs. Magnum T.A. ('85)," "Sting, Lex Luger & Barry Windham vs. Flair, Arn Anderson & Tully Blanchard ('88)," "Dusty Rhodes vs. Windham ('88)," "Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat ('89)," "Rock 'n' Roll Express vs. Midnight Express ('90)," "Midnight Express vs. Southern Boys ('90)," "Steiner Brothers vs. Sting & Luger ('91)," "Sting vs. Big Van Vader ('92)," "Rick Rude vs. Sting ('94)" and "Flair vs. Hogan ('94)."
WWE: Rise and Fall of WCW: Disc 3
This disc includes "Ric Flair vs. The Giant ('96)," "Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Dean Malenko ('96)," "Team WCW vs Team n.W.o ('96)," "Syxx vs. Eddie Guerrero ('97)," "Guerrero vs. Malenko ('97)," "Chris Jericho vs. Juventud Guerrera ('98)," "Steiner Brothers vs. The Outsiders ('98)," "Diamond Dallas Page & Karl Malone vs. Hulk Hogan & Dennis Rodman ('98)," "Goldberg vs. Page ('98)" and "Booker T vs. Lance Storm ('00)."
Additional Actors:
Rey Mysterio Jr., Dean Malenko, Eddie Guerrero, Chris Jericho, Dallas Page, Juvenud Guerrera, Booker T, Karl Malone, Dennis Rodman, Lance Storm

I tend to believe this is the real listing because Netflix wouldn't post this unless they had the info. As for dates, most descrips are like this for other WWE dvds.

 

That’s a hell of a listing right there if true.  I’m guessing it’s Flair-Steamboat from Chi-Town Rumble because they’ve already mined the other two on previous Flair releases, but any way they go is great.  RNR/Midnights from 1990 is not as vital as 87 would have been, but still really great.  Although the quality degrades as the set moves into the 90s, there’s still two ***** matches and a bunch of ****+ on there by my count, so I’d call this one worth the money just based off the matchlist.

The SmarK DVD Rant for 12 Rounds

I suppose that for people who watch him wrestle, it's not hard to buy John Cena as a superhuman walking action movie cliché. After all, the guy went nearly an hour with Shawn Michaels and barely broke a sweat. However, in the first 15 minutes of this movie alone, he single-handedly chases down a car without even needing to stop for a drink of water. So obviously this movie is a throwback to the good old days of the 80s, when men were men and movie villains had lots of downtime to plot elaborate revenge schemes.

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Didn’t we just have a draft that was supposed to shake up the rosters and fix all the problems they’ve been having?  But hey, they’ve only been trying to make something out of Mark Henry for what, 14 years now?  I’m sure this time will be the charm. 

I don’t know if this means anything more than “There’s 8 million showings of Transformers at the theater”, but my local theater is not showing The Bash tonight as they normally would, so there will be no rant on the show tonight.  I’ll probably download it tomorrow and review it at that point.  Not coincidentally, I’ll be going to see Transformers tonight instead of getting the PPV.

The SmarK DVD Rant for Family Guy: Volume Seven

So once again FOX's bizarre marketing department can't just do a normal season that would allow people to keep track of which episodes go where. Instead it's "Volume 7", which contains 13 episodes covering some of season 6 and some of season 7. Thankfully FOX seems to be going with the new-fangled single-disc packaging for all their TV sets now, which I like much better than the thick box sets or the super-crappy cardboard packaging that the last season of The Simpsons came with.

At any rate, as much of a fan of this show as I am, the demands on Seth MacFarlane must be stretching him really thin because this volume really starts to showcase how far this show has fallen lately.

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The SmarK Legacy Rant for Monday Night RAW - May 17 1993

- Live from New York

- Your hosts are Vince, Macho and Brain.

- This is of course an episode that you may have heard about before.

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Not sure if you ever saw this before Scott, but I was reviewing some Orndorff/Hogan feud clips from youtube and I found something very interesting. Kind of like an alternate take of Hogan and Orndorff on the Flower Shop right before the big heel turn. Not sure if you've seen this before, or even if its blog worthy. However, I found it very interesting - I wonder if any of these "alternate takes" still exist in the vaults.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjKhSEFaU4Q (From the 0:25 mark until the 0:50 mark)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfhezkscMvk (From the 2:17 mark until the 2:33 mark)

    I don't know if that is one of those "lets overdub crowd noise because Sid got a babyface pop" moments, but do notice that in the first take - the one that aired before the heel turn, and was on the Hulkamania 2 video (and I guess on Superstars or whatever it was called back then) - that Orndorff delivery is much different than the one they used in the hype video (again I'm guessing Superstars) when they had Hogan recap the heel turn in his private gym. Where they have Orndorff sound a little more heelish. Also in the second one Hogan goes "they're ready" for Studd and Bundy, where in the first one Hogan just answers "Yeah" to Adonis' "Do you accept the challenge."

    It's interesting, and I wonder if they did that a lot with the Flower Shops, Piper's Pits, and Snake Pits.

 

I think it’s just the magic of editing, personally.  I can’t speak for the 80s, but I sat through a few tapings in the 90s and never saw them do extra takes for the Funeral Parlor.  I did notice some minor editing differences, though, so the same thing certainly could have happened there.