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To be fair, I didn't watch WCW that often, as the only Wrestling that I got as a kid was usually SmackDown on UPN (at the time) because we didn't have cable or satellite, so when I would get to watch Raw, it was usually because someone at school taped it and then let me borrow the tape (they would do the same thing with Pay Per View events). I actually missed a lot of the attitude era and pretty much the whole Stone Cold Steve Austin vs McMahon saga. I saw stuff like King of the Ring 98 where Mankind got thrown off of the top of the Hell in a Cell structure, but I didn't really start watching wrestling on TV until like 99-00 when it came on broadcast TV in my area. I saw a lot of the great Rock promos and matches, but I only kept watching it until about 2005 and that's when I lost a lot of interest because the superstars who just starting to get over with the fans then didn't have the same appeal to me as guys like Chris Jericho, The Rock, Mick Foley, etc. I do remember going to see dark matches in Estero, FL when Kurt Angle and Jericho were just starting to get over. That was a lot of fun. I saw Big Show, Esse Rios, Edge & Christian, The Dudley Boyz, The One Billy Gunn, Jericho, and Angle. There were some other ones too but I can't remember off of the top of my head who they were. I never went to a Raw or SmackDown taping though, nor did I ever go to a PPV event.

Well I mean, none of the restaurants I go to have a dress code either because I usually only go to places like Waffle House, I just don't want to look like a boogie when I'm going out. I keep my boogieness at home. But the other reason I don't like going out, is because there really isn't anywhere good to go around here. It's all places like Applebee's, Chilis (the place where business is done), Dennys, etc. We used to have a TGIFridays & a Sonny's Barbecue but both of those places have closed down since then. It's a lot of chains and chains are never really that great for the amount of money that you're paying to go to one.

A lot of wrestlers look like rednecks because being a wrestler is one of the only real career options for a redneck outside of construction. I think the Bushwackers were supposed to be from New Zealand or something but I never understood why they walked funny, I just remember them being really popular with younger kids for the silly stuff they did. There was another stupid tag team in WCW when I was a kid: the ding-dongs. The ding-dongs gimmick was that they were covered with bells and would come out to the ring, ringing a cowbell and one of them would ring a cowbell all during the match. It was one of the most stupid gimmicks of all time and was a creation of a guy who actually knew very little about wrestling and what made it popular: Jim Herd, who I think was the Turner Broadcast System executive who was in charge of WCW at the time. He used to come up with all sorts of stupid gimmicks that he thought would work (Like the hunchbacks, who you couldn't pin because their humps prevented their shoulders from touching the mat). Most of these dumb Jim Herd gimmicks stayed around for a very short time before they were disposed of, as it was the boss wanting to have creative input on the show and people would do it just to humor them, rating would go down, and then he'd try something else.

I remember the Bushwackers, they were the guys who walked funny right? I think the last Royal Rumble I watched was the one from the early 90s that Ric Flair won despite being one of the first entrants.

I'm debating getting the Rotting Christ book actually. I got interested in the story from the liner notes of the two albums I own (Thy Mighty Contract & Non Serviam) and realized that they are excerpts from a larger book about the band & Greek black metal.

I'm with you on that one. I personally do not like going to restaurants because then I have to get fully dressed in not terribly comfortable clothes (usually around the house I just wear basketball shorts and an old cut-off metal tee, often with holes and shit in it). I think the last place I actually got food from was Waffle House and I brought it home so I could eat it and listen to music at the same time.

I want to get another one sometime soon. I'm heavily considering getting the horn blower from Filosofem or the Emperor "E" because I want to do my left arm as a black metal sleeve.

Storm suffered from bad engineering. The vocals were way too far down in the mix and the guitars sounded tinny from what I can remember, but it's still a classic album for me & one of the ones I'm debating buying on vinyl if I can find a cool edition of it.

My favorite Immortal albums were Damned in Black and Sons of Northern Darkness. Both of those albums had really good production and I'm considering buying vinyl copies of them, but I'm trying to find them on some sort of color rather than just standard black vinyl.

I never bothered because I had the Live in LA DVD and when I really tried to, I did not like the production on the albums as much as I liked Death's live sound, so I never bothered to look into anything from Death that wasn't live. They're one of those bands that if your first exposure to them is live, the studio albums sound tinny and weakly produced in comparison, at least that was my experience. Like I can't listen to the album cut of The Philosopher or Spirit Crusher at all because I was spoiled by the Live in LA DVD.

Yeah like I wouldn't buy a Guns n Roses LP but I definitely listen to them on Spotify when I want to hear "Mr. Brownstone" or something. I listen to Sublime and stuff on there, because I'm not about to go out and spend $35 on a Sublime LP.

It's Friday night and as usual, I got out of work and had pizza as is the "tradition". I haven't gone out and gotten a pizza since the start of the pandemic though, I get Digiorno and make it at home, it's really just as good even if it's smaller.

My favorite metal magazine was Metal Maniacs. I never had a subscription to it, but I used to buy a lot of copies of it when it was still around in print, but I haven't checked out the digital version of it yet. I never really got into Metal Edge, Circus, or Kerrang because they seemed to be really big with the whole Nu-Metal thing when they were big in my teenage years and by then I had already moved on to thrash and black metal.

I've never listened to any of Death's studio albums, because once you have a copy of Live in LA, you tend to only listen to that. I absolutely loved Live in LA when I was a kid and I still go back and listen to it every now and then.

I'm personally not a big fan of Pantera, because Pantera was one of those bands that all of the rednecks who thought that they knew a lot about metal were always talking about around here in Southwest Florida. They have like 3 songs that I know, and only two of those three are songs that I actually like and they're ones that everyone and their mother knows (Cowboys from Hell & Cemetery Gates... the third song is Walk and I absolutely hate that song)

I got a lot of grief for having a Helloween album in high school for some reason. The one annoying guy that I've talked about having in my social circle was always mocking them for being a "Christian" band (they aren't and never were as far as I know). I haven't listened to Gamma Ray though. I've heard good things, just never checked them out because power metal is not really my thing most of the time.

I was into them in High School, when they only had 3 full lengths out. Sort of moved away from them over the years but I've heard the singles "RADIO" and "Amerika" and liked them. I should get some Rammstein LPs.

My favorite KMFDM album is NIHIL, followed by ATTAK. I've been looking for both of them on vinyl with no luck thusfar. To be fair though, KMFDM is one of those bands like Darkthrone, where their discography has been so prolific that I haven't actually sat down and listened to a lot of what they have to offer. I think I've heard maybe 4 or 5 KMFDM albums in my life: NIHIL, ATTAK, WWIII, (symbols), and whichever one that "A Drug Against War" is on.

Some Immortal albums have really good production, other ones have garbage production and that's a problem for me because I'm not really "Kvlt" and don't care at all about having a "necro" sound on the music I buy. I bought vinyl to hear good sound quality (yet still bought Wrath of the Tyrant despite it being engineered awfully... figure that one out if you can)

I was baptized Catholic as a baby, yes. It was a lot more common in the 80s than it is today.

I actually quit drinking like four years ago. I can't drink and be on psych meds at the same time, the two cancel each other out and then I just wind up getting sick and vomiting. I used to drink 4-6 pints of Miller High Life a night though when I was in my early 20s & occasionally I'd drink Jagermeister. Sometimes if I was slummin' it, I'd drink Cisco or Mad Dog 20/20 or like Mickey's or something but that was toward the end when I realized that I was becoming an alcoholic and quit. I do miss being able to enjoy good beers though. I think the last beer I drank was Kona Big Wave & I ended up getting sick.

Spotify was where I found out about Abazagorath and I listen to that on there, but mostly it's for when I'm driving and to preview something before I buy it on vinyl.

Yeah I'm the same way: When HHH or Shawn Michaels, Undertaker wrestle I sometimes have an interest in it but most of the time I just pull up the matches on YT. Besides, most of the guys I know have retired anyway (Undertaker is retired now iirc). I stopped watching it right as John Cena started to get over so I missed that whole thing pretty much. My favorite wrestler of all time is Mick Foley. Dude had more entertaining matches for a guy who was not in prime physical shape then you figured that he'd have.

I used to love the WWF when I was a kid, and I still listen to Jim Cornette's podcasts every now and then. I stopped watching wrestling around 2004 though, I lost a lot of interest in the WWF after the attitude era (DX, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Undertaker's Ministry/The Brood, etc). Wrestling has for the most part, at least the WWE, gone "TVPG" now so it doesn't have the same amount of compelling content that it did when I was 13-18. I don't know any of the current superstars, can't get into them, and don't even have TV anyway-- so when I get a bug up my ass to watch wrestling, I watch old matches from the attitude era that I may not have seen.

I had some Cracker Barrel Mac n Cheese and black beans & rice for dinner tonight. I actually don't eat a whole lot of meat and I work in fast food, so I don't eat a lot of fast food either. I do drink a lot of coffee though, I usually drink an iced coffee in the morning and then one when I go on break at work. Later tonight before I settle in, I'm going to make some ramen with egg, cheese, and green onions. Then probably have some pecan praline Blue Bell ice cream.