Imagining We Still Had VHS - "RIN: Daughters of the Mnemosyne"

*Blog post started on August 27, 2020.

And I am immediately regretting the TV/Blu-ray that I watched last night. First off, it is because the schedule for blog publicization (Because I want to see how everything looks, they get published about a week a head of the @maineventzombie tweet storm.) needed to be switched up. That is actually secondly when I try to put everything in chronological order.

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The lengthiness of what I wrote about second definitely shows that it deserved more time. My third concern is rather trivial. I did not need to watch an anime last night to review. It seems like I may as well just review all six episodes of  "RIN: Daughters of the Mnemosyne", the first entire anime series that was a blind purchase at regular price.

I suppose it was not totally blind. First off, there was probably a gift card involved, so was it really my money? Secondly, aside from the erotic tones the box art put off, I did look at the production company, Xebec, and recall they were responsible for "Martian Successor Nadesico". How I could I resist seeing what the team behind my second favorite giant mecha series do with this genre? The description gave me "Hellsing" and "Highlander" vibes, so how I could fault this purchase?

And then I got Netflix.

"RIN: Daughters of the Mnemosyne" - Episodes 1 and 2

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"We Want Some Bayley: The Song"

Written by Russ “Scoop” Stevens

(to make Jon Quasto of the NXT comfortable with the Full Sail crowd’s 2 Live Crew inspired chant).

*Note: I will be working on a "Hey, we want some Karen" to catch up with the times. Or an ode to WWE Booking with, "Hey, you fucked up Baley.

Somebody say, “Hey, we want some Bayley.”
Hey, we want some Bayley.
Let me hear you say, “Hey, we want some Bayley.”
Hey, we want some Bayley.

Somebody say, “Hey, we want some Bayley.”
Hey, we want some Bayley.
Everybody say, “Hey, we want some Bayley.”
Hey, we want some Bayley.

You see, Sasha and Becky tried to deny her fame.
She fought them back, beat them at their game.
So Eva Marie gets to cut in line,
And gets Nia Jax watching her behind.

But every time she passes Izzy, this diva is poop out of luck,
‘Cause one Bayley-to-Belly and she will be stuck.
The girls will say “stop;” The fans will not.
Universe, get up,cause Bayley is bustin’ out.

Crowd says, Vince, don’t hide her, don’t deny her.
And please don’t knock her until they fight her.
So to all of you witches and all you belles,
Try and test her and she’ll give you hell

Somebody say, “Hey, we want some Bayley.”
Hey, we want some Bayley.
Let me hear you say, “Hey, we want some Bayley.”
Hey, we want some Bayley.

Somebody say, “Hey, we want some Bayley.”
Hey, we want some Bayley.
Everybody say, “Hey, we want some Bayley.”
Hey, we want some Bayley.

She’s the Saillor Senshi* of the two thousand teens.
Got some tall tube men for all of the parties.
She don’t care if you use vicious knees.
She’ll beat and hug till you beg for release.

If you wanna throw, just let her know.
You can get your chance at the end of the show.

You’ll look at her, and think a kid you see.
You’ll be the fool when she gives her long hair a squeeze.
Best know what to do, 'cause she will not flee.
Just kick your butt to reality T.V.

Somebody say, “Hey, we want some Bayley.”
Hey, we want some Bayley.
Let me hear you say, “Hey, we want some Bayley.”
Hey, we want some Bayley.

Somebody say, “Hey, we want some Bayley.”
Hey, we want some Bayley.
Everybody say, “Hey, we want some Bayley.”
Hey, we want some Bayley.

*Sailor Scout in Japanese

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Trippy Seinfeld like Tale

*Blog post started August 26, 2020.

If you need to catch up with what has been going on with my life, thank you for caring. Check out this blog "The OCHO or the Disgruntled's Real Secondary Championship: Part 7".

Things definitely sounded like more fun then, or more thoughtful. I have had only two days between these posts. My latest endeavor has been to fill up a journal that I started back in January 2013 and try to turn that into a narrative about how my life has changed from being friends zoned by strippers to be friend zoned on Snapchat.

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I hate to acknowledge, but Mom was right. With my love for debate, becoming an attorney would have been a good career path. To live like Doctor Gonzo would be a bit extreme, but if that is the price of not worrying about being fired, it seems to be a worthwhile trade.

About anything seems more worthwhile than dealing with this country without the option to get fucked up. At least that is what I think Hunter S. Thompson's works are trying to tell us. I may need to read his works, but I might just watch "Where the Buffalo Roam" instead. "The Rum Diaries" were fun just poorly paced. Surely watching the other two of his onscreen adaptations will allow me to obtain a better grasp on "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas".

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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Starccade and Road Warriors: The Disgruntled's Real World Tag Team Championship

THIS IS A VACANT-FREE LIST. SORRY FOR CHOOSING NOT TO ACKNOWLEDGE SPORT'S MOST PROLIFIC CHAMPION.

Beyond wrestling, Vacant has held titles in multiple weight classes in both mixed martial arts and boxing as well as men collegiate sports championships like the 2004 NCAA Division One Football title.

Why the American Wrestling Association Existed:

The National Wrestling Alliance allowed territories to call their top tag team prize "the world championship", so the national and hence international interest was ignored. The World Wide Wrestling Federation fooled around with multiple tag team championships before it became the one best remembered by Demolition's title reign. This is the one place where Verne Gagne had something that the rest of the American wrestling scene did not offer. And it could be said that the belts may have been regional, but this was the first major title the Road Warriors won and where the Road Warrior Pop was born.

1st Real World Tag Team Champions:

AWA's Sheiks (Jerry Blackwell and Ken Patera) - 11/24/1983 to 5/6/84

On November 24, 1983, Ric Flair had won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. This was the last reign before Hulkamania was born thus the (my) national acknowledgment of different promotions. The Wild Samoans may be better remembered than The Sheiks, but this list is building to the Road Warriors, and this was the groundwork.

Everything Started with Starrcade:

It should be stated that Starccade (11/24/1983) rebooted wrestling for the modern age. Possibly the greatest in ring performer, Ricky Steamboat, became one half of the last remaining NWA World Tag Team Championships that night. If he did not choose to temporarily retire, the AWA is nothing but a footnote in pro-Wrestling.

Starrcade was essentially the first Pay-Per-View, so the inevitable format on how promotions will run hence forth was set here. It really shows us that wrestling did not need Vince McMahon to be what it is today.

2nd Real World Tag Team Champions:

AWA's Baron Von Raschke and The Crusher - 5/6/84 to 8/25/84

Legends of Wrestling (regional) versus regional stars (Ric Martel and Tony Garea; Don Kernodle and Bob Orton Jr.).

3rd Real World Tag Team Champions:

AWA's Road Warriors (Hawk and Animal) - 8/25/84 to 9/29/85

4th Real World Tag Team Champions:

NWA's Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) - 9/29/85 to 10/13/85

WWF and the AWA had reverted back to tag team of two single competitors thrown together (Adrian Adonis and Dick Murdock; Jimmy Garvin and Steve Regal) while NWA had tag teams. With the need for title changes, the tag team titles are the easiest to switch because of all the variables that more than two competitors offer. So, I will be more forgiving of title swaps occurring while there are longer reigns occurring.

5th Real World Tag Team Champions:

NWA's Russian Team (Ivan Koloff, Nikita Koloff and Krusher Krushchev) - 10/13/85 to 11/28/85

As for the significance of the Russians, they were first world champions in this era to use the "Freebird" rule.

6th Real World Tag Team Champions:

NWA's Rock 'n' Roll Express (2) - 11/28/85 to 2/2/86

7th Real World Tag Team Champions:

NWA's Midnight Express (Dennis Condrey and Bobby Eaton) - 2/2/86 to 8/16/86

8th Real World Tag Team Champions:

NWA's Rock 'n' Roll Express (3) - 8/16/86 to 12/6/86

9th Real World Tag Team Champions:

WWF's British Bulldogs (Dynamite Kid and Davey Boy Smith) - 12/6/86 to 1/26/87

Both the AWA and NWA title had fallen in to single competitor combos again (Buddy Rose and Doug Somers; Manny Fernandez and Rick Rude) while WWF is just priming for its first tag team renascence.

10th Real World Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Hart Foundation (Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart) - 1/26/87 to 10/27/87

11th Real World Tag Team Champions:

NWA's Four Horsemen (Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard) - 10/27/87 to 3/27/88

We cannot go through this list that could include the premier Horsemen and not include them.

12th Real World Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Demolition (Ax and Smash) - 3/27/88 to 7/18/89

Both the WWF and NWA championships changed on the same night, but the NWA went to two single stars (Barry Windham and the green Lex Luger) while the WWF was going to start its longest reign.

13th Real World Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Brainbusters (2) [Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard) - 7/18/89 to 10/2/89

If that did not seem fitting, what is?

14th Real World Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Demolition (2) - 10/2/89 to 12/13/89

The NWA Champions were The Freebirds, but Michael Hays and Jimmy Garvin were not the premier members of that faction. The AWA Championship was vacated shortly before this, and with only two teams to hold the belt before AWA folded, it will not be mentioned again. Also, "Pro Wrestling Illustrated" demoted the title from its world status to merely promotional.

15th Real World Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Colossal Connection (Andre the Giant and Haku) - 12/13/89 to 4/1/90

The Steiner Brothers had just arrived on the scene, but can you put anyone over the largest and toughest wrestlers of all time?

16th Real World Tag Team Champions:

WWF's Demolition (3) [Ax, Smash and Crush] - 4/1/90 to 8/27/90

The sad thing about this was that it was pretty much signaled the end of Bobby Heenan as a manager.

17th Real World Tag Team Champions:

WWF's The Hart Foundation - 8/27/90 to 10/30/90

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4/22/13: What to do without Punk on a Monday? Feminism and Bad Wrestling

I suppose, I should actually turn to listening to the Riot Girl genre instead of waiting for the return of the CM Punk.  If only I was not listening to Bratmobile iHeartRadio at work.

My god, I did not mean for that to be a sensible transition to the why a lack of CM Punk makes Monday Night Raw nearly worthless (as a Danny Daniels student, I will still believe in the Shield, they still need more promos to keep my attention).  History lesson, Bratmobile would be the little sisters of Bikini Kill in terms of the Riot Girl (as a guy who preaches spelling Stevens with a V, I cannot bring myself to spell it Grrl). Riot Girl was a punk rock movement of the early 1990's that was about everything women need to be to fight the masculine authority through preaching the "do it yourself" philosophy to get the message across.  The music was pretty raw for the most part and overshadowed by other all girl bands like Hole (yeah I know there was a guy in the band, but trying telling Courtney Love he was not her bitch with a six string) and L7.

With the exception of Courtney Love, Peoria's premier bullshit rock station (you cannot really say any of them are not bullshit since Bloody Mess left for Oregon) 105.7 the X would lead you to believe that the other pissed off chicks were Alanis Morrsette (only her American breakout track) and Shirley Manson (ironic, but angry?).  Of course history does not sell in the Midwest.  Thus, I can claim Peoria radio encourages socialism because that is an example of a lack of compassionate capitalism.  Then again, as of 1995, we still had rascist history teachers in Morton (it is not okay to instruct white students to call Native American an American Indian, and since the cry baby conservatives calling for secession after Romney lost, the Civil War was about ending slavery not keeping the country together), so the RadioPlex is just doing their part to keep the redneck status quo.

The real pissed off women were going to make you listen and feel uncomfortable until you understood them.  Too bad it worked in 1992, at least in places in this country that count.  The movement stayed underground after the first Bush was defeated, thus Roe v. Wade was going to be safe for at least eight years.  Activist tried to bring the themes back for the W era, but I feel women were not concerned with it since there was terrorism.  On the bright side, Bin Laden did keep the country's mind off of wanting to burden this country with unwanted children.

The downside is women seem to be adjusting their beliefs and fears to the conservative agenda.   Guns will not save women from being raped.  Forcing society to call bullshit on it will.  Unfortunately, most guys will not take the time out of their day to do so.  Most guys are not raping, so why step on the roofie market (especially when we need a reason for Helms, Cooper, and Galifianakis to destroy "culturally corrupt" cities).

So that was all pretty long winded, but at least I got pissed about something.  I just do not see myself being worth much without my anger.  It may result in my clinical depression and being unlovable, but I think if I try to fuel it by watching Fox News, I would probably be consumed it.  This blog feels like a winner now that I have a theory of how Rupert Murdoch is the dark lord of the Sith (Hannity, O'Reilly, and Smith are just apprentices).

Discussing evil empires, I can easily just start talking about what pisses me off about the WWE and why none of should watch it of The Shield is not headlining.  It is not the recent burying of Antonio Cesaro and CM Punk (sorry, losing to a part-timer twice and the easiest to predict match of the year is not a long-term plan to put butts every 18 inches).  It is that without CM Punk, it is just the same sexist company that I tried to boycott when Vince McMahon had Michael Cole bury the division to promote Cole v. Lawler by preaching how their matches were not important.  And then there is Snooki getting Melina canned, Nattie Neidhart being placed in a joke valet role instead of being the constant number one contender with the departure of Beth Phoenix, AJ Lee and the Bellas focusing on the unusual appearances of the top female athletes (Kaitlyn and Amazing Kong), etc.

If you are going to have women wrestling, you have to treat it like it is worthwhile.  Mark Madden is right...to an extent...women's wrestling doesn't sell.  I think it will not sell when you are having it as part as of the top male shows.  If you use the top male shows to promote the women, then you are not stepping on any toes.  Just look at what Shimmer does with AAW (Danny really needs to give me another in in Chicago for how much I'm putting him over).  You tell them, that there is wrestling tomorrow when you are running today, you've guaranteed a sell out.  Provided you give them great wrestling.

Maybe things will change when the WWE Network finally comes (hell, New York, I have given you an equation), but that is a maybe.  If we want to make sure that women get treated well now, we gotta quit watching the first two hours of Monday night wrestling.  Money is the reason anything will change in this country.

If I only I created memes to share to get the message about.  My love of words will be my downfall.

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The City of Lost Children - Intercourse "Avatar" (A 2010 Review)

Is there any director who has created richer environments than those of Jean-Pierre Juenet? They are bound to conventional sets unlike the "Star Wars Prequels" and, with the exception of "Avatar" (Which even in 2020, I have yet to view.), he decimates any vision presented by James Cameron (I should state that I have not watched any post "Amelie" films by the director. I do have a Blu-ray for "Mic Macs").

Like Cameron, each of his films is an improvement over the next, but judging that it took 25 years before Cameron offered anything to compare to Juenet's grasp on mise en scene, it is clear who the superior, or at the very least underappreciated, director is. If one is looking for an example of this which is not too French, one should give "The City of Lost Children", a twisted "Peter Pan" like adventure, their undivided attention.

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Hashtag IWA MeToo: Match 2 - Add a Pound Sign or Names of Jerks?

Do not look at your blogger stats when you are looking for motivation to write.

I am starting to think that writing maybe nothing more than practice. Too bad I need a better work situation to just take a day or two to devote writing my next work of fiction. If it is any comfort to my tens of readers, management positions at my day job are something that I am pursuing which is a first. As for freeing myself from the overnight drone work, that will have to wait for a relationship building trip to Vegas to pass, a long with my anti-anxiety and sleep aid.

May be I cannot do anything right. My third trip to Sin City is being planned, and yet again, I cannot enjoy all that the state of Nevada has to offer. Granted, I have out grown wanting to visit the adult entertainment facilities outside of Clark County, but they turn around and legalize cannabis. How do I always miss out, be it blogging or partying?

It is sad to say that it seems that you have to shock people to get a response to your posts. If memory serves me right, (and after checking out the stats from Harshside.com, it does) calling out pit bull owners in a title and referring directly to Peoria wrestling seemed to have resulted in my biggest numbers of views. On this website, people were not reading “Racism Can Play in Peoria. What About Your Local Wrestling?”, but they had a response…oh did they have a response. Either everyone’s social media feeds lean so far left or right that those people who defended the absolutely wrong ideology of Tracy Smothers are not aware of the last blog post (to my credit, I found out about Ian’s insensitivity), or they have just become too jaded to even think about somebody suggesting they are assholes.

Damn people basing philosophy from novelty tees (“Mom told me I could be what ever I wanted, so I became an asshole” for example). It may inspire me to take a motorboat engine to those GEICO matinees.

Or if I infer from Ian Rotten’s Facebook feed, the man who is excusing the awful, just does not produce enough interest for Twitter’s wrestling pundits to care about his reckless posting.

So after quite a few shows with unsatisfactory houses (meaning they did not pay the bills), we have to switch some things around in order to keep this Thursdays show at $15.

I am not saying he is being a bad promoter, he just does not have the resources to affect the business. That is something I can definitely relate to. Hence, when I thought about a shocking blog title to sell this, I came up with “Redefining Rotten.” That that may be redundant. His further digging of his trench with those who permit a sexually dangerous environment shows how he wants to be defined.

If I have to give more credit to Rotten, I have to acknowledge that he has a better clue of what his audience wants. But with fans like the ones who immediately responded to my first response, why would you want to keep them?

Tonya Heath: I don’t give a shit about who’s cheating on who. I wanna see someone get their ass kicked and bleed! If that makes me sick and twisted, fuck it.

Esequiel Mark Gonzales: That’s kind of why I don’t give a damn about what’s going on in WWE any more and prefer to support my local Indies. It’s pretty much the only environment I can just sit back and be a fan like it was meant to be

Some may say that these folks are just ignorant. If that is the case, they are impressionable, so they can be educated through your product to be transformed from not only being lost, but from being douche bags. I did offer an education to these two.

It’s kind of embarrassing to find out that certain Indie fans are feeling disenfranchised by WWE’s efforts to keep rapists and and domestic violence out of their company, which is still affiliated with Donald Trump. If an ally to the autocrat is more socially aware and concerned about safety than these fans, you know these marks are on the wrong side of history.

If a promoter plays to the marks on the wrong side of history, it is hard to call them a good person.

This is where I left off with my Facebook fury for that day. I should be more optimistic. It was already posted on THE social network, why would they need two “PgDn” of explanation to why the misogyny that dominates it is so messed up?

With that said, I wonder if there are collegiate journals dedicated to the online society’s bullshit? I may just have to get over the possibility of being a college student in my 40's. It does not seem to be a stretch from what I am doing with my life now.

Here’s hoping for a few good nights at the tables come May.

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