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174. Sid Vicious used to take a squirrel with him everywhere he went for some stupid reason and one day a couple of the wrestlers bet him he couldn't keep the squirrel down his pants for a minute. Sid accepted and after about 30 seconds the squirrel bit him in the dick and Sid dropped on the floor in pain crushing the squirrel in the process. He had to get rabies shots and stiches on his dick.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Official Wrestling YouTube Thread

« on: August 26, 2011, 05:49:22 PM »

not a youtube but an insane list of 460 pro wrestling "urban legends"

http://www.oowrestling.com/OOForums/viewthread.php?tid=21720

my favorite:

448. William Regal hates the US but is forced to work here out of fears of prosecution in the UK; it seems he was a middleman in the whole Queen Elizabeth drug dealing thing Lyndon LaRouche exposed in the '80s.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: what are you reading?

« on: August 24, 2011, 04:46:08 PM »

Quote from: Whet Bull on August 24, 2011, 07:04:37 AM

White Jazz was pretty good but it left me feeling unsatisfied. Ellroy likes to tie things up in a nice little knot at the end. He likes happy endings, sort of. And oh, my fucking god, does he love plot twists. I found myself finishing the book just to find out what the deal was with the Armenian family, and I suppose that was worth it, sort of. But the double- and triple- crosses between the D.A. and the chief of police and so forth... I know, it's noir, it's pulp, those are the conventions of the genre, but I find them tedious and kind of stupid, especially after reading so much Richard Stark, whose books are so lean, unsentimental, and existentially rigorous. Apples and oranges, etc. I think I'm done with Ellroy, though.

I felt the same way about the ending and endless plot twists. After every secondary and tertiary character in the book got killed in the last 50 pages, I kind of wanted him to just wrap the damn thing up. That said, I really enjoyed most of it and am going to go back and check out the rest.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: what are you reading?

« on: August 23, 2011, 07:08:06 PM »

tore through Ellroy's White Jazz over the past few days. I thought it was kind of difficult to get into his style at first and the ending was bit of a letdown, but the middle was fucking tremendous. Going to have go back and read the rest of his stuff.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Puffy Areolas Gentlemen's Grip 7" EP...OUT NOW

« on: August 21, 2011, 03:34:58 PM »

any distros still have copies?

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Your favorite record sleeves and why

« on: August 16, 2011, 05:54:09 PM »

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Your Favorite JPEG/GIF

« on: August 12, 2011, 02:07:56 PM »

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Bundesliga > Premier League :: 2011/12 Fu?bal/Football/Futbol/Soccer thread

« on: August 11, 2011, 07:59:12 AM »

Saturday's Spurs - Everton match postponed due to riots.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: what are you reading?

« on: August 05, 2011, 02:02:51 PM »

Just finished:

Joe Klein's biography of Woody Guthrie. Guthrie is such an incredible character and he straddles a huge part of America history; the Depression and the Dust Bowl to the New Deal to WW2 to the Red Scare. Sadly he became another musician who was only really appreciated when he was too ill/dead to enjoy it.

Bread + Roses, by Bill Watson. fast paced account of the 1912 strike of the Lawrence mills by the Wobblies and the chaos that ensued. Great read.

Just cracked open The Turnaround by George Pelecanos. Great prose so far.