Greetings.
Today we've got two questions on the ol' itinerary. First up, is from a man who calls himself my biggest fan, which means he is a man of unquestionable taste & moral superiority, the man known as Satan.
I think I'd have to go with an instrumental version of Blink 182's Dammit. It's a great riff, and a fast paced, rawkus type of tune. It'd be one of those riffs that would be great as a "bad guys are beating the hell out of the good" sorta thing, to just blast out of the speaker for the save. It also has a nice build of a few riffs before the drums & such kick in.
Our second question comes from a man known as Bobby, regarding a sitcom he feels got the slight:
How say you?
Catch more Caliber at scrublife.wordpress.com, wcwin2000.wordpress.com, @CaliberWinfield, and feel free to send all questions/comments/what have you to caliberw@hotmail.com
Today we've got two questions on the ol' itinerary. First up, is from a man who calls himself my biggest fan, which means he is a man of unquestionable taste & moral superiority, the man known as Satan.
Dearest Caliber, Master of the BOD,
Simple question: You're in WWE, and you get a pick of any song.
Personally, I would choose 'You Dropped a Bomb On Me' by Gap Band. You gotta get people in a groove, man.
Sincerely yours, your biggest fan,
Satan.
I think I'd have to go with an instrumental version of Blink 182's Dammit. It's a great riff, and a fast paced, rawkus type of tune. It'd be one of those riffs that would be great as a "bad guys are beating the hell out of the good" sorta thing, to just blast out of the speaker for the save. It also has a nice build of a few riffs before the drums & such kick in.
Our second question comes from a man known as Bobby, regarding a sitcom he feels got the slight:
I just can't stomach the show. I really don't enjoy it's type of humor, or characters. They're doing things that have been done to absolute death or already, and drenching it in laugh tracks. I will respect their love of continuity though. So many shows/movie franchises don't give a shit about continuity, and that's a slap in the face to the fans. Props to HIMYM for that.
I have a question for you.A few weeks ago, you were given the question of what was your favorite TV show, you and bloggers then gave your opinions. During this time I notice 2 things, 1. You guys completely destroyed Full House which was one of my favorite childhood shows (not that there was any problem with that, I thought it was great), and 2. out of all of the TV shows out there, I was kind of sad that no one mention How I Met Your Mother. So, this is my question, what do you and everyone on the blog think about the show? I personally think that the show has almost perfect continuity which is better then WWE seems to be these days. Things like bringing people from season one back on the show 6 seasons later plus the slap bet are things that make me enjoy the shows writing. Not to mention the character progress of Barney going from a man who has no personal feelings for a woman to one who cares for someone in the end. That's my 2 cents about it so what about you?
How say you?
Catch more Caliber at scrublife.wordpress.com, wcwin2000.wordpress.com, @CaliberWinfield, and feel free to send all questions/comments/what have you to caliberw@hotmail.com
Julio Dinero / Sanchez seemed like one of the good guys in wrestling trying to make it. Guy paid his dues but unfortunately a short lived stint with ECW and TNA were the most he could achieve.
ReplyDeleteI'd come out to the ring playing an audio recording of the entire cast and crew of how I met your mother being murdered. That way I'd always get a big pop.
ReplyDeleteI'd seriously rather stare at a wall than watch that fucking drivel.
Anything Jason Segel is in, I avoid. The same for Vince Vaughn
ReplyDeleteAs far as theme music...who wouldn't want to come out to Seth's stage theme?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6SRcGYpDnc
I'd have to go with "Welcome Home" by Coheed and Cambria. Absolutely badass song and guitar riffs.
ReplyDeleteAs for How I Met Your Mother, I happen to like it. The continuity being one of the main reasons. A lot of it may be rehashed sitcom stuff, but they pull it off well. Just my opinion.
What is How I Met Your Mother doing that have been to death already?
ReplyDeleteWhat is wrong with laugh tracks? The show is shot without an audience and then filmed in front of an audience to provide a laugh track.
if you like Full House you'll love http://fullhousereviewed.com
ReplyDeleteJ Majik - The Lizard
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SG3MzTD2wM
Might have to start it 43 seconds in to save time (unless it was WM, then you milk it), but lots of pyro & lasers and whatnot at the drop.
I post this in the knowledge that Drum & Bass never really made it to Merica and thus this'll probably go over like a fart in church on here, but I think it'd work really well.
I want to combine the two worst sitcoms in history and make a great one:
ReplyDeleteHow I Banged Your Mother
If you like Full House, you're awesome, and read the Full House chronology. It's amazing.
ReplyDeleteNo question - my entrance music would be "Ride the Lightning" by Metallica.
ReplyDeleteIt's gotta be:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpqmoBYkQfc
Nah seriously, it'd have to be "I'm going to tear your arms off and shove 'em up your ass" kinda music, so in that case it'd have to be either Replica or Obsolete by Fear Factory.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I can't believe no one in ECW ever came out to Slayer's Raining Blood.
ReplyDelete2Pac's Ambitions Az A Ridah would make cool entrance music if there was someone cool enough to pull it off. Like a black Bray Wyatt or something
ReplyDeleteOne time my roommates and I threw a "Blizzard Party" in the dead of a Massachusetts Winter. It was on a Sunday, so we also ordered whatever the WWE PPV was that month, played a lot of Parappa the Rapper and Super Puzzle Fighter Turbo, and got drunk enough to have our own wrestling "event" outside in the two feet deep at that point, fresh snow.
ReplyDeleteMy theme music was "Where is my Mind" by the Pixies.
How I met your Mother is ok when the writers ease off on Ted stories as he's easily the weakest character in the oevre.
I think the show Community is infinitely better. I'm also enjoying the HELL out of Quickdraw.
I think the trick is that it has to be somewhat mid-paced - too fast and it would seem like you have to run to the ring like stupid Warrior, but too slow and it doesn't have impact.
ReplyDeleteWhen I hear these songs, it sounds like you could walk out to it:
Type O Negative - Christian Woman (trim the first 40 seconds)
Soundgarden - Outshined
QOTSA - Misfit Love
For a Kane-like monster character, Rammstein's Mein Teil is a MUST. That's what'll be playing when the apocalypse hits.
Aint no Fun...Snoop. "Guess whos back in the motherfucking house, with a fat dick for yo motherfucking mouth..." This would make it on tv, right?
ReplyDeleteThe first few seasons of How I Met Your Mother were great. Then relationship drama killed it as with nearly any long-running sitcom.
ReplyDelete"Get Down" by Beanie Sigel - Sinister beat that gets you amped:
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/u68yKvNIO_U
Why do comedies insist on doing that? Drives me nuts. The Office, Big Bang Theory, HIMYM... they all seem to do that after a while and forget what brung 'em.
ReplyDelete1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
ReplyDelete2) It was funny in the beginning, and the continuity is amazing... but as someone else said they have fallen into the sitcom trap of focusing too much on relationship drama and less on being funny... it has become a soap opera with jokes.
Comedic creativity eventually runs out once most of the creators' best ideas are used up early on. One of the many reasons why Seinfeld was such a great sitcom is that the writing remained so original and clever that the characters didn't need to change and the audience never learned too much about them.
ReplyDeleteEver since Youtube started putting up ads like that, you can't get people with the same verve as you used to...
ReplyDeleteI got come out to music at a stand-up gig recently. This was a dream come true for me since it's the closest I'll ever come to making a wrestling entrance. It was a tough call but I went with "Owner of a Lonely Heart" by Yes. It had a great guitar riff and cowbell friendly beat (and the title is a funny nod to my dating woes). "Money for Nothing" was a close second choice.
ReplyDeleteFor a dramatic, Macho Man style entrance, I'd love to use "Fire on High" by ELO, but it would need to be skipped ahead past the lengthy intro build up. "Survival" by Muse would also be great, though that would also have to be cued to the right spot.
Seriously, it amazes me how Full House stayed on the air for so long and had any fans at all. There was NOTHING redeeming or funny about it. I got why people would like Fresh Prince, Saved by the Bell, etc. but never got the attraction to Full House. Same shit for The Power Rangers. 1 was hot, rest of it sucked
ReplyDeleteI'm visualizing all blackout for the opening chords and then on that note when the whole band kicks in, pyro. That'd be sick.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the whole point on Seinfeld was that the characters were never *supposed* to change --- Larry Davis's famous "no hugging, no learning" edict. If you don't care about pathos then you have free reign to be just as funny as you want. It's Always Sunny is still going strong after eight seasons for the same reasons.
ReplyDelete1) "Set Fire To The Face On Fire" by The Blood Brothers. Might scare some children but it would jack the arena up.
ReplyDelete2) I got really into the first few seasons at one point but it got a little tired as time went on. I'll still watch it as junk food but I don't feel too strongly toward it. Also, not to be insensitive, but NPH has really lost the ability to play a straight person, the last few seasons he seems really flamboyant and obvious. Then again maybe I'm just looking for it. And I loved the scene in This Is The End where Jason Segel completely pisses on how hokey the show has become.
Another case of our liberty being crushed by the fascist corporate regime!
ReplyDeleteDrones, the NSA, and now this... ITS TIME FOR A NEW REVOLUTION!
ReplyDeletenever watch himym, but i bet like the last second of the last ep is some chick bumping into him, and hes like 'and thats how i met your mother'
ReplyDeleteThe way the WCW would debut a guy with a Tyler Durden (from Fight Club) gimmick with a "Where is My Mind" knock-off theme.
ReplyDeleteHIMYM was a legitimately great show in its first two seasons and you'll still see flashes of greatness from time to time, but it's simply gone on too long. It's ironic that the show only became a real ratings hit around its 5th or 6th year (helped out by being scheduled on the same night as CBS' other big Monday hits) and thus the creators have kept the golden goose alive for as long as possible, after putting out great episodes in its first few seasons while always being under threat of cancellation.
ReplyDeleteThis is one sitcom that actually had a main narrative arc (Ted meeting the mother), so it was ill-suited to a long stretch of episodes. It's almost like the writers didn't expect the show to last as long as it did, so they burned through all their best ideas early. I don't think the actors did either --- Segel and NPH were both saying they wanted to move on a few years ago, yet CBS paycheques talk.
While I'm complaining, I'll still note that I watch every week since I really like the actors and after all this time, I'm invested enough to see how it all ends. And as I said, the show still delivers 2-3 amazingly good episodes per year to give me faith that the original creative spark is still alive. The final season is apparently going to have a somewhat different format than the others, so hopefully HIMYM can go out on a high note now that we've actually seen the Mother.
the new nxt uses it... or at least did for a while
ReplyDelete'i dont believe in love' by queensryche
ReplyDeleteIt's a testament to the charismas of Saggat and Stamos. Well, a little Dave Coulier too; he somehow seemed funny to me in the 4th grade. Plus whatever unholy empire was built upon the Olson twins.
ReplyDeleteIt was really a show for kids that parents could tolerate that now can only appeal through nostalgia. Like it's funny that we as a nation once rated it highly and authentically laughed at anything about it.
"heaven and hell" black sabbath
ReplyDelete"blood and thunder"mastodon
"seek and destroy"metallica
I can't think of a good theme at the moment. Most likely something
ReplyDeleteHow I met your Mother is tied with Two and a Half Men for my least favourite sitcom in recent memory. Both just have totally unlikeable and unbelieveable characters for me.
In the defense,THM was pretty good,first seasons actually had a decent comedy.
ReplyDelete"don't fear the reaper" blue oyster cult
ReplyDeleteFor songs, it's a toss-up between two; "Push" by Moist, "Weak as I Am" by Skunk Anansie. Seriously, look them up on YouTube and tell me they wouldn't make kick ass entrances.
ReplyDeleteAs for HIMYM, I actually like it a lot. It's got that same ridiculous, lame humour that I love and of course, you've got Neil Patrick Harris.
Fun fact about HIMYM, too. They had actually planned on us meeting the mother several seasons ago. Remember Stella? The chick played by Sarah Chalke from Scrubs? Her character was supposed to be the mother.
ReplyDeleteBUT, the role was SUPPOSED to go to Reese Whitherspoon (which would've been pretty awesome). When they were going to debut her character, though, it was paired with Britney Spears. She apparently refused to work with Spears in any capacity, so backed out entirely. So they changed everything around, replaced the actress and decided that she would NOT be the mother because they wanted Whitherspoon.
I'm paraphrasing a lot of what I heard, so the details might be exact, but you get the gist.
My entrance music would definitely be "A Small Victory", by Faith No More.
ReplyDeleteI felt dumber after watching two and a half men.
ReplyDeleteThe best entrance music I can think of is "Battle Flag" by Lo-Fidelity All Stars, or "Breathe" by Prodigy.
ReplyDeleteHere's the skinny on network sitcoms: they're dead. Nowadays there are just too many "Friends" wannabes ("...Your Mother", "Big Bang"); the oneliners are just...not...funny; I come from a time when Seinfeld ruled (which has tremendous re-watch value, even to this day). "Friends" got tired very quickly, because really...who could relate to those whiney bastards? And Seinfeld didn't really have relatable characters, but the cast BECAME those characters...so much depth. The network sitcome is a dead horse. Now...for cable channels like HBO...watch Family Tree...Eastbound and Down...Curb Your Enthusiasm...wholly enjoyable because the networks they are on can allow for much more unique storyline plots...and cursing; which is a character trait that any one of us can relate to. I'm sorry, but "Ba-zinga"? Fucking lame-ass catchphrase.
HIMYM is one of my favorite "skim threw the channels, stop and watch shows"
ReplyDeleteBig Bang Theory isn't a Friends ripoff at all.
ReplyDeleteFor ring entrance id actually go the route of using an old one, and use Ravens Wcw theme, the one that was a Nirvana riff
ReplyDeleteI kind of felt like some of the writing hinted at Stella being the mom and then they course corrected. Interesting.
ReplyDeleteFor me the payoff of seing the mother had no chance of being good... since they already eliminated every woman on the show as being the mother it by definition had to be some scrub we'd never seen so, no matter what it was going to be like "Yeah I don't give even one fuck"
ReplyDeleteSmashing Pumpkins' "Dross" would probably be my entrance music.
ReplyDeleteFriends was also terrible. Completely unbelievable characters, only one of whom was funny at all.
ReplyDeleteEntrance Music: Hell's Bells (No Lyrics) by AC/DC or something Final Fantasy. I'll come back to this one in a while.
ReplyDeleteAs for Full House: It just doesn't hold up IMO. Good show for it's time, not so fun to watch now.
Serious answer to #2 BTW
ReplyDeleteIn th very breif time I was training to be an indy wrestler the gimmick I was planning was sort of a dark/fallen angel type character based on Sephiroth from Final Fantasy 7... the music I planned on using was a techno mix of "Send Me an Angel" that I have had for years... though I would have it start at the first "Send me an angel" verse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qU1EuvPTfw
"I want It All" by Queen would be my entrance music for my solo push after I turn heel on my tag team partner. Then "Hard As A Rock" by AC/DC for when I eventually change gimmicks to a comedy babyface.
ReplyDeleteI've thought about this before...
Two and Half Men actually evokes rage in me. More than most things even.
ReplyDeleteAC/DC? You sure the nursing home will let you out to wrestle? Would your walker be allowable as a weapon in your matches? Would you feud with some young kid for not getting off your lawn?
ReplyDelete"When the Levee Breaks", Zeppelin. I don't walk out until Plant starts singing a minute and a half in.
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I think Jason Segel's analysis of HIMYM in "This Is The End" sums it up pretty well for me.
ReplyDeleteI can believe that; the Britney Spears stuff is what stopped me from watching regularly. Keep the carwrecks out of the stuff I don't watch.
ReplyDeleteNot only that, but I swear that someone else has used Hells Bells. Though I may be thinking of a boxer/mma guy.
ReplyDeleteIf I had to pick 1 song it would probably be "Attack" by 30 Seconds to Mars (or "Attack" by System of a Down), but if I could get away with it I would make using different music for each match part of my gimmick. BTW, Blink 182 sucks.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen HIMYM, so I can't comment on it.
Tyler Durden is a character in Fight Club?
ReplyDeleteSomething has just clicked. Thank you.
Can I just have Goldberg's entrance and theme? If not, I'd use a riff from an old DMX song, probably, "Get at Me Dog".
ReplyDeleteAlso EVERYBODY that was home on Friday night's watched TGIF back then.
ReplyDeleteYou could have a "BEER . . . MONEY" type catchphrase with "MORE . . . . COWBELL"
ReplyDeleteWow dissing AD/DC. Crazy man. Cray . . . cray.
ReplyDeleteI Want it All is a great choice.
ReplyDeleteHHH used it against Taker but I love "For Whom the Bell Tolls" as entrance music.
ReplyDeleteAlways though Scott Norton should've used the the theme to Flash Gordon by Queen.
I used to play this game all the time as a teenager...imagine my music hitting for my Wrestlemania entrance. In my mind, a great theme should be an instant crowd popper with a great opening hook. With that in mind, I had to scroll through and make sure no one else had called mine yet:
ReplyDelete1. Thunderstruck - AC/DC: Instantly recognizable, yet builds slowly. If you could get the crowd chanting "thunder", that would just be perfect.
2. 99 Problems - Jay Z: The opening line of the song is so fast, it almost serves the same purpose as Austin's glass, Foley's car crash, etc. Hit the pyro right before the guitar chord kicks in.
3. Counting Bodies Like Sheep - A Perfect Circle: Great for a stoic monster heel.
Also, speaking of themes, does anyone else feel like CM Punk lost something with the change to Cult of Personality? This Fire Burns worked so well for him, and the pop when it hit at Money in the Bank was unreal in a way I don't think Cult would have gotten him. Just my opinion.
Not a fan of HIMYM but it is nowhere NEAR as awful as Two and a Half Men.
ReplyDeleteYep. I love CoP but it is nowhere near as good a theme as "This Fire Burns".
ReplyDeleteBefore Thor came out I was really hoping they'd incorporate Thuderstruck in there somehow. I would've marked the hell out if it had started blaring when he finally go Mjorner back.
Jericho's theme is kind of gronked from that.
ReplyDeleteTGIF was the 80's/90's equivalent of CBS today.
ReplyDeleteI fully understand the appeal and once felt it myself but after hearing the same half dozen songs on every rock format radio station and in every bar, gym, and garage every goddamn day, it just doesn't even sound like music. Just shrieky unpleasant repetitive sounds. When are we just gonna let go of that band? We haven't heard "Back in Black" enough times?
ReplyDeleteMaybe they aren't as ubiquitous in some places, I don't know. But still. "Hell's Bells" came out when Backlund was still champion. That's too damn old to come out to.
Speaking of ads: usually you see the targeted ads at the top of the page here based on what you've been searching for or looking at (cookies and all that). Well I see one on here the other day for Medelita professional lab coats. I'm thinking what the fuck, and then realize I've been reading all the previews and recaps for Breaking Bad. So Adsense, the same people that police blogs for nip-slips, is subtely encouraging me to cook meth.
ReplyDeleteAre you implying that you haven't seen it? I'm very jealous, because i'd love to somehow be able to watch it again and not know the twist at the end. I had a Fight Club virgin friend who I was all hyped to show it to and then some assclown went and ruined it.
ReplyDeleteWhen I hear this stuff, I get a paranoid sensation and think, "we're firmly in the future now."
ReplyDeleteI remember only about five years ago, the big advertising idea was that you'd walk by a billboard with a camera. The camera would note your gender, height, weight, clothes, piercings etc. and would advertise to you according to physical attributes.
"You're kind of fat. Here's an ad for a diet plan!"
"You have black-rimmed glasses. Here's a goth album!"
"You're a girl. Here's an ad for tampons!"
We're not far off.
I think at some point they have to evolve the characters into some type of relationship or fans will stop watching because nothing ever changes. But then like briangutan said, they get bogged down with the relationship drama and sacrifice the comedy. Most of them never find the correct balance.
ReplyDeleteI believe the whole season will take place over the wedding weekend. And I think every main character will meet the mother before Ted, but I could be wrong on that part.
ReplyDeleteAnd originally, they didn't know if they would be picked up after the initial 13 or however many episodes so if they had been cancelled after that run, it was set up for Victoria to be the mother.
ReplyDelete"I Get Wet" by Andrew WK is pretty awesome, and perfect as a tempo for wrestling.
ReplyDeleteAs someone with twin sisters the same age as the Olsen Twins, I had to watch Full House ALL THE TIME. That was merciless torture I would wish on no one- the show had the most obvious, cloying, predictable writing in history, with blatant moralizing, "Full House Music", cheesy moments, and some of the worst acting in history by the children- most of them just had one or two "Cool, man!" lines to set the idiots in the crowd into a frenzy.
ReplyDeleteJust... awful, awful stuff.
Full House was really just a show for young children. The kids all got to say "funny lines", act up and insult each other (and their parental figures), and get away with it because of some "Full House Music" and a lesson at the end of the day.
ReplyDeleteMost of the sitcoms STARTED doing that, and it was a key implement right away (especially Ross/Rachel and Jim/Pam). Creatively it's a bit of a dead horse, but it's the most surefire way to get women watching- girls love watching shows for the "shipping".
ReplyDeleteI've definitely never seen the picture, and can't think of the twist, but I'm pretty sure that I have heard it before.
ReplyDeleteOne guy is actually another guy, or two guys are really the same guy, or some such.
I love Moist.
ReplyDeletelance storm used thunderstruck at one point in ecw
ReplyDeletei love the part where they thrash
ReplyDeleteback when it came out my one friend was like, 'the lyrics are kinda funny: not much i'm asking/I WANT IT ALL'
i'd come out to 'bladecatcher'
ReplyDeleteeveryone would be like, 'uh, what?!'
1) Time 4 Sum Aksion by Redman. A no-brainer.
ReplyDeleteAnd judging from the previews, the ninth season should be pretty fucking sweet, too. They're bringing back the Jihad video!
ReplyDeleteI used to love Full House as a kid. I watched episodes recently and I couldn't even get through it without wanting to violently cringe.
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