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Aug. 8th, 2003 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
strangeanimal... I had the theme from "Shaft" in my head all morning. I suppose there are worse themes to have rolling around your brain. besides, they say he's one bad mother.
... today was my first half-day Friday. woo. the rest of the company got "summer hours" awhile back, since their dead season is the summer. since our crazy season is the summer, our summer hours start in August and run until the first week of October. works for me.
... we had Make Your Own Sundae Day at work earlier this week with some frighteningly good ice cream. I didn't have that much (two large scoops, a handful of nuts, a handful of M&Ms), but I still managed to go into a food coma afterwards. or maybe I was just bored.
there weren't any peanut butter cup bits though, and a few of us were outraged. well, silently outraged.
... Rox should be home momentarily, so off to make dinner.
... today was my first half-day Friday. woo. the rest of the company got "summer hours" awhile back, since their dead season is the summer. since our crazy season is the summer, our summer hours start in August and run until the first week of October. works for me.
... we had Make Your Own Sundae Day at work earlier this week with some frighteningly good ice cream. I didn't have that much (two large scoops, a handful of nuts, a handful of M&Ms), but I still managed to go into a food coma afterwards. or maybe I was just bored.
there weren't any peanut butter cup bits though, and a few of us were outraged. well, silently outraged.
... Rox should be home momentarily, so off to make dinner.
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Date: 2003-08-08 06:50 pm (UTC)Shut yo' mouth!
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Date: 2003-08-09 05:52 am (UTC)but I'm talkin' about Shaft!
*laughs*
Date: 2003-08-10 09:08 pm (UTC)Good work.
Herrell's: food of the gods.
Date: 2003-08-09 06:49 am (UTC)The Burnt Sugar and Butter is the stuff that *will* eventually lead to my death from massive cardiac failure if I let it.
Re: Herrell's: food of the gods.
Date: 2003-08-09 09:35 am (UTC)[squints]
Date: 2003-08-10 09:09 pm (UTC)Re: [squints]
Date: 2003-08-11 07:58 am (UTC)I'm part of the WWC, a... thing over at Hampshire College which is not so much backyard wrestling as a bunch of film majors who happen to love pro wrestling doing a comedy homage to pro wrestling. We occasionally have matches, but never anything dangerous or EXTREEEEEEEEME; mostly it's just us wearing masks and being silly. I happened upon the project while doing a summer archaeology class with a Hampshire student who was part of the WWC (as UMassacre, pyscho frat student extraordinaire), and Big Papa Smurf was born.
But yeah, I'm big into puroresu, to the point that I was giddy as a schoolgirl when I managed to score a Far East Connection t-shirt last week. Toryumon's my poison of choice. You?
Re: [squints]
Date: 2003-08-11 08:35 am (UTC)Smurf before me!
Date: 2003-08-12 06:24 am (UTC)Hey, man, any time you have some free time (I understand you may be kind of busy right now), I have a shelf full of puroresu/lucha libre tapes that will take the best matches you've seen in the WWE and slap 'em around like the bitches they are.
I also have several tapes of me wearing a mask and substituting the word "smurf" in for various obscenities, and occasionally laying down the smurf on everyone from UMassacre to J-Pock to El Nastico to The Monkey King to SK8R B0i.
Both will be highly entertaining, I promise. Any time you're up for it, just let me know.
Re: Smurf before me!
Date: 2003-08-12 07:28 am (UTC)Re: Smurf before me!
Date: 2003-08-12 10:15 am (UTC)Re: Smurf before me!
Date: 2003-08-12 10:30 am (UTC)I see...
Date: 2003-08-11 10:26 am (UTC)I'm a little too knowledgeable about WWE et.al., and my friends and I have done some backyard wrestling (sans ring, so basically just shoot-brawling around on the grass). Nothing intentionally extreme, but some impromptu incredible bumps have been taken.
One of my friends, who is scary knowledgeable about the Japanese scene, and I were going to work a match once. Like, it would kinda start from one of the above-mentioned shoots, then turn very scientific very quickly. It woulda worked too because both of us have impressive looking finishers that don't actually hurt that much.
And one of the sociology professors on my campus apparently went through lucha training as part of her sociology doctorate.
Re: I see...
Date: 2003-08-12 06:36 am (UTC)Now, that's just *cool.*
Yeah, the unintentional extreme bumping is why I never do any moves that are anything other than flat back or front bumps, with the exception of DDTs (which, as long as you're *very* careful and make sure your opponent can forward-roll with it, are safe) and my finisher, the Smurfberry Crunch. Even those can go badly, though, if you slip up, so I try to reserve those for big spots and use strikes and submissions, which are more easily pulled. And like I said, it's more goofy than anything else. I think we're doing an alternate universe episode this year, and the year before I joined, they did a zombie episode (if you were pinned by a zombie, you became a zombie, but if you could pin a zombie, they came back to life).
The Smurfberry Crunch is usually a fireman's carry into a Stunner (Marc Mero's TKO, if you remember it), but I've also done it much like the Testdrive (which was blatantly ripped off from Christopher Daniels' Last Rites), and the Super Smurfberry Crunch, which is a Diamond Cutter off the Big Wooden Box (our substitute for ropes/turnbuckle).
If you've got a Dreamcast, I made a whole bunch of the WWC crew as edits for Fire Prowrestling D...
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Date: 2003-08-12 08:57 am (UTC)Anyway, a word about the prof. before I forget. She wrote a paper, that is required reading for the Sex and Society course, on the gender issues in rudos (mainly how they cross-dress, even giving a shout-out to Goldust). Well, one of my friends is reading this thing and she knew I was a wrestling nut, so she sends it my way. I'm reading the "Notes About the Author" thing, and it says how this person is a doctorate student at NYU, blah blah blah...and how as part of her research she trained with the luchadores for a few months. Quoting: "As a reault of this training, she is now able to execute a plancha and a salto mortal from the top rope without injury."
I marked hard.
About the most "Holy Superhero-in-Training" thing I ever became a part of was during one of our circle fights (where everyone stands in a big circle, and two people go at it until someone tags someone else). Well, I locked up with someone and after a couple minutes of grappling, came a moment away from locking in a Tazmission. They escape, and tag out quick.
After a few more minutes with person B, they tagged out after I hit Jeff Jarrett's Stroke. The first two guys were about my size, but the third dude had like 9 inches on me heightwise, and was just strong as Hell.
So I try for the classic move: "Go for the knees!" He just kinda scoops me up in a fireman's carry, and I'm like, "Dammit." He mugs to the crowd, asking them when I should drop him. A split-second before he goes for a Samoan Drop, I turn it into the most straight-up Tornado DDT IN HUMAN HISTORY. And I was coming down from like 6'4" up.
I have threatened to get ladders before. Only threatened as yet. But I did jump off my friend's house during winter (mmm, cushiony snow)
Big Wooden Box. I love it.
Finishers:
my friend Juan/"Mayor McCheese": the Hamburglar; kick to the midsection, bounce off the ropes behind said victim, and on your way by get a brief Full Nelson-type hold, then running bulldog (it all happens in one fell swoop, and the bump looks harder than it really is)
mine: Ideally it'd be a fireman's carry into a powerbomb (think Death Valley Driver, but going the other way), but I just don't think I can get someone reliably into fireman's carry position. I haven't decided on one that I wanna make my own. So I kinda borrow submissions and mix in the occasional standing senton, swanton, or 450 (yup!)
Have a Dreamcast. Haven't gotten Fire Pro yet (I know, I know...)
Re: HAHA
Date: 2003-08-12 10:30 am (UTC)Isn't that Sean O'Haire's finisher now?
Actually, given my druthers (i.e. were I an actual wrestler), I'd do a torture rack into a reverse northern lights bomb (think an F5, but opponent is face up, and it ends in a vertical head drop with your opponent facing to your right instead of ending in a DDT). Inspired largely by Super Dragon's Psycho Driver, which is a torture rack into a piledriver.
Have a Dreamcast. Haven't gotten Fire Pro yet (I know, I know...)
Shame on you. Especially now; they're selling for ridiculously cheap on eBay. Grab a copy for less than $20, then sail on over to heezy and check out wwchcw.vms. It's a bit old, but still has all the essentials of WWC.
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Date: 2003-08-20 03:25 pm (UTC)...Kenta Kobashi's Burning Hammer (a.k.a. Victoria Driver). God I hope I didn't just look foolish.
And yes, Sean O'Haire DID steal my finishing move. Which, now that I think about it, has been a running theme. About two years back I came up with a ridiculously hard (well, hard for comp. geeks like me) move (the Panzer Slam, looooong story) that would be a Full Nelson turned into a spinebuster/Bookend in midair. What does Test roll out with? *sigh*
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Date: 2003-08-21 09:07 am (UTC)The Kamikazedriver, though, is a lot like the BH, except that the attacker falls back instead of to the side, while the victim takes basically the same trajectory as in the BH.
Yeah, since the Rock left, everyone and his brother is doing Rock Bottom variations...
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Date: 2003-08-21 10:57 am (UTC)Know what I was always a huge fan of, for God knows why? The Michinoku Driver, in all 84 billion variations of it there apparently are. That and the Falcon Arrow.
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Date: 2003-08-21 11:04 am (UTC)whenever I would play WWF games on Playstation, I would always, without fail, give my CAW players the Michinoku Driver in their moveset. always loved that move.
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Date: 2003-08-21 06:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-09 08:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-09 09:36 am (UTC)