I had a phone conversation recently with a friend of mine who's in a cover band. The conversation went typically. We've covered this ground before. He just doesn't understand how the music business in Winnipeg has changed since the late '70s/early '80s in the area of bars and clubs and what they offer for live music nowadays, and how it got to this point. He still thinks the bands in this city of note that are waiting to be discovered by record companies are the cover bands that play at places like Mirrors, The Palomino Club, and Silverado's. He is clueless of the bands that play at the Pyramid, the Albert, or The Zoo. The bands that exhibit today's current "DIY" (Do-It-Yourself") approach. He just dismisses that scene as "alternative music that appeals to very few people." He can't figure out why the days don't exist anymore when a cover band that plays a few of their own originals can go into a bar for a week, and, like the band Click, "pack the place on a Tuesday night." Well, lack of money due to the economy, more things to spend money on nowadays, like computers and DVDs, and more need for a college education that requires homework and more sleep the night before instead of going to bars would be reasons for a starter. I don't know if this guy lives under a rock during the day when he's not performing or what, but I can't figure out how he can know nothing about his current music business surroundings. He's single. Does he simply not exist when he's not on stage? Does he just sit there and stare at blank walls all day? Doesn't he read the papers, Uptown, or watch TV? Doesn't he check out the bar listings? Doesn't he TALK to people?
Anyway, here's an e-mail I sent him after our conversation that covers a few more things. I thought that after writing all this, I would like to do something more about it. So I put it here on The Beau Zone. It's slightly edited. The subject matter of how the bar circuit has changed from, say, 1978 to now is actually quite fascinating, and it's something you never read about in Winnipeg media. You always read about Burton Cummings' and Randy Bachman's era in the '60s, but what about after that? What about the '70s, the '80s, and the '90s? It's a subject that never gets discussed. And I can't even fully discuss it. I've never worked for the booking agencies or the bars involved. Maybe I'll alert Winnipeg club writers about this blog, and they can be inspired to write about this subject. That would be great. So here's the e-mail I sent my friend. Hope you enjoy it.
"Another slant on what we were talking about on the phone:
"What started as the DIY approach for all-original bands has evolved into the next level, and I think initially the dividing lines between music genres is what allowed DIY to grow, but nowadays, with generation changes, it pretty much applies to all genres. Especially when party rock or straight ahead rock isn't being done anymore except by country bands or rare bands like Nickelback that are evolving from their former status as being post-grunge bands.
"Winnipeg's best-known hard rock bands are Dreadnaut and Xplicit. What someone like Dreadnaut does, is that, since it is an all-original band, and when they were in their infancy they were probably the first or second band on a night of unknown bands maybe once a month or something, is that they take their now-headlining gigs and make something special out of them. Independent bands all have their own CDs out that they sell at their merch table with t-shirts, as well as Music Trader and Into The Music, and online via CD Baby using Paypal. They put up MySpace pages with their music that fans can hear for free on their computers but not download. They poster their gig everywhere, and it becomes an event, because it's just one date. Today's fans of metal, punk, folk, or singer-songwriters, who seek out gigs they're interested in at venues (they're more called venues now, not even bars) would probably think of the old "bar circuit" of the late '70s as something very odd, and perhaps boring, too. They might wonder, 'What kind of excitement does an artist offer when they're playing every day, all week, three sets a night, at a bar, then all over again next week at a different bar, and with 70% covers, 30% originals?' These people, like the band members, probably have day jobs that are DIY, too, like running their own businesses, maybe using the internet, or if they are employees, then it's something seasonal, so that they can easily procure time to tour (because a lot of these artists tour to other cities, too). Personally, having lived as a fan with both systems, I find neither one better than the other. They're just different, that's all. I will say that the old '70s bar circuit is more geared towards the 'employee' mentality; If you're an employee at a factory or something, then you've got plenty of opportunities to see someone. Similarly, a band member feels like an employee himself, doing nightly music shifts and perhaps making a living at doing covers.
"That bar circuit scene was kind of over by the early '80s, although it sort of wasn't, because the notable strong exceptions were Night Moves & The Diamond Club, along with Norma Jeans. This era produced Jenerator, The Shivers, Playground X, Howling Now, etc., who all did originals. However, the independent music scene had started and was alive and well with Monuments Galore, etc., and grew from there. There had always been a distrust towards CITI FM, too, as CITI wanted to be the self-appointed gatekeepers of what was good rock/hard rock and what wasn't. Either you were frustrated at the bands and albums they didn't play, or you were sheep who dismissed those bands and albums as not being any good "because CITI doesn't play them."
"'70s rock had morphed into '80s hair-band rock. Then the bottom fell out entirely around '93 when grunge and alternative took hold and Night Moves/Diamond Club became country music clubs. (People say grunge and alternative started earlier, like around '91, but things took longer to catch on in Canada, and record companies here were still signing regular rock bands like Big House and Dead Beat Honeymooners, which certainly fueled my TV show Hard Rock Heroes.) CITI FM ultimately couldn't deal with this and went classic rock. So-called 'regular hard rock' was dead and all forms of music that were left went DIY. Then came computers, Windows, Microsoft Word, and the internet, which took DIY to a whole new level. Meanwhile, in the late '90s, pop came back, and in a very, very SEXY, and female, way. Rap and hip-hop had been brewing slowly since the '80s, really. The dance clubs became a zenith. That's where we are today, with envelope-pushing girl pop, rap and hip-hop dominating the charts, along with the occasional rock band thrown in here and there for contrast. All songs are full of swearing now, and have to have the offending words and phrases removed for radio and video. And don't forget all those artists that came from American Idol! In this environment, for whatever does remain for a 'bar circuit,' which probably only still exists due to MLCC regulations concerning cabarets, is now strictly a 'cover band bar circuit' (you tell ME when/if bar owners and/or the agencies told you 'no originals at all') in which the songs a cover band plays must be hits that complement the DJ in the places that have cover bands and that keep people dancing. Nostalgia for old hits has helped today's cover bands, too.
"I said on the phone that if a band could sneak in an original that fits in with what you just read there would be no market for it. I'm going to go back on that a bit. It's just something that has been untapped here in Winnipeg. Pop music out of Winnipeg? (And that's basically what it would be - Pop music.) Not much of a precedent there. The Shivers were pop-rock and they made a decent headway, but that band existed when we were still in the Diamond Club/Night Moves/Norma Jeans era, and they imploded when Randy Reibling, who arguably WAS The Shivers, left. (I'm talking about the original Shivers from the early '90s, not the cover-band version with Randy and a bunch of guys from later in the decade - by then, FOR SURE Randy himself was The Shivers.) I was reading about Enjoy Your Pumas, a name I've seen gigging around town, this weekend in Stylus, and they are apparently a pop-dance act. And I had forgotten to talk about Ash Koley! I LOVE Ash Koley. She's a Winnipeg pop artist who just moved to Toronto not so long ago. Her music is like '80s new wave meets Abba meets Disney. Very catchy, and Hot 103 has played it. One of her current songs is now a Manitoba Lotteries commercial! Check out her music and You Tube embedded videos at http://www.myspace.com/ashkoley.
"This doesn't fit anywhere in this, but I feel it's worth mentioning: The rise of DJ culture. DJs like to feel that their scratching and mixing and mashups are an art form now so this gives to the rise of DJs as artists. Look at the listings for the Pyramid, the Albert, and the Academy, and you'll see they are half DJ nights now. Even The Zoo is trying DJs on occasional nights. And certainly Ozzy's has had great success with the Ready Mix DJs on Thursday nights ever since The Collective/Die Maschine closed and became American Apparel/Hifi Club.
"Certainly, the changes have been jarring for any musician used to making a living weekly in the bars, who might have gotten into it originally in order to make original music, but who got lured in, as they got older, by the easy lifestyle playing covers brings when compared to the uncertain DIY ethic, particularly if you like to play a style of music that DIY doesn't jibe with, although in 2010, that may have changed, too. If you can find some way to pay the bills, would you consider doing a CD of original music with a band and looking for DIY gigs to promote it? Actually, at The Zoo, I don't know what it used to be, but now it's partially a pay-to-play deal: You pay The Zoo $500.00, and the night is yours. You charge whatever you want for cover and you keep 100% of it. The Zoo keeps 100% of beverage sales. Any money made or lost is yours. You are responsible for your own publicity (postering, advertising, etc.). Full pay-to-play, like in L.A., means if only 10 people show up, no one's buying drinks and the bar somehow charges you a hefty sum and you never get to play there again. I don't know how that compares with The Zoo's situation. That's where you get L.A. band members passing out flyers on the Strip themselves, pleading people walking down the street to go to their gig. More info on what The Zoo does at http://www.myspace.com/osbornevillageinnofficial.
"Marc Labossiere's situation is puzzling. I believe he plays all '90s rock covers by bands like 3 Doors Down nowadays, and somehow he's allowed to do that. I haven't seen him in a long time, but when I did, the dance floor didn't clear for him. I don't believe he does his originals from his CDs. He probably could. He probably did the best job anyone on the bar circuit could who WASN'T willing to get off of it and go tour in other cities for peanuts without radio or video play. In other words, he became a big WINNIPEG star with his CDs, but never wanted to go to the next level. Ya gotta get off that bar circuit, Marc, dude! It takes money to make money. Maybe bands like Kick Axe got lucky with offers and Marc didn't. I have no idea. But then, Kick Axe was still years earlier than the club environments Marc has played in. I just thought I should say something special about him.
"And that's all I have for you now. I'll probably save this writeup and change around a few words and use it for The Beau Zone."
And, as you have now read, that's exactly what I have done!
Your thoughts, people?
Me during the broadcast of "Much On Demand" outside in front of the Muchmusic building in Toronto, ON on September 25, 2003.
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Getting "Shit"-Faced On MTV Canada And Muchmusic
I love it when you get that feeling of accomplishment, especially when it's unexpected. All I did was write an e-mail.
I have noticed the last few months, on MTV Canada, they can say the word "shit" now, just like on Muchmusic. Well, I should hope so, now that both channels are now owned by the same company, CTV. Actually, I thought the reverse would happen, that after CTV's takeover of CHUM (where they had to divest themselves of CITY-TV, now owned by Rogers), CTV would can Muchmusic personalities from saying "shit." But no, CTV is continuing to let that word go and has now extended the practice to their MTV channel that CTV had started prior to the CHUM takeover.
Could that be as a result of my self-explanatory e-mail to MTV Canada's feedback address this past January?
That e-mail, through the magic of copy and paste, goes like this:
"Regarding your 'Top Ten Holy Shit Moments' show you aired at Christmas: Isn't it ironic that, while on another show similiar to this one you also aired around Christmas, you appear to be taking a potshot at Muchmusic and the kind of young audience they cater to nowadays, on the Top Ten Holy Shit Moments show on MTV, every time you actually say the word 'shit,' it's bleeped out, while Muchmusic has been letting that word air for years and years now. I recall a Much On Demand where Leah Miller appeared to be deliberately saying it all through the hour, so I was wondering if she had just found out that day that Much lets it air unbleeped. But that practice must go back, gosh, about 10 years by now.
"And, to add further irony, Much and MTV are both owned by CTV now. Do the CTV honchos know that 'shit' airs on Much, the target audience channel of ages 10-25, but is bleeped on MTV, the target audience channel of college age and higher?
"Maybe the Much people don't want to bring that up to their new CTV bosses, because that could be the way they find that out, and then they'll can that practice. Personally, I hope it goes the other way and you get to say 'shit' unbleeped. I would love it if you could find a way to air all your shows that air, say, late at night, completely language uncensored. Only bleep stuff during the day. I realize why that can't happen, though."
I hit "send" and.....voila! There's Daryn Jones & Nicole saying "shit" on MTV Live. Not bad.
This, of course, represents another baby-step in the repositioning of all cuss words to just being slang words. Another one is the movies CTV airs overnight on weekends that are completely uncensored, too, if they can get an uncensored cut. The envelope is getting pushed, baby.
And, as a dude with the rock and roll attitude that used to host a hard rock TV show, the fact that I could be held a little bit partially responsible for this evolution is, well, yeah, something to be proud of. Something to be FUCKING proud of, dude! YEAH!
(And, hey, that also means Much and MTV Canada can say the entire title of William Shatner's new sitcom "Shit My Dad Says" on air! The subject of this blog post coupled with this sitcom's title could add another baby-step to all this, too, as the days march on.)
I have noticed the last few months, on MTV Canada, they can say the word "shit" now, just like on Muchmusic. Well, I should hope so, now that both channels are now owned by the same company, CTV. Actually, I thought the reverse would happen, that after CTV's takeover of CHUM (where they had to divest themselves of CITY-TV, now owned by Rogers), CTV would can Muchmusic personalities from saying "shit." But no, CTV is continuing to let that word go and has now extended the practice to their MTV channel that CTV had started prior to the CHUM takeover.
Could that be as a result of my self-explanatory e-mail to MTV Canada's feedback address this past January?
That e-mail, through the magic of copy and paste, goes like this:
"Regarding your 'Top Ten Holy Shit Moments' show you aired at Christmas: Isn't it ironic that, while on another show similiar to this one you also aired around Christmas, you appear to be taking a potshot at Muchmusic and the kind of young audience they cater to nowadays, on the Top Ten Holy Shit Moments show on MTV, every time you actually say the word 'shit,' it's bleeped out, while Muchmusic has been letting that word air for years and years now. I recall a Much On Demand where Leah Miller appeared to be deliberately saying it all through the hour, so I was wondering if she had just found out that day that Much lets it air unbleeped. But that practice must go back, gosh, about 10 years by now.
"And, to add further irony, Much and MTV are both owned by CTV now. Do the CTV honchos know that 'shit' airs on Much, the target audience channel of ages 10-25, but is bleeped on MTV, the target audience channel of college age and higher?
"Maybe the Much people don't want to bring that up to their new CTV bosses, because that could be the way they find that out, and then they'll can that practice. Personally, I hope it goes the other way and you get to say 'shit' unbleeped. I would love it if you could find a way to air all your shows that air, say, late at night, completely language uncensored. Only bleep stuff during the day. I realize why that can't happen, though."
I hit "send" and.....voila! There's Daryn Jones & Nicole saying "shit" on MTV Live. Not bad.
This, of course, represents another baby-step in the repositioning of all cuss words to just being slang words. Another one is the movies CTV airs overnight on weekends that are completely uncensored, too, if they can get an uncensored cut. The envelope is getting pushed, baby.
And, as a dude with the rock and roll attitude that used to host a hard rock TV show, the fact that I could be held a little bit partially responsible for this evolution is, well, yeah, something to be proud of. Something to be FUCKING proud of, dude! YEAH!
(And, hey, that also means Much and MTV Canada can say the entire title of William Shatner's new sitcom "Shit My Dad Says" on air! The subject of this blog post coupled with this sitcom's title could add another baby-step to all this, too, as the days march on.)
Monday, May 17, 2010
My thoughts on "The Runaways"
Okay, I guess it's time. My first regular Blogspot post! I'm so excited.....
My favorite movie review site is Pajiba. As a fan of the band The Runaways, I thought I'd copy and paste here my thoughts on the recent Runaways movie that I wrote in the comments section of their review page on the film (Note: It starts out with me responding to an ill-informed fan named Protoguy who claimed both the Lita Ford and Jackie Fox characters weren't in the film):
"As a huge Runaways fan, Protoguy: Lita Ford IS in the film. Bassist Jackie Fox is not, probably because she was the one causing legal trouble and she's now a lawyer herself, so the producers probably thought she would be the only real threat here, so they created a fictional bassist with no lines to replace her. Brian: Once the group was solidified with the lineup that appeared on their albums, there were really only two bass players: Jackie Fox on the first two albums and Vickie Blue on the second two albums. Cherie Currie left the band after the second album, at the same time Jackie Fox did. Which brings me to my thoughts on this film: Most of the film is really good, but the last bit sucks. As you noted, Cherie's biography is the source material. But her bio is not the same as The Runaways' bio. This movie makes it seem as if The Runaways ended when she left the band. NO! Thank God at the end there is print for us to read that told us the truth: That after Cherie left, Joan Jett continued with the band for two more years, whereby she sang all the songs. Why didn't Joan continue the rest of the story of the band with the producers? In fact, their first album without Cherie (third overall), Waitin' For The Night, I bought at a record store in either '77 or '78 whose land today is occupied by the mall that houses the very theatre where I saw this movie! It also must be a head-scratcher to movie-goers not familiar with the band: If this is a Runaways bio, why do they seem to be concentrating mostly on the lead singer's life? With only a bit about the guitarist's life and almost nothing about the other members? Now, I'm a Runaways fan, so I didn't mind all the stuff with Cherie and her family, and I wasn't thrilled at first with how the film only concentrates on Cherie and Joan, but there may not have been room for five different points of view, and I'm happy with the screen time the Sandy West and Lita Ford characters do have. In fact, Lita and Joan do get into an argument near the end. It does suck there is no Jackie Fox. But where was their No. 2 most well-known song (after 'Cherry Bomb'), 'Queens Of Noise?' I was looking forward to seeing the girls perform that song. It is listed in the credits, so.....was there a snippet of the song so small I missed it? Someone help me on that one. If the song really wasn't in the movie, shame on the producers for that. It would have been cool if the Kim Fowley character made mention of the two songwriting credits he got on Kiss' Destroyer during The Runaways' Cherie Currie years, too."
For the references I made above that I didn't name because only Winnipeggers would understand them: Of course, The Runaways played at the Globe Cinema, which is in Portage Place, and which stands on the very same piece of land the record store The Wherehouse used to be in the '70s, and where I bought the Waitin' For The Night album. So I guess it's apropos that the film played at the Globe! I return to the scene of the crime 32 years later!
My favorite movie review site is Pajiba. As a fan of the band The Runaways, I thought I'd copy and paste here my thoughts on the recent Runaways movie that I wrote in the comments section of their review page on the film (Note: It starts out with me responding to an ill-informed fan named Protoguy who claimed both the Lita Ford and Jackie Fox characters weren't in the film):
"As a huge Runaways fan, Protoguy: Lita Ford IS in the film. Bassist Jackie Fox is not, probably because she was the one causing legal trouble and she's now a lawyer herself, so the producers probably thought she would be the only real threat here, so they created a fictional bassist with no lines to replace her. Brian: Once the group was solidified with the lineup that appeared on their albums, there were really only two bass players: Jackie Fox on the first two albums and Vickie Blue on the second two albums. Cherie Currie left the band after the second album, at the same time Jackie Fox did. Which brings me to my thoughts on this film: Most of the film is really good, but the last bit sucks. As you noted, Cherie's biography is the source material. But her bio is not the same as The Runaways' bio. This movie makes it seem as if The Runaways ended when she left the band. NO! Thank God at the end there is print for us to read that told us the truth: That after Cherie left, Joan Jett continued with the band for two more years, whereby she sang all the songs. Why didn't Joan continue the rest of the story of the band with the producers? In fact, their first album without Cherie (third overall), Waitin' For The Night, I bought at a record store in either '77 or '78 whose land today is occupied by the mall that houses the very theatre where I saw this movie! It also must be a head-scratcher to movie-goers not familiar with the band: If this is a Runaways bio, why do they seem to be concentrating mostly on the lead singer's life? With only a bit about the guitarist's life and almost nothing about the other members? Now, I'm a Runaways fan, so I didn't mind all the stuff with Cherie and her family, and I wasn't thrilled at first with how the film only concentrates on Cherie and Joan, but there may not have been room for five different points of view, and I'm happy with the screen time the Sandy West and Lita Ford characters do have. In fact, Lita and Joan do get into an argument near the end. It does suck there is no Jackie Fox. But where was their No. 2 most well-known song (after 'Cherry Bomb'), 'Queens Of Noise?' I was looking forward to seeing the girls perform that song. It is listed in the credits, so.....was there a snippet of the song so small I missed it? Someone help me on that one. If the song really wasn't in the movie, shame on the producers for that. It would have been cool if the Kim Fowley character made mention of the two songwriting credits he got on Kiss' Destroyer during The Runaways' Cherie Currie years, too."
For the references I made above that I didn't name because only Winnipeggers would understand them: Of course, The Runaways played at the Globe Cinema, which is in Portage Place, and which stands on the very same piece of land the record store The Wherehouse used to be in the '70s, and where I bought the Waitin' For The Night album. So I guess it's apropos that the film played at the Globe! I return to the scene of the crime 32 years later!
Sunday, February 21, 2010
The Beau Zone Now On Blogspot!
As Triple H of Degeneration X would bellow, "ARE YOU READY?"
Good, because this is the official relaunch and rechristening of THE BEAU ZONE in its' new home on Blogspot.
The Beau Zone, for those who aren't aware, is where you'll find all my controversial opinions on everything that aren't usually reflected in regular media, Winnipeg or otherwise, along with some cool pop culture jokes. Although, I admit, lately, there's been more of those pop culture jokes than anything else. That's because there hasn't been time for me to assimilate the longer opinion pieces in with the funny stuff. You see, when The Beau Zone was formerly a page of my website on my old TV show, Hard Rock Heroes (http://www.hardrockheroes.com), I had a page to fill and change every two months. Well, two months became six, and as I write this, I haven't done a new Beau Zone in a year. No time. The material is certainly there; most of what's on The Beau Zone is just copy and paste from stuff I write for other purposes. So what I have decided to do, for a variety of reasons, is to take The Beau Zone off of the Hard Rock Heroes site and move it to this Blogspot page, where I have the luxury of doing one post at a time. I don't have to fill up a whole page at a time anymore. Additionally, the archives are all here; I don't have to keep them elsewhere anymore, like on that MySpace page that will now function as just my personal MySpace page. (Meaning it took me a few months to redo the archives, i.e., to copy and paste them onto this Blogspot site.) So lick it up, people, and if you want to act out this symbolic christening by chucking a bottle of beer at the wall and smashing it all over the place, you're completely welcome to it. Hey, what's a party without smashed beer bottles all over the floor? And look at all the items on the left you can click on that take you to the entries in the archives; isn't that cool? That's one of the things about Blogspot I feel more comfortable with now. So I'll leave you with that for now; I want this writeup to be front and center for a while so I'm still going to hold off on any new entries for at least a month. I'll probably still do the pro wrestling entries in a conglomeration of several items, like the way I used to end off each Beau Zone on the Hard Rock Heroes site with the pro wrestling comments. They'll just appear whenever now, that's all. So call or e-mail all of your friends, friends with benefits, co-workers, co-workers with benefits, lovers, enemies, teachers, family, parole officers, and anyone else, and tell them THE BEAU ZONE IS NOW ON BLOGSPOT and that IT'S READY TO ROCK!
Good, because this is the official relaunch and rechristening of THE BEAU ZONE in its' new home on Blogspot.
The Beau Zone, for those who aren't aware, is where you'll find all my controversial opinions on everything that aren't usually reflected in regular media, Winnipeg or otherwise, along with some cool pop culture jokes. Although, I admit, lately, there's been more of those pop culture jokes than anything else. That's because there hasn't been time for me to assimilate the longer opinion pieces in with the funny stuff. You see, when The Beau Zone was formerly a page of my website on my old TV show, Hard Rock Heroes (http://www.hardrockheroes.com), I had a page to fill and change every two months. Well, two months became six, and as I write this, I haven't done a new Beau Zone in a year. No time. The material is certainly there; most of what's on The Beau Zone is just copy and paste from stuff I write for other purposes. So what I have decided to do, for a variety of reasons, is to take The Beau Zone off of the Hard Rock Heroes site and move it to this Blogspot page, where I have the luxury of doing one post at a time. I don't have to fill up a whole page at a time anymore. Additionally, the archives are all here; I don't have to keep them elsewhere anymore, like on that MySpace page that will now function as just my personal MySpace page. (Meaning it took me a few months to redo the archives, i.e., to copy and paste them onto this Blogspot site.) So lick it up, people, and if you want to act out this symbolic christening by chucking a bottle of beer at the wall and smashing it all over the place, you're completely welcome to it. Hey, what's a party without smashed beer bottles all over the floor? And look at all the items on the left you can click on that take you to the entries in the archives; isn't that cool? That's one of the things about Blogspot I feel more comfortable with now. So I'll leave you with that for now; I want this writeup to be front and center for a while so I'm still going to hold off on any new entries for at least a month. I'll probably still do the pro wrestling entries in a conglomeration of several items, like the way I used to end off each Beau Zone on the Hard Rock Heroes site with the pro wrestling comments. They'll just appear whenever now, that's all. So call or e-mail all of your friends, friends with benefits, co-workers, co-workers with benefits, lovers, enemies, teachers, family, parole officers, and anyone else, and tell them THE BEAU ZONE IS NOW ON BLOGSPOT and that IT'S READY TO ROCK!
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Pro Wrestling Comments
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE TWELFTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM NOVEMBER 2008 TO FEBRUARY 2010.
It looks like Vickie Guerrero on Smackdown has made something of the catch phrase, "EXCUSE ME!" Don Callis as Cyrus in the original ECW tried, but he didn't make his entrance often enough before the TNN show was pulled.
Speaking of Don Callis, the act of The Brian Kendrick and Ezeikel on Smackdown seems to be someone's ripoff of Don Callis as The Natural when he had Bad News Allen as his bodyguard in Tony Condello's IWA Hardcore, which was the last thing Allen did before retiring, and the last thing Callis did as The Natural before heading off to WWE as The Jackyl. Allen dressed up in that same white outfit Ezeikel wears.
And speaking of Vickie, when she punished referee Charles Robinson for his conduct, I guess she was remembering when J.J. Dillon replaced Ric Flair with him as acting president of WCW on Nitro from Fargo, North Dakota in April 1999 (I was there) after Roddy Piper had Flair committed to the insane asylum the previous week in Gainesville, Florida. (Remember Robinson and Flair talking on split-screen?)
And speaking of Flair, on Raw, when he and Chris Jericho were going to go outside to fight, I was wondering if Jericho might get locked out again like he did on Nitro when he had his security team, including Ralphus, and he locked himself out of the building and couldn't get back in. In the ring, Wrath was watching all this on the screen and figured if Jericho couldn't go to him, he'd go to Jericho. So he left the ring, went backstage, went outside, and they had their match outside. (FUN FACT: The bar First Avenue in Minneapolis is where Prince filmed Purple Rain. Years later, they built the Target Center kitty-corner from First Avenue. When Nitro was at Target Center, there was another match where Jericho and his opponent (forgot who) wrestled outside into the street and I could see First Avenue behind them. Cool!)
I heard a comment from an audience member on MTV Live on MTV Canada when they were talking about colleges and universities: "Well, you know the saying, if you can hold a fork, you can go to York." I chuckled as I remembered Trish Stratus went to York.
WWE has released Stevie Richards, but here's something I had written about him before he was released that no one ever says: The reason WWE fans don't react to Stevie Richards is because they don't get why Steven Richards of the Right To Censor looks like that. Now, I don't remember myself, but what was the angle to end the Right To Censor? I have a feeling there wasn't one. So WWE just dropped it and the leader, Steven Richards, grows his hair again and inexplicably slowly morphs into what original-ECW fans know as Stevie Richards. Without any promos. And so the fans are confused. Ever since the Right To Censor ended, WWE fans just don't know what to make of this man. Can he even be salvaged in WWE? It's amazing he's even still there.
Regarding the May 9 and May 16, 2008 Smackdowns, where they had the winner of the battle royal become the new World Heavyweight Champion: Why couldn't Teddy Long (in Vickie Guerrero's absence) or Michael Cole/Mick Foley bring up the following points: 1) If Edge was medically cleared to wrestle during the battle royal, couldn't they have brought up the fact that he was supposed to wrestle and defeat someone in a qualifying match first? If there is no time for such a match because the battle royal is taking place, that's not fair, it's in favor of Edge, and it's something the announcers could easily have brought up as heat on Edge. Instead, no one brought that point up. 2) And if Edge is going to run out into that battle royal, how is it that he wins just by spearing Batista off the ring apron? I thought that the way you eliminate anyone in a battle royal is by throwing them over the top rope. Edge did not throw Batista over the top rope. He just pushed him from the ring apron onto the floor. Batista should have gotten back in the ring. He was not eliminated. Now, WWE could have still done all this and have the announcers deliberately not bring it up until after the match, which in this case would be on next week's show, but the problem with doing all this is that, although it puts heat on Edge, it portrays the WWE's referees that worked that battle royal as a bunch of incompetents.
It looks like Vickie Guerrero on Smackdown has made something of the catch phrase, "EXCUSE ME!" Don Callis as Cyrus in the original ECW tried, but he didn't make his entrance often enough before the TNN show was pulled.
Speaking of Don Callis, the act of The Brian Kendrick and Ezeikel on Smackdown seems to be someone's ripoff of Don Callis as The Natural when he had Bad News Allen as his bodyguard in Tony Condello's IWA Hardcore, which was the last thing Allen did before retiring, and the last thing Callis did as The Natural before heading off to WWE as The Jackyl. Allen dressed up in that same white outfit Ezeikel wears.
And speaking of Vickie, when she punished referee Charles Robinson for his conduct, I guess she was remembering when J.J. Dillon replaced Ric Flair with him as acting president of WCW on Nitro from Fargo, North Dakota in April 1999 (I was there) after Roddy Piper had Flair committed to the insane asylum the previous week in Gainesville, Florida. (Remember Robinson and Flair talking on split-screen?)
And speaking of Flair, on Raw, when he and Chris Jericho were going to go outside to fight, I was wondering if Jericho might get locked out again like he did on Nitro when he had his security team, including Ralphus, and he locked himself out of the building and couldn't get back in. In the ring, Wrath was watching all this on the screen and figured if Jericho couldn't go to him, he'd go to Jericho. So he left the ring, went backstage, went outside, and they had their match outside. (FUN FACT: The bar First Avenue in Minneapolis is where Prince filmed Purple Rain. Years later, they built the Target Center kitty-corner from First Avenue. When Nitro was at Target Center, there was another match where Jericho and his opponent (forgot who) wrestled outside into the street and I could see First Avenue behind them. Cool!)
I heard a comment from an audience member on MTV Live on MTV Canada when they were talking about colleges and universities: "Well, you know the saying, if you can hold a fork, you can go to York." I chuckled as I remembered Trish Stratus went to York.
WWE has released Stevie Richards, but here's something I had written about him before he was released that no one ever says: The reason WWE fans don't react to Stevie Richards is because they don't get why Steven Richards of the Right To Censor looks like that. Now, I don't remember myself, but what was the angle to end the Right To Censor? I have a feeling there wasn't one. So WWE just dropped it and the leader, Steven Richards, grows his hair again and inexplicably slowly morphs into what original-ECW fans know as Stevie Richards. Without any promos. And so the fans are confused. Ever since the Right To Censor ended, WWE fans just don't know what to make of this man. Can he even be salvaged in WWE? It's amazing he's even still there.
Regarding the May 9 and May 16, 2008 Smackdowns, where they had the winner of the battle royal become the new World Heavyweight Champion: Why couldn't Teddy Long (in Vickie Guerrero's absence) or Michael Cole/Mick Foley bring up the following points: 1) If Edge was medically cleared to wrestle during the battle royal, couldn't they have brought up the fact that he was supposed to wrestle and defeat someone in a qualifying match first? If there is no time for such a match because the battle royal is taking place, that's not fair, it's in favor of Edge, and it's something the announcers could easily have brought up as heat on Edge. Instead, no one brought that point up. 2) And if Edge is going to run out into that battle royal, how is it that he wins just by spearing Batista off the ring apron? I thought that the way you eliminate anyone in a battle royal is by throwing them over the top rope. Edge did not throw Batista over the top rope. He just pushed him from the ring apron onto the floor. Batista should have gotten back in the ring. He was not eliminated. Now, WWE could have still done all this and have the announcers deliberately not bring it up until after the match, which in this case would be on next week's show, but the problem with doing all this is that, although it puts heat on Edge, it portrays the WWE's referees that worked that battle royal as a bunch of incompetents.
Paris Hilton/Lindsay Lohan Stuff
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE TWELFTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM NOVEMBER 2008 TO FEBRUARY 2010.
Okay, so Lindsay Lohan was in rehab, right? And she was there the first time when Paris Hilton was released from prison, right? So Paris goes on Larry King Live on CNN and Larry asks her about Lindsay and Britney and she gives reserved answers, then he asks her something about rehab and she says, "I have no friends in rehab." OOOOOHH!!! So Lindsay's not her friend? I guess "frenemy" IS the correct word! I'm surprised the media didn't jump all over this!
Okay, so Lindsay Lohan was in rehab, right? And she was there the first time when Paris Hilton was released from prison, right? So Paris goes on Larry King Live on CNN and Larry asks her about Lindsay and Britney and she gives reserved answers, then he asks her something about rehab and she says, "I have no friends in rehab." OOOOOHH!!! So Lindsay's not her friend? I guess "frenemy" IS the correct word! I'm surprised the media didn't jump all over this!
Avril Lavigne/Verizon Wireless Stuff
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE TWELFTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM NOVEMBER 2008 TO FEBRUARY 2010.
Those new Verizon Wireless phones where you point the phone at a playing song and the phone identifies it really work! I heard the new Avril Lavigne song "Girlfriend" and pointed my phone at it and the display read "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" by The Rubinoos!
Those new Verizon Wireless phones where you point the phone at a playing song and the phone identifies it really work! I heard the new Avril Lavigne song "Girlfriend" and pointed my phone at it and the display read "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" by The Rubinoos!
More Short Snappers
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE TWELFTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM NOVEMBER 2008 TO FEBRUARY 2010.
How about some MORE short old stuff? Both these two are about 2007 award shows.....Belly is performing at the Muchmusic Video Awards this year? Wonder if he'll ".....feel the pressure....." Hey, maybe BFFs Hilary Duff and Leah Miller can be the ".....females doing what they want to do.....".....At the 2007 MTV Movie Awards, when they did the gag with Sarah Silverman and Jessica Biel almost kissing, they should have spliced in the shot of Justin Timberlake looking intently as he was looking at the Britney/Madonna kiss at the VMAs that other year.
How about some MORE short old stuff? Both these two are about 2007 award shows.....Belly is performing at the Muchmusic Video Awards this year? Wonder if he'll ".....feel the pressure....." Hey, maybe BFFs Hilary Duff and Leah Miller can be the ".....females doing what they want to do.....".....At the 2007 MTV Movie Awards, when they did the gag with Sarah Silverman and Jessica Biel almost kissing, they should have spliced in the shot of Justin Timberlake looking intently as he was looking at the Britney/Madonna kiss at the VMAs that other year.
Kiss Stuff
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE TWELFTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM NOVEMBER 2008 TO FEBRUARY 2010.
While we're on the subject of Kiss, Gene Simmons once said he'd like to brand the air we breathe as "Kiss Air" so that every time we'd take a breath, we'd owe him money. I think this puts Gene in a quandry: "Kiss Air" would make more money than "Gene Simmons Air" but for "Kiss Air" Gene would have to give 50% of the profits to Paul Stanley.
While we're on the subject of Kiss, Gene Simmons once said he'd like to brand the air we breathe as "Kiss Air" so that every time we'd take a breath, we'd owe him money. I think this puts Gene in a quandry: "Kiss Air" would make more money than "Gene Simmons Air" but for "Kiss Air" Gene would have to give 50% of the profits to Paul Stanley.
Ace Frehley Stuff
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE TWELFTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM NOVEMBER 2008 TO FEBRUARY 2010.
Ace Frehley played the Garrick Centre on March 12 of this year. Could you imagine if Winnipeg Kiss tribute band The Paul Stanleys had opened up for him? Ace Frehley and The Paul Stanleys both in one night? Two top acts on the same bill? "Two sides of the coin to choose from....."
Or how about this: After The Paul Stanleys have played basically an opening set, the main Paul says "We got one more song, now for this song,....." as he motions to the "Ace" Paul and does his "We got a little surprise for you tonight, we're going to turn the microphone over to....." speech. But just as he's about to say "Paul Stanley," Ace walks out and says "I'll handle it from here, curly," and proceeds to sing Shock Me himself. Then Ace says, "We're going to take a break now, stick around for ME with my own band!" Then the fans can slap that clip of that one song Ace did with The Paul Stanleys all over You Tube. Wishful thinking, I guess. Alas, "words are not enough....." Or will it be "a darkness never ending?" Maybe if The Paul Stanleys had just talked to the promoter. They could have said to him, "Talk to me, talk to me, all I want is a little conversation....."
Ace Frehley played the Garrick Centre on March 12 of this year. Could you imagine if Winnipeg Kiss tribute band The Paul Stanleys had opened up for him? Ace Frehley and The Paul Stanleys both in one night? Two top acts on the same bill? "Two sides of the coin to choose from....."
Or how about this: After The Paul Stanleys have played basically an opening set, the main Paul says "We got one more song, now for this song,....." as he motions to the "Ace" Paul and does his "We got a little surprise for you tonight, we're going to turn the microphone over to....." speech. But just as he's about to say "Paul Stanley," Ace walks out and says "I'll handle it from here, curly," and proceeds to sing Shock Me himself. Then Ace says, "We're going to take a break now, stick around for ME with my own band!" Then the fans can slap that clip of that one song Ace did with The Paul Stanleys all over You Tube. Wishful thinking, I guess. Alas, "words are not enough....." Or will it be "a darkness never ending?" Maybe if The Paul Stanleys had just talked to the promoter. They could have said to him, "Talk to me, talk to me, all I want is a little conversation....."
O.J. Simpson/Michael Richards Stuff
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE TWELFTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM NOVEMBER 2008 TO FEBRUARY 2010.
So now that FOX has cancelled the O.J. Simpson TV special and book, here's a great idea for what they can replace the TV show with: How about locking O.J. in a room with Michael Richards and let's see what happens. There's your TV special.
So now that FOX has cancelled the O.J. Simpson TV special and book, here's a great idea for what they can replace the TV show with: How about locking O.J. in a room with Michael Richards and let's see what happens. There's your TV special.
Short Snappers
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE TWELFTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM NOVEMBER 2008 TO FEBRUARY 2010.
Due to my writeup on greatest hits albums last time, a lot of comments piled up. Some of them are getting old. Like these, but they're still funny, and they're short, so I'll just lump them all together here.....Rosie O'Donnell is now trying to get Bob Barker's hosting gig on The Price Is Right after he retires. Bob says that's okay with him as long as she gets spayed and neutered.....The White Stripes are playing all three territories on their tour: Yukon, NWT, and Nunavut. If it's cold up there, they'll REALLY be concerned about ".....the hardest button to button.....".....So Fergie liked Alanis' You Tube video of "My Humps" so much she gave her a cake shaped like an ass? Alanis needs a knife to cut that cake now, I guess. Too bad she has ".....10,000 spoons when all she needs is a knife....." Hey, maybe that cake tastes Fergalicious!.....You know what song Rod Stewart should have covered on that rock classics album he did? Kiss' "Hard Luck Woman!"
Due to my writeup on greatest hits albums last time, a lot of comments piled up. Some of them are getting old. Like these, but they're still funny, and they're short, so I'll just lump them all together here.....Rosie O'Donnell is now trying to get Bob Barker's hosting gig on The Price Is Right after he retires. Bob says that's okay with him as long as she gets spayed and neutered.....The White Stripes are playing all three territories on their tour: Yukon, NWT, and Nunavut. If it's cold up there, they'll REALLY be concerned about ".....the hardest button to button.....".....So Fergie liked Alanis' You Tube video of "My Humps" so much she gave her a cake shaped like an ass? Alanis needs a knife to cut that cake now, I guess. Too bad she has ".....10,000 spoons when all she needs is a knife....." Hey, maybe that cake tastes Fergalicious!.....You know what song Rod Stewart should have covered on that rock classics album he did? Kiss' "Hard Luck Woman!"
21 (The Movie) Stuff
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE TWELFTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM NOVEMBER 2008 TO FEBRUARY 2010.
Regarding the movie 21: I was confused and dumbfounded at Laurence Fishburne's role. He's doing surveillance for several casinos at once? Doesn't each casino have their own surveillance personnel? And face-recognition software is coming in NOW??? You mean it hasn't been around for years and years already? Or have I been watching too much Las Vegas (the series)? I always wondered if the degree of technology that Danny McCoy and Mike Cannon were using was really as sophisticated as what the casinos use. But I always figured it was to SOME degree computerized, for the TV show to even suggest what they were presenting. Laurence Fishburne's job and character reminds me in so many ways of a '70s movie. Oh, and one more thing: Too bad the gang didn't play blackjack at the Mirage - once Jim Sturgess saw all that Beatles Love paraphenelia around, maybe it would have inspired him to break out into Beatles songs!
Regarding the movie 21: I was confused and dumbfounded at Laurence Fishburne's role. He's doing surveillance for several casinos at once? Doesn't each casino have their own surveillance personnel? And face-recognition software is coming in NOW??? You mean it hasn't been around for years and years already? Or have I been watching too much Las Vegas (the series)? I always wondered if the degree of technology that Danny McCoy and Mike Cannon were using was really as sophisticated as what the casinos use. But I always figured it was to SOME degree computerized, for the TV show to even suggest what they were presenting. Laurence Fishburne's job and character reminds me in so many ways of a '70s movie. Oh, and one more thing: Too bad the gang didn't play blackjack at the Mirage - once Jim Sturgess saw all that Beatles Love paraphenelia around, maybe it would have inspired him to break out into Beatles songs!
One Tree Hill Stuff
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE TWELFTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM NOVEMBER 2008 TO FEBRUARY 2010.
On One Tree Hill, Peyton started her own record company. You know the album covers from the '70s and '80s she used to decorate her office wall? As an inside joke, she should have added a Huey Lewis album cover. You know how he played Hayley's father? (And are Haley's parents STILL travelling the country in that Winnebago four years later?)
On One Tree Hill, Peyton started her own record company. You know the album covers from the '70s and '80s she used to decorate her office wall? As an inside joke, she should have added a Huey Lewis album cover. You know how he played Hayley's father? (And are Haley's parents STILL travelling the country in that Winnebago four years later?)
Pro Wrestling Comments
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE ELEVENTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM MARCH TO NOVEMBER 2008.
On Saturday Night's Main Event this past August 18, in the illegitimate child angle, Johnathan Coachman talks about Vince McMahon being at an afterparty in L.A. after Wrestlemania 2 in 1986 and brings out Melina as a possible daughter. Vince McMahon wasn't in L.A. for Wrestlemania 2. He was in New York commentating with Susan Saint James. That was the three-city Wrestlemania with the celebrity commentators. L.A. had Jesse Ventura and Elvira (with Lord Alfred Hayes added at the last minute) and Chicago had Gorilla Monsoon and Cathy Lee Crosby (with Gene Okerlund added at the last minute). McMahon and Saint James were at Nassau Colisseum and SNME was at New York's Madison Square Garden, so the crowd should have groaned at that, except that most of the crowd now is probably too young to remember 1986. Also, the live crowd doesn't hear the commentators, for those in the crowd that do remember because they were in the arena, and furthermore, as I recall, McMahon and Saint James were not in the arena at ringside but were doing their commentary from a table in the back for some reason.
When Vince McMahon's "demise" happened on Raw with the limo blowing up, I first thought....."The Voodoo Kin Mafia finally succeeded!" Good thing they never took credit for it on TNA TV, what with the Benoit thing happening right after that and Vince, not in character, forced to show his face on TV.
In TNA, next time Brother Ray tells a house show crowd that he'd rather masturbate with broken glass, Abyss should show up with the bag of broken glass and pour it in the ring and invite Ray to utilize it.
The wrestling media says WWE doesn't want to promote Marcus Cor Von as a former NFL linebacker because that's the way TNA promoted him. So it was funny in that battle royal he was in on Raw with all three commentating teams when JBL and Tazz were arguing about him and JBL brings up the point, "But he played in a Super Bowl, Tazz!" Leave it to JBL, who can say whatever the hell he wants out there. (Since that time, Cor Von has left WWE.)
If James Storm ever finds himself in the same ring as Steve Austin, his gimmick still works, because the heel drinks his beer out of a bottle. The face drinks his out of cans. Bottles are more dangerous than cans. Storm hits people over the head with his beer bottle. Maybe he'll hit Austin one day. So it makes sense. If anyone thinks this feud will never happen, well, maybe that's why TNA now has Stone Cold Shark Boy! (Even though he too, drinks, or "drinks," his drink of choice, which isn't beer but clam juice, out of bottles.)
WWE fired Cryme Time, and I wonder if this had something to do with it: Cryme Tyme get no reaction from the crowd because the fans can't understand why these guys are supposed to be faces with all the henious things they've done. Some of the stuff they've done in their skits is funny, but it really only works if they're heels. I think this is what you get when you take "cool heels" and make them babyfaces. Cyrus used to say on the former Joe & Cyrus wrestling radio show that he hates cool heels because the crowd makes them the babyface. I don't agree, because the actions of the heels are still henious. They just conduct themselves in such a fashion that gets the alternative members of society - which isn't the majority in a crowd of arena wrestling fans - to be fans of them, but ONLY because the goings-on in pro wrestling are just storyline. My friends and I used to cheer Jesse Ventura and Adrian Adonis in the AWA in the '70s. We knew their attitudes weren't real. But most wrestling fans aren't that sophisticated, they're more like sheep, so they'll continue to boo "cool heels." I just wonder if someone in WWE was doing this on purpose, to show that cool heels can't really be actual babyfaces.
On Saturday Night's Main Event this past August 18, in the illegitimate child angle, Johnathan Coachman talks about Vince McMahon being at an afterparty in L.A. after Wrestlemania 2 in 1986 and brings out Melina as a possible daughter. Vince McMahon wasn't in L.A. for Wrestlemania 2. He was in New York commentating with Susan Saint James. That was the three-city Wrestlemania with the celebrity commentators. L.A. had Jesse Ventura and Elvira (with Lord Alfred Hayes added at the last minute) and Chicago had Gorilla Monsoon and Cathy Lee Crosby (with Gene Okerlund added at the last minute). McMahon and Saint James were at Nassau Colisseum and SNME was at New York's Madison Square Garden, so the crowd should have groaned at that, except that most of the crowd now is probably too young to remember 1986. Also, the live crowd doesn't hear the commentators, for those in the crowd that do remember because they were in the arena, and furthermore, as I recall, McMahon and Saint James were not in the arena at ringside but were doing their commentary from a table in the back for some reason.
When Vince McMahon's "demise" happened on Raw with the limo blowing up, I first thought....."The Voodoo Kin Mafia finally succeeded!" Good thing they never took credit for it on TNA TV, what with the Benoit thing happening right after that and Vince, not in character, forced to show his face on TV.
In TNA, next time Brother Ray tells a house show crowd that he'd rather masturbate with broken glass, Abyss should show up with the bag of broken glass and pour it in the ring and invite Ray to utilize it.
The wrestling media says WWE doesn't want to promote Marcus Cor Von as a former NFL linebacker because that's the way TNA promoted him. So it was funny in that battle royal he was in on Raw with all three commentating teams when JBL and Tazz were arguing about him and JBL brings up the point, "But he played in a Super Bowl, Tazz!" Leave it to JBL, who can say whatever the hell he wants out there. (Since that time, Cor Von has left WWE.)
If James Storm ever finds himself in the same ring as Steve Austin, his gimmick still works, because the heel drinks his beer out of a bottle. The face drinks his out of cans. Bottles are more dangerous than cans. Storm hits people over the head with his beer bottle. Maybe he'll hit Austin one day. So it makes sense. If anyone thinks this feud will never happen, well, maybe that's why TNA now has Stone Cold Shark Boy! (Even though he too, drinks, or "drinks," his drink of choice, which isn't beer but clam juice, out of bottles.)
WWE fired Cryme Time, and I wonder if this had something to do with it: Cryme Tyme get no reaction from the crowd because the fans can't understand why these guys are supposed to be faces with all the henious things they've done. Some of the stuff they've done in their skits is funny, but it really only works if they're heels. I think this is what you get when you take "cool heels" and make them babyfaces. Cyrus used to say on the former Joe & Cyrus wrestling radio show that he hates cool heels because the crowd makes them the babyface. I don't agree, because the actions of the heels are still henious. They just conduct themselves in such a fashion that gets the alternative members of society - which isn't the majority in a crowd of arena wrestling fans - to be fans of them, but ONLY because the goings-on in pro wrestling are just storyline. My friends and I used to cheer Jesse Ventura and Adrian Adonis in the AWA in the '70s. We knew their attitudes weren't real. But most wrestling fans aren't that sophisticated, they're more like sheep, so they'll continue to boo "cool heels." I just wonder if someone in WWE was doing this on purpose, to show that cool heels can't really be actual babyfaces.
Various David Cassidy Comments
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE ELEVENTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM MARCH TO NOVEMBER 2008.
For the space remaining before we get into the wrestling section, maybe I'll throw in some comments regarding David Cassidy's recent Winnipeg concerts at Club Regent on February 13 and 14, 2008:
1) Before the show, I was singing, "Point Me In The Direction of Club Regent....."
2) Originally, David was only booked to play on Feb. 14. When that show sold out quickly, the promoters added the Feb. 13 date. Since he was in town overnight, I wonder if he decided to wander around the casino with a guitar. Maybe he would have seen guys playing cards. Maybe he would have gone up to them, strummed his guitar, and sang, "He's bluffing with a pair of sevens." (Partridge Family viewers would get that.)
3) Now, when I arrived at Club Regent for the show, where was that Partridge Family bus that someone in this city owns? I fully expected to see it in the parking lot as a gag. (Unless it was there the previous night.) As well as a photo-op in one of the papers with David Cassidy walking off that bus. Someone blew a great opportunity.
4) Not related to the show, but a cute nostalgic story I e-mailed someone: Several of my albums were bought at the late, great Stereo Swap Shop that was formerly at the corner of Osborne and Gertrude. It's now a hair salon who's name my brain has a mental block of not remembering. My friends and I rode the bus from St. Vital all the time to buy records there. I once bought a John Mayall album at the now-former Fernwood IGA for $3.00 and got $4.00 credit at Swap Shop for it. Unfortunately, in the late '70s, my friends convinced me to take all my Archies and Partridge Family and Brady Kids records there for credit and trade them in for Aerosmith or whatever. So that's basically how and why I now seek out greatest hits collections of those groups on CD today. At least I have the best songs on CD now, back in my collection.
For the space remaining before we get into the wrestling section, maybe I'll throw in some comments regarding David Cassidy's recent Winnipeg concerts at Club Regent on February 13 and 14, 2008:
1) Before the show, I was singing, "Point Me In The Direction of Club Regent....."
2) Originally, David was only booked to play on Feb. 14. When that show sold out quickly, the promoters added the Feb. 13 date. Since he was in town overnight, I wonder if he decided to wander around the casino with a guitar. Maybe he would have seen guys playing cards. Maybe he would have gone up to them, strummed his guitar, and sang, "He's bluffing with a pair of sevens." (Partridge Family viewers would get that.)
3) Now, when I arrived at Club Regent for the show, where was that Partridge Family bus that someone in this city owns? I fully expected to see it in the parking lot as a gag. (Unless it was there the previous night.) As well as a photo-op in one of the papers with David Cassidy walking off that bus. Someone blew a great opportunity.
4) Not related to the show, but a cute nostalgic story I e-mailed someone: Several of my albums were bought at the late, great Stereo Swap Shop that was formerly at the corner of Osborne and Gertrude. It's now a hair salon who's name my brain has a mental block of not remembering. My friends and I rode the bus from St. Vital all the time to buy records there. I once bought a John Mayall album at the now-former Fernwood IGA for $3.00 and got $4.00 credit at Swap Shop for it. Unfortunately, in the late '70s, my friends convinced me to take all my Archies and Partridge Family and Brady Kids records there for credit and trade them in for Aerosmith or whatever. So that's basically how and why I now seek out greatest hits collections of those groups on CD today. At least I have the best songs on CD now, back in my collection.
Greatest Hits Albums
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE ELEVENTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM MARCH TO NOVEMBER 2008.
Something a little different this time around on The Beau Zone. A few weeks ago, Winnipeg Free Press writer David Sanderson asked me to contribute something to an article he was writing for the paper's Saturday Detour section on the 50th anniversary of the greatest hits album. I initially thought that meant I would be quoted in his article, but instead he just put some of my comments, along with other Winnipeg celebrities' comments, in a certain section of the page alongside the article. So he took a few of my many comments I e-mailed him and squished them together the best he could. I kind of feel some of what he printed was taken out of context, although if he had printed what my context was, I admit the resulting piece would have been too long. Nevertheless, since I'm overdue for a new Beau Zone, I thought I'd reprint my original e-mail to him here in the next few paragraphs for your pleasure. Enjoy.
Thanks for thinking of me, David. I have to generally go into my vinyl albums, because I don't have time to really think about the CD compilations that come out now, although I buy some of them. It was in the '70s that my friends and I played albums over and over and really got to know them. For this reason, greatest hits albums were a bit off our radar, because we had the songs already and they didn't have the flow we already had become accustomed to from the individual albums. Live albums made the songs flow better.
That being said, I took a quick look at my record collection, and, although I can't decide upon one all-time favorite, here are some random thoughts:
1) I love Kiss' "Double Platinum," their first greatest hits collection from 1978 that they entrusted Jimmy Iovine to remix, where he made new versions of some of the songs, although they weren't that happy with some of the resulting tracks. Some of what he did that I love included Hard Luck Woman where the drums don't come in until the second verse, or Calling Dr. Love, with the added mystery in the intro and the effect of emphasis on the sleazy guitar line during the chorus when Gene's vocal is removed right after the guitar solo.
2) "All The Best from Prism" had a lot of airplay at friends' parties when it came out, just 'cause they were one of those bands that "passed us by," so to speak, but had enough hits that a greatest hits collection that captured them all sufficed perfectly.
3) Streetheart: There's never been a decent Streetheart greatest hits compilation. Formerly, this seemed to be due to the band appearing on two different record companies in its' career and the problems that entails, probably financially, to include songs from both record companies on one compilation. The Rolling Stones can do it, but they obviously have way more money than anyone connected with Streetheart. The "60 Minutes With Streetheart" CD (now out of print, I believe) on Capitol had to include live versions of their WEA songs. I guess those songs were unavailable for a Capitol release. "Action: The Best Of Streetheart" only comprises their WEA stuff after Streetheart left WEA and is basically a too-early compilation. Recently, whoever is doing the "Essential" CDs put out "The Essential Streetheart" with songs from both record companies, but it has only around ten tracks just thrown together without rhyme or reason. I hate CDs like that. The first song doesn't sound like it should be the first song on the CD, etc. I didn't have time to remember who put that out, if it was Capitol or who. There's an interesting very early cover photo of the band, probably when they were called Witness, I believe even pre-Paul Dean/Matt Frenette, that probably has other members who have left, but there's no liner notes or anything telling us about that photo or anything else. Just completely slipshod. Streetheart needs a worthy greatest hits album that has between 15 and 20 songs on it.
4) Beatles: I have a soft spot for 1976's "Rock And Roll Music," a double album with all their uptempo songs mixed to sound louder and brasher. I guess this is more of a "compilation" and less of a "greatest hits" album. For a real greatest hits album, I don't know what's better: "20 Greatest Hits" (is that still in print?), their new CD "No. 1s," or the vinyl-but-CD-or-boxed-set-styled-in-hindsight albums 1962-66 and 1967-70. Depends what mood you're in at the time, I guess.
5) "Aerosmith's Greatest Hits:" I always like it when greatest hits albums pick up wayward tracks that were singles only or given to movie soundtracks. In this case, it was "Come Together" from the Sgt. Pepper soundtrack. This album also makes me think of the Aerosmith biography where Joe Perry talks about how, during the time he wasn't in the band and was doing The Joe Perry Project, some kid gave him this album to autograph and it was the first time he had ever heard of it or seen it. No one had told him of its' release.
6) Recent CDs? Well, before I was into hard rock, I was into '70s pop and bubblegum, so I absolutely adore "Absolutely The Best Of The Archies" and The Partridge Family "Greatest Hits." And yes, I'm going to see David Cassidy. Ace Frehley, too, for that matter. Along the same vein, very valuable is TimeLife's "AM Top Twenty: Sounds Of The Seventies," an excellent collection that contains such early '70s AM gems as The Night Chicago Died, Billy Don't Be A Hero, and Rock Me Gently. The only CD I've ever bought from an infomercial. My most-played non-Kiss CD. I also like "The Best Of Foghat," because they did blues-boogie, but my friends and I liked their straight hard rock stuff, so their albums were spotty to us. Their live album, "Foghat Live," was one of our top albums. So "The Best Of Foghat" effectively collects all their best hard rock tracks. The CD "Anthology" by Angel (remember them, with their white outfits?) needs more songs from the "Sinful" album.
7) Have to include this: In the "Television's Greatest Hits" records/CDs, my favorites are volumes 2 and 5 with the most memorable sitcom and cartoon TV theme songs. The first one is good, too.
Something a little different this time around on The Beau Zone. A few weeks ago, Winnipeg Free Press writer David Sanderson asked me to contribute something to an article he was writing for the paper's Saturday Detour section on the 50th anniversary of the greatest hits album. I initially thought that meant I would be quoted in his article, but instead he just put some of my comments, along with other Winnipeg celebrities' comments, in a certain section of the page alongside the article. So he took a few of my many comments I e-mailed him and squished them together the best he could. I kind of feel some of what he printed was taken out of context, although if he had printed what my context was, I admit the resulting piece would have been too long. Nevertheless, since I'm overdue for a new Beau Zone, I thought I'd reprint my original e-mail to him here in the next few paragraphs for your pleasure. Enjoy.
Thanks for thinking of me, David. I have to generally go into my vinyl albums, because I don't have time to really think about the CD compilations that come out now, although I buy some of them. It was in the '70s that my friends and I played albums over and over and really got to know them. For this reason, greatest hits albums were a bit off our radar, because we had the songs already and they didn't have the flow we already had become accustomed to from the individual albums. Live albums made the songs flow better.
That being said, I took a quick look at my record collection, and, although I can't decide upon one all-time favorite, here are some random thoughts:
1) I love Kiss' "Double Platinum," their first greatest hits collection from 1978 that they entrusted Jimmy Iovine to remix, where he made new versions of some of the songs, although they weren't that happy with some of the resulting tracks. Some of what he did that I love included Hard Luck Woman where the drums don't come in until the second verse, or Calling Dr. Love, with the added mystery in the intro and the effect of emphasis on the sleazy guitar line during the chorus when Gene's vocal is removed right after the guitar solo.
2) "All The Best from Prism" had a lot of airplay at friends' parties when it came out, just 'cause they were one of those bands that "passed us by," so to speak, but had enough hits that a greatest hits collection that captured them all sufficed perfectly.
3) Streetheart: There's never been a decent Streetheart greatest hits compilation. Formerly, this seemed to be due to the band appearing on two different record companies in its' career and the problems that entails, probably financially, to include songs from both record companies on one compilation. The Rolling Stones can do it, but they obviously have way more money than anyone connected with Streetheart. The "60 Minutes With Streetheart" CD (now out of print, I believe) on Capitol had to include live versions of their WEA songs. I guess those songs were unavailable for a Capitol release. "Action: The Best Of Streetheart" only comprises their WEA stuff after Streetheart left WEA and is basically a too-early compilation. Recently, whoever is doing the "Essential" CDs put out "The Essential Streetheart" with songs from both record companies, but it has only around ten tracks just thrown together without rhyme or reason. I hate CDs like that. The first song doesn't sound like it should be the first song on the CD, etc. I didn't have time to remember who put that out, if it was Capitol or who. There's an interesting very early cover photo of the band, probably when they were called Witness, I believe even pre-Paul Dean/Matt Frenette, that probably has other members who have left, but there's no liner notes or anything telling us about that photo or anything else. Just completely slipshod. Streetheart needs a worthy greatest hits album that has between 15 and 20 songs on it.
4) Beatles: I have a soft spot for 1976's "Rock And Roll Music," a double album with all their uptempo songs mixed to sound louder and brasher. I guess this is more of a "compilation" and less of a "greatest hits" album. For a real greatest hits album, I don't know what's better: "20 Greatest Hits" (is that still in print?), their new CD "No. 1s," or the vinyl-but-CD-or-boxed-set-styled-in-hindsight albums 1962-66 and 1967-70. Depends what mood you're in at the time, I guess.
5) "Aerosmith's Greatest Hits:" I always like it when greatest hits albums pick up wayward tracks that were singles only or given to movie soundtracks. In this case, it was "Come Together" from the Sgt. Pepper soundtrack. This album also makes me think of the Aerosmith biography where Joe Perry talks about how, during the time he wasn't in the band and was doing The Joe Perry Project, some kid gave him this album to autograph and it was the first time he had ever heard of it or seen it. No one had told him of its' release.
6) Recent CDs? Well, before I was into hard rock, I was into '70s pop and bubblegum, so I absolutely adore "Absolutely The Best Of The Archies" and The Partridge Family "Greatest Hits." And yes, I'm going to see David Cassidy. Ace Frehley, too, for that matter. Along the same vein, very valuable is TimeLife's "AM Top Twenty: Sounds Of The Seventies," an excellent collection that contains such early '70s AM gems as The Night Chicago Died, Billy Don't Be A Hero, and Rock Me Gently. The only CD I've ever bought from an infomercial. My most-played non-Kiss CD. I also like "The Best Of Foghat," because they did blues-boogie, but my friends and I liked their straight hard rock stuff, so their albums were spotty to us. Their live album, "Foghat Live," was one of our top albums. So "The Best Of Foghat" effectively collects all their best hard rock tracks. The CD "Anthology" by Angel (remember them, with their white outfits?) needs more songs from the "Sinful" album.
7) Have to include this: In the "Television's Greatest Hits" records/CDs, my favorites are volumes 2 and 5 with the most memorable sitcom and cartoon TV theme songs. The first one is good, too.
Pro Wrestling Comments
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE TENTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM JUNE 2007 TO MARCH 2008.
Remember when DX vandalized that Muscle & Fitness cover with Vince McMahon on the cover? When they were done, the pic of Vince looked just like Danny Bonaduce!
I wonder if, that time when doing play-by-play, King Booker had Vince in his headset telling him to tell stories instead of calling the holds in the match. (Only insiders will get this.)
In Torrie Wilson's recent FHM cover story interview, she says she'd like to have sex with someone under the ring. Hopefully she'll stick to Raw if she wants to do that. Hopefully she didn't try to do that at pay-per-views, 'cause does she realize there's probably that leprechaun, Hornswaggle, under the ring? Could you imagine that little bastard surprising Torrie and her companion under there? Not only that, JBL says he'd pay money to watch leprechauns copulate. I wonder if he means two leprechauns or just Hornswaggle with Torrie Wilson. The possibilities are endless.....
JBL's funniest line on Smackdown a few weeks ago, during a Miz match: "The Miz couldn't afford my escort service bills!"
Speaking of JBL, how come on Smackdown they can't promote Saturday Night's Main Event because it's on a competing network, yet JBL can talk about his Fox News appearances all the time?
Before WWE let Joey Mercury go, I was thinking: Why is MNM making Smackdown appearances? I thought Nitro and Melina were fired by Teddy Long. How is he allowing their return? Shows you why Krystal is right about him needing an assistant. Maybe they snuck on while he was watching Kane's "See No Evil" DVD. That was funny a few weeks ago: I think to myself, "Teddy Long's going to watch a DVD during Smackdown?" Then JBL said the same thing!
Remember when DX vandalized that Muscle & Fitness cover with Vince McMahon on the cover? When they were done, the pic of Vince looked just like Danny Bonaduce!
I wonder if, that time when doing play-by-play, King Booker had Vince in his headset telling him to tell stories instead of calling the holds in the match. (Only insiders will get this.)
In Torrie Wilson's recent FHM cover story interview, she says she'd like to have sex with someone under the ring. Hopefully she'll stick to Raw if she wants to do that. Hopefully she didn't try to do that at pay-per-views, 'cause does she realize there's probably that leprechaun, Hornswaggle, under the ring? Could you imagine that little bastard surprising Torrie and her companion under there? Not only that, JBL says he'd pay money to watch leprechauns copulate. I wonder if he means two leprechauns or just Hornswaggle with Torrie Wilson. The possibilities are endless.....
JBL's funniest line on Smackdown a few weeks ago, during a Miz match: "The Miz couldn't afford my escort service bills!"
Speaking of JBL, how come on Smackdown they can't promote Saturday Night's Main Event because it's on a competing network, yet JBL can talk about his Fox News appearances all the time?
Before WWE let Joey Mercury go, I was thinking: Why is MNM making Smackdown appearances? I thought Nitro and Melina were fired by Teddy Long. How is he allowing their return? Shows you why Krystal is right about him needing an assistant. Maybe they snuck on while he was watching Kane's "See No Evil" DVD. That was funny a few weeks ago: I think to myself, "Teddy Long's going to watch a DVD during Smackdown?" Then JBL said the same thing!
Dora The Explorer Comment
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE TENTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM JUNE 2007 TO MARCH 2008.
I see Dora The Explorer talking crayons will be in stores for Christmas. I wonder if those crayons will have anything to say about the Dora The Explorer rectal thermometers currently on the market.
I see Dora The Explorer talking crayons will be in stores for Christmas. I wonder if those crayons will have anything to say about the Dora The Explorer rectal thermometers currently on the market.
Lindsay Lohan Comment
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE TENTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM JUNE 2007 TO MARCH 2008.
Alice Cooper should visit Lindsay Lohan at her Wonderland rehab facility. Then you'd have Alice in Wonderland! Or John Mayer could write a song about Lindsay in rehab. He can call it "Your Body Is In Wonderland."
Alice Cooper should visit Lindsay Lohan at her Wonderland rehab facility. Then you'd have Alice in Wonderland! Or John Mayer could write a song about Lindsay in rehab. He can call it "Your Body Is In Wonderland."
B.J. Thomas/Red River Ex Comment
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE TENTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM JUNE 2007 TO MARCH 2008.
This comment is a year late, but so what? BJ Thomas at the Ex? Does anyone really want to sit outdoors and hear him sing, "Raindrops keep falling on my head.....?" Look what happened after The Guess Who sang Rain Dance at Canwest Global Park in 2000!
This comment is a year late, but so what? BJ Thomas at the Ex? Does anyone really want to sit outdoors and hear him sing, "Raindrops keep falling on my head.....?" Look what happened after The Guess Who sang Rain Dance at Canwest Global Park in 2000!
Beauty Pageants And The Whole Tara Conner Thing
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE TENTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM JUNE 2007 TO MARCH 2008.
Regarding beauty pageants and the whole Tara Conner thing: If they're looking for fine upstanding role models to be pageant winners, they're going to have to look again at girls and women who look like Ugly Betty or Rosanne or Rosie O'Donnell. Because in 2006/2007, you show me a hot sexy babe in miniskirts and high heels who looks like Tara Conner or Katie Rees, and I'll show you.....well, those notorious pics of Katie Rees! Or a porno star or pop star or spokesmodel or actress or something. (Look at the girls on/in car magazines.) Hot babes rule and they know what they want to be, what they want to do, where they want to go (as in hot nightclubs for debauchery from late night to dawn) and how to make big money nowadays. It's empowerment. Why? How? The socialogical aspects of that would fill up a book. Little girls, say 10 years old, are good girls. But when they grow up to be Katie Rees or Lindsay Lohan, the "good girl gone bad" deal is immensely titilating, and the girls know it now, and to them it's exciting. Let's face it, hot babes and money rule now. So I don't think the hot babes you saw winning beauty pageants in the past are going to be the girls who are role models who really contribute to society anymore. The image just doesn't correlate. And really, to me these concepts are happening 25 years later, as I worked at McDonald's in the early '80s with all the heavy metal babes. I know firsthand from back then what behavior hot chicks really exhibit. Just read the lyrics to Streetheart's 1982 hit "Snow White." Heck, girls wore jeans and high heels to the bars all the time then - it took 25 years for that look to hit The Bay and Sears and Old Navy catalogs! I guess the people who put those catalogs together go to bed way before prime bar hours where the girls go out dressed to kill. But now it's all on the internet the next day. And now we're back to Katie Rees! Hey, this comment has come full circle!
Regarding beauty pageants and the whole Tara Conner thing: If they're looking for fine upstanding role models to be pageant winners, they're going to have to look again at girls and women who look like Ugly Betty or Rosanne or Rosie O'Donnell. Because in 2006/2007, you show me a hot sexy babe in miniskirts and high heels who looks like Tara Conner or Katie Rees, and I'll show you.....well, those notorious pics of Katie Rees! Or a porno star or pop star or spokesmodel or actress or something. (Look at the girls on/in car magazines.) Hot babes rule and they know what they want to be, what they want to do, where they want to go (as in hot nightclubs for debauchery from late night to dawn) and how to make big money nowadays. It's empowerment. Why? How? The socialogical aspects of that would fill up a book. Little girls, say 10 years old, are good girls. But when they grow up to be Katie Rees or Lindsay Lohan, the "good girl gone bad" deal is immensely titilating, and the girls know it now, and to them it's exciting. Let's face it, hot babes and money rule now. So I don't think the hot babes you saw winning beauty pageants in the past are going to be the girls who are role models who really contribute to society anymore. The image just doesn't correlate. And really, to me these concepts are happening 25 years later, as I worked at McDonald's in the early '80s with all the heavy metal babes. I know firsthand from back then what behavior hot chicks really exhibit. Just read the lyrics to Streetheart's 1982 hit "Snow White." Heck, girls wore jeans and high heels to the bars all the time then - it took 25 years for that look to hit The Bay and Sears and Old Navy catalogs! I guess the people who put those catalogs together go to bed way before prime bar hours where the girls go out dressed to kill. But now it's all on the internet the next day. And now we're back to Katie Rees! Hey, this comment has come full circle!
Richie Sambora/Charlie Sheen Comment
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE TENTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM JUNE 2007 TO MARCH 2008.
Regarding gossip in the celeb mags, if Charlie Sheen finds out his kid is really Richie Sambora's, Richie will be "Wanted, Dead Or Alive!"
Regarding gossip in the celeb mags, if Charlie Sheen finds out his kid is really Richie Sambora's, Richie will be "Wanted, Dead Or Alive!"
Various Nickelback Comments
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE TENTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM JUNE 2007 TO MARCH 2008.
Chad Kroeger is No. 6 on the list of un-sexy people. They looked at a picture of him. "Look at this photograph, every time I do it makes me laugh....." (Did that make you laugh?) Also, Chad Kroeger was arrested for drunk driving. Guess he was ".....feeling way too damn good!"
Chad Kroeger is No. 6 on the list of un-sexy people. They looked at a picture of him. "Look at this photograph, every time I do it makes me laugh....." (Did that make you laugh?) Also, Chad Kroeger was arrested for drunk driving. Guess he was ".....feeling way too damn good!"
Various O.C. Comments
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE TENTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM JUNE 2007 TO MARCH 2008.
Regarding the cancellation of The O.C., creator Joss Schwartz said he'd secretly love to produce a spinoff with Julie and Kaitlynn as sort of the anti-Gilmore Girls. Hey, maybe Julie and Kaitlynn can have a threeway with Sebastian Bach! Speaking of The O.C., I liked it when that girl told Kaitlynn earlier this year she was throwing a Pimp And Ho party for her sweet 16 bash. Hey, now that's what we should see on My Super Sweet 16!
Regarding the cancellation of The O.C., creator Joss Schwartz said he'd secretly love to produce a spinoff with Julie and Kaitlynn as sort of the anti-Gilmore Girls. Hey, maybe Julie and Kaitlynn can have a threeway with Sebastian Bach! Speaking of The O.C., I liked it when that girl told Kaitlynn earlier this year she was throwing a Pimp And Ho party for her sweet 16 bash. Hey, now that's what we should see on My Super Sweet 16!
Falcon Beach/Winnipeg On TV Comment
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE TENTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM JUNE 2007 TO MARCH 2008.
I wrote this a while ago, so I better get this in before the now-cancelled Falcon Beach leaves our minds: Isn't it ironic that my home town of Winnipeg, that the world seems to revolve around, can be mentioned on Jan. 7's Desperate Housewives on ABC and Jan. 11's 30 Rock on NBC, but when those of you who are Americans watch Falcon Beach where the characters are going to see Matt Mays, instead of saying they're going to Winnipeg to see him, you probably saw them say the name of some New Hampshire town. That's because everything is Americanized for the U.S. version of Falcon Beach on ABC Family. Well, I'm here to tell you boys and girls that the fictional resort town of Falcon Beach is really supposed to be set in the Grand Beach area of Manitoba, Canada, one hour north of Winnipeg. So when the characters need to come to the city for anything, that city is Winnipeg. All Canadian references are reshot by the production company and the cast to replace them with American references for the U.S. version. Europe gets the proper Canadian version, too. So I wonder if, when Paige and Jason went to Winnipeg to see Matt Mays, Orson's first wife was also at that show? Think she'd like Matt Mays?
I wrote this a while ago, so I better get this in before the now-cancelled Falcon Beach leaves our minds: Isn't it ironic that my home town of Winnipeg, that the world seems to revolve around, can be mentioned on Jan. 7's Desperate Housewives on ABC and Jan. 11's 30 Rock on NBC, but when those of you who are Americans watch Falcon Beach where the characters are going to see Matt Mays, instead of saying they're going to Winnipeg to see him, you probably saw them say the name of some New Hampshire town. That's because everything is Americanized for the U.S. version of Falcon Beach on ABC Family. Well, I'm here to tell you boys and girls that the fictional resort town of Falcon Beach is really supposed to be set in the Grand Beach area of Manitoba, Canada, one hour north of Winnipeg. So when the characters need to come to the city for anything, that city is Winnipeg. All Canadian references are reshot by the production company and the cast to replace them with American references for the U.S. version. Europe gets the proper Canadian version, too. So I wonder if, when Paige and Jason went to Winnipeg to see Matt Mays, Orson's first wife was also at that show? Think she'd like Matt Mays?
A Note From Beau
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE TENTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM JUNE 2007 TO MARCH 2008.
Wow. June 2007. I haven't changed this Beau Zone since November. Seven months! A big part of that was my poor health over the winter. I had to have cataract surgery at the same time as I had horrible sinus problems. When they put you out for the surgery, you have to be able to breathe, and you can't when your sinuses are always blocked. Thankfully, the surgery is over, and the sinus problems are at least under control if not fully fixed at this time, to make long stories short. At least when I go to bed now I don't wake up two hours later because I can't breathe and have to squirt more Claritin mist up my nose. Plus I've gotten semi-addicted to My Space, where, as you may know, the Beau Zone Archives are kept in the form of the My Space blog. (Link on title page.) It's fun adding friends like Christina Aguilera, Paris Hilton, Burton Cummings, and assorted Winnipeg hot chicks. It's fun posting and reading comments. And it's fun listening to music. So with that, well, let's see how often The Beau Zone gets done now. So with that in mind, off to the comments.....
Wow. June 2007. I haven't changed this Beau Zone since November. Seven months! A big part of that was my poor health over the winter. I had to have cataract surgery at the same time as I had horrible sinus problems. When they put you out for the surgery, you have to be able to breathe, and you can't when your sinuses are always blocked. Thankfully, the surgery is over, and the sinus problems are at least under control if not fully fixed at this time, to make long stories short. At least when I go to bed now I don't wake up two hours later because I can't breathe and have to squirt more Claritin mist up my nose. Plus I've gotten semi-addicted to My Space, where, as you may know, the Beau Zone Archives are kept in the form of the My Space blog. (Link on title page.) It's fun adding friends like Christina Aguilera, Paris Hilton, Burton Cummings, and assorted Winnipeg hot chicks. It's fun posting and reading comments. And it's fun listening to music. So with that, well, let's see how often The Beau Zone gets done now. So with that in mind, off to the comments.....
Monday, January 25, 2010
Pro Wrestling Comments
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE NINTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM NOVEMBER 2006 TO JUNE 2007.
Too bad Kevin Nash is under contract with TNA. If it wasn't for that, WWE could do DX vs. the NWO! Shawn and HHH vs. Hall and Nash! And Hall and Nash could have Eric Bischoff as their manager! It's never been done before! Vince could sic the NWO on DX! And the end of the match would have some kind of non-finish where the NWO turns and all four guys plus Bischoff celebrate in the ring! (MSG revisited!) Then Vince'll come out all pissed off and make a match, 5 on 5, with DX, the NWO, and Bischoff, vs. the Spirit Squad. Hey, it fits! Then Bischoff could drop out, saying he's not a wrestler, and replace himself with Sean Waltman, who of course was in BOTH the NWO and DX! Now, there's a match!
On the April 1 edition of TNA, I like it when James Mitchell says, "Christian, wherever you're hiding this week....." He was hiding here in Winnipeg at the World Of Wheels car show! I wonder if James Mitchell knew that. Maybe he and Abyss could have terrorized him here, too, after beating him up at his home. They sure would have had a lot of cars to choose from, to smash him onto. Hey, maybe Mitchell could have gotten Honky Tonk Man to join in! I should have gone. I should have asked Christian, "Aren't you feeling nervous signing autographs here when James Mitchell was terrorizing your wife at your home last week? Where's she today? Could he be doing it again?" What would Christian have said, knowing that that night on TNA Impact Mitchell would play the tape of him and Abyss beating him up in his own home? I could have shown Christian the Chris Jericho clipping, too, showing him how Jericho was running to be the next Manitoba Conservative leader, before the Winnipeg Sun revealed that to be a hoax the next day. I never thought about Christian when I saw that. For the record, I was fooled for about 30 seconds until I got back into my car after buying the Sun. "Wait a sec!" I thought, after realizing what day it was. I was wondering if it was that or the Craig Ferguson story (him maybe doing the Late Late Show here in Winnipeg for a week) that was a hoax. The third front-page story about Winnipeg gas stations charging for air I thought was probably true, as I paid 50 cents for air in Grand Forks, ND last fall. Hey, who needs Wrestlemania weekend when we've got our own stuff going on here in Winnipeg, the city the whole world revolves around?
I read in the gossip mags Stacy Keibler is now acting as a matchmaker for Nick Lachey, who obviously she met through his brother Drew on Dancing With The Stars. Maybe she'll hook him up with a WWE Diva. Well, not Mickie James, of course, she doesn't swing that way. Nick needs to ask himself if Mickie James will interfere in this in any way! He doesn't want whoever Stacy fixes him up with fooling around with Mickie James! (Hey, see the Pussycat Dolls comment above!)
Every time I hear the commentators say "Angle slam" during a Kurt Angle match, it makes me want to eat a breakfast dish called an Angle Slam at Perkins.
Shelton Benjamin's mama should seek out Simon Dean and try out his patented Simon system, don't you think?
So all I have left now is just some jokes on if Chris Jericho did become premier of Manitoba: 1) Instead of a press conference, he could have the Highlight Reel. 2) He could get new generations interested in politics - he could "bring the walls down!" 3) He could have been the Ayatollah of Manitoba!
Too bad Kevin Nash is under contract with TNA. If it wasn't for that, WWE could do DX vs. the NWO! Shawn and HHH vs. Hall and Nash! And Hall and Nash could have Eric Bischoff as their manager! It's never been done before! Vince could sic the NWO on DX! And the end of the match would have some kind of non-finish where the NWO turns and all four guys plus Bischoff celebrate in the ring! (MSG revisited!) Then Vince'll come out all pissed off and make a match, 5 on 5, with DX, the NWO, and Bischoff, vs. the Spirit Squad. Hey, it fits! Then Bischoff could drop out, saying he's not a wrestler, and replace himself with Sean Waltman, who of course was in BOTH the NWO and DX! Now, there's a match!
On the April 1 edition of TNA, I like it when James Mitchell says, "Christian, wherever you're hiding this week....." He was hiding here in Winnipeg at the World Of Wheels car show! I wonder if James Mitchell knew that. Maybe he and Abyss could have terrorized him here, too, after beating him up at his home. They sure would have had a lot of cars to choose from, to smash him onto. Hey, maybe Mitchell could have gotten Honky Tonk Man to join in! I should have gone. I should have asked Christian, "Aren't you feeling nervous signing autographs here when James Mitchell was terrorizing your wife at your home last week? Where's she today? Could he be doing it again?" What would Christian have said, knowing that that night on TNA Impact Mitchell would play the tape of him and Abyss beating him up in his own home? I could have shown Christian the Chris Jericho clipping, too, showing him how Jericho was running to be the next Manitoba Conservative leader, before the Winnipeg Sun revealed that to be a hoax the next day. I never thought about Christian when I saw that. For the record, I was fooled for about 30 seconds until I got back into my car after buying the Sun. "Wait a sec!" I thought, after realizing what day it was. I was wondering if it was that or the Craig Ferguson story (him maybe doing the Late Late Show here in Winnipeg for a week) that was a hoax. The third front-page story about Winnipeg gas stations charging for air I thought was probably true, as I paid 50 cents for air in Grand Forks, ND last fall. Hey, who needs Wrestlemania weekend when we've got our own stuff going on here in Winnipeg, the city the whole world revolves around?
I read in the gossip mags Stacy Keibler is now acting as a matchmaker for Nick Lachey, who obviously she met through his brother Drew on Dancing With The Stars. Maybe she'll hook him up with a WWE Diva. Well, not Mickie James, of course, she doesn't swing that way. Nick needs to ask himself if Mickie James will interfere in this in any way! He doesn't want whoever Stacy fixes him up with fooling around with Mickie James! (Hey, see the Pussycat Dolls comment above!)
Every time I hear the commentators say "Angle slam" during a Kurt Angle match, it makes me want to eat a breakfast dish called an Angle Slam at Perkins.
Shelton Benjamin's mama should seek out Simon Dean and try out his patented Simon system, don't you think?
So all I have left now is just some jokes on if Chris Jericho did become premier of Manitoba: 1) Instead of a press conference, he could have the Highlight Reel. 2) He could get new generations interested in politics - he could "bring the walls down!" 3) He could have been the Ayatollah of Manitoba!
Las Vegas (The TV Show) Comment
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE NINTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM NOVEMBER 2006 TO JUNE 2007.
So I guess Jon Bon Jovi's hand wasn't still stuck in that slot machine when the old Montecito blew up at the end of the 2004/2005 season. But if I ever see him with an injured hand, or see his body in ruins, I'm making this joke!
So I guess Jon Bon Jovi's hand wasn't still stuck in that slot machine when the old Montecito blew up at the end of the 2004/2005 season. But if I ever see him with an injured hand, or see his body in ruins, I'm making this joke!
Kiss Coffeehouse & Kiss Cologne Comments
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE NINTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM NOVEMBER 2006 TO JUNE 2007.
So a Kiss Coffeehouse has opened up? How about this for the ad:
Hot, hot, hotter than hot coffee,
You know that you can get it well done,
Hot, hot, hotter than hot coffee
On the patio in the midday sun!
And hopefully the people that work there will know who Kiss is. There's Kiss cologne now, too. "Well, I sure smelled something, sure smelled something....."
So a Kiss Coffeehouse has opened up? How about this for the ad:
Hot, hot, hotter than hot coffee,
You know that you can get it well done,
Hot, hot, hotter than hot coffee
On the patio in the midday sun!
And hopefully the people that work there will know who Kiss is. There's Kiss cologne now, too. "Well, I sure smelled something, sure smelled something....."
Nicole Kidman/Keith Urban Comment
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE NINTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM NOVEMBER 2006 TO JUNE 2007.
So Nicole Kidman wants Keith Urban to drop his country career and become a pop singer. (".....and then she goes and spoils it all by saying something stupid.....")
So Nicole Kidman wants Keith Urban to drop his country career and become a pop singer. (".....and then she goes and spoils it all by saying something stupid.....")
David Lee Roth Comment
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE NINTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM NOVEMBER 2006 TO JUNE 2007.
So David Lee Roth got fired as Howard Stern's replacement on conventional radio. I can see how it went. Dave: "I ain't the worst that you've seen.....can't you see what I mean?" Dave's now-former bosses: "Might as well jump.....go ahead and jump." Dave now needs to update his resume. "I've got my pencil.....give me something to write on, man." Now that he's out of a job, he might exhibit self-pity: "I ain't got nobody.....nobody cares for me, nobody....."
So David Lee Roth got fired as Howard Stern's replacement on conventional radio. I can see how it went. Dave: "I ain't the worst that you've seen.....can't you see what I mean?" Dave's now-former bosses: "Might as well jump.....go ahead and jump." Dave now needs to update his resume. "I've got my pencil.....give me something to write on, man." Now that he's out of a job, he might exhibit self-pity: "I ain't got nobody.....nobody cares for me, nobody....."
Daylight Savings Time Comment
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE NINTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM NOVEMBER 2006 TO JUNE 2007.
Those new Daylight Savings Times that start next year have one horrible disadvantage. Formerly, you'd get an hour of extra Halloween party time on Saturday night the way the calendar fell. Now that extra hour will be on another week. Darn! (I wonder if until now what the birth rate was at the end of every July.....a spike perhaps, due to that extra hour? Hmmm....)
Those new Daylight Savings Times that start next year have one horrible disadvantage. Formerly, you'd get an hour of extra Halloween party time on Saturday night the way the calendar fell. Now that extra hour will be on another week. Darn! (I wonder if until now what the birth rate was at the end of every July.....a spike perhaps, due to that extra hour? Hmmm....)
Various Lindsay Lohan Comments
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE NINTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM NOVEMBER 2006 TO JUNE 2007.
Lindsay Lohan covers Cheap Trick's "I Want You To Want Me" on her new album. Hey, maybe she can get the Dream Police to go after her dad!.....That would have been funny if Lindsay Lohan's stolen $1,000,000 bag of jewels was found in Paris Hilton's car when she was pulled over for her DUI. Instead of water pouring out of the car, the cops would have seen jewelry pouring out!.....So Lindsay Lohan is cosying up to Rick Solomon now, the guy who broke up with Shannen Doherty, then made that sex tape with Paris Hilton. Could a Lindsay/Rick tape be in the works, perhaps? Too bad Shannen didn't talk about any of this when she co-hosted The View on July 31/August 1. At least Shannen could have had a catfight with Elisabeth Hasselbeck!
Lindsay Lohan covers Cheap Trick's "I Want You To Want Me" on her new album. Hey, maybe she can get the Dream Police to go after her dad!.....That would have been funny if Lindsay Lohan's stolen $1,000,000 bag of jewels was found in Paris Hilton's car when she was pulled over for her DUI. Instead of water pouring out of the car, the cops would have seen jewelry pouring out!.....So Lindsay Lohan is cosying up to Rick Solomon now, the guy who broke up with Shannen Doherty, then made that sex tape with Paris Hilton. Could a Lindsay/Rick tape be in the works, perhaps? Too bad Shannen didn't talk about any of this when she co-hosted The View on July 31/August 1. At least Shannen could have had a catfight with Elisabeth Hasselbeck!
Bryan Adams/Chris Martin Comment
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE NINTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM NOVEMBER 2006 TO JUNE 2007.
Did you see the Junos when Chris Martin stumbled over his words and called Bryan Adams "an officer of Canadian customs?" Oh, okay - that's Bryan's other job! He's moonlighting! He's a customs official at the border. I get it now - some guy tried to bring snakeskin leather pants into Canada from the U.S. and Bryan stopped him - that's where ".....put those patent leather pants in the circular file....." came from!
Did you see the Junos when Chris Martin stumbled over his words and called Bryan Adams "an officer of Canadian customs?" Oh, okay - that's Bryan's other job! He's moonlighting! He's a customs official at the border. I get it now - some guy tried to bring snakeskin leather pants into Canada from the U.S. and Bryan stopped him - that's where ".....put those patent leather pants in the circular file....." came from!
That '70s Show Stuff
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE NINTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM NOVEMBER 2006 TO JUNE 2007.
Regarding the "That '70s Show" series finale: That was eerie, the way Eric showed up and how we didn't get to see him at the party greeting his parents. And we didn't even get to see one second of the gang in 1980. I was wondering if we'd hear The Pina Colada Song, since that was the last #1 song of 1979/first #1 song of 1980. And we'll never get to find out Hyde's reaction to Bon Scott of AC/DC dying less than two months after that party, John Bonham dying in September (the same way Bon Scott died, incidentally, by choking on his own vomit while sleeping/passed out), signalling the end of Led Zeppelin, and then the big one - John Lennon being murdered on December 8. Hey, even Peter Criss leaving Kiss in May. Yes, it all happened in 1980!
Regarding the "That '70s Show" series finale: That was eerie, the way Eric showed up and how we didn't get to see him at the party greeting his parents. And we didn't even get to see one second of the gang in 1980. I was wondering if we'd hear The Pina Colada Song, since that was the last #1 song of 1979/first #1 song of 1980. And we'll never get to find out Hyde's reaction to Bon Scott of AC/DC dying less than two months after that party, John Bonham dying in September (the same way Bon Scott died, incidentally, by choking on his own vomit while sleeping/passed out), signalling the end of Led Zeppelin, and then the big one - John Lennon being murdered on December 8. Hey, even Peter Criss leaving Kiss in May. Yes, it all happened in 1980!
Pussycat Dolls Comment
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE NINTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM NOVEMBER 2006 TO JUNE 2007.
How about the Pussycat Dolls' new single "I Don't Need A Man?" Sounds like your average song title. But when the Pussycat Dolls do a song with that title.....kinda conjures images of something else, don't it? All those delectable things they can do to each other with such, shall we say, tools, as two-pronged dildos and strap-ons, not to mention their tongues. Isn't that what girls do at slumber parties nowadays?
How about the Pussycat Dolls' new single "I Don't Need A Man?" Sounds like your average song title. But when the Pussycat Dolls do a song with that title.....kinda conjures images of something else, don't it? All those delectable things they can do to each other with such, shall we say, tools, as two-pronged dildos and strap-ons, not to mention their tongues. Isn't that what girls do at slumber parties nowadays?
WCMA Anecdote
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE NINTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM NOVEMBER 2006 TO JUNE 2007.
I was volunteering at the conference part of the Western Canadian Music Awards this past October. At one session, Keith Macpherson of Easily Amused comes up to the table where my supervisors are sitting and asks where a garbage is. They tell him they haven't seen a garbage anywhere around. "Too bad the tablecloths don't go all the way to the floor," I offered. He looked at me and smiled and made a shoving motion towards the table with his hand. Looks like he was "easily amused" with my comment!
I was volunteering at the conference part of the Western Canadian Music Awards this past October. At one session, Keith Macpherson of Easily Amused comes up to the table where my supervisors are sitting and asks where a garbage is. They tell him they haven't seen a garbage anywhere around. "Too bad the tablecloths don't go all the way to the floor," I offered. He looked at me and smiled and made a shoving motion towards the table with his hand. Looks like he was "easily amused" with my comment!
Monday, January 18, 2010
Pro Wrestling Comments
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE EIGHTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM MAY TO NOVEMBER 2006.
Concerning Bret Hart and the WWE Hall Of Fame, I always thought Bret should just ask his fans on his website if they wanted to see that happen or not. (If he did, I've never had the time to go on his website.) So now Bret is in. Kudos to Bret: He's had his cake and has eaten it, too. He's a man of integrity, and he's never come back to work for WWE in any capacity, but he did do just the DVD and the Hall of Fame just to preserve his memory and for the fans that wanted to see those things happen. There is one thing I wonder about that I haven't read much about, though: (and I asked Dave Meltzer at the Wrestling Observer Newsletter if, the next time he writes extensively about Bret and Survivor Series 1997, he can go over this) Why did Bret apparently decline to lose the title to Shawn Michaels at house shows in the U.S. that took place before Survivor Series? In Shawn's book, to further his and HHH's arguments why Bret was selfish and wouldn't do business he makes that point. I can't remember what Meltzer said about that in the Observer in the past, if indeed anything.
Hey, how about the new movie on DVD (direct-to-DVD?) "Santa's Slay" with Goldberg as both Santa Claus AND Satan? Satan? Wonder if anyone in the film used a taser to subdue him.
Those stairs on the Jan. 2 Raw that Trish was running back and forth on while Todd Grisham was interviewing her look familiar. Are those the same stairs Brock Lesnar threw Zach Gowen and his wheelchair down on Smackdown?
So let me get this straight.....there's controversy over whether to allow 50 Cent into Canada and he does get allowed in.....and Lex Luger doesn't? And 50 Cent did a tour here before.....and Luger just appeared in Winnipeg in October. I like how Sting on TNA referred to Luger in his ring introduction as an "international fugitive," though.
Wonder how the new CW network will affect network executive Palmer Canon. Will he lose his job? He already indicated when congratulated by Krystal Marshall he wasn't thrilled about the new network. ("Oh yeah, THAT news.")
Maybe Mickie James can snag (shag?) Trish Stratus if she put on some Tag Body Spray. As long as there's no Mark David Chapman-type stuff in that angle.
Concerning Bret Hart and the WWE Hall Of Fame, I always thought Bret should just ask his fans on his website if they wanted to see that happen or not. (If he did, I've never had the time to go on his website.) So now Bret is in. Kudos to Bret: He's had his cake and has eaten it, too. He's a man of integrity, and he's never come back to work for WWE in any capacity, but he did do just the DVD and the Hall of Fame just to preserve his memory and for the fans that wanted to see those things happen. There is one thing I wonder about that I haven't read much about, though: (and I asked Dave Meltzer at the Wrestling Observer Newsletter if, the next time he writes extensively about Bret and Survivor Series 1997, he can go over this) Why did Bret apparently decline to lose the title to Shawn Michaels at house shows in the U.S. that took place before Survivor Series? In Shawn's book, to further his and HHH's arguments why Bret was selfish and wouldn't do business he makes that point. I can't remember what Meltzer said about that in the Observer in the past, if indeed anything.
Hey, how about the new movie on DVD (direct-to-DVD?) "Santa's Slay" with Goldberg as both Santa Claus AND Satan? Satan? Wonder if anyone in the film used a taser to subdue him.
Those stairs on the Jan. 2 Raw that Trish was running back and forth on while Todd Grisham was interviewing her look familiar. Are those the same stairs Brock Lesnar threw Zach Gowen and his wheelchair down on Smackdown?
So let me get this straight.....there's controversy over whether to allow 50 Cent into Canada and he does get allowed in.....and Lex Luger doesn't? And 50 Cent did a tour here before.....and Luger just appeared in Winnipeg in October. I like how Sting on TNA referred to Luger in his ring introduction as an "international fugitive," though.
Wonder how the new CW network will affect network executive Palmer Canon. Will he lose his job? He already indicated when congratulated by Krystal Marshall he wasn't thrilled about the new network. ("Oh yeah, THAT news.")
Maybe Mickie James can snag (shag?) Trish Stratus if she put on some Tag Body Spray. As long as there's no Mark David Chapman-type stuff in that angle.
Dick Clark/Mariah Carey New Year's Eve Comment
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE EIGHTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM MAY TO NOVEMBER 2006.
The ads this past New Year's for Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve said, "the first ever performance in Times Square" by Mariah Carey. Well, that was the first FOR THAT SHOW, the Dick Clark show. It is NOT the first Times Square NYE TV performance. I believe that honor went to Lindsay Lohan on MTV's Iced Out last year. I'll tell anyone - if I'm wrong and someone can give me info about an earlier performance, please do. Until then, Lindsay Lohan was the first. I will say it was cool seeing Mariah sing live on Dick Clark on ABC, then appear for a cameo on MTV (I can picture her handlers traipsing her across the street from ABC to MTV), then go back again to hang out with Dick's co-host Ryan Seacrest. Doing the MTV cameo was cool for logistics fans like me, but going back across the street to ABC again as well? That was da bomb and groovy!
The ads this past New Year's for Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve said, "the first ever performance in Times Square" by Mariah Carey. Well, that was the first FOR THAT SHOW, the Dick Clark show. It is NOT the first Times Square NYE TV performance. I believe that honor went to Lindsay Lohan on MTV's Iced Out last year. I'll tell anyone - if I'm wrong and someone can give me info about an earlier performance, please do. Until then, Lindsay Lohan was the first. I will say it was cool seeing Mariah sing live on Dick Clark on ABC, then appear for a cameo on MTV (I can picture her handlers traipsing her across the street from ABC to MTV), then go back again to hang out with Dick's co-host Ryan Seacrest. Doing the MTV cameo was cool for logistics fans like me, but going back across the street to ABC again as well? That was da bomb and groovy!
Michael Jackson Comment
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE EIGHTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM MAY TO NOVEMBER 2006.
How about Michael Jackson going into the ladies' washroom in Dubai on the Arabian Gulf. He said he misunderstood the symbol on the door. He must've thought it was Prince's former symbol, and we all think Prince is sort of a man, so he went in. Maybe he wanted to look at "the only man in the mirror" (pretend I'm singing). Sources say he was seen putting on makeup. Oh, so he went there to blend right in!
How about Michael Jackson going into the ladies' washroom in Dubai on the Arabian Gulf. He said he misunderstood the symbol on the door. He must've thought it was Prince's former symbol, and we all think Prince is sort of a man, so he went in. Maybe he wanted to look at "the only man in the mirror" (pretend I'm singing). Sources say he was seen putting on makeup. Oh, so he went there to blend right in!
Judas Priest Comment
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE EIGHTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM MAY TO NOVEMBER 2006.
So Rob Halford is back with Judas Priest. Now, his return is since he came out of the closet. So I guess that lends a whole new meaning to ".....be my Turbo Lover....." And if you see them on tour, if there's a smoking ban in the building, make sure when you sneak a smoke when everyone is standing up all around you so you don't get caught, that you do it when they're playing "Breaking The Law!"
So Rob Halford is back with Judas Priest. Now, his return is since he came out of the closet. So I guess that lends a whole new meaning to ".....be my Turbo Lover....." And if you see them on tour, if there's a smoking ban in the building, make sure when you sneak a smoke when everyone is standing up all around you so you don't get caught, that you do it when they're playing "Breaking The Law!"
Jeff Daniels' Winnipeg Connection
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE EIGHTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM MAY TO NOVEMBER 2006.
Actor Jeff Daniels recently shot "The Lookout" here in Winnipeg. I heard he has a prior Winnipeg connection in that he was in another film with born-in-Winnipeg young Oscar-winning actress Anna Pacquin. But Jeff has another quasi-Winnipeg connection: He reprised his "Dumb and Dumber" character in the music video for a song in the movie, Winnipeg's Crash Test Dummies' "The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead," if you recall. Only he did it; Jim Carrey didn't.
Actor Jeff Daniels recently shot "The Lookout" here in Winnipeg. I heard he has a prior Winnipeg connection in that he was in another film with born-in-Winnipeg young Oscar-winning actress Anna Pacquin. But Jeff has another quasi-Winnipeg connection: He reprised his "Dumb and Dumber" character in the music video for a song in the movie, Winnipeg's Crash Test Dummies' "The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead," if you recall. Only he did it; Jim Carrey didn't.
The Apprentice/Gillette Comment
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE EIGHTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM MAY TO NOVEMBER 2006.
Didn't it seem strange in that episode of The Apprentice a few weeks ago where the teams were selling Gillette Fusion in New York's Times Square that we didn't see any Gillette executives? That's because Gillette is in the process of being purchased by Proctor & Gamble, so they probably didn't want their suits on camera because there was no guarantee the people that would be on camera would still have a job by the time that show was aired. Isn't it ironic, then, that the winning team got to go to that agency and help down-and-out unemployed business people? Hey, maybe that agency will be helping fired former Gillette executives this summer once P & G completes their takeover! Maybe Gillettte execs watched that show and said, "That's where I'll go after P & G fires me!"
Didn't it seem strange in that episode of The Apprentice a few weeks ago where the teams were selling Gillette Fusion in New York's Times Square that we didn't see any Gillette executives? That's because Gillette is in the process of being purchased by Proctor & Gamble, so they probably didn't want their suits on camera because there was no guarantee the people that would be on camera would still have a job by the time that show was aired. Isn't it ironic, then, that the winning team got to go to that agency and help down-and-out unemployed business people? Hey, maybe that agency will be helping fired former Gillette executives this summer once P & G completes their takeover! Maybe Gillettte execs watched that show and said, "That's where I'll go after P & G fires me!"
Kevin Bacon Comment
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE EIGHTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM MAY TO NOVEMBER 2006.
Kevin Bacon appears with Colin Firth, and Rachel Blanchard in a three-way sex scene in the recent movie Where The Truth Lies. Wow. Never mind six degrees of seperation from Kevin Bacon, how about ZERO degrees of seperation from Kevin Bacon?
Kevin Bacon appears with Colin Firth, and Rachel Blanchard in a three-way sex scene in the recent movie Where The Truth Lies. Wow. Never mind six degrees of seperation from Kevin Bacon, how about ZERO degrees of seperation from Kevin Bacon?
Donald Trump Comment
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE EIGHTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM MAY TO NOVEMBER 2006.
Did you read that report in the paper that said scientists' studies have discovered that the most successful business people suffer from brain damage? I guess that explains Donald Trump's singing of the Green Acres theme song on the Emmy Awards.
Did you read that report in the paper that said scientists' studies have discovered that the most successful business people suffer from brain damage? I guess that explains Donald Trump's singing of the Green Acres theme song on the Emmy Awards.
The Jessica Simpson/Nick Lachey Breakup
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE EIGHTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM MAY TO NOVEMBER 2006.
Regarding the Jessica Simpson/Nick Lachey breakup, I guess her boots really were made for walking! And after they broke up, I was browsing CDs at Wal-Mart and came across 98 Degrees' Christmas Album. One of the songs is "I'll Be Home For Christmas." Well, yeah, Nick, I guess you were home for Christmas this year! At your parents' place! You probably sang that song there, too! I heard on Nick's new solo album there's a picture of him beside his new home, a trailer. Maybe it was a sublet from Julie and Marissa on The O.C.!
Regarding the Jessica Simpson/Nick Lachey breakup, I guess her boots really were made for walking! And after they broke up, I was browsing CDs at Wal-Mart and came across 98 Degrees' Christmas Album. One of the songs is "I'll Be Home For Christmas." Well, yeah, Nick, I guess you were home for Christmas this year! At your parents' place! You probably sang that song there, too! I heard on Nick's new solo album there's a picture of him beside his new home, a trailer. Maybe it was a sublet from Julie and Marissa on The O.C.!
The Lousy United States Drinking Age Of 21
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE EIGHTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM MAY TO NOVEMBER 2006.
Wow - Five months you people had to wait before seeing a new Beau Zone. That's because I was taking a course in Microsoft Word from January to March. But we're back now! Let's start with this recent stupid crackdown in some United States nightclubs on people, including celebrities, between the ages of 18 and 21 drinking in the clubs. Really, let's talk about the more stupid U.S. drinking age of 21. Like, what's up with that? Here in the province of Manitoba in Canada the drinking age is 18. Which only makes perfect sense, because the legal age of adulthood is 18. In fact, it is in the U.S., too, so with what adulthood and "coming of age" is supposed to represent, let me get this straight: You're a legal, responsible adult at 18.....but you can't drink until you're 21? What's up with that? Why isn't there more outcry about this in the United States? Is it because of all the heavier trafffic and more dangerous freeways generally found in the greater population density of the U.S., and the resulting increased abundance of concern over drinking and driving that comes with it? You know, the same logic car-rental companies use to deny a rental to anyone under 25. What it's actually doing is keeping people in adolescence longer, which can be a good thing in the clubs, malls, and hip clothing and record stores, but can also be a bad thing if you're looking for a good doctor or skilled tradespeople. Ashlee Simpson drunk at a McDonald's in Toronto, ON here in Canada caused people to say, "She's just being 21." I sneer at that. 21 - yeah, right. She's just being 18 here in Manitoba. In fact, some people who aren't naturally party people will experiment with drinking alcohol at 18 when they become an adult here in Manitoba, they'll do their rites of passage like puking at parties, etc., and they'll have it all out of their system by the ripe old age of 21, THREE YEARS LATER. Then they can get to the business at hand of getting their degree. And their approach to booze and partying becomes more mature. The girls may still want to wear hip jeans or dress like sluts, and get drunk on the weekend from time to time, but it's at a more adult level. Americans, through their backward drinking age of 21, are more like grade 12 teenagers when they turn 21 and can then legally drink. Of course, as I turn this discussion upside down now, this argument doesn't apply to those people that are destined to stay terminal adolescents for the rest of their lives. Those who always party at a level somewhere between the two levels I describe above. Like me and Hollywood celebrities! Hey, if anyone can get this message to celebrities between 18 and 21 that like to party like Linday Lohan or Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen - Hey, girls, guess what, the drinking age here in Manitoba, Canada is 18!! Here, YOU'RE LEGAL!!! Maybe you can find a movie to star in that shoots here in Winnipeg, MB. Then at night you can hit the clubs and party the night away! Fuck the Red Bull - you can drink Smirnoff Ice or Bacardi or beer or whatever BOOZE your hearts desire! Most of the bigger and more sophisticated clubs have specially-built outdoor smoking compounds, too, as unfortunately, we now have a lousy stinking smoking ban in bars here, too. (Maybe someday I'll write about that here on The Beau Zone.) Getting back to the drinking age, I believe in every province in Canada it's either 18 or 19. In Ontario it's 19. Party on, girls! And don't forget to bring your hottest micro-minis and stilettos!
Wow - Five months you people had to wait before seeing a new Beau Zone. That's because I was taking a course in Microsoft Word from January to March. But we're back now! Let's start with this recent stupid crackdown in some United States nightclubs on people, including celebrities, between the ages of 18 and 21 drinking in the clubs. Really, let's talk about the more stupid U.S. drinking age of 21. Like, what's up with that? Here in the province of Manitoba in Canada the drinking age is 18. Which only makes perfect sense, because the legal age of adulthood is 18. In fact, it is in the U.S., too, so with what adulthood and "coming of age" is supposed to represent, let me get this straight: You're a legal, responsible adult at 18.....but you can't drink until you're 21? What's up with that? Why isn't there more outcry about this in the United States? Is it because of all the heavier trafffic and more dangerous freeways generally found in the greater population density of the U.S., and the resulting increased abundance of concern over drinking and driving that comes with it? You know, the same logic car-rental companies use to deny a rental to anyone under 25. What it's actually doing is keeping people in adolescence longer, which can be a good thing in the clubs, malls, and hip clothing and record stores, but can also be a bad thing if you're looking for a good doctor or skilled tradespeople. Ashlee Simpson drunk at a McDonald's in Toronto, ON here in Canada caused people to say, "She's just being 21." I sneer at that. 21 - yeah, right. She's just being 18 here in Manitoba. In fact, some people who aren't naturally party people will experiment with drinking alcohol at 18 when they become an adult here in Manitoba, they'll do their rites of passage like puking at parties, etc., and they'll have it all out of their system by the ripe old age of 21, THREE YEARS LATER. Then they can get to the business at hand of getting their degree. And their approach to booze and partying becomes more mature. The girls may still want to wear hip jeans or dress like sluts, and get drunk on the weekend from time to time, but it's at a more adult level. Americans, through their backward drinking age of 21, are more like grade 12 teenagers when they turn 21 and can then legally drink. Of course, as I turn this discussion upside down now, this argument doesn't apply to those people that are destined to stay terminal adolescents for the rest of their lives. Those who always party at a level somewhere between the two levels I describe above. Like me and Hollywood celebrities! Hey, if anyone can get this message to celebrities between 18 and 21 that like to party like Linday Lohan or Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen - Hey, girls, guess what, the drinking age here in Manitoba, Canada is 18!! Here, YOU'RE LEGAL!!! Maybe you can find a movie to star in that shoots here in Winnipeg, MB. Then at night you can hit the clubs and party the night away! Fuck the Red Bull - you can drink Smirnoff Ice or Bacardi or beer or whatever BOOZE your hearts desire! Most of the bigger and more sophisticated clubs have specially-built outdoor smoking compounds, too, as unfortunately, we now have a lousy stinking smoking ban in bars here, too. (Maybe someday I'll write about that here on The Beau Zone.) Getting back to the drinking age, I believe in every province in Canada it's either 18 or 19. In Ontario it's 19. Party on, girls! And don't forget to bring your hottest micro-minis and stilettos!
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Pro Wrestling Comments
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE SEVENTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM DECEMBER 2005 TO MAY 2006.
This section continues to feature old comments, as I had numerous funny ones that I didn't have room for in previous Beau Zones, plus I have little in the way of new comments, and/or no time to write any new thoughts on wrestling I may have.
Remember when Molly Holly tried wrestling with a wig on? Now she knows why Golddust took off his wig before he started wrestling his match.
So Mordecai comes out on Smackdown and calls all Toronto women harlots, including mothers, daughters, wives, girlfriends, etc. Then Chavo Classic is surrounded by older Toronto hot babes. Hey, looks like Mordecai was right! (Yeah, I know Classic paid those women off, but that's what my comment was when watching before Classic paid the women off.)
JBL should cut a promo saying "Let me get this straight, CNBC cuts me because I'm too controversial, but they hire John McEnroe to do a talk show?"
Ever wonder if previous Raw General Manager Eric Bischoff's sister watches Raw? And what she thought of what her brother has done to poor Eugene? Wonder if she responded. She sure never showed up at Raw with backup to counter Bischoff!
How about where Maria interviews Shawn Michaels about his match with "The Edge." Maybe she thought he was wrestling The Edge from the band U2. Maybe at the next PPV they can have that match. They could even have Bono vs. Paul Martin as the main event on that card, since Bono is pissed off with Paul Martin right now. Hey, and in Paul Martin's corner, now he could have Belinda Stronach!
How about Raw on August 29, with Alter Bridge cheering on Edge: Aren't they a psuedo-Christian band? In a heel's corner? Or was that just when those guys were with Scott Stapp as Creed? Hey, maybe Scott Stapp should have been in Matt Hardy's corner!
This section continues to feature old comments, as I had numerous funny ones that I didn't have room for in previous Beau Zones, plus I have little in the way of new comments, and/or no time to write any new thoughts on wrestling I may have.
Remember when Molly Holly tried wrestling with a wig on? Now she knows why Golddust took off his wig before he started wrestling his match.
So Mordecai comes out on Smackdown and calls all Toronto women harlots, including mothers, daughters, wives, girlfriends, etc. Then Chavo Classic is surrounded by older Toronto hot babes. Hey, looks like Mordecai was right! (Yeah, I know Classic paid those women off, but that's what my comment was when watching before Classic paid the women off.)
JBL should cut a promo saying "Let me get this straight, CNBC cuts me because I'm too controversial, but they hire John McEnroe to do a talk show?"
Ever wonder if previous Raw General Manager Eric Bischoff's sister watches Raw? And what she thought of what her brother has done to poor Eugene? Wonder if she responded. She sure never showed up at Raw with backup to counter Bischoff!
How about where Maria interviews Shawn Michaels about his match with "The Edge." Maybe she thought he was wrestling The Edge from the band U2. Maybe at the next PPV they can have that match. They could even have Bono vs. Paul Martin as the main event on that card, since Bono is pissed off with Paul Martin right now. Hey, and in Paul Martin's corner, now he could have Belinda Stronach!
How about Raw on August 29, with Alter Bridge cheering on Edge: Aren't they a psuedo-Christian band? In a heel's corner? Or was that just when those guys were with Scott Stapp as Creed? Hey, maybe Scott Stapp should have been in Matt Hardy's corner!
Britney & Kevin Comment
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE SEVENTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM DECEMBER 2005 TO MAY 2006.
Before Britney & Kevin's son was born, I thought that Britney should divorce Kevin and call her kid Billy.....get it? Billy Spears? Any Beatles fans out there? Then Billy will sing, "What would you think if my mom sang out of tune? Would you stand up and walk out on her?".....Oh, wait a sec. Aw, darn, that's Billy SHEARS, not Billy Spears. Hey, that was ALMOST funny!
Before Britney & Kevin's son was born, I thought that Britney should divorce Kevin and call her kid Billy.....get it? Billy Spears? Any Beatles fans out there? Then Billy will sing, "What would you think if my mom sang out of tune? Would you stand up and walk out on her?".....Oh, wait a sec. Aw, darn, that's Billy SHEARS, not Billy Spears. Hey, that was ALMOST funny!
Justin Timberlake Puking Comment
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE SEVENTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM DECEMBER 2005 TO MAY 2006.
Apparently Justin Timberlake puked on a floor in a restaurant when he couldn't get to the bathroom in time. Maybe he had just ate one of those Kit Kat Banana bars. Then I heard the restaurant's employees were considering offering the vomit for sale on E-bay. Hey, if they sold it, then maybe they could arrange to ship it to the buyer via Puke-o-lator!!!!!
Apparently Justin Timberlake puked on a floor in a restaurant when he couldn't get to the bathroom in time. Maybe he had just ate one of those Kit Kat Banana bars. Then I heard the restaurant's employees were considering offering the vomit for sale on E-bay. Hey, if they sold it, then maybe they could arrange to ship it to the buyer via Puke-o-lator!!!!!
Rachel, Ryan, and Alanis Comment
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE SEVENTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM DECEMBER 2005 TO MAY 2006.
I saw the Teen Choice Awards and saw Rachel McAdams giving Ryan Reynolds a big smooch. Don't know if she really was into him, but aren't he and Alanis almost married? Hey, maybe Alanis got mad at that and when he came home she said to him, "Did she go down on you in a theatre?" Or hey, maybe Alanis, Rachel, and Ryan can all get together for a new show called "Two girls, a guy, and a pizza place!"
I saw the Teen Choice Awards and saw Rachel McAdams giving Ryan Reynolds a big smooch. Don't know if she really was into him, but aren't he and Alanis almost married? Hey, maybe Alanis got mad at that and when he came home she said to him, "Did she go down on you in a theatre?" Or hey, maybe Alanis, Rachel, and Ryan can all get together for a new show called "Two girls, a guy, and a pizza place!"
Steven Tyler "Be Cool" Mistake Spoken By Steven Himself!?!?
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE SEVENTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM DECEMBER 2005 TO MAY 2006.
In the scene in the Get Shorty sequel, Be Cool, where John Travolta and Uma Thurman are convincing Steven Tyler that he was thinking about his daughters Mia and Liv (names mentioned) when he wrote the song Sweet Emotion, Steven responds, "Yeah, but they were just kids then." Wait a sec - they weren't even born then! He would have co-wrote Sweet Emotion around 1973 or so, as it was on the Aerosmith album Toys In The Attic that was released in either 1974 or 1975. According to Google, Liv Tyler was born July 1, 1977, and Mia Tyler was born December 22, 1978. Steven Tyler even thought Todd Rundgren was Liv's father until well into the '80s. So why did Steven Tyler agree to utter that line of dialogue in the film? I have no idea! (Anyone know?)
In the scene in the Get Shorty sequel, Be Cool, where John Travolta and Uma Thurman are convincing Steven Tyler that he was thinking about his daughters Mia and Liv (names mentioned) when he wrote the song Sweet Emotion, Steven responds, "Yeah, but they were just kids then." Wait a sec - they weren't even born then! He would have co-wrote Sweet Emotion around 1973 or so, as it was on the Aerosmith album Toys In The Attic that was released in either 1974 or 1975. According to Google, Liv Tyler was born July 1, 1977, and Mia Tyler was born December 22, 1978. Steven Tyler even thought Todd Rundgren was Liv's father until well into the '80s. So why did Steven Tyler agree to utter that line of dialogue in the film? I have no idea! (Anyone know?)
Elton John Wedding Comment
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE SEVENTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM DECEMBER 2005 TO MAY 2006.
So Elton John got married to another man right before Christmas. I wonder if anyone at the wedding sang, ".....don we now our gay apparel.....?"
So Elton John got married to another man right before Christmas. I wonder if anyone at the wedding sang, ".....don we now our gay apparel.....?"
That '70s Show Stuff
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE SEVENTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM DECEMBER 2005 TO MAY 2006.
When I heard that Ashton Kutcher had wrapped up filming his last episode of That '70s Show, I thought, "Huh? I knew he was supposed to be in four episodes this season, but I assumed they would be spread throughout the season, kind of like John Travolta's deal when he first stopped being a regular on Welcome Back Kotter. It's just that I think I've also heard this will be the last season for That '70s Show, so wouldn't it make sense for one of those four appearances to be the last episode? Where, also, perhaps Eric comes home from Africa and Topher Grace also comes back for the final episode? (Eric might as well come back permanently if the show's going off the air.) They couldn't have pre-filmed that episode - it would have been all over the gossip mags and the web for sure. A head scratcher. (They could also finally go into 1980 on that last episode, too.)" But since I had those thoughts, those four episodes have aired. Oh, okay, I see - the last of those four with Bruce Willis, was the plotline to take him out of the show. So for a last episode.....no Kelso? No Kelso AND Eric? Or was "Ashton Kutcher in only four episodes" not to be taken that literally? Not that it was meant to be a lie, maybe they just didn't want to take away from what a last episode could be.....or maybe they just don't know yet. We'll have to wait and see, I guess. And as per my previous Beau Zone discussions, boy, they've sure been stuck in 1979 for a very long time now. This season, though, do you notice the year sticker at the bottom right hand corner of the license plate, instead of going up a year to read "80," is instead, GONE! Hmmmm.....
When I heard that Ashton Kutcher had wrapped up filming his last episode of That '70s Show, I thought, "Huh? I knew he was supposed to be in four episodes this season, but I assumed they would be spread throughout the season, kind of like John Travolta's deal when he first stopped being a regular on Welcome Back Kotter. It's just that I think I've also heard this will be the last season for That '70s Show, so wouldn't it make sense for one of those four appearances to be the last episode? Where, also, perhaps Eric comes home from Africa and Topher Grace also comes back for the final episode? (Eric might as well come back permanently if the show's going off the air.) They couldn't have pre-filmed that episode - it would have been all over the gossip mags and the web for sure. A head scratcher. (They could also finally go into 1980 on that last episode, too.)" But since I had those thoughts, those four episodes have aired. Oh, okay, I see - the last of those four with Bruce Willis, was the plotline to take him out of the show. So for a last episode.....no Kelso? No Kelso AND Eric? Or was "Ashton Kutcher in only four episodes" not to be taken that literally? Not that it was meant to be a lie, maybe they just didn't want to take away from what a last episode could be.....or maybe they just don't know yet. We'll have to wait and see, I guess. And as per my previous Beau Zone discussions, boy, they've sure been stuck in 1979 for a very long time now. This season, though, do you notice the year sticker at the bottom right hand corner of the license plate, instead of going up a year to read "80," is instead, GONE! Hmmmm.....
Hilary Duff New Year's Eve Stuff (Hey, that rhymes!)
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE SEVENTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM DECEMBER 2005 TO MAY 2006.
In a recent edition of Us Weekly, Joel Madden said Hilary Duff wants a sewing machine for Christmas. Now that that's out there, by the time Christmas arrives, is Hilary going to think her request is "Sew Yesterday, Sew Yesterday?" (GET IT?) I wonder if any of her fans reading that will send her sewing machines the way Eva Longoria's fans sent her vibrators. I hope anyone in the first few rows at all the shows on her upcoming post-Christmas concert tour holds up signs saying, "Hilary, did you get your sewing machine for Xmas?" And, hey, now that Hilary's hosting the L.A. portion of Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, Dick and Ryan Seacrest live in Times Square can ask her if she got her sewing machine for Christmas! And she can answer "Ah,....yeah! Ha Ha!" with a cornball, kind of flustered/embarassed look on her face, because her portion of that show will have been taped before Christmas!
In a recent edition of Us Weekly, Joel Madden said Hilary Duff wants a sewing machine for Christmas. Now that that's out there, by the time Christmas arrives, is Hilary going to think her request is "Sew Yesterday, Sew Yesterday?" (GET IT?) I wonder if any of her fans reading that will send her sewing machines the way Eva Longoria's fans sent her vibrators. I hope anyone in the first few rows at all the shows on her upcoming post-Christmas concert tour holds up signs saying, "Hilary, did you get your sewing machine for Xmas?" And, hey, now that Hilary's hosting the L.A. portion of Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, Dick and Ryan Seacrest live in Times Square can ask her if she got her sewing machine for Christmas! And she can answer "Ah,....yeah! Ha Ha!" with a cornball, kind of flustered/embarassed look on her face, because her portion of that show will have been taped before Christmas!
Kevin Donnelly's Good Charlotte/Simple Plan Winnipeg Concert Fiasco Response
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE SEVENTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM DECEMBER 2005 TO MAY 2006.
Well, it took a while due to other commitments, but finally here's a new Beau Zone. One of those commitments was finding you people an explanation for the Good Charlotte/Simple Plan fiasco I opened The Beau Zone with last column. Briefly, just after the Good Charlotte/Simple Plan show was moved from The Burton Cummings Theatre to the MTS Centre this past summer, Simple Plan mysteriously dropped out. Why? My e-mails to Simple Plan bounced back, saying their inbox was full. My e-mails to Winnipeg newspaper music writers were not answered. I didn't know who the promotor was. But Kevin Donnelly, Senior Vice-President of Event Management and Building Operations for True North, which runs the MTS Centre, did respond. Now, I never saw ALL the news or advertising on this bill, which makes his response to this issue both interesting and puzzling. Was this tour only for the U.S.? Following is the response from Kevin Donnelly, Senior Vice-President of Event Management and Building Operations for True North, which runs the MTS Centre:
"I hate to break it to you, but there are no 'conspiracies' secretly held in the Winnipeg concert promoting world - no shady ties between writers and bookers and venues in an attempt to fool the public. As I recall it - and please understand I am only the venue here - I responded to a call from the promoter who was interested in moving a sold out show from Venue A (The Burt) to Venue B (MTS Centre). Simple Plan were never on the bill for the show at The Burt. They were touring together as a package in the U.S., but the package was never promoted anywhere in Canada to my knowledge. They were never mentioned in any conversations I had with the event promoter. Radio station employees (and the newspaper writers for that matter) routinely pick up info from one source and assume it is accurate - even if it is not the source they know provides the correct information for their town. Speaking from experience (I used to be a concert promoter), radio jocks and writers used to announce concerts based on info from magazines and from record companies - even if the promoter (the only one who would be 100% accurate, because they are the one creating the show) was telling them otherwise. This regularly leads to the announcing of wrong dates (happens all the time), wrong venues (Bartley Kives announced Barenaked Ladies for the Concert Hall), and sometimes even wrong performers on the bill. I don’t doubt that you may have heard SP with GC on the radio somewhere, but in reality I don’t think the show was ever booked that way for Winnipeg. Blame the lazy disc jockey who watched E Talk Daily about the tour in the U.S. and assumed the package was coming here. Sorry to disappoint. Not second shooter on the grassy knoll… - Kevin"
So there you have it. I have found tour dates on the web supporting what Kevin says, although I don't know when those pages were posted. I also tried e-mailing Remo at Hot 103, 'cause that's the station that kept saying "Good Charlotte and Simple Plan are coming" that let to the Burt selling out in five minutes in the first place, since, as you recall, I turned on the radio that night in June just as Remo's interview with someone in Simple Plan had ended and Remo had said, ".....and that's why Simple Plan won't be opening for Good Charlotte at the show's new venue, MTS Centre, now." Remo did respond to me, saying he doesn't remember any of it and that it could have been one of the other jocks. Yeah, right. I have found a great SP fan website as I write this, one that acknowledges much of the facts you have just read. I'll try asking the girl who runs it about all of this. If she has any substantial answer, I'll put it on the NEXT Beau Zone, otherwise that is all for this topic.
Well, it took a while due to other commitments, but finally here's a new Beau Zone. One of those commitments was finding you people an explanation for the Good Charlotte/Simple Plan fiasco I opened The Beau Zone with last column. Briefly, just after the Good Charlotte/Simple Plan show was moved from The Burton Cummings Theatre to the MTS Centre this past summer, Simple Plan mysteriously dropped out. Why? My e-mails to Simple Plan bounced back, saying their inbox was full. My e-mails to Winnipeg newspaper music writers were not answered. I didn't know who the promotor was. But Kevin Donnelly, Senior Vice-President of Event Management and Building Operations for True North, which runs the MTS Centre, did respond. Now, I never saw ALL the news or advertising on this bill, which makes his response to this issue both interesting and puzzling. Was this tour only for the U.S.? Following is the response from Kevin Donnelly, Senior Vice-President of Event Management and Building Operations for True North, which runs the MTS Centre:
"I hate to break it to you, but there are no 'conspiracies' secretly held in the Winnipeg concert promoting world - no shady ties between writers and bookers and venues in an attempt to fool the public. As I recall it - and please understand I am only the venue here - I responded to a call from the promoter who was interested in moving a sold out show from Venue A (The Burt) to Venue B (MTS Centre). Simple Plan were never on the bill for the show at The Burt. They were touring together as a package in the U.S., but the package was never promoted anywhere in Canada to my knowledge. They were never mentioned in any conversations I had with the event promoter. Radio station employees (and the newspaper writers for that matter) routinely pick up info from one source and assume it is accurate - even if it is not the source they know provides the correct information for their town. Speaking from experience (I used to be a concert promoter), radio jocks and writers used to announce concerts based on info from magazines and from record companies - even if the promoter (the only one who would be 100% accurate, because they are the one creating the show) was telling them otherwise. This regularly leads to the announcing of wrong dates (happens all the time), wrong venues (Bartley Kives announced Barenaked Ladies for the Concert Hall), and sometimes even wrong performers on the bill. I don’t doubt that you may have heard SP with GC on the radio somewhere, but in reality I don’t think the show was ever booked that way for Winnipeg. Blame the lazy disc jockey who watched E Talk Daily about the tour in the U.S. and assumed the package was coming here. Sorry to disappoint. Not second shooter on the grassy knoll… - Kevin"
So there you have it. I have found tour dates on the web supporting what Kevin says, although I don't know when those pages were posted. I also tried e-mailing Remo at Hot 103, 'cause that's the station that kept saying "Good Charlotte and Simple Plan are coming" that let to the Burt selling out in five minutes in the first place, since, as you recall, I turned on the radio that night in June just as Remo's interview with someone in Simple Plan had ended and Remo had said, ".....and that's why Simple Plan won't be opening for Good Charlotte at the show's new venue, MTS Centre, now." Remo did respond to me, saying he doesn't remember any of it and that it could have been one of the other jocks. Yeah, right. I have found a great SP fan website as I write this, one that acknowledges much of the facts you have just read. I'll try asking the girl who runs it about all of this. If she has any substantial answer, I'll put it on the NEXT Beau Zone, otherwise that is all for this topic.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Pro Wrestling Comments
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE SIXTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM AUGUST TO DECEMBER 2005.
How about MNM? Aren't they THE HOTTEST TAG TEAM EVER? Melina reminds me of J.Lo - In fact, Josh Matthews should ask her if Nitro & Mercury are wearing real fur, and she should angrily blurt out, "Of course they're wearing real fur, you moron!" That's in regard to J.Lo and the PETA controversy with her perhaps wearing real fur. It's about time someone started name-dropping celebrities again! I haven't heard that on a regular basis since Jesse Ventura in the 70s said stuff like, "Mean Gene, what do you think of these sunglasses Cheryl Ladd gave me?" I can hardly wait to party with Melina and the boys at Rain at The Palms or the Hard Rock Hotel in Vegas with Ashton, Paris, Nicole, Nick & Jessica, Britney & Kevin, etc.
Re: Viscera & Trish's dinner date: Maybe he should've been wearing that Tag body spray. (If anyone doesn't get that, Trish is the spokesperson in Canada for Tag Body Spray.)
Did you see Punk'd with Goldberg where the stunt backfired and the semi didn't run over his motorcycle? I wonder if Ashton Kutcher remarked to Goldberg, "I guess you're used to this kind of stuff from WCW, huh?"
This is an old comment but I wanted to use it so here goes: Remember when Heidenreich was still a heel and had to wear a straight jacket? So, at that time, lemme get this straight: With WWE's new dress code, if I ran into him at an airport, not only does he have to wear a dress shirt and dress pants, but over it he now also has to wear a straight jacket, too? Hey, how about NOW with the Road Warrior gimmick? Hey, maybe WWE will make him and Animal wear dress shirts and dress pants along with their makeup and those spiked shoulder pads! Wouldn't that be a look? Animal wearing any shirt over his gut would be an improvement, though.
How about MNM? Aren't they THE HOTTEST TAG TEAM EVER? Melina reminds me of J.Lo - In fact, Josh Matthews should ask her if Nitro & Mercury are wearing real fur, and she should angrily blurt out, "Of course they're wearing real fur, you moron!" That's in regard to J.Lo and the PETA controversy with her perhaps wearing real fur. It's about time someone started name-dropping celebrities again! I haven't heard that on a regular basis since Jesse Ventura in the 70s said stuff like, "Mean Gene, what do you think of these sunglasses Cheryl Ladd gave me?" I can hardly wait to party with Melina and the boys at Rain at The Palms or the Hard Rock Hotel in Vegas with Ashton, Paris, Nicole, Nick & Jessica, Britney & Kevin, etc.
Re: Viscera & Trish's dinner date: Maybe he should've been wearing that Tag body spray. (If anyone doesn't get that, Trish is the spokesperson in Canada for Tag Body Spray.)
Did you see Punk'd with Goldberg where the stunt backfired and the semi didn't run over his motorcycle? I wonder if Ashton Kutcher remarked to Goldberg, "I guess you're used to this kind of stuff from WCW, huh?"
This is an old comment but I wanted to use it so here goes: Remember when Heidenreich was still a heel and had to wear a straight jacket? So, at that time, lemme get this straight: With WWE's new dress code, if I ran into him at an airport, not only does he have to wear a dress shirt and dress pants, but over it he now also has to wear a straight jacket, too? Hey, how about NOW with the Road Warrior gimmick? Hey, maybe WWE will make him and Animal wear dress shirts and dress pants along with their makeup and those spiked shoulder pads! Wouldn't that be a look? Animal wearing any shirt over his gut would be an improvement, though.
Las Vegas (The TV Show) Stuff
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE SIXTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM AUGUST TO DECEMBER 2005.
How about that woman who walked out on her wedding and went to Las Vegas? Hey, that would be a great plot for the TV show Las Vegas! Picture the beginning of the show - Samantha, Delinda, Mary, and Nessa are walking around the casino at the Montecito laughing and talking when they hear a woman sitting at one of the slot machines crying. They ask her what's the matter. She says, "I just walked out of my wedding!" They look at each other, concerned. And for the rest of the hour they help her with her problems! It'll be great! Just don't let Jon Lovitz get involved!
How about that woman who walked out on her wedding and went to Las Vegas? Hey, that would be a great plot for the TV show Las Vegas! Picture the beginning of the show - Samantha, Delinda, Mary, and Nessa are walking around the casino at the Montecito laughing and talking when they hear a woman sitting at one of the slot machines crying. They ask her what's the matter. She says, "I just walked out of my wedding!" They look at each other, concerned. And for the rest of the hour they help her with her problems! It'll be great! Just don't let Jon Lovitz get involved!
Winnipeg Nightclub & Nightlife Stuff
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE SIXTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM AUGUST TO DECEMBER 2005.
Anyone notice that girls have been showing their midriffs in nightclubs for years now, just as those nightclubs are now only playing slow songs at the end of the night. (They used to play a slow song set two or three times a night.) What's up with that?
Anyone notice that girls have been showing their midriffs in nightclubs for years now, just as those nightclubs are now only playing slow songs at the end of the night. (They used to play a slow song set two or three times a night.) What's up with that?
Juno Awards Stuff
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE SIXTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM AUGUST TO DECEMBER 2005.
The Juno Awards were held in Winnipeg this past April. I have lots of comments about that:
Before the show, I had heard an announcement would be forthcoming from CARAS concerning previously-announced Juno Award performers and presenters that would now be dropping out of the awards show as they had just realized the Junos are being held the same night as Wrestlemania 21. Some of these celebrities were thinking of coming to Winnipeg anyway and just watch it at The O.C. (formerly The Beach, formerly Scandals, formerly Haggar's) at the Norlander Inn with Joe & Cyrus. Yes, I'm kidding around, although if that did happen, I wonder what matches they would have chosen to miss when it's time to spend a few minutes in the outdoor smoking compound, unless they had TVs set up out there. And there's no truth to the rumor that Neil Young was at first denied access to watch the Junos at the Canadian consulate in New York because Pamela Wallin's staff wanted to watch Wrestlemania 21, either. I wonder if Neil wanted to see W21, though? Now, how about Chantal Kreviazuk? Cancelled her appearance due to pregnancy? A likely story. She just wanted to see W21! Maybe she wanted to cheer on her fellow Winnipeg hometown hero Chris Jericho.
On a more serious note, since I couldn't get around to this comment at the time of Northern Lights, Northern Stars, the opening show at our new arena, the MTS Centre, here it is now as it pertains to the Junos: I predicted someone will say to Burton Cummings or Randy Bachman that night, "I bought your first record/I bought my first record by you right here in this building when it was Eaton's!"
And too bad Bryan Adams didn't come. When/if he does show up at MTS Centre to perform, where the stage is located is pretty damn close to where A & A Records was at Eaton Place when he did an autograph signing there when he was in Winnipeg opening for Loverboy at Winnipeg Arena in 1982. Wonder if he'd remember. I got his autograph on his "Lonely Nights" picture single. There were about 15 people in line, I think. Wow. I asked him if he'd do "Let Me Take You Dancing," a Saints Roller Rink fave. I didn't think he would but I thought I might hear an interesting story about that oddball disco song with chipmunk vocals that came out before his first album did and has never been on any album. Instead, he just said, "No." Oh, okay. Man of few words, I guess.
The Juno Awards were held in Winnipeg this past April. I have lots of comments about that:
Before the show, I had heard an announcement would be forthcoming from CARAS concerning previously-announced Juno Award performers and presenters that would now be dropping out of the awards show as they had just realized the Junos are being held the same night as Wrestlemania 21. Some of these celebrities were thinking of coming to Winnipeg anyway and just watch it at The O.C. (formerly The Beach, formerly Scandals, formerly Haggar's) at the Norlander Inn with Joe & Cyrus. Yes, I'm kidding around, although if that did happen, I wonder what matches they would have chosen to miss when it's time to spend a few minutes in the outdoor smoking compound, unless they had TVs set up out there. And there's no truth to the rumor that Neil Young was at first denied access to watch the Junos at the Canadian consulate in New York because Pamela Wallin's staff wanted to watch Wrestlemania 21, either. I wonder if Neil wanted to see W21, though? Now, how about Chantal Kreviazuk? Cancelled her appearance due to pregnancy? A likely story. She just wanted to see W21! Maybe she wanted to cheer on her fellow Winnipeg hometown hero Chris Jericho.
On a more serious note, since I couldn't get around to this comment at the time of Northern Lights, Northern Stars, the opening show at our new arena, the MTS Centre, here it is now as it pertains to the Junos: I predicted someone will say to Burton Cummings or Randy Bachman that night, "I bought your first record/I bought my first record by you right here in this building when it was Eaton's!"
And too bad Bryan Adams didn't come. When/if he does show up at MTS Centre to perform, where the stage is located is pretty damn close to where A & A Records was at Eaton Place when he did an autograph signing there when he was in Winnipeg opening for Loverboy at Winnipeg Arena in 1982. Wonder if he'd remember. I got his autograph on his "Lonely Nights" picture single. There were about 15 people in line, I think. Wow. I asked him if he'd do "Let Me Take You Dancing," a Saints Roller Rink fave. I didn't think he would but I thought I might hear an interesting story about that oddball disco song with chipmunk vocals that came out before his first album did and has never been on any album. Instead, he just said, "No." Oh, okay. Man of few words, I guess.
Kathy Hilton/Jay Leno/Eric Bischoff Stuff
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE SIXTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM AUGUST TO DECEMBER 2005.
Forgive me for this not being in the "Pro Wrestling" section in case you don't get this..... A recent edition of The National Enquirer reported that Kathy Hilton and her daughter Paris Hilton almost had a fight causing Paris not to appear on The Tonight Show with her mother recently. They made up, however, when Jay Leno reportedly wouldn't have Kathy Hilton on by herself. Well, of course not! Kathy Hilton's appearance was to plug her new show, I Want To Be A Hilton (which rocks, by the way - and Jules is hot). That's the show WWE Raw General Manager Eric Bischoff revealed to Joe Aiello in his famous No Holds Barred interview on CITI FM here in Winnipeg last year that he and his partner Jason Hervey had sold to NBC. THE SAME ERIC BISCHOFF that, with Hulk Hogan, as the NWO a few years ago, tried to take over The Tonight Show from Jay Leno! Remember that? Jay had to go get Diamond Dallas Page and two cops to take Hogan and Bischoff out! Of course Jay isn't going to play ball with Eric! HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!
Forgive me for this not being in the "Pro Wrestling" section in case you don't get this..... A recent edition of The National Enquirer reported that Kathy Hilton and her daughter Paris Hilton almost had a fight causing Paris not to appear on The Tonight Show with her mother recently. They made up, however, when Jay Leno reportedly wouldn't have Kathy Hilton on by herself. Well, of course not! Kathy Hilton's appearance was to plug her new show, I Want To Be A Hilton (which rocks, by the way - and Jules is hot). That's the show WWE Raw General Manager Eric Bischoff revealed to Joe Aiello in his famous No Holds Barred interview on CITI FM here in Winnipeg last year that he and his partner Jason Hervey had sold to NBC. THE SAME ERIC BISCHOFF that, with Hulk Hogan, as the NWO a few years ago, tried to take over The Tonight Show from Jay Leno! Remember that? Jay had to go get Diamond Dallas Page and two cops to take Hogan and Bischoff out! Of course Jay isn't going to play ball with Eric! HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!
That '70s Show Stuff
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE SIXTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM AUGUST TO DECEMBER 2005.
This is becoming a regular Beau Zone feature! Well, now I know That '70s Show is totally screwed. Remember when they did the talking yearbook photos gag two seasons ago? It showed "1978" at the top of the yearbook page and the gang had one year of high school left at that point. So the next year they graduate high school, except for Jackie, who, remember, is one grade behind. I think we found that out during the first season of the show. So it must be 1979 at that point, right? Now it's a year later, and over the course of the past year they did that episode where the gang goes back to high school for Jackie's dance. Okay, makes sense. Most recently, on another episode, the show starts off with the gang all walking into Eric's basement and Jackie's wearing a grad cap. she takes it off and proclaims, "Boy, am I glad to have finished high school." So that means it now must be THE SUMMER OF 1980!!!!! But it's not, of course: in the show they're still in the '70s, even though it's now two years past the summer of 1978. How does that make any sense?
This is becoming a regular Beau Zone feature! Well, now I know That '70s Show is totally screwed. Remember when they did the talking yearbook photos gag two seasons ago? It showed "1978" at the top of the yearbook page and the gang had one year of high school left at that point. So the next year they graduate high school, except for Jackie, who, remember, is one grade behind. I think we found that out during the first season of the show. So it must be 1979 at that point, right? Now it's a year later, and over the course of the past year they did that episode where the gang goes back to high school for Jackie's dance. Okay, makes sense. Most recently, on another episode, the show starts off with the gang all walking into Eric's basement and Jackie's wearing a grad cap. she takes it off and proclaims, "Boy, am I glad to have finished high school." So that means it now must be THE SUMMER OF 1980!!!!! But it's not, of course: in the show they're still in the '70s, even though it's now two years past the summer of 1978. How does that make any sense?
Good Charlotte/Simple Plan Winnipeg Concert Fiasco
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE SIXTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM AUGUST TO DECEMBER 2005.
Does anyone know why Simple Plan bailed out of their gig with Good Charlotte here in Winnipeg, MB? It was kind of a fiasco, as they were originally booked into the 2000-seat Burton Cummings Theatre that sold out in five minutes, then the show was moved to our arena, the MTS Centre, THEN Simple Plan is mysteriously off the show! Hey, it's in an arena and it sold out the theatre because it's "Good Charlotte & Simple Plan," NOT Good Charlotte and two no-name bands that ended up opening for them. I actually heard a bit of talk on this on the radio but not enough. As I awoke from a nap, I heard Remo on Hot 103 saying, ".....and that's why Simple Plan isn't opening for Good Charlotte anymore." I thought I'd read about it in our two daily newspapers but they both mysteriously ignored it! What's the dirt on this? What's the conspiracy? Good thing I didn't buy a ticket! I was going to buy one when the show first moved to the MTS Centre but couldn't get around to it for a couple of days and I'm glad because it was after those two days that I almost heard Remo as I describe above. Good thing I didn't immediately do it! Wow, what a bait-and-switch this appears to be! Maybe some party didn't want the Winnipeg media "putting ideas into fans' heads" of potentially asking for refunds because Simple Plan cancelled. Maybe promoters or someone's management wanted the Winnipeg fans to forget Simple Plan were ever on this bill. The promoters should have moved it back to the theatre once they found out Simple Plan was dropping out. So does anyone know why Simple Plan dropped out?
Does anyone know why Simple Plan bailed out of their gig with Good Charlotte here in Winnipeg, MB? It was kind of a fiasco, as they were originally booked into the 2000-seat Burton Cummings Theatre that sold out in five minutes, then the show was moved to our arena, the MTS Centre, THEN Simple Plan is mysteriously off the show! Hey, it's in an arena and it sold out the theatre because it's "Good Charlotte & Simple Plan," NOT Good Charlotte and two no-name bands that ended up opening for them. I actually heard a bit of talk on this on the radio but not enough. As I awoke from a nap, I heard Remo on Hot 103 saying, ".....and that's why Simple Plan isn't opening for Good Charlotte anymore." I thought I'd read about it in our two daily newspapers but they both mysteriously ignored it! What's the dirt on this? What's the conspiracy? Good thing I didn't buy a ticket! I was going to buy one when the show first moved to the MTS Centre but couldn't get around to it for a couple of days and I'm glad because it was after those two days that I almost heard Remo as I describe above. Good thing I didn't immediately do it! Wow, what a bait-and-switch this appears to be! Maybe some party didn't want the Winnipeg media "putting ideas into fans' heads" of potentially asking for refunds because Simple Plan cancelled. Maybe promoters or someone's management wanted the Winnipeg fans to forget Simple Plan were ever on this bill. The promoters should have moved it back to the theatre once they found out Simple Plan was dropping out. So does anyone know why Simple Plan dropped out?
Pro Wrestling Comments
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE FIFTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM APRIL TO AUGUST 2005.
Remember the Breakaway Club at the Polo Park Inn, when the wrestlers would go there to hang out after the card? They're just in the room, among the fans. None of this Sunfest/CITI FM VIP area crap. (God, I HATED seeing that VIP room with a roof, places to sit and fridges right there in front at Sunfest, just flaunting it right in front of the PAYING fans who have to put up with the elements - I hope that stupid VIP area was why Sunfest died - a VIP area should be ten miles from the stage so that anyone in it needs binoculars to see the band - give the PAYING FANS the damn benches, fridges, and a roof over their head. If I was invited in the VIP area during the Hard Rock Heroes years, I would have checked it out, but probably not stayed there long, as I would have been embarrased to be in there.) So when Chris Jericho's band Fozzy came to town that first time at The Colesseum in December 2003 and Joe Aiello on CITI FM's No Holds Barred said WWE wrestlers might be at the gig because it took place after that night's WWE card, I truly, sincerly thought it would be a throwback to the Breakaway Club days with the wrestlers just in the bar among the people. I never dreamed in my wildest dreams they would be sequestered into a damn upstairs VIP area. I sure felt like a peon that night, little old me, JUST A PAYING FAN. So what would it take to bring back the days of the Breakaway Club? And just where DO the wrestlers go after the card now? Is it really like the article in the WWE Mag that said Kane reads Shakespeare novels after the card, etc., and no one goes to bars anymore? I wondered to myself if the wrestlers would be going to the Tijuana Yacht Club when that place first opened, but when I went there after the first applicable WWE card, no wrestlers showed up. So where are they? DO they just go out in public anymore like they used to at the Breakaway Club? Or are they just too big for that now? And I don't mean that sarcasticly - ARE WWE superstars more like Elvis and Britney now, that they would get really hounded in public, moreso than they ever did at the Breakaway Club? I e-mailed Cyrus at the time that Fozzy gig happened to tell him maybe this would make a good future subject for his Winnipeg Sun column, but alas, he never approached it, and now he doesn't do a column anymore.
Speaking of Cyrus, I had been drooling at the thought of upcoming stories in the Stanley Weston wrestling mags on Don Callis taking control of TNA (a cover story with Don on the cover, perhaps?), but alas, I guess that happened, along with Don suddenly quitting the company a bit later, in such a time period that allowed all of that to occur between issues. I had been hoping Don's taking control of TNA would be right before their deadline, hence all the cover stories. Since that wasn't the case, the info was just buried in their news tidbits with the addition that Don had left the company for "a full-time job in his hometown." Oh, well.
So if Lita's baby really was Kane's, but Matt Hardy had won that night's match on Raw, would the baby have been (or still have been) named Matt Hardy, Version 2?
I guess a couple of weeks after it happened, JBL got one of those photo radar tickets in the mail from Eddie Guerrero driving his limo. If that had happened here for our Smackdown taping, would he have gotten Bob Holliday to pay the ticket?
Remember the Breakaway Club at the Polo Park Inn, when the wrestlers would go there to hang out after the card? They're just in the room, among the fans. None of this Sunfest/CITI FM VIP area crap. (God, I HATED seeing that VIP room with a roof, places to sit and fridges right there in front at Sunfest, just flaunting it right in front of the PAYING fans who have to put up with the elements - I hope that stupid VIP area was why Sunfest died - a VIP area should be ten miles from the stage so that anyone in it needs binoculars to see the band - give the PAYING FANS the damn benches, fridges, and a roof over their head. If I was invited in the VIP area during the Hard Rock Heroes years, I would have checked it out, but probably not stayed there long, as I would have been embarrased to be in there.) So when Chris Jericho's band Fozzy came to town that first time at The Colesseum in December 2003 and Joe Aiello on CITI FM's No Holds Barred said WWE wrestlers might be at the gig because it took place after that night's WWE card, I truly, sincerly thought it would be a throwback to the Breakaway Club days with the wrestlers just in the bar among the people. I never dreamed in my wildest dreams they would be sequestered into a damn upstairs VIP area. I sure felt like a peon that night, little old me, JUST A PAYING FAN. So what would it take to bring back the days of the Breakaway Club? And just where DO the wrestlers go after the card now? Is it really like the article in the WWE Mag that said Kane reads Shakespeare novels after the card, etc., and no one goes to bars anymore? I wondered to myself if the wrestlers would be going to the Tijuana Yacht Club when that place first opened, but when I went there after the first applicable WWE card, no wrestlers showed up. So where are they? DO they just go out in public anymore like they used to at the Breakaway Club? Or are they just too big for that now? And I don't mean that sarcasticly - ARE WWE superstars more like Elvis and Britney now, that they would get really hounded in public, moreso than they ever did at the Breakaway Club? I e-mailed Cyrus at the time that Fozzy gig happened to tell him maybe this would make a good future subject for his Winnipeg Sun column, but alas, he never approached it, and now he doesn't do a column anymore.
Speaking of Cyrus, I had been drooling at the thought of upcoming stories in the Stanley Weston wrestling mags on Don Callis taking control of TNA (a cover story with Don on the cover, perhaps?), but alas, I guess that happened, along with Don suddenly quitting the company a bit later, in such a time period that allowed all of that to occur between issues. I had been hoping Don's taking control of TNA would be right before their deadline, hence all the cover stories. Since that wasn't the case, the info was just buried in their news tidbits with the addition that Don had left the company for "a full-time job in his hometown." Oh, well.
So if Lita's baby really was Kane's, but Matt Hardy had won that night's match on Raw, would the baby have been (or still have been) named Matt Hardy, Version 2?
I guess a couple of weeks after it happened, JBL got one of those photo radar tickets in the mail from Eddie Guerrero driving his limo. If that had happened here for our Smackdown taping, would he have gotten Bob Holliday to pay the ticket?
Winnipeg Nightclub & Nightlife Stuff
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE FIFTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM APRIL TO AUGUST 2005.
How about this for a good name for a nightclub: "Aisle 18." Why? Two reasons: 1) The drinking age here in Manitoba is 18. 2) At a pharmaceutical wholesaler I am acquainted with, a lot of the birth-control pills are kept in Aisle 18. Birth-control pills and nightclubs: now there's synergy!
How about this for a good name for a nightclub: "Aisle 18." Why? Two reasons: 1) The drinking age here in Manitoba is 18. 2) At a pharmaceutical wholesaler I am acquainted with, a lot of the birth-control pills are kept in Aisle 18. Birth-control pills and nightclubs: now there's synergy!
Rock And Roll
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE FIFTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM APRIL TO AUGUST 2005.
I heard someone paid $1500.00 for a pair of Bryan Adams' unwashed socks he left in a car he was changing in. I wonder how those socks smell. I'll bet they.....cut like a knife!!!!
I heard someone paid $1500.00 for a pair of Bryan Adams' unwashed socks he left in a car he was changing in. I wonder how those socks smell. I'll bet they.....cut like a knife!!!!
An Idea Regarding Winnipeg Arena Memories
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE FIFTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM APRIL TO AUGUST 2005.
One of the last Winnipeg Arena concerts was Sarah McLachlan. I didn't go. I wonder if she dedicated "I Will Remember You" to the old barn. It would have been fitting. Actually, at the time I originally thought of this comment I thought that would be the last concert/touring show there, until Van Halen became the last touring show, plus Power 97 scheduled their 8-ball show there a few days ahead of Van Halen with The Trews and all those other bands.
One of the last Winnipeg Arena concerts was Sarah McLachlan. I didn't go. I wonder if she dedicated "I Will Remember You" to the old barn. It would have been fitting. Actually, at the time I originally thought of this comment I thought that would be the last concert/touring show there, until Van Halen became the last touring show, plus Power 97 scheduled their 8-ball show there a few days ahead of Van Halen with The Trews and all those other bands.
Another Apprentice Comment
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THE FIFTH EDITION OF "THE BEAU ZONE" ON THE HARD ROCK HEROES WEBSITE FROM APRIL TO AUGUST 2005.
Hey, instead of designing a new Pepsi bottle, how about if the teams on The Apprentice had designed the bottle for that new Trump cologne? What's the matter, Don, baby, wouldn't you allow your candidates a plumb opportunity like that?
Hey, instead of designing a new Pepsi bottle, how about if the teams on The Apprentice had designed the bottle for that new Trump cologne? What's the matter, Don, baby, wouldn't you allow your candidates a plumb opportunity like that?
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