Obviously, I’m not going to venture back to the beginning of time. Let us travel back to the middle 1930s. Here’s the setting, America is a top performer drawing a lot of cheers and applause, not quite a main-eventer, but has been a face and getting a push for a while. America had quite a history of its own. Formerly part of the “British Empire” stable along with England, America broke away from them years back and stepped out of the shadow with an upset victory, shocking the world. Ever since then, America had a fruitful solo career. Some time had passed and now and elsewhere, Germany had teamed up with Japan and was in a feud with England who had to make a deal with the devil to fight these two off and join forces with Russia.
One day, Japan stopped America backstage and peaceful words were exchanged, both sides agreeing to steer clear of one-another. America started to walk away after this conversation and Japan quickly acquired and chair and whacked America in the back of the head. …A Pearl Harbor job – if you will. So America joined up with the alliance of Russia and England. The were called “The Allied Forces.” The team of Japan and Germany was “the Axis Powers.” This was war.
After a grueling feud, the Allied Forces triumphed, the final battle was a no disqualification “I quit” match pitting America against Japan. After a while, it appeared America was invincable and emotionally had snapped. After beating Japan to a bloody pulp, America took a sledgehammer to the back of the head of Japan. After Japan refused to say “I quit,” America nailed him again. Finally Japan quit, and America was named the winner and new World Champion!
America was the hottest star now. Everyone knew America, whether you watched wrestling or not. It was a household name. America cereal boxes, America T-shirts, America action figures, he was unstoppable. Well, years went by, America had many feuds, successful title defenses and a legacy that seemed like it would be on route to the Hall of Fame. But the something happened, America got cocky. America began telling everyone he was the best. Despite up and coming superstars displaying a wealth of talent, America began becoming more and more self-absorbed. America began insisting they had all kinds of attributes going for them, which in reality were all old stories that everyone had heard before. America never even attempted to defend the title, he just would rant and bicker about how great he was. The fans got bored with this and began to boo. America apparently felt as though they were still in the limelight. America was stripped of the title whilst the young talent-pool had a tournament to determine who would be the new champion. A new belt was given to the winner. Who won? It doesn’t matter, America still thinks he’s the champ, and still wears the old belt completely unaware that the world has passed him. America is the first one to tell you all the great things he’s done, despite that none of it has taken place anytime recently. America is a heel now folks. He’s snapped, gone completely crazy and consequently turned his back on all of his fans. America now attacks fellow competitors for no reason, cuts promos against others who also haven’t done anything, stating they’re “next.” Hopefully America will see the light down the road, perhaps win the actual world title, once again. Until then, America needs to be BOOed, and louder…until he can actually hear it, because he needs to start listening.
As you should know by now, every once in a while, apparently not on any schedule, I put together a list of top ten girls. These are my selections for a given time period. Some of you who have paid close attention have probably discovered that my list has magical powers. Girls like Megan Fox and Scarlett Johansson (namely) who appeared on this list several years ago went on to become some of the sexiest females in Hollywood. I have a good eye. Back when Megan Fox was on my list, there were no Maxims and movie caps, you couldn’t find anything about this girl, luckily I stumbled across that head-shot. Good grief, now she’s all over the place! Anyway, let us see what the top ten has to offer this time.
10. Kathleen Robertson
Although she has been in the business for some time now, she is one of those dames that gets better looking with age. She totally stood out in Tin Man has teh hawt. I don’t have much to saw because frankly, who wants to hear me drone on?
9. Lauren Cohan
Okay, so apparently she had a love scene with some dude in one of those Van Whatchamacallit movies, but she is also a regular on Supernatural (great show by the way) and well, that’s where I spotted her.
8. Kristanna Loken
If you this this has anything to do with her contemporary work, you’re an idiot. Myself and Alex noticed this one back in the late 90s during her run in Mortal Kombat Conquest. Even back then, the eye was good.
7. Jessica Alba
What can I saw, always a favorite, since Idle Hands.
6. Missy Peregrym
Yes, this picture is very boring. You know why? Try finding any decent picture of this gal! She’s super hot, and yet no one seems to realize this except me. Like Bret Hart, she is Canadian, she also has the cutest nose ever. Anyway, I’m hoping in two or three years, looking up this broad will allow one to easily locate dozens of pictures from photo-shoots that she will be doing.
5. Julia Ling
Oh boy folks, looks like I have the yellow fever. Again, another chick who you can barely find anything about because it’s just too damn early. She plays Anna on NBC’s Chuck. While everyone’s attention is that Yvonne Strahovski girl, I’m totally for this one.
4. Kristen Bell
Not only was she Veronica Mars who I already thought was hot, but then she popped up on Heroes. Not only is she still hot and on Heroes, but she does force lightning!
3. Hayden Panettiere
You all already know her, so … there you have it.
2. Moon Bloodgood
I guess I really do have yellow fever this time around. Moon is from Journeyman on NBC. She’s done some other stuff before, but this is where her and I crossed paths (so to speak). I like her.
1. Megan Fox
Sorry to disappoint if you were hoping for a new face or something. How could I not? I chose this picture because I have a feeling it was at this moment during the movie that most of you (dudes) fell head over heels and were probably were glad you were sitting down. Well that’s all for now. Tune in next time, whenever that is.
First, did you catch Tin Man? Well if you didn’t, catch Tin Man. I was lukewarm to the idea of a spin on The Wizard of Oz, this is definitely a 180, but quite fun to enjoy. The chick that they cast as Dorot- I’m sorry, “DG” is something of a weak actress, but the show is still pretty sweet and to her credit, some of those lines nobody could deliver well. I’m not sure where they got the name. The “Tin Man” isn’t exactly the star of the show, nor is it centered around him really. Although there is no official “Wizard of Oz” or even the merry old land of Oz technically, you’ll quickly see how they work things in cleverly. The world we are a part of is called the “Outer Zone.” The homage payments to the famous story are plentiful, believe me. This gives me hope that I can one day make my version of the 1939 movie, which is pretty much the same as the movie, except with Hulk Hogan as part of the team. Anyway, what was nice about this story was that it seemed to exist independently of the 1939 classic, carefully paraphrasing and not quoting.
…and then they released the wolves. (See, this post for that reference.)
[SPOILER ALERT!] In the last installment of this mini series, they tie the story into the original movie, very poorly as well. First of all, a movie like The Wizard of Oz is extremely sacred and if you dare fuck with it on any level, you need to do it right. Rather than bore you with the details of the scene, just watch it here, we’ll discuss afterwards…
So why did I dislike this? We have a whole story here operating on its own and now, as if we somehow need to give this tale credibility, we go back and say, “Look! It’s all connected!” Dorothy, in case you have forgotten, WAS DREAMING! It was all a dream! Remember? “You were there, you were there…” So, some 2-bit Sci-fi mini series writer just called Noel Langley a liar. Now, some of you who know more about the Wizard of Oz are aware that the movie is originally a novel written by L. Frank Baum, in which the adventure is not a dream, but in fact real. If you’re willing to buy that, fine, but we’re dealing with the moving pictures here. Frankly, that’s the version of the story we take for granted, coupled with fact that Dorothy Gale and the surroundings are black and white in this interactive tomb-simulation thing that she eternally rests in (despite the fact that she returned home and it was just a dream and how in the hell is she buried in Oz, or the “O.Z.?”). Now, to make this story fall apart further, if you buy the original story being reality, then what about the faux-wizard who ended up in Oz before Dorothy? Then he would be the first “slipper.” Finally, damn it all to hell, who they hell did they get to play Dorothy? Dorothy, portrayed by Judy Garland, was a very timid character. Despite this, they cast the role now as a ghostly, know-it-all, creepy little girl version of Dorothy, one I would liken to them whack-jobs from the hotel in the movie The Shining (the 1980 version of course). Based on the shot of Dorothy’s shoes, one could determine if the Dorothy we’re tying into here is the novel or movie Dorothy, if it wasn’t in black and white! In the novel, they were silver. They were made ruby for the movie, however, she never had these in black and white Kansas, which doesn’t help any. Dorothy was also less timid in the book, but that’s a far cry from creepy dead Dorothy pictured here.
I guess based on this research, we would have to guess that we were dealing with the novel version of Dorothy Gale (more or less). I just don’t see why they had to go this route. It’s the last 20 minutes of the final part of the series, they have already hooked us. I guess they felt the needed it for an inflated “cool factor.” The inconsistency is that the whole movie is self-contained. We suddenly are made to incorporate both stories together. Why isn’t it “Oz” then? Why isn’t it the “Emerald City.” All things considered, the series was entertaining and I’m willing to grit and bare the bad and unnecessary tie in with the original story. I just (as always) needed to complain.
So this website Mixaloo seems like it has potential. I was meaning to throw together a mix like this recently, now there’s just an opportunity to monetize it. Some of these aren’t my alpha choices, but whatever, I’m pretty happy with the selections overall, hopefully you will be too…
Yes! My boss, Joe Friedman (the “J’ of “J&R Music and Computer World”), can park at hydrants because he is rich and rich people are above the law. I just needed to share with all of you.
Formerly a static page, evolution has made it a ...b-b-blog! I will leave stuff on here from now on and post links to arbitrary pages. Most of this stuff will be editorials about how I feel. Most of them are explicit, and you should be prepared for some language problems before you read...
