Harry Wiseau

Just now, FLips said:

I don't know what Argylle is so I can only scrape together bits from posts on here. Am I right in thinking it's a spy movie about a cat that turns out to be a cat's dream?

It's sadly not happening in the cats imagination. A lot could be forgiven if it was, to the point that I was convinced it was his dream and could see that once the was to be revealed certain elements might make sense. But alas not. 

Argylle, a lot has been said about reasons it's dogshit but I've of the things that REALLY annoyed me about it was

Terrible film. Brief silly sections that were kind of entertaining but dogshit 

Brother Wayne Kramer of the MC5 won't be kicking out any more jams

. Edit - sorry I hadn't seen it amongst the CW tributes 

I finally got to try the Wild Mushroom and Sour Cream Lays today, they're amazing. I know they've been mentioned here before but they really were a treat. 

16 minutes ago, thevestofdeanambrose said:

It should be on sky bet somewhere. Oddscheker have sky bet odds for it.

https://www.oddschecker.com/tv/wwe/men-royal-rumble-winner

 

It was there yesterday but it's gone today, for me anyway. Maybe they're updating the odds or something but it's been gone for a few hours now. 

The wrestling section of skybet seems to have gone, it was there yesterday. I always have a bet on the rumble and wrestlemania with a couple of contradictery accas but alas I won't be able to today, unless I put money in paddy power

2, 9, 16 21, 27 please

Might there be a possibility that things like RAW are put on the Network after a delay, similar to how  Raw and Smackdown end up there after 30 days currently? I remember that NXT was / is (?) put on the Network a day or so after it had been on TV  so might that be a possibility? For $5 billion it's unlikely i suppose. I haven't looked into it much as i'm at work and heard the story on Radio one so popped here to see what was being said so i don't know if that's been addressed. If the Network stays as just archive content how  old does something have to be to be classed as archive?

I know I found BASEketball really really funny at the time but I haven't seen it in over 20 years so can neither say if it's actually funny or good or indeed a Sports Film. However I did just look up the run time and it's under two hours so at least it has that as a plus point.

13 minutes ago, gmoney said:

Sloop John B is an old Bahamian folk song! Did these cunts write anything?! (I know they did, please don't talk to me)

 

And the less said about Surfin USA the better!

the most lilkely candidate for a funeral original that i've been in the room for was at the funeral for a guy (Big Rob) who was a regular in the pub i used to work in. His main job was running a cafe which made him loads of money, a lot of which he had invested in and became the silent partner of a very popular swingers  sex club in Birmingham, he often regaled us with stories of varying depravity laced with comic moments and was generally a lovely chap. Anyway he died after i'd left the pub, i went along after having a few pints beforehand (it's what he would have wanted) and the funeral was a suprisingly somber one, horse drawn carriage for the coffin, proper old school funeral until the song came on and he''d chosen Gang Bang by Black Lace from the Rita Sue and Bob Too soundrtack.  Less people than you'd think sang along.

Best Women's Wrestler Rhea, Bayley 

Best Men's Wrestler Gunther, Joe, Punk, Dom

Best Non-wrestler Heyman

Best Heel Dirty Dom

Best Babyface Cody 

Moment of the Year Dom's entrance at wresrlremania, Punk smiles

Breakout Star Dirty Dom 

THE Bad

Worst Non-wrestler Tony Khan

2 hours ago, Keith Houchen said:

Another great place was Reddingtons Rare Records. No visit to Brum was complete without a visit to that treasure trove, for pure nostalgia, check out the website!!

http://www.reddingtonsrarerecords.co.uk/dannyshop.htm

A few (I just looked it up and it's almost ten!) years ago he announced that he was closing up shop and for one day only would be selling everything from the lockup he'd been running his online shop from for £1 per item, it made the local news and everything, he made a big thing about how nothing had been sorted through and that there was a rare Elvis record somewhere amongst the many thousands of records.  On the Saturday morning I got down there at 8amm and queue was ridiculous, some people had actually queued overnight.  As I was queuing I saw people leading with suitcases full of treasure, the TV news came and filmed the queue. I waited for four hours for my turn but unfortunately I'd had to take my four year old son with me as Mrs W was at work. By this point his patience had been stretched more than a four year olds should. I tried to get him interested by telling him he could buy any five records he wanted but it was horrible in there, they were letting people in on a one in one out basis but there were so many people in there that you were queuing to get a chance to look. Nothing was in alphabetical order (which later made me question his claim that nothing had been sorted through as if he was running his online shop from there how did he ever find anything?) It was horrible. I ended up managing to get 25 records in my hand before my anxiety levels made me get out of there (the best being the Julie Andrews and Andre Previn Christmas album that I still listen to every Christmas)  

Anyway it then turned out that as he somehow hadn't emptied the lockup that day he would be opening every day so with everything £1 until it was all gone, this place was a five minute drive from my work so for the next couple of months I went back at least once a week to buy records of an ever decreasing quality from a dwindling selection, I'd take great delight in showing my workmates The Noel Coward Album still with its £25 price tag on and declaring "he's starting down the barrel of a £24 gun with this one!"  Eventually it got to the point where he was selling boxes of seven inch singles (not sorted through just random boxes!) For a fiver. The box my mate at work got contained five copies of I Love You Love and a lot of Spandau Ballet, he managed to sell the box to someone else at work for £4 after taking the only three records he wanted from it. Good times

Oh yeah, most the records I got from him in this one pound extravaganza played like digshit, as if he'd kept them in sand. Good times. Luckily Julie, Noel and a few others were ok but most - especially the 7" singles - were terrible and if I'd paid anything like the price on the sticker on the front I wouldn't have been happy. 

10 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said:

What a shop that was!

I bought so much stuff from there between about 97-2006 , loved the place. Walking there after work on Mondays and just having a chat for ages then maybe buying something, so much random crap, great place. The strangest thing I bought there was a 7" single from the glass box in the counter, I had no idea who it was by and still don't as it's mummified. Well wrapped in bandages that you can't open without presumably damaging the record. Holding it up too the light it appears to be orange vinyl but I've absolutely no idea who it what it is and I've never been able to find any reference to a mummified / bandaged record anywhere. The lads in the shop probably just thought "I bet we can get that twat to buy anything" and did it themselves. Bless them.

Surely there's the technology now to just do an AI Bowen avatar? Nobody wants Paddy McFuckingGuinness doing his shit forced catchphrases over a watered down remake of the greatest TV quiz of all time?

9 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

 

Contrast that to the absolute twat that runs an independent shop in Winchester, and it couldn't be more different.

The guy who runs Polar Bear in Kings Heath is a total bellend and I won't go there even though it's been my closest record shop for the last fifteen years. In contrast if ever I get to Birmingham city centre in the daytime I make a point of going to see Rich in Ignite at the Oasis market as he's such a bloody lovely bloke. He used to work in Tempest which closed down 15 years ago, I rarely get to Birmingham these days but when I do he still remembers my name and is just lovely so I feel I have to buy a record even if there's nothing I know I want, but that's usually how you find the best stuff. 

I'd promised myself I was done buying records with a few exceptions but reading the last few days of this thread really makes me want to get back to a record shop.

Actually the other day I had an unexpected knock at the door in the evening and it was a man with a record I'd kind of forgotten I'd ordered - the Wildhearts PHUQ deluxe box set that I ordered and paid for two years ago. It's lovely, purple velvet box, three slabs of gold, people and splatter vinyl. I haven't had the chance the listen to it yet but one day I'll get to do more then just look at it.

A McMahon on AEW in one way or another

Seth Rollins becomes a likeable character

Cornette returns to the wrestling business to manage CM Punk 

Dutch Mantel answers a question on his podcast without having to ask for clarification about who someone is, when it happened and what exactly happened even though the question relates to something he did himself

Flair dies in the ring.

Hopefully before the end of January I'll be getting my first tattoo (at 46, I don't think it's a mid life crisis though just something I never wanted before but now I do...) What would (Mrs Wiseau) do? Hopefully this will enable me to not be such a fucking idiot in everyday life as she's the most sensible, most moral and just generally best actual human I know and if I have her on hand when she's not with me I might make better decisions. In Cooper Black font as our first dance was God Only Knows. I'm not actually looking forward to the experience of getting the tattoo but I'm looking forward to being generally a better person because of it.

Before Christmas I started back swimming again at least twice a week and have forced myself to have at least two booze free days a week, doesn't sound a lot but it's been good for my head but over the list two weeks it stopped so i'm looking forward to getting back on those two and my head getting better because of this.

I KNOW he's  a prick and holds horrible views and his music hasn't been the best for a few years now but i can't not like Morrissey.  I know I shouldn't and understand why most people have turned their backs on him, but i can't help myself from liking him with a tiny little bit of me always thinking he's just having a laugh and working everyone for some weird reason. Like he needs the character of Morrissey to be an outsider even if the only way he can do that is by being a complete arsehole. The Smiths are still amazing and his first four or five solo albums are brilliant, i own the rest of them but never listen to them but i'll continue to buy his releases (if anyone signs him) because it's Mozza.  

it's probably too late for him to come out and go "Gotcha!" but i still hope he will,

I bloody love the Low Christmas EP, its the final part of my "after the kids go to bed" Christmas Eve tradition of the watching the League of Gentlemen Christmas Special, this years Ghost Story For Christmas, getting the presents all in place then one last drink listening to Low with just the tree lights and candles on. That sounds bleak as fuck doesn't it, but it gets me feeling festive.

12 hours ago, Keith Houchen said:

It’s been less than a week!

yeah, i missed it scrolling through. in my defense it is Christmas Song of the day and i DID post it on a different day.

I still miss Frank 

16 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said:

Haven't even heard the song. What's it called?

it's Proper Christmas by the Krackpots, a mystery band of puppets, nobody knows who they are.  they have a website with all the links and the big loop playilsts at properchristmas.info 

37 in the midweek chart, he's said it's much harder to promote a song that you just think is a good song rather than a song calling a cunt a cunt, with the previous campaigns it was easy to get people on board because of the message rather than the song. But 37 is way better than he  did with anything in his initial run so fair play to him getting a bit of success in his comeback run