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I didn't fully appreciate Cave In's entire body of work until the last year or two. I loved 'Until Your Heart Stops' back in college because it was just stop/start silliness, but didn't care for the much less mental metallic hardcore stuff they did after that. I revisited it for the first time in a long, long time quite recently and now I love it all. I'd not heard the name Zozobra at all until hearing about Caleb dying, but they're great too. Agreed about his shouts. He had some bark.

The last 10 minutes of them. They started as the doors opened and it took ages to get in. I could hear the pinch harmonics from the street.

Awesome, Well remembered. I'll definitely give this a go!

Trivium got 10 minutes of my time. Christ. Horrendous. Might be the earliest I've ever left a gig. Power Trip though, they ripped my face off, and Code Orange felt like being repeatedly punched where my face used to be.

Still a ripper. Seeing them tonight, supporting TRIVIUM and Code Orange. It's going to be filled with dickheads. Can't wait.

Got the Master System album. Man, it's a straight up rocker. Lazy comparison, but it immediately reminded me of 100 Broken Windows, but bigger (those drums, man). Bits of Jetplane Landing going on too. It's a great listen. I'm going to see Propagandhi next week, so I've been rinsing their back catalogue like crazy. Not seen them since 2006, I think it was, so I'm mad excited. This is still the greatest record.

Good, this. Not heard them before. Those drums sound ace.

Agreed. The story is a bit naff compared to the comic, I thought. Why did they omit The Punisher being a total shithouse? That would have been great on the big screen. Visually, it's just stupid good though. Makes me wish I saw it at the cinema.

PM's. I remember those. The days of putting up a thread asking for band members, and the excitement of getting the PM pop up when you next logged in, and you'd spend a few weeks planning when to jam with them as it would take them a week to reply with something really vague and unhelpful, then you'd cart your stupid heavy Marshall head down to Captain Toms on foot like a lunatic, you'd stand outside for ages and they wouldn't show up and you'd have to pay the £30 for the room yourself because you can't do a runner because your amp weighs more than you do. Those were the days. PM's!

Going on holiday in May, and I got an e-mail from Easyjet this morning titled "Important Changes to your Booking" The opening line was "We regret to inform you that there have been unavoidable changes made to your booking. See below for your amended departure and arrival times". I'm preparing to flip my desk over at this point, as something seems to always go wrong with Easyjet, but I'm just always sucked in by those low, low prices. They go on to explain that instead of landing at 9:20am on the day of departure, we'll now be landing at 9:15am. I feel like Bluths in Arrested Development when they're around the doctor who is terrible at explaining. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!

I only keep Facebook because it's how I keep in touch with family, as talking on the phone is weird. I don't even know how to use the phone part of my phone, and I don't have a landline, because it's not the 80's. I rarely post on it though, and I have it set that if people tag me in photos or post stuff on my wall, only I can see it, because it's weird as fuck that, by default, people can share images of you that go directly to your friends/followers without your intervention. F that in the A. I deleted it all once about 2 years ago, and some of my family got in a huff about it, until I was guilted in to bringing it back. I still don't understand Twitter, but it seems to be filled with total whoppers. It's easier to avoid the whoppers on Insta at least. I'd like to bin it all, for the sake of privacy and whatnot, but my missus has an Amazon Echo, so everything I say is definitely being put through various speech recognition algorithms and sold to advertisers anyway, regardless of Facebook. We've got the microphone on it muted now, because things started to get really weird, but I don't believe it's really muted, I just think the Alexa activation is turned off. They're still listening. I'd chuck it in the river, if it was up to me.

Goram looks incredibly less cool in the red and amber blobs than Oliver Kahn does. Slapping a horrid lager on the front really knock a bit of class off it too. Not that Carlsberg is any better on the Wolverine Claw jersey, but the logo is a bit classier at least. Is there anything Rangers can't ruin?

Top five goalkeeper jerseys from the golden era of goalkeeper jerseys - the mid 90s 5. "Looks good, but make the Umbro logos look like weapons that are raining downwards" 4. "What shapes do you want on this one?" "All of them" 3. Campos designed his own kits, and he really nailed the "forgot my PE kit so I had to borrow some from the bin of discarded kit that doesn't at all fit" look, then made it look like a packet of Refreshers. 2. This one came in all different colours, and loads of teams used it. This one wins though. The Adidas decor look like wolverines claws. Totally badass. If it actually fit, it would be faultless, but true to 90s form, it looks like he's borrowed it from his much larger older brother. (and David James is a big lad, that shirt must be like a parachute!) 1. The mac daddy of Adidas templates, striking a much more tasteful balance between eye catching and obnoxiousness, and it actually fits the goalkeeper, for the first time that decade.

Should've stayed on his feet.

I was gonna wait til the NHL season was over as the playoffs are just abut to start, but I've signed up for the free month. Just had a look at the vault. It's ridiculous. I don't know how I'm going to fit in the playoffs and all those ECW PPVs. I might have to quit my job and cut back on my sleep.

That's cool that the PPVs are live/on demand. Bit mad that the Raw/Smackdown shows leading up to the PPVs are so far behind though. I guess that'll be down to TV rights? NHL do the same for televised games, but it's only a 24hr delay. And only $9.99 a month is crazy. That's cheaper than if I just got each PPV every month via Sky Box Office. My smart telly already has the WWE Network app installed on it too.

Ah man. There's a free trial for a month. No excuses!

I was going to like this post, as it was incredibly helpful, but now that you're staff again it seems that you're above receiving likes. Thanks for the info though. You might have twisted my arm. Once hockey season is over, I think I'll sign up, binge as much archive PPVs as I can, check out some NXT and see if I wanna keep it up after that. Does WWE Network also get the PPVs as they happen? Or are they on a 3 month delay too? It has old WCW/ECW PPVs too, doesn't it?

I'm often quite tempted to get WWE Network for a bit for the archived PPVs and the ECW stuff. What is WWE's competition now? is it TNA?

Echo the above, though I dig the 2nd track too. The softly spoken vocals give me a Jesu-lite sort of vibe, which I'm all about.

This is the best thing you've released IMO. Not to discredit your earlier recordings, but this is the one I have enjoyed the most. The drum sounds on all 4 tracks are luscious, especially those rolling snares. Great stuff.

Attitude era was my jam too. When the Attitude era turned into some sort of comedy show, that's when I gave it the boot. I think that was around the time of Stone Cold's gimmick becoming just repeating "What?", which was a real phone-in from the writers. That was the beginning of the end. The PPV's being free to air on Channel 4 was great times. I remember staying up on Sunday nights watching them and going to school the next day. Royal Rumble and Valentines Day Massacre in 1999 being the ones I mostly remember. The Rock vs Mankind from the latter PPV was probably the best match I ever saw. I put it on for 5 or 10 minutes every now and again out of curiosity, and I haven't a clue who anyone is, and it always looks a bit shit. It's nearly always Triple H and Steph McMahon just wandering around looking smug whilst acting terribly, then a match happens and it's crap.

They're both dreadful. If I had a choice to put either of them on, or a Star Wars film, I'm putting on the dreadful Robocops. At least they're hilarious. I got zero enjoyment from Star Wars.

I like how you specified drinks at night, as to not imply that you're breakfast-beering your way through the bank holiday weekend. I definitely don't believe you. I have next week off, starting today, so it's an 11 day weekend. It's been a shit few weeks at work, so drinking in the AM is a certainty.

Sheamus embraces ginger hair better than anyone on earth, by growing as much of it as he can, and making it as visible as possible. Ginger Ambassador. I don't know who Corey Graves is, but he looks like 70% of all current professional footballers. Like if you mixed Olivier Giroud with Marcos Rojo.