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So last night make_a_move texted me about Jeff Hardy, and we started a text convo about wrestling, which started me saying "You must see this!" "And THIS was awesome!" "Do you know that Jericho once peed in Regal's tea? And that it was AWESOME?" Until I made myself so nostalgic that I hit Youtube (my vast collection of recorded wrestling was on VHS and has mostly now been thrown out for lack of space. :( I have I think one of my Hardy Boyz tapes, which was basically 'every week I record the Hardys on Raw or Smackdown'. Matches last around ten, fifteen minutes maybe, including backstage stuff; my tapes lasted three hours. I had three tapes, just of the Hardys and with a couple of Jericho's matches thrown in because I couldn't resist the blond. I'd also record every PPV because we used to get them free back then *wistful* but I think I only kept Survivor Series 2000, since I think it was my first PPV ever maybe. But I don't have a video player anymore anyway, so I can't transfer them to DVD. Gr). A few hours of trawling Youtube for classic WWF/WWE clips later, wow do I miss how it used to be. I miss Rock and Classic!Jericho and Austin and catchphrases like can you smell what The Rock is cooking and shut the hell up!. LAYETH THE SMACKETH DOWN ON ALL THEIR CANDY ASSES, YESSIR.

But out of the hours of stuff that's on there, I found a few bits I remembered and loved, a few bits I didn't remember but love now and a few bits that I wish I'd stuck around to watch because they were hilarious. This is not even a TINY fraction of the stuff that happened in the WWF/WWE that I loved so all the people who were watching it back then or since, feel free to chip in with Youtube links and nostalgia! I wish they'd release like, a year's worth of Raw on DVD every December or something because I miss storylines like 'who ran over Austin!' terribly. I'd love to rewatch the whole damn thing week by week.

Anyway, what I did find... ( cut for length! I should find some pictures to go with this epic nostalgia... )


Oh wrestling. I miss my mad obsession with you. It was fun. make_a_move, maybe we should go to a live showing of Raw or Smackdown when they tour over here? They do it at least once a year usually. Could be fun! :DDD We were wwwaaaaaayy back at the one I went to and it was still awesome. Except I'd have to learn new catchphrases... or just yell the old ones and see how many people joined in. ^_^

So there you go, an epic post to make up for my quiet lately! I'm only working part-time for at least the next few weeks now though, so things may be less quiet again. Hurrah! I may inflict my bad attempts to sketch again on y'all tomorrow. :)



edit: I knew I wouldn't get through this without some html fail. It took me three tries just to fix the LJ cut tag. Hopefully that's all good now.

I was figuring on waiting at least an hour for the elimination chamber match but it's the first one out. I'm really glad I turned over for 1am instead of watching the last ten minutes of Being Human.

Jeff looks a little over-tanned, like maybe he fell asleep on a sunbed; there's a distinct tone of orange. My money is so not on him in this match, alas. Sorry Jeff. I just can't see them giving it back to you right now though my track record with these predictions is crap so don't take it to heart.

(I've gotta say, this is weird. I'm watching Jeff vs Edge. I've watched this match a million times, except this isn't for tag titles or for funsies or even the intercontinental title, this is a main event for the WWE Championship. It's like my teenager years all grown up. It's-well. Weird.

Oh Jeff's now getting the crap beaten out of him. Normal business is resumed.)

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( This post got kind of long, so to save your flists have my rambling about The Secret Lives of Cumbria's Cats under a cut )

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Well, bye-bye Jeff. For once I actually pegged the end to a match before it happened (the Undertaker will wins, just watch. I thought that half an hour ago dammit). At least I can go to bed before 4am now and not fall asleep in Inkheart tomorrow, which I almost thought about not-seeing until make_a_move said "Paul Bettany! Shirtless! Hipbones!" I'd hate to fall asleep and miss Paul Bettany in all his deliciousness. Mmmmmm.

(I was wrong about the match by the way. Which still means I can say I told you so, because I told you I was terrible at predictions.

I can go to bed now. Huh.)

Dear Clo,

Quit buying more books until you've read all the ones you have. You need the money more, you have plenty to read (The Count of Monte Cristo awaits in all it's insanely-long glory as a last resort) and it really shouldn't matter that you just found Kelly Link's latest book of short stories on Amazon. It really shouldn't.

...Yes, even though it's Kelly Link. Back away from the confirm button, just close the page-

Okay, so it's too late on that count. But stop now. Really. Stop.

Love and bowing-in-the-middle concern,

Your already-overburdened bookshelves.

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I really didn't need to buy that book. Crap. I probably need to start listing all the things I can bear to part with on Marketplace this weekend.

And there is no relation between post and icon, I just loved the picture that damn much. Much to my parents' dismay, I don't appear to have "grown out" of the WWE quite yet.

I'm so bored, in that half-guilty way of actually having a million things to do and avoiding doing them.

Also, I've vacilliating aimlessly around LJ thinking how everyone seemed to have disappeared or be busy doing other stuff, when I realised it felt empty because I miss scoobydumblonde. :( Stupid distance. Stupid lack of money. Stupid boredom making it worse.

Bah. Maybe I'm going stir-crazy from being cooped up in the house for too long.

On the plus side I stayed up to watch RAW for the first time in years last night, and JR calling Jeff Hardy "the hottest thing in the WWE right now" messes with my universe. In all the right ways. A ring with Jericho and Michaels in it but Jeff Hardy is getting all the cheers. It was fantastic; fantastic and weird, because I still remember him when he never spoke and the main thing that set him apart from the masses was his hair Now he has almost-normal hair and a good shot at winning the WWE Championship sometime in the next few months which is just- beyond what I thought could happen back in the days when him winning or almost-winning the Intercontinental title was an 'outrageous' storyline.

Part of me wants to point at all the screaming fans and yell "I WAS THERE IN THE EARLY DAYS. I WAS A FAN BEFORE YOU. HAH-HAH." And then I remembered that I really hate that kind of person who always harps on about the good ol' days and true fanness and then I felt old.

(But I totally did love him back then too. Heh.)

At least today is Pancake Day and there's fresh pancake mix sitting down in the kitchen. There is no situation that cannot be improved by adding pancakes.

Dude. Suddenly I want to apologise to Wimbledon for mocking their anal-retentive following of tradition (last week, when my dad asked why they got to have signs at the AO). That's a little nuts. :-/

I'm sitting here watching the first proper AO tennis I've seen in the whole two weeks and it's Djokovic winning the championship, point by point. And it's weird. I don't know if I'm still stuck in my wrestling mentality, expecting the same guys to be headlining week after week but it's weird not having Roger there. Roger at the AO's always been the first huge thing in tennis of of the year for me; that match where he lost to Marat that I wrote some of my earliest tennis fic around, the year where he cried and I cried both 'cause he'd won and because our little corner of LJ was imploding over Andy and the press. Then last year when I was in Coventry and was yelling at the TV with someone I'd only met the day before. It's not weird that I haven't seen anything of the two weeks because the AO is always the Slam I've had to watch the online scores for, what with the lack of BBC coverage and being in Lancaster but not coming through that with a final with Roger in to watch is...

...weird.

And a little sad; I've wanted Roger to win all four Slams together since someone first explained the Grand Slam to me and every time he wins the AO it's a sign that this could be the year. As much as he's awesome and I'll still be insisting he's the best when we're all hobbling around with grey hair and dementia setting in, life doesn't have an 'aging off' cheat (oh The Sims, if only life was more like you.) There is a finite amount of chances he has to do it and they're fast running out.

THAT SAID. Watching RAW lately and seeing the mid-carders I used to know headlining the Royal Rumble? It's not so bad. I could like this new thing of having guys I don't know so well in major finals. I could. Just- like seeing Jeff cut promos as a regular thing on RAW, it'll take some getting used to.

Also, I haven't made my mind up on Djokovic yet, because I can't work him out. Tennis would be easier if they made the heels and babyfaces clear. Though if I'm shocked at tennis crowds needing to be pepper sprayed, maybe encouraging them to chant rude things at the players isn't the best of ideas(watching RAW the other week, I heard a "Fuck you!" chant and went "...Did they used to be that rude?!" It made me feel old >_<).

I have to go get ready to go shopping now (Borders! not that I need more books but I have a voucher as an excuse! Hah!) but I have one more thing to say first; thank you to carolina30363 for buying me more Paid Account time. *hugs* It was really sweet of you, though I feel guilty for that post now, in case it seemed like I was asking for it. If I ever get my tennis muses working again, I promise you fic. :)

Okay. Bookwards!

Ho-hum, sitting on the sofa watching tennis. Yayness, especially since Roger won, unsurprisingly but hey, it's still nice. Plus BBC's nifty super-slow camera shots are giving me some shiny things to use in vids if I ever get round to it this summer. Also, Mac and Jimmy were hilarious during the rain delay. *harts on them* Roger and Rafa need to have a big public fight to create some tension between them. None of this "respect him very much, no?" and "we aren't there yet" about the final, stuff. Maybe they should start doing promos like in wrestling. Heh. Or you know, not. ;-) I can just imagine fans spontaeneously combusting.

Roger watches wrestling though, or did. I'm sure he can manage a passable Rock impression. Though the eyebrow, that might take some practise. Oh, I miss Rock and his eyebrow and the sheer amount of *attitude*. Curses on not having any old wrestling on DVD! I wonder if I could hook the video player to the DVD recorder this summer because I have a ton of old Hardys matches and definitely some PPVs. Hm. Now there's an idea for a rainy day.

Ah, nostalgia. Makes you do the craziest things.

edit: I don't know if I can watch Nadal vs Baghdatis. Every interview I've seen with Baghdatis's just made me want to snuggle him more and watching him lose his serve in the opening game, when it's the one thing he said he didn't want to do? Sadness. :(

edit: In other news, yes I am aching from playing tennis yesterday. Shutup. ;)