I agree with you. I have several Numan songs on my MP3 player and everytime one comes on it takes me back to many different times and to many different places. Some of the best written and crafted music that the masses have never heard.

He’s playing Toronto and Montreal in August… Damn I wish he’d come out here.

It was so hot last night. Hot sweaty and gross. My life sucks and I am unhappy.

WWE has secured a TV deal for the ECW brand in Canada. ECW will begin airing on Canada’s Global Television Network on 8/11 at midnight. The show will also air on the Xtreme digital channel on Saturdays at 1:00 PM and 9:00 PM as well as Sundays at 4:00 AM.

The deal also gets RAW and Smackdown on in Quebec. Global will now air RAW starting August 7th at midnight on CKMI and Smackdown starting August 11th at 12:30AM ET on CJNT.

This is a fucking medium? Look how it is aptly dwarfed by the Michael Jackson DVD. A medium? I thing someone is funnin’ me…

TORONTO (CP) – World Wrestling Entertainment found a new Canadian tag-team partner Wednesday as the company announced its flagship show, Monday Night RAW, would be moving to The Score television network.
TSN’s 11-year run as host of RAW will end when the show moves to The Score on Aug. 7. The Score will also move its WWE show SmackDown – currently the top-rated show on the network – from Thursday to Friday night.

RAW has been a steady ratings machine for TSN for years, especially in the 1990′s when the sports entertainment business enjoyed a surge in popularity thanks to performers like (Stone Cold) Steve Austin and The Rock. The business has cooled somewhat since then, but the Canadian market has remained strong.
TSN averaged a solid 375,000 viewers for RAW this year, a six-per-cent jump from last year. But last fall the network secured exclusive Canadian rights to air NFL games on Monday nights. That opened the door for The Score, which does not have the same reach as TSN but is still available in almost six million Canadian homes.
RAW was occasionally bumped a few hours or even into the next day’s programming in the past. The Score general manager David Errington said the show will get a consistent 10 p.m. time slot.

“There shouldn’t be a pre-emption whatsoever and that was really key to getting the deal done,” Errington said.
The WWE brought out some of its top performers for the news conference, including world champion and Orangeville, Ont., native Edge, Richmond Hill, Ont., native Trish Stratus and the legendary Ric Flair.

“We are at the point in this industry, in television and in sports entertainment where we don’t have to take a back seat to anybody,” Flair said. “The Score has come up and said, ‘We’re going to put you guys where you need to be.’ We’ll still be on Monday night and in our eyes that’s a big coup for us.”

A few hundred fans braved the heat and piercing sunshine for a spot near the red carpet to catch a glimpse of the performers outside the downtown theatre. The loudest cheers were for Flair, who is still going strong in the squared circle at the age of 57. With his ring entrance music blaring, the 16-time world champion treated the crowd to his trademark ‘Whoooooooo!,’ before entering the building.

RAW is the top-rated program on specialty TV in Canada. DeMarco said that was a big reason why several Canadian networks were in contact with WWE over the last few months.

“It really came down to scheduling,” he said. “We really left (TSN) on good terms together and we’ve got a lot of respect for each other. We had a great relationship over the years.”

RAW will be recorded an hour before it’s aired on The Score, which will allow the network to give the show a consistent time slot. It also means The Score doesn’t have to worry about its live programming limit since the show is taped and allows for an hour of editing time if the programming – which offers everything from bikini to steel cage matches – proves to be too intense.

Errington said some scenes could be edited out if the network is uncomfortable.
“We have to be responsible as a broadcaster,” he said. “But we’ve had SmackDown for six years and I don’t think we’ve had more than five complaints. So I’m not too concerned about it.”
A WWE spokesperson said the company is close to announcing a deal to air its new ECW program in Canada. Errington said it won’t be on The Score.

“We’ve got our fill of wrestling and we’ve got the No. 1 wrestling show and that’s what we wanted,” Errington said. “We targeted RAW, we got it and we’re airing it at a consistent time slot on Mondays. We’re done.”
The Score also plans to air a one-hour wrestling analysis show on Sunday evenings. Both RAW and SmackDown will be repeated after each week’s broadcast (RAW at 12:30 a.m, SmackDown at midnight). The Score will also air the WWE Diva Search Finals on Aug. 16 at 9 p.m. ET.

Ok, so good news is that someone in Canada has picked up ECW, bad news is that RAW is now on ticker-happy Score. Oh well, take the good with the bad.

July 19, 2006 — DON’T joke about women, donkeys and bestiality if you expect Joel Siegel to watch your movie. That’s what director Kevin Smith found out when the pun-loving “Good Morning America” film critic stormed out of a press screening of Smith’s “Clerks II,” which opens Friday – an act that’s sparked a vicious war of words between the two.”Time to go!” roared Siegel to his fellow critics. “First movie I’ve walked out of in 30 [bleeping] years!”

His tirade came 40 minutes into the long-awaited Weinstein Company sequel to Smith’s 1994 cult classic about two foul-mouthed Long Island convenience store clerks who razz customers and goof off.In the scene that sent Siegel to the exit, the characters graphically discuss hiring a woman to perform sexual favors on a donkey.

Siegel told Page Six: “It was so foul and mean and repulsive. I finally realized I could not say anything positive . . . I wasn’t ready for this kind of smut . . . I hope he doesn’t make any more movies.”

An apoplectic Smith fired back on his MySpace blog: “Getting a bad review from Siegel is like a badge of honor. This is the guy who stole his mustachioed-critic shtick from Gene Shalit years ago, and still refuses to give it back. This is a guy who seemingly prides himself on his own nyuk-nyuk wordplay. For ‘Pirates 2,’ he made us all titter with ‘Yo, Ho, Ho and a Bottle of Fun’ . . .

He made us squeal with delight when he wrote, ‘Wheelie Good Time for “Cars.” ‘ I mean, Fozzy [bleeping] Bear laughs at this guy.”And there’s more: “I don’t need Joel Siegel to [bleep] my [bleep] the way he apparently [bleeps] M. Night Shyamalan’s, gushing over his flick ['The Lady in the Water'] before he’s even seen it, but [bleep] man, man – how about a little common [bleeping] courtesy? You never, never disrupt a movie, simply because you don’t like it. Cardinal rule of moviegoing: Shut your [bleeping] mouth while the movie’s playing.”I don’t come down to your job and slap the taste out of your mouth for coming up with a line like, ‘ “Shark Tale” Is a Halibut Good Time’ – so don’t [bleep] with my stuff while it’s still screening . . .

What are you, a 12-year-old boy cutting loose with your pals at a Friday night screening of ‘Scary Movie’ 4′ while your parents are in a theater down the hall watching ‘The Devil Wears Prada’? Leave the diva-like behavior and drama-queen antics to the movie stars, not the movie reviewer, ya’ rude-ass [bleep].”

Show opens with Kellys Expose which is as usual broken up by Mike Knox which leads to:

Mike Knox def. The Sandman – On the floor, Knox pulls Kelly in front of a cane shot by Sandman. Low blows in the ring by Knox… 1,2,3. Not great.

“The Reject” Shannon Moore shown in the back staring at the camera.

Paul Heyman promo – rehashes what he said last week which brings Tommy Dreamer to the ring. Dreamer says Pauley owes he and the fans and explanation. After a dramatic pause Heyman kisses Dreamer (?) and Test runs in and demolishes Tommy. WTF.

Balls Mahoney vingette similar to last week.

Sabu def. Stevie Richards – A non-extreme rules match designed to prove Sabu can wrestle with the best of them. A solid match I enjoyed, Sabu gets the victory with the camel clutch.

CM Punk vingette talking about how he has trained all over the world and has many styles and immense discipline. Debut him already, he is saving my love of this show!

Vampire vingette talking about Show vs. ‘Taker. Ariel draws the death card.

Big Show nc. The Undertaker – Not great but watchable considering the sources. Match goes to a NC after the Great Khali interferes and Show and Khali double chokeslam ‘Taker through the announce table.

I give the show a 6.

It’s becoming increasingly evident that the purpose of ECW as of now anyway is to further Raw and Smackdown storylines. Blah.

I’m getting spam comments now, totally annoying.

I hate getting called in on my day off…..