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— ESTER EXPOSITO IN BANDIDOS, SEASON ONE.

The Map, 115 Screencaps.

The Sacred Place, 179 Screencaps.

The Stone, 123 Screencaps.

The Legend of The Three Keys, 142 Screencaps.

The Exchange, 147 Screencaps.

The Traitor, 164 Screencaps.

The Treasure, 187 Screencaps.

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Bandidos (2024) - Season 1, Episode 3 “The Stone”

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Ester Expósito in 'Bandidos' (2024 - )

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Estrenos · Marzo 2024

La siguiente lista contiene los títulos de las nuevas producciones que llegarán a las salas de cine, canales de televisión y plataformas de streaming en México durante el mes de marzo de 2024.

• 1 de marzo de 2024 Apple TV+ · Las Aventuras Inventadas De Dick Turpin. Max · Royal Crackers · Temporada 2. Netflix · Furias. Netflix · El Astronauta. Netflix · Me Llamo Loh Kiwan. Netflix · Somebody Feed Phil. Netflix · No Estás Sola: La Lucha Contra La Manada. Prime Video · Jaque Mate. ViX · Un Buen Divorcio.

• 3 de marzo de 2024 Max · El Régimen. Netflix · El Slam De Netflix.

• 4 de marzo de 2024 Discovery · Supervivencia Al Desnudo: México · Temporada 2. Netflix · Hot Wheels: ¡Máxima Velocidad!. ViX × Canal 5 · Cero Ruido. ViX × Las Estrellas · Marea De Pasiones.

• 5 de marzo de 2024 Netflix · El Programa: Sumisión, Sectas Y Secuestros.

• 6 de marzo de 2024 Netflix · Supersex. Netflix · El Swing Perfecto · Temporada 2. Netflix · El Programa: Sumisión, Sectas Y Secuestros. Star+ · Soy Extraordinaria · Temporada 2.

• 7 de marzo de 2024 Cines · Noche De Bodas. Cines · Mi Amigo Robot. Cines · Nadie Es Lo Que Parece. Cines · Atrapados En Lo Profundo. Netflix · Los Caballeros. Netflix · Horizontes Pokémon: La Serie. Paramount+ · El Retorno De Los Thundermans. Prime Video · Ricky Stanicky: El Impostor.

• 8 de marzo de 2024 Apple TV+ · De (Mal) Viaje Con Eugene Levy · Temporada 2. Netflix · Damsel. ViX · ¿Qué Onda Con Los 80?.

• 9 de marzo de 2024 Netflix · La Reina De Las Lágrimas.

• 11 de marzo de 2024 Netflix · Jóvenes Altezas · Temporada 3 · Episodios 1-5.

• 12 de marzo de 2024 Netflix · Punto De Inflexión: La Bomba Y La Guerra Fría.

• 13 de marzo de 2024 Netflix · Bandidos.

• 14 de marzo de 2024 Cines · Lazos De Vida. Cines · Kung Fu Panda 4. Cines · Dobles de Acción. Cines · Rescate Imposible. Cines · El Hombre De Los Sueños. Cines · Imaginario Juguete Diabólico. Max · Las Chicas Del Autobús: Primicias De Campaña. Netflix · Un Ladrón Romántico. Netflix · Girls5eva · Temporada 3. Prime Video · Invincible · Temporada 2 · Parte 2.

• 15 de marzo de 2024 Apple TV+ · La Caza Del Asesino. Apple TV+ · The Bloody Hundredth: Valor Y Sacrificio. Netflix · Mano De Hierro. Netflix · Nugget De Pollo. Netflix · Un Deseo Irlandés. Star+ · Coppola: El Representante.

• 19 de marzo de 2024 Netflix · Habilidad Física: 100 · Mina Subterránea. Netflix · Siempre Reinas · Temporada 2.

• 20 de marzo de 2024 Apple TV+ · Palm Royale. Disney+ · X-Men ’97.

• 21 de marzo de 2024 Cines · Mi Crimen. Cines · Garra De Hierro. Cines · El Jardín De Las Palabras. Cines · Ghostbusters: Apocalipsis Fantasma. Netflix · El Problema De Los 3 Cuerpos. Prime Video · El Duro.

• 22 de marzo de 2024 Netflix · Shirley. Netflix · Los Casagrande: La Película. Netflix · Buying Beverly Hills · Temporada 2.

• 25 de marzo de 2024 Netflix · La Casa De Muñecas De Gabby · Temporada 9.

• 27 de marzo de 2024 Netflix · Que Así Sea. Netflix · Descansar En Paz.

• 28 de marzo de 2024 Cines · Godzilla Y Kong: El Nuevo Imperio. Prime Video · The Baxters.

• 29 de marzo de 2024 Apple TV+ · Fraggle Rock: El Regreso. Apple TV+ · ¡STEVE! (Martin): Un Documental En 2 Partes. Disney+ · Nell, La Renegada. Netflix · El Juego Bonito. Netflix · El Salario Del Miedo. Netflix · ¿Es Pastel? · Temporada 3.

* Las fechas de estreno pueden estar sujetas a cambios.

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Poster que fiz para a série da @netflixbrasil “BANDIDOS NA TV”. Qual versão você gosta mais? 

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Poster I did for @netflix series "KILLER RATINGS”. Which version do you like it most?

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adam cole

adam copeland

alex reynolds

anna jay

bandido

bray wyatt

britt baker

brody king

bron breakker

buddy matthews

cameron grimes

cash wheeler

christian cage

chuck taylor

claudio castagnoli

cm punk

cody rhodes

damian priest

danhausen

daniel garcia

dante martin

david finlay

dax harwood

dominik mysterio

drew mcintyre

eddie kingston

el phantasmo

ethan page

evil uno

finn balor

hangman adam page

hook

jade cargill

jamie hayter

jay briscoe

jeff hardy

jey uso

jimmy uso

jon moxley

john silver

jungle boy

julia hart

jay white

kenny omega

kevin owens

kris statlander

kyle fletcher

kyle o’reilly

kip sabian

la knight

malakai black

mark davis

mjf

matt jackson

nick jackson

nick wayne [ no smut ]

orange cassidy

ortiz

penelope ford

pete dunne

preston vance

randy orton

roman reigns

rhea ripley

ricky starks

ridge holland

ruby soho

sami zayn

seth rollins

stu grayson

skye blue

santana

swerve strickland

trent beretta

toni storm

tony d’angelo

undertaker

wardlow

wheeler yuta

willow nightingale

will ospreay

zack sabre jr.

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damiano david — måneskin

ethan torchio — måneskin

thomas raggi — måneskin

victoria de angelis — måneskin

chris motionless — motionless in white

ricky horror — motionless in white

vinny mauro — motionless in white

will ramos — lorna shore

vessel — sleep token

ii — sleep token

iii — sleep token

iv — sleep token

oli sykes — bring me the horizon

noah sebastian — bad omens

hozier

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bucky barnes

loki laufeyson

miguel o’hara

peter parker [ mcu + tasm ]

steve rogers

thor odinson

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joel miller — the last of us [ tv series ]

thomas shelby — peaky blinders

arthur shelby — peaky blinders

alfie solomons — peaky blinders

simon “ghost” riley — cod/mw2

könig — cod/warzone

capitan john prince — cod/mw2

johnny “soap” mctavish — cod/mw2

kyle “gaz” garrick — cod/mw2

keegan p. russ —cod/ghosts

keep in mind this ain’t the final list !

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Meet Music 2021, 7 e 8 settembre: qual è il futuro della musica?

Meet Music torna a mettere in contatto giovani talenti con artisti e professionisti d'esperienza. L'edizione che prende vita martedì 7 e mercoledì 8 settembre in diretta su Facebook.com/meetmusic.it  dal Teatro Fonderia Leopolda di Follonica (GR) mette insieme come sempre artisti, discografici, dj, musicisti, PR, giornalisti (...).  

Il 'format' di Meet Music ogni anno cambia, ma il focus in fondo è sempre lo lo stesso: chi da tempo lavora in ambito musicale sul palco, in console o dietro le quinte si mette a disposizione di chi solo oggi si sta affacciando sulla scena musicale. Nato come evento dedicato a dj e club, Meet Music oggi abbraccia ogni scena musicale.

Quello che accade durante la manifestazione è uno scambio reciproco di energie, di know how e di sorrisi che spesso dà via a rapporti personali e di lavoro che si consolidano nel tempo. Negli anni, tra gli altri, hanno partecipato al Meet Music artisti come Claudio Coccoluto, Benny Benassi, Albertino, Ralf, Tommy Vee, Simon De Jano e Luke Degree (Meduza), Federico Scavo e professionisti come Livia Iacolare (Strategic Partnerships Manager Media di Facebook) e Matteo Fedeli (direttore sezione Musica di SIAE).

L'edizione 2021 di Meet Music, la quinta, dopo il posticipo da giugno a settembre 2021 dovuto ad un problema tecnico alla location, prenderà vita in un teatro vuoto. Perché solo una parte del mondo dello spettacolo è già in qualche modo ripartita. Sono ancora troppi coloro che nella complessa filiera di musica, locali ed eventi non hanno ancora ritrovato il loro spazio.

"Parlare di ripartenza dopo il Covid-19, per musica e locali credo sia ormai purtroppo un'utopia. La scena è dovuta ridimensionare perché il mercato è cambiato e con il mercato sono forse cambiate anche la aspettative del pubblico", spiega Luca Guerrieri, da sempre anima di Meet Music. "I cambiamenti, però, non sono certo tutti negativi. Ci sono tante nuove opportunità, tra online e offline, e di quelle parleremo al Meet Music. Tutto questo grazie al supporto di MINI Italia, per noi fondamentale, così come quello del Comune di Follonica e del Cantiere Cultura Follonica, oltre ovviamente alla voglia di raccontarsi di tanti protagonisti del business musicale. Senza le energie dei ragazzi che sognano un giorno di vivere di musica tutto sarebbe però inutile", conclude Luca Guerrieri.

I tavoli online di Meet Music 2021 sono tanti, ben 15, e tutto il programma è disponibile sul sito ufficiale di Meet Music: https://www.meetmusic.it/speakers-e-programma/.

Tutti gli approfondimenti però partono tutti da un interrogativo comune: quale sarà il futuro dell'industria musicale e di tutto lo show biz? In che modo Covid-19 sta cambiando la situazione? Le esigenze di chi i concerti e le disco vuol tornare a viverli in prima persona si sono evolute? Come è possibile creare sinergie tra musica online, che sembra sempre più importante, ed eventi da vivere di persona?

Tra i tanti, partecipa a Meet Music 2021 Saturnino, storico coautore e bassista di Lorenzo Jovanotti. La sua esperienza, che tocca anche la moda ma parte da solide basi musicali, sarà preziosa per chi sogna di salire su un palco oppure cerca nuovi stimoli.

Ecco poi tre chitarristi di livello assoluto: Davide Tagliapietra (Biagio Antonacci, Giorgia, Eros Rammazzotti, Gianna Nannini) ed Alessandro De Crescenzo (Tiziano Ferro, Cesare Cremonini) racconteranno come si passa dallo studio al live, mentre Finaz (Bandabardò, Bandidos, Piero Pelù) si concentrerà sul valore dell'underground.

Siccome però la musica cambia, ecco un tavolo dedicato a videogame, colonne sonore per spot, serie tv e cinema e auto imprenditorialità sociale. Partecipano Dario Cioni, regista che ha collaborato tra gli altri con un certo George Lucas per "Star Wars, Episode I: Phantom Menace" e Ascari, composer e creative sound designer attiva tra cinema e videogame. Con loro anche Dino Lupelli, general manager di Music Innovation Hub.

Tra i top dj, per la prima volta al Meet Music c'è Molella, in un tavolo collettivo legato a Clubhouse e con lui anche Nicola Fasano, altro artista italiano le cui produzione sono ballate in tutto il mondo. Sono confermati come sempre Tommy Vee e Federico Scavo e non può mancare Andrea Pellizzari, dj capace di spaziare tra tv, radio, editoria musicale ed organizzazione di eventi.

Tra i professionisti che ruotano attorno alla scena musicale, ecco poi per la prima volta Damir Ivic (Soundwall, Rolling Stone) e di nuovo Albi Scotti (DJ Mag Italia, Il Fatto Quotidiano), giornalisti capaci di fare spesso anche molto altro. Da segnalare anche un gradito ritorno, quello di Matteo Fedeli (direttore sezione Musica di SIAE) che con lo storico editore Pierangelo Mauri e Renato Tanchis (Sony Music Italy) parlerà di collecting, streaming, royalties e dintorni.

Meet Music continua poi a cercare nuovi talenti con due iniziative diverse. La terza edizione di MINI Meets Music Contest, quella del 2021, cerca due talenti, un producer e una songwriter, che abbiano tra i 18 e i 25 anni. I vincitori realizzeranno una produzione discografica che verrà pubblicata da una delle label coinvolte nel progetto. Chi si candida come producer non deve necessariamente essere anche dj, le ragazze possono proporre musica strumentale oppure canzoni. Ciò che davvero conta, per i producer, è la capacità di trasformare una semplice idea in una produzione musicale vera e propria. Le ragazze che si candidano come songwriter, invece, saranno selezionate per la qualità delle loro composizioni. Per il resto, massima libertà: la manifestazione è come sempre aperta ad ogni genere musicale, né ci sono limitazioni per quanto riguarda la lingua. Tutti i dettagli della manifestazione sono già disponibili qui: https://www.meetmusic.it/contest/

Al MINI Meets Music Contest si affianca quest'anno una Talent Selection in diretta online a cura di Tommy Vee e Luca Guerrieri. Durante uno dei tavoli, i due dj faranno ascoltare live le migliori 5 demo tra quelli che saranno state inviate entro il 5 settembre a info@meetmusic.it.  Le tracce selezionate verranno proposte a label in contatto con lo staff di Meet Music.

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Films watched in April, 2021

FIRST VISIONS

Return of the Seven (1966). Directed by Burt Kennedy

Il lungo giorno della violenza (aka: "El bandido Malpelo" / "The Bandit Malpelo"), (1971). Directed by Giuseppe Maria Scotese

Scoob! (2020). Directed by Tony Cervone

Emiliano Zapata (1970). Directed by Felipe Cazals

Che c'entriamo noi con la rivoluzione? (aka: "What Am I Doing in the Middle of a Revolution?" / "¡Qué nos importa la revolución!"), (1972). Directed by Sergio Corbucci

The Spongebob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020). Directed by Tim Hill

D-Tox (2002). Directed by Jim Gillespie

Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969). Directed by Paul Wendkos

La notte dei serpenti (aka: "La noche de los serpientes" / "Nest of Vipers"), (1969). Directed by Giulio Petroni

Un gallo con muchos huevos (aka: "A Brave Little Rooster"), (2015). Directed by Gabriel and Rodolfo Riva Palacio Alatriste, Melanie Simka

Us (2019). Directed by Jordan Peele

Dawn of the Dead (2004). Directed by Zack Snyder

Juanita (2019). Directed by Clark Johnson

Friendship (aka: "Dostana"), (1980). Directed by Raj Khosla

Kaala Patthar (aka: "Coal Mine" / "Black Stone"), (1979). Directed by Yash Chopra

REWATCHED

Jesus Christ Superstar (1973). Directed by Norman Jewison

Ben-Hur (1959). Directed by William Wyler

North by Northwest (1959). Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996). Directed by Robert Rodriguez

Silent Hill (2006). Directed by Christophe Gans

Emiliano Zapata (1970). Directed by Felipe Cazals

Batman Returns (1992). Directed by Tim Burton

Giù la testa (aka: "Duck You Sucker"), (1971). Directed by Sergio Leone

DOCUMENTARIES

The Storm That Swept Mexico (2011). Directed by Ray Telles

The UnXplained (2019 - )

Narco Wars (2020 - 2021)

TV SERIES

Them (2021 - )

Batman (1966 - 1968)

Glow (2017 - 2019)

Haunted (2018 - )

Haunted: Latin America (2021 - )

Ju-On: Origins (2020 - )

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Day 6 - The Drive Home

Today was the last day of tour. I wake up in the morning feeling guilty because I have a groggy memory of waking up around 8 to go to the bathroom, Paul was waiting to go, but when the person came out I just fronted him (a word I just now remember from elementary school, cut in line, but southern), used the bathroom and went back to bed. Rude. I am wiping the cold from my eye, taking in the undecorated walls of the apartment, and Jeremy comes from down the hall and says ‘Did you get the memo? Louisville cancelled. Tour’s over.” I said ‘fuck’ and processed it. I feel sad for Jeremy and John and Kabir because I know they wanted to play this last show in Kentucky. It’s not that I didn’t, but also for the last three months and for especially the last month I have been feeling a tremendous amount of anxiety about this tour, about feeling out-of-control, about being away from loved ones at home, about being available to show up for people in my life, about completing regular routines of hygiene and spirituality and task completion that make me feel boring and comfortable, both. Touring stirs up dredges of the tea leaves that I had let settle into a fine filmy sediment at the bottom of me. I manufactured a jello mold two years ago and poured myself into it: regular 9-5 in the legal field as a means and precursor to law school, then diligent study for 3 years, then a professional career, abandoning the party life, abandoning trespassing in abandoned buildings, abondoning the luxury of resentment and unproductive time, trying to cool and firm into something reliable, serviceable, dependable, available, a resource people could draw from for once, rather than a leech or slug. And when I go on tour I take that jello mold out of the fridge and it holds its shape but also it warms and the longer I’m out the more liquidy it gets and sloshes over the sides and so forth. So I’m ambivalent because I like what I have to offer to this band, I like the physical process of drumming and expressing myself in the context of music and being a member of a band, but also I feel like I’ve kind of chilled enough and it’s time to settle down. And I’m at a way different point in my life than the other guys in the band it seems like, for the most part. So anyways all this to contextualize the fact that the news of tour ending even earlier than early honestly makes me feel relieved, if not happy, and so then I work to temper that boosted mood for the sake of grim decorum befitting a tour taken before its time. 

All our stuff is locked in the venue from last night and we learn we won’t be able to pick it up until 1pm and so we have about 4 hours to kill in the apartment. Phillip puts on a pot of coffee that will turn out to be some of the wateriest on record, but still, a super kind gesture, and then he also puts on The Wire on HBO Go and we just settle in on the couch and watch for awhile. Some of the scenes are familiar, there’s something seductive about this show, and it brings me back to the precise moment of Summer of 2013 right before I moved to Philadelphia right after I got evicted from the squat/music venue I had been living in that winter and spring, I watched all episodes of The Wire on DVD on Matt Martin’s couch at 3 Pomroy and felt deeply depressed. It ranks up there with when I watched all released episodes of The Office in bed in the winter of 2009 after my girlfriend broke up with me, in terms of memorably devestating life phases offset by the amniotic fluid of full-series of TV. So we watch The Wire and I find myself not too inclined to sit and watch and I want to write so I sit at my laptop on the table nearby and write an email to a female (sorry) but I actually do and its purpose is to make her smile and bring some levity and play and purple prose to a moment in her life that, from how she tells it to me, is just so heavy, nightmares and waking horror and a future that feels like it hangs by a thread. so I’m glad to spend time showing up for her in this small way rather than watching The Wire, and also I write yesterday’s blog post, another activity that feels sort of like a pittance but also like: doing-writing is something I have been putting off, in phases and seasons, for my entire adult life, because to me nothing ever matters enough to write about, or if it does my perspective is deficient, or my research inadequate, or my skill incommensurate with the subject matter, or it won’t properly reflect my feelings, or any number of self-sabotaging excuses to not do this thing I so love doing, and love sharing. So for me, writing this blog is a very meaningful and special act of reclamation of a personal mode of expression that constitutes a break in my winter’s depression and what feels like a new phase of happiness, of believing-i-have-a-future, of feeling more authoratative and qualified to know and describe my own experience in a lifetime marred and dampened by dissociation, oblivion, amnesia, and fugue. So it feels like nourishment to get some paragraphs done and to move slow through my days, get them onto the page.

The Wire grows tiresome at some point and Jeremy fires up the PS4 and then the PS3 looking for games but none are multiplayer and so eventually he settles on Skyrim and starts from a new file. Me personally I love watching let’s plays and this is as good as TV. There was a moment last tour when we were in this strange small town in Connecticut called Torrington (the town all touring bands are required to go to, we also joked), in this town Jeremy was describing the sort of surrealness he experienced there and he said he felt like the townspeople in Torrington were like NPCs in a FPS RPG like Skyrim wherein you would go up to people and press A to talk, say ‘What news?” and that I thought was really funny then, I like his sense of humor. Really Kabir and Jeremy and Royal represent this sort of humor that is to me equal parts razor wit, cleverness, timing, accents, absurdity, and broad conceptual placticity, all for the most part very clean too, never or at least rarely blue (you’re gonna inevitably make a D’s nuts joke and that’s just that). And during happy times I am so grateful to be nearby this humor and during less happy times I get self conscious about how great their humor is and how I sometimes feel like I don’t measure up. But that feeling doesn’t weigh for long. Skyrim is fun to watch, it kills some time, we all take turns trying to kill wolves with swords before Jeremy finally does it, there’s a dragon, we loot corpses, discuss Bloodborne and Dark Souls and comparable games. A lot of the main media activity in this group is discussing how a given media relates to another media, Kabir and Jeremy and John know it seems like everything between the three of them when it comes to record labels, band narratives, artist’s hometowns, etc. So we play Skyrim for awhile, and then eventually it’s time to go to the venue and we drive back to The Salty Nut, load in all our gear, do a final sweep, and say our goodbyes and thankyous to Phillip. We return to the Bandido place one last time for one last round of free local Taco Bell which we absolutely scarf and are very vocally grateful to the people for giving it to us for free again, it’s clear they really put effort into being hospitable to touring bands here, at least through Phillip. His band, Thomas Function, was signed on Fat Possum Records, which also had bigger indie acts like Jay Reatard (who Phillip tells a story about him demanding $50,000 in cash for a show fee to feed his coke and heroin habit, Reatard died at age 29 from cocaine toxicity with alcohol also), The Black Keys, Andrew Bird, Wavves and Soccer Mommy, but which Kabir postulates has most of its success due to having signed octogenarian southern blues legends like R.L. Burnside and King Ernest and raking in royalties from what Kabir speculates is due to poor management of the estates of these dead leagends who each had more than a dozen children. It’s truly fascinating for me to hear how deep and complex the analysis of music these guys have is. When I feel insecure, which is often, I tend to veneer these sorts of expertises and shibboleths among music-heads as snobby, elitist, exclusionary, petty and asinine. But I think most of that comes from a fear that I lack the insight, cognitive absorbency, and passionate research skills to collate and catalog data about artists in the way these people do, the way my bandmates do. I feel inspired to take time to dig deeper into the musicans I love, to make them real to me, to get a sense of their story, their lived experience, for the sake of corroding the mediation between us somewhat, or at least polishing the media membrane. 

I volunteer to drive for the first half of what will end up being about a 10-hour drive back from Huntsville to Chapel Hill. We go to a Whole Foods in Huntsville upon Kabir’s insistence where I purchase a nootropic snakeoil energy affair in beverage form, Kabir gets hot coffee and a La Colombe Draft can of latte, Jeremy gets a kombucha made from yerba mate (“best of both worlds” he says), John black coffee as per, and Kabir also buys a slice of Tres Leches cake in a clear plastic to-go clamshell: “they can take away my tour, but they can’t take away my tres leches.” Later he’s eating it in the van and he accidentally spills some on himself and he says “shit…spilled some on myself. oh good, it was only one leche” which to me is so funny and perfect humor and just like kind of a paragon of the kind of joke I so treasure from this friend group. Another is when Jeremy and Kabir are recalling a favorite running joke from two tours ago, wherein they were in Philly, home to the famous Schuykill River (pronounced skoo-kill, at least when i lived there, at least around the non-indigenous people i knew), and while there they would affect this blaring Brooklyn accent, deployed heavily on this trip as well for basically any purpose, but back then they would say “UGH MY SKOYKL IS KILLING ME” like Schuykill was lombago or sciatica and also would say “YEAH LET ME GET A KWATA POUND OF SKOYKL ON RYE” like it was a deli meat, and they laughed and laughed. Also they liked doing rhyming jokes like last night there was a chair nearby the combo amp Tired Frontier was going to use for their set and Kabir goes ‘amp on the chair, tone everywhere’ and then I say ‘amp on the ground, makes a bad sound’ and then I tell Jeremy later how Kabir would put me in good spirits whenever I was describing to someone how my LSAT score is very competitive but my checkered past makes the acceptance process a little less than straightforward, and Kabir would see I was getting kinda down and anxious, and he would say ‘You gotta break the law before you make the law,’ and we all laugh and I love that, the function of humor as balm, salve. I want to wield my humor like that.

The drive back is fine, some sprinkles, nothing major, clear traffic for the most part, I feel like I have a good command of the van, keep it around 75 for most of the trip, feel smoth and confident switching lanes, passing, etc. We do another two NYT Wednesday classic crosswords together, Kabir is getting probably 40% of the clues, me maybe 30% Jeremy and John the other 30%, Kabir will just to YEAHHHHHHHH after getting a clue and I start doing that too after Jeremy says “X down, ‘on the table’ 15 letters,” and I say UPFORDISCUSSION after only a couple seconds and it fits and is correct and I feel like a damn genius and we’re all laughing and kind of praising each other half-jokingly for being strong beautiful geniuses who also we know songs. This is a great passtime and the drive flies by and before I know it we’re in Western NC just outside of Asheville and we make a stop to refuel the tank and get dinner. We decide on a Waffle House across the street, not wanting to venture too deep into Asheville for something healthier and better because of the time and money it would likely eat up, Kabir says that FEMA uses the closing of Waffle Houses as a bellweather to indicate the severity of a given natural disaster. We go inside, the waitress says ‘ya’ll aren’t from around here are you?’ in a way that I take to be hostile and I suggest that to the guys and they seem like maybe slightly offput but not very much and we decide not to abort and I later feel foolish because I think I am doing this thing where I become excessively vigilant or sensitive to a perceived slight to a friend who is brown for the putative purpose of interceding on their behalf against racism but what’s actually happening is if someone was racist to them they could just stand up for themselves and make their own call regarding their own comfort or lack thereof and I would do better to act less motivated by white guilt when avoidable. That passes, it’s fine, we eat hash browns and waffles and eggs and grits and toast and cover everything in tobasco and tip well and get back on the road, John takes over for the final stretch. 

I return a call from Marty and catch him up about tour being cancelled and we discuss our fears and hysteria and cancellations and reaction and so forth. Marty remarks that he is a gravedigger during the plague, which is the best possible job to have. It’s not a joke because he actually drives a backhoe working for a cemetary and digs actual graves, super weird and eminently punk/goth and kind of a curiosity but really perfect for the lead singer of one of the South’s premiere punk bands, especially after his being fired from the swish cafe he worked at in Richmond before that. I love Marty and catching up and it feels good to hear his voice. After I get off the phone it sort of becomes campfire spooky story time in the van with everyone proffering their take on the panic, market failure, the likelihood of Capitalism as a superstructure to require perpetual growth even at the peril or death of its working class, the superior response to covid that South Korea and Norway seem to have mounted, a lot of fear of financial insecurity. Eventually this digresses to talk of touring, and the guys discuss all manner of various routes throught the South, Midwest, Northeast, plains states, PNW, Mexico City, Jeremy says ‘I can get us a show in Colombia’ which he can, Argentina or Venezuela through a mutual friend, then Europe so long as the label foots the bill for the plane ticket, then Japan, setting up camp on Honshu would make it easy to hit TOkyo, Kyoto, Osaka and Nagoya no problem, except where exactly are people playing shows? there’s gotta be somewhere all these Japanese Noise and Hardcore bands are getting gigs, and then from there of course it’s not hard to get to Australia, John knows a band there, and they go all around the world and this is stressing me out a little bit, only because I wonder about how much they think I would be involved or want to go on such a theoretical tour, and the answer is I don’t 100% know. Part of me wants to say this is my last tour, lean all the way in to law school and leave behind this chapter. Part of me feels like it’s better not to make a hard and fast statement like that because what if the economy collapses and for some reason school is a no-go but being in the band becomes the most plausible source of income or something. I get anxious and psych myself out and quiet down and feel foolish and wish to be home. I fantasize about my future life of stability, but I second guess myself because I just don’t know for sure how my life will be, and want to be careful to work toward the goals I think will be the most fulfilling, self-actualizing, spiritually nourishing, healthy for me; I also want to not forsake the friendships and bonds I’ve forged in these weird intimate moments in the van with the guys. I have the wherewithal to know that nobody is requiring me to make a decision right this second, and that as time passes it’s likely that the best course of action will be revealed one way or another if I can keep from panicking. So I watch videos of the 2019 Classic Tetris World Championships on my phone, eat two candy bars, watch videos of a streamer named Wumbotize play the latest Tetris game, Tetris Effect (2018, PS4, PC), and am pleasantly awed by how crazily far the skill curve of that game has shot up. I have some time ahead of me that is completely free, which is so nice. Before I know it I’m back home in my clean apartment which is tidy like a tetris field at the beginning of a new game and I get into my bed and lay down flat and if my bed is the well than the line of me clears and the well is clean, smooth, primed, for whatever falls tomorrow. 

[luegootravez]

Ester Expósito in 'Bandidos' (2024 - )

[puroresu-musings]

NJPW / ROH G1 SUPERCARD Review (April 6th 2019, New York, Madison Square Garden)

Honor Rumble  **

NEVER Openweight/ROH TV Title vs. Title Match: Will Ospreay vs. Jeff Cobb  ****

Rush vs Dalton Castle  DUD

WOH Title Match: Mayu Iwatani (c) vs. Kelly Klein  **

New York City Street Fight: Flip Gordon, Juice Robinson & Mark Haskins vs. Bully Ray, Silas Young & Shane Taylor  **1/2 (I guess)

IWGP Jr Heavyweight Title Match: Taiji Ishimori (c) vs. Dragon Lee vs. Bandido  ****1/4

IWGP Tag/ROH Tag Title vs. Title Match: Guerillas Of Destiny vs. Brody King & PCO vs. The Briscoes vs. EVIL & SANADA  ***3/4

RPW British Heavyweight Title Match: Zack Sabre Jr. (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi  ****

IWGP Intercontinental Title Match: Tetsuya Naito (c) vs. Kota Ibushi  ****3/4

ROH World Title Ladder Match: Jay Lethal (c) vs. Marty Scurll vs. Matt Taven ****

IWGP Heavyweight Title Match: Jay White (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada  ****3/4

Photos.

Well this was a historic and interesting show, as at times it was like watching two completely different wrestling shows at the same time. First things first, the lion’s share of ROH stuff on here was... not good. ROH is a company that once had such a unique identity, that watching it now is so weird. Lets face it, without this relationship with New Japan, what identity would Ring Of Honor even have? Also the booking on here from the ROH standpoint, was a tremendous example of not knowing what your audience wants. Nobody in the sold out MSG wanted to see guys like Minoru Suzuki, Tomohiro Ishii, Hirooki Goto and others, wasted in the pre-show batle royal, and have nearly half an hour dedicated to a disinteresting Bubba Ray Dudley street fight, or a TNA nostalgia act, not to mention a Ladder Match, that whilst great, was horrendously over-long at 29:35. Also Matt Taven winning the belt seemed like a total anti-climax.

However, the NJPW stuff on this show was excellent. The pre-show Rumble was what you’d expect, it was mostly disinteresting, and it went on forever (42:21). The ROH guys got zero reation coming out, whereas the New Japan guys all got respectable to enormous pops, depending on who they were. The biggest responses were for Minoru Suzuki, Tomohiro Ishii and Jushin Thunder Liger, the latter of whom got the legend treatment. However, the biggest reaction was saved for the surprise appearance of The Great Muta! It was tremendous to see him, even though he moved like a glacier, he was in really good shape, and his exchanges with Liger got over huge. Kenny King won to no reaction, when he eliminated both legends. The first bout of the main show saw NEVER Openweight champion, Will Ospreay, take on ROH TV champion, Jeff Cobb, in a title for title match. This was great stuff, as you’d expect, but probably wasn’t as good as expected. They worked a great big guy/little guy style, with the added wrinkle of the big guy being able to fly too. The crowd was hot, the action great, and the stuff creative. The finish saw Cobb hit a top rope Tour Of The Islands, followed by a regular version, to win both straps in 12:52. This means Cobb defends the NEVER title against Taichi at the next NJPW show, which is quite the styles clash. Next, Rush squashed Dalton Castle in 15 seconds in what was an effective way to get the Mexican star over, but felt somewhat superfluous on this show, and Kelly Klein won the WOH title from Maiyu Iwatani in a profoundly uninteresting contest, with a horrendous post-match.

The never-ending Bully Ray stuff was next. I must admit, I was so disinterested, I went and did something else for a bit in the hope I’d miss this, and came back only to find it still going! What I did see was OK, at best. The show really wasn’t doing well at this point, with a single match worth a damn thus far, but it picked up considerably from here. The 3 way Jr Title match was excellent. Yes, it only went 8:54, and with even 5 more minutes, could have been outstanding, but it was still the best thing on the show up to this point, by far. The spots these guys did were mind-blowing, culminating in Bandido hitting a DOUBLE top rope Fall Away Slam into a Moonsault on both Lee and Ishimori, which blew the roof off the Garden. In the end, Dragon Lee won the title in an all-action sprint, when he pinned Bandido (not the defending champion) with Desnucadora. This was so good. Next up was the insane 4 way tag title vs. title match, with IWGP tag champs, GOD, taking on ROH tag title holders, PCO and Brody King, with the Briscoes and EVIL and SANADA thrown in for good measure. This was another wild bout, which saw PCO take the craziest bump of the weekend, that I saw anyway, when GOD gave him a double powerbomb out of the ring, and he landed hard on the concrete. This was insane, and I feared he may have been dead. Tama hit King with Gun Stun, then the Tongans won both sets of belts when they pinned him with a Super Bomb. I really liked this, it was an unhinged four-way brawl. The ROH guys, and even GOD, looked really good here, however EVIL and SANADA were literally just bodies going through motions here and if they weren’t in it, I’m not sure it even would have mattered. Toru Yano stole the IWGP tag belts in the post match, whilst the Enzo and Cass bullshit kicked off around ringside.

ZSJ successfully defended the Rev Pro British title against Tanahashi next. This was another excellent bout in their series, but coming after three crazy matches in a row, two of which were great, and with them working a considerably more methodical style, the crowd were slightly more subdued here. Despite the slow start, they finally won the crowd over, and Sabre retained after submitting the Ace with his new stretch he’s calling Yes! I am A Long Way From Home (which I believe is Mogwai reference) after 15 minutes of action. Tana was apparently injured in this somewhere though, which puts a bit of a dampner on things. Naito defended the I.C. Title against Ibushi next. What more can be said of matches between these two? Every time they get in there against each other, I’m fearful one, or both, might die. Which is never a great feeling to have when watching a wrestling match. Of course, the fact their matches are always out of this world good makes up for it slightly. But only slighty. This had loads of crazy stuff in it; Ibushi hit a snap rana on Naito off the apron to the floor, as well as that deadlift German off the second rope, which when Naito landed, his head snapped like he’d been thrown out of a car. They had a stiff strike exchange, before Naito hit a reverse rana and Destino for a great near fall. Ibushi battles back with a headkick, two Boma Ye’s, a Last Ride, and Kamigoye to win the Intercontinental title in decisive fashion at the 20:53. This was the right move to me, as with Kota part of the company full time, New Japan really should be positioning him at the top of the card, and Naito is already an established star (even if that star has fallen somewhat over the last year), so he isn’t hurt by the loss. Ibushi’s first defense is against Sabre Jr at the Sengoku Lord show in Nagoya on April 20th, which should be great. The ROH World Title Ladder Match followed. It too was excellent, and featured some incredible bumps, but it went on much too long, and Taven winning hardly invokes enthusiasm, it must be said.

Which brought us to the main event of the evening. This was an exceptional piece of drama, which took its time to get to where it was going. I’ve heard people complain about how the first half of the match wasn’t exactly scintilating, but it was all part of telling the story it set out to tell. It built to an incredibly dramatic climax, which saw, amongst other things, Jay White joining an incredible elite club of guys who have ever kicked out of a full on Rainmaker, probably the most protected finisher in the business. In fact, it took Okada four dropkicks and four variations of the Rainmaker to finally put Switch Blade away. After hitting a Blade Runner (which noticeably wasn’t kicked out of here), Jay went for another, but Okada turned it into a German Suplex. As the sold out MSG went crazy, and after a series of blocks and counters, Okada hit the spinning Tombstone and another Rainmaker to win his 5th IWGP Title at the 32:33 mark, and send everyone home happy. Honestly, Okada looked like the best worker on the planet (I mean, because he is. Even better than Kenny) and he put in a superstar performance here, doing everything to make White look like a star. To his credit, Jay carried his load well here too, and looked great throughout. At only 26 years old, the future is very bright for him too, but the title change was the right call I believe. Okada is still your franchise player, and whilst he doesn’t have a whole load in the way of fresh challengers, his main events are unequelled. Next up for him is a title defense against SANADA in Fukuoka on May 3rd, as he promised to Cold Skull after beating him to win the NJC. Their last match was a classic, so I see no reason for that not to be too.

NDT

[gdwessel]

Best of the Super Juniors 26 Blocks, Lineups, Dominion Title Matches Announced; TAKA Taichi Mania 2 - 5/7/2019; This Week’s NJPW on AXS

It’s Best of the Super Juniors season, and earlier today, NJPW released both the blocks and the tour lineups for this year’s tournament. I will not be writing out the lineups today, as I don’t have the time or wherewithal to do so today. There will be another Upcoming NJPW Events post coming this week sometime for this purpose.

In the meantime, here are the blocks, with debutants in itlaics:

A Block: Tiger Mask IV, SHO [CHAOS], Dragon Lee [CMLL], Titan [CMLL], Marty Scurll [Villain Enterprises], Jonathan Gresham [ROH], Taiji Ishimori [Bullet Club], Yoshinobu Kanemaru [SZKG], TAKA Michinoku [SZKG], Shingo Takagi [Los Ingobernables]

B Block: Ryusuke Taguchi, Will Ospreay [CHAOS]. Rocky Romero [CHAOS], YOH [CHAOS], Bandido [Lifeblood], Flip Gordon [ROH], El Phantasmo [Bullet Club], Robbie Eagles [Bullet Club], El Desperado [SZKG], BUSHI [Los Ingobernables]

With 20 participants, this is a bigger tournament than usual, and it shows when they have also booked Ryogoku Kokugikan for the final. A special singles match has been booked for the show as well, as Hiroshi Tanahashi makes his return from injury here, and will face off against Jay White in a match that will probably be the semi-main. I’m not sure why they booked that match here instead of Dominion.  Tanahashi and Jay in a meaningless tag match at NJPW’s (arguably) 2nd biggest show of the year seems a bit of a waste. Here is where you do the tag match, and blow it off at Dominion a mere 4 days later. I know this blog is supposed to “make sense of New Japan Pro Wrestling” but sometimes it don’t make no sense.

It should also be noted that Brody King will be on this tour as well, partnering up with Marty Scurll, despite not participating in BOSJ for rather obvious reasons.

As for Dominion, the three teased title matches so far have been made official. Kazuchika Okada will defense the IWGP Heavyweight title against Chris Jericho. Tetsuya Naito challenges Kota Ibushi for the IWGP Intercontinental belt, whilst Taichi has his first defense of the NEVER Openweight strap against Tomohiro Ishii. Dragon Lee will most likely defend the IWGP Junior Heavyweight title against the BOSJ winner, assuming he does not win the tournament himself. There are rumors and speculation...

The second TAKA Taichi Mania card of the TAKA & Taichi Produce series happened today at Tokyo Korakuen Hall. Unfortunately, I am getting incomplete results for this, but as for the ones that have relevance to NJPW, Taichi, clad in white for the first time in.... a while... defeated Ryusuke Taguchi in the main event (Black Mephisto, 28:04). TAKA Michinoku beat an old nemesis in Gedo with a Michinoku Driver II in 8:11. El Desperado v. Jun Kasai from all accounts was indeed a deathmatch, initially ending with a double countout at 6:55, before referee Kyohei Wada restarted the match, at which point it went to a No Contest at 7:13. In the opener, Shota Umino defeated the debuting Tatsuya Musashi, of TAKA’s new Pro Wrestling JUST TAP OUT project, with a Boston Crab at 9:20. Three matches happened in between Umino/Musashi and Despy/Kasai, but I have no idea what they were, and I can’t seem to find them right now. This show will make the rounds soon, as it airs on Samurai TV next week.

This week on AXS, we get featured matches from Wrestling Dontaku 2019, from 5/3/2019  at Fukuoka Convention Center, will be shown. Dragon Lee defends the IWGP Junior Heavyweight title against the previous champion, Taiji Ishimori, whilst Kazuchika Okada & Tomohiro Ishii square off against EVIL & SANADA in an IWGP Heavyweight title defense prelude. Usual time and place and hosts.

Tomorrow begins the ROH War of the Worlds tour, however those results will be on a day’s delay as I am not staying up til all hours waiting for those shows to end, especially since my patience with ROH is paper thin at this point. So be it.