Let me give you a brief update on my not-so-great life.

Graduation is on May 23, 2009. Damn, they took so long into putting an exact date. Who's in charge of my university, TNA or WWE?

Unlike last year, I haven't gone to the cinema that much. I only saw Australia (*** 1/2) and Watchmen (****). Wanted to see X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but the reviews weren't great and I got lazy too. I could have paid to see Oscar-winning movies like Slumdog Millionaire (**** 1/2) and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (*** 1/2) on the theaters, but I got too lazy and downloaded them before the Golden Globes arrived. I never gave a damn about Star Trek, yet it has high reviews. I'm not a sociallite, but I'm not extremely geek enough to care about Star Trek. The Wrestler premieres on May 20th here, but I've already seen it (****). But I'm not gonna miss the new Terminator film. I'm sure it'll be good, but not as great as Terminator 2: Judgment Day (very few films can top T2).

As for my PSP, I bought Daxter recently and my PSP game collection amounts to 10.

And no fancy graduation party for me... some of my friends wanted to organize it, but some opposed. It's expensive to organize one, but come on... eh, I should be aware that not everyone are the same. I can easily get my stuff paid by my old man... which still brings to the point that I'm unemployed. Sucks.

Wrestling PPVs, I'll be short for April. Backlash >>>> Lockdown > WrestleMania XXV. WM-XXV disappointed me in so many ways, it wasn't even funny to watch. Someone should have gunned down Triple H and Cena after they won their matches. And Lockdown was just barely better than WM XXV. It had some of the vintage TNA crap, but a bit more watchable in some aspects than WrestleMania XXV (build-up to Lockdown < build-up to WM). And I'm 50-50 on either HBK-Taker or Cena-Edge for 2009's MOTY. Backlash was simply great and fun to watch. But Shane McMahon needs to be shot. And what else... the Draft was good. I became more of a Raw watcher and ECW watcher because of the timeslots and it's easier to watch wrestling on Mondays and Tuesdays rather than Thursdays and Fridays.

More to say... oh, Oasis live was fun. I still think Wonderwall is overrated, but it got the biggest reaction of the night (Don't Look Back In Anger got second place in crowd reaction, followed by Champagne Supernova, Supersonic, and Morning Glory). But my current favorite Oasis song is Falling Down

Anyways, yeah.

Well, I did ended college/university. Graduation is in May this year.

Attended the Los Amigos Invisibles concert before the year ended. Concert was really great.

As for 2009, New Year's start kinds sucked.

I'm not attending the SD! house show at the moment, even if Undertaker arrives (and maybe Matt Hardy too). I'm not with much money right now. Either way, it's not gonna sell out (ticket prices and very poor publicity). Last year's Raw house show drew either 15000 or 18000 out of 21000, and this was with little to none publicity. Maybe it was the "first time" factor that helped getting such number attendance higher than what I expected.

Only movie I saw in the theater was Australia (*** 1/2). I still wanna see Benjamin Button and Revolutionary Road, which are still available. Still waiting for Slumdog Millionaire (**** 1/2) and The Wrestler (**** 1/4) to appear on the big screen.

And the WWE forums here are okay, but it's annoying to post there.

A quick, small ranking of best wrestling matches for January.

1. Chris Sabin vs Alex Shelley - TNA Genesis 2009 (**** 1/4) - MOTY so far. Give them time and they'll put a great match. Ending was predictable, but worked well. This can be easily superbed, though.
2. 30-Man Royal Rumble Match - WWE Royal Rumble 2009 (*** 3/4) - Worked well after giving it a second view. Loved to see RVD there, but while checking the RT threads, some jack*ss ruined the surprise for me. Orton won, which was very predictable. I thought that this Rumble would have been less predictable without the punt against Vince (up to that point, nobody seemed like a serious candidate to win at the RR).
3. Kurt Angle vs Jeff Jarrett - TNA Genesis 2009 (*** 3/4) - Good brawl. Jarrett nearly broke his neck doing a dive against Angle. I lol'd with the Guitar-Chair spot from Angle.
4. Edge vs Jeff Hardy - Royal Rumble 2009 (*** 3/4) - Slow start, picked up very well later and it included the heel turn from Matt. I know 5. John Cena vs Shawn Michaels - Raw (*** 1/2) - Everyone calls this as the current MOTY, but not me. I thought their other matches were much better. I won't deny that Michaels and Cena had a great match.

Criminal stuff of the month:

Shane McMahon fake-punching Orton and Legacy: Even at f*cking it up, WWE can be better than TNA. They tried to fix it on the next Raw, though. They chopped Orton's balls there big time thanks to Shane.
Feast Or Fired being worthless: See Hernandez. Lethal too, but it doesn't compare to Hernandez wasting a shot against Sting on tv (he should have used it at Genesis and won the damn belt).
Matt Hardy going to SD! with the greatest of ease: More like Long let Hardy leave easily. He should have put him against Finlay and have Hardy win on a ER match, but cheating and making Hornswoggle bleed. Great promo from Matt on SD!
Frontline still getting buried: No explanation needed.

Most interesting wrestler this month: Randy Orton
Best Wrestler: Shawn Michaels

Oh well... I guess we'll have to do it here.

1. World Heavyweight Championship (Elimination Chamber Match): ssj_jordan vs qfrodri85 vs Randyspeeps vs seinfeld111690 vs Y2J_Fan101 vs Dilla
2. United States Championship: Hurricane vs Drkstlkr7 (Special Guest Refere: CPMan)
3. Survivor Series Match: Ortonism (hornswaggle, Nick, wounds & Cayse200791) vs MPR (Ballin, Slick, JandSman & lightning_kf) vs tWo (Gamewiz, Android, enervator & sylent_assasin)
4. N#1 Contenders Match For The World Tag Team Titles: Crulex & spideynerd3 vs Orangemann & merchantsflea
5. Dominator vs Skinsfan

Card subject to change.

1. Take No Prisoners (ROH)
2. No Way Out (WWE)
3. Hard Justice (TNA)
4. Royal Rumble (WWE)
5. One Night Stand (WWE)
6. Victory Road (TNA)
7. WrestleMania XXIV
8. Summerslam (WWE)
9. Final Resolution (TNA)
10. Lockdown (TNA)
11. Against All Odds (TNA)
12. The Great American Bash (WWE)
13. Slammiversary (TNA)
14. Night Of Champions (WWE)
15. Sacrifice (TNA)

It's not a great PPV for ROH standards, but it suffices to beat No Way Out in regards to star matches. TNP is the 6th ROH PPV. I have yet to see Undeniable (where Nigel wins the title; he still has it), Rising Above or Respect Is Earned II.

So let's get into the matches. The only ones I expect to read and maybe comment would be telvisnostic, lightning and maybe wounds.

1. Four Corner Survival for a ROH World Title shot later in the night - Tyler Black defeated Claudio Castagnoli, Go Shoizaki and Delirious (** 1/2): Quite good match to get the PPV started. It was a bit funny to watch thanks to Delirious and Claudio. But Tyler wins with the Phoenix Splash, a move that makes the Shooting Star Press less, less impressive. Oh, and Nigel McGuinness did guest commentary for this match. He's a good commentator, actually.

Note: The PPV song was "Watch Yourself" from Ministry. And after this match, ROH aired a News Report video regarding the Tag Team Title changinng since the 5th PPV (AOTF beated Briscoes and lost it a month later to No Remorse Corps), which was a nice touch from ROH.

2. Kevin Steen defeated Roderick Strong (** 1/4): This needed more airtime. 10 minutes isn't much for them, really. Steen wins with a Package Piledriver if I'm not mistaken.

3. Briscoes defeated Necro Butcher & Joey Matthews (AOTF) - Tag Team Street Fight (***): Crazy brawl. Chair shots everywhere (most of them unprotected). Even Necro attacked Mark with a shovel. Hell, he nearly wins the match with a roll-up pin of all things (would have been extremely rare for a guy like Necro). I kinda hated the ending because of three big spots in less than 1 minute. Kida overkill IMO especially between the last two spots. First, Jay Briscoe Death Valley Drived Joey Matthews (a.k.a. Joey Mercury, who will come back to WWE later this year with Christian York as a tag team) through a table. A few seconds later, Mark jumped from the top of the entrance stage and lands on Necro through a table. 5 seconds later, Jaydriller on Matthews and the match is over interrupting a "Holy Sh*t" chant from the Mark-Necro spot. Yep, the ex-WWE guy jobs at the PPV. And there was a BotchaMania worthy spot: one of the Briscoes (Mark) tripped from the top rope while trying to connect the Doomsday Device on Matthews. But ROH would never left Maffew use their footage. F*gs.

Note: I think at this point they aired a video regarding Morishima being suspended from ROH PPVs after attacking a ref.

4. Brent Albright defeated Erick Stevens (* 1/2) - Kinda boring and short match. Sweeney distracts Stevens and Albright (back then heel, now he's a face and on his own without Sweet & Sour Inc.) connects a Half-Nelson Suplex for the win. The announcers put ROH over as the non-flashy company that has their wrestlers working their for their love of wrestling rather than the money whil saying that Sweeney holds wrestlers and sells them down the river to his buddy Vince (McMahon).

5. No Remorse Corps (Rocky Romero & Davey Richards) defeated Jigsaw & Ruckus to retain the ROH Tag Team Titles (*** 1/4) - Fun and awesome match. This match was taped in Orlando (the rest were in Philly) during the WrestleMania weekend. Jigsaw wasn't wearing his mask, he looks like a generic nerdy virgin. Lots of cool spots and the crowd made the match worthwhile too.

6. Bryan Danielson defeated Austin Aries (****) - Damn good match. I don't need to explain much of this, really.

7. Nigel McGuinness defeated Tyler Black (AOTF) to retain the ROH World Heavyweight Title (**** 1/2) - Outstanding match and my MOTY pick for the moment (better than Michaels-Flair and the TNA Victory Road World X Cup intro match). Two heels battling for the title, but before the bell rings, Nigel attacks Black and he becomes the underdog face. At the beginning, it was Nigel offense (no lariats yet) plus him dissing the crowd. Later, offense from Black. Early in the match, Black goes for a springboard, but Nigel stops him with a chair shot to the head. Later, Black crawled back to the ring only to get pinned, but kicks out for a big pop. Later it becomes a vack and forth match. Nigel switches to McLariat mode and starts hitting Black. Lots of nearfalls and even the crwod chanted "That was 3" when Black nearly wins the match. During the match, Nigel aims for Black's left arm, so by the end after a Lariat, he makes Black tap out with a Arms submission move. Great, great match.

I should also mention that this PPV had plenty of AOTF promos. Some were pretty good, the others, not so much.

The score of TNP has at least 0.3 points more than No Way Out, for the record. And the score difference between No Way Out and Hard Justice is around 0.1 FYI.

I have a feeling that maybe Unforgiven could top Take No Prisoners with their 3 scramble matches and the HBK-Jericho match. It can do it. No Surrender, not so much, really. But then again, I didn't had high hopes for the last two TNA PPVs, so maybe it could surprise me again.

Movies I Watched In The Theater = 12

I Am Legend - ** 1/2
Love In The Time Of Cholera - ** 3/4
No Country For Old Men - ****
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street - **** 1/4
There Will Be Blood - **** 1/2
La Môme (La Vie En Rose) - **** 1/4
Iron Man - **** 1/4
Speed Racer - *** 1/2
Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull - ** 1/2
The Dark Knight - **** 1/2
Hancock - *** 1/4
Wanted - *** 1/2

Enjoyable and entertaining for an action flick.

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PPV Ranking

1. No Way Out (WWE)
2. Hard Justice (TNA)
3. Royal Rumble (WWE)
4. One Night Stand (WWE)
5. Victory Road (TNA)
6. WrestleMania XXIV
7. Summerslam (WWE)
8. Final Resolution (TNA)
9. Lockdown (TNA)
10. Against All Odds (TNA)
11. The Great American Bash (WWE)
12. Slammiversary (TNA)
13. Night Of Champions (TNA)
14. Sacrifice (TNA)

This excludes some PPVs I haven't watched yet, like the last 3 from ROH, Backlash, Judgment Day and Destination X. For WrestleMania XXIV, I'm including the Battle Royale and Kane vs Chavo. PPVs like Slammiversary, WM and NOC got hurt by having low star rating on 1 or 2 matches while Sacrifice had too many short matches. Hurts their overall... this is based on matches alone, not my personal enjoyment.

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In one of sylent_assasin's blogs, he talked about movie trilogies... and I commented to tell him that I could recomend him to watch great films. I was even willing to make a Top 10 or Top 50 ranking, but I think I'll recomend one movie at a time.

Movie that I'll recomend:

Jeux d'Enfants (Love Me If You Dare)

Bettter than liberty. Better than life.

This film is romantic, funny as hell, entertaining and it's not an english-talking film. You guys probably heard of Marion Cotillard only because she won the Oscars this year. I'd recomend to watch this film. If I'm not mistaken, Cotillard and Canet weren't an couple until this film. They even dared each other to do stuff in real life like taking a picture of an *ss (Marion to Guillaume) or taking a picture of a dick and holding it with her hand (Canet to Cotillard) in 1 hour or she would be walking naked across the set.

Cap ou pas cap?