Hey guys, come check my band out Saturday 3rd July, at the Civic Backroom in Inglewood! We go on at 10!

-Axis

So we have 4 V4 packs ready to use, and we just need some names for them.

A few ideas so far:

• Mr Speaker
• The Map
• John Howard
• Medium (Grug)
• Novice
• 91
• Master Chef

If you have any more ideas for pack names, comment please  and I'll do a poll to vote for the final 4 :D

-Axis

So the WWE has recently just finished up it's first season of NXT. NXT is a "reality" show with "rookies" being paired with WWE "pros" in order to gain a WWE contract. (In reality all rookies are already contracted WWE wrestlers, this is just a way for them to be brought on to television). Anyhow, Bryan Danielson, arguably the best pure wrestler in the world signed with WWE, and they debuted him as a "rookie" named Daniel Bryan on the first season of NXT. As Bryan already had a massive following on the internet due to him competing across the globe as an independent wrestler for the last 10 years, it wasn't long until he was the fan favourite of NXT.

Fast forward 16 weeks, NXT season one had finished, and Bryan didn't win (through the story line already written). On an episode of WWE Raw, Bryan, along with the 7 other "rookies" made a scene, as per story line, where they beat  up a few wrestlers, ring announcers and time keepers, and basically just destroyed the ring and announce table. This was quickly seen as one of the greatest finishes to Raw in many years, and had loads of people talking about what would happen next week. During the destruction, Bryan "choked" out an announcer with his own tie, a scene that epitomised the point the NXT "rookies" were trying to get across.

3 days laters, Bryan was released from his WWE contract. The reason being that Matel, the figuring company that makes all WWE companies complained that the scene was too graphic, and it could influence kids to do the same thing at home. (Don't worry that steel chairs, tables, ladders, kendo sticks are used week in and week out on every episode, a guy being "choked" by a tie is too graphic.)

2 days after that, so this morning, WWE champion John Cena, the WWE poster boy, their money maker, posts on his twitter account that he disagrees with what the WWE had done in firing Bryan, and he openly admits he would sign any petition required to get Bryan resigned.

Now the reason behing this post? It boils my blood when I can't differentiate between the fake in wrestling, and the real life actions of a multi-billion dollar corporation. Fair enough in the firing of Bryan, but why would WWE allow their poster boy to come out with the comments that he did? It leads me to believe that the whole situation is story-line based, touching on parts of reality to draw people in even more.  If this is the case, then the  WWE are perhaps starting to produce their most compelling television in years. If it turns out to be a legit firing, then WWE have just fired a guy that could make them a LOT of money.

-Axis

So had band practice last night, and seeing as though I haven't needed my spare bass guitar ever, I thought I would leave it at home. Turns out I break a string, so I could have done with it. That was ok though, because the place where I was jamming had a spare bass so no biggie using it (except it was the first 5 string bass I've ever used, but I figured that out quick enough). THEN, my bass amp decided to die on me. Yes, die. Luckily though, there was a spare bass amp too, so I had that covered (couldn't get a decent sound out of it though :S ). So the rest of the practice went averagely, but then as I tried to start my car, my car battery decided to die! So, got a jumpstart, and drove around a bit on the way home to charge it up. THEN, I had my first day at a new job today (Woolies check-out-chick), and the car battery was completely dead again! Had to get the housemate to drive me to work.

So after my shit run of luck, I got a call from an office job that I had applied for, asking me to come in for an interview tomorrow. All I need to do now is get a working car battery....!

-Axis

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-Axis