Hello Again, Hello

Well, it's been a long time since I last made a blog post, not sure why, just had stuff going on, and not a whole hell of a lot to blog about, so haven't. Now, I'm back and just want to dive into some random crap as usual. First off, Bruins won the Stanley Cup, which I covered last time, but what I didn't discuss was that this now completes my sports life, Patriots won 3, Red Sox 2, Celtics technically 3, but I don't really remember the first 2, and now the Bruins, so I guess with that out of the way, I can now devote myself to study the other mystery of the universe..... Women.

Staying with sports for a moment, Red Sox were doing well, then had a little issue with some National League teams as well as some injuries, but they have found themselves back into first place last night. Nadal lost Wimbeldon after winning French Open. Jimmy McIlroy beat Chazz Michael Michaels to win the US Open, oh wait, I'm sorry, that was Rory McIlroy, but check out who was hanging out with his dad:

Yup, none other then Shane O'Mac, Shane McMahon. Apparently he is on the board of directors of the management company that represents Rory, he's been doing a lot of different stuff since leaving WWE, and he's a long way since this:

and speaking of the McMahons, if you didn't happen to catch CM Punks promo from a couple weeks ago on RAW, it was pretty interesting and entertaining, at least for die hard wrestling fans, casual fans probably didn't know what he was talking about most of the time, but in any event, it was fun and if you missed it, here it is:

Anyway, then Vince Suspended him and took away his title match, but last week, John Cena complained and said he CM Punk should be able to speak his mind and he wanted the match, so then Vince said that he didn't trust Cena to win and didn't want Punk leaving with the title, so if Cena were to lose, Vince would then Fire him. Which means that this upcoming Monday will be CM Punk and possibly John Cena's last night on RAW, and guess what, it's in Boston, originally I wasn't planning on going cause I'm going to Soundgarden the night before, but now I kinda want to go, so if I can find someone else that wants to go and can get some cheap tickets, I might consider it.

I hope everyone out there enjoyed their 4th of July weekend, well atleast for those readers that are in the US and celebrate, Happy Canada day for all the Canadian readers, and I'm not sure if there were any other holidays around the globe recently, but if there were, hope they were good ones. 4th of July, brings up a interesting point, would this holiday be as a big deal if lets say Independence Day was February 7th? There wouldn't be BBQs, fireworks wouldn't be as fun, people wouldn't be hanging out around pools and stuff, seems like the founding fathers did a really good job picking a day for this one. Nice work boys. Anyway, had a nice little BBQ on Saturday, it was fun, met a couple new people who seem pretty cool and good time all around. Next night took in some fireworks with some of the same people, also a good time. I did put on a nice display with my vast knowledge of useless information as it retains to movies and tv shows and such, check out this crazy connection. So the Movie What About Bob? came up, I then commented about how the kid in that movie, Charlie Korsmo, did that movie, Dick Tracy and Hook, which I just recently watched, which lead to being shown a recent picture of Robin Williams who is looking pretty old these days, anyway then he didn't do anything for like 7 years and was in Can't Hardly Wait, then hasn't done anything else. So then, somehow the movie She's The Man came up, starring Amanda Bynes when she pretend to be a guy, this lead me to say that that movie was a rip off of Just One of the Guys, but I couldn't remember who was in it, so then after someone looked it up and named some of the people, I remembered that the brother in that movie was played by Billy Jayne(Jacoby) who would later go on to star in Parker Lewis Can't Lose, but he also had a brother Bobby who was in one memorable episode of Wonder Years as the bully Eddie Pinetti, who then starts dating Winnie, but Kevin gets into a fight with him, but anyway, he would then later go on to be in Can't Hardly Wait, so it all came back around. Course then as it turned out,  2 of the people this conversation was with one went to Goshen College in Indiana, and the other was from Goshen, NY, which blew my mind. Then of course, Goshen, NY sounded so familiar to me, but I had no idea why, then I realized, I mail stuff to National Integrity in Goshen, NY all the time for work, which lead to to realize that I need a vacation.

Ok, enough of that crap, it is now time to tell you, Where It's At in terms of 1996 and music and MTV. Monumental year for MTV, as on the 15th anniversary, they launched MTV2, which at the time was supposed to be 24 hours of music videos, cause MTV had started to turn into more of what it is today, by having a lot more show and playing less videos, of course MTV2 would eventually turn into exactly the same thing. So, lets start with Where It's At, as Beck was back with a new album and this was his first single:

Interestingly enough, this video ended up cause quite the controversy, not because of the content or anything like that but when Beck won the MTV VMA for Best Male Video for this song, it broke up Van Halen, but hold on, cause Van Halen had already broken up 2 months earlier, let me explain. Early in 1996, Van Halen was asked to do a song for the soundtrack of Twister, the Helen hunt Tornado movie, and apparently while they were recording this song Sammy Hagar and Eddie Van Halen got into a bit of a fight, but they eventually finished the song:

Eventually the fight boiled over and Hagar either quit or was fired. So, with no singer again, Van Halen decided to go back to the well and rehire David Lee Roth and made their return at the VMAs, presenting the VMA for Best Male Video:

Well, Eddie wasn't too happy with the way David Lee Roth acted during this and the way he upstaged Beck as he was getting his award, so not too long after, David Lee Roth was fired.

Speaking of controversy, Metallica was strumming up some among their fans, cause they were back, with a new look and a new sound, and the diehard fans thought they were selling out, and while their music was appealing to a wider audience then they had been before, some of it was not bad and they sold a lot of albums and made a lot of money, this was their first since:

Angry aggressive heavy music was really hitting it's stride in 1996, Rage Against the Machine was back with a  new album and had a lot of success with it:

Pantera was back with a new album which was just has heavy and angry as ever, and probably scaring and scarring little children:

But, if we are gonna talk about someone who was really scaring and scarring, not just children, but people in general, this next band, or individual hit it big on the scene in 1996 and we were in for a wacky ride:

This next group, well, I never really knew what to make of them, there music was all over the place, but this song was pretty awesome and had some success, plus the band just had a great name Butthole Surfers, whatever it means:

Some may consider those guys a one hit wonder, and maybe they are maybe they aren't they had a semi hit a few years earlier with Who Was In My Room Last Night. but when speaking of 1996 and one hit wonders, there were a few, but noone like these guys:

Man, I freaking hated that song and that dance and everything about that whole thing, lets just move on. Grunge music was on it's last legs, but Soundgarden was still going strong in 1996 and had a new album, which was good, but not as good as it's previous:

Not really sure what the fallout of grunge music was really called, but I guess these guys would have to qualify as the leaders of that, and they made this pretty cool video mocking those weird Mentos commercials from back in those days:

Speaking of funny videos, Weird Al was back in 1996, and he was taking it too Coolio, although apparently Coolio was less then Coolio about this, however they still had fun with it:

and Weird Al had a great video:

Alanis Morissette was back and would confuse people as to what being Ironic actually is:

Dr, Dre brought us Blackstreet:

311 had everyone up in arms about what exactly their name was all about:

Bones, Thugs N Harmony had a big hit:

But, 1996's biggest music news would come in September, as on Sept 7th, 1996 in Las Vegas after this Mike Tyson vs Bruce Sheldon boxing match:

2Pac and Suge Knight were driving to the after party, when a car pulled up next to them and started unloading shots on it, 2Pac was hit pretty bad and was taken to the hospital, and a few days later on Friday, September 13th, 1996, this happened:

Yup, 2Pac was dead, and while he didn't kill himself like Kurt Cobain did, noone knows who did, the murder case has still gone unsolved and much like the OJ case, they search for the killer continues. Now, it has been widely assumed that someone in connection with Notorious BIG or Puff Daddy or Bad Boy records or whatever were involved, but noone really knows. If you want to check out a pretty cool documentary about this, ESPN 30 for 30 did a piece called One Night In Vegas.

Well, folks it had been a while, but the blog is back, and I hope you enjoyed it, leave with something that happened last night, if you were watching the Red Sox game, you might have caught this:

Only Don and Jerry, it went on for quite some time.