Wrestling & Others
I am so tired, who’d have thought screaming for 2 hours would take it out of you that much. All Star wrestling hit the Villa Marina last night after a 3 year absence and I loved it. I have no shame or embarrassment. I’ll tell people in work I went to it. I know it’s not real but for me I don’t see any difference between wrestling and a play or a film – it’s all about getting carried away for a little while and being entertained. It’s not the result that matters it’s the build up and entertainment gained by watching a couple of performers.
Once again we were the only “adults” there without children and we were far more vocal and the only people there sporting signs – this also got us an invite backstage to meet the wrestlers from the announcer “as her personal guest”. I kind of flit between pride and shame on this…. I love going there and making some noise and having a tonne of fun making signs beforehand and to a certain extent repaying the wrestlers, they put on a show for my entertainment so in return I cheer and boo and wave signs and make them feel like they’ve made an impression on people rather than just another bunch of faceless kids or not arsed parents. I suppose I think of when I play gigs and what makes an evening is having the crowd look like they genuinely enjoyed themselves because of you. Xtreme Dean came running right over to us with a big smile on his face loving our posters and he was really keen to have us add him on myspace afterwards which made the evening – just like the midget absolutely loving our sign and wanting a picture taken with us and the sign. They looked really happy to be there and seemed to want to come back.
Other than that excitement the MGP is due to be on this week although the weather is shocking at the moment. I’ll get out and marshal when I can but I’m still pretty disillusioned by the whole organisation and health and safety… it just seems a far cry from 10 years ago when I started. Less of a friendly event and more red tape and pointless beaurocracy all designed to stop some ignorant bastards forming legal action because they’re unable to accept personal responsibility for their own actions.
Next weekend should have lots to look forward to as well with the snake race down castletown on Saturday with Team DKY once again embarrassing ourselves and the IOM Transport beer challenge on the Sunday which should hopefully be lots of fun and not too messy!
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