Take a Flyin' Leap Already!

I've made a point to watch all of the XFL possible this season and after the idea that "hey, this looks like football", the reality of the situation is beginning to set in.  Watching two 1-2 teams battling in a giant NFL stadium with a sparse crowd is not inspiring.  After 4 weeks, I know a few outstanding players, but in this brand of football, that seems to be mercurial too.  I like the PAT options and wouldn't have an issue if the NFL did something similar without removing the 1 point 3 yard kick option.  I'm getting used to the kickoffs, and I understand it was designed to be safer for the players than the traditional NFL style kickoff.  I also understand that getting a return past the 30 isn't in the cards very often, they've taken the prospect of a kickoff return out of the game for the sake of safety.

I actually like the idea of position players having the coach in their ear without it being shut off before the snap.  That works on both sides of the ball and is a good way to make the game move faster.  One question arises from commentary on today's first game:  Since there is no coin toss at the beginning of a game, will there be a coin toss prior to beginning an overtime period?  Anyways, they may make it the whole season, and I'm really not seeing the injuries you see almost every week in the NFL, but that may be because this isn't the same quality and speed of football as the big league.  I dunno, the XFL is a good excuse to not watch college basketball before March Madness, but I don't see it being any sort of a challenge to the dominance of the National Football League.  #SorryPerry

Tommy keeps grinding out music ideas, I keep writing lyrics for his ideas and it seems right now we are currently on auto-pilot.  Things that used to make Tommy scratch his head ("how do you make this fit in here?") he just goes with to see what MY ideas are.  We can seriously complete my vocals for an average of two new songs per 4 hour studio visit, so we do try to have more than one project to record before we contemplate recording.  Our last three or four originals are crazy progressive and I'm excited for where we seem to be heading music-wise.  And really?  A four-hour studio session sometimes starts with anywhere from 40 minutes to an hour sitting in the garage catching up before any business is attended to.  I really dig the comfort level I have going to record.  His motto since day one has been "if you don't like it, no one will EVER hear it".  In other words, "go for it!"  #RoxX

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Changing Priorities

Yep, it's time to change priorities.  That being said, I suppose I have effectively retired from the indy pro wrestling business.  I have been somewhat shocked and stunned by the lack of contact and communication from the majority of the folks I've been working with the past 20 years.  It's like I've fell off of the face of the freakin' earth.

It's ok.  As I said before, I got this.

I've been offered spots and a couple of positions, all of which I have declined, as things are already changing.  Someone contacted me about an event near Charlotte next month, asking if I could announce.  Well, to be honest, in order for me to do this event, I would have to rent a car, take the rental from my home in High Point to Burlington to borrow the ol' CWF PA system, then drive down toward Charlotte for the show.  After the show I'd have to run back to Burlington to pass the PA system back to the owner before returning the car early the next morning.  I don't think I'm willing to do that any more.  That's it.

It's not that I totally miss it, but I realize now how small of a cog in that machine I actually was.  I get kind of giddy seeing posters full of guys I've worked with over the years, especially ones where they are headlining in another city or state.  Some of "my guys" are representing us in WWE, NXT, ROH and AEW and many of the other alphabet soup of promotions and that in itself is exciting.  I wish them all continued success, growth and safety.  They're still my brothers and sisters.

On the music front, we're kicking it back up a notch after recording and releasing our third Rush cover, Tom Sawyer, in the last two weeks.  We've also recorded another new original, titled Perpetual Night, which I'm still waiting for the first mix of.  Tommy tells me he's working on yet another original and we're knocking around Rush cover #4, Spirit of the Radio in the near future!

Click here to listen to the new #RoxX release, TOM SAWYER!

All this and we've got some music videos to produce as well.  Our first three (this IS a learning process) show improvement in the progression, and right now we're kind of struggling to determine which original to produce on video next.