phantoms and puppies....
[updated:LAST EDITED ON Jul-22-03 AT 00:55 AM (EST)](CUEUP: "Ruin your life" by Abandoned Pools...)
(A bright sunny day at a puppy ranch somewhere in one of the cuddlier parts of Texas. M.W. Grossard sits upon a lawn chair, long black skirt and a cutoff old black and neon green D-XXX T-shirt, sometimes dragging off a cigarette, sometimes swigging a jug of 15$ vodka, puppies frolicking across everywhich way at his feet, drunk and snide, the a$$hole who ruins every party...)
"the hardcore legend"
M.W. GROSSARD: Mkay Rage of Studly...I need you to shut your mouth and open your ears for just a few minutes. Try to focus, maybe some of this will soak in. You need to get with the program, babe...You can't afford to be such a simp. The key to winning friends, having a good time all the time, and looking absolutely ravishing is to at all times keep in mind; What's out...is...In.
Like I already told you, our lives are like, sorta identical, although I would never lower myself to beg for cash. I suppose swapping fallacio for drugs would be considered less socially
acceptable, if one were to play the morality card. I'm sure that sort of thing was considered common practice when the barter system was still used. I was really into crystal meth for a while, but for some reason nowadays I can't seem to get enough of Stacking 2.3...the worlds strongest brain cell burner. (holds bottle of pills, who knows where they came from, up to the camera and winks) And for the zillionth time, I remind the world that I was WAR champion. I pinned
Maelstrom. I was a famous insane person. I was feared and respected and loved and hated and all that I could be. And Then I was nothing. Overnight. So like, actually, if anyone can relate to your endless melodramatic self absorbed pi$$ing, I can. That doesn't mean I
respect you for having endured some of the things I have or even take you seriously. I'm sensing that what you think of as the grizzly, gloomy, third act of your Behind the Music special, I equate with, y'know, like, the reality of daily life. Blown opportunities, random sex, drinking binges, vomiting on cop cars, STDS, cutting out the bottoms of my pockets so I can masturbate in public, shop lifting, statutory rape, Skipping court ordered NA AA CA and SA meetings, coke
binges, thinking I can see my own thoughts after no sleep or food for a week, my picture on the sex offender channel, fixing midget boxing matches, fake IOUs, forging other people's signature on stuff, eating veal, lying to juries, ticket scalping, stealing umbrellas, strange blue liquid draining from my ear, the exquisite humiliation of going to the emergency room to beg them to remove a rodent from my bum. These things that you barely survived I thrive on. So don't make an ass of yourself by thinking you know about me, Rageums. Nobody ever knows anybody. You are never gonna know me. Prolly you'll never know anything at all...
You think I'm talking garbage and playing head games. Maybe you're right. In which case, it'd be awful stupid to go and get all hot and bothered knowing that was my plan all along. Yet there you are. All hot and bothered. Right where I want you. hmmmm...(licks lips) Try not to blow your load quite yet. It gets worse. I'm actually not bullshitting you. I mean everything I say and because,
like I said, I understand your angst and your quest to reclaim all that lost glory, I'm in a unique position to comment on your condition. The parts of myself I see in you make me more than a little uncomfortable. Probably you feel the same way about me, for a different set of reasons. We both got over by ridding the coat tails of something trendy. DXXX in your case. For me it was Marilyn Manson inspired goth monsterdom and sadomasochistic hardcore matches, and oh yeah, homophobia, but then that NEVER seems to loose it's audience appeal for some reason. Neither of us were talented enough to have any staying power once we went out of style. We were both frauds,
Rageepoo. But I changed. I smartened up. I'm a REALITY TV star now. As long as people are stupid and actors want to be paid, Reality TV's not going anywhere. You're still spouting tired buzzwords and clichés like it's 1998. You smash a bottle of pills and I'm supposed to soil myself with terror? Why not just do a crotch chop 'n tell me to suck it? Maybe then I'll believe you could cripple me, nevermind actually intend to try. Of course I'm a disgrace to wrestling. So are you. The difference between us is I know I'm a disgrace and embrace that...You will turn purple with indignation at my suggestion that you're a
disgrace as soon as you watch this tape...It's your pride, Rage of snuggles. That's what revolts me about you. I don't need to maintain any delusions about who I am. You on the other hand, in spite of all the junk we undeniably have in common, will throw a hissy fit at the accusation that you're anything like me. You want to believe you're better than me just like the rest of these elitist a$$holes, but at least some of them actually did get where they are with genuine hard work 'n talent 'n junk...Which basically makes them kinda stupid and or not lucky enough to get over the way we did...
And you're the one who gets to be angry. You're the one who's going to mess me up...(shakes his head,and grins mischievously) Not on my watch, motherf(Bleep)r. The people you call fans like you cuz you're stupid and angry like they are. They didn't wanna handle a, y'know, real person like me. You don't ever wanna visit your dark
place again, muffin? Screw you! I AM THE DARKPLACE...I'm everything about yourself you've been denying. I'm the dark underbelly of professional wrestling. I'm every doe eyed 18 year old kid with a dream of being a super hero for a living who comes out the other end with two ex-wives, kids who wont talk to him, and a nasty painkiller
habit. I'm a piledriver gone horribly wrong at a BYW show. I'm the kid who got punched out when he asked Maelstrom why signed his autograph book with the name "Nevada Smith." And I will not be ignored by sentimental grundle licks like you any longer.
Except of course, I'm completely full of sh1t and really don't care about any of those people. But hey baby, I'm in it for fun and games. I don't care who gets hurt. Even if it's me, "which it most likely will be," but especially not if it's Rage of Fire, "which it absolutely will be." I guess what I'm really trying to communicate here, is that when I feed Rage his own face, I'll be giggling and stroking myself not because I'm an evil psychopath, but because
I stand for something. Maybe not honestly and certainly nothing along the lines of good or evil. Really, I don't even stand for cynicism. See...I don't wanna live forever. It's the last thing I'll ask. I just wanna live fast...
Y'see kids, even after all this time, "Rage of Fire" Jarred Wells still sucks....(his original cigarette long gone, he pulls another one out of thin air, lights it, and sits back for a second...).....Oops....(chuckles warmly) I did it again. I went and lied to you once more. I AM an evil psychopath.