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New Music Friday: January 29th, 2021
New Music Friday is the weekly thread dedicated to cataloging all the Album/EP releases that came out this week, including non-subreddit relevant releases. This is also a great place to discuss these albums, or bring to our attention other albums released this week.
❓ "this seems intriguing after a cursory look" ⭐ "im interested in this for one reason or another" ❤️ "ive been waiting for weeks, months/i'm absolutely in love with this"
⭐ Goat Girl - On All Fours Label: Rough Trade Genre: Art Rock, Neo-Psych, Indie Rock ⭐ Madlib - Sound Ancestors Label: Madlib Invazion Genre: Instrumental Hip Hop, Boom Bap, Spiritual Jazz Arlo Parks - Collapsed in Sunbeams (animated cover) Label: Transgressive Genre: Bedroom Pop, Neo-Soul, Trip Hop ⭐ The Body - I've Seen All I Need to See Label: Thrill Jockey Genre: Power Electronics, Drone Metal, Death Industrial, Sludge Metal Baio - Dead Hand Control Label: Glassnote Genre: Indietronica, Indie Pop LNZNDRF (side project of The National + Beirut) - II Label: self-released Genre: Indie Rock, Krautrock PJ Harvey - Is This Desire? (Demos) Label: Island Genre: Alternative Rock, Singesongwriter, Downtempo ❓ Spills - Reflexions Label: self-released Genre: Synthpop, Dream Pop Steven Wilson - THE FUTURE BITES Label: Universal/Caroline Genre: Art Pop, Progressive Pop, Art Rock Katie Dey - urdata (remixes) Label: Run for Cover Genre: Glitch Pop, Hyperpop ❓ Lucero - When You Found Me Label: Liberty & Lament Genre: Alt-Country, Folk Rock ❓ Celeste - Not Your Muse Label: Polydor Genre: Pop Soul, Contemporary R&B Portrayal of Guilt - We Are Always Alone Label: Closed Casket Activities Genre: Screamo, Black Metal, Sludge Metal Two Suns - Isolated Incidents (EP) Label: self-released Genre: Heavy Psych, Garage Rock Martin Gore (of Depeche Mode) - The Third Chimpanzee (EP) Label: Mute Genre: Electronic, Ambient Techno, IDM ⭐ Tamar Aphek - All Bets Are Off Label: Kill Rock Stars Genre: Singesongwriter, Psychedelic Rock, Blues Rock The Notwist - Vertigo Days Label: Morr Music Genre: Indietronica, Krautrock ❓ Zeahorse - Let's Not (And Say We Did) Label: Copper Feast Genre: Noise Rock, Punk Rock The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings Label: Full Time Hobby Genre: Indie Rock, Neo-Psych The Sonder Bombs - Clothbound Label: Take This to Heart Genre: Power Pop, Pop Punk Fergus McCreadie - Cairn Label: Edition Genre: Jazz-Folk ❓ Motorama - Before the Road Label: I'm home records Genre: Post-Punk, Indie Pop, Dream Pop Dr. Dog - Live 2 Label: We Buy Gold Genre: Indie Rock, Indie Pop Lia Ices - Family Album Label: Natural Music Genre: Art Pop, Indie Folk, Singesongwriter ❓ Albertine Sarges - Sticky Fingers Label: Moshi Moshi Genre: Singesongwirter ❓ Divide and Dissolve - Gas Lit Label: Invada Genre: Drone Metal Langhorne Slim - Strawberry Mansion Label: Dualtone Records Genre: Alt-Country, Americana James Ferraro - Terminus Label: n/a Genre: Progressive Electronic, Post-Industrial, Aggrotech, Dark Ambient, Glitch ❓ Anna B Savage - A Common Turn Label: City Slang Genre: Psychedelic Folk, Singesongwriter Minotaur Shock - Qi Label: n/a Genre: IDM, Electronic Rats On Rafts - Excerpts From Chapter 3: The Mind Runs a Net of Rabbit Paths Label: Fire Genre: Post-Punk Keaton Henson - Supernova (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Label: Lakeshore Genre: Modern Classical Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - I Told You So Label: Colemine Genre: Jazz-Funk, Soul ❓ Cathedral Bells - Ether Label: Spirit Goth Genre: Dream Pop, Coldwave, Post-Punk The Quincey - Eolia (EP) Label: Nice Guys Genre: Indie Rock, Psychedelic Rock ❓ Cobalt Chapel - Orange Synthetic Label: Klove Genre: Neo-Psych, Art Pop Babehoven - Yellow Has a Pretty Good Reputation (EP) Label: self-released Genre: Lo-Fi Indie, Bedroom Pop The Luka State - Fall In Fall Out Label: AntiFragile Genre: Indie Rock, Post-Punk Revival Joe Vann (of Indian Lakes) - Found In The Smoke Label: self-released Genre: Indie Rock, Singesongwriter, Synthpop Casino Versus Japan - Echo Counting Label: n/a Genre: IDM, Ambient, Downtempo DMX Krew - Overseer (EP) Label: Cultivated Electronics Genre: Electro Ani DiFranco - Revolutionary Love Label: Righteous Babe Genre: Singesongwriter, Art Pop, Indie Folk ⭐ Black Pistol Fire - Look Alive Label: Modern Outsider Genre: Blues Rock, Alternative Rock The Crayolas - Post-Modern Days Label: self-released Genre: Indie Rock, Indie Pop Buzzy Lee - Spoiled Love Label: Future Classic Genre: Indie Pop, Singesongwriter, Alternative R&B The Planes - The Oracle of Marcy Label: n/a Genre: Indie Rock Buke and Gase and So Percussion - A Record Of... Label: Brassland Genre: Math Rock, Avant-Prog Weezer - OK Human Label: Crush Genre: Chamber Pop, Pop Rock, Baroque Pop Marcus Skeen - Irrational Label: self-released Genre: Pop ISÁK - Roasut Label: Universal Genre: Synthpop, Alternative R&B Seeb - Sad in Scandinavia Label: Universal Genre: Electropop, Dance-Pop, Future House Videoclub - Euphories Label: n/a Genre: French Pop, Synthwave, Synthpop ❓ BONES - BURDEN Label: self-released Genre: Cloud Rap, Emo Rap, Trap Fendi P - Art of Finessing 2 Label: Jet Life Genre: Southern Hip Hop, Trap Haiti Babii - Trap Art Label: Empire Genre: West Coast Hip Hop 5AM - You're Going To Be Fine Label: Interscope Genre: Hip Hop/Rap Chip - Snakes & Ladders Label: Cash Motto Genre: UK Hip Hop, Grime, Afrobeat ⭐ Soen - IMPERIAL Label: Silver Lining Genre: Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal Accept - Too Mean To Die Label: Nuclear Blast Genre: Heavy Metal Annisokay - Aurora Label: Arising Empire Genre: Post-Hardcore, Metalcore ⭐ Trillionaire - Romulus Label: Nefarious Industries Genre: Hard Rock, Progressive Rock And Now The Owls Are Smiling - Dirges Label: Clobber Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal, Blackgaze ⭐ Demon Head - Viscera Label: Metal Blade Genre: Occult Rock, Gothic Rock Eximperitus - Šahrartu Label: Willowtip Genre: Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal Meer - Playing House Label: Karisma Genre: Orchestral Pop, Prog Rock ❓ Nopes - Djörk Label: Magnetic Eye Genre: Noise Rock, Garage Punk ⭐ WOWOD - Yarost’ I Proshchenie Label: Church Road Genre: Post-Hardcore, Sludge Metal Hån - Breathing the Void Label: Northern Silence Genre: Black Metal, Melodic Black Metal Knife the Glitter - Breakfast Time (EP) Label: self-released Genre: Mathcore
🇬🇪🌞 Travel along the black sea coast of Georgia: in search of the golden fleece/ Путешествие по черноморскому побережью Грузии: В поисках золотого Руна/ Reise entlang der Schwarzmeerküste von Georgia: auf der Suche nach dem goldenen Vlies 👇(EN, RU, DE)
https://preview.redd.it/lynjy1tt8ez51.jpg?width=1564&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8d44b103231067400e334c8b167b2deb14fed98c (EN) 🗺 Georgian resorts are among the best on the Black Sea coast because there is nothing better than a combination of iodine sea and clean mountain air, which has a beneficial effect on the body. ℹ️ The beach season starts in July and ends in September, however, tourists come to the seaside resorts in Georgia in winter due to the warm climatic conditions. ✅ In addition to recreation on the sea coast, Georgia provides its tourists with many historical sights that allow them to better get acquainted with the Georgian flavor and its traditions. 👉Today, every resort on the coast of Georgia has a developed tourist infrastructure. Whichever resort you choose, you are guaranteed to get an unforgettable vacation experience in Georgia. Day 1️⃣-2️⃣ 🏝Anaklia is a new Georgian resort town located on the southeast coast of the Black Sea. A paradise for those who are looking for solitude and relaxation! Anaklia is the youngest resort - with modern hotels, 8️⃣ kilometers of coastline, and the longest pedestrian bridge in Europe (5️⃣4️⃣0️⃣ Meters) Every year Anaklia is transformed and becomes even more luxurious; for several years now the resort town has been hosting major music festivals, bringing together young people from neighboring countries. 👉Places to visit: ➕GEM Fest, an electronic music festival featuring world-class DJs and musicians. ➕ The water park is the largest on the territory of Georgia, with a variety of slides, pools, and attractions. ➕ Dadiani Palace - This beautiful palace belongs to an ancient princely family ➕Martvili Canyon - enjoy the picturesque nature, clean air, and take a boat trip along with the crystal clear waters of the canyon. 👉 A place to Stay: 🏨 4️⃣ Star-Hotel ''Anaklia'' is located right on the of the Black Sea shore. 👉 Hotel Services: ➕ Reception ➕ Bar-Restaurant ➕ pool ➕ Sun Terrace ➕ Conference Hall ➕ Parking Day 3️⃣-4️⃣ 🏙 Batumi is the third-largest city in Georgia and the most popular seaside resort in the region: ℹ Batumi can offer its guests not only a huge 7️⃣-kilometer beach but also the most interesting Old Town, the original New Batumi - an area of skyscrapers, casinos, and excellent restaurants, as well as a wonderful world-famous Botanical Garden. 👉A place to Stay : 🏫 5️⃣The star hotel ''Hilton Batumi'' is located in the center of Batumi, right on the Black Sea coast 👉 Hotel services: ➕ Reception ➕ Sauna, Spa, and Pool ➕ Bar-Restaurant ➕ Fitness center ➕Sun terrace ➕ Children's playground ➕ Parking ➕ Casino Day 5️⃣ If you do not want to live in the city, but at the same time be close to it for the sake of cafes, restaurants, and entertainment, you can stay in Gonio or Kvariati. Both Resorts are 1️⃣5️⃣➖2️⃣0️⃣ minutes drive from the capital of Adjara 🏖 Gonio and Kvariati are more suitable for family holidays - you can rent a whole house surrounded by gorgeous eucalyptus trees that fill the air with a healing aroma. It is calm and peaceful here - this is the beauty of resorts. 🅿 Privilege package - 5️⃣ Days - 2️⃣ Persons- 4️⃣8️⃣0️⃣💲 = ➕ Transfer to the hotel (5️⃣ Stars) ➕ Breakfast ➕ Excursion around the area ➕ Personal driver. 🚤Everyone has heard the story about the Argonauts, when the Greeks, led by Jason, sailed to the Colchis kingdom for the golden fleece. ✅Become a modern Argonaut and gain experience worth its weight in gold, travel with us❗ (RU) 🗺 Грузинские курорты являются одними из лучших на черноморском побережье, поскольку нет ничего лучше сочетания йодистого морского и чистого горного воздуха, благоприятно влияющего на организм. ℹ️ Пляжный сезон начинается с июля и заканчивается в сентябре, однако туристы на морские курорты в Грузии приезжают и зимой благодаря теплым климатическим условиям. ✅ Кроме отдыха на морском побережье Грузия предоставляет своим туристам множество исторических достопримечательностей, позволяющих лучше познакомиться с грузинским колоритом и его традициями. 👉Сегодня каждый курорт на побережье Грузии имеет развитую туристическую инфраструктуру. Какой бы вами курорт не был выбран, вы гарантированно получите незабываемые впечатления от отдыха в Грузии. День 1️⃣-2️⃣ 🏝Анаклия - новый грузинский курортный городок, расположен на юго-восточном побережье Чёрного моря. Райский уголок для тех кто ищет уединения и Релакс! Анаклиа является самым молодым курортом-с современными отелями, 8️⃣ километровой береговой линии и самым длинным пешеходным мостом в Европе (5️⃣4️⃣0️⃣ Метров) Каждый год Анаклия преображается и становится еще роскошней,уже несколько лет курортный городок принимает у себя крупные музыкальные фестивали, собирая молодежь из соседних стран. 👉Места посещения: ➕фестиваль электронной музыки GEM Fest, где выступают диджеи и музыканты мирового класса. ➕ Аквапарк – самый большой на территории Грузии, с разнообразными горками, бассейнами и аттракционами. ➕ дворец Дадиани-Этот прекрасный дворец принадлежащему древнему княжескому роду ➕Мартвильский каньон - насладиться живописной природой, чистейшим воздухом и совершить прогулку на лодке по кристально-чистым водам каньона. 👉Mесто проживания: 🏨4️⃣ Звездочный-Отель ''Анаклия'' находится прямо на берегу черного Моря. 👉К услугам гостей: ➕Крулосуточная стоика регистрации ➕Бар-Ресторан ➕Бассеин ➕Терраса для Загара ➕Конференц Зал ➕Парковка День 3️⃣-4️⃣ 🏙 Батуми – третий по величине город Грузии и самый популярный морской курорт в регионе: ℹ Батуми может предложить своим гостям не только огромный 7️⃣ километровый пляж, но и интереснейший Старый город, самобытный Новый Батуми – район небоскребов, казино и отличных ресторанов, а также замечательный всемирно известный Ботанический сад. 👉Mесто проживания: 🏫 5️⃣Звездочный отель ''Хилтон Батуми'' расположен в центре Батуми,прямо на побережье черного моря 👉 К услугам гостей: ➕ Ресепшн ➕Сауна,Спа-центр и Бассейн ➕ Бар-Ресторан ➕Фитнес-центр ➕ терраса для загара ➕ детская игровая площадка ➕ Парковка ➕ Казино День 5️⃣ Если вы не хотите жить в городе, но при этом быть в непосредственной близости к нему ради кафе, ресторанов и развлечений, можно остановиться в Гонио или Квариати. Оба поселка находятся в 1️⃣5️⃣➖2️⃣0️⃣ минутах езды от столицы Аджарии 🏖 Гонио или Квариати больше подойдут для семейного отдыха – можно взять в аренду целый дом в окружении шикарных эвкалиптовых деревьев, которые наполняют воздух целебным ароматом. Здесь спокойно и умиротворяюще – в этом и состоит прелесть курортов. 🅿 Привилегированный пакет- 5️⃣ Дней-2️⃣ Человека- 4️⃣8️⃣0️⃣💲 = ➕ Трансфер в гостиницу (5️⃣ Звезд) ➕ Завтрак➕Экскурсия по местности ➕ Персональный водитель. 🚤Bсе слышали историю про аргонавтов,когда греки во главе которых стоял Ясон приплыли в колхидское царство за золотым руном. ✅Cтаньте современным аргонавтом и накапливайте впечатление на вес золота,путешествуйте с нами❗ (DE) 🗺 Georgische Resorts gehören zu den besten an der Schwarzmeerküste, denn es gibt nichts Besseres als eine Kombination aus Jodmeer und sauberer Bergluft, die sich positiv auf den Körper auswirkt. ℹ️ Die Strandsaison beginnt im Juli und endet im September. Im Winter kommen Touristen jedoch aufgrund der warmen klimatischen Bedingungen in die Badeorte in Georgia. ✅ Neben der Erholung an der Seeküste bietet Georgien seinen Touristen viele historische Sehenswürdigkeiten, mit denen sie den georgischen Geschmack und seine Traditionen besser kennenlernen können. 👉 Heute hat jedes Resort an der Küste von Georgia eine entwickelte touristische Infrastruktur. Egal für welches Resort Sie sich entscheiden, Sie werden garantiert ein unvergessliches Urlaubserlebnis in Georgia erleben. Tag 1️⃣-2️⃣ 🏝Anaklia ist ein neuer georgianischer Ferienort an der Südostküste des Schwarzen Meeres. Ein Paradies für alle, die Einsamkeit und Entspannung suchen! Anaklia ist das jüngste Resort - mit modernen Hotels, 8️⃣ Kilometer Küste und der längsten Fußgängerbrücke in Europa (5️⃣4️⃣0️⃣ Meter) Jedes Jahr verwandelt sich Anaklia und wird noch luxuriöser. Seit einigen Jahren finden in der Kurstadt große Musikfestivals statt, auf denen junge Menschen aus den Nachbarländern zusammenkommen. 👉Besuchsorte: ➕GEM Fest, ein Festival für elektronische Musik mit erstklassigen DJs und Musikern. ➕ Der Wasserpark ist der größte auf dem Territorium von Georgia und bietet eine Vielzahl von Rutschen, Pools und Attraktionen. ➕ Dadiani-Palast - Dieser wunderschöne Palast gehört einer alten Fürstenfamilie ➕Martvili Canyon - genießen Sie die malerische Natur, die saubere Luft und unternehmen Sie eine Bootsfahrt zusammen mit dem kristallklaren Wasser des Canyons. 👉 Platz zum bleiben: Das 🏨 4️⃣ Star-Hotel '' Anaklia '' liegt direkt am Ufer des Schwarzen Meeres. 👉 Hoteldienstleistungen: ➕ Empfang ➕ Bar-Restaurant ➕ Pool ➕ Sonnenterrasse ➕ Konferenzsaal ➕ Parkplatz Tag 3️⃣-4️⃣ 🏙 Batumi ist die drittgrößte Stadt in Georgien und der beliebteste Badeort in der Region: ℹ Batumi bietet seinen Gästen nicht nur einen riesigen 7️⃣ Kilometer langen Strand, sondern auch die interessanteste Altstadt, das ursprüngliche Neu Batumi - eine Gegend mit Wolkenkratzern, Kasinos und ausgezeichneten Restaurants sowie einen wunderschönen weltberühmten Botanischen Garten . 👉Platz zum bleiben: 🏫 5️⃣Das Sterne-Hotel Hilton Batumi befindet sich im Zentrum von Batumi, direkt an der Schwarzmeerküste 👉 Hoteldienstleistungen: ➕ Rezeption ➕ Sauna, Spa und Pool ➕ Bar-Restaurant ➕ Fitnesscenter ➕Sonnen-Terrasse ➕ Kinderspielplatz ➕ Parkplatz ➕ Casino Tag 5️⃣ Wenn Sie nicht in der Stadt leben möchten, aber gleichzeitig in der Nähe der Stadt sein möchten, um Cafés, Restaurants und Unterhaltung zu genießen, können Sie in Gonio oder Kvariati übernachten. Beide Resorts sind 1️⃣5️⃣➖2️⃣0️⃣ Autominuten von der Hauptstadt Adjara entfernt 🏖 Gonio und Kvariati eignen sich besser für einen Familienurlaub - Sie können ein ganzes Haus mieten, das von wunderschönen Eukalyptusbäumen umgeben ist, die die Luft mit einem heilenden Aroma füllen. Hier ist es ruhig und friedlich - das ist die Schönheit der Resorts. 🅿 Privilegiertes Paket - 5️⃣ Tage - 2️⃣ Personen- 4️⃣8️⃣0️⃣💲 = ➕ Transfer zum Hotel (5️⃣ Sterne) ➕ Frühstück ➕ Ausflug in die Umgebung ➕ Persönlicher Fahrer. 🚤Jeder hat die Geschichte über die Argonauten gehört, als die Griechen, angeführt von Jason, nach dem goldenen Vlies in das Königreich Kolchis segelten. ✅Werden Sie ein moderner Argonaut und sammeln Sie Erfahrungen, die Gold wert sind. 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Book Rey Mysterio If He Never Joined WWE in 2018 - Part 2: Booyaka
Part 1 here In this part, we saw Rey Mysterio jump onto the scene of NJPW. He started off hot, taking on his two amigos in Jushin Thunder Liger and Hiroshi Tanahashi respectively. At King of Pro-Wrestling, he defeated Liger - but fell to The Ace in a match for his G1 Climax briefcase. He then won the IWGP United States Championship off of Cody to end his offspring of Bullet Club, and would embark on a title reign. He successfully defended against Bandido last time we saw him, and now he moves onto his next challenger. Book Rey Mysterio If He Never Joined WWE in 2018 - Part 2: Booyaka G1 Supercard: Rey Mysterio (c) vs. Tomohiro Ishii - IWGP United States Championship Rey Mysterio skips out on the New Japan Cup, and instead prepares for the G1 Supercard. It will be the biggest show NJPW have held in America, and since he’s the United States Champion he will be defending. Rey ventures off to GCW for Joey Janela’s Spring Break, taking part in the Clusterfuck as a surprise entrant. On Night Two, after Janela faces off with Jungle Boy - he calls out Rey to a match for a later date. Mysterio doesn’t respond, instead he’s in Madison Square Garden to face off against a New Japan semi-finalist, Tomohiro Ishii. He lost to Okada in the semis, and is angry. He wants to take his anger out on someone, and the IWGP United States Champion is his next victim. He fought in the inaugural title match but came up short to Kenny Omega, but now he has his chance to become the first Japanese man to hold it. After seeing Mayu Iwatani retain the Women of Honor Championship, we move to our next match - as Tomohiro Ishii walks out to a loud MSG pop. In the front row are Mysterio’s daughter, Aalyah and his wife. Then we see his son, Dominick, as a young lion at ringside. He got kicked in the head by Minoru Suzuki earlier so he’s just having a great time. They’re dad then enters out in the same gear he wore to the actual WrestleMania that weekend, as the villain “Mysterio” from Spider-Man Homecoming. He walks out with the gold Tomohiro lusts for, and rolls inside to pose with it on the second rope. The bell is rung and Mysterio goes to lock up - BUT ISHII GRABS HIM INTO A RELEASE GERMAN SUPLEX!! HE FOLLOWS WITH A BRIDGING GERMAN!! 1.........2.....KICK OUT BY REY REY!!! Mysterio is shocked at the sudden attack, and scurries up in the corner. ISHII GOES FOR A CLOTHESLINE BUT REY TURNS IT INTO A CRUCIFIX PIN!!! 1........ISHII KICKS OUT AND IS HIT BY A ROUNDHOUSE KICK!! REY WITH A HEADSCISSORS TAKEDOWN!! Rey regains and takes a moment to intake what’s happening, and GOES FOR A SHIRANUI!! ISHII COUNTERS WITH A SPIKE DDT!!! 1..............2..........KICK OUT INTO A POWERBOMB!!!! 1.............2..........TOMOHIRO LOCKS IN A BOSTON CRAB!! There is no escape for Mysterio from this rabid dog - who is hungry. Ishii locks in the hold and cinches it tighter. REY GOES TO FLIP HIM OUT, BUT ISHII GETS RIGHT BACK UP AND HITS HIM WITH A BOOT TO THE HEAD!! ISHII LIFTS HIM UP INTO A SNAP SUPLEX!! Tomohiro Ishii is now on the hunt, as he starts to unleash chops. OPEN HAND TO THE CHEST!! Rey falls to the mat, but is scooped back up into OVERHEAD CHOP!! Rey crumples to the mat again and starts to cough. ISHII THROWS HIM OUTSIDE INTO THE ARMS OF HIS SON!! ISHII THEN WITH A BIG BOOT ON THE FLOOR TO DOMINICK, AND THROWS HIM INTO THE APRON!! Ishii looks down at the fallen young boy - BUT IS THEN HIT BY A ENZIGURI FROM REY!!! MYSTERIO HITS A FRONT DROPKICK INTO THE RING POST!! HE THROWS HIM BACK INSIDE AND DIVES WITH A FROGSPLASH!!! 1.............2..........KICK OUT!!! ISHII ROLLS THROUGH AND LIFTS MYSTERIO UP INTO A VERTICAL SUPLEX!!! 1...........MYSTERIO GETS OUT!!! The crowd are going nuts at these two guys fighting spirit. ISHII GOES FOR A GERMAN SUPLEX, BUT REY FLIPS OUT AND HITS A HEADSCISSORS!! HE GOES FOR A 619 - BUT ISHII SPINS HIM TO THE OUTSIDE!! TOMOHIRO RUNS THE ROPES, BUT IS HIT BY A SPRINGBOARD CROSSBODY!! He lifts Ishii up and runs the ropes, TO HIT A BULLDOG!! INTO A TORNADO DDT!! He calls for a 619, as Ishii crawls to the ropes. HE HITS IT!! HE DIVES FOR THE SEATED SENTON - BUT NO NECK TOM CATCHES AND HITS A BRAINBUSTER!!! 1...............2..............MYSTERIO KICKS OUT!!! Everyone explodes that Rey kicked out, and Ishii is still that angry dog - but he just got a whiff of a juicy steak. Tom lifts him up, looks him dead in his dead eyes - AND HEADBUTTS HIM TO SHIT!! ISHII FURTHER TARGETS THE HEAD WITH AN ENZIGURI!! HE RUNS FOR A LARIAT, BUT REY DUCKS AND HITS A MYSTERIO-RANA!! ISHII KICKS OUT AND ROLLS INTO THAT LARIAT!!! ISHII GOES FOR A BRAINBUSTER, BUT MYSTERIO EVADES AND HITS THE MYSTERIO-EXPRESS!! ISHII NO SELLS AND IS HIT BY A ENZIGURI!! ISHII NO SELLS AND HITS REY WITH A THREE AMIGOS!! He mocks his fallen friend Eddie with those moves - and that fuels Rey’s fire. REY WITH A SPRINGBOARD SEATED SENTON!! HE HITS A HEADSCISSORS AND CALLS FOR A 619!!! HE CONNECTS!!! SPRINGBOARD SPLASH!!!! 1...........2........KICK OUT!!!!!! ISHII LIFTS HIMSELF UP WITH A PRIMAL ROAR, AN HITS THE ISHII DRILLER!!!!! 1................2................3!!!! TOMOHIRO ISHII WINS AND BECOMES YOUR NEW, AND FIRST EVER JAPANESE, IWGP UNITED STATES CHAMPION!!!! Tomohiro Ishii defeats Rey Mysterio (12:51) PROGRESS Chapter 88: Super Strong Style 16: Marty Scurll vs. Rey Mysterio With his United States Championship lost, ending his 92 day reign, Mysterio heads away from Japan for a while to regain himself. He’s confirmed to show up at PROGRESS‘ Super Strong Style, but later revealed that he won’t actually participate - instead wrestle on the last night in a standard singles match with no prizes but merit. Meanwhile, his opponent is scheduled to be...Marty Scurll. A man who hasn’t appeared in PROGRESS in a long while, mainly because he’s in the middle of a ROH World Championship reign. Having begun his reign in June of 2018, Marty still holds it. He’ll return to PROGRESS for this night however, as he wants to face Rey…badly. After Dominion last year when Rey lost to Marty, he’s wanted to defeated him one on one. A year of wait, and he finally gets his chance. The ultimate hero vs. The ultimate villain, it’s like a comic book finale. In the lead up, Marty cuts a promo on Mysterio. In it he is as snivelling as ever, offering his wife Angie a night with him and calling Dominick “a giant lummocks“. Then when the third night of the Super Strong Style 16 arrives, we hear Rey Mysterio’s entrance music for the first time in PROGRESS history, as he enters to a raucous pop from the Alexandra Palace. Alexandra Park in London lose their minds for the Lucha Libre legend, who comes out in Black Knight attire (a Marvel superhero from Britain). The fans love him and he shakes hand with Jim Smallman as he enters. Marty Scurll’s reception is mixed, but he certainly wants it to be vocally harsh. He takes beer out of fans hands and spits it at them, which certainly turns their reactions around. The two men stare down after the bell is rung, a seismic stare. Rey puts his hand up with two fingers, but so does Scurll. They then both do the “2-0-5” taunt in sync. The crowd laugh, which Marty doesn’t like. He taunts on the second turnbuckle to earn their ire. Rey does the same and receives a good response. Scurll then jumps off and walks over to Rey - WHO DIVES AT HIM WITH A HURRICANERANA! They then run the ropes, AND MARTY CATCHES HIM WITH AN ARM DRAG HANDSPRING! MYSTERIO HITS HIS OWN ARM DRAG! Marty runs the ropes but Rey goes for a FRONT DROPKICK - but Marty halts so Rey misses the boat. SCURLL THEN DOUBLE FOOT STOMPS ON THE LUCHADORS FEET!! He lifts him up and starts to chop his chest. Marty finishes the chops, AND THEN HITS A ROPE-ASSISTED ENZIGURI!! He stomps on Rey while he shouts at fans who boo him, telling them to be louder. He smashes his knee into a kneeling Rey, and then lifts him into a Gory Special!! REY ESCAPES WITH A SUNSET FLIP!! HE RUNS THE ROPES AND GOES FOR A SPRINGBOARD CROSSBODY, BUT SCURLL CATCHES WITH A SITOUT SUPLEX SLAM!! HE RUNS THE ROPES AND HITS A PENALTY KICK!! HE LOCKS IN AN OCTOPUS HOLD!! He wrenches on it, but Rey shuffles to the ropes. Scurll then slides outside to shout at a fan who insulted him. SCURLL IS THEN HIT BY A SUICIDE DIVE INTO A HEADSCISSORS BY MYSTERIO!! REY THROWS HIM INSIDE AND HITS A FROGSPLASH!!! 1................2............KICK OUT!!! MARTY DOESN’T DIE AFTER THE SURPRISE ATTACK!! Rey is now out of his trance of being beaten down and is back in the fight. Scurll goes for a Wheelbarrow Bodyscissors but Rey counters with an Arm Drag! HE GOES FOR A SUNSET FLIP PIN BUT SCURLL BREAKS OUT WITH A LANZA!! SCURLL THEN LIFTS REY UP FOR A GERMAN SUPLEX!! HE CONNECTS, AND GOES FOR ANOTHER! BUT MYSTERIO FLIPS OUT AND HITS A HEADSCISSORS!! HE THEN CONNECTS A BASEBALL SLIDEFOLLOWED BY HEADSCISSORS!! Rey is on a roll as he dances like Eddie outside. Scurll goes to push him into a fans seat, but Mysterio ducks and PUSHES HIM INTO THE APRON!! They then fight there. Scurll knocks Rey off and CONNECTS A SUPERKICK FROM THE APRON!! HE THEN DIVES OUT WITH A MOONSAULT TO THE FLOOR!! Now they’re both on the ground. Scurll is dead and so is Rey. They crawl up by the fans laps. Scurll asks a fan to hold Rey in place as he lines up a Penalty Kick. MYSTERIO EVADES BEFORE THE KICK CONNECTS AND PUSHES HIM ONTO A GROUP OF FANS SEATS!! HE THEN DIVES OFF THE SECOND ROPE WITH A CROSSBODY - OVER THE FANS HEADS TO SCURLL!! They’re both even more dead than before and spend time climbing out of the wreckage, through fans and bent and fallen chairs. Rey navigates his way back while Marty writhes in the agony. Once back in the ring Mysterio dives for a Seated Senton - BUT IS HIT BY A SUPERKICK!! SCURLL HITS THE BLACK PLAGUE AND ROLLS INTO THE CROSSFACED CHICKENWING!! REY GETS HIS FOOT ON THE ROPES!! Scurll angrily lets go, throwing the luchador to the mat. They’re back up and the contest is still on. Rey knocks Scurll down with a SUNSET FLIP INTO A ROUNDHOUSE KICK, AND THEN HITS THE DROPPIN DA DIME!!! 1.............2...........KICK OUT!!! MYSTERIO LIFTS SCURLL UP AND GOES FOR A BULLDOG, BUT MARTY HITS A BACKBREAKER RACK DROPPED INTO A FACEBUSTER!! SCURLL JUMPS FOR A TORNADO DDT - BUT MYSTERIO CATCHES WTH A DROPKICK!! HE THEN FLIES WITH HIS OWN TORNADO DDT!! 1...........2.........SCURLL ROLLS OUT AND GOES FOR THE TORNADO DDT, BUT MYSTERIO CATCHES HIM WITH A SUPER HURRICANERANA!! MARTY LANDS ON HIS FEET AND HITS THE PARTY’S OVER!! HIS OLD FINISHER BUSTED OUT ON THIS OCCASION!!! HE COVERS, 1...............2...............MYSTERIO KICKS OUT JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME!!! They roll outside to recover after the big rush of counters. Scurll is first up and walks over to Rey’s daughter and wife. He tries to chat them up, BUT REY TURNS HIM AROUND INTO A THROW INTO THE RING POST!! HE HITS A BIG BOOT INTO THE STEEL!! Rey then sets up a wooden table, and brings Scurll up to the apron. They both trade forearms there. Marty jumps to the second rope, possibly looking for a TORNADO DDT!! REY BRINGS HIM DOWN AND HITSMA HURRICANERANA OFF THE APRON!! SCURLL CRASHES DOWN THROUGH THE WOODEN TABLE ONTO THE WOODEN FLOOR!! Scurll grabs his back in utter agony, his spine crushed by the wooden table and floor. Rey then picks him off the mat and rolls him inside. Rey is looking to end it now, as he climbs up for a SPRINGBOARD SPLASH!! HE THEN LOOKS FOR A 619, BUT SCURLL HITS A EUROPEAN UPPERCUT!! SCURLL THEN GOES FOR A KNEELING REVERSE PILEDRIVER!! MYSTERIO COUNTERS WITH A ROLL UP FOLLOWED BY A FRONT DROPKICK AFTER THE KICK OUT! REY THEN CLIMBS UP FOR A DIVING WEST COAST POP!! 1............2.........KICK OUT!! REY GOES FOR ANOTHER - BUT ITS CAUGHT!! MARTY CATCHES HIM INTO A BIRD OF PREY!! HE HITS A TORNADO DDT!! HE FINALLY LOCKS IN THE CROSSFACED CHICKENWING!! REY ESCAPES AND SWINGS AROUND THE ROPES IN A 619 BUT IS HIT BY A SUPERKICK!! SCURLL THEN LOCKS IN THE CROSSFACED CHICKENWING WITH A BODYSCISSORS!! REY TAPS OUT!!! Marty Scurll defeats Rey Mysterio (19:58) Dominion 2019: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Rey Mysterio - IWGP Heavyweight Championship At Wrestling Dontaku, we see Kazuchika Okada and SANADA face off for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in Night Two’s main event on May 4th. Afterwards, Rey Mysterio appears on video where he says he will return to New Japan at Dominion to take on Okada for his IWGP Heavyweight Championship. The Rainmaker then states that in his post-match press conference, that he’s always wanted to face Rey Mysterio and that he’ll be happy to do it. Rey is a good and honourable man who deserves this title match after 25 years of wrestling. Okada is happy to give him the opportunity but makes sure Mysterio knows, he won’t win. Later in the month is AEW’s Double or Nothing. The highly anticipated show features a plethora of talent and star studded match ups, after the Jacksonville and Las Vegas rallies individually. Rey Mysterio appears at neither however despite heavy rumour and speculation. However, to open the show we see the Casino Battle Royale. In this we get a bomb dropped on us - the debut of Mysterio in AEW. Entering as the Joker, he comes and cleans house. It comes down to him and Adam Page, who face off in a 5-minute long battle. The winner will face either Kenny Omega or Chris Jericho at All Out for the AEW World Championship so the stakes are high. In the end, Hangman eliminates Rey after a Buckshot and Superkick combo. Then two weeks later is Dominion. For the first time ever, Rey Mysterio will challenge for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship. After a hell of the show we reach the main event. We’ve seen Dragon Lee vs. Will Ospreay, and Kota Ibushi vs. Tetsuya Naito, and now we’re here. Rey Mysterio cuts a promo earlier in the show about how this means the world to him, this opportunity, and that he needs to win. He will never get a chance like this again, and can’t waste it. Mysterio represents is no-nonsense ordeal, as he comes out dressed as The Punisher. He’s got the navy singlet, with a skull across it. His mask then has the skull as well on it. Mysterio taunts on the second rope, but then Okada comes out. It’s the same thing he felt against Tanahashi and Liger, just being in the presence of someone on another world. When the bell rings, they don’t lock up straight away. They take in the magnitude of the stage and suck it all in. About a minute passes of this, before they lock up. They get into a collar and elbow, and Rey spins into a waist lock. Okada arm drags him off and cinches in a chinlock. Rey tries to flip out but Okada simply lowers down with him. HE THEN HITS A BELLY TO BACK SUPLEX!! Okada cinches in another chinlock. Rey gets up and Irish whips Okada to the ropes. The Rainmaker rebounds and connects a Shoulder Block to take Mysterio down. Rey gets up while Okada runs the ropes, and hits a HEADSCISSORS! Mysterio ducks under a clothesline and cinches the waistlock. He takes Okada down and applies a nerve hold, then hits a Spinal Tap! Okada lifts himself up and runs the ropes for a Short-arm Lariat! Rey stumbles back and rolls into a VICTORY ROLL!! 1........2.....KICK OUT!! OKADA GETS UP WITH A SHOULDER BLOCK, AND THEN RUNS THE ROPES FOR A RONT DROPKICK INTO THE CORNER!! Mysterio takes a Bret Hart sell of falling on impact. OKADA LIFTS HIM FOR A FLAPJACK BUT REY FLIPS OUT AND HITS AN ARM DRAG!! HE RUNS THE ROPES BUT IS CAUGHT IN A WHEELBARROW !BODYSCISSORS, THAT IS COUNTERED WITH A BULLDOG!! FLYING HEADSCISSORS BY MYSTERIO!! HE RUNS THE ROPES BUT OKADA HITS THE FLAPJACK AND FOLLOWS WITH A MILLION DOLLAR DROPKICK!! Okada then lifts Mysterio up and throws him to the corner, and starts to apply shoulder blocks. Okada Irish whips Mysterio who LEAPFROGS THE RAINMAKER AND HITS A MYSTERIO-EXPRESS!!! 1..........2.......KICK OUT!! OKADA WITH ANOTHER SHORT-ARM LARIAT!! Okada connects a European Uppercut to a kneeling Rey! This is the cut off, and The Rainmaker starts to stomp down on him. He lifts Mysterio up and Irish whips Rey, who jumps to the second rope AND DIVES OFF WITH A DIVING HURRICANERANA!!! OKADA ROLLS THROUGH AND CONNECTS A OPEN HAND CHOP!! DROPKICK!! HE LIFTS REY UP FOR A BACKBODY DROP BUT MYSTERIO EVADES AND HITS A SPINNING WHEEL KICK!! Rey is back in the fight, and runs the ropes for a RUNNING CROSSBODY!! HE HITS A TILT-A-WHIRL TORNADO DDT!! 1..........2........KICK OUT!!! Rey pulls himself up by the ropes, hoping the comeback got him. He punches the air, but lifts The Rainmaker up. He heads to the apron and awaits Okada - BUT SUNSET FLIPS OVER! REY ROLLS HIM AND HITS A ROUNDHOUSE KICK!!! Mysterio then runs the ropes but OKADA WITH A BIG BOOT!! HE HITS THE HEAVY RAIN!! 1........2.........KICK OUT!!! REY PULLS HIMSELF UP AND HITS A LOU THESZ PRESS!! HE GOES FOR A SHIRANUI - BUT OKADA DUMPS HIM ONTO THE MAT!! Rey doesn’t get up from that one, feeling the pain. Okada stomps on him and kicks the head, THEN GOES FOR A DDT!! MYSTERIO SLIDES OUT AND HITS A HEADSCISSORS!! HE RUNS THE ROPES AND CONNECTS THE 619 OUT OF NOWHERE!! He climbs the ropes and points to the crowd - DIVING SPLASH!! 1.........2.........KICK OUT FROM THE RAINMAKER!!! Rey gets desperate to end it and HITS A BASEBALL SLIDE TO THE OUTSIDE!! HE FOLLOWS WITH A SUICIDE DIVE INTO A HEADSCISSORS!! Okada falls into the guardrail both times, feeling the steel on his back. Rey goes to Irish whip but Okada reverses into his own. Rey then hops the guardrail and awaiting to see what Okada does. OKADA THEN DIVES OVER THE GUARDRAIL WITH THE SCOOBY DOOBY DOO!!! They both lay dead, as the referee counts down from 20. Eventually they get back up, after a lot of stumbling and tumbling. They get back in and REY DIVES WITH THE WEST COAST POP!! 1.........2.......OKADA ROLLS OUT OF IT WITH REY ON HIS BACK!!! ALABAMA SLAM!!! KICKOUT!!! HE LOCKS IN THE DEEP IN DEBT BUT REY GETS OUT!! HE RUNS TO THE CORBER BUT SO DOES OKADA WHO HITS A RUNNING BACK ELBOW!! HE THEN CONNECTS THE AIR RAID CRASH NECKBREAKER!!! 1...............2.............KICK OUT!!!! Both guys have kicked out a bunch of times, but now they’re down to the last minute. They’ve gone over 20 minutes and start to trade forearms. They double down after their fifth blows. They crawl by the corners - AND REY HITS THE AIR MYSTERIO!! HE RUNS UP FOR A MYSTERIO-RANA!!!! 1...........2........OKADA ROLS OUT AND HITS A SCOOP SLAM!! HE THEN CLIMBS THE ROPES - AND DIVES WITH A DIVING ELBOW DROP!! HE LIFTS HIM UP FOR A RAINMAKER - BUT MYSTERIO DUCKS UNDER AND HITS A POISONED RANA!!! HE DIVES IN WITH A SPRINGBOARD SITOUT FACEBUSTER!! REY GOES FOR ANOTHER MYSTERIO EXPRESS, BUT OKADA COUNTERS AND LOCKS IN THE DEEP IN DEBT!! MYSTERIO ESCAPES, BUT IS LOCKED IN WITH A COBRA CLUTCH!!!! REY REACHES THE ROPES!!! HE GOES FOR A 619 BUT OKADA CATCHES AND HITS THE RAINMAKER!!!! 1................2.................3!!!!!! Kazuchika Okada defeats Rey Mysterio (26:13) Fyter Fest 2019: The Elite (Kenny Omega, Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson) vs. Rey Mysterio and The Lucha Brothers (Fénix and Pentagon Jr.) - Six-man Tag Team Match With the launch of All Elite Wrestling, many peoples attention have been grabbed. Double or Nothing as we know saw Rey Mysterio make his shock debut to open the main show as the Joker slot in the Casino Battle Royale. Him and Hangman Adam Page had a war as the final two, ending with Page winning. Now comes Fyter Fest, however this scheduled match between The Elite and The Lucha Bros/Pac has been altered. Pac pulls out and so the replacement is revealed on The Road To Fyter Fest, where Rey Mysterio is interviewed and then he announces he will be the partner of the Lucha Bros. This is the official main event of Fyter Fest, as the actual last match is Unsanctioned. The Young Bucks enter first dressed as Ryu and Ken each, both posing on the stage until…the lights go down. A fan walks on stage, but then they go down again. KENNY APPEARS AS AKUMA’S RAGING DEMON!! He holds the finger gun over the fans body and makes his way down to the ring with his Elite stablemates. Then comes The Lucha Brothers. On the stage are Fénix and Pentagon dressed in their skull masks and hoodies. They both walk out but point to the centre, WHERE OUT COMES REY MYSTERIO!! Rey unhoods from his blue cloak to reveal his normal mask. He is dressed as Death from the Castlevania series in line with the whole skeleton aesthetic as well as for the video game tie-in. “Round 1 – FIGHT!” yells Justin Roberts as Nick Jackson and Rey Mysterio start us off. They go into a lockup and start to push forward and back. Nick lifts himself to the second rope and tightropes it, before jumping down with an Arm Drag. Rey rolls through with that but jumps back in a Rana. They both run the ropes but Nick leapfrogs and Mysterio rolls under, then springboards off with a Crossbody. A cover goes nowhere and Nick kips up for his own arm drag, followed by a Back Body Drop that Rey flips out of. They then go to a stalemate at this point and reposition in their respective corners. Kenny whispers to Nick while Mysterio stretches on the ropes. They both then move forward to the centre. Rey hits an Overhead Chop and follows with an Open Hand to the chest. He does this while maintaining wrist control. He then hits a Roundhouse Kick and an Enziguri, and runs up the ropes, then dives off with a CROSSBODY! Nick goes for a Superkick once up, but Rey spins him into a Spinning Wheel Kick attempt, which Nick spins and they HIT STEREO SUPERKICKS!! THEY THEN DOUBLE DOWN WITH CLOTHESLINES!! While their down, in come the others. EVERY TRIO IS IN THE RING AND A BRAWL BREAKS LOOSE! Kenny and Penta are going at it while Matt and Fénix do battle. They trade slaps and chops and kicks, until Mysterio and Nick are back up. REY HITS A AIR MYSTERIO TO NICK JACKSON!! The Lucha Bros then hit Superkicks to Kenny and Matt to take them outside. ALL THE LUCHADORS THEN DIVE OUT AFTER THE ELITE!! They all enter the ring and isolate Matt. The Bros hit Superkicks and hold him in place for a MYSTERIO EXPRESS!! Nick comes inside but is hit by a Hook Kick, and then with a SEATED SENTON FROM REY!! FÉNIX WITH A DOUBLE SPRINGBOARD MOONSAULT TO NICK!!! 1……..2…..KICK OUT!!!!! The Bros roll out and Nick and Mysterio keep going. They trade forearms, until Rey tags in Fénix. Fénix comes in hot with a Springboard Front Missile Dropkick to Nick. He looks for a double team with Pentagon, BUT NICK HITS THEM BOTH WITH A DROPSAULT!! HE TAGS IN MATT! MATT COMES IN WITH A TOPE CON HILO TO BOTH GUYS!1 HE HITS A NORTHERN LIGHTS ON PENTAGON WITH AN O’CONNOR ROLL ON FÉNIX!! 1………2……KICK OUT!! HIM AND NICK THEN HIT DOUBLE SLINGSHOT SITOUT FACEBUSTERS!! Matt then gets a tag to Kenny Omega. OMEGA IS IN! Kenny runs straight forward with a Dropkick to Pentagon sending him outside. He hits a Backbreaker to a tagged in Mysterio , 1……2….KICK OUT!! HE GOES FOR THE YOU CAN’T ESCAPE!! BUT IT IS INDEED ESCAPED! MYSTERIO DIVES OFF THE TOP WITH A MOONSAULT!! Kenny recovers himself, BEFORE DIVING OUTSIDE WITH A RISE OF THE TERMINATOR TO PENTAGON!! PENTAGON CUTS HIM OFF! Cero…Miedo – AND THEY START TO FIGHT ON THE OUTSIDE!! They go to the apron where Pentagon lays in some chops, BUT OMEGA WITH A KOTARO KRUSHER ON THE APRON!! THE BUCKS THEN SEND FÉNIX TO THE FLOOR WITH A BACK BODY DROP + CANNONBALL SENTON COMBO!! Now all The Elite are inside and isolate Rey Mysterio. The Elite triple team him, with Matt and Nick holding Rey in place for A V-TRIGGER!! FOLLOWED BY A GERMAN SUPLEX!! KENNY HITS THE YOU CAN’T ESCAPE!! MATT FOLLOWS WITH A TOP ROPE ELBOW AND NICK WITH A SWANTON!!! 1………2……KICK OUT!!!! They pick him up and The Bucks try to double team. MYSTERIO MOVES AND MATT SPEARS NICK!! ENZIGURI FROM MYSTERIO TO OMEGA!! HE TAGS IN PENTAGON!! Pentagon comes in and chops everyone, and then hits a Double Japanese Arm Drag on Matt and Nick! SUPERKICK TO KENNY FOLLOWED BY A LUNGBLOWER!! Kenny rolls out, but then FÉNIX SPRINGBOARDS TO THE OUTSIDE WITH A TORNILLO TO OMEGA!! REY FOLLOWS WITH A SUICIDE DIVE!! PENTAGON THEN HITS A LANZA TO MATT BACK IN THE RING AND COVERS! 1………2…….KICK OUT!!! MATT FIRES BACK!! RUNNING CANADIAN DESTROYER TO PENTAGON – FOLLOWED BY A SPEAR!! Omega tags in and fights off all the luchadors, AND HITS DRAGON SUPLEXS ON ALL OF THEM!! Pentagon cuts him off again, AND SUPERKICKS NICK! HE TOSSES FÉNIX ONTO HIM WITH A MOONSAULT!! REY THEN HITS A WEST COAST POP ON KENNY!! 1…….2…..KICK OUT!!!! Mysterio then picks him up and hits THREE ROUNDHOUSE KICKS!! THE WHOLE MATCH THEN BREAKS DOWN INTO A SUPERKICK PARTY!! The Elite rally, BUT EAT SUPERKICKS!! THEY FIRE BACK WITH HADOKENS!! EVERY LUCHADOR HIT BY LIGER BOMBS!! NICK THEN WITH ASSISTED 450 SPLASHES ON FÉNIX AND MYSTERO!! PENTAGON MAKES THE SAVE! NICK WITH A SLINGSHOT X-FACTOR!! PENTAGON WITH A SLINGBLADE! OMEGA WITH THE V-TRIGGER!! FÉNIX THEN FLIES IN WITH A CUTTER!! NICK CUTS HIM OFF WITH A NECKBREAKER!! FÉNIX THEN HITS THE SPANISH FLY TO NICK, OFF THE ROPES, INTO MATT AND PENTAGON ON THE FLOOR!! This takes those guys out but we still have Mysterio and Omega. KENNY HITS A V-TRIGGER OUT OF MIDAIR, AND THE TIGER DRIVER 98!!! 1………..2………KICK OUT!! KENNY WITH ANOTHER V-TRIGGER AND GOES FOR THE ONE-WINGED ANGEL – BUT REY HEADSCISSORS OUT!! HE CALLS FOR THE 619 AND CONNECTS IT!! HE THEN FLIES HIGH WITH THE WEST COAST POP TO FINISH OMEGA!!!!! 1……………..2………………3!!! THE LUCHADORS WIN THE BOUT, AND REY MYSTERIO PINS KENNY OMEGA CLEAN!! The Lucha Brothers and Rey Mysterio defeat The Elite (20:20)
OBLIGATORY FILLER MATERIAL – Just take a hard left at Daeseong-dong…7
Continuing Well, when the props fouled the third time, I suggested we call it a day, as we’d already made some 32 sea-kilometers. We were out on the fringes of the worst of the kelp forest beds, and after a good night’s sleep, we’d be ready to deploy bright and early and get some seismic data acquired and recorded. But, first, there was the first night aboard ship. In a rusty old tin-can with few creature comforts, as the annual winter monsoon winds wane and the seas actually begin to settle slightly. I took that as both good omens. The bitching and kvetching I head from the locals about the ‘abominable weather they had to endure’, even from the Coast Guard types, really struck me as uproariously funny. I just chalked it up to being sequestered from the rest of the world for so long. Put these characters in the path of a Midwestern tornado, East Indian summer monsoon, or Siberian blizzard, and they’d shit themselves blind. I didn’t really think too much of it, although it became somewhat of a game when the imperialistic foreigners tried to one-up each other with horror stories from excursions past. “No shit”, Dax said, “We were snowed in for a full fortnight.” “No!” several of us recoiled in mock horror. “Oh, yah, hey.” Dax continued, “It’s just great when blizzards snap the power lines, and all the toilets freeze. The house cat didn't die until we burned up all our wood. Considering we ate her raw, she tasted pretty good…” Several of our handlers, a few in the Coast Guard and most of the Korean scientists reacted rather badly to Dax’s story; especially when it had been gorily translated. Seeing this, Dax stood up, got the soju bottle, and asked if anyone needed a top-up. I asked while puffing away on a large Jamaican cigar if anyone needed a smoke. At this point, Dax was winning. He had seven of the assembled crowd run to the rail to relieve themselves of our canned Chinese dinner. Not ever one to shrink from a challenge, I related my second-hand story of my Brother-in-law, who was in the US Coast Guard for years and years. I waited for the green crowd to re-join us and regain what remained of their composure. I figured the quasi-military national Coast Guarders here would appreciate the tale. Mine wasn’t a gory or shocking tale, just one of the incredible water conditions off the coast of California. I waited until everyone was settled, drink in hand, and smokin’ ‘em if you got ‘em. “Well”, I said, “It was on board a ship much like the one we’re currently on,” I said as a rascal wave broke over the railing in counterpoint. “About the same size as this vessel, but with smaller wheels. You know these Coast Guard shallow-water boys”, I chuckled. Always meaning to jab one group or another in the place where I know it stings. Yeah, I’m a real bastard that way sometimes. The Korean Coast Guarders sneered hardly at me; but not too hard. They liked my cigars, cigarettes, and open disbursement policy too much. “Yeah, anyways”, I continued, “He was offshore California in one of the US Coast Guard cutters. It was a boat about 26 meters or so in length. They were out doing search and rescue after a mega-nasty storm blew in from the west and scuttled a sailing regatta race.” I was drawing them in with my ‘just so’ story, nice and easy, until… “Yeah, there were several capsized monohulls, catamarans and trimarans. Damn, these things were fucking yachts. Owned by rich idiots that almost knew how to sail but didn’t know enough to get out of the way of a fucking severe storm…” I really had their attention with ‘soaking the rich’. “Well, the waves grew and grew, but my Brother-in-laws's boat was built to handle severe weather. These patrol and rescue boat has the capability to roll over 360 degrees and self-right within 30 seconds. Like right now, you’d never even notice this degree rock and roll”, I said as I demonstrated with my cigar, tracing out tighter and tighter rolls, and higher degrees of rocking and rolling. “They were approaching a capsized trimaran, but the waves kept growing and growing…” I said, leading by example and having them watch me with unblinking attention. “The waves grew and grew, and normally you’d take these head-on. But that was impossible, because when afternoon came it was slashin' rain, in the face of a hurricane west wind. The boat rolled to the left, heeled, almost keeled, a then rolled the other way just as quickly.” I noted. They followed me as I timed it with the heavings of our own boat, to the left…to the right… “Then, just as they were about to reach upon the trimaran, a rogue wave! Out of nowhere”, I said, rocking and rolling along with our own little boat, “BAM! Hit amidships! It didn’t roll once, it rolled twice!” I made great and magniloquent gestures of a tiny boat being savaged by a monstrous rogue sea wave. I stood up, blew a great blue cloud of smoke towards the poop deck, and said, loudly, “Rolled over once. A full 360! Then rolled right over again. A full 720 degrees!” as I demonstrated what happened with my cigar and drink. The eyes following me rolled and rolled as well. Some straight back into the owner’s head and some to the left, some to the right…it was like ‘Loose Slots’ night in Vegas, they were rolling and rolling. And then racing for the rails. Topside to deliver the remains of their hearty canned dinners. “Beat you, Dax!” I smiled as I sat back down, “I got nine with that at one. And two of them were Coasties!” “Did that really happen?” Ivan asked. “According to my Brother-in-law. But he’s an engineer if you know what I mean…” I smiled. We concluded story night as we had drifted free of the kelp forest and the Captain of the boat decided he’d risk an anchorage for the night. The weather was ameliorating, the seas calming themselves down, and the wind dropping a couple of notches on the Beaufort Scale. “Well, gents”, I said, “I need some air. The aroma down here of Chinese Aplo™ for dinner, those who didn’t make it to the rails, and the solitary head for the entire crew has lost its charm. If you’ll excuse me”, I said as I grabbed a bottle of ersatz vodka, and several cans of Taedonggang beer, “I’ll be on the aft deck; in my comfy chair and contemplating the wonder of it all.” With that, I ventured up the stairs and out onto the aft deck. Dax naturally followed and he found his own not-bolted-down deck chair. We had a constant flow of visitors, foreign and nationals alike. It was shaping up to be a fine night for being out under the stars, there was no light pollution at all. We sat in our chairs, drank our drinks, smoked our smokes, and argued the finer points of astronomy as seen from this part of the world. I had several side chats with the scientists and academicians from the Korean side. They all had one thing on their minds. Well, one thing after cigars and cigarettes. They wanted Western scientific journals. They were actually trying to bribe me to get those copies, any age, any subject; of Science, AAPG Explorer, and SEPM Proceedings, anything of Western science as it is today. I said they were welcome to a couple of copies of Science and SPE journals I had brought with as an afterthought, for free. With 900 won to the dollar, they needed every won they could get. I wasn’t about to take anything for the free dissemination of knowledge. However, if they saw it fit to buy me a drink or seven, I wouldn’t object. In reality, I’d buy those as well. We made secret pacts to meet at the hotel-casino the night before we left, whenever the fuck that would be. We had a lot of work before us as it stands. It won’t be for a few weeks, I reminded them. They had no problem. If I could ask the other in the team if they’d do likewise, the appreciation would be palpable. Great. Now I have to go get my field notebooks and make some more new entries. Dax cratered around 0100. I elected to stay the night and sleep under the stars as the boat slowly rocked one way and rolled the other. It was quiet, dark as a tomb, and brilliantly lit up by the stellar backbone of the night once the clouds fumbled out. Tomorrow looked as if it were to be bright and sunny if the gentle westerlies had anything to say about the next day’s conditions. The next day dawned early, bright, and ridiculously sunny as it usually does when the monsoons have departed and it had stopped raining. “OK.”, I thought, “Time for a hearty breakfast. For someone else. I wonder what’s available here.” I ventured down to the cold galley and there were several boxes of dry Chinese breakfast cereal, “Shredded Tweet” and the like, some sort of obviously aged bakery, and a case of Taedonggang beer. “Hmmm”, I mused out loud, “Beer and rice crispies. Breakfast of champions.” Dax walks in, rubbing his eyes. He sees me drowning my rice cereal in foamy ersatz milk. “Reminds me of field camp!” I smiled as I chowed on the morning’s offerings. After our ‘hearty’ breakfast, all the scientific parties gathered in the main stateroom. It was cramped, but the walls were magnetic and we could hang maps, well, charts actually since we’re well offshore now, and plots the day’s course. Out in the Yellow Sea, we were supposedly over a subsurface, and by dint of being offshore, submarine, dome. Salt dome? Unlikely. Probably more of a shale dome, which isn’t a bad thing when hunting for oil and gas. Looking at the charts, I ask the locals what our current position was relative to the domal uplift. After several long moments of silence, I asked again. “Umm, guys”, I said, “If you’re not going to be forthcoming with something as simple as positional data, then turn this boat 1800’s and take us back to shore. I am fed up, as are my team, with this tight-holing of the simplest of data when you are the knotheads that asked us here for help. We get paid either way, and I for one wouldn’t mind being paid triple to sit in the hotel’s basement and drink” After telling the translator to translate that last part literally, I sat back, pulled out a really nasty cigar, and went through all the threatening moves of firing it up in the enclosed cabin. “You will have to excuse us”, came the reply from one of the elders, “We are not used to dealing with oegugseon [foreigners].” “Are you used to following orders?” I asked brusquely. “Of course!” came the near-unanimous reply. “Great. Then consider this an order: You will relay the appropriate information when asked by any Westerner on this cruise. Consider it as coming from the Supreme Leader of this expedition.” I noted. Using the term ‘Supreme Leader’ was both a bow to their current bad-hair-cut in charge and my desire to let them know I was serious as a kick to the scrotum about the whole fucking deal. There were a couple of gasps and some consternatious talk, but eventually, one brave soul got up, walked over to the chart, and pointed to our relative location. “There”, I added, “That wasn’t so hard, was it? Didn’t hurt in the least, did it?” There were a few chuckles amongst our national colleagues, so I figured that was at least a little progress. “OK, then”, I continued, “Volna? Ack? You’re up to bat.” I turned the proceedings over to the geophysicists. They would devise the configuration of the towed array, our speed, direction, charge size, which was based on depth, and all the other geophysical flips and twists one has to do in order to acquire the best data. This shit doesn’t come cheap. The Mesozoic-Paleozoic marine residual basin in the South Yellow Sea where these domes live is a potentially significant deep potential hydrocarbon reservoir. However, the imaging of the deep prospecting target is quite challenging due to the specific seismic-geological conditions. In the Central and Wunansha Uplifts, the penetration of the seismic wavefield is limited by the shallow high-velocity layers (HVLs) and the weak reflections in the deep carbonate rocks. With the conventional marine seismic acquisition technique, the deep weak reflection is difficult to image and identify. We confirm through numerical simulation that the combination of multi-level impulse source (i.e., explosive) array and extended cable used in the seismic acquisition is crucial for improving the imaging quality. With that, we’re going to be recording a minimum of four stacks, with a receiver interval of 25 meters. The array will have a shot interval of 50 meters, with a 25 meter near offset, and a 2500 meter far offset. We will attempt to record 180 channels, off-end, with a sampling period of 0.5 seconds, and a record length of 5 seconds. We’ll sail the same course 4 times to verify previous records and attempt to add ‘fold’, i.e., extra data from the same point, to the overall records. That’s the plan, at least. Loads of preparation, logistics, and execution. After a half an hour or so, both Volna and Ack are finished with the national scientists. They set down their notebooks, pens, notes, and pointers; walk out of the meeting room and directly over to the galley. “Hungry, fellas?” I inquire. “Rock?”, Ack asks, “You have explosives here, right? Sink us. Just fucking sink us right now.” As he pours himself and Volna a stiff shot of real vodka. “Uh, oh. Problems in Dreamland?” I ask, utilizing the derogatory name for the geophysical domain of exploration data. “Un-be-fucking-believable.”, Volna adds. “Your colloquial American is coming along well, Volna.” I snickered a bit. “I learn from you”, he spat, “Cannot believe this. They don’t record while underway. They tow single array and stop. Then drop dynamite over side. They record. Then they do it again. Claim this gives them good fold. This is bullshit. You said devise program. HA! Take us to shore and let me teach them the fucking basics of geophysical acquisition. Then in a few years, we come back and do it right.” “Oh, fuck”, I reply, wincing, “That bad?” “Oh, no”, Ack continues, “It’s worse.” As he down 100 milliliters of booze in one draught and pours another for Volna and is own self, “No on-board demultiplexing. No on-board pre-processing. No-onboard QA/QC. No on-board anything. It’s fucking hopeless. Sink us, I’d rather take my chances with the sharks.” “They can’t do all that stuff or they won’t do all that stuff,” I asked, expecting the worst. “Oh, it might be possible, with this museum-grade crap they call a computer they have on-board. It’s just time-consuming, tricky, and will need constant attention. But with this raft of sad-sacks, flub-a-dubs and third rate hobbyists?” Ack and Volna agree as one. “Consider it job security”, I replied, “How about this? One test loop and we use that data to do what’s necessary; just once. Then we can say we’ve shown them the way. After that, I’ll leave it up to the National scientists.” “Good thing we have 2 full days, Rock”, Volna said, “Because we do a single AC (acquisition) run, it’ll take the rest of the time to show these buggers how it’s done.” “Ack? You agree?” I asked. Ack agreed, in spades. “OK, gentlemen”, I said, “Let’s make it so. About time, too. I haven’t blown anything up in a couple of weeks. I’m getting antsy. Let’s go tell them the good news.” “NO! WE REFUSE!” was the cheery response from the nationals when Ack, Volna, and I laid out the rather lengthy program for the next couple of days. “OK. Someone tell the Captain to head for home. We’re done here.” I calmly told our handlers and the translators. Panic in Pyongyang. Immediately, there is this hue and cry about how this was not supposed to be how this trip was going to work. This was to be an acquisition trip only. This was to be a one-off to show Best Korea geophysical prowess. This was supposed to be data gathering trip on the Western scientists… Oops. That last one was a bit of a mistake. I turn to one of the translators and ask them to re-translate that last part, just in case I was hearing imaginary things. “Oh, yes”, he replied, “He said they were here to gather data on the Western Scientists as well as offshore data.” “Is that a fact?” I reacted. “Please tell them I need to see all my team members on the fantail immediately if you would. Sorry, translators and nationals not included in this little meeting.” We reconvene on the fantail a few minutes later. I walk in on this little conclave with cigar and drink in hand. “OK, gents”, I say, puffing a huge blue cloud, swigging a tot, “Here’s what I think we, as responsible international scientists, should do in this regrettable situation. We were asked to come here, with provisions that we would not be under cynosure, observation, or surveillance. Given ‘Open and Free Access’, no questions asked. We were to be treated as “esteemed guests”. This is obviously a load of dingo’s kidneys. I think we need to get as creative as possible and do whatever we can to provide as much deliberate misinformation to these characters to annoy, amaze, or disgust them as much as possible. Comments?” There’s a general buzz, but no real dissention. After a few moment's discussion, Dax suggests we get a load of XXXXL condoms, and leave them around packaged as “Texas Medium”. “That’s the spirit”, I reply. “Anyone one else up for a little Psychological Operations on our not-so-clever-nor-truthful hosts?” We all agree that we will, in our own little way, start a campaign of deliberate misinformation, misdirection, and general petty bullshit nastiness for our hosts to discover and by which be dismayed. Everyone’s in agreement. This trip has been a rotund bale of jeers from the get-go. Promises made, promises broken. Itineraries approved then inexplicably disapproved. We make requests, they accede; and then nothing ever happens. It’s most frustrating. We’re tolerating a lot of horse, bull, cow, and assorted other farmyard excrements; all in the name of international harmony and scientific goodwill. This has been an outgoing one-way street for too long. We’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore. “Hellfire and Dalmatians!” I growl, growing angrier every minute I think about the subject, “We need to take the high, low, and middle ground on this offensive. Nothing too overt or obvious; however we need to jank these bastards good. But they can’t realize they’re being janked…!” Ack cuts in. “The esteemed Dr. Rock is right. Psychotic...but absolutely right. We got to take these bastards. We could fight them with conventional weapons. That could take years...cost millions of lives. In this case... I think we have to go all out. I think this situation absolutely requires...a really futile and stupid gesture... be done on somebody's part.” There’s a general buzz among the assembled. “And we're just the guys to do it.” Shouts and catcalls of deep agreement. “Operation ‘Confound-a-Korean’” is now enacted. “About fucking time!” “Let’s do it!” “Dissen gonna be bery messy! Me no watchin!” “OK, I think, “Who’s the prequel-series wiseass?” “OK, gentlemen”, I continue, “We continue with our scientific duties. No fucking around there. But, when it comes to…interpretation…opinion…or personal viewpoint; let’s go full impede. Dazzle them with brilliance or baffle them with bullshit.” We all agree and after a couple of quick rounds of old thought provoker, we realize this trip has just taken a hard left into Wackyland. We will have to let our comrades onshore know of this, but that can wait until we return. Right now, we all have jobs to do. Real jobs, serious jobs, covert and sneaky jobs… So, it’s back to the recording shack as we lay out the plans for the next couple of days. Volna begins: “OK, listen up you primitive screwheads. We’re going to assemble and layout a recording array that’s called a Meisenheimer Triplet. You do know what a simple Meisenheimer Triplet is, don’t you?” There’s a slight murmur from our national friends, but in the end, they all plead ignorance. “Right. Thought so. A Meisenheimer Triplet is a central towed array flanked by two shorter, subparallel flanking sub-frammitz arrays. We will assemble this array on-board, even though it’s probably going to take every ounce of silver solder and electrician’s tape you’ve got. The amount of data received is orders of magnitude greater than any single Sheriff-sonde array, like the ones you been using.” Suddenly, there are nods and murmurs of agreement. “Right”, Volna smiles sinisterly to me, “With that, we’ll need to devise an explosive package, well, actually, a series of explosive packages based on the harmonia of the pre-bottom fore-sets, water depth, tow vehicle velocity, water column density, and decomposition coefficients of the said water column. Oh, yeah. Fish too.” Volna is really getting into the spirit of the affair. “Who is your explosives engineer?” Ack asks, “He’s going to have to do some serious number-crunching with all the pre-blast data we’ll need to supply. “ One quick translation and there’s nothing but long faces and querulous looks from our national crowd. “We have no explosives engineer”, the head Best Korean geophysicist laments. “Explosives are very, very heavily regulated by the government. That’s why we have several Government Observers on board. They handle the explosives.” “Oh?” Ack remarks, “Are they fully up to speed on the Barnard-Reichmann equations for hydro-displacement of serial charges? Which subset of the marine rarefication coefficients do they employ?” “Ummm, don’t know.” was the answer. “Don’t know? Well”, Volna continues, “Then, they must be pretty good with the Langefors-Kihlström formulae, right?” “No. Not as such.” Came the response. “I see”, Ack sighs, “Well, then, I guess they must utilize the Il’yushin algorithms then. OK, it’s a bit old school, but they should still work.” “Ah. Well. No.” was the rejoinder they offered. “Well, then what the fuck do they use?” Volna explodes, “A modified Ambraseys-Hendorn model? Ghosh-Damen 1? Ghosh-Damen 2? Indian Fargin Standard? Prejaculated Rai-Singh protocols, fer’ chrissake? Which?” Nothing but shaking heads and wringing hands. “They take a case of dynamite, wire it up, and throw it overboard with a long fuse.” Was the eventual answer. “That’s why we stop to record.” Long, exasperated sigh later, “Jesus Q. Tapdancing Christ on a crème cracker. No wonder you never get anything done.” Volna continues, “You characters are in luck. You just happen to be so lucky to have an internationally-renowned Master Blaster right here on board ship today.” Volna turns the crowd over to me, “Doctor? Do your damnedest. And good luck.” “Thanks, Volna”, I say, cigar in one hand, stalwart drink in the other, “OK, guys. Here’s the deal. When it comes to explosives and explosive design, I’m the hookin’ bull. No one has authority over me. Not the Captain. Not the boson’s mate. Not the Captain’s Consort even. Nor the guys in the cheap shiny suits. What I say, goes. No exceptions. No hesitation. We green or are we going back to shore?” “Cholog?” they ask. “Yes. ‘Cholog’. Green. Are we understanding one another? Are we all in agreement? Are you fuckin’ diggin’ me, Beaumont?” There’s some quick back and forth in Korean, a lot of seeming bad noise. Even the shiny suit squad and Coasties join in the fun. “Grudgingly, we agree. Green as you say, Doctor Rock. You are the one in charge.” Came the head national’s reply. “Splendid. I’m in charge of the charges.” I chuckle, puffing an enormous cloud of expensive Oscuro smoke, “Volna, Ack; please get me the required parameters. I’ll be in the ordnance locker to see what we’re working with here. C’mon fellas, chop-chop!” Volna and Ack take their select set of geophysical wishers and wannabes while I get the rest of the locals, the shiny suit squad in reserve, but in tow. I head off to the ordinance locker. Dax runs behind “Hey! Wait for me.” “We have to”, I snigger a reply, “We’re going to need a drinks runner.” “Marvelous…” was the one-word response. We get to the locked ordinance locker. It’s one of the few original structures remaining on the ship. The boat was torn down almost to the waterline and re-built for seismic acquisition, but they had enough brains to realize that the source of the seismic signals was usually explosive in nature. Dinoseis and Mini-Sossie were closed books to them. Therefore, the locker remained intact, however grudgingly. “Whew! And what a locker.” I whewed. “And what a lock. OK, who’s got the keys?” There are general hemming and hawing and no one seems to know where the keys for the ordinance locker are kept. “Well, gents”, I say, pointedly, “I would suggest that one or more of you toddle off and fucking find the goddamn keys or this will turn out to be a very short and unproductive trip, indeed.” A while later, a bit longer than I personally care for, the boat’s Captain wanders up, all a-scowl and generally pissed-off looking. “Who here needs the key to the explosives locker?” He asks in his Captainly, no-nonsense manner. There’s more muttering and murmuring, but eventually, all fingers point toward me. The Captain looks at me. “Hello.” He’s giving me the once over with a LASER stink eye. I don’t know which irritated him the most; the lit cigar, the drink, the Stetson, Hawaiian shirt, cargo shorts, Scottish knee socks or field boots. “And who the hell are you”? He asks, oh, so wrongly, through an interpreter. I stand up, fully puffed to full mammalian threat posture and say in a loud steady voice; “I’m THE Doctor Rocknocker, the MOTHERFUCKING PRO FROM DOVER!, that’s who.” Since I had a good 6 inches and way too many kilos on him; my loud, American and very un-oriental answer took him completely by surprise. His eyes got as big as dinner plates and he shakily held out the ring of keys for the explosives locker. “Why thank you very much”, I said, bowing in his direction ever so slightly. Wasn’t his fault he wasn’t totally clued in on all the recent goings-on aboard his vessel. I toss the keys to Dax, “Here, earn your keep.” I snickered. Dax deftly fields the keys, chuckles back, and begins the game of ‘which key for which lock’? I thank the Captain and explain that I’m the de facto leader of this special education class, and make some pointed, mild epitaphs about landlubbers, national scientists, and the cargo of the totally clueless on board. He sees I’m not a total boor and relaxes some. We haven’t really had a real introduction, so I grab a translator and engage the Captain in a short, though insightful conversation. Cigars were exchanged. Handshakes were as well. Seems he’s just as aggravated by these know-it-alls who really know-fuck-all. We see eye to eye and part friends once Dax finally figures out the combination to the weapons locker. “Holy fuck!” I exclaim, “Now that’s a door.” I say looking at the slowly-opening covering of the weapon’s portico. Fully five solid inches of solid steel. Triple reinforced hinges. Deadman's latches. Bringles-jams and solid, non-decabulated cast-steel cross-members. Just the thing to contain an errant blast and send all that excess energy skyward instead of into the bowels of the boat. OK, bonus points for that design feature. I look inside, but it’s dark and fragrant as the inside of an irritated oyster in the bottom of the Tonga-Kermadec Trench. Dax fumbles around and finds the light switch.
FLIP
“Hmmm.” I hmmed. “Well, we’re all set for dynamite, I see.” Case after case after case of leaking, cheap-ass Chinese knock-off sort-of Du Pont-style 50% dynamite. Box after box of Pseudo-Dyno-Nobel blasting caps. Delaminating, unwinding spools after spool of “PrimUcord”. Sticky “Korea” brand silk-woven coated Demolition Wire. “Gads.” I sigh. “What a nightmare. Either this stuff goes off when you give it a dirty look or it doesn’t go off at all.” Dax looks to me, “So, the trip’s a bust. Is that what you’re saying?” “If we don’t find something that’ll work, probably,” I reply. “This shit’s worthless.” We continue to search after I shoo everyone but Dax out of the locker. It’s damp and musty in here, smelling disconcertingly of kerosene, gherkins, and old sardines. That’s one sure sign of dynamite going bad. I warn Dax to be extra careful, that this stuff hasn’t had the best of handling. We could be in for an unexpected surprise. So, we redouble our efforts and are much more circumspect. Knock-off this and fake-ass that. All Chinese in origin. It might have worked one day; but after sitting in here, unattended, unturned, and uncared for? I’m ready to both literally and figuratively pull the plug on this whole fiasco. Dax is all smiles. “Doctor?” Dax asks, “What is it that would make you happy?” “A nice fishing boat, a huge never-emptying bank account, endless cigars, and a comfy chair back in the north of Baja Canada in a tavern on a good fishing lake,” I replied. “Well”, Dax smiles, “I can’t do that, but how about this?” as he opens a cleverly hidden door. I look in, let my eyes adjust to the low-light scenario to see no lakes, no huge bank accounts, nor fishing boats; but what I do see makes me smile wide. It’s a sub-locker full of familiar Made-in-the-USA, True Blue, American-manufacture cyclo-trimethylene-tri-nitramine, or Good Ol’ C-4 explosive. Block after lovely hexahedral block of the stuff. “Dax”, I say, “Take a gold star out of petty cash. You’ve just saved the mission.” “I’ll settle for a tall vodka and one of your cigars”, Dax smiles. “Later”, I say, “We now have a little job which to attend.” With C-4, designing the impulse charges is seriously a walk in the park. They’re already waterproof, so all I need is water depth and the number of seconds to which they want to record data. I can bundle a series of blocks of the stuff, charge them with a couple-three or four, just in case, blasting caps, and connect them with stout lengths of demolition wire. These will be dragged, with a ‘Herring Dodger’, to control depth, behind the boat as we are underway. It’s a novel idea, I know. One that’s only been in use in the west for about 60 years. We’ll drag a daisy chain of C-4 packets. One after another, individual charges in the packets will detonate milliseconds apart. I can bundle the packets so that we can run a charge string of up to 12 discrete packets which will attenuate the amplification of the arrhythmic flux, I tell one of my Korean onlookers. With this set-up, we can record data for literally sea-miles. First, we will moosh the C-4 into a flattened, semi-hydrodynamically stable pancake or airfoil, OK, hydrofoil, shape; wire three or five of them together, charge them, then repeat. Depending on what parameters Volna and Ack supply, the chain will just be a number of similar packets, trailing one after the other, detonating from back to front; down below the hydrophones, but well above the seafloor. We know that the hydrophones will be at or very near the surface, but we need to know, explicitly, the basal bathymetry of the area we're about to shoot. Wouldn’t do anyone any good if we drove over a seafloor hump and dragged the C-4 over it to have it detonate prematurely. Or not at all. So, we need to plot our course and sail it today while we get the hydrophone arrays built and we image the seafloor where we’re going to do some blasting. After that, it’ll probably be an all-nighter to create the blasting strings so we can spend the next day recording, and then head for home as we’re nearly out of victuals and potables. At least, that’s the plan. I convene a quick meeting and we plot a course on the latest charts. 30 kilometers of recording. Shit, that’s going to be a lot of explosives. Doable, but a pain. Remembering the quality of the recording equipment, I suggest we do a test run in the morning of just 5 kilometers. If that works, and we can up it in increments. Dax, Sagong the head Korean geophysicist, and I go to visit the Captain. We visit the Captain and lay out our plans. He has no objections, as were in Best Korean waters and there are no obstacles out here like sunken wrecks, kelp forests, American aircraft carriers, or other impediments. With that, we tell him to align the ship and let us know when he can begin doing the recon sortie. He says that he can do that immediately, and before we're out of the pilothouse, we’re recording bathymetric, i.e., depth, data. The technology’s not much different, nor advanced, than a standard Lake Winnebago fish finder, so that’s one disaster sorted. We are sailing along in a series of parallel straight lines, which when the data are played back and deconvoluted, will give us a good idea of the bathymetry which we’ve been motoring over. It’ll basically give us both a depth map and a surface, ok, bottom, map of the seafloor above which we’re sailing. A little basic submarine hyperbolic quantum trigonometry and well, we have the data we need to plug into the various equations to see what we’ll require when we want to record seismic data to 5000 milliseconds. With that, there’s not much else to do until we have the survey map. I dragoon Dax and Cliff into helping me inventory the explosives bunker. “The hell with the dynamite, PrimUcord, and other Oriental-Knockoff Horseshit”, I instruct my helpers, “Let’s just count up the C-4, and see what our tally is. Oh, yeah, give me a tally of the blasting caps. Gotta use those ratty bastards, they’re the only actuators here I sort of, kind of, trust.” With Dax, myself, and Cliff, we’re done in less than an hour. I decide that I’ll be the keeper of the keys and take them back to the Captain my own self. Rules of engagements, chain of command and all that hogwash. I hand the keys over to the Captain and instruct the co-pilot to make an entry in the logbook that I returned the key to the Captain, this date, this time. “By the book. It’s not just a good idea, it’s the law.” I muse. To be continued…
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