Great Weekend

See, I told you that you could benefit from going against my UFC picks. Jardine upsets Chuck and Forrest gets a HUGE win? Who saw that coming? In my defense, I only missed 3 fights on the whole card though, just 2 of the top 3. I still haven't watched them yet either, hopefully this week I'll get to. So has The Iceman passed the torch to The Dean of Mean? So much for Chuck's huge payday fight against Wanderlei Silva after 2 straight losses? Is he the rabbit or the headlight? (bonus points for whoever tells me where that quote is from)

How bout dem Steelers! Now 3-0 and they've outscored opponents by a combined 97-26 with their 37-16 win over the Niners yesterday. Fast Willie Parker has 368 yards rushing already (leading the league) after just 3 games and Big Ben's QB rating is 102.9 so far. Things looking good in Steeltown (I am knocking on wood as I type).

Had a great time in Memphis on Saturday, even though I felt like an old man all day yesterday between my head ringing from the concert and the rest of me ringing from drinking a bit more beer than usual (and of course a Diver Down from Silky O'Sullivan's for some reason). The bands were both great. Poets & Pornstars opened and is a solid straight-up rock band out of LA that doesn't bring much new to the table, but really feels sort of like they just stepped out of the 80s and the Guns N Roses school of rock. Very catchy songs with a lot of energy. I'd go see them again in a second. Tesla was fantastic as well, playing plenty of songs we knew a hundred times over and still bringing it like they were in an arena of 15,000 fans instead of a sweaty, beer soaked 500 seater on Beale Street. They still sound great and look good, with a few years and lots of miles added. All-in-all a helluva fun day of beer drinking, football watching and rockin' like it was 20 years ago. Here's a pic I got on my cell phone with the sexy Sally Hope, the bassist for Poets & Pornstars, who was very cool:

Sort of an exciting time to be a horror fan I guess. With the successful run of Rob Zombie's Halloween at the box office (nearly $55 mil now) after a year with mostly flops in the horror field, Resident Evil did big numbers for this time of the year and several high profile horror movies are on tap for the Halloween month of October. Here's this weekend's estimates:

1 Resident Evil: Extinction - $24,000,000
2 Good Luck Chuck - $14,000,000
3 The Brave One - $7,425,000 ($25,115,000 overall)
4 3:10 to Yuma - $6,350,000 ($37,911,000)
5 Eastern Promises - $5,747,000 ($6,549,000)
6 Sydney White - $5,323,000