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[bryant]

It's a little known fact that the best gonzo journalists around are writing for a little ezine known as the Death Valley Driver Video Review.

One time I was making fun of Bionic J because she was wearing this big skiing goggles and I said she looked like a doofus like Yoko Ono.   She sat me down and told me about Yoko Ono and how I should respect her accomplishments because she invented New Wave or something.  One time she was showing us how to do the inverted Octupus Hold that Dos Caras invented or something and she was kinda stretching Baby A when that "Spirit In the Sky" song came on and she let go of the hold and drifted into the song.  "Never been a sinner I never sin- you know you got a friend in Jesus..."  she was singing under her breath and this look of serenity was on her face.  It wasn't religious or anything, it was more of a psychadelic thing but not like a drug thing.  It was really weird and yet really cool. It was like she could really get into to it- like she is deeper than anyone I've ever met.  Like she was all weirdly centered, not all over the place like my friends my age and I felt scared of her- liking she was stooping to deal with us shallow schoolgirls or something.

The amazing thing is not that this is a review of a wrestling match. The amazing thing is that Phil Schneider wrote a review of a wrestling match recast as a first person narrative about 60s pop music and made it make sense as a review. It tells me what I need to know. I wish I could write with half his flexibility.