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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 1h

what movie do you watch when you most strongly feel the urge to drive directly into the biggest tree you can find

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 4h

helluva show

Colette Arrand @colettearrand.bsky.social · 5h

Dawg look at this card.

The CWF card from the Tallahassee Sports Stadium card in Garrett’s screencap from the film “Below the Belt.” From 3/1/75:

Baron Scicluna vs. Frank Hester - Draw

NWA Florida Tag Titles
Dominic DeNucci & Tony Parisi (c) defeat The Patriots (Patriots #1 & #2)

Bob Armstrong defeats The Red Shadow

Lumberjack Match
The Mongolian Stomper defeats Dusty Rhodes

Elimination Six Man Tag
Eddie Graham, Mike Graham, & Tony Charles defeat Bob Roop, Dick Slater, & Toru Tanaka

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 4h

apparently the songs are by Jennifer Holliday and Billy Preston?!?

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 5h

the death cry of ric flair

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 5h

literally DMing about that right now with a wrassle friend, I have not yet seen it!

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 5h

one perfect shot etc.

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 5h

so far this is the best wrestling movie I’ve ever seen because it is about being either drunk or hungover in a station wagon in the wasteland of the south

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 5h

definitely sounds like the best boy. I’m sorry.

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 5h

there’s a scene here where a bunch of wrestlers visibly nursing hangovers at a shitty gas station in some nowhere Florida town start shooting off a gun for no reason and that’s gotta be the most realistic scene in a wrestling movie ever

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 5h

the big heel in this movie, a Moolah-style woman wrestler named Terrible Tommy, looks exactly like Greg Valentine / Ricky Skaggs

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 6h

Dolph Sweet, the cop from Gimme a Break, gets paid an extra $15 to blade in this

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 6h

less than 20 minutes into this movie and there’s already been three training montages set to the same song, which sounds like the woman who sang cabaret-style, Casio-driven show tunes at Frank’s Steak House in Cambridge in the ‘00s

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 6h

damn! Tower was the home of the $18.99 CD where I was.

Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 7h

also Sebastian O is rad. first “steampunk” thing I was ever aware of. pretty sure that term didn’t even exist yet.

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 7h

their magazine rack was the best thing about ‘em. and their book section too.

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 7h

I like how Giancarlo Stanton has missed what feels like 90% of the last decade but still has really great counting stats

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 7h

it’s about how Jeremy’s character’s band was supposed to fly to New York on 9/12 to play CMJ that weekend

Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 7h

it’s about how my future wife and I went to a hibachi for the first time on 9/12/01 (true story)

Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 7h

deadline.com/2025/10/9-12...

‘9/12’ Limited Series Starring Jeremy Strong Greenlighted By Paramount+

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 7h

“Sheets of Easter” is the only valid number one

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 19h

ROLLING STONE RANKS THE 250 GREATEST SONGS OF THE 21st CENTURY SO FAR 🚨

The 250 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century So Far

bit.ly

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 7h

it’s about how my future wife and I went to a hibachi for the first time on 9/12/01 (true story)

Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 7h

deadline.com/2025/10/9-12...

‘9/12’ Limited Series Starring Jeremy Strong Greenlighted By Paramount+

‘9/12’ Limited Series Starring Jeremy Strong Greenlighted By Paramount+

9/12, a six-episode limited series starring and executive produced by Jeremy Strong, has been given an official green light by Paramount+.

deadline.com

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 7h

don’t think so. at least not in the ‘90s. maybe they started before the end.

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 7h

this Allstate ad where the guy embarrasses himself at work by being too zealous about his UGA Bulldogs love: there are like 40 different national versions of this thing, right?

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 7h

Republicans in Arrears?

Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 7h

lol sorry I didn’t know they had one! I had like a 20 year break from Disney parks that coincided with the virgin megastore’s US incursion.

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 7h

hopefully they’re making a locally-focused prank show the way Just for Laughs does.

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Garrett Martin @garrettmartin.bsky.social · 8h

yeah! I bought some stuff there. it later moved to Piedmont and Brian Burton worked there for a while.