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  1. Music WI: Visual kei more popular with Western audiences?

    Image wise, X Japan did tone down their Visual kei image around the time of Dahlia (although Toshi only did because of those two assholes and that horrible cult). Only hide kept the imagery. Imagine a POD where Groove Metal/Thrash was bigger than Glam in the late 1980's (check out Ace Venom's...

  2. Music WI: Visual kei more popular with Western audiences?

    Maybe if Loudness hit it big time... Although, X Japan planned to release an album in the US after Jealousy. Had they done so, they'd have given the genre more exposure. Yoshiki has worked with legends such as George Martin and Roger Taylor, which would have worked in his favour had it not...

  3. Music WI: Visual kei more popular with Western audiences?

    Visual kei is a music movement in Japan exemplified by such bands as X Japan and Dead End. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_kei However, their popularity with Western audiences was limited and it's only been in the past few years that the genre gained acceptance. What POD's could have...

  4. Very Minor PODs

    Daniel Stern was originally offered the role of Dale Gribble in King of the Hill but the role was offered to Johnny Hardwick when a salary agreement could not be reached. X Japan planned to reform with hide as the vocalist but his death prevented this. X Japan again... if Toshi doesn't join...

  5. Alternate -Punk Genres

    Not sure if this is an actual -punk but oh well... Industropunk Based on the industrial areas of 'The Black Country' in the West Midlands. Grey urban decay, abandoned warehouses and smoky factories.

  6. Very Minor PODs

    It's been theorized that Eddie Murphy was originally slated to play Lance Vance in GTA Vice City.

  7. Very Minor PODs

    There was gonna be a sequel to Dogma but... well... yeah. It never happened.

  8. Very Minor PODs

    The screenplay of Rambo 2 was originally written by James Cameron.

  9. Alternate Football Scores

    Anyone else wanna add?

  10. Very Minor PODs

    John C Reilly was originally slated to play Champ Kind in Anchorman.

  11. Very Minor PODs

    Eric Cartman was originally meant to have a sister and a father.

  12. Alternate Football Scores

    They probably just wanted seventy minutes just to bring in the viewers. It makes me wonder about the current crop of players who have more sponsorship deals than trophies...

  13. Alternate Football Scores

    Actually, the theory about NIKE forcing him to play sounds plausible considering how much money is running the game.

  14. Alternate Football Scores

    Link? Sounds interesting. But theories are a dime a dozen in the football world.

  15. Alternate Football Scores

    Some good posts here. Anyone else wanna add to this?

  16. Very Minor PODs

    From Wikipedia: Matt Groening had been told by a spokesperson that if he put Planet Hollywood in The Simpsons, the creators of the restaurant, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, and Sylvester Stallone, would agree to make guest appearances on the show. The writers of The Simpsons were...

  17. Very Minor PODs

    Robert Stack was the original choice for Frank Drebin in Police Squad. John Belushi also filmed an unaired cameo for an episode.

  18. Very Minor PODs

    Manic Street Preachers wanted to release Patrick Bateman as the lead single off Gold Against The Soul but had to settle with it being relegated as a b-side instead. If Richey never disappears, the band may break up. The stress of his anorexia and alcoholism took a toll on the band and, along...

  19. Very Minor PODs

    After leaving RHCP for the first time, John Frusciante wanted to join the Meat Puppets. Imagine if he did? I wonder if he would have ended up on Nirvana's Unplugged gig. He said he hated Nirvana... yet was revealed later to be a hardcore fan. He and Kurt would have made some beautiful music...

  20. AHC: Video Game movies become as big as Comic Book movies

    You may be more successful with a tv series (Alone in the Dark would have worked better as one, for example).
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