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Release Date: 31st March 2017
By: Pagan Hel
Woodscream –St Petersburg Russia
Produced by Alexander Klimov.
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Genre: Folk Metal
Woodscream is probably the most outstanding band on the metal scene of Saint Petersburg (Russia). Band`s music presents a tuneful union of different styles of contemporary metal, incorporating different elements of European folk traditions and gloomy atmosphere of medieval legends, which are the solid basis of Woodscream lyrics. The band has already recorded 3 singles and mini-album «Pentadrama», which gained loads of favourable reports from listeners and critics from all over the world. Now the band releases their full-length album which is called «Octastorium» via Adulruna Records, Sweden. Woodscream distances itself from politics and religion!"
The name Woodscream conjures up various images but one, in particular, is a gathering around a fire and hearing the wood literally scream as it is being burned, although it is not to paint a vivid horrific picture but just what the name conjures up in my head. It also says 'nature' in the most basic form.
Алан is a real foot tapper although no idea why they called it Alan. I am so glad the band are singing in Russian because it is a beautiful language despite being guttural in sound it really propels the track to great heights. Inflamed with monumental groove and on target harmonies, it reveals itself as both folk and metal orientated and a great track to boot!
Suvi (Slough) why anyone would want to sing about Slough I have no idea but this track is glazed with very favourable vocals – yes the deep grunting kind that is very, unexpected on a folk metal album, however, it is most welcome and very unusual. It makes me want to learn Russian so I can sing along! I can, however, grunt so all is not lost!
Ilxtup cgwi (King of the Forest) I am glad there was a translation for this as I wouldn't have a clue what it meant otherwise. It is an embracing track that catapults an unreserved rhythm straight through your soul. Valentina's vocals are clean, crisp and haunting.
An Dro has no translation so will just have to use your imagination and see what the track throws out! So far it has pumped out a bouncing rhythm that is moreish and beautiful. It is a track you can't help but want to move your whole body too. When the vocals kick in it slows its tempo slightly but still, holds a great temperament and once again back to the Michael Flatley foot tapping extravaganza.
Kuigri (Blacksmith) is a very twisting and winding road of growling maniacal vocals to a superb recorder that enhances the track. It gathers quick momentum and intoxicates with a rapid breath. The clean angry vocals introduce themselves and then the growling adventure begins – just loving this to bits! Favourite track by far, but they are all superb!
Cuwut (Raven) bristles with a haunting malevolent feel and quickly brews its own storm. It holds a hungry rumble in its belly and a fire in its heart as it drives a fierce rhythm that underlies a heartfelt vocal from Valentina.
Hui (Call) is a magnificent romp that is fast and delirious with plenty of swift absorbing textures that one can enjoy along with a great chorus and growling tirade to a full-on blend of metal and folk that is highly engaging. This will need a repeat or six!!!!
Witness of J this track really transports the past to present as it gathers its melodic speed and makes haste with its groove. It is just so hard to keep still when listening to this believe me – I have tried and find myself rocking from side to side as I get caught up in its compelling rhythms.
The idea of using female clean vocals and growls and screams within a folk/metal band is an absolute genius! It more than works, it works magnificently and really adds a certain clarity to the tracks and makes them very unusual indeed!
Definitely worth checking out!
Track List:
Алан (Alan)
Suvi (Slough)
Llxtup cgwi (King of the Forest)
An Dro
Kuigri (Blacksmith)
Cuwut (Raven)
Hui (Call)
Witness of J
Valentina Tsyganova – Vocals & Recorder
Alexander Klimov – Guitar & Screams
Ivan Budkin – Bass & Growls
Pavel Malyshev – Drums


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For the author, the globalization can be understood through four defined situations, to follow: 1. The globalizado localismo, that if constitutes in the historical possibility of powerful countries central offices and to impose as many local phenomena as global to the peripheral countries and with little power. A great example is the dissemination of the English language as global language. 2. The located globalismo, as being the social impact that one determined region suffers in consequence of the globalizado localismo as, for example, the influence of the English language in the daily one of the Brazilian. 3. The cosmopolitismo, that consists of the actions of the diligent classrooms and sectors organized in the perspective of these classrooms, which looks for to use of the mechanisms of contact and information created by the world-wide system. As example, one has the communication nets saw Internet, the syndical movements and international feminists, and fruns world-wide of defense of human rights.
4. The common patrimony of the humanity, who consists of the set of subjects that only earn sensible when treat as global subjects. For example, the ways that guarantee the defense of the life, the defense of the environment, among others. For Boaventura de Souza Saints, the globalizado localismo and the located globalismo are globalizations that the elites favor world-wide, which represent the great bourgeoisie proprietor of the capital. Already the cosmopolitismo and the common patrimony of the humanity are the result of the fights democratic and moved by the diligent classrooms, or of the sectors compromised to these classrooms. Thus, the globalization is an controversial concept, therefore in such a way it can indicate movements of defense of the popular interests as it assigns the forces of the capital against the life. It is treated, therefore, of the world-wide population to fight and to make use of the new technologies the service of the life, and not contrary it.


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"glass spilling over, pouring out the past, room fills up, a story's cast" – Jean Mann
The stories that spill from the past of singer-songwriter Jean Mann are as rich and varied as the images that fill the lyrics of her six albums. Growing up "in a drafty, idyllic home along the shores of Lake Whatcom in Bellingham, Washington," she recalled early music experiences that became the foundation of her writing landscape. "I can remember my mom listening to opera on the radio every Saturday as she did kitchen tasks," she reflected. When her mother was particularly "swept up in an aria", Jean would steal apple slices that had been freshly cut. Those aria-infused kitchen experiences "had a profound effect that I didn't realize till much later."
A brief stint in a church choir and violin lessons were followed by "noodling around on the family purple piano, singing and playing whatever songbooks were around," Jean elaborated, "It was the 1970's….let's leave it at that!" High-school choir and a bit of music theory at a university followed before she struck out on her own.
"When I moved out of the house, the piano was too big to move," she said, "so guitar seemed like a good idea. I dabbled with this for just a couple months and left it behind until decades later, when I was loaned a guitar and remembered a couple of chords. Music finally grabbed my heart 'strings' in earnest and has yet to let go." At 35, Mann had found an instrument she would never have to leave behind due to its size.
But the movement from playing guitar to sharing her music was not an easy transition. "At the age of 36, I started getting up on stage at open mics to help get over my crippling stage fright and shyness." She then started writing original songs a couple of years later, "sparked by my grief over the death of my mother." A self-taught songwriter, her process evolved over the years, and now she "continually strives for texture, not to repeat the same song over and over." Though she has overcome much of her shyness, stage jitters, which can happen with small or large crowds, "can still grab me when I least expect it. I've just learned to breathe through it."
To find a fresh perspective in each song, Mann explained that she is, "inspired by life senses all around me …smells, sounds, and sights on the road, walking the dog, books, and just being out in the community which bring out tucked away memories and experiences for songs. The other day I saw a billboard that had the words pedal pushers on it. (Capri's or clam diggers for the younger reader!) It was an instant memory flood of childhood summers and skinned-knees, and found its way into a new song."
As her original songs were worked into performances, Jean received confirmation that she was doing what she was created to do. "The consistent feedback I got from my first audiences about how they could relate to my songs and stories was a pretty strong message," she stated. One moment happened when she was playing the song 'Your Voice,' written four years after her mother's death. "It was the first time I could directly address this loss. After the concert, an elderly woman came up and tearfully relayed that she'd recently lost her mother and really connected with my words. What struck me was that I lost my mother at a young age, yet this pain of daughters losing mothers was something we shared across the ages."
Once Jean had original songs, she began recording and performing at "every possible venue I could find locally, and then down the road a bit, after years of fan-base building and six albums later, touring has taken me further out to include two European tours so far." The European tours have brought the benefits of "sharing music, meeting people in their communities, expanding the music to new ears, and great travel adventures." As for drawbacks, Jean is still learning how to live and organize a balanced life with this passion of an artistic career.
For young writers starting out, Jean suggested writers would do well to "OPEN your heart and mind. Try to look at the world with child-like curiosity. Observe….everything. Think about what is important to you…whether the topics are love, angst, activism, humor, etc. If you find yourself thinking and/or editing too much, or getting stuck trying to write the 'perfect' song, kick the ego out the window and just write… write… write."
Jean also suggested capturing song ideas using technology. "Set up a simple recording device (I use the voice memo on my phone) and get in a quiet place and just let it fly. Capture the good, the bad, and the WTH!? You never know what golden lyric might come out of a free-flow of word-play. I've had some of my best stuff slip out in these moments."
Once the ideas are flowing, she advised, "Go back and edit and refine. Also, it can be useful to do songwriting exercises (or co-writing) with others. Once you start writing, keep working on improving your craft and technique; keep getting out there in the community, whether it's the local coffeehouse on the corner, or a backyard in Belgium. It is never too late to start. Take it from this late-bloomer!"
Jean also touted the benefits of community for writers because it provides a place to ask lots of questions and work together. She credited one particular community, Songwriters in Seattle, because, "though it emerged years after I began, it was, and is, a great community builder and has some of the nicest local song-folks I've met."
Community is one aspect of her life, however, that will be sorely missed when Jean takes to the road on her April West Coast solo tour in support of her new CD, Road Girl Vol. 1. On these road trips, "I perform mostly solo," she said. "Road life can be lonely, with all the driving, and the booking/promo etc. But there is also no one to have to split the coffers with!"
Though Jean is a successful full-time singer-songwriter, there are still challenges. As a writer, she struggles with dry spells, "Trying not to edit myself when life is challenging and keeping my truth and integrity intact." As a performer, she recognizes that for independent musicians, "there is the ever-changing landscape and masses of other players vying for the same rooms. Thinking outside the (venue) box helps!"
When she returns from the road, she will continue work on Road Girl Vol. 2, containing her studio-enhanced live recordings. Thinking out of the venue 'box,' she will also "work on finding new outlets and applications for my music like yoga events and workshops." Some new venues may also open up as she continues her thirteen year off-and-on collaboration with multi-instrumentalist and recording engineer Bill Corral as well as her participation in a local vocal-ukulele trio The Blue Janes. "I do all the booking," Jean elaborated, "but this expands the types of events and venues I can share the music with, i.e. band-centric venues and festivals."
As a songwriter, performer, road warrior, booking agent, band mate, and recording artist, Jean reflected that "balancing many hats can be a challenge, but as multi-task-maven, I'm learning where to focus efforts, and how to work with and delegate duties with a mutually-focused team."
For songwriter Jean Mann, fellow writer John Hiatt has a lyric that for her says it all: "Whatever your hands find to do, you must do with all your heart." Whether it's a ukulele, a guitar, a writer's pen, or a handheld recorder, Jean Mann is an artist whose hands and heart personify that lyric.
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In this remarkably poignant and powerful video by Dumma Dan, which overlays a famous speech by British philosopher Alan Watts over footage from Terrence Malick's extraordinary The Tree of Life, we are reminded that the only way to experience life at its fullest is to live for today, in the now, letting go of outcome. As he puts it, if the goal was the destination, musicians would be rewarded for playing faster, and the whole payoff would be "one crackling chord."
Echoing my sentiment that one should pursue passion over purpose, Dan's video drives this message home. And does it in such a way that we can all understand.
What was your experience watching this film? And how do you relate to Alan's philosophy?
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Planning a Memorable Outdoor Wedding Reception In Orange County
Outdoor Wedding Reception
An outdoor wedding reception idea has immense potential to offer a beautiful experience. Whether you host your reception at a pristine beach which has sparkling white waves crashing against the shore or in a beautiful garden filled with flowers and vines, your reception will be remembered for long for its natural charm.
Outdoor wedding receptions are quite advantageous. You can host unlimited guests outdoors. You can also have a lot of entertainment options for your guests. These would have not been possible otherwise, if you were hosting the reception party indoors.
Outdoor wedding receptions offer a lot more relaxed setting than receptions do. But, you must make proper arrangements to ensure that the party runs smoothly. If you are holding an outdoor party you must be prepared to handle bad weather conditions. There must be a back-up plan in place to save you if the weather gets bad. You could arrange for a make shift tent for this purpose.
Outdoor Evening Wedding Reception
Some of the other things that you must keep in mind while arranging your outdoor wedding reception is renting tables and chairs, getting a live band or a DJ to entertain your guests and keeping a tab on weather conditions. Lighting is very important when it comes to outdoor wedding venues in Orange County. If you have planned for a reception that will go on even after sunset or one that will start after sunset you better pay attention to the outdoor wedding reception lighting. It is better to hire professionals to do up the lighting creatively. Make sure you also take care of the décor. The decorations should be done with things that are not too light and would not get displaced or damaged due to the wind. Whatever you do, always ensure that your guests are comfortable. If the weather is cold, you may consider providing heating lamps.
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Outdoor wedding receptions in Orange County also provide the perfect setting for gorgeous wedding photographs. The natural charm and beauty that an outdoor setting can offer cannot be matched by any reception hall. You can capture the beautiful and unforgettable moments of your dream reception on the camera. If you have not crossed your budget already, hiring a professional photographer would be best bet.
When hosting your outdoor wedding reception, you must give special consideration to the food. If you are hosting the reception in the summer months, it would not be a very good idea to include foods in the menu which require refrigeration. Setting up a barbecue counter would be a better choice. Foods that must be kept warm should be placed on heating plates. The drinks must be kept cold so that the guests are refreshed adequately. Hiring a professional caterer to handle the food department would be a good idea. That way the responsibility of ensuring perfection in every aspect related to food and its service, lies with the caterer.
Your outdoor wedding reception can be a memorable event if handled with care and thought. Although such receptions do come with a couple of risks, if proper planning is done nothing can go wrong.


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According to a nascar.com article posted today, drivers and owners were called into a last minute meeting before Friday's first practice. The meeting preempting normal media events, leaving media to speculate what the gathering was about, most assuming it was about the impending multi-million dollar lawsuit against NASCAR by a former official, only to later be told by drivers that it was about quieting complaints about the COT:
"Denny Hamlin, driver of the No. 11 Toyota owned by Joe Gibbs Racing, agreed that in his view the meeting was all about quieting public criticism of the new car. "It was just about the car and I think Mike [Helton] wanted to make sure everyone is on the same page," Hamlin said. "This is early in the building process and we don't need to rush to conclusions that this car is junk and it's never going to be any good — because that's not going to be the case.'"
NASCAR officials however claim that the meeting wasn't about stifling driver complaints but about fans:
"I think it's good from time to time to remind them what we do, and that's put on the races for the fans. The fans are the reason we're all here." Jim Hunter, NASCAR vice president of corporate communications.
My thoughts are NASCAR probably DID tell the drivers to quit complaining about the COTs in public. I don't think that is right though. It would be like the NBA telling players not to talk about the new basketballs they were playing with or like the NFL telling players they were gonna switch to a plastic ball and they can't talk about the difference or the problems they are having adjusting to the new ball. However the fans are going to notice that the player are having a harder time throwing, catching, kicking or carrying the ball. So its not like NASCAR fans aren't going to notice drivers driving differently. It's natural to want to talk about it and the fans want to hear about it…from their drivers. Or at least I do. I want to know: Is the COT too hot with the extra protection added to the doors? Is the CO2 level in the cars more than it use to be? How can teams compensate for a car that has been described by some drivers not to be named "like a dump truck." Putting a gag order on the drivers goes against what NASCAR claimed to be trying to get back to at the beginning of the season. They were wanting to get back to the "core" fanbase. Well you aren't going to do that by telling drivers what they can and can not talk about. It makes the drivers too "cookiecutter" if they have certain taboo topics, like the cars they are driving. Maybe NASCAR did not get the memo…but isn't racing about cars and people? That would mean the people couldn't talk about the cars. Not a very bright idea.
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Johnny Depp, George Clooney And Alec Baldwin Slam Donald Trump
Johnny Depp, George Clooney and Alec Baldwin aren't holding back their disdain for Donald Trump. Within hours of each other, all three stars slammed the Republican presidential nominee in separate, unrelated interviews.
"If Trump is elected President of the United States, in a historical way it's exciting," Depp told Channel 5 News in London. "Because we will see the actual last President of the United States. It just won't work after that." As Gossip Cop reported, this isn't the first time the actor let his negative opinion of Trump be known. During a Q&A at Arizona State University in March, Depp described the real estate mogul as a "brat" who thinks "everything is mine." The actor also lampooned Trump in a Funny Or Die sketch earlier this year.
Clooney has also repeatedly bashed Trump in the press, with the actor having used such terms as "idiotic," "intolerant" and a "xenophobic fascist" to describe the GOP candidate. The Oscar-winning actor also turned Trump's own campaign slogan against him, saying that supporting the businessman's presidential aspirations is "the only thing that would prevent America from being great." But now Clooney, who hosted a Hillary Clinton fundraiser, is going all-out by insisting during a Cannes press conference, "There's not going to be a president Donald Trump. It's not going to happen because fear is not going to be something that drives our country."
Also putting Trump on blast this week is Baldwin, who joked on Thursday's "Ellen DeGeneres Show," "We don't really want a president who looks like he's been dipped in movie popcorn butter." The actor never mentioned the Republican candidate by name, but it's safe to assume Trump was the target of his quip.
As Gossip Cop has previous reported, other stars who've slammed Trump during his presidential bid include Miley Cyrus, Rosie O'Donnell, Charlie Sheen, Samuel L. Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg and many more.


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You may remember last year, when it was revealed that Amazon was working on developing a sequel to the beloved 1990s sci-fi film, Galazy Quest, which would bring back the original film's main cast once again, and act as a direct sequel. Unfortunately, not much was heard about the project after that, but it looks like the long-awaited sequel came very close to actually happening after all, according to one of the film's original cast members.
While appearing on the Nerdist Podcast, Sam Rockwell (who played "Guy Fleegman" in the original film) not only confirmed that the streaming service had been developing the sequel, but that it almost happened as well, and was originally supposed to be shooting at this very moment.
Read his full quote below:
"They were going to do a sequel on Amazon and we were ready to sign up for, and you know, Alan Rickman passed away and Tim Allen wasn't available, he has a show, and everybody's show was all weird. We were going to this sequel on Amazon. It was going to shoot like, right now."
Following the unfortunate passing of Rickman earlier this year, it makes sense that the sequel would be scrapped altogether honestly, since Rickman's Alexander Dane is not only an integral part of the ensemble cast, but is also the most quoted character from the film to this day. Considering how well the movie manages to hold up twenty years later as well, that's saying something.
It is slightly disappointing news, but easy to understand nonetheless. Galaxy Quest has slowly climbed the ranks into becoming one of the most beloved and highly-respected sci-fi films of all time in my books, and certainly one of the most beloved sci-fi comedies ever made, up there with Mel Brooks' Spaceballs. Following a group of actors mistaken by an alien race as their characters on a hit sci-fi show, it was the kind of premise that should not have produced as funny of results as it did. Thank goodness it did though, and even if we might not see a sequel anytime soon, at least we can still go and relive the film over and over and over again in the meantime.
Make sure to keep checking back for more updates — right here on GeekNation.
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Nenette and Boni Trailer (1997)
29 January 1997 Drama, Foreign 103 mins
Teenage siblings Nenette and Boni were raised apart as a result of their parents' divorce. Their mother, who doted on her son Boni, has died. He works for an interesting couple as a pizza baker, and is surprised and enraged when his younger sister, having run away from boarding school, suddenly turns up. There's a problem that they must confront.
Watch the official Nenette and Boni 1997 trailer in HD below or find more Nenette and Boni videos on Vidimovie.


text: Ever notice how all of the Kool-Aid crowd get really quiet whenever I mention that FedEx Ground moves via the Express network and vice-versa? Why is that? Maybe it's because the master link of the argument that Express belongs under the RLA is that UPS runs an "integrated" network. In other words, package cars that deliver NDA also deliver the regular Brown trucked pkgs. Over here at FedEx, they'd love for you to believe that we don't have any mixture of Ground and Express going-on...but we do, and it's very widespread. There is massive movement of Ground pkgs happening with Express aircraft every day, and there is also extensive movement of Express pkgs by Ground truckers. Oh, and how about at Express stations, where Express CSA's (Customer Service Agents) process every single Ground pkg dropped at the counter? Sounds kind of "integrated" to me. Shhhhh....nobody at UPS is supposed to know that Fred is lying (again). Don't tell, OK?


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Yes, absolutely. The Vital Foundation's key aim is to continue to add meaningful value to communities, ensuring happy, healthy, and productive South African families and homes.
Not at all, each campaign is different, and therefore funding models will change to suit the specific campaign. Vital Health Foods always has been, and always will be a socially conscious brand that uplifts and betters the lives of South African families through the Vital Foundation. We're very proudly a 'purpose-beyond-profit' company.
In the two years we've run the R1 Makes a Difference campaign, we've raised over R10,4 million (end March 2016) to fight the scourge of woman and child abuse in South Africa. Vital is immensely proud of how the campaign performed, and the contribution we've made to a struggle South Africa battles with every day. It is at the conclusion of this campaign that we would like to tackle another social problem that is close to Vital's heart— and that is of good health and nutrition. Our journey with the Vital Foundation has revealed how nutrition plays a critical role in the well-being of South Africans, and as such we have made the decision to bring our efforts back home and channel our endeavours to promoting good health for all, whether is it is by leading a more active lifestyle or even just meeting basic nutritional needs.
We're going to announce this in May, but what we can tell you right now is that our new cause will be strongly linked to nutrition and health, which is our core strength and expertise.
Finance will come from Vital Health Foods' corporate social investment budget, as opposed to the unit sales on which the R1 Makes A Difference campaign was based.
Across all media platforms that are available to Vital.
All money raised for this cause until the end of April 2016, when the campaign comes to an end, will be paid out to those beneficiaries who applied in the February 2016 cycle. This will be the last funding cycle for the campaign.
From 2014 to date, 61 beneficiaries throughout South Africa will have benefited from the Vital Foundation. Additional beneficiaries have also been selected after the final cycle closed on 18 March 2016. We are currently in the process of donating funds to the July 2015 group of applicants until the end of July 2016.
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Diego Davidenko "It Isn't Home"
I don't focus on folk too often, but Diego Davidenko is a special case. Inspired early on by the simple, nostalgic tunes of The Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel his earnest and heartfelt songs weave through the gamut of human emotions and experiences. Using a minimal production "I and You" is a Paul Simon styled guitar gem, with a touch of romance and his tribute to inspiration Elliott Smith in "Elliott" is a biographical tale with overlapping dual vocals.
Each song has a delicate romantic touch, like the comforting "Rest Your Head On Me" or the shy flirting of "Look My Way." Diego's childhood in Argentina comes through with the rhythms on "Your Body" and "The Preacher Say." The sharp composition on "Where the Sky Is Infinite" is my favorite tune with its rising chorus. Overall, this is a perfect coffee house soundtrack, give it a listen with that spiced pumpkin latte. Music like this will make it taste better.
John Howard & The Night Mail "John Howard & The Night Mail "
John Howard is a true forgotten hero of British pop, making a comeback. His 1975 album Kid In a Big World was comparable to Elton John at the time. But after the debut, fell into obscurity until 2004 when his tracks were re-issued to a more receptive public. Today, Howard is joined by Robert Rotifer on guitar, Andy Lewis on bass and mellotron, and Ian Button on drums for his first album with a full band.
Howard's grandeur and classic pop rock sensibilities are intact and he can still impress on "Before" telling a story with chords and brilliant orchestration. "Intact and Smiling" has a steady groove and the solid "In The Light Of Fires Burning" is a dreamy trip through 1960's pop history, referencing Gerry Goffin and the Beatles. "Control Freak" is another fave here, a little Bowie glam styled boogie. "Safety In Numbers" has those soaring melodies that Howard is known for. It may take a few spins, but you'll be a fan — this is a highly recommended comeback, that had me looking into Howard's back catalog.


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Psychosynthesis offers an approach to human development that is both profound and hopeful. While it acknowledges and works with the pain and suffering inherent in the human condition, it also suggests a path for empowering our human ability to create harmony, synthesis, and full expression of the Divine. These principles of Psychosythesis can be applied to many areas of human endeavor including psychotherapy, education, consulting, business, and the creative arts.
The founder of psychosynthesis, Roberto Assagioli, was an Italian psychiatrist and a contemporary of Freud and Jung. He recognized that psychoanalytic theory contained a brilliant explanation of the workings of the human psyche, but he also saw that this theory lacked an understanding of how the creative and healing aspects of the psyche operates.
Starting in 1910, Assagioli began the work of building a model that would explain the development of those aspects. He focused on how human beings move toward increasing wholeness, integrating or synthesizing all the parts of the personality to work harmoniously together, so each person can respond creatively, even joyfully, to the psychological and spiritual demands of life. He incorporated principles and practices from Buddhism, Yoga, and other Eastern philosophies, as well as from Western spiritual traditions, philosophy, and psychology. After his death in 1974, Assagioli's many students all over the world continued the work of developing this theory and practice.
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Psychosynthesis models are oriented toward health and potential rather than pathology. They point to the nature of "I" (or personal self), the will, the multi-dimensional unconscious, the personality structure, and our spiritual Source: Self. They explicate the relationship of the various personality functions to one another and to "I", and the relationship of "I" to Self—of individual to Universal.
Assagioli conceived of "I" or personal self as awareness and intentionality, or will. "I" makes the choices that determine life direction, style, and form. He saw "I" to be without qualities—pure awareness and will—and the manifestation of a Transpersonal Self, an energetic transcendent/immanent Source of all life. "Self-realization" refers to the expression of Self through the personality (with "I" acting as administrative agent).
Much of the time we are caught up in a survival trance, identified with our passing emotions, our beliefs and assumptions, our concepts and ideas about the way things are, and our bodily sensations and appearance. When we identify with one or another part of the personality, we cannot be clearly aware of the rest of our reality, nor of the guidance of Self. Psychosynthesis guiding seeks to help us disidentify from limited patterns of feeling, thought, and behavior so we can move our awareness freely among them, and act from conscious choice, in alignment with Self.
Self is always present, whether or not we are feeling particularly "centered" or "whole," even when we are caught up with a passing feeling or belief. We often associate the feeling of "being centered" with Self, but sometimes we awaken to Self in the midst of despair and disintegration. Spiritual psychosynthesis is the process of awakening to the presence and movement of Self in the whole of our lives, so that we live and act in greater harmony, bringing our gifts into action in the world.
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1 Western Culture
Here are some common cultural connotations attached to colors in Western cultures, particularly in the United States:
|Elegance, humility, respect, reverence, stability, subtlety, timelessness, wisdom
|Anachronism, boredom, decay, decrepitude, dullness, dust, pollution, urban sprawl
|Passion, strength, energy, fire, love, sex, excitement, speed, heat, leadership, masculinity, power
|Danger, fire, gaudiness, blood, war, anger, revolution, radicalism, aggression, stop
|Seas, skies, peace, unity, harmony, tranquility, calmness, coolness, confidence, water, ice, loyalty, conservatism, dependability, cleanliness, technology, winter
|Depression, coldness, idealism, obscenity, ice, tackiness, winter
|Nature, spring, fertility, youth, environment, wealth, money (US), good luck, vigor, generosity, go, grass
|Aggression, inexperience, envy, misfortune, jealousy, money, illness, greed
|Sunlight, joy, happiness, optimism, idealism, wealth (gold), summer, hope, air
|Cowardice, illness (quarantine), hazards, dishonesty, avarice, sissification, weakness
|Sensuality, spirituality, creativity, wealth, royalty, nobility, ceremony, mystery, wisdom, enlightenment
|Arrogance, flamboyance, gaudiness, mourning, profanity, exaggeration, confusion
|Buddhism, energy, balance, heat, fire, enthusiasm, flamboyance, playfulness
|Aggression, arrogance, flamboyance, gaudiness, overemotion, warning, danger, fire
|Reverence, purity, snow, peace, innocence, cleanliness, simplicity, security, humility, marriage, sterility, winter
|Coldness, sterility, clinicism, surrender, cowardice, fearfulness, winter, unimaginative
|Modernity, power, sophistication, formality, elegance, wealth, mystery, style
|Evil, death, fear, anonymity, anger, sadness, remorse, mourning, unhappiness, mystery
|Calm, depth, natural organisms, nature, richness, rusticism, stability, tradition
|Anachronism, boorishness, dirt, dullness, filth, heaviness, poverty, roughness
2 Other Cultures
Various cultures see color differently.
- In India, blue is associated with Krishna (a very positive association), green with Islam, red with purity (used as a wedding color) and brown with mourning.
- In most Asian cultures, yellow is the imperial color with many of the same cultural associations as purple in the west.
- In China, red is symbolic of celebration, luck and prosperity; white is symbolic of mourning and death, while green hats mean a man's wife is cheating on him.
- In Europe colors are more strongly associated with political parties than they are in the U.S.
- In many countries black is synonymous with conservatism, red with socialism, while brown is still immediately associated with the Nazis.
- Many believe that blue is universally the best color as it has the most positive and fewest negative cultural associations across various cultures.
Studies have shown most colors have more positive than negative associations, and even when a color has negative association, it is normally only when used in a particular context.
People in many cultures have an automatic negative perception of the color black, according to some researchers. Thomas Gilovich and Mark Frank found that sports teams with primarily black uniforms were significantly more likely to receive penalties in historical data. Students were more likely to infer negative traits from a picture of a player wearing a black uniform. They also taped staged football matches, with one team wearing black and another wearing white. Experienced referees were more likely to penalize black-wearing players for nearly identical plays. Finally, groups of students tended to prefer more aggressive sports if wearing black shirts themselves.


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- Evans Creek (5.6km)
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- Mathis Creek (6km)
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- building(s) where instruction in one or more branches of knowledge takes place.
- Baltimore School (historical) (2.8km)
- Argo School (historical) (4.4km)
- Bankhead Middle School (5.5km)
- Cordova High School (5.8km)
- Cordova Elementary School (6.1km)
- post office;
- a public building in which mail is received, sorted and distributed.
- bar;
- a shallow ridge or mound of coarse unconsolidated material in a stream channel, at the mouth of a stream, estuary, or lagoon and in the wave-break zone along coasts.
- Sanders Shoals (4.4km)
- tower;
- a high conspicuous structure, typically much higher than its diameter.
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- cemetery;
- a burial place or ground.
- Sardis Cemetery (3.4km)
- mountain;
- an elevation standing high above the surrounding area with small summit area, steep slopes and local relief of 300m or more.
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A Memorial Service will be Saturday, November 12, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. at the Trinity Lutheran Church.
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By News Division On September 22, 2012 · In News, Playstation 3, Retail, Systems
Pre-order sales for Sony Corp.'s Playstation 3 Slim 250GB Uncharted 3 Bundle climbed post announcement of the redesigned hardware.
This week, the Playstation 3 Slim 250GB Uncharted 3 Bundle held a 211 percent sales increase to rank at No. 229 in Amazon.com Inc.'s Video Games divison.
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1954 · New York
by DREPPERD, Carl W.
New York: Garden City, 1954. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint. Very good in an about Very good dustwrapper. Hundreds of illustrations, dustwrapper lightly chipped along edges, dustwrapper flap price clipped, cloth edges slightly rubbed. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information. (Inventory #: 175471)


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Editorial Note: For those reading the entire series of Mammoth Monkey Mondays reviews, the five pieces should be read in this order:
Konga The Mighty Peking Man A*P*E King Kong Lives The Mighty Gorga
PLOT: Krappy kounterfeit Kong kills Koreans.
It says something about A*P*E that the opening credits are perhaps the most thrilling part of the movie. (Well, actually, the most thrilling part of the movie is when the end credits begin.) The visuals aren't much, being a sustained shot of the ocean surface. Still, there's a vigorously bombastic score that will fool many into believing that an actual movie is coming. In fact, the music is so competent I suspect it was stolen from another source entirely. Finally, the credits come rushing at the screen. Like in Superman: The Motion Picture, only without the vapor trail effect.
Unfortunately, this sequence seems to have largely exhausted the filmmakers' collective ingenuity. Not to mention a goodly portion of the production budget, or so the remaining 85 minutes would indicate.
A toy boat comes floating into frame. (The water tank used to suggest the ocean was considerably more effective prior to this moment.) Even in silhouette the vessel's Tonka-esque qualities are readily apparent. Especially pronounced is the manner in which it bobs around in the water, indicative of a craft weighing at best a pound or two. Over this appears one of the all-time classic Bad Credits: "THE PRODUCERS WISH TO THANK THE UNITED STATES ARMY FOR THEIR COOPERATION IN THE MAKING OF THIS FILM." Unless the Army broke open its secret store of really, really bad ape suits and toy ships, I'm not sure what this 'cooperation' might have entailed.
The ersatz nature of the craft is tragically confirmed when we cut to it sitting in what I suspect to be a backyard swimming pool. The ship is insultingly, jaw-droppingly chintzy, as bad if not worse than the toy boats displayed in such epics as The Sea Serpent and The Uninvited.
The following necessarily takes place at 'night. 'Daylight,' you see, would reveal the walls surrounding the pool or tank they're using. This holds true for the next three scenes or so.
Cut to the ship's *cough, cough* deck. This is economically suggested by a waist-high 'guardrail' made from iron plumbing pipes and dressed with short lengths of rope and chain. Standing there is a 'sailor.' To be fair, the man is bearded and wearing jeans, a pea coat and a black cloth cap. This expert costuming makes him one of the film's more successfully realized elements.
Another sailor comes topside through a particularly suspect hatchway. He greets the first fellow as Captain, which is more exposition than we often get from these things. This is actually an interesting exhibit of minimalist filmmaking. The actors are staring at a black wall, meant to be the ocean in the dark of night. They are also filmed from the back. This means their dialog can be looped in without having to match the actors' lip movements.
"Yes, sir," the back of the mate's head says, "the big boy's sleeping like a kitten." In other words, the film isn't going to waste a lot of time getting to the ape action. Then, in a bold directorial stroke, the actors turn towards the camera. Auteur! Auteur! Now we're treated to a Doris Wishman homage, in which one actor speaks while we get a close-up of the other actor listening to him.
"Were you there on the island when they caught him?" the Mate asks from off-camera as we look upon the Captain's face. "Sure was," the Captain replies. "I wouldn't have missed it for the world." Well then, too bad we in the audience didn't get to see it. "Imagine," says the Mate, whom I'm guessing is called something like Expository Pete. "Almost 36 feet tall! Wow." 'Almost' 36 feet? I admire your predilection towards exactitude, Expository Pete, but I think you'd be justified in rounding down to 35 feet.
The Captain takes on a philosophical air. "You know, it's almost a shame to put a beast into captivity and then put him on display for everyone to gawk at," he muses. "Yeah, I know what you mean," the mate replies, presumably with visions of straining yellow dump trucks in his head. Further conversation reveals that the unseen subject of their conversation is being taken to Disneyland. (!!) "I sure hope the gas that put him out lasts that long," the mate avers. "I wouldn't worry about it," comes the response. "They say he should be out for another five days or so."
Let me pause here a second. First, who is 'they'? Second, on what is this estimate based? Did they use the recognized industry standard gas for rendering giant apes unconscious? Has there been intensive laboratory testing and field research to accumulate such data?
We never get the answers to these queries, however. For at that very second a really, really bad prop hand pushes aside a flimsy metal sheet pretending to the ship's deck. It's amazing that there's a film that employs worse giant ape technology than Mighty Peking Man, but there you are. (If I was amazed upon learning this, I was downright flabbergasted to find the barrel was scraped still lower in yet another flick. More on that later this month.)
To indicate how bad this picture is, we cut to the toy boat being pulled with a string to make it 'list.' Then it explodes (??), like, well, like a toy boat full of fireworks and sparklers. I'm not sure what a freighter would be carrying to cause such a massive explosion, much less the resultant Obligatory Humungous Fireball. Still, there you go.
Ape, looking exactly like a man in a rental store gorilla suit, emerges from the water. Part of the 'debris' in the background looks to be a section of the toy boat's painted orange keel. Which means that Ape looks about ten times too big to have been sequestered in the ship. The guy in the suit wriggles around in a manner suggestive of one whose wet underwear has bunched up in his butt crack.
Meanwhile, I attempted to formulate a theory to explain how the creature, trapped inside the bowels of the ship when it massively blew to bits in a gigantic fireball, would manage to emerge unscathed.
Aside from aping (sorry) the '76 King Kong, A*P*E also followed in the wake of Jaws (1975). Prominently featured in A*P*E's dishonestly epic poster art — see above — was an image of a gigantic shark. Establishing how badass your animal menace was by having it kick shark butt was a device similarly employed in Dino De Laurentiis' classic maritime farce Orca. Which is fitting, as De Laurentiis also produced the King Kong remake that 'inspired' this film. It's a small world, isn't it?
As if seeking to get this promised element out of the way as quickly as possible, we now cut to a really, really bad cardboard 'fin' cleaving the waters. The promised battle is realized through the expedient of a real, albeit dead, shark. This is manhandled by the guy playing Ape and thrashed about the water in a less than utterly thrilling fashion. That's right, like Bela Lugosi 'wrestling' the 'octopus' in Bride of the Monster.
I was soon distracted from these tedious antics, however. First the actor's white T-Shirt began peeking through evident holes under the ape suit's armpits. Then I noticed how the lipped edge of the head cowl was entirely evident as it hung over and sometime pulled up from the suit's upper chest.
Moreover, the wrists of the suit would gape away from the costume's furry gauntlets, allowing us glimpses of the fleshy pink arm underneath. Again, this makes the crappy gorilla outfit featured in Mighty Peking Man seem of Oscar-caliber quality. A fact that is at once both sublime and appalling.
Oh, I just noticed that the music here is a blatant rip-off of the Jaws theme. Nice touch.
The mêlée concludes when Ape pulls the dead shark's (precut) jaws wide apart. This is sure to draw a groan from any real monster movie fan. The 'tearing jaw' maneuver was used by the real King Kong, the '33 one, to kill the Tyrannosaurus Rex it fought in one of cinema's all time greatest sequences.
Walking to the other side of the water tank, Ape approaches a miniature set of a fishing village. One again wishes the lighting were better during these opening scenes. Instead, they use only one spotlight, which is kept trained (more or less) on Ape as he moves around. Again, the set is quite small and if better lit we'd see the walls around it.
The camera stays tight on Ape as he lumbers around the petite set. Even so, we can tell that the building are scaled too small, given that the beast's supposed to be "almost 36 feet" tall. Ape quickly finds himself confronting some – three guesses — electrical lines. (Now all he has to do is attack a train and he'll have fulfilled all the relevant giant monster tropes.) Then we cut to a soldier. He's behind a small length of wire fence and apparently guarding about a dozen rusty old metal barrels. A sign, apparently painted by the prop master's eight year-old child, notes that the area is "OFF LIMITS."
The soldier notices Ape – there's no doubt about it, the guy's a professional – and stares in amazement as the creature tears down the power lines. Then the beast attacks a model building, which immediately goes up in flames. Why does it attack the model building? Dude, giant monster. OK? I mean, why do birds fly? Why do fish swim? Anyway, it continues marauding through all the little buildings. Meanwhile, five or six Korean people unconvincingly pretend to flee in terror. They apparently couldn't afford process effects to make them appear in the same shot with Ape, so we instead just cut back and forth between them.
Watch for the classic moment when Ape lifts up a toy barrel and chucks it at the screen. It careens towards the camera, wobbling noticeably on the wire holding it up. From this I'd have to assume the film was intended to be shown in 3-D. I'll see if I can find any info to confirm that.
Cut to Seoul airport. Here we meet American reporter Tom Rose. He's arraying in the classic '70s combo of slacks, turtleneck sweater and tweed sports jacket. He's introduced as he addresses a ticket counter worker as "honey." Rose is played by Rod Arrants, who bears a disturbing resemblance to '80s Jabootu mainstay Jared Martin (The Lonely Lady, The Sea Serpent). I'd say Arrants is the guy you got when Martin wasn't available, but given the latter's résumé I don't think that ever happened.
Rose asks if a "Marilyn Baker" is on a certain flight arriving from Los Angeles. The counter attendant, reading from some apparent roster posted behind her counter, confirms this. Apparently they have so few flights coming to Korea that all incoming passengers' names can be kept on a single sheet of paper. Rose departs, and so one of the Korean producers' girlfriends' moment of fame is over.
"Marilyn Baker," it turns out, is a famous Hollywood film star coming to Korea (!!) to make a big movie. She's played by Joanna Kerns, who later achieved a measure of fame as the mom on TV's Growing Pains. Kerns doesn't evince much star power here, and I wouldn't have pegged her as the cast member most likely to have a long and successful acting career. You have to figure that jocular co-star Alan Thicke broke out a copy of this film during those Growing Pains Christmas parties.
Anyway, Baker is surrounded by reporters (like six of them), all abuzz over this classically blonde American celebrity in their midst. Tall Caucasian Rose towers over the homegrown press and is standing maybe three feet away and often in her direct line of sight. Despite this, Baker supposedly doesn't see him until the script calls for it. At this the two exchange a Significant Look.
It turns out, unsurprisingly, that they were lovers back in the States. However, Baker wanted to cool things off a bit. Hence the trip to Korea. Rose, however, convinced his editors that her making a film there was a "big story." Thus he wrangled an assignment to follow her over. (Did newspapers in the '70s really fly reporters overseas to cover film sets?)
Oddly, Baker seems at best mildly perplexed that the lover she felt was moving things too fast has followed her halfway around the globe. In fact, when they meet she embraces him and says, "I'm so happy to see you." Apparently this was before the concept of 'stalkers' had gained much currency.
There follows an odd scene where the two take a cab to Baker's hotel. Rose points out the sights, thus providing a bit of padding and no doubt pleasing the Korean Tourism Board. However, they twice mention historic buildings without bothering to cut in stock footage of them. This seems a bit lazy. Moreover, why would Rose be so familiar with a city he presumably has just arrived in?
Meanwhile, he and Baker make out a bit. Then Baker is made uncomfortable again when Rose proposes they get married here in Seoul. (Let's get back to that 'stalker' thing.) One can imagine the taxi driver calculating how much The National Inquirer will pay for this anecdote.
Cut to a mountain village, never a good sign in these things. A man is riding a wee little tractor. After a while he looks and finally notices the three-story tall ape standing in his field. This brings us to one difference between A*P*E and it's Chinese equivalent, Mighty Peking Man. A*P*E, astoundingly, was quite apparently produced with a much lower budget.
MPM was awash in rear screen projections shots. These aren't terribly expensive, but they are few and far between here. This means that it's seldom that they try to put the real elements in the same shot with the effects ones. (And when they do…more on that later.)
This scene is a prime example. The farmer sees something. We cut to Ape. We cut back to the farmer. Etc. Never once do we see people and Ape in the same shot. Meanwhile, why when the villagers flee in terror do they run directly towards the area they've indicated Ape to be in?
Cut to the home of Korean army officer Captain Kim. The guy playing him can speak English adequately, while his wife and kids are rather worse than that. Were there really no English speakers in Korea they could have cast in these roles? Or again, were the wife and kids the family of one of the filmmakers? In any case, I found myself wishing that the DVD had supplied subtitles during the subsequent scene of the Kims conversing in broken English.
Captain Kim, who again is at least understandable, notes the call was about a farmer who saw giant footprints in his field. So he did, but wouldn't he have likely mentioned also the giant ape that went with them?
We cut to a jeep driving somewhere. The occupant is an American Army Captain, albeit one with no apparently rank insignia and a really, really bad blond mustache. He turns and ends up driving into a wooden beam that come projecting through the jeep's candy glass window and directly into the camera. I think my questions about this film perhaps being a 3-D project have just been answered.
He climbs out and looks around in horror. We then cut – again, real and effects elements seldom mix here – and survey a pretty lame diorama of what is presumably the village seen earlier, now destroyed and in flames.
Here we cut to a scene that gave me a real sinking feeling. It's the *cough, cough* office of Colonel Davis, the commander of the American forces stationed in Korea. The reason I started having second thoughts…alright, third thoughts…about this movie is that Davis is clearly meant as a blustering comic relief figure. He's played so broadly that I suspected the film was suddenly going to start becoming more intentionally 'comical.' I was right in this, as well as in my suspicion that this portended the movie becoming much less genuinely funny.
In any case, I won't dwell on the scenes with Davis, despite the fact that they proceed at painful length. Just because I've got a headache, after all, doesn't mean I have to share it with you.
Cut to a much too long scene involving kids playing in a closed-down amusement park. Ape shows up, and as calliope-type music booms across the soundtrack he cheerfully watches the children's antics. (Oddly, said melody reminded me of the nostalgic theme music heard in the underrated adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes.) Following what is already a clear pattern, the types caper until the huge primate is eventually spotted, long after he really should have been, and they run off screaming.
Here A*P*E begins losing whatever audience goodwill it's managed to garner. Unlike Mighty Peking Man, this film doesn't keep clipping along. Nor, as mentioned, are the attempts to inject 'humor' into the proceedings helping. The current sequence, for example, goes rather longer than it need to. This heralds an unfortunate trend. Scenes keep getting longer and the tedium factor keeps getting stronger.
After a bit more 'fun' with the buffoonish Col. Davis, we cut to Ape approaching a tree. This just happens to have a giant snake in it. (??) Genre buffs may recalls that in an amazing coincidence, the original King Kong also wrestled with a humongous snake. This was also the only scene containing another monster to be (briefly) replicated in the Dino De Laurentiis remake. Such a bit also appears in the desultory animated Mighty Kong.
Ape basically just holds the evidently real snake aloft and tosses it towards the camera. This, presumably, to produce another amazing 3-D effect. Unfortunately, the serpent sails under the lens, although it noticeably bumps the camera as it lands. The snake is shown slithering around and then we cut away. So…whatever.
Cut to a martial arts battle. (!!) After minutes of this we learn it's being filmed for a movie. By now you may have noticed a certain disconnected quality to events described so far. Indeed, this portion of the film plays like a sort of "Curious George Tours Korea and Looks At Stuff." So we watch some rather uninspired Kung Fu action until, again, the actors just happen to see Ape. At which point their first inclination is to fire volley after volley of flaming arrows at him. (??)
This goes on at, that's right, some length. Like something in those Three Stooges 3-D shorts, the arrows travel erratically down wobbling wires and sail directly into the camera lens. Meanwhile, I noticed the arrows seen hitting Ape were scaled wrong. Probably because if they were the correct size we wouldn't be able to see them. I also learned learned that arrows bounce off huge gorillas, something I hadn't known before. The scene abruptly ends, as you'd expect, when three other guys show up carrying a log and run into the camera lens with it. (??)
In the next of our series of vignettes, Ape comes across a guy hang gliding. (Great shot: We go from a stock footage shot of a cow to seeing Ape step over a plastic toy one!) This is also accompanied by the calliope music heard earlier.
Ape reaches up to the (now toy) hang glider and bounces him up and down on the palm of his hand. Then the fellow continues on his way. Ape reacts to the sight by swaying and clapping his hands in slow motion as the music continues to loudly play. This image proved incredibly bizarre, like something from a universe in which Fellini made Ed Wood movies.
We cut to Tom standing outside a building. Col. Davis and Captain Kim appear, surrounded by journalists. The studly Rose naturally takes over the questioning, showing his Asian brethren how this reporting thing is done. I felt this was a little, well, not racist exactly, but insulting nonetheless. Rose's technique, meanwhile, consists of acting like a jerk. At one point Davis frowns on the use of the word "monster." Rose jumps in. "Just what the hell would you call it?" he inquires. Oddly, Davis reacts by calling him "Mr. Rose." Just how famous a newspaper reporter is he supposed to be, anyway?
Being the hero, Rose will of course prove correct in thinking that Davis is underestimating the situation. However, that's only because Ape will eventually demonstrate your standard Giant Monster resistance to massive levels of firepower. In real life, such a creature would handily fall to a squad armed with conventional rifles, especially if a couple of grenades were tossed his way. Here numbers of tanks will be required to get the job done. By the way, Rose greets Kim as an old acquaintance, meaning he has worked in Korea before. This could have been spelled out a bit more clearly, however.
Rose stops by the International Movie Company (gee, that's clever) to see Marilyn. He's now attired in a horrible blue denim suit, featuring monstrous jacket lapels and bell-bottom slacks, worn over another turtleneck. Here we get a pretty lame in-joke: Marilyn's director is played by Paul Leder, who actually directed and co-wrote A*P*E. I was hoping as penance he'd have written himself a horrible death, but 'twas not to be. Furthermore, the director in the movie is named "Dino," presumably japing on Dino De Laurentiis. Ha. Ha.
They're rehearsing a scene in which Marilyn is molested – how charming – and her co-star gets a little too rough. Dino tells the guy he has to be more gentle. "Gentle?!" he angrily responds. "This is a g*dd*mned rape scene!" Actually, this is almost an interesting moment. Rape scenes were used way too often to provide titillation in movies of this period, running through much of the '80s. Therefore one can easily imagine such a conversation taking place, with the director wanting a more 'savory' rape.
Tom pops up to warn Marilyn she should go back to Seoul. (Due to the giant ape and all.) Meanwhile, he hustles her off to a secluded sport for further making out. Yuck. This leads to a horrible 'character' scene, wherein she wonders why he's always joking if he really loves her. "Maybe I'm afraid!" he replies. "Maybe I'm afraid that if I ask you straight out [to marry him], you'll say no." Needless to say, this baring of his soul is rewarded with yet more lip locking, and I mean lots of it. Unfortunately, their passion doesn't exactly ignite the screen. Hell, it doesn't even thaw it out.
Back to Davis' office. He's receiving a call about another destroyed village, accompanied by many fatalities. Why is it that whenever we see Ape he's merrily gawking at playing children and hang gliders but off camera goes on seemingly unmotivated rampages? I mean, the first one, well, he'd been captured, tossed in a ship which then exploded and threw him into the ocean, where he was attacked by a huge shark. You can see where that would get your dander up. Since then, however, he's mostly been played for comedy, and we've yet to see him kill a person.
Oops, spoke too soon, although we still don't witness any deaths. Ape enters a village and indeed knocks down a series of miniature houses. (Wouldn't trodding upon building after building hurt your feet? Of course, he does shrug off tank fire later.) Meanwhile, people who quite apparently are nowhere near this – the towns they're in are completely different in appearance from the 'village' Ape is attacking — run around in a panic.
Some jump aboard a transport truck. A grandmother-type mimes terror at as a young tyke stands there looking at the vehicle. Eventually she jumps out, grabs the kid and climbs back in. Whew. I guess the idea is that Ape could appear at any moment and kill them all. Again, though, we never really believe that these people are even in the same film as the creature. This dissipates the tension somewhat.
A classic moment occurs when a running crowd turns a corner and runs into a pair of really bad giant prop legs. Luckily, these obviously can't move and so they escape unharmed.
Cut back to the movie set. The crew is now filming outdoors and, believe or not, Ape just happens to be in the area. As comical music plays, they shoot the attempted rape scene. Ho ho! After breaking free, Marilyn starts running around the complex they're in as the guy chases her. In real life they wouldn't really shoot this in one take. It would require too many cameras.
Marilyn runs outside, still 'acting.' Then they return to the starting point. Dino says they'll have to shoot it again. Marilyn acts all surprised and upset at this, as if retakes aren't part of filmmaking. I think this scene was meant to be funny, how Ape watched the action like a theatergoer. If so, it didn't work. Also, how could Ape be close enough to see the humans without being seen by them? He's the one who's thirty-plus feet tall.
Repeat staged molestation, chase and wacky music. This time when Marilyn runs outside Ape is waiting. Somehow she runs right past Ape without seeing him – the hell, does he refract light or something? – and directly into a giant prop hand. This proves even faker than the one in Mighty Peking Man. (In a lovely moment, the enhanced clarity of DVD allows us to savor the all-too visible wires manipulating the artifact's thumb.) Turn about is fair play, of course. So when we cut back to the ape suit guy, Marilyn becomes a really obvious doll.
Dino, hearing his star's continued screams, assumes she's still acting and yells out "Cut!" This makes no sense. (Big shock.) Why is Marilyn running though the entire place if the only camera, as is now apparent, is back with Dino? It's quite plain here that she's meant to be completely out of his sightline. Especially since you'd otherwise expect him to comment on the ape. Or…maybe not. (Stupid movie.) Because the next thing we know, Dino is running around, er, somewhere.
He rather fortuitously comes across Kim's military convoy and tells them the situation. Normally, yelling "he's got Marilyn" to a bunch of Korean soldiers probably wouldn't mean much to them. However, Kim has brought Rose along, which conveniently allows for most of our cast can be on hand here.
Col. Davis, still in his office, is being told "they" want Ape captured alive. This is greeted with much incredulity. Now, I'll admit, capturing such a beast would be trickier than just killing it. (Unless it somehow proves to be weirdly resistant to gunfire.) Still, though, how about gassing it? Or shooting it with large amounts of tranquilizer? Or dropping fishing nets on it from helicopters? I mean, this thing's big, but it's not that big.
Now follows a long sequence watching a squad of army helicopters flying around. This pretty much has to be stock footage, given the apparent budget of the proceedings so far. Meanwhile, Ape is running around with his catch. It's an interesting debate. Does the blatant toy doll make the scenes with guy-in-a-suit Ape more embarrassing? Or are the Humiliation Sweepstakes won by the shots of actress Kerns writhing around in the horribly threadbare prop hand? My vote's with the hand, but it's a surprisingly close race.
So… Kim and Rose are in the area, watching helplessly. Ape has stopped to consider his prize. "Be gentle, big fella," Marilyn tells him. (!!) This emotional scene comes to a close when stock footage helicopters fly overhead. Ape reacts by putting Marilyn down. In the ape-suit guy shots, she's placed some distance from a cave. In the shots with actress Kerns, however, she's left right outside its entrance. In any case, she scoots inside. There follows a classic "screaming person just barely beyond the reach of a giant monster" sequence. (Note that ape-suit guy reaches in with his right arm, while the prop hand used in the Kerns shots is his left one.)
Ape pauses to do Tai Chi moves — that's what it looked like to me, anyway — and otherwise react to some approaching stock footage paratroopers. Soon soldiers are tossing gas grenades as toy helicopters buzz him. Wouldn't the rotor wash help blow the gas away?
Inevitably a couple of 'copters fly too close (see my discussion of this trope in my Mighty Peking Man review) and Ape swats them down. As you might have gathered, the 'effects' for these bits are eye-rollingly bad. Soon arrives the film's most infamous moment, in which Ape flips his tormentors the bird. (!) This is a moment that you will either find extremely funny or distinctly unfunny. Put me in the latter camp.
With Ape distracted, Rose runs in and rescues Marilyn. (Who, of course, doesn't think of running off on her own.) He unwisely continues to loudly yell out her name as he approaches. Luckily, she hears him while Ape doesn't. Which, since the beast's like fifty feet away from her, seems sort of weird. But anyway. Per previous arrangements, Rose takes her to Kim's apartment in Seoul.
Ape himself heads to Seoul, presumably in search of Marilyn. Despite this potentially disastrous turn of events, Col. Davis is again ordered to try capturing the creature. This is the subject of two different scenes, actually, which explains why the the picture is really starting to bog down. Anyway, Rose and Marilyn arrive at Kim's house. She's taken in while Rose leaves to follow the story. First, though, we get a *blecch* 'romantic' moment where Marilyn agrees to marry him.
Cut to an American businessman entering a hotel room with a local hooker. (We can tell, because she's chewing gum in a brassy fashion.) As she begins to undress, she sees Ape staring at her through the window. She screams and they flee. End scene.
More of the same. Running crowds, giant ape wandering around Seoul, an exasperated Davis on phone, etc. However, they do try a couple of matte shots here. The results explain why they didn't try more of them. Frankly, they're awful. Worse than the ones in The Amazing Colossal Man, and he was rendered transparent by his.
Ape lumbers through town, interacting with people who for some reason have ignored the evacuation order. This includes workers in an office, a family at dinner and a group of men in a pool hall. One of the latter pushes his cue back and forth towards the camera. This results in one of the cheesier 3-D effects I can remember. Meanwhile, Ape assaults various model buildings. These look OK on the outside, but reveal an evident lack of interior detail once smashed open.
Since Korea apparently lacks TV or radio broadcasting, not to mention boasting the best soundproofing in the world, Marilyn and the Kim family remain unaware of Ape's depravations. Instead, they spend a great amount of time having rather too much fun with a puppet. Until, of course, Ape inevitably finds the building they're in. Marilyn is soon recaptured via the old smash 'n grab.
Davis finally convinces the Korean authorities to destroy Ape rather than capture him. Cue scads of military-themed stock footage and bad music. Then back to Davis, leaving to survey the final attack. Unsurprisingly, this happen in "the mountains," so as to limit the number of miniature elements required. Soon we see Ape standing on a pile of rocks, er, a hill. He's sustaining fire while flailing around his Marilyn doll, who rather luckily remains unscathed during all of this.
This is the big climax, of sorts, and runs for nearly ten straight minutes. Highlights include a series of soldiers who fire directly into the camera lens, then advance until their rifle barrels jump out at the audience. Ooh. Ah. 3-D. Let's see, there's more obviously plastic tanks and airplanes, tossed boulders that wobble on their guide wires, several shots used repeatedly to save money, mismatched continuity in terms of who's where when, exaggerated pyrotechnics, a foam rock avalanche and more. None of which, let me stress, is anywhere near as interesting as it probably sounds.
Eventually Ape starts spitting up copious amounts of stage blood through the mouth hole of his mask. He dies, Davis gloats, Marilyn mourns, and I smile. "He was just too big for a small world like ours," Rose observes. It's not "Twas Beauty killed the Beast." Still, whatever gets us done here.
This is a cheap, ludicrous picture marked by laughable special effects and weighed down by bad comic relief. Even so, some of the people behind the scene are of interest to buffs.
The American cast, while unlikely to win bouquets for their performances, acquits themselves in a comparatively professional fashion. It's notable that the film's three major Caucasian actors are known mostly for their TV work.
Kerns – appearing here as "Joanna de Varona" — suffers from the nature of her role, but doesn't actively humiliate herself. Ms. Kerns continues to act, mostly in TV movies, and also directs episodes of numerous TV series.
Rod Arrants (Tom Rose) is stolid but workmanlike. Which is as you'd expect for an actor who was most often employed on soap operas. Mr. Arrants appears to have retired from the acting game.
Alex Nicol probably has the worst of it, since his Col. Davis bears the brunt of the film's woeful attempts at humor. Mr. Nicol's acting career began in the '30s. He worked steadily in the decades to come in supporting roles. Genre fans may remember his troubled gardener from the 1958 cheesefest The Screaming Skull, a film he also directed. Jabootuists will perhaps recall him from his brief appearance in Sincerely Yours. Mr. Nicol passed away in 2001 at the age of 85.
The big name here, though, is producer Jack H. Harris. Although Mr. Harris' IMDB entry doesn't allude to A*P*E, he has a "presents" card that opens the film. He might therefore have just been the film's American distributor. Even so, Mr. Harris produced many genre films beloved by nerds like myself. These include Dinosaurus!, 4D Man, Equinox and Schlock, a film that has quite a lot in common with this one, actually. His most famous film is the Steve McQueen classic The Blob, and he also produced both the sequel, Beware the Blob!, and the 1988 remake.
Cliché Watch List:
Giant gorilla transported in hold of freighter: Check.
Giant gorilla interacts with power lines: Check.
Someone stumbles across mysterious giant footprints: Check.
Spectators of giant gorilla feel they must point to drawn attention to it: Check.
Giant gorilla carries off blond woman: Check.
Giant gorilla comes across giant snake: Check.
Giant gorilla beats chest in macho fashion: Check.
Asian giant monster proves strangely immune to modern weaponry: Check.
Mass crowds of Asians run around in a panicked fashion: Check.
Person hides in cave as giant hand (tongue/head/claw/etc.) sweeps through the entrance, trying to dislodge them: Check.
Attack aircraft fly close enough to monster to be smacked down: Check.
Giant gorilla rampages through city looking for blond woman: Check.
Scientists demand giant monster be captured alive: Check.
The Blond develops deep sympathy for giant monster: Check.
Giant gorilla peeks through hotel window at woman: Check.
Tom Rose, as played by actor Rod Arrants: "I'm a reporter, not Charlton Heston!"
Summary: A moderately funny party film, although the boredom factor can be an issue.