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I had to go to the UK recently and took my Kindle along. I put some thought into my Kindle use before I left and ended up with things not working out as I planned.
The planning went into the trip because I usually read on planes and I expected to have lots of time flying from Denver to London and back. Since the Kindle can't purchase books overseas I read quite a few samples in the weeks before I left and then purchased about 10 or 12 new books to take with me. With the 3 or 4 I was reading, I had plenty to do.
That was good since I got stuck in Chicago with a broken plane overnight and read 4 books before I got to London. Plus I was partway into 2 more.
However I didn't really work on my computer on the way over, which was a problem. I didn't charge the battery in Chicago and by the time I arrived in London, my battery was almost dead. By the time I got through a day of work in London and back to the hotel, the Kindle battery was completely dead and I couldn't charge it.
The Kindle has a special charger, and despite being a miniUSB plug, it doesn't work with most mini-USB chargers, like cell phone chargers. There is a USB cable, which trickle charges, but it won't get things charged unless you can boot the Kindle first. I couldn't and spent all week without anything to read until Thursday night when I went to a Borders and bought a couple books.
From Thur night to Saturday night when I got home, I read 5 books and started a 6th. It was a hassle to carry them around, especially on planes with my bag stuffed with 5 paperbacks and overflowing. I missed the Kindle during those times, wishing I'd brought the charger.
Why didn't I? I have a travel adapter, but only one and the last time I was overseas, I was struggling to get things charged. Between my laptop and cell phone, I knew I'd be competing for plugs and so I brought the USB cable. What I didn't count on was running the battery low and not being able to charge that way. I did buy a 2.5A, 5V charger in the UK, but it didn't work. I read online that there is a Samsung charger that works, but I couldn't find one in a few stores and didn't have time to search widely. Amazon.uk has one, but they didn't have express shipping or I would have ordered one.
I learned a few lessons here. One is that I need to charge more regularly on the road. Two is that I should just bring the wall charger. Three is that the Amazon Kindle team are idiots. How much money could they be making from selling spare chargers? Why wouldn't you just use a blackberry compatible charger? Poor, poor design choice.


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Communities that experience crime share similar features, including abandoned houses, faulty traffic flow, limited surveillance, plant overgrowth, vacant lots, absentee landlords and inadequate street lighting. These areas of decay provide places for criminal activity, like prostitution and drug-dealing, to take place.
Crime experts say that Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), or the effective design of buildings and spaces to reduce crime and improve safety, can improve residents' quality of life.
To help neighborhoods use CPTED, the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC), on behalf of the Department of Justice's Community Capacity Development Office, helped ten communities "weed and seed," or "weed" out problems and "seed" in services and solutions.
Each site's Weed and Seed Steering Committee held training sessions for the police, the housing agency, public utilities, residents and other governmental agencies. They were led through an action-planning process that organized concerns and challenges and identified specific steps community stakeholders could take. The sites were also provided ongoing, follow-up technical assistance.
In Montgomery, Alabama, the local power company agreed to replace street lights that had been broken or vandalized and the city created a gunfire-detection system to aid police response. In Manchester, New Hampshire, an abandoned lot used for illegal activity was converted into a skate park for youth. Troy, New York, converted an unsightly former farmer's market area into a vibrant children's park with a garden.
Each year, the Department of Justice's Community Capacity Development Office accepts applications from communities hoping to become new Weed and Seed sites. If you think your community could benefit from CPTED, visit www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ccdo/welcome_flash.html for more information.

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This is great Gayatri. I love this set - I've got it too. In fact, it's probably all your fault I've got it with all those fantastic inspiration pieces you've posted in Pinterest :)
I am a follower on pinterest. Love your work - especially the simple cards. I think I've pinned everything you have (at least in cards). You are very talented! Thanks from Jamie in Arizona, USA.
I love those stamp! Will try to find it & buy! your card is simply lovely & refreshing. :)
FAB use of the inspiration picture. I love how your mind works!
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The saga at SAC Capital has a new wrinkle as the firm stated that hedge fund manager Steven Cohen didn't read a key email that's at the heart of the insider trading case. Wall Street Journal senior writer James Sterngold untangles the details on MoneyBeat. Photo: AP.
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Friday, January 6, 2012
Genealogy Goals: Steps for Success
Should you set goals? The answer is up to you (but I say yes). Here are some considerations to increase your chances of success.
1. Goals aren't just for January 1
You can set a genealogy goal at any time, for as long as you want. Several bloggers set monthly goals. It's perfectly fine to set a goal on February 7. Give yourself the flexibility to succeed.
2. Goals should be a little bit scary.
Let me clarify "scary." You should set some goals that take you outside your comfort zone and lead to new experiences. For example, one of my 2012 goals requires me to research in a state archive that is new to me. I will have to learn the ins and outs of the place, as well as how to locate and get the item that I want. When I complete this goal, I will have new knowledge and new research experiences.
3. Set yourself up for success.
What motivation do you need to succeed? Some people write their genealogy goals in their blogs. The public declaration is enough to get them going. Others recruit a goal "buddy" to help them be accountable. You can even reward yourself with the purchase of a new genealogy toy when you complete your goal. You know what it takes for you to stay motivated. Make than happen.
4. Divide your goals into manageable pieces.
"Write my family history book" is a great goal, but it needs definition and direction. If this is the year you finally write your family's history, break it into manageable pieces. Start with an outline, then take on the task one step at a time. If you want to clean your genealogy office, make a commitment to clean the file cabinet, then another to clean the top of the desk, etc. Set smaller goals. Doing so will get you closer to completing your goal.
5. Goals aren't written in stone.
It is ok if you don't complete the tasks set forth in your goals. Really. Don't beat yourself up over what you haven't done. Just pick yourself up and start again. One of my 2012 genealogy goals is recycled from 2011 because I didn't finish it then.
6. Move the ball forward.
Some days are more productive than others. As long as you move the ball forward, you will continually move toward completing your goal.
Hopefully I've stated my case for genealogy goals. I wish you the best in completing yours.
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You are so right! Breaking down your goals into manageable pieces is almost essential in starting them, let alone finishing them! I believe that's my greatest downfall. In the past I have had aspirations so huge it'd take a staff to complete them! Instant failure!ReplyDelete
This year is different, just as you posted I'm taking things one step at a time!
Good luck!
Good point, Cindy. If the goal looks like a big mountain, you feel too intimidated to climb it. But if you set a small goal to do 500 steps today, you're that much closer to reaching the summit.ReplyDelete
Hi Amy. I am so excited to find that we have a great genealogy blogger right here in our own backyard. Great job.ReplyDelete
I too believe in Genealogy Goals. My sister and I are working on a book together on our great great grandmother, Jane Caldwell. Hopefully this year it will be completed. More research than we anticipated, but learning lots.
Thanks, Karen! It's nice to know another genealogist and blogger in the neighborhood! I wish your sister and you the best on your book.ReplyDelete


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Stoning the Rockies, '86 Celebration Madness, and the return of the David Wright Goatee Watch 2006!
There's just…so much to blog about! Where to even start?
Okay, let's start with Friday, August 18th, my 20th home game this season. (Pedro Martinez Gigantic T-Shirt Giveaway Day.) My at-Shea winning percentage is now an impressive .800, 16 wins and 4 losses. Fun for Zoe!
I got some great pics, including this awesome hit by David Wright (player of the game!) where you can see the ball whizzing off to do its damage against Colorado. Check out the whole amazin' shebang in my latest thrill-filled photo gallery. Endy Chavez continued to perform his tushy off as well, and I would later learn (because I DVR even the games I attend) that Willie Randolph called Chavie his favorite player. Zoe Message to Endy Chavez: Please stay healthy. Zoe Message to Evil Eye: Screw you and go vacation in Canada.
Now, can we talk about the '86 team for a minute? Because even SNY's Gary Cohen admitted he teared up at Saturday night's tribute, and Ron Darling clutched his heart and exclaimed that he was "ferklempt." I don't need to go into details of the moving, ovationtastic ceremony. Y'all saw that too. But hello–did you happen to notice how hilarious Keith Hernandez was in the commentators' booth for the remainder of the night? Rob thought he was blitzed, but I think he (and Darling) were just so ebulliently happy that they were overcome by sheer giddyness. And oh how I love a giddy sports analyst. The laughter in that booth was contagious and enjoyable.
Which leads us to a lovely segue into my next topic. Keith Hernandez? You are so metrosexual. He doesn't look it, but Keith Hernandez is obsessed with clothing! More specifically, with uniforms. For a while now, he's made sure we hear continuously about his favorite topic–socks. For Saturday and Sunday's games, the Mets wore a modern version (meaning not skin-tight) of the '86 uniform. Keith loved seeing his old duds, but nearly screamed in horror when Lastings Milledge showed up at bat wearing his usual high socks, in this case blue. An aghast Keith Hernandez exclaimed, "You need the stirrups!" Later on, he rhapsodized about lining up the piping along the side of the uniform so top and bottom seamlessly stripe down the side. As to Michael Tucker's piping? Keith remarked: "Look how pretty that looks." But most funny of all, for the next day's (Sunday's) game, when Keith Hernandez saw how lined up El Duque's side stripe piping was, he proclaimed we had to win the game because of that pretty uniform. This led Ron Darling to proclaim him the "Oleg Cassini" of baseball. I am so in love with that.
But lest we leave the topic of grooming, it's time for the latest entry in the David Wright Goatee Watch 2006. It's ba-ack. Looks like our David's rocking out his bad boy look once more. Of course Pete McCarthy and I discussed this hilariously during my "Under The Lights" radio appearance. Just as Willie's auditioning starting pitchers for the post-season, I'm pretty sure our #5 is auditioning facial hair to see whether clean shaven, stubbly, or goateed will make it to October. Which do you like best? I'll throw in a couple extra goatee pics to help the decision.


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04 March 2009
I'm So Sorry
Have you apologized to Rush yet?
Posted by shadowfax at 10:30 PM
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- Anonymous3/05/2009 2:08 AM
I love Rush. He is truely a great American.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3/05/2009 7:16 AM
I thought I hated Rush. Then I started listening back in 1992. Those who think he is just a pompous loud mouth are truly missing out on 3 hours of American brilliance every day.ReplyDelete
Rush Limbaugh is just the right wing version of Michael Moore. Entertaining, as long as you ignore the other side of the story.ReplyDelete
I am going to say something really bad. When the hell is he going to have an MI and just shut up?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3/06/2009 2:57 PM
It seems pretty petty for the Obama administration to be calling out talk show hosts (Rush) and analysts (Jim Kramer). Could you imagine the uproar if the Bush administration tried to control dissent like that??ReplyDelete
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I'm not going to kid you folks--Nude for Satan is a bad film. Depending on your ability to revel in the absurd and roll with the punches, you'll either spend the 82-minute running time rolling on the floor holding your sides or staring open-mouthed at the screen, aghast at its unrelenting awfulness.
Ordinarily that qualifies as a good recommendation from me, but in this case I couldn't help thinking the movie could have been so much more. I mean, there's plenty to enjoy here--hilarious dubbing, unstoppable overacting, bad FX and as much nudity and sex as the title promises. But like so many near misses, Nude for Satan doesn't have quite enough coherence to pull a genuinely interesting plot out, nor does it go quite far enough into batshit insanity to make it an out-and-out "I Can't Believe What I'm Seeing" joy. While it provides elements of both kinds of movie-going experiences, it finally settles into a sort of limbo state where time slows down and happy experiences come round only once in a while...which is actually the state of the characters in the movie, come to think of it.
Huh. Maybe director Luigi Batzella was being cleverer than I thought.
We open with one of my favorite ways to start a movie: a Eurobabe in a see-through gown running in slow motion through a storm-tossed forest. It's a solid minute or so of mood-setting excellence that even the tell-tale shadow of a cameraman in one particularly bright flash of lightning can't knock off course. However, Batzella inexplicably cuts from that scene to a static close-up of a Volkswagen Beetle's grille for the entirety of the extended opening credits (which includes at least one egregious typo: "Sobject and Screenplay by..."), a decision I can't help but second guess. I mean, you've got the slo-mo chick in the diaphanous gown, Luigi--USE HER!
Eventually we get to the story proper, wherein Dr. William Benson (Stelio Candelli) is piloting the featured white Bug along a rural road on a dark and stormy night, searching for his midnight house call. After stopping at a foreboding inn for directions and getting the brush off from an evil Irish innkeeper (the first of James Harris's multiple roles), he heads back out on that highway and--after a minute or two of scintillating real-time driving--rounds a bend and nearly runs over a ghostly girl in white! Screeching to a halt on the shoulder, Benson gets out to investigate, finding the expected NOTHING where his almost-victim had been standing mere seconds ago.
Before he can ponder that little mystery too much, another car rounds the bend and crashes into a ditch--or we assume it does, since we only see Benson standing there with a worried expression, then hear a car-crash sound effect and see a tire roll past him on the road! That's just economics, I guess. He rushes to the seemingly un-damaged wreck (that tire must have been the spare) and finds love interest Susan (Rita Calderoini) sprawled unconscious in the front seat.
Transferring the girl to his VW, Benson then drives on down the road looking for help. At the gate of a creepy mansion he meets a mysterious man in full Shadow regalia. Explaining that "My orders are not to move...not even if I wanted to!" the Shadow (Harris again) sends Benson to the manor house. Benson turns to look, then glances back to find that the guard has vanished! Some people are just no good at following orders.
Leaving his likely concussed patient in the car, Benson stumbles into the house through the self-opening door to find it a dilapidated ruin. Not dissuaded by the cobwebs or the thick coating of dust over all the furniture, the doctor decides to try a few doors. Behind door number one he finds a sinister footman (Renato Lupi) lying on the ground with a knife in his neck! The old guy has a sense of humor about it, though, glaring at Benson and laughing an evil, maniacal laugh--which is actually almost creepy.
The doc shuts the door quickly, but then calmly follows the sound of squealing to another door. He opens door #2 and--JACKPOT! There's a hardcore orgy goin' on! It's like the PERVIEST CARNIVAL SPOOKHOUSE EVAR! With candelabras and cobwebs all around, a lesbian couple engage in outre tongue-kissing and nipple nippage, while behind them a hetero couple bump and grind and perform acrobatic cunnilingus--I can only assume in the service of SATAN. Benson slams the door again--after a much longer interval--and finally starts to look a little concerned.
So all this is well and good--Batzella, who should know what he's doing when it comes to the sensual and the gothic (after all, this is the man behind the excellent Devil's Wedding Night) has managed a few visuals that are borderline creepy, while throwing in some craziness and non-linear nonsense to boot (a shot of a rotating classical bust under red light, while incongruous, is striking). However, he's hampered by Candelli's laughable acting and his own clumsy script, which even taking dubbing and translation into account is nothing short of horrible. (And I don't know if Candelli did his own dubbing, but whoever it is seems to be reading the lines phonetically.) The real-time driving from set to set and suspense-less creeps through the over-lit sets don't help, either.
Still in sex shock, Benson wheels around to find the girl from the car standing before him, only now in period dress and calling herself Evelyn. Showering him with passionate kisses, Evelyn obviously has the doc confused with someone else. "Oh Peter!" she gushes, "This marvelous, marvelous world of ours! It exists once more! Beyond all sentiment, beyond all thoughts!" Benson tries to sort it all out, but is distracted by Evelyn's tongue in his mouth and her continued nonsensical rambling. "Don't think about the past, or the present," she advises, "Just think about NOW!" Well, oka...hey wait, what?
The next morning Susan--who's been outside in the car THE WHOLE TIME!--comes stumbling up t othe house and is greeted by Harris again, this time in a totally Dracular costume and working the goat-headed cane. (Harris is listed in the imdb credits as "The Devil," but I have my doubts about this name assignment, as later he participates in a ceremony meant to pull in the powers of Astaroth...which Satan would presumably not need.) He invites her in to a newly refurbished and squeaky clean mansion, on the pretense of looking for her friend.
Batzelli gives us some more entertaining weirdness in this sequence, as Harris undresses Calderoni with his eyes in a psychedelic sequence, and at one point vanishes again, much to her surprise...only to reappear seconds later in EXACTLY the same spot! Despite all this, Susan agrees to stay for the night and even to let him draw her a bath--because, you know, being concussed is sweaty work.
Things go COMPLETELY off the rails at this point, as we get a gratuitous bathing scene with Susan twirling in the tub in a most un-OSHA-approved manner. Out of nowhere a female servant dressed in footman's livery appears with a towel (and a smoke machine, apparently) and quickly begins making out with Susan! The lesbian action begins...but before it gets explicit, we cut to ANOTHER pair of actresses in a bathtub (NOT the same one, I think), who I guess we're supposed to believe are Susan and the servant, even though we get lingering face-shots that show they are not the same people--hell, except for skin coloring, they don't even LOOK alike. It's like the hardcore inserts in Alfonso Brescia's The Beast in Space, except Batzella doesn't even bother framing in tight on the torsos and genitals only. Bizarre.
Meanwhile, out in the garden, Benson and Evelyn are rolling around on the grass and she's STILL talking nonsense: "In this dimension, where time no longer exists, I'm forever waiting for you. And I always find you again...to obey the commandments." The confused doctor lights a cigarette, at which point Evelyn FREAKS and runs away. That's foreshadowing, kids. Write it down.
Post-lesbonic Susan comes out into the garden next, and is accosted by Candelli in period costume, also talking balls and referring to himself as "Peter." Viewers who haven't seen Brigadoon might well start thinking we've got a Castle of Blood situation going on here, and they wouldn't be far off. Susan and William have found their ghostly doubles haunting this mansion, with Harris lording over it and trying to seduce them to the Devil's side with lots of hairy Italian sex. Will they escape, or will they be cursed to stay in this castle watching the worst 70s porn Ol' Scratch can throw at them, FOR ALL ETERNITY?
To his credit, Batzella does his best to spice things up. We get a lot of long shadows that could be atmopsheric if the rest of the lighting weren't so bright, along with some seasick handheld camera movement and borderline psychadelic cut-ins that I guess are supposed to be edgy. But mostly his seasonings take the form of ugly porn--Susan having a gauzy lesbian dream that transmutes into another stand-in sex session, the footman whipping an unknown servant to bloody welts before giving her the business end of a candle/dildo in lingering close-up, and "William" and "Evelyn" getting it on with some limp oral and frankly off-putting hardcore. Which is funny at first, but sadly, incredibly, starts to get pretty boring toward the end.
But before you can dismiss Nude for Satan ENTIRELY, it also gives you a couple of scenes to remember. The concluding Black Mass/Orgy is quite the set-piece, with Susan going over to the Dark Side--which here means making out with Evil Benson amid some crypts and flaming skulls, with Harris glowering on a throne in the background. Their sex magick also raises some lesbians from the dead, apparently, one of whom has the strangest ribcage I've ever seen on a naked lady--I've heard stories of women having ribs removed cosmetically, and I think I now have proof.
But the big Scene to Watch for is the out-of-nowhere GIANT SPIDER ATTACK! After witnessing Harris conducting his eeevil ceremony, Susan flees only to fall into a pit where she immediately becomes entangled in a clothesline-cord web. Helpless, she's attacked by a spider the likes of which I haven't seen since the local third-grade Halloween Carnival arts and crafts show. Calderoni does an admirable job selling the terror of her situation, screaming and writhing to beat the band, but it's really all for naught. The prop is just too damn silly. When William shoots it to put us out of our misery, I swear you can see the newspaper stuffing fly out.
Nude for Satan is a frustrating movie in many ways. I mean, I laughed out loud, I grinned, I shook my head in entertained disbelief--but I couldn't help thinking it would have been more fun had Batzella either paid more attention to detail or else just thrown caution to the winds and gone completely over the edge into gibbering insanity. The middle ground doesn't work here, serving only to point out the distance from either extreme. The director would do much better--a subjective term here if ever it was one--with the Nazisploitation sleaze-meter exploder The Beast in Heat, aka S.S. Hell Camp. He certianly wasn't holding back THERE, and it showed.
As for this effort, your mileage will definitely vary, and it's hard to resist giving a movie with this title at least one viewing, regardless of the quality of the product. Still, it left me lukewarm, and therefore I give it the bland 1.5 thumb rating. Having said that, I do encourage everyone to get out there and get nude for Satan--the results will be at least as entertaining as this flick. At least for me.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Nude for Satan (1974): or, Castle of Boobs
Posted by The Vicar of VHS at 5:12 PM
Labels: '70s, Devil Worship, Sexploitation
9 comments:
- Tenebrous Kate said...
Holy crap! I totally forgot "NfS" was a Luigi Batzella joint!!!! You're SO right in your wrap-up--he shoulda and COULDA gone there, knowing the full sleaze potential of his other movies. Sad to say, but "the Beast in Heat" is his masterpiece. I've also seen "Acthung! Desert Tigers," which is notable for two reasons: 1) it has an exclamation point in the title and 2) the lighthouse has its own theme music that plays every time it's on screen. Weird.
Your review is spot-on, in my never-humble opinion. Your observations regarding pacing and weird intercut porn mirror my own WTF'ery when I watched this flick. I think the movie would've benefitted from additional ridiculous spiders and perhaps a rapey half-mans-half-monkeys. But... sadly I was not consulted before the making of this film (the fact that I was not yet born at the time might have something to do with this).
- December 3, 2008 at 7:16 PM
- Rev. Fred Phantom said...
Yet another film in my Netflix queue that you've made me question. I can't say I'm a huge fan of Batzella to begin with (I've only seen SS Hell Camp and The Devil's Wedding Night), but I'm a glutton for punishment w/these kind of films, so I'll probably still give it a viewing. As usual, a very entertaining review.
- December 3, 2008 at 8:42 PM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
Empress--yeah, it's a bit strange to fault a movie with hardcore candle-dildo penetration as not being sleazy *enough*, but somehow that's the feeling I was left with. I agree with your assessment that More Giant Spiders == More Better. I mean, the spiders in Fulci's The Beyond were almost as bad, but there were BUNCHES of them, which somehow made it work.
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>>2) the lighthouse has its own theme music that plays every time it's on screen
I probably shouldn't even ask why there's a lighthouse in a movie about "DESERT Tigers." :S
Reverend: I'm sorry to keep harshing your mellow, man! :) Though as always, this is only one man's opinion, and there are some entertaining things here, as I said. Just be ready to hit the FF button anytime someone climbs into a car.
- December 4, 2008 at 10:07 AM
- Fred said...
1974 was some year for stripping nude. You had Nude for Satan, Strip Nude for Your Killer...With all this nude going on, why wasn't I getting any? Oh yeah, that's right; I was only 10 years old at the time.
I actually liked the Devil's Wedding Night, but Nude for Satan seemed like a bad remake of the Devil in Miss Jones without all of the positive aspects of that Georgina Spelvin/Harry Reems masterpiece. Well, at least Batzella could claim Nude for Satan has the chick with the high rib cage (I dated a woman 20 years ago with the same type of rib cage and no, she didn't have cosmetic surgery). And does Batzella meant "bat shit crazy" in Italian?
- December 4, 2008 at 10:22 PM
- prof. grewbeard said...
actually it was the soundtrack that got me through this one. well, that and the fact i was too stoned to work the remote anymore. which is probably why i liked the soundtrack...
does anyone else think James Harris was going around pretending to be Paul Naschy?
- December 4, 2008 at 11:10 PM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
Fred--I bow to your greater experience in rib-cage arena. :) I was kind of thinking the girl might have donated two of her ribs to create the red-and-blue painted male dancers who add their nonsense to that scene, in a blasphemous imitation of God's creation, but I guess maybe she was just sucking it in. Still, she seems inhumanly wasp-waisted and -thoraxed.
You may be right about Batzella's deeper meaning, though when I read it I think he should have been making giant monster movies. Giant, sexy monsters.
Professor--sounds to me like you probably had the optimal viewing experience for this movie! As to your Harris question, all I can say is that if he *was* trying to channel Jacinto, it was an EPIC FAIL. This movie would have been a million times awesomer with Naschy in the role of the devil. But of course that's true of every movie ever made. ;)
- December 5, 2008 at 8:32 AM
- Michael said...
Just discovered your site late last week. Well done, guys! I've quickly come to enjoy reading your reviews almost as much as I like watching the movies -- and in the same time it takes to watch a movie, I can read two or three reviews. If I don't move my mouth much. Great captions to go with your screen grabs too. They've been making me burst out in sudden, unprovoked gusts of laughter. (The wife's getting a little jumpy, I tell ya.)
Gotta take umbrage on your review of "Nude for Satan", though -- and this is significant because I'm normally a sans umbrage kinda guy. This movie is one of my desert island staples, due to its copious amounts of Euro-nudiness, Rita Calderoni's extremely generous Euro-nudiness, and Luigi's Bat-shit crazy story and direction, which I believe give the wonky proceedings a filmed-dream quality. (David Lynch -- You've been schooled, bitch!) So give it another shot, will ya? I mean, 1.5 thumbs? You can't even drink a 40 of Schlitz malt liquor with 1.5 thumbs!
- April 19, 2009 at 10:47 PM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
Hi Michael, thanks for stopping by! And for all the kind words...makes all my hard work (i.e., fucking off geeking out on movies when I should be working) seem somehow worthwhile! ;)
As to your tender feelings toward "Nude for Satan," I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I don't begrudge you your enjoyment in the movie, though, since Old Scratch knows I find inordinate amounts of glee in flicks other people would count it a War Crime to be forced to watch. It takes all kinds to make a world. :)
However, if you enjoyed this one so much, I *highly* recommend you try to find an uncut copy of Vampire Ecstasy (1974). It was much more up *my* alley, and something tells me you'd enjoy it up yours as well.
Or...something like that. :D
Thanks for reading!
- April 20, 2009 at 4:29 PM
- Ezreal said...
I just recently saw the version without the hardcore inserts. From what I'm reading the hardcore portions were not filmed by Batzella, but were put in later. In the version out on Redemption Video right now, for instance, the lesbian scene between the servant and Susan ends shortly after the kiss, and the whole dream sequence is heavy petting (featuring Calderoni instead of an insert) rather than hardcore action. It probably serves to make the film a bit more coherent, but not much. I still agree with 100 per cent of your review.
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How Did You Meet Your Wife?
December 31, 2006, 06:14:06 AM »
I'm almost 33 years old and still unmarried with no kids.
My mother always nags me with the usual questions such as,
"When are you gonna get married and give me a grandchild? I'm not gettin' any younger ya know!"
I always tell her,
"Whenever I meet the right woman, Mom. I'll meet her when I meet her."
Quite frankly, a wife and kids seem light years away from me...
I've never had a relationship last longer than 6-8 months.
I always hit it off strong with girls and then it quickly fades.
It's always been a "life requirement" of mine that I maintain good friendships with all of my ex's.
This has led to more than a few uncomfortable moments...especially in grocery stores where my new woman & I happen to run into one of my ex's while she's shopping and I stop to shoot the breeze right there with her in the frozen food aisle for a few minutes.
I'm always polite, make the proper introductions and try to include my new girl in on the conversation even though I know she's secretly on the defensive and comparing herself to my ex in her mind.
After we leave, my girl interrogates the hell out of me about her.
Many of the women I've dated find it incomprehensible that I still talk to my ex's.
They've gone through so much sh*t with their ex-boyfriends in past relationships, they are often taken aback when they see that I'm friendly with all of my ex-girlfriends.
I'm currently single.
My last relationship didn't work out as planned.
I sometimes envy you guys for remaining married for years.
This is a question for all of you married guys here...
How did you first meet the woman you eventually married?
In a bar?
At a friends house?
Give details!
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The woman I'm with now (3 years so far) I meet dropping my kids off at a babysitters home.She was the neighbor,and the sitter intoduced us.Her whole apatment had only about 3 or 4 pieces of furniture...the rest of the place was loaded with canvases of oil paintings,some finished and some in progress.bottoles of paint brushes were everywhere,and she had paint all over her clothes.We got to talking,and I told her I was an artist too.We later went over to my house so I could show her some of my work...and I somehow ended up giving her a kiss.And the rest is history!This kinda p**sed the babysitter off,cuz she liked me.
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It was $650 for the finders fee, an additional $250 because she spoke English (oh, how I regret that), and around $700 for the plane tickets. Oh, and her shots. I think those cost about $180 or so.
In truth, Katie and I met in high school. We were in a class together and she decided to catch my eye. Wore a red, slightly off the shoulders dress, to school one day, hair done, all that. Todd and I were in the hall, between classes, when she came walking up to "innocently" say hi. After she left, Todd asks me, "Who was that?" to which I could only reply, "She is in my History class. I hadn't seen that dress before. I really need to talk to her more."
Women can be subtle like that.
Katie and I did spend a number of years apart after high school. Eventually, we figured out what we wanted.
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Man...I envy you guys.
That "love at first sight" thing never worked for me.
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I actually met my wife twice, sort of.
We originally talked in a local chatroom way back in the early days of teh interwebs. We spoke on there a couple of times but never traded email addresses and such.
A few months later, we met at a party but didn't have any idea that we had spoken to each other before. I was smitten with her but she was dating someone else at the time. That didn't keep her from flirting with me though. I figured I'd just wait it out.
A few weeks later, one of my best friends started dating a girl who just happened to be best friends with my wife. We all went out on a double date and we've been together since. As of this coming year, we'll have been together 8 years and married for 5 of those.
It wasn't until years later that we realized that we had spoken to each other in a chatroom. I don't recall how it came up, but it was a bit of a surprise.
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I met my wife in graduate school. I needed books, she worked in the bookstore. We met informally then, as I was cashing checks to go out drinking.
We became friends my 2nd year and hit it off from there. Her roommate was a klepto and she would crash in my room between classes because she didn't sleep at night for fear of her roommate taking her stuff. I was the "nice guy".
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Re: How Did You Meet Your Wife?
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I gave up trying to meet anyone through other channels. I had even pretty much given up on Match.com when she emailed me. That was in September of 2002. Four years later, we got hitched.
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Re: How Did You Meet Your Wife?
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I used to work as a nurse's aide in a nursing home in Albany, Ash, after I got my degree in Eugene.
One Christmas break, what, ten years ago now, I oriented a cute girl to the job. Took about six months to work up the nerve to ask her out... after about three months, I just realized that she was The One. So yes, I met my wife while wiping bottoms and changing clothes at an old folks' home. Let me tell you, you absolutely figure out how someone responds to stress, working a job like that with her. We got married a year after I met her.
I don't drink, so could never meet people in bars... the bar scene was always a meat mart to me anyhow. Depressing.
Don't have a bit of a clue as to how to advise you on how to properly meet women, beyond the common sense --- be yourself.
I didn't see it as a rule to stay in touch with ex-GFs. Two of them had sex with other people while supposedly dating me, so I quit talking to them, calling them, or returning calls from them, and I didn't feel un-grownup at all about that. A part of me wondered if a "real guy" would still try to be friends with them. But that part of me got quietly and efficiently garroted by the cool, self-preserving, sane part of me, and that was that.
I have only recently gotten back to emailing and cautiously talking with my first girlfriend, from high school; another, I email once in a while; another, I will never, ever contact again... Internet relationship, yuck, yuck, no...
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Re: How Did You Meet Your Wife?
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I had been working in Dallas and got transferred to Shreveport, LA to open an office there. Since it was so close to my home town (3hours) I went home every weekend the first year I was there.
My wife was an assistant manager at a burger place and the girl I was dating worked there. When the girl I was dating got non-commital on me, I asked her boss out to make her jealous. Needless to say it was the smartest "dumb idea" I ever had.
We only went together about 5 months before we got married and it has lasted 25 years so far. With some of the stuff that happened to me over the years, I really don't know what I would've done without her.
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Re: How Did You Meet Your Wife?
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January 01, 2007, 12:29:52 AM »
I was the one who had to take my youngest sister to her accordion lesson, ever Wednesday night at 7:00, lessons ran till about 8 PM so I would wait outside in my car, at about 7:10 or so the accordion orchestra (sounds dumb but they were quite good) got a break and these 2 girls would walk by on their way to a minimart just down the block, they'd come back with a couple sodas or candy bars and I would watch them go by. One was short, about 5'6" a tiny bit on the plump side and an extrovert, the other was tall, about 6'0" slim, and extremely introverted, the short one would say hi when they passed, the tall one never said anything so I finally asked Pete, that's what she liked to be called, her real name is Paula, out, she said she'd have to check with her parents, understandable, we were all teenagers. Now while all this was going on the tall girl said 4 words to me "my name is Joy", that's all she said. About 8:00 lessons were over so I left with Pete's phone number, told her I would call her the next day and that I thought meeting her mom and dad was a good idea. Orchestra was over at 8:30 so the 2 were picked up by Pete's mom and dad, on the ride home she mentioned I had asked her out, her parents wanted to know more, thats when Joy chimed in with things like "He's got to be at least 25 or 30 years old", "Why is he always out there waiting for you, I think he's some kind of weirdo" and finally "He's probably interested in just one thing, you know what guys his age are like". Needless to say I didn't take Pete out that week.
The next week I'm sitting in the car waiting for Pete and her friend to come by so I could find out what happened, only Pete was there, Joy was home sick. Pete said she wanted to talk, so I was ready for the famous you're a nice guy and all but I only like you as a friend speech, what she said was that Joy wanted to ask me to the Sadie Hawkins dance at her high school (girls take boys to this particular event) so I gave her my phone number and said I'd be happy to go with her. I actually thought that she was the better looking of the 2, but as she said so little I figured that either she wasn't interested or that she had the personality of a dirt clod. Pete also told me that Joy was very shy and that even if she knew that I'd say yes she might not call so she gave me Joy's phone number so if I didn't hear from her I should call so she could ask me the question. She also said that her dad is a police officer, so if you call or go over there be prepared, he can be very scary.
The bottom line on all of this is that I called, she sort of mumbled something I didn't hear too well, I assumed she'd asked, I said I'd go, she said great, met her father the next evening after school, we exchanged lets see if I can crush your hand handshakes (he scared the hell out of me then, found out years later that the handshake was when he decided he liked me) and we've been together ever since, 36 years. I have to admit that I feel like the luckiest man alive.
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36 years. I'm in awe.Congratulations.You gotta a Karma from me for that alone!
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Re: How Did You Meet Your Wife?
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I'm glad I'm not the only one... I met Anna via an internet method. One St. Pat's 5 years ago I went out and had a horrible time. Sulkily I went home and started noodling about on YAhoo and ended up at the Personals. Saw one that was 1) looking for friends 2) Graduate educated 3) moving to my area 4) cute as all get-out.
I sent a note, we corresponded for two weeks. She got a job nearby (independent of me) and then five years later we're expecting child #1.
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Re: How Did You Meet Your Wife?
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Ash, I married at 36, so I can kind of relate to your situation. The difference between our situations is that I was (and in some ways, still am) very shy when it comes to relationship matters. When I was about 32, I used to go visit a family every week for dinner. The wife in the family had a friend whose daughter (a single mom) was kind of looking for a relationship. The wife tried to set us up a few times, telling me that she wasn't trying and telling the daughter that she was (I don't really like set-ups, and the whole reason she thought we might hit it off was that we both loved Dr Pepper, which is, of course, a great basis for a relationship). Nothing came of it for a long time, but eventually the single mom asked me to a Star Wars party (some of her friends used to get together once a year, show all three movies in the original trilogy, play games, and generally goof off, and yes, I am a geek
). The girl and I were joking around and ended up grabbing each other's hands (think a pro-wrestling test of strength type grab, facing each other with fingers interlaced). We both kind of felt something at the contact, started hanging out/dating, and eventually married. We've been together a little over ten years now, married for over 6 of them.
I added my little story only because you seem to think time is running out for you or something; 33 is still young. I always figured I'd be alone forever, and I was fine with that; I happen to like my own company. However, God seemed to have other plans, and I'm happy this way, too; I love my wife, and her daughter is my daughter as well in every way but biologically. We are happy with each other and still embarrass our daughter by holding hands and kissing in public.
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Met my beautiful wife in Atlantic City, NJ while working as a taxi driver in 1987. Went to pick up a fare at a nursing home of about 5 girls from the Philippines. They were all talking except for one which drew my attention and I began to speak to her. The next night I picked them up again at the same time 11pm and dropped them all off and we exchanged phone numbers. We spent just about every moment together from that day on and after being together for 3 months we got married. It's now almost 20 years later and she is really a wonderful woman who is more than anyone can ask for.
Good luck Ashthecat. There is no sure way to go about finding someone, but I do hope you find her.
My wife literally saved my life over the holidays this year and I'm always very grateful to have her by my side.
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Re: How Did You Meet Your Wife?
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January 04, 2007, 08:41:25 PM »
I'm 31 and haven't been married yet (I'll actually be turning 32 in March).
Most of my relationships usually last about a year before they go bust.
The girl I'm with now is the first relationship that I had been in for about 4 years. I had vowed to remain single for an undeterminted amount of time since I was tired of having my heart broken, my emotions scrambled and my time wasted.
But my current girlfriend is wonderful. I had no intentions of dating again but I ran into her at a book store near my house. I was buying some books on Stanley Kubrick, Kurosawa and Terry Gilliam and she had a huge interest in those filmmakers as well.
We started talking in the coffee area and we've been together for about 14 months now.
She still can't quite figure out though how I can watch a high brow art house movie and then turn around and watch Kung Pow: enter the Fist in one sitting.
I'm not even going to start thinking about anyting past tomorrow as I'm just enjoying "the now" for the time being.
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Wayland duo serving up kindness for more than two decades
PLAINVIEW – Don't expect to find Emmitt Tipton in his office around 11 a.m. on Thursdays. And if you're looking in the chemistry lab for Dr. Harold Temple around that same time, don't bet on it.
The two have worked at Wayland Baptist University for several decades, and for nearly all that time, they've shared a Thursday morning ritual that has touched the lives of hundreds during that time.
Tipton, who serves as dean of students at Wayland and a former business professor, and Temple, professor of chemistry, share a Meals on Wheels route in Plainview, a service project they first started in 1983.
The route started as a project of the Plainview Breakfast Lions Club in the early 1980s under then-president John Matsler. When Temple joined the Lions Club in 1983, he and Tipton picked up the route as their pet project of service for the Lions.
The routine stuck.
"We've loved doing it, and our time schedules would allow us to do it, so we've just always done it," Tipton said. "We just made sure over the years not to schedule any classes on the 11 o'clock hour."
The pair ran a route near 26th and Joliet for the first few years, but since then have had the same basic area, covering the Westgate addition and homes west of Yonkers. The route changes from time to time as folks are added or taken off the rolls, but Tipton said it averages out to about 12 people each week.
Tipton and Temple have the route down to an art, from the moment they pick up the meals and milk carrier from the Covenant Hospital Plainview dock area to the time they return the empty carriers and get back to work. Tipton often drives his vehicle, with Temple in the passenger seat with the milk carrier and address cards.
As Tipton pulls into the driveway, Temple gets ready to grab a meal, rapping softly on the rear window for Tipton to roll it down. After the delivery, they're back on their way to the next stop.
"We're a little faster if I deliver," Temple jokes.
"He moves faster than I do," Tipton adds with a smile.
Along the route, the pair enjoy visiting with each other, swapping "grandpa" stories or just catching up on life. Over they years, they've built quite a friendship and enjoy each other's company.
But they really enjoy getting to visit – however briefly – with the folks on their delivery route, sharing an encouraging word or asking about family.
"The neat thing is getting to minister to so many people," Tipton said. "I like to talk and sometimes that slows us down. But we've gotten to know so many people over the years."
"Most of our route is elderly ladies and they are always very appreciative of the visit," Temple added. "Sometimes we're the only people they get to see that day.
"I've enjoyed meeting all the people you wouldn't ordinarily know, and I like our chance to visit as well."
The involvement doesn't always end once the meals are delivered. Tipton admits he's made additional visits during the week to some folks he knows just to visit longer. And the two keep a keen eye out for other needs the individuals may have. For instance, the Lions Club painted one lady's house that was in great need, and they've reported the need for repairs or other problems at clients' homes.
As things arise, from time to time the delivery duo is left alone for the route, and Tipton said he often picks his granddaughter up to help or asks a Wayland student to come along.
Even after these decades of driving the route, both Tipton and Temple admit they've just plain forgotten the route every now and then and had to call and remind one another. But except for the occasional memory lapses, everything else has gone smoothy.
"We've only dropped one meal in all these years, and I did it," Tipton laughs. "We had to go back to the hospital and get another one."
The pair plan to continue the route as long as they're physically able to do so.
Meals on Wheels provides hot meals during the noon hour for an average of 115 persons in Plainview each day on 11 routes.