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After the runaway success of Fall of the House of Usher and Pit and the Pendulum, Corman was growing dissatisfied with his AIP contract. He had proven to be a profitable director, and now he was a critically acclaimed director as well. His two films had more or less single-handedly lifted the reputation of AIP out of the realm of the drive-in circuit and established them as a genuine studio that made genuine movies with genuine class. Corman's two Poe films also lifted the flagging reputation of horror, which since its heyday at Universal during the 1930s had sunk lower and lower until it was basically considered schlock, then almost replaced entirely by science-fiction and Communist paranoia films. Hammer's Horror of Dracula and Curse of Frankenstein had gone a long way to revitalizing the horror genre, but Corman's Poe films undoubtedly contributed a great deal to solidifying the resuscitation, at broad but especially in the United States where theater owners were proud to see that yep, we could make 'em just as good here as they could over there.
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Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
When a creature is so vile, so evil, so much an affront to the nature of the world and of God himself as is the vampire Count Dracula, there is no easy way to destroy him and keep him down. So it is that in every episode of man's struggle against this infernal prince of darkness, we mortals seem to succeed in wholly destroying this spawn of Satan only to see him find some way to cheat death yet again, as he has for so many centuries now, so that he may once again rise up and cast his long shadow of terror and bloodshed across the countryside. It seems this notorious bloodsucker has any number of ways he can reverse the effects of his apparent destruction, but the most powerful one by far is making certain that his movie provides bushel baskets full of money for the producers.
Pit and the Pendulum
In 1960, American International Pictures – well-known for being a low-budget film production house possessed of some genuine talent – released The Fall of the House of Usher. It was something entirely new for the company: a color picture, released by itself instead of as part of a black and white double-feature package as was standard operating procedure for AIP. Director Roger Corman, one of the studio's most valuable assets, had pushed for AIP to extend their usual shooting schedule (from ten days to fifteen!) and shoot the film in color. AIP was wary, but Corman had proven his ability to deliver profitable results for the company over and over, so after hearing his pitch, they were willing to give the benefit of the doubt to his risky venture. With Corman as director, Vincent Price as the star, and Egdar Allan Poe as the source material, it seemed like it would be a decent enough success.
Bloody Territories
For a long time, yakuza films were the big missing piece of puzzle that is Japanese film in America. In the years before DVD, you could find any number of groovy Japanese monster movies. Sure, they were pan and scan and dubbed, but few people thought to be offended by such things at the time because we were simply happy to be watching Godzilla or Yog or any other creature smashing up the place. Samurai movies were a bit scarcer, but at least they were represented by a smattering of titles. Yakuza films were a vast and largely untapped reservoir just waiting to be unleashed on American fans who had perhaps read about the films, or knew people in Japan who had seen them, but had otherwise been limited to little more than tantalizing photos in magazines and stories about movies in which guys screamed a lot and cut off their pinky fingers.
Fall of the House of Usher
So this is the one that started it all, so to speak, so long as you consider "it all" to be the first cycle of films based, sometimes extremely loosely, on the works of Edgar Allen Poe, and directed by low-budget legend Roger Corman. Prior to this film, Corman had made a name for himself slapping together drive-in quickies while Price had become a beloved horror film icon working with William Castle. Film production company AIP had specialized primarily in black-and-white genre pictures, made two at a time with ten-day shooting schedules. Everyone came together for this historic meeting of elements that remains, to this day, one of the best examples of American-made gothic horror films. Corman's Poe films for American International Pictures became to the United States what Hammer films were in England: low budget, wonderfully acted, gorgeously designed horror films dripping with atmosphere and literary tradition. It was Corman's first picture in scope, and one of AIP's first color films to be sold as an individual movie rather than as part of a package. It also had an extended shooting schedule – a whopping fifteen days as opposed to ten.
Dracula, Prince of Darkness
For many, the first official sequel to Hammer's groundbreaking Horror of Dracula, an oft-neglected film called Brides of Dracula, was little more than a pit stop on the road to this film, the second sequel but first to feature the return of Christopher Lee in the title role of Count Dracula. Hoping to avoid being typecast as Dracula, Lee resisted doing the sequel, and it was another eight years or so before he agreed to don the opera cape once again and reprise the role that made him famous. In that time, he'd built up a pretty solid and diverse career that would ensure he would not become "nothing but Dracula" to the audience. Of course, in the end, he was best known as Dracula, but what can you do? He would, I assume, remain cranky about people calling him Dracula until, some decades later, everyone just started calling him Saruman.
Brides of Dracula
When people talk about the sequence of films that make up Hammer Studio's "Dracula" series, a good many of them make the eight-year leap from the first film, 1958's Horror of Dracula to Dracula, Prince of Darkness in 1966. It's quite a jump, indeed, but one that seems to land you just about where you need to be, with the latter film beginning with a quick recap of the climax from the former. What gets lost in between the two films is the actual first sequel to Horror of Dracula, which is a shame because it's one of the best in the series, and one of the best vampire films Hammer ever produced.
Spirits of the Dead
Anyone claiming that Spirits of the Dead isn't a good movie is probably only just saying that because Vadim's contribution to this anthology of Edgar Allen Poe adaptations as conceived by three of Europe's maverick directors is so sloppy and unengaging. Vadim's contribution, "Metzengerstein," is certainly not the way you'd want to start a film. As was par for the man, Vadim casts his current sexy main squeeze in the lead, which just happened at the time to be Jane Fonda. The duo were fresh off Barbarella, and this story was originally envisioned as a feature film follow-up to that piece of sci-fi pop art. How they could have every stretched this thing out to a full running time is beyond me, though it's not as if Vadim wasn't a pro at stretching out thin-to-nonexistent plots and pasting them together with eye-popping, mind blowing costume and set design. Fonda plays the Countess Metzengerstein, heir to a vast fortune she squanders by throwing lavish orgies and torturing the underlings. Actually, they're rather dull and lifeless orgies. You know, orgies always seem like a good idea until you try and hammer out the logistics of the whole thing. As for me, I'd be too worried about people knocking stuff over. Anyway, she delights in hurling barbs over the fence at her more modest cousin, played by none other than Jane's brother, Peter. Eventually, she becomes sexually obsessed with him — kind of, well, you know, but then this is Roger Vadim we're talking about, and it was the sixties — until he rebuffs her advances. I mean, heck, Henry was probably already pretty steamed at the both of them for being a coupla hippies. Incest would have really set him off.
As revenge, the mad Ms. Metzengerstein burns down his stables, and he in turn dies in the fire trying to save his horses. Or so it would seem. A big black stallion bursts through the flames and gallops to safety, but there is no record of such a horse in the stable. Metzengerstein becomes convinced that the horse is the reincarnation of her beloved cousin, and her obsession with the horse crosses into madness and, frankly, borders on bestiality. Despite all the weird stuff thrown into the mix, this is a decidedly dull and uninspired way to kick off the film. The costuming, usually one of Vadim's only strong points, is relatively without shock or beauty. Jane dons some navel-exposing Little Lord Fauntleroy type outfits, but everything else looks like it's on loan from the local community theater. The cinematography is listless, and Vadim's usually striking composition of scenes is non-existent. In addition, everything is shot in soft-focus "Playboy-o-vision." The English speaking actors are dubbed into French in the currently available version, which means the only way we can judge their performances is through body language, most of which consists of them staring half-stoned at the camera.
The tone of the film is all wrong too, at least in my opinion. A tale of mystery and the bizarre, as this is meant to be, should have some sense of menace and the macabre, some sort of tension. There is none of that here, and the film instead unfolds like a languid, ethereal, and intensely boring dream. Fairy tales and Cocteau Twins songs conjure up more darkness and dread than this supposed Edgar Allen Poe tale. There are some nice crumbling castles and decaying seaside scenery, but Vadim doesn't seem to understand how to take thematic advantage of it or relate it to the decaying morality and mental state of his central Nero/Caligula-like figure (though I must say I bet Jane Fonda's figure is better than Nero or Caligula's). When you fail to match even someone as hit-or-miss with similar atmosphere as, say, France's Jean Rollin, you know you're way off the mark. It's like Vadim wasn't even trying here. The hilariously silly ending was repeated in Vadim's 1973 film Don Juan (Or if Don Juan Were a Woman), which we covered right up there at the very beginning of this journal.
Things pick up, but only just, for the second story in the trilogy. Luis Malle directs "William Wilson." Malle is probably most infamous for flirting with child pornography when he introduced the world to Brooke Shields in his 1978 film Pretty Baby. Before that, he was a member of the French New Wave, which helped get him this gig. He's pretty far off his game for this outing, though, turning in an entry that manages to be less ponderous and a little more tense and eerie than Vadim's meandering hunk of nonsense, but it still just doesn't play out the way it should, perhaps because the story itself has been done so many times and this one offers nothing new. French heartthrob Alain Delon stars as the titular Wilson, whom we meet as he stumbles into a confessional and claims to have killed a man. Through a series of flashbacks, we learn the history of Wilson, who in every regard is a grade-a prick. As a young boy attending a military school where his classmate was no doubt Damien from The Omen II, he encounters a boy with the same name as he who seems dedicated to countering everything he does. He encounters this double, who even grows to look exactly like him, throughout various points in his life until, ultimately, they face one another in a fencing duel.
There's very little to surprise here. The man fighting his doppleganger, and by killing it killing himself, is nothing new, and Malle's approach is so straight-forward and by the books that the story, while decent for a single viewing, has nothing more to offer. Like Vadim, Malle seems to almost be phoning it in just to collect his paycheck. The primary difference is that the performers, native French speakers, are better and the story is, as I said, OK at least for the first go-round. Brigitte Bardot shows up briefly in a gambling scene. All in all, the segment isn't bad. Direction is nice, acting is good, and it moves at a fair clip. There are also a few effective moments, chiefly the scene of a young Wilson lowering a new student into a barrel full of rats and a later scene in which Wilson, now a medical student, seeks to practice his dissection technique on a living subject. So OK, it's not bad. It's just not that interesting.
If you make it through the awful first story and middling second, they pay-off is Federico Fellini's entry, the final piece in the trilogy and easily one of the most delirious, grotesque, and utterly insane forty minutes of film you'll ever come across. Fellini was known for a lot of things, not the least of which was his fondness for the absurd. If you're familiar with the director, and you should at least try to be, then try to imagine everything about him and his style distilled down and concentrated in one forty-minute sequence. Quite frankly, it's almost too much, and that's simply divine.
His story is "Toby Dammit," based loosely on Poe's "Never Bet the Devil Your Head." A wild-eyed, completely mad looking Terence Stamp stars as Dammit, a drunken, wild British film actor who seems to be hovering on the brink of a career collapse. He travels to Italy to star in a film in which Jesus is reincarnated as a pioneer in the American West, but nothing about his trip to Rome is the least bit ordinary. Fellini saturates his film in colors, and they're all the wrong ones for what should be going on. Think of film that has been cross-processed. The world of Toby Dammit is awash in red and yellow, billowing orange clouds and dust, like driving through someone's hallucination of the end of the world. Given the Biblical nature of the film Dammit is to be starring in, it wouldn't surprise me if Fellini's own inspiration for the look of the film came straight from the Book of Revelations.
Dammit's biggest problem, besides his addiction to and disdain for fame, is that he is haunted by visions of a smiling young blonde girl (shades of Mario Bava's Kill, Baby, Kill) who he believes to be The Devil himself. We follow Dammit onto a bizarre talk show, an even more bizarre awards show, and finally a manic, out of control car ride as he attempts to escape the increasingly bizarre and artificial landscape around him (people on the street are frozen in mid-motion, and eventually become mannequins).
The difference between the two French directors and the Italian Fellini couldn't be more obvious. He seizes his story with gusto, indulging every bizarre notion that crosses his mind and throwing it all onto the screen with a madcap zeal totally lacking in Vadim's entry and an absolute lack of predictability as seen in Malle's. Nothing is the slightest bit real. It's all highly stylized and has its grotesque alien factor cranked to the very top. Everyone is grossly overdone. Their make-up is outrageous; their movements are more the movements of stage props and puppets. Lights flash and glitter from every angle, and a non-stop of psychedelic detail and sheer lunacy require that you watch the segment several times just to catch everything that goes on in each scene.
And standing above this gaudy, gorgeous horror show, this gleeful dissection of fame and the film industry (or rather, the industries that affix themselves to the film industry) is Terence Stamp, white-faced and genuinely looking like he's just come of a weeklong binge. He's haggard and sweaty and pasty and looks utterly spent, while at the same time seeming completely and utterly hysterical. Although in the currently available version all his dialog has been dubbed into French, unlike the Fondas in the first segment, he gives you plenty more by which to judge his frenzied performance. He's a whirlwind of agitated energy, and it's one of the best performances in the career of one of England's best actors. It's impossible not to compare him here to Malcolm McDowell's equally cracked performance in 1971's A Clockwork Orange. I'm no expert on the film, but I'm willing to bet Stamp's turn as Dammit (right down to the wild driving scene) was a major influence on both Kubrick as director and McDowell as actor. Spirits of the Dead is owned by Fellini's segment, and Stamp owns that segment. It is sublime, and a must-see.
Where Vadim and Malle try, or we assume they try, to invoke dreamlike and Gothic horror atmospheres respectively, grounding themselves in historical settings and costumes, Fellini sets his film in a warped and twisted version of the present, a fever dream where the mood he goes for is more one of psychosis and hysteria than creeping dread (or oozing boredom, in Vadim's case). "Toby Dammit" is as funny as it is warped. It is a celebration, in it's own way, and by dispensing entirely with the "typical" Poe setting, Fellini seems to have achieved the only truly eerie Poe feeling in the entire anthology, though it might be Poe on one of his famous drug binges. Every scene drips with the promise of menace, albeit a completely absurd one, and his ending is as comical as it is spooky. And those images of the maniacally grinning little girl/Satan? Positively brilliant. The whole thing is an orgy of a psychotic, surreal Hell on Earth populated by annoying comedians and glittering women in gigantic false eyelashes.
So skip the first segment. Sit through Malle's middle segment, but for the devil's ball-bouncing sake, don't miss Fellini's finale. It's the sort of lunatic filmmaking that makes you happy to be watching a movie. It's a five-star segment trapped in an otherwise two-star film, but more than justifies the effort of getting through the film.
King of Kings
I'm no Christian. This is probably pretty obvious to anyone who's been with us for a while. I don't believe in God. Not any of them. Well, maybe God of Gamblers, but that's about it. However, while this would place me firmly in the camp of the atheists, I'm much happier not camping with anyone based on religious beliefs or lack thereof. Where I confuse people is that I like to discuss religion and religious evens, the sociology and history of religion, religious and Biblical archaeology, but I have absolutely zero interest in debating the existence of God. It bores me to tears utterly and completely. I don't want to be argued at by people trying to convert me any more or less than I want to hear atheists hurling their arguments at believers. I'm a laid-back kind of non-believer who doesn't care what you dig, at least not up until the point where you start executing people for religious reasons.
Our rock and roll albums teach us that Hell is one big party town, but Jack Chick comic tracts would have us believe otherwise. Hell can take the shape of many different places. In one movie, it is an oppressively hot tropical village where b-grade made-for-television movie actors sweat profusely. In other movies, legions of the damned march pointlessly to and fro while a killer red robot stands on a mountain. My personal hell, of course, involves frequent broadcasts of Brat Pack movies and a stereo that only plays adult contemporary hits and that "Our God is an Awesome God" song.
Some people don't even believe in Hell, and I guess I'd have to be among them since I'm not a religious fellow. But still, Hell is fun to talk about. It's a lot more interesting than Heaven, even to Christians. Fire and brimstone sermons are a dime a dozen, and each one goes into graphic detail regarding the eternal sufferings one endures in Hell. When Dante wrote his epic Divine Comedy, he spent about five pages on Purgatory, a couple of pages on Heaven, and about a million pages on Hell. Everyone wants to describe Hell, but no one seems all that into Heaven. About the best we get is people wear a lot of robes, and maybe it's foggy. Other than that, who knows? The problem with Heaven is that it's a place where everything is basically going all right. While that may not be a bad way to live, it doesn't make for very dramatic literature.
This is why filmmakers, much like Renaissance poets, tend to dwell on Hell while dashing off Heaven scenes with little imagination or consideration. But Hell — now there's a place worth writing about. It's miserable, fiery, evil, and full of sin. Actually, I don't know if it's full of sin or just full of sinners. Seems like if you were a big time sinner in life, then Hell would be a place where you don't get to do any more sinnin'. I know I like me a good sin every now and then, and I'd be pretty annoyed if every time I tried to commit a sin, the Devil popped up to make me stop. Likewise, Heaven is a place where, if you didn't sin in your life, you get to sin like mad for all eternity. I don't know. This theory is probably why I'm not a preacherman.
Christians don't have a monopoly on Hell, of course, and lots of other religions serve up their own particular brand of post-mortem eternal suffering. One of the most wild and creative visions of Hell comes from Japan, and more specifically from the gloriously twisted imagination of famed horror director Nobuo Nakagawa. Nakagawa, one of the most respected names in the history of classic Japanese horror cinema, became an instant favorite of mine after I saw his stunning samurai ghost film Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan, a film that combined the more traditional slow build-up with some truly shocking gore scenes the likes of which were unheard of in 1959. A year later, he completely outdid himself with the film Jigoku, also known as Sinners of Hell.
People generally credit HG Lewis' outrageous 1963 film Blood Feast as the first splatter or gore film, a claim that betrays a lack of knowledge regarding horror and shock cinema on a global scale. Nakagawa not only beat Lewis to the punch, but he did it with a movie that is both far bloodier and far better than Lewis' ridiculously cheap but enjoyable romp. Jigoku is splatter that also manages to maintain a high production value, outrageous imagination, and a truly warped surrealism that sets it far apart from the legions of splatter films from all over the world that would follow in its wake. Part of the reason the film probably isn't as widely known as Lewis' film, apart from it being Japanese, is that while it delivers the grue, it's all reserved until the final third of the film. Up until that point, the movie is fairly slow in its pace, allowing time for the development of characters, the explanation of situations, and other aspects of basic storytelling that the kids these days seem not to have the patience for.
We begin things with a credit sequence that is positively James Bond in nature, or at least Seijun Suzuki. Scantily clad, curvatious femmes in weird shadows and blue light populate the sequence, which then leads into a montage of hellish images that will be revisited during the film's finale. Having thus shocked the viewer right out of the gate, Nakagawa continues with the story proper. A college professor is giving the typical movie professor lecture on concepts of hell, the kind of lecture that never actually takes place in real classrooms. One of the students, Shiro (Shigeru Amachi, who also played the wicked samurai lead in Tokaido Yatsuya Kaidan), is especially interested for a couple different reasons. First, he's about to marry the professor's daughter, but more influentially, he and a shady acquaintance named Tamura were recently involved in a hit and run murder. As a result, damnation, sin, and guilt have been weighing pretty heavily on Shiro's mind.
He and Tamura had been out for a drive that night when a drunken petty criminal stumbled out in front of their car. Though it was clearly not their fault and the police would probably write the matter off entirely as an accident, Tamura – who had been at the wheel – convinces Shiro not to report the incident since no one saw it. Though he is uncomfortable with such a course of action, Shiro is eventually persuaded by the darker, somewhat mysterious Tamura. Shiro begins to question why he even hangs out with this thoroughly creepy individual. "Who is this guy Tamura?" Shiro thinks to himself. "I know I don't like him." I guess everyone has one of those people in their lives who you really just absolutely do not like, and yet you always seem thrown together with them regardless of how much you strive to avoid them.
The big hole in Tamura's plot is that the crime did not go unwitnessed. The gangster's aging mother actually saw the whole thing, but rather than go to the police and settle for a court battle that will probably not end too horribly for Shiro and Tamura, she gives the license number to the recently widowed wife of the gangster, a fiery woman who immediately vows to hunt down the men who killed her man and extract horrible revenge on them. As if having the sexy but murderous widow of a gangster your creepy acquaintance killed after you isn't enough of a hassle, Shiro is soon involved in another car accident, this one resulting in the death of his fiancee, the professor's daughter.
Spurned by her relatives and obviously not getting a passing grade in the professor's theology class, Shiro seeks solace in the embrace of a young hussy named Yoko, who we immediately recognized as the vengeful widow. Before she can stick an ice pick in the back of his skull, however, he gets word that his mother is dying and so decides to pack up and leave town, his destination being to visit his ailing mother out in the countryside.
Upon reaching the Tenjoen Senior Citizens Facility where his mother lies dying, things hardly improve for the troubled young man. His mom, of course, is at death's door. His father is an unrepentant asshole who ignores his dying wife in the next room in favor of getting it on with a young harlot from the city. He also runs into the friendly and proper young Sachiko, who happens to look like his recently deceased fiancée. Oh, and there's the insane artist who spends all day working on paintings of Hell, a corrupt cop, a criminally negligent doctor, a seedy reporter, and a couple other rakehells and ne'er-do-well. Put it all together and you have one hell of those "gathering of lost souls" type things. Suffice it to say that this motley gang of sweaty sinners is hardly the pick-me-up Shiro was needing.
Shiro is at least happy hanging out with his dead fiancee's doppleganger, but the determined advances of his father's mistress are unwelcome. Equally unwelcome is Tamura, who shows up to taunt everyone and expose their secret shameful pasts. Slightly more welcome is the old professor, who is ready to reconcile his differences with Shiro, at least until Tamura starts talking about how the old man was a jackass during World War II and stole his wounded buddy's canteen, then left said buddy to die. It's really one of those parties that involves too much alcohol and "truth or dare."
Not one to have a moment of good luck, Shiro's life is further complicated when both Yoko shows up. She reveals her background then attempts to shoot Shiro. A struggle on a bridge results in Yoko accidentally plunging to her death. Maybe Shiro should just stay home. When Tamura shows up to taunt Shiro and generally act like an asshole, the two get into a fight and Tamura falls off the bridge, too! All this is witnessed by Yoko's crazy old mother-in-law, who also witnessed the hit and run and apparently spends entire weeks hiding in the bushes around various towns hoping to catch a glimpse of some knavery.
During a party to celebrate the center's tenth anniversary, everyone gets drunk and belligerent and generally behaves like those old guys you see trying to punch each other out in Japanese parliamentary meetings. When the dad's young harlot puts the moves on an exhausted Shiro, the father catches them and tries to kill her. The only reason she doesn't succeed is because she falls down the stairs while running away and breaks her neck. Lesson learned: don't be friends with Shiro. His dad immediately conspires to cover it up, and they both head back to the main hall where people are passed out, fooling around, or generally behaving like the scum of the earth. Not one to stay dead for long, a pale and deathly looking Tamura shows up to hurl barbs and taunts yet again, and as the clock strikes nine, Shiro finally loses it and tries to choke Tamura to death, his actions slightly hampered by the fact that while trying to choke Tamura to death, he himself is being choked to death by Yoko's crazy mother-in-law. About that time, the clock freezes, and the fiery pits of hell open up to consume the various lost souls bickering with one another in the living room! That will kill a party even faster than breaking a lamp or getting caught staring at the hostess' cleavage.
Shiro finds himself on the misty, barren banks of the river of death, and it is here that the movie kicks its eerie surrealism into high gear. I'd be slightly surprised if future surreal horror auteurs like Lucio Fulci didn't see this movie. There are parts of the landscape of Hell that look very much like the hellish landscapes from The Beyond. The king of hell shows up to bellow about damnation. On the banks of the river, he is met by his inescapable load, Tamura, who tells him they are destined to burn in hell together. Not one to accept the word of a psychopath who recently returned from the dead only to quickly return back to being dead, Shiro wanders off through the various levels of hell just like the protagonist in Dante's Inferno (as opposed to Dario's Inferno).
He first encounters his recently departed fiancée, who is spending her time in hell stacking rocks along the riverbank. Her sin: dying before her parents, which seems like a pretty lame thing to get sent to hell for, though not as lame as being damned for driving a Volkswagen backwards into the bay, if you know what I mean (and I bet at least three of you do). She informs Shiro that she was seconds away from joyfully telling him she was pregnant, but got sidetracked by the whole being killed in a car wreck thing. As if Shiro didn't have enough to deal with, he now understands that their baby, too, is condemned to Hell. This is pretty harsh, really.
Next thing you know, people are being dangled upside down with spikes jammed through their blood-gushing necks. They are being forced to drink from a river filled with pus and bile and other tasty treats (pus and bile custard is only slightly more disgusting than your average British fare, though). Others are forced to simply run around in a big confused circle forever, sort of like being stuck in a never-ending Limp Bizkit concert. One may provide the film's most shocking and gruesome atrocity as his skin is ripped away, leaving a bloody skeleton covered with pulsating, dripping organs.
As Shiro searches desperately for his child, he is still tormented by Shiro, who is revealed to be a demon and eventually tortured just to shut him the hell up. Shiro finally finds his child on a giant flaming wheel of life and struggles in vain to rescue the child and possibly achieve some sort of salvation from the horrors of hell. Needless to say, he appears to fail miserably.
What Nakagawa accomplishes in the final thirty minutes of this film is truly mind-blowing. His sets are not lavish, but instead make ingenious use of smoke, multi-colored lighting, superimposition, fire, and animation to create an otherworldly and terrifying nightmare landscape. It's the sort of thing Fulci spent his entire life trying to achieve (and did, to some degree, in The Beyond): an overwhelmingly eerie, alien world that feels like you've stepped right into a Salvador Dali painting. Cinematically, it seems to forecast the out-of-control artistic style of maverick film makers like Seijun Suzuki, who would apply similar color-saturated hallucinations to his yakuza films. As grisly as the effects to come are, they are overshadowed by the sheer wild imagination put into the set pieces they inhabit.
Simply put, the gore is good. The scene of the man being flayed alive, lying there screaming as his organs pulsate and spew blood, is really something else. I can only imagine how audiences must have reacted in 1960, because it's still a very successful and bloody effect, far more shocking than anything HG Lewis would attempt a few years later with his better known but far worse Blood Feast. Part of what makes the splatter content of Jigoku so powerful is that the movie itself is a very well crafted work of art. While some of the editing during the final journey through Hell is confusing, the movie as a whole is technically sound, not to mention full of great writing, pacing, and acting. Lewis' splatterfest is, of course, amazingly bad in all departments (though not at all unfun to watch).
Pioneering though it was, Jigoku was not necessarily alone in its move toward a more shocking, more surreal, or just plain bloodier presentation. While it was blowing the minds of unsuspecting patrons in Japan, the West was getting assaulted by Alfred Hitchcock's ground-breaking Psycho, which while not sharing the same artistic style as Nakagawa's film, certainly shares the same desire to shock, amuse, confuse, and break new ground in what was a very tired and overly safe genre. Though not nearly as well-known today, even in Japan, Jigoku is every bit as much responsible for throwing open the doors to a new type of horror as was Hitchcock's film. From the seeds planted by these films came glorious monstrosities like Blood Feast and the various Hammer horror films that continued to push the envelope of gore and sexuality throughout the 1960s.
Jigoku snares and disarms you with its very slow-paced, conventional first hour, leaving you completely unprepared for the moment when the clock stops and everyone is plunged into the depths of the underworld. Nakagawa once again proves himself a master of the classic horror film while, at the same time, defiantly showing that he is not bound by the conventions and can move the genre into bold new territory. It is a cautionary tale about the wages of sin and indulgence, yet it communicates its message without seeming preachy and its gore without seeming exploitive. Jigoku is a classic of the horror genre, and self-respecting fan with interest in horror owes it to themselves to track this horrible beauty of a film down.


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Hello there... To whoever just happens to read this... If you need help, just ask. Have a good one.
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nice, better than my attempts...
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More unconventional Christmas caroling:
"Joy to the world, Mitt Romney is here
Let America receive its Lyin' King.
He'll tell you what you want to hear.
He'll flip-flop any day of the year.
This dapper Republican gent
lives among the top one percent
anti-Mitts came and went
isn't he president yet?"
"I saw Rick Santorum kissing Herman Cain
backstage at a Republican debate.
It was an innocent peck on the cheek
but it could lead to something unique.
Together they could redefine the word mandate.
I saw Rick Santorum making eyes at Jon Huntsman
during a debate commercial break.
It was a "hope nobody saw that glance"
So no rumors, please, of a budding gay romance.
Still, his pet name for Rick Perry is 'beefcake.' "
"I'm dreaming of a Bachmann White House
with every mis-statement of facts she makes.
So history is not her strong suit —-
she's spunky, right wing-nut and cute —-
and tough enough to do whatever it takes.
I'm dreaming of a Bachmann White house
she'll repeal Obamacare and invade Iran.
It's a running joke her hubby as First Man.
No one could lead us in the Rapture like she can."


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I watched This Morning good to see Pete trying to respond positively to Andrews death by working with Cancer Research to set up a couple of special buses which tour the country where people can be checked to help early detection of cancer. Hes got to raise half a million pounds a year to keep them running so not a trivial undertaking.
Indeed; hopefully it will have some positive benefits.
If it is worked hard on, hopefully it will have some positive effects for people. The Marie Keating Foundation was set up by Ronan Keating's family as a result of their family experience with cancer, and is going strong with information about cancer and Mobile Information Units, so it is possible.
Let's hope so anyway - I'm all for awareness of early detection.
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Looking at mine, I would say no. Mind you I am not sure why you would want one anyway. Seems to defeat the purpose of having these as speakers.
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Actually,the question would be obviously strange but they are speakers and sometimes you might want to listen to the sound through Headphones, but they do not have an outlet for Headphones,but my Sticks II have a 3.5 phono pin those III have a 3.5 jack ! and there is a 2 way plug pus RCA so mine was just a 3.5 pin so some audio may have a out pin so that makes sense. The Answer to the comment does it have a head phone socket , so what would the sound be like ? if it did.
According to some research I read that they do have a Analog to Digital to Analog chip so if you input Analog then it will come out Digital ,depending on source, and play analog and if you wanted Analog you can.
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Well... it took a little while but I finally got to put up the photos I took while on vacation at TDR earlier in November, alongside my G-Fan.
Not much new to add to what has already been said here...
TDL went a bit below expectations in regards to this year's holiday offerings. No new castle xmas show which to me is sacrilegious. Instead, we got a small affair but lovely Castle Lighting ceremony. The parade was probably the longest Xmas parade ever presented at TDL, but it was also short on surprises... No show mode, only a handful of new floats, but plenty of wonderful costuming that would sink the budget at other Disney parks hand down. The parade had a WDW feel with a similarly styled medley of xmas songs... however, the parade loop was newly recorded and featured different styles for every float in the show. A cd of that new xmas music is avail for sale. Most interesting is the hawaiian take on xmas tunes during the Stitch and Lilo float. Of course.. while recycling the regular floats of the daytime parade for the xmas procession has never been done before at TDL (to the best of my recollection), the re-dressing of the floats for xmas was effective and well done for the most part. Yet, I would have preferred a totally new parade with new music in it as has been the case in many years past.
Also on this photo album... you get to enjoy some few of my favorite moments from regular shows..One man's dream 2, Minnie O Minnie, Mickey Mouse Revue. You also get to take the Happiest Cruise that ever sailed, all decked out for Xmas. Finally... hardly any other park does Xmas decor better than TDL (even though DLP and DL are gaining on TDL's turf), and here is photographic proof that the icing on the cake can be found around TDL's hub, with wonderful photo areas, ranging from Dumbo to Peter Pan, to Beauty and the Beast..
Finally... Dreamlights. A lovely new Xmas overlay and slightly altered floats transform the nightly parade into an electric Xmas this year. Again, the work on the floats was not overly elaborate but effective enough to give something new to the regular guests.
All in all... It was a slightly subdued but still wonderful Christmas event at TDL, and the merchandise did not disappoint me. :)
Over at TDS... G-Fan and I got to enjoy the super-fabulous xmas version of Big Band Beat, but due to strict photographic prohibitions inside the Broadway Theater, I was not able to capture images for you. But let me tell you... it is here where the TDR Rockettes from TDL's greatly missed Xmas Castle show do their thing this year... alongside Mickey and Minnie wearing their finest holiday attires...all capped off with an indoor snowshower over the audience. This Xmas version of BBB rocked! (as does the regular show) and is NOT to be missed if you go there.
We also got to enjoy the xmas version of "Over the Waves"..a show that I still feel lacks when compared to previous efforts and one that needs some improvements. The Xmas version of the show was seamlessly added to the regular version and the flow is not lost at all. It redeems the show because the Xmas version does bring a little soul to this otherwise lackluster production. See some photos from this xmas version in the TDS album.
Finally, G-Fan and I greatly enjoyed this year's version of Candlelight Reflections on Mediterranean Harbor. The characters are sporting colorful new outfits, as opposed to the all-gold colors used the last few years. The big barges on the show were redesigned to look like clusters of elegant chandeliers, with mirror balls to add to the sparkle as they move about the waters on the lagoon. There also appeared to be more pyro on this year's production. All in all.. a very simply, yet solemn and elegant presentation to cap the night off at TDS. Even better is the value that we guests get when they also play "BraviSEAmo!" at a special time in the early evening. Mediterranean Harbor, with it's lovely Xmas decorations, shops and eateries, and two different major lagoon shows (3 is you count the Christmas Fantasy in the Sky fireworks as well), make this area the "MUST BE AT" spot for the evening... You can't find that much value in entertainment and enjoyment in a single area at any other Disney park, with EPCOT's World Showcase being a close 2nd during the holidays, as you do here in Mediterranean Harbor in the evening hours of Xmas time. Check out the photos and get a feel for a it, I hope.
During our 3rd day day, we had to endure a rainy day all day long, but gave us the chance to enjoy the Rainy Day Parade. The 4th day, G-Fan and I escaped into the city and visited some favorite spots.. Odayba, Venus Fort Mall, Shibuya (where one of the best Disney Stores is located at) and G-Fan had his yearly photo with Godzilla in Hibiya. I have included a few shots from that as well.
Go to this link and then choose the album of your choice.. Note, I also have a new Legend of Mythica album on display, as these photos were taken from Lido Isle, probably the most popular spot to watch this show. There is so much eye candy and extravagance during Mythica to fill 3 disney parks, and the photos still miss a lot of the action during the show. An amazing "must see" production for anyone visiting TDS. In conclusion, my USJ xmas album is still up and so is HKDL's Halloween which will be taken down shortly to make room for HKDL Xmas and DLP Xmas albums before the end of the year. Hope you enjoy. here is the link!! Just choose the album you'd like to see.


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Very handy as is right next to the Vatican, and you can walk there very easily. Wifi is not available in rooms, which was quite challenging for my partner and I to book further parts of our trip. Room was clean and warm, but somewhat on the small side. Staff we're very helpful and friendly. Overall is a quite nice place to stay, but is not good value for money in terms of what is delivered with the associated price tag.
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After playing in 59 games in his rookie season of 2009-10, Scott Parse has fallen on tough times on the injury front as he was limited to just 14 games over the past two seasons. Now, with his contract expired, Parse's time in Los Angeles has, as far as I know, come to an end.
While it's difficult to recap a player who hasn't been in the Kings lineup since the first week of November, the soon-to-be 28-year-old Parse proved that he was a good contributor when he was healthy. Operative word: when.
In nine games this season, Parse scored two goals, amassed a +1 rating, recorded seven hits, four blocked shots, had one more takeaway than giveaway and averaged 11:16 of ice time per game.
When Scott Parse was on the ice, he was exciting to watch. Unfortunately, with the bad luck he's had with the injury bug, we didn't see much of him and that really is unfortunate.
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Full hollowbody sound in a compact size.
Now offered with P-90s, this comfortable model is 15% smaller than an ES-330. It has MHS P-90 pickups with reverse polarity on the bridge pickup so so they're hum-canceling when both on. It comes with a Memphis tone circuit and CTS pots for authentic tones. Hardware includes a TonePros bridge and Kluson tuners. Includes case.


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Grand Canyon Loop; 2-Up
been dreaming of doing a big grand canyon loop since moving to arizona. finally got the bike for the task and will be leaving beginning of next week. my 14yr old daughter will be coming with me and we plan on making this an adventure to remember.
here is the plan...
day 1 - Tucson to Woods Canyon Lake (181 miles)
day 2 - Woods Canyon Lake to South Rim (243 miles)
day 3 - South Rim to North Rim (195 miles)
day 4 - North Rim to Grandma's House, Leeds UT (129 miles)
2 day liaison
Day 5 - Leeds to Tucson (601 miles! :eek1 )
the first 2 days will be a majority of dirt roads except for the occasional bast down the road. the rest unfortunately are limited by time and availability. the last day is gonna be a butt killer, but by then i'm sure we will both be ready to be home and sleep in our own beds. plus, there are several options to shorten the day, i just wanted to avoid as much of phoenix and I-10 as possible. we will see how we feel when the time comes though...
my biggest concern has been gas and making sure that i'm not stuck on the side of the road with no station to be found. i believe (cross fingers) that i have it solved assuming all the gas stations are actually open and have gas.
second concern is that i have everything we will need. i have built a list over the last few days with supplies that i know i will need. now the trick is to make sure there is room for everything on the 990. we have done a couple mock runs and believe that we should have enough room but until we actually do the deed, you never quite know. theory is one thing, practice a whole 'nother.
so wish us luck. i will do my best to take pics and upload them as i can assuming i have decent cell coverage.
words of advice and caution of course are appreciated.
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Try to find the time to walk down into the canyon on the Kaibab or Bright Angel Trail, if only for twenty or thirty minutes. You will get a perspective you can't get from the rim. pk
laramie :beer
Good luck!
Have a safe journey.....that's a trip that I want to make too although the route would be a little different. Thanks for doing up a RR and have fun!
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laramie :beer
This will be a trip for both you to remember, don't forget to allow your daughter to take her own pics , even with those throw away cameras, she will have something to start her own scrap book.
That 990 will haul all you need. Wife and I did a 7 day trip to SE Utah on this 99 LC4 ADv R , camping all sleeps ,pics available if you wish.
Best of luck , you will have lots of awesome memories . We all look forward to your RR
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Sounds like a great father/daughter trip! Be safe and possibly look at a aux fuel can for the longer distances between fuel stations
hopeing to see gc in october, so i'm taking notes :D
Looking forward to following along. Have fun.
Edit, Monday's forecast is for 108F. Be safe and start hydrating over the weekend.
does beer count as hydration? :lol3
been obsessing over the route double checking everything and think i may make some changes to day 2. i got this route from another guy and have been modifying it to fit my needs. i think i'm going to drop the stretch along I-40 and just head north instead. this will save us probably 50 miles and make it a little easier on the kid. still be able to do almost all dirt and come out at the same point just before the south entrance, but will give us more free time when we get there. i don't want to be rushed and want to have plenty of time to explore and find a good camp spot for the night. if we have spent all day on the bike, that will probably be the least of our worries.
thanks for the good wishes. keep ya posted.
laramie :beer
day 2 has been modified. i think this will make life a little better for the kid. don't want to kill her and make it so she never wants to ride again. :D
also acquired a tank bag. i was worried that i was going to run out of room, this will ensure i don't.
departure date is still set for sunday. can't wait to hit the road!
laramie :beer
hitting the road this morning. wish us luck!
laramie :beer
Have fun riding but most importantly enjoy the time with your daughter :thumb
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Did a hindu wedding on Saturday, still knackered now! 7:30am till 10:30 PM... then I hit the beers and went clubbing in harrogate
What an experience to watch, never mind photograph - at lunch time the groom's family were eating in a large room where I'd set up a couple of strobes and brollies - a bit of space is heavenly when you can get it.
This is one of my favourite shots, 2 of the guys from the stag do - just reminded me of Hale and Pace's "The Management" sketch for some reason
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nice portrait and good exposure, i think they could have been a little further away from the bg as it does tend to distract a little, G
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Smashing portrait!!
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Quote: i think they could have been a little further away from the bg as it does tend to distract a little
fair point.... but this is a wedding, not a studio shoot... there were about 150 people milling around behind me at this point, we were squashed against the fireplace with no breathing space whatsoever
give it a go some time
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Relaxed looking dudes, could be a flyer image for a TV show easily, great portrait Ade, I'm sure they will love it.
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I like the eye contact with each one of them. I'd have toned down the bright highlights on the fireplace if it was mine as I find they tend to be a bit intrusive.
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Summer Intern
David "Red Beard" Phillips, of Danville, leans against the counter, sketching a tattoo design on a piece of paper. He touches his red beard (hence the shop's name), which hasn't been cut since 1997 or trimmed since 2001. His customer stands on the other side, tapping his foot as he waits.
The phone rings, and Phillips, with a fake Scottish accent, yells at it before picking up.
There are some inherent dangers to summer that can halt plans of fun in the sun. From skin cancer to insect bites, summertime can be dangerous for those who don't play it safe.
With a greater number of people out and about enjoying the warm weather, the risk for accidents and injuries increases. The National Safe Kids Campaign says statistics indicate children will be rushed to emergency rooms around the country nearly three million times this summer. Higher rates of drowning, motor vehicle accidents and bicycle injuries occur this time of year.
Vincente Venegas had never seen a horse in person until last week, when he participated in the Unbridled Hope Horsemanship Camp.
"I was like, 'Holy crap, they are huge,'" said Venegas, 11, of Lebanon.
He admitted that he was nervous about riding the horse at first, although he's glad that he did.
"It's actually fun now," he said.
The Marion County Board of Education has scheduled a special-called meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 5, at the school board office, 755 E. Main Street in Lebanon.
The items on the agenda include student drug testing, the job description for director of pupil personnel and food services, goals for the new superintendent for the 2011-12 school year, and minutes of the previous school board meeting.
New Marion County Superintendent Chuck Hamilton officially took over the position July 1.
The Lebanon Tourist and Convention Commission has scheduled a special-called meeting at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 5, in Room 300 of the Centre Square Convention Center. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the 14 suggestions presented to the commission by the city council in May.
The City of Lebanon Recycling Center, located on Woodlawn Avenue, will now only be open Monday through Friday between 7 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. due to illegal dumping.
City Administrator John Thomas said the city has had problems with dumping before, but it recent weeks it has become constant.
"Mostly on weekends, we would come in and the dumpster would be full of furniture, tires, pallets, waters heaters … you name it," he said.
A possible arson caused some damage to the Cozy Corner Tavern in Loretto Thursday morning. The Kentucky State Police and the Kentucky State Fire Marshal's Office are conducting an investigation.
The building is still usable, but it may need some cleaning and renovation.
"The building's not ruined by no means," Loretto Fire Chief Tommy Hamilton said, "but there is an accelerant smell inside the building and some fire damage."
Patricia Ann Moddrelle, 78, of Gravel Switch was found deceased around 5 p.m. Wednesday, according the Kentucky State Police. She was found approximately three miles from her home in a dry creek bed off of Kentucky Highway 243.
According to the state police, Moddrelle had driven off the road and into a heavily wooded area, and the police found no evidence that she took action to avoid the incident. At the scene, Boyle County Coroner Dr. Don Hammer pronounced Moddrelle had died of natural causes.
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Are you searching for your roots? The Marion County Public Library is blessed to have a well-stocked genealogy room on its premises. If you've not been in the genealogy room, allow me a moment to tell you about its contents, uses and how you can help out other researchers.
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Recently, before Father's Day festivities began, I was attempting to pick out the perfect outfit: something casual, but also comfortable. I finally settled on a good pair of jeans and a nice orange t-shirt and went from there. I automatically assumed that I looked okay until a few hours later, when I went to a mirror to check.
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Elizabeth hails from Wisconsin, and spent her undergraduate years in Houston, Texas. At the University of Michigan, she studies plant-insect interactions. She will work specifically on herbivore-induced plant defenses.
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Plants Make Scents: Plant Volatile Emissions and Genetic Variation in Asclepias syriaca
Plants produce biogenic volatile organic chemicals (BVOCs), which make important contributions to the ecosystem by helping to shape the atmosphere and biosphere. BVOC emissions influence local and regional atmospheric chemistry. Volatile production can be triggered by multiple trophic levels (plants, herbivores, predators, and pollinators), and can likewise invoke responses in these trophic levels. Climate change can influence emission rates, as well as alter the coevolutionary relationships among trophic levels mediated by BVOCs. Thus, feedbacks exist among chemicals in the atmosphere, climate, plants, and insects. BVOCs produced by plants can be used to investigate the interactions among these ecosystem components. The research conducted by Elizabeth at the Biological Station seeks to investigate the role of plant genetic variation in the production of BVOCs, and predicts that herbivore-induced BVOC emissions (1) vary among plant genotypes, and (2) differ in genetically diverse versus homogeneous plant communities.


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Perth's waterfront will win a new international title when the Burswood Water Sports Centre is declared 'The World's Best Water Sports Facility'.
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This global recognition of Perth's water sports playground comes after a worldwide search by the International Water Sports body for a facility that can be regarded internationally as a 'World Icon'.
International President of the Water Ski and Wakeboarding Federation (IWWF), Mr Kuno Ritschard, was in Perth this morning to confer the award.
'I've seen water sports venues through-out the world, and there are few that compare to Perth's Burswood centre for both the incredible breadth of sports available to water sports lovers in such an idyllic location,' he said.
Mr Ritschard, who is visiting from the international water sports HQ in Switzerland, said the venue in Perth is critical to the sport at an international level.
'The IWWF believes the Burswood Water Sports Centre is the world's best international venue, and a world icon of the sport. Its near-city location and world class facilities make it an attraction for water sports enthusiasts the world over.'
Receiving the honour on behalf of the WA Recreational Water Sports Association (WARWSA), President John Pettersson said the many associations and members he represented were proud to have delivered a world sporting icon for Western Australia.
'Water Sports enthusiasts from around the world will now be itching to get to Perth and get out on this magnificent stretch of water,' he said.
'Not only do we provide a beautiful location at the city's doorstep, we've have the facilities to match. We have boat ramps, floating docks, storage facilities, boat parking, meeting and social rooms, a Club Bar, conference rooms and all the mod cons that you would expect in a world icon sporting facility.'
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If heard people briefly talk about these swaps but I wanna know if it is really possible
My truck is a 2012 hemi crew cab 5.7 2wd
The downside to having a 2012 is your computer. You'd have to get a hold of one of the big builders and see if they can do a 2010 swap for you.
As for the physical/mechanical side, you can easily pick up a 392cu stroker kit. There are definately quality levels among kits and spending the money will get you a higher quality kit that should stand up to more abuse.
The blocks are not the same, there is a bore difference between the 5.7L/6.1L/6.4L(?) block, however, the heads can be interchanged even though the quench area is different. The 6.1L heads bolt to the 5.7L block quite nicely but you need to look at where you want your power since the heads flow better at different rpms. I know the 6.4L heads can bolt on, but I'm not sure what the compression ratio would be.
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We found an interesting article from a newspaper in Spartanburg, SC, from 1965, that suggests that Lincoln studied, and was at least pretty affirmative to at least parts of Swedenborgian doctrine, and was close friends with some of the leading New Church people in Illinois.
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On our Swedenborg's influence page, we've been collecting more data, and there's a lot more to do. We're trying to develop a reliable, comprehensive list – and it is quite amazing but still in the early stages. If you know of other influential people who should be on our list, or have evidence to support the lines of influence, please let us know.
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We added a new page: New Christian resource links.
We added a bookstore!
You probably know all about our great Swedenborg Digital Library, with its online texts of a lot of useful books. Well, in addition to that, we've just added a Swedenborg Bookstore here, in concert with New Church Allied Publishers.
A Spanish translation of Heaven and Hell
The New Christian Bible Study Project has imported a Spanish translation of Heaven and Hell. Here's a link: El Cielo y El Infierno. It's a 1911 translation that was done by Dr. Calleja. The team at swedenborg.es worked with the New Christian Bible Study people to provide this. More Spanish translations are on the way, and the NCBSP site also has Swedenborg's works in other languages, too.
New Church School Links
We're adding pages with brief descriptions of various New Church schools around the world, along with links to their sites. So far, we have pages for Toronto, Pittsburgh, Bryn Athyn and Washington's schools.
Another new page: New Christian Education
We added another new page to the site; this one on New Christian education. It's going to be the start of a set of pages on the New Church schools around the world, and the useful work they are doing.
New page: Swedenborg's Influence
We've added a new page, on Swedenborg's influence. It includes a list of some 150 well-known people who were Swedenborgians, or who were significantly influenced by his work.
Theistic Science. Is that plausible?
Dr. Ian Thompson, the New Zealand-born nuclear physicist, says it is. He recently published a book entitled Starting Science from God. In it, he advances an argument that science and religion to not need to be in conflict. He believes it is plausible to posit that there is a God, and to develop a theistic philosophy that meshes well with what we know from science. This book is not for light reading, but that's good — it's a serious book by a serious scientist about a serious subject that really digs into the big questions. Here's a link to Dr. Thompson's website: http://www.beginningtheisticscience.com/
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This is just a brief post, but it could be the start of an interesting line of research; there's actually a lot of interesting history at the intersection of New Christian thought and educational philosophy. For a sneak preview, you might want to look up Friedrich Froebel, Alice Putnam, Helen Keller – all educational pioneers.
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- Bryn Athyn Church School, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, USA
- Carmel New Church School, Caryndale, Ontario, Canada
- Glenview New Church School, Glenview, Illinois, USA
- Kainon School, Westville, Natal, South Africa
- Philippine New Church Preparatory School, Bataan Province, Philippines
- Kempton New Church School, Kempton, Pennsylvania, USA
- New Church School Tema, Tema, Ghana
- Oak Arbor School, Rochester, Michigan, USA
- Olivet New Church School, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada
- Pittsburgh New Church School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Washington New Church School, Mitchellville, Maryland, USA
- Academy of the New Church Secondary Schools, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, USA
- Bryn Athyn College of the New Church, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, USA
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Milwaukee Bucks: What 5 Probable Starters MUST Work On By Mike Elworth: Owner and Publisher/Hoopstuff.. PG: Brandon Knight- Becoming a True Point Guard - Knight is a talented scorer and shooter and will become this team's second or third offensive option, behind OJ Mayo and possibly, Ersan Ilyasova, but he must become a better distributor. After a season and a half as a point guard, the Pistons moved him to shooting guard, but he was drafted to be a point guard and still has the talent to become a very strong starting point guard in the NBA and a franchise point guard for Milwaukee. He only averaged 4 assists per game last season and averaged 2.7 turnovers and he must become better than that if he ever wants to be considered more than just a scoring guard, best suited coming off the bench and backing up both guard spots. He must also become a more willing passer, if he is to succeed. He needs to become a true point guard, to have the best chance at being the NBA player his talent su...
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On the way toward reshaping the more than half-century relationship between the War Memorial Center and the Milwaukee Art Museum, old history and simmering resentments are threatening to disrupt a planned $25 million overhaul of the iconic lakefront temple that's home to the museum and local veterans groups.
Revenue from a parking lot and who controls land on the north side of the center have become the final battleground in a dispute that has its roots in a 1997 amendment to the long-term lease the War Memorial Center has with the county on the building. A 2001 revision to the '97 pact was intended to put the dispute to rest. »Read Full Article(34)
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Comedian John Pinette died Saturday in a Pittsburgh hotel room, according to a report published by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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Soulstice Theatre paints a wrenching 'Still Life'
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Soulstice Theatre opened Alexander Dinelaris' "Still Life" this weekend, a wrenching story about some of life's weightiest topics: death, dignity, love, loss and the emotional wounds we all carry to the grave with us. »Read Full Article
Renaissance Theaterworks brings back older, wiser 'Skin Tight'
Director Laura Gordon admits in her program notes for "Skin Tight" that she'd initially had "very mixed feelings" about Renaissance Theaterworks' decision to bring it back — not quite 10 years after she made her professional directorial debut with the same play.
I felt the same way. I cherish my memories of Renaissance's 2004 production of Gary Henderson's gorgeous, hourlong memory play, in which actors Braden Moran and Leah Dutchin gave us the moving story of long-married New Zealanders Tom and Elizabeth. I didn't want a new production messing with those images — or, worse, cheapening them. »Read Full Article
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1901-01-15 (130lbs) Art Simms w pts 20 Eddie Gardner, Armory Theatre, Massillon, Ohio, USA. Referee: Ed McKean. With both men inside the stipulated 130lbs, Simms, whose American title claim at the weight was at risk, made a good start before Gardner began to share the points with him. Then, in the eighth, Simms was hurt by a body blow, and seeing that the referee was not going to allow a foul he went down for 'nine'. Taking a breather, Simms went quiet for several rounds, but in the 13th he was fighting with renewed confidence and although unable to knock Gardner out the referee's decision was his.
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by Joni Astrup Associate editor An Elk River apartment building that was heavily damaged by a December fire is being razed to make way for a new building. Demolition of the building at 365 Evans Ave. in the Evans Meadows apartment complex began Monday. The building was built in 1989 and is owned by ...Read More
n All safe after explosion rocked apartment complex, house fire in Rogers by Aaron Brom ECM Sun Newspapers No injuries were reported after an auxiliary heating unit blew up outside of a Rogers apartment building Sunday, Jan. 5. The Rogers Fire and Rescue Department also responded to a house f...Read More
Elk River Mayor John Dietz has publicly thanked the personnel — fire, police and public works — who responded when a fire swept through the Evans Meadows apartment building on Dec. 5. "It certainly was a tragedy, but it obviously could have been a lot worse," Dietz said at Monday's City Co...Read More
Motorists and residents along County Road 4 and in the area may have wondered and worried about the large plume of thick black smoke from a residential area. Many drivers even pulled off of County Road 4 to check out what was a training session on structure fires. Zimmerman Fire burned down a buildi...Read More
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Skilled in stealth and martial arts, shine a light on your skills in this Dragon Ninja girl's costume. Show onlookers what you can do in this black and magenta dress with gold trim. The ensemble is complete with black leg warmers and a magenta headband.
…this Rodeo Sweetie Adult Womens Costume. The cowboys won't stand a chance when they see you in this blue stretch faux denim halter dress with white sleeve puffs and bust, magenta and white print layered ruffle skirt, brown and white cow-print velor bows, and pink cowgirl hat with cow print bandana.
You'll look hot hot hot in this Fringe Flapper Pink Adult Womens Costume! Colorful magenta gives this classic 1920's style dress a new twist of it's own. Matching feather headpiece tops off an eccentric look so you'll look wild - especially coming from your era!