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Meanwhile, back in the world beyond Odd Man Out …
My wife and I are headed to Florida next week to look at properties. Regular readers know we have plans to move to what's called the Space Coast — Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach, Merritt Island and other nearby towns.
Yes, the real estate market sucks like the sphincter of a black hole, but it's also an opportunity to buy if you have the cash. For those of you who live in Southern California, Florida property prices are roughly one-third of what they are here.
If you're interested, Click Here to search a Space Coast realtor's web site. In the MLS Number field, enter these numbers separated by a comma, then click the Search button:
526176, 470878, 510668, 519450, 518200
The condos are in Cape Canaveral across the street from the Disney and Carnival Cruise lines based in Port Canaveral. The houses are on north Merritt Island, a couple miles south of the Kennedy Space Center south gate.
Merritt Island is also home to the largest wildlife refuge in the continental U.S.
There's baseball in the area. The Washington Nationals have their spring training in Melbourne, about 20 miles southwest of Cape Canaveral. I doubt I'll have the time to get down there — when you've seen one spring training, you've seen them all — but I am planning to drive up to Daytona Beach to watch a college game.
If you're a regular reader, you know I've been researching the Statesville Owls, one of two Angels minor league teams in their inaugural 1961 season. Bobby Lucas, an infielder for Statesville that year, is now the head coach at Florida A & M University. They'll be in Daytona playing Bethune-Cookman University. So I hope to see Bobby and get some photos of him for his former teammates.
I also hope to stop by the old Cocoa Stadium in the City of Cocoa. (Cocoa and Cocoa Beach are two different towns.) Now known as the Cocoa Expo Sports Center, it's used largely for amateur events. Cocoa Stadium was the spring training home for the Houston Astros from 1963 through 1984. Jack Hiatt, another Statesville alumnus, played there late in his career and has tales about the players jogging in uniform around the city streets. Cocoa Stadium was revived for pro ball in the spring of 1993, when the Florida Marlins used it as their spring training home their first year before moving into Space Coast Stadium (where the Nationals are now).
I've been asked by several people what happens to FutureAngels.com when I move. I intend to keep it going. I'll be closer to Cedar Rapids and Arkansas, and Delta flies non-stop from Orlando to Salt Lake City so I can still visit Orem without much effort. As with everything, it will depend on finances. I'm sure I'll be helping out the Brevard County Manatees (Brewers affiliate) with photography, and the Daytona Cubs are 75 miles to the north. So I won't be at Rancho much, nor will I be going to the minor league complex in Tempe more than once a year, but otherwise it should be status quo.
Meanwhile, I'm resuming a project that's been on hiatus for about a year. I started building the FutureAngels.com Database, which when finished will be the ultimate resource for statistical data on the history of the Angels minor leagues. Priorities elsewhere have kept me from working on it, but looking at my web site's stats I know it's always among the top pages receiving hits from visitors.
I'm working on collating the win-loss records for every Angels minor league team since inception in 1961. When it's done, you'll be able to see results from every year — how many minor league teams the Angels had, where they were located, what were their win-loss records, who were the managers, etc. Eventually there will be search features you can use to ask questions such as, "What is the all-time Cedar Rapids win-loss record while an Angels affiliate?"
I'd hoped to have managers' career win-loss records, but the problem for now is that in some years the resource I'm using — the Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball by Baseball America — lists multiple managers for a team. I've spoken with Roland Hemond, who was the farm director back in the 1960s, and he says some of these listings may be inaccurate. I should be able to produce career win-loss records for managers like Tom Kotchman, where there are no multiple managers listed for a team, but I'll have to dig further on the rest.
The FutureAngels.com Database is also intended to polish my programming skills, specifically how ASP.NET interacts with SQL Server. If that sounds like Klingon to you, well, don't worry about it. But my morning assignment is to explore the wonders of two-way databinding. Which does sound very Klingon.
Oh, I noticed that the Angels are on TV today against the Chicago Cubs at Hohokam Stadium in Mesa at 1 PM PDT. The Angels' business people still can't their act together to televise games, so for now we have to rely on WGN, the superstation out of Chicago. Check your cable listings.
And if you're looking for a condo in Irvine, I have a quite nice place with plenty of upgrades near a top-notch school for $575,000 … Cash me out and I'm on a one-way trip to Florida.
Keeping Score
Going through my bookshelves, I came across a ten-year old document that I thought you might find interesting.
As part of a research project, I'd contacted Howe Sportsdata to ask if they had any official rules for scoring a professional ballgame. I was looking at official score sheets of minor league games, and found some symbols I'd never seen before. Howe sent me a document they distributed to all official scorers, which is a remarkable insight into the scorekeeping trade.
At the time, Howe was the official scoring service for minor league baseball, and collated data for Major League Baseball. Howe is no more, having been acquired by SportsTicker in December 1998. SportsTicker was just acquired by STATS Inc. on March 5. MLB brought all its stats services in-house a few years ago, and shortly thereafter took responsibility for collating minor league data.
One thing I found out from the Howe people is that there is no "official" way to score a ballgame. Most of us learned to score ballgames when we were children, but there are many systems and some people simply make up their own.
Here's what the Howe document had to say on the subject:
It is not a requirement, but we are trying to develop a standardized scorekeeping system throughout professional baseball. Toward that end, we are supplying you with 200 play-by-play scoresheets, good for 100 games. We understand longtime scorers have their own particular method that they will want to stay with, but otherwise scorers are strongly encouraged to stick as closely as possible to the uniform system outlined here.
These days, it's all done by computer. Go into any press box in affiliated baseball and you'll find them connected to a web page programmed by MLB Advanced Media (commonly known as BAM). It's all a standard interface. When entering lineups, the scorer actually enters for each player a unique ID number assigned by BAM.
But if you're a fan, you'll still do it the old-fashioned way, with a scorebook and a pencil.
The Howe document includes a sample scoresheet, the sheet for Game #7 of the 1960 World Series between the Yankees and Pirates. It's famous for Bill Mazeroski hitting a home run in the bottom of the 9th to give the Pirates the championship (long before it was called a "walk-off" homer.)
Here's a tidbit I bet you didn't know … No batter struck out in the game.
Click Here to view the Howe document. You need Adobe Acrobat Reader Version 7 or later to view the document.
"Women in Baseball" Video
The Fullerton Museum hosted on March 7 a lecture on women in baseball. Jean Ardell, the author of Breaking Into Baseball: Women and the National Pastime, was the featured speaker along with two former players from the
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League that was the subject of the movie A League of Their Own.
I videotaped the lecture for Jean. If you're interested in the subject, or you just want to hear a lot of anecdotes about the AAGPBL and the movie, you may find the video of interest.
Click Here to watch the video. You need Windows Media Player and a broadband (cable modem, DSL) Internet connection to watch. It runs about 80 minutes.
Maya Angelou Puts It in Perspective
We see it all the time, every day in our personal and professional lives.
We most certainly see it on the Internet, which gives people free speech but not the responsibility that goes with it. Cowards suddenly find courage on the Internet, where they can post lies, smears, and personal attacks while hiding behind the anonymity of their modem. They can engage in offensive behavior that would get them a punch in the nose if they did it in the real world.
I doubt poet Maya Angelou had that in mind when she wrote "Hater." A friend sent me the poem a couple days ago after a spate of posts on various sites by anonymous people attacking me for saying that a certain recently published book had credibility problems.
Well, yesterday's New York Times article validated what I've been saying for the last month. 'Nuff said.
But given the general tendency on the Internet to smear someone when you can't win an argument on its merits, I thought I'd share this poem with my readers because it has a lot to say about the world we live in.
A hater is someone who is jealous and envious and spends all
their time trying to make you look small so they can look tall.
They are very negative people to say the least. Nothing is ever
good enough! When you make your mark, you will always attract some
haters…That's why you have to be careful with whom you share your
blessings and your dreams, because some folk can't handle seeing you
It's dangerous to be like somebody else…
If God wanted you to be like somebody else, He would have given
you what He gave them! Right? You never know what people have gone
through to get what they have.
The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but
they don't know my story… If the grass looks greener on the other side
of the fence, you can rest assured that the water bill is higher there
We've all got some haters among us! People envy you because you can:
Have a relationship with God
Light up a room when you walk in
Start your own business
Tell a man / woman to hit the curb (if he / she isn't about the right thing)
Raise your children without both parents being in the home
Haters can't stand to see you happy, Haters will never want to
see you succeed, Haters never want you to get the victory, most of our
haters are people who are supposed to be on our side. How do you handle
your undercover haters?
You can handle these haters by:
1. Knowing who you are & who your true friends are *(VERY IMPORTANT!!)
2. Having a purpose to your life? Purpose does not mean having a job.
You can have a job and still be unfulfilled. A purpose is having
a clear sense of what God has called you to be. Your purpose is not
defined by what others think about you.
3. By remembering what you have is by divine prerogative and not
human manipulation. Fulfill your dreams!
You only have one life to live…when it's your time to leave this earth,
you 'want' to be able to say, 'I've lived my life and fulfilled
'my' dreams,… Now I'm ready to go HOME! When God gives you favor, you can
tell your haters, Don't look at me…Look at Who is in charge of me…'
I think this also applies to fandom in general. Why do people look for the first opportunity to tear down a successful person? Maya Angelou has the answer — it's jealousy.
Read Angels fan boards, and inevitably you'll find people who claim to be Angels fans but have nothing positive to say. They look for any excuse to rip the players, management, executives. I remember one person telling me he would refuse to visit my web site unless I only wrote negative articles! Another person lectured that I should only write articles that would make me "popular." ?! It's not about being "popular," it's about expressing my opinion, like it or not. Maya Angelou's warning about trying to be like everyone else reminded me of the demand that I only write articles which would make me "popular."
One big reason why I've done FutureAngels.com since 1999 is I so enjoy being around a team environment where everyone is (or at least should be) geared to a common goal — winning. Individual goals are subservient to the team winning. I get to be around people who are positive, goal-oriented, and (for the most part) self-sacrificing.
It would be nice if the people who spend so much time on the Internet spewing bile would invest that time instead in making a positive contribution to humanity. But as Maya Angelou notes, for some people, "Nothing is ever good enough."
Two Men in Blue
Former Pacific Coast League umpires Gil Stratton and Cece Carlucci attended the 2008 APBPA banquet.
Dick Beverage of the Association of Professional Ball Players of America gave me the above photo of Gil Stratton and Cece Carlucci, two members who passed away within the last year.
Gil Stratton was known to generations of Los Angeles television viewers as the sports reporter for The Big News on KNXT (now KCBS Channel 2). But his career was so much more than that. He also umpired in the old Pacific Coast League, and had a career as an actor. Stratton played Cookie in the 1953 movie Stalag 17; his character narrated the story.
Stratton passed away last October in Toluca Lake at age 86 from congestive heart failure.
Cece Carlucci was one of the more prominent umpires in the long history of the old PCL. He was one of the umpires during perhaps the most infamous brawl in PCL history. On August 2, 1953, the Hollywood Stars and Los Angeles Angels went at it for a full 30 minutes before the LAPD restored control. Click Here to read about the brawl, including photos of that event.
Carlucci was inducted in the PCL Hall of Fame in 2003. He passed away last September at age 90 from cancer.
The 2009 APBPA banquet was February 7. Click Here to watch video of the event. Windows Media Player and a broadband (cable modem, DSL) Internet connection are required.
The New FutureAngels.com Banner
The new banner is up on the FutureAngels.com web site for the 2009 season.
Who are the depicted players?
The 2008 banner had Angels minor leaguers who were now with the parent club. This year, I wanted to do something a little different. Most minor leaguers will never make the big leagues, players you've never heard of and will never hear about again.
At the same time, I wanted to honor Angels' minor league history. If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know I've been writing about the history of the Statesville Owls, one of only two minor league teams the Angels had in their inaugural 1961 season.
The photo on the left is of George Conrad, who was an Owls pitcher that year. Conrad was 11-7 that year for Statesville with a 3.21 ERA. He struck out 172 in 168 innings — but also walked 116.
The next photo is of catcher Angel Diaz with the Butte Copper Kings in 1998. Signed by Tom Kotchman, Diaz was an organizational catcher who worked at every level in the system, including Triple-A Salt Lake in 2001. Organizational catchers lead a nomadic life, but they're invaluable because they provide depth at a critical position.
Joe Urso is second from the right, holding the bat. He's depicted with the Boise Hawks in 1992, his first professional season. Urso was in the organization as a player through 1997, when he became a coach and later a manager. Joe was listed at 5'7″ but there are those who will allege that's a stretch, pun intended … He was the endless butt of "short" jokes but incredibly popular. The Lake Elsinore Storm fans loved him so much that he was nicknamed "The Mayor." Urso's #7 was retired by the Storm a few years back. He's currently the head coach at University of Tampa, his alma mater.
Mark McLemore is the player on the right. He's wearing the uniform of the 1983 Peoria Suns in the Midwest League. Mark was only 18 at the time; his AVG/OBP/SLG that year were .240/.346/.280. Despite that total absence of power, he managed to play his way to the majors, starting full-time for the Angels at second base in 1987. His career ended in 2004 at age 39 with the Oakland A's, having notched nineteen seasons in the big leagues.
I've been collecting card sets for Angels minor league teams when and where I can find them. Some are incredibly expensive, not necessarily because of the players in the set but just that they're rare. They're a reminder of just how hideous minor league uniforms can be (e.g. Peoria). Sometimes you find cards for mascots, club executives, local personalities, sponsors, etc. Many of them are in black-and-white until the mid-1980s or so.
When I started doing photography for the minor league teams in 1998, one complaint I heard over and over again from the players was that they wanted action shots on their trading cards, not the posed photos. Every once in a while, I'll find a card where the player posed irreverently for his picture. Pitcher Jarrod Washburn posed as a batter. Right-handed hitting Tim Salmon posed as a left-handed batter. Ron "Papa Jack" Jackson posed with an unknown beverage in his hand.
Hmmm, maybe next year's banner should be all gag shots …
Women in Baseball Lecture
Author Jean Ardell alerted me to a lecture she'll be giving at the Fullerton Museum on Saturday March 7, from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM.
Jean is the author of Breaking Into Baseball: Women and the National Pastime, which I believe is one of the best baseball books I've ever read. It is literally the history of women in baseball — not just professional women ball players but women owners, women umpires, "Baseball Annies," and so much more.
Jean will be lecturing along with two women who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. made famous by the movie A League of Their Own. Their appearance is part of the current exhibit, Line Drives and Lipstick: The Untold Story of Women's Baseball which runs through March 15.
Jean is also the wife of Dan Ardell, an original "future Angel" who played in the Angels minor leagues from 1961 tthrough 1964 and made his major league debut in September 1961.
Baseball Lessons — Teach or Learn
I was given a brochure for Baseball Coast to Coast, which is a web site designed to match instructors with students. The web site is www.baseballcoasttocoast.com.
I can't vouch for it, but a lot of minor league players look to make a few extra bucks in the off-season doing instruction, so if you're one of them you might want to register with the site. If you're interested in learning more about the game, give these players consideration to help them make ends meet. Who knows, you might learn a baseball skill from a future major leaguer.
2009 APBPA Banquet
The Association of Professional Ball Players of America held its 84th annual banquet on February 7th in Long Beach. The APBPA is a benevolent organization that assists indigent former ballplayers, major and minor leagues. To quote from their web site:
Since 1924, we have provided financial assistance for those professional baseball players, coaches, umpires, scouts and clubhouse men who are in need. No distinction is made between the major league player and the minor leaguer. Membership in what is a unique fraternity is the defining factor.
The Association had its origin when twelve former players met in Los Angeles and determined that there was a need to take care of the less fortunate members of their profession. From these beginnings the Association has grown to 11,000 current members. It has helped over one thousand ballplayers, players who are members of the Hall of Fame and those who enjoyed only a brief career. Total assistance rendered through 2006 is in excess of $4,300,000.
Major League Baseball and the National Association of the Minor Leagues have endorsed the Association as their benevolent organization.
Membership dues, donations, legacies and personal contributions finance the Association. Since we are a non-profit 501 C-3 organization, all such contributions are tax deductible.
The reasons for our help are many. Naturally, many of our assistance cases are older, retired players who have been ravaged by illness and the infirmities of old age. But sudden and tragic accidents and financial emergencies beyond the individual's control create an urgent need. Our assistance has reached outside the Continental United States.
I filmed the speakers, which to my knowledge is the first time the event has been preserved on tape. Click Here to watch, it runs about 70 minutes. You need Windows Media Player and a broadband (cable modem, DSL) Internet connection.
Former major league pitcher Jim "Mudcat" Grant is the first speaker, and well worth watching for his tale about an incident involving a certain umpire. He also promoted his book The Black Aces, about the only African-American 20-game winners in the major leagues. Click Here to visit the book's web site.
This is the second year I've shot photos for them.
Former major league manager and Angels broadcaster Sparky Anderson spoke, but it was before the dinner began, so I didn't get that on video. But you'll see Sparky in the background from time to time.
You will see Roland Hemond. Roland is best known as the former general manager of the White Sox and Orioles, but in these parts he's revered as the first minor league and scouting director for the Los Angeles Angels back in 1961.
Awards were given to two prospects, Yankees catcher Austin Romine and Cubs third baseman Josh Vitters. Austin is the younger brother of Angels minor league shortstop Andrew Romine, who should be at Rancho Cucamonga this year. They're the son of former major league infielder Kevin Romine. Austin couldn't attend due to a schedule conflict, so he was represented by his parents.
You'll also see in the video former Angels pitcher Dave Frost, John Young of Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI), and San Diego radio personality Bill Werndl, among others.
The master of ceremonies was Dick Beverage, who is the APBPA secretary/treasurer. He also runs the Pacific Coast League Historical Society. Longtime Angels fans might remember Dick as a frequent guest on Angels radio pre-game shows in the 1970s-1980s. He wrote a book on the history of the old PCL Angels, which is out of print but he's working on an update.
Below are some photos from the event.
Sparky Anderson congratulates Kevin and June Romine
Sparky Anderson with Jim "Mudcat" Grant
Dick Beverage gives Josh Vitters the Chuck Stevens Award
Jim "Mudcat" Grant promotes his book, "The Black Aces"
Original Angels farm and scouting director Roland Hemond
John Young, the creator of Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI)
Former Angels pitcher Dave Frost
San Diego radio sports personality Bill Werndl
MLB Network Begins January 1
For those who haven't seen it, Major League Baseball launches the MLB Network on cable January 1.
The official web site is www.mlbnetwork.com. You can enter your zip code on the home page to determine if the channel is available on your cable or satellite system, and if so what channel.
The first program is at 3:00 PM PST, a live "Hot Stove" program that seems to be their version of the ESPN Sports Center. At 4:00 PM PST, they'll broadcast surviving footage of Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series.
Looking at the schedule for the first few days, it seems to be mostly rebroadcasts of World Series games, previously aired documentaries and the ubiquitous Hot Stove show.
Once spring training starts, presumably they'll have much more.
I'd like to see them broaden their horizons.
My immediate concern is that this isn't "the Baseball Channel." It's MLB Network. Which suggests it's more about promoting Major League Baseball than the national pastime in general.
For example, they could have launched by showing us games from the Dominican winter league. I know those are available because they air on the Spanish-language ESPN Deportes channel. Baseball is being played throughout the Caribbean right now, so why not introduce us to that brand of the game?
This would also be an opportunity to introduce American audiences to Japanese baseball. Certainly there must be some games in the can of Ichiro Suzuki, Hideki Matsui, Daisuke Matzusaka, etc. while they were playing in Japan. Teach us about the Japanese major leagues so we understand the teams, the rivalries, the star players, etc.
It would also be nice if they'd add a Minor League Game of the Week telecast, at a minimum. That would require negotiating broadcast rights with Minor League Baseball, which probably wouldn't be a big deal but you never know.
Leading off with Larsen's perfect game will have some nostalgic interest for people like me who love baseball history. But I suspect they'll quickly lose the younger generation who turn the channel at the sight of anything in black-and-white.
It's also a little weird choosing January 1 as a kickoff date, since New Year's Day is traditionally wall-to-wall college football. How many people will abandon the Rose Bowl telecast to watch a 52-year old baseball game? Which will repeat several times after the inaugural broadcast.
I'm looking forward to the channel for no other reason than having some baseball white noise in the house, but given how much time they had to plan for this I'd think they could have come up with some better programming. Right now it has the feeling of a product done on the cheap.


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Nuggets face Grizzlies in second home game in 19 days
The well-traveled Denver Nuggets finally get to play another home game.
That doesn't necessary mean a break from their difficult schedule.
After going 2-3 on their most recent road trip, the Nuggets (11-12) will face the Memphis Grizzlies in a nationally televised game (ESPN, Altitude) Friday night at Pepsi Center.

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By Sheena Barnett
If you need a pep talk, consider getting one in 12 tracks.
Tupelo singer-songwriter Jake Wood brings his positive rock/acoustic sound to his first full-length CD, "Live Life."
"Live Life" kicks off with Wood's signature tune, "Never Give Up Hope."
It's a three-minute rock 'n' roll coaching session.
"If you feel you can't go on/don't forget, you are not alone," Wood, 25, sings.
Most of the songs on the album are more acoustic than "Never Give Up Hope," but they're just as strong as the full band songs. There's a light orchestral touch to the acoustic tracks that never feels too heavy.
Also, Wood includes a few truly beautiful and outstanding instrumental pieces. There may be no lyrics, but the music is peaceful and introspective, and fit in perfectly with the entire record.
These are wonderful, wonderful songs.
The stand-out acoustic song is "Someday Soon." It's catchy and pretty, and, of course hopeful and uplifting.
His good mood is infectious; it's hard not to bee-bop along to the celebratory "On the Right Track."
Three bonus tracks complete the album, and that's where Wood lets his punk side show. He channels Queen on "Rock This Place" and invokes a Clash-like sound on "Follow Your Dreams."
Wood's "Live Your Life" is a colorful record, with every song so uplifting, but in so many different ways. "Live Your Life" is a great pick-me-up album and shows off Wood's diverse sounds.
Pick it up if you need "a smile in your heart," as Wood says.


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Lexington's New Media Overlord of Vengence, Jim Newberry, is now well on his way to putting his digital bootheel on the throats of the doomed Herald Leader and Jim Gray. After the massively successful launch of kyforward.com yesterday, Jim Newberry…
The Sun Rises on the Newberry Era of Lexington Media
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Schankula and I stopped updating perhaps the longest post in B&P's history yesterday because Jim Newberry's New Digital Empire of Ashton kept crashing, as well as crashing the router of all 20 people going there. But it appears to be…
Joe Craft pulling the plug on Newberry's media empire? (UPDATE)
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What happened to former Lexington mayor Jim Newberry's new digital media empire of vanquishing enemies, KYForward.com? It was supposed to launch this week, but is still pointing to a GoDaddy page. Well, the word on the street is as follows.…
President Obama addressed nation on killing of Osama Bin Laden (VIDEO)
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The president that got Bin Laden: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Ken Ham too flamboyant for young earth creationist homeschool conference
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Flintstone Truther Ken Ham is not too crazy for Governor Steve Beshear to stand side by side with him at a press conference to fawn over his Giant Dineysore Boat. But Ken Ham is too crazy for young earth creationists…
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We only post this because we're cheering for the small Kentucky school's historic win today. We swear.
Last Dance with Mayor Newberry (for real this time)
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Recently fired mayor of Lexington Jim Newberry is all set to give his "farewell speech" tonight at 7:00 from the 12th floor of city hall. As Beverly Fortune's story shows, he'll talk about the magic green laser triangle of jobs…
The Curse of CentrePointe
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Dudley Webb knows about it. Foster Ockerman knows about it. Chuck Ellinger knows about it. Trey Grayson knows about it. But the Curse of CentrePointe has been waiting for one person in particular for quite some time now. And tomorrow,…
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(I already bought my pair of Salt Water Sandals for the summer. I wore out my navy ones last year! I love the color of these and the shiny finish.)
Like the title says, I have indeed jumped on the nail art train. I have! Have you? It started on Pinterest (of course) and then I saw a few cute bloggers doing fun things with their nails (ahem you and you) and then one thing lead to another, and now I'm all nail obsessed! And what an expensive hobby, dude. Seriously. BUT fun nonetheless.
And the whole art of photographing your hands and nails.. that takes some practice. I am no hand model. Not to mention the actual PAINTING of the nails! Phew. It requires a lot of patience. And for a perfectionist like me, it can be quite stressful. Yes, stressful. I've been learning to be patient and wait for them to dry. (I know) And I haven't had a lot of luck with using scotch tape to mask off parts like I've read online. It always peels the base layer off.
SO, today I added a clear topcoat over the lime green and then waited a good long time for them to dry. THEN I added the masked off pinky-peach triangle areas. I had no trouble with the basecoat coming off! I'm not sure if it was adding that topcoat in between colors or the fact that I used these little stickers instead of scotch tape...
But it worked like a charm! If you want to try scotch tape, Elycia tipped me off on a trick that Kaylah uses: she sticks the tape to her hand first to get some of the sticky off. Smart!
Here are some of my favorite nail tutorials around the web that I mostly found on Pinterest.
(Here's my Pinterest if you'd like to check it out.)
#3 are some nail transfers that I bought by Sally Hansen. I haven't used them yet, but I liked the groovy 60's pattern. I want to find some deco scissors that will do a tiny scallop edge. How cute would that be? I have some scallop scissors but the scallop is too big.
Not only is nail art fun, but as a life-long nail biter, it gives me an excuse to make growing my nails out fun and I'm not as tempted to bite them!
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Ex-Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is escorted by an aide after visiting her parents' graves on July 27. She ended about seven months of detention at an army hospital in July after posting bail on election fraud charges.
Updated at 8:50 a.m. ET: MANILA -- Former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was detained on Thursday on charges of plunder, a crime that carries a maximum penalty of life in jail, in one of a series of corruption cases brought against her.
Less than three months after she was released on bail following about eight months in detention on charges of election fraud, the latest charge against the ailing Arroyo involves the more serious offence of misusing state lottery funds.
"When we arrived at the hospital, she was lying on the bed with an IV attached to her," Senior Superintendent Joel Coronel, chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, told reporters. Arroyo, who suffers from a spine condition, was being treated for dehydration.
Philippines city restores Imelda Marcos' shoe collection after flood damage
Coronel said Arroyo, 65, was "very cooperative" when police took her fingerprints and photos.
The Ombudsman's office alleges that Arroyo and her co-accused unlawfully acquired and accumulated public funds amounting to 366 million pesos ($8.8 million) by diverting lottery funds for personal gain.
Another former Philippine president, Joseph Estrada, was pursued by the Arroyo administration under the same Plunder Law. He was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison, but was pardoned a short time later.
Philippines takes on Catholic church to push birth control, sex education
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Sandiganbayan Executive Assistant Florecal Sebastian shows a copy of the Order of Arrest on Thursday.
Coronel said Arroyo would remain under confinement at the army hospital where she was held earlier this year.
Arroyo, president from 2001 to 2010, is unlikely to escape detention this time around as the charge under the Plunder Law is a non-bailable offence.
Arroyo also faces allegations of graft over an aborted $329 million national broadband deal with China's ZTE Corp. in 2007. She denies all charges and posted bail on both cases.
President Benigno Aquino's pursuit of charges against Arroyo and the Philippines' success in kicking out her allies -- the Ombudsman and the Supreme Court chief justice -- all within a span of about a year have been cheered by investors as clear signs that the government is serious in its anti-graft agenda.
Arroyo was stopped last year by government agents at Manila's main international airport as she was on her way to board a plane for overseas medical treatment.
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What a difference a week makes in college football. At this time last week, the juggernaut that is Wake Forest led the nation in total defense. One week later, though, the Demon Deacons have tumbled to No. 12 overall.
Teams such as South Carolina, Notre Dame and Texas occupied space in this section a week ago. However, similarly bad weeks, such as allowing 550 rushing yards like Texas did, led to those schools falling out of our defensive power rankings.
Our No. 1 defense last week, Alabama, had the week off. Where will they rank this week? They have a tough test this weekend against Johnny Manziel and Texas A&M in College Station.
Here's a look at the top 10 defenses in all of college football as we near Week 3.


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YMCA officials discuss pool work
ELKINS – Elkins-Randolph County YMCA officials presented their renovation plans for the facility's pool, a $500,000 project, to the Elkins Rotary Club Monday.
Sid Gillispie, the executive director of the YMCA, along with Marge Moses, former president of the YMCA Board of Directors, talked about what the pool renovations will mean for the community.
The renovations will include a brand-new roof, PVC lining and a gutter system that will improve water quality, as well as revamped boys' and girls' locker rooms.
The pool was closed in April due to a collapsed roof caused by humidity and age, and will remain closed until the remodeling is done. The YMCA has been able to secure $200,000 in donations and pledges from individuals, community groups and board members so far but have been reaching out to the community for additional funding for the project. The project is slated to take approximately eight months to finish once adequate funds have been raised.
Moses talked about the important role that the YMCA plays locally.
"Over 3,000 kids and adults have learned to swim here at the YMCA," Moses said. "Forty percent of seventh graders can't swim as much as 25 yards to save their own lives, let alone potentially the lives of others."
Moses said that the YMCA pool facility was utilized by people of all ages and skill levels. She said that it was ideal for swimming lessons, and arthritis-friendly water aerobics for seniors, and provided a family-friendly, safe environment.
Gillispie said that, when completed, the pool will be heated to 88 degrees year-round, will see approximately 50 usages daily, and will be utilized for recreational events like birthday parties and a summer program attraction, as well as training and rehabilitation.
"We are speaking to you not only as an organization but as individuals," Moses said. "We need the help of the community to complete this project. It would be easy to say that it's too much of a hassle to see this to the end. But we have talked to members of the community and you have informed us that they know it's an asset and you want this because it's important to you."
Donations are tax-deductible and a very small number of Neighborhood Investment Program (NIP) West Virginia state tax vouchers are available for individuals donating $1,000 or more. Those interested should contact Sid Gillispie at 304-636-4515.
An open house will be held today at 7 p.m. in the Rotary Room at the YMCA where an update on the project and the YMCA's fundraising efforts will be shared with the public. Light refreshments will be provided.


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Are You Married
Miki Kono served as producer, leader, pianist on Are You Married..., the Japan resident's second American release. She also was the composer of eight of its 11 tunes (the others being "Air on the G String," "Rhapsody in Blue" and J. J. Johnson's "Lament"). Working with her is the consummate bassist Rufus Reid and the in-demand Carl Allen on drums. Altoist Hiromi Masuda adds tonal contrast on four tracks, contributing cool but feeling-filled improvisations somewhat reminiscent of 1950s Bud Shank.
Kono plays rhythmically relaxed solos in a conventional, mainstream modern style-her favorite pianist is Hank Jones-personalized by frequent employment of a quick triplet figure just ahead of the beat that sounds as if it owes more to her classical background than to her jazz experience. Indeed, the classical training comes to the fore in the first part of the Bach, which receives the traditional treatment, in "Rhapsody in Blue," most of which is performed in solo concert style, and in her own wistful "Lullaby for Benjamin," a gentle solo recital.


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Threat description
Breplibot.C is a backdoor with bot capabilities. It connects to several IRC servers and waits for commands from the backdoor author. The backdoor tries to utilize Sony DRM software for hiding its process, file and registry keys. More information about Sony DRM can be found here:
Automatic action
Once detected, the F-Secure security product will automatically disinfect the suspect file by either deleting it or renaming it.
More information on scanning and removal options available in your F-Secure product can be found in the Help Center.
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Technical Details
System installation
The backdoor's file is a PE executable about 10 kilobytes long, packed with UPX file compressor.
When the backdoor's file is started, it copies itself as '$sys$xp.exe' file to Windows System folder and then tries to create the following startup key values in the Registry:
[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] "$sys$cmp" = "$sys$xp.exe"
The string '$sys' is used for hiding the backdoor using Sony's XCP DRM software. This is successful only if the DRM is installed after the backdoor. If the DRM is already installed, the backdoor fails to install itself on system.
The backdoor creates mutex '$sys$xp.exe' for making sure only one copy of the backdoor runs at the same time. It might also create a mutex named 'Super'.
Bot functionality
When the backdoor is active, it connects to an IRC server, joins a certain channel and acts as a bot there.
The following IRC servers and ports are used by the backdoor:
188.8.131.52:8080 126.96.36.199:8080 22.214.171.124:8080 18.104.22.168:8080 188.8.131.52:8080
The backdoor joins the following password-protected IRC channel:
A hacker can send commands to the bots to control infected computers. Several tasks can be performed, including the following:
- Download and execute files from remote servers - Request system information - Delete files
F-Secure Anti-Virus detects this malware with the following update:
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Database: 2005-11-10_04
Description Details: Katrin Tocheva, November 10th, 2005
Description Last Modified: Jarkko Turkulainen, November 11th, 2005
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Overview and photo Villa Sabandari
Property name: Villa Sabandari
Type: Hotel
Address: Jalan Pura Gunung Sari 4 Peliatan - (Indonesia)
Website: www.sabandari.com
Profile: Villa Sabandari
Description Villa Sabandari
Villa Sabandari is a new luxury design hotel near Ubud, in the scenic hills in the island of Bali.
Villa Sabandari grants you a personal service in a cozy atmosphere, wonderful views of the rice fields, and of a small forest balinese temple.
A famous Dutch architect designed this boutique hotel using local materials combined with a fine western and balinese mixed style.
Villa Sabandari offers 6 rooms, accessible from a staircase. They are all equipped with:
- pool
- rice field view
- private terrace
- a king size bed or twin beds
- air conditioning
- dressing room
- bathroom with half open rain shower
- bathroom amenities
- wireless internet access
- daily supply of mineral water
- coffee and tea facilities
- hairdryer
- bathrobe/kimono & slippers
- sarongs
- electronic safe deposit box
Hotel Services:
- laundry service
- daily turn down service complimentary afternoon tea served between 16:00 and 17:00
- sightseeing tours off the beaten track
- free transfer from or to the airport
- free wifi internet access
- free use of mountain bikes and helmets (4 available)
- One voucher for a day tour in an air conditioned car with driver, for a booking of 3 nights or more. Maximum time: 10 (consecutive) hours.
- bali hotel car hiring service
- free shuttle service to/from Ubud (until 23:00)
Hotel Facilities:
- open, pavilion style living room
- library/music room
- 15x5m swimming pool
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A top level league for all of Scotland's professional clubs is known as the Scottish Premier League or the SPL. The league separated from the SFL or the Scottish Football League and was founded in 1998. The league now ranks 26th in the European League's UEFA rankings. The rankings are in accordance with how the European clubs perform in competitions. Ever since the league's inauguration in 1998-99, there are already 19 teams who have competed. However, among the 19 teams, only the Rangers and Celtic have successfully succeeded. Due to the league's challenging nature, SPL betting is among the most thrilling kinds of betting. A lot of football fans stake their money and cross their fingers in order to win some cash.
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Widely known as the gentlemen's bookmaker, BetVictor is proud to offer their customers a fair and secure gaming experience. Housing a world-class Racebook, which has a special place on their website, Bet Victor often has prices on markets other bookmakers wouldn't even dream of offering.
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Using alternative forms of communication has become very important in our family. In addition to speech and language delays due that often accompany Down syndrome, both of my girls have also been diagnosed with apraxia of speech, which makes speech very difficult. They make sounds with their mouths and have a few spoken words each, but are essentially nonverbal due to their difficulty with motor planning speech sounds. Oh, but they can understand so much. This gap between what they are able to understand and what they are able to express can be so frustrating for them and for me. This is where using alternative forms of communication becomes so important.
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In the case where is a number, then you would prove by showing that . What this translates to is that as you make approach and reduce the distance between them, then approaches and the distance between them also gets smaller.
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Only two weeks into the college basketball season, there have already been plenty of surprises for the AP's top 25 teams. Some are looking even better than predicted (hello, Iowa State!), while others (including mighty Kentucky) haven't quite risen to meet championship expectations.
One team that's very much in the former category is the No. 12 Wisconsin Badgers, winners over both Florida and St. John's already. Even as Sam Dekker and company have run out to a 4-0 start, though, they're having uncharacteristic problems getting the job done on the boards.
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Rewind: back from 2002 and the spacey adventures of Jason Voorhees, out of Hell, back from Manhattan, before the zombiefication of the world's prémiere psycho killer, back into 1984. The year of Amadeus, The Killing Fields, Ronald Reagan's re-election, which somehow did not trigger the neo-fascist technocracy that Orwell expected right about now, the first mission of the Space Shuttle Discovery, and Indira Gandhi's assassination. Moving in a little bit, it was in April's Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter that the seemingly indestructible Jason was interred by the overzealous machetecraft of little Tommy Jarvis, presumably for all time (before we knew precisely how fluid the word "final" could really be). Add the three years that had passed since the last appearance of Michael Myers, and it was a time of great loss for the Fangoria partisans, who were suddenly without an A-list slasher celebrity. Not to mention the general fraying of the subgenre, which hit its first major doldrums at this time.
Would that the damned things had just been put out of their misery, but instead, they were saved by a not-so-unlikely hero (who would turn up to do it again in 1996): Wes Craven, one of the Grand Masters of 1970s horror, creator of the infamous The Hills Have Eyes and the notorious Bergman remake The Last House on the Left, which in a neat illustration of the horror genre's incestuous family tree was produced by none less than the talentless Sean S. Cunningham, auteur of Friday the 13th itself. Twelve years after that project made him the object of scorn, derision, and a tiny amount of deep respect, Craven was still struggling to establish himself with any sort of permanence.
In 1981, Craven had begun shopping around a script about a phantom killer who stalked and killed teenagers in their dreams and thereby in reality, drawn from his own childhood fears. Can any man say why, in those heady days of cheapie slasher movies coming out nearly every week, the studios feared the idea of tossing a few million dollars at a director of known talent for an idea of no small innovation? Simply the perversion of fate, we must suppose. But anyway, it took years until some chance brought Craven to meet with a minor distribution company that focused on renting films to college campuses, called New Line, and they (wanting to maximize profits by releasing a couple of their own films, rather than licensing films from the proper studios), tossed a not-ungenerous $1.8 million at the project, and so in November of 1984, A Nightmare on Elm Street was released upon the world.
Considering how goddamn many slasher films were released in the four years since Friday the 13th, you might have expected that there would have been at least some attempt to shake things up here or there, and you would be disappointed. To the studio executive, remember, the key to a sure thing is making identical movies over and over again. Which leads inevitably to repetition and boredom, and that's why cinematic trends only ever last three or four years. So even though Nightmare must have scared the suits with its somewhat eccentric take on the slasher tropes, it's undeniable that it was just the shot in the arm that the style needed. Just about every slasher I can personally name from 1980 through 1984 follows a barbarically rigid plot: Act 1, meet the expendable meat and the obvious Final Girl, then sex is had; Act 2, the sex wraps up and the deaths start; Act 3, the Final Girl finds the bodies and escapes the killer's wrath. Nightmare doesn't really do most of those things. Yes, there's sex and death (and even a bit of the old sex=death, naturally), but the meat is hardly expendable, the Final Girl really isn't, and the bulk of the plot is dedicated to the hunt for the dream killer whose handiwork is well-known to the main characters from pretty much the first scene. There are parents and policemen in abundance, and there is an almost total absence of Stupid People syndrome except where it makes perfect sense in the context of the story.
That's not necessarily the Really Big Deal about this film, the part that rejuvenated the very idea of the slasher, but I wanted to mention it first because it goes to the heart of something much more important than why it is an interesting slasher movie - why it is a good slasher movie, certainly the best example of the genre since at least Halloween in 1978. It is an actual story, made by somebody who cared enough about his ideas to make them different and original, and who understood that the best way to have the uncanny, fantastic elements of the story stand out as legitimately scary (And it is! A scary slasher! Can you believe that shit?) is to base them in a realistic and carefully drawn real-world environment.
But since the "good slasher films are made by good directors who care about their projects" genie was never going to go back in the bottle by 1984, that's not the important takeaway from A Nightmare on Elm Street. No indeed, the particular element that rebirthed a genre, that by the end of 1985 was pretty much de rigeur for any self-respecting movie about a puritan maniac with a set of knives, was the paranormal angle. Except for the odd now-forgotten one-off, slasher movies about ghosts and zombies and witchcraft were pretty much unknown; by the end of 1986, they far outnumbered the more prosaic "bitter old kid-hater" stories.
I doubt very much that has anything to do with the fact that the quality of the genre kept sliding from the already-low level that it started at; simply put, most filmmakers as good as Wes Craven and John Carpenter would rather do things that are not violent horror movies (as indeed, both Craven and Carpenter proved themselves), and the cash didn't start drying up until 1988 or '89, and where there is money in Hollywood, there are hacks. But at least for that one shining moment in 1984, the slasher genre produced its one rare diamond in the rough, a film that is at once a great slasher, a great horror film and a pretty damn fine movie qua movies.
So with all that said, what is this Nightmare on Elm Street all about? Well, in the beginning, there is a blackness, and in this blackness is a small rectangle, and in this small rectangle the film begins to play. That might not sound like much more than a good way to get the image out of the way of the credits, but it's actually really brilliant, for in this film of terror invading the interior and domestic world (the cheerfully suburban "Elm Street" and the bedrooms in it; and what is more intimate than the bedroom, when we come right down to it?) starting with a tiny frame inside the actual film frame is a quick way to force claustrophobia upon us, and confront us with the reminder that this is a film about the insides of things: the insides of houses, the insides of bedrooms, the insides of characters' heads. Also, the insides of characters becoming their outsides.
We are in a confusing and threatening place. A man in a filthy green and red sweater (chosen because Craven read that those two colors were the hardest combination on the eye) puts on a glove made of the tips of knives. A girl named Tina Gray (Amanda Wyss) runs through an industrial space full of fiery reds, as the man chases her. He comes ever closer with his horrible glove and just as he grabs her she sits bolt upright in bed. Ordinarily, this kind of thing pisses me off more than I can possibly begin to say, but in this film whose primary raison d'être is to elide the line between dreaming and wakefulness, that horribly over-used "sits bolt upright in bed" trick reaches its apogee.
Tina is one of four high-schoolers, all of whom actually kind of look like they're 17 or 18 (which is unfortunate, given that at least two of them are specifically 15), because the actors are all 19 and 21, and don't think that doesn't count for a lot in this genre of aesthetic hell. Her kind-of boyfriend is the abusive but charming Rod Lane (Nick Corri), her bestest friend in life is Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp, the film's secret weapon), and the guy who has a thing for Nancy from way back is Glen Lantz (Johnny Depp. Yep. Johnny Depp. The Oscar nominee. In his professional debut. Johnny "Edward Scissorhands / Jack Sparrow / Gilbert Grape / Sweeney Todd / Raoul Duke / William Blake" Depp started his career as the guy who gets killed by his bed. And honestly, he's hardly the best member of the cast, although he would have been in any of the F13 films). And they've all been having rather nasty dreams lately, featuring the same gloved madmen with burned flesh, an ugly sweater and a crappy old fedora.
Being teens in a slasher film, they all end up having an illicit sleepover in which one pair fucks and the other sleeps in separate rooms. When Tina falls asleep again, she begins convulsing in a manner most upsetting to Rod, made all the worse by the deep gashes that suddenly appear in her stomach mere seconds before she is thrown against the fucking wall and then the fucking ceiling, leaving blood every fucking where, in a scene that manages to do every single thing that I've always wanted The Exorcist to do, but that's really neither here nor there. It's really something: she just keeps slamming against the walls and bleeding and screaming, and the sheer violence of the moment - and frankly, the pretty much unsubtle rape imagery - is smashingly, sickeningly effective.
Rod splits, Glen freaks out and Nancy resolves not to fall asleep ever again, and thus begins the really just surprisingly awesome thing about A Nightmare on Elm Street: it makes a whole lot of sense. Nancy's behavior is pretty much what a freaked-out teenage girl's behavior in such a situation mighty be, and the response that her divorced parents (John Saxon and Ronee Blakely, who between them have more and better character acting experience than the entire cast of the entire F13 franchise) take to her behavior is perfectly understandable. More importantly, by the time that Nancy starts doing the really weird and stupid crap that she ends up doing, we can chalk it up to profound sleep deprivation, not bad movie stupidity.
From Tina's death (before the 20 minute mark), the next 45 minutes or thereabout are devoted to Nancy's slow process of learning that the gloved figure is Fred Krueger (man alive, does the lack of that "-dy" look weird in the opening credits), a onetime child killer who was murdered in a most barbaric way by the parents of the very teens that he's haunting now. Along the way, she begins to formulate a scheme to stop Krueger, as Rod and Glen die unexplainable deaths, one of them involving a mythic amount of blood in one of the most European scenes in the history of American horror cinema.
I said that Langenkamp was the film's secret weapon, and I'm going to stand by that 'til death. Robert Englund gets all the glory for his undeniably grand turn of gravelly-voiced menace as Freddy, a nasty figure of human stature where Jason and Michael Myers and Leatherface are caricatured giants, with bright white eyes staring evilly from under the brim of his hat, but a great killer, as Kane Hodder's turns in increasingly foul screenplays taught us, cannot carry a film. The best slasher films - Halloween, chiefly - have a realistic and well-expressed heroine to oppose their very great killer, and Langenkamp ranks as close to the top as you could please. There's a very good reason for her almost total absence from the cinemas and TV screens of the world that I'm going to hold on to for a few weeks, but it's a crying shame, because she is really damn good. It's not just because she is herself 19 years old that she plays one of the most perfectly realised teenagers of the 1980s. Nancy and Freddy are as well-matched as any psycho killer and Final Girl ever have been, the equal even of Jamie Lee Curtis and Nick Castle, and their on-and-off struggle through the second half of the film raises it almost to the top tier of horror films of all time.
I love that word, "almost." It's pretty easy to explain what's wrong in A Nightmare on Elm Street with just a few strokes: first, the ending is completely nonsensical, which is not altogether a sin for a movie about dreams, but it would be really nice to know for certain who's alive at the end of the movie. You know, for sequels. Even so, the false ending of the film points to one of Wes Craven's greatest achievements here: blending strange and inexplicable dreams almost seamlessly with "real life." The fact that parts of the ending turn out to be a dream is both confusing and elucidating, about different questions.
There's no upside to the awful score, though. I don't usually like to talk about movie scores, but sometimes they just leap up and slap you, and Charles Bernstein (Who? Exactly) has graced Nightmare with a terrible synth-heavy bit of post-post-New Wave that marks every frame of the movie with a giant neon: "THIS IS THE '80s." Compared to Harry Manfredini's F13 work which is...I don't like calling any part of those movies "timeless," but here's something I kept forgetting to mention: you know how fucking awesome the music is in The X-Files? Then perhaps you would be shocked and appalled to learn, as I was, that very nearly all of Mark Snow's wonderful tricks were completely developed in the Friday the 13th series by the end of Part 2. Nightmare just sounds like a particularly scary version of Magnum, P.I.
I could probably go on, but I'd rather not, because after ten increasingly wretched Friday the 13th, Part Z: Jason Makes a Giant Sucking Noise entries, I am feeling unusually forgiving. My alarming love for Wes Craven is reasonably well-expressed, and this is easily the second-best film I've seen of his, and one of the five best horror film I've seen from the whole damn decade. So let it be flawed. At least it doesn't make me want to hurl a machete at my television.
Body Count: A bit hard to say, actually, because of the twist ending and whatnot; I'm comfortable saying four. Remember when I said that high body counts are usually a sign of desperation, trying to hide the fact that the movie sucks? Well, this is the corollary.
Reviews in this series
A Nightmare on Elm Street (Craven, 1984)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (Sholder, 1985)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (Russell, 1987)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (Harlin, 1988)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (Hopkins, 1989)
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (Talalay, 1991)
Wes Craven's New Nightmare (Craven, 1994)
Freddy vs. Jason (Yu, 2003)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (Bayer, 2010)
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- Nathan said...
Very interesting write up. I thought that I'd mention that the X-Files composer you're looking for is Mark Snow - not Frost. don't you love how our minds play tricks on us?
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The trio here, with bassist Trey Henry and drummer Ray Brinker, is probably best known as Tierney Sutton's back-up band. But they have also been a stand-alone ensemble for 12 years and sound like it. They interweave their three voices with a confidence and clarity that only come with time.
This album was recorded at the TUC jazz club in Tokyo. Christian Jacob makes the inspired choice to include four melodies that "every Japanese person would recognize." They are depictions of the four seasons that have been taught in Japanese elementary schools for generations. "Hana" is a little like "Up Up And Away" and is airy and bright with the affirmation of spring. Jacob's trio makes "Akatonbo" sound like a classic jazz ballad about autumn.
Jacob is an accomplished pianist, but his single greatest strength may be his capacity for creating fresh, ambitious, architecturally meticulous trio arrangements. That skill accounts for his seamless transformation of old Japanese children's songs into jazz. It also explains why his versions of done-to-death standards like "Too Close for Comfort" and "All or Nothing At All" and "It Never Entered My Mind" all sound like their composers wrote them yesterday and gave them to Jacob to rework them.


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This post is a part of my new weekly Linky Party {Weekend in Review}. Each week I'll share some of my favorite posts from the week before. Link up anytime from Monday to Saturday on each new week's linky party with an Instagram photo, tweet, or blog post about your weekend! Life is a party… this is one way we are going to celebrate it!
Last week, the first of the {Weekend in Review} linky parties we had a fun post from Kayla letting us know about her Fulfilling Weekend and the meal plan for this week.
Check out her post to read all about her weekend that included an 18 mile run as well as a wine & chocolate tasting.
Kayla's blog is a fitness and lifestyle blog with witty writing and informative posts. Other awesome posts of Kayla's that you might like:
I love that Kayla shared her meal plan for the week. It is a great way to stay a little bit more motivated to stick with it.
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