#alice vinegar tom

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“I wish...”

A Song of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords, Tyrion X by George R.R. Martin | Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister in GAME OF THRONES: “The Laws of Gods and Men,” Season 4, Episode 6 | Alice in “Vinegar Tom,” by Caryl Churchill.

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give a warm welcome to our 32 pink-haired cringefail losers !!!

we love these pink-haired characters , but there's no denying that they have zero swag , negative rizz -- they're totally cringefail . starting on 09/01/2023 , we'll begin voting to figure out which pink-haired character is the biggest cringefail loser of all time !!!!!

ROUND ONE MATCHUPS

PART ONE - 09/01 Natsu Dragneel - Fairy Tail VS Kazuichi Souda - Danganronpa Power - Chainsaw Man VS Narciso Anasui - Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Ibara Saegusa - Ensemble Stars! VS Shu Itsuki - Ensemble Stars! Lars Barriga - Steven Universe VS Sakura Katana Chan - Sugoi Quest for Kokoro Vinegar Doppio - Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure VS Renzo Shima - Blue Exorcist April May - Ace Attorney VS Alice Asmodeus - Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-Kun Crona - Soul Eater VS Hitori Gotoh - Bocchi the Rock! “Big” Jack Horner - Puss in Boots VS Chuki - Cars

PART TWO - 09/02 Yui - Angel Beats VS Sousuke Mitsuba - Toilet-Bound Hanako-Kun Tom Lucitor - Star VS the Forces of Evil VS Koby - One Piece Giffany - Gravity Falls VS Iono - Pokemon Riamu Yumemi - The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls VS Louise Francoise Le Blanc de La Valliere - The Familiar of Zero Kaz Kaan - Neo Yokio VS Natsuki - Doki Doki Literature Club Giovanni Potage - Epithet Erased VS Pearl - Steven Universe Nao Egokoro - Your Turn to Die VS Sweetheart - OMORI Gowther - Seven Deadly Sins VS Lisbeth - Sword Art Online

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Absolutely no-one asked for this, but me and @ewanmitchellcrumbs​ have very strong feelings on what different EM characters would have as their fish and chips orders. 

pov: me writing this fr

this is a full stupid ass shit post, it’s not serious guys, and unless I post something about it it won’t leave my brain

So without further ado, EM FISH AND CHIPS

First in the ring, the man who STARTED IT ALL, THIS LITTLE SHIT

Salad Days - Will What’s-His-Face

It’s canon that Will gets chips and a fanta, that’s it. 0 nutritional value. Also 10/10 on choice of chippy, it’s actually a really good chippy

HOTD

pov: aemond avoiding the grease

Aemond is not particular to a chippy dinner, insisting he doesn’t want anything bc it’s ‘too greasy’ (pussy). Aegon absolutely tears him apart for it. Just buys a San Pellegrino cos he thinks it’s fancy - absolutely fuming  cos Aegon shakes it up on the way home and it fizzes everywhere when he opens it

If Aegon hasn’t been drinking, bog standard boring ass fish and chips with half of a bottle of ketchup slathered over his chips so nobody else nicks them. Won’t go near mushy peas, thinks they’re gross af. If he’s drunk, a doner kebab, but the local chippy doesn’t sell them so he gets Alicent to drive 15mins up the road to the one that does. A diva through and through.

Helaena doesn’t eat fish, so opts for just chips and is the only patron who actually buys the picked onions. Has mushy peas and curry sauce and mixes it together with her chips, mostly does it to annoy Aegon tho.

Daeron is waiting at home, but everyone forgot to get him something so ends up with the crap, lukewarm chips left behind.

Alicent is a scampi girlie all the way, with a diet coke

Otto is put off by the food hygiene rating at the local chippy, so takes his own fish to get battered like a weirdo. Decimates his chips with a litre of vinegar.

Daemon never gets to eat a chippy dinner, so he gets a pie as a side dish, despite Rhaenyra claiming it’s not a side dish. But Daemon stands by that it most definitely is. It’s a gash steak and kidney pie and refuses to use any cutlery for any of it.

Rhaenyra is also a scampi girlie, but unlike Alicent, has G&T out of a can.

World on Fire - Tom Bennett

Now THIS BITCH.

Ok.

Strong feelings but, Tom is a Northerner yeah. So he is a full gravy bitch. Loves that shit. Would bathe in it if he could. Has dry ass fish, unseasoned chips cos he’s boring af.

TLK - Osferth

*sigh* Osferth. Angel. Baby boy.

Osferth orders a battered sausage, but gets given a battered Mars Bar by mistake. He doesn’t like confrontation so he pretends like that’s what he ordered anyway, but he’s secretly devastated and tries not to gag when he eats it.

Uhtred can have the kebab that gives him food poisoning, shitting for days, idec, if face annoys me

High Life - Ettore

Ok this guy is weird. SO he’s gotta have a weird choice.

Ettore has the saveloy because he enjoys the innuendo. Stares at it on his plate for an uncomfortably long time, making sinister eye contract with everyone while he eats it.

Trigger Point - Billy Washington

Ooft. THIS sad boy.

Billy gets a chicken and mushroom pie. Yes from a FISH AND CHIPS SHOP. But the Food Safety rating of his local is like a 3, so the pie has been sat under the heatlamps for HOURS, so it’s all grey, sad and soggy. But he eats it anyway.

To tie it off, I imagine Ewan Mitchell as 100% a battered sausage guy. He has gravy (cos midlands boi, we love). Won’t touch mushy peas with a barge pole and perhaps partial to a chip cob. Carbs on carbs, we stan.

Thanks for reading this absolute trash.

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Hello, do you have any book recs? About philosophy, psychology, history or crime? I enjoy non fiction or really, but anything that would stimulate my mind and make me think xx

I'm suddenly blanking on every book I've ever read.

Tw: SA mentioned

A lot of what I read on my free time is more mystery/horror and historical fiction.

I would say holly black has a good selection of fantasy with mystery or horror but they tend to be a lot about like mythical creatures. So if that's up your alley she's really good.

Then there's the typical ones that I've either read or plan on like: On of Us is Lying, Two Can Keep a Secret, The Leaving, Emma in the Night...etc these are more mystery/horror.

But if you want darker books that I would say is more realistic and heavily trauma based I would say: The Break by Katherena Vermette, Tracks by Louise Eedrich, Shell Shaker by LeAnne Howe. I read these for class and they're really good especially the break(which deals with SA). These are about Idigenous people(mainly women) and their trauma or stories. They can be difficult to read especially if you've dealt with these things yourself. But they are written amazingly.

Then there's Phillpa Gregory. Her works are defiantly historical fiction(heavy on the fiction part). I like her Tudor and York books. There's also 2 shows based off her books soo.

This is a random suggestion but Vinegar Tom by Caryl Churchill! It is what the Crucible should of been. Deals with a witch trial but through the perspective of an accused women and her struggles. It is a play so it can be difficult to read but holy shit! I love it.

Sorry I can't think of anymore. It's been a while since I read for fun and not for school. I graduated as an English major so all I did was read books. Mainly plays though. Also Margret Atwood has some really good short stories and poems. I like her short works better. Same with Alice Munro. Both great writers that I feel master short pieces. Like crime related poems or even melancholy works. I guess perhaps maybe more horror than crime.

Sorry I find crime/mystery and horror to go hand in hand with a lot of my books. I don't really have any philosophy recs. Most my recs would fall under more horror and mystery than crime. Sorry couldn't give more.

Hope that gives you something to work with! Sorry If I wasn't helpful!

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My 2020 Reading List

A little late, but here is what I read this year, mostly in order. 

Them- Joyce Carol Oates

Mother Night- Kurt Vonnegut

Chasing Vermeer- Blue Balliet

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon- Stephen King

The Fair Maiden- Joyce Carol Oates

Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered- Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

The Probable Future- Alice Hopkins

Revival- Stephen King

Immanuel’s Veins- Ted Dekker

This One Summer- Tamaki

The House of the Scorpion- Farmer

Ninth House- Leigh Bardugo

The Untethered Soul- Mickela Singer

Dear Midnight- Zack Gray

Stray- Elissa Sussman

Kira Kira- Cynthia Kadohata

The Outsider- Stephen King

Finders Keepers- Stephen King

The Faceless Old Woman who Secretly Lives in Your Home- Joseph Fink

Wintergirls- Anderson

Tweak- Nic Sheff

The Library of the Unwritten- Hackwith

The Red Church- Scott Nicholson

Lullabies for Suffering- Various

Unbearable Lightness- Portia de Rossi

The Liar’s Wife- Mary Gordon

Dracula- Bram Stoker

Salem’s Lot- Stephen King

Entropy in Bloom- Jeremy Robert Johnson

Vinegar Girl- Anne Tyler

Tell My Sorrows to the Stones- Christopher Golden

Faery Tales- Carol Ann Duffy

Bad Habits: A Love Story- Cristy C Road

Someone Knows- Lisa Scottoline

The Poet X- Elizabeth Acevedo

Strange Fucking Stories- Various

The Sparrow- Mary Doria Ross

The Slaughterhouse 5- Kurt Vonnegut

Hillbilly Elegy- J.D. Vance

I was aiming for 50. Better luck this year!

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A New Recruit

For Downton Abbey crossover day, Mercy Street Advent: Silver and AU.  Thanks @jomiddlemarch​ for the prompt and thanks @the-spaztic-fantastic​ for beta-ing; I promise to get back to Agduna soon!

“Sybil! Sybil Crawley! I didn’t expect to see you here!” Emma rushed to her friend and then paused, wiping her hands on the mostly clean apron and tucking wisps of hair behind her ears.  It was a constant reminder that she was on her own now, and only just barely managing, none of Belinda's superior skills attending to her appearance. 

“I expected to see you! Alice told me you were here.”

“You spoke with Alice?” Alice hadn’t seen most of their friends since Tom died, preferring to skulk about on errands for Tom’s mother.  Though what Alice did now was most assuredly not of Emma’s concern.  Emma left her home knowing more was going on than she could bear to witness, and cast her lot with the Yankees.

“At the Relief Society.  We were ripping sheets to make bandages and Alice said you’ve been nursing some of our boys here. I wanted to come help.” She gestured to her dress, a plain morning dress that Emma could tell lay atop petticoats and not a hoop skirt.  This was Sybil, ready to work.

Emma had last seen Sybil when the hospital was still a hotel and they were sipping tea from china cups with matching saucers.  The same set Mother had cried over when the Yankees smashed it on purpose as they cleared out cupboards for the vinegar and molasses and cornmeal that constituted rations. Sybil had been in the latest fashions – a skirt and blouse instead of a dress.  Her jacket had been made of silk and trimmed with braid, the skirt deeply pleated and her satin shoes not visible except when she lifted her hem for a moment to show them off to Emma. Always a bit daring in fashion and now more than a little daring in how she was spending her time.

“I am, I’m nursing.  You’ll find the place quite altered,” Emma said, speaking gently, starting to falter a bit in how to express what the hotel had become. “And not all of the men are Confederates. Some –”

“I know. I know that, Emma. I know who I’ll find here.”

She watched as Sybil’s eye caught that of a soldier in Union blues, who tipped his hat to her as he walked by carrying a barrel, heading towards the kitchens.  The soldier looked back and winked at a blushing Sybil just as Henry walked in, supporting a cavalry officer who was limping heavily and Emma wondered if she could say the same.

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Blu-ray Review: Pandemonium

A good parody movie is rare, and rarer still are those with longevity - especially if said movie doesn't have the names Zucker, Abrahams, or Brooks on it. 1982's Pandemonium may not hold up as well as the gold standards, but it's at least on par with - and often superior to - the rest of the crop of horror lampoons that emerged during the early '80s slasher boom: Student Bodies, Saturday the 14th, Class Reunion, and Wacko.

Shameless aping the setup of Friday the 13th, a killer emerges in the town of It Had To Be, Indiana when Bambi (Candice Azzara, Caroline in the City) reopens a cheerleading camp that was closed following a rash of murders in 1963. The new students - introduced with an on-screen victim counter - include the Carrie-esque Candy (Carol Kane, When a Stranger Calls), beauty pageant queen Mandy (Teri Landrum), the snooty Sandy (Debralee Scott, Police Academy), party animals Andy (Miles Chapin, The Funhouse) and Randy (Marc McClure, Back to the Future), and the preppy Glenn (Judge Reinhold, Gremlins).

Having successfully tackled the horror genre with Alice, Sweet Alice, Alfred Sole was an inspired choice to direct. Lacking experience with comedy, he smartly populated the cast with players from the renowned Groundlings comedy troupe in addition to several bygone stars from Hollywood's golden age. Other notable ensemble members include Paul Reubens (Pee-wee's Big Adventure), Eileen Brennan (Clue), Edie McClurg (Ferris Bueller's Day Off), Phil Hartman (Saturday Night Live), David L. Lander (Laverne & Shirley), Michael Tucci (Grease), Eve Arden (Grease), and Tom Smothers (of the Smothers Brothers).

Between its distinguished cast and scant runtime (80 minutes including opening and closing credits), Pandemonium is easily accessible. Its brand of humor does not require intimate knowledge of horror films - the direct spoofs come from low-hanging fruit like Friday the 13th, Carrie, The Wolf Man, Godzilla, Psycho, and Jaws - but does little to satirize the genre and its tropes. Instead, writers Jaime Barton Klein (Annabelle's Wish) and Richard Whitley (Rock 'n' Roll High School) merely use the slasher premise as a conduit for extraneous, broad gags.

The comedy is hit or miss, but at least some of the gags remain humorous; I was won over early by the opening javelin kill, which turns cheerleaders carrying vegetables into a human shish kabob. Be forewarned that there are a couple of race-based jokes that would not fly today - Lynne Marie Stewart (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) plays a Japanese woman and Asian people are as stereotypical tourists - but they're tame compared to many of its contemporaries.

Pandemonium has received a vibrant 2K restoration from its 35mm interpositive for Vinegar Syndrome's Blu-ray release. It features reversible artwork; Ralf Krause's new piece leans into the horror elements, while the original poster looks very much like a generic '80s comedy. Sole gives a new, 15-minute interview in which he discusses leaning on The Groundlings for humor, among other recollections. A still gallery, comprised of a mere six photos, is also included.

Pandemonium is available on Blu-ray now via Vinegar Syndrome.

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Pandemonium 1982

First time watching this because I literally only recently discovered it even existed. Totally my type of silly old school Groundlings style comedy . Check out Vinegar Syndromes funny slightly misleading cover , unless you look carefully at it. Carol Kane, Judge Reinhold, Tom Smothers and PeeWee Herman in a cheerleader killer movie, oh my.

Its about a cheerleader school reopening after a terrible yet surprisingly hilarious mass murder closed it down.

In a Lampoon spoof type of movie its a wild cast of random silly characters doing there bits as a semi plot happens in the back ground.

I love the Groundlings of the 70s and where they all went, along with pee wee see Edie Mclurg and John Paragon as cameos. Early silly burned out humour that was not trying to be edgey but only on todays senstive audience will it now appear very insulting and dark. I would be surprised if anyone younger than me found this nonsense funny, but I definitely do. But hey you know me , Im silly and its a silly old world. Tom Smothers is doing a full time mock of Canadians the entire movie and I find it hilarious. Eh. Horror Comedy? No its comedy mocking horrpr like Scary movie but from a time when I enjoyed that humor. The jokes are not specific references (well ok many a Carrie reference) so its not as instantly dated as spoofs of now. Also very strange the director Alfred Sole made the legendary Alice Sweet Alice, then the bizarre Tanyas Island, then  this and finally Cheeseball the Groundlings skit movie and thats it. From then on only producing tv and never directing again. What an odd and interesting career.

Basically what this movie is an odd and entertaining movie for specific weirdos. Makes a good double bill with the other recent Vinegar syndrome release Wacko. Or Meatballs 2 , also with Pee Wee. Im not high enough for all three back to back though.

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Vinegar Tom at Shotgun Players

Tonight I went with one of my Hamlet roulette buddies to see a 1976 play by Caryl Churchill. Vinegar Tom is the tale of a witch hunt in a 17th-century English village, interspersed with cabaret numbers set in the present day--a construct that, according to the internet, is in the tradition of Brecht. It was an intense and upsetting depiction of how the concept of witches is used as a way to control women, particularly to punish the non-conforming and/or marginalised. The songs served to point out how our modern day society still does the same. 

The directing and acting were terrific. I was especially pleased to see Megan Trout, who gave a fantastic performance as Alice. Her whisper of rage at the end was so satisfying. However, I was glad that the play didn’t end with that but instead had a comical feminist song-and-dance number afterwards, because I needed something to lighten up my mood! Hopefully I’ll be able to sleep tonight...

The cast was whiter than necessary, with (as far as I could tell) only two women of color in it out of about 11. But at least there was only one man!

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hiii everyone ! i've managed to narrow down the potential nominees for the pink hair cringefail tourney-- i just need a bit more finetuning . below the cut is a list of characters that will / could participate in the upcoming tourney , but i need help deciding who will be included !!! please let me know what you think <3

GUARANTEED SPOT Crona - Soul Eater Hitori Gotoh - Bocchi the Rock! Kazuichi Souda - Danganronpa Vinegar Doppio - Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Renzo Shima - Blue Exorcist Lars Barriga - Steven Universe Tom Lucitor - Star VS the Forces of Evil Koby - One Piece Giovanni Potage - Epithet Erased Pearl - Steven Universe Natsu Dragneel - Fairy Tail “Big” Jack Horner - Puss in Boots Sakura Katana Chan - Sugoi Quest for Kokoro

HIGHLY CONSIDERING Narciso Anasui - Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Sweetheart - OMORI Alice Asmodeus - Welcome to Demon School Iruma-kun! Giffany - Gravity Falls Kaz Kaan - Neo Yokio April May - Ace Attorney Max Galactica - Ace Attorney Gowther - Seven Deadly Sins Amy Rose - Sonic the Hedgehog Miranda Vanderbilt - Monster Prom Miriam - Pokemon Iono - Pokemon

NEEDS CONSIDERATION Fluttershy - My Little Pony Lisbeth - Sword Art Online Sakura Haruno - Naruto Sousuke Mitsuba - Toilet-Bound Hanako-Kun Yuno Gasai - Future Diary Power - Chainsaw Man Riamu Yumemi - The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Ibara Saegusa - Ensemble Stars! Shu Itsuki - Ensemble Stars! Yui - Angel Beats Mizuki Akiyami - Project Sekai Emu Otori - Project Sekai Rina Tennoji - Love Live! Kaoru Sakurayashiki - Sk8 the Infinity Louise Francoise Le Blanc de La Valliere - The Familiar of Zero Yuki Takeya - School-Live!

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Project - Essex Witches - Colchester 

Blog Post 5 - Year 3 - Personal project

Colchester Castle was built a few years after the Norman Conquest of 1066 and was built on the site of a Roman Temple to the Emperor Claudios. The Roman town of what then was Camelodunum was the first Roman City founded in Britain, and is the oldest recorded town. 

During the 16th and 17th centuries, over 200 men and women were held in Colchester Castles prison cells on charges of witchcraft. Used as a base for Witch-finder general, Mathew Hopkins. 

Mathew Hopkins career began in 1644. In 1647 he wrote a pamphlet called The Discovery Of Witches. He declared himself witch-finder general, with alleged special commission from Parliament to rid the county of witches, beginning with the villages of Essex. Hopkins turned gossip and innuendo into formal accusations of witchcraft and devil worship. Fuelled by local superstition and religion as well as social and personal factors such as age, gender and martial status. The accused were usually brought to trial for inflicting death or decease on live stock and humans or souring milk. They would invariably be elderly lonely women (referred to as ‘crones’) especially if the had a cat (familiar). They would be old poor feeble and defenceless and unpopular and fitted in closely to the conventional ideas of what a witch looked like.

Torture was illegal in England at this time. Hopkins’ methods were mainly bloodless, using exhaustion, confusion, and solitary confinement to break down his victims to confess. He would have victims thrown into an isolated insanitary cell, stripped, beaten, staved and kept from sleep, using the pain and humiliation psychologically against them. If that did not work he would use more brutal methods such as ‘pricking’ using pins, needles and bodkins to pierce the skin looking for insensitive spots that did not bleed if found this was the mark of the devil.

One of the most favoured methods of torture was the public spectacle of ‘swimming’ the victims were bounded and thrown into water. If they floated they were guilty. This was based from the idea that the witches rejected the water at Baptism so the element of water would reject them. Hopkins took this a step further and developed this method into his own. Victims would be bound in a special way, bent double with their arms crossed between their legs, thumbs tied to their big toes. Rope was tided round their waist and held by a man on either side of the river or pond to prevent them from drowning, lowered from a platform into water and allowed to sink and rise 3 times. This depended on the men holding the rope if they survived or drowned. Many died this way. Once they had been warn down by torture Hopkins began sessions of interrogation plying the accused of questions and demanding how they became acquainted with the devil. 

The Witches:


While waiting to be tried on suspicion of witchcraft at Chelmsford in 1645, a number of women died of fever in the unsanitary dungeons of Colchester Castle: 
Anne Lamperille
, Joan Cooper, 
Mary Cooke
, Rose Hallybread. 
An inquisition was held and concluded they died of ‘divine visitation’ or natural causes. Possibly one of the most well known of Hopkins cases was that of Elizabeth Clarke. His first case, she was kept without food or sleep for 3 nights. On the forth she weakened and confessed to being a witch and accusing five other women:


Anne West and her daughter Rebecca


Anne Leech


Helen Clarke


Elizabeth Gooding 


She also confessed to keeping five familiars:


Holt - a white kitten 


Jarmarara - a fat spaniel 


Sack and Suger - a black rabbit 


Newes - a pole cat


Vinegar Tom - a long legged greyhound with the head like an ox


Rebecca West saved herself by in plying her mother and others were witches. The trials of the accused were held at Chelmsford in the 29th July 1645. In this 29 people were condemned. 

After the success Hopkins had in Chelmsford, he charged between £15 and £25 per village to get rid of witches. Nineteen of the thirty two women Hopkins interrogated in Colchester Castle were sentenced to hand following the trail at Chelmsford. Overall Mathew Hopkins was responsible of the deaths of at least 100 people.

Colchester's Witches and trail dates: 

- Benjamin Fairstead 1573 - ‘Mother’ Humfrey 1573 - Helen Wedon 1573 - Ethelreda Pilgrim 1576 - Margaret Hobigge 1582 - Sarah Hobigge 1582 - Margaret Holbeye 1582 and 1585 - Catherine Reve 1582 - Henry Driver 1582 and 1585 - Alice Driver 1585 and 1592 - Katherine Reve 1585 - Margaret Rand 1592 - Elizabeth Shymell 1599 - ‘Widow’ Stawsby 1645 - Margaret Byrgis 1651 - John Lock 1651 

Shoot reflection:

For this shoot I decided it would be beneficial for me to stay over night in Colchester. This gave me time to shoot over 2 days. I stayed central and right opposite the Castle so accessibility was not an issue. In the first evening I decided I would go into the Castle and photograph the exterior. I started by going into the castle and photographing in the dungeons. It was however quite dark and I made the mistake of not bringing my tripod or extra lighting. I managed to capture one photograph of the wooden wall being illuminated by a small light. This was interesting to me as this could possibly been all that these prisoners would have seen maybe even less. I decided to go outside and look for spots that I could photograph however it was still busy and the landscapes were interrupted by people. I photographed the castle a few times and then returned to my hotel. The next morning I decided to leave early, the castle grounds were beautifully quiet and I was able to get un-disrupted images, capturing the calming peaceful surroundings of an influential part of the story. Going back I would have taken my tripod and maybe a small light in hope to get better photographs in the dungeons. 

Next I will visit the town of Chelmsford, where Witches were trialed in Essex. 

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Garlic Quotes

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• After waking up, I take my vitamins and eat fruit or, sometimes, bread with garlic, which is good for your health. – Jordi Molla • And if you worry that not finishing the food on your plate is a slap in the face of all the hungry people everywhere, you are not living in reality. The truth is that you either throw the food out or you throw it in, but either way it turns to waste. World hunger will not be solved by finishing the garlic mashed potatoes on your plate. – Geneen Roth • Animals have rights, to be smothered with garlic and butter! – Ted Nugent • As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings. – George Orwell • Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don’t deserve to eat garlic. – Anthony Bourdain

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• Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away… Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense. – Calvin Trillin

[clickbank-storefront-bestselling] • For a rub with sweet tang: mix just a little bit of light brown sugar to garlic pepper, black pepper, and onion powder. – Johnny Trigg • Garlic bread – it’s the future, I’ve tasted it. – Peter Kay • Garlic is as good as ten mothers. – Les Blank • Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime…Please, treat your garlic with respect…Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don’t deserve to eat garlic. – Anthony Bourdain • Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions. – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings • Garlick maketh a man wynke, drynke, and stynke. – Thomas Nash • Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn’t eaten any. – Jean Rostand • He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow’s head. – Ford Madox Ford • Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared-with a flask of wine-between working people, can be more convivial than any feast. – Patience Gray • I always get nervous before a kissing scene. I make sure I always brush my teeth and eat lots of fruit and nice foods rather than garlic. I’m terribly self conscious. – Drew Barrymore • I am very moody when I cook. I cook according to the way I feel at the moment. A little of this, a little of that, and almost always a coupcon of garlic. I never proceed by the rules. – Marcel Tabuteau • I believe in the magic of preparation. You can make just about any foods taste wonderful by adding herbs and spices. Experiment with garlic, cilantro, basil and other fresh herbs on vegetables to make them taste great. – Jorge Cruise • I do a chimichurri sauce with garlic, parsley, olive oil, and red and black pepper. You just mince the garlic and the parsley and mix it all together. Brush a little of that on a steak and it kicks it up, like, 10 notches. – Julie Gonzalo • I don’t want to sound too mystical or weird but it’s important to know what garlic smells like when it’s cooking, or what eggs look like when they’re cracked out of a shell. – Joel Salatin • I had a meal in Pizza Hut and the waitress told me I didn’t need to pay. So I decided to be a bit cheeky and ask for more pizza and garlic bread. – Gareth Gates • I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill. – William Shakespeare • I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic. – Rachael Ray • I have a trainer who comes three times a week and just listens to me moan… and I keep fit and keep moving… and I do watch what I eat. I am a vegetarian… I can’t eat crazy food. I’m highly allergic to onions and garlic and spices… I’ve never had a pizza, never had a curry. – Ringo Starr • I love garlic, and I use it often. – Eric Ripert • I love to cook. In fact, at this exact moment, I am trying something new: I am cooking a whole chicken in my crockpot, which I’ve never done before. I browned it with garlic powder, salt and pepper, and I put a bunch of celery and onions – which I’ll have to hide from the children because they claim to hate onions – and I’m going to make homemade mashed cream potatoes. I always, before I leave for work in the morning, have supper cooking. That way, when I come home and they come home from school, there’s all kinds of good smells in the house. – Nancy Grace • I panicked when my son, Jett, stopped eating baby food. He’s only two but his food vocabulary is fantastic. He likes my baked tilapia and string beans with chopped garlic. But he really likes pizza. Sometimes every inanimate object to him is pizza. – Jill Scott • I think garlic is absolutely critical. Lemon is absolutely critical to boost the immune system. Olive oil is absolutely critical … just one teaspoon, it will last the whole month. – Manto Tshabalala-Msimang • I use a lot of fresh citrus, garlic, and fresh herbs when cooking to cut down on fat and sodium but punch up flavor. Our cupboards and fridge are full of condiments – mustards, vinegars, etc. that also add tons of flavor but are low in fat, calories, or other processed additives. – Cat Cora • I used to like eating frozen corn straight out of the bag. But I also love microwaving frozen corn and adding butter and sugar and garlic powder and chili powder to it. And sometimes I just like to microwave it and add a little bit of hot sauce to it. My friends always laugh at me when they catch me eating it. – Thu Tran • If Ive gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then Im really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. Its effortless. – Alice Waters • If stakes and garlic were the top two things that could kill a vampire, ninth grade gym was a close third. – Heather Brewer • If you can smell garlic, everything is all right. – J. G. Ballard • If you like garlic, you’ll like ramps. – Jim Chamberlin • If you thought eighth grade was tough, try it with fangs and a fear of garlic. – Heather Brewer • I’m not a vegetarian, and I like filet minion which is sort of a guilty pleasure because I have vegetarian leanings. I eat that once in a while, but generally speaking I like to eat vegetarian things. I really like pasta. I really like bread with olive oil and garlic and I like salads. – Jesse Michaels • I’m particularly fond of boned chicken breasts with a little garlic under the flesh and cooked in a casserole for 40 minutes with a jar of olives, some cherry tomatoes and a spoonful of olive oil. – Maeve Binchy • In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk…You were ‘Gaelic’ or ‘garlic,” as one schoolmate told me, and I couldn’t admit, to him or myself, that I had both Irish and Italian ancestors. – J. R. Moehringer • In Pizza Express you can get garlic bread with cheese and tomato. Now correct me if I’m wrong, but that’s a pizza. – Jimmy Carr • It has been said of garlic that everyone knows its odor save he who has eaten it, and who wonders why everyone flies at his approach. – George Ellwanger • It’s a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden. – Alice Waters • It’s very freaky in Chicago.There’s something in the water there, I don’t know what it is. But the actual word Chicago means, in the Indian language, garlic. It was just garlic and mosquitoes there. And that is the roughest city on the planet, and I been to every place in the world. – Quincy Jones • Maybe it was a good thing that Bones was putting Don’s remains away instead of me. With my current emotional state, I’d probably think the only safe place for his ashes was tucked inside my clothes next to the garlic and weed. – Jeaniene Frost • Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath. – William Shakespeare • My favorite comfort food would have be braised beef. You know, beef, slow-cooked in a Dutch oven or in a slow cooker until it falls apart with simple mushrooms, some onions and lots of fresh thyme and garlic. – Tyler Florence • My favorite is the garlic press. I think it’s beautiful as an object. But the awkward part of it all is that I don’t use it much because I’m allergic to garlic. – Michael Graves • My favorite to cook is this recipe I’ve been making since I was 12 years old with my mom, and it’s an angel hair shrimp pasta with tomatoes, feta, garlic, white wine – it’s so easy but so fresh and so delicious! – Devon Windsor • My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches – with the possible exception of ice cream and pie. – Angelo Pellegrini • My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner. – Andre Dubus • My perfect last meal would be: shrimp cocktail, lasagna, steak, creamed spinach, salad with bleu cheese dressing, onion rings, garlic bread, and a dessert of strawberry shortcake. – Joan Rivers • My wife and I use a lot of garlic and rosemary with roast lamb. It has to be New Zealand lamb. The domestic variety is too gamy, in my experience. – Alfred Molina • Not me, paranoia’s the garlic in life’s kitchen, right, you can never have too much. – Thomas Pynchon • Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed. – Evelyn Waugh • Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine…and ask me to supper. I’ll not care, really, even if your nose is a little shiny, so long as you are self-possessed and sure that wolf or no wolf, your mind is your own and your heart is another’s and therefore in the right place. – M. F. K. Fisher • Our lives are full of stress. Some meditate, some walk, some sing and dance. Nature offers us garlic, maitake and hibiscus to relieve stress – Gunter Pauli • Peace and happiness, begin, geographically, where garlic is used in cooking. – Marcel Boulestin • Peppers, garlic, hazelnuts and brazil nuts make my mouth, tongue and eyes swell and itch within minutes of eating them. – Andrea McLean • piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way. – Rita Mae Brown • PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic. – Ambrose Bierce • Pounding fragrant things – particularly garlic, basil, parsley – is a tremendous antidote to depression. But it applies also to juniper berries, coriander seeds and the grilled fruits of the chilli pepper. Pounding these things produces an alteration in one’s being – from sighing with fatigue to inhaling with pleasure. The cheering effects of herbs and alliums cannot be too often reiterated. Virgil’s appetite was probably improved equally by pounding garlic as by eating it. – Patience Gray • Raw garlic and a skin of the lemon – not only do they give you a beautiful face and skin but they also protect you from disease. – Manto Tshabalala-Msimang • Some hours after eating this dish [lièvre à la royale, which contains 20 cloves of garlic and twice that quantity of shallots], there is a peculiar sensation of liberation in the head. and it is sensation of smell. – Patience Gray • Stop and smell the garlic! That’s all you have to do. – William Shatner • The air in Provence is impregnated with the aroma of garlic, which makes it very healthful to breathe. – Alexandre Dumas • The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out of car windows and cooking with garlic. – Nick Harkaway • The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter. – Yotam Ottolenghi • The fashion industry isn’t merely content to encase my meaty flanks in skintight denim. Oh, no! That denim also has to be white, a color that attracts ketchup, wine, garlic aioli, and any other foodstuffs I might otherwise be able to enjoy if I wasn’t wearing ridiculously tight pants. – Diablo Cody • The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they’re trying to keep out. – Calvin Trillin • The grotesque prudishness and archness with which garlic is treated in [England] has led to the superstition that rubbing the bowl with it before putting the salad in gives sufficient flavor. It rather depends whether you are going to eat the bowl or the salad. – Elizabeth David • The most annoying person on the BBC is Russell Brand, I’ve actually been close up to that boy. He smells like when you mix garlic with coffee and alcohol. I’m just saying when you get close to him, he could do with a bit of Sure For Men, he stinks. – Noel Gallagher • The most overrated ingredients are garlic and extra-virgin olive oil. With garlic, it’s personal; I have never been that big of a fan of its flavor. As for extra-virgin olive oil, I do use it quite often but its ubiquity serves to overshadow many wonderful oils like pistachio, walnut, argan and even grapeseed. – Lela Rose • The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don’t do it unless you’re willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps. – Jim Harrison • The strands of spaghetti were vital, almost alive in my mouth, and the olive oil was singing with flavor. It was hard to imagine that four simple ingredients [olive oil, pasta, garlic and cheese] could marry so perfectly. – Ruth Reichl • The summer has seized you, as when, last month in Amalfi, I saw lemons as large as your desk-side globe-that miniature map of the world-and I could mention, too, the market stalls of mushrooms and garlic bugs all engorged. Or I even think of the orchard next door, where the berries are done and the apples are beginning to swell. And once, with our first backyard,I remember I planted an acre of yellow beans we couldn’t eat. – Anne Sexton • There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic. – Louis Diat • There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving. – Leo Buscaglia • There are three things you cannot hide: smell of the garlic, fragrance of the flower and the wisdom of the teacher. – Harbhajan Singh Yogi • There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger’s origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes. – Kenneth Grahame • There’s no doubt that after you eat a lot of garlic, you just kind of feel like you are floating, you feel ultra-confident, you feel capable of going out and whipping your weight in wild cats. – Les Blank • This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is – A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo; Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace; All these you eat at Terre’s tavern, In that one dish of Bouillabaisse. – William Makepeace Thackeray • Vlad decided that teachers’ ideas were a lot like bunches of garlic-intriguing from afar, but up close sadly sickening and, if you weren’t careful, DEADLY. – Heather Brewer • Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm. – Cyril Connolly • We have garlic days, and onion days. You know what they’re cooking. – Leslie White • What do you think? Young women of rank eat – you will never guess what – garlick! – Percy Bysshe Shelley • What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. – Augustus Saint-Gaudens • Without garlic I simply would not care to live. – Louis Diat • You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times. – Morley Safer • You’re a monster, Mr. Grinch. Your heart’s an empty hole. Your brain is full of spiders, You’ve got garlic in your soul. – Dr. Seuss

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• A basic all-purpose rub: mix together one or two tablespoons equal parts black pepper, granulated garlic, grilled onion, and onion powder. That will give you real good base for any kind of meat. Just increase the amount if you’re grilling large quantities. – Johnny Trigg • A garlic caress is stimulating. A garlic excess soporific. – Curnonsky • A gold standard is to the moochers and looters in government what sunlight and garlic are to vampires. – Herman Cain • A good hamburger mix: add equal parts black pepper, granulated garlic, grilled onion, onion powder and some chopped onion. And mix in a little barbecue sauce, which will add even more great flavor. – Johnny Trigg • A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes. – Dean Koontz

• After waking up, I take my vitamins and eat fruit or, sometimes, bread with garlic, which is good for your health. – Jordi Molla • And if you worry that not finishing the food on your plate is a slap in the face of all the hungry people everywhere, you are not living in reality. The truth is that you either throw the food out or you throw it in, but either way it turns to waste. World hunger will not be solved by finishing the garlic mashed potatoes on your plate. – Geneen Roth • Animals have rights, to be smothered with garlic and butter! – Ted Nugent • As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings. – George Orwell • Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don’t deserve to eat garlic. – Anthony Bourdain

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• Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away… Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense. – Calvin Trillin

[clickbank-storefront-bestselling] • For a rub with sweet tang: mix just a little bit of light brown sugar to garlic pepper, black pepper, and onion powder. – Johnny Trigg • Garlic bread – it’s the future, I’ve tasted it. – Peter Kay • Garlic is as good as ten mothers. – Les Blank • Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime…Please, treat your garlic with respect…Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don’t deserve to eat garlic. – Anthony Bourdain • Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions. – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings • Garlick maketh a man wynke, drynke, and stynke. – Thomas Nash • Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn’t eaten any. – Jean Rostand • He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow’s head. – Ford Madox Ford • Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared-with a flask of wine-between working people, can be more convivial than any feast. – Patience Gray • I always get nervous before a kissing scene. I make sure I always brush my teeth and eat lots of fruit and nice foods rather than garlic. I’m terribly self conscious. – Drew Barrymore • I am very moody when I cook. I cook according to the way I feel at the moment. A little of this, a little of that, and almost always a coupcon of garlic. I never proceed by the rules. – Marcel Tabuteau • I believe in the magic of preparation. You can make just about any foods taste wonderful by adding herbs and spices. Experiment with garlic, cilantro, basil and other fresh herbs on vegetables to make them taste great. – Jorge Cruise • I do a chimichurri sauce with garlic, parsley, olive oil, and red and black pepper. You just mince the garlic and the parsley and mix it all together. Brush a little of that on a steak and it kicks it up, like, 10 notches. – Julie Gonzalo • I don’t want to sound too mystical or weird but it’s important to know what garlic smells like when it’s cooking, or what eggs look like when they’re cracked out of a shell. – Joel Salatin • I had a meal in Pizza Hut and the waitress told me I didn’t need to pay. So I decided to be a bit cheeky and ask for more pizza and garlic bread. – Gareth Gates • I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill. – William Shakespeare • I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic. – Rachael Ray • I have a trainer who comes three times a week and just listens to me moan… and I keep fit and keep moving… and I do watch what I eat. I am a vegetarian… I can’t eat crazy food. I’m highly allergic to onions and garlic and spices… I’ve never had a pizza, never had a curry. – Ringo Starr • I love garlic, and I use it often. – Eric Ripert • I love to cook. In fact, at this exact moment, I am trying something new: I am cooking a whole chicken in my crockpot, which I’ve never done before. I browned it with garlic powder, salt and pepper, and I put a bunch of celery and onions – which I’ll have to hide from the children because they claim to hate onions – and I’m going to make homemade mashed cream potatoes. I always, before I leave for work in the morning, have supper cooking. That way, when I come home and they come home from school, there’s all kinds of good smells in the house. – Nancy Grace • I panicked when my son, Jett, stopped eating baby food. He’s only two but his food vocabulary is fantastic. He likes my baked tilapia and string beans with chopped garlic. But he really likes pizza. Sometimes every inanimate object to him is pizza. – Jill Scott • I think garlic is absolutely critical. Lemon is absolutely critical to boost the immune system. Olive oil is absolutely critical … just one teaspoon, it will last the whole month. – Manto Tshabalala-Msimang • I use a lot of fresh citrus, garlic, and fresh herbs when cooking to cut down on fat and sodium but punch up flavor. Our cupboards and fridge are full of condiments – mustards, vinegars, etc. that also add tons of flavor but are low in fat, calories, or other processed additives. – Cat Cora • I used to like eating frozen corn straight out of the bag. But I also love microwaving frozen corn and adding butter and sugar and garlic powder and chili powder to it. And sometimes I just like to microwave it and add a little bit of hot sauce to it. My friends always laugh at me when they catch me eating it. – Thu Tran • If Ive gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then Im really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. Its effortless. – Alice Waters • If stakes and garlic were the top two things that could kill a vampire, ninth grade gym was a close third. – Heather Brewer • If you can smell garlic, everything is all right. – J. G. Ballard • If you like garlic, you’ll like ramps. – Jim Chamberlin • If you thought eighth grade was tough, try it with fangs and a fear of garlic. – Heather Brewer • I’m not a vegetarian, and I like filet minion which is sort of a guilty pleasure because I have vegetarian leanings. I eat that once in a while, but generally speaking I like to eat vegetarian things. I really like pasta. I really like bread with olive oil and garlic and I like salads. – Jesse Michaels • I’m particularly fond of boned chicken breasts with a little garlic under the flesh and cooked in a casserole for 40 minutes with a jar of olives, some cherry tomatoes and a spoonful of olive oil. – Maeve Binchy • In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk…You were ‘Gaelic’ or ‘garlic,” as one schoolmate told me, and I couldn’t admit, to him or myself, that I had both Irish and Italian ancestors. – J. R. Moehringer • In Pizza Express you can get garlic bread with cheese and tomato. Now correct me if I’m wrong, but that’s a pizza. – Jimmy Carr • It has been said of garlic that everyone knows its odor save he who has eaten it, and who wonders why everyone flies at his approach. – George Ellwanger • It’s a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden. – Alice Waters • It’s very freaky in Chicago.There’s something in the water there, I don’t know what it is. But the actual word Chicago means, in the Indian language, garlic. It was just garlic and mosquitoes there. And that is the roughest city on the planet, and I been to every place in the world. – Quincy Jones • Maybe it was a good thing that Bones was putting Don’s remains away instead of me. With my current emotional state, I’d probably think the only safe place for his ashes was tucked inside my clothes next to the garlic and weed. – Jeaniene Frost • Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath. – William Shakespeare • My favorite comfort food would have be braised beef. You know, beef, slow-cooked in a Dutch oven or in a slow cooker until it falls apart with simple mushrooms, some onions and lots of fresh thyme and garlic. – Tyler Florence • My favorite is the garlic press. I think it’s beautiful as an object. But the awkward part of it all is that I don’t use it much because I’m allergic to garlic. – Michael Graves • My favorite to cook is this recipe I’ve been making since I was 12 years old with my mom, and it’s an angel hair shrimp pasta with tomatoes, feta, garlic, white wine – it’s so easy but so fresh and so delicious! – Devon Windsor • My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches – with the possible exception of ice cream and pie. – Angelo Pellegrini • My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner. – Andre Dubus • My perfect last meal would be: shrimp cocktail, lasagna, steak, creamed spinach, salad with bleu cheese dressing, onion rings, garlic bread, and a dessert of strawberry shortcake. – Joan Rivers • My wife and I use a lot of garlic and rosemary with roast lamb. It has to be New Zealand lamb. The domestic variety is too gamy, in my experience. – Alfred Molina • Not me, paranoia’s the garlic in life’s kitchen, right, you can never have too much. – Thomas Pynchon • Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed. – Evelyn Waugh • Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine…and ask me to supper. I’ll not care, really, even if your nose is a little shiny, so long as you are self-possessed and sure that wolf or no wolf, your mind is your own and your heart is another’s and therefore in the right place. – M. F. K. Fisher • Our lives are full of stress. Some meditate, some walk, some sing and dance. Nature offers us garlic, maitake and hibiscus to relieve stress – Gunter Pauli • Peace and happiness, begin, geographically, where garlic is used in cooking. – Marcel Boulestin • Peppers, garlic, hazelnuts and brazil nuts make my mouth, tongue and eyes swell and itch within minutes of eating them. – Andrea McLean • piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way. – Rita Mae Brown • PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic. – Ambrose Bierce • Pounding fragrant things – particularly garlic, basil, parsley – is a tremendous antidote to depression. But it applies also to juniper berries, coriander seeds and the grilled fruits of the chilli pepper. Pounding these things produces an alteration in one’s being – from sighing with fatigue to inhaling with pleasure. The cheering effects of herbs and alliums cannot be too often reiterated. Virgil’s appetite was probably improved equally by pounding garlic as by eating it. – Patience Gray • Raw garlic and a skin of the lemon – not only do they give you a beautiful face and skin but they also protect you from disease. – Manto Tshabalala-Msimang • Some hours after eating this dish [lièvre à la royale, which contains 20 cloves of garlic and twice that quantity of shallots], there is a peculiar sensation of liberation in the head. and it is sensation of smell. – Patience Gray • Stop and smell the garlic! That’s all you have to do. – William Shatner • The air in Provence is impregnated with the aroma of garlic, which makes it very healthful to breathe. – Alexandre Dumas • The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out of car windows and cooking with garlic. – Nick Harkaway • The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter. – Yotam Ottolenghi • The fashion industry isn’t merely content to encase my meaty flanks in skintight denim. Oh, no! That denim also has to be white, a color that attracts ketchup, wine, garlic aioli, and any other foodstuffs I might otherwise be able to enjoy if I wasn’t wearing ridiculously tight pants. – Diablo Cody • The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they’re trying to keep out. – Calvin Trillin • The grotesque prudishness and archness with which garlic is treated in [England] has led to the superstition that rubbing the bowl with it before putting the salad in gives sufficient flavor. It rather depends whether you are going to eat the bowl or the salad. – Elizabeth David • The most annoying person on the BBC is Russell Brand, I’ve actually been close up to that boy. He smells like when you mix garlic with coffee and alcohol. I’m just saying when you get close to him, he could do with a bit of Sure For Men, he stinks. – Noel Gallagher • The most overrated ingredients are garlic and extra-virgin olive oil. With garlic, it’s personal; I have never been that big of a fan of its flavor. As for extra-virgin olive oil, I do use it quite often but its ubiquity serves to overshadow many wonderful oils like pistachio, walnut, argan and even grapeseed. – Lela Rose • The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don’t do it unless you’re willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps. – Jim Harrison • The strands of spaghetti were vital, almost alive in my mouth, and the olive oil was singing with flavor. It was hard to imagine that four simple ingredients [olive oil, pasta, garlic and cheese] could marry so perfectly. – Ruth Reichl • The summer has seized you, as when, last month in Amalfi, I saw lemons as large as your desk-side globe-that miniature map of the world-and I could mention, too, the market stalls of mushrooms and garlic bugs all engorged. Or I even think of the orchard next door, where the berries are done and the apples are beginning to swell. And once, with our first backyard,I remember I planted an acre of yellow beans we couldn’t eat. – Anne Sexton • There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic. – Louis Diat • There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving. – Leo Buscaglia • There are three things you cannot hide: smell of the garlic, fragrance of the flower and the wisdom of the teacher. – Harbhajan Singh Yogi • There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger’s origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes. – Kenneth Grahame • There’s no doubt that after you eat a lot of garlic, you just kind of feel like you are floating, you feel ultra-confident, you feel capable of going out and whipping your weight in wild cats. – Les Blank • This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is – A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo; Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace; All these you eat at Terre’s tavern, In that one dish of Bouillabaisse. – William Makepeace Thackeray • Vlad decided that teachers’ ideas were a lot like bunches of garlic-intriguing from afar, but up close sadly sickening and, if you weren’t careful, DEADLY. – Heather Brewer • Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm. – Cyril Connolly • We have garlic days, and onion days. You know what they’re cooking. – Leslie White • What do you think? Young women of rank eat – you will never guess what – garlick! – Percy Bysshe Shelley • What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. – Augustus Saint-Gaudens • Without garlic I simply would not care to live. – Louis Diat • You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times. – Morley Safer • You’re a monster, Mr. Grinch. Your heart’s an empty hole. Your brain is full of spiders, You’ve got garlic in your soul. – Dr. Seuss

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Music Choices - Ice Dance (so far)

AUSTRALIA Kimberly Hew-Low & Timothy McKernan FD: Exogenesis Matilda Friend & William Badaoui FD: Love Story AZERBAIJAN Anastasia Galyeta & Avidan Brown FD: Cabaret CANADA Marjorie Lajoie & Zachary Lagha FD: Dream (Imagine Dragons) Alicia Fabbri & Claudio Pietrantonio SD: Historia de un Amor; Sweet Like Cola (Lou Bega) FD: El Tango de Roxanne (Moulin Rouge!, comp. Craig Armstrong) Ashlynne Stairs & Lee Royer SD: I Like It Like That (The Blackout All-Stars) FD: A Monster in Paris; La Seine and I (A Monster in Paris) Carolane Soucisse & Shane Firus SD: Bailando, El perdedor, Let me be your lover - Enrique Iglesias FD: Cheek to cheek & I won't dance - Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett Ellie Fisher & Simon Pierre Malette-Paquette FD: La Strada (comp. Nino Rota) Jessica Li & Jacob Richmond FD: Runaway; Conqueror (Aurora) Irina Galiyanova & Tommy Tang SD: Dance With Me (Debelah Morgan) FD: Waltz in the Rain (Shin Jae Young) Valerie Taillefer & Jason Chan SD: Skip to the Bip FD: Closer Than Sisters (Penny Dreadful, comp. Abel Korzeniowski); A Boat to Argentina (Amen, comp. Armand Amar) Jade McCue & Gabriel Clemente SD: Ole Ole Ole (Ricky Martin); I Need to Know (Marc Anthony) FD: Another Day of Sun; City of Stars (Duet); Someone in the Crowd (La La Land, comp. Justin Hurwitz) Olivia Han & Grayson Lochhead SD: I Need to Know (Marc Anthony) FD: Selections from Pirates of the Caribbean (comp. Hans Zimmer) Cassidy McFarlane & Kameron Jeromkin SD: Sway Sarah Arnold & Thomas Williams SD: Besame Mucho FD: Fall for You (Leela James); If I Ain’t Got You (Alicia Keys feat. Usher) Natascha Collier & Philippe Marchand SD: Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps (Pussycat Dolls) FD: Overture; Beauty and the Beast (Beauty and the Beast, comp. Alan Menken) Natalie D'Alessandro & Bruce Waddell SD: I Need to Know (Marc Anthony); Let’s Get Loud (Jennifer Lopez) FD: Your Song (Ellie Goulding); Your Song (Moulin Rouge!, perf. Ewan McGregor) Leia Dozzi & Liam Fawcett SD: Addicted to You ; Don’t Stop the Party (Pitbull feat. TJR) FD: Vinegar & Salt; Amalfi (Hooverphonic) Vanessa Chartrand & Alexander Seidel SD: Samba Pa’ Ti; Oye Como Va (Santana) FD: Lament; You Must Love Me; Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina (Evita, comp. Andrew Lloyd Webber) Gina Cipriano & Jake Richardson FD: Merry Go Round (Howl’s Moving Castle, comp. Joe Hisaichi) Molly Lanaghan & Dmitre Razgulajevs FD: Selections from Mary Poppins (comp. the Sherman Brothers) Katrine Roy & Oliver Zhang FD: Tango Theadora Sauve & Alexandre Faucher FD: Anything Goes; But Beautiful; It Don’t Mean a Thing (perf. Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga) Haley Sales & Nikolas Wamsteeker FD: Out of Africa soundtrack Nina Mizuki & Veniamins Volskis FD: Arrietty’s Song; Sho’s Song (Arrietty, Cecile Corbel) Katerina Kasatkin & Corey Circelli SD: Mujer Latina (Thalia) FD: Faded (Alan Walker feat. Iselin Solheim) Olivia McIsaac & Elliott Graham SD: Quizás, Quizás, Quizás ; Angelina (Lou Bega) FD: Let It Be Me (Ray LaMontagne); What I Wouldn’t Do (Serena Ryder) Kaitlyn Chubb & Alex Gunther SD: Billie Jean - Michael Jackson FD: True colors by Justin Timberlake and Anna Kendrick; September by Earth, Wind and Fire Kaitlyn Weaver & Andrew Poje FD: Spartacus (comp. Aram Khachaturian); choreography by Lori Nichol and Linda Garneau CZECH REPUBLIC Nicole Kuzmichova & Alexandr Sinicyn SD: Magalenha - Antonio Carlos; Fly Love - Jamie Fox; Mas Que Nada - Jorge Ben FD: Cabaret (Willkommen; Money; Mein Herr) - John Kander FINLAND Cecilia Torn & Jussiville Partanen FD: Funny Face; I've Got A Crush On You FRANCE Marie Jade Lauriault & Romain Le Gac SD: "September" & "How deep is your love" FD: Another one bites the dust - Queen Loicia Demougeot & Théo Le Mercier SD: El Pescador by Totó La Momposina; La Collegiala by Rodolfo y su Tipica FD: Light of the Seven by Ramin Djawadi; Strange by Apollo G'eeze Natacha Lagouge & Corentin Rahier SD: "Oye como va" & "Frío sin ti" - Navajita plateá FD: Theme : the life of Coco Chanel [Little Black Baby - Scott Joplin (ragtime); (tango); Tema per una donna sola by Ennio Morricone (waltz); Cocomotion by El Coco (disco) GERMANY Katharina Müller & Tim Dieck SD: Dibby Dibby (Samba); I am not the only one - Sam Smith (Rhumba); Campo Grande (Samba) FD: Bodyguard musical soundtrack Kavita Lorenz & Joti Polizoakis SD: Aguanile - M. Anthony (Salsa); Mil Pasos - Soha (Remix) (Rhumba); Quimbara - C. Cruz (Salsa) GREAT BRITAIN Penny Coomes & Nicholas Buckand SD: Remix of Rhumba D'Amour by Torvill and Dean, choreography by Christopher Dean FD: Battle Remembered -  Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, choreography by Christopher Dean Sasha Fear & George Waddell FD: Coldplay Medley (Sky full of stars; Fix You; Viva la vida) Leticia Marsh & Elliot Verburg FD: Moulin Rouge ISRAEL Isabella Tobias & Ilia Tkachenko SD: Shape of You - Ed Sheeran ; She Will Be Loved - Rhythms del Mundo ; Fireball - Pitbull FD: Samson et Dalila-Camille Saint-Saëns ITALY Charlene Guignard & Marco Fabbri SD: Salsa; Rhumba; Samba FD: Exogenesis Symphony Part III - Muse Jasmine Tessari & Francesco Fioretti FD: La Tosca - G. Puccini JAPAN Kana Muramoto & Chris Reed FD: Music Medley from Ryuichi Sakamoto Misato Komatsubara & Tim Koleto SD: Ahora Quien - Marc Anthony; Samba do Brasil (Radio Remix) - Bellini ​FD: Yentl soundtrack (“Where is it Written?” and “A Piece of the Sky”); Sabrina soundtrack ( John Williams’ instrumental End Credits) LATVIA Aurelija Ippolito & Malcolm Jones FD: Alex Clare - Damn Your Eyes; Cover of Tainted Love POLAND Natalia Kaliszek & Maksym Spodyriev   SD: mix of Luis Fonsi, Prince Royce & Shakira ​FD: swing, quickstep and foxtrot or waltz RUSSIA Anastasia Shpilevaya & Grigory Smirnov SD: Cha Cha (Tom Jones Kiss) and samba (Dominó-Baila Baila Comigo) FD: Love Story; choreographer Irina Zhuk Anastasia Skoptsova & Kirill Aleshin SD: rhumba, Cha-cha, salsa FD: Tango (Vuelvo Al Sur, Paris, Texas – Gotan Project) Sofia Shevchenko & Igor Eremenko SD: cha cha and samba - MC Mario (Let's Cha Cha), Max Sedgley (Happy) FD: Drehz (Heart Cry); Yann Tiersen (La Boulange) ​Sofia Polishchuk & Alexander Vakhnov FD: Black Swan Sofia Evdokimova & Egor Bazin FD: Ave Maria Victoria Sinitsina & Nikita Katsalapov ​FD: Vocalise, Piano concerto nr.2 - Rachmaninoff SOUTH KOREA Yura Min & Alexander Gamelin SD: Despacito - Luis Fonsi; My All - Mariah Carey; Mujer Latina -  Thalia ​FD: Arirang Alone - Sohyang SPAIN Olivia Smart & Adria Diaz ​FD: "A Mans World" & "Natural Woman" Sara Hurtado & Kirill Khalyavin ​SD: Santana FD: Don Quixote (Flamenco), Choreography by Antonio Najarro USA Christina Carreira & Anthony Ponomarenko ​SD:  "Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps" - Pussycat Dolls; "Conga" - Gloria Estefan FD: Dance for Me Wallis; Abdication (comp. Abel Korzeniowski) Julia Biechler & Damien Dodge ​SD:  Into You (Ariana Grande); I Know You Want Me (Pitbull) FD: American Woman (Lenny Kravitz); I Put a Spell On You (Joe Cocker); Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes) Rachel Parsons & Michael Parsons SD: Everybody’s Got to Love Sometime ​FD:  South American music, based on the contemporary ballet “Ghost Dances” by Inti-Illimani Lorraine McNamara & Quinn Carpenter SD: Mambo Italiano ​FD:  Argentine Tango [Anime Contro Vento by Medialuna Tango Project] Madison Hubbell & Zachary Donohue ​SD:  "Cuando Calienta el Sol" - Talya Ferro; "Le Serpent" - Guem FD: Across the Sky Instrumental - Rag N' Bone Man; Caught Out In the Rain - Beth Hart Madison Chock & Evan Bates FD: La la Land, Choreography by Christopher Dean Elliana Pogrebinsky & Alex Benoit SD:  "Baddest Girl in Town" (Pitbull feat. Mohombi and Wisin);"Lo So Che Finera" (Anna Tatangelo); "Bailar" (Deorro feat. Elvis Crespo) FD: Desire (Rock Blues) [I Put a Spell on You (perf. Annie Lennox); original composition] Maia Shibutani & Alex Shibutani SD: Perez Prado FD: Coldplay: Paradise ​​Karina Manta & Joseph Johnson SD: Right Now (Pussycat Dolls); Fireball (Pitbull feat. John Ryan) FD: Moulin Rouge ("One Day I'll Fly Away" and "Your Song" - perf. Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman); Choreography by Christopher Dean Kaitlin Hawayek & Jean-Luc Baker FD: Liebestraum (last season's FD) ​​​​Eliana Gropman & Ian Somerville FD: "Nyah" and flamenco music (Tangos de la Repompa by Susi) ​​​​Alina Efimova & Alexander Petrov Somerville FD: Umbrellas of Cherbourg Claire Purnell & Lucas Purnell FD: Fiddler on the Roof ​​​​​​Katarina DelCamp & Maxwell Gart FD: Motown music ("I Feel Good" and "Try a Little Tenderness") ​​​​​​Isabella Amoia & Luka Becker FD: Michael Meets Mozart - Piano Guys ​​​​​​Chloe Lewis & Logan Bye FD: Child of Light OST by Coeur de Pirate ​​Avonley Nguyen & Vadym Kolesnik SD: cha cha, rhumba, and mambo rhythms FD: West Side Story Molly Cesanek & Nikolay Usanov FD: Romeo & Juliet ​​Sophia Elder & Christopher Elder FD: Alice in Wonderland soundtrack Amanda Miller & Daniel Tsarik FD: Four Seasons Daria Popova & Cameron Colucci FD: La La Land soundtrack Nicolette Fey & Caleb Niva FD: A Thousand Years - Christina Perri Caroline Green & Gordon Green FD: Prince Igor; Stranger in Paradise - Sarah Brightman Jocelyn Haines & James Koszuta FD: Sinatra Medley Allie Rose & JT Michel FD: Bonnie and Clyde theme

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Blu-ray Review: Amityville: The Cursed Collection

After the original trilogy, The Amityville Horror's storyline had run its course, as had its theatrical viability. The 1979 original is an iconic adaptation of Jay Anson’s allegedly true book. 1982's Amityville II: The Possession is a successful prequel that shows the murders that led to the house being haunted. 1983's Amityville 3-D rested its laurels on the 3D gimmick for a largely dull entry.

This would spell the end for most franchises (at least until the remake boom), but once the home video industry blossomed, the marketable title was revived for a spate of direct-to-video sequels. While the initial source material had been tapped, four of these later efforts borrowed a concept from John G. Jones' 1988 short story collection, Amityville: The Evil Escapes, in which cursed objects from the original house find their way into unsuspecting peoples' lives.

Vinegar Syndrome has collected the pseudo-quadrilogy of 1989's Amityville: The Evil Escapes, 1992's Amityville: It’s About Time, 1993's Amityville: A New Generation, and 1996's Amityville Dollhouse - the fourth, sixth, seventh, and eighth installments in the franchise, respectively - in a Blu-ray box set dubbed Amityville: The Cursed Collection. (The absent fifth entry, 1990's The Amityville Curse, is an unrelated Canadian production that remains out of print due to rights issues.)

Amityville: The Evil Escapes was made for television but features decent production value, including a strong opening with a rain storm and a fairly convincing facade of the original Amityville house at 112 Ocean Avenue. The Amityville Horror screenwriter Sandor Stern returned to write and direct the followup. While having one of the original creative forces at the helm is a good omen, his effort is light on scares.

The film follows Nancy Evans (Patty Duke, Valley of the Dolls) and her three children. The untimely death of Nancy's husband has put a financial burden on the family, forcing them to move to rural California to live with her mother, Alice (Jane Wyatt, Star Trek), who recently received an antique lamp from the Amityville house. The 300-year-old evil is attached to the lamp and then transmigrates to the most vulnerable person in the house: the grieving youngest child, Jessica (Brandy Gold), who communicates with her late father.

The familial melodrama is akin to a Lifetime movie, while a series of strange occurrences in the house causes further tension between its inhabitants. Naturally, the cursed lamp lights up whenever something happens. The ridiculous plot lends itself to a few entertaining set pieces, including a possessed chainsaw and a garbage disposal gone wrong. The gore in the latter scene was absent from the TV broadcast but was added for the home video release and remains intact on Blu-ray.

Duke is probably a little too old for her role, but she's good in it. The kids don't fare as well, but what's asked of them is fairly minimal. The cast also includes Fredric Lehne (Supernatural) and Norman Lloyd (Saboteur) as a pair of priests from Amityville, Aron Eisenberg (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) as Nancy's son, and Peggy McCay (Days of Our Lives) as Alice's sister, who sets the story into motion by gifting her the lamp.

Amityville: The Evil Escapes's Blu-ray disc includes new interviews with Stern and cinematographer Tom Richmond (House of 1000 Corpses, Chopping Mall). Stern's conversation is an informative one, but the most interesting fact is that he had no idea more sequels were made after this one. Richmond details how he felt more like the lighting manager than the director of photographer, as Stern was more experienced and knew what he wanted.

Amityville: It’s About Time is directed by Tony Randel (Hellbound: Hellraiser II) and written by Christopher DeFaria (who went on to executive produce the likes of Mad Max: Fury Road, Gravity, and Ready Player One) and Antonio Toro. Its subtitle is not just a clever clock pun; the movie deals with time in rather interesting, if sometimes nonsensical, ways - including time shifts. The name also works in a metaphorical sense, as the core of the picture is about a character struggling to break the cycle of making the same mistakes.

In the film, the Amityville house has been torn down and replaced with a new development, but architect Jacob Sterling (Stephen Macht, The Monster Squad) helped himself to a antique clock. He brings it home to suburban California, where his ex-girlfriend, Andrea (Shawn Weatherly, Police Academy 3: Back in Training), is watching his two teenage kids, Rusty (Damon Martin, Ghoulies II) and Lisa (Megan Ward, Encino Man). The clock physically roots itself into their home and begins controlling the family members.

Rusty - who's depicted as a "troubled" kid in a very '90s way, complete with black clothing, an earring, and heavy metal music - recognizes that there is an evil presence, but everyone else blames him for the weird happenings in the neighborhood. While he's at the center of it, the plot successfully integrates the entire household, unlike the previous film, and the complicated family dynamic is a welcome shakeup of the formula.

Playing more like an ensemble than any other Amityville, each cast member is able to pull their own weight. Macht's role is fairly thankless, as a dog attack leaves him in failing health, but he fully commits. Jonathan Penner (Survivor) gives a charismatic performance as Andrea's pretentious psychologist boyfriend, and Nita Talbot (Hogan's Heroes), Terrie Snell (Home Alone), and Dick Miller (Gremlins) are among the neighbors who pop up.

If not for the tenuous connection to the Amityville Horror franchise, I suspect this picture might have more of a cult following. (It's easier for word-of-mouth to spread about a lone gem than the sixth entry in a direct-to-video franchise.) The most entertaining film in the set, It's About Time is a charming, if unspectacular, B-movie with a delightfully silly plot and several fun moments featuring special effects by KNB EFX Group (From Dusk Till Dawn, Scream), the most memorable of which sees a character melting into the floor.

Amityville: It’s About Time's Blu-ray disc includes new interviews with Randel and DeFaria. Randel seems to relish the opportunity to discuss the film, as he says no one ever asks about it, and praises the cast and crew. DeFaria explains that he offered to write the film as a way to get his foot in the door as a producer - which, looking at his post-Amityville resume, seems to have worked out for him.

Amityville: A New Generation eschews the franchise's traditional, suburban family dynamic in favor of a metaphorical one; a community of artists living in an urban loft co-opt. It focuses on Keyes Terry (Ross Partridge, Stranger Things), a struggling photographer who's struck with inspiration when a homeless man gives him an ornate mirror that has been in his family for generations. The mirror predicts the death of its first victim, which would be an interesting enough concept, but alas it is not consistent. Ultimately, the possessed object tempts Keyes to commit murder.

The film boasts a powerful supporting cast that includes David Naughton (An American Werewolf in London) as the landlord, Terry O'Quinn (Lost) as a detective, Richard Roundtree (Shaft) as one of the artists, Robert Rusler (A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge) as a disgruntled ex-boyfriend, and a particularly charming Lin Shaye (Insidious) as a mental hospital nurse. Although the cast elevates the material, the script - penned by a returning DeFaria and Toro - remains lackluster.

While the previous entries did an admirable job to overcome their limited resources, A New Generation looks and feels very much like a '90s direct-to-video movie; THE of the same caliber as the endless Children of the Corn, Hellraiser, and The Prophecy sequels that were being churned out around the same time. Despite a direct connection to the Amityville mythology beyond the mirror, it hardly even feels like an Amityville movie.

Directed by John Murlowski (Santa with Muscles) made the inspired choice to hire The Amityville Horror visual effects artist William Cruse to handle the elaborate mirror effects. They're all accomplished in camera; an impressive feat that sounds great in theory but looks campy in practice. The film also features cinematography by future Academy Award winner Wally Pfister (Inception, The Dark Knight).

Amityville: A New Generation's disc includes new interviews with Murlowski and DeFari, plus a commentary by Murlowski. Murlowski's chat includes a breakdown of the analog effects, supplemented by behind-the-scenes footage. His commentary allows him to go more in depth, citing The Shining as an inspiration, pointing out the similarities to Oculus, and addressing shortcomings such as the pacing and the rubber monster. DeFari discusses the challenges of channeling artists' fears on screen and offers advice for aspiring filmmakers.

Amityville Dollhouse is perhaps the most traditional of the bunch in terms of concept, though its execution goes in a different direction. In it, a newly blended family moves into a house that the contractor father, Bill Martin (Robin Thomas, Summer School), built on the original Amityville lot. Bill finds an old dollhouse - a miniature model of the Amityville abode, naturally - and gives it to his young daughter. While the girl ostensibly releases the evil, the strange occurrences begin before she receives the gift.

The eerie events start small but escalate to the point where the family's younger boy sees his deceased father, urging him to murder his family. The father appears in three stages of decay, a la Jack in An American Werewolf in London. His ultimate form is something like a cross between Tales from the Crypt's Crypt Keeper and Friday the 13th Part VII's Jason Voorhees, but he's too loquacious to be scary, delivering a few Freddy Krueger-esque quips.

While the deceased father feels a bit out of place in an Amityville movie, he is the highlight of the film, thanks to exceptional makeup by SOTA Effects' Roy Knyrim (The Toxic Avenger Part II & III). Also notable is an appearance by a young Lisa Robin Kelly (That '70s Show). The film marks the lone directorial effort of Steve White, who executive produced all four films in the set, along with The Devil’s Advocate and Halloweentown. Joshua Michael Stern (director of Jobs) penned the script.

Amityville Dollhouse's disc includes new interviews with White, Knyrim, and director of photography Thomas L. Callaway (Feast, Slumber Party Massacre II), along with alternate footage from the TV edit. White, having produced the prior three films, offers an interesting perspective. Knyrim discusses the progression of the dead father's makeup and how existing creature parts were repurposed for demons in the climax. Callaway breaks down a few interesting techniques, like a 360-degree shot with a periscope lens and the challenges of lighting a character covered in latex.

The perfect companion to Scream Factory's The Amityville Horror Trilogy set, Amityville: The Cursed Collection is available exclusively from Vinegar Syndrome. It's not as loaded with extras as some of the company's releases (there's no input from any cast members and only one commentary), but each movie offers at least a couple of new interviews. All four films have been newly restored in 4K from their 35mm original camera negatives, so they look better than they ever have. Each disc is in its own Blu-ray case with reversible artwork, all packaged in a slipcase box designed by Earl Kessler Jr., which is limited to 4,000.

Amityville: The Cursed Collection is available now from Vinegar Syndrome.

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Add Interest To Your Garden With These Useful Tips.

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Planting and caring for a garden is one of the most enjoyable hobbies a person can do. Gardening newcomers usually need a lot of help to get started and even seasoned gardeners need some help from time to time. Check out the advice in this article for useful information on gardening that you can use today.

To fight off weeds in a natural way, make your own homemade weedkiller. Simply mix water and white vinegar in a bottle, and spray it the same way you would a normal weedkiller. As an added bonus, the vinegar solution will also serve as a source of nutrients to your plants.

For a mass of color from summer until the first frost, choose hardy fuchsias. Among the most popular and easy-to-grow shrubs, hardy fuchsias carry masses of bell-shaped flowers over a long season. They are perfect in garden beds, or grown as hedging. They grow in a variety of soils, but like it well-drained. Moderate sunshine is needed for masses of flowers, but a hardy fuchsia will actually grow in part shade, it just won’t produce as many blooms. Excellent varieties include Alice Hoffman, Tom Thumb, Lena Dalton and Tennessee Waltz.

Keep slugs out of your tender plants. Cut the bottom 2 inches off a plastic soda bottle to make a ‘saucer’. Dig a little hole near to any tender plants and bury the saucer with about ¼ inch left above ground. Fill it with beer, and leave it overnight The slugs will be attracted to the sugar in the beer and will make their way in, never to get out again!

Try planting a ‘one-color’ garden bed. While this takes quite a bit of work, due to the limitations of the color palette, it can create a very striking visual. The emphasis is placed more on shape and structure, and it is especially helpful in a small garden, as it makes the area appear much larger. Remember that ‘one-color’ doesn’t mean a single shade. Use all shades in the color palette. For example a blue garden can feature flowers in shades of blue, purple and mauve.

To make sure you’re getting a level edge when pruning your bushes, use a piece of rope or a line. Simply fasten the rope to two pieces at the approximate height you’d like the bush to be at. Seeing the bush along this straight line will make it easy to see if it’s level at a glance.

A great tip to consider in regard to gardening is the fact that you want to wait a few weeks after spreading your fertilizer before planting your crops. This is important because the soil needs time to blend and stabilize its pH levels. During this time you can help the process by manually tilling it.

Working in the garden is a very enjoyable activity for most people. Many gardeners, whether they are new or experienced, need help and advice to get the best out of their gardens. Following the advice in this article can help anyone improve their garden and increase their satisfaction of working in the garden.

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