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Quote from: M.10rda on June 05, 2026, 01:00:20 PMFORBIDDEN DAUGHTERS (1927):
Now here's an old-timey movie title that sounds naughty and actually is naughty! Within moments I thought to myself, "Say, is this Porn?" and even though it ultimately isn't Porn (no actual sex, softcore or otherwise) it probably came close enough to fitting the bill in 1927!

Alva, the American wife of an anthropologist (?), somehow learns that he has become the sex slave of "Princess Lona", so she travels to Africa to rescue him. Her grasp on geography might be shaky though because she seems to end up in the Far or possibly Middle East, where she infiltrates the harem (of an unseen Sheik or something) which is populated mostly by black women but also a few extremely Anglo (even Celtic!) looking women. Eventually Alva walks in on Princess Lona (who doesn't look African) dancing for Mister Alva and the film feels like it should climax but really it just ends abruptly. It's only 13 minutes long and feels truncated/incomplete, but maybe it was never even finished by mysterious director "Albert Arthur Allen". Say, wasn't "Arthur Allen" the prime suspect in the Zodiac Murders?

I will say this for the plotless and nearly action-less FORBIDDEN DAUGHTERS - the ladies are pretty (and all are topless)! I have no idea where (if anywhere) FORBIDDEN DAUGHTERS screened in the 20s but I assume the target audience was gentlemen's clubs/bachelor parties/etc. On the down side, all of the black women look really depressed which makes me think a little bit too much about the actual working conditions and material realities of these performers. However/on the upside again, the two pale-skinned curvaceous redheads in the harem look happy, healthy, extremely modern, and crazy smokin' hot. Well, this is quasi-pron, after all. 2/5

Albert Arthur Allen is quite well known as a art nude photographer in the 20s. I had no idea he dabbled in movies

Off Topic Discussion / Re: Rank the seasons

Last post by AlbertMond - June 05, 2026, 11:48:18 PM

Voted Autumn, Winter, Summer, Spring... but Spring and Summer are almost interchangeable. It depends on the day, really - Spring could even be better than Summer. Something about Spring comes with a little tiny bit of excitement, and especially when it's still not so hot - the feeling of things coming alive, it still feels new and nice, although it doesn't always match the environment outside of my head. Spring can feel very pretty that way, though!

Paradoxically, I don't really bother with Summers anymore - it's too hot! But there's a mental image of Summer as a long, winding season full of events and life and excitement which hasn't dissipated from my psyche. When all the venues are closed and the young people are all too afraid to go outside, and the heat is too hot to walk fifty feet, and every remaining event costs a million dollars at the door, I think I'll still imagine Summer as a fun, action-packed season. I think I imagine a lot of things that way, sometimes it was never even true - I hold onto images of things as they were presented, and not as they really were. With Summer that's not the case, though, it used to be cool - it probably still is!

Winter is a beautiful season to be a species which builds houses, insulates them, and burns fuel for warmth. Also a species that wears clothes. What a splendid thing! Especially if you can lie in bed, that's a huge bonus. You can lie in bed, under a blanket, and dream in the night in the winter, with the chill air gathering outside your window, trying to get in but FAILING. You can't come in, chill air! Not much of you, anyway! You're not allowed betwixt the shutters of THIS domicile!!!
It doesn't usually get so cold here, but the thought of cold air, acres of frost-covered grass, the white day through the bare trees, and the deep, dark, night thick with chilling stillness, home lights shining yellow through the blackness, the moon over miles of contorting, frozen forest limbs - very nice, top 2 season!

Fall stuck with me as a season that's just so beautiful for reasons that can't be fully communicated. I often feel like so much about the world today aims to alienate people from this sense of awe at nature, or to can it all and bottle it and try to piggyback off of it. How do people allow themselves to be so twisted that they can't appreciate how beautiful it is when the leaves change color and start to fall, when the sky starts to turn grey, and the breeze playfully tosses the auburn foliage over the grass? It's just so pretty! And it gets colder, even if it's not at the rate that it used to, and it's not as long as it used to be, and it's such a relief from the Summer when it finally comes. Things are still alive, but not with the intensity of Spring or Summer - you know, so it's not all frozen over, it's not so cold, but there aren't quite as many bugs flying around and there's not so much pollen.
And here are the harvest festivals, Halloween, horror, camp, confectionery, cider, & pies. I don't get why people need to go around killing people and bombing them and spying on them and all that. We've already got printing presses, honey, squash, plenty of buildings, and the woods! The heck you need anything else for?
You can sit and admire the orange leaves, they say, but that's a gift to you from the powers-that-be, and you've got to serve them! Don't take too long to watch the setting sun through the tangled Autumn branches because you've got to get back to your true purpose paying your debts to the merchants of death who use those very proceeds to wage war on all the world for whatever reason. Nature is a fleeting fantasy, reality is all printed on paper and subject to the whims of irrational human beings, and the paper will be around forever, until the death of the sun which may as well be happening tomorrow so why bother to get acquainted with the Earth when you'll be deep inside of it that much sooner than any of these paper monuments will fall? Sometimes everything that matters feels so far away, but it's less than a year until Fall.

Quote from: claws on February 01, 2026, 02:32:44 PMA Look Back: How Our Weather Used to Be

September used to carry the "taste" of Autumn in its first week. By the time school started on the 15th, we'd see the season's first morning frost, a rarity today. October was in full swing with plenty of rain and the occasional dusting of snow by Halloween. November was the month of perpetual fog. I remember it lasting for days on end, though now it's a rare sight. By month's end, the ground was always frozen solid.

December didn't always promise a "winter wonderland," but we usually had enough snow for snowmen and sledding. January held the title of the coldest month, followed by February which consistently brought fresh layers of snow. Even in March, the ice was thick enough for skating. April was known for lingering patches of snow at Easter, with the first hint of warmth only arriving at the very end. May was pleasantly warm, but never stifling.

As for June, July, and August, we had hot days, but the heat felt different then. Today, Summer feels like being an ant under a magnifying glass. I used to love the season back when we had three to five massive thunderstorms every month that would roll on all through the night.

I remember that. I got the worst "update" ever when I decided to go for a walk on a September day some years ago and it turned out it was 80 degrees Fahrenheit. I didn't even bother checking beforehand, it didn't used to be like that!

Good Movies / Re: 100 THREE-WORD movie title...

Last post by HappyGilmore - June 05, 2026, 11:04:07 PM

84.) Freddy vs. Jason

I don't think it's on here? I was checking, didn't see it. Thought maybe I already did?

Good Movies / Re: 100 THREE-WORD movie title...

Last post by HappyGilmore - June 05, 2026, 11:02:50 PM

Quote from: zombie no.one on June 05, 2026, 02:16:44 AM
Quote from: HappyGilmore on June 04, 2026, 04:14:16 PM74.) Drop Dead Fred

was gonna be my next choice!

77. MY COUSIN VINNIE (1992)

I was just checking on My Cousin Vinnie but there you go

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Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...

Last post by Allhallowsday - June 05, 2026, 09:43:25 PM

ROXY MUSIC For Your Pleasure

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