Save someone’s life

I did more life saving that I didn’t want to this past year, I just haven’t really been discussing it.

I was in this private kebble sub called The Spiral Tower and it has not been the greatest. The mods weren’t super great at enforcing the only rule they had. I was always out as being very much a jack of all trades and have spoken about my past volunteer work and such so people knew I had been a crisis counselor.

On two separate occasions, I had people come to be with thoughts of suicide, including the means. Both from the sub over a few months. Both people I was able to get an ambulance to their location.

When the mod found out he blamed me and it nearly took down the sub, which I left. A lot of people supported me, and a lot didn’t.

I was just doing the right thing.

Completed : 2025

See the All Time Greatest (Vampire) Films, part 7

5) What we do in the shadows

This definitely deserved it’s ranking. Very strong if not a little silly. Film crew does a documentary of some vampires who live together going about their night proving that vampires are basically just like everyone else.

8) Vampyr (1932)

Hard to hear, plus everything was in German. It could hurt people to put in English subtitles at the very least?

30) Les Vampires (1915)

I sat through a 7 hour movie expecting to see vampires. This is a crime story. THERE ARE NO VAMPIRES IN THIS VAMPIRE FILM. IMDB come on!! And no, I was not impressed. I was incredibly bored though.

39) Daughters of Darkness

What the actual fuck with the constant rapes and the sadistic violence by the HUMAN? And what I think is homophobia? This does NOT belong in the top 40.

44) Dracula has risen from the grave

Slightly different movie but yet the same. That is one thing that Hammer was good for, most of them don’t fit the exact Dracula story. Of course one of the things I have always wondered about is how people are walking along ledges that are so connected, they can get from one part of town to the next? And how many minutes is Christopher Lee actually in these movies?

45) The Vampire Lovers (1970)

This is a Hammer film, but not in the Dracula series. Peter Cushing is present, but not as Van Helsing. Somewhat expectable routine.

56) Fright Night (2011)

I think the original was better despite having at least three actors I recognize. One guy was in Star Trek (RIP Anton), another in Scrubs (med school season), another in Doctor Who.

71) John Carpenter’s Vampires (1998)

Apparently this is the one I keep thinking is Near Dark and what I keep combining with From Dust til Dawn. Probably because it’s in the southwest. This is the one with the young priest and inappropriate slayer and the empty town out west.

81) Blade Trinity

This is literally the first time I have seen a blind character in a position as a geneticist and chemist. There was even a Braille keyboard. Ryan Reynolds played his usual type of character.

138) From Dusk Till Dawn 2 : Texas Blood Money

This had the longest “eclipse” I have ever seen. Twilight, by the way, way better vampire film.

Road Trip Across America – 2025

I have just started another road trip across America. This time the primary thing is to go to Los Angeles to go to a black tie gala so stay tuned for that! I am looking forward to all of this and am about to be hitting so many voodoo tours and UFO things, it will be awesome!

		Leave	Other	Arrive
SAT	Sep 27	Augusta	Birmingham – lunch, 8 pm NOLA CENTRAL	New Orleans
SUN	Sep 28	New Orleans (PM)	New Orleans – 10 am tour, 1:30 pm, 7:30 pm CENTRAL	Kisatchie NF
MON	Sep 29	Kisatchie NF	Atlas Obscura stuff on the drive?	Fort Worth
TUES	Sep 30	Fort Worth	Near Roswell (?) 1 pm C or Noon M- DAVID (?), UFO stuff?	Roswell, NM
WED – KN	Oct 1	Roswell, NM	12:30 Carlsbad Caverns MOUNTAIN, Deming NM for dinner	However far I get
THURS – YK	Oct 2	However far I get	Biosphere 2 maybe? – 10 am PACIFIC – Adrian	Las Vegas
FRIDAY	Oct 3	Vegas	Atlas Obscura stuff on the drive	Los Angeles
SAT	Oct 4	–	7 pm International Impact Book Awards Los Angeles Event PACIFIC	–
SUN	Oct 5	Los Angeles	Atlas Obscura/UFO stuff on the drive	Ely, Nevada (or further)
MON	Oct 6	Ely, Nevada (or further)	Ceremony @ Chapel of the Sacred Heart, Grand Teton	However far I get
TUES – SUK 1	Oct 7	However far I get	4:30 pm – Adrian?, North Denver	Colorado Springs
WED – SUK 2	Oct 8	–	Psilocybin Ceremony – 9:30 am M	–
THURS – SUK 3	Oct 9	Colorado Springs	Noon M / 1 C David	Topeka
FRI – SUK 4	Oct 10	Topeka	St. Louis	However far I get
SAT – SUK 5	Oct 11	However far I get	Florence or Decatur, Alabama	Augusta

Road Trip Across America – 2024

Apparently I never posted about last year’s San Diego trip, maybe because my cat died on the way out (and I know I have to post about the UFO tour which was a disaster).

I was going out to San Diego for a training, driving all the way (though I stopped in Sedona which is its own story), and it fucking sucked because I was insulted the whole way through the first day with Trancecamp. Good thing I had a car because I didn’t finish the week, I left after the first day. And the entire administrative staff knew plus the trainer who we had many mutual friends.

I left early and went to Vegas where a friend was supposed to see me but the dog was sick and I went to the erotic history museum and when I came out it turns out my cat went missing I rushed home virtually without stopping (two short nap breaks) and we found Taz’s body 30 min after I got home. 😦

I hope no one dies on the upcoming trip.

Finally be on an actual movie set as an extra

The actual thing for the Things to Do Before you Die said be an extra. I skipped that stage and went to just being a co-star per SAG definition and did green screen. This time I really was a featured extra in a film called “That Boy” which will premiere in a few months. 🙂 Because I was a featured extra (basically I was really close to the main cast and I was held another few hours), I will get tickets to the premiere.

Completed : 2025

See the All Time Greatest (Vampire) Films, part 6

11) From Dusk Til Dawn

This is the one with Cheech (from Cheech & Chong) and the bar in the middle of the desert. I always confuse this one and John Carpenter’s Vampires. Cheech’s speech, very funny. The rest of this movie? Not so much. Just because George Clooney is in a movie does not make it a top 20 film!

17) Vampire Hunter D

Evidence that things are better when one is younger. I saw this on the Scifi channel on their Saturday morning lineup. With all the sex, this should not be in a cartoon much less Saturday morning cartoon!

23) Fright Night 2

It’s about as campy as the first one, but when the vampires died, they were much more disgusting. Why would mealworms come out of someone’s stomach? Also they have a huge misunderstanding of what group hypnosis is!

26) Near Dark

OK despite the fact I kept saying I’d seen this, I definitely had not. This was a pack of nomadic vampires in the RV in Oklahoma. This was not as good as the other two that I kept thinking were this movie. I want to know what is the cause of the vampirism. Seriously.

32) Dracula Prince of Darkness

Some of the Hammer films don’t really seem all that decent anymore (they are 60 years old at this point!). The one good thing that they do have is that they are good with continuity of the character in how he is injured/killed or not and how that is fixed in the next film.

34) Blade II

Didn’t Underworld do this? Also why are the effects so bad? Where they on a budget? Though they did get Cat from Red Dwarf (Danny John-Jules) in it!

60) Dracula Untold

Actually quite good. Should be rated higher. Shows why he became a vampire. Spoiler… he hates the turks.

101) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2

People rank this high because of the battle scene at the end, but Sundown had a better battle scene. I think my opinion of the entire series is that it’s basically fan fic. Carlisle is cute as heck though.

129) Dracula III: Legacy

So we see Dracula for a few minutes, we saw more of him when he was bound in Dracula II. You can tell they had to send this direct to video. It would not have brought in the money at the box office.

146) Bloodrayne 3: : The Third Reich

Also really dumb. How did these people get funding for an entire series of this?

See the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)

There was a huge solar storm May 10, 2024 which allowed all of the United States (well probably with the exception of Hawaii I guess) to see the Northern Lights. I ran out when a friend in Huntsville warned people that he was seeing the lights. I ran out, though I saw something, but it looked like city lights. Then ran in told Frank then came back out and hopped in my car. Yea… nothing there. I was then told there was going to be a flare at 1-3 am so we stayed up and went to a park. Nothing was visible at all, we were told to check our phone. Then we saw a really small glow only visible through the phone. I was not impressed outside of the fact that this is basically my colour palette. I need to see this elsewhere obviously.

Completed : 2024

Be in a film!

Technically, the requirement was to be an EXTRA in a film, but as an actor, it is too easy to not just try out for some actual roles. Why not just do a real role? Plus I never could easily find the extra casting calls.

So, at the very moment, my IMDB says 3 upcoming (though Infernal I have yet to film), I’ve actually filmed I think 6 at this point.

It was ok. I did some voiceover work as well as some actual green screen work. I have a few other pieces that I am expecting to complete.

Completed : 2023 (but released in 2024)

Win an award – Nonfiction Book Awards!

So I won another award. Late December 2023, my book “Leaving Bacon Behind” was nominated for, and received a Silver Award in the category of religion.  I just got the award certificate and the posts went up!

Book Award Winner: Leaving Bacon Behind: A How-to Guide to Jewish Conversion by Melvin Marsh

Write a best selling book!

How did I forget my book? Ok we can blame the Israel-Hamas war, but my book, “Leaving Bacon Behind: a How-to Guide to Jewish Conversion” was finally published late September 2023! And in October it was marketed the hell out of and it ended up getting to #1 in Jewish Life (the Kindle version anyway) which makes me a best selling author.

I’ve normally just tried to take the easy way out and say write a book, but I guess I can actually say actually met the requirement of the original 101 Things to Do! I’ll tag my best sellers separately. 🙂

Completed : 2023