"You are a great read"-Award

Monday mornings are often a struggle to start the week after a great weekend! This monday morning was an exception to the rule. My fellow blogger Keith from the excellent blog "The Dino Lounge" has awarded the "You are a great read" Award to the Marisa Mell Blog. The award is given to blogs by bloggers recognizing a good balance between pictures and informative accompanying texts. What makes this award also special is that there are upon thousands and thousands of blogs on the Net but your fellow blogger thinks that your blog could be an example for other bloggers or new bloggers who are entering the field on how to publish a blog. Starting a blog is easy but to keep a blog interesting each and every day, week or month of the year is another question. You can only do it if you have subcombed to the magic of blogging. An addiction! So, thanks, Keith for the honor. Keith's great blogs can be visited by these links! If you are a fan of everything Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr... and you would like to see each day a new picture of these cool Rat Pack members than there is only one site: http://coolnessistimeless.blogspot.com/ . Keith has also another daily site devoted to the stunningly beautiful ladies of yesteryear like Ursula Andress, Brigitte Bardot, Christina Lindberg, Daliah Lavi, Edwige Fenech, and lots and lots more than there is again only one site: http://lotsofsugarandspice.blogspot.com/ .

The tradition with this award and some other awards is to give the award to another fellow blogger that you admire for the work he/she has done. After concideration and in no particular order here are my three blogs that I would like to give the "You are a great read"-Award.

First, there is the always entertaining "MYA"-blog "http://myadvd.blogspot.com/" solely dedicated to a relatively new DVD label publishing Italian movies that have never been published before on DVD or making some older movies again available for a new generation. In these harsh times I find it very courageous to start a new DVD label while a lot of the other companies are quiting the once blooming market. Mya offers each month several new releases and that should be supported by all the fans of Italian genre movies!

Another great blog, just like the Mya-Blog, is still rather new, but has gained a lot of followers in the past months and is called http://westernsallitaliana.blogspot.com/. This blog is a real treasure trove of information regarding everything Italian Western movies and its stars. I have said it more than once that I am big fan of everything Italian Westerns and this blog gives us so much info that you can wander around for many hours without getting tired or sun burned. The blog not only gives reviews and info on films but also goes into the lives and sadly the deaths of many former stars. When reading the blog you can feel the vast knowledge of the author and love he has for everything Western all Italiana. And last but not least, this blog is a true work of love. http://www.reeldistraction.com/ gives you a glimpse into the fascinating world of the press book ads published in newspapers during a run of a movie. This blog gives you the news paper ads of classic vintage movies, not only of the A-list titles like the Exorcist or Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid but mostly of the Grindhouse classics like Dirty Mary Crazy Larry or Swinging Sorority and many many more. Terrific blog!

The Premio Dardos Award!

Today I got a very nice comment from Holger Haase from the http://hammerandbeyond.blogspot.com/ regarding the lost Marisa Mell-movie "Dr". But if that wasn't enough he gave the Marisa Mell-blogspot the "Premio Dardos Award"! The "what???" do I hear you ask! Well, the Premio Dardos Award is given for recognition of cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values transmitted in the form of creative and original writing. These stamps were created with the intention of promoting fraternization between bloggers, a way of showing affection and gratitude for work that adds value to the Web. Writing a weekly/daily blog is not always, as a lot of you bloggers know, an easy endeavor! It often takes a lot of perseverance and stamina to keep the blog going, even in days when you would rather stay in bed with the blankets over your head and the rain banging on the window! But then the blog bug grabs you again and you come out of your hibernation to write a new item for the blog because a) you like to write about your favorite subject, in my case, the life and work of actress Marisa Mell; b) you hope that other readers and fellow bloggers like what you write and c) whatever it is that entices you to write the blog (even if it is just straight or gay porn pictures on a blog)! So getting an award by a fellow blogger and brother in arms gives it an extra dimension! Especially by a guy who is also one of the men behind the excellent horror blog http://groovyageofhorror.blogspot.com/. It is one of the blogs that gave me the idea to also start writing a blog about a subject dear to my heart! Thanks Holger for the honor in a blog crowded net! If you have accepted the award your task is not over by just publishing it on your blog but you also must also pass the award to another five blogs that are worthy of this acknowledgement, remembering to contact each of them to let them know they have been selected for this award. After activating the grey cells a little bit I would like to pass the Premio Dardos Award to the next 5 blogs in no particular order so here it goes:

a) http://giallolocandine.blogspot.com/ This blog gives you often, not only via the phantastic drawn Italian locadina, a very good view of the gialli that have been made but also the hunger to seek these gialli out and watch them! The best is that you often find real gems among them! Thanks, Peter!

b) http://dollarirosso.blogspot.com/ This blog is a real treasure trove if you, like me, also love spaghetti westerns! Cesar gives us always in Spanish and English everything you need to know about a certain western movie and like the gialli wets your appetite to see that particular movie! Many great movie evenings can be traced back to this blog! Thanks Cesar!

c) http://cerebrin.wordpress.com/ (know as La Abadia di Berzano). These guys give us just like the other blogs a very good view of mostly Eurocult material but what I like best is their enthousiasm when writing about the material they love! It is very addicting! Thanks guys!

d) http://spyvibe.blogspot.com/ If you would like to know how to design your blog than there is only one adress and this is it! Agent J has made an almost impossible to be beaten blog of the 60's lifestyle, especially connected to every spy, secret agent and devilish mastermind! Not only can this master spy write a damn good text but the pictures he selects are a feast for the eyes, each and every time! A highlight on the blog menu! Thanks Jason! and finally last but not least

http://loridevoti.com/blog/ All the previous blogs have been written by guys but this one is written by one of America's best paranormal romantic female writers! Lori's blog gives you a very good insight into the world of publishing, writing your material and what it takes to, not only become a bestselling author, but also what is needed stay in the spotlight! Often (paranormal) romance novels are regarded as sugar sweet stories for desperate housewives but Lori and her fellow collegues prove that it is a though job to write day in day out, come up with exciting storylines, be fresh and captivating and she does it almost each time with bravure! Thanks Lori! So there you have it! Keep on blogging!