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Nigeria v South Africa Prediction & Betting Tips, 10th July 2019
Nigeria v South Africa Africa Cup of Nations Preview, 10th July 8.00pm
South Africa blew the tournament wide open in the round of sixteen. They knocked out hosts Egypt in a shock 1-0 victory. There are not many people who would have seen that coming. Can they take their journey further? Nigeria had to fight back from behind to knock out holders Cameroon in their round of sixteen tie. Read our Nigeria v South Africa betting tips for more.
Nigeria v South Africa Betting Odds*
Nigeria 19/20
Draw 21/01
South Africa 10/3
* (Betting Odds were taken from bet365 on July 8th, 2019 at 8:47 p.m.)
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Nigeria News and Form
The Super Eagles had a real ding-dong battle with Cameroon in the round of sixteen. Nigeria took the lead early in the game, but then into the second half were chasing the game at 2-1 down. But they produced the firepower to get themselves back in front to hold out for a 3-2 success. So that was a big scalp claimed by Nigeria in having knocked out the reigning champions. Back in the group stage Nigeria had only managed to finish second to the surprise package that is Madagascar. Nigeria had lost against them 2-0 in a top-spot showdown.
Nigeria are W5 D1 L2 in their eight games played this year. They have picked up a total of four clean sheets in that sequence of games. The two defeats which they have suffered in that run have been in their last five played though, a friendly against Senegal and then the group stage loss against Madagascar. Just two of their 2019 fixtures have now made it over 2.5 goals so it was surprising that their game against Cameroon went so high. The concern for the Super Eagles though is that is back to back games in which they have conceded two goals. Odion Ighalo is their top scorer in this tournament with three goals.
Nigeria v South Africa Head to Head
These two were in the same qualification group for AFCON 2019
South Africa were W1 D1 against Nigeria in those qualifiers
Four of the last five meetings have been drawn
Nigeria are W6 D4 L2 in the overall had to head with South Africa
South Africa News and Form
South Africa set the cat amongst the pigeons in their round of sixteen tie against Egypt. They came up with a 1-0 win over the Egyptians, their goal coming from Thembinkosi Lorch five minutes from time. That was a major upset after the South Africans had only finished third in their group. They had finished behind Morocco and the Ivory Coast, with their three points, which were enough to get them to the knockouts coming in a win over Namibia.
South Africa have posted figures of W3 D1 L2 in their six fixtures during the 2019 calendar year. All three of their wins in that sequence were by one goal margin. The two defeats were 1-0 reverses. Just two of South Africa's last eleven games have made it over 2.5 goals now. Both teams have scored in just three of South Africa's last eleven fixtures. What do the Bafana Bafana have up their sleeve? Can they come up with something special to take down Super Eagles? Clearly, they aren't going to care about their underdog status.
Nigeria v South Africa Tips & Odds
Under 1.5 goals at 6/5
Nigeria to win by a one-goal margin at 12/5
Who will win – Nigeria v South Africa Predictions
That was some show of resilience from South Africa in their win over Egypt. Will that have taken something out of them? The Super Eagles should have the edge in the fixture and will have some wind in their sails after coming up big against Cameroon. Nigeria to win.
8th July 2019 / lee - Category: International Football Betting
Egypt v South Africa Prediction & Betting Tips, 6th July 2019
Egypt v South Africa Africa Cup of Nations Preview, 6th July 8.00pm
Host nation Egypt claimed a win in all three of their group stage games and so are sailing along. For having won their group they get a favourable draw for the round of sixteen in taking on South Africa. The South Africans were one of the best third-placed finishers from the group stage. Read our Egypt v South Africa betting tips for more.
Egypt v South Africa Betting Odds*
Egypt 8/15
Draw 13/5
South Africa 5/1
* (Betting Odds were taken from bet365 on July 3rd, 2019 at 4:59 p.m.)
Egypt News and Form
Egypt opened their campaign with a 1-0 win over Zimbabwe before following that up with back to back 2-0 wins over DR Congo and Uganda. So it's been pretty straight forward for them in a group that they were always expected to win. They are the host nation and there is high expectancy on them. Egypt are currently on a five-match winning streak at the moment and in that sequence of form have conceded just one goal only. Just one of their last seven games have gone over the 2.5 goal line.
Egypt have won eight of their last ten games (D1 L1) so are in great shape at the moment. Star player Mo Salah has two goals in the tournament so far. Both he had Ahmed El Mohamady have shared Egypt's last four goals in the competition. They will be looking to go one better than their runners up spot to Cameroon two years ago. They have won the Africa Cup of Nations seven times before in their history.
Egypt v South Africa Head to Head
South Africa beat Egypt 1-0 in a 2016 international friendly
Egypt are W4 D0 L3 in seven against South Africa
The two have alternated wins in the last six meetings
Each of the last five meetings have been settled by a one-goal winning margin
South Africa have made the final sixteen but not without some struggles. They suffered 1-0 defeats against the Ivory Coast and Morocco in the group stage. Sandwiched in between those two reverses was their one and only success, a 1-0 victory over Namibia. So that is all that they had to show for their group stage efforts, but it was enough to see them get through as one of the best third-placed teams.
South Africa have won just three games since the start of September last year. That is a W3 D5 L2 record in that sequence now. They do look short of goalscoring quality as they have failed to hit the back of the net in three of their last four games played now. Just one of their last eight games have made it over 2.5 goals. They are the clear underdogs against the tournament hosts in this one and they are going to have to come up with something spectacular. They have been to the quarterfinals in just one of their last five AFCON campaigns.
Egypt v South Africa Tips & Odds
Egypt to win to nil at 6/5
Egypt 1-0 correct score at 10/3
Who will win – Egypt v South Africa Predictions
Egypt should have a clear advantage in this one. They are the ones with the star power and the South Africans are not looking to be any kind of threat. It should be fairly routine for Egypt and can take the win to nil.
South Africa v Morocco Prediction & Betting Tips, 1st July 2019
South Africa v Morocco Africa Cup of Nations Preview, 1st July 5.00pm
South Africa have to put all of their chips on the table in this one. They have to pull out a win against the current Group D leaders Morocco to get in the picture for qualification. Morocco need just a point from the fixture to win the group. There's a scenario where Morocco, Ivory Coast and South Africa all end up on six points though. Read our South Africa v Morocco betting tips for more.
South Africa v Morocco Betting Odds*
Morocco 21/20
* (Betting Odds were taken from bet365 on June 29th, 2019 at 5:25 a.m.)
South Africa had a setback at the start of their campaign as they lost 1-0 against the Ivory Coast. They then balanced the books with a 1-0 win over Namibia. That leaves then trailing leaders Morocco by three points and sitting level on points with second-placed Ivory Coast. So they don't have things all under their own control. That's because they are going to need some kind of help from Namibia. South Africa have to better Ivory Coast's result against Namibia to progress in an automatic qualification spot.
But if they were to pick up three points regardless, South Africa would likely in the worst case scenario, be one of the best third-place finishers. There has not been a lot of winning form from the South Africa in their recent form. They have taken just two in their last eight games played (D5 L1). But the positive from that streak of form is that they have been hard to beat. South Africa have given up just the one goal in their last three games. In their last eight games though, just once have South Africa managed to score more than one goal in a game.
South Africa v Morocco Head to Head
Each of the last four meetings have been drawn
The most recent was 1-1 draw back in 2013
SA are W2 D4 L0 against Morocco
Both of South Africa's wins over Morocco have been in AFCON editions
Morocco News and Form
Morocco then are in the driving seat in this group having taken six points from six in their opening two games. They have both been 1-0 successes over Namibia and the Ivory Coast. Against Namibia, Morocco only succeeded through an 89th-minute own goal by their opponents. Will they be able to complete the job and close out the group win. Much like everyone else in this group, they are not a side who have been in tremendous form with two wins in their last six.
Morocco are W2 D1 L3 in their last six games. Earlier this year they went on three-match streak without scoring a goal. In their qualification campaign, they took a W3 D2 L1 record, finishing above Cameroon on goal difference only. So they had a tight squeeze there and could well get another in this one. To their credit, they took four clean sheets in their six qualifiers. Things are a little precarious in this group, so they can be forgiven for going out and having a keen focus on keeping things tight.
South Africa v Morocco Tips & Odds
South Africa Double Chance at 4/5
Under 2.5 goals at 19/40
Who will win – South Africa v Morocco Predictions
It may be worth having a look at South Africa in this one. They are the ones who are going to need to push on that little bit harder in this fixture. Morocco are likely to be happy trying to play for their point to get top spot, but may well be challenged here. South Africa to win.
1st July 2019 / lee - Category: International Football Betting
World Cup Betting: France v South Africa – Tuesday, 22nd June
France v South Africa
Kick-off: Tuesday, 22nd June – 15:00 GMT
Stadium: Free State Stadium, Mangaung/Bloemfontein
The destiny of France's World Cup is outside of their hands, but they can do all they can do to put themselves in with a chance of squeezing through to the second round, by beating host nation South Africa. After a lacklustre draw against Uruguay in their opening match, any failings up front could have been put down to first match nerves. But there was no place to hide after the French surrendered to the Mexicans in the second half of their second group match, falling 2-0 to the central Americans. The French did not look a confident side coming into the tournament, and were struggling for goals and cohesion in the international friendly matches they played as warm ups. Departing coach Raymond Domenech could just not put his finger on a formation which would get the best out of his talented forwards, and the French are still struggling to find goals. The French have not hit the back of the net at South Africa 2010 so far, and their problems have been made worse by discord in the squad.
Chelsea striker Nicolas Anelka has been sent home following an alleged outburst in defending himself during half time of the Mexico match, when Domenech singled him out for getting out of position. After failing to publicly apologise, Anelka was told to leave, and all that followed an alleged bust up in training camp between Florent Malouda and Domenech. Which Domenech leaving his post at the end of the World Cup, it looks as if he has lost control of the group, and they are falling apart at the seams. They have one last chance at salvation by beating the home nation, but they will need to hope that the Mexico v Uruguay match which is played simultaneously, does not end in a draw. If it does, then the French are heading home, hot on the heels of Anelka, regardless of what they do.
Domenech is widely blamed for the lack of cohesion and progress in the French national side. He surprisingly dropped Yoann Gourcuff for the match against Mexico, the one creative outlet he has in the centre of midfield. That was a bit of a confusing bombshell, especially with the French desperate to find some spark of inspiration. He will probably get a start against South Africa though, as Lyon midfielder Jeremy Toulalan misses the vital match through suspension after picking up his second yellow card of the group stages. There is hardly any positive news on which to focus when you look at France. They have the talent in Gourcuff, Ribery, Malouda and Diarra to be a very good side. The coach does not seem to fit into the same picture though. Against Mexico, they lacked concentration, and failed as a team to enact any kind of response to the dire situation they were in.
On paper you would expect the French to beat South Africa, if not with ease, than by good, solid team work. But looking at the French camp you have to wonder how they would pull together and win any match in their current state. Perhaps the players no longer want to play for Domenech, and that they are awaiting a fresh start when Laurent Blanc takes charge ahead of the Euro 2012 qualifiers. If the players have lost respect for the coach, then it is wrong of them to give up, as they should united under the flag of their nation. But is there one final twist in the controversial coaching career of Raymond Domenech. Can they pull out the stops, get the win and then be handed a favour by one of the other two teams in the group who go head to head in the simultaneous fixture?
The tournament started so very promisingly for the host nation South Africa. Being the first country in Africa to have the honour of hosting the World Cup, after they had earned themselves a 1-1 draw against Mexico, everything seemed to be rosy. They had gone unbeaten through 2010 after the return of Brazilian coach Carlos Alberto Parreira. After looking like rank outsiders, suddenly they seemed to be growing in stature, a and putting together a run of form which suggested that maybe they could get out of a tough looking group for them. Now they stand on the brink of going down in history as the first host nation never to make it to the second round of the World Cup, after being put to the sword by Uruguay. South Africa had no answer to what the power South Americans could throw at them, rolling over quite feebly to a 3-0 defeat, as South Africa and Mexico grabbed all of the initiative in the group.
South Africa now stand in exactly the same position as France. There is a faint chance that they could still get through to the second round, if the Mexico v Uruguay game ends in victory for one of them, and the Bafana Bafana themselves can beat France. Perhaps now the lack of depth in South African football is beginning to show, and maybe the result against Mexico on the opening night was purely down to adrenalin thanks to the occasion. Now the heavy defeat by Uruguay has left the nation deflated, as South Africa, along with most of the other African nations, are all struggling in the tournament. Their backs are now up against the wall as the host nation, and all the criticism which has been directed at them from their own media, is hard to refute. The best way to redeem themselves would be to bow out to a fanfare from the Vuvuzela's in beating France.
Match Verdict – Draw 3.6 at Ladbrokes
While France themselves are in disarray, it appears a tougher task for South Africa to go out on a high, than it does for France. France still have the quality players, and there is a better outside chance of France getting through, because South Africa has a worse goal difference after the drubbing they received. In all reality, this is going to be a match which counts for nothing but pride in the end. If it comes down to who is more hungry for than, then South Africa would win hands down. The French look dejected and devoid of ideas and this could peter out in an another unsatisfactory result for both. A draw.
Match Odds
France – 2.1 at Bet365
Draw – 3.6 at Ladbrokes
South Africa – 4.0 at Totesport
Football-Bookmakers.com Value Bet – South +0.50 Asian Handicap 1.77 at Bet365
South Africa V France Odds:
20th June 2010 / lee - Category: International Football Betting
World Cup Betting: South Africa V Uruguay – Wednesday, 16th June
South Africa V Uruguay
Kick-off: Wednesday, 16th June – 19:30 GMT
Stadium: Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Pretoria
Referee: Massimo Busacca
The hosts kept their hopes of making the second round alive with a 1-1 draw against Mexico on day 1 of the tournament. It could have been better had Bafana Bafana defend with more common sense and awareness, but the point does prove significant as victory over Uruguay, who also drew their opening Group A encounter with France, would put them within touching distance of the Round of 16, the minimum the host country expects to achieve at the finals.
South Africa's solitary goalscorer against Mexico, Siphiwe Tshabalala, claims qualification will almost be assured should they secure the win they need against Uruguay on Wednesday. "Uruguay will be in trouble if we carry on where we left off against Mexico" claimed Bafana Bafana's leading scorer in the tournament. Those were bold words from a country potentially two games away from becoming the first host nation not to qualify for the last-sixteen, but by the sake token it displays the fearless attitude of the South Africa team and that the pressure applied upon them from their home fans is something they will only thrive on and won't be an excuse for them to play the shy boy in the corner.
There were plenty of positives and negatives to take from their opening clash with Mexico, the main one being the spirit of the players and how they took to the electric atmosphere in the Soccer City stadium, above all else how they used the support they received to grow in confidence against an opponent which had them pinned in their own half for the most part. Their attacks smooth however, and when Mexico put men behind the ball, South Africa found it difficult to break them down and carve out a chance. They have pace though, enough of it to be a real threat on the counter and with South Africa looking far more organised under Carlos Alberto Parreira than they did under Santana, despite the sloppy goal they conceded, chances are they can put their quick counter-attacking style to good use.
With France to come a little later in the week, it goes without saying that this encounter with Uruguay is a must win, as it's difficult to envisage South Africa's forwards and creative players carving out enough opportunities to worry the France defence. Bafana Bafana were delighted with their point against Mexico, one some would argue they may not of deserved because of the amount of possession Mexico enjoyed,and should be both confident and buoyed by the opportunity that has arisen for them to book their place in the knock-outs, and while victory over their South American opponents won't assure them of a spot in the Round of 16, it will be a big step in the right direction.
Uruguay are the two-time winners of the World Cup and yet haven't qualified for the Round of 16 since Italia '90. Their point against France on the opening day of the tournament pushed them closer towards their primary objective while a win over the hosts, South Africa, would leave them well in control of their own destiny.
Despite walking into their match with France as the underdog, the team which had qualified for just one of the last four finals (Uruguay) against the 2006 runners-up (France). Nevertheless, it was the South American who achieved their minimum target by claiming a share of the spoils and had Diego Forlan found the net with an opportunity that was easier to score than miss, Uruguay fans would have already been planning their Round of 16 plans in the knowledge that a pleasing result against the host in their second match would almost certainly be enough. That unfortunately wasn't the case and it means Uruguay deem this game just as much as a 'must win' as the South African's.
The South American's were dangerous when they did make strides into the French half which, in fairness, wasn't a great deal of the time. Luis Suarez didn't live up to his bill as being one of Europe's most prolific strikers after scoring 49 goals in 48 games for Ajax last season, but Diego Forlan, who scored twice as Atletico Madrid clinched the Europa League title a little over two weeks before the finals kicked off in Johannesburg, remain a threat throughout and was one of a few Uruguay players to threaten the France goal. Forlan was willing to have a pop at goal whenever and wherever and is a player who clearly has a hunger and thirst for goals. Coach Oscar Tabarez will need his midfielders to continuously supply the talented forward in order to keep the two-time European Golden Boot winner well nourished.
Uruguay's final Group A game is against Mexico, a difficult game nonetheless but one they will be optimistic about winning should they not secure three points against South Africa. Ideally, Uruguay will want to avoid needing any last day heroics by beating South Africa in Pretoria, but with the majority in the stadium urging home Bafana Bafana, Uruguay will need to quieten the crowd as soon as possible in order to halt South Africa growing in confidence much like they did against Mexico when they took the lead against the run of play.
Match Verdict: Uruguay to WIN – 2.40 Bet365
There's little to suggest Uruguay are class above South Africa, but after watching the performances of both sides in their respective opening games, Uruguay looked the more likely to find the back of the net. The South Americans were surprisingly well organised in defence against France but remained threatening up top through Diego Forlan. The South Africa forwards, or forward (Mphela) won't cause them as many problems as France did and so Uruguay should enjoy far more possession in the contest and if they can keep Suarez and Forlan occupied with a regular supply of service, the Uruguayans should come of out this contest victorious.
Bafana Bafana will be relying heavily on the energetic support from their fans in the stadium to see them through this contest, although that's not to say they don't have a chance of winning this game against a team which won't be as crisp with their passing as Mexico was. Big ask though in our opinion, they'll need to take the few chances they do create when they come because Uruguay will take theirs at the opposite end of the field.
Match Odds:
South Africa – 3.25 WilliamHill
Draw – 3.25 SkyBet
Uruguay – 2.40 Bet365
Football-Bookmakers.com Value Bet: Luis Suarez FGS – 8.00 bWin
15th June 2010 / Matt - Category: International Football Betting
World Cup Betting: South Africa V Mexico – Friday, 11th June
South Africa V Mexico
Kick-off: Friday, 11th June – 16:00 GMT
Stadium: Soccer City Stadium, Johannesburg
Referee: Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan)
The 2010 FIFA World Cup is almost upon us, and as soon as the host nation complete what is expected to be an entertaining opening ceremony the finals will official commence. Once they do, the South Africa players will instantly feel the burden of being the host nation, the country everyone expects to set the bar in order to rouse the locals. And although Bafana Bafana aren't fancied to win the tournament outright, they do at least have to maintain a World Cup trend which, up till now, has never been broken – No host nation has ever failed to qualify for the knock-out stage of the competition. Will South Africa, arguably one of the weakest hosts any World Cup has ever seen, be the first to buck the trend?
South Africa do at least have a fighting chance of putting in a respectable display at the finals, although anything less than progression from Group A will be deemed a failure, by not only their own supporters in South Africa but also by the millions of spectators watching on. It's almost imperative that the host do well in order to maintain the buzz around the country, as were South Africa to exit the tournament with a whimper, the excitement in and around the stadiums would be dampened somewhat despite the best efforts of the fans of those still standing. With this mind, as well as the fact no host has never failed to reach the second stage of the tournament, South Africa will have more supporters than any other team as the rest of the world encourages Bafana Bafana to surprise us all.
Since the departure of Joe Santana in 2009, shortly after guiding South Africa to a respectable fourth-place finish in the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, Carlos Alberto Parreira has restored a great deal of pride back into a nation which is eager to do the greatest football competition in the world the justice it deserves by remaining competitive throughout. While some of their display throughout their World Cup preparation period were scrappy, we mustn't forget that South Africa will arrive in Johannesburg on the back of an impressive 12 match unbeaten run which stretches back to November of last year. Granted a great deal of them have been against mediocre teams, often minnows in actual fact, but it's outstanding runs such as theirs which inspires players, lifts the entire morale of a camp. The Bafana Bafana boys will now feel they have every chance of pulling up trees starting with victory over Mexico in their opening games of the finals.
The Brazilian Parreira, who has a World Cup winners medal on his managerial CV when guiding his own country to the 1994 trophy, has enjoyed large degrees of success using a 4-2-3-1 formation. The five-man midfield reduces to rate of shots goalkeeper itemeleng Khune will face, often making games as ugly as possible by slowing down the oppositions forward momentum, thus keeping the scoring to a minimum and increasing their own chances of clinching a goal on the break. Two of their more notable pre-World Cup friendly wins came over Colombia and Denmark. In both encounters, South Africa secured victory by a single goal, with lone striker Katelego Mphela the match winner on both occasions. Will Mphela prove the difference for South Africa once again?
It is never easy playing the host nation in the first game of the finals simply because of the rousing support the hosts will receive, but in Mexico we have a team which could dash the hopes of a nation so eager to impress right from the off. Under the guidance and leadership of 'El Vasco' formerly known as Javier Aguirre, the Mexico coach, El Tri have been transformed into a team which play beautiful football at times and will certainly be one of the more pleasing teams on the eye during the course of the month. However, pretty football will only get you so far, as Mexico are well aware, and it's time for the Mexican's to deliver the whole package if they're to set the Africa continent alight.
We think it's fair to say that Mexico are one of the more consistent country's when it comes to Group games. In the previous four finals, Mexico have exited at the last-sixteen stage. It's a trend which is becoming more than a tad frustrating back home with the natives, but at the same time it demonstrates Mexico's ability to ride the wave of euphoria and excitement surrounding the group games, to brush aside the smaller fish and collect the points needed against the more superior nations to qualify for the next round. For a nation which has never really been considered a major contenders for the title itself, Mexico are a model for consistency and their record in recent World Cup's would suggest El Tri will be a big player in a competitive Group A.
If Mexico are to maintain their trend of qualifying for the knock-outs they'll need a positive start and it bodes extremely well when you hear that Mexico have won their opening Group encounter in their previous three World Cup's. However, against the host nation, in a stadium where the vast majority of the support will be for South Africa, Mexico will have to battle against a '12th man' if you like in order to get their qualification ball rolling. They've demonstrated in previous tournaments that they have the talent and know-how to bypass any group, while their recent scalp of current world champions Italy proves Mexico can beat any team on their day even if it was merely a friendly international.
El Tri's inspiration is likely to come from some of their young stars, with the likes of Carlos Vela, Giovanni Dos Santos and Javier Hernandez all looking to make an impact in South Africa. While he may not be as agile when at his peak, veteran Cuauhtemoc Blanco could play an instrumental role from the bench, as when Mexico do have their backs against the wall or need a pivotal goal, Blanco has the vision and class to make something happen. The key area for me will rest in the full-back areas, with PSV's Carlos Salcido in particular a wing-back who loves to get forward. It will, however, leave them exposed when South Africa counter. Experienced defender Rafael Marquez, currently of Barcelona, is facing a race against time to be fit for this opener, although West Ham's Guillermo Franco has recently resumed training and should be available.
Match Verdict: Mexico to WIN – 2.62 VCbet
Mexico have this knack for progressing from whichever group they are handed, as well as winning their opening game in their previous three World Cup finals. It will be difficult drowning out the party atmosphere from the South Africa faithful, but the Mexicans have several talented individuals in midfield which can unlock a South Africa defence which isn't exactly watertight. South Africa will rely heavily on the enthusiastic support of their fans in the stadium but that may not bridge the quite apparent gulf in class. Mexico to edge this one for us in a narrow victory.
Draw – 3.30 BetFred
Mexico – 2.62 VCbet
Football-Bookmakers.com Value Tip: Cuauhtemoc Blanco LGS – 11.00 Bet365
8th June 2010 / Matt - Category: International Football Betting
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SDG&E 'Forgets' to Tell Us that Key Reason for High Price of Natural Gas Is Their Owner's Export of Huge Amounts of It
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By Craig Rose / Op-Ed San Diego Union-Tribune / Jan. 12, 2023
It's easy to get lost in the explanations for the soaring natural gas prices causing enormous hardships for so many people in our region. Even before this surge, nearly 25 percent of us couldn't pay our utility bills on time.
Most explanations for high retail natural gas prices focus on the soaring wholesale cost of the commodity caused by "market factors," but a key factor is often omitted.
As we buy natural gas from San Diego Gas & Electric's at retail, the utility's parent company is helping to ship huge quantities of natural gas out the back door at wholesale. That's a market factor.
Sempra Energy, SDG&E's parent, has joined ventures investing billions in facilities and pipelines to export the gas that is now expensive here. The export business is so strong Sempra plans to flip a natural gas import terminal near Ensenada to a facility that will export U.S. gas from our region.
That could be a "new" market factor.
Californians need low natural gas prices today and a transition away from the fossil fuel as soon as possible to deal with the climate crisis. SDG&E and Sempra need high demand for gas today and into the future to pay off their huge investments in the fuel.
This is more than an isolated conflict of interest between us and SDG&E. It's a pattern.
We need solar on every viable rooftop and parking lot to give us some control over energy, save us money and avoid the need for expensive and fire-causing power lines running through our backcountry.
SDG&E works to make rooftop solar adoption more difficult, claiming curbs on this key climate-saving tool are needed to protect against "cost-shifts." What the utility doesn't say is that rooftop solar is a competitor because investor-owned electric utilities like SDG&E generate large profits from building and operating long power lines — which rooftop systems don't need.
The city of San Diego needs a parcel of public land to build its important recycled water project. SDG&E insists the city must pay — $100 million or more — to move the utility's equipment from city land.
We need the lowest possible electricity rates to ease the path to electrifying everything. SDG&E charges the nearly the highest — sometimes, the highest — rates in the nation.
The list of conflicts goes on. If this was a marriage, a counselor might ask: "Have you considered a separation?"
The question would frighten SDG&E.
In its recent quarterly report, the local utility said that profits rose more than 30 percent from last year. SDG&E now extracts $3 million in profit every day from our region (including more than $1 million each day from the residents in the city of San Diego).
But separating from SDG&E and organizing a nonprofit, community-owned utility makes perfect sense for us. Critics rightly note that public utilities aren't all perfect and they vary in success. Here's a characteristic public utilities share: They all charge less — typically, a lot less — than SDG&E.
This was well known in 2021, when the San Diego City Council made the historic mistake of granting SDG&E a 20-year franchise to use our public land for its business. SDG&E could earn $20 billion from that agreement.
If the reality was unclear to the City Council then, it should be in sharp focus now. Our climate crisis is too deep and our crisis of affordability too serious to have a corporate utility opponent. We need a nonprofit, community-owner partner.
Fortunately, the city of San Diego can pull the plug on the franchise deal with SDG&E — at any time — to form a community-owned utility. It's a right enshrined in the city charter and re-asserted in the otherwise unfortunate franchise agreement.
Public utilities already provide service to millions across the nation, including residents of Sacramento and Los Angeles. Beyond providing lower rates, their fundamental mission is meeting community needs, not maximizing profits and greed.
The San Diego City Council recently launched a study of forming a public utility. This will be at least the third such study. It's time to move faster toward nonprofit, public power. And if the city accelerates its exploration and implementation plans, others in the county receiving service from SDG&E will likely follow.
Naysayers will scoff that San Diego can't do big things. But the utility crisis teaches that if we don't do big things, bad things will be done to us.
We're past the point of cheap or easy solutions to our utility and climate crises. But it will be cheaper and faster to tackle these issues with a community-owned, nonprofit utility.
Craig Rose, is a former energy reporter at The San Diego Union-Tribune. He serves on the steering committee of Public Power San Diego and lives in Tierrasanta.
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Book Review: Wild Strawberries
Margaret Uncategorized July 22, 2011 11 Minutes
Wild Strawberries by Angela Thirkell (1934)
The events of the book occur over a period of several summer months, centered chiefly iat Rushwater House, the rural home/estate of the Leslie family. Over that period of time the grandson of Lady Emily and Mr. Leslie turns seventeen and some gentle pairing off occurs of eligible members of their social circle. The plot, such as it is, unfolds with the greatest of gentleness such that it feels, at the end, that the reader spent a very agreeable weekend with the family and watched as their life unfolded.
past here, there be many many spoilers
Wild Strawberries belongs firmly to a time past. Set in the English countryside of (the fictional) Barsetshire, the book is separated from the modern (and especially the non-English modern) reader by what feels like like a much more than a century's chasm of time. Yes, many of the differences between the world of the books and that of the present-day reader can be set down to the effect of technological change and another war that spanned the globe, but what makes the book read slightly more like science fiction (or an alternate reality) are the cultural/social differences between the world in which Thirkell wrote and the world inhabited by the present day reader.
Take, for example, the treatment (by the narrator of the book and the individuals who people the book) of Lady Emily Leslie. As the book opens the Vicar is anxiously waiting for Lady Emily to arrive before the (public) church service could begin. The Vicar, who finds her constant lack of punctuality stressful, also considers her to be universally loved although universally irritating. Lady Emily does not limit her lack of consideration for others to her chronically and disruptively lateness that interrupts the church service for everyone, she also makes it a point to instruct others where to sit, to insist of "helping\" others who have asked for no help and need none, and at her daughter's wedding she went so far as to "attempt[ing] to rearrange the order of the bridesmaids during the actual ceremony." The Vicar, we are told, prayed that he would never criticize Lady Emily again after seeing the pain on her face after her woman's son was killed in the Great War.
At this point my class sensibility rises up and I cry foul. Yes, Lady Emily's eldest son died in the field somewhere on the continent. But, I would venture, it was unlikely that there were many families in that parish who had not lost a loved one in the Great War. Does one imagine for a moment that the Vicar would have been so understanding (and so hard on himself for resenting her behaviour) if the woman who was routinely disrupting every church service had been an housemaid, a washerwoman or the wife of workingman? We may be told that Lady Emily was loved by all but what we see is Lady Emily displaying the monstrous self-centeredness of a member of her class. Thirkell describes Lady Emily as "behaving altogether as if church was a friend's house\" and indeed she does act in church just as she does in her own house, and the houses of her friends, expecting others to defer, to be patient, to serve and to privilege her wants above even (or perhaps especially) their own.
It is a theme that ran through much of English writing at the time this book was published, that thoughtless, indeed criminal, behaviour was eccentric and charming if it was carried out by a member of the upper class. And indeed it is clear, if one reads closely, that members of Lady Emily's household are quite aware of the fact that she is disturbing the lives the those around her, that she was causing extra work and much concern for many of their retainers and that, in end, Lady Emily got what made her happy rather than what would really make those around her contented. [Note: The person who disrupts your life in order to make you sit in the chair zie would sit in if zie was you is not considerate and thoughtful–they do what they do in order to present themselves to the world as being thoughtful without having ever to go to the actual effort of considering the wishes of others.]
The world of Thirkell's characters is one with class assumptions/presumptions so thick on the ground that individual instances melt into one another. Lady Emily's grandson will inherit the estate on the death of her husband, and since we are told that "[i]nheritance and death duties were not words that trouble Martin much" the estate is rich enough that there will both both and yet that information is imparted as if having sufficient assets that taxes must be paid were a special burden that the family must bear with great difficulties. Of one of Lady Emily's surviving sons we are told, "If he had had to earn his living, David would have been a serious problem. But, owing to the ill-judged partiality of an aunt, he had been independent for some years.\" In other words this is a world in which there is often a family member who is well off enough that they can leave substantial amounts of money to relatives.
The unfairness of this is obvious in a further description of David's life, "and every now and then his looks and his easy manners and his independent income landed him a job, though not for long.\" Those "easy manners\" [manners that were viewed as appropriate and acceptable to other members of the social circle to which David was born] were at least in part the result of being first raised by nannies and then being sent off to an expensive school and the independent income was a result of being a member of the class in which is was not uncommon to have wealthy relatives. These initial advantages result in him having a continued marked advantage over the many unemployed who actually needed a job.
The fact that, at the time this book was written, unemployment was a serious problem in England is only touched on tangentially and then only by attacking some of those who worked for taking the jobs from others who wanted to work. One often finds characters quite openly speaking out against the idea of woman working– although this is quite clearly about women of their class working since the book is full of nannies and cooks and housekeepers who are all women and most definitely work:
Having paid this lip service to the hateful Miss Stevenson, she felt she had gone far towards appeasing her conscience in the matter of her bad behaviour at lunch.
'Don't know what they want all these girls for,' said Mr. Leslie. 'Taking jobs from the men. Glad you don't want to have a job, Mary.'
"I am afraid I did have a job for a bit,' said Mary, ' in a library.'
'Oh, books, that's all right. No harm in a girl reading a bit. It's all this education I object to. Same everywhere. All these young young people going to the university and coming away half-baked. Can't even talk English.'[1] (385)
Even within Thirkell's world of established country families (daughters of dukes and earls married to untitled gentlemen who have country homes, who have with daughters who take tea at Buckingham Palace and whose sons engage in businesses just to keep themselves occupied rather than to put food on the table) there are great variations in wealth. Mr. Holt lives on declining dividends while managing to live in the style he wished to be accustomed by "being a toady" and is portrayed cuttingly by Thirkell and mocked by the Leslies. Mary Preston is shown in a much more friendly light:
'Let's sit down and bask,' said David. 'I can't feel happy till I get
the sun in my bones, can you? Would one do without the Riviera?'
'Do without it, I suppose,' said Mary….'I've never been there, but I'm still alive.'
'Never been to the Riviera,?' said David, looking at her with interest.
[Mary] realized that to him an existence which did not imply at least a couple of thousand pounds a year of one's own was fantastic. She was tempted to say, 'I have two hundred a year of my own and mummie has about six with her pension for daddy, and we pig along somehow,' but felt this would be unladylike.[1](348)
While the impact of social/cultural changes sometimes subtly underlines (or undermines) the reader's appreciation of the book there other moments which resonate chillingly over time as in the following case: Two characters have gone to a train station to pick up a visitor…
The crowded bank-holiday train had only just pulled in…In any other place the sight of two stalwart young men advancing with a gliding step, arms liked like skaters, uttering what they fondly hoped was a college yell, might have attracted attention, but the hikers, many of whom had already struck up folk-songs of whose doubtful meaning they were luckily unaware, took David and Martin for some of themselves. A few gave the Fascist salute, to which David politely made reply, 'Good morrow, good my lieges,' while Martin more simply responded 'Ave.' [1](339)
The stereotyping of "foreigners\" is not only unrelenting it is accepted with amusement in that social circle. No group or country really escapes the mockery although it is clear that it is slightly less offensive to be from north Europe than from other places in the world. Anyone who falls outside of that zone of "almost English" is referred to in terms which the modern reader may find breathtakingly offensive:
John gave his mother her barley water. David helped himself to whisky and soda and drifted over to the piano, where he played and sang snatches of music from revues and musical comedies with such masterful ease that Mary was more than ever glad the men had not been in the room when she was singing.
'You must have had a black mammy for your fairy godmother, David,' said John. 'I don't see how else you got that nigger ouch in your voice.'[1](366)
The Nazis are mentioned in passing but one would be hard pressed to deduce from reading Thirkell (or many other authors of the time) that various European countries has been, since the end of the Great War, suffering from massive unemployment and occasional hyper-inflation. The closest any the characters come to these fiscal realities is a concern about declining dividends. Jews were not, at that time, part of the social life of the gentry/aristocracy of England and it will not be until several years later when Jewish refugees start to arrive in larger numbers that the subject of what is happening in Germany will even surface in most of contemporary English fiction.
While the author has not attempted to limn a portrait of English political life in the mid-thirties she does do a wonderful job at drawing a picture of how "ordinary\" life was lived among the class on which is she is focusing. Whether Thirkell intends the reader to notice, indeed whether Thirkell herself notices, the gentry around whom this story revolves are bullies. They may be solicitous of "their own" but they are openly proud of their right and ability to bully. This can be seen in almost all their actions from Lady Emily and her family taking as their right the power to disrupt community church services, to the joint and open baiting of Mr. Holt whose only sin is to be a toady whose time has passed to the casual reference to the fact that as a child David Leslie made a habit of harassing the kitchen cat.
The Leslies, their friends and those in their social circle live in a world distanced from the what were, for most, the realities of life. Mr. Leslie raises and sells bulls but does not seem to do so for reasons of profit as much as he does because it is an interesting hobby. John Leslie has a business, indeed Mary Preston visits him there, and yet there is nary a hint as to what type of business is conducted at his office although one does learn details about when tea is served and with what type of biscuit. Mary and her mother struggle to get by on a sum that would have seemed a fortune to the maids who unpacked her suitcases when she arrived at Rushwater House. Much of what the characters do is not work so much as it is "make work" and often what is defined as work (for example, picking the flowers for the house) turns out to be the haphazard supervision of servants who actually cut the flowers, arrange them and place them around the house.
Just as there is always a servant to do the actual work there is always a plenitude of space. Agnes (the married Leslie daughter) has no job and only three children and yet she has not only a nannie (referred to only as "Nannie") but also "a girl" (Ivy) who helps her. The children have bedrooms and also a nursery which appears to be a large room given over to the children and their needs. You get a sense of this when Agnes tells John why she and her family couldn't manage in the house he is thinking of selling:
I wish I could take it myself, only there wouldn't be room for the children. We really need so many rooms now. A day nursery and a night nursery, and a room for James, and a room for Ivy. And when Emmy is a little bigger she will want a room for herself. And when I have some more babies it will mean another nursery as well.
John laughed and asked if Agnes didn't find her household difficult.
'Oh, no,' said she in surprise,' it is quite easy. And when I have some more babies I shall get a second nurse as well as Ivy. It is really no trouble.'[1](413)
The one thing that the Leslies seemed to be short of is private time in which individuals could actually get intellectual and physical work done. No wonder women dreamed of having "a room of their own" when most of their lives were taken up in looking after others even to the point of staving off their boredom. While one set of women cleaned up the remains of the dinner another set of women played the piano, sang and read aloud. Only women who, like Lady Emily or Lady Dorothy, were renowned for their selfishness, did not mold their lives around the needs and desires of the greater family.
By the end of the book this reader felt a strange affection for two fairly minor characters–Lady Dorothy Bingham and Miss Joan Stevenson–both of whom were judged harshly by others (a domineering widow and a "hard" university woman with a job) and both of whom had a tendency to carefully survey their environment and clearly asses the situation:
'I think Lionel Harvest is a nephew of yours,' said Miss Stevenson. 'He us under me at Broadcasting House.'
"Is he? Queer boy, Lionel. I'd let my girls go out with him, but I do't know that I'd let my boys.' Here Lady Dorothy laughed the laugh before which every fox in her division of the country quailed. 'He'll come into four thousand a year though when old General Harvest dies.'
Miss Stevenson registered this statement with her well-trained brain. [1](450)
Lady Bingham deploys her money and influence without asking that others pretend that she is doing them a favour and Miss Stevenson has realistically decided that the best thing insurance for a university educated woman is to find a well-off husband who will be happy with what Miss Stevenson so diplomatically refers to as a "companionate marriage.\"
The Second World War looms, not yet on the horizon but not that far away. This reader thinks that Lady Dorothy and Miss Stevenson are better prepared to navigate the upheavals to come than are the Leslie family.
[1]Thirkell, Angela, 1966 An Angela Thirkell omnibus / with an introduction by Elizabeth Bowen Hamish Hamilton, London,
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Oh my God, Lady Emily Leslie. That woman drives me up a wall.And while I agree that a woman who was not the daughter of an earl and married to a wealthy landowner wouldn't have the opportunities to behave as Lady Emily does, still it's not only her aristocratic background that lets her get away with it. Equally upper-class women, like Lady Dorothy or the character invariably referred to as \"the dreadful Lady Norton,\" are heartily disliked for their meddling, interfering and overbearing ways.No, it's Lady Emily's goddam charm. And when it comes to charm, I'm with Dorothy Parker:\"There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it…Now charm is bad enough to meet with in daily life,as we were saying not five minutes ago, but God deliver you and me from charm on paper. I have yet to have and author inform me that a character is charming, and by that character's deeds and conversation, convince me of the fact.\"Miss Stevenson is a good example of the kind of woman that Thirkell respects but can't make herself like.As for work, I can't believe that Agnes Grahame, for instance, ever did a bit of it. But some of Thirkell's county gentry are presented as keeping very busy doing all sorts of unpaid \"county work\" out of pure noblesse oblige— but I could never figure out what that work was. What did their committees and boards and so on actually do? It's one of the mysteries of a bygone era, I suppose.
I think you have a good point about charm. David has gads of it as well doesn't he? And if he were a member of the working class people would just see him as a rotter.Lady Dorothy gets her way and is disliked. Lady Emily gets her way and is liked. They both get their way because they are members of the upper gentry. I suspect Lady Dorothy was quite cynical about Lady Emily's way of handling things (she basically \"outs\" Lady Emily to Mr. Holt.)As for all the work I suspect that much of it involved telling other people what to do with their own time, parents, children, farm, home. As is made clear in Wild Strawberries one of the church groups actually had separate meetings where Lady Emily would attend and direct what should be done only to leave and forget what she had ordered.The difference between Lady Emily and some of the others is that the others didn't forget and continued to intervene. I am reminded of the conversation/visit between Mrs. Pardiggle and the out of work brick-maker in Bleak House"You can't tire me, good people," said Mrs Pardiggle to these latter. "I enjoy hard work; and the harder you make mine, the better I like it.""Then make it easy for her!" growled the man upon the floor. "I wants it done, and over. I wants a end of these liberties took with my place. I wants an end of being drawed like a badger. Now you're a going to poll-pry and question according to custom — I know what you're a going to be up to. Well! You haven't got no occasion to be up to it. I'll save you the trouble. Is my daughter a washin? Yes, she is a washin. Look at the water. Smell it! That's wot we drinks. How do you like it, and what do you think of gin instead! An't my place dirty? Yes, it is dirty — it's nat'rally dirty, and it's nat'rally onwholesome; and we've had five dirty and onwholesome children, as is all dead infants, and so much the better for them, and for us besides. Have I read the little book wot you left? No, I an't read the little book wot you left. There an't nobody here as knows how to read it;….He had pulled his pipe out of his mouth to say all this, and he now turned over on his other side, and smoked again. Mrs Pardiggle, who had been regarding him through her spectacles with a forcible composure, calculated, I could not help thinking, to increase his antagonism,…Ada and I were very uncomfortable. We both felt intrusive and out of place; and we both thought that Mrs Pardiggle would have got on infinitely better, if she had not had such a mechanical way of taking possession of people. The children sulked and stared; the family took no notice of us whatever, except when the young man made the dog bark: which he usually did, when Mrs Pardiggle was most emphatic. We both felt painfully sensible that between us and these people there was an iron barrier, which could not be removed by our new friend. By whom, or how, it could be removed, we did not know, but we knew that. Even what she read and said, seemed to us to be ill-chosen for such auditors, if it had been imparted ever so modestly and with ever so much tact.\"The gentry of the time seemed to find much \"work\" in going about and instructing others as to how to live their lives rather than using the time and effort to make the systemic changes that might have actually made things better.
Ah yes, Mrs. Pardiggle, I remember her. As far as I can tell, In Thirkell's world the \"dirty and onwholesome\" children of the poor seem to thrive on dirt and squalor (and margarine), and prefer it to any of the attempts of their \"betters\" to improve their living conditions.Which is kind of interesting, now that I think of it. Dickens is a lot clearer-sighted about social issues than Thirkell is, but his domestic scenes are much more sentimental, not to say outright cloying. Thirkell is content with her cheerful poor people and funny foreigners, but her take on domestic life in the kind of homes she knows best can be pretty sharp.David is a pretty useless human being, but I don't know that he rises to the level of \"rotter.\" He seems to spend his time allowing girls to get crushes on him, but we never see it go beyond hand-holding. And they all fall out of love with him and into love with someone else, with no harm done.Although I never found the Mary-and-John denouement to be particularly convincing, either.Supposedly, David lives a \"playboy\" kind of life in London and Paris and the Riviera, but his partners in sin are kind of a mystery. With the girls of his own class, it never seems to be more than the hand-holding. His cousin remarks, in one of the later books, something like, \"You've been holding girls' hands for twenty years, and now your hair's getting thin on top, it's time to grow up.\" And he really doesn't like to spend any time with members of the lower orders. It's another mystery.
\"As far as I can tell, In Thirkell's world the \"dirty and onwholesome\" children of the poor seem to thrive on dirt and squalor (and margarine), and prefer it to any of the attempts of their \"betters\" to improve their living conditions.\"But by AT's time it was a rather \"improved\" dirt and squalor, especially the vital matter of water!


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Busted: David Cameron Faces 'Serious Questions' Over Claims His Former Communications Chief Received Several Hundred Thousand Pounds From News International During Time With Tories
August 23, 2011 by Infinite
– Cameron Faces Questions Over Claims Coulson Paid By NOTW During Time With Tories (Huffington Post, Aug 23, 2011):
PRESS ASSOCIATION — Prime Minister David Cameron faces "serious questions" over claims his former communications chief received several hundred thousand pounds from News International while he was employed by the Conservatives, Labour has said.
A series of severance payments were made to former News of the World editor Andy Coulson for several months after he began working for the Tories, according to the BBC.
The instalments totalled the full entitlement under his two-year contract as editor of the now defunct tabloid which was published by News International, the BBC claimed.
His severance package also included continued access to healthcare as well as keeping hold of his company car, the Corporation said.
A Labour spokesman said: "David Cameron now faces allegations that one of his top advisers was also in the pay of News International. The Prime Minister needs to immediately make clear whether these allegations are true. There are serious questions to answer about Mr Coulson's employment in Downing Street and the country should not have to wait for full transparency."
Mr Coulson was hired by the Conservative party in July 2007 on a reported salary of £275,000, six months after he quit as editor of the Sunday newspaper when its royal editor Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire were jailed for hacking into the voicemails of Buckingham Palace staff.
The Prime Minister took Mr Coulson into government with him, putting him on the public payroll when he made him director of communications.
Mr Coulson quit in January as pressure over phone-hacking continued to mount, saying it was distracting him from his role. Last month he was arrested on suspicion of corruption and phone hacking and was released on police bail until October.
A Conservative party spokeswoman said: "Senior party officials have no knowledge of Andy Coulson's severance arrangements."
A spokesman for News International said: "News International consistently does not comment on the financial arrangements of any individual."
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'Mandy' Movie Review: Nic Cage Battles Crazy Jesus Freaks & Biker Demons!
Wow, my mind has officially been blown by Panos Cosmatos' second feature film 'Mandy'! I was lucky enough to catch it this crazy ass flick last Sunday evening at Cinema 21 here in Portland with a rowdy packed theater. I'm damn glad I decided to make a run to the cinema rather than renting this online 'cuz in my opinion that's the absolute best way to see this one for the first time. After watching the steaming pile of crap that was 'The Predator' at a matinee Friday, a movie like Mandy was a complete and total breath of fresh air. I guess the best thing to say here is this movie may not be for everyone, but if you're ready to take one of the craziest mind bending cinematic journeys of the last couple decades then you're gonna fucking love it. Hell even the poster is awesome!
Mandy is a completely insane revenge flick set in the early 80's and it's unlike anything I've ever witnessed before. I'm so used to seeing big crappy Hollywood blockbusters in the theater, so this was a bit of of a welcome shock to my noggin. The whole movie plays out like an uncomfortable fever dream, with Nicholas Cage as a logger named "Red" who lives out in the Pacific Northwest with his beautiful but eerily mesmerizing girlfriend Mandy. They live a quiet, serene life in an incredibly strange home in the middle of the woods, with large glass walls that bring to mind elements of a real life fairy tale. Everything's dark yet overly drenched in vibrant hues of reds, purples & thick lush colors creating a surreal landscape that feels like a dream put right on the screen in front of you. It's a spectacle to behold and it's clear from the start that Red & Mandy have been through a lot together, sharing a truly special bond in their secluded life. Mandy works at a nearby convenience store, wears cool heavy metal tees and loses herself in fantasy novels while Red spends his time chopping down trees with his chainsaw. The two of them are pictured intently watching 80's horror flicks together (NIGHTBEAST!), chatting about what their favorite planets are, showing they're living a rather sweet, simple and innocent life together at this point.
Well shit majorly hits the fan when a crazy van full of uber religious cult members roll into the area and their leader spots the oddly beautiful Mandy walking on the road one day. The cult leader is seemingly hypnotized by her and quickly declares that he must have her for his own. The first hour of the movie is pretty slow moving but in the best way possible, though we don't get much backstory, we do get a clear picture of the love Mandy & Red share for each other, which makes what follows all that more intensely heartbreaking. I don't want to spoil anything here, but let's just say this cult goes the full distance to send Nicholas Cage into a fully batshit crazy journey that's part Evil Dead, part Hellraiser and part LSD drenched revenge fantasy. I know people have a sort of ironic love for Nicholas Cage these days but seriously Cage fully shines here in easily one of his best performances of his career. He's awesome and not in some ridiculous sort of way. The movie goes to some truly bizarre places, the violence plentiful and there are a ton of oddball surprises all along the way.
The movie even has a sense of humor as well, though it feels like an unsettling waking nightmare most of it's run time, there's something truly comforting about having Nic Cage there with you as your guide through the mayhem of it all. It gives you a sense of hope that just maybe you'll make it out of it all alive somehow. There's also a strong heavy metal vibe to film, not just in it's imagery but also in the score, which is completely breathtaking in it's thunderous doom metal delivery through the hellish otherworldly landscapes. The music here is incredible and liley half of the charm of why Mandy works so damn well honestly.
There's also cool hand drawn animated interludes that bring to mind the 1981 cult classic "Heavy Metal" in the best ways possible. Add in amazing practical fx work, crazy gore, epic weapon crafting, chainsaws, Goblin Mac & Cheese (just wait and see), drugs galore, demonic cenobite like bikers and a sweet ass cameo from Predator's Bill Duke and you've got yourself one truly freaky epic horror masterpiece unlike anything you've like ever seen before. I can't say enuff good things about this movie, it's still floating around in my head four days after viewing it. I can though easily say that Mandy thus far is my favorite movie of 2018!
Written by Peter Saturday Posted in Epic Battles, Fantasy Movies, Horror Whore, Movies	Tagged with 1983, 80s horror, andrea riseborough, best horror movie of 2018, best horror movie soundtrack, best movie of 2018, cage rage, cenobites, chainsaw battles, crazy cults, Demons, doom metal horror, dreamlike movies, evil dead 4, heavy metal horror, heavy metal horror movies, hellraiser, jesus freaks, johann Johannsson, lsd, mandy, nic cage, nicholas cage, nightbeast, panos cosmatos, revenge movie, trippy horror
September 20, 2018 - 9:22 pm Richenbaum Fotchenstein
Wish I had seen it in the theater. I don't know why they always put these one night only releases at 7pm on Thursdays. Terrible time.
September 20, 2018 - 11:19 pm Peter Saturday
Yeah, I was floored by it in the theater, the crowd went crazy so that was fun too! Did you rent it online?
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