Progress report on "Legend of Dinosaurs" and "Puppet Master."

Just thought I'd check in and let you guys know that I'm slowly but surely finishing up my next two reviews. Here is how things are progressing right now:

"Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds" (Approx. 65% complete)
Completed sections: Characters, Memorable Quotes, and Commentary.
The Plot section is roughly 75% done, after that I just have to write the film and dvd review, then add some trivia, movie recommendations, and a download link for the soundtrack.

"Puppet Master" (Approx. 5% complete)
Completed sections: None
I've been trying to finish up "Legend of Dinosaurs" so I can get to this movie, but that damned review keeps getting longer and longer.... My review page is set up for "Puppet Master" and I've watched and taken notes on the movie and the disc.

My goal was to get both reviews done and posted by Saturday afternoon, but it looks like they'll be postponed until next week as I won't be home on Sunday. Sorry for the delay, but I just haven't had a good FULL day to sit down and bang these reviews out, so I'll just have to keep chiseling away at them a bit more every day.

Well g'night b-movie fans, and keep fighting the good fight!

Bloody Blood - The Cult Movie Trailers Blog!

I've been meaning to link to and post about this blog for a while. The Bloody Blood - Cult Trailers Blog is chock full of trailers for hundreds of cult, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and b-films! The blog is fairly easy to navigate, thanks to all the labels, and there's even a large collection of cult movie interviews that the blogmaster has found all over the web! This is nifty blog to spend some time in so head on over and give it a look!

Oh and just because I love this movie, and because I found the trailer for it at Bloody Blood, here is the official trailer for "SABATA:"

Nice Day & 5k Run

There was not a lot going on today. I sprayed some invasive species, the visitors went snorkeling, the volunteers checked the albatross plots and watered the new plants, and that's about it. Quite a few people have been getting ready for the 5k run (or 10k bike ride) we'll be having on Apr. 12. The prize is a nice flat TV. It's a drawing, but you have to participate to be in it. The TV has to stay on the island, but it would be nice to have it for 2 months.

Here is the old WWII gun over on Eastern Island. I showed it to you many months ago, but here it is again for the new blog readers.

Some handy Tax Refund / Tax Rebate links!

For those of you that know me pretty well: You all know how awful I am at A) balancing my checkbook and B) spending money wisely. Well, due to my being a "good Samaritan" the other night, and due to my inability to keep track of all the checks I write, I have overdrawn on my bank account and have been hit with some fees. (Curse you Pennstar!) Because of this, I'm now even more anxious to receive my tax return in the mail, as I'm sure a lot of you are. Today I went to www.irs.gov to find out how soon I will be getting my money.

To find out when your tax refund will be sent to you CLICK HERE and type in your social security number and the exact amount you are expecting to get back. (My refund check is being mailed out tomorrow! Thank the Gods!)

The other question floating around in everyone's mind, is "Am I getting that dang-blasted Tax Rebate that ole President Bushy Jr. keeps gummin' about?" To find out about that, and to see how much you will most likely be getting, CLICK HERE. Have your copy of your tax return forms ready. (According to this Tax Rebate Calculator, I'm due for $600.00! My check should be in the mail by May 23rd! Rock N' Roll!) To find out when you should get your tax rebate, CLICK HERE.

So if you're bad with money like I am, just hang in there! The government will be sending your money soon! If you can't wait and need cash immediately, here's what you can do: Sell your blood, sell your sperm (or ovum if you're of the female persuasion), sell your body, roll change, mow a lawn, shovel a driveway, do small oddjobs for your neighbors, hire yourself out as a hitman, or become a scientific guinea pig for a day.

Well I must be off to work, so have a great day b-movie fans! Blog ya later!

No News

It was a nice warm day today. We had our group of visitors out to help us clone bunch grass. Again, it helps alot to have so many hands helping out. Tonight we had some good beach volleyball, so there isn't a lot of news but it was a good day.

This green sea turtle is eating a bunch of Portuguese Man O' War jellyfish (they aren't really jellyfish, they are a group of polyps, but they are a lot like jellyfish). They have a really painful sting (which I learned in Hawaii), but the turtles don't mind. Normally, the turtles eat vegetation, but they will also eat various jellyfish.

March 2008 stats for the Vault!

March was my best month thus far this year. Not too surprising considering that I overhauled the site and have added a lot of new content this past month (two new capsule reviews, two new full-length reviews, and one updated review). Here are the stats for March 2008:

Unique Visitors: 4,869
# of Visits: 8,824
# of Hits: 109,625
Bandwidth Usage: 2.54 GB
Best Day: March 21st, with 339 Unique visitors
Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays are, on average, the busiest days for the Vault!

Top 5 Countries that visitors hail from:
1. The United States
2. "European Country" (formerly "European Union")
3. Canada
4. Netherlands
5. China

Top 5 reviews on the site for the month of March:
1. The Monster Squad (1987)
2. Arena (1989)
3. Transformers: The Movie (1986)
4. Beware! The Blob (1972)
5. My Bloody Valentine (1981)

Top 5 sites that send me visitors:
1. www.bmovies.com
2. www.badmovies.org
3. www.geocities.com/jrgdawg/ (The Old Vault)
4. www.publicdomaintorrents.com
5. www.bmoviegraveyard.com

Thanks for the traffic guys! Be sure to visit the above sites and give them a little lovin'!

Top 5 Keywords and Keyphrases that were used to find the Vault:
KEYPRHASES:
1. vault
2. b movies
3. movie
4. bmovie
5. arena 1989

KEYWORDS:
1. movie
2. vault
3. the
4. b
5. movies

And finally......
758 out of 4,869 visitors have The B-Movie Film Vault bookmarked!

So as you can see, March was a pretty good month. I'm hoping that things pick up for the site even more this year. If the traffic continues to rise, then you can rest assured that more reviews and other fun content will appear on the site. Thanks for making March a successful month b-movie fans! Blog ya later!

Tropic Birds

This morning was another day of checking tropic bird plots. There was even a chick already. I also finally had some time to spray the verbesina. It's the first time since Greg left on vacation on the Kahana last week. We also have a law enforcement officer here for a week and a half. Although we haven't had any problems, we are having new groups in every week, so we are going to have a full time person here soon.

Here is the new red-tailed tropic bird chick we saw today. It probably just hatched.

Brent is banding the tropic bird while Dasha is holding it. Usually someone has to hold its bill, but this one was very calm and nice.