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The first thing online singles are going to see when looking up possible matches is your profile picture. This is why you A) have to have one and B) it has to be the best photo you can take. The free dating site, OkCupid, did an analysis of over 7,000 of their members' pictures to figure out which ones were the most effective in generating matches. The truth they discovered may help you make a killer first impression with a picture that is bound to have singles across the web knocking at your online dating doorstep. Check out the following tips for men and women based on their results:

#1: EYE CONTACT. This has always been thought to be extremely important in exuding confidence and showing your interest in someone. But as it turns out, making eye contact with the camera works in your favor as well. Here's the lowdown on eye contact for the different sexes:

* LADIES: Studies show that women who look directly at the camera while smiling or using a flirty expression tend to get more online attention than others who use such expressions without eye contact (this can give off the vibe of a bad attitude).
* GUYS: The best pose for guys' pictures is zero smile, zero eye contact. The runner up is smiling without eye contact.

#2: FACE. There's no doubt about it, people like to see faces...so show yours off. The majority of online dating services (OkCupid included) will tell you that it is best to choose a profile picture that is a clear and up close shot. However, results of OkCupid's study show that whether or not you show your face doesn't have an impact on the amount of quality singles you reel in.

#3: CAMERA ANGLE. This may come as a surprise, but the classically cheesy "My-Space" shot that is achieved by holding a camera above your head or in front of a mirror and looking ever-so coy has actually proven quite effective in luring in singles. For both men and women, these pictures are more successful than they are average. If you're a woman, this is the best pose you can make.

#4: SHOWING SKIN. You may be the more conservative type but according to OkCupid's studies, a revealing pic can greatly help your efforts in getting off the market. You don't have to undress like a Playboy model-there are ways to be sexy without showing too much. If you're comfortable with this idea then go for it!

* LADIES: A picture where you are displaying a little bit of cleavage draws 12.9 new contacts per month, 49% more than average. Numbers show that older women tend to get fewer messages than younger ones. But if you're older and choose a photo that is more on the revealing side, you might be giving the 20-somethings a run for their money.
* GUYS: If you're a guy with a nice body, it is suggested that you take off your shirt rather than leave it on. If you decide to stay clothed, however, stick to your usual style and keep it on the casual side. Guys who get dressed up for a profile pic don't fare as well as those who dress as they normally would.

#5: SMILING. Everyone likes a great smile. It shows that you are friendly, happy and fun-loving. But even if you're the type who doesn't go anywhere without a smile plastered on your face, when it comes to your online dating pic, smiling might not always be the best way to go.

* LADIES: Overall, research suggests that smiling is better than not for women. But if you choose to go with a picture showcasing your best flirty face, this will also be well-received by online admirers.
* GUYS: For the men, if you have a profile picture of yourself looking away from the camera without a smile...you are golden because the ladies love this. Another great idea? Try smiling and not looking directly at the camera.

#6: CONTEXT. Many think that when you post a picture on your dating profile it should be of you alone in a serious position. Well if you don't want to go this route, the exciting news is that you can highlight how well-traveled, active and social you are in your pic and research shows that it won't reflect negatively in your quest for a cyber-relationship.

* LADIES: The most popular contexts are as follows...1) The "MySpace" self-picture 2) A picture taken in bed 3) An action shot that shows your outdoorsy/athletic side
* GUYS: It will be your best bet to go for one of these...1) A photo with an animal 2) A pic showing off your rippling muscles 3) A picture that shows you engaging in an interesting activity

Suggested free e-books to read:

Robert Henderson - Secrets Of Dating Asian Women
Tony Horton - Bring It
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Online Dating Tips Increase Your Success Rate

Online dating tips can work wonderfully for all people who are in love or want to fall in love. As a result, we have brought some amazing tips for you today.

MIND - People love from heart but intelligent lovers use their mind when it comes to online date. While using online services, you have to be very careful about each and every step you or your partner takes.

ONLINE DATING SITE - We urge people to choose reliable and trustworthy dating site. You can find various nice websites by spending few minutes over the internet. Please do not use the services of those sites that claim to offer free partners or services.

SAFETY - Please keep in mind that you can not see physically a person you are dating with online. Therefore, it is important for you to ensure the safety first. Being unknown to each other, it is your right and duty to save your personal and confidential details. Do not leak them or disclose them in front of those people who are not visible physically.

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Maybe You Can Go Back Home Dion Dimucci

"A Wanderer, the Singer Dion Returns to the Bronx"

by

David Gonzalez

December 9th, 2011

The New York Times

DRESSED in black with shades to match, Dion DiMucci stood on East 187th Street and pointed to Grandma Maria's apartment building. In the 1940s, that corner fire escape was the best perch in Belmont for the street fairs where big guys sang big songs.

"I had like a loge seat up there," said Dion, the singer-songwriter best known by his first name. "You don't know what it was like to hear those guys. They would sing opera. It was wild!"

He tossed out that last word with a touch of Bronx Italian attitude, betraying the vocal swagger that made him famous in the 1950s as the leader of the Belmonts, later as solo act and eventually enshrined him in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That attitude made Dion, in Bruce Springsteen's opinion, the link between Sinatra and rock 'n' roll.

Now, after two failed attempts to bring his life to the screen, Dion is collaborating with Charles Messina, a playwright and director, on "The Wanderer - the Life and Music of Dion." It will weave his songs through a plot centered on the singer's life from 1957 through the late 1960s, a time that brought him his greatest success and biggest tragedies - sort of a deeper version of "Jersey Boys," the jukebox musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.

A few weeks ago he took Mr. Messina to Belmont, the Italian enclave that was the center of his young world and a place where he still easily walks the streets. The visit was not a nostalgia trip - Dion keeps recording new songs - but a way to help Mr. Messina get a feel for Dion's world.

"This kid Charles - he's 40 and I call him a kid - he's ready to pop!" Dion said. "I like his style. I like the way he wrote. He caught a vision! I mean, I can write a three-minute song. But a play? That's amazing. You know, I always saw my story as a young 'Sopranos' with great music and a Rocky Graziano 'Somebody Up There Likes Me' ending. It's a story of redemption. A rock and roll redemption story!"

Dion grew up not too far from Belmont's main drag, on the second floor of a two-story house on Prospect Avenue. His father, Pasquale, was a puppeteer, though he liked to talk more than work. His mother, Frances, worked in a hat factory. The two argued a lot.

"When they argued, I just went to my room and practiced guitar," Dion recalled. "So the more they argued, the better guitar player I became."

Mr. Messina, who has had plays about Freddie Mercury and Mario Lanza produced Off Broadway and elsewhere, knew he had the makings of a compelling story after a mutual friend introduced him to Dion a few years ago. The two shared an Italian-American upbringing and a feel for the city's streets. And he was fascinated by how Dion - who can pepper a conversation with casual references to Lou Reed, Jackie Wilson, St. Jerome and St. Augustine - survived a turbulent era.

"The conflict was irresistible to me as a dramatist," he said. "But what's interesting about Dion is that he lived. In my other plays, you don't have that ending where the guy overcame. Dion overcame."

Mr. Messina and a preliminary cast have held several readings of the script for potential investors, as they try to raise the financing to mount a workshop next year. The show would have more than 20 songs, including Dion's hits and other songs from the era, as well as new originals. Both Mr. Messina and Dion said the response had been encouraging.

"It took 'Jersey Boys' 10 years to get to Broadway," Mr. Messina said. "I think we can get there faster. If you took the music out of 'Jersey Boys,' would it still work? Our story can, because Dion's life was dramatic."

Indeed, tragedy was never too far from Dion's life, even during his dizzying success. He had become addicted to heroin around the time he hit it big with the Belmonts as they recorded hits like "I Wonder Why" and "Teenager in Love," and later on his own, with "The Wanderer" and "Donna the Prima Donna." And while he was on the road with Buddy Holly for a winter dance tour in 1959, he balked at spending 36 - the same amount his parents paid in monthly rent - for a seat on a chartered plane. The plane's crash claimed the lives of Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper.

The play does not shy away from showing those searing moments. Dion says it has captured something that other efforts to dramatize his life have missed. He recalled watching a reading and being stunned during the scene where the young singer learns of the losses on what came to be called "The Day the Music Died."

"When the kid who was playing me started screaming when the plane crashed, I almost fell to my knees," he said. "Sometimes you need somebody to scream for you. You realize there's a 19-year-old kid who still feels very deeply about things."

And the neighborhood cares deeply about him. During their visit to Belmont, Dion ducked into Artuso Pastry, where Joe, the second-generation owner, had a box of cookies and cannoli waiting for him.

"This is for all you do," Mr. Artuso said. "Good to be on your team, buddy boy."

Dion threw his head back with a smile. "Joey, you're a saint in the making!" he said.

He and Mr. Messina went down the street to Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Dion's childhood parish. He climbed up the steps, stopped in the vestibule and smiled.

"The cap stays on," he said with a smile, as he pointed to his Kangol cap. "Not even cardinals know."

Even when he first felt the thrill of a hit record, he would still stop at the church and talk with Msgr. Joseph Pernicone, who pushed him when he was a teenager to think about the meaning of love or happiness.

"He once asked me, 'Dion what would make you happy?' " Dion said as he settled into a pew at the back of the church. " 'Well, there's this girl Susan I'd love to get close to. And while you're at it, throw in a hit record and a Thunderbird.'

" 'No, Dion. The virtuous man is the happy man,' " the monsignor replied.

"I had no idea what he meant," Dion said. "But he told me, it's the predisposition to do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason."

He sat and looked around the sanctuary, which was bathed in a soft, golden light.

"I wouldn't be sitting here right now if not for him," he said. "I got lost in my life. But I eventually came back to what he taught me."

Mr. Messina craned his neck, taking in the details. "This will be good for set design," he said. "Look at this place."

A few blocks away on Arthur Avenue, they entered Pasquale's Rigoletto, where Dion was embraced like a favorite - and hip - uncle. A frown crossed his face only when a customer casually walked into the dining room and started singing. Dion got up, said a word to the ma^itre d' - and the singing stopped.

"I just want to eat," he said.

More than a half-century after his first hit, he thinks back to what his life was like as a child, when his grandfather Tony would wake him every morning to the rhythmic clack of a wooden spoon in a tin cup beating egg yolks, sugar and wine into a frothy yellow concoction known as zabaglione.

"That's brain food," Dion said. "That's one of the reasons my brain is so highly developed. By the time I got to school I was like, 'Trig? Bring it. Algebra? Bring it.' I haven't come down from that stuff."

So while he has learned from the past, he doesn't live in it. At 72, he has written new songs for the play. He's even coming out with a new album, "Tank Full of Blues," next month.

"I never felt more relevant," he said. "I feel more relevant now than I did in my 20s. It's probably the zabaglione."

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Guy Point Of View Week Return To My Heart

Welcome to the first full story of "Guy's Point of View Week" here at Sequential Crush! "Return to My Heart!" originally appeared in Falling in Love #51 (June 1962). The reprint version (below) was published in Young Love #70 (September/October 1968).

"Return to My Heart!" is a story of a forbidden love -- between teacher and student. While not an entirely unusual storyline in romance comics, this one is different because it is told from the perspective of the male teacher and not the female student.

Mr. Forrest, a handsome English teacher is smitten with senior student, Celia Ames. He deals with his interest in her by trying to avoid her at all costs outside of the classroom...

...and inside the classroom, by reprimanding her. When ultimately confronted by Celia about his apparent dislike for her, he keeps his feelings for her inside; brushing his harshness off as a method of classroom control.

Mr. Forrest is not only the English teacher, but the drama coach as well. During practice one afternoon, Mr. Forrest does the unthinkable. He steps in for leading man -- Johnny, and shows him how the scene ought to be played. The rest of the class erupts in applause after the passionate kiss between Mr. Forrest and Celia. In return for their enthusiasm, the embarrassed Mr. Forrest gruffly demands that everyone memorizes their lines perfectly by the following Monday.

Following their very public kiss, the rest of the term flies by for Mr. Forrest. The end of the school year brings a graduation dance and Mr. Forrest is asked to be a chaperone. His evening of being an observer seems to going well until he catches a glimpse of Celia dancing with Johnny. His eyes lock with Celia's. She makes her way over to Mr. Forrest and asks him to dance with her since she will be leaving for college soon and won't see him again. Mr. Forrest hides his feelings for her and tells her to keep dancing with Johnny. With imagery so akin to the ladies of romance comics, Mr. Forrest lies awake night after night, thinking of his former pupil.

And here you thought only

the girls cried themselves to sleep!

Time goes on (as it tends to do) and after the passing of four years, Mr. Forrest decides to give it another shot at being a graduation dance chaperone. Suddenly, a tender gloved hand reaches out and it is no other than Celia, requesting a dance once again. This time, Mr. Forrest gives in and love washes over the happy (and age-appropriate) couple.

Though the script on this story sounds very similar to stories that are narrated from female character's perspectives, I think it is still pretty interesting reading a story from a male character's point of view. What do you think? Do you like the male perspective in the romance comics or do you prefer the more traditional female narrator?

Be sure to tune in the rest of the week for more examples of the

"guy's point of view" here on Sequential Crush!

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German Women Have Bigger Breasts

First, we find out that German men are terrible in bed because they stink, and now we find out that German women have larger breasts than usual. This can't be a coincidence.

A study of women's body shapes was conducted and they found that women's breasts are one whole inch larger than last year.

The survey also discovered that German women are even getting taller, with the average woman standing at 5'5".

Experts (ah, gotta love those experts) believe that the breast augmentation is a result of a much fattier diet.

What's worse is that the study also discovered that, not only do German men stink, they're also fatter than ever before.

So for those men out there who are having a hard time getting some play, head over to Germany; the women have swollen breasts that are longing to be touched and they won't sleep with the fat, stank German guys, so the level of competition is non-existent at best.

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First Date Ideas Make A Lasting Impression

When it comes to first date, you may find many people and experts who are ready to give many first date ideas. However, it is important for you to choose the best one and make your first date a memorable day.

First date is very important for everyone especially guy. Generally, maximum girls have sixth sense or some ability to know how long a relationship will go. And unfortunately girls come to know about this thing on a first date as well.

Usually, maximum number of people goes on first date at the age of 14-21 years. It may be a good age for those people who are 18 years old or above but minors can find many troubles as well.

To resolve any such problem, you should discuss your dating and its location with your friends and cousins. These are some best people who can give you best first date ideas. First date should be fun and entertaining. You should not take any tension or stress while roaming with your partner. Just enjoy the moment as much as you can. Here, you can also try to make your partner happy because his/her happiness completely depends on the success of dating.

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Comment About Cocky And Funny

"This was taken from a recent comment. I think it really speaks to what we need to focus on to improve our game especially with negs and cocky and funny:"

90% of these comments just let me know that no matter how far we are trying to get away from cheezy pickup lines and acting like a douchebag, most guys just don't seem to get it. I feel like I'm on a high-school forum for either "who can come up with the sappiest line", or "who can make the girl see how much of a tool I really am?"

Guys, your "negs" are completely out of sync with what we have learned from Mystery, Style, DeAngelo, etc. For some strange reason, a forum devoted to PUA material has been reduced to an SNL skit about "how to be an arrogant jackass that thinks he's a stand-up-comedian". Have you learned NOTHING by studying The Game!?

Seriously, 90-99% of you have obviously never read 'The Game', watched 'The Pickup Artist', listened to any of David DeAngelo's material, or basically took the time to find out what REALLY works when approaching a set. You are all dooming yourselves to the lives of a greasy scumbag who knows nothing of the teaching from the masters.

Do yourselves a favor. Next time, instead of trying to be Andrew Dice Clay in your next encounter with a female, politely excuse yourself from the set and go to the bookstore. If you are still stubborn and think that laying on the "I'm so insecure that I have to call you a whore and portray myself as a sexual god" will get you somewhere, please buy a really good book from 1976 on pickup lines. I'm sure "What's your sign?" will be in there if you haven't thought of that one yet.

If you really care, if you REALLY want to know the tactics and maneuvers that are necessary to move your "game" up a notch, then seek out material by the people I've already mentioned. You will immediately find that what is going on in this thread has NOTHING to do with having "game". Your "game" that is on display here is the entire reason that Mystery and his fellow pick-up-artists have devised a distinct method to AVOID having to lower yourselves to cheezy one-liners.

I fully realize that a lot of you are just starting out, and you want to throw in your (what you think) is prime material. I don't fault you for that. Just PLEASE, for all of our sakes, at LEAST read "The Game" by Neil Strauss. I will consider anything you decide to indulge yourself in after that just gravy.

I'm not writing this post to belittle you guys that seem to think that flat-out insulting a woman, or forcing a sexual innuendo on them is the right way to sarge. I'm trying to let you in on material that will change your life. If you are too lazy to figure it out, I have no pity on you when you fail constantly with the Asshole/Douchebag lines. Most of what I have seen here are distinctly NOT "Cocky/Funny". They are the same shitty "pickup" lines that true PUA's have been honing their craft to get away from.

Anyone that is still listening....STOP reading this post for material. The stuff that these guys are putting forth will only hurt your game. Search harder, read the proven material, download some seminars by David DeAngelo, Mystery, etc., and then come back to this thread. Only then will you see how foolish this whole thing is. "Cocky/Funny"? No, almost all of these comments are Arrogant/Douchey. Tool/Cheezy. They go against everything that we are supposed to be learning, and the entire reason we are part of this forum in the first place. Start over. It's not hard. All of the material is there if you REALLY want to find it. Good luck guys. You're gonna need it if you're still telling women that they fell out of heaven or saying that they are flat-out ugly. Negs are a happy medium. You will learn if you bother to find out. Good God.

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