You're a porn star! I KNOW You!!!

CatsEye · 2006-06-27, 04:48 PM

"It is difficult to describe how it feels to gaze at living human beings whom you’ve seen perform in hard-core porn. To shake the hand of a man whose precise erectile size, angle, and vasculature are known to you. That strange I-think-we’ve-met-before sensation one feels upon seeing any celebrity in the flesh is here both intensified and twisted. It feels intensely twisted to see reigning industry queen Jenna Jameson chilling out at the Vivid booth in Jordaches and a latex bustier and to know already that she has a tattoo of a sundered valentine with the tagline HEART BREAKER on her right buttock and a tiny hairless mole just left of her anus. To watch Peter North try to get a cigar lit and to have that sight backlit by memories of his artilleryesque ejaculations."

Article: David Foster Wallace on the Adult Film Industry

A long read, but a great essay by DFW from Premiere Magazine when he covered the 1998 AVN Awards. Fascinating, sometimes disturbing tidbits of first person observation on the adult industry, the participants, Las Vegas, and the fans who attend the Adult CES Expo.

MORE EXCERPTS:

Good old Max Hardcore, for instance, is a total psychopath—that’s part of his on-screen Gonzo persona—but so is the real Max/Paul Steiner. You’d almost have to have been there in that suite. Max sits holding court in his hat and pointy boots, looking at once magisterial and mindless, while his red-suited acolytes laugh on cue and a jr. high dropout shows off her valves...

Q. $4,000,000,000 and 8,000 new releases a year—why is adult video so popular in this country?

A. Industry journalist Harold Hecuba: “It’s the new Barnum. Nobody ever goes broke overestimating the rage and misogyny of the average American male.”

A slight surprise is that a lot of the industry’s elite woodmen are short—5'6", 5'7"—and most of their companions tower over them. Dick Filth confirms that the contemporary industry’s 5'6" standard helps a prodigious male organ look even more prodigious on videotape, a medium that apparently does all kinds of strange things to perspective....

“Fellow MENSA members and aficionados of Shakespeare!” intones Al Goldstein of Screw, 62 and obese and white-bearded and crazy-haired and dressed in a sportcoat whose lapels are two different primary colors, looking pretty much exactly like that one certain old guy in the neighborhood your mom warned you never to try to sell Cub Scout chocolate mints to, and glorying in a Special AVN Achievement Award he confesses to feeling he’s long deserved...

Cheers-
CatsEye

terry · 2006-06-28, 07:48 AM

A good read. Thanks for sharing.

Venice · 2006-06-28, 09:33 AM

It is just as strange for us 'Porn Stars' to meet the man on the street who has feasted his eyes on you, balls up to your chin on some guy.

These guys adopt a weird familiarity to you...something along the lines of..'Hey I saw them out on that movie i just watched..so u might as well get them out for me now'..however public the place...!!

2006-06-27, 04:48 PM	#1
CatsEye Trying is the first step towards failure Join Date: May 2005 Location: Washington (no, the NICE one.) Posts: 128	You're a porn star! I KNOW You!!! "It is difficult to describe how it feels to gaze at living human beings whom you’ve seen perform in hard-core porn. To shake the hand of a man whose precise erectile size, angle, and vasculature are known to you. That strange I-think-we’ve-met-before sensation one feels upon seeing any celebrity in the flesh is here both intensified and twisted. It feels intensely twisted to see reigning industry queen Jenna Jameson chilling out at the Vivid booth in Jordaches and a latex bustier and to know already that she has a tattoo of a sundered valentine with the tagline HEART BREAKER on her right buttock and a tiny hairless mole just left of her anus. To watch Peter North try to get a cigar lit and to have that sight backlit by memories of his artilleryesque ejaculations." Article: David Foster Wallace on the Adult Film Industry A long read, but a great essay by DFW from Premiere Magazine when he covered the 1998 AVN Awards. Fascinating, sometimes disturbing tidbits of first person observation on the adult industry, the participants, Las Vegas, and the fans who attend the Adult CES Expo. MORE EXCERPTS: Good old Max Hardcore, for instance, is a total psychopath—that’s part of his on-screen Gonzo persona—but so is the real Max/Paul Steiner. You’d almost have to have been there in that suite. Max sits holding court in his hat and pointy boots, looking at once magisterial and mindless, while his red-suited acolytes laugh on cue and a jr. high dropout shows off her valves... Q. $4,000,000,000 and 8,000 new releases a year—why is adult video so popular in this country? A. Industry journalist Harold Hecuba: “It’s the new Barnum. Nobody ever goes broke overestimating the rage and misogyny of the average American male.” A slight surprise is that a lot of the industry’s elite woodmen are short—5'6", 5'7"—and most of their companions tower over them. Dick Filth confirms that the contemporary industry’s 5'6" standard helps a prodigious male organ look even more prodigious on videotape, a medium that apparently does all kinds of strange things to perspective.... “Fellow MENSA members and aficionados of Shakespeare!” intones Al Goldstein of Screw, 62 and obese and white-bearded and crazy-haired and dressed in a sportcoat whose lapels are two different primary colors, looking pretty much exactly like that one certain old guy in the neighborhood your mom warned you never to try to sell Cub Scout chocolate mints to, and glorying in a Special AVN Achievement Award he confesses to feeling he’s long deserved... Cheers- CatsEye __________________ Exotic NEW solo girls -no traffic leaks - great support - rebills like crazy.

2006-06-28, 07:48 AM	#2
terry You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Montreal Posts: 5,883	A good read. Thanks for sharing. __________________ Stop That 9 To 5 Go Green Grocery Store

2006-06-28, 09:33 AM	#3
Venice WHO IS FONZY!?! Don't they teach you anything at school? Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: London...where else? Posts: 48	It is just as strange for us 'Porn Stars' to meet the man on the street who has feasted his eyes on you, balls up to your chin on some guy. These guys adopt a weird familiarity to you...something along the lines of..'Hey I saw them out on that movie i just watched..so u might as well get them out for me now'..however public the place...!! __________________ Convert your traffic here !!