These “Sex World” DVDs are too hot to contain in my cooling tower.
“Modern” porn has been around for more than a generation, so it was interesting to watch two versions of “Sex World,” filmed 30 years apart, and note all the changes in money, enthusiasm, and pubic hair these two DVDs encapsulated. It was also fun to see how the new version commented on the old one but still was as reflective of its time as the original.
Read the review of both “Sex World”s and my interview with Lee Roy Myers here.
So I have both DVDs here at Gram Ponante Towers, Apothecary, Helipad, Crematorium, Cremalechetorium, and Lobster Hatchery and I’d like to give them to you. That could be a $125 value if you’re in prison.
TO ENTER: In the comments section, recommend a good book that you have read and tell me (and other commenters) why you liked it. I’ll pick a winner at random and will then need for you to tell me by email your name, mailing address, and that it is, in fact, legal to send you pornography.
Previously on Porn Valley Observed: The Best of All Possible “Sex World”s
Hooray, a chance to pimp my favorite author!
Dear readers, please consider The Complete Saki.
Saki (who took his pen name from the cupbearer in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam) was brilliant and sarcastic, possessed perhaps the driest wit in literary history, and his vicious skewering of everything the Victorian middle and upper classes held dear is a wonder to behold. If you’re familiar with Wodehouse, he’s like Wodehouse’s evil twin, with his creation Clovis Sangrail the anti-Wooster; collected, calm, witty, intelligent, and always one step ahead of everyone else.
As a sample, here’s a link to “The Feast of Nemesis” and one to “Esme”
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http://haytom.us/showarticle.php?id=17
Recently, I read George Orwell’s “Down and Out in Paris and London”. I am 24 years old, and started this book right after the start-up company I had been working for folded, leaving me jobless.
Orwell’s account of his life as a plongeur in Parisian hotels and later as a tramp roaming around the greater London area was simultaneously hilarious and tragic, and helped me realize that however dire I thought my situation was, there were plenty of people worse off than I was, with far fewer “outs” than I had access to.
Aside from a few freelance gigs here and there, I am still technically unemployed. The difference in me after reading this book is that now I don’t stress quite so much about finding steady work. Now I take free bread where its offered, and enjoy the sights, sounds, smells and drunken laughter of the legions mired in my same spot. I no longer cry foul about my economic situation, but rather revel in it.
For anyone that has been in a situation similar to mine, or who just feels down and out, this book is a must read.
Gut Symetries by Jeanette Winterson
There is nothing like reading a book that is such a mix of real and surreal that you can’t tell whether he characters are insane and doing these things, sane and doing these things, or just imagining it all from whatever mental state they’re in. This story is about a love triangle, written in a way that geometry can’t even begin to describe. Betrayal, passion, love and loss all have their places and they perform their roles flawlessly.