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Disconnected Viewing

sita brahmin.jpegI don't have cable right now so I'm rewatching old shows and movies. A lot of them are animated. Such is my way. I'd like to have a nobler reason for rewatching them--something like when James revisited his favorite childhood books. And it's true—he did inspire me. But it's also true that I don't have cable.

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Hammering Away at the Here and Now

mapinternet-small.jpgLet's say you're the newly-sentient internet. How would you decipher the meaning of all the bits and bytes whizzing past you? And what about the real world outside your electronic realm?

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Pilgrim's Progress

Pilgrim 80.jpgFormer Comics Editor, Guy Leshinski has very kindly given us permission to reprint a prophetic interview with Bryan Lee O'Malley in 2005.  Will Bryan Lee O'Malley attain the Holy Grail of cartoonists? As Bryan says, "We'll see..."


There’s a girl sitting on the subway. She’s 16 or so, in a brown corduroy jacket and a pair of faded sneakers, her feet propped on the seat across from her. She’s absently brushing on lipstick, absorbed by Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novel Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life: Volume 1.

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"Porn's reality is... uncanny"

Behold, Susannah Breslin's The Unporny Valley! And Grand Theft Auto IV in "Return to the Unporny Valley."
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The Cumming Of Jizzus - Scene 2 Set Diary

In thy kingdom, he cums!The relatively short 4 hour shoot for the first scene of this triple XXX bible story provided some very exciting results, but how would scene two of THE CUMMING OF JIZZUS play out? Well, it took a while to get started since the first snowstorm of the season in Vancouver held up our performers, and some other minor distractions kept us from getting rolling until an hour after we'd planned. Undaunted, we carried on -- ready and willing to get sleazy and holy at the same time.

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Jizzus Set Diary, Day One

Witnessing the res-ErrectionThis past Saturday (November 11th 2006) was a day at least 4 months in the making. It was somewhere about that long since scriptwriter Karina Jordi provided us with the script/idea we'd need to roll this project in motion, and investors had been nailed down. The project?

Cinema Sewer presents: THE CUMMING OF JIZZUS.

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Searching For Sin in New York

Two Vancouverites seek sleaze in the city that never sleepsI'm a porn journalist, and I live in the Canadian city of Vancouver.

Ok, maybe I shouldn't even call it a city... because in comparison to New York, it's a small hick town, and I can say that with some degree of confidence after recently finally making my way to the Big Apple along side my wingman, a gawky fellow comic and movie nerd nicknamed the Dirty Bird. A friend who shares my same first name -- Robin.

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Long Jeanne Silver

She's foot-free and fancy loose!A short list of the some of the most bizarre, more outlandish XXX fare of the 1970s wouldn't be complete without mentioning an eye-opening 1977 Alex De Renzy feature film titled LONG JEANNE SILVER. In fact, of all the porn films in my collection, I've gone though the most trouble to get this particular one, so excuse me if I feel overly compelled to tell you its story.

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Kamikaze Hearts of Gutter Punk Lesbians

Make-believe, addiction, despair, two-bit sleaze and two-bit dreams.During the “Sharon Mitchell film festival” held at the Coolidge Corner Theater in Boston on June 6th 2000, the legendary porn queen showed clips from her XXX films spanning her 3 decades long career and provided a running commentary for the audience. Sharon held the crowd in rapt attention while she revealed the title from which each clip was taken, the director and, when she remembered, anecdotes about the cast and what drug she was on at the time the footage was shot. It was usually heroin or marijuana, and in some cases, both. One such example was the ultra-rare documentary KAMIKAZE HEARTS, which also depicted Mitchell -- then addicted -- passionately defending drug use.

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Of Note Elsewhere

Brian at Shelf Life Clothing Company has put together an awesome display of "The Greatest Movie Stunts of All Time." As well as, the first volume of "The Greatest Movie Soundtrack Composers."

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Slick, coldblooded action in "10 Photos Capturing Moments of Spontaneous Badassery!"
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Akira Ifukube conducts the Osaka Symphony in a selection of his Godzilla works.
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Violence + cooking. It just doesn't get any better. The Butcher, The Chef and The Swordsman.
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Wicked posters for Raleigh, North Carolina's Cinema Overdrive film series.
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