Safe as Milk

Reuben just finished the editing for the film by the Anarcocks that we’re going to be releasing soon. They’re these two lean and sexy skinheads, Massimo and Pierce, and they’re making art by combining hardcore sex and homemade industrial music. They’re part of a European art collective called Black Sun Productions, which, in turn, has been a part of Coil, a seminal experimental/industrial project that’s spanned a few decades now.

Paul, in his omnivero-sexuality, loves stuff like this. So does Reuben. And now that I've seen Massimo and Pierce, so do I.

All of this has made Reuben's editing job more difficult since he's very sensitive to the Anarcocks' work and doesn't want his edits to be contrary to their pornographic or artistic intent. Integrity is very high on Reuben's list of good things. So he's been editing, sending his edits to Zurich for their ok, reading their notes, re-editing, and so on. Fortunately, Reuben and the Anarcocks seem to be on the same wavelength, and now the video is ready.

It should hit shelves in about a month.

We have caught up with the 2257 regulations paperwork, leaving us free to continue to legally and patriotically make the hardest of the hardcore pornography. If you’re not up on current industry news (and why would you be, if you’re not actually working in the industry?), the 2257 regulations are the ones that are (essentially) meant to guarantee the legality of the models in porn. This goes back to everyone's favorite underage-porn-model-cum-vocalist Traci Lords, who gleefully broke into the adult industry 400 years ago with a fake I.D. and a Penthouse spread. The U.S. government, world-reknowned for being moralism's little bitch, has released new 2257 regulations, but unfortunately forgot to tack on a translation to the multi-million page slab of legalese intentionally designed to be obtuse and self-contradictory. The entire industry went on a bit of a break as it scratched its head, looked confusedly towards its lawyers, and waited, uncomfortably, for the full-on federal crackdown.

A few weeks passed, and everyone started to realize that the new regulations were navigable, but that there was a nightmare of paperwork ahead of them. We here at Treasure Island Media (actually, when I say we, I mean Paul, Reuben, Nick, and our newest addition, our 2257-czar, the lovely, grinning Randy) cracked our knuckles and started watching porn. Every film was carefully scoured to make sure we had documents proving the legality of each of our models that spent time under the sweaty gaze of our cameras. And guess what? We did! (Again, I really had nothing to do with any of this- as a matter of fact, I got shooed out of the room pretty frequently. Which is good. I have an entropic effect on my environment, and it’s entirely possible that I’d set the room on fire or something. Thank you so much, Paul, Reuben, Nick and Randy for saving the rest of us.)

In any case, we are now completely, gloriously clean (at least with regard to the Federal Government), and we are once again free to do our duty as patriots and make seriously hardcore porn.

It’s all a result of the current administration throwing the adult industry to the Christian Coalition as a way of saying “thank you” for guaranteeing another four years of fundamentalism and people who want creationism taught in public schools. Politics. Censorship. Bah. All in the name of getting a few more spiritual cap-feathers for the Christers who live in mortal fear that someone, somewhere, might be rubbing one out. But we weathered the storm, as did the rest of the industry, and while the Free Speech Coalition is currently fighting it- and maybe even winning- we'll have our fingers crossed.

I just got interviewed about this very subject by Jackson West of SFist. The “-ist” ring of sites is like a blog of all the important and/or cool stuff going on in your town, provided you live in Austin, Boston, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, or Washington DC.