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Here is a teaser from our next release - WHAT I CAN'T SEE 2.


Also, Check out the new trailer for MEAT PACKING.
More trailers coming soon.

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Home Sweet Homewood

Nestled away among the beautifully manicured Victorian homes, nature trails and quaint family-style restaurants serving everything from “pasta to Ecuadorian chicken,” stands the Village of Homewood, Illinois. Their motto: “Welcome to Home Sweet Homewood, An American Hometown for Tomorrow’s World.”
And it seems that their tomorrow includes engorged clitorises, fisting and guy on guy man sex. If you don’t believe me, just ask the employees of this idyllic Village where access to Playboy, MenOfColor and TreasureIslandMedia among others are available in equal measure on their office computers. Apparently, however, sites that criticize the body politic are not. HomewoodNow a site set up to “assess” the Village of Homewood leadership has been banned and that – and not the anal rimming- is what has caused a stir here. According to Jim Marino, assistant to the Village manager, “Use of email and Internet is permitted as long as it does not interfere with the employee or another employee’s work performance.” So I guess reading posts by people who are critical of the way one’s government works does interfere but watching a guy get banged by two cocks at once does not. Nor, would it seem, to bother many others. According to a study by Queens University in Belfast, more than one in four people download porn at work. Which just goes to show you that at work you should never discuss politics or religion. Everything else, however, is fair game.
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Jolly Ho Ho Ho

Check out "Jolly Ho HO HO" at the Powerhouse on Friday, December 8 from 9pm till midnight. Treasure Island Media is sponsoring the event which will benefit PAWS and will feature a ton of TIM loot.

Seen Around the City

Dawson was recently in San Francisco for a signing at Superstat Satellite in the Castro.
Of course he found some other things to do as well.

Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo

Paul is currently reading


The text investigates Bernard Herrmann's score for Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. The score plays a critical role in the development and realization of the film's narrative. The Hitchcock/Herrmann collaboration resulted in nine films and lasted eleven years. Herrmann's score for Vertigo is generally considered as being one of his finest.

Todd Ahlberg/Meth on CNN

Here's the video of Todd Ahlberg on CNN discussing his documentary METH.


Please take a moment to support Todd in his efforts at eradicating meth use in our community. Write CNN and let them know you appreciated the story.

And, if you like the interviews, please give them a good rating and SHARE them with friends so they will bubble closer to the top in YouTube searches. These little actions can go a long way in helping spread the word about the film and, hopefully, contribute to the demise of meth.

Enjoy the holiday

Treasure Island Media presents the TRENCHCOAT CROWD

"Scuzzy seats and sticky floors might always have a place on 42nd Street, but the porn cinemas are gone forever - and at a cost that could not be calculated in property values. According to Samuel R. Delany, the Runyon of the red-light district, New York's porn theaters were "not at all [romantic]. But because of the people who used them, they were humane and functional, fulfilling needs that most of our society does not yet know how to acknowledge."

Just returned from a trip to NYC where TIM presented The Trenchcoat Crowd an evening of shorts at the NY MIX: 19th Annual Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film Festival.


The festival receives sponsorship and funding as a part of the Treasure Island Media/Gold Square Artist’s Grant Program, (which also annually funds filmmaker Todd Ahlberg , the San Francisco ATA Film Festival and other programs).

The evening featured new works by a number of artists including William Jones who presented a minimalist piece examining porn from the 70s and 80s


and Andre Hereford who presented a tongue-in-cheek take on straight boys' attitudes about the sexualized male body.

Alberto Gonzales and his band of not-so-merry mandarins have just released the first batch of statistics from a U.S.-sponsored commission into the search queries of sexual sites from among the biggest search engines – Google, Yahoo and MSN. The unsettling results? Less than one percent of the sites indexed are sexually explicit. The study, however, doesn’t quantify if a search for “Latino Men,” which in my mind is nothing but sexual, carries the same pornographic weight as “Latino Men Thumbnails” or, for that matter, “Latino Men with Large Penises.”


The study also concluded that almost half the sites were incorporated or otherwise established outside the boundaries of the United States making any sort of first strike against pornography legally tenuous at worst and a political non-starter at best. But the heart of the matter – if that really is the organ of choice - is why the push? With an American electorate having sent numerous, unmistakable and resoundingly defiant messages about legislating morality , why does a lame-duck administration - with so many other problems before it - want to push and probe its way into the murky waters of regulating Adult Entertainment? Maybe because Mr. Gonzalez senses that in the short time he has left remaining in office he’d rather be the result of search for “Great Latino Americans” rather than “Latino Men Thumbnails.”

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Karachi Mamas

A recent Reuter’s piece investigated the growing emergence of pornography – Dial-In among its many varieties - in Afghani culture. Apparently there’s this complex maze of distribution that makes the Opium trade look like an amateur version of Where’s Waldo . And the whole thing, as you can imagine, is on the down low. Vendors on the streets of Karachi are reluctant to discuss sales, their top weekly rentals or even if they have porn for sale. But it is definitely a growing phenomenon in a Post-Taliban world. But it’s not like we didn’t secretly know that if you looked past the Pakols, the Lungees and the Chapans, there are just as many fisting aficionados north of the 28th parallel as there are here in the states. But it would be interesting to know just what the man on the street prefers and what, exactly, is out of bounds. Do they have their own version of “Twinks?” And is that outdated aesthetic ideal – the twenty-something, hairless, slightly muscular white male – as popular there as it is here in The States? Or do they have their own ideals – the heavily hirsute, thick-legged, middle-aged man? I would frankly kill to see porn from that part of the world since the men from that region conform more to my tastes but I get the feeling with the resurgence of the Taliban, killing is precisely what one may soon have to do to get off on porn.

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Oops, I Vid It Again

I can’t remember the last time this country has been as ebullient about a vote for sanity versus “Staying The Course” as they were last week when Britney filed for divorce from her husband, Kevin Federline. Oh, sure, sure there was that little trifle of a thing called the 2006 mid-term Congressional elections, but nothing captures the American imagination like a Britney Spears marriage. Short or shorter , this particular dalliance had the added attraction of producing not one but two children and the now standard issue sex tape of the rich and famous.
And the fact of the matter is, despite her increasingly overstayed welcome on our pop cultural radar screen, aren’t we all just a little curious about what’s on that tape. Is he hung? Did she finger him? Does he like to have his ass licked? His nipples tweaked? His balls pulled on? Is he a pre-cummer? Does he shoot a wad or what? Since we’ve all quickly moved passed the this-isn’t-your-parents-newlywed-couple stage in our cultural evolution, don’t we have a right to see that tape? I personally have supported Ms. Spears in many, many ways. I was there at the beginning when the critics lacerated her and cried with her through not one, but two messy divorces. I deserve to see that tape, damnit!

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Paul Morris/Treasure Island Media Funded Artist on CNN

Todd Ahlberg, one of the artists funded by the Treasure Island Media/Gold Square Gallery Grant Program, made a live appearance on CNN Newsroom earlier this week to discuss his documentary METH. The piece explores methamphetamine use within the gay population and investigates connections between the use of the drug and the basic issue of queer identity.

The documentary recently earned the esteemed 2006 Hawaii International Film Festival Award for Best Documentary and has screened at a number of venues throughout the year including the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, OUTfest in Los Angeles, and many other festivals.

Check out the transcript of Ahlberg's interview with hosts Kyra Phillips and Don Lemon.

The Artist’s Grant Program also annually funds the NY MIX Queer Experimental Film Festival, the San Francisco ATA Film Festival and other programs)

From Paul's Inbox

Festivals, Hunks of Bread and Admiration

Paul Morris/Treasure Island Media recently sponsored the first annual Artist's Television Access film festival.



The event featured the work of local, national and international artists and was a phenomenal success.

Lions, Tigers and Baring All, Oh My

Say what you will about Michael Lucas – and it’s all probably been said – but he understands perfectly well the maxim that it’s better to be spoken about than not spoken about at all. And depending on what side of the Michael Meter you fall, New York Magazine’s piece on him will either have you gnawing on your last remaining cuticles or shouting out in joy for Gay Adult Entertainment’s arrival in the mainstream press. The piece, entitled “The Lion of Chelsea” delves gingerly into the Michael Lucas Saga – all Michael, all the time. It’s a fluff piece that normally would be passed over for something more culturally important like the Reese Witherspoon/Ryan Phillipe
break up. But it is still oddly remarkable that a magazine of this stature would actually exert the energy required to do a piece on Russia’s single most controversial export since Matryoshka dolls. And, ironically, it won’t change much as far as people’s perceptions about pornography go. You’re either with us or against us to borrow that overly simplified expression. What is sad, though, is that it did have to be a piece on Mr. Lucas. Granted, he knows how to hold attention hostage – after all, he did compare his version of La Dolce Vita with the masterpiece – but if the world is going to be introduced to Gay Porn couldn’t the mainstream press find someone just a little less controversial and a little more human. Say, a cross-dressing, opinionated diva who runs an equally large porn franchise but doesn’t have nearly the baggage Mr. Lucas does?

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Ah, Scandal.

It’s what makes all those dreary news stories about the ravages of disease, the helplessness of the downtrodden and the calamity of global warming seem bearable. Oh, and speaking of the ravages of disease, doctors for the Republican Party have recently downgraded their condition from critical to hanging on for dear life. As you may or may not know, the GOP suffers from an acute case of Hypocrisitis. Symptoms are marked by ruthless attacks on Democrats while conveniently ignoring like-minded behavior by Republicans. It turns out that while, yes, Democratic Senatorial challenger, Congressman Harold Ford Jr. of Tennessee, did unwittingly accept campaign contributions from the Adult Entertainment industry he promptly returned them. This marks a sharp contrast to those that were, are and probably will continue to be accepted by the Republican National Committee. According to a recent post in Talking Points Memo, Nicholas T. Boyias of Marina Pacific Distributors – one of the largest distributors of gay porn – has donated money quite regularly to their cause. And while Mr. Marshall of TPM commendably notes that, “I consider pornography not only a legal but a morally unobjectionable product,” the real nugget here is the further crystallization of the idea that the GOP is home to every self-loathing, closeted homosexual you can shake a stick at. (Can anyone say Jeff Gannon?) Pound for pound, I personally think Mark Foley is hotter than Barney Frank and overall Republicans are better-looking than Democrats, but I still wouldn’t pick looks over brains any day of the week. And right now, things aren’t even looking good for Republicans.


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From Paul's Inbox

Here is one that we got this week.

"We are looking for a Female model for a girl girl scene this week – the one main requirement is that she would have to have a tongue – do you have anyone available?"