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| by Cosmo Lee |
Adult film actress Sasha Grey is now a metal critic for a yet-unnamed “pretty well known publication.” In this blog post, she states that she seeks black, ambient black, stoner, drone metal, “or items that might come from Southern Lord.” She also provides her PO Box address. She should be careful what she wishes for. I can see her mailbox quickly overflowing with bad music. She need not have my job; hers is probably more fun.
Grey contributes vocals and other noises to an experimental music outfit called Atelecine.
Did anyone see The Girlfriend Experience? If so, how was it?
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Surely you could have posted a more interesting photo to run with this blurb than this…
Lots could be said, I'll try to be brief. Excuse Rorschachesque syntax, just trying to be brief.
Movie achieved some emotional effect sans clear social critique. A 'this is how things are' piece which like its similars, can either be startlingly evocative or allergic to ideology, most often the latter and rarely both at once. For this some people will like it.
However it was hard to not mentally superimpose pornographic sequences or said actress on top of the daily mundanity that comprises the film. This might have been a detriment or a contribution to the somewhat numb and disassociated emotional end effect, however brief. The on-screen romance was not convincing due to flat acting, spent more time looking at actress nose than emphasizing with her narcissist angst over failed elevation from client relationship to human relationship. Blurred lines between what the film was doing and what the people that were acting in front of the camera were doing (though probably intentional, still didn't go anywhere). Final encapsulation is of a curiosity mainly meant for people who have seen actress in porn and are curious to see if they can not see said actress in porn with a clear conscience. I found that I can but then again I'm not much for industries producing consumer content, be them in heavy metal, film, or pornography so I wasn't so much the target audience. Very strange career choice on her part to dehumanize herself even more than she did in porn.
The most important trend to follow will be how much Hollywood wants to be 'the valley' [where American mainstream porn is produced] and how much 'the valley' wants to be Hollywood. Expect a convergence in the next 10 years, with Hollywood being bolder with how graphically it treats its already similarly dehumanized sexuality and with actor crossover from both ways. Spectacle gives birth to incestuous spectacle and ugly heads will incrementally be reared, diminishing returns will alienate those that were on the threshold of it all, pushing them to do something else with their time entirely, probably for their best.
About her metal tastes of 'black, ambient black, drone' (I do not know about stoner): similar to her methods in her chosen profession in that she likes the most post-modern & extravagant approaches, also those that convey senseless physical distress the most and finally those that are ultimately the most devoid of subtle human desire. Extremist, anti-human, reactionary and self-victimizing while proclaiming a self-willed raison d'etre. More bravery would have been required to explain why both droneblackambient metal exists and why acrobatic sport-porn exists, truth might not be as beautiful as the self-torture, but Soderbergh would still probably make a film about it.
I find Sasha Grey intensely boring. The whole "Look at me, I take it in the ass for a living and I've read Schopenhauer!" thing is only interesting if the person encountering Grey was expecting her to be literally a blank slate, like one of the meat puppets on the show Dollhouse. Which, admittedly, is how a lot of people prefer to think of porn actresses. But speaking as an ex-pornographer, I've met plenty of porn performers, male and female, who were as smart as her, and some who were much smarter, but none of them turned it into their schtick. So I find her goading of gullible mainstream journalists bitterly amusing, but as a performer (pornographic and otherwise – The Girlfriend Experience was awful) she's boring and I wish she'd go away. At least in part because people I respect gush over her and it makes me reconsider that respect.
How is this not interesting: "Look at me, I take it in the ass for a living and I've read Schopenhauer!"
What about doing anal and reading Schopenhauer… at the same time!?
Anon 6:54: That's the way I took it. Not: I've read Schopenhauer IN ADDITION TO doing anal for a living.
Phil Freeman, were you writing a book about a person in the porn industry?
About Schopenhauer, I'm pretty certain he'd call it sodomy, not 'doing anal', whatever that may be. Let's consider the ramifications.
Phil Freeman, were you writing a book about a person in the porn industry?
No; at one point I considered it, and put a proposal together, but the project never went anywhere. I was the editor of a porn magazine from 2000-2005.
@ Helm
Id like to see your review of a porno if thats the dialogue you normally use.
I am not a native English speaker. Did I use the wrong words?
I'd take a stab and say it's Vice Magazine. After all, she's the covergirl of their new book.
http://www.powerhousebooks.com/book/1084
How weird is this, metalhead dudes learn about a pornstar who's down on metal and we hear a bunch of shit about the porn industry.
Shit you don't have to tell me about it, I'm on the internet with ass porn playing right now, that's what's its for aye?
My friend just brought up Sasha Grey, but we were talking about some favorite pornstars.
Come on dudes, there are always more metal fans who are younger than older, and the young ones have the incredible internet pornload to sift through. This is an age where guys know more pornstars than they do authors, it's just bizarre to me there's dissapointment and reading between the lines before she's even written anything for the publication. As for remarking about her metal tastes a bit condescendingly, I don't understand that.
I mean, this is Cosmo Lee's blog you're on. This guy is the least metal metal writer out there, I don't see weirdness about the fact that he buttfucks dancing club hoochies more than any longhaired metalfreak. Not a slight to you Cosmo, I'm just remarking.
Anyway, it should be obvious that she's a giant fucking stoner due to what she listens to, and that's just fucking aces for me. I could care less if she takes dicks in a less-real way than Aurora Snow or Gauge, or any number of porn stars on my tongue.
Also, after seeing some of the things entering vaginas as I've seen, no porn star shocks me anymore…
Conduit, tell me more about metal metal writers and taking dick in a less/more real way, I am fascinated.
Are you being sarcastic, no way to tell.
If he had bulletbelts as a kid I'm sure he's metal right? No, the way I see it this site and his reviews (I don't read or care about reviews) are analytical, and I'm more for pure heart. Cosmo's a billion times more kvlt than me, it's just the nature of being a music critic that you're not a fan anymore, which again, is why I don't give a shit about reviews.
I say a lot of shit that means nothing, I'm not going to go in depth.
The way I see it, porn is all about voyeurism at heart and that's why I'm turned off to porn with production. If you're any good at fucking, you know when someone is faking, and most porn is acting. It's impressive that people can screw on command, there's no way I can get a boner while naked with a bunch of crewdudes around you, I guess that's what fluffers are for but still. A girl isn't screaming right away you know, it's something you work into. I guess we have our own styles, porn's too big a world to waste on not-so-hot produced stuff. Porn's weird to me, I do it to watch some people fucking and most of the time it's scripted, as in you start piledriving this girl with her head on the table, or flip her upside down and go anal?
That's all good, real fucking's always going to be better, and that's why porn is better without a production for me! The voyeur inside me wants to see real people doing the deed.
Despite the large amount of reviews, this blog kills any other metal blog. 0% bullshit.
Knowing more porn stars than authors has nothing to do with a porn star aspiring to be an "author;" it has everything to do, however, with people being ignorant.
This would be waaaaaaaaaaay more interesting if it were Velicity Von or someone at least sort of funny, hipster porn star reviewing hipster music…snooze!
Regardless, I'm sure it's Revolver.
Conduit, I don't even know what the word sarcastic means.
"it's just the nature of being a music critic that you're not a fan anymore, which again, is why I don't give a shit about reviews."
That's a pretty interesting point I have to say. I'm also sceptical about people that do this for a living, really. Especially if they review new records daily or weekly, it's really strange to me. But keep in mind that there are writers out there that do neither and when they set down to write about metal, it's something else entirely.
Also, I'm not sure about the word 'fan', it's short for 'fanatic', isn't it? Is it a good thing to be a fanatic for metal or any other thing?
I agree that industry porn is usually boring or even a turn-off if one is looking for pathos, but seeing how successful it is it only leads me to believe that most watchers are not; I'd like to know what they are looking for in it instead.
Per usual, Mr. Phil Freeman should be ignored. IO, check out TGE — it's another interesting work from Mr. Soderbergh. (DVD has a good commentary from Sodey/Sasha.)
I'm not a huge fan of Sasha Grey (tend to go for more curvy porn stars – like the Stevens sisters or sexy redheads), but she does look cute in that pic at the top. I started to watch her movie, but it was kind of boring. I'd rather watch 3 episodes of Weeds in a row. Now, if you told me Mary Louise Parker was a metalhead, I would have to excuse myself for, well, at least, 2-3 minutes.
Per usual, Mr. Phil Freeman should be ignored.
Mom?
This is easily the best metal blog out there!