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Immediately after watching Body Beautiful in Portland, I headed up to Seattle to meet up with friends there and go to a birthday dinner for a friend of theirs. I got way too stuffed on Moroccan Chicken, then headed to my first Seattle film: Porn on the Cob. As it turns out, this is another collection of shorts, and in the porn category (the last one, I promise). Unlike the one in Portland, these weren't just run of the mill porn, but, with one exception, actually artistic and interesting to more or less degrees outside of the erotic aspects.
The first one was the exception noted above: it's basically a trailer for a real porn video, albeit notable for being shot in Seattle rather than LA. 1 for not being a real film.
The Bait Bus was broken up into three segments shown in between some of the other shorts. Each segment was basically some people in a van with a video camera, pull up to a straight guy on the street, lure him into the van with a girl showing her tits and promising sex, then switching and convincing him to have sex with a guy for money. They then hand him far less than they promised and drive off leaving a ticked off guy behind.
It's funny, but I hope they didn't do it for real (I can't imagine the straight guys agreeing to being in it under the circumstances). I'll give it a 6.
Smoke Rings was very short, 2 minutes, and basically a guy smoking a cigarette blowing smoke rings proceeds to blow a ring from a couple feet away that perfectly encircles an erect penis. An interesting feat; not one that bears much repeated watching I don't think, but worth a 7.
Another very short piece, shot in fuzzy black and white. It appears to be live sex stage performers going out into the audience and performing on them, but it was hard to see and really pointless. I can only give it a 3.
This was the highlight of the collection: done in a documentary style, it purports to document the rise of a 60's porn star, who moved behind the camera, but we find out isn't aging. An interesting variation on the Dorian Grey story, with a good ending. It rates a 7.
This is just a series of emailed pictures people sent of themselves over the Internet. Not very interesting... 5 out of 10.
An interesting experimental piece, the story is told somewhat by the choice of music over its length. Basically, a Canadian man crosses into the US at Niagra Falls, picks up a cute hitchhiker, they have sex, then they pick up some more hitchikers and have a picnic. Mildly interesting... 6.
I think this is a fantasy of some guy on the beach, but it didn't really make much sense. I can only give it a 4...
Hey guys,
Does anyone know where I can get a copy of " Porn on the Cob "
Sure be good to see all those compilations especially the smoke rings...
If anyone has an excerpt of the smoke rings can ya let me know ?
Best
Brian
Posted by: Ringer at January 6, 2004 02:40 PM