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Talking Dirty at SXSW

by Amelia G : March 12th, 2009

SXSW is upon us once again. This reminds me that I meant to post the podcast of a panel Halcyon and I and this camgirl Seska did at SXSW. Halcyon is the king of coming up with humorous, lurid, and otherwise catchy panel titles. This means that, like me and like most web professionals, he has about a billion funny site domains. His main home on the web is currently CockyBastard, although Pinkgasm is listed in the SXSW credits. I’ll spare you all full bios, but SXSW edited my bio to say “Amelia G holds the titles of editor, writer, and photographer who founded Blue Blood” instead of just saying I’m an editor, writer, and photographer. My title on my business cards says chick-in-charge and writer and photographer are not titles. SXSW is a fun conference and they felt very strongly this particular year that it was vital that they refer to those things as titles, so I rolled with it and who knows what process they used for deciding how to specify site or company for each guest speaker.

At any rate, here is the MP3 podcast of our panel:

Pay Up! Should Publishers Choose the Porn Path?
Moderator: John Halcyon Halcyon Styn Digital Explorer, Pinkgasm
John Halcyon Styn Digital Explorer, Pinkgasm
Amelia G Chick in Charge, Blue Blood
Seska Lee Sajnet

As the public becomes more comfortable paying for premium content and services, what can we learn from the pornographic trailblazers? What billing models and payment systems are working online in porn that would successfully crossover to mainstream? What types of content and services can types of sites are ready for the Porn Path of Pay to Peruse? The panel will include veterans in . . .

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The 2009 version of Last House on the Left bears the tagline: If bad people hurt someone you love, how far would you go to hurt them back? The 1972 version of course famously had a tagline which became a catchphrase: To avoid fainting, keep repeating it’s only a movie, only a movie, only a movie . . .

Well, Last House on the Left was initially intended to be an envelope-pushing 70’s porn feature and its legacy as a movie has been far beyond that of the average only a movie flick. There is the notion that the current spate of torture porn horror movies is something new, but people like Wes Craven and Sean S. Cunningham pioneered the genre more than three decades ago. Wes Craven, most famous for Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream, wrote and directed the original Last House on the Left and Sean S. Cunningham, most famous for Friday the 13th, produced it. Before you even take into account the legions of movie-makers influenced by Craven and Cunningham, the legacy of Last House on the Left is huge simply for how its creators built on their own work. For the 2009 Last House on the Left, Craven and Cunningham both serve as producers. The director of 2009’s version is Dennis Iliadis whose main previous credit is the movie Hardcore, about two prostitutes who fall in love.

The initial torture porn grew out of 1970’s porn porn. At the time, partly because video not being used yet, any porn flick more involved than a tiny stag loop tended to be approached as a feature. A lot of the underground creative work at the time was about exploring taboos, so there was not as much . . .

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• 08:56 Even Lex Luthor Needs a Bailout tinyurl.com/bhwmfh #
• 09:08 @xianvox I’m in. Who are we killing? #
• 09:12 Incipient headache. Incipient crankiness. Not quite feeling off, but can tell am close to edge of off. Should I go back to bed & read novel? #
• 09:12 Talking Dirty at SXSW tinyurl.com/chhmc2 #sxsw #

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• 22:41 @ForrestBlack @funkatron I would totally watch any sport where T.O. was wearing chaps & a cowboy hate. Assless chaps, right? #
• 22:45 @ChadSavage That makes me kinda sad. A dinner I could have enjoyed with y’all in another life. #
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• 06:51 @Richard_Kadrey I feel that way about Satanism. #

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• 09:05 @ChadSavage Whatever Bud @thomasroche is drinking and Blue Velvet hard liquor you are, can I have a Stella Artois from the bar please? #
• 09:06 @LukeIsBack One Miller Light with a wedge coming up! #
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• 15:55 Today is a beautiful day. Fixed comps & network. Now to get iced latte at favorite coffeehouse w/ @ForrestBlack & work. Maybe BBQ tomorrow. #
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• 18:21 @modelnicotine I can get it to work on my Blackberry, although I haven’t logged in there in ages, so maybe the current design does not. #
• 18:21 @thomasroche Can you drink neither Bud nor Pabst? #

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• 12:05 @AidenStarr Excellent. Then check your Facebook 🙂 #
• 01:06 @ChadSavage We’ll need to start charging for your torture shortly. #
• 01:07 @youngsoulrebel Neat. Looks like an interesting book too. #

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• 21:42 I have 666 followers on Twitter now: twitter.com/AmeliaG #
• 23:57 @AidenStarr I’m happy for you to be the one to deflower my evil 😉 Are you vegetarian? #
• 23:58 @Ivy_Blue It was @AidenStarr who made me no longer evil. Such a brief reign in Hell. #
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