This spring Ultimate Surrender went over to a weekly update schedule and is now well worth the price of admission. Well worth it assuming you spent your teen years fantasizing about comic book chicks kicking each other’s asses. These girls are a bit more girl-next-door than I adore, but the principle is there. You have to love a site where girls with names like Crimson Ninja and Vendetta wrestle and get each other off. From the people who bring you Hogtied and my favorite machine sex site.
Speaking of Bloodrayne, check out this erotic vampire photo set, shot by Blue Blood’s Amelia G and Forrest Black and featuring very hot deathrock babe Stephanie Slaughter.
The Bettie Page style beauty pictured with Guinevere Turner in the On Our Backs issue I talked about a couple days ago turns out to be none other than Blue Blood hottie Mary Jane. I thought she looked familiar. Check out her classic beauty in this free gallery.
Activision is still doing brisk sales on its Vampire The Masquerade video games based on the White Wolf universe. Kind of like the Underworld movie, only with royalties. Interesting bands such as Ministry, the Genitorturers and Die My Darling are on the soundtrack. The thing I find really fascinating about this is that the Bloodlines and Redemption games are unsurprisingly rated M for, err, Mature. So, of course, producer Activision’s site makes this clear before web surfers may access any information about the games. The disturbing thing being that they actually seem to expect interested people to enter, not only their birthdays, but a valid credit card number for access to the information. I tend to doubt it could be that mature, but I’m not ponying up my credit cards to find out. Then again, this is a company which had the least pleasant booth babes at Comic Con, so perhaps their marketing team needs a bit of retooling. One of their reps told me that The Ultimate Spiderman game “sucked” while she was actually standing in their booth.
According to an online extract from the current issue of On Our Backs, Guinevere Turner is set to script the upcoming Blood Rayne for the big screen. Fanboys and girls will, of course, most likely have first come across Guin Turner in either the Preaching to the Perverted film based on the world of the Genitorturers or her turn as both screenwriter and actress in American Psycho, the fine adaptation of the gruesome Brett Easton Ellis novel. Apparently, Turner was also one of the founders and a recurring on television’s The L Word. This fall, a biopic she wrote on the life and times of original bondage queen pinup Bettie Page will be coming to a theatre near you. Forrest Black and Amelia G of Blue Blood fame shot the photos of Guinevere Turner on the cover and I’m guessing the inside of this issue of On Our Backs. I’m going to have to pick up a copy, partly because I love their photography and partly to see what else the interview says about this fascinating woman who has managed to be noticed both creating the films and in them. I hear that the Joey Lauren Adams character in Mallrats is based on her - Guin Turner/Gwen Turner - but I don’t know if there is any truth in the rumor.
Correction: Although the Blood rayne 2 video game site is claiming that the new PC game is sort of out today, they are doing the digital equivilent of mumbling something or other about manufacturing, mumble, mumble, end of the month now, mumble mumble. I think the game launch was supposed to coincide with the relaunch of the movie site which did go up today. There are unfinished portions of the Flash navigation which still need to be filled in, true, but there are some cool new photo galleries which include some topless vampy nudity and you can’t really expect vampires to work on a schedule anyway. A month, a hundred years, what’s the diff?
Already released for Xbox and Playstation, Bloodrayne 2 for the PC comes out in the US today. Now PC gamers can get their fill of the sultry vampire huntress who enjoys killing and posing nude in men’s magazines. Now that’s entertainment.
Deai kei translates literally to English as matchmaking. The deai-kei industry, however, is a lot like William Gibson’s Idoru novel. In Idoru, a rockstar falls in love with an artificial construct of a woman, designed to be a disposable pop star. Deai-kei features imaginary girls, err, fleshed out with pictures and the imaginations of their purveyors. They are posted to web sites where unsuspecting Japanese men think they are paying for the emails of real girls they might actually be able to know and meet. The only catch being that the girls don’t really exist. Instead, professional writers are paid to come up with legions of what are known as sakura set characters, rather than idoru. Sakura are Japanese cherry blossoms. I don’t have the faintest idea why the deai kei biz refers to what are essentially NPCs as sakura. I do have a suggestion for those of you who are bilingual and want to prove to mom and dad that you’ve been learning useful job skills running those D&D games in their basement.
Indeed Weekly Playboy in Japan does not bear the US Playboy’s trademark bunny rabbit. The magazine apparently is published every week in glorious full color, as only the Japanese and the British appear to be able to do. It is chock full of Japanese pinup girls, as well as sexy manga and articles about housepets predicting earthquakes and exposes on the deai-kei industry.
As you, gentle readers, have no doubt already discerned, I am back from the San Diego Comic Con. ComicCon is always great for business for me. I got a new very lucrative gig doing scripts for a children’s animated fantasy show. Sort of outside what I generally work on, but the price was right. I had flyers for Sexy Fandom out at the convention, but I had to be incognito for professional reasons, which all felt sort of weird. This is the first year I’ve been doing both things and there is not usually that much crossover between my work work and my fun work. Courtesy of Blue Blood and Sword and Stone and Morrigan Hel, the flyers I had were so beautiful that I wanted to show them off to everyone. You can click here to see their glory.
Apparently, Japan has lately been cracking down on the sex industry in Tokyo. This has lead a number of sex works to be less motivated to do, well, sex work. Mori no Doru claims the dubious distinction of being Japan’s first love doll call girl service. (Sexy Fandom reported on the similar Doll no Mori service back in December. Not sure if the companies are related or how they would distinguish themselves from one another.) Mori no Doru customers can choose from a variety of Real Doll style artificial girls and even have real live girls give them a hand with their latex lovers. According to The Mainichi Daily News, whose WaiWai stories section features translations of articles from Japanese publications, the Weekly Playboy has reported some prostitutes feel uneasy about threesomes where the biological hooker is massaging a customer who primarily shows interest in an artificial hooker. I don’t believe the Weekly Playboy magazine has any relation to the US Playboy magazine. Japan is so cyber.
Tonight is special preview night for Comic Con. Who is with me?
I finally saw the movie Troy the other day. I am usually irritated by movies based on books, especially those based loosely on books. Troy was an exception. Beautifully shot and costumed, this is a real winner of a movie. I thought the knife sex scene Brad Pitt’s Achilles engaged in was one of the hottest love scenes ever captured on film. I don’t recall Briseis being such a pivotal character in the book, but I certainly enjoyed Rose Byrne’s portrayal of the priestess of Apollo being seduced by Achilles. Diane Kruger’s Helen seemed less convincingly passionate and just less convincing in general. Perhaps this was simply because, although she is a former top fashion model, she is not an actress. Director Wolfgang Petersen’s decision to have one of the most beautiful women in the world gain fifteen pounds to play the role of Helen also seems ill-advised. If her face could launch quite that many magazine covers, maybe it should have been left as it was to launch a thousand ships. Also that knife sex scene with Brad Pitt was hot. Hotter than Thelma & Louise hot. That’s how hot.
Apparently, when Independence Day first came out, the studio ran an ad for the flick in Spain where they actually hired a real anchorwoman from Spain’s equivilent of CNN and had her talking about the alien invasion expected for July 4th. This set off a nationwide panic as the promotional piece was a little too believable. I believe this bit of trivia to be true, but I have to have someone look up how the movie did in Spain as opposed to countries which did not get a movie advertisement-inspired fright pre-release. Happy fourth to my American readers.
Battle Orders Ltd is a company which specializes in some of the things a modern girl just can’t be without. If you need a limited edition LOTR blade based on what Bilbo gave Frodo or more likely the fighting knives of Legolas, this is probably the site you need to visit. I need a pair of matched six millimeter beebee guns and a shortsword with blood gutters or perhaps both angry and sublime phurba spirits where I’ll be wrapping my hand around it.
