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Friday, October 22nd, 1999

Gossip

Undercover Angel writes: Rob Black is in serious negotiations with Amber Lynn on a comeback video/wrestling contract.

Taylor Hayes is getting subtle pressure from VIVID to cooperate with Adam and Eve in their case against Seymore Butts.

A problem with their factor is the latest excuse being given by Metro for non payments to manufactures.

CRANSTON, R.I.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 1999--Metro Global Media, Inc. (NASDAQ: MGMA - news), an international adult multimedia entertainment enterprise, today announced revenues of $7,064,170 from continuing operations for the three months ended August 28, 1999, a 30% increase from revenues of $5,083,332 for the three months ended August 29, 1998. Revenues consist principally of sales of prerecorded adult videocassettes, magazines, novelties and DVDs. Higher revenues were the result of increased video and DVD sales due to Metro Global's increased investment in productions, increased revenues from Metro International, increased revenues from newsstand publications, and increased cable revenues.

Metro Global recorded a loss of $784,400, as compared to a loss of $381,823 for the corresponding period in the prior year. The primary reason for the loss is due to interest expense and penalties on borrowing for the acquisition of Fanzine International, Inc. As previously reported on September 29, 1999, Metro Global sold Fanzine to its former shareholders and a company controlled by them for $4.5 million and one million shares of Metro Global's common stock held by the former shareholders. Metro Global intends to use a substantial portion of the proceeds of the sale of Fanzine to pay down its outstanding debt incurred from the acquisition.

Go Ahead, Make My Day.

Luke's struggled with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome since 1988. In June, Luke visited a homeopathic doctor who's helped him to greatly increase in health.

Check out my doctor (Linda Johnston) here.

Now that Luke's recovered in strength, he's resumed acting classes (after a four year layoff).

But I have a problem. No matter what role I take on, I'm always stereotyped the same way. I'm always getting type cast as a serial killer. "You look like you just murdered someone," is the response I've received from several casting directors.

I don't understand.

Sweetie.

I love you.

I need a Hollywood agent, someone who recognizes my great talent. I'd kill for the right role.

Rumdar: Luke...You have lost it. Who is that woman and why is she playing scary music? It sounds like music from a funeral home. I hope for your sake no casting directors tune in to her. I think you would get more energy from Kendra Jade.

Luke recently took exception to the quality of the women in Rob Spallone - James DiGiorgio's movies.

Luke's boss, Craig Vasiloff responds: Are you nuts? The Sopornos features the following:

>Tabitha Stevens >Kendra Jade >Bobbi Barron >Lauryl Canyon >Phyllisha Ann >Johnni Black > >Who's ugly here? As a matter of fact 2 of these girls are on the XXXgen >Magazine top 20 hottest stars list!!!

Peter Van Aarle responds: Which, depending on your view of the ladies listed, could simply indicate that the people of XXXgen Magazine have no taste :-) (a joke, I like the looks of nearly all of the girls on the list)

What I find more interesting is that Luke, who several months ago seemd to be practically living at the house of Rob Spallone is now posting such a thing about him. Does this indicate some sort of bad blood between them perhaps?

Ramsey: Tabitha, Kendra and Phyllisha are very hot so sorry Luke but you're wrong!

Opherian@aol.com writes on RAME: The Rabbi Stiffkugel, frustrated at Guliani's shut-down of the smut shops around the Temple Beth Porno, hooked up a satellite dish a few moons ago. He notes there are about half dozen hardcore channels, mostly on the T4 satellite. So maybe you should call up your cable operator and tell them to loosen up a bit and carry one of them. Unfortunately, like some of the mainstream movie channels, the X-rated ones tend to use dated material. (If you want to see Marc Wallace infect Tricia Devereaux with HIV, the satellite's for you.) Nevertheless, if you don't have a well stocked smut-a-torium nearby or you can't keep tapes at home, the satellite might be the way to go.

Pat Riley writes on RAME: Let's not forget the origin of the word, raincoater: a guy who wore a raincoat to a porno cinema in the seventies so he could masturbate while watching the movie. No statement as to what sort of movie he's watching, just the concept that the guy would do something as crude as masturbate in public and also the idea that he was either unable or unwilling to defer self-gratification until he reached the privacy of his own dwelling.

Another Gangbang

Charley Frey writes: ONE WILD WOMAN WILL TAKE ON 1,000 MEN! It will be remembered as either sheer genius or total insanity when the creators of WildSexEvents.com broadcast a record-breaking event, going beyond even the outrageous standards of adult sexuality on the net.

Is it possible for one voraciously sexual female to take on 1,000 horny guys? The management and ownership of WildSexEvents.Com, producer of the event, Cleo1000.Com, believe it will happen. "Judging from the buzz, this is going to be among the most talked-about events of the millennium," says Arlene G., the company's CEO.

The conceptual idea and vision for Cleo1000.Com is the brainchild of two very ingenious women. Arlene explains that the entire concept was conceived during the 1996 VSDA Show in Los Angeles: "My buddy Helen, and I were then both junior executives with a major video distribution house. We were getting a little bored with the routine of working the show, so we detoured and strolled through the adult section, which was just down the hall. There we saw a huge crowd of autograph seekers gathered around a booth where Jasmine St. Claire was signing photographs. As we later learned, she was the current holder of the world's sex record and had the video to prove it. Being business animals, Helen and I couldn't help but investigate that market. We were amazed at the demographics. Seventy-five percent of adults, regular mainstream folks, are buying adult product, but most want to be discreet about it. We realized that the most discreet place to shop is in the privacy of your own home. That may be why the Internet adult market is the place to be."

Very soon thereafter, Arlene and Helen invited other highly qualified females to come aboard, including an accountant and an attorney. "After watching the video, we had to move through Phase I, the stage of embarrassment and joking. Then we could get to Phase II, where we could discuss the pros and cons of the video seriously. Immediately, many women's issues popped up, and we noted how deeply arousing it was for us to share that experience, and I don't mean just sexually, but also emotionally and intellectually. Then, or course, Phase III followed, which was our critical natures. The accountant was the first to say that the video could've been better if it had a woman's touch. We knew where to add a little more glitz and a lot more high drama. We know what turns men on and we also know what turns women on. It wasn't long before we resolved to do it!"

"We all admitted that we had indeed watched adult videos, as did most of our friends...though they might not admit it openly. Women are conditioned to be embarrassed about talking frankly. We noticed that those with the most drama were more of a turn-on than the cheaper motel productions. We thought that if we could bring some sort of dramatic story/mental arousal into the video, it would be more interesting to both men and women.

"The greatest women's issue that came up was exploitation of women in adult videos. We interviewed several of the actresses and learned that they only felt exploited if they were badly paid. A woman who makes some real money from her work doesn't feel in the least bit exploited. That was an eye-opener for us, that exploitation is economic. We agreed that our performers would be paid very, very well.

"The biggest hurdle was the 'gang-banging' association. That has been associated with attacks upon women, so even though this is voluntary, some viewers might have too strong an association to see the fun. At the risk of angering a lot of men and women out there, the gang-bang concept is not so unappealing to women. When we interviewed female performers, nearly all of them were excited by the idea that they would have a thousand men standing in line, wanting them." After many follow-up discussions, the four slowly moved away from a video format and began to explore a live Internet event. The technology appeared to have been developed and potentially had a much greater pay-off. Furthermore, there is an excellent follow-up market for the video and other by-products. It was decided that they would maintain the "sex record" marketing concept, while adding an exotic and dramatic backdrop. With business plan in hand, they set out to raise the cash needed.

"We each maxed out our credit cards, but we still needed more money. Believe it or not, the money wasn't that hard to raise. Would you be surprised to know that 82% of our investors are women?" Arlene said. They would like to contract out more of the project to women. It seems logical. If the cornerstone of the sex industry is about women, then why limit our talents to what we can do in bed. It is a shame more women aren't in this business. Our philosophy is simple, 'What is good for the gander, is good for the goose!'

"We expect to brand a web-site that goes beyond this event. Our early inquiries reveal that there are a lot of sex-star wannabe's out there, both men and women. The people we interviewed want to work with us because we will pay well. We plan on paying for any far-out, funky thing that simulates a 'Sex Record.' Our site slogan is, "What Guinness would never dare, WildSexEvents.Com and WorldSexRecords.Com will."

Director James DiGiorgio writes: hey luke, if arlene and helen are such ingenious women (and i must admit they--or whoever wrote the press release--sounds intelligent), anyway...if they're all that, why the f--- would they ever want to be in THIS f---ing business!

Mike Albo

Hustler Erotic Video Guide editor Mike Albo phoned Luke Monday: "It seems for some reason I just can't escape from your presence. I just received a call from my employers who want me to offer you a position on my magazine. However there can be no mention of this on your website until we can work out the details. Then you can talk about it all you want. Until then, if you mention it on your website, the deal is off. If you could please meet me Wednesday at noon out front of our building, I will bring you up to my office and give you all the details. I'm totally opposed to this and I still hate your guts but I am a good little soldier and I do what I'm told. And I still might kick your ass."

Luke replied: "Hey Mike, I'm just not worthy of writing for Larry Flynt Publications. So I won't be there."

Friday morning, Albo left me this message: "Hey Luke. I just got your message. And I've got to give you credit where credit is due. You're much smarter than I thought you to be. Actually, there was no job. You were just set up to get your ass beat. So be on the lookout. I'm still going to do it."

Squacko writes: "Yeah, it seemed implausible that LFP would be hiring more writers amidst company -wide "repositioning" and cutbacks. Even more ignominously, LFP is obviously too cheap or too inept even to underwrite an effective beat-down. What a bunch of schlemiels!"

A porner says: "Mike Albo is such a piss ant fairy dweeb. People usually concoct schemes they would personally fall for. The fact that you didn't dive into this stupid Flynt Pub job offer isn't so much a commentary on how sharp you are, Luke. It's about how totally stupid Albo is."

Porner: You know, in any legit business, anyone making such public or obvious threats like that would be fired. Shows just how interested Flynt Publications really is in looking legit.

Chaim Amalek writes: Luke: On Friday, you quoted Mike Albo: Friday morning, Albo left me this message: "Hey Luke. I just got your message. And I've got to give you credit where credit is due. You're much smarter than I thought you to be. Actually, there was no job. You were just set up to get your ass beat. So be on the lookout. I'm still going to do it."

Fortunately, on the Monday just prior to the proposed meeting, Amalek shared his sense of foreboding withyou: " . . . this guy [Mike Albo] is more likely to administer a beating tomorrow than offer a great job."

It is a good thing that AMALEK, blessed with the gift of situational prophecy, was able to warn you about this meeting. Do you think these ever-growing demonstrations of prophecy are sufficient to start up a sex-and-money cult of my own?

PS As between the photos of you posing with your new girlfriend Lady Colt, or photos of skanky ho's, I think I prefer the latter on your web site. Is the point of the photos to put some fear into the minds of the Mike Albos of the world who want to physically hurt you? Well, it might work, but better yet, you should take your beating in front of the Simon Wiesenthal Center on video like I told you and then put the fear of both the police and rapacious jewish lawyers into his heart.

John Wayne Bobbitt's manager Robert Yates writes Luke: If I do not get a nice enough offer in about 2 weeks I will then sell it on Ebay. Or I will package and sell it myself. A few of the production companies I spoke with and that have seen clips say that my film is like the Blair Witch of Porn, because they where both shot by amateurs and came out great. But I do not want my film compared to The Blair Witch because that movie sucked and in my film you get to see the Monster!

Nonya Business writes about "Not So Nice Jewish Cunt": "Luke - shut the cunt up - quit printing her s--- - I'm tired of reading her dribble and tripe on your site - and I'm not alone - I want to read Luke F-rd - not the ignorant rantings of an ugly cunt I wouldn't f--- with John Holmes' dead dick. God damn - get a clue. Of course, she may be the only lay you can get - so I doubt you'll print this one. I'm off to read Gene Ross."

Charlie writes: Hi Luke- Strangely enough, I was introduced to your site by Tia: Mad Jacks' girlfriend. This is the Charlie that he was ranting about. She and her sis, Tanya, are now the featured models in my galleries 5, 6 and 7 at http://www.ebonyvegas.com.

My site is inspired by people like Helmut Newton and those who were featured in the brief run of "Collectors" magazine, back in the late 80's. It certainly is the highest quality all ebony amateur site in the world, on purpose, and with much deliberation. I encourage you to have a look around there. I doubt that Tia has been photographed before by anyone who was seeing the Goddess through his lens. It doesn't hurt at all.

Mad Jack

"We had some fun at the club last night," said Las Vegas porner Mad Jack by phone Friday morning. "Paris is just a f---ing nymph. I'm shooting an anal scene with her later today. I'm having pretty good luck with these f---ing women. They're just falling into my lap."

Mad Jack: "Seneca comes out November 4th to shoot an Erotic Angel Seneca Does Las Vegas feature. Will also star Eve Eden, Jennifer Leigh and this gorgeous new girl Moriah.

"You had this porn star on your site this week, who came from a cult..."

Luke: "Cindy Plenum?"

MJ: "Yeah, who is that? I'd like to use her."

Luke: "Just a phantom porn star. Someone made her up."

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Rob Spallone

Rob Spallone called at noon: "It's a good thing that Rob and Greg Zeboray found out that Sharon Mitchell and AIM were taking blood by mail from talent. And now Sharon admits she was wrong once again. This has got to be the 50th time she's admitted she was wrong. And I ran into Don Fernando last night and he told me that Sharon was whining about me, Jim South and Russ Hampshire... Within five months, Sharon is closed. Put that down and leave it up there and we'll count down to five months to prove I'm right."

Luke: "Are you shooting anything next week?"

Rob: "Why, so you can print it on the f---ing computer? Your f---ing list from the permit office. That ain't too smart Luke. When I shoot, I abide by the rules. All the time. But when people get a permit, and it costs about $500 a day... Plus insurance. And they are only good until a certain time. And if you are running a little late, you cheat a bit. But if people see that and they f---ing hear you shooting and they want to complain because they don't like you, you're f---ed. You'll get a lot of shoots busted like that."

Luke: If you'd like to perv on a porn shoot, and possibly bust it, check out the Hollywood Permit office website. They post daily locations. Including porno. You can find them at: www.eidc.com.

BigGambino: Luke - I'm a fan yo...
Luzdedos1: thanks
BigGambino: me & my boy are launching a porn site... I am hoping we don't get sued... You heard of that happening yet? We got all kind sof grils from across teh nation sending us homemade porn... BigGambino: Well we'll see... Say, anyword on the wherabouts & situation with Brooke Ashley? I wa sthinkingaout her the other day during a Jerk Off seesion...
BigGambino: I eman "Thinking about"
BigGambino: Damn, I "mean"
BigGambino: She was nice man, too bad her dumb ass got AID's... I hope RoB Blacks punk ass gets AID's BigGambino: He's a dickhead man. I will never understand how these prickhole ugly bastards get such fine women to perfom such hanus acts for so cheap.

James DiGiorgio comments: This BigGambino guy shouldn't use big words like "heinous" if he can't spell them--he might hurt himself. I'm always amused by these poser/wannabees who all claim they can do this thing we do better than any of us, though they've never actually done anything (commercially pornographic, that is).

Pussycat writes on www.unchain.com: I also told you I would fill you in on the Luke F-rd punching but ya know what? Who cares. He got socked in the stomach by a friend of mine for acting like a libidinous, libelious asshole (look it up), so I'm not going to write about him any more because he just wants to see his name in print. Guaranteed this will make it into his column anyway, so hey there Luke F-rd fans.

XXXInsider: Yo, Luke, I think a good point you could make on your site is that you don't leave for a week to watch women get pounded in every hole on a cruise ship and leave your site unupdated. The only time you don't update the site is on Shabbat, and that is much different than anal sex.

Luke had a threeway with Kendra Jade and Nice Jewish Girl on Tuesday night.

Kendra: "The shrink that Luke went to is obviously not very good because Luke is still a f---ed up conflicted individual.

"I'm getting dropped off at my hotel in Boston. Just finished my show. There were a lot of Howard Stern fans in audience."

NJG: "I think Howard is really abusive."

Kendra: "The people who work for him are idiots for working for him. Say I was married to Luke and he beat me up on a daily basis. Is it Luke's fault or my fault?

"If it wasn't for Howard, I wouldn't have much of a career. Howard really boosted me. But a friend (Corey Feldman) of mine will never go on Howard's show again because Howard ambushed him..."

Luke: "Kendra, it was me who made your career. Me, Luke F-rd.com. Not Howard Stern. I've made a hundred girls like you and I can unmake you too on a whim. I can make 'em and break 'em..."

Kendra: "You made your f---ing dick hard..."

NJG: "Kendra, how big is he?"

Kendra: "He's Jewish. About five inches... It's very embarrassing for me to admit that I know that. I was very conflicted at the time. That seems to be Luke's excuse for everything."

NJG: "You were depressed and at your low point... He took advantage of you. You'd been out far too long the night before."

Kendra: "He took advantage of me. He raped my mind. He made me believe I was special."

NJG: "And he lied."

Kendra: "I have to pee right now so you guys are coming with me. I'm sorry."

NJG: "I have to pee too. Let's do a double pee."

Luke: "Oh yeah baby..."

Kendra: "I'm going to hold it, hurry up."

Luke: "Kendra baby..."

Wheeeeeeeeeeee.

NJG: "Is that how he sounds like when he's coming?"

Kendra: "Yeah. It's, oh yeah. 'I'm going to cum. Open your mouth baby.' It was a bad time in my life."

Luke: "She would tease me. Blow me for two hours and not let me cum. I'd have to grab her head with both my hands."

Kendra: "Was I the best you've ever had?"

Luke: "You were."

NJG: "He did tell me that."

Thursday night Luke and Nice Jewish Girl interviewed music critic J.D. Considine. NJG writes: "NJG and Luke thought they were both extremely brilliant, take no prisoners kind of people. Then they met JD Considine. NJG wound up feeling like a bubble gum snapping bleached blonde with lots of heavy mascara and tight black capri pants with white stiletto heels and a sleeveless midriff. Luke wound up feeling like her Suitcase Pimp, wearing a brown polyester suit, a loud brown printed polyester shirt, with long brown greasy hair tied in a ponytail. Here's the conversation."

Luke: Recovering Catholic J.D. Considine, 42 years of age, is a well known pop music critic. On staff at the Baltimore Sun since 1986, he also writes regularly for Entertainment Weekly and Guitar World. From 1979 to 1996, he wrote for Rolling Stone. The leftist appeared regularly on the VH1 show "Four on the Floor," which was a sort of rock critic equivalent to "The McLaughlin Group." It aired from '94-'96, and earned a Cable Ace nomination ("Politically Incorrect" took the award).

JD: "All the people involved with Four on the Floor were fired within three months of the show's cancellation. I did stuff for their Grammy coverage until last year."

NJG: "You were always the most intelligent person on the show. But you pissed me off a lot. I look at things from an emotional viewpoint, especially music."

JD: "Music can be either cerebral or emotional or both. Generally, musicians have music on both the right and left brain... Some musicians tend to be much more on one side... Most people who have no musical training tend to be much more on the intuitive side... Most classical musicians have an intellectualized concept of music but that doesn't mean they don't feel strong emotions when they play.

"Some view this as a male - female thing. They believe women are really into words and don't like instrumental music. Some people take a much more verbal approach to music, paying more attention to the weight of the words, and less attention to the actual music..."

NJG: "Rock n'roll is more emotional. I saw that in your conversation with Luke a few weeks ago."

JD: "Luke is not exactly the most emotionally charged conversationalist you'll have."

NJG: "Luke doesn't have any emotions. He thinks rockn'roll is all about sex. Me, as a girl, rock rings to me emotionally..."

JD: "Sometimes music reaches you on a beat level and sometimes on a spiritual level.

"Jim Reid from the Scottish band the Jesus and Mary Chain said he didn't think [Joy Division] was depressing at all... When he listened to Ian Curtis [who killed himself] sing, he thought, 'God, somebody else feels the way I feel.' So even though Ian Curtis sang downbeat stuff, Jim Reed felt an uplift because he realized he wasn't alone. So often, the way music will affect you is not necessarily based on how it sounds."

NJG: "After you know that Ian Curtis killed himself, it makes his music even more depressing."

JD: "One of the great misunderstandings in popular music is the whole notion of the blues. A lot of people think that the whole point of the Blues is to make you sad when in fact Blues are entirely about transference and transcendence. You play the Blues to get over feeling bad. You take what's bad inside you and turning it into something uplifting.

"It's not just venting. It's the difference between venting to a friend and talking to an analyst who will respond with enough insight to let you know what is going on and help you through that problem. While your friends will say, yeah, yeah, I feel you pain, which won't get you through it."

Luke: "Do a lot of rockn'rollers commit suicide? I think rock music leads to death."

JD: "It's a very small number, smaller than the number of Hollywood stars suicides."

Luke: "Michael Hutchence, lead singer for INXS."

JD: "Paula Yates saying it was suicide was her saying that her ex husband Bob Geldoff drove Hutchence to suicide. Whether she didn't want to acknowledge that her husband indulged in autoerotic asphyxiation is a separate question. The emotional weight of what she's saying is this: Her ex husband Bob Geldoff drove Hutchence who was otherwise in an ebullient mood to suicide by being such a hardass about visitation rights to the children. And if you consider the acrimony involved in Yates' split with Geldoff, that makes sense... I don't think we'll ever know so I'm not counting it as a suicide...

"Beyond that, there was the guy from Bad Finger who thought he was getting screwed over on royalties... Ian Curtis. Kurt Cobain. "Johnny Ace, a big R&B singer from the 1950s, was supposed to have killed himself playing Russian Roulette backstage at a New year's Eve show. But according to an interview Timothy White did with Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top in the late '80s, Johnny told his manager that he was going to leave for a bigger paying deal, and the manager shot him dead. Paul Simon wrote a song called "The Late Great Johnny Ace.""

NJG: "Once you put punk rock in there, it changes the equation. Punk rock created suicides and I loved punk rock because it was dangerous. Darby Crash from the Germs, Kurt Cobaine, Sid Vicious, Ian Curtis... A guy from the Vibrators. Before punk, rock music was mundane, like now. Once you take the danger out of rock n'roll, you're not going to get suicides."

JD: "That's crap. The whole notion that rockn'roll is about rebellion and danger and revolting against authority comes out of the whole notion of rock n'roll understood by white people who pick it up second hand. The real impetus behind rock n'roll, before Elvis, was not about rebellion, it was about the same kind of identity politics that led to the black nationalist movement. People can say, this is who I am. This is my culture and these are my people and this is how I see the world. And I am going to make a record about it. And what made it seem rebellious was when white kids who were not of that subculture or socioeconomic group, related to the energy, style and thrill of these people standing up and saying, I am who I am, and embraced it as their own and tried to imitate it.

"These kids were rebelling by saying, I like music and art outside of my own culture."

NJG: "My mother had race records..."

JD: "That was what it was called until 1953 when Billboard Records (Jerry Wexler who later produced Aretha Franklin) changed the name from the race chart to Rythym and Blues. They also called it country hillbilly music.

"There was more white rebellion in Eddie Cochran than in the Beatles.

"Wayne Cochran did the white James Brown act, and was much more imitative than Elvis Presley, and as a result had less impact. Same thing was true with The Crew-Cuts who did these watered down du-op things... Joe Cocker tried to sound like Ray Charles...

"If I were a psychiatrist, it would strike me as significant the relationship between Luke and his father, particularly given that Luke's mother died, and the relationship between Luke and Judaism, which would be as much a repudiation of a Protestant preacher background as could be imagined. A far greater repudiation than atheism would be."

NJG: "Luke, you know that's true."

Luke: "Charles Krauthammer, one of my favorite columnists, is a psychiatrist."

JD: "He would be, wouldn't he? Krauthammer is George Will without a conscience.

"When I do radio call-in shows, people are disappointed that I don't take the stance that the demon J.D. in their mind would take. I'm very fair minded."

NJG: "What sign are you?"

JD: "My birthday was last week (10/14), so I am the same sign as you."

NJG: "Same day as my grandmother."

JD: "Except I am considerably less stacked."

NJG: "I can't believe that you liked Aerosmith."

JD: "I don't like their recent stuff as much...but they are a great band. They are the only hard rock band I've ever heard who did a credible James Brown cover."

NJG: "Steven Tyler is one of the ugliest guys in the entire planet and his plastic surgery hasn't helped."

JD: "Uglier than Mick Jagger or Don Knotts?"

NJG: "Separated at birth..."

JD: "Mick Jagger was always incredibly sexy. Brian Jones was beautiful. Keith Richards was beautiful early on. Mick's features were too exaggerated to be called beautiful. They were striking.

"I grew up listening to classical music and jazz...

"Stevie Wonder is one of the greatest rockn'roll songwriters... Many people talk about the sophistication of Steely Dan but Stevie Wonder's stuff was just as sophisticated harmonically, melodically and structurally..."

NJG: "Stevie Wonder never emotionally hit me."

JD: "So you don't have soul and you're not super bad?"

Luke: "How many rock n'rollers are out of the closet?"

JD: "That list you posted about lesbian musicians is crap. Tori Amos not. Jill Sobule is bi, not lesbian. Just because you've had same sex relationships doesn't mean you are gay...

"Boy George is totally out of the closet. You should read his book "Take It Like A Man." It's the best rock autobiography that I've ever read. He outed George Michael..."

NJG: "And he outed Gavin Rossdale of Bush..."

Simon writes on the He-She Gay Page: Gavin used to date the transvestite, Marilyn back in the mid-80's. Marilyn was best friends with Boy George. Gavin threaten to sue BG and called him all kinds of names and stuff, but never filed a suit against him. BG even dared him to, he said that Gavin was lucky that he said what little he did, and did not add the pictures to prove it. Add it up :). Thank God Gavin just broke up with that girl, but, just last year, Gavin was in a NY club and a pretty 'party boy' was seen being 'close' with Gavin. Someone took pictures of the controversial personal interaction, and Gavin snapped his fingers, and his bodyguards confiscated the film. I think they gave the photographer some $ to shut him up and/or to replace the cost of the film. Bush were just on Conan O'Brien the other night, and Gavin looked just so gorgeous.

JD: "When Elton John admitted to Rolling Stone in the early '80s that he had had homosexual relations, it did not affect his career near as much as writing crap songs... A clear case where you could argue it hurt was Rob Halford, the former lead singer for Judas Priest. A lot of Priest fans were like, NO WAY DUDE, NO WAY. And finally Halford, when he was done with metal and going into industrial music, he admitted he was bi.

"There have been some flamboyantly gay metal stars. There's this German band Accept and their lead singer was openly gay."

NJG: "Rob's leather getup was straight out of gay bars..."

JD: "Judas Priest did a song "Eat Me Alive," which Tipper Gore cited as a clear example of violence against women but if you listen to the lyrics, it's about gay sex blowjobs. Tipper also didn't get the song "Darling Nicky" by Prince. She expected Prince to be able to use prepositions correctly. Prince referred to Darling Nicky masturbating with a magazine while I expect he meant she was masturbating to a magazine. But Tipper, being a literalist, thought that she was rolling the magazine up and sticking it in."

Luke: "How will the election affect the rock industry?"

JD: "There's not a dime's difference between any of the major candidates."

NJG: "What do you think of Luke's site?"

JD: "I think it's entertaining. I was impressed that he got the stuff about Tony Montana testing HIV positive days before his competitotion [GeneRoss.com]. It bothers me that there people so stupid that they actually rise to the bait of Luke making s--- up that is so obviously made up. That it's just Luke thumbing his nose at them, Mike Albo and that lot. Come on, get a clue pal! I can't imagine anyone taking the world of porno any more seriously than they take anything else in entertainment. Certainly there are sites on mainstream Hollywood far more scabrious than anything Luke's made up."