I just got off the phone with Esquire Magazine, which is trying to answer the age old question “Isn’t there anything out there I can watch with my wife/girlfriend?” They’re pursuing the “porn by women for women” angle, so my first question for Esquire was “It’s Tony with a Y. What brought you to Comstock Films?” Well the answer is Erika Hallqvist of Lust Films, who passed along our name to an Esquire researcher.

If you’re not familar with Erika and Lust Films, you should be. While her approach to filmmaking is considerably more ambitious than ours (real scripts, real acting), her goal is the same – the explicit depiction of real sexual passion. Of course it doesn’t hurt that her erotic short The Good Girl has one of the best looking men I’ve ever seen having sex on camera.

So take a trip over to Lust Films, have a look at the trailer for The Good Girl and her behind the scenes clip, which will show you how much effort goes into her work. While you’re there, why not drop her a note of encouragement. Going against the grain is tough, no matter what you’re doing; and believe me, every little bit of encouragement helps!

-T.C.

This showed up in my inbox today:

To: Tony Comstock
From: [A Notoriously Raunchy and Enthusiastic Porn Performer]
Subject: I’m in NY

xxx

What do I think? I think the ellipses are tantalizingly vague, which I suppose is intentional.

What do you think, dear reader?

-T.C.

Last week I got a note from a writer who’s working on an article for the recently launched Tango Magazine. In her research for the article she talked to Carol Queen who was kind enough to mention that Marie and Jack is quite popular at Good Vibrations.

Well after a round or two of phone tag, I finally got a chance to talk with the writer (who happens to be a fellow New Yorker) on the phone. She was afraid that I might think she was some creep looking for free smut. I told her the first thing I did when I got her note was google her name (which returned an impressive selection of bylines). We had a nice chat, and after hung up I sent her a copy of Marie and Jack and an advance copy of Xana and Dax.

I hope she likes what she sees!

-T.C.

Hey! What happened? How did it get to be mid-April already?

Xana and Dax: When Opposites Attract has turned out to be a wonderful little film (if I do say so myself). The opening section allows us to get to know them as a couple, while providing teases and glimpses of the sex that’s to come. We hear how Dax didn’t think he had a chance with Xana, while unbeknownst to him, Xana was fairly well swooning with raw sexual desire. (Can you blame her?) The passages where they talk about each other’s bodies (hair, cock, cunt, boobs, butts) have moments of both tenderness and humor, but are plenty steamy too.

Once we’ve had a chance to get to know them, to understand how they fit together, Xana and Dax invite us to watch them have sex, to watch them make love, to watch them fuck. And as they tease and pleasure each other, they tease and pleasure us. Watching them make love is the ultimate zipless fuck – guilt-free, without portent, and richly pleasurable.

What I like best about this film is the feeling of openess, expansiveness. There’s no doubt that Xana and Dax are putting on a show for each other (they say as much) but they’re also putting on a show for us; and in both cases it’s clearly a performance they’re thrilled to be giving. As Xana says “I want people to know what’s in our hearts, and this is what’s in our hearts.” They’re utterly unabashed in the carnality of their love for each other, and eager to share that love with us. Isn’t this how it’s supposed to be between a husband and a wife?

Xana and Dax is off to the replicator, which means if you’ve already ordered a copy, you should expect to see it in your mailbox in about 2-3 weeks. The special pre-order price ($12.95) is officially over, but any of you that can sneak in before Mrs.C makes the changes to the Web site/DVD Shop can still take advantage of it. After she makes the changes, the price goes up to $24.95. But don’t delay. I think I hear her keyboard clicking in the next room!

-T.C.

In a post a couple of weeks ago, I said that at 51 minutes the rough cut of Xana and Dax was too long, and Ell wanted to know “How do you know it’s too long TC? What’s the formula?” All I could answer was that every time I looked at it I saw stuff that need to come out. I also speculated that when I locked the edit it would be about 45 minutes.

Between then and now I sent out another, slightly shorter cut to my brain trust and recieved some very insightful and helpful feedback. Armed with that, I worked on it off and on last week, fairly certain that I was only a few hours away from locking the edit. Today was Mrs.C’s first day back from her self-imposed exile. I had a new version waiting for her that I felt was 99 44/100 there. We went over it, made a couple of adjustments and then declared the edit locked. Well guess what. After our last round of tweaking and tuning, the running time is 45 minutes 2 seconds.

Don’t ask me how things like this happen, because I don’t know. What I do know is that they happen often enough that it can’t be sheer chance. Wish wanting, or an instinctive sense of time perhaps. But as often as not I’ll take a guess at a final run time and be within one or two percent.

Just a reminder, our special pre-order price on Xana and Dax: When Opposites Attract is only good until the disc goes out for replication, which at this point is going be in the next day or so. After that it goes up to $24.95, which is still a heck of a good deal on an absolutely unique and apparently very “inspiring” erotic film.