Some random notes, while I'm here:

--I heard from Chris Sharpe yesterday, that reader of mine in Austin TX I was talking about, who has this great DV B-movie coming out soon called Sex Machine. In answer to my questions, Chris had the following to report:

There is one actual sex scene in the movie, non-explicit, but enough nudity to "keep the audience engaged for an hour an a half," as Chris put it;

The movie will finally be coming out on DVD by the end of the year, he promises, and will also be showing at a number of film festivals;

And there's a production blog for the movie as well, which can be found at sexmachinemovie.com, for those who are curious.

Unfortunately Chris these days seems to be going through what a lot of underground artists regularly go through - that the effort to raise the money just to make the movie itself was exhausting on its own, and that they now have to go through a whole second round of fundraising just to get the DVDs made, and the entrance fees for film festivals put together, etc. Which, of course, is yet more proof of why exactly I'm trying so hard to open this arts center of mine in Chicago, so as to offer at least just a little bit of help to such underground artists, who really really need such help when it comes to things like CD and DVD duplication, advertising and other stupid non-artistic issues. Anyway, here's hoping that Chris will write about the whole process this fall at his blog; because I for one would love to read about the whole thing, and I'm sure a lot of you would as well.

--Also yesterday I was talking about the series premiere of Fox's new Prison Break, which was to air last night, and how I was really hoping the show would be as kickass as I'd heard it was. Well, good news - the show's actually more kickass than I had heard! Man, that show is FUCKED UP! The lead character has a complete blueprint of the prison tattooed across the entirety of his chest and back, man! With, like, all these "Momento" style reminders about his escape plan tattooed all over his body as well, disguised so that they look like gang tattoos! Fuck!

The thing I like most about Prison Break at this point is the incredibly smart schism the writers have created between the idealism and the reality of a prison break - that is, of showing us pieces of this brilliant, unfailable plan this gifted structural engineer has created to bust himself and his brother out of this prison, but how the chaos of reality is already fucking with this brilliant plan in these dangerous ways. Like, one of the things this guy discovered during his prison-break research was that the bolts holding together the benches in the prison yard are almost the same exact size of the Allen wrenches needed to remove the bolts from the toilet in his prison cell; and so one of the first things in his plan was to simply steal one of these bolts and then rub down the edges into a six-sided Allen wrench. What he didn't count on, though, was that the bench area of the yard would be controlled by this notorious child rapist and his gang, and that the only way to hang out near the bench is to agree to be one of this guy's prison bitches. And so he tried to take the bolt anyway, and had this big fight with this gang, which then all escalated during the second hour to the point that there's now a blood feud going on between the main character and this child rapist.

The series premiere was full of all kinds of schisms like this, of the politics of prison completely fucking with what this guy thought was a perfect escape plan. And that's smart, because it means that the show's entertainment doesn't solely depend on the entertainment value of the plan itself, but rather in the frustrating and imperfect way it turns out he's going to get to execute it. Which then makes you wonder, "Well, are they going to pull off this prison break or not?" Which in the modern times we live in, is a perfectly valid question to ask; after all, when you have major characters getting randomly killed on a show like Lost, you can't exactly trust any of the traditional conventions we usually think of when it comes to network television shows (like, for example, that these guys actually will break out of prison, even though the show's called Prison Break). Aw, dude, you gotta see this show!

--Okay, and finally, a dirty question for the ladies out there, and some dirty comments of my own. And I saved this for last, so that people who don't want to read dirty stuff can stop reading now, and know that they haven't missed anything else. (And why does it seem that I'm throwing up a lot more warnings these days about dirty stuff? Well, because I've been picking up a whole new audience for my blog this year, it seems, with a lot of these new readers knowing me first as a business writer or a Palm afficiando before knowing of my personal journal. And I know that some of these people simply don't want to read things about my sex life, or even dirty thoughts I have about the world - even though this used to be the main reason to read my journal in the first place, back in the '90s when I was still in the poetry community and having a lot more sex than I am now. Anyway, that's why I give out more cautions now, just out of respect for these new readers.)

Anyway, my question - are there certain kinds of erections that get women more turned on than other kinds of erections? I was just thinking about this the other day, in fact; see, I belong to a number of co-ed adult Flickr groups, where people are regularly posting not only nude photos of women but of men as well. And I came across this photo of a guy whose erection was sticking straight out from his body and slightly upwards, and was deep purple in color as if he were a few seconds away from orgasm, and shining in the light from all the lubrication that was on it. And I thought to myself, "You know, that's hot; that's more hot, in fact, than photos of other erections I've seen before." And see, I never have this kind of thought when it comes to vaginas - it's just the sight of the vagina itself that gets me turned on in that case, not more or less turned on by what color the vagina is, or whether it's wet or not, etc.

So, ladies, do you get this way as well? Is this primarily a function of me being a man, and of course being fascinated with the subtle differences between cocks since I own one myself? Or is there something legitimately exciting among both genders about certain types of cocks versus certain other types, or even the state of arousal that cock is in when you see it? You can send all thoughts to ilikejason at hotmail dot com; YOUR NAME WILL NOT BE MENTIONED unless you specifically say it's okay to do so. Let the dirty emails begin!