is it crazee to spend $20 on a magazine with a 12-page spread of Clay Russell, when many of the pics are a bit out of focus? But then you have THIS! Normally I crop out the fold for the other page, but knew I needed the entire right foot with those thick, thick socks!
Last time I posted this, Hot Lunch, I only showed less than 6 minutes of the film? Perhaps because my digital copy isn’t so great? You tell me.
directed by: Robert Walters (1979)
Starring: Rick Masters (AKA Butch Barnes) & Todd Russell
I was working on something else, somehow wound up on my own A NIGHT AT HALSTED’S soundtrack page, and realized none of the music links worked! Aaaaaarrrghhh! So I had to figure out what was wrong, download, upload, update pages, and then figured all that and I bet the page hardly gets any hits any longer….
But back around – on gosh, don’t say it – the turn of the Century, someone found my geogities pages, after trying to figure out who the hell put cool music on a porno he was watching… long story short, he and another pal of mine spent weeks trying to ID each and find a digital version of each tune, and eventually got all 26. Then my Kansas buddy sent me a homemade CD of the final product.
If you look back at my earlier archives ( the “blogger years” – April 2001 to March 2010 ) – you can see some of my rambling on the topic – “night+at+halsted’s” Oh look – there was a time I was the only search result for “A NIGHT AT HALSTED’S SOUNDTRACK”, but if you keep the phrase in quotes, I’m 3rd, which is better than none. Anyway, all that and cover model for the film JW King, from an August 1982 HONCHO. Now that I’ve spent all this time talking about everything but the film, I think I need to revisit it, as I recall not enjoying it much, but for the plexiglass glory-hole scene. But don’t wait for me to get around to watching and writing and posting, when you can check out this review right here – on REDDIT
“In chaise longues on each side of me, poolside, sit Colt’s newest discoveries, Rod Kasznar and King Donovan, desert sun warming their oiled musculature. They met, not surprisingly, in a West Hollywood gym.”
As promised, here ya go! For downloading, here’s a zip of the cover (which is not them) plus all these pages, article/interview and photos – MANDATE 1981 APR zip I actually teased here that I had the issue, not sure anyone noticed. Irregardless, here we go!
I love the graphic for the film Gemini, but I find this ad from/for Selo Films to be kinda strange and/or misleading – doesn’t it make you think Jack Wrangler is in all these films from this production company? But actually he’s only in Gemini (1977) But why not make a post, with all the SELO Films in one place, as kind of a placeholder. I ought to at least try to get a preview video or two, eh? OK – enuf meandering – list of films, a few pics, some videos, ready to… (reserve the right to re-edit after hitting “publish”!) I guess the point is to look at a production company, rather than the too often, mistakenly credited distributor as the maker of vintage gay male porn. God bless Bijou Video for all they’ve preserved over the years, but they are primarily a distributor, and as far as I know, actually only produced a handful of films, perhaps mid 80’s or beyond? That’s another topic, for another day.
clip from GEMINI
clip from Sins of Johnny X
clip from Kid From L.A.
clip from INCHES
can’t recall posting this specific pic, and I’m working on 5 posts simultaneously (so needless to say, none are ready!) so here’s….. DAN – AKA Rocky
Brothers (1973) – director: Jason Sato
“Mountain as a gay man who welcomes his straight soldier (Rick) brother home for a visit.”
I found this promotional preview somewhere on line, can’t recall where – and it looks like an interesting film. Alas, I don’t think I ever saw it on video as a complete film, but found just one scene, ironically from a compilation tape called Choice Cuts (- not sure “irony” is the right word when you’ve cut out random parts of a scene – pissing, perhaps a bit of S/M- and call it “choice” – the wrong choice!!! to edit out parts of an original film…. But I’m rambling again … where was I? Oh, that abbreviated scene is below. Too bad, but it’s likely the incest theme was too much for distributors by the time videotape came around. And isn’t one of the more note-worthy films that someone would be inspired to re-issue as a complete film (if that even exists anywhere) – but even the edited version, I’d like to see it – even just for the mustaches!
(you may recall that I have previously posted another abbreviated scene that appeared in “Choice Cuts” – Straight – with Kurt William)
