EYE WEEKLY - by Sasha

I am interested in getting into porno but not as a star. I want to do music for adult films because it could use some changing up in my opinion. People making it seem clueless about new trends. BRIAN

Here’s the way porn works: are you a young attractive female willing to let someone film you doing everything from standard missionary intercourse to having a baseball bat pulled out of your ass followed by three limes and a grapefruit? No? Then you work for free. If your job is not integral to the fucking, you can forget about making a living wage. The one thing that would change this on the music end is if you had huge mainstream recognition and that had an impact on the notoriety and subsequent sales of the film.

Generally, the music in porn doesn’t suck because people making porn are clueless, it sucks because they don’t care about the music. However, there are some filmmakers who do want their movies to stand apart from typical pornography and the music in their films reflects this. Eon Mckai is one. Jack the Zipper is another. And someone like Richard Kern, who recently made an adult film called Extra Action (And Extra Hardcore), even got his pal Thurston Moore to do the score. (Richard Kern you may know from his laboured art photography. Thurston Moore you may know from his laboured art music.) Still, the problem here is that there is a clubby element to these collaborations, like, “Oh I’ll just get my pal Thurston who I’ve been making videos with for 20 years to do this project.” You may not have the same long-standing friendships or enticing reputation with people who make porn.

If you’re interested in it strictly from a creative perspective, then by all means get in touch with the directors above and see if they won’t accept a sample of your work. Locally, you could talk to Todd Klinck. “Goodhandy’s has been shooting erotic wrestling videos every week since we opened,” Todd wrote in an open-call email this week. “We have never given much thought to copyright issues because the music playing during our scenes is just background music, documentary style, because we are shooting in a live nightclub. But the time has come that we would like to start involving people who would like to contribute their music to our work.” Goodhandy’s is not offering money, but they can offer web links, musical credits on the content and free porn. You can contact Todd at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Good For Her is also hosting its annual Feminist Porn Awards at the Gladstone on April 4, which may be a good place for you to meet some amenable alt-porn insiders to talk about getting your work into films. See www.goodforher.com for deets.

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