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And it all started with a plastci cup on the head... Greg was still standing & sleeping, so I bought barmaid's lipstick :winkwink: Ah memories.... . |
This is a great interview to start off with again. Glad to see that they're back.
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Good interview though, glad to see them and you back Sleazy. :thumbsup |
Wow ambush is back that is awesome. I have to say media guy I always thought of you more as a joke with the pics floating around and can definitely appreciate you more now. Way to go Sleazy on another great choice.
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On the one hand, this whole sense of human community, and support, and big cuddly hugginess... I remember just trudging across this dry farmlot populated with 45,000 cars in Kansas at a Dead show. And these self-appointed watchers of dehydration with a spritzer bottle full from a cooler full of ice spraying me as I passed on the way to the facilities. It was a purely gratuitious act of kindness and compassion. And any time any one needed that and some support, they almost didn't have to ask. It was acceptance and sharing on a kind level... it was relief from the intolerant, judgmental conservative mentality (which is in itself judgmenta on my part) I encountered all too often in the US. It's funny 'cause Hippies treated me the same very often on first meeting me. I was bald. They thought I was a narc. My buddy was a long-hair, but still... we often saw one "real" cop narc with no hair and some poor schmuck from the drunk tank acting as his hippie "legitimizer" at Dead shows, sitting in a repo'ed VW bus smoking "stuff" that was fruit resin from a "bong" and saying it was "good shit", etc etc... But the community was strong and wise and stuck together nicely. But sometimes the whole "Heey Maaan" patchouli barefoot dirty smelly thing just got to be too much of a geek thing to me, so I craved crooner lounges and straight people, and my baldness always helped with that :) When I got into adult I encountered the same spirit - the same communal "Us against Them" thing that, though we might have our beefs against each other, though we may compete in the same niches and media, keeps us bound somehow since we're all we've got, after us, it's the sharks, the mainstream, the FBI, the church committee or the neighbourhood decency squad, whatever... I remember one fine moment after the Ashcroft version of 2257 when JD Obenberger at Qwebec Expo referred to the adult industry as the frontline in the fight for freedom of expression. I was a proud porn guy then. Good morning GFY, btw :P :D |
Some more lipstick for Greg
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Great interview so far.......... Greg is the greatest guy I know in this business, and it's a pleasure to get to know more about him! :thumbsup |
Welcome back :)
Looks like it will be a lot of fun! |
9. What?s the oldest cat you ever knew?
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I named him Jack because the minute my sister brought him home (she was always bringing home stray cats, but this one was going to be put down by the local pet shop for being too old for their inventory so they sold it to my sister for a dollar), it adopted me, and was lying on my belly while I was reading an interview with Jack Nicholson and watching a documentary on Jack the Ripper, when the wind slammed the door shut and the cat JUMPED off me, ripping into my skin with its back claws... go gifure. I named him Jack. So yeah I had that cat until it was 26 or 27, when it kinda wandered off into the wild back alleys of Montreal, where he sorta reigned as a scourge to both toms and stupid, curious dogs, to die, i figure. Heard it was a cat "thing", that. He was a pretty groovy animal, very gentle, intelligent, and civilized even. I mean, he would do stuff like dip his paw into a cup of milk to drink it, draining off any excess in the cup before he licked away... little things. Anyhow I have a great picture of my daughter at 6 or 8 months, when we had a pro over for some Classic Baby pics with Cassandre in her little dress and all that, and during the session that big old cat, who loved her very much, was wondering what was up, so he hopped up onto the cushion next to where she was sitting. So I have this great picture of them, well taken, that is forever. Actually, "Jack" was also my daughter's first word, before even daddy ("da" doesn't count). :D |
I'm so happy to have Scott back, the Ambush' are cake!
Enjoying reading MediaGuy's answers, it's been a while! xoxo Leslie |
great interview so far :)
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Good to see Greg getting grilled!
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This a great read Media, can't wait to see more. Thanks for bringin sexy back Scotty :thumbsup
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10. How did you get involved with 2much?
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I knew him when he started his BBS he hosted on his home TRS 80, called "Datamate". People posted to each other and got to know each other and arranged GTs or Get-Togethers and even instant-messaged each other live. Pretty impressive, but I wasn't so techy and the first time I got a computer was years later, a 386 IBM clone running MS DOS and a word processor!! I had joined the technological revolution and stopped typing on typewriters :P Anyhow we went our separate ways when I ended up married and living in farmland, but he started contacting me about commissioning scripts for video projects for the web. I had experience in writing in general, and did some script doctoring at some point so I knew what he wanted without him explaining it. And, since I had shooting and editing experience, he would get me to come down, learn the new tools and cut those together, driving down to Montreal on Friday and back three hours both ways to get back to the farm Monday morning at 5:00 AM. Seeing what could be done, Mark hatched more project ideas and was basically ready for me when my marriage nuked out and I hopped a bus back to Montreal (my wife had totalled my car, but that's another story). So I started in the old 2much offices 6 years ago learning first the programs to do what I wanted to do, and then new things you could do on the web. But the video thing was a little too ambitious, and I started wondering how come search engines had nothing about us... which took me back to words, and writing... :D |
Nice to see ambush interviews are back! They're the most entertaining thing on GFY :)
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YAY!! Ambushes are back!!! :)
Great read too! :thumbsup |
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Just great! I can just see all you fucks following Greg around all night at this year's Qwebec Expo, Lipstick and markers in hand, drooling.... waiting.... "woah! Is asleep yet? Lets go! No no wait wait he just opened his eyes. Ok everyone act natural". |
Missed these Sleazy, good to see them back.
Great interview, can't wait to read more Greg! :winkwink: |
100 Ambush Interviews:thumbsup
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Woot Sleazy, welcome back! I look forward to getting to know more people. Great interview!
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But he must be a beast in the court room when he goes to trial. When you're on the hungover from hell and you're on a seminar where he's challenging you on how you manage international 2257 compliance on what you flippantly termed "2much.net's Dynamic 2257 Record Keeping System" in the post John Ashcroft revision era without breaking the law and you already have a hard time explaining it to yourself, he will make you cry. It was of course the day after the infamous lipstickman FUBAR incident. Y'see, our software customers can be both primary and secondary producers, which before the revisions was simple. After Ashcroft, and we had about 30 days to scramble a solution to keep all our platform clients compliant, it was very complicated. Because you're both primary and secondary custodian of records, because it depends on whether the performer is from your site or from our MBase shared talent pool. Because, in Canada and other countries, our constitution protects our right to privacy and prevents employers from sharing our private data. Because US webmasters had the option of accepting or refusing a performer from the LiveCamNetwork MBase system whose 2257 info was blocked with a disclaimer pending a request from the DoJ or FBI. And so on. So I wanted to explain all this and the basics behind our performer sharing network, and it seemed (to my boondoggled mind and no doubt to everyone in the room) like irrelevant, promotional preamble, J.D. was asking "How" and "What do you mean" every half-pause I took... Later people did tell me he seemed a little pitiless... I don't know, 2much had him for supper later and I talked to him about it and we laughed and it was no big deal. I think he was just concerned about what our company particularly was promising clients and the industry, and he's always been passionate about the ways the government seems want to nit-pick us out of business and the weaknesses we can present them... I love J.D. J.D. loves me. I know Mark has a great pic somewhere :P :D |
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It was hard to find good acid in the mid-90's and I gave up on it... but when I first started tripping with deadheads and writing intensely, it was the end of the Owsley era, and still the acid that was a true, 48-hour, intellectual mind trip. It was replaced by cheaper lower doses and speed-inflected formulas and crappy superficial pre-ecstasy style barrels and tabs. I had one of the best, life-changing experiences in my life on some Owsley tabs. And subsequently learned NOT to do acid with people you didn't start the trip with, or weren't completely in synch with. Cocaine was a mistake that became a life-changing habit and vicious circle due to the DJ lifestyle, which I covered a little earlier. My friend and journalism partner Andy once said that coke turns everyone who uses it into a liar and schemer. Obviously it's not the drug itself because lots of people try it and drop it. It's the user, and in my case it was the user, and lifestyle. I had to drop it because I would have had my legs broken otherwise... and, one day, I promised to someone I love I would never touch it again, and I haven't. Weed I abused when I was younger but it never affected anything in my life. Weed should be legal. I used it during those peer-pressure, initiative years of youth and never liked it, and when I was a security guard (our security crew were the suppliers for the whole mall) I used so much of it I developed an allergy, or negative reaction - whenever I've used it since, it is the ultimate soporific. It makes me sleep, regardless of whether it's indica or sativa. I snooze. I'll know what to do if I ever become insomniac. But pot is harmless and 420 should be a national holiday, just because to me weed represents the ridiculous, repressive and arbitrary government policies enacted for political or politically strategic reasons without reason - I mean, it's still schedule one, on par with heroin and coke - like do you really think kids develop trust in elders and society after that? I am polemic, lookitthat :P :D |
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BTW I've always loved this pic 'cause Ariel is way fun and cool and I love her and it just sorta encompasses our little relationship - every time I see her she jumps in my arms 'cause I'm a big teddy bear and she's just a little cuddle! Plus she does great work, Rico is one lucky bastard! (And yes I wuv you too, Max! ;) ) :D |
Good to see the Ambush back and as for Media Guy - Good choice as his stories are classics! hehehe
Look forward to seeing you at internext Greg and I intend on holding you to that proposal you offered me on ICQ! LOL |
I love these ambushes, always entertaining! Keep em coming!
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We went down to cover it for a magazine. We were going to do it in the northern baja but found out the longest eclipse time was going to be in LaPaz, the southern end of the Baja peninsula. It was a twenty-four-hour bus-ride. Three laughing, joshing, grinning Mexican drivers with Tres Estrellas buslines and perfect teeth in eight-hour shifts who were very competent but made us nervous. They laughed with their heads thrown back, eyes closed, whenever we were rounding cliff-side blacktops without guard-railings... played a constant stream of mariachi muzic that always featured the word "Corazon" (heart, in spanish) and stopped only when they came across a liquor-shop/taco-stand... That's when we hit the hard stuff. Just to make it through the wood-plank bus seats and endless mexican love tunes... I have a theory now that all spanish music or songs use "corazon" somewhere in there... test it for yourselves. So when we got down to LaPaz we rented a room from a spooky old dude with a beard and a respirator who laid in a wheeled hospital bed from the time he opened the flaky green painted door to when he showed us our room. He didn't tell us about the cult of cockroaches that worshipped a giant mutant roach in our bathroom at night if we closed the light. That was the last we saw of our booze, we came back from a good local taqueria the next day and it was all gone. So we slept on the beach two nights which was cool because this troupe of mystical wild dogs would find us and cuddle up next to us both nights as if they knew we needed warmth. The eclipse rocked. The light spectrum shifted, the roosters crowed, the horses neighed, and the ants marched back to their nests in a straight line... freaky. Then the sun disappeared and the planets all lined up together beneath the corona - we could see them all because of the reduced light. Like a pearl necklace... and hundreds of people who had gathered to see this cheered across the landscape around us all at once... Then we had to backpack it back up north.... referred to earlier. The article was five typed pages, and very expressionistic. The editor's reply with "fixes" was about ten. Our reply was forty pages with justifications. Ultimately we turned down their 400 dollar fee and published a great piece in an indy poetry journal, of all places... Fuck'em if they can't take the truth. :D |
nice interview :-)
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