Adult actresses, Los Angeles, Calif., 2024 | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
Two adult actresses get ready before their sex scene. For more of my photographs, follow me on Instagram.
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Me and John Holmes, West Hollywood, Calif., 2023 | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
“In July of 2023, I found myself standing in John Holmes’ footprints.” Read my latest newsletter and subscribe.
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Yesterday I went to an estate sale at the home of Mell Lazarus and bought this cartoonist conference standee.
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I got myself a copy of Jim Camp’s latest limited edition photozine: Four Minute Mile. I love it. Get yours here.
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“Outside, there was lightning, but no thunder.” On my website, I republished a fictional short story I wrote years ago that was originally published by Contrary in 2016: “Storm Clouds Over the State of Louisiana.”
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Earlier this year I read Parasitic City #0.1 by Shintaro Kago which is totally insane, so when I came across a copy of Parasitic City #0.2 I knew I had to have it. Do you like the apocalypse? Do you fantasize about your body being torn in half and the two halves functioning independently? Do you have erotic fantasizes in which people torn in half by the apocalypse have body horror sex? If the answer is yes, you will love this book. I did.
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Palm trees, Burbank, Calif., 2024 | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
I wrote a short story about a sexagenarian who discovers an adult movie is being filmed in the house behind his. More recently, I was interviewed about it. When that interview gets published online, I’ll share the link.
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I really liked Weapons. A terrific script structure, weirdly realistic and awkward dialogue, a major case of the spooks, a mind-blowing performance by Amy Madigan as the totally terrifying Aunt Gladys, and a lot of dynamic film-making. The third act got a little wobbly a few times, but all in all if you liked Barbarian, as I did, you’ll really love Weapons. The best thing about this inventive movie is its nonlinear narrative script, which allows for overlap and interweaving that’s impossible with linearity.
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I posted a piece of flash fiction from years ago on my website: “The Boy Who Wore His Heart on His Sleeve.”
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The Hollywood Downtowner Motel in Hollywood, Calif. For more of my photographs, follow me on Instagram.
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Flowers (Adult Movie Set) framed and on its way to the Don’t Be a Square group art show at Shag in Brooklyn.
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Estate sale, Toluca Lake, Calif., 2023 | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin
“What would you do if you discovered an adult movie was being filmed in the house behind yours?” Read it.
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Yesterday I went to see the It Smells Like Girl show at Deitch in Los Angeles. The standout piece of the show was Nadia Lee Cohen’s Entitled. A giant box contains a virtual girl who gyrates, flirts, and appears to track your movements as you move before her. Poke the screen where her body is and she stumbles, drops, and develops bruises. It reminded me of Marina Abramović’s Rhythm 0. Devastating and moving.
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Name:
[redacted]
Email:
[redacted]
Subject:
The porn industry, escorting industry and patronage
Message:
HI Susannah,
English is not my first language, some words might be off. I was asked by an old friend in his early 80s to research "what has become of" and if I could find her. He knew her back in the late 90s under her real name. Well, I found her. She worked as a porn actress and escort. She quit the business, went for a short while in a real job. However, nowadays she lives under the patronage, possibly of one of her former clients a possible UHNW individual. For such a self-determined and really independent woman to go down that route, it feels a bit irritating to see her in such a relationship. During my research, I was more shocked honestly not of what became of her, but about the hobbyist networks. The escorts circle back to porn to show that they are available, expand their clientele or show what is on the menu with them. That porn and the adult industry is basically a loss leader for them and just advertisement.
If you are interested in her individual story or my insight in the hobbyist networks, please contact me. Her story is really fasicinating and bold. It is not a story about my neighbour steals cable. It spans two continents, failed business endeavours, entrepreneur spirit and resilence but also hard truths. I will meet the old man that has asked me to find her soon and I still don't know what I will tell him. By the way, he is a Dutch liberal who has his experience with sex workers, I just hope it won't make him sad.
I don't want journalistic credit or financial compensation. Just someone to share my research with.
Kind Regards
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A Bride of Frankenstein in the Fairfax District in Los Angeles. For more of my photos, follow me on Instagram.
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I’m happy to share that a new short story I wrote, “Topical Matters,” has been published on failbetter. This story was inspired by a visit I paid to an adult movie set last year. The story line involves a sexagenarian in the San Fernando Valley who discovers that an adult movie is being filmed in the house behind his house.
Here’s how it begins:
“Stuart should have known something would happen on that day when he opened the door in the morning to retrieve the newspaper and noticed a religious tract had been left on the porch. He bent over, winced from the pain in his back, and scooped up the pamphlet. What is the Mark of the BEAST, read the cover. All the words were white except for the last word that was an alarming red. From the stormy sky behind the message, a bolt of lightning reached down to strike a building that was half the Vatican and half the U.S. Capitol.”
Read the rest here.
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