Ready for another quick mind-melt? Check out Sasha’s Myspace page. Just for fun, let’s take a quick look at her profile and what she wants you to know about her. Her musical tastes are not bad (anotherpost about this later) - the usual eclectic mix worthy of any Silver Lake hipster, with some classic rock and death metal thrown in for good measure. She seems rather knowledgeable about popular music for her age, although I must say, seeing Joy Division as the first band on the list made me worried that she may be suffering from depression. I hope not.
She likes Throbbing Gristle and Psychich TV. In fact she likes them so much she really wants to meet Cosey Fanni Tutti and invites “Sleazy” (I am assuming that IS Peter Christopherson she is referring to and not another porn guy) to fuck her boyfriend in the ass. Very po-mo. Cosey makes sense since she also did porn back in the art school days.
I won’t go through the film list again because I’ve got Godard coming out of my ears and will now forever associate him with Sasha, but she DOES include John “Buttman” Stagliano in the same list as Louis Malle, Bertolucci and Agnes Varda. (Who knew!)
Now come the books. There’s the obligatory hipster hats off to “Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara”. Sorry but in my book anyone into ‘Che’ is supporting a mass murderer and your stupid t-shirt is NOT fucking cool. Anais Nin, natch. Then come the beginnings of the education of young existentialist: Nietzsche, Yeats… Jean Baudrillard hahaha… I am a bit underwhelmed that she did not include Derrida and Foucault. But she did include JP from whom she probably learned much about being and nothingness. Finally, for the cake taker, she writes “I am ready to take on any opportunities and challenges that face me as a woman, porn star, and artist.” Let’s hear it for art!All in all, it could very well sound like a Myspace profile of a somewhat Goth, somewhat hipster kid attending her first year at an Ivy League school and struggling with boy problems, ‘existentialism’, writing in her journal while listening to the Sisters of Mercy. With one difference. There’s this:
And there’s this:
Ah, that obscure object of desire. Oddly she didn’t mention Bunuel.
Sasha’s birthday is March 14, 1988 which makes her a Pisces. Here are some things to note about Pisces:
“Imaginative, Sensitive, Compassionate, Kind, Selfless, Unworldly, Intuitive and Sympathetic, Escapist And Idealistic, Secretive And Vague, Weak-Willed And Easily Led”
“The Pisces In Love:
Pisces really need to be needed. They suffer from fear of rejection and low self-esteem. Pisceans are tender and caring, but frequently become the victims of domineering and uncaring partners”
“There is no more loyal and caring lover than a Piscean, but their need for emotional and sensual reassurance sometimes leads to flirtations. Pisceans are the most loving and giving of the signs, their ability to select an inappropriate partner is legendary. In the right relationship, their sexuality will blossom and become something of an art form, especially as they get a little older, more experienced and more confident.”
Five slightly heterosexual guys slap their dicks around Sasha’s little head, jerk off into a martini glass and Sasha gulps it all down. Take THAT, Jean-Luc!
Let me do try to wrap my head around this much like how Sasha wraps her lips around BBC (that’s big black cock for you). Just close your eyes and think of ‘existentialism’.
1. She is a whore. That is, she fucks for money.
2. She is famous for being a whore.
3. She likes to talk pretentious shit. She particularly likes being called an ‘existentialist’ and I’m sure she has no idea what the fuck she’s talking about.
4. She has crossed over into being a mainstream icon.
5. She is famous for nothing (see #1).
6. She is ambitious as hell.
7. She is a shining example to the youth of America.
8. When trying to sound smart, she reminds me of Miss South Carolina.
9. She has succeeded.
10. She has had a highly publicized case of anal warts.
11. She is probably a ‘feminist’ and will describe in disingenuous terms how getting her ass gang fucked is empowering and liberating.
Does her smug self-confidence belie a sense of juvenile insecurity when she’s talking drivel? Or is she really just a bitch? Don’t worry, there’s plenty of opportunity to see Sasha humiliated. In the meantime, here are her fav movies. Godard, natch, but also Herzog, Cassavetes and… Hold on. Did she just say what I thought she did? Yup. She thinks Stroszek is the story of a ’struggling musician’. Much how like the story of Sasha Grey is the story of a struggling actress. Har har har… And A Woman Under the Influence is about ‘that crazy couple next door’ that ‘everybody knows’. OK she obviously has a problem recognizing mental illness - which actually makes perfect sense. Next!
Still trying to get ALL the info but here are some fun facts to get you started, and I’ll be filling in the blanks as often as I can find them. It’s actually harder to fill in these holes than its filling her orifices.
1. She’s Greek. OK, Greek-American. Unless she was adopted, but her real name is Marina Ann Hantzis. Pretty damn Greek. Which is why she has no problem with getting her asshole pounded to high heaven. But she takes it one step further and turns into an ATM Machine (ATM = Ass to Mouth), which is a little unorthodox even for the orthodox Greeks.
So, as I mentioned, the whole voyeuristic train wrecked aspect of “Ass to Mouth” is not about porn for arousal purposes is it, now? Admit it. You actually want to see her eat the shit off the dick she was getting fucked with. Come on! What ELSE could possibly be the purpose of ass-to-mouth but shock value. Sasha will probably agree with you since she considers her porn work akin to being an athlete. While there is some truth to that, her ‘athlete’ statement is not too different from describing Kobayashi, the hot dog eating champion of the world to an athlete. We’re only watching that gruesome spectacle to see if he will blow chunks but few of us will admit it. I also recently read she drinks enema bags and after that my guesstimate is that if she lived in Germany she’d probably be eating shit by now.
OK, let me start over. I can’t say I love Sasha Grey in the traditional sense of the word. But I do love all the hype going around her. I am human after all, and humans are voyeuristic at heart. Not voyeuristic in the sense of jacking off to watching other people have sex - although people who fancy porn, like myself, - do exactly that. What I mean about voyeurism is how we can’t take our eyes off a car accident, why we follow people like Paris Hilton or the Windsors. Why we can’t turn our eyes away from a train wreck. Why traffic slows down when there’s a car accident on the OTHER side of the freeway. Why we gloat in reading celebrity gossip - not becasue we envy them, but because either want to be like them or we are drooling and rubbing our sweaty hands together waiting for them to fail.
Enter Sasha Grey: arguably the most ’sensational’ porn star in decades, (Jenna Jameson was just a smart businesswoman). Sasha has also got a heck of a lot of ambition and savvy which goes along with the most nauseating self-delusion and mismatched ideas about art, porn and whatever the fuck she happens to be doing. This blog is both a personal journey to figure out what the fuck is up with this bitch and also to let my readers know where to get the best Sasha Grey porn, since it ain’t Sasha without smut no matter what she says or try to say, her life is like a finely mixed martini, nine tenths gin (filth) and one tenths vermouth (her bollocks talk). But in between all the tantalizing filth and fury I will indeed be exploring how one goes from this:
To this:
And then on to modeling and Steven Soderbergh. A curious sociological and pornographic blog this will be indeed!
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