Snippy was not herself. It hardly needed saying really. She’d worn a bra this morning; if that didn’t prove it, nothing did. She couldn’t remember when she’d last…. oh, who gave a fuck?
She sighed and threw down her pen. The silly little bitches that worked on The Floor were better off than she was, with their Saturday nights up against the wall in their silly little shiny Lycra dresses and their toy handbags, like kids playing at being grown up. At least they were getting theirs. Well, that’s what came from picking a boyfriend who was into Greenpeace; you just had to wait till the moon was in full cycle before you got it. She smiled bitterly to herself. Must be due it soon then; according to her diary it was full moon in three days.
Her door opened suddenly. “Have you seen these?” Jaclyn in full flush waved sheets of paper under her nose.
“Well, I’m hardly likely to, am I? The way you’re waving them around.” Snippy snatched at them sourly. “Let’s see them then.” She stared at them. “What the hell are these? They look like exotic pornography.”
“They’re Grant’s sketches for the new windows.”
Snippy looked up. “What?”
“They’re only sketches, Margie, don’t soil your underwear.”
“Don’t call me Margie. Are you seriously suggesting we put this,” she waved one, “in a window? For the public? To see? Oh no, tell me you’re joking.”
“I’m not joking.” Jaclyn sounded a little annoyed now. “What’s wrong with them?”
“Well, where do I begin? They look like vaginas.”
“Dark and moist?”
“Okay, cunts then, labia. You know what I mean, you’d never get these past the board.”
“I don’t need to, do I? Just past Jon, and he’s half in love with him as it is.”
That stopped her. “What do you mean?” Snippy demanded.
“Oh come on, Snippy, you know what I mean, you must have seen it. Always watching him, looking away, bright red, when you catch him. I’ve had more visits on site from Jon in the last couple of weeks than I’ve had all the time I’ve been here. And don’t tell me he’s suddenly realised the error of his ways and decided to start chasing me. No, it’s because I’ve got the new boy in tow.”
“I don’t believe that.”
“Why not, he’s queer, isn’t he? I thought they fancied men?”
“He’s not a man.”
“Really? What is he then? You wouldn’t have been saying that if you’d seen what I saw this morning.”
“Which was?”
“Oh no, not that easy. Why isn’t he a man?”
Snippy coloured. “Well, you know what I mean, he’s not a real man, being disabled and everything.”
Jaclyn’s eyebrows were practically off her forehead. “Well, I’ll pretend I never heard that, coming from our resident politically correct New Ager.”
“I am not.”
“Well obviously. He is physically challenged, my dear, but not in the downstairs department.”
“What d’you mean?”
“I told you I saw proof. He’s a real man alright, plus some.”
“Come on, Jaclyn.”
“Okay. He got his uniform issued today. Regulation jeans were too short, remember?”
Snippy nodded, he’d been wearing his own up till now.
“Well, he’s got the new bottle green and nasties on and I’m in the window with him, and he’s kneeling down in front of me and I look down as he’s sliding forward on one knee and there he is, great fat dick and balls crammed down one leg of his jeans, clear as day. I could have reached out and touched it, it was so close. I can only assume they’re tighter than his own jeans, either that or he’s grown.” And she laughed oddly at that.
“That’s disgusting.”
“What?”
“Well, it’s probably just deformed or something, like the rest of him. That’s so exploitive. That’s really cheap. That’s like doing it with little kids or something.”
Jaclyn coloured up. “Hardly.”
“It is, it’s disgusting.”
“Oh, you’re impossible. Give me those.” And she snatched the drawings back. “I’m going to see Jon.”
And she went.
Jon chewed on his pencil, trying not to look up at him, pretending to give the drawings due consideration. He said, “Jackie was really impressed. She said you’d worked on them all weekend.” That gave him his excuse to look up.
Grant nodded. You could see that, even though his entirety was nothing but a silhouette against the bright summer light at his back. It was that that made it easy, that and the curious noise of the traffic. It seemed to have changed, like it had a pulse, a beat. Jon had noticed the strip lights in the store doing the same thing, pulsing faintly. He wondered if it was the weather – electrical storms and all that. Been a lot of them recently. It made it easier, whatever it was, gave it a rhythm. “Would you like to go out for a drink this evening, discuss these?”
He heard himself with a kind of wonder. He had no idea who this man was; he was at work; he hadn’t approached or even thought about a straight man since he’d been twenty two, or something. I mean, hell, it was bad news and here he was doing it. Oh yes, he was definitely doing it.
“I’d like that.” The dark soft shadow moved away from the window and it was like all the heat came rushing back into the room behind him, all the noise from the traffic, roaring again. Where was that mystical breathing now? It had gone along with its owner.
When Jon looked down at his desk the drawings were gone, and it was odd… he never remembered seeing them again after that.
Jon took him to Fermanni’s. It was deliberate. If he didn’t spot what kind of bar this was, with its out art on the walls and its statue of David in the fountain, then he deserved everything he got. Besides, Billy never came in here and that was important, because basically he was cheating on him, at least in his heart.
“Would you care for something to eat?”
Grant shook his head.
“No? You must be hungry. I know you skipped lunch. Here, have a look at the menu, I’m standing treat. After all, I’m the boss, and they pay me plenty for the privilege.”
Grant took the menu off him and began looking through it. Jon noticed he tilted his head almost like a bird or a small animal when he read, curiously looking with his left eye, the bad one. Weird.
“Can I ask you something?”
Grant looked up. “What?”
“Your accent, it’s curious. What is it?”
Grant smiled, tilting his head the other way, slowly. His mannerisms were like that, full of sudden fast pecking movements and then slow distorted ones. Yes, really rather like a bird, a parrot or something. God, what an unattractive image, poor boy.
“Bit of everything…”
Jon leaned on the table towards him, trying to catch what he said, fascinated by that one blue eye, its dead, empty mate. He fought an irresistible urge to say, ‘What does it do, that eye?’ Meaningless, dangerous.
Jon looked at him, realised he was no longer speaking. God, and he hadn’t heard a single word he’d said.
“Would you like to order, sir?”
He looked up, startled. “Eh? What? Sorry?”
“Order, sir, would you like to?”
“Oh yes, of course.” He blushed, flustered, feeling as if he’d been caught out. He gave his order rapidly, and rather confusedly, and looked at Grant.
Grant looked at the waiter. “Melon salad please.”
“That’s it?” Jon asked, surprised.
Grant nodded.
The waiter took their menus. ” Anything to drink, sir?”
Jon looked across at him “Elmer?” It felt odd, calling him by name, intimate. It gave him a little thrill.
“Wine please, red.”
“Same for me,” Jon said. He hated red wine, never drank it. What was he playing at? “Better just give us a bottle.”
The waiter went away.
“Well…” Jon said, feeling embarrassed for no reason he could clearly understand. “It’s a very American name, yours.”
Grant was smiling again. “A diet of American films quickly consumed and badly digested. Old cultures never mix, like oil and wine, and here’s the result.”
Jon stared at him. Was he talking about himself? Was this something to do with the accent? What had he missed? Why couldn’t he remember what was on his CV? God, and he could hardly ask, could he?
He found himself saying, “Have you been deformed since birth?”
He sat there, stunned. He couldn’t believe he’d just said that. He shook his head numbly, but Grant was answering.
“Being born did this to me. Damaged entering into this world. The price you pay, no refunds.”
Their food arrived, sparing Jon answering. Boy, but he was cryptic. He thought over what he’d said. Surely it was an excessive notion, to punish an innocent child just for being born?
“Perhaps. If he’s innocent.”
Jon looked up, fork arrested. “Did I say that out loud?”
Grant smiled. “Do you think I read minds?”
And it was not till much later that Jon realised he had not really answered his question.
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Hello
Sorry I didn’t post Robin Hood before, I wasn’t sure if you wanted to watch West Wing first. I’ve now sent West Wing Series 3, both Meserine and Robin Hood Series 1. Even if you don’t like Robin Hood, I think you should watch the second series, the good storylines get much better there. Tell me what you think of it when you’ve seen it, most of it is so shit it’s hard to get through but it really sticks in my head. The Robin Hood discs aren’t English so you have to remove the subtitles but they work fine.
I did love Fichner in Prison Break, I’ve never seen him in anything before though. I can’t remember him dying, was it in the last series? The women in that are truley awful. Pathetic, pathetic doctor woman, probably the least chemistry between two people I’ve seen in ages. Veronica was boring and I only really liked Lincon and Michael in the first series. But they make up for the women in series 3 (I think it is, may be 4), Susan B Athony or Getchen (same woman). Have you seen up to series 3 yet? She is fantastic.
I read on the internet the other day about the new Wuthering Heights with Westwick, they are doing a Jane Eyre as well, that’s the one Michael Fastbender is in. I’ve not really seen him in anything, I tried to watch Hunger but I don’t think I was in the mood.
I have been to see a few films lately, Single man, which was really dull. It was about Colin Firth daring to play a serious gay man. It was made such a big deal of, I assume because Firth played gay, but it sold so short in that aspect, he must have pecked someone on the lips twice. Broakback Mountain wasn’t amazing by anymeans, and it really shouldn’t be such a big deal these days to have a film where, god forbid, two men have sex, but at least that went for it. They actually showed the sex, it wasn’t just hand holding. Single Man was, if they were trying to make a statement they really failed. Plus it was boring.
I also saw The Last Station which I thought was quite good, Helen Mirron and James McAvoy were good in it. I saw the Crazies as well, that was really enjoyable, it was along same lines as every other zombie film but good to watch, made me jump quite a few times. Timothy Olyphant is attractive in it again, I think he lost it in Deadwood but that’s probably because he was next to Ian McShane.
How are you liking West Wing, I love Toby and CJ. I’m not that fussed on Josh and Donna either, I like Josh better, but I prefer him in Studio 60. I think you’ve got to like the people in West Wing to like the program. I don’t get the politics, I like some of the storylines (when it’s something I get) but it’s the relationships that are interesting. I don’t think there’s one person in it that I really dislike.
I’ve watched a few episodes of Rihces and I’m really liking it, the gypsie king is gorgeous, I need to watch some more of it to get into it properly though. The only thing thats a bit strange is Eddie Izzards accent, I have no idea what its supposed to be, I’m sure he keeps flipping between about 5 of them.
Let me know if the new discs got there ok, and I’m dying to know what you both think of Robin Hood, it is a slight obssession of mine now.
P.S, Loving Satyricon
Hello Jodikins,
Don’t know if you’ll be thrilled or not to know Max is finally editing up some of your footage for a short film. He appears to be enjoying himself with it (you). I think he’s putting it on the Amazon author page (for me) so you’re being censored, I believe. Don’t stand for it.
Got the TV/movies – ta. Knew you’d like the King of the Gypsies. Not in it enough for my liking, but the rest of them do make up for it. Know what you mean about Eddie’s accent, but it does settle down as he goes along. I thought it was very him, to be honest. I mean I read an interview with him yesterday about hosting the Independent Spirit Awards and they asked him what he thought he could bring to them as host and he said a duffel bag. He kind of just wings things, even his accents. You gotta love him for it; it’s so imperfect and unprofessional that it’s endearing. Gives it a feeling of what the hell will he do next? I really did love the show, and there is a second series.
Also got an e-mail for Amazon.com saying they were releasing Dirt 2 in the States, so if it happens I’m buying that. Turns out there were 7 episodes, not the two or three I heard. Better than nothing, but you need to buy an all-region DVD player. I got a Chinese bootleg (don’t ask) of Dirty Sexy Money and that’s great. Pretty funny too as they’ve stolen it off TV nad it has logos all the way through and nasty NTSC pan disorder, but you get used to it. I got it for free though after complaining to the vendor (it was on e-bay and they didn’t realise it was a bootleg). It looks to be a great show too. Fabulous characters, even with Mr Wooden in the lead (can’t rememebr that guy’s name; he was in The Lost Room – a great show he ruined).
Watched Flame and Citron last night – very good in a slow burn way. Had a great waxen redhead in the lead. Not technically pretty enough for Danny, but had something of his mystery. Also watched The Hangover this morning – that was really funny. Also saw Somer’s Town – din’t like that so much, it was ho-hum, but there’s a great Master Class with Shane Meadows on the extras. Seen a TREMENDOUS amount of mediocrity recently – very dispiriting.
Just finished Ugly Betty Season 2 and started Robin Hood. God, that shit is some bad. Busty wenches in make-up, the Sherrif of Nottingham wearing boots with rubber soles with the treads filed down. Yep, that fooled me. Arrows shooting two ropes at once – how would you even DO that? But I will soldier through it till it gets interesting.
I read someone talking about Firth’s A Single Man and they said it showed that it had been directed by a fashion ‘guru’, i.e. it was all style and no substance, like a catwalk show or a fashion shoot. I also thoguht it was telling that the director (Tom Ford?) had been on Firth’s case to get him to lose weight. That’s so cliched it’s almost funny. Well at least it wasn’t the female lead for a change, although God knows where Moore would lose the weight from – her hair? (Love her, great actress, but man, she is thin).
Okay, done. You need to watch Fichtner’s back catalogue. Not everything he’s been in has been great, but he always is. Likewise Fassbender – fabulous charismatic actor – you need to get watching some class acts. X
Jodie, I had a burnt out hard-drive a while back and I seem to have lost some of the video that you shot for me – do you still have it? I have Jill being interviewed by you (or you talking over Jill, to be more accurate!) but the stuff of you is missing, as is the stuff of you and Jill together feeding gin to the dog…. Please tell me that you kept the originals??? Max
Hiya I’m sure I have the discs somewhere I have no clue where but I’ll find them somewhere I’m sure. Ill send it up as soon as I find it.
Chancery, Mr William Fitchner has just sauntered into West Wing Series 5M
Thanks Jodie, look forward to it!!! Max
Hiya Chancery and Max,
I’ve found the little discs that we did the recording on. I don’t have the camera anymore so I haven’t been able to look what’s on them. I think I taped over the one of just me on my own. I kind of hope I did anyway because I was pissed out of my face. It was the first one I had to do and I was terrified so thought it would be an excellent idea to get really drunk. Because drunk thoughts are always you want to leave behind for posterity.
I’m just writing on my phone because I’ve been at jills again for the week without a computer, helping her look after her children while they threw up everywhere. Fun times for all.
I have nearly finished riches and will give you a post game rund down when I’m back at my house and someone gives me a computer for ten minutes.
Have any of the dvd’s I’ve sent been successful?
I’ve just finished watching all of the west wing, I really do love it. I don’t think iv disliked one episode through the whole seven series. Even when Aaron Sorkin left as writer it was still good.
I will retuen shortly much longer comments. Please bare in mind when you see all the spelling mistakes in this that I did it on my phone and can’t even go back to check anything. Also bare in mind that I am shit at spelling, and I can’t even spell the word gramma (?)
Hi Jodie, sorry to have taken so long to get back to you. Still recovering from the after-effects of Robin Hood. That one hasn’t been a hit with me, I’m afraid. However, we suffered for your art. Have grown to love the West Wing, well, like it, anyway, so your living has not been completely in vain.
If you get a chance, send on any of the memory cards/discs that you recorded and I’ll see what I can salvage – actually be quite good if you’re pissed!! – as I’m working on a rough cut of the movie just now. Also should have covers for you soon.
Max
Hello
I’m on my phone again so apologise in advance for any mistakes.
I hope the video things got to you ok, I sent them from work and they didn’t send them recorded delivery.
I know robin hood is mostly terrible but what did you think of the guy and marian storyline? I think its really interesting to shove an intense, slightly messed up and confusing relationship into a rubbishy childrens show. Its like the character have been taken from something else and put there by mistake. To use your words Chancery, guy seems to have an itchy need for her when they are in a scene together. It gets lot more dark and clostrophobic in series 2 (if you can bear to wade through all the other crap for another series), there’s a lot more marian and guy centered plot. I really think its such an interesting relationship in such a strange place.
Let me know when u want some more discs. I keep deciding to send you riches back up and get something else because I’m not getting round to watching it. I did like what I saw but I’ve left it for too long now. But then I think I want to finish it. I might send it back and borrow something new and then borrow that another time. Would that be ok? I always get like this with love film, some months I get through loads and others I have two discs for the whole month. Its whenever I leave something too long.
I can’t remember what films I have been to see since I last comented on here. I saw alice in wonderland (I may have said this), it was the most DANNY Johnny Depp has ever been. Not in a straight forward way. Obviosly he’s got red hair and green eyes, but they aren’t DANNY like. But they do change colour when he get angry. It wasn’t that though. It was a look in his eyes and the way he changed when he got angry. But mostly I think it was because when I saw him in pictures before the film, I thought he wasn’t attractive in it. But after about two minutes, I wanted it to turn into a porn film. He was fucking gorgeous. No matter what he does, he had scraggly hair, strange eyes and a big gap in his teeth he still can not be unattractive. I think he even tries to be but it won’t work. It really made me of Danny the whole way through.
I’ve got to go because I’m finished on dinner, but I have bought and read all of Satyricon. I really liked it, like a dark and twisted fairytale.
Hi Jodie, thanks for sending on the video memory cards. Unfortunately they didn’t have the stuff I was looking for. Do you have any more memory cards lying around?
Chancery’s has a bug in her computer just now but she will reply to you soon, but I have this fear she will want to watch the second series of Robin Hood. (It would be nice to watch a version that only had the scenes you like and none of the rest of it!!!)
Anyway, if you can help with the video memory cards that would be great and thanks for the purchase of Satyricon. If you get a second a review would be good!!!
Max
Jodie, just found back up discs of all the video that you and Jill shot, so I’m afraid that you’re going to be cringing after all!!! Max
Hi Jodie, been out of the picture for a while after my computer got infected with the virus(es) from hell – nasty little fuckers that got into everything; ironically after we tried to get them out with Norton anti-virus. It sent them into lockdown and none of my programmes would work and I couldn’t get on the internet. There I was, with all my work hovering on the brink of disaster….
However, a week later and £150 poorer, I am now back up and running.
“I think it was because when I saw him in pictures before the film, I thought he wasn’t attractive in it. But after about two minutes, I wanted it to turn into a porn film.” I am speechless. I went to see Alice in Wonderland in the cinema, in 3D (my first 3D – and my last), and I never ever once wanted to see it turn into a porn film. In fact, the thought never even hovered near my head, let alone entered it. See, this fills me with conflicted feelings. Part of me is deeply, deeply proud that my (arguably) greatest fan is the kind of warped, diseased, unfathomable person that could think such a thing, while the other part of me is deeply depressed that if you, Jodie, are my prototype “peeps” and I have to find more like you to make DANNY work, where in hell am I going to find other people who wanted Alice in Wonderland to turn into a porn movie? Other than in some sad shabby paedophile backstreet cinema. Seriously, half of me wants to bottle you, frame you, and the other half despairs at just how niche DANNY must really be. Tell me, have you ever met anyone else like you? Even vaguely? Because if you have, they are the sum total of the readership we’ll ever get for DANNY.
I mean, Robin Hood… ROBIN FUCKING HOOD, Jodie. What kind of sick mind could possibly see anything in there? Other than the previously discussed you, of course. Yes, I would like (I use that word under protest) to see series 2, but only on condition that there actually IS some MM and Guy shit to get my teeth into. I can say, hand on heart, that Robin Hood is actually worse than One Tree Hill, and I never thought I’d say those words. It is so fucking BORING! I wish I had bigger case letters on here to emphasise that.
We didn’t get very far with Mesrine either. We watched Part 1 and I found him so annoying and characterless I couldn’t get motivated to watch Part 2. I kept saying “Oh, we’ll watch it next night” but “next night” never came and so I admitted defeat. I didn’t realise till weeks later when I watched Shifty what it was that was really wrong with Mesrine – it wasn’t a film about a gangster, it was a film about gangsters as seen in films about gangsters. I blame Quentin Tarantino for this shit, all these fanboys making films about films rather than about real people. Shifty, if you haven’t seen it, is a surprisingly good film about drug runners in London. Max won it, and I never ever would have picked it or watched it myself, but I really enjoyed it. No clichés, no filmic references, just real characters in a real story taken from real life. I saw Gomorra too. That was also exceptional – very realistic, but not so central character driven, more documentarian (it isn’t, it’s fiction, but it feels like a documentary). But Mesrine – who the hell was he? A bunch of gangster posturings and a moustache. I watched a whole movie about him and know nothing other than he appeared to be completely characterless. Bronson was better, and I didn’t really enjoy that either.
So, not a lot of joy in your last lot, I’m afraid. But go ahead, hit me with R. Hood season 2. I’m tough, I can take it. And the next West Wing too please. Still wouldn’t number it among my favourites, but it’s very well written and compelling enough. I just can’t seem to suspend my disbelief enough to believe in a kind, wise old American president and a White House motivated by principles and nobility. It’s just too far-fetched if you’ve ever met a politician, and I’ve known a lot of them.
We’re selling up our film collection at the moment. Decided to have a profound purge of all my possessions, including my jewellery. Selling nearly all of that too, on e-bay. We’ve sectioned off more than half our movie collection, potentially for the out, and we’re watching some every night, so all the new stuff I’m seeing is from Lovefilm, so it’s not a lot. Really liked Alice. Saw it while on holiday in Edinburgh (checking it out to see if we want to move there) and, like I say, it was my first 3D movie. Novel and fun as it was, I didn’t like the overall loss of colour and detail from watching with the dodgy JOE90 specs. But the film was very good, particularly Depp and the Cheshire Cat, which I loved. Didn’t get enough of Crispin Glover though, that was a disappointment. Haven’t been watching TV either since your last batch, just all my dodgy movies, nearly all of which have gone for sale. I think the only thing we’ve kept so far has been Phantom of the Opera, and that was Max who wanted to keep that, not me.
I’m sending your stuff back today. It’s been sitting here for weeks, for which I apologise. I’ve put it in two packages. Tell me what you want next. Pick something you really want and you’ll maybe have some better luck. Want some weird movies? An incest pile? Got plenty of those. If we’re going to be weird together we might as well do it in style. Or do you want TV? Tell me what you’re looking for, what you NEED, and I’ll see what I’ve got. You know I have teen movies, B movie crap, shit no-one’s ever seen or is ever likely to see. Watched Jack’s Back with James Spader the other night – now there’s a freakin’ weird piece of 80’s shit with an incredibly sexy young Spader. He would have made a very good Danny. He has that freaky starey old-young ‘I am distinctly warped’ thing going on without really trying. I’ve amassed a load of weird Spader movies because he’s made so many strange B movies. I’m selling a few of them up. I’m trying to be strict with myself and only keep the exceptional stuff. How about actors? Any actors you love? Chances are I’ll have the fucker since we both seem to like creepy actors too.
By the way, I did know exactly what you meant about the changing personality thing in Depp in Alice. Didn’t see it at the time, but I got it as soon as you said it. See, that just shames me and proves there’s no hope for me…….
P.S. Nearly forgot, thank you for buying Satyricon. Once again you managed to cheer me up ‘Hey, somebody wants to read my work’ and depress me, ‘Shit, that sale was to Jodie. Not a new convert to my warped vision after all’. But I do love you for it, honest. X
Hello
I should be getting my computer fixed this payday, it will also cost me £150, I’ve been trying to pay for it every month but I spend it before I get the chance.
Ha, I am a real perv aren’t I. I thought the same thing about the 3D. It spoilt it for me, I’m looking forward to seeing it on DVD in 2D, so I can see it properly. The floating things were distracting and I don’t see the point of 3D in the first place. I do like it when a film looks good, but that’s only if the story isn’t good enough that it needs something else to make it watchable. If the story is good you don’t need anything else, and I’d rater have good story than any other crap.
As for Robin Hood, I know, I know. I did warn. I always try to get people to watch it but I know its really hard going, I always stop myself. I tend to fast forward a lot of it now and just watch Guy and Marian. The rest really is shite. Max, I’ve said the same thing, if you could get rid of about 75% of it it and just keep Guy, Marian and some of the Sheriff it would be a good program. I think it’s because the writers really wrote it for children, but that’s not a good enough excuse, there’s been a lot of good programs made for children but they still have aspects good enough for adults to like as well. I think this one is so strange because it has a massive contradiction in it. The most interesting relationships (Guy and Marian, Guy and the Sheriff) are dark and complex, suffocating in then former and the hinted homosexuality of the Sheriff, his sadistic treatment of the Guy, trying to turn him against women. Then this is all alongside such a childish plot and the rest of the 2D characters. I know I’m going on about it but I really do find it very strange.
I’ve got to say I think I agree with you about Mesrine. I watched the first film again before I sent it up and it wasn’t what I remembered, I couldn’t even be bothered to watch the second film myself. I’ve still not seen it. I think I just got excited at Cassell on the big screen, I’ve never see a film of his in the cinema before.
I’m gonna send Riches back this week so I’ll send West Wing and Robin Hood up as well. I’m not sure what I want, some weird sleazy incest is always welcome of course. I also like James Spader a lot if you’ve got some good ones with him in, I’ve got Secretary, Bad Influence, Sex Lies and Video Tapes, I think that’s all. I can’t remember what you’ve suggested, send me something you think I’ll like.
P.S. I’ve seen the DANNY video’s, very funny, I’ve completely forgotten what we said on the videos, I’m sure there’s some cringy surprises. All I could think though is how loud are me and Jill. Also I haven’t had a chance to review Satyricon yet, I tried to do it on my phone but it wouldn’t work. I’ll do that as soon as I get a chance.