[UA] Naked Goddess Sighting

[holycrow at mindspring.com]

The concept of a slew of NG films with mystic undertones is cool, and good luck with it, but -- just so y'all know -- my view of the NG and her career has always been a little more prosaic and "standard."  More along the lines of "Boogie Nights" or Martin Amis' "A Rough Trade" (which you can read at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4153718,00.html
and which has the dubious distinction of providing a context in which Salman Rushdie would utter the word "octobullshit!")  I've heard the documentary "The Girl Next Door" might also have the same vibe that's in my head.  With the coincidental (?) exception of the Rosa Cross film referenced in the main book, the NG was probably doing a lot of the standard plotless, badly acted, multiply-sequelled stuff that makes up (I presume) most porn flicks.  In my mind, it's the very banality of her stuff that makes it important.  98% of the porn consumers out there aren't going to want to see some weirdo thing with lots of symbolism and undertones.  (This is what breaks Gunter Lorenz' heart -- the grossly plebian tastes of the vast majority of his potential consumers.)  They're going to go for "Wet Adulteresses In Jail IV."   

This is what makes my view of Pornomancy particularly interesting.  Their "mystic rituals" are execrably written scenes from porn films, but they follow them with maniac devotion because the smallest deviation is offensive to them -- the same way that mis-transcribing a line of the bible was offensive to a medieval monk.  

She's weird because she's so ordinary.  Does that make even a lick of sense?

-G.

P.S. -- Regarding putting the script on the internet as a hoax... er, hm, all I'll say is this: I've seen one RPG company try a cute hoax promotion and it turned out very, very, very badly.

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