Trip to Atlanta Confirmed!
For you naughty boys and girls in Atlanta, I’ll be visiting from 14-18 September!
I can’t wait see Holly again, and re-connect with all the fabulous people I met when I visited in ‘07.
I strongly suggest you reserve early and make a deposit via PayPal. My time is limited and I am only interested in those who are sincere about seeing me.
Dual sessions with Ms. Holly will be available, of course. If you think we’re great alone, try us together…;)
Concertina, Concertina
This morning, I watched Secret Diary of a Call Girl’s last ep of its first season. I had a love/hate relationship with the show. I was initially disgusted with Belle, the main character’s, ideal home and work life. Her rapport with her “agent”, her swank apartment practically on the Thames. Not to mention, her perpetual sense of humor through her less spectactular clients.
But the show grew on me. Belle did finally have her downs, but she managed to perservere. Points of her reality reminded me of mine, when I first started in the industry. The feeling of newness kept me engaged. She made her mistakes and balanced her private and personal life to the near points of breaking. It sounds cliched on paper, but it’s important to recognize. Sometimes the line between fantasy and reality gets quite blurry.
Susan Winemaker’s _Concertina_ summed the blur better than I could have. Split into the three sections, we follow Susan from her first months in a London kitchen as an aspiring chef, to her time as a dominatrix in a North London dungeon. She changes dungeons, takes unusual clients, and finds herself in the middle of a masochistic relationship with an ex-client. It is the most real glimpse of the ups and downs behind professional domination.
Her journey doesn’t stem directly from childhood experiences, which I dug. There are a few ambiguous referrences to sibling rivalry, but nothing that can be held accountable. Instead this is something developed from curiousity and a desire to experience a world that is as sensual as food was for her.
Her story is incredible. She has produced a piece that is easily accessible, and yet still hold up when ready by someone who’s been there.
I’m so glad I broke…and picked it up.
