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...gold chains once common around the necks of Black Sea men are disappearing. "I love these Natashas," sighs a customs officer on the Georgia border. "God measured and created them." Hasan D., a Trabzon hotel worker, explains, "Married men do not want to practice what they see in porno movies with their wives. But they can with Natashas." As for the Natashas, Irina, a Russian art-history graduate, put it bluntly: "We are milking the Turks for all they are worth...
...traveling summer carnival of music that showcases pop's avant-garde (this year it will feature such acts as Arrested Development); he made a low-budget feature film called Gift (out in limited release this year); and, along with former Jane's Addiction drummer Stephen Perkins, he created Porno for Pyros...
...devil in me," and ends with a song in which he gives a woman her first-ever orgasm: "Sit back/ And get yourself relaxed," he soothes. The group's name comes from a fireworks ad that Farrell spotted in a dirty magazine; on the album, the phrase porno for pyros is also used as a lyrical description of last year's L.A. uprising. That kind of juxtaposition -- psychedelic sexuality matched with social commentary -- is the strength of the album. The wild abandon of the imagination is connected with the empirical world. "Ever since the riots/ All I really wanted...
When your main theme is anarchy, how do you mature? Farrell seems to have found an answer. To be sure, Porno for Pyros sounds a lot like Jane's Addiction; Farrell has changed bands, but he hasn't changed his tune. Thematically, however, the new band seems more assured, unafraid to comment on current events. There's also a sense of rhythmic joy about this album. Farrell has long experimented with rock and funk, and on Porno funk wins the day; the songs are buoyed by jubilant urban and third-world percussion. This is music to savor. Sit back...
BOOKS Scott Turow's Pleading Guilty is irresistible. A genial fictional view of a decaying Main Street. THEATER An Irish classic travels well to the Caribbean. MUSIC Perry Farrell's Porno for Pyros takes a wild ride. Steve Reich previews the opera of the 21st century...