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They were very clever. They would have an advertisement from the `50s or they would have Michelangelo's David or they would have a porno shot. Seeing those posters really clicked to me that while this is great and I really love what they're doing, I would like to make this movement more accessible because film is a much more accessible medium. What they were doing was great for the specific streets in San Francisco at that time, but with films you can travel around the world and bring forth the message that would otherwise just be kept...
...declared that urban vitality depends on an eclectic mix of small stores. But that doesn't mean developers and bureaucrats haven't continued to pursue monumental, street- life-killing projects. Since 1981 the plan for 42nd Street envisioned four monstrous office towers. Lawsuits filed against that plan by neighborhood porno impresarios were beaten back, but they delayed the project for years -- enough time, fortuitously, for the real estate crash to kill it last year. Because the developers still dream of building their high-rises around the turn of the century, they have acceded to the new vision for 42nd Street...
...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...
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...