the whole shebang

scene title:  lesbian legal #14 [scene 4] performers:  eva long, violet rain site:  girlfriends films production credits:  b. skow (dir.) trailer l: eva long, r: violet rain my usual vocal despising of girlfriends will have to be put on hold here, because violet rain, the younger starlet in this scene (originally released on dvd in september of 2018) was taken off of life support in march of this year after a fatal drug overdose that left her in a vegetative state. she had been out partying two weeks earlier and was left abandoned at a los angeles-area hospital by an unknown party, with evidence of having been sexually assaulted. she was nineteen. the cruelty and arbitrariness of the low-level celebrity lifestyle, the invincibility of youth, and the mythmaking of an industry all too willing to pretend that teenagers are fully-formed adults prepared to be responsible for their own safety in every circumstance means another dead young woman, little know...

scene title:  women seeking women #152 [scene 3] performers:  eva long, carolina sweets site:  girlfriends films production credits:  b. skow (dir.) trailer l: eva long, r: carolina sweets the thing about this project i most dread doing is watching girlfriends scenes. it's not just that they're poorly-made; it's that they're poorly-made and interminable. performers who are vividly engaging in other productions are flat and dull in girlfriends scenes; premises with some interesting ideas are presented in the most tedious, uninvolving way possible. this scene, which kicks off the second half of women seeking women #152 (and has nothing to do with the previous two scenes) has a decent campy premise: serene siren and eva long as rapacious older women hungrily eyeing the young college student carolina sweets who's moving in next door. but it's presented with a total absence of camp (though serene tries hard): in order to pretend that they need carol...