Ambush Interview #115 Far-L

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Bust out some more answers Far-L

sleazy you are a punk

yeah but punk ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*Is it wordplay until he comes back to entertain us with his answers?*

And Rocks are HARD!!!!!!!!!!!

bump for more answers - pretty interesting so far ;)

Just got back... more answers coming and many, many thanks for all the compliments!

Another great ambush....

Thank God.

I had no idea. That was a great show.

You know he is talking about the porn series based on the tv show, right?

17.You've been in hundreds of porn movies. What was it like popping her cherry for the first time on camera?

I have had a few interesting first time experiences. This one stands out but I might pop in some more if anyone is interested in hearing them.

Back when I was working for Max Hardcore he used to call me "the Pussycat" since I was kind of the antithesis of his style when it came to doing scenes. Where he came of like some sort of hellspawn with a yearning for anal reaming, I was more lubby dubby teddy bear with an erection style. Therefore when the time came to work with a starlet that had hardly any experience but had potential Max would cast me to work with her before he laid on his deluge of butt humping deviance.

One day a model walked in that went by the alias of Tammi Ann. Max asked her during her interview is she would do anal. Tammi Ann was a natural blond with a sort of coed next door appeal. She looked like she just stepped off the virgin bus and still had panties that smelled of baby powder.

She looked like we had just killed her fluffy little kitty cat.

"Anal! No way. I don't do anal!"

Max didn't skip a beat. "Well how about DP then?"

"DP?" She asked. And you could tell that just like any sophmoric twenty something that she really didn't want to appear like she didn't actually know what DP meant.

"DP", she repeated, "sure I'll do that."

Max looked at me. I shrugged my shoulders. "Ok" he said, "I want you to work with my guy Tim here and we will do some DP.

Half an hour later I had my penis searching for her lost innocence somewhere deep in the recesses of her anus and a big rubber phallus planted in her pink here-kitty-kitty-kitty. Turns out not only did she kind of love the whole anal thing but went on to become known as an "anal queen" and every video she did with Max thereafter became standards by which others would judge the true degree of anal depravity.

This ambush delivers - Far-L you have some great stories. Keep em coming

18. What part did Homegrown play in box cover art for pornos and the "what you see is what you get" approach?

I touched on this a bit earlier, but allow me to elaborate. With our mail order direct sales we learned early on that being direct was best. So that is what led to our putting out a title, saying fuck it, and calling it "Oversexed, Overweight, and Over 40". When this turned out to be one of the top sellers for over a year then we knew that we were on to something. Mind you, this was back when every single porn coming out of the valley was named something ridiculously ubiquitious like "Hot Cherry Tarts" or word plays on popular mainstream titles like "Gums".

I can't take much credit for us doing that though since I was always trying to go with obscure titles that seemed cool to me at the time but lacked the sizzle of something like "Double Anal Club". My bro is who really pushed for the "tell it like it is approach" and I have to agree that was a great way to go.

I think we might of had to throw each other through a few walls though first before I accepted the idea.

19. Homegrown throws some unusual parties for their affiliates. Which ones have been the strangest? Which ones were your favorites?

Many people don't know that we were part of putting together the first Player's Ball with D$ and KB. We were all working and playing together in San Diego along with other notables like Ynot Bob of Lightspeed. At the time, Pimp and Ho parties were kind of the thing in there and D and KB were familiar with the authentic truly OG style pimp and ho party that was best characterized by an amazing album called "The Hustler's Convention" by Lightnin Rod. Seek it out if you don't know it already.

That first ball featured the Long Beach Dub Allstars not long after the mate in Sublime died and Eek A Mouse and hired strippers that made everyone feel very much like vips. My South Park pals showed up to play and sign a few autographs for people that are into that sort of thing.

Where it got weird though was at the after party during our live sex show when Trey Parker encouraged me to jump in the bed. Some other girl, as J$styles mentioned had a few spikes in her face and no inhibitions whatsoever started balling like someone just launched the bombs and the President had just told everyone that they better get their last groove on.

Eventually, only a few people remained playing cards and talking business. Oystein. St$les. Sweet T. They were talking business as if were weren't even there fucking our lights out. Only they had no idea that I had deeply extensive porn training.

In porn you have to listen to what the director or camera person is asking for when you are right in the middle of concentrating on taking the freaky deaky up a level to blow your mind/load boom boom.

I listened hard.

They were talking about the DMR fiasco. They were talking about industry players. I learned more in that couple of hours than you can imagine. It was like getting a Matrix style download on the state of the industry at the time.

We have thrown some other interesting parties but will have to come back to that...

20. Homegrown is a big supporter of the fight against Acacia. (Thank you for this BTW!). We haven't heard anything about this case in some time. Are you still paying for the defense, and can you update us on it?

Homegrown Video and VS Media together organized the first meeting to decide what to do about Acacia - which is an old enough problem that there are plenty of people new to the industry that don't even know what it means.

When Acacia claimed to own all the patents to stream or download audio and video then we were primed to call bull on it immediately. We had been doing streaming since windows media was called "netshow" and we were unconvinced that Acacia Technologies had clue one about what streaming even was. Like a bunch of people that got their letter at the time it seemed more like a shake down and a con somewhere along the same lines as the bank in Nigeria transfer deal.

We put together a defense group when we realized that Acacia already held a reputation of being patent pirates and had been beaten back on their V chip patent.

We learned quickly, and the hard way, that there were plenty of companies that did not share our view and were willing to sign up to acacia's patents claiming that it was the wisest move for the business. Some of the companies that settled also tried to cast aspersions on our efforts by saying that we were being unnecessarily litiginous, rash, etc.

Now those people are still paying fees while we have been coasting along while the mainstream tries to catch up. Several of their claims have essentially been nullified and in my opinion the rest is not going to make us lose any sleep or have to spend much money. Acacia will probably eventually appeal but that is just the way these things go apparently.

Many kudos to my partner Spike that has been the main point person on the case since day one. Now I do admit that the amount of time this has taken up has been an unpleasant issue at times. However, I can also certainly say that this problem has brought us allies that we would never have expected and given us a crystal clear lens into seeing the kind of companies that we like to do business with and that alone is completely invaluable.

Some would also say that our efforts have proved that our industry is not the "low hanging fruit" that Acacia supposed we were and so this protected us all from further attacks by similar entities. I don't really know if that is true or not but it does have a heroic ring to it doesn't it?

In the end, being involved in any law suit is simply not worth it unless you believe it is your only recourse to a solution. If that is the case then you have to be willing to put some cash behind it. When I see a lot of people in the industry claiming that so and so is going to be sued for this or that I laugh because I know most of them have zero clue what the price tag is that goes along with that.

Go to the question about what Porn Stars you've slept with, I always love those stories. Especially since they were mostly 90s girls which conjures up images in my head of huge hair and makes me smile.

This should be interesting.

Great memories Far-L
I know Moff will never forget my finger banging skills from that night as well.
ahahahaha

That party was also the first big event that casino host Richard Wilkes presided over-
He is now the main man at Hard Rock and takes care of all the players.
I recall him saying to us that evening " as long as you are with Mr. Botto and Mr. Morgan...you guys are invisible!"

We had free reign over the Monte Carlo that week!

That was incredible - I remember when Wilkes sent the security guys up to keep the doors open so that the ... ahem... smoke could clear...

I remember that night well- and that girl we had sequestered in the bathroom- a perfect Pamela Anderson lookalike- in her younger hotter days!!

The good ol' days...

Farrell- please no more beefcake photos.

I am not the one posting any of the pix, trust me.

21. Which porn stars have you had sex with? Which ones were your favorite.

When I think about the scenes that I did back in the day I can only say that it was a wildly intoxicating mix of the agony and the ecstasy. I had good time, bad times, and times that were pretty bizarre.

I had the opportunity to do a scene with the still gorgeous big natural breasted legend Christy Canyon who was one of the original Vivid girls and certainly one of the porn stars that I used to seek out for masturbatory relief before I came into the biz. Unfortunately, I became so nervous about being with her that a stalwart stud by the name of Randy Spears had to come in and stunt cock for me. Completely demoralizing. Remember, this was in the days before viagra and the only erection drug out there at the time was something called prolaxyn (sp?) which involved using a hypodermic needle which had to be plunged into your cock.

There was no way I was about to do that. So I just had to crawl away with my cock between my legs and accept the fact that there would be good days and bad days. Either way, another hard at the orifice.

Then there was the time when we rented out our downtown artist loft to Rodney Moore so he could shoot a gang bang. This just happened to be the day when the Rodney King verdict was coming out and since we were all too busy to pay attention we didn't know that the city was on fire until we were rapping up. (if you want a more richly detailed account of this one check out "gang banging" )

One of my favorite was when my wife, two other starlets du jour, and myself shot a scene together - what can I say? It is good to be the king sometimes...

One scene I performed with a starlet who imo helped inspire future generations of self made sluts who loved the biz for being what it is and not what they did while wishing to be doing something else was Jeanna Fine. We shot a scene in a warehouse that wound up being nominated for "Best sex scene" I think primarily for the fact that I performed the levitating anal move known as "the flying anal". Someone posted a picture here trying to make it seem like Jeanna was bored but that was anything but the case. That cig was the "cherry on top" type smoke that is meant to accompany a good orgasm. This scene always made me happy because I was complimented by women on it... and we all know that usually women think guys in porn are a turn off so I knew I had to be doing something right.

My era in front of the camera was when mostly dorky mooks (like myself) were the only ones willing to get in front of the camera because we were just to damn happy to finally be getting laid. Once viagra and cialis, etc. came along then all the "pretty boys" could finally perform without the typical self consciousness that would distract them from their duties in the ol' days.

22. Have you ever had sex at the Playboy Mansion while monkeys were flinging poo at you?

When "Orgazmo" finally premiered in the US to celebrate we had a party at the Playboy Mansion. Since the guys in Metallica were fans of South Park they agreed to appear as the live entertainment. Tons of Playboy models were running around in skimpy little outfits or bathing suits

I was having the time of my life hobnobbing and generally laughing at the strange fortunes of my existence that would land me there but I knew the day would not be complete unless I could manage to have sex in the grotto.

So I started hitting up every woman I knew from the production to see if one would take me up on the opportunity. Every one of my friends that had a date was already doing the deed which I think in fucking accomplishments ranks a few miles higher than joining the mile high club. But no luck. I would get polite "no thanks" and the occasional "are you fucking kidding" but nada, zero, zilch.

Finally, I was lamenting my fate to Dave the photographer who actually was part of the basis for Dave the photographer that Matt Stone played in the movie.

"I have hit up every girl here and no one will have sex with me in the grotto." I complained.

"That's too bad dude." Dave consoled.

A busty redhead in a sexy yet professional blouse and skirt talking to a girlfriend overheard us. She looked me up and down before she interrupted, "I will do it", she said.

I just about fell over in a state of pent up horniness mixed with absolute shock.

"But I don't want to go in there." She looked over at the grotto and had the kind of scowl on her face that seemed like she figured every single little microbe from the swinging sixties, through the disco era, and beyond was going to march out of the pool and consume her in a blob of disease.

"How about over there?" I pointed to the trail over by where the monkeys are kept.

This made her smile. "Sure, much better."

We walked over and as soon as we figured that we were hidden enough by the foliage we jumped on each other like a couple of frisky teenagers trying to practice our moves. She was tonguing my tonsils. I was rubbing her big tits through her silky blouse.

Unfortunately, the monkeys were having none of it. They started raising a ruckus. We broke the embrace long enough to look at them like "what the fuck?" but that was what put them over the edge.

That is when the poo came flying.

We beat a hasty retreat farther down the path and resumed our lustfest. We had a blast. I almost even missed the actual premiere and it turned out that she was one of the distribution execs that was marketing the movie. I fingered her while she drove us over in her plush beemer to the theatre.

Even with the monkey poop incident I still considered it one of the most perfect days that I ever had the pleasure of being alive for.

That's not how the monkeys remember it...



Great stories...



ADG

Haha that is disgusting and hot at the same time!

23. How many titles does Homegrown have in it's collection?

Hard to keep count. I usually just go with the line that Newsweek magazine said of Homegrown: "Homegrown Video is the longest running series in the history of porn".

When you consider that the series goes all the way back to 1982, that we include 3 to 6 unique scenes on every title, that we carry another dozen plus series with 4 to 8 scenes per title some of which go back years and years then there is only one way to describe it...

We sit on pretty much a Mount Everest of content. Now some would say - "yeah, but who wants to see a bunch of housewives just out of curlers with hairy pussies?" and, sure, those folks are entitled to their opinion. But ask someone that actually knows how well stuff like hairy pussies sells regardless of one's personal proclivities and he or she will tell you that we are sitting atop a gold mine that is on top of a diamond mine surrounded by pure platinum.

We must have been doing something right in spite of all our blunders.

Tom Green was a rapper? No fucking way!

My god! I just spit my soda out all over my desk!

That was funny!

I see we have a lot in common!

yep - probably in many ways except for the fondness for jaeger - but wait... I do like Red-headed sluts... (which I can't remember what they are made of except the jaeger part)

I remember that night as if it was yesterday! It was SO unbelievably bizzarre for me to sit there and sip (gulp) drinks while you for some reason decided it was a good idea to drop trou and start having it at with the impaled (ehehe...) girl in the bed right next to us.

Jstyles (or Jonathan like I prefer), Sweet T and myself were "discretely" tucked away a massive 2 yards away around a table trying to talk about "important stuff" (LOL to that...) but truth be told, it was very hard to concentrate! Important talk or not... That said, I would do a "state of the industry" a tad better today than that day...



I will NEVER forget that night...

Oh, not to forget, I did in fact walk into the GROTTO when you were having at it that night too! So that is TWO TIMES I have seen your ultra pale ass doing its thing. Oh boy what is this world (industry) coming to?

yager peach schnapps and.... grenadine maybe?

cranberry?

I always thought Roc was the only guy to get me to drink that stuff, until you just reminded me, I do like red headed sluts too... I had one at Pimp Profits - Quinn's house...

weird things is I dont like yager much and I hate peach schnapps... but that mix is nice... an unexpected taste

they were actually very good.

Circa 1993: Organized Rhyme - Check the O.R.

"I lay more chicks than Mother Goose!"

ADG

yeah, that path is a panty dropper.

and goes back a loooooong way.

The path goes back a long way or the tradition of using it as a grotto alternative?

24. What is "Mr. Fun's Mondo Adventure? Is there any relationship to the "Cat in the Hat?"

Now, since I already kind of covered this in an earlier post I will take a detour here to tell a different production story.

I have a term for the sort of run and gun shooting style where you hit a location, shoot whatever you can get as quickly as possible, then get the fuck out before anyone (neighbor, business owner, johnny law) has a problem with it - "Guerilla Porn".

One fine spring day when it was just getting warm enough to shoot in Los Angeles a producer called and said we would be shooting on the beach. Now anyone who is from Los Angeles knows that essentially the entire coastline is public property and in a city the size of LA there is really no such thing as private beach... but a paycheck is a paycheck when you get the call.

So I went with a starlets, studs/dick props, crew, and producer jim powers to the beach. Within minutes the fact became pretty apparent that we would not be able to shoot there due to too many civilians who naturally had emerged from under whatever bit of concrete to enjoy the sun and sand. We packed into the cars and headed a bit farther north hoping to find a better location.

The spot we ended up at was close to Zuma and it had a small hike down to the water from the parking lot. The bunch of us headed down there and began to discuss what and who we would be doing that day. I knew my day was going to be crappy when the girl due to screw me told everyone and anyone standing there that she didn't like working with any guys except the big lumberjack who went by the name "Wolf" who was assigned to work with one of the other models.

Oh well. At least I was still going to get paid.

As the shoot began though I started to get super nervous about more folks showing up at the beach. In fact, some of them even seemed to be taking a vantage point on the hill where they would have a clear view of the show going on below. I am the type of person who is still very instinctually aware of my fight or flight reflex so to deal with that i moved a comfortable distance away from where the shoot was happening when I felt no one was listening to my advice that we should get out asap.

That is when I noticed that at the top of the hill there were some new members of the audience, the uniformed kind.

I was far enough away from the shoot, but not close enough to my car which just happened to be in the lot which now looked like a little hornet's nest of cops. I decided to just go for it and marched up the hill to the lot. When I got to the top sure enough even more cops were showing up. They were buzzing around asking each other who brought the binaculars.

I offered some assistance.

"I think I might have a pair in my trunk."

They looked at me suspiciously.

"You aren't one of those porn stars are you?" One of them grilled me.

"Hahaha, do I look like one of those to you?" They laughed. Being a plain old mook has never served me so well as it did that day.

"Do you guys mind moving your cars so I can get out?" I asked.

When I hit the road there was no point looking back. I might have missed the payday but the day had certainly taken a turn for the better and with a blue sky overhead anyone would have to say that taking the day off was the best option anyway.

Everyone else was busted except a photographer assistant that wisely made a swim for it and got away. Most had to pay a fine but a few had warrants and spent their day in the can.

I love LA!

Wow probably one of the few times you ever passed up sex, sounds like that was a smart move!

Oh I have a question for you:

What is a Puffy Coombs?

25. How well does Homegrown convert?

First of all, if I told you how our overall numbers look no one would believe me and everyone would accuse me of affiliaterepitis so I am just not going to even go there. I am happy to provide some clues though so people can figure it out for themselves or giving up that just form their own conclusions.

* Talk to anyone who worked at CE when we were still with them and ask about our conversion and retention with a variety of traffic sources

* Think about what kind of brand loyalty a company with 25 years of fans must have

* Imagine a site where the owners and the employees interact with the customers on a level more similar to a mom and pop amateur site

* we ask people to compare our overall hits ratios to other sites total uniques ratios

OoOo that sounds like a juicy story! lol!

lol, exactly! I think it is cranberry btw. Another weird synergy like that is redbull and malibu with a splash of cran - I can't stand redbull or malibu by themselves.

i think that is a surfer on acid, right? or is that jaeger and redbull?

(what happens in vegas stays in vegas - right?)

During a show "hook up" I was having a splish splash bubble bath whirlpool tub and rub with a dear friend. I am sure I am not the first to do this but hopefully not the last to put the body bath liquid in and watch with glee as the bubbles start to rise and not be too distressed when they start to spill over because, well, what the hey, you are in a hotel, right?

Moving from the tub to the foam covered floor was keeping the action hot and she was giving me such an incredible blowjob and my euphoria glistened, expanded, and popped but kept growing like the bubbles still rising... I am sure you all know the feeling, right?

She was going by way of my balls with her tongue to my taint and you know I was not feeling the least bit nervous about my hygiene because, well, an hour in a hot whirlpool bath rubbing, splashing, fucking, and pumping is going to scrub anyone completely clean no doubt about it right?

Vegas food and vegas atmosphere and vegas clothing and everything else vegas are a gas but unfortunately that is exactly what came silent but deadly as a whispered threat right out of my butt which blew not only the bubbles back - though I must say she won the lifetime achievement award for good sportsmanship for returning to the scene of the crime and continuing - and I came up for a new sex act - "The Puffy Coombs". You get it. But I hope you never get it... alright.

lol - I didn't know that was the name. I did meet the world's most famous surfer on acid once and had the pleasure of eating dinner with him, a guy named Dr. Cary Mullis who won the Nobel Prize for inventing PCR which he was inspired to do while surfing on acid.

LOL!! I love that story.

Remember when you guys were all talking about it after it happened and it was like a Farrell-Spike-Norm-Lincoln giggle-fest and I demanded to be let in on the funny and no one wanted to tell me, of all the things I've had the misfortune to see/hear at a show and for some reason you were all too embarassed to share a gassy mishap story with me? Gees. I think I had to wait for Cabernet Spike to emerge before I got the goods.

Gentlemen do not discuss farts with Ladies.

26. Why is there a saying "It isn't a Player's Ball until Farrel gets naked?"

This goes way back and I believe the phrase was coined by J$tyles.

Seems like for a bunch of years usually at the after party I would find myself entangled in some sort encounter of an essentially xxx nature - my opinion being that we are in industry that celebrates sexuality but tends to be sort of asexual at many of its functions and gatherings. I was inspired to be in this industry like the Hefner's, Gucciones, and Flynts of the world, the people I feel practiced what they preached.

That takes us back to what we like to call a "Homegrown Moment" and this term was derived from when we would do shoots and sometimes action would spill over to behind the camera. This was never coerced in any way mind you - we have very strict rules about that. Basically, we never ask to go where we are not invited.

Now if you take the Player's Ball which certainly gets the sex appeal of the webmaster shows up like a double dose of viagra and throw in a bunch of really cool down to earth horny as fuck Homegrown girls to shake booty for a while then you quite prone to achieving a Homegrown Moment in the midst of the Player's Ball.

I guess on the amateur side of the porn universe folks are way more comfortable with getting naked and maybe having some fun and things like the Player's Ball and its after parties are just one more excuse to take it that direction...

BINGO!

Far-L,

After all these years, I have to say that you are one of the most enjoyable, down to earth, cool, smart and articulate people I've ever had the pleasure of meeting and spending time with! You are definitely a top notch/stand up guy ... and mean that sincerely and not in the GFY BRO way

This is a great ambush with fun stories - although I knew a bunch of them, it's great that people that don't know you have a chance to learn what a good guy you are and hopefully seek you out to do some biz.

BTW, I can tell you ALL first hand - http://www.HomeGrownVideo.com converts and retains. Far-L may not want to pound his chest but I WOULD if I were him ... because the simple fact is that IT DOES!

Keep up with the answers, man!

... and thanks for just being you

Great stuff!

27. Your content library covers a lot of niches- A LOT of them! How many niches do you think there really is?

This comes off as sort of a trick question because one could easily say there is no limit to niche. If you can imagine a fan for midget tranny foot fetish then fast as you can say "ron jeremy" one exists. At Homegrown we have narrowed our focus to about thirty solid ones that are not too obscure to obtain content for.

We have a lot of success with things that a lot of people don't realize are pure gold. Every time I see someone here, there, or anywhere complaining that a model has too hairy a bush I just want to laugh since I feel like that is saying "I just don't want to make too much money".