19. How many stamps are in your passport? Talk about your worst border crossing experience.

I had to open it and count. Got 83 stamps on it since december 1998, that's an average of one trip a month give or take for 7 years. Not bad :)

Worse one ever was landing with Delta in Cincinnati in january 2002 on my way to Vegas. Stood two hours an half in line for immigration after flying 8 hours, missed the plane, had to sleep in a Ramada inn that was last refurbished in the 70's. Good times. I never stop in the US anymore, if I need to go to Vegas and there is no direct flight, I do a stop in Europe, London or Amsterdam and fly direct from there. Immigration bacame so ridiculous that u miss ur plane each time.

Had a good time more recently on our way back from Vegas with Sam and a friend. Felt asleep at takeoff (not difficult after 5 days and nights in Vegas...heheh), woke up with plane shaking, pilot announcing an emergency landing because we have an oil leak. Went down in spiral really quick, landed in between fire trucks. Fireman in full gear made us leave the aircraft. They put us in an unused part of the terminal in Amaritto Texas, no food no water no news for 8 hours. I found that if u went to the far end of it, glued to the fence, u were geting a wifi signal, so we spent our day on the Net at least. Finaly that snet another aircraft, you had to have your original boarding pass to get on (they left 30 passengers there...ggghh) and we landed in Atlanta shortly after. ONly to go to another crappy hotel for the night, and believe it or not this is where I had one of the very best wines of my life. My friend Greg gave me two very nice bottles of Californian wine for me to bring back home and taste with my snob French friends. We decided to open them in an effort to turn a bad day into something better and we were soo right! (Did I just said two bottle of Calif wine were among the best ones I ever had? ggghhh)

You sure u guys don't need time alone? ;)

6. Take about scuba diving, motercross, race cars and your other adverture hobbies.

Before geting to the last 10 questions, I'd like to got back to this one coz I almost forgot I climbed the Mont Blanc in French Alps last year. Did it with a friend, he grew up there, we hired a guide and after two days of training did the thing in one day. Left very early, very light gear and backpack so we could go fast and do it in one day. If you don't go fast, then u need to bring more stuff coz it's two days and that weight slows u down more...

Made me defeat my fear of heights, and it remains one of my biggest physical and mental achievement so far :)

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Got any wines you can discuss that are good?

I know shit about Californian wines, had a few opus one that were excelent, but for most of it I just follow my American friends. French I know better, I like almost all pomerol and margaux: Chateau trotte veille, chateau palmer, chateau talbot, duluc ducru, chateau maucailloux, chateau branaire... to name a few ;)

20. Who do you look up to in the online adult industry? Down on?

Definetly Lars. And I love him being a bit bit bored now he made it :) Down on? mmm, anyone making an ass of himself on a show, being too drunk (spliting wine on your white shirt is ok, tho) and/or irrespectfull to woman.

21. How mad was the French IRS at you for cheating on your taxes?

Pretty mad. But I was even more than them because I didn't cheat. They came to us about VAT, stayed a year at the office coming back and forth and asked us to pay... 700.000?. We fought and ended up paying a bit less than 200.000?. They logic was european surfers should pay the VAT one way or another. They couldn't care less that customers were buying from and american biller and from an american company (TotemCash is in Florida), they basicaly told us that as they couldn't reach companies in the US they were going to make the French company pay.

Few people know that European law says that any company billing a European customer should collect the VAT (19.6 percent in France...) and give it back to the EU country of its choice. Of course they have no mean to enforce that to American companies, but if they can put their hands on anything in Europe, they'll try to get their money. And law here when it comes to IRS is guilty until proved innocent, they take ur money and then u can try to sue them if you don't agree.

Sometimes I wonder why I'm the only idiot not to be incorporated in the islands. Maybe the answer is in the question.

22. What are you favorite adult conventions? Least favorite?

The smaller the better imho. Love Curacao, snowgathering (this year in Iceland!). Phoenix would be an exception, only real good show with lots of people.

Least favorite would be Vegas, I don't get why they have (had) a showfloor, who are you going to impress with a booth today? I hope the new formula will be better and that I'll be proven wrong this January :)
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23. What is the best airline to fly? discuss in detail the airlines you travel on.

I mostly travel on Air France because it's the online airline with direct flights to almost everywhere from Paris. This said, this is a terrible airline. Always late and their frequent flyer program is a joke. I'm gold with them, but I can't use my miles to upgrade. Unless I pay full fare (which is the price of business on other airlines), there is no upgrades possible. I'm using AircCanada more and more, at least Sam has vouchers for upgrades from them all the time.

Best airline I flew on was most probably Bristish Airways, been bumped once in first class and it was niiiiiiiice. But as it's the only time I flew first, it's difficult to compare. I want to try Virgin, but it means a stop in London and that airport is a real pain security wise since 9/11.

mmmm, feel a little bit lonely in here.

24. How many speeding tickets have you gotten? What does your licence and car insurance cost in Paris?

I've been very lucky so far. Got only 2, one for 65 Km/h for 50, another one for 111Km/h for 70. Knocking wood. We have a point system in France, you lose one to 6 for each ticket and you start with a capital of 12. Once you lost everything, you have to wait from 6 months to one year and pass you driving licence again. And they added 1000 automatic radars all over the country last year. They take pictures, it's all automated and u receive the fine at home within 48 hours...

I pay around 5000? of taxes a year for my car, plus another 1500? for insurance. This is not where the heavy taxes are here, they mostly focus on salaries and income. When u pay an employee here, he only receive 80% of whatever you want to pay him, the remaining 20% you have to send to the state, plus an extra 47%. Given he will pay anything from 20-30% of income taxes (up to 48% on whatever is above 60k? a year), there is a very very very bad ratio between the money a company spend on its employees and what they get. You might like France for a lot of good reasons, but the taxes are INSANE.

Rex is the man; a true gentleman. One of the best interviews yet. :thumbsup

25. Talk about the time you carried a blow up doll though the streets and subways of LA.

haha, my friend Greg once told us he had a surprise night for us in LA, no questions asked. So Greg, Chad and David from Python, Rob Gould, Sam and myself are being picked up at our hotel by a limo and a... quest begins in LA going from place to places, resolving puzzles, carrying blow up dolls in the subway, to end up in front of a nice dinner at the house of blues. I never did anything like this before, we really had a blast and I'm still thankfull to Greg for puting up such a nice evening for his friends.

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26. How does it make you feel to know that California makes better wine than France?

Honest answer? sad. coz it's true. Lots of incredible good wines in almost every country, California, France, Italy, Spain, South Africa, Chile, just to name a few. But as French wines are only about the soil (no blends unless the the ones from the place itself), I'd say that most average Californian, Chilian, South African wines are better than the French where the best is always right next to the worse.

We have had a little wine club going on on shows for a while now, it all started in Curacao in 2003 (memorable night with Greg, Gary, David, Chad, Herve and a few other wine conoisseurs) and since then we always find room to share wine from our respective countries. More recently, Fred from Braincash entered the game with good port, can't wait for the few other I know who like good wine (Platinum Dan feel free to bring a few bottle to the next show!) to step in! Best year was 2005 where Greg was sick and I had to go back with ALL the wine to France. I had a tasting night at home with my French friends and they would have died before admiting that the FarNiente we just had was better than out Chateau Figeac, but IT WAS :)

wow - great read so far!

27. Why do you always take the stairs up to your 7th floor apartment when you have an elevator?

Because it gives you a nice ass :)

Thanks, almost done here. I did not realise this thing was WORK!

let me know after your next 2-3 shows - most tell me from the responses they get when they see people in person the time invested was priceless. :2 cents:

28. Why, when talking to Greg about one of your washrooms and after inspecting it yourself, did you tell him to "never go in there"?

That's the bathroom of the dungeon upstairs. It's shared between all the slaverooms and have been last refurbished most probably 40 years ago. So whatever you do if you come here, don't go in there.

29. If your soo smart how did Herve kick your ass at programing in 1985? And what's your problem with clipping routines?

In 1985 I was into video games and hackers demos on Atari ST. There was a competition going on between me and Herve and he always had the upper hand, ggggghhhh :) Whatever I was coming up with, he always was one step further. My explanation on it is he was older than me (one year) and that's what made the difference...lol

Cliping is a bit technical. On older computers, you had to display the sprites yourself, in assembly langage and one of the key feature is cliping. That's where you want to display only a part of your sprite on the screen, the other part being outside of it. The trick is to avoid displaying the part that is outside of the screen, which can be difficult when the screen structure are entrelaced, without compromising with the speed. I always had problems with that, ie small pixels appearing where they shouldn't and it bacame a recuring joke between us... I think I still have one working one a backup CD somewhere, just in case I'd have to do that again :)

30. What is the sexy rexy pseudo story?

Miami 2005, Shaliza invited me to the epassporte dinner and I bailed at the last minute. It was in the main hall of the hotel, we were siping wine at a table with a few friends. She was upset and told me out loud, "No more Sexy Rexy anymore". Everybody laugh, end of story. So I though. Next thing I know Sleazy asked Eric to change my nick on GFY and I became Sexy Rexy overnight. Thank you guys, I love that story and it makes me feel part of the family.

Plus it gives me the motivation to go to the gym, don't want to be renamed fatty rexy :)

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I'd like to thank you Sleazy for giving me that oportunity. I'm proud to be part of the pioneers of this industry and I see this ambush interview, along with the 103 previous ones as a great snapshot of theses incredible times, that will remain.

Last but not least, I'd like to dedicate this thread to my love Sam :frenchman

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Great read....

You guys make such a cute couple....

See you in Las Vegas !

:)

awwww... that is so sweet Rex :liebe028:

What a great ambush interview!

Rex is a great business man and an even better friend.

You and Sam are awesome, can't wait to see you both again!

Awesome read! Way to go Rex :P

Merci!

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Nice interview, loving the pics.

Awesome interview Richard!!! :thumbsup See you in Vegas :)

Wow!

GREAT AMBUSH!

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Very interesting history, Richard. Glad you took the time to do this!

Looking forward to seeing you in Vegas :)

Great interview

What a grand ambush ! Thanks Rich !

A morning in Toronto!
 

Sweet Rexi!

Spend 40 minutes reading about you and some from your life! awesome!!! its always a pleasure everywhere in the world we meet, historically and for sure in the future!!!

great work to share so much funny moments and thoughts!

Skarlen,

btw, i'm in for the wine club... u all need to learn some from the spanish wine yards

good job !!!

Wow ! Great read Rex, I have to say Im impressed !! Didn't know you did all those things !

You and Sam really are the best !

À très bientôt j'espère ! C'est toujours un plaisir de passer du temps avec vous ! xox

Rex is one of the first guys I met my first show! Since then he has been nothing than a good an loyal friend and business partner.

Last year I was in Paris and he showed me around in his home town and took all time to make sure I saw all the neat places.

Unfortunately I had to kick your ass with the sumo wrestling in Phoenix :P LOL
... Rex gave me a hard time and I had no change ....

great read Rex, you are definitely living a life! see you in vegas!

going to read it all now, going to be interesting!

Great interview, with a great person :thumbsup

Barney,

Thanks for the kind words. I'm VERY flatered to be your first post, I really feel the love now :) You're more than welcome to the wine club, please bring the bottle of your choice to Vegas and we'll make time to open a few :)