My favorite Dead song of all time...

May have to dig out my old photo albums and scan some pix of the Dead that I shot way back in the day (and night)...

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want me to pull some outta the wordwork???? :eek:

hehe, just joking, i have a couple cool ones from our trip down south

great interview Far-L :thumbsup

I was really happy to see this Ambush interview. Beyond the fact that Homegrown and VS are about as close to family-status as two companies could be, I really admire Farrel independently of that. He has proven that his actions are consistent with his words (a rare quality in this industry), and he has helped keep the integrity/consistency of the HG brand. I thoroughly enjoy whenever we get a chance to speak, and his town crier impersonation gets belly laughs every time, without fail.

I was a little disappointed I didn't get to see monkey boy in Florida, but I am crossing my fingers for Vegas... a show isn't complete without it. :)

This will be one interview I'll read every word of - can't wait for the rest of the answers.

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Well damn, Im southern oregon myself.

anyway, well cross paths sometime with drinks in hand...



im sure youve got this before, but you remind me heavily, both your "voice", your ways, your attitude, your growth and most obviously, your image... of Abbie Hoffman.

You wouldn't mean this gorilla would you?

http://www.homegrowngazette.com/farl/gorilla1.jpg

You were lucky Lani went home with YOU that night, her and half the other girls were all a-twitter over 12clicks and his sexy poker ways!

Looks like that dude with the earring is eyefucking the shit out of your wee wee.

Quite an interesting read :)

http://www.jokesunlimited.com/myspac...lowpanties.jpg

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so THATS what it was! I definitely enjoyed the hospitality. :winkwink:

This is definitely a very entertaining read.

Looking forward to all the answers- Far-l has always been one of my favorite peeps.

sweeeeeeeeeeeet

LAJ was kinda fawning on Far-L in Florida too, I wonder if he's obsessed now?

omg I'm loving this interview!! Thanks for the great read!!!

I keep coming back to read the updates, great interview so far Far-L!

Brad

6. What is " Xplor Media?"

When we finally took over the assets of Homegrown Video from the bankruptcy proceeding naturally we were excited to get right down to business and get a new title out. We created a new box design and put together a strong bunch of scenes for it. After spending a bag of loot to get a bunch duplicated we sat down to make our first sales call to a big brick and mortar distributor.

"Hello"

"Hi"

"Who's this?"

"Hi, this is Farrell from Home-"

"Fuck you and fuck you mother!"

Click.

Every call we made. Either hung up on outright or chastized for a few seconds of abuse then hung up on.

Finally we realized that no one was going to take anything called "Homegrown Video" because the previous ownership had destroyed the goodwill of the company so thouroughly. In fact, we couldn't sell a distributor a piece of Homegrown for an entire year. The one sale we thought we made was returned.

Two things saved us from going out of biz almost faster than we had gotten into it. First, we hobbled along on our mail list to sell direct to consumers. Then, we created the name Xplor Media and we started putting together titles that were based on themes that were popular with our mailorder customers.

That is how we ended up being the first company to market series based on niche specific themes. We were the first company out there doing a cream pie series for example and hairy bush, plump, horny over 40, etc. (And this was a huge asset to us when we went from selling vhs videos off bbs sites to actually running a website since we were so deep in niche)

Once the Xplor brand had earned enough respect then we started bringing back the Homegrown and have kept working to make that our marquee brand, today, tomorrow, and beyond.

And you can tell by my wee wee which looks like I just went swimming after the Titantic went down that I have chosen "flight" over "fight" in response to the scrutiny...

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

7. How many women did you have sex with by the time you decided to stop counting?

I never counted because I never saw it as a competition in which a score needed to be kept. I have had a lot of beautiful, safe sex with wonderful women over the years. No doubt about it. I was born to porn. The only milestone that I can recall is when I realized that physical beauty had absolutely nothing to do with what made for a good or bad experience and that attitude and enthusiasm were everything. I was paid to have sex with the most beautiful porn stars that were about as exciting to fuck as a piece of knotted timber. I am sure someone could produce some of the shots of shoots I did with toothless biker chick amateurs that had seen better days but who loved sex and knew how to ring a guy's bell and left me walking dazed and euphoric for days.

Yes the group was Organized Rhyme

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2ctc4daiIZU

Nicely said and corresponds with my very personal research ! :2 cents::pimp

I have never had the pleasure of meeting Far-L.. I feel so unloved! :(

I did meet Joel once.. I guess hes just as cool if you take away all the cash, celebs, airplane and the good looks.

But we did hang in his big ass suite at Internext :)

Please post the pix with the beautiful porn stars, and not the toothless biker chicks... :eyecrazy

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No way, toothless all the way!

Far-L - for those of us who are refreshing in hopes of another answer coming out, d'ya think ya can speed it ups a wintzybit? LMAO

If you haven't met Farrell, you are really missing out. He is way cool and friendly with everyone. He can reccomend the most awesome mindblowing movies you will ever soon, and can tell you the craziest stories.

That being said, when I was hired on, it was quite odd edit the famous "Flying Anal" the day after I first met him. Working in porn takes some getting used to.

I'd also like to point out, <-- I have an earlier registration here than everyone else on the HomegrownVideo team! Hah!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...stos/farl1.jpg
Like you totally wouldn't do the same thing if you got that close

Some great stories and answers!

great stuff Farrel!!
HomeGrown are good folks.:thumbsup

8. What is " Mr. Peeper's Home Videos"?

Mr Peepers was an amateur video series produced in Porn Valley, USA. The first video my ex and I made when we got into the LA porn scene was shot for Mr Peepers by a guy named Paul who would later become reborn as the notorious Max Hardcore.

The valley was melt-the-tarmac hot and another couple to shoot was at the duplex which was completely empty save for the wall-to-wall brown and orange shag carpet circa 1981.

The other couple was a cute blond pair who had big porn hair that had done a few porns already. Paul wanted them to go first "so they could show us what to do". Ok. No problem. No matter that we had shot a bunch of homemade amateur videos, spent a couple of years studying the biz, doing tantric sex workshops, and reading everything from feminist anti-porn rhetoric to every sex manual known to the western world. We were ready. I guess we just didn't look like we were ready. We didn't have the right hair.

So we would wait, sweating away while the other couple went horizontal. And sweat. And wait some more while standing there dripping. The experienced couple was having issues. Or more appropriately the dude was having difficulties keeping his dick hard. Apparently it kept melting away before any good "core" could be shot.

Finally, Paul decided to move on and give the panting pair a break. Time for me and Alyssa. Paul's brother opened some doors and windows to try and get some air flow to cool the place down.

Now we were certainly ready and we went at each other like a couple of bunnies at the easter orgy. It was good. Solid raunch. Sweaty, heaving sex. Butt smacking and dick gagging hardcore. Sex. The other couple became rather turned on and started making out by the open door to stay cool.

The camera was rolling and framed a nice close up on Alyssa's face while I rocked her from behind. That is when the neighbor walked by. We didn't see her but we both heard her clearly.

"Close the door you FUCKING PERVERTS!!!"

Alyssa looked over. Then looked back in the lens. Pause. Disbelief. Then looked again and looked back into the lens. We both started laughing hysterically.

And it was all captured on video. An enterprising perv could probably dig it up on a sexentertain feed since I am pretty sure they licensed all that Peepers stuff.

Welcome to the valley. Now blow your load and get the fuck out!:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

9. What does this phrase mean to you: " Content is as buffalo to the Indian"?

I have a few mantras that have served me well since getting into this biz. One of them is "sex is food, people have to eat". Another is "content is as buffalo to the indian". (and yes I do know that "buffalo" are more accurately referred to as bison)

The idea is simple. Just as the plains indian would utilize every part of the animal for clothing, food, tools, etc. content needs to be broken down into as many different uses as possible. A cut for every outlet, net, cable, DVD, mobile, softcore, hardcore, etc.

I think I found a frame grab:

http://www.maximmag.co.uk/images/lib...us_11092_8.jpg

I love porn bloopers...

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"Forbidden Zone" - Love that movie and was completely shocked to see it again on cable recently. Oingo Boingo. Herve V. A Zappa cameo. What else do you need for a party?

Your genius has just reached a whole new level as far as I am concerned. First the Dead on YouTube. Now this. Amazing.

pico and sepulveda, pico and sepulveda, pico and sepulveda

man really good read.

Obscure/arcane references and double entendre are my forte...

Anyway, you are good my friend, picking up on that - BTW, Danny Elfman was Satan. Go figure...

Pico and Sepulveda

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http://www.viewaskew.com/kevin/chicks1.jpg

10. Have you ever shot porn with Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher)

Yes indeed. And in anticipation of the Dreyfuess question, I shot porn with him, fisher, buck henry, and tim hutton and a big shot producer named Charley Wessler's place.

This was back when myself and the south park fellas were making "prankster porn" together. At the time, no one knew what Trey or Matt looked like but everyone and their monkey's uncle had seen the spirit of xmas clip that became "South Park".

Soooooo... when we were invited to shoot a scene at wessler's place and he mentioned that some of his friends would be there to watch we knew we had to put on a really big shoooo.

I pretended to be Trey, mr up and coming hollywood superstar, and Trey pretended to be me, the porn version of cecil b. demille. We hired porn stars to not be porn stars but come in no make up and pass out coffee and cake. When the action got rolling, Buck Henry whipped out his mini cam to make his own video. Dreyfuess couldn't take his eyes off the action. Even when Matt Stone walked by and intentionally farted on him. Trey kept barking things like "people, people, I need more ASS LICKING! Goddammit GIVE ME MORE ASS LICKING!"

And me... well they all were coming up to me and saying how big I was going to be.

Our cover was almost blown because the make up artist that we hired was a popular 70s porn starlet who happened to know Buck from the glam fuck days of disco and Plato's Retreat. But, even if he knew what was up he kept it cool so we could keep up the goof.

At one point I asked Carrie if she could get the shots for me since I needed to pee. "What should I get?" She asked as earnestly as if she was talking to Luke in Episode 3. "Close ups!" I demanded. "Just get close ups!"

We kept it going and at one point the porn couple serving coffee makes like they are so turned on by the shooting that they take off their clothes and go out to the balcony to fuck. Buck didn't miss a beat but followed them right out with his camera. Carrie and Tim Hutton sat on a couch and looked on while a pair of porn folks gave each other head a foot or two away.

Finally, I make like I am so turned on that I can't stand it any longer either. I drop trou and put my cock into the action.

You could hear the gasps from four hollywood stars and their respective entourages like the oxygen had just been sucked out of the room. Then when enough atmosphere returned "Nooooooooooo" came out as a collective groan. End of a career before it even started you could hear them all thinking.

By the next day it was already circulating in the gossip mill. Buck Henry ran into Trey's very real attorney the next day at a cocktail party and told him what happened.

And the rest is Hollywood history. I guess being in porn doesn't have to ruin your career in Hollywood.

I'm applauding right now... out of sheer joy. I love you, Farrel. :)