Porn Valley- Just in time for Halloween, I imagine. Guy Capo's Gothsend 2: The Second Coming. Capo was shooting a couple of scenes for it over at DVSX, www.dvsx.com which involved Katrina Kraven and Avy Lee Roth in a girl-girler. And because Victoria Sin flaked for want of a better term, Damian, the Woody Harrelson, lookalike got to work with Pamela Princess. Which is not a bad deal. Princess appeared in Teen Meat 2 which was directed by Capo and shoots Dee Wise in the face in that scene.
After he mentioned to Capo that, on the last shoot he was on, four out of the five girls flaked, Damian tells me he gets the Woody comments at least once a day. Not too long ago he ran into the real Harrelson in Maui while surfing.
Roth was busting my balls about the story I wrote on her last time we met in which I told Roth I came all the way from Wisconsin to interview her. Roth's scheduled to be on Dr. Susan Block's show Saturday night.
Then I started busting Capo's balls about his dressing a set entirely in industrial aluminum with three silver girders criss-crossing the breadth of it, tepee fashion. I ask if it's his tribute to 9/11 which is the day he's shooting this. Capo laughs and says something about the government creating a similar effect to convince us that we landed on the moon. Capo's very happy with the results of a recent shoot, Grudge Fuck, noting that Lee Stone and Kraven have performed perhaps the most outstanding scene he's shot to date.
Capo tells me the feedback on the first Gothsend has also been really, really good.
"I think it's going to be another typical Guy Capo line where it's either something you're really attracted to and in to, or it's just not your bag," he states. "It's very dark. It's very eerie. I tried to cover all the different facets of Goth from its history in the early 80's with the New Wave and Industrial movement coming out of Europe to the very vampiristic imagery of the 90's and the New Millennium. As things get more and more hardcore, Death Metal worked it's way into Goth, and all these really dark influences started taking over." Capo said he attempted to break up the scenes, accordingly. "Everybody's been really receptive to it so far, especially the Europeans.
Me, when I think of Goth, I think of houses with seven gabels and guys with the name Usher occupying them. So I had to ask Capo about the first scene in his movie which lends the impression that it was shot in a real cemetery. It certainly was.
"That was kind of the point of that one," Capo says. "It was to give everyone an immediate sense of shock factor- a very gargoylistic Gia Jordan masturbating on a large tombstone crucifix. That was certainly meant to tell you not to go any further if this is not your bag. Because things are only going to escalate from here. This second coming of Gothsend will also push the limits a little bit further."
I asked Capo how he pulled the cemetery bit off. Capo said it was an interesting quagmire that he got himself into. "It was a typical cemetery location that, normally, does not do adult-oriented things," he says. As if there are cemeteries that do.
"But they were willing to let us work as long as we stayed out of sight," he continued. "I guess we were just not quite far enough out of sight. We shot there on Mexican Mothers Day. I didn't know that there was a Mothers Day for Mexicans separate from an American Mothers Day. Although the cemetery was closed, a lot of people were coming by the gates making the sign of the cross, making a quick prayer and going on. In the process, realized, hey, there's people fucking on Uncle Franco's crucifix!!" Capo's laughing at the idea and notes that cops arrived.
"They put the kabosh on what we were doing but we heard them scaling the fence and immediately had the girls get dressed. We played it off as though we were shooting some stuff for a music video and student film."
The best effects in the whole movie, I tell him, are the shots captured at sundown in that first scene. "Yeah!" says Capo, agreeing. "Right into the evening. We timed it so we could get both dusk and dark into the shot. And I'm glad we did.
"Because since the shot got broken up by the authorities," Capo continues, "we re-created a black box set in the studio, lit it with a little bit of blue lighting to give it more of a night time effect. Then I intercut between the cemetery and the black box to give it a surreal feeling so that you didn't quite know if you were still in the same environment. Did we enter a mental landscape now? Or are we still actually in the cemetery?
"I think that's where the confusion came from," says Capo. "People were, is that a set? Is it not a set? It's not consistent. Sometimes we stayed in all black an sometimes it's obvious that they're fucking on a real live tombstone."
Again, busting Capo's balls, I quickly point out that porn stars who become directors cannot talk like this. He gets the joke and reacts uproariously. "You said it, not me," Capo laughs thinking of all the huzzah that erupted on ADT after his comments on KSEX, www.ksexradio.com last week.
Be that as it may, Capo's personal favorite in the first Gothsend, based on aesthetics, is the cemetery scene. "For sheer impact, Master Liam's scene in the dungeon with the whippings," he states. "Great scene. Maybe not, sexually, the strongest scene in the film. But for imagery I thought it was great. And you just don't see someone getting struck with a bullwhip every day in porn." It's interesting to note, says Capo, that Liam was trained to use a whip by the same guy who trained Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones.
It's noted that Kraven, who's about to do a phenomenal lesbo scene with Avy Lee Roth, in which they're both intertwined with string lights, dildos and anal lube, has become a stalwart in Capo shoots.
"She always has been," says Capo, attributing Kraven's "coachability" and "enthusiasm" to the reasons why he keeps bringing her back and again. "Katrina's willing to take direction," he states. "And she actually follows through. A lot of talent- you tell them what you're looking for, and tell them what you need and what the scene calls for and then they get into the scene and then do what they've done for every other producer in the Valley. But Katrina's really, really workable and wants to do things that take more effort than most. That's why I enjoy working with her."
Capo says he's never worked with Roth but got her, obviously, for the Goth look. "She's European and the more European influence I can work in these films, the better." Before Victoria Sin decided to flake, Capo had mentioned that he hired Sin for the same reason. "It'll help sell the authenticity of the film to have some true European Goths in it."
During their scene, Capo tells Kraven and Roth that he wants wrestling. The last time I saw the two participants wound together like this was a Texas Death Match. Roth and Kraven exhibit some incredible energy using their props to maximum effect. "I got a $130 worth of rope lights," Capo says. "I'm using them."
Roth is spitting on Kraven. There's no crying in baseball and there's no spitting in Goth!!!
During some down time, Capo explains another scene which he shot Friday. "I'm starting to dabble in the art of suspension," Capo explains. "After seeing Joey Strange who holds the world record for hook suspensions, I got the idea to suspend a girl doing a kind of solo act over top of a boy-girl scene that's happening in the main shot." Capo said, not being able to run actual hooks through the woman's skin, he hogtied her.
"We roped her up to the ceiling," said Capo. "We put her in very bondage- fetishy attire, black angel wings and a full hood mask. She was doing a masturbation." Capo tells me it was Shayna Knight who was suspended.
"Master Liam, who is literally an expert trained by experts [in bondage and S&M], was doing the sex scene with Vandalia." I asked Capo if any thought was given to suspending Knight's husband Bill Fox. Capo cracks up nearly unable to recover.
It's a visual.
