Hocus Pocus.

So, I’m going to reach into my top hat here and pull out this rabbit out for you…

That’s the video for the new Ciara single, “Love Sex Magic,” which is three of my favorite things. It features Justin Timberlake because, whether we like it or not, that guy is out there. Just like AIDS, man.

For like the first time in a year or so, I turned on VH1 the other morning, and… Wow, what a graveyard. Is this where mediocre music goes to die? Mainstream? The only diamond in the rough was this video, which I instantly thought was ridiculously sexy. The song isn’t great, but it’s good, I like it, and it works. As the Boston Herald put it: “Not quite magic, but it grows on you.”

That it does.

And granted, I know I’m screaming at the top of my lungs in a room full of deaf or uninterested people here, but Justin Timberlake, WTF? Is his presence necessary here? Especially considering this is a Ciara video and for the most part, she’s forced to just basically be the pretty girl with the lovely voice who gets the sing the hook on her own track.

Also, the other thing that gets me, is that Timberlake looks so incredibly disinterested in this video. This beautiful woman, a talented singer and dancer, is grinding all over him and except for a few moments here and there, he looks like he’s waiting to clock out and pick up his check from the record label. Was Jessica Biel standing just off set, watching with a mean scowl on her face? It’s horrible because it kind of undersells the video and makes Ciara look like she’s trying to hard to win over, what? This guy? Please.

I shit you not, the Wikipedia caption for the above photo is: Ciara as a sexy tigress in a cage in the music video.

But I guess this also fits into the bit more than slightly misogynistic trend in music videos where the loser guy just kind of sits there while the hot girls do all the hard work and sweating. And Ciara is certainly doing that here. And then some.

And Timberlake just looks like he’s thinking about playing with his magic wand.

many happy returns!

from here.

We here at Carnal Knowledge would like to wish you a very happy Easter this year, and we sincerely hope that you, much like us, are on your way out to a sexy Easter egg hunt. 🙂

(Or something just as fun as that.)

The Whole Chicken.

“For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.”

and

“Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken.”

-Isabel Allende.

So true, Isabel, so true. Here at Carnal Knowledge, I think we like to think of ourselves as the whole chicken, but with some damn fine feathers. Or so we hope…

A touch of Grey.

Here’s the poster for the new film by Steven Soderbergh, The Girlfriend Experience, which stars the lovely and talented Sasha Grey:

I really dig that poster. And I’m actually quite a huge Soderbergh fan, so I’d probably be looking forward to this no matter what it was, pretty much, but I’m fascinated by Sasha Grey’s transition (one hopes) from an actress in adult cinema to an actress in mainstream films, or at least films made by filmmakers like Soderbergh.

Sasha Grey, birthday girl.

Of course, on the down side, she’s playing a prostitute (presumably giving someone the girlfriend experience), so there might not be quite the mainstream credibility she could potentially deserve, but it should be interesting either way, right?

Sasha celebrating her 21st (she’s only 21!) birthday recently with what is quite possibly her boyfriend, Billy Corgan.

You can follow Sasha’s twitter, which has some very interesting stuff on it, including this:

…And here’s her now infamous American Apparel ad for one of my favorite blogs, The Reverse Cowgirl:

I thin it’s safe to say that we’re fans of Sasha here at CK, not just becase she’s amazing at what she does, but because she’s a success-minded young woman on an interesting path in her career and has made it clear time and time again that she doesn’t plan on solely being what you expect of her.

Thank God I found an angle like you.

The other day as I was leaving work I encountered a note that someone had typed up and left laying about, fallen to the ground as they were rushing about. It said:

“I believe in miracles and higher powers. I believe that we all have someone watching over us, watching everything we do. I believe we all have angles, and I think that you’re one. And I thank God that I found an angle like you.”

How sad that it made me think of porn, right?

Never mind just the watching part, because it’s all about watching (though sound plays a big part in things as well), but it’s all about angles.

Though you might also call it framing.

Or blocking.

Or just plain God-given flexibility.

One of the clips, I stole some of these images from, “Sexy Teen Loves Cock,” is hot. The girl is cute, flexible, and it’s just fun and sexy. The other clip, “Pretty young babe Faye Reagan gets fucked,” is also hot, but I really hate the guy in it. And it’s not as fun. The guy comes off as increasingly sleazy, a little too prone to throw out the “dirty slut” name calling. Granted, I’ve been around the block – and make no mistake here, because Sin Titulo is a dirty, dirty man – and I know that in the heat of filthy passion, things sometimes go that way, but I look at this dirtbag and I have to wonder why he isn’t saying to this young woman: “Thank God I found an angle like you.” But, you know, nicer.

i’m in the mood for love.

Today I wanted to talk a little about angles and how sometimes, something is perfect depending on how you see it.

From 2007’s Lust, Caution.

The genesis for that was going to be (and is now) me talking about how Ang Lee’s gorgeous and seductive film, Lust, Caution. It’s a beautifully erotic film, and stars Tony Leung, the man who is probably the lead actor in every single Chinese adult film.

Not adult as in porno (despite the evidence to the contrary in these images from Lust, Caution), but adult as in mature and erotic films for adults. Watch a film starring Tony Leung and you’ll see what I mean. And not just that, but you’ll see one of the most still, most restrained and classy actors in cinema anywhere in the world.

Tony Leung and Wei Tang in Lust, Caution.

This is how he describes himself: “I am very restrained, very suppressed, very quiet. I don’t like to talk too much because I don’t know what to do in front of an audience. Actually, I don’t know how to communicate with others because of my background and I am scared.” It’s not surprising to hear him say that since his screen presence is a disarming sense of dangerous confidence mixed with wounded masculinity.

From Wong Kar-Wai’s 2046.

Also, he – Tony Leung Chiu-Wai – apparently is known by the nickname of “Little Tony,” to distinguish himself from “Big Tony,” who is Tony Leung Ka-Fai. For some reason, I always assumed it was Chiu-Wai in The Lover, but it was Ka-Fai.

“Every once in a while a train leaves to a place where lost memories are remembered. But no one has ever returned from 2046.”

“…except me.”

If you haven’t seen Wong Kar-Wai’s In The Mood For Love yet, which is one of the most agonizingly beautiful love stories ever, then I suggest you put down your internet and go find yourself a viewing of it immediately. There is no nudity in the film, no sex scenes, and yet it’s so erotic that you’ll ache from longing. And maybe that longing will be satisfied by it’s sequel (of sorts), 2046.

Wong Kar-Wai is a brilliant director and thanks to his cinematographer, Christopher Doyle, you can literally take any scene from either of those (or any of his films, honestly) and just pluck them right off the screen and hang them on your wall.

Tomorrow or the next day, we’ll talk about the angles (you’ll see what I mean). But tonight is me suggesting that you find yourself In The Mood For Love as soon as possible. Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung in that film are real, beautiful cinema at it’s finest. Go see what I mean.

Two Separate Passions.

“…when Tomas made love he kept his eyes open, focused and observant, his body ever so slightly arched above her, never pressing against her skin. She did not want him to study her. She wanted to draw him into the magic stream that may be entered only with closed eyes…She hated that distance. She wanted to merge with him.”

“Tomas came to this conclusion:  Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite.  Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”

-two different excerpts from The Unbearable Lightness Of Being by Milan Kundera. Recommended. But you should know that already.

And the pictures, of course, are from the 1988 film version, directed by Phillip Kaufman and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Lena Olin, and Juliette Binoche.

The blarney stone.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Today’s a day for a universal bonding between all people in that whether you’re Irish or not, today we all drink like we are!

Luna and I wish we had more to say tonight, but she’s still off being all professional as hell and me… well, I’m staying in tonight and drinking like a professional. 😉 But we haven’t forgotten about you, nooooo sir. Today I share with you not a great clip, but a topical and season one: “Faye Reagan – St. Patrick’s Parade in her pussy!” Now, doesn’t that sound like fun?

As you can see from the above screencap… Yes. Yes, it does. We hope you enjoy it and more importantly, we hope you have a fun, safe night, but mostly fun. And we’ll see you very soon.

Lezzie Sunday 02.

Well, the end of the weekend is upon us, and while my illustrious co-blogger is off being all serious like, I’m stuck here manning the fires. And no better pun is set up by the words “manning” and “fires” than one involving the greatest and sexiest force in the known universe: lesbians.

First up, the very succinctly titled: “Fireside teen cunt loving!” I promise you that a title like that says what it means and means what it says. This clip is fun, but kind of silly (isn’t all porn?), but I’ll give it an extra point and knock it up to simply wonderful because it actually features voiceovers and dialogue via voiceovers like: “So, it was just me, the warm fireplace, and my fingers in my wet pussy… Like I had done so many times before.” Wonderful.

Secondly, I give you “Sasha seduces Rebeca,” and I think this is the perfect niche for Sasha Grey in her acting roles with female co-stars: She should always be the tempting big sister, or big step sister, or something like that. Something about her is just wonderfully evil and I really hope that she goes around corrupting young cuties on her own free time not just because she’s good at it, but because she seems to genuinely enjoy it! Anyway, both girls are gorgeous and, well, it’s naked girls having sex. You really can’t go wrong with this concept, I promise you.

And our last video for the day is simply called “Sue Ann and Celina,” and if I was just to give you two reviews here, one extremely short and one more detailed, the short one would just go like this: I fucking love this clip.

I really, really do. The clip consists of two girls sitting in the kitchen, having a nice little chat and playing with themselves. And watching the other while playing with themselves. As much as I (and everyone, for that matter) love watching two women making love, I think that Luna would agree with me tha sometimes one of the hottest things you’ll see in porn (and life too, for that matter) is mutual masturbation.

I also have to love the particularly tasty meta moment towards the end, when the girls are enjoying the afterglow, and the lovely lady on the right asks her friend in what I think is a lovely Australian accent, “I wonder why guys like it so much, when they see two women doing it. I wonder what the big attraction is.”

It’s a good thing that the girls filmed this so they can play it back and see the same thing that the rest of us are seeing.

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