Will Clark World

FACEBOOK AND GROWING INDIFFERENCE

As I write this, I am grateful that the look of my profile hasn't, as of yet, changed. It's taken me a long time to figure out where the photos are, where the sent messages are stored and a half dozen other things - the learning of which will now be rendered obsolete through yet another redesign.

However, lest you think I'm one of those who complains bitterly about the whims of a free social network service, I want to add here that while I used to get really annoyed, with this redesign I almost couldn't care less.

Facebook has become, for me, sort of like that guy we all know who has a lot of boyfriends - not all at the same time, but in succession. They are usually younger than him (but not always) and they are usually wildly inappropriate for him (but not always) and they always fail at just about the point when things get serious (usually somewhere between three to six months). If you are like me, you have stopped learning the names of the serial boyfriends, because really, what's the point? By the time you see the friend again, he'll be on to the next one.

Better save that parcel of grey matter for something that really matters -  like where to stand on the platform when you get on a train so that when you get off, you are right where you need to be to get out of the station. (There are many terms for this but I call it "pre-placing" yourself).

What this really signals for me, is a sudden kind of indifference to the website. I went nearly an entire week without posting anything on the site - although I did that with this blog as well. Not sure entirely what that means, but it feels significant somehow. I have to say that THE SOCIAL NETWORK left a bad taste in my mouth about the whole social networking phenonema .. which I don't think was Sorkin's intent.

So, with this new redesign, Facebook has become a serial dater - the look changes but I just can't get too excited to really leran it - because another one will come around soon enough anyway. I guess I'm 'just not that into it'.

CHECKING IN WITH VERY MARY KATE'S NAKED BODYGUARD

If you're a fan of the website VeryMaryKate.com, you probably know that in a recent installment, Mary Kate walked in on Bodyguard naked while showering (after picking his lock- there's a kind of logic there but don't think too hard about it; it needed to happen to jump start a story arc). The episode below is the episode in question but head to the site to catch up on recent developments.

For those of you not familiar with the series, it's a series of webisodes created by and starring actress/writer Elaine Carroll featuring the 'unofficial biography of Mary-Kate Olsen" (you can catch the real Mary-Kate some Saturday nights hiding out in the back bar of Splash, but you didn't hear that from me).

Anyway, the series started last year and was a sleeper hit featuring delightfully daffy low-key, low tech  episodes about the life of Mary-Kate and her hunky bodyguard, Bodyguard, with occasional appearances by her twin sister Ashley and various celebrities that they come in contact with (although more often than not the celebrity impersonators are the weak link in the series).

The creator took a few months off and returned this autumn after the series was bought up by College Humor.com which now presents new material every Tuesday and Thursday. And while still funny and the production values improved, I feel that the actors are pushing a wee bit too hard in the newer batch. But hardly a reason not to catch up them, particularly when the writing is as sharp as it's ever been.

One of the biggest strengths of the series is finding new ways in which to show off the incredible body of belonging to Bodyguard. Not that I'm complaining of course. :)

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

SEXY SATURDAY: WILFRIED KNIGHT DEBUTS WEBSITE

I have to tell you a secret.. something that you probably already know, but I'm going to tell you anyway: most porn star sites suck. Many studio sites aren't much better. Many years ago I wrote a website review column in Unzipped under an alias and, naturally, me being me, thought they wanted accurate, true reviews. Naturally, they did not want that. But the point is that I looked at a LOT of websites in the year that I did the column and mostly enjoyed it although having to sort through the crap to find a good website to review (because even though I wasn't writing as "me" I still felt a duty not to out and out lie when something wasn't a good site) was a never ending source of annoyance. I wanted to write some constructive criticism but the column became merely a promo tool (and then, in one case, an erotic website complained to the magazine that we had reviewed them too favorably and they couldn't handle the traffic.. sheesh, you can't please ANYBODY).

So it was with a little trepidation that I looked at Wilfried Knight's new website just put out by Lucas Entertainment but to my (pleasant) surprise the site is incredibly well put together and is accessible and easy. And uncluttered, easy to navigate (thank you to whomever made the nav bar simple.. when you have one hand on the mouse and another somewhere else, you really don't want to perform a lot of gymnastics in trying to find what you're looking for).

Sure, there are box covers from Wilfried's 18 movies for Lucas but that makes sense.. at least there aren't endless ads (will someone PLEASE tell the porn industry that ads that buzz, fly and flash are gross and annoying?) but this is at the end of the day a promo site for a very hot young man.

Basically if you are hot for Mr. Knight, this site is comprehensively catalogued with all of his sex scenes and descriptions from every movie he's done (linked of course to the Members only area of the Lucas Ent site, no freebies here) as well as personal and professional pictures and some behind the scenes interviews.

There is also a blog but as the site was only launched last week, it's only got the introductory one; it seems though as though it'll grow.

Although I've never met him, I'm sure Knight has appeared at award shows and at big industry parties and sometimes those pictures are fun to have in the 'personal' section (although I could see where Lucas Ent wouldn't necessarily want to have non Lucas Ent folks in the gallery.. it makes Knight look a little bit of an isolationist but then again, maybe that's intentional..)

I'm sure there's probably more to know about Knight, rumors and trash talk, and the internet is free for you to rout around, but if you are simply looking for an easily navagatible site where you can find out about this particular star in short order, this is the place to bookmark. And return to.

(Update note: Well, whoops, aren't I embarassed? It's WILFRIED not WILIFRED... eyes were playing tricks on me. I'll just have to remember it like this: FRIED is always better. )

SEXY SATURDAY: CRISTIAN TORRENT TV

Men with accents are pretty much automatically hot.

Hot men with accents are irresistible.

Which is why I've been packing a boner for Barcelona based porn star Cristian Torrent for the past year or so since he popped onto my radar. Not content with simply being in others' XXX flicks, Torrent has set about making his own high def flicks ready made for perverts such as myself who like seeing hot, hairy, tattooed, muscle guys go at it with each other. Plus the extra added benefit for me at least - I don't know any of them so I don't bring some baggage to the table (a really big problem for me and U.S. gay porn I should point out).

The CristianTorrentTV site itself is easy to maneuver although the design is spartan.. one feels as though one's walked into a house that's not quite finished yet, but that's OK. What's important when having an unfinished website (although websites are never truly finished are they?) is that people feel that it's being attended to, and Cristian's certainly does.

There are some free clips which give you the sense of the types of guys are featured in his flicks as well as some performance stuff (like a really hot on stage show he did in Berlin) and some circuit party stuff. 

The circuit party stuff is kinda fun but it's kind of like telling someone else about a dream you had - I can get excited about the idea of it and because it's important to you, but unless you're there, it can kind of feels like my aunt Sonja's endless slide show to Madagasgar.

Still, for eye candy and circuit party appeal, it is interesting (and let's be honest, it's nice to see the reality behind the gay advertising campaign that not everyone there is a perfect 11 - because sometimes those folks just don't know how to have fun and who wants to be at a circuit party with people who don't know how to have fun??) and of course the music is fabulous. (the waterpark event looks amazing, I so want to go but geez I'd fry up before I even got out of the car!)

The stage show stuff is the biggest win here because that's not something you can find everywhere. In our post internet and post Tweaker age of staying at home for endless hours typing with lubed up fingers, it's really heartening to see that bit by bit the stage show for porn performers is making a comeback. It's struggling but its inching it's way back.

Plus there's some Cristian workout video lurking in the catalogue as well. Personally I dig that kind of stuff just because I like the idea that someone is multitasking and getting away with it. :)

I think the challenge to this kind of site that a consumer will most likely want to know is: for my $20/month, how do I know that there'll be worthwhile ongoing content? And that's a fair question to ask an one that doesn't come with easy answers... but if you think the type of guys are hot and you're feeling spendy, plunk down a twenty for a one time membership and see how much growth goes on and then you can determine whether or not you want to go for that ongoing membership ($20 for the first month and $15.99/month after automatically charged to your debit/credit card).

If you're in London today, Crisitan performs tonight at the insanely popular HardOn party at 100 Tinworth Street, Vauxhall.