Galloway, Portuguese porn and naked Courtney Love...

See how many hits that title gets!
Anyway, what's the title about and does it bear any relation to the post? Well yes, its all linked . Nope I am not suggesting Galloway watches Portuguese porn with Courtney, that's just a reference to spotting the gorgeous one on Friday .

After the near miss of almost sharing restaurant space with the great leader, Dave and I pottered home via the local Blockbusters. There were nice couples wandering around deciding to watch DVD's such as 'Sliding Doors' . My reaction was to mimic puking. Dave spotted some foreign films that seemed to really amount to arty porn for the middle classes. As we then picked out all the arty foreign titles with naked bodies on the cover,purely research of course, we realised they were also the ones that were already taken out.
This made us ponder the nature of porn, as you do in Blockbusters. Well I pondered while Dave read out the blurbs from the DVD's and moved onto to the 'urban' section that featured 'bling babes' in very little clothes. It seemed to me that if the film is in a foreign language, then the middle class chattering north London types feel ok to watch it. Words such as class and race were thrown into the write up of one. In reality it was posh types shagging the lower orders, very lady Chatterley.

So what would porn look like under socialism . I take it as given that it would involve fair working conditions and women equally in control . In terms of content one of the issues I have is that at present its very much a male viewpoint . Would that differ? I would hope there would be more from a female viewpoint, and that's not meaning slushy Mills and Boon or Mr Darcy fantasies. It may give men a more balanced view of women's sexuality , rather than the silicone enhanced women faking it for the cameras.

So onto what I like to call Stroppyporn !
Courtney has posed for pics for an 'arty' trendy magazine, Pop, having turned down offers in the past from men's mags. I have uploaded one of the pics here. I quite like them. Of course there was probably some airbrushing, but it is not some silicone enhanced plastic surgery babe on show. Its Courtney, with her car crash life and propensity to flash her tits. She has a bad attitude , unlike many naked pin ups.
I would argue as well that she is more than just Kurt Cobain's widow. She has made some good albums and her acting was not bad in The People vs. Larry Flynt .

I like her because she messes up, behaves badly and doesn't act her age or grow old gracefully. The media vilify her as a bad mother and wife who somehow lead Kurt astray. After his death she was criticised for getting wasted . Many felt she had driven him to his death and few really sympathised or showed any understanding. As someone whose father committed suicide I know what guilt , even irrational , can do. I know what its like for people to wonder why and what did his family do. Courtney went through that in the blaze of a media spotlight.

So for those reasons I like Courtney, in all her fucked up naked glory !