So much kink programming, so little time.

We've got so much great programming jammed into CineKink NYC this year, we thought a headliner overview of the schedule might give you a firmer grasp on how you're going to be spending October 17-22nd!

Kick-Off!
This year's kick off gala moves to Bacchus and meeting us there will be none other than that fabulous cabaret duo, The Wet Spots! Pairing sophisticated lyrics with sweet, catchy melodies, the Wet Spots are known for lively performances that incorporate sing-alongs, spankings and bawdy sex-education. Fresh from a world tour, the duo will be performing such melodious musical marvels as "Bi-Curious George," "Piggy Pile" and their internet music video smash hit, "Do You Take It?"

Wednesday
The action then moves to Anthology Film Archives, where we'll remain for the rest of the festival screenings. First up, on Wednesday, October 18 at 7 PM, is the festival's season opener, Notorious Bettie Page, which artfully traces the pin-up icon's rise to infamy. Then, at 9 PM, it's a trip to London for the 15th anniversary celebration of the world's largest fetish/body arts club, Torture Garden TGX.

Thursday
On Thursday, October 19 at 6:30 PM is Vice and Consent, a documentary visit with such prominent, long-standing members of the BDSM community as Midori, Jay Wiseman, Janet Hardy and Cleo Dubois. At 8:30 PM, The Sex Movie brings together four long-time friends for a sexy evening of cat-and-mouse. Then, at 10:30 PM, The Amateurs begs the question of whether three would-be pornographers will ever achieve their dubious aim.

Friday
On Friday, October 20 at 6:30 PM, it's Webcam Girls, a funny and engaging visit with four outspoken pioneers of the girlcam frontier, including NYC's own Ducky Doolittle. At 8:30 PM a program of explicit works created with a female audience in mind, "Chick Flicks," debunks the silly notion that women aren't visually responsive beings. And at 10:30 PM, Other People's Mirrors is a dark, pseudo sci-fi centered around one woman's belief that by following the taboo-breaking directives of alien beings she will escape to her own nirvana.

Saturday
Kicking off Saturday, October 21 at 12:30 PM, Orgasmic Women: 13 Self-Loving Divas share their intimate insights with renowned sexologist Betty Dodson. At 2:30 PM, Tears Before Bedtime takes a jaunt through the world of S/M and kink in Sydney, Australia. At 4:30, an illustrious panel of New York-based directors discusses "The State of Smut: NYC," with moderator Audacia Ray and plenty of clips to back them up. At 6:30 PM, it's "Power Plays," short works that probe, prod and play with the dynamics of sexual power and fantasy, followed by "Passion Plays" at 8:30 PM, a collection of erotic, sometimes explicit pieces that dance along the supposed boundary of art, including the just-banned-in-Australia Damon and Hunter. And, rounding out the CineKink NYC screening schedule at 10:30 PM, it's O - Power of Submission, a lush contemporary adaptation of the literary S/M classic from veteran director Ernest Greene.

CineKink Awards Celebration - Sunday
On Sunday, you get to sleep in a bit - then it's time to put on your shiny finery and head back to Bacchus to toast this year's fantastic crop of CineKink filmmakers and award winners. Scheduled for 7 PM, the festivities will feature encore screenings of jury-selected best shorts from the festival, along with presentations of the festival's annual awards.

But wait, there's more! - then stick around for the Afterglow Party, starting at 8:30 PM, your last chance to meet and, er, mingle with like-minded festival-goers. Lounge on the sofas, descend into the pillow pit or even recline across a spanking bench and settle in for one final evening of featured screenings and CineKinky goodness playing out all around you. Not to be missed!

For a closer look at the entire line-up, tickets and locations particulars and information on ALL of the hot works in the schedule, roll around for a bit in the CineKink program.

The Wet Spots are coming!!!

While we fine-tune and finesse the last details of the CineKink NYC program line-up, here's one BIG sneak peek ... this year's kick-off party moves to Bacchus and meeting us there will be none other than that fabulous kinky cabaret duo, The Wet Spots!



Fresh from an overseas tour, they'll be bringing along their sophisticated sex comedy and performing such melodious musical marvels as Bi-Curious George, Piggy Pile and Labia Limbo.

Stay tuned for more information on the party, scheduled for October 17, and how to get tickets. In the meantime, take a gander at the music video smash hit--directed by CineKink '05 alum Kirby Ferguson--of their uber-romantic number, Do You Take It?



Careful, though. Depending on where you work, it's perhaps not entirely work-safe. And you'll definitely have the lovely ditty in your head all day long!

Oops. Here we are!

So sorry to run out without leaving a nice note or anything, but we were in such a rush to get off to kinky summer camp and then spend a few days at the Jersey shore celebrating our first wedding anniversary, we just completely spaced.

Anyway, scooped while we were slacking, we're back and bearing confirmation of a wonderful rumor. As reported by Adult Video News, director Ernest Greene's brand new adaptation of the S/M classic, O - Power of Submission, will indeed be rounding out the schedule of CineKink NYC screenings, slated for a slot on Saturday, October 21st at 10:30 pm.



More to come, of course, with additional titles and ticket information to be announced next week.

Yeah, whatever.

The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times are both agog today with confirmations that the YouTube.com webcam musings of Lonelygirl15 are actually the work of a team of filmmakers looking to make an attention-getting break into the business.

Again, whatever. No, it's not like we're jealous or anything that we didn't think of it first.

I am a poverty and obscurity addict.

For those of us still deluded enough to believe occasionally entertain the fleeting notion that independent filmmaking is might be the surefire route to fame and fortune, director Caveh Zahedi interviews, well, himself, on the difficulties of bringing his latest opus, I Am A Sex Addict , into the fresh light of day.

When we happened to catch the film at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2005, we found it a funny and engaging account of Caveh's attempts to balance his sometimes compulsive sexuality with a yearning for an intimate, romantic relationship, and--especially considering it actually has the word "sex" in its title--we were certain it was well on its way to immediate art house glory.

The glory, however, was a bit slow in coming and, from the sounds of it, the money's been even more of a dribble. After a brief run last spring, I Am A Sex Addict is just out on DVD. Please buy it.

I Am A Sex Addict (movie trailer)

Hey, how do we get that job?

By way of the Smoking Gun, word of yet another crackdown in the U.S. government's war on terror obscenity. According to the report, federal officials announced the arrest on Wednesday of Danilo Simoes Croce, who was charged with "conspiracy to distribute obscene material, a felony carrying a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $150,000 fine." In support of the arrest is the postal inspector's original complaint, also linked to in the Smoking Gun report, in which she names some of the fine features she had reviewed over the course of the three-year investigation-- Toilet Man 6, Bukkake 3 and Scat Pleasures among them-- and details, in precise if rather bloodless fashion, some of the action therein.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced last year that his office would begin specifically targetting "bestiality, urination, defecation, as well as sadistic and masochistic behavior" in pursuing new obscenity prosecutions and both the Department of Justice and the FBI began recruiting new task forces to pursue this endeavour. According to a press release issued at the time by the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, forty people and businesses had been convicted of obscenity since 2001, with 20 additional indictments pending at the time; there were only four obscenity prosecutions during the eight years of the Clinton administration.

(Hat-tip alanesq via lisavnyc via Fleshbot)

Alumni News: Steven Shainberg, Erin Cressida Wilson and Andrew Fierberg

Steven Shainberg, director of Secretary, which took home the inaugural CineKink Tribute at CineKink '03, has reteamed with screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson and producer Andrew Fierberg in creating Fur, a roughly biographical look at photographer Diane Arbus, who was renowned for shooting outsiders, freaks and other folks alot like us.



Starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey, Jr., the film recently premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, where Shainberg spoke with indieWIRE about the same-old, same-old of the biopic arc and the process of crafting an intimate portrait of Arbus' inner life instead.

Fur goes next to the Rome Film Festival, then opens nationally in November.

Oh, joy.

And another TiVo alert for tonight, this time for a Primetime: The Outsiders repackaging of several previously aired reports. Entitled - cough - "Strange Arrangements," topics for this shiny new episode include "swinging, asexuality and marriage between cousins." Reports on the original swinging episode were largely positive, so we'll reserve judgment until about 10:57 pm EDT this evening, but the moment you feel the urge to Talk Back to John Stossel, go for it!



If you want to chew up some time until then, visit ABC's poll vault and take a Peek Beneath the Sheets, a "groundbreaking" survey into American sexual behavior. Among the salacious statistics, among discussions of philanderings and three-ways and porn sites, is the revelation that 34% of women "think about sex every day."

We're no mathematicians, but this somehow leads us to the shocking possible conclusion that 66% of women don't think about sex every day?!?

Alumni News: Elizabeth Elson

We're delighted to hear that the recent work of Elizabeth Elson, director of Born in a Barn, winner of the Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary at CineKink '05, will be featured on this month's episode of In The Life, the gay and lesbian newsmagazine.

The segment, called "Cowpokes," is a look into how a group of men are coping a year after Hurricane Katrina turned bustling neighborhoods into silent ghost towns. Elizabeth and her crew visit a gay bar on the edge of the devastated ninth ward, "where a group of regulars don't flinch at the daunting task of rebuilding... one house, one street, and one dance at a time."

The episode airs on WNET on Tuesday, September 5 at 10:30 pm. Check with In The Life for air dates in other markets.