An Important Announcement From MJ Taylor

Posted here:

"MJ Taylor on Sun, 22nd Feb 2009 10:05 pm

The ONLY person that talks to me about Damon Kruezer, is DAMON KRUEZER. You are seriously delusional. As far as people making false claims about Kruezer and me being influenced by it is totally Not the case. I made that explicitly clear that I will no longer be in contact with you, what part of that did you not understand? The Fuck, or the Off?

The first people to interview me, would be the first people I worked with. I distinctly remember Jeremy Hall giving me my first one-on-one video interview, with pictures to prove it (Side note: No one gives a FUCK who gave me my first interview anyway).

As far as you having any fans, I seriously doubt it. I would love it if you had a site like this one to where people could openly comment and respond to the bull you shill out. Maybe that would bless you with a reality check to help you realize your desperate, narcissistic, obsessive, and cyberstalking ways. You are so concerned with losing any connections we had that you are kissing ass. It will not get you anywhere.

Howard Andrews will not have any involvement with this frivolous crap, so I advise you to not speak his name. Don’t you fucking dare attest to any statements Howard may have allegedly said. They are first off, not a direct quote, and secondly, you have no right to speak for ANYONE.

People always squirm when they have to come up with answers. Huh Damon? Every time someone calls you out on something, you redirect it onto something else. You have never taken any responsibility for your actions. This is a perfect example of someone who talks about himself way too much but then can never explain their actions that hold any truth. You would think that in this dog-eat-dog world by now you would come up with a bite as big as your bark.

I am not interfering by saying who is, who is not, who should be, or who shouldn’t be your affiliates, like I said, I have no right to speak on behalf of anyone but myself. I was trying to put it mildly and mannerly that I, myself, personally no longer wanted to have anything to do with you or your website. I tried to make that as simple as possible.

I will state this in plain English:
I DO NOT SUPPORT YOU OR YOUR WEBSITE AND WOULD NO LONGER LIKE TO BE IN CONTACT WITH YOU OR RECEIVE EMAILS FROM YOU. I COULD GIVE A SHIT LESS IF YOU POSTED MY PICTURES ON THE SITE. I AM BY NO MEANS UNDER THE INFLUENCES OR IMPRESSIONS OF ANYBODY BUT MYSELF. I WAS ADVISED BY MY PEOPLE OVER A YEAR AGO TO NOT TALK TO YOU, AND I DIDN’T TAKE THE INITIATIVE OF THAT ADVICE. NOW HERE I AM, A YEAR LATER, UNDER MY OWN FREE WILL, BOYCOTTING YOU. FRANKLY I AM QUITE EMBARASSED NOWADAYS TO HAVE EVER BEEN FEATURED ON YOUR SITE OR TO HAVE EVER, EVER BEEN IN CONTACT WITH YOU.

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Update: Stupid jealous rivals...grrr...

Update 2: Off topic - The Sword gets bitchy at fedora wearers.

Update 3: Twelve.

Update 4: 12+4, opening statements tomorrow morning. Showtime!

Benjamin Gilbert, Rest In Peace

As reported by Jason Sechrest and DeWayne in San Diego, former Harlow trial prosecution witness Benjamin Gilbert (aka Caleb Carter) was found dead yesterday, victim of an apparent suicide-by-hanging in his San Diego apartment.

The precise date of death is unclear, however, as he may actually have been deceased for some time when finally discovered in the apartment he lived in by himself; as you can see, his latest MySpace activity was on Wednesday the 18th, meaning, he could have actually passed away any time between the 18th and Friday the 20th.

As to what personal demons may have driven him to this, who knows. We do know he had sought help for alcohol issues not too long ago, so perhaps that played a role. In the absence of further information, it is probably unwise (not to mention unseemly) to speculate further, despite the our natural burning desire to try to ask and answer the question "why?" when tragedies like this occur.

Rest in peace, Benjamin.

Update: I've just been informed that a "Life Celebration" is being planned in Benjamin's honor by friends of his in San Diego. It will be Monday February 23, at 6pm, at the Brass Rail Nightclub and Lounge.

Update 2: Jason Sechrest posts additional sad details.

Update 3: Sigh. Predictable. Wrong of course (see Update 2), but predictable.

Petrov Gets 20 Years

J.C. Adams has the story.

What's interesting here is comparing this to the sentence Joe got (and Harlow offered): Life w/o parole. Both incredibly brutal attacks, however... On one hand, Petrov got a much lighter sentence, 20 years (with a possibility of parole even earlier?). OTOH, Petrov's elderly victims didn't die (they only had their skulls bashed in with a hammer).

In addition, he'll be deported to Armenia after finishing his sentence.

And All Of Us Can Move On

Brent plans to be free and clear to shoot another video in mid-March (just in time for the 2010 GAYVNs), but not before a pesky detail is attended to:


Update: Seven jurors now selected.

Update 2: Now eight.

Update 3: This is interesting! Judge Olszewski made specific reference to the ongoing LC judicial probe, during a pep talk to the incoming pool of 125 potential Cuadra jurors on Tuesday:

"The specter of recent corruption played a minor role this week during jury selection in the capital murder trial of Harlow Cuadra, who is accused of killing Bryan Kocis and setting fire to his Dallas Township home in January 2007.

Judge Peter Paul Olszewski Jr., who faces a retention vote in November, commented about the scandal before swearing in a pool of potential jurors.

Jury selection started Tuesday in the trial, the same day former County Court Administrator William T. Sharkey Sr. pleaded guilty in federal court to embezzling county funds.

“It saddens me to make this next remark,” Olszewski told the jurors before reading a prepared statement.

“Everyone in this courtroom is well aware of the highly publicized criminal investigation and prosecution by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of people who held positions of trust in this country.

“While the conduct of these people has cast a dark cloud over our courthouse, that dark cloud, and all the evil it represents, has not in the past, will not today, and will not in the future enter this courtroom.

“Everyone in this courtroom has in the past, will today and will in the future conduct themselves in accordance with the absolute highest ethical, moral and legal standards. Lady Justice and all she represents will to continue to prevail in this courtroom.”

Olszewski, who is running for retention this fall, said he isn’t sure if he will continue to recite the new lines before jury selection in another trial. He said he felt it was important on Tuesday to make his point clear to the room of 125 potential jurors in the case.

“This is a capital case and I want to make sure that everyone in that courtroom knows there will only be justice here,” Olszewski said later."

Update 4: As most of you know, I'm an Occam's Razor based skeptic of most of the Kocis conspiracy theories out there...this new post by DeW however comes the closest yet to de-skeptifying me. The only things lacking here, really, are to solidify retired Pacific Sun owner Motti Green's mob credentials (just calling him a "suspected Mafioso" is a bit weak) and then definitively tie him in to D'Elia.

And if you can show that Motti owns a large chunk of Cobra LLC shares (which I suspect is probably true)...well then all the better.

Update 5: More on Motti - while there is definitely evidence out there that Kocis pal and neighbor Motti Green is a first-class scumball with "somewhat questionable reputation," there is nothing connecting him to the mob that I've been able to find (besides of course his name, which sounds like it was ripped from the pages of a Mario Puzo novel).

Update 6: Hmmmm....Luzerne County bureaucrat "charged with altering an official record..."

Cuadra Trial "Arrives"

This today from the Times Leader:

"Cuadra trial in homicide of porn rival Kocis arrives"


Pretty basic stuff, with a stripped down timeline. Only three things mildly raise my eyebrow here:

"Recently filed court records indicate the trial before Judge Peter Paul Olszewski Jr. is scheduled to last until March 13."

This is the first I've heard of a projected end date;

"A number of witnesses from across the country received subpoenas from the district attorney’s office to testify during the trial. Among them are ... Renee Martin of Fort Worth, Texas, described by prosecutors as a business associate of Cuadra and Kerekes."

It would seem that those dire legal threats Renee made against both Melnick and the Luzerne County media to stop calling her a "business associate" of Harlow and Joe have fallen on deaf ears; and

"Four days is scheduled for jury selection."

Which means we should see opening arguments on Monday, February 23. The day before Mardi Gras, woo hoo!



Update: On trial opening day, Elm, in his words, tidies up some bovine excrement...

A Kocisphere Guide to the Oscars

The 2009 Acadamy Awards will be held a week from Sunday, February 22, and should provide us all welcome break from any other news stories we may all happen to be following in the days before and after. In the event that some of you may not have seen some or all of the Best Picture nominees, I've gone ahead and provided a brief decription of each film, and done so in such a way that we here in the Kocisphere can perhaps best relate to them.

1. Slumdog Millionaire: The movie begins with a young man accused by police of a crime he did not commit. Through a series of flashbacks, his life story is revealed: growing up in relative poverty in a broken home, taken in by a child-exploiting crime lord, escaping from same after the crime lord is fortuitously murdered by someone else, working menial jobs until finally he enters the entertainment industry as his own boss...and despite jealous rivals in the industry trying to trip him up, he not only clears himself of the false charges, but goes on to achieve the pinnacle of fame and fortune.

A story line we are all familiar with...except this version takes place in India.

2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Due perhaps to the influence of a magical clock, Brad Pitt slowly transforms himself into a pre-teen with a birth certificate legitimately listing his age as somewhere in the mid-70s. In other words...the perfect Cobra Boy!

3. Milk: A young man in a tank top is at work, when suddenly the phone rings. He picks up the receiver, and the caller says: "It looks like my guy went a little overboard."

"WHHHAAAT! OMG!" the boy in the tank top exclaims.

"Yeah, Harvey went overboard and announced this huge rally, and we need lots of people to show up. Can you call ten people, then have them call ten people, etc..." says the caller.

"Oh...oh, is that all? Whew. Yeah, um, ok I can do that..." says the tank top boy.

4. The Reader: A 15 year old boy is statutorily raped. Later on the boy learns that his rapist is a facist control freak who would rather kill people than allow them to go free.

Based on a true story from Luzerne County in 2002, except this version is set in postwar Germany. And the 15 year old likes to read a lot.

5. Frost/Nixon: A reporter pays a suspected criminal $600,000 for an interview, despite the fact that such payment is widely seen as unprofessional and unethical.

By the way, this script is suspiciously similar to a screenplay of my own, Roecker/Cuadra, except the dollar amounts in the former seem to have been multiplied by a factor of 12. Hmmm...maybe I should file a copyright complaint...

Brent Gets 13 GAYVN Nominations

They like him, they really really like him!

1) Performer of the Year (Brent Corrigan)
2) Best Actor (Brent Corrigan, Just the Sex)
3) Best Supporting Actor (Brent Corrigan, The Porne Ultimtum)
4) Best Bottom (Brent Corrigan)
5) Best All-Sex Film (Just the Sex, Prodigy Pictures)
6) Best Pro-Am Film (Brent Corrigan's Summit, Prodigy Pictures)
7) Best Twink Film (Brent Corrigan's Summit, Prodigy Pictures)
8) " " " (Just the Sex 1, Prodigy Pictures)
9) " " " (Just the Sex 2, Prodigy Pictures)
10) Best Group Scene (Brent Corrigan's Summit, Prodigy Pictures)
11) Best Sex Scene - Duo (Just the Sex, Brent Corrigan and Luke Haas, Prodigy Pictures)
12) " " " - " (The Porne Ultimatum, Kaden Saylor and Brent Corrigan, Dirty Bird Pictures)
13) Best Oral Scene (Just the Sex, Brent Corrigan and Kurt Wild, Prodigy Pictures)

Update: Congrats are in order as well to Brad Star and ASG Entertainment; this shows the honors, rewards and benefits that come one's way when one UNILATERALLY DUMPS the career obstacles to one's success:

1) Best Actor (Brad Star, South Beach Diaries)
2) Best Top (Brad Star)
3) Best HD Feature (South Beach Diaries, ASG Entertainment)
4) Best Solo Performance (Brad Star, South Beach Diaries)
5) Best Marketing (South Beach Diaries, ASG Entertainment)

Ah, ya gotta love that that 5th nomination, LOL! I tell you, it a marketing miracle what you can do, when you UNILATERALLY DUMP what holds you back! :-)

Update 2: Hmmm, anyone notice someone who's conspicuously absent from ANY nomination at all? Here's a hint: I guess crying wolf about being raped does not sit well with those on the GAYVN nominating committee.

Update 3: Hey, is that Brent Corrigan walking shirtless up in the Hollywood Hills? Naw, false alarm...it's just some actor that resembles him.