Not just the president, also a member...

I actually started out by making my own homemade sex videos. In fact, it was when I lived in Venice CA and used to visit the Odyssey Video store where I discovered Homegrown Video, they were in the back of the store, looked literally handmade, big ass VHS tapes packed in cheap plastic cases with a mimeographed cover sheet tucked in.

At the end of the tapes it said "send in your home sex tape and get up to $20 per minute!" Well, as a young Dead fan looking for more ways to get cash for hitting the road with to follow the tour that just seemed absolutely genius. But it didn't happen right away... There was a period of great deliberation then at a show in Berkeley I finally had the revelation, with the aid of powerful hallucinegenics to completely open channels between the u*********sness of yearning and the hyper-realization of the "what-the-fuck-is-my-purpose-in-this-world" reality; it became clear... amateur porn would be the road, the rainbow to follow, the reason and purpose in a world where otherwise nothing would ever make more sense.

We made some videos. We sent them to Homegrown Video. We waited. And we waited. And trust me, we waited longer than anyone we ever make wait now plus no one would fill me in on what was happening.

Then finally I got the call. The company was actually in a bankruptcy proceeding and the Trustee was calling me to see if we would participate in a BBC documentary that ended up on HBO called "Shock Video". And by the way, would we like to buy a porn company? One thing led to another. I borrowed money from my Mom. A dream became reality and reality became a fantasy folks could enjoy again and again.

Now how crazy is that? Now I can say that I am not just the president of Homegrown but also a member... ;-)
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