![]() But in my entire career, stretching over almost 10 years, I have never been treated as well as I was by Game of Thrones. You are treated like a queen and it's amazing. When you are successful and well known in the adult industry, being on set is a dream. Also, after spending almost 12 hours in a pool with washing up liquid in it (to keep it green), it is important to note that you eventually turn gray. I do remember that I ate a lot of cake, though. The overwhelming pressure of being an adult star in the mainstream is that you are not only representing yourself, but an entire industry with so much stigma attached. I was dropped off at my trailer (my own trailer with my name on the door) and I immediately began freaking out. I then managed to shoot all 4 scenes in under two days and fly out to Ireland for what would be one of the best experiences of my life.īeing on a set like that is like nothing I have ever experienced, porn sets can range from a dude with a camera in a hotel room to a 30 person crew in an elaborate location but NOTHING prepared me for the Thrones set.Īfter spending the night in a beautiful hotel I was picked up at 5:00 AM to be taken to hair and makeup. They simply told me they would book my flight from there. I called back and told them I was in Spain, panicking that I had made a horrible decision by going there. They were from Game of Thrones' casting team, telling me they wanted me for Season 4 and asking what airport I wanted to fly from, because the shoot was in two days. ![]() As I waited in Barcelona airport baggage claim, my phone turned on to reveal three voicemails. I flew out to Spain the next week to shoot four scenes. To say I was disappointed was an understatement. ![]() I was told I would hear within a few days, I heard nothing, I emailed and they told me it was between me and another girl, I waited a few more days and still heard nothing. I was sure I wouldn’t get it, I felt ridiculous sending off this bath tub, camera phone audition tape. I was away at the time and couldn’t screen test, so my friend shot a video on my phone of me in a bath tub while she read the script at me. I was then called back to audition for Season 4, and by this point the buzz around Game of Thrones was enormous and I wanted this part more than life itself. I didn’t get the part in Season 3 because, despite being very bendy, I was not bendy enough. I am one of those irritating people that enjoys reading the book first and then pointing out fatal floors to the on screen adaptations.Īlthough I did walk in on my brothers watching it once, mid Kahl Drogo roughing up Daenarys, and I was intrigued. At this point I hadn’t watched any of it. At the time the show was still one with more of a cult following. ![]() I was first called to audition for Game of Thrones during the casting process for Season 3. I was also told, upon my first time on set, that I made the other girls who hadn’t done nude scenes before feel more comfortable, because I was so comfortable with being naked. We are comfortable with nudity and sex, and it’s not awkward or hard for us to imitate these things. Hold on a second, isn’t that what porn is always slated for? Then who better to cast as these naked bodies then porn stars themselves? I have to hand it to the casting directors, casting porn girls for nude roles and sex scenes in a mainstream television production is a genius plan. And not just naked girls, but generally rough sex. For such a widely viewed and, might I add, socially accepted show, there sure are a lot of tits and ass in Game of Thrones. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Despite that, a very active modding community exists for the PC version of the game, who kept the game up-to-date the last decade. MVP Baseball 2005 was the last official MLB release from EA Sports, also official support for the game ended. The agreement, which ran from Spring 2006 to 2012, allowed only Take-Two Interactive and the console manufacturers Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo to produce MLB titles for their respective platforms, but barred other third party developers such as EA Sports from continuing or developing their own MLB games. In 2005, in response to EA Sports' exclusive license with the National Football League and ESPN, Take-Two Interactive signed an exclusive third-party licensing contract with Major League Baseball (MLB), MLBPA and MLBAM to produce MLB games in its 2K Sports series, making MVP Baseball 2005 the last MLB game in the series. In 2005, MVP Baseball released for PlayStation Portable. Reigning World Series MVP Manny Ramirez was featured on the cover of the 2005 installment of the series. Even so, the game still edged out 2k Sports' Major League Baseball 2K5 among critics. Reviewers continued to rate MVP highly, with Metacritic scores of 86 and 87 for the Xbox and PS2 versions, respectively, though MVP 2005′s marks were slightly lower than those of its predecessor. MVP Baseball 2005 brought subtle changes to the MVP 2004 formula, including a "hitter's eye" system with color codes that helped players identify pitch types out of the pitcher's hand, as well as an owner mode, the addition of Class A minor-league teams to dynasty mode, and spring training minigames. Īlbert Pujols was the cover player for the 2004 installment of the series. It received a runner-up position in GameSpot 's 2004 "Best Traditional Sports Game" award category across all platforms, losing to ESPN NFL 2K5. GameSpot named MVP Baseball 2004 the best PlayStation 2 game of March 2004. ![]() These improvements netted the PS2 and Xbox versions of MVP 2004 twin scores of 90/100 at Metacritic, far outpacing the competing All-Star Baseball 2005 and ESPN Major League Baseball. ![]() In a baseball gaming first, MVP 2004 was licensed by both the MLB and Minor League Baseball, featuring real minor-league teams at the Class AA & AAA levels. The 2003 game does not penalize a user for releasing a player during the season in franchise mode, whereas the 20 games invoke a salary penalty for releasing a player under contract.īuilding on MVP 2003 's surprisingly successful rookie effort, the 2004 edition made major refinements to both the game's control scheme and its dynasty mode. The 2003 game is the last game that uses a points system for player's salary, starting with the 2004 game an actual dollar amount is used for salaries. Randy Johnson and Miguel Tejada were the cover players. At the review-aggregation site Metacritic, MVP 2003 was given a score of 81/100 for the PlayStation 2 and 82/100 for the Xbox. Introducing an innovative pitch meter and zone-based hitting system (see below), MVP 2003 was well received by critics, most of whom considered the game's overhaul to be a major improvement over Triple Play′s last entry. MVP Baseball 2003 was released in 2003 as the successor to EA's Triple Play games, though it bore little more than a graphical similarity to its predecessors, which had been heavily maligned by critics in the series' final years. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the interest of generating an integrative paradigm, this paper addresses the transitional processes in the leap from body to mind, both phylogenetically and microgenetically, via classical psychoanalytic Dream theory. He remained disappointed to the end that the value of this avenue of investigation had not been fully recognized. Given this initial insight, Freud fervently believed that his theory of dreams held enormous promise for the study of mental evolution. ![]() Stretching from sensory-kinetic-affective bodily experience to memory, meaning, motives and desire exhibiting proto-semiotic mechanisms of pre-linguistic tropes and cognition, with its metaphorical and manifest/latent structure, the dream is our MRI, a “royal road” into the human unconscious, as sharp an investigative instrument as can be found. In the clinical practice of dream interpretation, we observe presentational pictographs of sensory-affective experiences, still tied to bodily feelings, in the very process of being transformed into emotionally cognized representations with interpretable meanings. ![]() It was through deciphering the grammar and syntax of a ‘primary process’ vocabulary that Freud arrived at his first topographical theory of mind, which is laid out in chapters six and seven. Freud’s “The Interpretation of Dreams” (1900) burst in at the beginning of a century of enormous upheaval in many areas of knowledge and remains a masterpiece of scientific observation-the cornerstone of psychoanalytic metatheory-though insufficiently appreciated then and now. ![]() ![]() ![]() No hopes that Crassus will think, “Well, isn’t that nice. Each of them is willing to die in his place. There is only honor.Įach of them would rather die than inform on the man who had led them to the only freedom - however short-lived - they had known. There is nothing for any one of the slaves to gain by his cry. Some even wish they had been there to do it. Maybe the most heroic scene in all of fiction.Īnyone who sees it hopes in his heart of hearts that if he had been there he would have done the same. It may well be the most heroic scene in all of motion pictures. As Spartacus is about to stand to identify himself, the man next to him quickly shouts, “I’m Spartacus.” Another stands up and cries out, “No, I’m Spartacus.” And in a few short seconds every man is on his feet calling out, “I’m Spartacus!” Crassus puts out the offer that all of them will be spared and returned to their lives as slaves if just one of them will identify the living body or the corpse of their leader, Spartacus. The penalty awaiting every one of the former slaves is death by crucifixion. Spartacus’s army of slaves has been defeated by the Roman consul Crassus. It’s not particularly accurate historically, but there’s a scene which, if you saw it, you have probably never forgotten. Remember Spartacus? It’s about a slave uprising in ancient Rome, about 50 years before the birth of Christ. Now let me talk for just a moment about a movie. Or, to turn it around, someone else is getting your money today. Maybe the neighbors’ kids, who wave at you and say good morning and who have never done you any harm. The money you get now or will get (if there is any) will be money taken from working people. No, the money you put in was spent long ago. And even then, you might be a little uneasy about saying it.Īfter all, where did it really come from? You know it wasn’t sitting in an account somewhere where you had deposited it, with your name on it, like a passbook savings account. Until the cheque arrives in the mail, no one can say it’s his money. So we know: even on its own terms it’s not our money. The living could never undo the work of the dead and say, “That is not the kind of government we want.” Future generations would not be free to pass the kinds of laws they want to live under. Just as nothing prohibits it from doing the same with the National Endowment for the Arts or any of the welfare programs.Īnd that’s just fine, because otherwise, it would mean that the dead would rule the living. There is no law to prohibit the Congress from repealing the Social Security tax tomorrow, nothing to prohibit it from returning every dime it now holds, nothing to prohibit it from spending every dime it now holds, and nothing to prevent it from declaring that it cannot or will not make good on any promise of future payments. Nestor (1960) that Congress can alter and reduce benefits without any obligation to honor previous promises or levels of benefits, but it just stands to reason that in a democratic government a new majority can make any change in the law that is consistent with the Constitution. Not only has the Supreme Court ruled in Helvering v. I worked all my life and I paid into the system, and it’s mine.” Nearly every recipient of Social Security monies will tell you, “It’s my money. It pitches itself as a reliable guardian of your future. The Social Security system pitches itself as something else, and for the most part, it’s successful in its pitch. The young work some portion of their earnings is taken from them it’s sent to the retired or to other persons who are defined as eligible for benefits. We all know what Social Security is - it’s a program of transfer payments from the young, mostly to the old. And I’m going to tell you how in a minute.įirst I want to review with you the nature of the Social Security system. Its pitch would go something like this:ĭo you like the Social Security system? Would you like to get out of it? I can get you halfway out. I keep hoping that some day I will receive a direct-mail piece from an organization I have dreamed up. ![]() |
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