

AAAArrrgggghhhh! One of my readers (and I would add contributor – you know who you are) got me hooked on reddit – seemingly harmless enough. My first 2 days on the gay porn subreddits I enjoyed ID’ing pics and vids, then quickly spent less time daily, and just a couple check ins. But occasionally, something would send me down the rabbit hole of researching… and this pops up Friday

I know I know this, I know I know this….. Cosco? Fox Studio? from Halsted’s Earth Man series? Butch Barnes, Butch Barnes! who’s the other guy??? some time later I’ve figured it out, post my finding (Fox Studio’s Furlough contained in the Muscle Up collection). and my buddy confirms I’m right, but points something out while not seen in the animated GIF above, there’s not only one other guy (I knew that) but claims there is a fourth. And of course mentions the Patrick Cowley music .. so now I am compelled – COMPELLED – to dig out the VHS and watch, listen, perhaps digitize – but its not on my collection list. So I go to the hard drive for evidence, and only see the boxcover art, and image I created back in the summer of 2017. Did I sell it, did I sell it? no eBay auction file, so maybe it’s here – somewhere – in the porn basement, and I just neglected to add it to the porno collection spread sheet. I located the 3 other FOX VHS tapes I have, but alas, no Muscle Up. typo. what about a typo? maybe its a typo – I search for “Mucsle_Up” in my files, and BAM! I see I sold that darn thing in 2017, back when I was trying to lighten the load for the big move, as well as put some dough in the bank before leaving the full-time job. So then I try various websites to see if I can easily find the scenes, and that’s all of this morning, into the afternoon when I give up. BUT but but..
But. let’s go back to some harddrive file searches, Fox Studios, Muscle Up (and various misspellings) , then FOX_BROCHURE and we get this, below!
Hitchhiking marine stud BUTCH BARNES gets a lift from DENNIS and back at DENNIS’s house they strip for a swim and wind up sucking and screwing. DENNIS’s gardener MARIO watches through the window. MARIO almost shoots when he sees BILLY the grocery boy arrive and BUTCH sucking him to a 10-1/2″ climax. Too much for MARIO he climbs in the window and….
and..? AND?

below are my notes from when I (stupidly) sold my large original color big box VHS version of MUSCLE UP
note: used VHS videocassette tape, IN BOX, plays fine
Director: (non credited) (1981 VHS release) 65 minutes running time + 17 minutes of previews
Starring: Tom LeDuc, Tex Murdock, Kurt Lassen, Mark Rutherford, Butch Barnes, Jeff York; Dennis Costa, Mario Venzal, (don’t forget BILLY)
- Muscle Up – Tom Leduc with Kurt Lassen frolicking and posing in the sun while at the pool. It soon turns into a passionate all embracing muscle worship love scene.
- Big Shot (AKA The Quarterback) – Next handsome, super hung, Mark Rutherford performs in his only solo and adds whopping new dimensions to just a shower.
- Leather Bond – Muscular, leather hunk, Tex Murdock gets adored by equally muscular Tom LeDuc in a sexy body worship with a leather twist. We originally called this hot loop “Leather Bound”.
- Furlough – Butch Barnes, at the time an enlisted Marine, and his muscular Marine lover, whom he brought to us from the base; show us the intensity of their hot rugged love for each other, in a passionate sex scene Mario the gardener watches, then joins! (and? and????)
- Originally shot and edited on 16mm film.
- amazing music soundtrack by Patrick Cowley look it up!
- + 17 minutes of previews for other FOX STUDIOS titles



strings attached
remember mid-80’s when they tried to sell porn stars as dancers, and these no-sex videos came out?
Starring: Rocky Armano, John Rocklin, Johnny Davenport, Douglas O’Keefe, Jason Lowe
I sold my copy back in 2002 – from my notes: Clocking in at only 30 minutes running time; 5 guys dance (solo) and strip, in a different outfit each. While each is clearly excited once each is naked, there is NO SEX!
I think this was originally produced for mail order only, gay porn stars featured with the idea of appealing to women (one scene has a female fan watching John Davenport – shown above).

The Gardener and the Rug Man

looks like its from The Gardener and the Rug Man scene – but alas, I don’t recall anything in the film with these two pissing (and artfully colorized)
Mouth Piece

yup, that’s a picture of Richard Locke from the 1975 film Dreamer on the cover!
written by Michael Scott – part of the Surree Stud Series.

The Crawford Academy of Performing Arts
Director: David McCabe (1985)
Starring: Jim Bentley, Tony Rosario, Michael Christopher, Daniel Holt, Cole Taylor, Jeremy Scott, Blake Cass, Rydar Hanson, Rich Parsons, and in non-sexual roles Mark Edwards, Terry LeGrand

From previous post of 19 years ago I recall that I must’ve heard/seen this video dozens of times at the porn theatre on 3rd Avenue and 13th, and always associated The B-52’s Legal Tender with that movie. But back in 2001, when I purchased a video copy of Making It Huge, none of the soundtrack was there! In fact, they had done such a poor job of re-editing with a porno-standard Casio-synth soundtrack, that all dialogue was off! An awful job, and I forgot to keep one of these bad copies for posterity. But check your own copy if you have one. Anyway, from what I remember, these are a few of the tunes in the movie:
- A Girl In Trouble (Is A Temporary Thing) – ROMEO VOID
- Send Me An Angel – REAL LIFE
- Legal Tender – B-52’S
- Edge Of The Razor – STEPHANIE MILLS
- Unison – LAURA BRANNIGAN
Alas, even in this original better version, they got lazy, and re-looped the same 5-8 tunes throughout the movie – anyone interested in checking this out for sure to see if I missed any tunes, I can arrange a full movie download.

Strange Places… Strange Things!
Director: Al Parker (1985)
starring: David Ashfield, Derrick Stanton, Scott Taylor, Ivan, Melchor, Michael Charles, Rydar Hanson, Tony Kennedy
pretty much 4 unrelated “loops” – except they are tied together by being located in “Strange Places” –
- Manhole – David Ashfield and Michael Charles portray two maintenance men working in the sewer (and on each other!)
- Scott Taylor plays a delivery guy with a damaged package, and customer Ivan won’t accept the package (of vacuum pumps) until it’s examined properly – the “strange place” is Ivan’s living room
- Melchor plays doctor to Rydar Hanson.
- Derrick Stanton and Tony Kennedy do it on a scaffold high in the air.
I love Al’s dry narration – but it doesn’t seem to match what we’re seeing! The music is great, by Red Wedding – wonder if
Dark Entries Records is considering working on a re-release (or likely, a first release) of Red Wedding’s music?

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