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Well, who doesn’t love fan mail?

But, I like when someone has put it together and put their heart into it.  And no, I don’t need constant gassing up — for me, it’s a personal journey to push then envelope and do things I would enjoy as a viewer….but, feedback is always helpful both the good and the bad.

Case in point, this recent  thank you e-mail:

 no sir…
thank you.
there was always this element in adult entertainment
that i felt was missing…
until off da hook…
tiger…
doin da butt…
this rawness…this unadultured nasty
that i love and many others do.
you lucky man you…

Talked to a friend who just found out I’m an adult video director — “go-on Google me” I said.

Sure enough, a bunch of stuff comes up — some it having to do with a baseball player — but, the most interesting one — to me, at least was the entry on the Urban Dictionary.

Not sure how I feel about being a dictionary (okay, it’s not a biggie like Websters but knock on wood, I hopefully still have time to get above a slang term)…any way the link is here (vote me up please) –

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=EnriqueCruz

And when you use words like artistic peak and my name  — well damn if that makes doesn’t me feel like I’m doing something right….

here it is:

Enrique Cruz is a famed director of black and latino (blatino) gay pornographic films based in New York City. His production company is called Lamancha Videos. In the mid to late 1990s, Cruz’s films helped to usher in a new era for black gay pornography. His films were innovative in that hip-hop culture influenced the behavior of the models/actors filmed on screen. He also used hip-hop music as the score to his films rather than elevator music, house, or techno which had been the norm in black gay films before Cruz came on the scene. Cruz’s actors/models tend to be young, urban, masculine, homothugs, regardless of their sexual role. His films also portray down low
culture. Some of his best works include “Tiger’s Brooklyn Tales”, “Off The Hook”, “Off The Hook Pt. 2″, “Urban Hard Drive”, “Aprende” and “Hard Core”. Most consider “Off The Hook” to be his artistic peak.

That new mantra for the rest of this year seems to be sinking in all across the USA –

Spend it wisely.

Okay, I still got a few friends with the blinders on…but, you can’t help everyone.

I’m thinking over all — This might work into a good thing, no? Life gives you lemons, go on and make some lemonade.

Sure, we all have less to work with. But, I can remember growing up in the Bronx and yeah, we was dirt poor — but, I never it. My mom made sure we made do with the little we had.