Jon Rothell

Centenary College, LSMSA, aka, Louisiana School

University of Southern California, Attended 2004 - Present, Class of 2006, Master's Degree, Film Production

strap-on instructor

Collective Movement to Sell Texas Back to Mexico (CMTSTBTM), CBYX

drinking and typing, brooding, honking, languages, piano, black and white photography, Swing, Lindy Hop, Shag, Charleston, Fluevog shoes, urban rehabilitation, alternate energy sources, sustainable architecture, increased public transportation, cyberculture, international cinema, paranormal studies, The Onion, France, Germany, www.bushflash.com

On Bullshit, Bluebeard, Ubik, Neuromancer, Other Voices Other Rooms, Confederacy of Dunces, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Raymond Chandler, One Hundred Years of Solitude, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor

Songs From the Second Floor, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, About Schmidt, Being There, Best In Show, Baraka, Bad Education, Badlands, Bladerunner, Blind Shaft, Celebration, Chungking Express, 2046, City of Lost Children, Brazil, Clockwork Orange, Days of Heaven, Dream Life of Angels, Elling, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Errol Morris, Evil Dead II, Gattaca, The Professional, Poltergeist, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The Triplettes of Belleville, Brothers Quay, Yuri Norstein, Edward Scissorhands, Remains of the Day, Kagemusha, Trainspotting, The Big Lebowski, Character, Stalker, Talk To Her, Topsy-Turvy, Unforgiven

Gorillaz, Philip Glass, Paolo Conte, Louis Prima, Django Reinhardt, Manu Chao, Tom Waits, Shooby Taylor, Pink Floyd, Rachmaninoff, Arvo Part, Sorten Muld, Moby, S&G, Fionna Apple, Rufus Wainwright, Beatles, Stones, Led Zeppelin, Manowar, Helloween, Megadeth, Metallica, Screamin Jay Hawkins, and 80's pop

Twin Peaks, Lars von Trier's The Kingdom

Libra

My work is far more difficult than you'd expect. You wouldn't believe how many people there are out there who've never operated a strap-on. No kidding! I mean, isn't this an essential and fundamental component of our lifestyles today? Do you not GET the gist of how these apperati work? It should be self-explanatory. So WHY must I explain this process to you?

No bother, no bother. I like my work. The people in it are generally very friendly and accomodating. Seriously. Alma, who is from L.A., is the senior-VP at Strap-On Inc. (where I work) and is hands-down the the best strap-on artist I know. She does it with finesse. I aspire to be like her. She's a clean-cut gal. No, I don't aspire to be a clean-cut gal. She has a mullet. I personally don't like mullets. But I aspire to be as slick with the process as she is.

For me strapping on is like reaching for your pistol. There's nothing to it. It's not ballet. You grab it, you strap it, you advance. Piece of cake. Or is it?

Hey, there's not art to this. Leave art to the artists. It's about style. S-T-Y-L-E. What's my style? Well, that's what I'm working at. It takes time to cultivate. Alma herself, she's like a gunfighter. She'll crank up some heavy metal, typically Motorhead (I guess it adds to a certain theatricality to it). And when she straps on, usually a Strap-On model #205731, she's like one of those gun-fighters out of a Western film. Slow-motion and everything. It's awesome, just awesome. Nobody straps-on like her.

Clients are usually upper-middle class white collar types. You probably guessed that. Aren't those obviously the ones who NEED this sort of thing? That's what makes the world go 'round: upper-middle class people and strap-ons.

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Sometimes I work in the movies.

Werner Herzog.

Tom Waits.