David Aaron Clark's 'Shoot From Hell'
2003-05-06 10:21:15
I drive 30-minutes to La Canada, following the instructions on the press invitation. I park in the shopping center and call the production as instructed.
Porn star Papillon, turned production manager, answers the phone. "Ohmigod, you're at the shopping center? I'm so sorry. This has been the shoot from hell. Yesterday was a disaster. I'm glad you weren't there. We had people flake on us. Guys had wood problems. We couldn't replace talent. We only shot two scenes. We didn't get started until 3PM.
"Today's we're not shooting until 2PM and we're only doing one scene - Mr. Marcus and Kate. The shoot is all black guys and asian girls."
Papillon entered porn in 1995.
Her kids chatter away in the background. She assures them she will take them to school soon.
David Clark is scheduled to shoot two scenes in Chatsworth Wednesday.
Tuesday at noon he was headed to the greasyspoon Lamplighter cafe in Chatsworth with his asian girls to inhale some sustenance before proceeding to direct another demanding and artistic scene.
I chat with a hungry Clark at 11AM Tuesday, 5/6/03.
Clark: "We had a cancellation of talent so we're not shooting until this afternoon."
Luke: "I heard yesterday was the shoot from hell."
Clark: "Jesus Christ, you're on top of things. Who were you talking to?"
Luke: "Sources. I want to get the gruesome details."
Clark: "Everybody did great, it was just cancellations and so forth. It's porn."
Luke: "That's not gruesome enough."
Clark: "I'm sorry but I refuse to give you any gruesome details.
"I shot two scenes yesterday with three wonderful actresses - Lucy Lee, Maja Lee and Bamboo. Mr Marcus is always wonderful."
Luke: "I heard there were a lot of wood problems?"
Clark: "Not for Mr Marcus, is all I will say. Mr Marcus is 10,000% there."
Luke: "Is it true that blacks take longer to get it up than whites?"
Clark: "Not Marcus. Some of them I do because it takes an extra amount of blood rushing to a certain part of the body... They faint too sometimes. Of course, that's just joking. I wish that I had a big black penis."
I hear feminine guffaws in the background.
Luke: "Are you performing in this movie?"
Clark: "No, because I do not have a big black penis."
Luke: "Are you performing in this movie?"
Clark: "No, because I do not have a big black penis. It's the followup to Asia Noir, the one where I alienated the 60 Minutes crew."
David Clark writes on AVNinsider.com: "The 60 MINUTES journalists aren't interested in interviewing me or any of the performers - because of course for their needs we're just thoughtless cogs in the big f-ck Machine, and couldn't possibly have any perspective or wisdom on what we do that would mean anything (to the ratings). They just want some titillating footage of a shooter and the sexual tableau before him, doubtless so during editing their reporter can intone some glib voiceover dense with questionable factoids about the biz."
Clark: "I wrote an AVN column about how they did not impress me. They got upset and said who the hell was I to have an opinion about them."
DUC says: "David Aaron Clark happens to be the premier porn journalist and porn critic of 1990s at Screw magazine and elsewhere until he switched over to production in 1998."
Clark: "They made their displeasure known to my company [Video Team]. They were, 'What did we ever do to him?' And as you know when people ask that, nothing. That was just my take on your business."
Luke: "I heard you had talent flake on you yesterday?"
Clark: "That is true. Kris Taliana flaked on me. She confirmed the day before but phoned an hour after her calltime and gave the old menstrual excuse."
Luke: "She was the only one?"
Clark: "We were having trouble through the entire shoot because I'm picky. I won't take just any asian girl. At least on screen. I was trying to get some girls for today and everybody flaked or was too picky about size [of male appendage]. I'm spending the rest of today figuring out to make up things tomorrow."
Luke: "The reports of the death of this production are greatly exaggerated."
Clark: "Yes. Some shoots are simple and some aren't. This is probably the most difficult shoot I've had. My first Asia Noir was probably beginner's luck. This one I've had to square my shoulders, hunker down and get the best job I can."
Luke: "You sound like the lead character in Apocalypse Now."
Clark laughs: "That's how you'd like me to sound? I thought I sound like Anthony Robbins."
Luke: "Do you have a woman in the background?"
Clark: "I have a couple of guests visiting. Maja Lee is down from Vancouver."
Luke: "Have they compromised you?"
Clark laughs: "Only for the sake of art and commerce. We've shot for my website www.asianmouthclub.com.
"Maja is a plucky hard-working Chinese girl."
Luke: "Like Kiko Wu in New York.
"How's asianmouthclub.com coming along?"
Clark: "Good. I have enough things going on that are semi-successful that I really need an assistant but I can't afford anybody else yet. I'm just a smalltime porn entrepreneur.
"If you and Mark Kernes show up at the same time tomorrow, I may make you oil wrestle.
"Do industry people still pay attention to the magazines or do they get all their news and gossip from web sites? I don't hear them talk about magazine any more."
Maja Lee phones me. "I idolized the entire industry through the internet gossip sites like yours... I started in Vancouver with Global [talent agency], which films for SICCash, in July 2002."
Maja gets distracted by her friend Lucy Lee.
Maja: "Nobody who is not Asian should be allowed to use the last name "Lee." It's too confusing. I would not use the name "Mocha" or "Chocolate."
"Coming here was like coming to mainstream Hollywood and meeting stars."
Luke: "When did you get your breast job?"
Maja: "The month before I started. I had nothing and I am now a 32D."
Luke: "I heard there were a lot of wood problems yesterday?"
Maja giggles: "Not a lot of wood problems. David Aaron Clark is standing right in front of me."
Luke: "Is he threatening you with grievous bodily harm if you blow the whistle and tell the truth about what is going on?"
Maja laughs: "Yes."
Luke: "What sort of director is David Clark?"
Maja: "He's very serious about his art. Before that, I'd only known him as a friend."
Luke: "How does your family feel about your new career?"
Maja: "They don't know. They're quite old school."
Luke: "When's the last time you were in China?"
Maja: "I've never been."
Luke: "What do you love and what do you hate about the industry?"
Maja: "The only thing I don't like are the agents. David is getting ready to go now. We're going to lunch at the Lamplighter on De Soto."
Maja Lee writes 4/3/03 on her site www.vancouverporn.com: YES I'm still here [Los Angeles] and I'm still filming (in front of and behind the friggin camera) NO I AM NOT EXCLUSIVE to one particular company, I can work for any company I choose to and NO I'M NOT GOING OUT with any particular porn producers at all.... I do have a tendancy to seduce them onto the camera as the next poster can tell you. I should just make T-shirts for all the traumatised guys "Maja Grabbed My Balls; and I Survived." AND NO I DO NOT HAVE ANY MEDICAL CONDITIONS WHICH WOULD KEEP ME FROM HAVING HOT SEX ON CAMERA. (Thanks again Antonio, just cuz I had no interest in you outside of work....whatever) Oh yeah, I also got rid of my bangs using braids and I'm going to pierce my labret (the area under my bottom lip.
Maja Lee writes on vancouverporn.com: What the hell am I doing here?? I'm still trying to figure that out...
so this site...it's gonna be totally L-ke F-rd style... where everyone can contribute. One of the main resons why i'm putting this up is to eventually elliminate agencies like Diverse Talents (which is owned by Sweet Entertainment Group and uses it to get new girls to do their Sweet site shoots while taking 15% off the girls pay as an "AGENCY FEE") brutal huh??? anyways, there's no CENTRAL place for Vancouver webmasters, models and curious public to go to who's interested in the porn scene... and there's a lotta stuff happening in Van. A LOT!!! it's also a place to plug your sites (and mine too, duh... lol) I"m gonna taking out print ads in tha alternative papers as well as posting on L-ke F-rd, and various other gossip sites, boards, groups, etc... so now's a good time to send me your banners, links, info and stuff... let's start sum sh-t here...
For those of you who don't know anything about me, (that's me lookin silly in the banner up there!!! argh!!! ) I'm a new adult model (only started in mid-July 02) Maja Lee, 100% locally born and bred. I've worked for many of the companies listed here as well as I've been down to LA twice to film tangible porn titles thus I believe Ideserve the title "PORN STARLET" and not just web girl. I hate the way the media portrays people in this industry as sleazy and unhealthy; almost all the people I've been fortunate to meet and work with/for have been the total opposite.... just wanted to say peace to everyone and it's up to you to email me with news and info/comments, blah blah blah....
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From the press release: Join David Aaron Clark "On the Set" as he directs Video Team's ASIA NOIR 2
Asia Noir 2,the sequel to the critically acclaimed Asia Noir, features lavish locations and eye-grabbing costumes that merge with an assemblage of gorgeous Asian women. Fantasies become Reality in this passionate interracial feature, which will solidify Video Team's position as the leading Producer of adult ethnic-themed fare.
THE DETAILS:
ALL-STAR CAST INCLUDES:
Lucy Lee
Kris Taliana
J Lodeeva
Maja Lee
Bamboo
Mr. Marcus
Guy DiSilva
Kohl Mynah
XanderAnother Hellish Day For David Aaron Clark
2003-05-07 15:55:10
Rain drops spit down as I make my way to the stage at Tampa and Parthenia in Canoga Park, Wednesday, 5/7/03, for David Aaron Clark's Asia Noir 2.
I'm joined by Guy De Silva, male performer, and Eric, the French photographer. We wander around the new stage operated by Xander Block and the guys behind www.xanderworld.com.
David Clark's actress J Lo Diva arrives with a severely swollen and pink left eye. She's not shootable. Clark is reduced to shooting one scene today, just like yesterday.
I wander around the stage and find Lee Gee of Lee Gee Productions shooting for West Coast Productions.
Xander: "We're building eight stages. We want to be full-service for adult entertainment. I shoot video movies but now the market is leaning toward the internet. We have three sites going.
Xander worked during the dotcom boom in Sacramento. He's met many people from venture capital backgrounds who are now looking into porn.
Lee shoots two blacks guys (Lucky Star and Big Jay) in prison. The jailor is Coca, a black woman. She starts servicing the guys between the bars.
Lee Gee: "This is Black Head Nurses. It's a BJ line. Hang around, I'm doing another one called Nice Azz Tits. Show this gentleman your titties girl. Look at the titties on that little bitty girl."
Hypnotic removes her top. This will be her second video.
Lee: "Normally I shoot them when they're bigger but her s--- is so perfect, I couldn't pass that up.
"There's so much negative s--- on l-keford.com. I'm glad those people don't know me. I'd have to come visit them."
Lee Gee is a middle-aged black guy who wears a handkerchief over his hair.
Coco continues her ministrations off camera.
Lee: "Coco, I ain't paying you for that. That's free head."
Coco: "No, I'm just keeping them hard."
Coco is a tall fleshy girl. Black guys take longer to get it up, I hear.
Lee: "I have a communications degree from Cal State Dominguez. I've been in the industry for three years. I mainly work for West Coast."
I wander in the make-up room and overhear Chai say, "David says I'm dumb."
Chai, who has a degree in child psychology from UCLA: "You see..."
Papillon: "You got to watch it. He's a reporter."
Lucy Lee: "You need to get away."
Papillon: "I already gave him the scoop of a lifetime. I didn't know who he was."
Luke: "You can trust me."
"Yeah right" they answer.
Papillon, married twice: "I don't even trust people I sleep with. I did over 200 movies and never once caught anything. I got married. My husband cheated on me and I got chlamydia. Isn't that beautiful?"
Luke: "Are your breasts natural or enhanced?"
Papillon: "After three kids, I had to replace them."
DUC to Chai: "Do you let your children breast feed?"
Chai: "I don't have any children."
Luke: "What about the neighbor's kids?"
Chai: "No."
Chai will alternate between playing a nun and a prostitute.
She sips on an Americano from Starbucks.
David Clark shows me an Extreme DVD of Asianatrix. I was on the set four years ago.
David: "It's badly authored. Typically Extreme. Lucy Lee plays the asianatrix this time, it's my continuing character. I've carried it through about eight movies. I only have one idea. I just recycle it."
Papillon asks Chai, "Do you f--- with your eyes open or closed?"
Chai says, "Closed." So Papillon adjusts how she does the make-up.
Papillon: "When I started out [1995], there were no Asian porn stars. There were no Spanish. If anyone had a certain look worked constantly. I worked constantly except for Sundays."
Luke: "You had to go to church?"
Papillon: "I did. You guys think I'm a liar? I go to church every week. I'm religious. I believe in God."
Luke: "Does your pastor know what you do?"
Papillon: "They know that I'm doing make-up right now. They know that I have [done porn] in the past. I try to keep it as low profile as possible because I'm sending my kids to a Christian private school. I don't want them kicked out because of something I've done or do on occasion. Everybody has to make a living. I just choose this profession."
Luke: "Did you borrow the nun's outfit from the church?"
Papillon: "Yeah, right. I'm Christian, not Catholic."
Luke: "You don't recruit your pastor to make cameo appearances in your movies?"
Papillion: "When I got married, my pastor [had to deal with] 150 strippers at my wedding party. I'd worked with them. He was amazed. The theme was Hawaiian and a lot of them wore bikini tops with their boobs exploding. The wedding was great. Everybody was drunk off their ass by the time we said 'I do.' I was sober the whole time, the only person who was. I was pregant for the last time. That's why we went Hawaiian so I could wear the white...
"This was a few years ago. The reason I am back in [porn] is that I got divorced in January. I was a stay-at-home mom for the past three years."
Luke: "Did your last husband meet you in a strip club?"
Papillon: "We went to elementary school together. Yeah, we met back up at a strip club. He was a bartender. For two years, I flirted with him but I was seeing someone else so I never messed around with him. I'm a one-man woman. I'm a jealous bitch as it is. I don't need multiples. As long as you take good care of me, I'm happy. When you ignore me and put me on the shelf and forget that I'm there... I'm too cute to be left alone.
"The girls that he cheated on me with, I don't know what they had to offer. I can suck a mean dick. They sure can't. Why do you think he kept coming back? That's why we were married for such a long time. He'd f--- around but they were just horrid. They were just 18-year old girls. They don't know s---. They're virginal. You need someone who knows what she's doing.
"I taught him. He was the worst lay of my life. And now he's probably her best."
Luke: "Did he keep working as a bartender while you were married?"
Papillon: "He worked as a doorman at the club."
Luke: "No wonder he was getting laid all the time."
Papillon: "He wasn't doing the strippers, which was unfortunate, because they were a lot hotter than the girls he was getting. He was getting girls in restaurants. I'd ask him to go buy a new window for a door that had broken and he'd meet a girl and stay at her place. I finally stopped having him go out and buy things. Every time, he'd say, 'I'm taking off for a week.' We ended up not living together for the last year of our marriage.
"He had his own place. It was a bachelorpad. Whatever. As long as I was getting laid regularly, I was happy. I frustrated him because I started making him wear a rubber. What do you want to do? You are the man who gave me something [chlamydia]."
Seven winners of a Video Team contest are supposed to come on today's set. Papillon feels the stress. Her car wouldn't start this morning. She had to get a jump from her brother.
Luke: "What's the psychological story behind David Clark's fixation with asian women?"
Papillon: "He was my number one fan back in the day... He interviewed me and wrote articles about me."
Papillon is half Philipino and half German-Irish.
Papillon: "He loves asian women because they are petite, demure..."
Luke: "Submissive."
Lucy Lee, Korean: "No. I am not submissive."
Luke: "What do you think the United States should do about North Korea?"
Lucy: "I don't give a s---. I'm from Seoul [South Korea]."
David Clark walks in. "Maybe it is the shoot from hell."
Papillon: "He's recording."
David: "I know. I love waking up and seeing, 'David Aaron Clark's Shoot From Hell.' It feels like the old days again.
"I had to send her [J Lo Diva] away. I couldn't shoot her like that. So we're down to one scene for today."
Moans and groans.
David: "There's nothing I can do."
Papillon: "We don't have any other girls?"
David: "I'm not going to just throw in another girl."
Luke: "Papillon said she wanted to do a scene."
Papillon: "No, I don't. It's that time of the month. After you have children, you can't wear sponges anymore to cover it up."
David: "Every word of this will be on the internet."
Papillon: "So what? Then everybody will know it's that time of the month. I can suck a dick now and probably do anal but you ain't going near my coochie."
David: "I'm going to have to go work the phone right now."
Papillon: "Call Mimi Miyagi. It's a one-hour flight from Las Vegas."
Luke: "What god do you pray to when a porn shoot goes wrong?"
Papillon: "Jesus Christ."
Luke: "Do you think he'd listen?"
Papillon: "I think he definitely listens. He got my car running."
Luke: "Do you think Jesus would help you find another asian girl for today's shoot?"
Papillon: "I think he just allows me to get here because I do makeup and not porn star."
I chat outside with Lucy Lee.
Luke: "What brought you into this industry?"
Lucy: "Vince Voyeur. He found me at the Body Shop [strip and S&M club]."
Lee's appeared in about 60-movies.
Luke: "Do you feel discriminated against as an Asian?"
Lucy: "Not at all. I think it's better. I work all the time."
Luke: "What's the worst thing that has ever happened to you in this industry?"
Lucy: "I once had to work with a girl I didn't want to work with, then she ended up being on her period... When she ended up hopping on it, they wanted me to stick it in my mouth afterward and it was bloody."
Luke: "Any friends from high school discover your new career?"
Lucy, 22-years old and 5'5", and measuring 34A-24-34: "When I started, and I went to Vegas for the CES, I saw a middle-school buddy who said, 'What are you doing here? Ohmigod. I used to sit behind you in math class.' Cool, look for my movies. Be a fan."
Luke: "How does your family feel about your new career?"
Lucy: "They don't know yet. My family growing up, there was no porn. It was very square. I grew up in a very suburb area."
Coca walks by. I ask her if I can get a picture of her. She squeals no and runs away. She's a tall fleshy black girl.
Luke: "Did you go to college?"
Lucy: "I took some cosmetology but it wasn't really for me."
Luke: "What do you think you will do when you finish with this industry?"
Lucy: "I'm not sure yet. Before I started doing this, I wanted to be in mainstream but that's probably out of the question."
Luke: "What's the last good book you read?"
Lucy: "David's comic book Fallen. It's pretty freaky. Other than that, not for a while. I like Dean Koontz. I'm not into Stephen King because it takes too long to get into it."
DUC to David Clark: "Who do you pray to when a porn set goes wrong? Jesus Christ? Which god?"
David: "There is none. The abyss. I look into the abyss."
Luke: "Does it look into you?"
David: "It seems to have found a permanent home in me."
Luke: "What has it found in there?"
David: "Angst, suffering, and an overactive sex drive and lots of overblown artistic pretensions, but it's gotten me this far."
Clark went to Rutgers eight years before Asia Carrera.
David: "I hate Los Angeles except for the chicks. This is where they all seem to be."
I ask David how he got his gig with the most intellectual porn company owner, Christian Mann.
David: "I amuse him."
Luke: "I hear you will be shooting for John Bone?"
David laughs. "I hear he is hiding in Brazil.
"John made off with the masters for the first Asianatrix after he bounced the checks... Then he was bootlegged by his creepy little salesman at Best Parts Video, Mark D'ull. I heard he set women up with dogs.
"Attention FBI: Best Parts Video doesn't have IDs for what they're selling."
Gasps and laughter.
David: "As I say to everybody, [DUC] is not out to get you. He will just print everything you say."
I wander next door to talk to director Lee Gee. "This is Nice Ass Tits." He shows me boxcovers of his previous work.
The performers are John E. Depth and Hypnotic.
"I shoot four lines for West Coast and they take good care of me as well."
Before a scene, Wesley P8pes likes his Red Bull mixed with Hennessy cognac.
David Clark: "Papillon is the reason I started directing porn. I was up in San Francisco and I was watching her in Joey Silvera's movies and Ed Powers' movies. And I thought, 'I will have to find an excuse to meet this chick.' I did one long interview with her at the AVN Expo that was never published.
"You should buddy up to Wanker Wang. He has all these Hollywood connections. He sold a screenplay for a pilot that never got produced. He's just here to enlighten us all."
After months of chastity, Papillon recently made "a big mistake." She says she doesn't date in the industry. "I don't date. I'm celibate since January and I screwed up my celibacy a couple of weeks ago. He was on set. He was wearing a police officer's uniform. Damn."
On her last shoot, Papillon said they made her "puke during the blowjob. And the director said, 'Oh, that's beautiful.' You've got be kidding. I've never walked off a set. When the vag came, they were just pounding my ovaries. I'm not making enough money to pay for my hospital visit after this shoot. I walked. They didn't give me a kill fee so I didn't sign a release.
"I said to the director, you do realize that I have three lawyers. So if any of these pictures show up, I will sue you because you have no model release."Desire in the Age of SARS
2003-05-13 10:03:55
On David Aaron Clark's set last Wednesday, May 7, asian porn star J. Lo Diva showed up with a swollen pink eye. On Monday, May 12, she showed up in an erratic state with a cut and bleeding vagina. She was replaced by Lucy Lee who took on two guys.
I chat with director David Aaron Clark at home on a Tuesday morning, 5/13/03.
David: "It was not my lucky day for several days in a row."
Luke: "I hear women in the background."
David: "That's just Lucy Lee."
Luke: "You live a life of nothing but porn chicks."
David: "And bills and editing deadlines."
Luke: "You're like Hugh Hefner."
David: "And people looking down on me contemptuously. And porn chicks."
Luke: "Everywhere you go, you're surrounded by chicks."
David: "It doesn't work with me, DUC, the praise..."
Luke: "Tell me David, why are you so wonderful?"
David: "Are we going to be engaging in homosexual relations?"
Luke: "No."
David: "Because I need to plan ahead if so, now that AIM offers the full range of tests."
Luke: "How come J. Lo Diva didn't star in your last day?"
David: "Umm, it was quite disappointing."
Luke: "Was she cracked out?"
David: "I don't know. I am neither a doctor nor a law enforcement officer. She was not on the same solar system as the rest of us."
Luke: "She was on a higher spiritual plane?"
David: "I don't know about that. We were trying very hard to get our movie done and we did thanks to Lucy Lee's efforts. She took on Sledgehammer and Coal Miner [what kind of names are those for African-American male porn stars?]."
Luke: "How is Lucy holding up after that rigorous scene?"
Lucy: "Fine."
Luke: "I'm a little disappointed."
David relays my sentiments. "He hoped you'd be holding a compress to... She's laughing at that. She's tougher than that. She's Korean."
Japanese soldiers raped hundreds of thousands of Korean women during WWII and it has made the female Korean much tougher and stronger as a result.
Luke: "Is it true Lucy said, 'I'll never work for David again.'"
Lucy: "No."
David: "Everyone tries to put something in your mouth. DUC settles for words."
Lucy: "I like DUC."
David: "She likes you and she wasn't even snickering when she said it."
Luke: "How did the movie, Asia Noir 2, turn out?"
David: "It turned out more ambitious than the first one, which a second one should be. Despite the fact that I didn't have the luck I had with the first one.
"It's more intelligent than the first one. It has more of a script. When the sex is good, it is better than the first one."
Luke: "Did you use any pharmaceuticals or substances to relieve pressure during the shoot?"
David: "That question sounds like it is printed on a government document with X boxes to fill out if the answer is yes.
"All my medications are ultimately of natural origin."
Gee, isn't everything?
Luke: "Were there some definite AVN prenoms in this production?"
David: "Yes, for most spaced-out girl in the corner of a scene, that would be J. Lo Diva. There could be but I don't worry about that stuff."
Luke: "Tim Connelly, new publisher and editor of AVN."
David: "At the next AVN Awards, you will be sitting upfront and there will be thousands of people there and he will point you out and tell people to bother you."
Luke: "Is The Spectator [sex paper in San Francisco] still kicking?"
David: "Slightly. Anthony Petkovich is coming down to edit Adam Film World."
Luke: "Is Lucy around? May I say hello to her?"
David: "Sure. Here, say hello the great Satan of the press."
Lucy: "Hello."
Luke: "What was the most shocking thing on David's set yesterday?"
Lucy: "J Lo?"
Luke: "Was she cracked out?"
Lucy: "She was definitely... Her breath smelled. She had this rotten... She had a cut on her vagina... I was just amazed by her unprofessionalism."
Luke: "Does David ever tell you he can make you a star? That all the power in the porn industry is in his penis and all you have to do is suck it out?"
Lucy: "No."Porn Star Papillon Witnesses For Jesus Christ On Set
2003-05-13 13:04:15
I chat by phone with Papillon, 5/13.
Papillon: "I love people who are into religion because everybody bugs me."
Luke: "There aren't many religious people in the industry."
Papillon: "Definitely not. They look at me as though I'm retarded.
"The Old Testament rocks. I carry my Bible with me all day long. I read that thing every day.
"People say, 'That is so not normal. You can't talk about God on a porn set.'
"Who said? Just because you are not religious doesn't mean I can't talk about it. He should be a part of your life every day, not just when you are about to crash into someone else's car, 'Oh God, please, don't let me do it.' That's no relationship whatsoever.
"Prayer helps the body and soul. You know. You're in synagogue every day.
"It always freaks me out when people say, 'I'm Mormon.' You're sodom. You're sodomites. I'm horrid like that.
"Because of my working so much, I haven't been able to go as often as I'd like to. I used to go every Sunday and Bible study on Monday night and Wednesday night. I get told I shouldn't tell anyone.
"Last time I went to church was on Easter. It was a Catholic church. I was raised Catholic but I became born again. I'm Christian.
"Even when I was in the [porn] industry before [starring in 200 videos], I never worked on a Sunday. I always went to church every Sunday. I was so young, I didn't want to let people know that I was religious.
"Now I don't care. I'm old enough to say screw you. My three kids go to Christian private school and they learn about the Lord. I might be a little bit of a Bible thumper.
"I invite people all the time to go to church with me. Would you like to pray? Would you like to join a circle? You're going to see a little section on my site. People are going to say, 'How can she be naked and talk about going to church?'
"I usually end all my emails with 'God bless' and that freaks people out... 'By the way, you're doing an anal, a DP, blah, blah. Thanks a lot. God bless.' How can she end it like that? But I do and I don't think there's anything wrong with it.
"What I'm doing right now [make-up and other work behind the scenes on porn sets] is not the right path but I think I was sent here to be a part of this industry, to preach and to bring people in and let them know it is ok to say 'I believe in God.'
"If you ask a lot of people in this industry, they're all atheists. I'm not even asking if they believe in Jesus Christ. 'Well, I believe there is a god.' That is what I get.
"I'm not holier than thou. I've been divorced twice. I wasn't wanting to get divorced. No matter what, I will always love my second husband.
"When I became born again, I realized that I needed a strong man who believed in the Lord and would help me to be closer to the Lord. My husband is not religious. He'd have to believe in God before I ever took him back because when you believe in God, you believe in His commandments.
"Not many people, even those who say they're religous, can say that they follow too many [commandments]. When I got married, I never cheated on him and I tried to be the best wife and mother and spiritual guide."
In 1994-95, Papillon did 100 movies. "I can't tell you too much about that because I was in school, I was working a lot, but I had a 3.8 GPA. I have ADHD. I was on Ritalin to calm me down. I was on uppers.
"I can't go on Ritalin right now because I have three kids and the Ritalin so slows me down, I can't keep track of my kids.
"I make sure they don't get into the closets and pantries and eat dog food. My son likes to eat cardboard. I have to keep all boxes away from him. It's hard because I'm a single mom.
"I get up at 5AM. I make my kids' lunches. I rush my son to the babysitter and my kids to school. Then I show up to set. Finally I go home. If they are still awake, I get to still hang out with them. They go to bed at 9PM. If it weren't for my mom, I wouldn't know what to do. I don't trust too many people to watch my children.
"I don't believe in lesbianism. I'm sorry. It bugs me. Being gay, that bugs me too. I have nothing against anybody. I have cousins who are lesbians. God didn't make Adam and Steve. He made Adam and Eve."
Luke: "So you won't do girl-girl scenes?"
Papillon: "I've done some, probably 12. It's rare. I don't do masturbation scenes because I don't believe in it. Uh huh, no, it's not right. By any standard, it's not right. In my personal life, I'm very celibate. I'm just waiting for the right person to come along."
For more information about Papillon's religious beliefs, see her fine-ass website.The Bachelor: Day 2
2003-05-06 14:33:30
10:20AM, 5/5/03. We sit in the kitchen. I eat a Balance bar and a chocolate donut.
I chat with male performer Dale DaBone, who used to have a contract with Adam & Eve, and Jace Rocker.
Dale: "Steven is a great actor but we're always waiting on him, be it masturbation in the bathroom or masturbation in his car on the way here."
Luke: "How do you like being a ho instead of a contract player?"
Dale: "I hate it. I liked it better when I was contracted. It's like playing professional sports, everybody strives to be on a good team or you spend your life practicing and playing in the B-leagues. When you are a part of a team that features you, you feel more special.
"That also comes with its down sides, particularly if you are a guy. People think that you feel holier than thou. It's tough to balance it out, to be humble. It's something I wasn't able to do. I didn't help the cause with some of the ways I acted. I wanted to get more sunshine. Everybody in this business wants to make more of themselves or else why are they here? It's like a pilot who wants to get more stripes.
"If you're talent and you want to stay talent for the rest of your life, why are you here? My ultimate goal was to own my own company and direct. You have to go about it in a humble way so you don't come across too pushy. When I first came in, I wanted to make all these changes and I wanted to make a difference. Now I just want to sneak in and sneak out."
Dale Da Bone entered porn in 1999 as a contract boy for Adam & Eve. He was released in 2001. "I had it good. I had a great contract and I made a ton of money and I managed to f--- it all up."
Luke: "What was the biggest turning point in your career?"
Dale: "Bud knows about it well. It was when I first moved to Los Angeles. I met somebody who told me I've been here for 20-years and this is the way you have to act. I went in and started acting that way and it totally backfired on me.
"After I got out of that relationship, things got so much worse and so much better at the same time. I ended up losing my contract and some other things but once I saw the mistakes I'd made, things turned around. The only good thing was that people started warming up to me. The bad thing was that I did some irreparable damage."
Bud Lee fires off witticisms in the background. "Haste does not make waste today."
Dale: "If people are talking about me, it must mean something."
Luke: "What do you love and what do you hate about this industry?"
Dale: "That the money is so easy. That is also what I hate about it. You can make a ton of money. As a guy, you can make $15,000 a month. Then you get spoiled and you don't want to do anything else with your other talents. In my case, motorcyles and music.
"I remember when I got a house out of highschool with my buddies and the rent was coming up. It was only $200 but you were all struggling to pay it. Just think if you could go have sex for an hour and cover the next few months' rent."
Bud: "Steven [St. Croix] says he was getting ready to leave the house when he realized he had to walk the dog.
"He'll tell me stuff like, 'I'm late. You know why? Because I overslept.'"
Dale: "I learned to say, 'I'm right around the corner. I'll be there in a second.'"
Bud says I've had a character defect since childhood - I feel compelled to write down what everybody is saying and doing.
Jason, the hulking behind-the-scenes cameraman, says Dale DaBone gives off electrifying auras.
I hear a piano playing and I wander over and discover Dale.
He is a phenomenal piano player. He plays by ear. He can't read music. He invested thousands of dollars in drummer and guitar lessons and equipment. He pursued rock stardom for years.
Dale says he likes his girls with huge fake tits. The techs say the fans want to see women who are natural, with no tattoos.
Dale can play and dance but he can't sing. He spars with Steven St. Croix over AVN nominations.
Steve: "I had seven nominations last year, 22 in my career."
I follow Jason around much of the day, piggybacking on his interviews.
Jason to Jezebelle Bond: "Do you know this guy?"
Jezebelle: "Yeah, we've met before."
Jason: "We don't know why he's here today. He said he was going elsewhere."
Jezebelle: "Who invited you anyway?"
Luke: "I'm here to give you moral support for your demanding scenes."
Jason: "She doesn't have demanding scenes. She has a demanding life."
Jezebelle: "I was up until 5AM playing Halo, an X-box [video] game."
Jezebelle fondles her crotch while she talks to us.
Luke: "What's going on down there?"
Jezebelle: "I have pubic hair and I'm like..."
Jason: "This is my interview."
Jezebelle: "Go away."
Jason: "This time I will chuck you off the balcony."
Bond has been in the business three years. She's beautiful, photogenic and jaded. She almost signed a contract with Jill Kelly Productions a few months ago but decided against it.
Jason: "What do you want to do with your life?"
Jezebelle: "I want to dance." She laughs.
Luke: "What's the right type of breakfast to have before doing a scene?"
Jezebelle: "Something with a whole lot of sugar in it. I had a late night."
I chat with Dale. Is it better to date porn stars or civilians?
Dale: "Porn stars are the first ones to want to get you out of porn though they will stay in. They will be the first ones to say, 'You can't work with this person. You can't do this.' But they will be f---ing and sucking every dick in the business.
"Civilian girls are more understanding. I thought it would be the opposite. I had one porno girlfriend in five years."
Luke: "Do you ask girls for phone numbers after scenes?"
Dale: "I have but I don't do it a lot. Most of the time the girls don't like guys who hit on them too much. Most porn girls don't like me so I don't like them and I don't say much to them."
Luke: "Do they ever say, 'Don't touch me when the camera is not rolling'?"
Dale: "They've never done that to me but I've seen it happen. Britney Skye [a busty pouty-faced blonde who sits beside us] is one of those girls who makes you think she likes you.
"I'm the guy who girls complain doesn't f--- them hard enough because I like to be more seductive. Some guys have the 'I want to f--- you till you bleed' thing. Guys like Rocco and Evan Stone.
"This one girl wanted me to spit in her face. I didn't want to. Brittany Andrews said I was boring, not nasty enough."
DUC to Britney Skye: "Do you like your man to be nasty or soft?"
Britney: "I like it rough but I don't like spit. Nacho Vidal is my favorite performer.
"I'd like to dance but I'm too scared."
Jezebelle Bond's been a feature dancer for years. She's only four-inches deep so she has to tell the guys to watch it.
DUC to Britney: "Do you prefer to date porn stars or civilians?"
Brittney: "Civilians. I don't want to feel like I am going to work."
A San Fernando Valley girl, Brittney went to work after high school and worked in retail management for Hot Topic before entering porn.
Even as a teenager, she wanted to be a porn star, though she didn't watch her first porno until after she'd done her first scene.
Luke: "Anyone from high school discover your new career?"
Brittney: "Not so much from high school, but all my ex-boyfriends are calling up. They like it. They ask, 'Can I have one of your movies? Can I come to the set?'"
Luke: "Anyone in your life get mad at you for doing porn?"
Brittney: "The people who are going to get mad I haven't told yet."
Brittney was exhausted at the AVN Awards because she signed for four different companies. She had 6AM make-up calls and was then on her feet all day.
Skye lost her virginity at age 13. "It was with my boyfriend. We'd had it planned forever. My girlfriends said, it only hurts the first three times. So I planned to do it three times in one day. And I did. I couldn't walk for a month plus I was grounded. We'd ditched school that day. I was in eighth grade. He was 16.
"When my Mom found out I was having sex, she said, 'You're out of here.' So I moved in with my grandma. She calmed me down. I was a rebellious kid. I liked to have fun. I moved to Colorado and went snowboarding every day. I didn't feel like going to school.
"I didn't like school. I think I have ADD."
Webmaster Joe Elkind is in Los Angeles.
I ask Jezebelle Bond what is the big untold truth of her career. She says, "I never really liked my job. I just did it for the paycheck."
Luke: "You didn't do it to explore your sexuality?"
Jezebelle: "No, I was having all the sex I want. I just did it for the money and to be somebody famous. It opened doors for other things like feature dancing, Playboy TV, Easy Rider magazine (Bond is on the cover of last month's issue).
"Once people know you're in porn, they have some stigma about you. They think you are a stupid f--- slut."
When she was with her husband, Bond only did girl-girl. She stands 5'6" with naturally perky breasts and measures 36B-24-36. She's photogenic and I can't keep my camera off her. She's funny and smart and well-read.
"In high school, I wanted to be a pre-school teacher or study criminal justice. Now I'm going to open a tattoo shop in about a year when I get my trust fund.
"I like to read about serial killers and s--- like that. The whole psychology of the f---ed up mind."
Luke: "How do you feel about being a sex object?"
Jezebelle is refreshingly honest. "It sucks because that's what most people think you are about all the time. I like having fans but I am the president of a fan club I would never want to be a part of.
"Some are creepy but you get cool ones who give you things like digital cameras and such."
Luke: "What do you love and hate about the industry?"
Jezebelle: "I love the money and I hate the hours."
Luke: "Were you a contract girl with Jill Kelly Productions?"
Jezebelle: "I was but I never signed."
Luke: "What happened?"
Jezebelle: "I didn't want to do it anymore. I was a rat leaving a sinking ship."
Luke: "Do you want to be a contract girl?"
Jezebelle: "No. I haven't worked in the last three months but I needed to make the car payment so I came back to do a scene."
Luke: "What's your typical day like when you are not working?"
Jezebelle: "I get up around noon or 3PM, go get coffee, watch some movies, hang out with friends. Nothing too harsh."
Luke: "You are on this rigorous schedule because you are training for what?"
Jezebelle laughs: "Not a goddamn thing."
Luke: "Would you like to be a kept woman?"
Jezebelle: "Yeah, especially if I didn't have to do anything. I was for a while. I was married for four years and I still had a sugar daddy. I didn't have to do anything. It was fabulous."
Luke: "The advantages of being young and beautiful."
Jezebelle: "And manipulative."
Luke: "How did you get so good?"
Jezebelle: "Five years of dancing. Stripping changed my views of men because you see all the bad sides of them."
Sin City publicist Kylie Ireland stops by. She's refreshingly honest.
Flick Shagwell hangs out.
I ask Miss Bond why there isn't a strong commitment to quality in this industry. She opined, while smoking a cigarette on the deck, the breeze ruffling her hair, "Because we're all flakey like a leper colony."
Bond shows me her tattoos. "This one stands for "United Bitches of Trouble." This one means, "Out For Myself Only." This is "Social Distortion," a punk band.
Bond had the name of her ex-husband tattoed on the back of her kneck but she's covered it up.
Bond: "I love ink. It's like art."
Porn star Fallon Sommers, 18-years old, brings her tiny two-month old Chihuaha on set. She turned 18 on November 9 and entered the industry November 15, 2002 after seeing an ad for "figure modeling."
Fallon: "I didn't know what that meant."
But she visited Jim South and hasn't looked back.
I ask Jezebelle Bond how she stays in shape. She says, "I don't do s---."
Luke: "I have to keep things clean for my family audience."
Jezebelle: "Family audience my ass."
It's 2:05 PM on another tranquil Bud Lee shoot. It lacks the conflict necessary for compelling journalism but makes for a smooth production.
Bond says she refuses to have sex with more than one man at a time and she would discourage her daughter, if she had one, from getting into porn. She'd like to marry and have two kids.
Steven tells me: "Unbelievably, you and I have something in common."
Luke: "What?"
Steve: "We both hate porn."
Steven walks by Darrell, a black crew member.
Steven: "Everybody hide your purses and wallets, Darrell is here today."
Darrell smiles.
I lie on the carpet behind a couch during this afternoon's shoot. Aurora Snow sits beside me and between takes, we chat.
Aurora: "I go to school fulltime [12 units]. I was at school at 6:30AM. I was late to set today and I am almost never late. You can ask anybody. But today, the directions were wrong.
"I've been working constantly and I do two shoots for Playboy as well. I host Private Calls, which is on every other Wednesday after Night Calls. I do Spice Clips on Friday and Saturday nights on DirectTV."
Luke: "Did your AVN award for best performer help your career?"
Aurora: "Definitely. I had the Spice Clips gig before AVN but right after the award, I got the Private Calls gig. I've been working non-stop since January. Last week was my first kinda slow week. I've had a lot of business opportunities approaching me quickly. Possible contracts.
"I want to go to law school in the next two years [without getting a BA first]. One of my meetings today was with a professor at a law school and he said that if I can write a good dissertation I may not need a BA to get into law school. I'm taking two literature classes and a business law class."
Luke: "Does anyone at college recognize you?"
Aurora: "Yes, one of the girls in my Saturday class watches me every week on Spice Calls. She'll ask me for anal sex tips with her boyfriend."
Luke: "Are they always cool about it?"
Aurora: "Yes, I haven't had any bad fans. Everyone who has recognized me has been sweet and respectful."
Aurora brings a backpack full of school books to almost every set.
Steven St. Croix cracks everyone up. He asks director Bud Lee if he wants "Gone With the Wind" emotion.
Bud: "Try to calm yourselves. Collect it. Cool. Ready, here we go."
DUC to Aurora: "How many other porn girls are going to college? Have you met any?"
Aurora: "Honestly, I haven't."
College requires a self discipline that tends to be negated by working in porn.
Britney Skye forgot to bring her bong, so she smokes pot out of an apple. She hollows it out, puts the pot in, tunnels into the core and smokes it.
I ask Britney and Fallon what Cinco de Mayo means to them and they said it was a day to drink Coronas and margaritas.
DUC to Jezebelle: "Will you go out and hug a Mexican and tell him how glad you are that he is in your country, and that he should bring all his family and friends too?"
Jezebelle: "No, but I'll drink their beer."
Luke: "What sort of policies should the United States have about immigration?"
Jezebelle looks stumped: "Oh, politics..."
Luke: "Have you ever thought of running for political office?"
Jezebelle: "No."
Bond had an affair with actor Zach Ward from the TV show Titus, and A Christmas Story. They'd both got out of marriages at the same time. It was the relationship you have when you're not having a relationship.
Jezebelle: "I love you but I am not responsible for you."
Luke: "Did you guys ever do the deed?"
Jezebelle: "Of course."
DUC says: I try to eliminate all profanity from setgo.com and no explicit verbal descriptions of sex either... and no nude photos.
Khunrum writes: Well done DUC. You obviously have an eye for the good photo. The girls are willing subjects too. The first set of ladies on the couch are quite attractive. I bet one or two could have married wealthy young sports, or maybe an aging captain of industry. Done well for themselves. Be set for life as it were. Yet they choose to work at a job which dilates their anuses and shows their semen spattered faces for all the world to see. Dehumanizes them I would suggest. All for a few hundred dollars. I don't get it. I never will.