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Why Is Janine Still Working?
Ed writes: "Why is janine still doing porno and dancing at strip clubs? Didn't she have a child with Jessie James? Isn't he paying child support? and is porn really paying that well these days? I know she's a big name in all but her age is starting to show and I don't see her getting more than a couple of grand per scene unless she's under some contract I haven't heard about. Anyway she should be clearing 10 grand per month easy in child support from Jessie unless the child isn't his."
Max Hardcore Bust
The FBI gave Jim South of World Modeling the choice -- he can open the door or they will break it down. Jim pulled out his keys.
Then they opened the closet to his videos with a credit card.
I wonder if this has to do with 2257 violations. His record-keeping on his boxes all say the World Modeling address but his actual records are at the house he rents in Arcadia.
You are not only supposed to identify the true location of the records but you have to have someone available each weekday to open up the records for inspection.
Willie writes on XPT about Joanna Angel: "Her shirt reads "as good as it gets." If that's the upper limit, call Dr. Kevorkian and tell him I'm on my way."
A Chat With A Friend
Friend: "What are you doing at all these places? That's not your crowd. Not one of those people keep kosher. Do you think Tommy Gunn keeps kosher? It looked like a bigger sweatier version of Porn Star Karaoke at Sardo's.
"I think we can agree after looking at your pictures that there are porn stars and there are girls who suck dick for a living. The latter are the girls who were there. Jesse Jane was the only porn star.
"I'm so happy."
Luke: "It's your girlfriend."
Friend: "I love her."
Luke: "Did you fast for Yom Kippur?"
Friend: "For the first time in years, I didn't feel good. When you're really hungry and think you're going to die, you have to have a bagel. By 2pm, I was freaking out. I have hypoglycemia and hypochondria.
"What kind of hotel was Nightmoves thrown at?"
Luke: "Three stars."
Friend: "I figured. Low end."
Luke: "I can't tell much difference between a three-star and a five-star hotel."
Friend: "You live in a hovel."
Luke: "It makes me more grateful for what I get in life."
Friend: "You'd think a hostel was the Ritz Carlton. You'd never see a bunch of webmasters caught dead in a three-star hotel. That's the difference between us and the video guys."
Luke: "The Talmud asks, who is the rich man? He who is content with his lot."
Friend: "I'm only as good as my next celebrity sex tape.
"Did you get laid?"
Luke: "No, but I...."
Friend: "Good for you. You've worked your way up to Cub Scout status. Did you whack off on her face?"
Luke: "No, that's too degrading."
Friend: "You probably think doggy-style is too degrading. I had a girlfriend years ago who was a devout Catholic. She wouldn't let me do her doggy-style because she thought it was too dehumanizing. She said, you must've been dating some crazy chicks. I said, why is this night different from all other nights? She said, what does that mean? I said, nothing.
"Your hair is getting awfully long."
Luke: "That's because it's thinning. It's a compensatory device."
Friend: "You're going for the Graham Russell-look."
Luke: "Have you been faithful to Katie?"
Friend: "Of course. I couldn't get out if I wanted to. She's not doing scenes anymore, so she here all the time."
Luke: "How does she survive?"
Friend: "She's got a rich daddy -- me. It's my new form of philanthropy -- Captain Save-A-Ho."
Ashley Blue: 'The Tampa Show was the Biggest Waste of Time Ever'
First of all, my "motel" room (paid for by NightMoves) had cockroaches in it. I am actually not sure what was worse: the cockroaches in my room or the human cockroaches that made up the majority of the "talent" that showed up. There were a few cool people like Missy, Tyler, Katie Gold, Carmen Luvana, Jesse Jane, Sean Micheals,etc., that probably had no idea that this event was so low budget and ghetto. The others (such as the people in the pictures on this site) like Jersey Jaxin, were just sprung losers that were trying to promote their "stardom" in the porn industry. For the most part, it was a bunch of sleazy wannabees that were trying to act important.
Gen Padova writes: "What did we leaaaaarrrrrnnnn??? TO NEVER GO TO NIGHTMOVES AGAIN!!! DUH!!! JEFF... I thought you knew better than to send Ashley, or did she do this herself? hehehehehe."
A Scorecard of Hustler Editor Bruce David's Wacky Schemes
The Hustler Tattler writes:
During his tenure as Editorial Director at Hustler Magazine, Bruce David has tried some crazy schemes which always end in disaster. If any editor of any national magazine pulled just one of these stunts, they would be out the door, but thanks to his friendship with Larry Flynt, Bruce stays on, providing a never-ending stream of entertainment.
Bruce fakes his resignation in the New York Post
After Liz Flynt called him a "stupid old man," Bruce stormed out of LFP and didn't come to work for 3 days. He leaked a fake story of his resignation to Richard Johnson of the New York Post who published it in his Page Six column. Bruce hoped that Larry Flynt would jack up his salary in order to "keep him," but the ploy failed, and Bruce returned to LFP for his same "shitty salary."
Bruce tries to charge Larry Flynt retroactively for ghostwriting Larry's publishers statements
Bruce was going back invoice Larry $500 a pop for the scant paragraph that he scrolls out as "Larry Flynt" once a month, but the greedy plot blew up in his face when an LFP staffer leaked it to Mike Albo who reported it on Adult StarsNews.com. Bruce lost thousands of dollars.
Bruce refuses to promote Alaina F-orante because she is a woman
Alaina had paid her dues as an editorial assistant, but Bruce told her that he would not promote her to a recently opened department editor position because she was a woman. Alaina busted the old man's balls to LFP Human Resources and got even a better job: editor of the Hustler web site, where she was not under Bruce's authority.
Bruce hires crony Mark Cromer as Features Editor
As meticulously documented by Mark Cromer on LukeisBack.com, this move turned into a disaster and resulted in enormous public humiliation for Bruce. Cromer outed e-mails from Bruce to Hustler HR she-male Lyn Heller conspiring to fire much of the staff at LFP based on his paranoia-inspired flow charts. "Matt Brand to Lisa Jenio to Allan MacDonnell to..."
Bruce hires his crush Carolyn S-nclair as Features Editor
Though she had only written three articles for Hustler, the inexperienced Carolyn S-nclair was named Features Editor by lovesick Bruce, 40 years her senior. What Bruce didn't count on was Carolyn marrying an unemployed irish bartender, crushing all hopes for Bruce's real life Letter to Penthouse.
Bruce fingers overweight porn star Spantaneous Extasy
The 300-pound porn star was reportedly fingered by Bruce David (on the set during her shoot for her spread in the September 2005 issue) under the guise of applying makeup to her labia. To Bruce's embarrassment, the studio crew reported this back to the LFP office, where it has now become a running joke: Bruce knows how to read lips. It gets worse, Bruce didn't tell anyone he was a co-owner of her web site which he had then-freelancer Tom Farrell plug in the magazine; this violated LFP policy.
Bruce places the Hideous Barbie Twins on the Cover of Hustler January 2003
"I think they are hot!" crowed Bruce about the issue that dropped sales through the floor. Later, Bruce would claim that he never thought the anorexic, bullemic middle-aged twins were hot, but then-art director, Kamila Kowalcyck, busted him in a meeting with LFP VP Donna Hahner, "You did too say they were hot! You are a liar! I heard you! " Exposed and embarrassed, Bruce stormed out of the meeting.
Sunday, Oct 9. 1:50pm. Beside the pool of Paul and Tracy Allen of Nightmoves USA.
Mari Possa moved to the U.S. at age seven from El Salvador.
When she was a kid, she wanted to become an astronaut. "When I die, I want my ashes spread in outer space."
What was it like to have two Harvard-educated parents?
"Hard. Expectations like you wouldn't believe, but I've always been the rebel."
On her 18th birthday (while still in highschool), Mari Possa got drunk for the first time (vodka and orange juice) with a friend. "First period went by, we're fine. Second period went by, we're tipsy. Third period, we're really drunk. I'm the TA (teacher's assistant for gym class). I have to warm up the students. I have trouble getting dressed. I fall on my face. I was taken to the nurse. I got suspended for two days. My parents had to come in and talk to my teachers. I got pulled off the prom committee.
"Aside from that, I never got in trouble. I got away with everything.
"I grew up in Reseda. I went to Reseda Elementary and Reseda High School. Then to Pierce College."
Mari hung out with the cool crowd.
Luke: "What was your reputation?"
Mari: "Everybody thought I was the biggest slut in highschool, but I was a virgin until I was almost 21 [though she had sex with a girl at 16]. I was like the dog that barked but didn't bite. Everything that came out of my mouth was sex-related. I don't know why I was so obsessed with sex. Maybe because my parents never talked about it."
Luke: "What were you expected to become?"
Mari: "I was voted Most Likely To End Up At Bob's Classy Lady [the former name of a Valley strpi club].
"I never knew what Bob's Classy Lady was."
Luke: "What kind of a relationship did you have with your father?"
Mari Possa: "Until I was 14, a great relationship. Then I started dating, and we grew apart. I wouldn't talk to him about my things. Until this day, our communication is not great. My mom has always been there for me.
"Neither of my parents agree with porn or want me to be in it. They think it's a phase. Now they're like, when are you going to snap out of it? I say, I'm not going to. This is it."
Her parents haven't met her boyfriend Adam Glasser. "My mom has a problem with his age." Mari Possa is 24. Adam is 41. Mari's mom is 45. Her dad is 49.
Luke: "Have you ever spent time in jail?"
Mari: "No. The closest I got was when my girlfriend had to spend the night in jail for drunk driving and I stayed in the car outside the jail. I wanted to be supportive. She went into a cell that had a phone and we were on the phone the whole night. We were 21."
Luke: "How has the show Family Business affected your life?"
Mari: "It's put me in the spotlight. It's made me more conscious of myself and what I say."
Mari says she once told me something she thought was off-the-record but that I printed (not realizing).
Luke: "How would you assess U.S. - El Salvador relations?"
Mari: "I had a good childhood. I didn't know we were going through a war. My parents never exposed us to anything. I grew up very sheltered."
Luke: "What do you love and hate about the porn industry?"
Mari: "I love the open-mindedness of it. I hate that we're not a good example for society for safe sex. If anybody should be, it should be the porn industry."
Luke: "Are you condom-only?"
Mari: "No."
Luke: "What do you want out of life?"
Mari laughs. "What everybody wants. Happiness. I don't want to have kids and I don't believe in marriage. I want a wedding simply for the gown. I just want to be healthy. I'm a hypochondriac."
Luke: "Who do you hate the most in the industry?"
Mari: "I don't hate. Not a lot makes me mad. I'm very passive."
Brooke Haven says Mari only gets mad when Brooke's ass gets big.
Mari: "All of my friends have been very supportive even though they're not into porn at all."
Luke: "Why did you get breast implants?"
Mari: "Because when I started doing porn and I looked at myself, I thought I looked too much like a little girl. I thought with boobs, I'd look more womanly."
Luke: "Did it change the way people related to you, particularly men?"
Mari: "No. I've always attracted attention from men."
Adam Glasser hasn't done a scene in over a year.
Dan Beck (owns and runs a satellite porn channel) came down to Tampa from New York with three cameramen. Only one is left. One, Dan Mandelbaum (his family owns the department store chain), antagonized Flower Tucci to the point where she threw a DVD at him. Beck sent Mandelbaum home.
In the pool Monday afternoon, Beater teamed up with Daphne Rosen and Brooke Haven to try to pants me. I fought valiantly...and in this fallen world, that's the best we can do.
A friend comments: "Yes, and you looked so upset at being defeated. You poor thing. How terrified you must have been."
I like how the NightmovesUSA.com site says: "We do not promote prostitution, drugs, or excessive alcohol abuse. We are not acting in any way to send you this information; you are choosing to receive it!"
Yet they give awards to the Best Escort and the Best Escort Service in Tampa Bay.
Things lawyers make you do.
So, with Aly gone from AVN...
I'm curious to know what people think is going to happen over there. Granted she wasn't a decision maker, but she was the bridge between webmasters and AVN. Remember the guest passes for Florida. Not perfect, but a solution nonetheless and one that wouldn't have been implemented had Aly not been there imo. I think she made them more credible and tolerable to some...if only for the short time she was there. Now, with all of the departures, and Aly jumping ship too, I'll be curious to see what the future holds. I've heard an increasing (if you can believe that) amount of derogatory talk about AVN and people that have supported them in the past are pulling the plug.
Validus writes: "Ah, it is so tough to get in tough with anybody there. Paul [Fishbein] is unreachable no matter what you try. I met him at the Venus 2 years ago where we invited the AVN crew as VIPs to our party. After that there was no contact and no getting through to anybody."
A1R3K writes:
Jeff Random is gone too. He was by far the best sales and representative that AVN ever had. The guy was by far one of the best reps I have dealt with for any company in my long history of business in mainstream and adult. Our account with Rage suffered from his leaving AVN. It sucks when good people that you rely on leave companies that need them.
i still like farley and alex over there, but i am seriously thinking of pulling the plug for the fiasco that just happened with my print account. klixxx has stepped up and so has xbiz. this is neither a pro nor con finger pointing, this is a real scenario that i just had to live becuase no one over there could pick up jeff randoms rolodex when he left and call clients to say he was gone and see if we need anything, which we did.
AVN has not yet selected a replacement for Aly.
Peaches writes: "AVN would do just fine if everyone on the internet site never attended a single show or advertised with them. They do well enough on the video side. We internet customers are secondary, always have been and always will be."
KB writes: "Tim Connelly - Editor of AVN is also no longer there They'll tell you he is in rehab- but his contract is expiring, and no one is bothering to tell people it will not be renewed. He was really talented I hear...when it came to scoring cocaine."
WEGCory writes on JBM: "I wonder if anyone from AVN even reads the boards anymore. The number of people expressing their frustrations with them grows everyday and they continue to neglect their needs. All the more to the competition."
She had returned to her family and to her religion, trying to repair connections that had been devastated by her entry into porn.
My Greatest Fear
That through my blogging, I've loosened the bodice of the English language to the point where every petty clerk felt entitled to fondle her breasts.
Director David Aaron Clark writes on ADT:
Following is the first few graphs of veteran pundit Mick Farren's latest column (you can see the whole thing at lacitybeat.com).
Though he's talking about the "Alt" press (in the context of a special CITYBEAT issue on punk which ocassionally notes how the creativity & revolution of 30 years ago has become nothing but mindless, endlessly imitative marketing scams), it struck me, particularly of course after the Orwell quote at the opening, that this pretty much pinpoints what's rotten in the "alt.porn" and "edgy gonzo" marketing niches: Anybody who thinks that capitalists like Rob Black, Suicide Girls, and all that ilk in any way represent something new, brave or worth anything more than a half-distracted jerk probably won't get what Farren is talking about in the first place, but the non-fanboys might be amused.
Take it away, Mick ...
"“Pornosec, the sub-section of the Fiction Department which turned out cheap pornography … to be bought furtively by proletarian youths who were under the impression that they were buying something illegal.” –George Orwell, 1984"
"I’ve always disliked and distrusted the word “alternative” – especially when an adjective – as in “alternative press,” “alternative rock,” or “alternative radio.” When someone starts trying to sell me “alternative,” the alternative is usually a diluted substitute for the real thing. My suspicion of the word, like so much else, started in the 1960s, when some superior hippies – unacceptable combos of Gandhi and Nellie Oleson – prattled on about an “alternative society” and reforming the squares by our shining nonviolent example. My youthful response was invariably negative. I was already well aware that reforming squares usually ended with the local PD clubbing me about the head and shoulders. I was far more at home with people who used words like “underground,” “radical,” “revolutionary,” or even, on a particularly bad day, “helter-skelter.”"
About the only alternative society with which I truly sympathized was that of the San Francisco Diggers, who – taking their name from a 17th-century English utopian commune horribly shut down by Oliver Cromwell’s army – attempted to set up a moneyless, classless society on the streets of 1966-67 Haight-Ashbury. I dug the Diggers because their alternative was aggressive street theater and their leader, Emmett Grogan, was a master prankster with a decidedly street-thug panache. After the Diggers, though, the word “alternative” degenerated, until, by the 1970s, it meant groovy-but-corporate, maybe faux-outlaw but never going all the way."
Thanks, Mick. More people should regularly read your blog at Doc40.blogspot.com, & the ignorance rate might start dropping. "Groovy-but-corporate, maybe faux-outlaw but never going all the way": Boy, if THAT doesn't define certain overhyped auteurs of the moment (& the last couple years) ...
Discuss. Disagree. Toss out ill-thought, defensive broadsides. In other words, do what we do here!
...I'm a bitter, middle-aged bachelor living in the city who eats mostly Thai delivery & all-night noodle house fare, cuz that's all that's available by the time I get up and/or am hungry.
Zartyr writes:
"Alternative" is the same as temporary tattoos. It is for wimps.
I'll take these guys serious, when I see the porn remakes of Pasolini movies. That would not be innovative, but at least something other than painting faces white and showing an occasional flogger.
The Jazz Singer - I Was Honored To Lead The Congregation In Kol Nidre On Yom Kippur
The Lowdown on AVN
Here's my opinion about going to AVN, based solely on my own experiences.
Even though you can get much better rates at other hotels (if you book early enough, and by early I mean NOW), it's worth it if you can afford it to stay at the Venetian. The show is there, all the girls stay there, all the parties are there, and you'll have better opportunities to get contact info there at the Circle Bar and Grand Lux Cafe than you will on the show floor. The bars and cafes are full of pornstars in the evening. Two years ago I met Shyla Stylez at the Circle Bar; I waited until I could approach her discretely, told her I was a fan and asked if I could get her contact info... without a minute of hesitation, she took a pen and wrote her phone number down on a napkin... the fact that she was a little drunk probably helped - lol.
There's a travel agency that specializes in adult travel, www.porntravel.com They have a three-night package at the Venetian that includes room, VIP passes to the show (meaning you get in along with the trade people on Thursday and two hours before the general public on Friday) and a ticket to the AVN Awards Banquet. Prices start at around $1500 for a room to yourself, and go as low as around $800 if you stay four to a room. They have a limited number of rooms though, so book now... they require a 50% deposit and the balance in late Dec.
If you can't afford to stay at the Venetian, if you start looking NOW you can still get some good rates, but it would have been better if you booked your room no later than August. My first AVN I stayed at the Excalibur for $49 a night. The disadvantage of staying anywhere other than the Venetian is that it's a REAL pain in the ass getting into the show or the Venetian after show hours. Lines for the parking lot are long and slow, and taxi's take forever to get... don't even think about trying to flag one down; call for one from your hotel. It's also much easier to hook up with a pornstar if you can meet her and take her right up to your room... she might have a spare hour, but if you're staying elsewhere it will take two hours or longer to travel to your hotel, spend an hour together and then get back to the Venetian, and they may not have or want to spend that much time... plus, you'd probably be able to negotiate a lower rate if she knows your right there at the Venetian and an hour appointment is only going to take an hour of her time.
As for hooking up with PSEs, it's a hit or miss proposition. After the show ends in the afternoon, many of the girls either have committments to appear at industry sponsored parties and/or have made arrangements to shoot scenes... LOTS of content are shot over the course of the show, and often they just want to party with friends. Even if you do manage to hook up, the girl often isn't at her best... she's tired and also might be under the influence of some conscience altering substance... after all, there really is a lot of partying going on. It's been my experience that, believe it or not, the best time to schedule a meeting is in the afternoon during show hours... most of the girls don't work every hour of every day, and some may even be willing to blow off some of her show commitments if the money is right. Plus, in the afternoon, they aren't as tired and aren't partying (as hard, anyway).
Approaching a girl on the show floor isn't really the best way. If you're going to do it anyway, wait until you can speak with her quietly and just tell her you're a fan, that you'd love to get together with her sometime and ask for her number. She'll either give it to you or she won't... if she doesn't don't press the issue and hope you run into her at the bars where you can try again.
The best way, as has beeen stated, is really to make arrangements via phone or email well in advance of the show. But keep in mind that even if you do that, you might get blown off when the day arrives... If they're active talent, they're there primarily to promote themselves within the industry... making a few bucks escorting is just a bonus, but their careers come first. Your best bet is to book an advance appointment with a PSE who isn't real active in the industry any more and is there strictly (or primarily) to meet fans.
FBI Fires Into Max Hardcore's Floor?
Max comes in today and is carrying a slab of what was part of his floor. Apparently (guess this is what they told Max) Joe #1 holding the shotty pointed down while Joe #2 dropped something on the floor making Joe Schmo #1 fire off a round point blank at the floor. Just when you think you couldn't love the feds even more than now. Pic attached.
Tony Malice has a fun day at the office.
Tampa Show II
Skye Lopez shows up to her first Tampa Show event Saturday night, October 8.
She tells me she's going to be on a hip-hop album cover, as well as in a mainstream movie and she's recording a hip-hop album.
She's directed a couple of movies for Sineplex but hasn't performed in porn for 18-months.
Aloha, some call me Sky Lopez, "but you can call me Springbreak!" You might know me from the adult industry. You may have seen me in Playboy Magazine, Penthouse, Club, XXL, Revolver, Playboy TV, E-Channel, VH1 or many other places. I am no longer in the Adult Industry because I found the Lord last May and have been on a Christian walk. I am by no means perfect or sinless (who is but God?) but I do try everyday to build my relationship with him and to be a better person.
On her blog June 22, 2005, Sky writes:
SAY THIS SLOWLY: Jesus----I----Love-----You-----and------Need-----You---- Repost this within 5 minutes and a miracle will happen tonight.
Skye tells me Saturday night: "I started going to church. I needed it to center me and to connect to God."
She doesn't go to church much anymore. She's starting an organization for girls to let them know that they have choices aside from professional sex work.
Missy Monroe (dressed as a police officer) says she washed 30 cars for a Nightmoves Katrina fundraiser Saturday afternoon. Then she did two sex scenes, cleaned up and came out to tonight's club and signed for a couple of hours.
I ask her if she's had breast implants. "No," she says. "I'm just wearing a bra."
Ashley Blue smokes Durall cigarettes, "grandma cigarettes." When she house-sat for people, she'd go in their closet and take their Durall's. "That's how white-trash I am. Other people steal jewelry and things of value. I just went for the cigarettes."
Missy Monroe's father is in the strip club but I don't meet him until Sunday night.
Beater complains that the service is the worst he's had in a strip club in 25-years. He's drunk much of the Tampa Show.
Rachel complains that she's had to wait two hours for a drink. "Can we have a big sign that says 'Suck'."
Rachel says she shouldn't be drinking because she's in training, but as we're only down here for a few days...
She grabs my microphone. "Me so horny, baby. Me love you long time."
In a side room, Beater gets Mike South's lover Rachel to write a message on his penis with a felt pen. Then she licks him. Down there. For free.
"Women are always doing this to me," says a triumphant Beater.
I don't know who's more drunk -- him or Rachel.
A 39-year old bartender tells Mike that she wants him in Heaven with her because she knows he can f---.
Then she follows up: "I have to know your social security number before I'll let you eat my pussy."
Mike: "I'm a porn star and a director."
Woman: "I don't want to hear any of that."
Despite Mike's best efforts, they don't hook up.
Porno Dan (based in Baltimore) had a disappointing day in Orlando with Daphne Rosen, Jersey Jaxin and a porn newcomer on FM 104.1 WTKS. The girls were kicked off the air after seven minutes because the new girl (from Washington D.C.) kept using profanity.
The porn girls were used as eye-candy on stage for hours and they feel exploited.
Heather Pink's boyfriend Andrew (Heather, BF) used to sleep with Madelyn Night. Heather says Madelyn was volatile and often trashed her to Andrew.
He found photos of her on an escorting site. Madelyn said it was a lie. She didn't escort. That she would sue.
She never sued because she did work as a hooker.
Madelyn's packed on the pounds.
Heather and her boyfriend put on live sex shows at the pool Saturday and Sunday nights, getting kicked out of the pool each time after a few minutes. He looks like a porn guy but owns and operates a clothing store in Manhattan.
In a few weeks, Digital Playground contract star Jesse Jane is marrying Tawny Roberts' tall ex-boyfriend Rich Handsome.
Mike South says he gives speeches to alternative filmmaking classes and they analyze the components of his pornos.
I bug Mike that his favorite new blonde hottie Amber has been spending nights with Billy Glide.
Mike says she does eight-balls of cocaine. This has turned him off her. "I don't need a tweaker. I demand a certain level of professionalism from girls who represent me."
Luke: "You're just mad that Billy got there before you?"
Mike: "He got sloppy seconds."
Luke: "How do you know she did cocaine?"
Mike: "She said she needed a bump...and when she came back down to the pool she was twitching and had white stuff under her nose."
I'm sure there's an innocent explanation. How can you tell if a girl does cocaine regularly?
Mike: "Look at her skin. They'll have a gaunt face. They'll wear a lot of make-up to hide the blemishes on their skin."
Luke: "How do you know Amber indulged?"
Mike: "When they go up at night and come back down to the pool with white powder on their lip and their snorting and they tell you, 'I don't normally do this. I needed a bump tonight to stay awake.' If they know the word 'bump,' they're doing cocaine."
Cheyenne: "Or if they make a point of telling people who might have it that they're really tired."
I ask Mike if he has trouble relating to women his own age (almost 48).
Mike: "Absolutely. They have trouble relating to me too."
I ask Ethan Cage if he would let his wife Lexi Lamour work with Mike. He says she wouldn't because they're all friends. It would be too weird. Ethan says it's the same with Felicia Fox, Stormy, Katie Morgan.
Mike says he won't work with Felicia Fox.
But she gives you blowjobs.
"For Fifi, giving a blowjob is like shaking hands."
Heather Pink: "I imagine hell is all the fun people boiling in a pot."
Mike: "That's what we're doing here in Tampa."
Heather wants to have a tacky porn wedding at the AVN show in Las Vegas, with all the bridesmaids dressed in stripper gear.
"A tacky porn wedding is really not like me because in my real life I'm really classy."
Missy Monroe's cute 18-year old sister comes by Saturday but after a few hours, Missy tells her to go home (for making negative remarks).
Sunday night I meet Missy's father. He drives trucks for the Salvation Army. How did he find out his daughter was doing porn? His roommate subscribes to Barely Legal. One day the roomie said to him, "Here's something you should look at."
I ask him why he's at the Nightmoves show. He says he wants to be supportive of his daughter.
8:15pm. Missy says she's had five beers and a daquiri. She's nervous about going on stage.
Amber claims to have imbibed a similar amount of alcohol.
Ron Jeremy does five minutes of stand-up and makes fun of porn stars who cancel shoots because of religious holidays. "I can't do that eight-man bukkake because Jesus was born today."
9:45pm. Sky Lopez can't be found to give out an award.
I meet Jenny Hendrix, 19, and her newcomer friend Kylie Kennedy. I'm not sure either are long for porn. I think it bores them. Kylie's jealous that I've brought along a book to help me through the night.
After the show, I return back to the hotel in the limo with the porn girls. Brooke Haven and Trina call their men. "Who's that bitch answering the phone?" Trina asks.
Brooke says her parents were both in prison. "Even though my parents had a rough life, I came out pretty damn good."
They don't know she does porn.
When Haven has sex or masturbates, she's loud.
Brooke (who lives with Trina Michaels) complains that when she masturbates (and you can hear it through the house) that Trina won't come into the room.
Trina sits quietly.
Lexi Marie (the 19-year old blonde Vivid girl) roomed with Brooke and Trina until they kicked her out.
They say she burned down their balcony and accidentally let their cat out.
In the first few hours of Monday morning, I take on everyone I can in races across the swimming pool. I lose every contest except for when I cheat and hold the girls back. Jenny Hendrix (her boyfriend Jack Slade is working on the computer in his room) was on her highschool swim team. She hasn't done a porn scene in months.
Ron Jeremy's impressed by my approach. "It's like saying you're the world's greatest lover and then afterwards saying, well, I tried."
I challenge Ron to a race. He wants to know how far I can swim underwater.
"One lap," I admit.
He's not impressed. He can do at least two. It's not worth it to him to get his hair wet and lose some coloring in the chlorine.
"I have to dye the s--- out of my hair," he says.
Nightmoves USA Tampa Show 2005
Wendy Maya Divine and hubby Eric Masterson, Ethan Cage at Orientation Thursday afternoon Lexi Lamour, Tommy Gunnn Cheyenne, Mike South, Reese, Haley Star Kami Andrews, Charlie Chase Angelica Sinn, Kami, Kelly Taylor at orientation Thursday Olivia O'Lovely Sunny Lane, mom Sean Michaels Heather Pink Sean, Sunny's mom Jersey Jaxin, Angelica Sinn Heather Pink, Jersey Jaxin Amber, Mike South Amber, Mike Sunny Lane, Veronica West Jersey, Veronica, Heather Veronica, Jersey, Heather gang Tommy Gunn, Sunny Lane Cecilia Cecilia Brooke Haven, man, Davia Ardell Brooke, Cecilia, Davia Christy Christy Brooke Haven Mari Possa, Daphne Rosen Daphne Heather Pink Ron Jeremy, Sierra Cheyenne, friend, Beater Cheyenne, Mike South, Rachel Billy Glide, Amber, Mike South Amber, Mike South Billy Glide, Amber Mike, Rachel Ashley Blue Trina Michaels, Brooke Haven Summer Haze, Lori Alexia Jersey Jaxin, Heather Pink Jersey, Heather Brianna Love, Davia Ardell, Brooke Haven Brianna, Davia, Brooke Angelica, Olivia Flower Tucci, Mari Possa Maya Divine, Sierra, Ashley Blue, Amber Ashley Blue Sierra, Ashley Ashley, Amber Ashley, Amber Ashley Blue Ashley Flower, Mari Possa Flower, Mari Possa, Sunny Lane Flower, Mari Possa Lower, Mari Possa, Sunny Lane Olivia, Mike South, Scott McGowan, Lisa Sparxxx, Beater, Flower Angelica, Olivia, Scott, Lisa Angelica, Olivia Lori Alexia Tyler Faith, Wankus Brianna Love Brianna Jesse Jane Jesse Jane Carmen Luvana, Jesse Jane Tyler Faith Summer Haze, Tyler Faith Missy Monroe Ashley Blue, Tyler Faith Rachel, Beater Rachel, friend Rita Faltayano, Tommy Gunn Skye Lopez, Lori Alexia McKenzie Lee, Skye Lopez, Sunny Lane, Lori Alexia girls girls girls Nightmoves Publisher Paul Allen, Skye Lopez Skye, Lori Skye Skye Skye, Jesse Jesse, Carmen, Skye Jesse, Skye Jersey, Sunny Sierra, Jersey, Sunny, Sierra girls Skye Lopez, Lori Alexia Sunny Lane Sunny Rita Faltayano Rita Mari Possa Mari Possa Mari Possa Rita, Tommy, Mari Kelly Taylor, Missy Monroe on Sunday, Oct 9 Kelly, Missy Davia Ardell Flower Tucci and my new friend Brooke Haven Flower, Brooke Mari Possa, Daphne Rosen, Brianna Love Charlie Chase Charlie Chase Sunny Lane Jenny Hendrix, Kylie Kennedy Jenny, Kylie Missy Monroe and her dad Missy, dad Amber Amber and her mom Amber, mom Lori Alexia Holly Randall, Skye Lopez Holly, Skye Haley Winner of Best Escort Agency in Tampa award Billy Glide, Skye Lopez Billy, Skye Billy, Skye Billy, Skye Skye Kelly Taylor Kelly, Kami Kelly Kelly Taylor Amber, Billy Amber, Billy Amber, Billy Veronica West Veronica Veronica Paul and Tracy Allen Sunny Lane Ron Jeremy, Charlie Chase, concierge Jenny Hendrix, concierge's GF, Lori Alexia Heather, Missy Brooke Haven Sunny Lane, Tracy Allen Brooke Haven Holly Randall, Brooke Brooke Brooke Holly Randall Trina, Brooke, Mari, Daphne Holly, girls limo driver, girls girls girls on Sunday night before ride back to hotel Brooke, Cecilia Monday afternoon at pool party at Paul Allen's house Daphne, Trina Sierra, Sunny Lane Brianna, Davia Heather, BF Daphne, Brooke random hot chick (Amber? Pauline?) at pool party says she's a nurse chick chick chick chick chick chick, photog chick, photog Christy, friend Jenny and co Monday night, Oct 10 Katy Zvolerin, Adam & Eve publicist, Dan, editor of Genesis magazine Jenny and her adorable friend Kylie Kennedy I love you, Kylie Jenny, Kylie blonde Suzy Q Brianna, Trina Brianna has beauty that shines through my shoddy camerawork Brianna Brianna Brianna Brianna Brianna Tommy Gunn, Rita, Davia Brianna Love Brianna Brianna, Mari Possa, Brooke, Kelly Davia, Trina, Brianna, Mari Possa, Brooke Brianna Brianna, she'll come again, looking better than anyone has a right to... and here I go Brianna, all you've got to do is smile and smile Mike South bloke and his beautiful brunette girlfriend Davia, Brianna, Kelly Aussie sings Strawberry Fields Forever Aussie rocker, new lead singer for INXS Aussie Wankus, blonde Davia, Brianna Brianna Davia, Brianna Davia, Brianna Davia, Brianna Davia, Brianna Davia, Brianna Davia, Brianna Billy, Tommy, Trina, Davia, Brianna Brianna, Brooke Davia, Brianna Brianna Davia, Brianna girls gang Davia, Brianna, Brooke, Rita Brianna girls girls girls girls girls girls Davia, Brianna girls girls Brianna girls Brianna, Brooke Brianna Brianna, Brooke Brianna Dan, Brooke Suzy Q, April Storm, Jenny Hendrix Porno Dan, Brooke McKenzie Lee, Aussie, Holly Jenny, Luke, Lori Holly, Luke Holly, Luke Holly, Luke Holly, Luke Holly, Luke Luke Luke Luke Mike, Luke, Scott McGowan Aussie sings karaoke Holly Randall, perv Holly, perv Holly, perv
Orientation: Video of Kami, Charlie Scott McGowan Craig Valentine, Summer Haze
Friday, Oct 7: Heather Pink Cheyenne, Captain Cockblock Cheyenne, Captain Heather, Captain, Mike Billy, Jersey Scott McGowan Katie Gold, Jersey, Billy gang gang Amber Mike, Amber Mike, Amber Mike, Amber Katie, Davia, Beater XPT commentary Holly Randall's pics Smelly Monkey AVN reports Cytherea - MIA from Tampa Show ADT thread Mike South reports on previous Tampa shows. Fleshbot reports. Wankus reports. Adultcon pics, videos. The Blue Pages reports.
Scott McGowan reports for his site eyeonadult.com:
Much like the Army Corps of Engineers, I was one of the first ones in and one of the last out. To say I loved this show may in fact be the understatement of the year. Things went just well enough with just enough problems and just bedlam to send me to bed each night with a wicked grin across my face.
One girl was sent home due to what I can only imagine was drug-induced mania considering the behavior I witnessed. Another chick split since she didn’t feel she was receiving the star treatment she deserved.
I believe the first reference is to Katie Gold, who was frequently drunk, and the second to Ashley Blue, who did not like the show.
AVN's Dirty Bob, who operates TampaShow.com, tried to get me barred from the event (among others, I guess he believes in "free speech for me, but not for thee"). He's not allowed by his wife to attend porn shows because of his seeming proclivity for falling in love with busty blondes (not that I am above such things).
I arrive at 4:20pm Thursday, October 6, and take an $11 taxi ride one mile to the hotel. Orientation was scheduled for 5pm but Nightmoves magazine publisher Paul Allen doesn't rise to speak until 6:15pm (he has a nodule in his throat and a raspy voice vaguely reminiscent of Michael Jackson). By that time most of the porn stars are present (except for Wankus, Skye Lopez, Lori Alexia, Jesse Jane and Carmen Luvana who arrive by Saturday).
Nightmoves employee Cecilia spent about an hour on the phone Wednesday night with bouncy black dancer Lori Alexia trying to persuade her to come to the show. Lori was all booked and then she became offended by something Wankus said at PSK Tuesday. "I licked her, sucked and f----- her," says Cecilia Thursday afternoon.
Paul and Nightmoves make it clear that porners should not do drugs during this trip. I can't imagine taking on the responsibility of herding around 30 porn stars for five days. No wonder Paul says that the Tuesday after the show finishes is his happiest time of the year.
The air is muggy (it rains a few times over the next five days) and the atmosphere friendly. I like my hotel room and have it all to myself. Some porners complain but most seem happy to be here.
Mike South is hot for tight-bodied blonde Amber (done two movies), 21, but she ends up in Billy Glide's bed. Before then, I interview her.
Amber: "I never expected to become a porn star. I was expected to become a lawyer."
Amber lost her virginity at 13, and then became a cheerleader. She was stripping by 15. "I had a boyfriend [who's now in prison, he broke into someone's house and hit a guy who Amber says tried to rape her with a baseball bat]. He wanted me to do that marriage life at a young age. I married someone else in June. Separated already. I'm going through a divorce now. I thought he was going to be ok with what I did as a career, but obviously not.
"It's hard to have a relationship in this industry. There's a lot of jealousy."
Amber says she won't give up her sex career for the right man. "They have to accept it."
Amber says only one strip club caught her using a fake ID -- The Seven Seas. They kicked her out. "It was a nasty hole-in-the-wall place."
Amber has a permanent grin. "Most of my friends are dancers or they own clubs. You tend to hang out with people in the industry because you're around them all the time."
Luke: "What do you want out of life?"
Amber: "A lot of money obviously."
Amber says she wants to get some goals for her life. "I go to strip clubs every night."
Saturday, Mike South claims Amber does cocaine and that that makes her someone he doesn't want to hang around.
9pm. Getting on the limo Thursday night to go to a club, I tried to take pictures but find the humidity has temporarily fogged my camera lens. Within a few minutes, it is ok.
Katie Gold sits down beside me. Then she proceeds to babble and repeatedly fall down. Everyone in the limo rolls their eyes at her.
She's drunk much of her time in Tampa and is sent home early.
I remember how drunk Katie Gold was at the AVN Awards in January. She was sobbing on Dick Nasty's shoulder.
I spend 25-hours (from Friday afternoon to Saturday 8pm) reading books and hanging out at the pool Saturday afternoon.
Around 4pm Saturday, I run into an unhappy Ashley Blue (AVN Female Performer of the Year 2005) in the hotel lobby. She says: "I'm so sober I can see how alone everyone is."
She hates the show. She hates the hotel. She says she found a cockroach in her room. The hotel moves her to another room. She's mad that a guy dipped into her front door after dipping into her back door and did not wash in between, so she's got some nasty vaginal infection and can't have regular sex for a couple of weeks. She's mad at the people who've given her gonorrhea, though she says it is easy to cure with antibiotics.
Ashley says she wants to do a good job representing JM Productions and then she wants to get the hell back to Los Angeles.
Saturday night, Billy Glide says he's been going to bed at 6am and waking up around 4pm.
Saturday night I meet Mike South's lover Rachel, a stripper in Tampa who won a Best Dancer award and is visiting Mike's parents with him at Thanksgiving. Last year at the Nightmoves awards, she got so drunk, she couldn't walk to the bathroom, and instead peed under the table.
Black girl Sierra has natural FFF-breasts. In the industry since 1997, she's done about 300 movies.
I ask Jersey for the whereabouts of her roommate Katie Gold. Jersey says she's passed out drunk back at the hotel. I press Jersey why she wasn't a good roommate to Katie. Jersey says she was. That she put Katie to bed.
Jersey is glad to get another roommate.
Jaxin says she doesn't walk unless it is to a mall. Walking from the hotel to Starbucks next door was way too much exertion for Jersey.
I'm thrilled to see the adorable Brianna Love again but she's not nearly as excited to see me. She says I wrote bad things about her after our one meeting a few months ago. That I wrote that she smoked marijuana.
It was true.
Oh well, I can adore her through my camera lens. It's a license to perv.
I ask Wankus what he said Tuesday night to offend Lori Alexia. He says he does not know. That she caused a huge scene in the hotel bar Friday night until Wankus's GF Tyler Faith walked her out.
I don't have the courage to ask Lori about the matter.
By the time I interview Ashley Blue late Saturday night (between selling her movies and signing autographs with the other girls in the back of a club), she's calmed down.
Luke: "Why did you come? What did you expect?"
Ashley: "I guess I expected something different. I guess it's ok."
Luke: "You were more ticked a few hours ago."
Ashley: "Because there were cockroaches in my motel, emphasis on the MO-tel, room. Two guys in the elevator asked me if I was a hooker. One said, 'Do you work independently?' I said, what? He said, 'I'm in room 246.' I told him to get out of the elevator.
"It's not fun for me because I can't drink because of my medication (for vaginitis).
"I got in on the plane (Thursday morning) I was supposed to unlike a lot of other people who missed their's."
Luke: "What happened when you worked out in the motel gym?"
Ashley: "This [jerk] came in. He had no work-out clothes on. He had a button-down shirt. I thought, this is odd.
"I was exercising because I'm fat. He's leering at my ass. I don't have a great ass. It's just whatever. He's just in here because... I don't know if they made it public where we're all staying... [Luke: I'm sure Nightmoves did not.] But there are so many [jerks here]. Vegas is cool because it's Vegas but this is [crappy] because it's Tampa. I think it sucks. I want to go home."
Luke: "How did winning Best Performer affect your career and rates?"
Ashley: "More people hate me. It made me feel cool. It only matters to people in the industry, because when I come here, there are so many chicks signing who don't have any name and they're grabbing dicks... And I'm sitting here [alone] and nobody gives a s--- that I have an AVN award."
She says that JM tries to lowball every girl who comes in to work.
"I'm the typical whore. I made all this money and when I won the award, I was dead-broke. For a time after the awards, it was a lull [without people offering her work]."
Luke: "How do you like posting on XXXPornTalk [owned by her company JM Productions]?"
Ashley: "It's fun. It's my homework. It really is me. Jeff Mike makes me do my homework because he thinks I don't do jack, which is kinda true. I go dance and do signings and stuff like this. Most signings are better than this."
Ashley entered porn in 2002. She's done about 300 movies. "I love that I go to my job and laugh non-stop. Everybody is so funny. When I'm doing a scene, I think, this is so hilarious. I'm sitting here puking and pulling my ass apart and this is my job? It's comical. The only thing I don't like is catching gono all the time."
Luke: "What are your dreams and ambitions?"
Ashley: "I need to get some.
"I wanted to be an artist but I found out that I'm not that good. I need that little thing called talent and I don't possess it. I'm a lost soul.
"I lost my virginity at 14. It was my idea. I wanted to know why there were movies made about sex. I didn't get it. Once I'd done it, I thought, this is dumb. I didn't have an orgasm until I was 19."
Luke: "What's it like trying to have a relationship in this industry?"
Ashley: "It's confusing."
Luke: "You had one with Trent Tesoro."
Ashley: "That was my first love. That belongs in a category by itself because you pick the dumbest people to fall in love with the first time. I couldn't have picked a dumber person.
"I thought it would be a good idea to date [within the industry]. That you would have something in common. But now it's completely the other way. I don't think I'll ever date anyone within the industry again."
After Tesoro, Ashley dated Johnny Darko for a few months.
"My sister found out that I did porn because she saw me on Judge Mathis. They didn't say s--- to me. My mom is a junky asshole. My dad is a snobby [something bad]. They kept it a secret.
"I said to my sister, why did you make me keep up this lie? Why didn't you take the weight off my shoulders so I could come home and not make up a story about why I'm driving a nice car? They kept it hush-hush.
"They said, 'We were a little worried and we didn't want to talk about it with you.' OK, good. I'm glad that's cleared up. Now I feel like a bigger moron because I lied to them for almost two years. I looked like a total retard. Now I think about all the times I'd get these looks and I'd think, do they know? They did. My uncle saw me in Hustler. All my cousins. They're like closet dirtbags."
Ashley finds sincere people attractive.
Luke: "Not many in the industry."
Ashley: "I think they're sincerely lost. I am too, but I try to be as honest as I can."
Luke: "How would your best friends describe you?"
Ashley: "I always think they think of me as a lot worse than I am. I think I'm pretty sh----- but I hope they don't."
Luke: "What's this industry like on your self-esteem with people constantly evaluating you on your looks?"
Ashley: "Horrible. But that came way before porno. In a way, porno brought my self-esteem up. Why would anyone pay to watch me fuck?"
Luke: "Why did you get into porn?"
Ashley: "Because I didn't give a s--- about my life."
Luke: "What were you doing before?"
Ashley: "Getting fired from every job I've had. I was a receptionist. I was a waitress. I got fired as a hostess at a restaurant for sleeping. I didn't care. The job was so stupid. I've had some problems with authority. Not the law, just doing stupid jobs that people take so seriously. That's what I like about porn. It's not serious. I can do whatever I want and they praise me for it."
Ashley's lost five cell phones this year.
Ashley says she's not giving in to (her ex-friend) Scott Fayner's baiting on l-keford.com, where he's berated her for not returning his phone calls. She says she does not want him in her life now.
"Are you starved for affection?" That was the most piercing question I received during my time (after I tightly hugged my questioner) in Tampa.
The answer is yes.
Other piercing comments from her: "It's obvious that you don't have a girlfriend from the way you dress."
"What's wrong with you?"
Sometime in Tampa, I lost my Irving Howe book on William Faulkner. Before then, it comforted me through many a dark night. I find it hard to interact with people for more than a couple of hours at a time. Then I have to retreat into a book or some other form of solitude.
Monday night, October 10, I sing karaoke with my friends and try to rescue girls from a life of debauchery.
Jane writes me:
I'm not shocked that Dirty Bob tried to get you banned, he thinks he's porn's only information source. I exchanged words with him on ADT about why there was no press or media info on the Tampa Show site. After I wrote that, he went back and added a links on TampaShow.com that showed the flyer for the event and an email link labeled, 'press/media'. The moron obviously didn't get what I meant (I was referring to press pass applications, special hotel rates for media, etc) . Dirty Bob is a serious megalomaniac who needs to learn HTML and graphic to fix up his chintzy looking website that looks like it was created with Adobe PageMill 1.0 back in 1997. TampaShow.com is a prime candidate for submission to WebPagesThatSuck.com because it violates every rule of web design imaginable.
My accusing anyone of shoddy web design would be like Hugh Hefner castigating someone for lack of chastity.
Random writes on XPT: "I didn't know that was [Holly Randall] until Luke put names to his pics. I was surprised. I actually think she looks better, and that's why this photo from her site really upset me. Tease. The photos of her swimming in a shirt and shorts were a little perplexing, seeing how her body looks pretty good in the other pics. Unless jumping in the pool was spontaneous and not planned, I don't see why she wouldn't feel comfortable in a swimsuit. The requisite public pool attire for obese boys under the age of twelve is not a sexy look."
Luke says: "She did not have a bathing suit, so I chivalrously offered her my (clean) tighty-whiteys (grey-colored) and t-shirt."