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Tony Malice comments: "Oh man does it make me a bad person that i just smiled because i know that a little piece of jewel denyle's soul died with the post of these pics?"
Porn Journalism
wankuspd: Today's random Wankus thought is in regards to Brutal Murders in California. How is it possible that a little Vietnamese family in Orange County, horribly bludgeoned, can be mistaken for adult performer Tyce Bune and family? How do reports come in that "a lot of swinging went on in that house" when the true facts later reveal nothing even close?
wankuspd: The answer to these questions my friend come in two simple words....Porn Journalism. Yes, that incredibly pathetic presentation of words jumbled together designed to show that the author shouldn't have been kicked out of high school English class. Yet, truth be told, the dismissal by Sister Mary Ellen did have it's justification.
Tidal Wave Of Piracy Drowning Porn Industry
I talk to pornographer "Mark Felt."
He asks me why it is any more of a piracy risk sending your masters to a replicator than selling your product in a store.
Beats me.
Nobody has an effective DVD copyguard. Technology makes it easier to pirate than to fight piracy.
In theory, the biggest replicators such as L&M West (which is about 10-15c cheaper per disc than anyone else in the US) have such a big enterprise (about $25 million gross this year), it's not worth getting sued for piracy. Copyright piracy gets a big damage award.
Anyone can pirate now. Kids can pirate. Many kids have not bought a CD in years.
"We're facing a perfect storm -- the glut of product, the ease of DVD piracy, coupled with VOD and downloading -- that could capsize the DVD industry."
How does a major distributor know that he's not getting pirated product? Because major distributors buys from the source. Major store chains buy from legitimate distributors such as IVD.
There are mid-size American porn distributors who buy grey-market product imported from Canada where DVDs are sold (wholesale and retail) for much less. What are the legal consequences for this? People can blacklist you and sue you civilly (as opposed to criminal prosecution).
It's not uncommon for an American pornographer to sell his product to a Canadian distributors for $6 and the identical product to an American distributor for $10. That Canadian distributor could then sell to an American distributor for $9 per unit.
Isn't there a bloke in New York, a Jonathan Resnick, who owns a replicator in China?
It's not uncommon for a pornographer to make a huge shipment to Europe (particularly Holland) and have it seized by customs because the DVDs were not replicated by somebody licensed by Phillips.
It's My Site And I'll Run It Into The Ground If I Want To
Just in case you're tired of my Holly chats.
HollyRandall: did you like my interview?
Luke: yes, very much, i felt very honored and respected and I have gratitude
to you
HollyRandall: lol really?
Luke: yes
HollyRandall: even though i teased you?
Luke: I am so cruel
Luke: it was nada by comparison
HollyRandall: lol no it wasn't
HollyRandall: i have presents for you
Luke: more?
HollyRandall: not that kind
Luke: joanna angel's so hot
HollyRandall: that shoot i was supposed to have processed with the tungsten
filter, which means it would have had a blue cast to it, like this Aimee
Sweet pic:
HollyRandall: but my processor fucked up and didn't do that, but i actually
think it came nice with the normal colors
HollyRandall: anyhow i'm not surprised about your Shay obsession
HollyRandall: she's hot
HollyRandall: but besides that, why?
HollyRandall: oh so she's just fresh meat
HollyRandall: she's a sweetheart
HollyRandall: she left early this morning
HollyRandall: and Crystal and Aria are gone
HollyRandall: so it's just me and my bro
Luke: you don't have any clothed photos of Joanna?
HollyRandall: don't be such a prude
HollyRandall: she's got a great body who wants clothes on her?
Luke: you're great on the radio, your magnetic personality shines through
HollyRandall: aww thank you
Luke: in real life, you are usually distracted
HollyRandall: yes that's true
HollyRandall: i'm sorry about that
Luke: by responsibilities
HollyRandall: i hate it when i do that
HollyRandall: did you get my last pic of Joanna?
Luke: :)
HollyRandall: is that a yes?
HollyRandall: what you speak in smilies now?
Luke: i have bad tendonitis in my right elbow, painful to type much
HollyRandall: oh right, you should get one of those voice typing machines
HollyRandall: hey you know Shay spells her name Shay
LaRen
HollyRandall: yeah it's so people pronounce it correctly
HollyRandall: i just changed it on my site
HollyRandall: btw why did you put up that pic of Aimee sweet along with
Joanna? just curious
Luke: i'm a slut for content
HollyRandall: hey if you want content i'll send you pics of brand new
girls when we get them back
Luke: :)
HollyRandall: is that a yes please?
Luke: yes please
HollyRandall: i'm putting up my pics on my site, and they'll be color
corrected
HollyRandall: but i doubt you want to go through the trouble replacing
the bad pics i sent you from earlier this week
Luke: true
HollyRandall: yeah i didn't think so
HollyRandall: what's your take on...?
Luke: i'll do it on the phone with you
HollyRandall: that long, huh?
Luke: my elbow aches
HollyRandall: (sigh) i have a great pic of.... from the party but she's
shoving some guys' head between her boobs and i don't want to get her
in trouble with her boyfriend. I must have my flaws. And one is vanity.
Can you at least replace those horribly pixelated pics of me from the
party with these properly sized ones?
Luke: those are enormous files you just sent mam (compare Holly's venally-sized
Holly
Randall Holly
Randall with my user-friendly Luke,
Holly
Luke)
HollyRandall: they are?
Luke: they are 10x the normal
HollyRandall: whoops
Luke: your files are always heavy, sheesh, if i had that many KBs I'd
look relaxed too
HollyRandall: wait no i didn't do anything wrong
HollyRandall: oh no they're not that bad
Luke: instead of 40 they are 420kb
HollyRandall: i think all the images on my site are like that
HollyRandall: i wonder why yours are so much smaller
Luke: because i care about others
HollyRandall: how much do you compress your images?
Luke: I do nothing but basics 600 by something
HollyRandall: me too
HollyRandall: 72 dpi
HollyRandall: but i save it at maximum compression
Luke: i made the change you requested, it's just that those heavy files
suck for most of my users
HollyRandall: i don't know how i'm doing it differently from you
HollyRandall: but those pics of me are so lovely it'll be worth the extra
time
Jenna Jameson at the AVN show in January 2004.
Good times.
Trouble In Boys Town - Cybersocket Withdraws From AVN
Mad at GAYVN chief Chad Beecher, Cybersocket is pulling out of the next Internext show.
Cybersocket owner Morgan Summer sent off a blistering email June 1 to Chad Beecher and CC'd Paul Fishbein and Darren Roberts. Morgan accused Chad of abusing crystal meth (as opposed to the responsible use of this drug).
In porn, accusing someone of drug abuse is usually one of the first swords drawn in a fight. It's part of the ritual porn duel that goes something like this:
Side One: You screwed me.
Side Two: You slandered me. I'm going to sue you.
Side One: You can't sue me. You don't have a reputation to lose. You're
a drug abuser and a thief.
Side Two: You don't pay your bills.
Side One: That's because you screwed my wife.
Please Email Luke your description of the porn duel ritual. It seems to always involve threats of lawsuits and accusations of drug use and sexual misconduct. Often one side is accused of either cooperating with law enforcement or producing product so reprehensible that it will provoke a government demolition of the industry.
Who knows? It could just be an excuse to get out of advertising.
I don't want to sound cynical. If I have been unkind, unfair or unChristian about this, please let me know. We should judge each other with Christlike charity.
This is my prayer for porners: In essentials, unity. In non-essentials, liberty. In all things, charity.
And now abideth faith, hope, and charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity
Here's my next political platform (stolen from the suffregetes): Votes for women. Chastity for men. Prohibition for all.
Without fascistic repression (a la the JM bust), porn gets boring.
I know that a few months ago Beecher's office was ransacked when Chad was not there. People were in there for at least half an hour checking everything.
Morgan accuses Chad of slandering Cybersocket to their mutual clients.
Cybersocket and AVN have a long positive history together.
'Hitting Heidi With A Stick'
Heidi Joy Pike's BF Dick Logan (vidshooterdick@yahoo.com) emails:
I am flattered that my latest video project for NJ Films Inc. ( Asian Lollipop Whore P.O.V.) is in some of my peers' estimation worthy of such close attention even before it is finished. I must take this opportunity to say that I will not be completing this project.
While trying to cast this project with new and /or unknown talent I listed a profile on asianfriendfinder.com, which I was told is an avenue other directors are exploring. I can only speculate as to how this profile was found, or by whom. We all know why this profile was made "NEWSWORTHY".
This was done to attack and smear the reputation of a beautiful, precious, and amazing woman I am privileged and proud to call my friend, partner, confident and SWEETHEART Heidi Joy Pike Senior Associate Editor, AVN Magazine. So, no, I won't make this movie.
Some of you out there will have to find a different stick to hit Heidi with. The fact that you feel the need to try to control her like that is pretty f---ing sad and says a f--- load about who you motherf---ers are and who she's not. I will however continue to direct Interracial videos for NJ Films Inc. and my new video for New Machine/Hardline "FLIRT AND SQUIRT #1" will be released this summer.
Holly Shot Joanna Angel Saturday As A Rocker Chick
Aimee Sweet Joanna Angel Joanna Angel
Joanna says she's bought a dresser which means she's moved to Los Angeles.
"I'm going to go buy water and get a manicure, which means I'm really in California," she says at the end of our conversation Thursday afternoon.
Live-Blogging AVN Afternoons
I tune in to YNOTradio.com at 1 p.m. to hear people talking over the top of the hour news. Then the hosts introduce Holly Randall as a photographer and "director." Yeah, Holly's a director like I'm a moral leader and Herschel Savage is the equal of Robert DeNiro.
I've been listening for 15 minutes and yet to hear anything compelling.
Snore.
This is my first time and last time listening to this show.
The first 20 minutes are a clumbsy read of of previously published news articles and party updates while the advertising for the show boasts that it puts you ahead of the curve. If you want the porn news, you can catch it in a minute or two by scanning the news sites. Who wants to waste 20 minutes having yesterday's news read to you by people with no radio skills?
There are about 12 people in the chatroom.
1:25 p.m. Holly comes on.
MJ McMahon: "You knew we'd have to talk about Luke."
Holly: "I figured that would come up."
Aimee Sweet: "Let's get it over with. Luke's blog Lukeisback.com always has little anecdotes about you. What exactly is your relationship with Luke?"
Holly: "Luke and I are very good friends. I threw him a 40th birthday party at my house Monday. It was the first time I'd seen Luke as the center of attention. Usually he's there merely as the observer and leaves. Usually the model is the center of attention.
"When he first walked in, he was so excited about his party, you know how Rodney Dangerfield was in Caddyshack? He's cracking jokes. He goes, 'I said to Holly the other day, 'Can I buy you a drink?' She said no. It hurts my legs. 'It makes them swell?' 'No, it makes them spread.'
"Luke, that was a great joke. I've been repeating it constantly."
Aimee: You have your conversations with Luke posted on his website.
MJ: "What's up with that? Does that ever get annoying or intrusive?"
Holly: "We've had our clashes about it. But I'm a very open person. I'll tell you anything about my life. I don't have anything to hide. I don't take myself as seriously as most people do. When I'd read something about me that was funny and slightly disparaging, I would laugh harder than anybody else."
Aimee: "Did Luke ever write anything that pissed you off?"
Holly: "He did go into a little bit too intimate of detail about one of our sessions. I asked him to remove, which he promptly did. But of course he's going to have it in the last chapter of his next book."
MJ: "If you need something taken down from Luke's website, call Holly Randall."
1:28 p.m. Now I'm embarrassed. I can't believe I've been ripping on Holly's friend earlier in this blog.
MJ: "You said you guys were friends. I heard you dated for a while."
Holly: "Yeah. I said we were friends now.
"We had actually met at AVN. We were walking down the red carpet [at the awards]. It was my first time walking down the red carpet. I was dazzled. He stopped us and interviewed us for 30 seconds. He hardly asked us anything. We were obviously not interesting to him.
"I didn't remember that meeting because it was such a hectic night.
"When I met him again at the Nightmoves awards [ten months later], that's when we started talking. Luke and I live in a parallel universe. We've very similar in a lot of ways. I've never felt like I belonged anywhere. Luke's always had that feeling as well.
"When we were at the show, he was standing there reading in the corner and I was feeling really out of place. And so I went up to him and started talking and found out that we had a lot more in common. He seemed easier for me to relate to than a lot of other people there.
"That's how we started. We kept talking when we came back. You know, one day we were hanging out on the couch watching a movie and one thing led to another. You know how I am. I'm a little aggressive. It was totally my fault. What was Luke going to do?"
Aimee: "It would be hard to say no to you. Such an interesting topic. I hate to leave it."
MJ: "Let's talk about it more.
"I asked Luke to come on this show and he declined. But here he is today. He showed up [in the chat room] for Holly."
Holly: "Hey Luke, what's up with that? Are you too good for AVN Afternoons? Huh? Are you too big for being on the E! True Hollywood Story?"
MJ: "How do I put this politically correct? Luke doesn't have a lot of fans."
Holly: "That's a good way to put it."
MJ: "What's it like to date somebody like that?"
Holly: "It was hard. My parents would have people pull them aside and say, 'Do you know your daughter is dating Luke? He's evil.' My mother got into a tizz because it's easy for her to get into a tizz. I said, 'I'm a big girl. I know what I'm doing. He's not as horrible and vicious as everybody says he is.'
"Obviously he has done many things to many people. Back in his day, say, ten years ago, there were some pretty crazy things he did that I'm like, 'Ohmigod, I'm so glad I didn't meet that guy.'
"But he's a good guy and we get along fine. Ultimately, I don't give a damn what other people think."
Aimee: "The first time I met Luke was at Porn Star Karaoke. I'd heard about him but he was very nice to me. He posted a little interview about me."
Holly: "He asked me for an interview before I met him in Tampa. My publicist was like, 'You can do an interview but be careful because nothing is off the record with Luke.' Everybody was telling me not to do it. I was thinking, god, is this guy a big bad scary wolf? So I was kinda fascinated. When I met him in Tampa, I wanted to get to know him. Everybody is always much deeper than they appear to be on the surface.
"He writes about what he hears. He doesn't censor so much."
Aimee: "I assumed he was just a punk but I was totally wrong."
Holly: "I write as well, obviously not as prolifically or as well as he does, but sometimes he won't actually say to you what he's thinking but then he'll write it on his website. I'm the same way. Sometimes it is easier for me to say things in writing than in person.
"He can trick people into trusting him when you first meet him because he seems that way, but then he spills the beans."
MJ: "Last question on Luke. With all the ramblings on the site focused on you, I would see some of them from time to time and my first impression was -- this guy is a little obsessed, even a little stalkerish. Is that the case?"
Holly: "He's the anti-stalker. Perhaps he'll write things but if I did anything that he felt blew him off, he would not contact me, he would not call me. He's not the type of guy who shows up at your house. No, he's not a stalker at all. He tends to write in free-thought..."
1:33 p.m. I'm really enjoying this interview. I'm getting huge narcissistic supply as the conversation is about Holly and me.
1:38 p.m. Holly: "I had a great childhood. I rode horses. I was like any other kid except my parents did porn, and we had to hide that from some people."
Holly doesn't like her voice but she's a terrific interview subject (on the radio or anywhere). She has a great Southern accent she can put on and she puts all of her magnetic personality into what she says (when she wants to).
When you get Holly on the phone and her voice is flat, you need to let her attend to what's on her mind because she won't be listening to you carefully.
When you spend time with Holly, she's not present much of the time. She has a rich inner life. If you want to get close to her, that's a frustrating and ultimately unsatisfying quest. So make sure you are OK with yourself and when Holly shuts you out, leave her alone and go do your own thing. The more you try to hunt her down, the more she'll elude you.
With Holly as with anyone, you can either appreciate what you have with her, or you can obsess about what you don't have.
I feel guilty listening to Holly because she's more kind and careful about what she says about me than I've been with her.
Holly often tries to trick me into saying something disparaging of someone's looks but I always refuse. I email her: " I wish I could grow this pecular virtue of mine and add to it."
Holly (who had few friends growing up) says on the show that no kids in her schools were prohibited from hanging out with her because her parents were in porn.
Holly: "I've always been obsessed with visual images. At the beginning I thought I wanted to be a model. Most young girls do.
"I became hooked [on photography] when I took my first photography class at age 12."
MJ: "Did you expect to follow in your mother's footsteps?"
Holly: "No. I was going to do the exact opposite. I wanted to be a fashion photographer. I just heard so many nightmare stories... I thought, I'm not sure I'm the cut-throat person who can go out there and make it. I'm not sure if I want to deal with all the attitudes and the hierarchical standards they have..."
Aimee Sweet was Holly's first nude model.
Holly: "My mom can't write and my dad can't shoot.
"I've got the short legs. The whole reason my mother said she married my father was so her children could get his long legs. I got screwed. My brother and sister got the long legs."
Holly says she did not like the Brooks Institute. "It was very conservative. I loved UCLA. I loved literature."
MJ: "What kind of porn does Holly Randall like?"
Holly: "I like the dirty stuff... Gangbangs." But she doesn't like ugly guys.
Holly: "It's annoying when a guy walks around naked with nothing but socks, Luke!"
That really annoyed her but I have cold feet even when I'm doing hot things.
Holly did not like my sweats that were held on by elastic. She gave me a pair that you have to tie up. She may prefer that look but they are a pain to wear because you have to untie them to go to the bathroom, etc. I prefer elastic.
Holly: "What I shoot is the opposite of what I like...
"I like the sex to be hot and on the rough side, but not too rough.
"I've tried to make our movies more hardcore and my mom says, 'Holly, that's so bloody rude. You're such a pervert.' Both my parents say I'm a pervert. I say, 'Come on, mom, can't we do ATM?' "No! That's gross.'"
Holly says her mom has the philosophy that you don't go to bed mad. "We're both hot-tempered."
But when Holly's mad or hurt, you may not hear from her for days. She's not someone who must confront and solve an issue when she feels wounded. She'll retreat and isolate herself from you, take a few days to heal, and then come back if she's still interested in you.
Holly: "I love my job. Eight years later, I still look forward to going to work."
The AVN Afternoon hosts can be fun when they are interviewing someone lively like Holly. I just wish they'd cut out the crap.
Holly: "I'm afraid of the Bush administration coming after me [if she did her own line of gonzo lines]. I have such a dirty mind, I'd give JM Productions a run for their money."
She laughs.
Holly writes on her suze.net chatboard: "No, we won't have a booth this year [at Erotica LA]... Pure Play will and I might make that my pit stop area, but I won't be hanging out there. I'll show up for one day to check out some new models but then I'll be out of there. I don't like porn conventions, especially if I'm not exibiting. Unless I'm working, I spend little time around the biz."
Holly's photo of Shay Laren. More.
Gauge Married
Jane: "ILoveGauge.com is not Gauge's new website. She's had it for two years. She told me about it at Erotica LA 2004. She did have another site prior to that, but had a falling out with the webmaster."
Who's Going To Be Busted Next?
My sources say Max Hardcore, Anabolic and some rape-themed websites are the next likely recipients of federal obscenity indictments.
Also, law enforcement is looking at Kevin Beechum for his connections to the Hells Angels biker gang. Kevin's voice pops up a lot on various phone taps. The Angels are under scrutiny for violence and drug dealing.
General writes:
Interesting development over at JM's house of pain. I find it endlessly amusing that the usual XPT bigmouths are crawling out from under their piles of empty milkshake cups and supersized fry containers to "back a brother up".
I agree with them on one thing. I think the government should stay out of our "internet bedrooms". Just as they should stay out of our real ones. That is until we start to choke/punch/spit on those that we have invited into them while they plead with us to stop.
I am not a big fan of witchhunts to be sure. I am definitely a lesser fan of punching women in the back of the head as they sob (while the "director" snickers out of frame). Hmmm, who ever would have though that could attract attention from a govt. agency? And yes, I know. I've heard all the arguments from the collection of damaged egomaniacal misanthropes on the chatboard over there about how "the whores know what they are getting into" and "that's the way to treat a stupid whore JM!". It's a Freudian field day.
The outpouring of "genuine support" is especially ironic. Here's a newsflash J. Steward is only, and has only ever been interested in one form of your support - the cash kind. But they knew that all along. Didn't they? Or perhaps they felt they were special. Stupid Whores.
A friend calls about my Monday birthday party hosted by Holly.
Friend: "So Holly didn't pop the question? Suze and Humphry didn't offer a dowry? You could have a thread on dowries in Hebraic law and bring in the Torah and the Talmud and engender some discussion."
Yeah, Holly (who's never been inside a church or synagogue nor feels the lack) loves it when I educate her about religion.
Hello To My Loyal Reader Jenna Jameson
She watches me like a hawk.
In the second one you can see she has a crush on Scarlet Johanssen and would choose her to play "Jenna" in the movie version of her book.
Perez Hilton picked up the Jenna/Scarlet J story and the video has been hit 12,000 times so far.
Great Filing From Stephen Michael Cohen In Jail
His history with Gary Kremen over sex.com.
Allie Ray Says: 'Get Over It!'
She emails me:
alright it is official all you dumb f---en assholes do not have a life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that's right bitches all you morons who thought i was in jail?????? please first of all david luger and i live together and have for 6 months now i aint going no where believe that s---! david luger does not give a s--- about any of you and hes getting a good laugh out of this i am to actually we love that all you morons dont have a motherf---ing life and your up all night and day having the time to write comments on us or anything go get a life how pathetic are you stupid hicks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im not going to jail for s--- and it doesn't matter what you cunts think and all these comments about calling police and s--- davids on my side about everything, because he knows better! he would never go along with anything anyone says and if anyone crossed my path in a disrespectful manner he would handle it just ask that dumb bitch GEN PADOVA STUPID WHITE UGLY WHORE GO LOOK AT HER PAGE OR WEBSITE SHE LOOKS LIKE A f---EN WHITE MAN WITH NO FEATURES TOTALLY SORRY EXCUSE FOR EVER BEING IN A MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ((((((((((((((FOR THE RECORD DAVID LUGER KNEW EXACTLY WHO IT WAS I READ THAT DUMB WHORE POSTED"HE OBVIOUSLY DIDNT KNOW WHICH GEN I WAS" bulls--- he didn't give a f--- that dumb whore needs a new gig, pathetic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 david luger would cuss out any civilian any dumb industry bitch or male talent if they said one word about me so try it and see for yourself , we are planning a marriage at the moment and there isnt s--- anyone could say of do because WE DO NOT CARE AT NIGHT WERE TOGETHER LAUGHING GETTING OVER OUR FIGHT FOR THE DAY AND THERES NO ONE ELSE IN OUR HOME BUT US WE STICK TOGETHER AND THATS THAT SO GO GET A f---ING LIFE AND GET OVER TALKING s--- ABOUT US BECAUSE WE STILL LIVE LIFE TOGETHER WITHOUT ALL YOU DUMBASSES AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO SO GET A LIFE DO YOU THINK WERE AT HOME THINKING ABOUT ALL YOU ASSHOLES HELL NO WE DONT CARE FOR THE RECORD I WILL CUT THE BITCHES THROAT FOR BEING ALL UP IN MY s--- AND DAVID WULD SLAP THE s--- OUT OF HER FOR THE SAME SO YOU LITTLE BITCH GEN WATCH BEHIND YOUR BACK CUZ IF I RUN INTO YOU IM GOING TO DO UNGODLY THINGS TO YOU AND YOU CAN BE MY BITCH EXAMPLE OF WHAT HAPPENS TO BITCHES WHO f--- WITH ME AND BRING s--- TO THE TABLE WHEN I DIDNT EVEN KNOW YOU EXISTED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND THAT GOES FOR ANYONE IF YOU HAVE THE NERVE TO BRING s--- UP IN MY LIFE WITH MY MAN ITS WAR BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ANYONE WHO GETS INVOLVED WHATSOEVER IN SOMEONE ELSES PERSONAL LIFE NEEDS TO GET f---ED UP SO FOR THE RECORD I DONT GIVE A s--- ABOUT ANY OF YOU DUMB f---S AND I DONT THINK TWICE ABOUT THIS s--- I WONT f--- WITH ANYONE WHO MINDS THERE OWN AND HAS A LIFE BUT TRY AND f---EN LET s--- COME UP ON YOUR END AND YOUR f---ED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I get a lot of email from guys who want to know about my time in Porn. I was in it for the money, that was it. It was easy and I could wash cash. There are a lot of misfits in porn. Sexual deviates, felons and just plain moronic. The girls? What can they do after they f--- on film? They have no real future. They try to tell the girls Porn will be a stepping stone to something better. What? It never comes for many. I was around Savannah the real one Shannon. She was so pretty. She was really messed up. She was a bitch. She was also strung out on drugs. She finally realized that she did not matter. The industry used her up and when she was no longer fresh they spit her out. Amber Lynn she was huge! She made feature dancing. She made so much money. She used to make a 1000.00 a show with an 18 show minima. The club used to have to send her a deposit before she would sign and block out the dates. Today Tony Lee and his ilk send clubs girls who cannot draw and then never back their own dancers. The girls in porn make most of their cash from "SIDEWORK" which is just a code name for hooking. I have been there with them. I have seen the cash and the credit card slips. Its a sad life that will lead down.
Me? I did what I did. I dealt cocaine, sold guns, pills took action, shylocked out cash and fraud lots of fraud. I have paid my dues. I have tried to put things right. Maybe I never can, but I have tried. My life has been a total train wreck. People post up here that I lie. There are no lies here. Before I left the street my every move, my every word, email etc.. Was documented. How many years? I know a lot. My buddy Jerry the Cop told me when I first got into porn that it would be bad. He said the next thing you know you will be dating these girls. LOL How right was he? Then again this came out of a guy who swore an othe to protect and serve the public. The same guy who gave me cocaine, taught me how to be a super criminal and ran WSIN checks on people. Jerry knew I was going to hurt people, but he did it anyway. With guys like Jerry and then Jimmy Caci around me of course I turned out like I did. Who was the worse guy I met? Lets see all the killers I knew in Brooklyn, even the guys who killed the cop. No Jerry was the worse.
Las Vegas is just a one trick pony! The whole place is supported by gaming. If we had a depression or even another big terrorist attack the place would return to the desert it really should be. I do not like to gamble. I feel like I am pissing my money away. The odds are with the house. Why do you think they have billion dollar casino's? I was bored out of my mind in Las Vegas with Tabitha. There are only so many movies to watch and books to read. I wanted to be in the OC or LA working!
Tabitha [Stevens] is a lazy girl. She makes money and then stops working instead of working steady and putting some away. She does not get that it will not always be there. This is how I found myself standing outside the RIO Casino. Tabitha was inside playing some machine for 50 bucks a pull. She was going to have lunch with one of the owners son and a VIP Host named Tony. The host Tony I would see again lying on the stand in a Federal drug trial. Fat Tony, John Bronco and this kid I knew as Musso pulled up in a Cadillac and I jumped into the back. John Bronco was talking his tough guy s--- and Fat Tony was lying because his mouth was open. John was going on about how I needed to make a choice. A choice about who I was going to be with. He was trying to get me to commit to Las Vegas. What the hell was there in Las Vegas? John Bronco? So Fat Tony drove us by a condo complex and he pointed out a place he said Fat Herbie lived. He told both Musso and I that Fat Herbie used an auto door opener and we could get him then. I did not say anything, but I was shocked because this was the first I heard of this. I had not heard anything from Jimmy. Jimmy liked Herbie, Herbie had been in Boron with Jimmy and his brother. Herbie sold them cars. John Bronco told us Milano wanted it done. I could tell he was full of s---. We drove to a Blue Berry Hill restaurant over in Henderson. I remember that there was a Gold's Gym in the same parking lot. Fat Steve Cino was in the parking lot. We all spoke to Fat Steve. John told him that I wanted to move to Las Vegas and work with them. Fat Steve looked at me because he knew that I was with Jimmy. I told him I would do things in Las Vegas when I was there but that I was staying in the OC. Then they brought up Fat Herbie and Fat Steve told them that he would speak to Herbie. They wanted a piece of his Shylock business. Fat Steve was already getting cash from Herbie. John and fat Tony tried to pressure Fat Steve, but he blew them off and went inside to eat. We had to sit at a table because Fat Steve could not fit in a booth! I would stay in Las Vegas a week and then being the OC for week. It was a lot of driving. I was still working on Eve's Beach Fantasy. I had to shoot a bunch of exteriors and pick up shots around Newport Beach. It would just be April and I doing the work. I would shoot it all on my 16mm camera. April was a fun girl and she was nice, we had a lot of long talks during this time. Tabitha was thinking about going on the road as a feature dancer. I was hoping she would just go. I could tell this marriage was a huge mistake. I was in and now I would have to ride it out. So I kept up my end of the deal.
This weekend it was my friend The Animal's [Anthony Fiato] Birthday! He is a good friend. He been there for me through all this s---. He knows that there is more to life than this fake LCN crap.
So one day while all this crap was going on in Las Vegas, I ended up working late with April. We then went out to a club by my place. We were at Twin Palms and one of my friends had some GHB. I took a couple of cap fulls and was blasted! April was a good girl and did not drink or anything. We messed around, really I was all over her. My wife Tabitha was out on the road cheating on me anyway. I think Canada, the House of Lancaster. So April and I hooked up. When we got back to my place the phone kept blowing up, I knew it was not Tabitha so oh well. April listened to the voicemails and it was a former girlfriend of mine Stripper Becky. She said she was turning on the gas and was going to kill herself. I was so f---ed up I just wanted to sleep. So I past out. The next thing I knew there were 5 OC Sheriffs and some Newport Beach Coppers in my place. I woke up to these coppers April let them inside. They told me to calm down that they were not there to arrest me. They could not trace Stripper Becky’s phone to her address because it was a Big Complex in Laguna Nigel. I was so f---ed up I had to speak over a radio to walk the guys to her house. They made it and saved her, probably saved the complex. April the do gooder! Jimmy was never supposed to leave Palm Springs, but he was in Las Vegas. He would take the back way from Palm Springs and then stay with friends in Las Vegas. Felons are supposed to register when in town for more than 24 hours. We never did. Later when I was doing pump and dump we would meet at Stateline or Baker to avoid the eye's. Jimmy met with John Bronco and Fat Steve at the Italian Deli. John Bronco again brought up Fat Herbie. Jimmy tried to give John back some cash. John would not take it, he came right back after he left and asked Jimmy for some money. I met Jimmy and Fat Steve at Nicky Blair’s for dinner. Jimmy then told me to be careful around John Bronco. Jimmy told me not trust him and that Vince Lupo was doing a lot with John. I wondered why Jimmy was taking cash from him. I spoke to Fat Steve about Fat Tony. I told him I did not like him or trust him. After dinner Jimmy and I went to a sportsbook. Jimmy played the horses and lost. I bet some games. I was working with Vince at this point to get some Telemarketing cash. I kept Jimmy in the Lupe by giving him cash.
I had an office in Valencia with Vince Lupo, we were paying cash to phone rooms for their checks. So say if it was a hundred bucks we would pay 50.00 and then we would turn them in to Mitch Gold or Tim Lyons for 93.00. It paid the bills. Vince was doing some check schemes with this guy Vern. They would make checks using the ones we bought and then cash them or buy things with them. They also made fake cashiers checks with Fat Tony and bought things at the Las Vegas trade shows. I passed on all that bulls---. I would open merchant accounts and have some 200.00 dollar office in La Habra where we would bang cards for under 20 bucks a pop. We had thousands of cards thanks to porn websites and stores that sold me copies of the carbon. We could get 3 months out of an office. It was easy and there was no risk. I loaned Fat Tony like 400 bucks and he beat me. What a loser. I wanted to torch his car. I drove by one night to do it and someone had thrown a wooden pole through the windshield! He must have pissed off some other guy.
So I was back in Las Vegas with Tabitha, staying at her Grandmothers home. I called Fat Steve and we met at Marie Calendars by Summerlin. Fat Steve was upset about his crazy son. We spoke for an hour about Fat Tony and John Bronco. I told Fat Steve that I wanted to do something to Fat Tony. He told me to just hold on and then I could. We spoke in the parking lot and we saw a guy taking our pictures. I went back to Tabitha's Grandmothers and we went to see a movie. That night Tabitha was in a Xanex coma, but I was up early. I turned on the Las Vegas News and Fat Herbie was all over it! he had been shot the night before! I knew right away that John Bronco and Fat Tony had something to do with it. They owed him money and had been talking a lot of s--- on him. They wanted him dead. They egged people on. I called Jimmy he was upset. I packed up and left because I wanted nothing to do with Las Vegas Coppers. I was supposed to check in with the coppers when I was in town but I never did. I called Vince and he knew we were all in trouble. It really sucked and it put a lot of heat on us. The next day John Bronco and Fat Tony were off the street. When s--- like that goes down you know you are sunk. You try and remember any little thing you said or did with the guys. You try and figure out in your mind how long they were wearing a wire. Then you just wait. The wait is what kills you. It eats away at your mind. You begin to feel physical pain because you know that one morning the FBI will come with a warrant. You hope you will be showered with warm clothes on, because it will be a full 24 hours before you will get a shower or change of clothes. I was held one time for almost 10 days with out a change of clothes or a proper meal. I was held in a city jail over a holiday weekend. It sucked!
Will JM Productions Get Any Help From Free Speech Coalition?
In 2001, Jeff Steward and JM blasted the FSC.
I went to High School with Lovette [porn star Allie Ray]. Well, I haven't graduated yet. Still a senior. She is a year older than me. Anyway, she had this kind of drama back then too. She once tried to stab her ex boyfriend (now "soul mate" I know...pretty pathetic!) with a knife, although its safe to say the grapevine exaggerated just exactly what happened. Some people say she got her ex in the foot...or more specifically, his shoe, and others claim he got only a minor cut on his arm. I'm willing to bet it's the former. I also once saw her throw a milkshake from Jack in The Box that he went out of his way to get just because it wasn't a certain flavor. She's not the brightest crayon in the box either. During her senior year she apparently gave out her social security number in class because she didn't think it was important and was convinced by classmates that there's a little man behind ATMs.
I saw all these bulletins get posted in real time. I found it hard to beileve, but once her account disappeared from MySpace it became a bit more believable. None of this s--- really surprises me. Good to know this David guy is okay though. If Lovette had gone (is going?) to jail, it certainly wouldn't look good for our school. Her picture is even in the enrollment brochure!
Photographer Holly Randall on AVN Afternoons
CHATSWORTH, Calif. - Photographer Holly Randall will be the featured guest on “AVN Afternoons” Thursday, June 1.
The show, co-hosted by AVN Online Associate Publisher MJ McMahon and model and former Penthouse Pet Aimee Sweet, airs live at 4 p.m. ET every Thursday on YNOT Radio.
Following in her mother Suze Randall’s footsteps, Holly Randall has become one of the most stylish and well-known photographers in the adult industry. She has since branched into directing titles for Suze Randall Productions.
“Holly Randall is one of the most talented photographers in the adult business, as well as the daughter of legendary photographer Suze Randall,” Sweet says. “Holly is smart, sexy, and one of my best friends. That is why I’m so excited to have her on the show to discuss what it is like growing up in the business and running Suze.net.”
AVN Vs. Expomark?
I got an email: "What do you hear about this thing in September? Rumor has it that AVN is trying to [battle] their trade show competition, some company called Expomark. Apparently Expomark put together a trade show in Arizona in May that was very successful. Now Fishbein & company are muscling in on the action. They've gotten most of the Adult companies attending VSDA in July to move to their show in September."
Is Former Hustler Writer Dan Kapelovitz Gay?
I saw him wearing these flamboyant plaid pants the other day and it made me wonder about his sexual orientation. But contrary to my suspicions, I've been told that Dan is not gay, just open to new and exciting possibilities rarely allowed by our uptight fascistic heterosexist society. He has a putatitive girlfriend and a stage show with other blokes he's not involved with in any sodomistic way.
Rahad writes: "Wait a minute. THIS guy suspects another guy is gay because the other guy wears plaid pants?"
Danni.com CEO Layne Thr-sher Responds
On May 10, 2006, I emailed Layne's publicist about Layne: "I'm about to do a negative story on him and I wanted to see if I could talk/email with him first."
Layne did not contact me.
I published various things on Layne and his company Danni.com and DHD (Danni's Hard Drive).
He did not respond.
Folks, it is in your self-interest to call or email me if I give you a heads up that I have a negative story on you coming out.
Once my story comes out, the horse has bolted. Suing me for libel is a long, painful and expensive project. Also, I have no money or property that you can recover from me.
Jack writes:
So now I know why you live in a garage hovel, in search of the truth of human nature. Within an environment of loose litigation you choose poverty as a defense which allows you to continue? To move out of that situation would possibly compromise your ability to get at truths? It must be difficult making decisions on any lucrative options put to you.
I've been sued four times. I have pro bono attorneys. I'm not afraid to fight.
If you call me in a civil tone, I will go over with you point by point what I am planning to publish and I will give you time to rebutt negative stories before I publish them. Or, if I have already published them, I will go over them with you and consider and include your responses. There's nobody I hate so much that I will not take their call for these matters. There's almost nobody I will deny a say on my writing.
Once you start speaking to me through attorneys without attempting to talk to me yourself, you seem like a wimp. I'm from Australia and this is not how we do things. America is a great country where people with a room temperature IQ have no hesitation threatening strangers with lawsuits, or at least lecturing them on the finer points of torts.
I believe there are more attorneys in Los Angeles County than in the rest of the world (outside the U.S.).
Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent suing me.
Layne Thr-sher's Danni.com attorney Gene Williams of Browne, Wood & George LLP (these guys do a ton of porn work, they must've billed thousands of dollars on my account alone) writes me May 23, 2006 (I pick up the letter Sunday May 28):
Re: Demand for Retraction and Corrections of False and Defamatory Statements Posted on www.lukeisback.com:
Dear Mr. Ford:
This firm has been retained by Video Bliss, Inc. dba Danni.com and Layne Thr-sher in connection with an article posted on your Internet website (www.lukeisback.com) on May 11, 2006 entitled "Layne Thr-sher - The Rock Star CEO & Sensitive Guitar-Strumming Poet." The article contains numerous false, libelous, and defamatory statements concerning Video Bliss and Mr. Thrasher that are totally baseless and are extremely damaging to their reputations and business. In addition, the posting improperly posts Video Bliss's confidential business information and also improperly violates the copyrights in the pictures of Mr. Thrasher.
On behalf of Video Bliss and Layne Thr-sher, we hereby demand that you do the following: (1) immediately remove the article from your website and fro any other website on which it might be posted (including removing it from the archives of any such website); (2) immediately publish a retraction and correction of the false and defamatory statements made in the article concerning Video Bliss and Mr. Thrasher on your website, and on any other website on which you published the above-entitled article, and leave the retraction posted for the same amount of time as the false and defamatory article has been published on such websites; and (3) cease and desist from publishing any other false and defamatory statements (or disclosing confidential information) concerning Video Bliss and/or Mr. Thrasher.
Examples of the following false and defamatory statements made in the article, as well as the violations of copyright laws and Mr. Thrasher's and Video Bliss's right to confidentiality, include the following:
* The statement that Video Bliss has "had to skip 2 week payment cycles and only pay bills when they can" is factually untrue.
* The statement that "[H]e [Layne Thr-sher] was working on starting competitive company against Danni.com called "Bleeding Heart" he had planned to get financed, and then hire away the affiliate marketing manager, the lead designer and their top tech guy right out from underneath John's nose with out any notice - as a f-uck you they'd planned to just not show up for work one day" is factually untrue.
* The statement that "I know for a fact he conceived, wrote, and almost implemented this plan all on his danni.com time - he worked on this in his own office" is factually untrue.
* Mr. Thrasher's business plan is confidential and proprietary, and posting a copy of the that business plan violates Thrasher's right to confidentiality. In addition, the business plan is also copyrighted, and publication of it on your website is in violation of that copyright.
* The pictures of Mr. Thrasher are copyrighted, and you have no authorization to post those photos on your website.
* The statement that "the site was down for the entire month of March and they couldn't update a thing. All Layn's fault although he tried to blame DHD Media (billing/hosting provider) as he does with everything. All he does is blame DHD for everything and talk poorly about the[m]. He and the lead tech guy are dying to pull away all their business from DHD, but each time they do it, they fumble the ball, f--k up the site, and piss off more customers" is factually untrue.
* The statement that "he's [Thrasher] destroyed numerous vendor relationships, model relationships, and I'm sure the list could go on and on" is factually untrue.
* The summary of the meeting with XBiz inaccurately reflects the language and tone of the meeting, as well as containing inaccurate quotations attributed to Mr. Thrasher.
* The discussions regarding Danni.com message boards contain confidential proprietary information.
* The statement that "[a]n executive once asked for a raise when he was given more to manage and Layne said something to the effect of, 'Leaders don't ask for raises'" is factually untrue.
Your publishing of these false and totally baseless accusations against Video Bliss and Layne Thr-sher is outrageous and irresponsible, even if most of it is credited to an "anonymous" source. Unless you immediately take all necessary actions to remove the article from the internet and issue a retraction and correction, we will have no choice but to pursue all available legal remedies...
I'm not a lawyer but isn't it absurd of Thrasher and Video Bliss to expect that they can demand confidentiality from me? You can only demand confidentiality from someone with whom you have a contract. It's also absurd to think that in the context of a news report, Thrasher can forbid publication of photos of himself. Are there other absurd portions of this letter? Email Luke
A friend writes: "Has a copyright been filed on that business plan? If so, you can find it by going to the government database. BTW: If it was filed after you wrote the letter, they can only go after you for actual damages - not legal fees. In other words, he is full of s---!"
YouKnowWho writes: "You go dude, I met this wanna be executive a few months ago and we talked about a deal, I felt like I was being sold as a hooker when we finished our very unintelligent conversation! I walked away wondering why in the hell was I even here! I can not see this company surviving under this type of incompetent management! I have had many others say the same thing... The truth will set you free!"
Chris writes: "The photograph is prima facie proof that Thrasher
has sought publicity in the past. This means that he meets the legal definition
of a public figure. Therefore what you write about him does not have to
be true, just not "with malice"."
PistolJoe writes:
Of course the whole thing is absurd. I had to sue over copyright infringement once, and I had to prove loss of business over the copyright, which is downright impossible to show. You have my express written permission to use anything I wrote on the message boards on your site. Since the message board is no longer active, then how can they reckon proof of copyright? I have also attached my parting speech, which I posted on Danni.com somewhere around May 1st, if you care to use any in the future.
Well, time for me to say farewell to my friends, and not so friends, hereabouts. It's been a wild and fun and mild ride through the ups and downs of the Red Room, and before it was the Red Room. I salute those here, and those that have gone before me.
As my ultimate gesture to the powers that be of DHD/DHDMedia/Video Bliss/Danni Ashe, Inc, I am showing my distain for the decisons, and lack thereof, made by those people, but not renewing my membership. For the first time since Clinton was president, you will not receive my monthly $9.95, or $9.96 or whatever the exact amount is.
You have succeeded in building the once best website in the world into the place where mediocre features mingle with the promises of better future attempts, a family atmosphere of fun and nekkidness was replaced by distrust and contempt, and generally allowing the rest of the cyber world to pass you by while you concern yourselves more with drawing new customers for a single monthly membership, than taking care of members that used to click on the nipple to get into the blue hotbox.
I do not blame the people of DHD who slave under stressfull conditions to get new content made, edited, and published, or those that post dilgently, and make great efforts to mix with the customers. I also see so many talented people leaving the confines, friendly or not, of DHD that as an executive myself, can only lead me to think there are serious problems in middle management or higher.
I considered leaving about a year ago, if anyone recalls, and my post then was actually why I was going to stay and see how things worked out. However, I have seen NO improvements in your overall product, and if anything, a general downward slide in your efforts. Perhaps there is not enough capital allocated towards the tech or the working employees, or maybe the suits are taking a bigger slice of the pie than they deserve. I do not know. I imagine you will not care, maybe even be glad to see me go, not to have to grandfather in my measly membership when you can create new and bigger and HD sites with new and bigger and HD fees.
Danni Ashe became a brand name when controlling shares of DHDMedia was sold, I believe, and certain people are looking for the return on their investment. I am sorry the bread and butter site has taken such a hit. I certainly understand Danni's reasons for doing such, because if you've never been under a monster than controls your life, you just wouldn't get it. I wonder if she crys at night, under the clear and crisp Montana stars, seeing what has become of her baby. I know it pains me, and I am just a customer, so much so that is difficult for me to say goodbye. So, everyone else, take care of yourselves.
AVN's Mark Kernes reports:
PHOENIX - Federal indictments charging seven counts of interstate trafficking in obscene material were reportedly unsealed today against JM Productions and its principal Jeff Steward, as well as retailer/Internet distributor Five Star Video, based in Tempe, Ariz., and what appear to be two of Five Star's principals.
The indictment charges that Five Star engaged in both physical and Web transportation of the video features Gag Factor 15 and 18 and American Bukkake 13, all of which were produced by JM, and Filthy Things 6, a Powersville Production distributed by JM.
Why Are DVDs Cheaper In Europe And Asia?
Why are there different formats for DVDs so you can't play a European-formatted DVD on an American DVD player?
There's a huge market for cracking these codes and numerous bulletin boards on the internet on how to allow your DVD player to play any DVD.
Why do many American porn producers sell their DVD rights overseas for a song? Is it because their foreign sales connections are so bad and untrustworthy?
Do distributors have any legal liability if they distribute pirated material? How does a distributor know if a DVD was legally replicated?
A distributor replies: "You might want to ask an attorney about this one, since I wouldn't touch this type of material. If a distributor actually did something like this, they could certainly be involved in civil litigation which would open them up to civil subpoenas, depositions and high legal costs."
Mike M writes:
There are different formats (region codes) because when the DVD format was developed all of the big Hollywood studios wanted some sort of control over which region of the world could get a certain movie on DVD. Only after it was coded for those regions players. That was the only way they could get the studios to agree to put their product on DVD to begin with. It’s all mute now because region coding is so easily cracked and DVD’s so easily replicated. Most of the places I have visited people will only buy region free multi-standard DVD players. So they can play US Region DVD’s now anyway. As far as I can tell the Americans alone, are the only ones, buying the region-coded players.
People in other countries don't make as much money as Americans or at least do not have as much discretionary spending cash. We may spend $30 for a new DVD but ask the same of someone who makes only $30 a week and they will go for the $2 pirated copy every time. I know of producers (of mainstream entertainment) who sell / lease their rights overseas cheaply just to give the local pirate some competition. I wonder if porn producers don't do the same. I recommend you go here if you want to avoid all of this nonsense.
David Clark writes:
DVDs are region-coded -- & American players fitted with chips programmed only to recognize Region 1 -- because with varying exchange rates around the world, as well as differences in local retail rates according to what that economy will bear, it's financially viable for middlemen to import huge quantities of legitimate foreign releases into the states & sell them at a discount -- thereby reducing sales in the primary market.
The studios tend to get overzealous, however, & are not unknown to harass internet retailers of foreign-release DVDs that will ship to the states, when those retailers are only serving a small percentage of cinephile collectors seeking alternate versions &/or material as yet unreleased in the U.S. This was an issue with the DVD of CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON, which was released in China before it had even made it out of American theaters.
Mike South writes:
Most of europe uses a video format called PAL, we use NTSC (so do the japs) and france uses SECAM but NTSC and PAL are the prevalent formats for Televisions in the world. Its technical and basically the specs on how the Television set paints the picture on the screen, its rather cheap to convert from one to the other and many DVD players can read either.
The other notion is that DVDs can be encoded with a region code, preventing a DVD player from playing a DVD not released for the same code the DVD player services. Your comment below addresses that...most DVD rippers will bypass both region encoding and copy protection. There's a huge market for cracking these codes and numerous bulletin boards on the internet on how to allow your DVD player to play any DVD.
Why do they whore out DVDs here? You have a moron advertising in AVN every month calling himself the biggest whore in the business...DVDs for 1.50 or whatever...you get what you pay for.
Distributors do have liability...to the tune of civil damages of 100,000 per infraction, and its an automatic...easily won. If they unknowing bought pirated product most likely the manufacturer wouldnt press the issue with them, instead going after who sold it to them.
Mary Carey Needs A Good Psychologist/Therapist
If you can recommend one, Email Luke and I'll pass it on to Mary.
She's just broken up with her boyfriend Harold.
Cindi writes: "Luke, I thought YOU were Mary's councilor? She seems to call you whenever she has a problem! Does anyone want odds on how long Mary and Harold stay "broken up?""
James writes: "Mary needs a PSYCHIATRIST not a therapist/glorified social worker/psychologist. You can't diagnose anything until she's been treated for alcoholism, it's basic shrink."
Jane writes: " I have a brilliant idea for helping Mary Carey! Let's have Dr Phil help her! She could be on the show and get help and publicity all at once!"
A friend writes: "So Mary has done at least the 2nd Harold breakup. I think she went well into double digits on breakups with her ex husband Eric so excuse me for not believing it yet. As for help, I think she should start with [An]Drew Pinsky, MD, of much LA media reknown including MTV's Loveline. While not a psychiatrist, his speciality equates to what many, including I think you, think Mary really needs. In any case Drew & Adam discussed many issues of strippers & porn stars & if she really needs mental help I expect Dr. Pinsky could recommend someone."
Giga Dumps Mike South
MikeSouth: ya know...the more i read about humphrey the more I like
him
MikeSouth: btw that was nice of holly to toss ya a b'day party
MikeSouth: hard to figure her out from here i guess its even harder for
you
Luke: yes
MikeSouth: come on luke tell me how ya really feel
MikeSouth: not in a talkative mood today huh
Luke: i cant type much, killer tennis elbow
Luke: i cant add porn friends to my personal myspace
Luke: myspace.com/lukeisback yeah
MikeSouth: I was last offended about 20 yrs ago
MikeSouth: so you off the lithium?
MikeSouth: ya look good cindy was right about that
Luke: temporarily
MikeSouth: i can only say what works for me brudda but they key to self
actualization isnt in a bottle of any kind MikeSouth: its inside
MikeSouth: giga dumped me
MikeSouth: but I move on
MikeSouth: her layout hits the 26th too
MikeSouth: is no big deal we had fun while it lasted
MikeSouth: it was the distance more than anything
MikeSouth: I aint crying in my beer though
MikeSouth: me paige
and tiffany
are goiung to Miami
MikeSouth: tiffany and paige london are mine
MikeSouth: paige is likely gonna be contracted to someone
MikeSouth: but youve seen tiffany on my blog off and on for a couple of
yrs MikeSouth: we are all going to dinner at Bed in Miami with Evan and
Tera and Tim and Fifi
MikeSouth: how funny would THAT be
MikeSouth: Dan Davis has been trying to get me and evan to mend the fences
MikeSouth: how hot are paige and tiffany
MikeSouth: I do ok for a old geezer
Downloads of Net porn hit record high
Record numbers of people are downloading pornography from the Internet, a survey revealed yesterday.
And campaigners fear that as computer porn becomes more widespread it will give more men unrealistic expectations of their love lives and threaten couples' relationships.
There are also concerns that the growing number of people hooked on adult sites will fuel demand for illegal material such as child abuse.
The former yeshiva girl has been my friend for several years (even though we only met in person in January 2006 at the AVN show). She works as the publicist for Penthouse.
We exchange a lot of emails. Here are excerpts from Lainie over the past couple of weeks:
Jamie Lynn called to tell me she had a great time. She said Kelle Marie also came.
Do you have any photos of the girls with Holly? Because if so I’ll right a story about the party and put it in one of my On The Road columns.
Again, thank you (and thank Holly) for being such gracious hosts to my girls, it means a lot to me.
...I was tickled when I heard Jamie brought her Mom! Her Mom is only six years older than you, isn’t that nuts?
Yes thanks for asking Holly. I’d have taken one of the photos you posted, but I already wrote a story about you and the girls for the October issue of my column I don’t want to repeat so this way I talk about Holly instead of you.
Things are good! Alex and I went to Providence for the long weekend and he’s moving into my place this week! I’m excited and scared and very happy about it, but have not told my parents and I’m dreading it. I know I’ll have to do it sooner or later but they’re gonna f---ing freak out. They haven’t even met him yet, though lord knows I tried to make this happen. But my Dad, holy s--- he’s going to be so upset, I don’t want to break his heart but I am well into my 30s and its silly of me not to do this because I’m scared of them (which of course I am). But look at how happy we are! How can I not? He loves that I’m jewish he told me every single girl he ever had an unrequited crush on was a jewish girl with big tits.
He was born a Christian from Scotts/Irish stock in the south and now he’s a practicing Buddist. We’ve been together six months, this is as fast as I’ve ever gone with anyone. It started that he left his Brooklyn apartment to move to Jersey City, NJ to be closer to me who lives in Hoboken, NJ. He moved and ended up spending merely one night at his new place and every single night at mine after that. I’d go away for work and come home to find him nesting --- he painted my bathroom, he cleaned the refrigerator, he moved the stove and recovered various pieces of cutlery that had fallen, he organized my cabinets, he made me martinis and cooked me sumptuous meals. I realize we were indeed already living together really so we decided to bite the bullet and do it officially. My parents won’t be that upset about the non-jewish part but they already don’t like that he’s an actor (aka he’s poor). And then the whole cohabitating thing. My parents aren’t from this country and they think only whores do this.
...Luke these documentary people have been following me around this week and I told them about you and they're interesting in interviewing you. This will be aired on the BBC, I think its cool don't you? Check it out.
Over the last twenty years the US pornography industry has grown into the largest producer of pornography in the world. With this huge growth has come a growing outcry against pornography within the United States. The High Ground will be a documentary film looking at the moral debate surrounding America's pornography industry. This film will hear voices from all sides of America's pornography debate including religious leaders, academics, politicians, lawyers, lobby groups, pornographers, porn performers as well as the voices of ordinary citizens. It will draw together all the arguments both anti, pro and neutral in this particular struggle over America's moral high ground. The documentary is being produced by Decameron Films and directed by Mark Frith, a filmmaker with twenty years experience working for the BBC and other British broadcasters.
They asked me a lot of religious questions, they read about my religious background which is why they picked me, they'll ask you a lot about religion and being religious. They asked me if I believe in god and heaven and hell and all that.
It was funny. English people just love talking about repression don't they?
>They love interviewing yanks about porn.
That's why I thoroughly enjoyed having sex with Brits, they're so amazingly excited about it, such enthusiasm and pure joy. Those were some good memories!
Christian writes about his ex-girlfriend: "She is in Indiana, working as a nurse and getting rid of the implants soon. she is doing fine."
Suze And Jealousy
I email Suze Randall's husband and Holly's dad Humphry Knipe: "How come you and Suze weren't racked by jealousy during your swinging youth while so many seem susceptible to that green-eyed monster?"
Humphry replies: "She was jealous all right - poured a bucket of cold over me one time when I was doing it with one of her girlfriends. Quite a shock. I encouraged her in her philanderings - believed it would build character, which it did."
Luke: "That is hilarious. But seriously, how does philandering build character?"
Humphry replies: "Got her to meet a better class of person, of course."
I started doing porn because my boyfriend directs for internet sites, and he didnt want me doing it, but one shoot led to another. I met more and more people and it just started happening. i really want to go to makeup school and be a makeup artist. i like shooting (especially because i do girl/girl) so its fun to live out fantasies on camera. I dont have a plan as to how long im going to stay in the industry, im just going to keep shooting for as long as i can and do makeup when i get my certificate.
I hate to say it but i dont have ANY movies out RIGHT NOW. (im on some websites, and everything out is written in my blogs on MYSPACE.) I shot a dvd for TunaCan Studios which should be out by the end of this year. I think its going to be called the Drildo Mafia (a series) but i dont know what number i will be in. You'll just have to keep stalking me on google and IAFD. In my opinion, my hottest scene would be the one of the ones i did for tunacan which was with Hailey Young, she definitely kept me on my toes, and i gave it right back to her. i had A LOT of fun during that scene. i was nervous but she made me feel relaxed and i think you can see that on camera.
[My parents] found out right before i left NYC for LA. my mom is devasted, but we still talk. shes not supportive but she still sent me a birthday present (ha). shes always asking if ive made any more "awful movies". shes the church type. when she found out, she was like "whatever happened to 'what would jesus do?'" i felt bad, but this is what im doing now and i like doing it too. my dad totally disowned me. we dont even talk. i used to be really close with my dad too, so im still dealing with that in my mind.
My boyfriend directs it, and i only do girl/girl. he doesnt like that i do it. but he accepts that and he doesnt try to change me. i was thinking about doing boy/girl with just him, but i think it would make our relationship too weird. our relationship has definitely become stronger because i moved here to be with him. i actually really wanna do one boy/girl for anabolic (oral consumption) just cuz i think it would be really funny to do some crazy s--- that they have on there. im a little bit of a freak though.
When i was in new york, i had a half a sandwhich left, and i gave to the homeless guy who always sits outside JFK. the most recent kind deed someone did to me was my boyfriend brought to the hospital and waited with me the whole time when he was starving because i had strep throat. (it was a sunday and i dont know of any doctors out here.)
Jason Sechrest Vs. Lexington Steele
Jack writes:
Jason Sechrest is stupid, he thinks that porn is art and therefore a monitor becomes a big issue.
What porners need to understand in technical terms is that light on skin needs to be very daylight balanced and it also needs to be quite a distance away from the action when it is too close the are major exposure differencies over a realatively small distance so that when people move highlights get blown out.
Tyce Bune, Thi Michelle with the truth if any amateur detective wants to listen
Tyce Bune emails me:
The address of the triple homicide is 8711 Summercrest Circle, Garden Grove, CA.92844...Not my house, never was. I am divorced and living elsewhere in Orange County with Thi Michele. That's all there is...I used to live 4 doors down from a crime scene...end of subject...You folks are really bored...huh?
PS. Summercrest Circle is a cul-de-sac with 12 homes, 6 on each side of the short street.
Rose Sisters Return To LA Direct Models
Mia Rose responds Tuesday to my inquiry:
Somethings were disagreed on this morning at a scene. "between my sister and myself, and Direct" Derek took us off the site. We went to Direct after he texted "come to the office to talk" So we did. Ava and I love the way Ladirect models is run. VERY professinal. Its the prefect type of agency for us. The people are great. Getting another agent wouldn't have been an issue. But we didn't want another agent. We decided to meet in the middle. And resoleve the "un said" issue. Derek wants us as much as we want him. We have alot to offer to him. He has alot to offer us. Mutual thing.
Thomas Zupko Responds To Attack
He emails:
"THEY JUST DON'T GET IT"
Controversial Multiple-Award-Winning Responds To "Stupid & Hypocritical" Attack.
On www.pornstarperformance.com, Thomas Zupko felt he was unfairly treated by a "former" good friend. Here is his response:
(Chatsworth, Ca) – Although this essay on a certain level may be too personal and insignificant for some readers, I think it represents and/or symbolizes something meaningful about how this business and the people in it operate and how it strips away our kindness and morality. My apologies if it seems too self-indulgent and lenghty. So, here we go:
Even though I swore I would never say anything bad about anyone publicly again, this “newbie” wannabe director, cameraman, editor, still guy, “carpenter” Josh “Jason” Hunter, who was once my protégée and dear friend, has made me betray this promise and I will NEVER forgive him for this. This so-called “good guy” has now shown his true colors and his ugly backstabbing pathetic truth, no doubt based on his egoistic desperation. Sad to say, in an odd way, I really feel sorry for him and I really feel bad about doing this, and crazy as it may sound, I HATE doing it, but hell, a f---ing spade is a f---ing spade, and a f---ing Milli Vanilli is a f---ing Milli Vanilli.
Truth be told (and I don’t know why) I still consider Josh a friend, if only for the pleasant memories, kinship, and bond we shared in the past. His wife Nicki Hunter is a saint (she essentially gave him his self-worth and dignity--when he was considered to be no more than her towel boy--by starting Xotic Studios, as Josh was merely a carpenter by trade.) who made and created Josh, Jason, …Hunter… because of her generosity and compassion. That woman is--and I say this with the straightest face--a modern day Mother Teresea.
However, in all fairness to Josh, he has come a long way from installing toilets and has become a competent director, cameraman, and editor and is getting better all the time and I am very proud of him for that, regardless of the current bulls--- he has so arrogantly and ridiculously spewed. The problem is the husbands/boyfriends of girls in this business, because of the disrespect afforded them, when they finally start gaining some pseudo-notoriety, extracted from their spouse’s sweat and blood, let this dime-store success go to their heads and then they think they are more than what they are.
You know, many in this industry look at me as a scumbag, but I am one of the most giving and honest men you will ever meet, despite my shortcomings, which are many. I am an alcoholic, a manic-depressive, a control freak, but you know what? I always give and I always get my s--- done. Thirty-Three Awards, Ten Editor’s Choices, thousands and thousand of units in sales will attest to this. They said I couldn't do gonzo but the success of BIG WET ASSES proved them all wrong: each unit over 6,000 units sold, two AVN Awards, an Adam Film Award...
I don’t have much materialistically because I donate a chunk of my money to charity and always give talent who go above and beyond the call of duty for me extra cash out of my own pocket. How many others in this business can lay claim to that? Perhaps all of you should drink AND think about your fellow man and then we wouldn’t have to attack each other and instead just hold each other’s hands in support.
Now let me address Carpenter Josh’s accusations one at a time:
1) Cancellation 1: I Gave three days notice as the star of my flick, Lisa Ann, had an allergic reaction to something. The skin condition became hives and she was unable to be shot on High definition .. As SHE was the star of the film, I wasn’t going to replace her with someone else. NO ONE is going to dictate to me my movie.
2) Cancellation 2: Rebecca Linares, who I had booked three weeks in advance, was being put through the ringer by her agent, doing DP’s and anals for three weeks straight. I got a call from her agent (who also co-owns the studio) the Friday before the Sunday shoot and tells me she he can’t do anal for me because her ass was so sore (I actually heard her crying on the phone). The agent, also the co-owner, who is NOT Carpenter Josh, told me “no worries, we’ll postpone it until the following week.”
3) Cancellation 3: The following week the co-owner, again NOT Carpenter Josh, told me she still wasn’t ready and we had to push it back another week.
4) Cancellation 4: The girl I was going to shoot the next booked date, Missy Monroe, was in the hospital and couldn’t do the scene. I tried to replace her with Paris, the Extreme contract girl, but she couldn’t do it then either. I needed the right girl for the scene as it was going to be intense and extreme (no pun intended). Lo and behold Carpenter Josh calls me up and DEMANDS a kill fee.
I don’t mind paying it if it was my fault—our girls are f---ING HUMAN BEINGS--but these were circumstances outside of my control. Not ONLY did he demand it, Carpenter Josh started making threats and busting my balls about drinking and how he was “going to post s--- about me all over the internet” as I was at a Memorial Day party at Tom Byron’s house.
His flunky, Jimmy, joined in the fray. Now, imagine this, Jimmy was a bartender who quit his job to get into porno. He was working for one of my former companies and was busting his ass for $100 a day.
Admittedly, I’m not the easiest person to work for or deal with, but I had him come to work for me because I felt sorry for him, and I gave that kid MORE money in three months than I lived on, even let him borrow my van for three months, which, when I got it back, cost me over $2000 in repairs and my mechanic told me the mechanical problems were because of the abuse from the past three months. Now he works for Josh and Nicki, Joey Silvera, probably makes more money than me…and he laughs at me.
And what thanks do I get? Take a wild guess? Did same for Mr. Pete and so many others... Jimmy was a nothing in the biz and I helped him fulfill his dream. Again, although I will freely admit I am not the easiest person to get along with, heartfelt actions speak louder than words. It’s something Bartender Jimmy and Carpenter Josh will have to live with and hopefully one day will learn from.
Now, I spoke to the REAL co-owner of Remmet and he was irate when I told him that in Josh’s self-aggrandizing post. Carpenter Josh said it was “MY studio.” It is NOT Josh’s studio, he’s just the flunky manager. Furthermore the REAL co-owner apologized to me and said I was right.
Yes, I am difficult to deal with, but I always pay my bills and speak HIGHLY of those who help me. I wasn’t going to bring this up, but now I will because Carpenter Josh text-messaged me that Drew [Rosenfeld] “fired me” from LFP. That’s a gray area, because in my mind, I quit, and just forced Drew's hand.
I got tired of the disorganization at LFP, the censoring of my movies, the two-hour drive, the robotic IBM atmosphere, the cruel voice messages about the "missing masters" which invariably and mysteriously were found in the office by the personnel they were dropped off too, and some hack directors getting $80,000 for their flicks when I wasn’t even getting a third of that for mine, while being told I was their “flagship director.”
Yes, Drew may have been frustrated by my innumerous drunken emails and phone calls, but I only did this with the purest of intent, especially as I would spend twenty four hours on PR (for free) and then not ONE press release I worked on was ever sent out. I feel for Drew (he is under a lot of pressure), as I respect him because he helped me out so much when he owned Studio 5533.
I was the one who recommended Nicki and Josh to Drew as directors, likewise with Extreme. Also, Josh has repeatedly credited me and Glenn Baren for all he’s learned in the business, along with me being one of the first major directors to shoot at his newly-opened Xotic Studios a couple years back, which subsequently brought him a lot of business. You see the thanks you get.
I wish Drew AND Josh the best of luck as I like Drew very much. If it makes him feel better to say that he fired me, I consider it the highest of compliments. I left LFP, because my sales were lower there than at ANY company I previously worked for. In my opinion, it was because of the disorganization, the attention afforded to a few "pet" directors, the butchering of my stuff, and the lack of PR. Only time will tell if I was right or wrong on this.
To Mr. Larry Fynt: I would highly recommend you audit all your directors’ budgets because I guarantee a bunch of that money is not going into the productions but into the directors’ pockets. Have them give you cancelled checks from their corps and then follow up with calls to cast and crew to see if that is where YOUR money was REALLY spent. The rats will come out of the woodwork then. Watch them f---ing dance! and/or scurry out of the building!
As far as Josh goes, we are done, but I wish you luck, my lost friend. One day you’ll truly get it. I just want to make my movies, be left alone, and try to be a good man. I’m going to be opening my own studio and will treat ALL clients with respect, understanding the unforeseen problems that arise, which are outside the producers/directors control and not try and RAPE them for money. Also a girlfriend of mine and me, along with some sound investors, will be starting a new modeling agency where we WON’T take any of the talent’s money, only the agency fee from the producers and directors.
Finally, to Josh, LEAVE IT ALONE. I WILL NOT SHOOT IN SASCHA’S/CAESAR’S STUDIO EVER AGAIN NOR USE ANY GIRLS FROM NUMBER 1 MODELING AGENCY. If you want to continue this, I will turn up the heat, regarding your house and what not (and you’re smart enough to know what I mean here and I don’t want to do that.) We will never be friends anymore, but we can hold out the olive branch and help each other if and when our paths ever cross again. And furthermore, the day ya’ll same I’m sane is when I’ll commit myself to a mental institution. Maybe you ALL should drink and be on high-tilt passion and love and then you’ll truly get it. START BEING f---ING HUMAN BEINGS INSTEAD OF SCHEMING AND CONNIVING AS TO HOW YOU’RE GOING TO USE PEOPLE TO BUY YOUR NEXT MERCEDES AND BE A BIG SHOT DIRECTOR OR SUPERSTAR.
My track record speaks for itself. People may think I sit behind a monitor, drink beer, laugh, and smoke cigarettes, but, truth be told, I’m ten steps ahead of all of you, arguably, even technically. Creatively is not even a question.
As much as many in this business despise Mr. Robert Black (and we’ve had our differences in the past), he is one of the most straight-up, honest, good-hearted, and courageous men I have ever met. I am going to help make Extreme No.1. Just watch and see. And you want to know why? Because WE won’t be so f---ING greedy to charge $200 for a kill fee when the pains and sufferings of humanity create unexpected or unforeseen circumstances. And yeah, motherf---ers, I am a drunken idiot. But look in the mirror and you might see who the real “drunken idiot”, user, scumbag, clown, and joke is.
This is the LAST time I will ever write anything like this. What sucks about all this is that Josh is, in fact, a good man--and I TRULY believe this--although like so many others he has become corrupted by the false power and greed this business so cleverly likes to tempt us with, and sad to say, so many of us fall for it, at the expense of our morality and humanity. And that, to me, is the biggest tragedy of all. Perhaps, if we had half a heart, we would start working WITH each other instead of AGAINST each other.
Christopher Gregory Says Two Studios Getting Into Porn
He emails:
As you know from talking with me I am involved in mainstream entertainment, normally horror films. Regardless, I had a long phone discussion with a top movie producer today and something was said that you really need to be made aware of. You may or may not have heard this, but there is talk going on in Hollywood of some of the studios developing their own brand of adult content. I've been hearing this for along time in mixed company among producers, agents, managers, even talent. But it seems that already two major studios are now seriously considering getting involved in porn. If this does indeed happen, this will no doubt change the dynamics of the industry on every level. I believe as my source confirms to me, that Hollywood cannot stand by and witness billions being made and them not making a penny. It stands only to reason that sooner or later, more sooner than later, that one of the big studios is going to create an off side company that strictly develops porn for them. From what was said, one of the studios has already got things in order now and will debut early next year.
Martin responds:
The day a major studio starts producing adult is the same day SoCal secedes from the U.S. There is no way a publicly traded production studio, including the Weinstein's and Lionsgate, could ever become directly involved with porn. Just look at the heat the cable divisions of Time-Warner and Viacom have taken for carrying Spice or other adult PPV channels - and this guy believes they'll be able to finance content without a Wall Street backlash?
When I read comments like that, it makes me sad for those who hover on the fringes of entertainment. They don't understand the industry, nor reality, (aka - the rest of the country). Sony, FOX, Disney, Viacom, Warner Bros - not one of these CEO's, (Stringer, Murdoch, Iger, Redstone, Parsons,) would allow a studio head to bankroll adult. The only people goofy enough to think they could get away with it, are Moonves and The Weinstein's, but even they understand the repercussions.
The only real possibility is either a former producer with independent cash going public about his involvement in adult, or a new type of distribution deal, possibly VOD on-line. That would make sense and could be sold to the shareholders as a variation on the InDemand model. But you will never see a publicly traded conglomerate risk its stock price on something so intangible like adult.
My god - did this goof even consider what the unions would do if the studios wanted to get involved with porn? That reason alone would stop any porn house from wanting to be seen as legit entertainment. The only people who would benefit from SAG involvement, (or would it be the Stunt performer's union), would be the talent - and god knows that the last thing a porn producer wants to happen. Health care, 401K's, Teamsters...not even Queen Jenna would be for this merger.
Gregory writes:
If Hollywood does in fact offer a side company for porn it stands to reason that it would most likely be VOD - video on demand. But to state that publicly traded companies won't finance porn or don't profit from porn, well, somebody better tell companies like General Motors, Marriott and Time Warner who are now making millions selling erotica to America. Although from my understanding GM sold its stake in DirecTV to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation (FOX) some time back, which still continues to offer pornography channels. I'm not sure where it's all heading, I have enough trouble as it is making my own films, but it stands to reason that sooner or later more and more markets in mainstream is going to open up for more adult themed product/entertainment. I could be wrong and so be it, but we'll see. I do know this. Every horror-porn film I am producing and/or directing - except for Blood Lake which is owned out right by VCA, has been sought out from LionsGate to smaller distribution outlets. So, if it all makes money as porn does, and I'm glad it does, it only stands to reason that if Hollywood did get on board in some respects like Video On Demand, then it makes for a bigger market all around and more product to choose from. And I seriously doubt the uproar would be much.
Thi Michelle - The Asian Girl Who Would Only Work With Tyce Bune
Tyce was married so it was weird that this Asian girl would only work with Tyce. Or at least that's what directors who wanted to shoot her were told.
She's fine.
From SJMN (about a triple homicide at the address where Tyce Bune once lived and worked):
The slain woman worked for a casino in San Bernardino. When she did not show up for work on Saturday, co-workers became concerned. Some friends stopped by the house at one point, but did not see anything amiss and assumed the family was away, Handfield said.
The slain man had a history of arrests on nonviolent charges and had once spent time in prison.
I'm told that Tyce no longer lives at the address of the triple-murder.
Christopher Gregory's Days Working For The Mob
I was brought in as a runner - nothing more, nothing less. My good friend Rich introduced me to certain family members as a "good kid" who could "keep his mouth shut" and "not ask too many questions". And hell, it was easy money right?
LA Direct Models Cleans House
I believe Cindy Crawford is history.
Derek responds to my inquiry: "Yes that's true for Cindy unfortunately but not true for the [Rose] sisters. We are fine with them."
Ava & Mia Rose were off the site for a few hours May 30.