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Has Arnold Stein At Old Pueblo Paid Mike South?
Luke: did he pay you?
MikeSouth: no not yet and it is starting to concern me.
MikeSouth: I have tried calling him and emailing him but gotten no response...usually
he responds pretty well.
MikeSouth: I am growing a tad impatient
Porn Stars Who've Jumped The Shark
I don't know Naomi personally, and I have never met her, but I was a big fan of her phsyque. When I saw the pictures of her newer look on LADirects site, i was shocked at how rapidly she lost weight. I recently stuck my middle finger up at the 'anal' diet, because I was sick of feeling shit and tired, and getting back to Europe on the brink of starvation... and I realised, that for me it really makes no difference if I eat or not before to scene... I was just left with more energy to go to the gym. When u don't eat, your body burns energy from the muscles, not from the fat supplies first because it goes into starvation mode.
However, last summer, I myself was just under 100lbs because I found out I was diabetic. I started controling my food, and taking tablets, and the weight just shot back on... the point I'm making is that there are several reasons beside the infamous 'anal' diet, (that seems to be the cause of everything) for loosing a lot of weight rapidly... when I was sick... i lost weight... when I broke up from my boyfriend, I was heartbroken... guess what?... I lost weight... when I took my final in university... I lost weight... STRESS in general causes me to loose or put on weight.... I just hope that Naomi, (and all the other girls, including myself) find ways to cope with the work load and the stress of everyday life and continue to try to be putting out great scenes, as healthy as possible... (if that's even possible!!)
Kelly Wells posts: "Not all porn girls starve themselves. I usually always eat before a scene. I have had accidents, but ironically most of them occurred when I did NOT eat the night before a scene or the morning of. Weird, eh? My weight fluctuates. Remember that hormones, stress, diet, exercise, and birth control regimen all determine where a female's weight will be."
Isabel posts June 5:
I worked with her today, and I can vouch she's not starving.... Seriously, we ate a cheese burger each, a packet of peanut m and m's and a bag of chips before our anal scene today, and she was great, I would love to work with her again.
I did ask her how she lost some weight when she eats so much, in person, she looks lovely. It is a lot of weight to lose, but hey, she's happy with herself, and she's not anorexic, she's just thinner. She was just bigger, and carried weight well before, people got used to seeing her one way, and now she looks different, people aren't used to it.
How does AVN make their top sales list?
Nate Glass from DreamersDVD emails me:
I send our top 10 renting and top 10 selling titles to Paul every month. Our stores have been included in the “Retailing in the USA” section of AVN. As far as the top 250 and all that, I’ve always seen stuff up there ranked highly that didn’t do that well for us, but I realize different regions sell stuff differently, and some places don’t carry some lines at all. Problem seems that there’s no united way of tracking actual sales. I can provide all that information at the click of a mouse, but that’s just our stores, there’s retailers out there that don’t use computers or even track individual titles. Plus so many retailers are on ‘automatic’ for titles. They don’t have the time to pick and choose #’s and sadly a LOT don’t do reorders to keep the best stuff in stock.
Katja Kassin posts on ADT: "How does AVN make up the statistics about the top sales? Do they get the total sales from the companies or the stores? I'm just wondering how that works."
Darkside replies:
AVN's official explanation is that they poll retailers, those who are more sceptical believe the figures are pulled directly out of Paul Fishbein's ass and correlate to the amount of advertising dollars said studio or distributor contributes to the advertising coffers.
Either way, the charts are hardly an accurate or definitive representation of what is or isn't selling...if you want the real inside scoop, I'd probably suggest cosying up to someone who works for GVA or another large distributor. They'll be able to tell you who's selling what and at how much, and have the paperwork to prove it.
There's a pretty good thread about it HERE, particularly on page 2 where DanG and Snowman go Woodward and Bernstein on the issue. As it points out though, the way the chart is compiled (via anecdotal evidence rather than empirical/statistical evidence) means it will only ever be a rough guide at best.
As they point out, a unified sales chart, perhaps handled by some independent and confidential industry body, would definitely be a good thing...similar to what the music industry has where artists get Gold/Platinum discs etc. But, as is also mentioned in their discussion, it would have to encompass all of the various means and mediums via which that particular piece of adult media is distributed or disseminated...DVDs wholesaled to retailers, DVDs retailed from the studio's own website store or catalogue, VOD sales, etc. and so on...it would be a hell of a task, but I think it would be incredibly interesting if someone could pull it all off, and would definitely open a few eyes, I tend to think. For example, we might discover that Kelly Wells (or even Katja Kassin!) accounts for more sales/revenue than Tera Patrick and Savanna Samson combined!
I don't buy that AVN totally fabricates the charts based on advertising revenue. Just because they haven't explained their methods does not mean they do not have one. I'm sure a careful examination of the titles on the charts and ads places in the magazine will reveal there is no correlation, except perhaps the the obvious one - larger studios who move more product have larger advertising budgets. And of course, a large studio that releases a dozen titles each month has a better chance of producing a best seller. To some degree, it's a numbers game.
Jeff Steward writes: "A site like DVD Empire is a really poor place to gauge sales. They don't carry most of the better selling stuff because of content. Empire only sells the vanilla stuff."
Snowman posts:
I was talking with Mark Kernes at AVN earlier this week at the "Celebrate Free Speech Lobbying Days" event in Sacramento. I remembered this thread, and raised the issue of the sales charts with him. Mark found it rather humorous and represented to me that AVN does indeed have a system in place, unrelated to advertising revenue.
According to Mark, there are about 35-50 retailers that report to them the top sellers each month and they compile the top sellers charts from this data. He said the process is not a secret and as far as he knows, no one has ever really asked about the methodology of the charts before.
Feds More Interested In Frightening Internet Retailers Than Porn Production Companies?
I understand that various retailers (online and off) have stopped stocking JM Productions product similar to the movies busted last week for obscenity.
"If Five Star is convicted, that will cause an immediate change in standards," says one pornographer. "It's already causing a change them being indicted. Every internet retailer is changing how it does business. They're cutting back on the angry porn. There's feature porn, alt-porn, gonzo porn and angry porn such as Donkey Punch.
"Jeff Steward is getting exactly what he's asked for his entire life. It's karma. It would've been better for everybody if he had just gotten testicular cancer."
Certainly, JM Productions, like Bob Black and Max Steiner, are an easy mark--they virtually market their offensivness as a advertising gimmick. But I would like to know more about the other titles named in the suit, and what the indictment claims constitutes obscenity in those titles. Pissmops would be obvious, but Gag Factor and American Bukkake are more interesting as potential test cases.
The fact that there is no previous history of obscenity indictments in Virgina would make me suspicious in this case. The fact that the type of titles named in the indictment (mostly oral and cum fetish) have never been identified as constituting "obscene materials" in previous cases is also interesting, and suggest that someone is trying to establish a new precedent. On the other hand, if Five Star could establish a long history of shipping such titles to this community without legal incident, it would damage the DA's claim that any "community standard" was violated.
It should also be obvious that one reason producers like Little, Zicari, and Steward are targeted in these prosecutions is because they are objects of division within the adult entertainment community itself--they are less likely to benefit from the wholesale support of that community, given their preoccupation with puerile, frat-boy misogyny and the like.
Kami Andrews writes: "Maybe he'll go to jail and get donkey punched a few times."
Bill writes:
There's a level of hypocricy that goes with the guys like Jeff Steward and Rob Black who tell the rest of the industry to go fuck themselves when the industry warns them that they are going to cause problems, but then think that the industry should support them when they get in trouble for doing exactly what they were warned not to do in the first place.
Sometimes I think that the mob had the right idea when it came to dealing drugs. If they caught you dealing, they would kill you before the cops got you because they knew that you were going to cause them more problems in the long run than you would make them in the short run.
Maybe it's too bad that the mob doesn't run porn anymore. If they did, the industry wouldn't have to worry about the Rob Black's, Jeff Steward's and Max Hardcore's who are going to lead to the downfall of the industry.
Delaware writes:
Just after the 2004 election, Alberto Gonzales was appointed by the President to replace Attorney General Ashcroft. The consevative family interest groups had been very upset with Ashcroft because they felt he wasn't aggressive enough against the porn industry. So after the 2004 election, these groups put tremendous pressure on the Administration, and demanded that the new Attorney General get serious about aggressively enforcing the obscenity laws.
Attorney General Gonzales is a politician, and like all ambitious politicians he has aspirations that are higher then the position he currently holds. His dream is to become the first Latino United States Supreme Court Justice. However, he has a problem. The conservative base does not trust him. They believe, rightly or wrongly, that if Gonzales is nominated to the Supreme Court, he will end up being another wishy-washy moderate like Sandra Day O'Connor, instead of a consevative like Scalia or Thomas. That is why, when two positions on the Supreme Court opened up last year, President Bush, wishing to avoid a confrontation with his consevative base, bypassed his old friend from Texas and appointed Roberts and Alito instead.
So, what is an ambitious Attorney General to do? The next time there is a Supreme Court job opening he doesn't want to get overlooked again, and if he is nominated, he certainly doesn't want to end up like Harriet Miers. One way for him to prove his conservative bona fides to the conservative interest groups is to attack the porn industry.
In February 2005, the first shot in the new war on the adult porn industry was fired. That month, newly appointed Attorney General Gonzales made a speech at the Hoover Institution and made it perfectly clear that a top priority of the Department of Justice was going to be the aggressive prosecution of the "purveyors of obscene materials." The Family Research Counsel and other conservative groups immediately applauded and praised the new Attorney General, which must have been music to his ears. A man of his word, Gonzales a few short months later formed the Obscenity Prosecution Task Force. One of the big legal guns of the new Task Force is Bruce Taylor, Senior Counsel to the Criminal Division's Assistant Attorney General. He is an experienced obscenity litigator who once famously prosecuted Larry Flynt.
Then last July, Gonzales and FBI Director Mueller, ordered the Bureau's Washington Field Office to recruit eight FBI agents and a supervisor to work full time on investigating obscenity. At the same time, Congress allocated the funding for these agents, with the mandate that they be devoted to the task of fighting adult pornography. The FBI rank and file agents, who could care less about politics, are not pleased that valuable resources are being diverted from the fight against major crime and terrorism.
Among the FBI obscenity agents first targets are JM Productions and the online distributor Five Star. The case is being prosecuted by Sheila Philips of the Obscenity Prosecution Task Force and the U.S. Attorney s Office for the District of Arizona. (The headquaters of Five Star is located in Arizona). If convicted, these defendants face five years imprisonment on each obscenity count, large fines, and the forfeiture of business assets and profits.
Now, I realize that JM Productions is not very popular with many on this board. But consider this:
What is the difference between Gag Factor and RLD's Throat Gaggers. Not much. And the squirting movies that Kami's employer produces, which many on this board enjoy, could certainly be seen as depicting urination by the Department of Justice, and Gonzales has specifically mentioned urination as one of acts that will be targeted. My point is, all mainstream adult producers of porn are in danger. The Department of Justice may have targeted JM Productions as their first test case because of their notorious reputation, but the Feds goal is to prosecute all "purveyors of obscene material." If the Feds have success convicting the more notorious members of the porn community, they will surely be emboldened to try their luck with such popular companies as RLD, PXP, etc. Ominously, the Feds claim that twenty more indictments are in the pipeline, so JM and Five Star are not the only ones who are going to find themselves in legal jeopardy.
I just wanted to point out that there has been a federal obscenity prosecution in Virgina. A man and his wife were convicted of selling obscene video tapes and magazines in the United States District Court, Eastern District of Virginia. This couple owned nine video rental stores and three bookstores in Northern Virginia. Maybe you're thinking this couple was convicted of obscenity because they must have been renting and selling videos that depicted some extreme fetish. You would be sadly mistaken. Among the videos the Virginia jury found obscene were the following:
Wet Shots: "This video features men and women engaged in vaginal and anal intercourse and oral sex. Many of the scenes involve groups of men and women. The film also contains close-up depictions of male ejaculations on the bodies and faces of others. In one scene, men are shown ejaculating into a glass of liqueur. A woman then drinks the mixture." United States v. Pryba, 678 F. Supp. 1225 (E.D.Va. 1988)
The Girls of the A-Team: "This film, as the title might suggest, is devoted chiefly to showing anal intercourse between men and women, in couples and in groups. The film also depicts a variety of other sexual activities between women in couples and larger groups, including vaginal and anal insertion of a range of objects." United States v. Pryba , 678 F. Supp. 1225 (E.D.Va. 1988)
The description of the acts contained in those two videos, which were found by a Virginia jury to be obscene, sound to me like the type of acts that can be found in 99% of the adult movies that ADT members watch on a routine basis. The man who sold these two videos and was convicted of obscenity was sentenced to three years imprisonment, to be followed by five years of probation and he was fined $75,000. His wife had her prison sentence suspended, but she was fined $200,000. Their corporation was fined $100,000.
On top of all that, after the forfeiture verdict by the jury, the District Court issued an order of forfeiture and the government shut down the couple's nine video rental shops and three bookstores. In addition, all of the shares of stock in their businesses were forfeited, together with corporate assets, along with some of their real estate and motor vehicles. The jury decided to spare the wife's home and automobile from forfeiture. (How nice of them!)
The couple filed motions to stay the orders of forfeiture, but these motions were denied by the District Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. The man and his wife had their convictions affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in United States v. Pryba , 900 F.2d 748 (4th Cir. 1990). Certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court was denied. This obscenity prosecution took place in the late 1980's, and so that would probably explain why online distributers like Five Star would be unaware of it.
Tricia Devereaux writes: "JM's lawyer is the same attorney as Evil Angel. While I despise JM and Jeff Steward on every level, I agree with the people who say that this isn't the way I want him to go down."
Coffee Ron writes from Extreme Associates:
Finally....5 pages of uninformed opinion and speculation and hate is all it took for someone to finally touch on the relevant issues here. "Community Standards" What is the community? How is it defined? Isn't this country as a whole the community we're talking about. Has technology, specifically the internet, changed the definition of a community? These are some of the questions that will likely be raised by the defense in this case. The only definition of what material is obscene, is, anything outside the realm of "community standards". This "assault" on porn is just that.
You are incredibly short sighted if you think this is an assault on "extreme, hardcore porn". This attack is against PORN. The first battle in a full fledged war. It's the DoJ's latest scheme designed to chip away at our freedom. Any conviction for obscenity against any producer or distributor could be potentially lethal to this industry. This country is diverse enough to find several "communities" that would deem any porn to be "outside the realm of community standards". Every victory for the DoJ opens the door for more prosecution. First the "easiest targets". Once those convictions are in the bag, the floodgates open. They will not stop until they hit a wall. What's next? Blow jobs? Anal? Cum swallowing? Multiple partners?
The Extreme, JM, and Five Star rulings will set new precedent, and some of you applauding these actions will regret your words and views if these people are convicted. In a country where rape and murder are depicted constantly on TV and in movies, it's absurd to argue that the material made by consenting adults, sold to consenting adults, viewed by consenting adults, should be regulated by the government. Christ, people hang themselves from meat hooks in public performance all over this country. Bloody self mutilation rituals are protected, but our personal, private, sexual tastes are not? Give me a break. Another one of YOUR freedoms is at stake here, wake up and smell the COFFEE!
Kami...you know me...I don't do anything with anybody that is not completely consensual. I don't condone anything but consensual acts. We are not discussing the same issue here. If someone is abusing people, doing things that are not completely consensual, they should have to answer for their actions. The government deciding what I can jack off to is not relevant to that issue. Many people on this board rely on this industry to make a living. The rest rely on it for entertainment to various degrees. The point is simply that some of these people will be stomping their feet when their particular brand of porn is attacked, and it will be if the DoJ has anything to say about it.
Call Off The Wedding?
Petunia Kaper of Oakland writes: "If you were about to marry a plain woman on the theory that she was the best that you could do, but the night before the wedding, a woman as hot as Aria Giovanni told you that she loved you (and we will just have to assume social plausibility here), what would you do?"
I'd marry my Plain Jane.
wankuspd: Thank GOD I don't have to make that choice. I dumped Plain Jane cause I feel in love with Tyler Faith! (BTW...Aria Giovanni appearing on The Wanker Show next Monday night at 7pm (KSEXradio.com)
It's a song and music video from the band Wank Punter. It ends with: "I'm Mike South and I'll make you famous."
Got sweet poontang and the South Pole's fine,
she just turned 18 and it ain't no crime.
His southern charm seems to win 'em all,
leather or lace it's a hardcore ball!Do the South Pole Boogie, the South Pole Boogie.
The Mike South Woogie, The Horn Dawg noogie.
This southern dude's got mass appeal
but you too can do the South Pole Boogie!
The girls all claim he's a stand-up guy,
he's up on cue and never camera shy.
Two shots on goal for the money shot,
with a clever cut, two scenes we've got!He gets more nookie than a football team,
he gives a guy some hope to dream.
Bukkake done with a southern style,
Hardcore hero of the rank and file.
Luke: what's the back story on this video?
MikeSouth: the group is a Canadian band called Wank Punter
MikeSouth: the song and video are getting airplay...quite a bit in canada
MikeSouth: the CD is in record stores too but mostly in Canada right now
I think
David Aaron Clark Interview
I call him Monday afternoon.
David: "Your little spider web. 'I'm so poor. I dedicate my soul to this great effort. It is so lonely.'"
Luke: "That's it! I just want to be understood."
David: "You're as shameless as Khan Tusion and as great a predator. He likes 'em post-adolescent and broken and you like 'em..."
Luke: "I just need a little affection."
David: "We all need it, my friend. I see myself getting joked on your page. Everyone gets it from somewhere."
Luke: "Do you think you get more privates than any other director?"
David: "No. Jeff [Steward] and Tony [Malice] are just pissed at me. Considering that I will only [have relations with] an Asian girl...
"I don't know how I can be one of the poorest directors in porn and one of the biggest whoremongers."
Luke: "I live a life humbly devoted to the truth and I can't help but attract fellow truth-seekers along the way."
David: "You're the center of the universe. What do you give back? What did you give back to that lady aside from a few moments of fleeting pleasure?"
Luke: "I gave to her from my soul."
David: "That's what Jenna Haze says on her MySpace page.
"How does it feel to be one with LA now? You are no longer the outsider who cares not for the game."
Luke: "Are you casting for your next big feature?"
David: "I never do that. I'm not saying I've never hired a hooker.
"You were the only press that came to my shoot."
Luke: "I got to capture you in all of your majesty."
David: "What a good sport I am that I don't even want to find you and beat you to a pulp for that. Here, let me take a picture of the fat man slouching as he sits down so he'll look his best from the side. I knew when you were taking the pictures that day that it was going to be horrifying.
"It just ran right off my shoulders. I was prepared. I'll have to send you the link to the pictures the other photographer took that day. I look good in those pictures."
Luke: "How do you feel about Jeff Steward and JM Productions getting popped for obscenity?"
David: "It couldn't happen to a nicer guy. It's like Rob Black all over again -- a guy who said 'F--- you' to the industry. We'll make our money how we want. We're not responsible to anybody.' Now they're going to be looking to the industry to back them up.
"I wonder if Jeff Steward will get [Free Speech Coalition's] 'Freedom Isn't Free' Award.
"Being a big pornographer, I hate the heat. I can see already that it is going to be a hot summer. I'm going to try to lay back and make my porn."
Luke: "How do you feel about your body?"
David: "It's a wreck. I guess if I was one of those rich successful directors that people talk about, I'd be spending on hookers and stomach-stapling."
Luke: "Do you want to follow in Nic Andrews footsteps?"
David: "No. Those are big footsteps to follow in."
Clark says he got over his vampire fetish once he drank blood.
David used to cut himself on stage and had an affair with a crazy young woman who sliced him up and landed both of them in the New York Post.
David: "Not for ten years. That was a lifetime ago. I swear."
I sigh.
David: "You can be silent but I'm not going to say anything more incriminating."
Luke: "You were dealing with pain in your own way."
David: "I guess it's all internalized now.
"Do you know why I am bored with life? Because it just repeats itself."
Luke: "Circular is secular. You're stuck in a [pagan] circle. Judaism says life is linear, that history must go forward to the ultimate redemption. There's a reason for living. There is a Judge and there is Judgment. Therefore, there is meaning to our lives."
David: "Now we go to the part where all religions go whacko -- that there is a reward beyond existing. Now you sound like you're standing in one of your ill-fitting suits at my door clutching a Bible and asking me if I've heard the good news.
"What's wrong with having three wives?"
Luke: "It doesn't work."
David: "Have you ever tried?"
Luke: "I don't have to fall into a ditch to see that there's a ditch. Wisdom is learning from others so you don't repeat their mistakes."
David: "Nothing beats experience."
Luke: "The wise man doesn't have to experience things."
David: "How then does he become wise? What is the path to wisdom?"
Luke: "Learning from others without needing to repeat their mistakes."
David: "How do you know which actions are mistakes?"
Luke: "That's why you need to refer to a transcendent moral code aka the Bible."
David: "We need a moral code, but who writes that moral code?"
Luke: "Unless God does, it doesn't matter. It's just an opinion."
David: "I have yet to run into anybody who God spoke to more clearly than anybody else. How do we get the pure word of God?"
Luke: "You can judge by its results. Three thousand years ago, a tiny people entered history claiming that God had spoken to them and ever since then, they've influenced the world for good more than any other people. Jews gave to the world a transcendent moral code, the idea that history has meaning, that our lives have purpose, and that we should move forward to a better world. The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels."
David: "The Chinese gave us fireworks."
What's really sad, David, is not just how far you are from God, but that you don't even feel any pain over it.
Luke: "You laugh. You mock. But there is a Judge and there will be Judgment. Confronting the futility of your existence must make you uncomfortable."
David: "It makes me nostalgic for when I was a kid and the Jesus freaks would try to get me to come to their creepy Saturday meetings."
Luke: "It doesn't bother you that there is no objective meaning to your life unless you subscribe to a transcendent source?"
David: "No. I've come to terms with the existential black hole of my existence. Does that trouble you?"
Luke: "Yes. I think you could do so much more with your life than making pornography. It makes me sad that you waste your talents."
David: "Does it keep you up at night?"
Luke: "No. I can't do anything about your choices."
Each day David has the chance to choose God and each day he chooses instead foolishness.
David: "What could I be doing that would really make any difference? I'm not going to join the Peace Corps."
Luke: "You could plumb the depths of Torah and how I influenced you to turn your life around, from dwelling in the gutter to leading an honorable existence."
David: "Then I'd have to keep up my blog every day too. That is part of the religious responsibility?"
Luke: "Yes. To be a blog unto the nations, a light on the hill that will not be quenched."
David: "Blogging is the actualization of mankind into a wonderful new mentality where everybody's bowel movements and fights with neighbors are shared with us all. I can see the oneness in that. If you are going to go for oneness, you are going to go for the lowest common denominator.
"I'm too old and smart for satanism and I don't think anyone is dragging me into a regular church.
"Satanists really bug me because they're dumb. They tend to have high IQs but they feel that the organized religion they've known is a ripoff. They're ready to buy into another system that is just as idiotic but doesn't have any redeeming codes to live by. Satanism should be the state religion of LA."
Luke: "Why are so many porn chicks into satanism?"
David: "It speaks to inveterate rebels at a certain point of development. When they are black sheep, they look for something that says it is OK to be black sheep when you are better than everyone else."
Luke: "Doesn't it bother you that there's no ultimate meaning to your life?"
David: "Do you want me to break down and start crying? How would you transcribe that? 'David broke into animal sobs of existential despair.' Go ahead and say that."
Luke: "That's when I pick you up and show you a better path."
David: "You don't want to save me just like that. Where's the Alexa points in that?"
Luke: "I'm not in this for Alexa points. The only reason I write on the porn industry is that God told me to do so. I'm here to save souls."
David: "Do you know how much that would terrify me if you meant that? From then on, I'd alway want to make sure I knew where you hands were if ever I were in your presence."
Luke: "Do you have love in your life? If you're happy and you know it, then your life will surely show it."
David: "I have love for you of a higher sort. It's something we don't need to touch to consummate.
"Would you have a threesome with two chicks?"
Luke: "It would depend on the who the chicks were."
David: "How does that work with an infallible transcendent moral code?"
Luke: "It would be a violation of it."
David: "But you admit that given the correct circumstances, you would violate your moral code."
Luke: "I wouldn't sacrifice a good relationship to have that fling..."
David: "What kind of moral code is that when you can violate it?"
Luke: "The code does not change. It's my personal weakness."
David's burned that I didn't invite him to my 40th birthday party at Holly's.
David: "We could've said, 'Excuse me! We have a special event right now.' And we could've stepped behind a podium and discussed these things. They would've loved it.
"But no. Shallow L.A. Luke didn't want big fat smelly intellectual porn directors at his birthday parties. He wanted hot Penthouse chicks and photographers. I see how you are."
Luke: "Other people were hosting. It wasn't up to me."
David: "My life is filled with disappointment. This is just another one. This almost ranks up there with finding out that John T. Bone is not Santa Claus."
Luke: "It's a good sign when you throw a party and people get mad at you for not being invited.
"When are you shooting next? I want to capture your inner beauty."
David: "Good ol' Christian [Mann]. I wanted to kill him for complaining that you weren't nasty enough to his movie."
Luke: "He accused me of selling out."
David: "Rather than enjoying his favored status... That's why we like him. He's like us. He's not satisfied with things going his way. It all has to be morally correct too. Rather than just accept a freebie, he had to say something like that.
"Do you know what troubles me about my life? That I can't write anymore."
Luke: "Because you realize your life is ultimately meaningless and there's no point to your writing?"
David: "Being championed after my passing doesn't appeal to me."
Luke: "You want the championing now?"
David: "Yeah. Don't give me some reply couched in Judaism."
Luke: "It's natural to want a good name. It's what God promised to Abraham. I will make you reknowned. In you will all the families of the earth be blessed. I will make your descendents as numerous as the stars."
David: "Ahh, you get to want to be famous if you're a Jew?"
Luke: "It's a natural human instinct to want everyone to know the good things you do and not want people to know the bad things you do."
David: "It's acceptable."
Luke: "It's OK, David."
David: "In Christianity..."
Luke: "Christianity is more self-abnegating."
David: "We are talking about a basic need of human nature. Christianity takes human impulses that we're all prey to and it holds them up as huge sins. Therefore you are going to need them your entire life to keep on the straight and narrow.
"I can't write anymore. I can't write a short story."
Luke: "According to an article in the New Yorker three years ago, writers block is an American affliction. It's like being 'stressed.' Only Americans say that."
David: "The internet is responsible for my writers block because writing seems pointless now."
Luke: "Because anyone can do it?"
David: "Anyone can shove it in everyone's face. It used to be that you had to have skill or something of interest... No offence, but all these online publishers. Anyone can have a book on Amazon.com.
"My life is meaningless because of self-publishers and bloggers. Blogging is the path to despair."
Luke: "Everything is a path of despair for you."
David: "No. Sweet joys of life - foreign movies, a walk in the park on Sunday morning, dimpsung with a 19yo virgin."
Luke: "When did you last have a virgin?"
David: "I don't think I've ever had a virgin. Have you?"
Luke: "I believe so. It wasn't very good."
David: "Do you still do Holly?"
Luke: "No. Not for three months."
David: "Do you try?"
Luke: "No. Not really. About two months ago in her bathroom, I put my arms around her and she told me to step back because she has to put hairspray on. She's promised her therapist she'll be celibate for six months."
David: "Doesn't that imply something?"
Luke: "That it's hard for her to be celibate. She's a ho."
David: "What?"
Luke: "It's a vernacular term the young people use for a hooker."
David: "She's not a ho."
Luke: "She's a slut."
David: "That's more accurate. You'd think a slut is better than ho but they don't want to be called sluts. That sounds nasty to them. Now you have chicks, who, five years ago if you'd called them a whore they would've been offended, now go to clubs and say, 'I'm a ho.'"
Luke: "Holly does not look at it as if she's been sexually exploited [or demeaned]. She looks at it as empowering that she can seduce so many men."
David: "I've been hearing that one for 25 years."
Luke: "How many women have you empowered?"
David: "Or been empowered by?"
Jack writes:
I spent years learning to develop large format negatives by inspection using pyro developers, contact printing, colour printing with dishes, digital photography, colour management and all the latest bollocks going, and what do I find ? A loony toon Australian with no web design skills, inept photography, (ok I cant write to save my life) who with cut and past bravado messes up womens lives and then has them swooning over him. I almost puked up over my monitor reading that.
Chaim Amalek writes: "I think your talents are being wasted in taking photographs of beautiful women. What you need is a challenge, and to that end, might I suggest that you snap a few Kodaks of me? After all, girls want something nice to look at too."
Dillan Lauren writes: "Hey sexy! Was wondering if you might shoot some photos of me, maybe a content trade? Also how can I get copies of the previous sets? Maybe this time we can do it without a gang of men chasing each other around the front yard with baseball bats!"
POY Runner-Up Cassia Riley
Lainie Speiser emails me: "She’s on two covers right now, Girls of Penthouse and Strip Las Vegas (both attached). Cassia, Jamie, Charlie Laine and Melissa Jacobs are hosting a Strip Las Vegas party on June 19th with a Penthouse Lingerie Fashion Show."
Why Do I Have To Be So Irresistible To Women?
ir·re·sis·ti·ble adj. Impossible to resist: an irresistible impulse to sneeze. Having an overpowering appeal: irresistible beauty.
I’ve known about Luke for about four years. I discovered him by accident when I realized that he had written or should I say cut and pasted some inaccurate information about me that was damaging to my reputation and costing me work, time and money. He has been a constant source of stress and headaches for me without him ever knowing it. Four years ago, I had my attorney look into it and was basically told, the “guy has a long standing history of doing this, has no assets other than a rented hovel and a beat up serial killer van to go after…so my suggestion is to not waste your money chasing him legally, just ignore him, because everyone else does.”
...Luke’s photos on his website, don’t do him justice. When I walked in to the Starbucks that day, I was expecting to hate him, tell him he’s an incompetent jerk and tell him off. However, I was thrown off completely by his presence by his spellbinding persona. You see… there are several layers and facets to Luke.
Luke, in person, is a very handsome man. His smile lights up a room and his laughter is contagious. Although he laughs at the most inappropriate times. For example, he burst out in laughter when I started sharing issues of being abused and tortured as a child. Why did I laugh with him? I have no idea? Could it be this intangible “it quality” of charisma and charm? This quality is the essence of Luke that captivates his fans worldwide, and drives traffic repeatedly to seek his website for the latest news and gossip from the man, Mr. Ford, himself. I found myself immediately hooked on his every word and not a day goes by that I don’t read not one, not two, but the entire family of Luke blogs.
Luke is like a drug. You know he’s dangerous, because you’ve been warned. There are warnings on his website just like with cigarettes....(use of this product can be deadly and dangerous to your health).. Luke even warns you upfront about himself live and in person about what to expect and NOT expect from him…. But you’re drawn to him and want to just taste a part of him to see what “it’s all about”.
I’ve never done drugs, but I immediately think about GHB where I’ve read about people taking just enough to get really sexually aroused, but too much of “it” can kill you. For me, that ‘s a perfect description of Luke. If you can handle “just a taste” of Luke, it’s orgasmic. Too much of a dose of Luke can be deadly.
...Fade in.....there he is reading....I've never seen anyone so "consumed" by a book.... beside him sat a "burlap or flour sack type" sachel or book "sling" of some sort.... quite the designer look I might add... how chic! (NOT) I laugh inside and say wow... what a piece of work. then he looks up and has this infectious smile that literally made my knees shake. Inside my head I went from arrogant bitch in discipline mode to "HOLY F---" he's hot! I sat down. He was having tea.
...He gets to the "unisex bathroom" just as a hot blonde is entering.... will he notice? No, his nose was buried in this book. I laugh and I decide to observe him and wonder if he'll notice that I'm mesmerized for reasons I don't understand. As he goes to open the door.... he realizes it's locked. He returns to the table he smiles again. I melt. I want to kiss him. I want to run away with him to a tropical island. Fiji, yeah Fiji is nice this time of year... no no no, Costa Rica.
More:
In the past he had mentioned his relationship and friendship with Holly Randall. He told me that their romantic relationship was over. That was that. However, by reading his website, it was obvious to anyone that they had a strong bond. I know that Luke respects her and likes her and her family very much. While I was on the plane I had looked at Holly's websites etc. and read about her. What found kind of funny is that Holly is almost the same age as my daughter Aimee, who's my dearest closest friend. Aimee and I also work together just as Holly does with her mother Suze.
Reading about Holly on LukeFord.net, I had been entertained for hours reading about their interchanges. What I loved about Holly was she's cute and strong, just like my daughter. So I thought, hey, why not it might be fun.
Luke had been really busy so I just dropped her an email introducing myself and telling her about the segment. To maintain discretion with Luke and our private life private, at that point, I didn't even mention his name and and fact have never mentioned his name to her.
We kissed for several minutes when he reached behind my shirt and unfastened my bra.......the pop snapped me a bit out of the kiss and I laughed again. I feel like I'm in high school with a crush on the guy who's the poet and we're sneaking out in the parents garage....It's fun.... I started fantasizing about hanging out in the serial killer van. See I love this idea because when you drive a car like that, you know that people love you for YOU and not your money... when you drive Porsche's, Mercedes, or other things that show your wealth, you have a tendency to attract gold diggers and parasites.... I don't care much for either.... so I asked him to please promise to take me to the beach someday for a ride in the "Van".
David Clark writes me: "You are shameless & no longer my moral leader."
Jeanie Marie - Fastest Burn-out Ever?
Jeanie was dressed as a pirate at the Saturday night Shane's World party.
At every party, she seems to be in costume.
At the LA Direct Models party last December, she was wearing a floor-length strapless black gown with a big satin bow and long black gloves and a floppy white had that you'd wear to a Sunday lunch or church. It seemed that she was confused. She didn't know if she was going to a funeral or a Sunday brunch at the country club.
Jeanie has a tendency to latch on to people.
Holly Randall Declares She Will Never Convert To Orthodox Judaism
Holly: "You don't have to worry about a lesbian relationship blossoming between Dani [Woodward] and I."
Luke, in a flat voice: "How do you get the strength?"
Holly: "Come on, Luke. Put a little more emphasis in your question."
Luke: "It was a cute thread on XPT."
Holly: "Yeah, minus the panty shot."
Luke: "You knew what you were doing. You're a big tease."
Holly: "I swear to you I did not know. I wouldn't have put it up if I had known."
Luke: "Sorry, I'm being a creep."
Holly: "I work with creeps. I'm surrounded by creeps at all times."
Luke: "At least you look wholesome when you are in your garden. I like you in long skirts and in gardens."
Holly: "I know you do. The reason I wear long skirts is because I hate my legs and they're covered with bruises."
Luke: "I thought you were preparing to convert to Orthodox Judaism."
Holly: "No. That will never happen. Never."
Luke: "Does Dani seem speedy to you?"
Holly: "No. No. She's been clean for a while. I've seen her several times. She's restless. She's gained about 20 pounds. She looks very healthy. When I saw her at Cherry Rain's baby shower, Dani looked great. She's definitely not on drugs."
Luke: "I wouldn't think that Paul Fishbein and his wife would have her in their life if she was speeding.
"How was your mother's birthday party yesterday?"
Holly: "It was just family. It was just lunch.
"You're not supposed to interbreed so naturally you find it repulsive to think about family members having sex. It's the thing biology instilled in you so you wouldn't interbreed."
I don't believe biology instilled it in you because there are cultures that interbreed. I believe society instills a horror at incest, just as it used to instill a horror at homosexual behavior and pregnancy outside of marriage and all sorts of taboos that have broken down in the past 40 years.
For instance, society chooses the level of homosexual activity. When society says that it's cool, you'll have plenty of it. I am not arguing the percentage of homosexuals changes. I am arguing that the percentage of people engaging in homosexual sex depends on the strength of society's taboos against such behavior.
HollyRandall: you are impossible
Luke: huh?
HollyRandall: you 're just funny how you don't tell me your opinons/thoughts
on the phone but you'll post it on your site
Luke: how so?
HollyRandall: your disagreement with me about biology being the springboard
of one's natural instincts to find family member's sexual experiences
disgusting
HollyRandall: whatever it doesnt' matter, just funny
Luke: you didn't ask my opinion...on the phone.
HollyRandall: do i have to ask?
HollyRandall: you don't offer it up freely like most people?
Luke: i guess not
HollyRandall: most of the time you do
Luke: I'm not sure I even had that opinion formulated while we were on
the phone. It came to me later.
Luke: On most of the things where we think completely differently, there's
no point my telling you how I think, unless you really want to know and
ask.
HollyRandall: well then i guess i can forgive you ;)
HollyRandall: did you get
my myspace comment?
Oh, OK I see how it is-- I throw you a 40th birthday party at my house
and I get bumped from your top 8. That's fine, just fine...
HollyRandall: about how you bumped me from your top 8 again?
Luke: yes
HollyRandall: don't you feel terrible?
Luke: No.
Luke: I have to keep a distance from you in some ways.
HollyRandall: lol via myspace?
Luke: But it does not mean I don't appreciate everything you've done for
me.
Luke: I've established varying boundaries between me and you, just as
you have.
HollyRandall: i know i'm just teasing you
Luke: You are half teasing and half serious.
HollyRandall: i just think it's funny that you keep your distance on myspace
but not in other areas of your life
HollyRandall: the top 8 thing, as you know, i think is silly
HollyRandall: i told you i've had friends get in fights over it
Luke: I understand why. I don't think the top 8 thing is silly.
Luke: It's one way of stating who you value.
HollyRandall: so you don't value me, is what you're saying
Luke: No. It's one way of stating publicly who you value.
HollyRandall: so publicly, you don't value me
Luke: I don't feel that you do not value me because I am not in your top
8.
Luke: No, IT IS ONE WAY!
HollyRandall: lol i'm teasing you
HollyRandall: i don't need to be in your top 8 to know you value me (dramatic
music begins to play in background)
BLUE BLOOD'S AMELIA G RESPONDS TO SUICIDEGIRLS CONTENT LICENSE FLAP
Press@blueblood.com writes:
SUICIDEGIRLS ALLOWS THEIR CONTENT TO BE LICENSED IN BULK BY RANDOM PORN SITES BUT BLOCKS BLUE BLOOD, THE ORIGINAL NAME IN COUNTERCULTURE EROTICA, FROM LICENSING IT
LOS ANGELES, June 4, 2006 - Blue Blood has been called out repeatedly in public to respond to rumors that the pre-launch BlueBlood.com megasite, which already boasts 60,000+ images, also has a license to add approximately a fifth of the content from SuicideGirls. This is Blue Blood founder Amelia G's official response to these allegations:
As you may know, a bulk content package called Content Pinup and describing itself as, "Over 19,000 Images of 20 Suicide Girls" recently surfaced for sale to webmasters. In addition to my own work and Forrest Black's, I publish other photographers every week on my sites, so, in order to provide the best value for my site members, I would normally pick up a license to any decent appropriately themed material which came on the market. The provenance of this particular package with images going for just a bit more than two cents each seemed questionable, so I very nearly skipped it entirely. However Jonathan Silverstein aka J$tyle$ was marketing the package and he said, "I've been in this business for 10 years and the only thing I have in this world is my word and my balls. I don't break either for no one!" I had met up with Jonathan Silverstein on a number of occasions with people I respect. So, after consulting with some of the talent which appears on the Content Pinup DVD, I decided to move forward to acquire a license to the package.
Jonathan Silverstein and Content Pinup were totally professional in all my dealings with them and neither I nor my affiliate program SpookyCash nor my overall company Blue Blood has any problem or dispute whatsoever with anyone from Content Pinup or Blowout. I believe that they did the best they could in what turned out to be a bad situation.
When the Content Pinup package was first offered for sale, a number of webmasters expressed concern that the terms of the license were very limiting. Blue Blood was only interested in the content in a very limited way, so there was only one sentence in the contract which concerned me: "Licensee MAY NOT use any Suicide Girls name, logo or trademarks anywhere on Licensee's website(s) or otherwise." I found this sentence vague, confusing, and potentially overreaching, so I asked Jonathan Silverstein for an explanation. His clarification sounded fine to me, so I provided the much clearer replacement sentence, "As the Licensor is not Suicide Girls, nor any of the models, this license specifically DOES NOT confer any special rights to use the Suicide Girls name (registration Serial Number 76408248) or logo (registration Serial Number 76408240) or any particular model pseudonym in previews on licensee's paysites, banners, designs, logos, TGPs or MGPs created with this material."
SG's attorney Paul Loving rejected the clarification of that one sentence, stalling for more than a month, refusing to enumerate what trademarks he was trying to protect. If SuicideGirls owns some of the model pseudonyms or characters, such as Missy Suicide, I was willing to respect their intellectual property rights and avoid infringing. SuicideGirls was, however, unwilling to state which model pseudonyms they felt were SG trademarks. It was going, however, to be a dealbreaker for me if the Content Pinup package could only be published with fake names and fake profiles for the models pictured. No third parties appeared to have any input on this deal, apart from the brokers and SG's attorney.
So SG's attorney Paul Loving had the position to block Blue Blood from getting the content, when Blue Blood would have presented the images respectfully. It seems reasonable to conclude from this that surely SG also had the position to block less flattering sites from receiving the content, but they allowed sites which would make up fake names and fake personas for the girls to receive the content. Which makes it seem like the source of the Content Pinup package may not have been some manbearpig phantom, as has been suggested, but perhaps someone seeking to specifically embarrass and distress the individual models in the pictures.
I don't know how much SG edited these photo sets before publishing whichever ones they published, but, after seeing a more complete preview, I concluded that, if SG signed off on our license to the content, Blue Blood would still not publish all the content on the DVD as SG's photography is much worse than I had thought, using bracketing rather than metering the light properly and sometimes missing the girl in the shot. I would not have wanted to run any photographs which would have embarrassed either the models or the Blue Blood brand with the poorness of the image quality. Photographers license their work for publication all the time. There is nothing wrong with that. But, if a photographer promises a model that a shoot will not be licensed, then it is reprehensible to do so.
"When models sell their photosets to SuicideGirls, they can be sure of what the pictures will be used for . . . It would be surprising if they suddenly found that their images were sold to a different site without their consent or knowledge, or were being altered, or were being misrepresented, but nothing like that happens." --Olivia Ball, purported co-owner of SuicideGirls, Nov 18, 2005 post on SuicideGirls.com
"Well, you could argue [that it arrived with] Blue Blood magazine or The Probe--but absolutely, they were very underground . . . I'm not gonna say that we don't exploit the girls, because I don't know. I think that five years from now I will know." --Sean Suhl, CEO of SuicideGirls, Jan 30, 2003 issue of The Stranger Sean
Suhl used to work as a clerk at a punk store on Melrose, selling copies of Blue Blood magazine over the counter. Given how inspirational he says Blue Blood was to him, it is no surprise that there is crossover between SuicideGirls and Blue Blood in terms of talent we publish. Sometimes Blue Blood works with someone first and sometimes SuicideGirls does.
People keep asking me what I would have done with the content from this package, if SG's attorney had not blocked the sale. I don't think it is a secret that, in addition to being a writer and a photographer, I am an editor and a publisher. So, the short answer is that I would have edited the sets down to what I felt was a good fit for Blue Blood and then I would have published that edit. The long answer is as follows. I'm going to list what I believe to be the content of the DVD package in reverse alphabetical order, along with what my likely edit would have been. I will list the content by model pseudonyms as they were listed in the Content Pinup preview. These are pseudonyms which may or may not be owned by SG or the models and I utilize them here merely for simplicity and with no intent to challenge any existing trademarks.
Voltaire (9 sets) Voltaire of course appears in numerous Blue Blood sets lensed by myself and Forrest Black already and we enjoy hanging out with her and working with her. She was the first person I called when I saw the Content Pinup package offered for sale. She confirmed for me that Selena Mooney, who plays the Missy Suicide character on SuicideGirls, had in fact been the person to shoot the images of Voltaire which were on offer in this package. I expected Voltaire to be as outraged as I was that either Mooney or SG would resell like this, but she told me that, at this point, she really didn't care that much. She did, however, mention that she really didn't feel some of the Mooney photographs of her were very flattering, certainly not remotely on the level of quality of the other sets of her on Blue Blood. Voltaire and I are friends so I promised her that, if I got the package, she would be able to go through each set before it went live and remove any images she dislikes.
Victoria (2 sets) Cute girl photographed horrendously. Would not have posted these.
Tegan (5 sets) Only maybe one of these sets would fit Blue Blood's format.
Stormy (6 sets) I think Stormy is super cute and she is still modeling and she seems sweet in the correspondance I have had with her. I would have removed the unflattering images of her and the shots which were out of focus or where there were severe lighting errors. The rest I would have posted using the name Stormy which Stormy quite legitimately prefers. I hope to work with Stormy more directly in the future.
Skylar (2 sets) Don't fit Blue Blood's format. Would not have posted these.
Sicily (6 sets) Would have waited until I could get together with her for coffee again and discuss her feelings on it and my feelings on it and some of the larger feminist issues involved. If, after that, she was cool with Blue Blood publishing the images, I would have gone through and removed the unflattering images of her and the shots which were out of focus or where there were severe lighting errors before posting.
Shera (6 sets) Probably would have posted around 5 of these using the name Catra which she told me she prefers now.
Penelope (7 sets) Agonizingly bad lighting and composition errors. Would not have posted these.
Pearl (4 sets) One of these sets has a cute enough concept that it probably would have been worth the time to edit it down to the presentable images. Would have asked around to see if anyone I knew had contact info for her, as men and women who appear on Blue Blood sets get various perks if they so desire.
Nala (6 sets) She currently models for one of the sites in the SpookyCash affiliate program under the name Selena, so I would have posted these sets identified with her current preferred name, after of course removing the unflattering images of her and the shots which were out of focus or where there were severe lighting errors.
Marla (6 sets) Painfully bad lighting and SG branded clothing. Doesn't really fit Blue Blood's format. Would not have posted these.
Katie (10 sets) I'm not sure how I would have handled what name to call this model, as I didn't hear back from her when I wrote to her. Some of these sets would definitely have not made the cut, but I think I would have posted around half of them.
Hel (4 sets) Forrest Black and I have been meaning to work with Hel for ages. I wish she didn't live so far away or we would have definitely shot together directly already. I would definitely have posted these, along with giving Hel various Blue Blood perks and I would have hoped that my members enjoyed the sets enough to justify airfare to visit Hel or fly her out to visit me.
Heather (2 sets) The nice shoot concept can't save the photography on these. Maybe they could have been edited down to just a few images, but probably would not have posted these.
Dusty (3 sets) Some pretty terrible photography and SG branded clothing, so probably would have posted approximately half of one set. Would have asked around to see if anyone I knew had contact info for her, as men and women who appear on Blue Blood sets get various perks if they so desire.
Dia (4 sets) The model submitted one of these sets in the past to both me and to one of the sites in SpookyCash but didn't want to provide proper paperwork. If she owns the rights, then I don't see how it could be in this package. If she reps SG, then I wouldn't really want to post images of her. She submitted to model for Blue Blood this past fall and I turned her down as a model but offered her a writing gig instead, because I didn't feel her heart was in modeling and I didn't want to photograph her and have her change her mind after the fact. I consulted with her recently on what name she would want to be called if I were to post these anyway, but no idea how this would have panned out.
Claudia (7 sets) Doesn't fit Blue Blood's format. Includes SG branded clothing. Would not have posted these.
Aries (3 sets) Very cool hair. Would probably have posted these, again after removing the unflattering images of her and the shots which were out of focus or where there were severe lighting errors. Pretty sure I would have been able to get in touch with her to check on what name she prefers to go by and to offer her various Blue Blood perks.
Apnea (1 set) My only comment here is that I think it is telling that this package initially appeared to contain a number of Apnea sets, but, after Apnea expressed interest in licensing the Content Pinup package herself, all of a sudden there was only one set of her on the DVD.
Adahlia (1 set) I contacted her and got the info on what name she uses before I'd seen what this set looked like. She is a pretty girl, so I would post images Forrest Black and I shot of her and not this set, which really does not do her justice. So, in summary, a whole lot of content from SuicideGirls was recently made available for general license. It appears that SG and their attorney Paul Loving thought it was worth the effort to stop Blue Blood from having a license to the Content Pinup DVD of archived girls, but they didn't bother to do anything about sales to sites the models would be less pleased to appear on. Plus you all got a fabulous bonus tour of Amelia G's editorial creative process.
### ABOUT BLUE BLOOD: Blue Blood is a lifestyle company founded by Amelia G in 1992. Blue Blood began as a pioneering magazine dedicated to showcasing the beauty and sensuality of the emerging eclectic underground populated by gothic, punk and pre-internet cyberculture. In addition to sponsoring numerous successful events, Blue Blood successfully transitioned to the web. Among its various properties are a variety of entertainment publications in both print and digital media, as well as the Blue Blood Boutique, which purveys a signature line of apparel and accessories. SpookyCash is Blue Blood's B2B adult entertainment website affiliate program. Blue Blood's erotic arm is officially launching a conglomerated megasite at BlueBlood.com July 4th, 2006.
Which porn directors get the most privates?
* Stoney Curtis
* Skeeter 'Megan's Law' Kerkove
* David Aaron Clark
* Bobby 'extra pov scene' Manilla
* David Luger
* Max Hardcore
* Kevin Ducati
* TT 'test schmest' Boy
* Gabor from Heatwave
* Chi Chi La Rue
Porn DVD Sales For 2005
The top six companies amount to no more than $100 million for the U.S. market according to industry sources.
* Evil Angel: $25 million
* Vivid: $22 million
* Red Light District: $20 million
* Anabolic/Diabolic: $13 million
* Adam & Eve: $10 million
* Wicked: $8 million
* Zero Tolerance: $8 million
* Leisure Time: $8 million
* Sin City: $4 million
If there were 13,600 releases in 2005, the highest possible average (median) number of units sold per title would be 1,000 and the highest possible average (median) price would be $20 each, which would make for total DVD sales for 2005 at $272 million. According to experienced distributors, sales for new titles are double those for catalogue (titles from last year or older). So the combined sales of new titles ($272 million) and catalogue ($136) would equal $408 million for 2005.
The biggest porn replicator, L&M Optical, has not been licensed by Phillips (runs about 3c per DVD) at various times and pornographers who've replicated through L&M have had their DVDs seized in the Netherlands (home country of Phillips). L&M indemnifies many if not all of their customers against such seizures. All the biggest porn companies replicate through L&M, including LFP, Vivid, Evil Angel, Red Light District.
Evil Angel and VCA replicated in Taiwan a few years ago.
Where does one buy the raw DVDs that replicators replicate?
David from MyPornoReview.com responds:
From the Glass Master a set of "stampers" are made. The stampers or molds are the blueprint for the CD / DVD replication process. Stampers are mounted into a High Tech injection mold machine. In the molding process, a replica of the mold is created in the form of a 4.75 (120 mm) plastic disc. The formed disc is then coated with a micro-thin reflective layer of aluminum.
The final stage of the CD / DVD replication process involves the application of a protective lacquer that is spun onto the disc and then hardened by ultraviolet (UV) light. The replication process is now complete. All processes are performed in-line to ensure quality, accuracy and speed from start to finish.
Many American porn companies will replicate their DVDs in America for sale in Europe and elsewhere. Almost all European PAL-format DVDs will still play American NTSC-format DVDs though most American DVD players will not play European PAL-format DVDs.
I believe that Vivid and Wicked will put our four titles of compilations for every original movie they release.
According to AVN, there were about 13,600 new titles released last year. I believe that the number of original titles and compilations are about even. Comps sell retail for about $5 each and original hetero titles sell for about $20. Gay original titles will sell for up to $70 each.
Macrovision (used by Wicked and Sineplex) helps prevent casual piracy but not sophisticated piracy. Other companies don't use it because there was a problem with regular DVD players not reading the Macrovision technology and rejecting the DVD.
The quality pirates are able to break the Macrovision code.
How Did IVD Become King Of Distribution?
"Aggression" is the quality most often cited to me to account for IVD's rise to the top over the past five years (at the same time as GVA's various components, with the exception of GVA West, have sunk).
"IVD was the hungriest, most aggressive, most hard-working," says a source. "They went after the retail stores and cut good deals with them. IVD seems like the most effective distributor out there. They have a good inventory system."
There are different types of distributors. Pulse Distribution partners up with the studios (who don't want to be bothered by collections, inventory, chasing customers, etc) who will ship product to Pulse's warehouse. Pulse (a wholesaler to regional distributors and a distributor to large retail chains) will then sell it to IVD, GVA etc, which then sell to the stores.
The gay market has long been dominated by distributors such as Palladin, which buys product from about 20 studios. Pulse reps about a dozen gay studios.
Distributors can be more effective at getting paid because they have product that stores need. A small studio can be blown off by stores for months.
A production company aka studio such as LFP or Evil Angel will sell (perhaps through a middleman) to about 150 regional distributors and large retail chains (such as Galleria, Virgin Records, etc). Studios don't want the headache of selling to a mom and pop store 3,000 miles away from them.
IVD has strong distribution in New Jersey and Florida. GVA Cleveland is self-explanatory. GVA West aka Adult Superstores dominates the West Coast distribution from San Francisco to Seattle.
As far as straight studios, Evil Angel still commands the highest price, but it's hard for them to keep the price at $15 wholesale. Everybody else is lower. The standard price for an original DVD is $10 wholesale. Europe is 20-40% lower. Overseas rights are often sold for a song by companies desperate for cash flow. Many LA companies will sell compilation rights to Canadian distributors etc, so these Canadian companies can cut up scenes in an endless variety of releases.
Red Light District puts red dye on their DVDs to identify when their discs are being pirated. Some companies put reward offers in their DVDs.
I hear Australia is the porn market most affected by piracy now (stolen product pouring down from Asia).
Donny Long Does Jessica Sweet
Donny emails me:
This girl Jessica sweet came on set with the worst attitude i have ever scene in my life and she is also the dumbest girl i have ever scene. she took no direction. she made it impossible for male talent to work with her. during bj she bobs on the head with her teeth never takes more than the head then get mad when u try to get her to do something else. after getting bit for bj try to get into the scene and this scene was just doomed so we kill it she gets a kill fee but Donny long gets nothing and is still more than nice to her trying to tell her it was not her fault when it was and that not to worry she would get rebooked. so she turns into a bitch threaten to bash him.
Long story short Donny hears from everyone she is saying she got a kill fee because of him that he is no good and could not get hard well let me tell u what Donny had another girl there on set done with make up for his second the second she takes her kill fee and leaves set he does second scene with no wood problems then we replace the first girl and " Donny long " then right after popping does another scene with no wood problems and the second pop was as big as the first if not bigger.
You can book Donny long through donnylong.com and as for Jessica sweet don't think you want to book her. as for her agent its not his fault she is dumb he is a great guy and he is not to blame also she used spay tan on herself standing in front of a white couch she was going to shoot on. "very dumb" when she was told to stop she did not listen got a attitude and argued that it would not come off. don't know what planet she was on. this is the third time that i know she did this with spray tan on someone's set and was told not to do it again but does not f---ing listen. she was the worst faker when it comes to making it look like she likes sex because its a fact she hates it. she came to set with gonorrhea with orange s--- coming out of her pussy and smelling really bad when i worked with her 2 months ago. want to make it a point i have never had anything i have all clean test she does not because she is blaming me for giving her the s--- that she already had when she came to set 2 months ago when i had to f--- her stank ass, and too prove it was not from me look at my girlfriends test also she has never had anything and she lives with me. lesson here don't talk s--- and throw stones when u live in a glass house.
Christian writes: "Please tell me that Donny Long didn't send you an email written entirely in the third person. He is a nice guy, but really that's a little over the top. Christian thinks that emailing people with a letter in the third person is a little strange. Actually, Christian thinks its a LOT strange!"
Donny responds:
Christian, I dont know what you see wrong with that, when it was the truth, and what everyone on set saw and said, I tell u what, if you have any questions about this whole situation, you can call me up and ill tell u who was holding camera that day and the reason why my previous post was written like that.just so you know, the reason why I wrote it like that was because i wrote a version coming from me.however, "x" wanted it to be written like it is coming from them, so i had to retype it. when I went to post it on luke is back, i only had this version saved.
who says the short story as an art form is dead?
Celeb Drive writes:
just as i was lamenting the fact that the craft of the great american short story was extinct, i read with utter astonishment the piece titled "donny long does jessica sweet."
donny long's compelling tale of love and betrayal had me at the edge of my seat, riveted by the anticipation of what would happen next. the brilliant use of the double entendre, the obscure metaphors, the beat generation cadence that would make neil cassidy blush, and the final timeless adage as powerful as any passage from "wuthering heights" neatly summed it all up. it was the "frankly my dear, i don't give a damn" of the modern age.
long effortlessly almost reinvents the short story - the third person style; the wit, the dry paradoxical brilliance embellished with symbolism - the lord of the flies level of tension and the sense of urgency not witnessed since "an occurence at owl creek bridge" - begin to gel in a confluence of pure artistic brilliance and unforgetable freudian imagery punctuated by a linguistic mastery that assaults the senses of the reader.
this new age jean genet has been blessed by a nearly divine gift for nuance, a command of the powerful hyperbole and an eye for subtle irony. i felt the pathos and angst not unlike bearing witness to the tragic conflict of a contemporary romeo and juliet.
i look forward with tempered excitation (apologies to brian wilson) to the next nugget of inspiration offered by mr. long. perhaps a semi-autobiographical piece in the vein of "mein kempf" or "steal this book" might be served up. one can only hope.
if he accepts stanford university's invitation to give the commencement address for the class of 2007, i am confident that the student body, especially the sororities and the co-ed english graduates, will hang on his every dangling participle with rapt attention.
Jack writes:
There is a lot of talk in the art community of social inclusion and democracy. There is of course no such thing in either the private or public sector. When they try to do it, the reality of the so-called sophisticated articulators being with people who might be described as "challenging" turns into a frustrating humiliating mess, so like tends to stay with like and the cliques dont mix. Lukeisback gets closest to social inclusion that I have ever seen. The inarticulate revealing the reasons why they probably got involved is such a dreadful business and the more sophisticated who feel the need to patronise, belittle and humiliate. Social inclusion indeed.
O.J. Simpson Sex Tape
Back in 2001, one of Tabloid Baby’s surveillance expert contacts called us to report they’d been approached by OJ Simpson’s team to help made a sex video. The video would star OJ Simpson and two women. It would be shot in a hotel room in the Caribbean. The surveillance team would rig the room with hidden cameras, so the tape could appear to have been made without Simpson’s knowledge.
Simpson was supposedly promised a million dollars for the one-off performance.
A few months later, The Globe tabloid reported that an OJ Simpson sex tape was indeed made, with his girlfriend and a former Penthouse model at the Mutiny Hotel in the Coconut Grove section of Miami. It was a “hidden camera” sex tape, that could have been made without Simpson’s knowledge.
The tape never surfaced.
The story faded. Until now.
Apparently the tape is out, on sale on sale at BadOJ.com, advertised as a three-way sex romp, allegedly featuring Simpson, “his ex” and “a prostitute” “secretly filmed” with a “hidden camera,” bringing two very unique tabloid scandal genres together: the celebrity sex tape and the celebrity wife murder; and inducting OJ Simpson into yet another Hall of Shame.
Oddly, the distinguishing characteristics that are said to confirm Simpson as the man in the video are his gimpy knees.
I understand there is no proof of ownership, no signed releases from O.J
and his girlfriend, and O.J was not in the sex scene. They shot the sex
scene with a male and female performers because there was nothing with
OJ or his girlfriend other than what was spoken in the living room, and
a brief half-nude shot of him. What he said was interesting enough, but
with no releases (the footage was shot with hidden cameras), the commercial
distribution of the tape is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
How To Get Free Porn
1: Visit a site you like. Anysite will do. 2: Enter your credit card number. 3: Get full access to everything you can in the site. 4: Email the webmaster asking for a refund or you will call your credit card company. Thats all there is to it. Porn is FREE.
Gregtx adds: just add a fake email address.. if it bouces.. you are automatically canceled.. but your three day trial will still work
White people who talk like they are black
Brad Shaw writes on JBM: "We are having an epidemic at the office. I witnesses a phone conversation yesterday between two employees yesterday, totally in hood speak. It was quite disturbing. I found myself clutching my wallet."
Swordfish responds: "yo you gots a problem wid it den step up to da stage biatch and we throw down you dig it?"
So the Lara Roxx/Darren James HIV scene is being sold?
I don't think so. But I don't see anything worse about selling that scene than any other. The talent contracted to do the scene and if they did not know the risks, they were deliberately obtuse. So in one scene somebody picks up a deadly disease. In another scene, somebody's soul dies. In another scene, a woman loses the chance to marry the guy who would be best for her. Which is worse? I don't know.
There is a guy in the Asian niche who has infected 100's of Thai girls with HIV and now that he wears condoms, it's ok to promote it, and everyone turns a blind eye to it and pretends it isn't so. this industry truly is pathetic and will get what it deserves in the end. whether it is about .XXX, supporting the FSC, 2257 or HIV, only a few people will stand up and do the right thing. you know who you are... the rest... please hurry up and find a way to promote this darrin james scene if you have not already. "BUG GIVING" is the next hot niche.
Who's he talking about? This guy?
Kevin Blatt Goes Corporate?
That's right, I am saying goodbye for a little while. KBizzle has gone corporate, and I need to maintain a semblance of profesionalism. I even bought some new suits and ties yesterday for the first time in years. I can't afford to spend too much time shamelessly self promoting and fighting with kids any longer. There is too much business out there and too many incentives for me to get people happily involved with my new company. For those of you coming to SD for the Cybernet Expo, I look forward to speaking to you in more detail on what I now have to offer you, and everyone can use it.
Well my website (Sandywestgate.com) has been up since 1999. I started off doing topless only, and now do hardcore on the site. Mostly girl on girl. I do have a few boy-girl videos of myself up there as well. They're really amateur, which is the way I want it. My site offers over 200 live cam girls, I personally have a 24-7 spy cam going at all times, several weekly updates.. and a lot more!! As far as when I will go full on "hardcore" in the movie business... time will tell.
I'm a total clown, I love to make people laugh and I like getting that back in who I'm with.
Dani and Holly would make a great couple
The King writes on XPT: "Holly please give us the sordid details."
Holly posts:
Dani: I love this house, can I see all of it?
Holly: Sure, I'll take you to see upstairs if you'd like, I have to grab my phone out of my room anyhow.
Dani: Great! Let's go upstairs... but do you want to do a couple of shots first?
Holly: Are you trying to get me drunk and take advantage of me?
Dani: Yes.If I was into chicks, I'd hit it. But I'm not, so I won't. I do love Dani though, she's great.
The King writes: "Holly please forgive me. I don't feel right posting this, but I can't help it. I know you aren't interested in the fairer sex, but you two just look good together. It just feels right. Peek a boo."
C62 writes: "Is that (white) panty I see on Holly? This is what I love about Holly. She doesn't show it all outright. She's a nipple slip here and a panty show there kind of gal. Makes me want to see more after every little bit."
Holly replies: "Oh crap I totally didn't notice that. Whoops."
Damaged responds: "Uh, like a professional photographer would really let this slip by. Keep being coy, it suits you and only feeds our lust. You dirty, dirty bird!"
Deth writes me:
If you care about Holly, warn her to stay as far away from Dani Woodward as possible. She will lie to you better than anyone and convince you she is clean.
The pictures on XPT are the first step in Dani's obsession with girls she can't have. Watch the Vivid reality show. She is by far the greatest liar of any porno girl in the business. She will cry to convince you she's not on drugs. Fair warning Luke, DO NOT LET HOLLY GET INVOLVED PERSONALLY WITH DANI WOODWARD!
Look at some older photos and some newer ones. XXX is slowing eating her away. The face is sunken in, not round like it used to be. Soon the sores will be more visible and her teeth will fall out! The joys of the tweeker life!
Jack writes: "You think he's going to influence a women he can't persuade to use a lower size on her jpegs? She wears the pants and he's yet to find a way to to fit into them. But he's trying."
When Luke Disappears...
Chuck writes on XPT: "Dont you find it a little bit spooky when Luke disappears for a whole day and doesn't update his blog? This usually happens before a deluge of Holly Randall or Jew stories."
Holly writes me: "That (Jun 2) was the most boring IM of ours you've ever posted. Don't blame me for your Alexa rankings."
Jenna Presley: 'The world of porn is full of insecure and jealous girls'
I am finally happy and these girls see that and are trying to tear me APART. HAHAHAHA I laugh in their faces. I can not talk s--- because I am an adult not a catty bitch. So anyway.... I have been getting a lot of messages questioning what is being written about me on these porno gossip sites (which by the way, I do not even read). Well let me clarify, Shall we start with drug use??? hahaha OMG this cracks me up. I have been in the biz for 11 months and have never missed a shoot! I work 7 days a week, its a f---ing workout, my body has toned up... Sorry Bitches that say I am tweaking but I love my body shape JUST THE WAY IT IS!!!!!
Anyway, I am 19 years old and occasionally, IF I have a day off, I will go out for a few drinks.. Oh yea, I recently started smoking a lot of weed.... THANK YOU TRAVIS haha Thank you bitches for pointing out my weight loss. As if I DONT NOTICE..... BUT, do you want to know the truth?? You are all comparing me to my old body shape from 11 months ago. NOW, from the age of 15-18 I suffered from anorexia. I was at a dangerously low weight, i was more then near death. I thank god that I am alive today.
With this said.... I was hospitalized for a year and a half. When I was released from the hospital they purposely let me go with some extra baggage on my buns and thighs. They wanted to make sure that once I was released I was a LITTLE over weight (only 10lbs) because with EVERY anorexic, once you are released from the hospital you are bound to lose weight because we are OVER fed in the hospital. ANYWAY.... About a month after being released from the hospital I got into porn... Still carrying extra baggage. I am 5 feet tall and naturally have a small frame. So THANK YOU GIRLS FOR TELLING ME IM THIN.... DONT MOST GIRLS WANT TO BE THIN???
Jack writes:
In photoshop 7 Go to, File - Save for web - Image size (say 600) and press quality you will see a slider and as you move it to the right or left at the bottem left of the box you will see the jpeg size going up and down to your requirement between 70 - 140kb is what i go for on web stuff. I would imagine its much the same with Photoshop CS2. My partner says this pic says a heck of a lot about you two.
Holly Randall emails me: "I found out why my pics were so big. I was saving them at 72 pixels per cm, not inch as it should be. Anyhow I changed the setting so the images will download much quicker than usual -- glad you caught that and pointed it out! Again, your unabashed criticism of me has moved me to become a better person with more reasonably sized JPEGS."
I reply: Your suze checks are too big. I just bought new headphones and new shoes ($130 all told).
Holly replies: "I'm so happy that my career in filth is helping to drag you out of the deep dark pit of poverty."
James DiGiorgio writes me: "I love Wankus and he's a bro but I fail to see much difference in what is sometimes written on porn's news 'n gossip sites and what sometimes spews out of the mouths of KSEX's radio hosts and guests."