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"We knew we would not be allowed to play [the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon], so we decided to take it over and do our own thing," says Dune Murderous of Defamation League. The local hip-hop group (which provided the soundtrack to the video produced by UCSD porn celebrity Steve York) arranged to set up their own unapproved route-side performance in the parking lot of the Barnett Avenue Adult superstore. Porn star and gubernatorial candidate Mary Carey was to appear with them during their show. When contacted about the plans six days before the event, marathon entertainment director Shauna Buffington was not pleased. "A hip-hop band playing in a porno is probably not appropriate [for the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon]," said Buffington. "Normally, [unauthorized bands] get shut down." She said permits are secured by the city for each band to play at each site along the run. "People play in their own front yards, like in Crown Point, and that's fine. But if they play on public property or at businesses, we've made them stop." She said she wouldn't "necessarily" call the cops herself, but she said the authorities are usually successful at getting rogue bands to stop. Def League And Carey Just Wanted To Play
Two days before the event, the band and Carey appeared on 91X to talk about their plans. That was a big mistake, says band manager Sam Elhag. "Mary was not supposed to talk about it [on the air]. She was only supposed talk about [another promotional event] we were doing Saturday. Two hours after we were on 91X, the cops came to the store and told the manager as soon as anyone plugged in an amp, the store and everyone involved would get cited. We wanted to continue and move it to the roof, but the bookstore said they can't take the risk because of the kind of business they are in."
Veronica Jett assails his masculinity on XPT.
i started this thread for a reason. after harassing me on myspace, he took the liberty of emailing me pictures of his little homo dick.
message 1 from fag boy: Veronica Jett My name is TJ Cummings, and I'm a porn star too (see me at wwwladirectmodels.com). That was a very AA or NA introduction. HAHA... And no, we haven't met. For one reason or another I have overheard a lot of rumors about you. It sort of sucks that this happens a lot in our industry. So, I thought I would introduce myself. E-mail me? Thank You TJ Cummings
message 2: Veronica You've got mail. I e-mailed you (at veronica@veronicajettxxx.com) my pictures, naughty and nice. Get em? I've heard good rumors, bad rumors and my favorite, ugly rumors. In our industry, (sh)it happens. I was sent this... www.veronicajett.com. Is that or isn't that you? I'm a little hesitant to say too much, but... I've tried a lot of perverse fetishes too. So, tell me your truth and I'll tell you mine. Message me... TJ xxxtjcummings@aol.com
message 3: Veronica You've got mail now. I forgot to verify my e-mail earlier. Get my pictures? Message me? Or, maybe I message you? TJ
message 4: Veronica I wrote you because of the rumors I had heard. If the rumors were true then I had questions that I want to ask. Maybe I made a mistake. TJ
message 5: Veronica I introduced myself only because of one of the rumors I had heard. I have experience it, and if you have too then I had a question or two for you. If I made a mistake then I'm sorry. may i remind you that all his messages were sent the same day all within a few hours.
looks like tj isnt working too much and his stalking isnt helping that matter.
Isabel Ice writes:
You are not alone... he's SO annoying... he's also been stalking a number of girls via email and myspace...after recieveing various messages here on XPT, and some more boring ones I won't post, get some of these gems I recieved in the mail...(copy and pasted from MySpace)
SAMPLE 1: dy: Isabel .... After all, I think it was Trent's cock that you rocked, not mine. You know that you owe me one brutal blow job, right? For one reason or another I have overheard a lot of rumors about you. Good rumors, bad rumors and my favorite, ugly rumors. In our industry, (sh)it happens. I have questions... I recently worked for Jonnie Darko, and there I read that you give up your ass for him. Have you already? If you tell me your e-mail address then I'll e-mail you my pictures, naughty and nice. Tell me... Message me... TJ xxxtjcummings@aol.com
SAMPLE 2: Isabel I almost forgot... I'm a little hesitant to say too much, but... I've tried a lot of perverse fetishes too. So, tell me your truth and I'll tell you mine. What is your e-mail address? Message me... TJ xxxtjcummings@aol.com
SAMPLE 3: I was trying to say I have heard a lot and that I've done a lot too. I was trying to talk to someone who was into preverse s---, like me. I'm sorry that you misunderstood me. TJ
These are just some of the things he was sending me, at the same time, he stalk my room mate Ariana Jollee via instant message... offering to send us pictures of his dick... he wants to know our darkest secrets... If I wanted to see his dick, I'd just go on the Direct Models site and take a look... he was also posting on my 'public' board asking if "we" are ok... DUDE... i've never met u, there is no "we" Not with me, not with Ariana, not with the Rose sisters, not with Veronica... get
Gen Padova posts: "I've had a few messages from TJ and comments posted on my MySpace profile but I guess I never pushed him enough to be stalkerish LOL Just more so the usual, "I can't believe we haven't worked together yet" or is that how the stalking starts?"
A porner writes me: "He is becoming a real stalker to a lot of the girls. Isabel Ice, Veronica Jett, Ariana Jollee, the Rose sisters, Lisa Ann. Check out the emails he sent them! He is a male performer on la direct's page. Supposedly Veronica Jett called derek about him stalking her. He is a strange strange dude."
TJ Cummings posts on XPT:
"I learned about this thread because it was sent to me. What was an innocent question has turned into something so ugly. Stalker? Seriously, that hurts me. I was trying to learn a little insight into something that I know little about. Yes, I e-mailed Isabel and Veronica but meant no harm. It's obvious they didn't see it that way. This is probably enough that I'll call it quits. I meant no harm."
I'm an idiot and I'll put my foot in my mouth on occasion but stalker I am not. I never asked either girl to f--- or meet. I apoligize to Veronica and Isable for the obvious misunderstanding.
My e-mail exchange with Isabel Ice and Veronica Jett occured over the course of a 24 hour period. Prior to that and after that I hadn't and haven't tried to talk to them.
I never asked to f--- or meet either girl on or off camera. I work 3-6 days a week. After today I'm giving serious thought to quiting.
Never Forget Who You Really Are, Neil Strauss!
Ever since he published The Game, his inside account of the secret society of pick-up artists, bestselling author Neil Strauss has been spending less time as writer who helps folks like Jenna Jamison and Motley Crue write their biographies. Instead, Strauss has transformed himself into some sort of shiny-headed self-help guru for dateless dudes everywhere, holding seminars in his living room for those lonely souls willing to enroll in his pick-up artist programs. Now he’s gone and made himself a YouTube commercial showing just how far he’s come as a player.
Gary Grey Gone From Penthouse TV
He was production supervisor.
On Set Of DCypher's Taboo 22 From Metro
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I arrive on set at 10:20 a.m. I park on the street (and later forget about the sign that says no parking from 4pm-7pm. I pick up a $65 ticket).
DCypher looks happy to see me. "I can't remember when I last punched somebody," he admits. "It was probably when I was in bar and drunk. There have been a few people I've wanted to punch but they didn't want to fight. These days, it's not what I'm into. I try to approach people from a perspective of compassion and understanding. But I have bad days."
Ethan Cage holds the boom today. He's proud that his wife Lexi Lamour threw an elbow in a guy's throat when he grabbed her bum at McKenzie Lee's birthday party.
"I put her in karate class," boasts Ethan.
DCypher (now with Justine Jolie, he used to be married to Bunny Luv who's now the Digital Playground director Celeste) says that people who come into porn, including himself, have emotional issues they haven't dealt with. "They're put into an environment where they get a lot of attention, a lot of money, and there's access to drugs... That doesn't create the greatest environment to have a healthy functioning relationship with another human being.
"Why aren't you in a successful relationship? You have a strong moral basis. I read on your site that women find you quite dashing. What are you waiting for?"
Luke: "I hate it when people treat me like a porn person."
DCypher: "You feel like you are more than that?"
Luke: "Yeah."
DCypher: "You feel it demeans your intellectual capacity?"
Luke: "Yeah. LA Magazine says the only thing I know anything about is porn."
DCypher: "That hurts?"
Luke: "It did. It's not true. I have many dimensions."
DCypher: "Many people in the industry feel the same way. Even though they use their genitals to get paid or capture people using their genitals, they've been stereotyped. Why do you think society stereotypes like that?"
Luke: "Because sex is so powerful, anyone who trafficks in commercial sex is stigmatized, is primarily viewed as a pornographer."
DCypher: "Don't you think that's hypocritical?"
Luke: "No, it's inherent to the human condition. No society will view a commercial sex provider or entertainer as a human being."
DCypher: "Do you view porn people as inhuman?"
Luke: "No, because I know them and I don't care about their porn work."
DCypher: "What happens after they are done? Can they return to human status?"
Luke: "Generally, no."
Van Damage walks up.
DCypher: "I was just asking Luke if he felt that people in porn lack moral fibre."
Van: "How are you doing, Luke? Can I pinch your nipples?"
Luke: "No.
"They lack some boundaries. That's interconnected with morality but it doesn't encapsulate it. I don't think everyone in porn is a scumbag."
Van Damage: "What constitutes moral fibre?"
Luke: "Doing what is right."
DCypher: "You never want to answer my questions."
The crafts service Asian girl has tits to stop a bus. Her t-shirt reads "I luv my boyfriend."
I bet he loves her too.
I yell at DCypher: "I walked in here expecting to see some slamming action."
DCypher: "You've got to be the post we measure ourselves against. If you move, we'll slide into moral anarchy. How do we know if we're improving or declining?"
DCypher defends me for quoting from porners' MySpace postings. "I keep a journal. I would never dream of putting things from there on my DVSX site. A girl writes that she poisoned her girlfriend. What was that? Then they get mad when you reprint it. I'm confused why people get so upset. They want to control how it looks.
"In the MySpace era, everyone has a blog. The blogosphere is killing the news. Rupert Murdoch says it is good it is going, that personalized partisanized news is triumphing. In the age of reality TV and blogging, everyone is becoming L-ke Ford."
DCypher tells his videographer Jason Sullvan: "I don't want to alienate you like I did Barry Wood. He thought I was talking down to him. If you start to feel that I'm talking down to you, let me know."
Ava's scene requires her to act like a crazy person. She rocks back and forth screaming, "It's not real, it's not real."
She's about to cry.
Throughout the day, Ava says to me, "Luke, you're not an animal."
DCypher: "Despite what other women have said."
Luke: "Despite what Holly says."
I am a human being. I am a man.
Off camera, Ava Rose goes down on Van Damage.
I walk into the make-up room. Somebody says that Vivid girls are all powder and plastic.
Girl A: "You ever worked for Vivid?"
Girl B: "I don't think I want to."
Girl A: "I worked for them once."
I return to watch the director interviewed by a crew from Playboy's American Sex Star.
DCypher takes my recorder: "Are you lonely at night, Luke? What do you think about when you're alone? Can you hear the lambs screaming?"
The director says about his lead actress: "She has perfect shaped tear-drop breasts."
"Derek [at LADirectModels.com] asked Ava if she would be comfortable working with four guys and she said it was something she'd be interested in trying. He said she would probably feel safe on my set. We don't beat the girls up so much. It's not like a gonzo."
Ava says she would never have sex with four guys for a gonzo movie.
Luke: "How were you able to tap into the craziness for your role?"
Ava: "I came in here and I was like, 'How am I going to come in here and act?' I don't know where that crazy girl came from. I knew this crazy lady in the next door apartment who was a drug addict. I wanted to go over and save her but I was young and my parents thought I'd do drugs."
Luke: "When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?"
Ava: "Insurance fraud. I wanted to be a secret agent and insurance was the closest thing I could get.
"I know you don't twist words, Luke. People twist words."
Van Damage, dressed like a fascist, says his father and grandfather were in Auschwitz and to this day it still affects his grandfather. "He won't walk into a gas chamber."
Van: "How do you know what's right?"
Luke: "You need a transcendent moral code or it's just everyone's opinion."
From Chicago where she worked as a stripper during highschool ("because I wanted to move out of my parents house"), Nevaeh (a Penthouse Pet) moved to LA a year ago after entering porn.
She's skinny. Her t-shirt reads, "Do I make you feel fat?"
"I want to make as much money as I can," she says, "and then move back to Chicago and buy a house.
"I used to come out here two weeks of every month and it [the travel] just got so annoying."
She loves the money, beautiful women and attention that come with her work in porn.
Luke: "So how has it affected your life being a porn star?"
She pushes my recorder away and ends the interview. She finds my questions too intense.
DCypher: "I owe Metro one more movie. I'm off contract."
A light bulb explodes.
"It's the whole 6/6/06 thing," says a crew member.
DCypher: "I want to be more like Holly. No matter what you write about her, she ends up looking good. You want to put a bullet between the eyes of her friends. She writes back, 'Oh Luke, don't judge them so harshly. They didn't know I'd quit drinking.'"
In the name of his rebbe Jim Holliday, DCypher instructs the girls that their fingernail and toenail polish should match.
Joe writes: "Bless that director for wanting the girls to have their fingers & toes painted the same color. That's a real life thing that drives me crazy. Especially since women are so quick to say "That doesn't match!" to most anything a guy wears."
Ava (older by a year) and Mia Rose entered porn in February 2006.
Van Damage throws a fake tirade: "How do you expect me to act in this atmosphere? Where's my injector? Where's the water I asked for ten minutes ago?"
A crew guy who's worked in the industry for 20 years remembers when he
used to stunt-cock all the time in the eighties when the main actors were
limp from cocaine abuse. You didn't need an HIV-test then to jump into
the action.
1:15 p.m. Charlie Lain and Nevaeh go smoke a bowl. The make-up artist requests that they do not smudge her work.
Ava Rose is strapped down. I ask DCypher if she'll be having sex while strapped up.
"Yeah," he says. "And then we'll bring in kids and they'll have sex with animals."
"Luke, you're not an animal," says Ava. "They can't have sex with you."
Referring to Van, Ava says: "Yeah, he's my daddy. He does dirty things to me because I'm a f--- hole."
I wonder if Ava (one of 15 contestants on Playboy's American Sex Star) would say such things if she truly understood how much God loved her.
Brooke Haven is asked what she would do if she got a million dollars.
Van, from behind her: "Get this strange guy out of my ass."
Playboy asks Ava repeatedly, "What would you like to say to Jenna?"
Ava doesn't know.
Who can blame her? What does one say to Jenna? "I admire your work"?
I interview Iowa's Carli Banks, in porn for 18-months. "I only do girl-girl.
"I signed up one 1Modelplace.com.
"My boyfriend at the time (for a year, ended a year ago) was always looking at porn. 'That chick is so hot. She's the most beautiful woman in the world.' I said, 'You watch. I'll be in one of those magazines.'
"An agent found me. I told my boyfriend I was doing fashion work.
"One day I brought home a Penthouse. 'Look at this honey.' We were flipping through the pages and there I was. He was so pissed. We broke up for like a week.
"That was one of the main reasons why I did.
"I wanted to live here. He wanted to live [in Iowa]. He's a momma's boy. He can't keep a job. He depended on me making money."
She has natural C-cup breasts.
"I love the money. It's easy. I hate that everyone knows what I do. It's kinda embarrassing that everyone's seen me naked. I'm more of a private person. Now I'm used to it but I kinda regret having my pictures all over the internet.
"I'm with a guy [UCLA student]. We don't talk about it. I keep it private. My personal life is completely separate. I don't let it affect me.
"We live with eight guys from this frat. I'm like a sister to them. They go, 'Eww, that's gross. I can't look at what you do.' The whole UCLA school knows what I do."
She giggles. "He doesn't like that too much."
"I will never do a scene with a guy. I couldn't live with myself.
"I haven't talked to my mother's side of the family in four years. My dad knows. I can't tell my grandma.
"I'll tell me dad, 'I'm going to be in this magazine this month. Don't get it.'
"My dad loves porn. He's a very sexual person.
"I moved in with him at 15. I had a crazy stepmom. She chopped off all my hair. He was married to her for five years. She was really sweet until I moved in. I moved out on my own at 16.
"He'll tell me, 'I had five girlfriends this week.'"
Celeste Star has been in porn for 30 months. She did one scene with her boyfriend at the beginning but since then has been girl-only.
Luke: "What motivated you to get into the industry?"
Celeste: "It was more my boyfriend."
Luke: "He was pushing you?"
Celeste: "Yeah, he was. When I started, it was for the money.
"I've had a boyfriend for two years. He supports me. He was going to drive me today but he went golfing instead. He's going to make us money golfing one day."
Luke: "Does he have a job?"
Celeste: "No. When I first started, when I was with my first agent and I wasn't working much and wasn't making much money, so I needed him to bring in a paycheck. I enjoy spending time with him. If we get married, it'll be both of us working and taking care of the kids.
"He doesn't use my money. He's not like my first boyfriend. He's laid back and he respects me and loves me."
Luke: "When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?"
Celeste laughs. "A doctor. In highschool, I wanted to be a plastic surgeon. I took all the necessities but I didn't pass my SATs with a good score so I decided I wouldn't be a doctor."
Luke: "How did your family react to your being a porn star?"
Celeste: "They don't know. I think my mom would be OK with it. She'd be shocked at first. One of my sisters loves it and the other sister says I'm throwing my life away."
Luke: "What do you love and hate about being a porn star?"
Celeste: "I hate waiting around. I love the sex. I love the make-up. You get to do pretty girl and look all pretty."
Luke: "What do you do with your spare time?"
Celeste: "Hiking, playing basketball. I sit and watch TV a lot."
Nicole and Voodoo celebrate their sixth wedding anniversary in October. She did her first scene in late 1999. For the past two years, she's worked as a photographer in addition to doing a few scenes a month.
DCypher, who ranks among the 700 most powerful people in porn, enjoys the admiration and caresses of his actresses.
"Why did we never date?" he asks them.
"Bad timing," is a frequent answer and one he finds comforting.
When he's all done with this movie, he can sit in the shower trying to wash away the filth and rock back and forth and cry, "Bad timing! Bad timing!"
Shooting pornography after Auschwitz is barbaric.
Charlie Laine walks around burping. She's bored and high. "If I get any more stoned, I'll fall asleep," she declares.
The four girls doing a lesbian four way protest when they learn that a boy-girl will be going on at the same time in the same place. They clash with the production manager Jay Shanahan, who's filling in for his sick wife Shanna McCullough. They call him Sergeant Porno.
Director DCypher steps in and calms everybody down and works out a compromise.
A member of the crew repeatedly straps Ava down.
"He can never love you more than he loves himself," says another crew guy to Ava. "And he hates himself."
It takes me an hour, but Tuesday evening I finally work up the courage to ask Faith Leon for an interview.
She's from a small town in North Carolina, which has shunned her since it found out she does porn.
In the industry for two years, she's done over 100 scenes. "I usually come out here for two weeks at a time and do two-three scenes a day. I moved here last year."
Luke: "What group did you hang out with in highschool?"
Faith: "I had friends in all the little cliques. I was the chick who had all the guys."
Luke: "Were you a cheerleader?"
Faith: "No, I was a sports player (soccer and basketball). Me and my sister (two years older) took number one in basketball North Carolina. I'm 5'11. I played forward. My sister is 5'10. She's an English teacher."
Luke: "When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?"
Faith: "A veterinarian. I'm an animal freak.
"After highschool, I went to college for about a year -- North Carolina State. Taking 18 hours and working fulltime. I couldn't take it. I needed more money. So of course, blah blah blah. I am going to go back to school but I have to gain residency in California."
Luke: "What do you love and what do you hate about being in this industry?"
Faith: "I like the freedom. You feel pretty. You get dressed up and made up.
"It's overwhelming sometimes. Mentally, you've got to cool off. My fiance Marcus Leon (30yo) works in the industry too. We have to separate it from our lives."
Earlier, I heard Faith say her fantasy was to see two guys have sex.
Luke: "Would you lose respect for your fiance if he allowed another man to plough him up the rear?"
Faith: "I wouldn't lose respect, but I wouldn't want to see it because I know he wouldn't like it.
"We'll be together two years in November. We're getting married in November.
"When I met him, we had both just started but we didn't tell each other. Come on. If you weren't in the industry and I came up to you on the industry and said, 'I f--- guys for a living, do you want to go out?' Would you want to go out with me anyways?"
I shake my head.
Faith: "Exactly. I told him two weeks later. He said, 'Ohmigod. I do the same thing.'"
Luke: "What are the joys and sorrows of dating someone in the industry?"
Faith: "It sucks because I don't like seeing him with other girls. I don't watch his scenes. I like to know who he's working with for my own mentality's sake, my defence mechanism.
"Good things? The money. We own a house in Chatsworth that's paid for.
"I do want kids. I don't want to wait ten years to have them.
"We're trying to get the website thing going. We're planning to build up north (in a small town). I love the snow and the mountains. We're going to move up there. The standard of living is a lot less. Hopefully we won't have to do this. He does photography. I'll do a little small business. I've researched the town and I know what kind of business they need."
Luke: "Have you had to pay any prices for being in this industry?"
Faith: "Yes. The whole town (about 25,000) I grew up in knows what I do for a living. They've blackballed me. When my ten year reunion comes, I've got these pictures to show. 'Hey, I'm looking gorgeous. I've got a husband on my arm. I'm 21 and I own a $600,000 house.' I don't see any of those people my age doing that."
Luke: "Did some people stop being friends with you?"
Faith: "They completely cut me off. They found something on the internet, a huge company on the internet. It was one of my first scenes. It was absolutely horrible. I looked hideous. Of course that's what they found. Word spread like no other.
"My [born-again Christian] friend calls me up: 'I can't believe you do this.' You f--- other people. So...
"It's Bible-belt country. My brother (three years older) stopped talking to me. My dad for a while. We kinda told them that I'm out of the business. They don't go looking for porn. They're church-going people."
Luke: "Why are you such a rebel?"
Faith: "I've always been. I'm a loner. I do what I've got to do. It's for better causes. That's my excuse.
"I talk to my sister about my scenes. 'Yeah, I had to do this!' She's like, 'What?' She teaches highschool English. She thinks it's great. 'My little baby sister does that.'
"I'm still shy, reserved. If you see me on set, I'm not approaching people. You might think I'm a bitch because I won't come up and talk to you because I'm scared of talking to you. But if you talk to me, I'll talk to you."
Faith has no southern accent. "My family is from Michigan so I wasn't raised southern. My family doesn't. You won't catch me saying 'Y'all.'"
Luke: "What do you love and hate about Los Angeles?"
Faith: "I hate LA! Too many people! There are cars everywhere! Coming to work today, I sat on the exit ramp for 20 minutes."
Luke: "Do you get recognized?"
Faith: "No, because I don't wear make-up."
She finds many porn fans creepy and when her husband gets recognized in public, she doesn't like it. "Eww, that means they masturbate to our movies."
With her husband, Faith moved into this "cute neighborhood in Chatsworth. It's safe. You can go jogging at night. I thought the neighbors would bring pies but nobody did anything. There were no welcome baskets. I was disappointed."
Luke: "On the other hand, it's good that they don't know you because they won't know what you do."
Faith: "We're very private. They think that my husband is a photographer and that I'm a model."
Most of the girls are stoned. They alternate bowl breaks with cigarette breaks. Some of them have been waiting around since 11 a.m.
7:40 p.m. Charlie Lain yells out: "There's no 'I' in 'team.'"
I overhear AVN's Peter Warren say to DCypher: "Ron Jeremy was at my house last night. It was so weird."
James DiGiorgio writes me: "While checking out your latest 'photographic verite' images from DCypher's set, I became impressed with Duke, DCypher's PA, cuz he's wearing an "Archaeological Institute of America" baseball cap. In one of the images, he seems to be joyously preparing for a "dig" in Ava Rose's ass. It's makes me proud to see people in porn combining smut and academic research."
Whatever happened to Sin City contract girl Gina Austin? I guess she didn't want to do porn anymore and just left.
I ask the Dalai Porn Llama of Sin City who replies: "I really don't have a clue. I didn't ask this time figuring either religion, drugs, embarrassment, parental intervention, just plain tired of sucking cock on video, better offer, suitcase pimp's influence, roommate's influence, herpes, chlamydia, or all or some of the preceding."
A friend writes: "I saw her being interviewed on video at AVN.com, and she had a deer in the headlights look on her face. She hadn't done a lot of sex. She'd stripped briefly in Ohio."
I arrive at Porn Star Karaoke at 9:10 p.m. It's almost empty.
Sponsor Jason Sechrest rolls up at 9:20. He promises the crowd to make PSK more gay.
I hang out until 11 p.m. but I don't see any porn stars beyond Lisa Sparxxx.
A friend tells me that Tyra Banxxx is doing really well for herself. "She was tricked by Tyra Banks on her TV show to say that she was leaving porn, but she never had any intention of leaving porn. She's on the boxcover of America's Next Whore. It's a feature for Hustler directed by Roy Karch. It was shot on film."
Luke: "She can be proud of that. The boxcover no less. America's top whore. Wow."
Friend: "It's been a long time since there's been a black contract girl. Since Heather Hunter."
Luke: "She's like the next Rosa Parks. She'll be a role model for black youth all over the world. This will revolutionize the black underclass. Give them hope."
If you work hard in America, you can go straight to the top of a porn boxcover. Shot on film no less.
"She's like Stand and Deliver. It's like she's teaching calculus to inner-city kids."
Friend: "She's a great performer. Did you see her on Monster Loads? She was teaching other women how to ----."
Roy walks up.
Roy: "It's called America's Next Top Porn Model and it's from Sex Z Pictures. The broadcast rights will go to the Hustler channel."
Friend: "See!"
Luke: "Was she good?"
Roy: "She was very good. She's a nice girl. She took special time with this one for us because of the situation with the original Tyra and the Tyra Banks show. We shot some of the scenes in the same location where the original Tyra Banks show was taped. It's quite the parody. We're just finishing the editing. It should be out in the fall."
Friend: "I just saw the boxcover for it. It looks great."
Roy says I've carved out a niche for myself as the reluctant porn journalist.
Friend: "He's in wikipedia!"
I hear Lisa Ann (and Amy Reid) says she gets $2,000 per scene and won't do anal.
Da Burglar writes on XPT: "Dude, they (porn whores) are already "dead" inside, that's why they smoke, drink, do drugs and play Russian roulette with the HIV/STD Revolver. Cancer schmancer."
Fred writes:
1. I see that David Aaron Clark was bummed because you didn't invite him to your birthday party. He should cheer up. Tell him none of the folks in your advisory group were invited either.
2. I have finished all of the New Testament except Acts and the last 10 pages of John. I always found it highly illogical that a) Somehow, Jesus needed to be sacrificed so that man could be saved. God could save whoever he wants regardless of what Jesus did. b) God would have a son. c) Whether or not one believes that Jesus is the son of God has more to do with whether or not you are saved than whether or not you are an axe murderer. I understand that the notion of having one's sins forgiven is appealing, but the whole setup seems unreasonable to me. Your reaction?
3. In light of Paul's condescending attitude toward women, I find it incredible that women do not tend to bolt from Christianity.
4. It seems to me that Christianity is rather arbitrary about what commandments it keeps and what it ignores. For example, the Torah's prohibitions against pork are somehow done away with, but the prohibitions against homosexuality are not. Who decided this?
I don't see why it is logical that God should issue a whole bunch of commandments and then rescind them. I don't see why they were good laws at one time and not later on.
5. Interestingly, my copy of the New Testamenbt was published by the Catholic Church. They believe that Mary was a virgin her entire life, and that Jesus had no siblings. On the other hand, Protestants believe that Jesus had siblings. Every time there is a passage that refers to Jesus's brothers, my New Testament has a footnote saying, yeah, that's what it says, but in the word usage of the time, brothers included close male relatives. Jesus had no siblings. It sorta shows how different Catholics and Protests are.
Chris writes:
Ask yourself,what would this world be like had there not been a "Jesus"? Hundreds of Billions and billions of people in this world,look up to Jesus Christ and his teachings. He means alot to alot of people. Jesus isn't just some guy who died on a cross. He's a symbol for so many people around the world. Every major religion talks about him(even Buddhism). He has single handedly inspired an entire religion that is followed by people around the world. A religion that the majority of the world believes in,whether or not they choose to live their lives "Christ-like" or not. Almost every single person on the planet,knows who he is. Had their not been a "Jesus",I can guarentee that there would be no "Christianity". May not even have been a Islam or a Judaism,considering that they look up to Jesus Christ aswell.
Different people have different perceptions of what the Bible says. Some say that the Bible says that men having long hair is a sin,but it doesn't say that at all. Some people still believe that gays are going to hell,when the Bible says that a sin is a sin,and the story that it's based on "Sodom and Gamorrah",says that the two cities weren't destroyed simply because of them practicing homosexuality,but infact also says that they were fornicating,not helping the needy,raping others,and not just homosexuality,therefore homosexuality isn't an automatic trip to hell. People just have different interpretations,so what you interpret,isn't necessarily going to be what others interpret.
As times change,certain things change. Who knows why God didn't want the Israelites eating Pork. The Bible says that it is an unclean animal,but the question is why. Maybe back in those days,Pigs were riddled with disease. It's a well known fact that alot of different type of animals have to be cooked just right,or they can make you sick(IE:Sushi). We know that the illnesses that can easily be treated now,would've killed people in those days. I don't know,you don't know. I DO know that when archaeoligsts go to the Middle East to do research,they often find that there were usually good reasons for why God told people to do this or that,or to not do this or that. There's also a big difference between eating an animal that can possibly kill you,and f---ing a guy in his ass....
AVN Editor Mike Ramone writes: "Chris, like so many Christians, is woefully ignorant about Christianity. As you well know Luke, Christianity developed out of Judaism, which hardly “looks up” to Jesus, but in fact rejects him as the Messiah. Islam was founded by Muhammad, not Jesus, who Muslims regard as a prophet, but one who God only partially revealed himself to. Muslims believe God fully revealed himself to the only true prophet, Muhammad. I believe both religions are mythologies, as I believe do you Luke."
Special Health Notice to All Women, Especially Those Considering a Career in Porn
Chaim Amalek writes:
Were I sexually active (it's been decades) and were it available to men, I'd get it too.
As American As Apple Pie
Christopher Hitchens writes in Vanity Fair:
The illusion of the tonsilized clitoris will probably never die (and gay men like to keep their tonsils for a reason that I would not dream of mentioning), but while the G-spot and other fantasies have dissipated, the iconic U.S. Prime blowjob is still on a throne, and is also kneeling at the foot of that throne. It has become, in the words of a book on its technique, The Ultimate Kiss. And such a kiss on the first date is not now considered all that "fast." America was not the land of birth for this lavish caress, but it is (if I may mix my anthems) white with foam from sea to shining sea. In other cultures, a girl will do "that" only when she gets to know and like you. In this one, she will offer it as a baiser as she is making up her mind.
Dr. Luke
Luke: two women hit me up for love advice today/last night. [I keep
giving the same dating/love advice (not original) to adult women: "If
he doesn't ask you out, call, email, give gifts, flatter you, he's just
not that into you, and there's nothing you can do about it."]
HollyRandall: lol that's funny
HollyRandall: YOU giving advice?
HollyRandall: you want 6 kids?
Luke: yeah
HollyRandall: so are u seriously considering having kids?
.... Luke: your line of thinking here is nuts
HollyRandall: me being selective about who i would breed with?
HollyRandall: actually it's very rational
HollyRandall: it's just not nice that's all
HollyRandall: it's not nice to think about breeding with someone as opposed
to being in love with them
HollyRandall: it's a little hard to explain over IM but it's something
my mom has been adamant about since i was a little girl
Luke: I disagree
HollyRandall: of course you do, you're a romantic
Luke: I disagree for the opposite reason in this case - i think it is
good to temper your feelings with other considerations.
Luke: There are considerations in marriage that should be more important
than love.
HollyRandall: i agree
Luke: such as values.
HollyRandall: so you wouldn't consider the genetic background of both
parties?
Luke: absolutely, if it was scientific, not some psuedo-science
Luke: You'd make a good mother.
HollyRandall: that's very sweet
HollyRandall: you think so?
Luke: you'd quit the pot and the booze and other stupid things and fly
straight.
HollyRandall: now i'm going to cry at work thanks
Luke: you'd be a much happier and better person if you became a mom.
HollyRandall: well we'll see if it ever happens
Luke: you were born to be a mom, you are so nurturing and loyal and protective
Luke: you'd be throwing your kids bday parties etc, other kids would come
over and you'd cook for 'em
Luke: you were born to mother not born for porn. I think you'd be a better
mother than any other single profession -- including photographer and
writer. And that's a compliment because I'm a traditionalist.
HollyRandall: that's sweet but i'm not giving up my career to become a
housewife
HollyRandall: i'd go crazy
Luke: yeah, well, you'll probably grow out of that attitude when you meet
the right man. it'd be nuts to prefer shooting beaver to being a good
mom and you can't do both.
Luke: you can write and do respectable photography but you can't be a
good parent and work in porn.
HollyRandall: so are you saying my mom wasn't a good mom?
Luke: I'm not going to touch that
Luke: it's not a personal observation
HollyRandall: well you just did sweetie
HollyRandall: it's ok
HollyRandall: i don't expect you to agree with my parent's lifestyle
Luke: fine, I'll stand behind that statement [as a generality, understanding
that there will be individual exceptions, but, generally speaking, it
is better for kids if their parents do not work in porn. My guess is that
the percentage of porners who are good parents would be about the same
as the percentage of drug dealers who are good parents, and both are probably
below the percentage of Nazis and KKK members who are good parents].
HollyRandall: you could never understand
Luke: You can do better.
HollyRandall: i doubt it
HollyRandall: gotta go
Luke: Your parents were broke. [You've got money. You have choices your
parents did not have. You should do something noble. Your parents worked
hard so you could create something better.]
Anthony Crane Out Of Prison
Artie, a former porn actor and art director and PA, is out of prison (for making threats of violence against his ex-wife Nicole London) after five and a half years. His friend Skye Blue had got him a good lawyer who got one of his previous felonies thrown out so he wouldn't rot behind bars. All his stuff was packed up, including his AVN awards but not his guns, and shipped to him in Kentucky.
What If Five Star Loses?
Bill writes on ADT: "If Five Star loses, they're out of business. Once that happens, what do you think the other Internet retailers will do? My bet is that most of them get rid of any titles that include rough sex. That would likely include the "Who Let the Whore's Out" series."
John Stagliano's Crazy Idea for a Crazy Time
Richard [Abowitz], have you ever met a pornographer you didn't like? Have you ever written a negative word about porners and porn? I've only seen glowing articles from you about porners. Is there a reason for this? Why are porners exempt from your scrutiny and skepticism? I guess they are not real to you. They are only projections of your fantasies of fighting a fascistic America.
Why has the LA Times hired a blogger who can only see the good in porn?
Even an industry suck-up such as Variety's Dana Harris will deign to utter the occasional negative observation.
I find it boring to read porn critics who only have negative things to say about porn and the people in it. I find it boring to read propagandists like Richard Abowitz who only have good things to say about porn.
Keep it real.
AVN Editor Mike Ramone emails:
Luke, you come off here like a reactionary Morality in Media spokesman railing against the latest New York Times piece on the adult industry. As much as it must gall you, porn every day becomes more assimilated into mainstream American culture, thereby warranting corresponding mainstream media coverage of this multi-billion-dollar industry. The adult genie is out of the bottle and there’s no going back. Even if the federal government managed to shut down the entire industry (doubtful), porn would merely go underground to meet the voracious market demand. The Bushies and their religious right extremist, apparently anti-capitalism allies – talk about being out of touch with mainstream America - can no more stop porn than they can stop drug trafficking (the Libertarian Party is starting to look very appealing to me lately). As for Mr. Abowitz, who has interviewed me on occasion, I find it refreshing that a mainstream journalist for once doesn’t succumb to all the stupid, clichéd stereotypical criticisms of the adult industry. Keep it up, Richard, so to speak…
Platinum X Fires Jewel DeNyle
A source writes: "Jewel De'Nyle got finally canned yesterday from Platinum X. She was sent an official letter of termination by their lawyer. Of course, if you ask her....she moved on to "bigger and better deals"."
Holly Randall Photographs Sasha Grey
Holly emails: "So how are the file sizes of these shots? They are of that new girl you interviewed, Sasha Grey. She's a sweetie, I really like her. So as not to upset your delicate moral tastes, the pictures are all clothed. Alas, she is smoking in some, but I cannot please you every time."
Kelly Allen writes:
Luke: Thanx for your effort at getting some bts shots of Taboo 22's stars, smoking. I assure you, we (our smokerhood) always notice and appreciate. Just wish you would send me Holly's '"real" (personal) email addy, instead of the .com one. That way, my pleas on behalf of our smoking fetish, would be read, and I KNOW, better understood by Holly, who, based on some of her personal statement opinions, has to be put in the, "anti-smoking" camp---along (DAMNIT!) with the rest of porn's directors/producers.
>A perfect date?
I would pick him up and take him out for dinner...and by the end of the night be down on my knees taking a huge blast in the face.
I volunteer my time to charitable orgaizations, when I have time....Skylar Neil golf tournament.
Larry Flynt Sued For Sexual Harassment... Again
(CBS) LOS ANGELES A female employee of Larry Flynt has filed a sexual and age harassment lawsuit against the Hustler Magazine publisher.
Cheryl Oldham alleges her work was frequently disrupted by sounds of Flynt having sex with prostitutes in his office. She also alleges that she was retaliated against for helping another female employee in a similar claim against Flynt.
As far as I know, Larry has yet to be charged with groping Jim Kohls, though there was that one awkward moment in January 2005 during a script consultation that Larry's hand rested a little too long on Jim's knee. Jim resigned shortly thereafter. I do not believe the two incidents were related.
Gia Jordan's Diet
She writes on ADT: "If there are too many people at the table, I can't eat. I can't eat at buffets or any group food situations. I have to drink a glass of water before the food arrives. I always leave food on my plate and feel dirty if I feel full. Sometimes I have to take showers after eating. I never eat starch with protein- only vegetables with protein."
"You realize that Girls-Only is a gateway drug. Do you think you might ever do guys or ... worse?"
Danni.com Goes Hardcore
They've brought in new directors and new workers and they're going to release hardcore on DVD as well as their website. Layne Thr-sher's regime may prosper after all.
A Love Poem For Layne Thr-sher
Andrew Rolland Deutsch emails:
Luke, I have read on how you are having problems with an old employer of mine, Mr. Layne Thr-sher of Danni.com and decided that I would weigh in on the manner. In the archived article dated on 6/2/06 you posted a legal article from Layne Thr-sher that read:
* 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.
Well, the first statement is true in some regards. I can't comment on the "f-uck you..." part of it, but I can state that I was approached by Layne and had a couple meetings with him and other employees about starting a new company. If you look at the business plan, I am the Lead Designer they speak of, Andrew Rolland. I have several emails from Mr. Thr-sher that are specific to this matter. We didn't go through with the formation of the company due to Mr. Thr-sher being promoted within Danni.com. But this was indeed Mr. Thr-sher's project and was initiated by him. If you need anymore proof look at the tattoo on his arm and the image on his books, it is indeed a "bleeding heart".
And on the second statement: While I didn't actually see Mr. Thr-sher work on the business plan for Bleeding Heart on the premises of Danni.com, I was handed a printed copy of the business plan in Mr. Thr-sher's office at Danni.com. I do not recall what date or time, but I do recall that specific incident. I was also sent electronic copies of the business plan during the work week during work hours.
Are you not afraid that because Layne is devoting himself to pornography, America is losing a great poet?
That's true.
I was the first laid off from the company this year and all I can say is that power corrupts. The posts to your site are not the result of one person hell bent on ruining Mr. Thr-sher, these are the result of many unhappy individuals. I would say that at the beginning of his promotion to VP of Operations he was doing the right things. He was listening and trying to improve things as much as he could. I think my lay off was a turning point for him. Something happened and as you can tell from others his managerial abilities faltered considerably.
He is not very good at guitar. Give me two weeks with PS2's "Guitar Hero" and a month of lessons and I can play better guitar than him.
He never wrote me a poem, of this I am truly saddened.
Layne Thr-sher's attorney Gene Williams of Browne Woods & George emails June 7:
Mr. Ford,
I am writing to follow-up on the letter that was sent to you well over a week ago (and re-sent by e-mail at your request on June 1, 2006). I have heard nothing back from you, and it does not appear that you have taken any of the actions set forth in my original letter. Please call me or e-mail me to discuss this issue as soon as possible. If I do not hear back from you by the close of business on Friday, June 9, 2006, I will assume that you do not intend to take any action in response to my original letter, and as set forth in that letter, we will have no choice but to pursue all available legal remedies relating to your misconduct.
I look forward to hearing from you promptly.
How Does AVN Compile Its Sales/Rental Charts?
AVN President Paul Fishbein replies to my inquiry:
I have been asked to explain the methodology by which we compile the sales and rental charts. The AVN Charts in the monthly magazine and Retail Buzz on avn.com are compiled via sales and rental lists from on-line and brick and mortar retailers across the country.
AVN surveys approximately 100 retailers per month (from a pool of over 200), some providing weekly information, others monthly. The retailers rotate and change randomly and are a combination of adult bookstores, adult on-line retailers who sell and/or DVDs and general video stores who have an adult section. The charts are designed to be a “best case” example of what is going on in the marketplace and have never been marketed as definitive.
Last year, we did meet with the Nielsen Organization to attempt to develop a scanning system similar to their Soundscan system used in the music industry and Videoscan system used for the general release video industry. Though the meetings went well, we have yet to get an approval from them on using their software for adult products. That would be an expensive undertaking, but if used, would provide valuable marketing information to the produces and distributors.
In the meantime, we poll as many retailers as possible during a given week. Each month in AVN, we have a page called Retailing in the USA where we randomly choose retailers who allow us to re-print their sales and/or rental charts. Many retailers do not wish for us to reveal their identities of re-print their charts in the magazine.
For the weekly Retail Buzz on avn.com, we print a blend of the Best Selling and Best Renting titles that week. The monthly Top 250 and the Ethnic Rentals are based on retailer rental figures combined with the weekly Retail Buzz for that month. The specialty, gay and amateur charts are based on reports from retailers who both rent and sell product.
Anyone can easily look in AVN to see the names of some of the retailers used for polling, but they include such stores as Movie Gallery, A Woman’s Touch, Mr. Peeps, Video Dimensions, Dreamers, Capitol Stores, Frenchy’s, Michael’s Video, TLA Video, Mallcom, Adult DVD.com, Wanted List, Adult DVD Today, U Rent DVD, Hustler Hollywood, Fairvilla Megastore, Adult Video Marketplace, Risque Video, Excitement Video, DVD Empire, Movixo, Five Star DVD, Sugar DVD, Xtremes, some Goalie stores, Adult Video Universe, Save Smart DVD, Peekay Stores, X-Rent DVD, Blue Video, Santa Rosa Bookstore, Superstar Video and many more.
We always invite new retailers to participate and they can reach me at paulf@avn.com. With the incredible amount of new releases hitting the market each week, no one retailer can even carry 25 or 30% of what’s coming out, let alone all of it. That’s why we try our best to sample as many retailers as we can. It’s an arduous process that we hope one day will be supplanted by a scanning system similar to Soundscan. Others with questions can e-mail me as well.
Brian Kushner emails:
I used to be in the music business. Back in the early nineties before SOUNDSCAN Billboard Magazine used to get their charts the same as AVN, they used to call certain stores from pools and get their numbers. Record companies could manipulate the reporting buy giving reporting stores SWAG. That's right, merchandise, free records, cash, concert tickets etc. For instance, Columbia Records could call their local reps in the field, tell them to get with the Billboard reporters and offer such and such to report George Michael at 33 this week. They could manipulate the chart number right down to a science. There was even weeks when they would reverse the number so that a record would not rise too fast.
This all went out the window for the most part when soundscan came along and became the source for Billboard, since numbers were based on units scanned at retail. I did hear of scams where they would scan a CD over and over to inflate the number and then back it out of their system. I don't think any system is perfect but I'm sure if AVN is simply calling a store manager and saying what's your number, that store manager can be bought by the porn companies.
Nikki Benz, Lucy Lee Leave TeraVision
April Blossom left Tera's talent agency.
Bridgett Kerkove Says Her Marriage With Skeeter Has Been Annulled
Bridgett emails me:
FREE AT LAST! FREE AT LAST! DEAR GOD, I'M FREE AT LAST! Who would have thought, that the stupid 666 tattoo Skeeter has, would bring ME luck! Today 6/6/06 I was granted Nullity from Skeeter.(It seems he may not be so truthful after all-yes,I know, SHOCKING!) I'm happy to say," its as though my fabulous marriage never existed." Hold on, girls (guys). He's still married to two other women. So don't get all excited about marring him just yet. Yes, I know he's quite the catch-but you're gonna have to wait! His closet is crowded full at the moment. It seems he has collected to many skeletons over the years.
Rise and Shine! Its a Beautiful Day!
Skeeter says: "I am not married to two other women. If I was, I'd be like the guy in Big Love. That would be fun.
"I am legally married to Kerry Kithcart (D.O.B. 10-29-1970) because it was not annulled in 1996. The marriage was not legal when it took place. She was married when we got married and she perjured herself on the marriage license. That did not bother me at all. I didn't care."
He calls me Wednesday afternoon. "She called me this morning laughing about it. We talked for a couple of hours. That it was time for us to meet up to visit the kids. She said her van had broke down. I turned around, picked her and the baby up, got a gasoline can, filled her up with gas, and got her going. We told each other that we love each other.
"I know it's not an exciting story, certainly not what you wanted to hear."
Luke: "She wrote that the marriage was annulled."
Skeeter: "On 6/6/06. That's a magical day."
Luke: "Is it true?"
Skeeter: "If she says it was, I believe it to be true. I didn't contest it. I told her that whatever she wanted was fine with me. We've decided to be friends again. We've already hooked up a couple of times. She gives me a list of things she needs for the kids. Whatever she tells me to buy, I get it and give it to her.
"She says that even though the marriage is over, it doesn't change anything."
Luke: "Has she given up on all the horrible things she charged you with?"
Skeeter: "Absolutely. We're the most controversial, most well-known porn couple in the history of all pornography forever. For example, the husband has been written about six times in five days. Are there any porn girls that got written about that many times in the past five days?
"Bridgett says that just because we're not married anymore, that doesn't change anything. We have sixteen and a half years left to raise children."
Sunny Lane And Her Mom
HollyRandall: Sunny's mom sounds EXACTLY like her
Luke: bless her heart
HollyRandall: i got off the phone with her, and i told her to have a good
night
HollyRandall: and she said "Fo sure honey! You know it, I got ma' hurricaines
a waitin' fer me!"
HollyRandall: it would sound better in my fabulous southern accent
Luke: Chaim Amalek taunts me that you got things out of him that I never
did
HollyRandall: of course i did, i'm a girl
HollyRandall: easier to open up to L
uke: have you shot faith leone? "
HollyRandall: she came in for polaroids... a very pretty face
HollyRandall: my mom liked her and then forgot about her
HollyRandall: it happens, thanks for the reminder
HollyRandall: i'll pull her file again
HollyRandall: so i get to spend all day Saturday naked with Beatrice
HollyRandall: she's taking me to some Korean spa
HollyRandall: where we hang out naked in a steam room with old naked people
Luke: what exactly does it mean for a woman to have a good body?
Luke: can a woman have one if she's got small tits?
HollyRandall: waist to hip ratio
HollyRandall: of course
Luke: is it curves and stuff?
HollyRandall: yes
HollyRandall: legs too
HollyRandall: if they're very stumpy it's high high heels!
HollyRandall: i'd much prefer small natural boobs to big fake ones
HollyRandall: but the boobs have to be well shaped too, no flapjacks
HollyRandall: Sunny still calls her mom her assistant right?
Luke: yes, you do too?
HollyRandall: lol yeah right Suze would knock me out if i tried that one
Luke: Do you agree with your dad that promiscuity breeds character?
HollyRandall: my dad is full of funny opinions
HollyRandall: i think experience builds character
HollyRandall: i suppose being promiscuious is getting experience...
HollyRandall: right?
Luke: right
HollyRandall: explaining my parents would be like explaining colors to
a blind person
Luke: I don't think they are any more weird than you or me
HollyRandall: all i can come up with in the end is, "that's just how they
are"
HollyRandall: oh no, nobody is weirder than me
HollyRandall: c'mon
Luke: ya freak
HollyRandall: that's right baby, don't you forget it!
HollyRandall: you'll never date anyone weirder than me
HollyRandall: actually i'm sure that's not true
HollyRandall: compared to most in this biz i'm pretty normal
HollyRandall: i think if i was surrounded by "normal people" i'd be a
little worried about the things that run through my head
Luke: is normal good?
HollyRandall: but since everyone i work with is more f---ed up than me,
i feel better
HollyRandall: what IS normal, really?
HollyRandall: if you want to get deeply philosophical
HollyRandall: but i have no time for that because i'm going home
Luke: what IS normal, really?
HollyRandall: plus i'm not smart enough for those brainy type discussions
HollyRandall: my little head can't take it
JM & Obscenity
I have to agree with Coffee Ron regarding the JM indictments. The whole idea of "community standards" is laughable in the information age. The Internet is not only a power communications tool, it is also something that drives commerce. With interstate commerce, Congress has jurisdiction with the commerce clause, so if they want to limit the sale and distribution of porn, they can. Which is why I find it so odd that we have a community standards precedent for obscenity, and that obscentiy is the issue. Obscenity trials are unreliable; a surefire win in Utah turned into acquittal for a video store owner, and Utah is the reddest of the red states.
The only explanation is that the people pushing for these obscenity trials don't want porn to be regulated (which is what Congress would do), they want it eradicated. And they want it eradicated everywhere, not just in their backyard. I hate to be the Federalist in the living room, but the industry, if it wants to survive at all, needs to quite believing that self-censorship is going to solve long-term problems, get their act together and start working on the JM/Five Star case. They need lawyers who are well-versed in obscenity and First Amendment law and they need to start moving their argument towards an abolishment of the "community standards" precedent. That might be something the Roberts SCOTUS would be willing to grant cert to, since it questions specifically a previous SCOTUS decision.
Da Burglar Interviews Holly Randall
Holly: Oh boy... to pick out one hot scene is a bit difficult-- there have been many. Let's see... though I'm a pervert who likes multiple guy on girl scenes, we don't shoot too many of those, and if we do, it's only two guys. Tory Lane did her first boy/boy/girl scene with us aways back, and though there is no DP or anal, it's still a hot scene-- we shot it in a bathroom set so it's all oily and shiny and lovely. Though as I said it was shot a while ago, it's coming up on our next DVD, "Bra Bustin' and Deep Thrustin" which is, if you haven't guessed, an all big boob flick. Another favorite scene of mine is curiously an all girl threesome with Belladonna, Teagan, and Jana Cova. Now anyone who knows me well knows I'm not really into girls sexually, so girl/girl scenes rarely do it for me. But pretty much anything with Belladonna in it is great and Teagan had specifically asked my mother for Bella to be in the scene. So for me, to see the anticipated chemistry between the two of them explode once the cameras started rolling was great. You can find this scene on "Undressed and Oversexed." I know there are others I'm going to kick myself later for forgetting so I'll have to get back to you on this one.
....Yes, certain scenes have turned me on, but it's a momentary thing that soon fades once the scene is over. I never have the inclination, nor would ever consider jumping in. I can't even imagine it. OK, so I like really pervy stuff... like gangbangs *blushes*. But the problem is that I know most of the performers and I can't watch a scene with someone I know in it. I was perfectly happy with my Gangbang Auditions ..I-can't-remember until we booked Scott Nails for the first time, and to my dismay he was one of the guys in every scene. After I got to know Scott and like him on a personal level I couldn't masturbate to that DVD anymore. So I hid it somewhere and I've now forgotten where it is. I have tons of the boring porn that I can't even bring myself to watch-- big name feature crap like "The Devil in Miss Jones" and a Digital Playground big budget something-or-other. I like my porn done by the smaller, nastier gonzo studios, and that's what I DON'T have.
Of course I feel the weight of expectation... I get the comment "You've got big shoes to fill" all the time. Obviously the success of the website translates directly into membership signups which translates as money, and I certainly measure a degree of success that way. But in terms of awards and such, I don't plan to win any anytime soon-- my mom certainly hadn't by my age (actually I think she was still modeling by my age). Plus, I don't measure success by awards, I measure it by staying power. And that's something I pray I have. The only thing I might just resent my mom for is making me ride horses my entire youth so I had to give up all other extracurricular activities. But that has nothing to do with work.
4a) What is Holly Randall's: Favorite:
MUSIC BAND: Led Zeppelin
Favorite Amusement Park Ride: I hate amusement parks. It's either hot or raining, you have to walk forever in between rides, and you have to wait in line for 2 hours to go on a ride for 2 minutes. f--- that.
Favorite Women's Fragrance-- I don't really wear much fragrance, often it's just scented body lotion. But I like Ibiza Hippie by Escada, which of course is discontinued now.
Favorite Holiday-- Christmas
Favorite Drink or Brand of Beer-- Newcastle Ale
Favorite Color-- Yellow
Favorite Snack-- chips and salsa
Favorite Sexual Position-- doggy-style
Favorite Brand of Toothpaste-- don't have one
Favorite Adult/Porn Star (male and/or female)-- Melissa Lauren
Favorite Restaurant-- Hamasaku in Westwood Biggest Pet Peeve-- littering (yes, even cigarette butts-- that's f---ing littering!)
Worst Nightmare (i.e. what she fears the most)-- failure/ disappointing my parents
Favorite Book-- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Favorite Sexual Fantasy-- professor/student sex scenario4b) What is Luke's:
Favorite MUSIC BAND: Air Supply (this is when I began to have serious doubts about his sanity)
Favorite Amusement Park Ride: Me! Haha!
Favorite Women's Fragrance: He has a terrible sense of smell so I doubt he has one
Favorite Holiday: Shavuot I think
Favorite Drink or Brand of Beer: Water
Favorite Color: Hmm black?
Favorite Snack: He's not much of a snacker
Favorite Sexual Position: Missionary I think
Favorite Brand of Toothpaste: No idea.
Favorite Adult/Porn Star (male and/or female): Kendra Jade?
Favorite Restaurant: Some kosher restaurant in his neighborhood, I forget the name
Biggest Pet Peeve: Oye hes got a million...you got an hour?
Worst Nightmare (i.e. what he fears the most): Not sure I should answer this one, and Im not sure Id be correct.
Favorite Book: The Torah? Favorite Sexual Fantasy: Having sex with his nice Jewish wife.5) Drug use is rampant in the Porn industry, and often on actual porn sets, according to many anecdotal sources. It is often evidenced in the appearance and behavior of talent themselves. From obvious drunkeness at 11:30 in the morning, to track marks on the limbs, and from pupils either constricted or dilated beyond any normally explicable circumstance, to more subtle actions like models clutching and guarding bottles of pills like Vicodin or Xanax which allow them to quash their conscience and perform these degrading acts.
The meth issue is certainly more rampant now than I've seen it in a long time, but I try to keep myself out of those situations by not hiring those who are using. If you show up to my set f---ed up once, its highly unlikely I'll book you again. I also dont book girls who are rumored to be on drugs...more times than not the rumors are true, and almost every time I ignore the warnings I come to regret it. In fact, XPT is a good place to find out who is clean and who is not.
No I dont think I'd ever produce a Holly Randall sex doll mainly because I honestly dont think it would sell. Plus those dolls are super creepy looking.
...I like my eyebrows and my nose, and my stomach when Im in shape. I dont like my legs.... if they could thin out my thighs and lengthen my legs that would kick ass.
7) Rank in order of importance (1 being the most important, 2 the next most, etc) the qualities you find MOST important in a man as a potential mate/partner:
Looks: 6
Intelligence: 1
Foot Massage Ability: 8
Dick Size: 7
Sense of Humor: 2
Ability to Give Oral Sex to a Woman: Love for his Mother: 3
Concern for the Environment: 4
Cooking Ability: 5
Money/Financial Situation: 9
How nice a car or wheelchair he drives: 10I think [Donkey Punch] is way over the top violent, and the idea makes me sick to my stomach.
9) What was the LAST thing you did to help someone out where you didnt receive or expect something in return?
Holly: Throwing Luke his 40th birthday I guess? The last kind deed someone did for me? Someone opened the door for me at Starbucks today. Does that count?
I dont think you can create a sexual appetite...I think whatever degree of sexuality we have resides in us at all times, it just takes a certain someone/situation to bring it out in people. At the age of 39, I got Luke to do things he'd never done before! I knew there was a pervert residing deep inside him, and I was right!
The more hardcore we go, the more magazine sales we make, and from recent polls on our site there is a big demand for more hardcore. Our audience tends to not like the super extreme stuff -- double anal, bukkakes, etc -- but they do like anal and boy/girl hardcore, especially fetish. But there is a line I dont want to cross, I dont want to ever do a scene that resembles any of those that are under the obscenity microscope right now. Those are a bit too much for me...if it personally repulses me, then I dont want to film it.
Holly writes on XPT: "I'm sure nobody here cares, but the grammatical errors in my interview are driving me insane. DaBurglar sent me the interview via Myspace, and I had to cut and paste the interview into Microsoft Word so I could save it and respond later. But when I repasted it into myspace the apostrophes and dashes didn't register, so it looks like I have the grammar of a third grader. I know Luke will notice, at least."
WillieD writes: "Women who make you think, laugh, and get wood, all in five minutes, are keepers."
Da Burglar writes: "This is why, no matter what Luke does with his Blog, the fact that he has/had a relationship with Holly speaks volumes about the man, and makes me think no matter how cold/heartless/hippocritical/narcissistic he may get, he will always be someone I look up to, simply because he is/was good enough for Holly."
Publisher John Gray writes me:
Luke- f--- either choice just hop on a plane and go to Costa Rica you can live like a king down there for 200.00 a day-John Gray, Adult Quest Magazine PS I would definitely take Aria over plain Jane.
AVN Gossip
Babe writes: "They are indeed working on a new Lingerie book. I saw the cover on Tony Lovette's desk. Also I overheard Darren Roberts complaining about a bill he received for the Internext summer party. Supposedly they are throwing a secret party on Thursday night with a major band, I heard 'Offspring' mentioned, and the bill was over $200k."
Whatever happened to J.T. Video?
J.T., based in Hollywood, used to offer civilians a chance to perform in a scene with any of a dozen or more porn stars.
J.T. shot What Women Want (starring Kimberly Kummings) in January 1996.
JT Video emails:
Nice to hear from you. i still work as a cameraman once in a while. i gave up that studio in 2003 and also stopped providing models. i explained all this in an email i sent out. sorry i forgot to send it to you at the time. the videos i made for sale can be viewed on line at www.dirtybluemovies.com i am still willing and able to videotape private videos for anyone who wants to contact me at this email address but they need to have their own partner and location in the los angeles area.
HERE IS A COPY OF THE EMAIL I SENT OUT ABOUT 3 YEARS AGO. After 15 years of providing the service, MAKE YOUR OWN VIDEO, I must make some drastic changes to my business.
EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY: I will no longer be providing the models to appear in the videos with my clients.
EFFECTIVE 7/30/03: I will no longer be able to provide a studio or any other location for the videos to be shot.
EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY: both of my contact #s(323)463-5833/(323)874-5298 have been disconnected. the only way to contact me is at jtvideo@hotmail.com address or my alternate e-mail address: makeavideo@yahoo.com I can no longer afford the rising cost of renting the studio and maintaining the phone lines. Also, the fees for the models to appear in the videos keeps rising. it is becoming increasingly difficult to find clients that can pay the fees. However, I am still available as a videographer/photographer. You will need to provide your own partners and (after 7/30/03) your own location. if you have been referring new models to me, please stop doing so at once. The website www.jtvideo.surf.to will either be taken down or changed to a VIDEO FOR SALE site in the near future.
I am sorry for any inconvenience this causes any of you and I want to THANK YOU for your business/support/interest in my company. I hope to hear from you for your video/photography/editing/duplication needs in the near future. JAY TEE/JOE/JT VIDEO