I find Nyomi Zen (I met her Nov 3, 2005 at the Kill Girl Kill party) on the couch reading The Devil's Notebook by Anton LaVey (Mike Ramone's real name?). I say hi. She's wrapped up in her book, but I get her to pose for a couple of pictures. I ask her about the book. We start talking.

Nyomi explains the principles of Satanism to me. Traditional religion and the Bible hold that there's a moral code outside of oneself to which one must aspire. Satanism holds that the individual determines his own moral code.

Zen has a Satanic pentagram tattooed on her hip. Many porners look at her with shock when they see it and ask her what the hell is that?

Nyomi doesn't like that. "Don't even question me. Don't even judge me. Who the hell are you to question my pentagram? You're doing porn. Porn is one of the seven deadly sins (lust)."

If she faces God one day, Nyomi will say to Him: "I lived according to my own principles. How can you judge me? I just did what I thought was right with what you gave me."

We share favorite passages from our books.

We talk for two hours. The one quirk in our conversation is that Nyomi asks me to repeat everything I say. But then again, my Mandarin isn't what it used to be.

She's surprised that a religious man would have no problem spending much of his day talking to a Satanist

This religious man would rather spend his time talking to a Satanist who reads than a believer who does not read.

Nyomi's from Malaysia. She grew up speaking English with a British accent. For 12-years, she went to a strict school run by Catholic nuns.

Then her dad decided she should study computer programming at a college in Iowa (not UCLA, that would be too much temptation to party). Nyomi (the fourth of five kids) added a second major in finance and finished in two-and-a-half years. She did various jobs.

She moved to Los Angeles a year ago. She managed a Fat Burger on Topanga Canyon. In June, she got into porn. For three months, she worked both jobs. Then she quit Fat Burger. When her former coworkers found out she was doing porn, they stopped talking to her. They no longer had any respect for her.

Nyomi and I sit in the sun and look down from Mulholland Drive to the Valley. She chainsmokes Marlboro Medium 100s. She says I'm the first person she's seen on a porn set reading a serious book -- Monday it is A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates by Blake Bailey.

This tendency to become deeply attached to unlikely people would remain one of his most poignant and self-destructive qualities. (Pg 87)

Nyomi lives with Chris Charming (a porn performer from Germany). She speaks about ten languages, including five different dialects of Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin, etc). Her boyfriend has hair longer than her's. He's a rock 'n' roll musician.

She has a fiery temper. She swears a lot. She's intense and driven. She feels injustice keenly, particularly when it's done to her or her's.

Because it's an LFP set, it's lavishly catered. I have a lunch of chocolate rice krispy, a peanut butter granola bar, a bowl of fruit salad, chocolate-covered-soy-nuts, two glasses of mint tea. Unfortunately, all the donuts were gone.

Kayia Lynn (who smokes Marlboro Lights) sits Annie Cruz down on the couch and has Annie teach her about squirting.

Tiny Kayia's first anal scene was with Manuel Ferrara. "I don't know why I did it now. He couldn't get it all the way in."

"Put that thing on a diet," Kayia often tells him.

"If I did that, I'd be wearing diapers for a year," says Nyomi.

Kayia's second was with Mark Ashley. After that, she insisted on sizing down.

I get grossed out at the discussion. The girls laugh at me.

"Too much information," says Kayia. "I'm sorry. When I talk about my cleanliness routines to people who aren't in the business, my sister for example, she says, 'I don't want to have this conversation. I'm hanging up on you.'

"What did I say that was wrong?"

"Funny that," I say. "That's strange."

Kayia will be in porn for a year in mid-February. She's done about 100 scenes. "I just started doing anal this month."

Nyomi did not bother going to the AVN show in Las Vegas.

Kayia got into porn through Annie Cruz.

Jack Lawrence (Annie's husband) drives up near 1pm. The Annie-Nyomi scene was scheduled for 10am but it hasn't started yet. Jack drives away.

Smoking a Marlboro, Nyomi says: "There's a marathon in March [in Los Angeles]. I'm going to try to make it. I'll run along with a cigarette in my mouth."

Brooke Hunter is on set to instruct in the geisha dancing.

At 1:30pm, I became restless and decide to beat the traffic home. Sunday they shot for 15-hours. There's a ton of dialogue in this two-day feature.

The director, Jennifer James, is a man who became a woman. She has a man's voice but a woman's tits, which, in my humble opinion, is the best of both world's.

The production managers seem to be husband-and-wife. When I inform them that the loo has run out of toilet paper, they tell me to get some more at the Rite-Aid five miles down the road.

Satanists in porn include Jewel DeNyle (Wiccan is the same as Satanist, right?), Bob Johnson, Violet Blue... Anton LaVey is a popular author on porn sets along with the pre-Christian works of Anne Rice. I have no idea why so many porners are attracted to Satanism and the belief that the individual (rather than a transcendent moral code) determines right and wrong. Many monotheist clergy hold that they'd rather talk with a passionate atheist than a lukewarm believer.