NL The below is an email written by comedian Tina Kim, all opinions expressed are hers and do not reflect the views of this site. Her allegations of drug use and any other illegal behavior are to be considered a conclusion made by Kim. I’d love to hear from other people in attendance, from Jason, from Chris, from audience members any one at the JRL awards. Here is the website advertising the show http://www.jrlgayfilmawards.com/
OPinion/EDitorial by Tina Kim
Here is what went down.
On Sept 19th, the JRL Online adult film awards CHRISTOPHER THAIS asked me to perform at the awards.
We spoke and he confirmed my email that he was going to pay me on the night of the show to do a 10-20 set at the awards.
Then on Sept 17th a person named Albert sends me an email asking me for my address which they already had saying he will Fed Ex me tickets to the show a ticket for me and a ticket for my guest. Never received it.
On Saturday Sept 18th, I was at a marathon and got home around 4 PM and received an email from Albert saying please be at soundcheck today at 5:30 PM. If you have any questions I can be reached only Monday through Friday. From this email alone I could tell there was some serious morons running this. Obviously I could not make it since I had another show Sat night and I sent an email letting them know I’ll be there Sunday early for soundcheck.
On SUN SEPT 19th the night of the show I arrived at the location by 5:30 PM to do a soundcheck, which takes two minutes. At the venue, the people there were very confused. Thus one man called Chris and gave me the phone. I asked Chris I am here to do a soundcheck and so is there a place for me to sit before the show starts at 8:00 PM, such as a green room or an area for me? Chris replies, “This isn’t the Grammy’s.” At that point I said, well I am here early for a soundcheck and you don’t have a place for me to sit? Then he goes why don’t’ you just leave and come back when the show starts at 7:30 PM.
Then I left with my guest. We had dinner and went back to Catch One which is in the ghetto of LA. We get to the door and they would not let us in because we do not have tickets. So then I ask someone to find someone associated with the show. Then a nice person named Rudy comes over and goes you guys can go in. We go in and then Rudy tells us there is a vip waiting room. My guest and I sit there. Then Chris comes into the room and goes, can you go on stage now and let people know we are starting the show? I told him no. That was not our agreement. I was asked to do stand up for 10-20 minutes during the show. No one told me I had to go up and warm up the crowd. Then Chris goes, okay don’t do it. Then he shows me the itinerary for the show and says you go up in the middle. I said will someone introduce me so that I know when to go on? He said yes.
Then my guest and I walked into the room where they were doing the awards show and Chris did not even have a seat for my guest and I. So I asked him where are we supposed to sit? He goes um, go sit next to the stage on the side chairs against the wall.
So my guest and I sat there from 8 PM to 9:45 PM.
At the beginning of the show there were probably 75 people in the audience.
At the start of the show Jason Sechrest came out and sang a Lady GaGa song and then complained about what crap the show is and that he will not be going back up on stage to announce all the awards and he through off the stage and onto the audience floor and walked off the stage.
Then I believe Chris was the announcer and he announces next we have whoever it was go up and read the awards for some award and the person who was supposed to announce it recieves the wrong envelope and he throws a fit and throws the second mic onto the floor and runs backstage and you hear all this yelling and then there is no one on stage.
First of all the people behind the curtain had no idea which envelope was which and which award goes where. Common sense seems like they should have had the awards in the back all lined up in the right order with the right envelope.
So then Jason comes back on stage and goes, don’t expect me to come up here and read all the awards and he says a few more things.
Then a video goes on about safe sex.
Then the first person who was supposed to read the first awards gets back on stage and goes, “This is bullshit the video was supposed to go on and then I was supposed to go up” He then storms out of the show.
½ of the audience leaves.
Then two gay guys from the audience jump onstage and go behind the curtain and bring out a bunch of envelopes and just start reading nominees, and only two of the winners actually showed up to grab their award and some even had a friend go up and say he is too embarassed to get this award so I’m getting it for him.
Then another patron from the audience goes up on stage, starts smoking a cigarette and curses it up and goes okay, I’ll just read some more and hold all the awards.
At this point I just sat there with my guest going Chris should come up to me and let me know what’s going on. If he didn’t want me to go on, he needs to tell me instead of having me wait here.
By 9:45 most of the audience left and a couple porn guys were on stage with their shirt off getting wasted just reading off more nominees.
At that point I found Chris in the back who stopped doing the announcement 10 minutes into the show and I said, “Chris I’ve been waiting where you told me to. When am I supposed to go on?”
Chris replies, “This is a disaster. You can’t go on.” Then he walks away.
I stood there and then the sound person from the show goes, Tina you better get your money! Then three gays that were still at the show were saying, Tina we were waiting for you to go on but he told you not to, so get your money.
So I looked around for Chris and saw him and went up to him again with my guest and said, “Chris can I get my money now?”
CHRIS SNAPS, “What the hell? No I’m not going to pay you. You didn’t do anything.”
I replied, “We have a contract and I was here the whole time waiting to go on and this is not my fault.”
CHRIS then barks, “You weren’t even at rehearsal. I am not going to pay you.”
Then my guest goes, “Hey wait a minute if you weren’t going to pay Tina because she wasn’t at rehearsal yesterday you should have told her immediately today or called her yesterday. Also what kind of place asks someone the day before a show in email to come to rehearsal. She doesn’t need to be there.”
CHRIS THEN shouts to my guest, “Who the fuck are you? I am talking to Tina.”
Then I said to Chris this is my manager, guest, and witness.
CHRIS ignores my guest and says to me, “Tina I am not going to pay you. You didn’t do anything.
THEN I said, “I don’t want to argue about this. We had a contract and I was here and I sat where you asked me to and if you don’t pay me, then I guess I will have to sue you in small claims.”
THEN CHRIS WALKS AWAY and tells security to kick us out.
So security comes up to me and my guest and pushes us to the exit.
As I was leaving I saw Jason and I asked him if I could talk to him and Chris tells Jason DO NOT TALK TO HER so Jason gives me this look like sorry, I can’t talk to you because I need to be around Chris so Chris can pay me.
At this point there was only 4 people in the audience and more people on the stage.
This was a disaster. CHRIS did not know what he was doing and had no thought behind putting on an awards show. There was no order, stage manager, assistants, etc. This was like a production lead by a Gay coked out bitch who barely made it through elementary school.
If Chris came up to me 15 minutes after the show and said Tina I am so sorry about all this, I know it’s a lot but can I not pay you and you don’t have to do stand up and you can just leave? I would have been cool with that.
Or even half way through the show if Chris came up to me and said, Tina, I’m so sorry about all this. I appreciate your time and would it be okay if you don’t do stand up and I’ll still pay you? At this point I would have even said sure, just give me half and felt bad for him.
HOWEVER he deserved what happened at the awards show. He is one unprofessional coked up asshole. It all reflects on who he is, a straight up liar.
He basically ran away from me and didn’t have the guts to talk to me.
The moment I went up to him at the end of the show, he should have immeditately said, “Tina I am so sorry, thank you for sticking it out and being such a professional. I feel real bad that I never announced you to go on stage, but I will still pay you for your time.”
THAT NEVER HAPPENED!
I gave this bitch the benefit of the doubt but should have stayed with my instincts when I thought he was shady. He even called me to ask him to find him a director and when I found one for him, my director contact told me Chris was shocked at how much it would cost and never called my director contact back.
So that means Chris didn’t have a stage manager, a grip, a director, or a producer. Chris didn’t even have programs for anyone at the show, nor did they even have water or food on the tables. You had to go to the bar and buy your own drinks and sit on folding chairs.
IT WAS A GHETTO PRODUCTION from top to bottom.
I will be suing him in small claims. I have a contract verified in his email and the flyer and press release they sent out saying that I am performing on the show. It was their negligence and I was there and they never called me up, so they must pay me my fee. That was a long time for me to sit there through the nonsense. I was professional enough to wait for them to call me to that stage while the rest of the gays, yelled, didn’t go on stage, through the mic on the ground, and had fights backstage and in the audience.
IT WAS A TOTAL DISASTER and anyone who was there knows not to associate with CHRIS and the JRL anymore.
This article reminds me that there needs to be more studies on and revelations about hardcore recreational drug use in the gay community and it’s correlation with what is called “AIDS”. While some abstracts make the point that club drugs and club behavior lead to more “unsafe” promiscuity, there always seems to be
a deliberate ignorance of how hardcore levels of hardcore drugs cause manic anti-body readings on HIV tests and cause immunosuppression.
Gays are supposed to be 60x more likely to have HIV, but since gays are a much smaller official number of the population, and since younger gays in particular party heartier than the average straight guy while clubbing, it may not be HIV that is the problem but an immune system bombarded with poppers, coke, E and other drugs, which they are more prone to use, not only because other gays of a certain age do, but due to the homophobia and hatred from society, which is how they deal with these issues.
Drug use is not the reason for risky social behavior as much as a direct cause of immune suppression itself, which causes high anti-body readings on “HIV” tests.
Bars, bathhouses, leatherclubs, glory holes.. etc… according to one study I’m reading over 29% of gays said they’ve used poppers, 22% have used cocaine…
HIV is being blamed on their loose sexual activity but what about the correlation of excessive use of these drugs?
Gays and disaster, disastrous gays. What a surprise, who would have thought?
Calling Chrissy and Seth Dick-ins.
HAHAHAHAHA
I laughed….and I kinda wanted to cry. One funny sad story there.
Not to be offensive but I kind of laughed to myself imagining a stereo-typical kind of gay whine narrative: “It was a total DISASTER!”… Someone can film a re-enactment of the evening’s “high”-lights.
LOL @jeremiahsteele and @The Colonel- Because the straight porn industry is the epitome of class, cleanliness, health and morality. 😐
anyways..look there’s video of the event too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htDuajCi0Ls
srsly one of the most cover your eyes in horror train wrecks Ive seen in a while..
Sue the faggot
http://www.ehow.com/how_2040741_file-small-claims-suit-california.html
We could do without the stereotyping attack Jeremiahsteele has left above. It’s like something the religious right would post. Someone has an ax to grind it seems.
Seaguy, I’m not attacking anyone. My second comment was because I thought the event funny. Lighten up. Yet again this brings up the age old condundrum of meanings and intention behind what was said determined by who said it.
Regarding the first comment, poppers/amyl nitrate is a fixture of the hardcore, fasttrack lifestyle that a large number of gays live, young ones in particular, which causes Kaposi Sarcoma, one of the 29 listed AIDS diseases. I brought this up because of the complaint about one of the guys being so high on drugs he can’t do his job as this event. But in the end if someone starts dying it’s always blamed on a retrovirus not on drug binge behavior.
My intentions are noble, how ever you may interpret them.
I’d like to dedicate this clip to all proud gay guys:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxkr4wS7XqY&feature=related
Bottoms up.
that was some funny shit. aaaaaaaaaaaaaahh! ‘thud thud’ goes the face, like that ever happens, whoever invented that should be thudded by a giant dead fish for a while, while playing that exciting, repetitive background music.. they need to make more of these movies, actually.. it’s a good laugh, the more ridiculous, the better
Jeremy Steele says:
‘Thud, thud goes the face, like that ever happens.’
That’s right, and you know the best part? This was not made in the 1980’s, it’s made in fucking 1993.
HAHAHAHAHA
What makes watching these god awful B grade cheesy action movies such a guilty pleasure, is the fact that the filmmakers had no intention to make funny movies, they intended to make edgy, gritty, realistic action movies. Thier movies just turned funny because the filmmakers were utterly stupid and talentless. That’s why when intelligent filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino or Robert Rodriguez intentionally try to make a B grade cheesy action movie, the result is neither funny nor pleasant, it’s just boring, dull and forced. Case in point, Machete, Robert Rodriguez’s latest movie, an action flick as ugly as its leading man Danny Trejo. Even Lindsay Lohan’s cameo as a gun-toting nun could not save this pile of shit.
Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction were Quentin’s best of what I’ve seen so far, but in RD why they all met up back at the meeting place in the end made absolutely no sense, and neither did the part in the PF restaurant scene when the girl points the gun back and forth. Trigger happy Travolta should’ve simply blown her away in mid pivot.
I haven’t seen Machete, but oft times, once someone isn’t so hungry any more and after they offered the best the can come up with it, it just goes down hill…
If you haven’t seen Machete, don’t see it, it’s a big pile of shit, a failed attempt at copying action exploitations of the 70’s and the 80’s.
Machete is a ridiculous racist movie in which every Mexican is a hero and every white man is a red neck vicious scum and every white woman is a cock hungry soulless slut. The main character, played by the D grade henchman Danny Trejo, is as ugly as a human being can be, a 65 year old senior citizen who women fall in love with left and right and for no apparent reason. He’s after avenging the death of his wife and daughter who were murdered by a drug lord, played by a bloated, balding Steven Seagal. Eventually, Machete finds out about a conspiracy orchestrated by the drug lord and, who could guess, dirty white politicians that are exploiting poor hard working Mexicans. This movie keeps on throwing cliché after cliché at you until you feel sick in your stomach. It’s the worst movie I’ve seen this year so far, and considering the fact that there were no shortages of bad movies this year, that’s a lot of credit for Machete.
Speaking of B grade cheesy action movies, this is the crème de la crème:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l72gxO2l2E
Nothing can ever top this, nothing.
Eat your heart out, Robert Rodriguez.
Well, naming a movie after a cutting tool doesn’t sound profoundly interesting, anyway. I was a bit of a masochist last night, watched 1974’s “The Towering Inferno” while sweltering in the heat. Now that was a great cast, great movie. Have to watch the commentaries, etc. too. O.J. did a good job in that, too. Gee… how come that towering inferno didn’t “collapse” on itself like the 3 buildings did on 9/11? Like the WTC (both the movie tower and the WTC were the largest buildings at the time) and 9/11, the movie also had rigged explosives (when they blow up the water tanks) and similar horrors and heroics. Unlike 9/11, in the movie they at least attempted an air rescue.
If Hollywood wants to hire an old Mexican sex symbol they should hire that “Dos Equi” guy… or do a porno version: “Stay horny, my friend”.
Robert Rodriguez makes shit movies AND he’s a racist.
Quentin should have never got involved with him, he should just concentrate on writing. Wait, his editor and very valuable assistant writer died today of heatstroke. It’s over.
Jeremy, i agree with the dos equis guy. he seems distinguished and a probable cocksman. he looks spanish but i believe he’s anglo. 113 degrees the other day in downtown l.a. jeremy, you got the a/c cranked? i bet everyone shooting outdoor porn the last couple of days are miserable. do the fucking then jump in the pool!
Robert Rodriquez has four sons named Rocket, Rebel, Racer and Roque, and a daughter named Rhiannon. I never understand when minorities like Spike Lee make every single white character a bad guy… not even a token cool white guy? Ok, they’re angry about social injustices but aren’t minorities supposed to be sensitive to racism and idiotic across the board stereotypes? Life is short and why are we expected to waste our precious time on crap like that? And casting Steven Seagal. I never could stand that whitie! But I guess he fits in to this masterpiece, as it sounds. Interestingly, Quentin likes to use the “n” word a lot, although I think it’s because it’s considered the hip thing to do. After all, blacks use it all the time, and if someone has this notion that only a certain race can use certain lingo, that’s exclusionary, which goes against the whole concept of integration. It seems like some people need to make up their mind about what they stand for.
They should do a “Dos Sucki” movie, sponsored by Dos Equi.
No a/c on at my place, as it gets a lot of wind and it’s not so bad, believe it or not. I took my unit out right before last weekend when it got real hot but I got a nice breeze going right now.
Speaking of social injustice…
Hey Colonel, that “Turkish Rambo” stole that soundtrack from my all time favorite flick, The Road Warrior. Lame.
Jeremy, Turkish Rambo’s soundtrack is the soundtrack which Jerry Goldsmith composed for Rambo: First Blood Part II. What you hear in the background of that shit storm, is the original Jerry Goldsmith’s recording.
By the way, Turkish Rambo is available on DVD. I’ve got my copy, and watch it whenever I’m drunk or wasted. Believe it or not, it delivers every single fucking time. The magic of cinema at its best.
HAHAHAHAHA
Actually, it’s a mix of Road Warrior (the beginning of that clip – I’ve seen it enough times to know it’s the Road Warrior from 1981) and other
recordings (Rambo, as you mentioned)…
Shit, Cindi still hasn’t approved the hilarious Fred Sanford clip on social injustice.
To prove my point, Colonel, about one minute into this finale clip of the Road Warrior movie is where you’ll hear the same exact “Turkish Rambo” music, except better quality.
Right you are, Jeremy.
Turkish Rambo’s main theme is Rambo: First Blood Part II’s main theme; but they took bits and pieces of music from a handful of other action movies to fill in their cinematic masterpiece.
Turkish Rambo for U.S president. We’ve already got an Indonesian born Muslim president, so why not a Turkish one? Besides, Turkish Rambo has better looks in compare to the CIA lackey Barack Hussein Obama.
Hey Cindi, did you read that article about the sex video kid who jumped off a bridge? I find gay sex as disgusting as the next straight guy but what those douchebags did was messed up. The kid looked like a nice, smart guy who was trying to explore his sexuality discreetly. No one could have respected that?
I’m telling you, that’s fucked up–but the State of NJ is gonna screw those pranksters right up the ass.
Colonel, did you take a look at “Boardwalk Empire”? HBO is back!
Yes Oregin, I watched Boardwalk Empire, and I absolutely loved it. This is HBO at its finest. The premiere episode, directed by Martin Scorsese, was HBO’s highest rating program since the debut of Deadwood in 2004. HBO immediately announced that the production of the second season of Boardwalk Empire is on the way. Without a doubt, this is going to be the biggest TV hit in 2010.
Speaking of new TV shows, NBC’s The Event is a pile of shit, an insult to intelligence, a miserable failure of some lazy fucking hack who is trying to rip off and regurgitate every great show from The X-Files to 24 and Lost. Damn NBC for picking up this garbage and shamelessly promoting it as if it’s going to be the next big thing. Wishful thinking. Only two episodes have been aired, and the ratings are already in decline. More likely this show will not even last for one season, and soon will go to the only place it deserves: The trashcan of TV history.
Holy Shit! I was just watching disc 2 on The Towering Inferno. It turns out that the final day of shooting for the film was September 11th, 1974! The movie promo also described this movie about the world’s tallest building as “Terror in the Sky”.