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Hailey Young Interview
I want to only perform for another year or so. I really want to get back behind the camera, I have been learning a lot and practicing and I cant wait to be able to produce my first movie, one of these days soon:) I would never have a guy support me, I have always been very independent, been working since I was 15 so as far as that goes I would never marry for money. I actually dont want to ever get married, its stupid to me, I can be perfectly happy and in love with someone, even be living with them without being married, all it is a piece of paper, which usually end with divorce and is a waste of a lot of money.
...I don't have too many friends out here yet, the only nice things i have done I guess would be giving people rides to places or somewhere to stay when they have nowhere to go. Something somebody did for me that was really nice was bought me this cute curious george stuffed animal to match my pjs, im a dork! I love it.
...I actually had a great office job before I got into porn. I wouldnt change a thing, except dating my ex that got me into it that later I found out he was cheating on me with a man lol. He got me started by working at the production company he used to work for in FL. I worked in the office as a PA and talent coordinator then moved up to a PM and Marketing, even did some stuff behind the camera. So i learned a lot there too and then decided I wanted to be on the other side so here I am.
...If I had the power to change one thing, I would kick out all of the girls in this biz that are ONLY doing it for money to support their drug habbits and loser boyfriends. I think this should be about people that really enjoy sex and take it seriously, half these girls are so f---ed up they dont know what is going on, it drives me crazy! Each pretty little 18 year old that come along and needs money for whatever it maybe is taking away a job from the girls that actually look at this as a career.
Da Burglar replies to Hailey: "1996 to 2004 I worked in LA and the SF Bay Area as Marketing Director for a company that, among other things, designed and produced packaging (corrugated, chipboard, labels, POP displays, EVERYTHING.) I had a lot of business in both the Tech and entertainment fields. A big chunk of the Entertainment Business was the porn companies in the Valley. Back then it was still the old VHS cassettes which used a lot of "packaging", and since all the PORN companies back then were COD (CASH) Business, I fucking loved having them as Customers! So I learned a lot back then, and kind of made a few friends and stayed in touch...in January 2005, in an attempt to "catch up on Porn" I found and joined XPT, the only Porn message board where I didnt feel like it was 100% weird dudes jerking off and typing messages with their dicks on their keyboards. I felt like XPT had at least a few jaded, frustrated geniuses like me who could control their perversions and make people (mainly me) laugh. Since then I have been entertaining myself with this porn stuff and hopefully making a few others smile as well."
XBIZ Magazine -- Return To The 1990s!
So I picked up a copy of the XBiz paper magazine at Phoenix thirteen months ago. It was pretty cool and had some decent reporting, so I "subscribed" (online) to the publication, which is of course free, as trade publications tend to be. ("Subscribers" being of great value to trade rag publishers, because the number of subscribers determines advertising prices, which is where the money is.)
Imagine my stunned suprise to get a bizarre email today, informing me that my "subscription" was expiring. That was odd all by itself -- trade mags usually keep mailing copies forever. But this email was *particularly* odd, because it informed me that in order to keep the magazine coming, I would have to download a .pdf file with a subscription form, print it out on actual dead-tree paper, fill it out, and *fax* it back to the numbers provided.
Bad Dog writes: "I took this question to the source and was informed that next month's issue will have a mail-in card attached - just drop that in the mail."
'The Tericka Dye aka Rikki Andersin story is just huge'
Jane writes: "I've sold alot of copies of Wet Cum Shots 6 that she stars in. I doubt she'll be able to get a job anywhere. She may as well just set up a webcam and just masturbate online for Steamray."
Fired From Danni.com
One to four people May 15 because of this article. I am not sure who yet. One was female.
I got this email:
Dear Luke,
Great to see someone is finally blowing the lid off of who is really behind Danni.com these days.
I worked there for several years and can tell that everything that "Snow" says is accurate.
Danni Ashe hasn't stepped foot in the company since early 2004; she sold it to that guy John in New York and he put this jackass Layne Thr-sher in charge. I was one of the dozens of people asked to leave or forced to leave DHD in the past year. The employee turnover at DHD is similar to a fastfood joint. The people in charge do not treat people like human beings, and everyone who has worked for them in recent months, from full-time employees to temporary workers to freelancers to talent will likely tell you the same. The place is so mismanaged, they spend lavish amounts of money on thing's like last week's party, but they pay overworked employees about $11 an hour regardless of your position. Ask any talent who has worked for them since late last year, I'm sure you will hear some good stories about them working longer hours for less pay. The good reputation that Danni Ashe once had of being an outstanding adult company to work for has now vanished forever because of who is now in charge. Even the danni.com subscribers feel what's going on with management, check out their message board for plenty more and see what the new "danniashe" says to some of her customers.
Poster Daedelus posts on Danni.com May 4, 2006: "Danni's Decidedly Deliscious and Diligent Devotion to this Domain...will never happen again...we need to acknowledge this and move on."
Pistoljoe writes April 25: "The attrition rate there is worse than a platoon of loud Americans in Iraq wearing only speedos and Muhammad T-shirts."
Rdr99 writes April 25:
I would hate to think that Danni's is not able to compete for its workers vis a vis salaries, health insurance, working conditions, or some other part of the package.
I cannot fault Firewolf's customer skills when she was here on the site, so I cannot say she was a bad employee. To my mind, a good manager is someone who gets their people the things they need to do a job and then gets out of the way. Anything else is bad management. I am sorry to hear that a "hideous" work enviornment could be tolerated at Danni's. I would be curious to know how many people who worked for this particular person have quit or transferred. Sometimes the stats tell the story that upper management may not want to hear. You can run a business without running off your employees.
Driftwood writes April 26: "I think the list would be a lot shorter if you asked how many people haven't quit or transferred."
A fake "DanniAshe" posts:
Firewolf was here for quite a while even though she only joined the boards recently. She was a young, administrative employee that got bored, pissed off and found another job. She's entitled and I wish her well. Again, if we didn't encourage everyone to interact with you guys you would never know about our internal workings. Please don't turn that against us.
"That executive is no longer with us either. And please, don't anyone use that as an opportunity to declare that there is huge turnover and a crisis in the executive ranks.
...I said that our employees interacting with you is something that no other sites, with any real substance, do. If that means that we have to get slaughtered everytime someone leaves, what is the point? You have to accept that employees (and people in general) are volatile at times if you want to interact with them.
...I quite frankly tire of all of the accusations. I cannot help it as it does hurt. I used to just ask a few people, long standing employees, to participate in the message boards. Then I thought - "hey, what the hell. Everyone should if they feel like it." Now I am finding that that might not be a great way to do things and maybe it should be about a few people interacting with you all. This is certainly one problem that I find gets blown out of proportion and takes up too much of my time. But to answer your question, sure it is natural for you to miss someone that you have developed a relationship with. Why though, does it have to develop into an attack?
...walkan, Danni@danni.com works and is not some sick and twisted tease on my part. If you are getting bounces, I'll check with D-Unit. I responded to one of your emails a few weeks ago.
Pistoljoe writes April 26: "I'd still have to say that something just don't smell right at DHD, even ignoring the forum all together, and looking just at the content and service. I wonder if the priorities of the people throughout the corp ladder are in the right place. Is someone making poor decisions? Or are no decisions being made? It's sad, really. No, my chest actually pains me to think about it. Maybe cause I feel like family? Or like someone who sits at the back table of the strip club for several years straight?"
Coquinet posts April 18:
In my opinion there is a very obvious need for a genuine, well-trained customer service team that has a presence on both the home page and in the Red Room. I believe the marketing team is damaging the site more than helping it and their value to the company should be re-evaluated. And, please replace whoever is responsible for all the poor management decisions that turned this server problem into an unnecessay nightmare for fans and employees alike. There should have been a mirror server (duh) and as many specialists as were required should have been hired asap to fix things immediately. No disrespect to your tech team, it was simply of a scale that was off the charts. Management clearly failed to assess the situation correctly and bring in as many specialists as were necessary to handle things in a professional manner. This ain't a mom & pop site anymore, but this not all that unusual event made it look like one.
Martin posts April 19:
The above is becoming increasingly common, and should be a major cause of concern to DHD. When loyal customers (and I count myself in that number) are growing ever more frustrated at poor customer service and a perceived decline in the site quality etc I have made a decision to give the crew at DHD until the end of this month to see what improvements/feedback we get and if things are still the same to reluctantly cancel my subscription (I have been a member for 3 years).
MarsRover posts:
My frustration with the way things have been handled here over the past couple months, and my perception of future trends, could have been significantly tempered by the availability of rescanned photo sets and downloadable video formats of the entire archives, as promised and begun, back in Feb-03. Unfortunately, what started with a sincere effort to accomplish that goal began to fade after about a year, and fizzled completely shortly after (with the exception a handful of unexpected releases at the start of this year). To add to my disappointment, a good 20% of the archive content was purged during the same period. I'm not holding my breath (or my subscription renewal)in the hope that things will turn anytime soon in the direction I'd like to see.
Pondvision posts:
All of the above should be addressed immediately by the "management" at DHD. I like everyone else find it incredibly frustrating that the promised new and backdated content is not forthcoming. In fact the few titbits (pun intended) that we do get are way short of the "normal" quantity, let alone a "catch-up".
I remember "Danni" or whomever saying that we could look at the archives, but increasingly we are finding that items have been removed, licenses aren't working, or the bitrate is unavailable. I wonder how large the archives would look if DHD removed all the items that did not work. I suspect thet they are left there to make it look as if the site is overflowing with content that is easily available for all during the problems.
As I have repeatedly said - the lack of any coordinated response and effort on the part of the management of a multi million dollar company like DHD, strikes of total incompetence. Are they bothered? The answer is a resounding NO......DHD it would be a pleasure if you were to prove all of us wrong.
Iceking writes: "I understand that there are multiple issues hitting DHD now. The server disaster, the issues surrounding DRMS and the updating of older content into newer formats are all things that are consuming a lot of time here."
Zortag writes:
The greatest indicator, in my opinion, that Danni has little, if anything to do with this site, came almost a year ago. Last July, DHD turned 10 years old, a rather significant birthday. Someone in the Red Room asked if there was going to be anything special to mark the event, and "Danni" responded that there were indeed plans. As anyone who was around at the time knows, there was nothing, not even a mention of the of the occurance. If, at that time, Danni had any input in this site, she more than likely would have seen to it that something would have happened, even if only a front page announcement. She was not one to make promises lightly, nor one to pass up an opportunity for a celebration. It seems clear to me that the "Danni" that appears (so infrequently, I might add) in the Red Room, is merely an account that belongs to the corporation, just as Micky Mouse is an icon for Disney, "Danni" is the icon for DHD; and just as Mickey's creator has passed on to other realms, DHD's creator has long moved off to other endevors.
User X posts April 15:
I don't know if discovering that DHD tech or management is grossly incompetent is particularly complimentary. Or realizing that deceptive advertising has become an acceptable business practice is all that complimentary. Maybe I'm strange, but I wouldn't consider it a compliment if people pointed out that my word is worthless. Taking 6 weeks to normalize whatever problems came up is incompetence; either the technical folks blew it, or management blew it for them. Continuing to advertise for new subscribers knowing that problems exist which prevent fulfilling advertised obligations is at minimum deceptive advertising, at worst fraud. And to top it off Danni's Pledge makes a liar out of her, or whoever it is who currently speaks for her.
Teravision Releases Contract Girl Lucy Lee
I don't know why. I heard there was some behind the scenes footage where she went crazy on a guy and was hitting him. She's spent time in prison.
Mike South Interview
I talk to him on the phone May 10.
Luke: "If your DVD replicator blew up, there are 20 others you can go to for approximately the same price and quality?"
Mike: "Yes. It's not like the old days when you had to do the mastering in a clean room and you had to make glass masters. It's not as expensive to set up [for replication] now.
"If you look at the center circle of a DVD, there's always a locator (replicator) code. That's how you can track who pressed and manufactured the DVDs. You can look at that code and see how many copies were pressed in the initial run."
Luke: "In the old days of the video industry, there were a limited number of duplicators you had to go through."
Mike: "Yes."
Luke: "Now it's wide-open."
Mike: "Yes. It used to be that outside of LA, nobody wanted to mess with Adult. I remember talking to a video duplicator in Tennessee but they decided against duplicating my titles because one of their biggest customers was Disney."
Luke: "How's your distribution?"
Mike: "I'm having some issues with Old Pueblo [Arnold Stein].
"I walk at least a mile every day. Since you saw me in Vegas [in January], I've lost 25 pounds. I've changed my diet. I've lost 25 pounds. Everybody blames it on Giga.
"A lot of girls take it as apathy when you're not jealous. I look at it as the result of my working on myself. When you've spent years learning to excise jealousy from your life, having to deal with somebody who wants you to be jealous, doing things they normally wouldn't do to get a reaction out of you because they equate that with caring..."
Skeeter Kerkove Interview Continued
We spoke for hours last week.
Skeeter: "One time Bridgett (who has six sisters and two brothers) and I were in court in 2002. The mother of our two oldest children, Kerry Kithcart (D.O.B. 10-29-1970, she has lost parental rights of our children, she got out of jail last week) had been arrested for drugs, grand theft auto, assault, using a child as a shield for shoplifting...
"My attorney, Linda Attenborough, comes to me, my mother Carol Kerkove, and Bridgett (Patricia Lynn Kerkove), and says, 'Ms. Kerkove, I need to talk to you. Did you know that your mother is here?'
"Bridgett says no. 'Do you know what your mother [Debbie Felkel] is saying about you? She's saying you made pregnant movies and that you guys are making movies with the children watching. Your mother is calling Bridgett a child molestor.'
"Bridgett starts freaking out. 'She's asking that your baby be taken from you when she's born. She'll take the baby.'
"Her mom was so disgusted with how Bridgett had turned out, and all the daughters were gone, and she wanted to relive her life by trying again with another child.
"When Bridgett saw her mom, she started yelling and screaming at her. It was hard on her that her own mother would be telling these terrific lies about her and myself.
"In 2003, Bridgett and her mother were on the phone and her mother was upset that there were still pictures of her on the internet even though she had retired. Her mother thought that everything had to be taken down if she retired.
"Her mother told her that I needed to quit working in the business. Bridgett replied, 'We're not finished yet. We need to make money.' Her mother said, 'If I have to sacrifice my own child, I will. Patricia, you know that I sacrificed your brother Michael before until I got my way.'
"Debbie Felkel meant, 'Whatever I have to do to get my way to serve the Lord and not be embarrassed in the community, I will do.'
"When Michael, her adult son, was misbehaving, she cast him off to the side.
"Debbie Felkel was filing all these false reports to try to tear the family apart and make things go bad so she could get her daughter out of porn.
"Bridgett hid from her mother for a while until she got weak because she was getting her lips done and her nose done. At that time, Bridgett and I were not talking. Our baby K. was born in July 2002.
"In June 2003, Bridgett's calling her mother and saying, 'I'm getting my lips done just like you told me to, mom.' That's when they filed a false report with the Devonshire Police Station against me. I talked to the detectives. I was at my son's graduation that night [Skeeter was alleged to have done something wrong].
"The detective said, 'You are free to go, but you need to talk to your wife.'
"I was outside of Sin City, which was definitely the best for my career with Scott Justice and Mark Snyder marketing me as a wildcat director. That was the thing that got my career going.
"Bridgett pulls into the parking lot with her S-class silver Jaguar and gets out of the car and is crying. She goes, 'I'm so sorry. I love you. I've got to tell you the truth. That day I got my work done, my mom convinced me that you were going to take K. from me and that you were being investigated by the LAPD for being in the Mafia.'
"She gets right on her cell phone, I have the records, and yells at her mom: 'You've got to tell the detective that I was high on these drugs and you made me do that. I've already told the detective the truth that I haven't seen him in a week.'
"I explain to Bridgett that her mom is so evil that her mom will set her up to lose the kid.
"We were together every day after that. I put her in half of my Mayhem movies. We travelled together. They paid for us to go to Vegas. Sin City was wonderful to us. David Sturman is a family-oriented man. He allowed us to travel with the nanny.
"Debbie Felkel told the LAPD that I was running prostitution out of my house. The LAPD was flooded with phone calls about all this stuff that wasn't true.
"Bridgett and I are of German descent. I was born in Hollywood, CA in the Queen of Angels hospital. I wanted to be a star but all I did was walk the street of broken dreams. She was born in Glendale.
"Her mother has a history of covering up family dirty secrets. Bridgett's first sister to become pregnant was Cindy. She'd just entered college. Debbie hated the guy who took away the honor of the family. So Cindy got the boot. Debbie made sure the father never got to see the baby.
"Then Cindy met Richard, who was passed off as this child's father. For it to make sense, Cindy even dyed her hair black so everybody would have black hair.
"Cindy and Richard had a rushed wedding.
"The oldest son Michael got a girl pregnant. Debbie arranged for them to get married and moved them into the house next door to them.
"The night I met Bridgett, at the coffee shop, she explained to me how much she didn't like her mom who tried to control her and shove all this religion down her throat. Bridgett wanted to move out. We lived together right away.
"Bridgett was sexually active at 15. She was living with Jason Just, an adult who's been in and out of prison [most of his life, usually related to methamphetamines], who from day one [of their relationship] was smoking pot and using methamphetamines. Jason's parents are mentally ill. They get social security checks. They walk the streets, go in front of our pool store, every day picking up aluminum cans. Sometimes the lady wears these wild fur hats.
"I talked to Jason eight months ago. He said that the last year of the relationship, she'd always scream and yell at him and throw things.
"He found out from his neighbors by the beach in Orange County that she'd be having sex with some of them while he was gone.
"Bridgett got into porn through Duke [who sued Rob Spallone for beating him up in 1997] and Sean Michaels and Elegant Angel [a girl-girl scene with Angel in Erotic City 6 in early 1998]. I had nothing to do with it.
"Hey Luke, would you take a polygraph test for $50,000 that you've hugged Holly Randall?"
Luke: "Yes."
Skeeter: "Why won't Miss Kerkove take a polygraph test for $50,000?"
Luke: "Because she knows she would fail?"
Skeeter: "Yes."
Luke: "How much have you spent on legal fees?"
Skeeter: "Sixty thousand dollars. Several thousand in private investigators. Total loss due to her false allegations - over a quarter million dollars. Emotional stress -- that will hurt off and on for the duration of my life.
"The original plan was to get me arrested so she could take over everything I own and destroy my career.
"All the bad karma and plotting reversed on her. She was making $20,000 from Metro. She lost that. She started losing more and more [in court]. She went through five attorneys in seven months. Now she's living in an apartment on welfare. She lost her house. She lost her Lincoln Navigator.
"In five years, I have never missed a visit with my oldest daughter and oldest son.
"When I go to school functions, I wear a longsleeve shirt, tie, sometimes a suit. I grew my hair back. Very respectable. If anybody approaches me to talk about the business I'm in, I say I never talk about that when kids are around.
"Nobody can find a DVD of Bridgett bruised. That could be used as evidence.
"In the late nineties, Bridgett was the hardcore girl. There was one girl squirting from drinking lots of water -- Alyssa Klass. Now there are hundreds of squirters."
Skeeter has directed and produced over 170 movies.
The Free Speech Coalition Runs Into Children
From the San Jose Mercury News:
Sacramento: When the Free Speech Coalition bumped up against the World Strides Educational Tour recently at the Capitol, it was an icky moment for the ages.
The educational tour included hundreds of fourth-graders. The free speech coalition included porn stars.
At one point, the coalition's legislative director, Kat Sunlove, had to ask one group of children to back away so she could get the news conference going.
Michelle Endicott, a parent from Orange County, saw the assemblage of adult film stars and said, "Isn't that lovely? Just what we need. I do not approve."
Jenner Says American Hardcore Has Not Paid Him
It's been a month and Jenner's (JennerXXX@gmail.com) still waiting for his check.
American Hardcore principal T.J. DiReda replies: "It took him a month to figure out that all the checks were to be picked up at our office. If he doesn't request it to be mailed in his paper work than it sits there at the office. We don't have time to call people and tell them to come get checks. The guys couldn't get wood anyway."
I get a call at 8:15 p.m. Sunday. An unfamiliar voice says, "Please hold for Jenner."
I do.
Five seconds later, Jenner comes on the line. "You know a company called American Hardcore? They don't like to pay people. They don't call people back nor do they answer their telephone or return their messages. The director hasn't fulfilled his responsibilities either to make sure talent are taken care of.
"I was called at the last minute by Jason Silver. They had four male talent bomb the scene. I came in and killed it for them. I made other contacts for different companies, but that's irrelevant. I've called the company. I've gone down to the office. You can no longer leave a voicemail."
I was tipped off a few days ago to her MySpace page.
She calls me back Sunday afternoon. "I'm good friends with the accountant at LA Direct Models. She expressed her disappointment with my blog. She said, 'I thought that you, out of all people, would man up and let it go.'
"I said, 'Derek, has a lot to lose. He has the business. I'm a porn star.'
"That was his stupidity for doing that. You want to play games? I can play hardball.
"A lot of people said I was the first person to stand up to Derek. What is he going to do? Kill me? Two grand isn't going to put a dent in my pocket.
"I got into [porn] last November. I'm good friends with Davia Ardell. She brought me into the office and introduced me to Derek.
"I've made at least a hundred movies by now. I got a house in Vegas three months ago. I've been there twice."
Luke: "What were the highlights and lowlights of your last six months?"
Carmella: "I love the attention. I love the publicity. I like doing a Google search and seeing my name everywhere. I get to meet people I've only seen in movies. People recognize me. When I go to Vegas, I'm all the Seamless [strip club] billboards, the strip magazines, LA Weekly, Vegas Weekly, two-for-one drink cards, taxis.
"It's funny to go back and everybody says, 'Hey, you're Carmella Bing!'
"I come from a small town [Salem, 45-minutes drive from Portland].
"The July edition of Busty Beauties just came out. I said that I admire my mom. I told her about that and she's really happy.
"Derek and I just don't get along. We both have strong personalities. We don't lie on our back and let people walk on us. If somebody has an issue with us, we'll lash out. There's no turning back.
"I've busted my ass. I'm proud of what I've done. I don't have a lot to show for it. I know it will come back in time.
"I have brand new three cars. I've got myself into a situation where I have so much that I'm not able to afford it all at one time. You get yourself into a higher standard, your lifestyle is more expensive. I paid rent at Derek's place. I never got a receipt for it to write that off. I've got a rental car. I spend about a thousand bucks a week on clothes. If a director tells me they want something, that's what they're going to get. I love accessorizing my outfits."
Luke: "Why do you have three cars?"
Carmella: "I've made some investments. I'm dating. I wanted my boyfriend to have a certain car. I put it in my name. He's making payments on it. We help each other back and forth with the bills. We're just moving in together. We've been together about two years.
"My little sister has a car. I don't drive my Durango because it's bad gas mileage and I'm going to take it back and get something else.
"I was a dancer from the time I was 18. I was going to college at Portland State. I moved to Vegas and started escorting at 21. I did bachelor parties, not so much privates, but when I was with my girlfriends, and they'd say, 'Let's go out to the clubs.' It was cool. We'd hang out with guys and they'd give us money to gamble.
"At bachelor parties, we'd get our double whammies out and lick each other and it was so much fun. If you can party and have fun and get paid, what better life could there possibly be?
"I met Davia in Vegas through one of the VIP hosts. She has a porn star feature at Ice.
"Everything was really cool with Derek. He really helped me out. I was struggling with my weight. I'm 5'10 and I weigh about 130 pounds. He's been getting me into the gym with him. He's been a really cool guy. I have to admit that. I stayed at his house. He's been lenient with me. I've been late to work. I've been in the office and we've screamed at each other. I don't want to say that I'm the cause of a lot of problems... His tone with me set me off a few times.
"I thought we got along pretty good but when business comes up, it's a different subject. It's hard to stay calm around him. He's not an easy person to work with."
Luke: "When did you get implants?"
Carmella: "About two years ago, I moved to Vegas from Portland. I was 197 pounds. In one year, I lost about 75 pounds. No drugs. I swam and did cardio. I ate nothing but fish. No carbs.
"I went from popping out of a DDD bra to wearing a DD bra, and even with the pads, I was still swimming in my bra. I was smaller than a DD and I was really self-conscious about it.
"I went into a doctor in Las Vegas and showed her a picture of Mercedez, who's totally gorgeous. I said, 'I want you to make me look like this.' She wanted to do a mastoplexy, which is the anchor scars. I said no. She did a 420cc saline implant over the muscle. The surgery was done in an hour. I felt great. I was invincible. I was driving two days later.
"I'm now a 34DDD. I don't plan on getting them redone for quite a while."
Luke: "What was your reputation in highschool?"
Carmella: "I kinda was a slut. I was very promiscuous. I didn't have a father growing up and I looked for love in all the wrong places.
"I only slept with one guy in highschool."
Luke: "Is it hard having a relationship with you are doing sex work?"
Carmella: "If you are not making money, you obviously have an emotion for this person and it's cheating. It costs money to have time with me."
Her boyfriend, 29, is a poker player and stock investor.
Carmella: "I'm not a big drinker. I don't do drugs. I smoke a little pot every once in a while. I'm laid back. All I want is to be normal. I've got to be outrageous for a little while to be able to kick back and be normal. All I want is a house with a white picket fence and have my boyfriend become a fireman. That's what he wants. Have kids and be a family. That's the ultimate American dream."
Luke: "How did your mother react when you told her?"
Carmella: "She was a little surprised. She had found out a long time ago that I was stripping and wasn't happy about it. She grilled me to see if I would cough up the truth. I lied to her about it. It got into this big huge lie.
"I talked to a couple of people in the Hustler office. I was wanting a contract. Derek didn't want me to go get a contract. I wasn't ready. My body wasn't fit.
"I went in to Hustler and had a contract meeting. They didn't want to sign me because I was with LA Direct Models. They don't really deal with Direct.
[Derek at Direct and Drew Rosenfeld at LFP say that is not true.]
"I felt stupid for a minute when Derek finally found out, he said, 'They're only going to get you $45,000. I've heard quite a bit more from the mouth of people in the [LFP] office. I laughed at him. 'Are you trying to rip me off for $50,000?'
"I didn't feel like my body was good enough to go in there and that's why I felt stupid.
"At one moment, I said, 'If Larry Flynt sat on his ass waiting for somebody to do something for him, we wouldn't be here today.'
"Maybe I wasn't ready, and maybe it was stupid of me, but my agent wasn't going to do it for me.
"I was excited about the meeting. I really wanted to meet Larry Flynt.
"I told my mom I was going in for a contract [about six weeks ago] and that I wanted that. She said, 'What are you doing for Hustler?' 'I told you I was modeling.' 'I know what Hustler is.' 'Mom, what do you think about me being a porn star? Would you be mad at me? Would you hate me?' 'No. You're my daughter. I love you no matter what you do.'
"As long as my little sister doesn't find out because she's still pure. She's Catholic. I hate to lie but I do it to protect them. She's graduating this year [from highschool]. I'm so proud of her. She's a straight-A student. She's going straight into college. She has two jobs.
"I'm very demanding. I have no patience."
Her ethnicity is German, Native American, Tahitian, and Hawaiin.
Luke: "When did your dad disappear from your life?"
Carmella: "My mom and dad divorced before I was a year old. My mom was about 15 when she had me. My dad was 24 when I was born.
"My mom got pregnant with me and married my dad to leave the home. She got emancipated. It wasn't out of love. They used each other.
"I saw my dad a few times. When I was four years old, I realized he really was my dad.
"I love him. He's my dad, but he really hasn't played a father-figure in my life. I'm all right with that. I've forgiven him. He's never hit me. He's never yelled at me. He's always been a good parent. He never disciplined me. I've always despised him because when I was in trouble, my mom would always ship me off to see my dad. I associated trouble with my dad.
"It was no fun. I couldn't smoke pot at my dad's house. I couldn't drink. I couldn't cuss. I had to be this cute little thing. We had good times together. We went fishing and camping."
Luke: "What trouble would you get into?"
Carmella: "If my grades were slipping. If I would get into a fight with my siblings. My mom's husband at the time would be so irate with me over something. He just didn't like me because I wasn't his kid. I understand that. I couldn't date anybody with children. I'd get really jealous.
"My mom would get sick of me. She had three kids [Carmella was the oldest] she had to support. We didn't have a lot of money. It was nice to send the kids away when you get a chance."
Luke: "In porn, you like the money, attention. Anything else?"
Carmella: "I'm just a horny girl. I like to get ----ed all the time. I'm just nasty. My boyfriend works out a lot. He gets tired. We don't cross paths often. When we do, things are great. Sex is better with him than anybody else. But I want to keep things fresh. I'm a nympho. I love everything. I don't do interracial and I don't swallow, but that's about it."
Luke: "Do you have a new agent yet?"
Carmella: "No. I've had a few people try to turn me on to Gold Star Modeling. It's best that I sit back and relax and take care of a few things and try to get this bad taste out of my mouth.
"I was mainly getting into the [porn] industry so that I could charge more for escorting obviously. I got into the industry and I loved it. I don't what people think about me. They might think I'm a bitch, a whore...
"A porn star can charge $1,000 to $2,000 just to hang out with a guy for a couple of hours. That's not all inclusive. That's just to be seen. That's just to go gamble and have dinner.
"I've only got three titles out now."
What's Up With Tyler's Talent?
I call Tyler Young Sunday morning, May 14, 2006 after hearing gossip that she's broken up with her fiance and business partner Brian.
Tyler: "It's Tyler."
Luke: "It's Luke. How are you?"
Tyler: "Curious. Will you tell me who's saying these things?"
Luke: "It was an anonymous email. I don't even know."
Tyler: "Brian and I did break up. We're staying together for the company's sake. We're staying as business partners. We're just not going to have our personal relationship any longer. We're maintaining a close friendship. Yeah, I've moved into the guest room. But I'm looking to move to LA in July to have an East Coast - West Coast operation.
"Financial problems? I'm doing OK. I'm not making a whole s---load but I can survive just fine."
Luke: "I heard you're going to become talent."
Tyler: "That's bull. I'm not going to become talent. If I was going to become talent, I would've done it eight years ago when I began dancing and was approached many times. Even when, when I've been in the business and made all the connections, I was thinking possibly, but there's no need. I don't want to lose the respect that I've gained from all these companies."
I call Brian. "That email was pretty funny."
Brian: "It wasn't funny. It almost ended up in our attorney's hands. It was just blatant lies.
"We had a girl who was brought to LA by one of these big agents, left in a hotel when she wouldn't sleep with him, another agent comes over and rapes and sodomizes her... We come over and pick up the girl and bring her back to our house and take good care of her. We've never done anything but take care of the girls.
"Tyler's car has 26,000 miles on it and it is five months old. We drive the girls everywhere. We take 10%, which is on the low end. We take the girls into our house. Half the girls destroy the house.
"It was only a week ago that Tyler and I discussed that we should focus on the business and not on our relationship.
"When you have girls in your house six days a week, it's hard to have a relationship."
Luke: "Tyler says she's not going to become talent."
Brian: "A lot of people have asked her. It's been a fantasy for her. She thought about doing one shoot. That's it. I told her, I'm never going to stop you. I'd rather you not.
"A couple of companies said to her, 'We'll give you a check. You write out the amount if you do a scene for us.'
"Have you ever met her?"
Luke: "No."
Brian: "She's stunning. She has an incredible body."
Luke: "Do you think the business cost you your relationship?"
Brian: "It had a lot to do with it. There is no relationship when you have three girls in your house almost every day of the week. It's not like you could take off on a cruise for the day.
"I love Tyler. I will always care about her."
LA Weekly Photo Shoot 3/9/06 With Jamie Lynn, Cassia Riley And Eve Mayfair
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Squawking Chicken
Larry Flynt has a bronze sculpture in his home of his first sexual experience -- with a chicken.
Tony Malice has a blow-up of an asshole in his office that is so gross that JM Productions owners Jeff Steward and his wife don't like to go in there.
David Aaron Clark Shoots Asia Noir 5: A Lust Supreme For Video Team
David Clark, Frederick Cartmon Asia's thrilled to star in this movie Asia barely controls her excitement Asia Asia David, Asia David, Asia Frederick, David, Asia David, Asia Asia David, Asia David, Asia David, Asia David, Asia Black talent Nathan Threat (left), John E. Depth (right) Salidine, Asia Salidine, Asia Asia I try to recreate one of Holly's artsy shots but somehow fail? Holly's Zdenka shot Asia, Frederick Asia, Frederick David, Asia Asia Asia Asia Asia Asia Asia Asia Asia Asia Tia Tanaka Tia Tanaka Tia Tia Tia Tia
David Clark, please feel to use any of my photos on your boxcover. Holly's taught me her tricks.
Here's a .wav file of David interviewing Asia and Frederick.
10:20 a.m. Friday. I arrive.
David Clark says, "Go inside. I'll talk to you later. I've got to capture a shot."
I walk through the lobby into the theater.
Asia, the star of the day, is bored and contemptuous.
Orthodox Jews walk past. Many look in the window of the Beverly Blvd theater. Nothing nasty's going on in public view.
The first shot I see is Asia walking into the theater and this old black man (Frederick Cartmon) serving her popcorn.
Frederick: "I'm going to put down on my business card - pianist, singer, composer, actor."
"Can I say, 'Popcorn, dear'?" asks the old black man.
"Yes," says David. "Make it yours."
Clark wants more from Asia. "Every time you come do this, be more smiley and friendly. I don't care if you call him 'old man.' What would you do in real life if this was a guy you were seeing three times a week? You'd call him 'sweetie' or something.
"Live the role. I'm looking for method."
David improvises his movies, rejecting the restrictions of conventional filmmaking that so shackled Mission: Impossible 3.
Asia grew up in Philadelphia and she speaks with that North Philly accent.
There's a police siren.
Asia: "They're coming to get me. I'm not a citizen. I'm shooting a porno."
Asia keeps walking into the wrong seat in the theater, wrecking the continuity of David Clark's movie-within-a-movie.
Time is money. David's on a clock that ticks at about $10 a minute. He's employing about 30 people on this shoot. It's his highest budget ever.
Asia's easily distracted. She misses her marks. She doesn't move on "Action!" She doesn't pay attention. She tries to get away with putting in as little effort as possible.
David pleads with her: "Give me some personality to go with that ass.
"Really feel it."
The actors muff their lines.
David: "It does not matter. Tape is cheap. One more time."
He looks at Asia. "Give me more life. In your real life, you'd say, 'Thank you sexy.'"
Asia stumbles around on her high heels.
"This'll be the shot that makes the movie," says David.
He turns to me, "God, people hate you."
He turns to the old black man. "I want to get a close-up of you blowing her a kiss."
In porn for almost three years, Asia was featured on VH1's Video Vixens documentary. She's a major groupie of various rappers and some of them might pay her. She proclaims that she won't name names.
Black male talent Nathan Threat says to her: "You know enough names to write a book."
Asia giggles. "Yeah."
Luke: "Is it true that every girl wants to f--- a star?"
My question is prompted by a line in Tom Wolfe's superb book, "I Am Charlotte Simmons."
Asia: "No. I don't know. Is it? I'm a star myself so I don't know. Every guy wants to f--- a star. I'm a star myself."
There's not a trace of irony in her expression.
At 18, she got a tattoo of a babe on her leg that reads "Asia."
She pulls out a small version of a cigar (what do you call them?), unrolls it, dumps the tobacco in the trash, and then fills it with marijuana.
Brian, a still photographer, introduces himself to Asia and asks her if she's having a good day so far.
"No," she replies.
Inside the theater, David address the actors Asia, Nathan Threat and John E. Jump:
"The framing is going to be her coming into this theater looking for tricks of which you are one. While she's watching the movie, she's going to do you two guys. Not at once.
"This is probably past your era (David is 45), but back when porn theaters were popular, girls would come in and sit down. Guys who knew what was up would amble up and sit next to her and see if they were good to go. I've got to get a lot of soft footage too, her feeling you up through your pants. How would you get away with in a real theater, even in a porno theater where they kinda keep a blind eye... Instead of going into full porno mode, go into real life mode. You don't have to swing from the rafter to make it intense. You don't have to pull aside her underwear for a good ten minutes. Keep the best parts hidden for quite a while."
Male talent: "Should we keep a conversation going?"
David: "I like to improvise, so if you guys could get into the moment for me. Just imagine that you smoked a joint on the way over here."
Everybody laughs.
David: "It's Friday afternoon. I think I'll go to a porno theater. I wonder if one of those nasty girls will come. I'll smoke a joint first to get loose.
"I shoot hard and soft at the same time. I move the camera around to make the soft. I'm more interested in the soft but I definitely need some sex and a couple of pop shots.
"Then she walks up to her and kisses her and tells her, 'Movies are your best entertainment.' That's a stupid advertising tagline from the 1950s.
"I shoot in a freeform way. I have a story in my mind. I have some shots I want but I'm not one of those Nazis with a check-list.
"What works for you guys. You guys aren't robots and I'm not going to treat you like that.
"Hi Luke.
"I can't believe I have a monitor, a video tech, a gaffer. I feel like I've died and gone to movie heaven."
David tells the tech: "I'm here to learn from you guys as well."
Luke: "Is this movie recreating many of your experiences in this theater [at 7165 Beverly Blvd]?"
David takes many of his dates here (such lucky girls they are). "As a compleat pornographer, there has to be an innate urge to take whatever is precious and pure and meaningful in your life and find some way to defile it in front of the camera."
Clark proclaims Brokeback Mountain a great film to take chicks to but he has yet to see the film. "I wish Ang Lee would make more films with Chinese people in them. I don't like gay cowboys. They don't resonate for me."
Luke: "If they were female lesbian Oriental cowgirls?"
David chuckles. "Who told you about my next movie?"
Luke: "You've employed many people today who would otherwise be out on the street committing crimes."
David: "Are you making a racist statement? Can't your people and my people live together in peace?"
12:10 p.m. I hit the snack bar and get latched on to by Frederick who tells me how great he is and how many wonderful talents he has. He unloads joke after joke on me while I hurriedly swallow a granola bar and brownie.
After each joke, he says, "Isn't that a good one?"
I say yes.
To get away, I throw open the door of the theater and blunder into a shot. David yells at me and then announces to the room, "This is why I don't let the press on my set."
I yell at David during a break: "You're like Stanley Kubrick. You wield your own camera. The parallels are frightening."
People stare at me and then look at David. He warns everyone: "This is Luke from Lukeisback. Be careful what you say. He's a living tape recorder. Anything you say may end up on his blog."
Later, he adds: "Journalists are an important part of the democratic process."
"Did you say demonic process?" he's asked.
I introduce myself to a tall black guy, Brian, who's a still photographer. "How long have you been in porn?" I ask.
"I'm not in porn," he replies. "I'm just shooting behind the scenes. I'm a mainstream photographer."
"How long have you been shooting behind the scenes on porn sets?"
"I've been a photographer most of my life."
"Is this your first porn set?"
"No. I saw my first porn movie when I was 15."
I give up.
After a take, David tells the theater: "Outstanding acting, all of you. Give yourselves a hand."
Asia munches through her popcorn and it has to be continually refreshed or it will wreck the continuity. I hate to think what's going to happen when she does her gagging scenes.
She chokes and sputters. A man jumps up and brings her her soda.
"It's just like Hollywood," someone says.
"I normally do have an assistant," says Asia. "I am a star."
Several times during the day she says with complete sincerity, "I am a star."
Her belief in her star factor shines through all her yawns, whims, chokes, coughs, sputters and lack of enthusiasm for her work.
David instructs Asia to take off her jacket "in a slow, natural and casual way."
He has to shoot about ten takes because Asia has a hard time removing her jacket without getting tied up.
She protests the many takes.
"Art is pain," says David.
When you see the final product, you will understand that it was worth it. Great art does not always come on the first nine takes.
Her popcorn's refilled.
An assistant says she needs a spit bag. She looks blank. "You probably don't know what that is," says the former child actor in TV commercials.
"She never spits it out," says David.
She laughs.
David tells a muscular bald black guy: "Your head gleams nicely."
The man smiles.
David, in case the guy doesn't know what "gleams" means, says: "Your head captures the light very nicely."
David interviews Asia and Frederick for the BTS (Behind the Scenes footage).
Frederick grins. Asia looks bored and contemptuous.
David: "I seem to have made a love connection here."
Frederick grins more broadly. Asia laughs.
David: "I had you guys doing a little dialogue earlier. He has stars in his eyes."
Frederick laughs.
David: "Could each of you give me just a little bit of your background. Ladies first."
Asia has nothing to say.
David, speaking from his journalistic roots, says: "You can make it all up."
Asia: "What do you mean by 'background'?"
David: "Where you're from. How long have you been acting? How old you are. Your ethnic background. We want to know almost everything the FBI would want to know.
"Give us the official version."
Asia acts like she's too much of a star to talk about herself. We should already know her story of relentless triumph. "I've been in the movie business for almost three years."
Her ancestry is Laotian and Thai. "I'm a mutt.
"I'm hip to the world."
David: "What's better? East Coast or West Coast?"
Asia: "East Coast. West Coast is better for the money. East Coast is better to live."
Fred: "I'm proud of myself."
He goes on and on about his accomplishments and talents. "I've been doing film and TV work since 1971. I've got a fantastic theatrical agent. I'm going to Los Angeles City College and studying music."
He says he has lots of women. "I'm the happiest guy in the world. No drugs or alcohol."
David: "We're going to sending you two on a vacation toBermuda together courtesy of the show."
David turns off the camera.
Fred: "Did I do a good job?"
David: "You did great."
Fred collars me. "I do it all. I'm going to make it big. I'm going to Europe too."
David interviews Nathan Threat, who's been in porn for a year.
Nathan: "I've always been a horny and combustible individual."
David: "What would you do if sex got old?"
Nathan: "I'd blow my brains out.
"Life after porn? I'm a screenwriter. I've written a couple of scripts. I'm working on a book or two. I'm going to write a book about my experiences in this business too. I've got stories.
"I've worked with Asia many times. She was my first scene -- a gangbang. The first six or eight months in the business, every time I worked with an Asian girl, it was always Asia. I've worked with her probably ten times."
David: "It must be fate.
"Any words of worldly wisdom for the audience?"
Nathan: "Just find something that you love and do it. If you can get paid for doing it, that's better."
Nathan says he's from Victorville.
Luke: "Are there a lot of black people in Victorville?"
Nathan: "Growing numbers. People come from the 'hood to get away from gangs."
Luke: "Are you starting your own gangs?"
Nathan: "They try. Nobody is ripping up Victorville. VV (Victorville Valley) doesn't hold the same weight as Long Beach Crips."
I try to throw down rap signals or gang symbols with my right hand.
Luke: "Word!"
David: "He's so embarrassing."
David looks at me. "Go ahead. Ask him a question."
Luke: "How do your parents feel about your career in porn?"
David: "Oh God."
Luke: "Well."
David: "He asks everybody this."
Nathan: "At first, my mother's exact words were, 'Shocked, appalled, and disgusted.' Then I dropped five grand on her lap and she shut the hell up and opened up a bank account for me. She's managing my money. She keeps telling me, 'Keep sending the checks home. Do I need to do this for you?'"
Luke: "And your dad?"
Nathan: "He's begging me for a lick-on role. A guest role where he comes in and licks the girl and leaves.
"I was eight when they divorced.
"It didn't affect me that much. He doesn't like the term 'alcoholic.' He prefers the term 'drunk.' He's a funny drunk."
Luke: "How does he financially survive?"
Nathan: "I take after him in that light. He somehow manages find how to get a lot of money for little work. Now he's on disability. He's a master at that."
Luke: "Does he live off women too?"
Nathan: "Yes. I think I get my lustful ways from him.
"I do gravitate to older women. They have more sense. I can actually talk to them. I'm a very intelligent individual and most people don't understand what I'm talking about. Older women, they know who they are and what they want and there's no bulls---.
"I'm seeing this girl [for the past week], she's 20 years older than me [and behind the scenes in porn]. I'm 25. She has a 26yo daughter.
"People in this industry will understand what I do and won't have a problem with what I do and they'll have the sex drive and depravity that I'm used to in my life.
"Most women in this business, it's sad to say, are emotionally unstable and mentally unbalanced and their intelligence is on the low side.
"Women outside the business are more stable but they wouldn't understand what I'm doing. It's a Catch 22."
Nathan's appeared in about 100 scenes. He says he works five times a week.
Luke: "Do you prefer to get with a white girl, a black girl, a latino girl, an oriental girl?"
Nathan: "All of them have their advantages. I love latin women. In their scenes, latin women have this vibrant lust. They have a spice. They go for it.
"White women are uninhibited. They don't complain. They can get hammered and slapped around and tossed around and they just need to take a minute and they're fine. They're honest. Black women are beautiful but they tend to be more temperamental. You can't do as much to them and they complain a lot and then they wonder why they're not making as much money."
Luke: "What about relationships?"
Nathan: "It's the same. What a woman does sexually, that says a lot about who she is."
Luke: "If she's a slut, what does that say?"
Nathan: "It means she's adventurous. She'd be more willing to follow me on some of the more crazy ideas I have."
Luke: "What about a woman wh's very restrictive? Won't have oral or anal sex?"
Nathan: "I wouldn't mess with her. I don't like restrictions. I don't like borders or boundaries. That's imprisonment.
"For black folks, there's a long list of things we just don't do. We won't go bungee jumping. White people don't have that core cultural..."
Luke: "List of things they won't do."
Nathan: "They don't have that."
Luke: "They don't have a culture."
Nathan: "Pretty much. They're more free to do what they want. White women do more. They're more likely to have more fun."
Luke: "What would happen if you started listening to Barry Manilow, Air Supply, the Bee Gees, mellow white groups. How would your black friends react?"
Nathan: "They'd be like, 'What the hell are you listening to? Turn that s--- off.' I get a lot of flack for listening to [heavy metal] and banging my head like a mad men."
John E. Depth has been in the industry since 2000. He started on the East Coast.
Hardcore hearkens. I flee the set at 12:45 p.m. I was only here to see the acting.
Though Asia's a porn star she's adopted a mannerism from much of the young female population -- she wears a skirt that barely covers her crotch and then she spends all day pulling it down.
Willie D writes on XPT: "DAC is an egalitarian fellow, he dies a little every time someone over here writes "whore" instead of "talent," "performer," "starlet," or "pornstar.""
Video Team's Christian Mann writes: "Your photo skills are… improving. I do see why hate-gossip does better than fluff pieces. I almost fell asleep reading the minutes of the shoot, and it’s my movie."
James DiGiorgio writes: "Sewage flows downhill in the XXXbiz. DAC can't get Drew Rosenfeld to return his phone calls and I can't get DAC to call me. I find myself almost wishing Lance (the Hungarian/Amish Guy) would call me so I can have the pleasure of NOT returning his call."
Things That Gnaw At Jim South Jr During Work
He blogs:
1. Women whose stomachs are so stretch marked, it looks like they jumped on a grenade. Look I know it's unavoidable sometimes, but that doesn't mean you can model nude. If your friends are saying it's hardly noticeable, they are not your friends! All you are going to do is waste your time. If we send your pictures out I get bitched at by directors and companies. Weather the pix go out or not, you call me pissed you are not getting work. After enough calls I will tell you what the problem is. You get your feelings hurt, we have been bitched at by both parties, and everyone's time is wasted.
2. I purposely have my desk at the back, with my back to the wall. I like to see what's going on and not have to worry about people behind me (call it paranoia). I can't stand it when people come in, don't even say hey, and just look at my monitor while I work with their arms crossed. That's just rude.
3. Guys that hang out up here and ask me to pull up a picture of every f---ing girl that calls in. RENT A VIDEO!
4. Guys that will sit down by me while I'm typing away and constantly ask questions just for the sake of asking. Sometimes they don't even know what they want to ask. They will say "Hey" and I will stop typing and look at them. Sometimes I sit there for 10 seconds while they think of something like "What did you have for lunch today?" jesus! ask me what I did last weekend or something. If I can remember, I will tell you!
5. Talent that is booked, confirmed 3 times, and has told the director they are on the freeway to the shoot the day of... THEN THEY DON'T SHOW UP! and of course turn their phone off.
6. Women in this biz that think they are God's Gift to anyone. I don't care how hot or smokin you are. If you are a bitch you are ugly to me. Get over yourself! Chances are someone next year will be in the biz and have the same first or last name as you.
7. People that call up here several times and say "You speak Spanish?" It use to be once every month. Now several times each week. When I say no, they just sit there saying "ahhh, um, ahhh" then say something in spanish. We are not in Mexico!
8. Clients that we will send a new hot girl to and then they refer them to another agent, or tell them THEY can get her lots of work, OR (and my personal fav) usually with the owner of a company who's in lust tells the woman she really shouldn't be doing porn. She should get out of it and work in THEIR office. WTF! We do our job, just do yours and stop trying to be the knight on the white horse.
9. Clients that owe us money and have the balls to constantly bitch at us when we don't send them a girl first, or to a competitor, or someone they just don't like.
10. People that call in (ad calls for wanting be a model) and repeat EVERY question to you.
Jim South Jr "Would like to make an appointment?"
Model: "Do I want to make an appointment?"
JSJ: "Ok do you have a pen for the address?"Model: "Do I have a pen?"
JSJ: "Would 2:30 work for?"
Model: "Two thirty?"
JSJ: "Can I please have your name?"
Model: "My name?"
Jesus! it's enough to make a Buddhist flip his lid!
11. Lame excuses and sayings from models. I swear I will write a coffee table book or some shit with these just in them. Although only people in the biz would appreciate it.
Here are three off the top of my head.
"I got into this business to get pregnant. I just found out you can't get pregnant through anal sex. So I am no longer doing A."
Father: "You know what the Alamo is?"
Model "Of course I do! It's that car rental place on ----- Blvd.
JSJ: "We have been trying to reach you for 4 days. Why haven't you called us back."
Model: "Oh. My car broke down."
Jim South Jr. is a terrific writer. He should publish his father's story and his own. He should use his spare time to blog.
The Role Of Hustler Magazine In Our Civic Discourse
I email Reason magazine senior editor Brian Doherty: "What is its cultural significance and does it play a significant role in your history of libertarian thought in America?"
He replies:
In the current draft, no role at all, though I am aware that writings of a libertarian nature have appeared in HUSTLER's pages. The researching of such magazines, saved and archived in few libraries, is difficult, and time is a scarce resource for any book one actually wants to finish. I focused in my forthcoming RADICALS FOR CAPITALISM: A FREEWHEELING HISTORY OF THE MODERN AMERICAN LIBERTARIAN MOVEMENT not so much on every eruption of libertarian thought or action in our culture, of which Hustler has certainly represented some (its very existence and certain legal actions and suits it has been involved in represented a valued expansion of freedom of the press, which I do firmly believe should and ought to apply to the impossibly offensive, and Flynt had a least a brief flirtation with support for the LP, if I recall correctly--was this before or after his brief turn to born-again Christianity?), as on those thinkers, institutions, and publications that a self-conscious movement libertarian recognizes as "part of our story."
In truth, I'm sure I don't know as much about HUSTLER as I ought. Nothing like writing a book to give you that nagging feeling about all sorts of things. I do intend to read that new book about it Adam P is publishing. I might have avoiding learning about it ever since finding a copy of it in the woods as a 9 year old with pictures of women smoking through their anus. (Perhaps that was in Penthouse? I'll never know, I suppose.) I did hope to interview Playboy's Hugh Hefner for my book regarding certain libertarian-important figures who worked for him (such as Robert Anton Wilson) and libertarian-important articles he ran (such as Karl Hess's "The Death of Politics") and whether he saw any explicitly libertarian implications in his "Playboy philosophy" and how he can make that philosophy jibe with any of the standard political party and ideological choices in our culture, but got no response from his p.r. flaks and had no direct means to contact him.
Bob writes me: "I note that you've been assailing your future mother-in-law's former employer, Hustler magazine a lot lately. Your readers deserve your full disclosure that you were once, in fact, "Hustler's Asshole of the Month" back in the fall of 1999. This I feel clouds your judgement when it comes to assessing this fine men's journal social relevancy."
The Dalai Porn Llama II writes:
Michael Warner is Frank Barbarino's competition called "Great Western" for the adult sleeves. SL Digital in Hollywood is also one of the big boys for the adult biz DVD sleeves.
Other duplication labs are: -Skura #1 -KBH-Blaine, Damaged Pictures, Cool River Duplication Labs. Some even ship their stuff to San Jose, CA. for a cheaper price and they drive your product down. Others go as far as China to save a dime.
Sunshine isn't getting many studios since it's hard to trust them with your product.
Redlight District does everything in house now, Skura duplicates the disk then they package it all in house.
Also the other subject is authorers when making your DVD:
-Dimension DVD - the putative owner Rob is the son of Cinderella owner Charlie Brickman. The other son Steve Brickman pretty much runs Cinderella now.
-Sin City owns an authoring company-
-Copper Digital.com
-Evil Angel and Jules Jordan use DVD Demon.
-Copper does RLD, PXP, among others.
LAT 4/19/06: "The porn industry's main trade publication, Adult Video News, estimated global 2005 sales at $12.6 billion. But that figure is difficult to verify because porn companies are private and closely held. As with Hollywood, DVDs account for the largest piece of the porn industry's revenue - 34%; for mainstream studios, they account for nearly 50%."