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The Story Of Matts Models (Interview)
I didn't change much about the actual style or technique of my shooting other than to upgrade digital cameras as they came out with higher megapixels. I shot everything with on-camera flash - no strobes. Because I was not a photographer by trade and I was shooting so primitively - my photos truly were "Amateur" looking. As my site became more popular, I often received hate mail from other "Glamour" or "Professional" photographers and photo enthusiasts. I used to take it personally, get all riled up and engage in arguments with my critics.
Shy Porn Chicks
Lainie Speiser writes:
So many of these girls are so damn shy and non-verbal it drives me nuts. People think I'm harsh about it, especially when I say, "You took two cocks in your ass in front of a crew of people and you're afraid of talking to a DJ on the radio?"
A porn chick responds:
The thing is it's a big diffrence between some one saying you do this at this time, i will drive you there and pick you up, these are the acts and this is how long. You can't mess up you can't dissapoint anyone. You are filling a specific instruction. Talking to people on the phone or DJ's or going new places is on you, you can totally f--- it up look like a retard and make people mad. its taking accountability for yourself. its much easier to go through life letting other peole do everything. Taking 2 cocks in your ass is easy, cave men could f---. Finding your way around a big city is hard.
Holly Randall's Not A Happy Hooker
Holly, do you also believe that all of the other girls listed on Body Miracle aren't hookers/escorts as well? That they're all victims of hooker identity theft? Most of the girls on that list are known to do 'privates' on the side...it's no secret. I'm just surprised that someone of your intelligence is allowing themself to be so easily taken in on this. Both of the sites she is listed on are known to be 'legit', it's not some typical 'bait and switch' style scheme as both Chico and I have alluded to, but rather what you see is what you get. I always work to the axiom that 'Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is a pattern'...let me just say it is one hell of a coincidence that she should turn up on not one but two legit escort websites at the same time. Too much of a coincidence, in fact.
If you were running a high-ticket escort agency, would you put up a listing for a girl you don't have and risk losing clients to the competition? Would you put up a listing for a girl you had never met and discussed business with (bearing in mind that without a face-to-face meeting, it could be either some fat ugly chick trying to pass themselves off as Playmate of the Month or perhaps a jealous ex-boyfriend trying to ruin a particular girl's reputation)? No, you wouldn't, and I don't think these guys have done it either.
As for the theft of your photos...why haven't they got pics of Aria Giovanni up on their site, or some other models you've shot that are hotter/more popular than...? Because they don't work that way.
Whilst it is undeniable that they are using your images without your permission, I doubt they went out and stole your images, moreover they had them provided to them by the person in question. Don't let your heart govern your head on this one, otherwise you could well end up with egg on your face. In closing, let us remember above all the XPT motto: 'Whores Lie'
Holly writes on XPT about Bella Models:
They have our pics of Randi Wright, Claudia Chase, Kendra Jade, Kimberly Franklin, Teri Weigel, Paola Rey, Melissa Lauren, and Justine. None of those girls have access to those images, and Justine of all people knows she can't use content we paid her for. I find it a hell of a coincidence that those girls all happened to submit Suze Randall photos when none of them have the images. Yeah sure, they could have joined the site and downloaded them, but again, that's a hell of coincidence. Also our copyright mark on the bottom right has been conveniently cropped out.
A.C. Cream 2.0 writes: "Attention all pornstars.... Be careful. You don't want to find yourself caught up in the new crime sweeping porn valley.... H.I.T. (Hooker Identity Theft)."
Have writes: "If you think Holly is upset now, wait until pictures of her are on it."
Mexican Radio
J.R. Taylor finds a conservative message in the Wall of Voodoo circa 1982 underground hit (got heavy play on MTV) Mexican Radio (co-written by Stan Ridgway).
Wall of Voodoo producer Richard Mazda phones me Friday afternoon, July 7, 2006. "I was like the fifth Beatle [with Wall of Voodoo]. Even though I was a producer, I was part of the creative process.
"Stan is proud of America. That sort of patriotism you don't see back in Europe, but that's more of an American thing than a right-wing thing.
"Although you had the Go Gos and bands like that [New Wave aka born out of punk rock] had hits, when a band like Voodoo or Devo had hits, it was more significant because the American audience was so conservative [in its musical taste]...
"Mexican Radio was one of the few things that I was working on [in the eighties] where I said, 'This is like a hit record. It's got a tune you can sing. It's got that sing along quality to the chorus. You can imagine half a dozen drunk idiots singing along. 'I wish I was in Tijuana, eating barbequed iguana.' You just knew that would become like a drinking song, which is ironic because Stan is a hugely intelligent lyric writer. He wasn't writing drinking songs for idiots, and definitely not drinking songs for right-wing idiots."
Luke: "You've been in the entertainment industry for over 20 years. What percentage of the people you've mixed with have been political conservatives?"
Richard: "I'm neither conservative nor liberal. I'm libertarian.
"Twenty five years ago, the creative types who went into music were more likely to be political than today. Paul Weller and the Jam were supporters of the miners' strike [1984]. Tom Robinson, who at the time was the second most famous gay man in Britain (after Quenton Crisp), and he had a hit record called Glad to be Gay.
"The only person who was conservative back in the day was Mark Smith, leader of The Fall. He had some potentially suspect ideas. You couldn't say they were out and out racist, but he'd say things that were jarring.
"Lyric-writing is weird. You could say that Ted Nugent back in the 1970s was right-wing. All he ever seemed to talk about was shooting, hunting and fishing. He was like an apologist for the NRA.
"You had Lynyrd Skynyrd, who were stereotypes of the Southern hillbilly. Sweet Home Alabama has a whole verse about Neil Young:
Well I heard mister Young sing about her
Well, I heard ole Neil put her down
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don't need him around anyhow
"Nei Young wrote that song 'Southern Man' criticizing the politics of the South.
"The majority of musicians tend to be left-wing. On the other hand, I've read people like P.J. O'Rourke who I find funny. I agree with him -- why should the Left wing be the only people who can satirize?
"I have an American friend who now lives in Britain. She used to be the girlfriend of Jackson Browne. Now she's married to a famous bone doctor. At parties, she'll say she reads the Daily Telegraph, a right-wing paper, and people attack her for it. She'll respond, 'Why can't I get all points of view? If you can't countenance giving a little thought to what is being said by the right-wing, how would you know what you believed?'
"I know I'm not racist. At the same time, I'm not for completely open immigration policies. It's bred problems in Britian. The July 7th, 2005 bombings is an example of how we've left ourselves open. When I lived in Britain, I couldn't believe that we allowed these fire-breathing Muslim preachers... Over here, what they were saying would be considered treason, but in Britain, we're so liberal, we allowed it to get out of control and July 7th was an example of how it came back to bite us in the ass. There could've been a time when the moderate Muslim leaders could've been encouraged to stand up.
"I'm not anti-Muslim. I'm anti people who are not supportive of the culture that is giving them succor and sanctuary.
"If you don't know what is being said in a radicalized mosque, you are allowing people to be brainwashed into potentially atrocious acts.
"This is politicizing society. We all became a bit apolitical in the past 20 years. I was amazed at the lack of student political protest. People don't seem to care that when the Republicans held their convention here in New York in 2004, hundreds of people were arrested, supposedly to keep things safe. The police were arresting people just because Bloomberg wanted them gone in case there was trouble. Twenty five years ago, that would've caused a riot. Now people just roll over and let it happen.
"I don't have any good theories other than that we are all a bit affluent."
Luke: "Maybe people have better things to do with their time?"
Richard: "Maybe. It's easy to protest when you're broke. When you have a lifestyle to protect, it tends to depoliticize people and makes you think about the material things in life."
Luke: "And people getting older. Old people don't march in riots."
Richard: "I have a 16 year old daughter. She's strident in her views. She's in a performing arts school. A helluva lot of her male friends are gay, which is the nature of being in a performing arts school. She's a member of the gay-straight alliance. She goes on AIDS walks. I'm glad she does.
"The political nature of the music business in the seventies seems to have disappeared. Black music is not throwing up enough consciousness in the lyrics like it was, like 'People Get Ready' and 'Innercity Blues' and 'What's Going On?' Paul McCartney wrote that song, 'Give Ireland Back to the Irish.' John Lennon was regarded as a political figure.
"Now it's all clones of 50 Cent and N'Sync. That's why I retired from music and went back to acting. There are no real rock stars anymore. Whatever it was that we thought about rock music's mission seems to be diluted, somewhere between consumerism and downloads... People have such wide choices for entertainment."
Luke: "Do you think the rock music mission turned out to be an illusion?"
Richard: "At the time I didn't think it was an illusion, but it didn't have any longevity. It didn't pass down through the generations. When you look back on hippies, they look a little bit pathetic. But at the time, hippies protesting the Vietnam War were important."
Luke: "I'm wondering if pop music, including the music you worked on, is primarily a form of entertainment and is not primarily a vessel for intellectual and political change?"
Richard: "It is primarily about entertainment but that doesn't mean a message can't be entertaining. Today you are less likely to hear something that will shock you. The Sex Pistols went so far, there's not much you can do now.
"If you take female politics, where are the women protesting the sexualization of fashion and music and everything else? I'm the same as any other redblooded male. I watch the Pussycat Dolls and it's hugely entertaining because they're scantily clad. I can think of a time, maybe 15 years ago, when I would've been told off by various women for that. Now there's a small percentage of feminists who would still be angry about it, but they're not making much noise. Where's the protests about the overly pumped image of Lara Croft in Tombraider video games? Nobody cares.
"That goes hand in hand with plastic surgery. Girls now want to have big tits. The majority of them would love to have a large chest and perfect lips. I don't know where it's all going.
"Back in 1980, if you told everybody you were going to get your breasts done, your fat sucked out, your lips done, a bottom reduction, you would've been considered a pariah, a freak."
Luke: "Is there anything that people told you when you were a young man that now looking back you realize they were right?"
Richard: "You probably touched on it when you said music is primarily entertainment. I'm sure a couple of people said to me, 'You won't really care about things in the same way you do now.' There's a big truth in that.
"I've got a 16 year old who's got to go to college. I'm not going to do anything to threaten my livelihood."
Luke: "Anything your parents told you?"
Richard: "This. 'You think this is really important now, but in the fullness of time, it'll be like nothing.'"
Mazda has been in a relationship with a woman for 13 years, married four years. "You don't need the madness to prove anything."
"I own a property in Britain. I own a theatre company (The Queen's Players) in New York. I'm not petit bourgeois but I am bourgeois."
She calls me back Friday, July 7, 2006.
Luke: "Tell me about your sex addiction."
Michelle: "It's like any other addiction. If something is destroying your life, then it is an addiction. I have permission to have sex [from her partner] but I still do it behind people's backs. I have affairs on top of my affairs. I keep people lined up in the hallways or on hold so that when I need them, I can use them to get my needs filled.
"I've been doing it since the end of junior-high. I grew up being a people pleaser.
"My sex addiction has cost me everything in my life. It cost me my job back in Denver. It cost me having to move out of state to get away from the harassment. It has put distance between me and my family. It has cost me my friends. Not to mention my self-respect and my self-esteem.
"I am in therapy. I committed myself to two weeks of in-patient therapy.
"The first time I heard about sex addiction, I cried and I laughed hysterically at the same time. Here was somebody putting into words what I felt going on inside of me.
"The lack of education out there about sex addiction is disturbing."
Luke: "Do you think you can really have promiscuous sex and not injure other people in the process?"
Michelle: "Yes."
"I used my grandmother to babysit my children so I could go out and have affairs. Now she doesn't trust me and won't babysit my kids anymore."
"I was lucky. I never ended up with any venereal diseases. I never got beaten. I never got raped."
Luke: "What is the hole in your soul that you're trying to fill through this?"
Michelle: "I'm still trying to find that out."
When Marty Met Haley
Gene Ross writes: "When director and former KSEX deejay Marty Del Toro, aka Csaba Marton, met porn actress Haley Paige, it was a beautiful thing."
Should AVN post their Adult Directory Online?
Ron Cadwell, CEO of CCBill.com and one of the five most powerful people in porn, writes on GFY:
I just read in this thread that AVN plans to put the entire adult internet directory online. I personally don't think every surfer on the planet or possible psycho should have access to such a directory with all our names, address, and phone numbers listed in own place.
Don't get me wrong. I love the idea of a directory which can even be online if password restricted. I just feel if you are not listed in there as a business then you should not get access to a copy of this information.
One of the keys to my success is that I've never been shy announcing exactly how I make my living. Nor have I had occasion to hold my head in shame in this respect.
As H.L. Mencken said, you can tell the quality of a man's character by how he makes his living.
If you can't with pride tell people what you do for a living, then you can only slink through life burdened by shame.
At least that's what Rabbi Daniel Lapin says in his book, Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money:
Be Proud Of And Let People Know What You Do
Make lots of new friends, try to help them, and make sure they all know how you could help them and that you are eager to do so.
...The Talmud records the names of many great scholars and eminent sages who were known by their occupations, such as Rabbi Yochanan, the shoemaker. Jews were encouraged by these Talmudic heroes with their distinctive names to proudly declare their occupations, too. Jews also take the lesson to heart from Jonah, prophet of God, who was woken by the sailors terrified of the storm that threatened their ship. In an effort to identify the menace, the frightened men inquired of Jonah: "Tell us who caused this storm? (Was it you?) What is your occupation? Where are you from?"
To this day, one of the first questions people tend to ask a new acquaintance is, "What do you do for a living?" It is a legitimate question because the inquirer really wants to know what the person does for other people. He or she is wondering how do others find you useful. How you help your fellow humans is a proud part of your identity. The only person to be embarrassed by the question is the one who has no answer. Traditionally, Jews have been quick to identify their occupations. This obviously makes it much simpler for others to make contact for business purposes, and it may be partially responsible for Jews acquiring the reputation of being forward and aggressive in business.
March 25, 2002
Dear Webmaster: Attached is a copy of a letter we received from Visa stating that they will no longer accept Visa cards as payment for beastiality sites. Please note that their decision is effective immediately. Although we regret having to, CCBill must, as a result of Visa’s decision and other potential legal problems associated with processing billing for beastiality sites, cancel our agreement to provide service to you. We will continue to accept new member sign-ups until 2:00 PM Mountain time on Thursday, March 28, 2002.
CCBill is famous for processing for sites most businesses wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.
Bad Times In Porn
A pornographer writes:
Luke- I'm shocked, I thought you would of been the first to announced that Spice/Playboy's mail order folded up. Yet here's day 2 which the others haven't caught on to you yet...
Virgin Megastore-NYC-just laid off all their staff in the adult division Whats this telling us? Is it the gas prices, economy or the adult market just flooding product? I say a mix of all the above.
In the next few months we're going to see over 100 indictments being served on various studios that aren't intact as well as the agencies that feel their sites are strong without a license.
Who will be the next? The lawyers say Anabolic/Diabolic and their sister company Zero Tolerance.
Times are changing and only the strong will survive. Many feel this is an easy money occupation to jump into yet they will be proven wrong. It's quality over quantity and the weak will be elimated. These studios releasing more than one release a week are foolish. Bottomline is have your 2257 paperwork in line and this will prevent a knock at your door.
Luke, have you figured out the meaning of life yet, oh, I mean DVD replicating or how much the adult business does in business yearly?
> who does your replicating?
XXX: only companies that have the right licensing, I heard that European customs have been seizing illegal american DVDs.
>I hear DVD sales are down about 25% around the industry compared to last year
XXX: Probably the total amount is the same or more but there is a flood of DVDs mostly from producers that have their own replication machines, Sunshine, Cab, and Leisure Time.
If you ask me, there is less demand for this product due to the new buyer, the kids becoming18, since the taboo is almost nil, there is no new demand. They can get blowjobs from the girls at school at demand and the internet allows free downloads.
Porno is available almost everywhere, no taboo, who cares?
>If there were 13,600 new releases last year according to AVN, how many DVD units sold on median average per release? 1000?
XXX: Much less probably 600 to 800, but Evil still puts out maybe 4000 down from double that two years ago on new releases. RLD is down, Vivid is down big time unless it is a Jenna title. As for Frys, Movie Gallery, Family Video, Tower, only Wicked sells these companies. Jenna is the only reason for Wicked, she sells and sells.No one wants Vivid now, Wicked has been selling those accounts all along, big chains.
> No one wants Vivid because of the condoms?
Because of the product, it stinks, but Steve is a millionaire so he doesn't care. He has no drive to make salable product, can you blame him?Business is definitely down, there is too much product and demand is down too, there should be a big shake up soon.
They should bust more porno companies so the competition is less.
Philips is aggressively going after replicators who aren't licensed, shops selling unlicensed DVDs etc.
Gossip writes:
Luke: Your continuing thread into the the slow, agonising death of porn over here is mirrored over the pond. I talked to a buddy in England last week about their market. The adult DVD market over there is in big trouble ever since their government made it illegal to mail order their R18 titles (but not illegal for us to ship our adult movies over there, something to do with their Customs people having different rules to whoever polices adult video in the UK, go figure). So Brit companies can't mail order in their own country. Several producers just moved operations to foreign countries, but I'm told that you can only do that legally if you're not actually English yourself.
There are probably only about 400 stores in the whole of the UK where you can buy adult DVDs, and you have to buy a licence to open an adult store. Those stores are owned by just a handful of men, and they control the market in England for adult video. Mail order is dead in the water. Retailers are looking at full shelves and empty shops, but then what do they expect when they hike the price up over five times to what the producer is paid? The big complaint is that the market is run by a handful of guys who set their own prices for wholesale and retail.
My buddy bitched about the soccer World Cup and the impact it was having on sales. Weird that a sports gig can dent a pornographer's pocket, but there you go!
JM Production Video Pulls
Lord writes on XPT: "I was off today from work, but apparently I heard that we got a memo from Castle Megastore Corporate HQ to pull all JM titles. Anyone want to give any insight into the reason for this?"
Less responds: "The JM and 5 Star Distrubution of Obecene Materials Indictments by the Feds. Many places have pulled JM since the news came out a while back, and have also pulled Max HC as a preventative measure."
Who are Bella models? Those are my pictures!
This Bella Models site is using a load of our pics, all different girls. They'll be getting an email from us shortly.
Apparently my copyright infringement guy has been trying to get them to take down our pics for a while now. And now I have to get involved, which really pisses me off. And Justine is a good friend of mine and NOT a hooker. This is what sucks about being a model -- any asshole can take your photos, put it up on a site with bogus claims, and everyone believes what they see and read.
The girls are not allowed to use our photos of them unless it's a shoot specifically done for a content exchange, which I only do occasionally. Even then they are only allowed to post the images on their own personal site; they cannot license to a third party. And for a second time, Justine has nothing to do with this site and she's not thrilled about the situation, to say the least.
Gen Padova posts: "I didn't think Justine would take that route at all. The woman has more class than most of us porn chicks combined. I had this same issue with Exotica 2000... guess where they are now? haha they don't exist. Maybe Bella Models is next."
Dan G writes: "If (as I understand to be the case) Bella Models is just a reincarnation of Nici's Girls, then it stands to reason that they will have a) the same sort of clientele and b) the same sort of employees...meaning guys who are willing to cough up $20-30,000 (and more) to spend a weekend poking their favourite Playboy Playmate or Penthouse Pet."
SexyCity posts: "I can't believe Jacy Andrews is on that site. I thought she was a PI in her spare time."
Bella Models replies to me:
Justine Jolie is represented by Ray in San Francisco who asked me to advertise her after calling her the other day to make sure it's okay. I'm confused.
Look at bodymiracle.com. Justine Joli is on there too! I'll take care of the Holly Randall thing. I ask most of the girls to send in their own pictures.
John writes:
Hi Luke, Bella Models is a lot more up-and-up than, let's say XXXVixons.com who openly list people who do NOT escort and refuses to remove those who complain. Maybe Holly needs to see if her copyrighted stuff is being stolen here...
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I have a friend who no longer wants to be in the porn business. She has done videos, but now she wants to start a life outside of the business. She regrets having been in porn. I'm worried about her, and I have directed her to get counseling, but I thought someone out there could give me some advice to give her about how she can successfully make the transition out of porn.
Derek responds:
Short Answer: Stay out of LA. Or, putting it another way: stay away from temptation. The easy money of porn is what keeps the girls coming back. So, the further they are (physically) away from the source of the easy money, the more likely they can resist the temptation. Also she needs to get "skills" that will support her: make-up or hair artist, sales rep, health occupations etc.
Map writes: "Reminds me of the time I heard Janine telling about how she decided to have tatoos running up her arms partially so that porn directors wouldn't hire her anymore."
Gen Padova Says She Doesn't Start Drama
Lain Oi and I were never friends. More so acquaintences. The term, "friend" is used so lightly, not just in this industry but in life. Teaching a girl like Lain when she should have already known that showing up to your promised times is vital. Advising her to keep to her true friends and not get involved with the wrong people. Remain professional in every which way and to not over work herself are also important. And to use her money wisely. I went out of my way to help because she asked me to not because I felt obligated whatsoever.
We're talking about a girl who came from Arizona under the wings of a man who calls himself an agent, who is more so a street pimp, believing that escorting will get her in porn. Lain came a long way from where she started, I was happy for her then but her lies of drug abuse is what made me lose all respect. I made it clean and clear to her what I do not want in the house. If she had a habit, she should have kept it off of my property. Simple as that. But she never gave me the impression she was under the influence until her boyfriend moved out here from Arizona... weeks before I threw them out. While she never knew what I had discovered when she lived in MY home, she called me upset shortly after she had moved out and I clearly said, "Look Lain, there is no reason to be upset. You know, that I do not like illegal drugs in my home. I am not willing to be held responsible for someone elses dirty habit. You can deny all that you want and I will not discuss any further and you know exactlyyyyy what I'm talking about. I hope you can find help and I wish you good luck."
I will admit to entering this industry very naive. Very little social skills that may make me come off as unfriendly even so catty. I've improved a lot since but even so have a lot to work on. Although I even had a bigger heart in the past compared to the present towards other girls in the industry, assuming every lady was rabid about sex like I was. You know, work as a team and be nice to your co-workers and collaborate? Not create enemies. Hmm... makes sense I thought especially when you share work in the same business. Although since realizing that being naive and trusting those that I didn't know by giving them the benefit of the doubt and not allowing others in the past who have burned me effect my endeavors with future people, hasn't done me any good. And you know what? I've kept to my word. I haven't yet made a huge effort to helping another person in this industry like I did with Lain Oi. If anything, girls know that if they need advice or anything less than a place to stay, I'm still there to help in anyway that I can. Pardon for having a heart.
Now... in regards to me being catty. Yes, often times I may be catty. Although when I maintain a civil dispute or a civil discussion it's often ignored and nothing merely gets resolved. Or, people just don't get the point even so listen for that matter. This bit of "catty" writing in this thread was taken from I believe a blog. Where my blogs are more of a casual writing and yes I have every right to use the word "bitch" and "loser" since they are adjectives mentioned from my own opinion. Where we all have a right to an opinion. I'm not saying that you... 'rapper' are wrong. I respect your opinion and how you view me. Although I am a bit saddened that you only focus on my casual writings/rants than my more postings that happen to be anything but immature and petty. But it makes sense... 'we' as in everyone tend to focus more on the negative things. Anything negative and derogatory tend to catch the eye more. Just like great entertainment that always seems to involve weapons, sex and any bit of violence both physical and verbal.
If every female in this industry was just as blunt and straight forward as I am about degenerates they happen to stumble upon with ill luck, I'm sure I wouldn't be the most catty around here.
Like I've told many (present and past regulars of ADT and other message boards) you're better off not socializing with the women of porn in general. Just keep your idea of what the girl may be in mind from watching her pornos... And/or perhaps an acquaintence relationship instead of pursuing a friendship of long chit-chats and hang outs because you are more likely than anything else to get burned, used and abused in any which way. Unless you have nothing to lose then go for it. I'm sure this goes with any industry... life in general but I've learned this lesson in this business. You don't always get what you give. But doesn't always mean to give up. An arms distance is always best.
P.S. I dont start drama of any sort. People just pick the wrong person to take advantage of. People pick the wrong person to throw death threats. I'm the last person to sit and take the abuse. I have self respect and take action where its due in the utmost responsible and legal, mature way.
Is It OK To Write A Song About Scott Fayner?
Carl writes:
Do you think it would be ok if I wrote a song about Scott Fayner called "Scott Fayner"? The song, so and so written already, sound like zombieboogie Rolling stones with words to tribute mr Fayner. But also hoping he's still alive and stay that way for as long as possible. For me he is one of our modern day cowboys, living as a myth and doing what ever he wants to do, whenever he wants to. It's not beautiful but it's fashinating as nothing else. I mean, you know him more or less, you think he would accept a tribute? I think i'd should be able to record it soon.
How To Handle Dear Leader Kim Jong Ill
Note: I have a particular interest in the situation in Korea, as for years one of my more interesting correspondents was Jechu Prospect of Pyongyang, who wrote for the North Korean News Agency. Acting at the behest of film buff Kim Jong Ill, he repeatedly invited me to move to Pyongyang to lecture at the "Juche Studio for the Production of Workers' Marital Imagery", or at we would call pornography. I politely declined. Now he seems to have disappeared. I've heard through Christian missionaries active in the region that he was sent to a "Reeducation Camp" in the frozen north for failing in his assigned task, which makes this an especially hard topic for me to write about.
It is time America recognized that it no longer has any moral obligation to be the beat cop of the Korean peninsula. Fifty years ago, the Republic of Korea was a blasted ruin, laid low by years of savage warfare waged against it by the communists of North Korea backed by the Red hordes of Mao's China and the weaponry of Stalin's USSR. Thanks to the blood sacrifice of tens of thousands of America's fighting men, the red tide was halted, and the Republic of Korea saved. Under our aegis, the South Koreans rebuilt what was destroyed and then built what never was: a modern industrial state that has recently matured into a democracy. Today, South Korea boasts the worlds 8th largest economy. The economy of North Korea, on the other hand, is at such a primitive level that it barely registers in world trade - or on satellites imagery. If you look at satellite photographs of the Korean peninsula taken at night when the lights of their cities are shining, you can immediately see how each has done over the years: the South is brightly lit; the North is entombed in darkness. It cannot feed its own people - but it can, we assume, build nuclear bombs.
That's bad for us, as we certainly would not like to see them used against a friend or against ourselves, but still, the question must be asked: Why are tens of thousands of GIs still based in South Korea? The free Koreans have many times the GDP with which to build a military establishment powerful enough to counter Pyongyang. Moreover, they have the know-how to go nuclear in a big, big way if they want to for the sake of deterrence. LET THEM. Our soldiers in Korea are too few to make a difference should war come and too many to die to have die over there.
Our soldiers are very badly needed here to help reestablish control over our border with Mexico. Here, on our soil, they could do America some good, by keeping out the Invaders from the Third World lands to our south. There in Korea, they serve only as an irritant to the Communists and a soporific to the Free Koreans, who seem to feel that they needn't fully arm themselves against North Korea because America will "take care of things" should war break out, and again bleed for their sake.
Pull our forces out of South Korea and redeploy them along the Mexican border. Let China, South Korea, and Japan figure out how to handle Dear Leader Kim Jong Ill. If you agree with me, write to your representatives in Washington to demand that they act both to disentangle us from the politics of Korea and to defend America here at home. Then, please say a prayer on behalf of Jechu Prospect, and all like him.
Phlogiston writes on XPT: "I like Luke now! His thinking on this matter is far too reasonable for him to be in any way a part of the Bush administration. Bush thinks the United States is a septic tank for the human bilge of the third world."
VOD - What's In It For Pornographers?
I understand that Cable VOD companies only pay around 10% to the producers. The Internet VOD companies (AEBN, Hot Movies etc) pay between 25-35% to the production company.
According to this June 16th report:
Bank of America Upgrades Playboy Shares
Savner expects a new subscriber on-demand channel rollout through Comcast later this month to add $42 million in annual revenue, based on a $19.95 monthly subscription rate, a 70/30 revenue share, projections for 14.5 million Comcast digital cable subscribers by 2010, and projections that 4 percent of those subscribers will subscribe to the Playboy on-demand channel.
Anticipating a round of cost-cutting in the second half of the year, Savner lowered 2006 revenue estimates by $1 million to $344.5 million and earnings guidance by 5 cents to 25 cents per share. The Wall Street consensus is for $341 million revenue and 25 cents per share net income for the year.
I understand that subscription on-demand (which no-one is currently carrying) may be a different split, but I would be shocked if Playboy will get 30% from Comcast, when Comcast is only giving 10% to everyone else (many of those other services, like Hustler, which outperform Playboy).
The subscription on demand will feature original shows from Playboy, and the reason they may get a higher split from that is because it will draw viewers away from their linear channels. It's similar to HBO On Demand. Where Playboy gains viewers on the subscription VOD side, they will lose a number of them from their traditional, linear PPV side.
All the major cable operators pay adult providers 10% for VOD.
Tough Times For Talent Agents?
Seymore Butts aka Lighthouse Talent emails:
In honor of our country’s independence, Lighthouse is offering 50% off all agency fees on all jobs completed in the month of July. Our agents are waiting to help fill your casting needs and can be reached at 818-907-9752. Please visit our website, www.LHTalent.com to view our ever-expanding roster of talented performers.
Is it truly America's independence that Seymore is honoring here or is this a pragmatic business decision?
Seymore emails me: "Actually, the "special" we are running has nothing to do with a "slowdown". It is more of a "thank you" to the companies that have been supportive to us during our first seven months of business. If you think that's good, wait until you see what i do for our one year anniversary in january! It is hard for me to recognize a "slowdown" with only seven months of perspective on the agent side...we have grown each and every month to date!"
Mr. Ambulance writes:
Luke: It looks like its a little deeper than just cutting fees at Lighthouse. He's been reduced to putting up a banner to the competition.
Visit the Lighthouse Talent website < http://www.lhtalent.com/casting/casting/ > and down at the bottom is a banner for Playa's Entertainment/producemyownporn.com, which has a collection of links to OTHER competing talent agencies. < http://www.producemyownporn.com/our_models.htm >
Can the money from his click-throughs to the competition be more than a lost sale/fee? Go figure.
Seymore responds: "I'll take it one step further...i don't even make money on the click -throughs! it's a banner exchange set up by one of our agents. as for competing agencies...how can i be worried about them when i'm still trying to figure out who they are? maybe you can help by listing my competition for me and by "competition" i mean BONDED, LICENSED, LEGITIMATE agents."
I believe that only World Modeling, Tera Patrick's Agency and Lighthouse Talent are licensed, bonded agents (according to this state of California database).
Seymore responds: "hmmm...considering the recent lack of public presence for tera's agency that means we have only one legitimate competitor. i like those odds! as for the other companies that are operating illegally as "agents", i have a feeling the industry will see things "shake out" in the not-too-distant future!"
I email Derek Hay at LADirectModels. I couldn't find him on the California database. "I was looking at that. I don't see LA Direct Models listed. What does that mean? That you are a management company?"
[Later, I search just "Direct Models" and found Derek's site listed.]
He replies:
No, - licensed talent agent, business license, and bonded.
Attached is scan of license. Please do not post on site, but you can verify it exists. [Luke: I verified it.]
Licensing is a stringent process that prohibits convicted felons and those without strong business and credit history from becoming licensed. It also requires strict adherence to laws of city and state in employment, both of employees of the company or agency and for those on the talent roster, agency represents. It also requires employees insurance coverage through State Compensation Insurance Fund. It offers talent a recourse system in cases of disputes, which should offer a much better 'peace of mind' to the talent, about selecting a licensed agent over an unlicensed manager. The law is quite clear actually regarding managers. Whilst a manager can offer career advice, for example in terms of choosing which movie to make, or how to launch a promotional campaign, or which producer to choose for a recording artist, a manager is specifically prohibited from booking anything at all, unless in conjunction with a licensed talent agent. This would extend to an actress making movies, a recording artist playing concerts, or any other profession that required the employment of a licensed agent.
My licenses are all current. Like Seymour I think some government oversight in this area is inevitable sooner rather than later. There are now simply too many unlicensed managers operating for there not to be.
Ric Williams writes:
Hey Luke, What Seymour and Derek are saying is spot on. I have owned a mainstream talent management company, and have now started up Black Widow Talent Agency. As you can see from the attached, there is a $50,000 bond required along with a criminal and credit investigation. I don’t think that there are many in this industry that would qualify. I am not listed on the database yet but all of my submittals have been reviewed and I have a provisional license until the review is complete. The lady at the DLSE (Department of Labor Standards Enforcement) told me that the adult industry was on their target list.
Is it safe to surf TheHun.net?
Mayor writes:
I'm worried about spyware (there's probably a new word for it now) and rogue dialing, etc. Is 'free' porn an oxymoron or not. Also, Luke, I sometimes wish your site wasn't geared so much to the insider -- the donkey punch controversy was something I followed with interest, but I guess I feel like LIB is for the porn obsessive and not the dilettantes like myself. If you are the Matt Drudge of porn---where's all the Mark Schaffel dirt?
The Size Of The Porn Industry
I did a cursory search (thanks, Google!) turned up the following reported company revenues (in millions).
Playboy* = 328
NOOF* (Ten) = 50
Hustler = 150
Vivid = 100
Wicked = 50 *Only Playboy and New Frontier are publicly traded; the rest of the revenue numbers above were recently bandied about by corporate officers for the respective companies.
Even with a big grain of salt, let's assume those numbers are vaguely correct. That's 678 MM right there. Back of the envelope, the remaining 50 production companies (e.g., Adam & Eve, Digital Playground, etc.) have to have revenues of approx 300 MM between them. Now we're at 978 MM.
There are at least three online companies (AFF, Nasty Dollars, and Bang Brothers) which make over 100 MM each, and several others, such as i Friends, who are making over 50 MM. There are several dozen others making tens of MMs. Between all of them I'd call it it another 500 MM. Now we're at 1.478 BN. Granted, not all domestic.
What is not being taking into account is what retailers, hotel chains, cable and satellite providers are taking off the top. It has to be another 500MM.
Thanks to Google and several years wasted on porn punditry, this so-called expert estimates "domestic" porn media at approx. 2BN dollars annually.
If I'm right, the money is really being made by hookers and pimps, and they work offline.
Annie Cruz
David writes: "Yesterday, as I was watching the MTV dating show, Next, I saw a girl named Annie who looked like Annie Cruz. She won the contest (and the girl) but no mention of her porn career came up. Supposedly she won a second date and I was wondering if it went any further. Perhaps you can provide an update?"
Porn Stars Who Hook
Rory writes:
Just thought you may have some interest in these links off of Craigslist. These are girls in the business. It is of no ones best interest to have talent hook, from them spreading disease to having poor attitudes such as the "hooker mentality." This is unacceptable!!! My favorite is the girls who only do girl/girl who walk around all proud but hook at night. Dirty little secrets!
These
photos are of Ice LaFox. Who knows if it is really her.
These photos are of Bobbi Blaire. Who knows if it is really her.
This photo appears to be of Monica Mayhem. Who knows if it is really her.
These photos are of Celeste Starr. Who knows if it is really her.
Another hooker was claiming to be Gina Lynn. I'm sure that is not the real Gina Lynn.
Lainie Speiser writes:
That’s totally Celeste Star in that Craig’s List [photo] and she’s also on Bella Models. Only 19 years old and her BF is an angel faced 19-year-old boy with soft curly black hair, but despite these looks I hear he’s her total pimp. What also startles me is that I know she has sex for money with strange men who could beat her, kill her, but when I flew all the girls into NYC for the Pet of the Year party, Celeste freaked out about having to travel, she’s scared to fly and she freaked out when she had to hail a cab to the hotel. She just flat out refused to do it and her boyfriend kept calling me that she was panicking and that I should go pick her up. I refused to do that and had to talk her through the process. When she got to the hotel I was stunned, a little slip of a girl with no make up one, she looked to be about 15 like this and I suddenly felt rotten for yelling at her on the phone. But I didn’t feel bad once I saw her on Bella Models months later.
Isn’t it funny how these girls are afraid of doing the simplest of things out of their comfort zone but this dangerous lifestyle they don’t blink an eye at?
Many porn stars are shy and lost yet will hook.
"YES! So many of these girls are so damn shy and non verbal it drives me nuts. People think I’m harsh about it, especially when I say, “You took two cocks in your ass in front of a crew of people and you’re afraid of talking to a DJ on the radio?”"
The Devil In Miss Jones (1973)
J.R. Taylor writes on Rightwingtrash.com:
The adult industry still offers some surprisingly conservative content. When I polled adult actresses for Playboy.com before the 2000 election, a clear majority preferred Bush to Gore as both a candidate and a potential sex partner.
This site isn't too judgmental about private lives, but The Devil In Miss Jones makes a perfect parable for many women in the aftermath of the sexual revolution. All the sex, none of the satisfaction.
Lisa Ann Gone From LA Direct Models
Derek Hay emails: "Lisa Ann is permanently gone from Direct. There will be no more 3rd, 4th or 5th chances. I am hoping to retire one day with my heart still working, I have to reduce the drama levels."
Lisa Ann's response to Derek Hay's email: "Brilliant!"
Last week, she had promised me a full interview about her sex addiction.
Then I got an email from a coworker saying Michelle had been arrested.
Thursday evening, Michelle calls. "I was put on a 72-hour psych hold."
Luke: "Really? For sex addiction?"
Michelle: "Not necessarily that. But for wanting to act out and threatening suicide."
Luke: "I talked to you just before..."
Michelle: "Because I said, 'I just want to die,' they said, 'That's it!' It's a 5150 [violation of California's penal code].
"Apparently that's all it takes out here."
Luke: "You sounded fine when I spoke to you."
Michelle: "I was fine. I still am fine."
Lori Lust on Janice Dickinson show
Lori emails me:
Lori Lust was on National mainstream TV twice in front of millions of viewers last 2 weeks due to the Janice Dickinson show on Oxygen TV. She even had so much exposure that Janice even announced her whole name during the TV interview.
Many compliments came from the mouth of Janice Dickinson the Super Model as she analyzed Miss Lusts entire body and presence. This was the same interview where Janice completely bashed the entire line of 20 girls before getting to Lori Lust. W
hat might shock the entire world is the girl who's known as the best body in the Industry actually received the stamp of approval to be on the show as one of the finalists before her director came in the room? He said she had to be over 5'7" tall. But the director said her body and beauty was amazing and she would be perfect for pinup, lingerie or fitness modeling during the interview.
We asked Lori Lust what she thought of the whole entire ordeal and she replied, "I was so happy Janice didn't bash me like she did all the other models. One playboy model she ripped to shreds and made her cry right before she talked to me so I didn't know what to expect. I felt so honored when she picked me for the show. The crew interviewed me and my promoter like four 15 minute spots so I think I might be on the show some more times before it's over. Some even asked for my autographs and comp cards. Janice Dickinson still said she loved my look and personality. She added that she might use me on some reality shows that she has coming up. Janice took all my information, modeling cards, plus two workout videos and gave me a hug. Kinda neat experience when you consider who she is and what she has accomplished. Either way for Janice Dickinson to like me that much, it made my day."
So Lori Lust scores high ranks with approval on National TV again. She is one of the few porn stars that has the presence and ability to please the mainstream elite. Not only her body but her personality seem to win the hearts of even the hardest critics. It's easy to see why this girl who is like a chameleon can fit almost anywhere or in front of any audience you place her in. With this diversity adult and mainstream could almost put her anywhere. Anywhere could mean everywhere in the future as porn grows to find it's next generation of elite porn stars.
David at Mypornoreview.com writes: "Wow Luke, you actually posted a self release press release by Lori/Craig (her suitcase pimp). Every press release these people do sounds all the same. With its run on sentences, redundancy, and improper grammar. The press release goes from third person to first person back to third person."
Angela Devi
Her death may not be literal, but may instead suggest that the Angela Devi character will no longer be used, allowing the woman who played her to live a life away from adult entertainment. This theory is supported by postings attributed to her on an internet forum she was known to frequent.
(A later post to the same forum contradicts this and states that the earlier post was an attempt to cover up her real death to protect her family.)
Her galleries at Foxes.com have also been removed. Often times in the adult entertainment industry, the complete removal of content relating to a model suggests an end to their agreement or work relationship.
T-Bone writes:
Luke, Given your posture as journalist and chronicler of the adult industry, I am a bit surprised at the paucity of information concerning the recent "Angela Devi controversy" posted on your site. It seems to me that the lack of any confirmation or information from any "legitimate" source of adult journalism, or from more mainstream journalism for that matter, supports the belief that this is merely an ill conceived stunt chosen by Angela to facilitate her escape from the adult modeling life, or some kind of contractual dispute between "Angela" and her former employers (Softwood --surely the most inappropriately named adult content provider in history).
This choice of fake death also strikes me as just the sort of thing that you would investigate and ruminate about on this site. The sheer volume of speculation that I have uncovered in my cursory Internet search indicates that Ms. Devi enjoys a great deal of popularity, and an interest clearly exists in solving the mystery.
There is also a great deal of conflicting information floating around. Did she kill herself? Or is this merely the figurative, non-corporeal "death" of the Angela Devi persona? These seem like the kinds of things that a journalist would be interested in uncovering. The answers need not be salacious, or presented as such (and most likely aren't; if there was a trashy story here, it is more likely that mainstream media would have picked up on it.) Just the facts would suffice.
Perhaps you could put those supposed journalistic talents of yours to work and answer this question once and for all. As the ads used to say, inquiring minds want to know.
She hasn't logged into her MySpace page since December 2005. Her #1 MySpace friend is Alexis Amore.
Jessi Summers Leaves Porn For God
"If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."
18 years old hollywood baby!, CALIFORNIA
yes it is true! i have quit porn.... Current mood: peaceful i know most of you in the industry are saying to yourselves..."she'll be back...." and i don't blame you. most girls do return, but there is one thing that's different about my situation. i have given my heart and soul to the lord. i am finally at peace with myself. for the short time i have been on this planet i have experienced many bad things, i carried around all the pain, bitterness, and anger from my past experiences. it was consuming my heart more and more everyday.
i turned to drugs and alcohol to try and numb it and the money from porn supported my habit... until one night a couple months back, i o.d.ed. whether u believe me or not i left my body and i saw where i was going if i continued living my life the way i was. i also spoke with god...(yes i know it sounds crazy, i was a non believer before this happened and it took me a good two months to be able to truely except what happened to me!) and while god was with me i felt a love and peace better than any high or love on this planet...it was amazing, i can't even explain how wonderful the feeling was. he gave me the choice to go with him or come back to earth.... after asking him many times if i would be alright i made the decision to come back and live my life right, and after ii made the decision i guess the best way to explain it was that i was sucked back down into my body on earth, on my mom's ex gf's couch in her living room, where she explained i had been laying since the night before, it was late afternoon the next day, i still don't undersdtand why she didn't take me to the hospital, but i am sure it was all part of god's plan...
there is much more to my whole experience and if you want to know more please message me.... anyway i know most of you that read this are going to think i'm a wack job and that's alright! i would have thought the same thing if it hadn't happened to me! but i feel that i should share my experience in hopes that it may open up someones eyes to god and maybe help you to make changes in your life to come closer to him and let him take your pain and suffering away, so you may finally have what you were looking for in all the wrong places.....unconditional love, healing, and happiness:)
Jamie Lynn - Ganja Goddess
The Penthouse Pet for 2006 is on the cover of the august August issue of High Times and she's the star of a New York ganja party July 12.
She calls me Thursday afternoon, July 6.
My phone's not working right. I have to smash the receiver half a dozen times on the body of my phone until I can hear her voice.
Jamie: "I'm High Times' first Ganja Goddess. I went over to their offices and had meetings with them and smoked of course.
"I did a podcast with Cassia Riley. We showed Cassia how to do a shotgun with a joint.
"You take the joint, light it, I take the lit end in my mouth [Cassia has the other end in her mouth], and then I blow and it blows all the smoke into her mouth. Instead of taking a hit, it's like sucking the vapors.
[David Clark writes: "Those crazy kids out there do it with their meth, too!"]
"They really liked how I looked. So we went out to Vegas and did a photoshoot for the August issue on sale now.
"While I was out there, I also got to do the taste-testing for the cannabis cup in Amsterdam. There were all different types of [marijuana] to smoke and everybody voted on their favorite.
"Vegas was like Little Amsterdam."
Luke: "On the list of the 50 things most important to you, where would marijuana rank?"
Jamie: "In the top five along with food and sex.
"Being on the cover of High Times is one of the ultimate things about being a model. I ever beat out Tommy Chong of Cheech & Chong."
Luke: "When did you have your first hit of marijuana?"
Jamie: "I was 14 and on my way to a Metallica concert at the LA Forum. I remember watching the cars fly by and the music in the car was as loud as it can go and I was trippin'."
Luke: "How much do you consume on an ordinary day?"
Jamie: "An eighth [of an ounce] will last me at least four days if I'm smoking alone. If I have people over, I can smoke quite a bit. If it's a big party, I'll definitely sit down and roll a couple of blunts."
Luke: "Do you wake and bake?"
Jamie: "I do wake and bake unless I have to work. I've noticed that with some shots, I might get cock-eyed."
We laugh.
Jamie: "Sometimes it makes you sexy and sometimes it's not so good. I've decided to stay professional and not smoke while I work. Sometimes conversations with people would be some sort of craziness."
Luke: "What are you smoking now?"
Jamie: "A cigarette. I smoke a pack a day."
Luke: "How do you talk about marijuana?"
Jamie: "If it's secret, I say I want a salad. If I'm around children or such, I'll say, 'I'm going to go have a salad.' I like to say 'reefer' a lot."
Luke: "You've been smoking regularly since 14?"
Jamie: "Yeah. I probably will for quite some time. I don't see a day where I say, 'Never again.'
"Out of all the drugs, it is the best ever. Other drugs, I don't do. I have played with them. Weed is a fun high. You don't see people killing each other over weed or getting psycho."
Luke: "Have you ever broken into a car to find money to buy weed?"
Jamie: "No. I'm not that bad. If I can't find it, I won't go searching. If I don't like the person who has it, I'll never buy it from them. I'd rather go without."
Luke: "What's the most desperate thing you've done for weed?"
Jamie: "Hmm. It's pretty easy when you're a girl. You don't have to do much. You just smile. I'm cute. That's a good thing about being a woman -- you get so much for free."
Luke: "How many friendships have you formed over bonding over reefer?"
Jamie: "A million. It's such a social drug. I have made enemies over it. I was smoking on my private time and they thought I was going to overdose. The whole four days I spent with them, they thought I was going to be a psycho drug addict horrible person. 'You've got to be kidding me. It's just weed. The simplest thing ever.'
"They said, 'You're stupid, Jamie. You're dumb. You're throwing your life away.'"
Luke: "Have you ever been kicked out of school because of it or lost a job?"
Jamie: "I was kicked out of eighth grade for having a joint at school. They called me into the office. I stashed it under the principal's desk. They were searching all my bags, everywhere, but of course the guy is not going to look under his desk. I remember being so scared, but on the way out, I still grabbed the joint. They couldn't take me to juvenile hall because they had no evidence.
"I've never lost a job."
Luke: "At what age will it be OK for your kids to smoke marijuana?"
Jamie: "They have to go to school. Seventeen, maybe?
"I'm a functioning smoker. I can smoke and clean my entire house."
Global Entertainment Expenditures
According to www.uands.com, consumer spending (for movies, TV shows, DVD, VOD, PPV, VHS etc but not for internet subscriptions) for 2006 will be $83.1 billion (cited in the July 6, 2006 issue of DVD News).
According to the VSDA July 2005 state of the industry report, porn accounted for 2% of DVD sales. If this number holds true for porn's percentage of global spending on entertainment, porn worldwide would be a $1.662 billion industry. Porn's DVD sales worldwide would amount to about $800 million.
VSDA estimates U.S. DVD/video sales and rentals at $24.3 billion for 2005. The 2% figure would place U.S. porn DVD/VHS sales and rentals at $486 million for 2005.
The most commonly cited number for porn's worldwide size is $57 billion (including internet subscriptions), which is what AVN President Paul Fishbein told 60 Minutes (Nov 21, 2003 broadcast).
| Rank | Entertainment Media | Percentage |
| 1 | DVD sell-through | 46% |
| 2 | Box Office | 24% |
| 3 | DVD Rental | 17% |
| 4 | Pay TV, Cable, Satellite, PPV, VOD, etc | 13% |
Source: www.uands.com
As porn receives no money from box office sales, 2% of the remaining revenues would amount to about $1.25 billion.
Exploiting Your Exclusive Content
What companies need to do in general with their products is exploit. Take paysite XYZ that creates their own exclusive content. Great, now I just spent buckets of cash in my own content that I have used for paysites and it has generated money. Now, one to two years down the road one must begin to think, how do I make more money off of this?
Exclusive Content should go in this order:
--Paysites
--DVD's
--VOD's
--and possible leased feed contentThe reason the feed content is only "possible" is because of the cost it takes to create the backend for it. However, once launched is probably the most profitable.
VOD will take over DVD's but only because DVD's gave us the ground to start on. VHS was once taken over by DVD's, mp3's with CD's ... it's inevitable.
However, DVD's will still remain strong with the older crowd as I'm sure some still prefer VHS. As we grow into a more technological age, the VOD will overcome.
Whatever Happened To Cody Milo?
Sean writes: "Just found out one of my favorites Cody Milo has disappeared off of LA Direct Models and her real myspace account no longer exists. Just wondering if you know anything about this model leaving the biz."
I email Derek at LADirectModels.com. He replies that she left the biz and has a new boyfriend. "Great girl, wish her well."
Mary Carey Drama
I call her Wednesday afternoon.
Harold answers. "Lukey Pookie.
"Jonathan Davis from Korn came to the party. O.B. Tryce. Shifty.
"Mary's new best friend is [the wrestler] Chyna (Joanie Laurer). She's always trying to kiss Mary with her big lips and Mary does not know whether to kiss her back or to run.
"Mary says that I abuse her."
Luke: "Are you punching her again?"
Harold: "That I physically abuse her."
Mary: "I've got the bruises to prove it.
"Everyone sees her fall on her head and do this stuff to herself. But the next day it's Harold. It's all about the story, Luke."
Mary: "I'm sitting in AIM getting my HIV-test. I've got my little cup with my bag of urine. I have to shoot a movie next week, my fourth for Legend, which means I'm going to go crazy in another day or two.
"When someone was going to introduce me to Chyna, they said she was like me, Jessica [Jaymes] and Tawny [Roberts] combined. I didn't believe them.
"Then I hung out with her and I realized they were correct."
Luke: "How's Jessica Jaymes?"
Mary: "Last I knew she was dating guys off MySpace. She's meeting random guys off MySpace and telling me how wonderful MySpace was and how different guys were coming over and she loved them.
"Kendra Jade took me to a comedy club two weeks ago. I called Jessica and she said, 'Oh Mary, I have a job at 9 p.m. I can't talk.'"
Luke: "She's a busy girl."
Mary: "I, unfortunately, am not busy like that. I've been feature dancing.
"Oh Luke, you're Jewish. My best friend from highschool, Amber, is Jewish. She told me that the big thing to say is, 'Next year in Jerusalem.'
"She's very Jewish. She wears her Hebrew name around her neck.
"I told her that a lot of the people I have to deal with in LA are Jewish and I told her I wanted a cool name. She told me to say, 'Next year in Jerusalem' when I do a toast.
"My highschool, Pinecrest, was 90% Jewish. My friends from highschool want me to convert [to Judaism]. I'm contemplating it. Honestly, I'm really into the Christianity thing too. It just seems that Jewish people are financially more successful than non-Jewish people.
"Tawny [Roberts] flew in to town. She's with her lawyer. She's suing Rich, Jesse Jane's husband [and Tawny's ex].
"I don't know the full details. I don't know who's right or wrong. I used to take Tawny's word as truth, but I didn't realize that when someone is drunk, they might not know accurately what is going on.
"It's nice to be around my friends from highschool. They're normal. They have jobs but they'd rather do nothing. They think I do nothing. They think all porn stars are rich because everyone's seen Jenna Jameson's E! True Hollywood Story."
Luke: "Are you and Tawny hanging out?"
Mary: "We're supposed to get together today. She's hanging out at a colonics place. She's unhappy with the weight gain of being four months pregnant. She's trying to figure out ways to lose weight while she's pregnant.
"I asked her if she was going to get botox. She said, 'You can't get botox when you're pregnant.' I guess it's OK to drink alcohol. Not sure of the rationale but it's good to know she won't harm the baby with botox."
Luke: "Do you do botox?"
Mary: "Just the frownlines between my eyebrows. I still want to have movement in my forehead.
"After that pilot of shot for VH1, I had a meeting with VH1. Now they just want to have a little documentary thing on me instead. Documentary probably means for free while reality means pay.
"When I was in their office, I asked, 'Is this going to be AFTRA? SAG?' Everyone tries to have porn stars on their show for free. I've done too much free stuff. I like doing news shows.
"Harold and I have been fighting a lot. He wants to have threesomes with strippers in strip clubs because he doesn't get anything out of the relationship. Why can't he have some sort of benefits? I said, 'Why can't we have a monogamous relationship aside from my six movies a year?'
"He says that if he's not in charge of my money, he should get to have sex with other girls. I think that's wrong. What do you think, Luke?"
Harold: "I am with this girl 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This isn't by my choice. She makes me look like the bad guy when other people want her to hang out without me. I have no problem with that. But she'll tell people, 'I can't. Harold won't let me.'"
Mary: "You got mad when I hung out with Mancow."
Harold: "I enjoy the break.
"She's super-clingy. Even when I take a s---, she's standing next to the toilet."
Mary: "If I go out without you, you always think I'm doing something shady."
Harold: "You are."
Mary: "You are just trying to defend yourself because I have bruises to prove [Harold beats her]. If you go to DailyCeleb.com, maybe you'll see the bruises on my shoulder."
Harold: "Why can't I talk to Luke?
"Luke, call me."
Luke: "Who is Bridgetta Tomarchio?"
Mary: "She's a reality star. She goes to mainstream redcarpet events, so photographers know her. I've been hanging out with her a lot.
"Wankus didn't know who Bridgetta Tomarchio was and he yelled at her to get out of the picture. So his name and Tyler's name aren't under their photos. Bridgetta was very upset, so she threw a bottle at him.
"At mainstream redcarpet events, everyone knows who Bridgetta is but in porno, no one knows who she is."
I email Wankus: "What happened between you and that reality chick Bridgetta? I heard she threw a drink at you because you told her to get out of a picture."
He responds: "I don't know who Bridgetta Tomarchio is but as I said on The Wanker Show on KSEXradio.com this past Monday, "Tyler (Faith) and I were hanging with John from Korn and our good friend Rob and having a nice time at some club in Orange County. We later bumped into Mary Carey who is back with Harold again, the man who supposedly beat her."
"Anyway...all is going well and we are about to take a group photo when all of a sudden, some trailer bitch comes jumping into the mix, sprawls her body out across the group and acts all freshman college drunk aand annoyingly tries to be in the photo. This pestered me and it had been a long week so in my best Wankus sarcasm I poked my index finger on her shoulder in a pesty, pointy fashion and said, 'you're very cute but get the f--- out of the picture'. She in turn pushed me, slamming my camera to the ground while I laughed at her. Moments later she returned with the bouncers and they told us to leave.
"I tried to tell the bouncers that it was no big deal, no need to kick us out but they wouldn't have it. And to make it worse, Harold, Mary's man, instead of getting my back said to me in front of them, 'yeah well you did go too far Wankus.' What the hell is that? There's no doubt about it that I went to far. There's no doubt about it that I handled it wrong. But c'mon man...there's an unwritten rule of thumb that when one of your friends, or at least someone you're having a good time with that night, gets into a situation...you get their back. That's how we do it on the East Coast. Don't know what the hell Harold was thinking. Regardless, Tyler and I left without incident and enjoyed a good laugh the whole way home."
Mary says I should join her and Harold at Starbucks because she just got her lips done.
Harold: "If you want to know how things are really going down, call me.
"Whenever I tell him I'm going to call the police or get lawyers, he says, 'Nobody will believe you in court because you are a porn star.'"
Harold: "I can get people to say how you fall down."
Mary laughs. "One reason I like Harold is that he doesn't try to pose in pictures with me. I could never date a guy like that. I find it weird if someone else is trying to be in the spotlight with me. Harold hides from the cameras.
"Harold hid from me in the club [June 30] because I was telling these guys that I wanted to have sex with them.
"Luke, you should hang out with us every day. I feel that if you were around, things wouldn't be so crazy.
"If I get my own reality show with a lot of money, I'll hire you to come with me everywhere.
"You could write my book. With my handicapped parents, the private Jewish prepatory school, I was raised by my grandparents, it's a unique story."
Luke to Harold: "Tell me the real story between you and Mary."
Harold: "She'll just snatch the phone from me."
Mary: "What does kosher mean? That it was blessed by the rabbi?"
Luke: "No. It is a complex series of laws."
Mary: "Next year in Jerusalem.
"Tell me some benefits of being Jewish over Christian. You chose to be Jewish. You did your research. Jewish people who are very Jewish have pride. You don't see Christian people walking around, 'I'm Christian.' All my Jewish friends, it's a whole connection they have. I feel left out."
Luke: "Wherever Jews have lived for the past 2000 years, they've been a minority, so they are always defining themselves against what the majority, the goyim, do."
Mary: "Will Jewish people be accepting of me? My friends are. But they think I'm rich and successful because they see me on the news. Jewish people pride themselves on being rich and successful. It's OK that you've done the pornography as long as you were successful with it. They don't seem to be judgmental."
Luke: "It depends on how religious the Jew. The more religious, the more judgmental."
Mary: "Christians are very open arms, forgiveness. If I came to a temple, would people be open-arms, forgiveness, hugs and kisses like they are in church?"
Luke: "No. Jews aren't as much into love and forgiveness."
Mary: "They're more into money?"
Luke: "They're more pragmatic."
Mary: "Harold would fit in as a Jew because he's not loving and he cares about money a lot. I always say, 'Isn't it more important to have love?' He says, 'No, I want to have money.'
"Christians say that love is all that matters. My Jewish friends say that money is all that matters."
Mary: "Do other girls make you laugh as much?"
Luke: "No."
Mary: "When you call me, you know you're going to laugh. Then you're going to be exhausted after talking to me."
Luke: "Yeah."
Mary: "Everyone feels exhausted after talking to me. I don't understand it. Is it because I talk too much? Switch subjects a lot?"
Harold: "If I'm going to be in a relationship, I have to feel that I'm being compensated for it. If we were to break up next week, what would I have to show for this relationship?"
Luke: "Nothing."
Harold: "She's not a good girlfriend, because every time she's away from me she's always talking about hot guys are. She'll say, 'If Harold wasn't with me, I'd ---- this guy.'
"Fine. If you want to have a relationship like that, bring some girls home. Let me ---- another girl.
"I help her with her website. I'm not allowed to look at another girl's website. I'm not allowed to look at a porno."
Mary says she dated NBA player Eddie Griffin. "He used to fly me and Tawny to Houston, etc, to hang out with him.
"He could've had a great career. He was [taken number] seven in the draft. But he smoked marijuana and would stay up until 4 a.m. drinking. He'd miss practice. I said to him, 'You could have such a wonderful career if you didn't party.'
"I thought he was getting things together but judging by this article, I don't think he has.
"That's what happens when you give a 23 yo NBA player millions of dollars."
Suit: NBA Player Watching Porn, Drunk Before Crash
(CBS) MINNEAPOLIS On March 30, Minnesota Timberwolves center Eddie Griffin was drunk and masturbating when he crashed his luxury SUV into a parked Suburban outside a store in Minneapolis, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday by the man whose Suburban was hit in the crash.
Rikku writes:
Luke, Please save us readers from the predictable, trite details of Mary Carey's life. From what I have gathered from reading your site, the basics of her life are: she does porn, she gets drunk, she goes on the radio with Mancow, she gets drunk, she fights with her boyfriend, they break up, she drinks some more, and then she gets back with her boyfriend. Repeat.
I really enjoyed the interview with Greg Zeboray, although I never imagined there would be insurance for porn shoots. The best aspect of the interview was his ability to speak with authority, insight, and intelligence.
I implore you…more interviews like Zeboray, and exclude any future inteviews with Mary Carey.