Keiko

4/7/05

When I get into Eon McKai's party, I see Keiko and Graham Ponante locked in a serious discussion. I stroll over.

Graham looks up at me: "This is a conversation that should be happening to you."

Keiko: "Luke's never hurt me."

It takes me a minute and then I remember the way Graham cut down Keiko's performance of a song at Porn Star Karaoke.

Half an hour later, I ask Keiko how the discussion went. "I made him feel really sh----," she says.

I am halfway into my second drink when Keiko wants me dead.

"I need to talk to you," she says.

"Should I sit down?" (I'm wondering if she and Rob want to move in with me and my family to open a restaurant.)

"Depends on how far you want to fall."

Keiko tells me that my review of her Rickie Lee Jones tributes at Porn Star Karaoke have hurt her, and that she was in fact accepted to Juilliard on the strength of her singing.

8/30/05

I chat with Rob Longshot, who's been on a tear on XPT. "I just think a bunch of people are producing garbage," he says. "The circus acts have gotten old. It's not erotic anymore. You can only do so much of that stuff before you start influencing the wrong people. The fans [of degrading porn] are serial killers in training. I don't even want them near me. If I knew that these people lived in my neighborhood, I would want them kicked out."

Duke: "Don't you think this is true for all porn?"

Rob: "Not necessarily. A lot of the market now is geared towards pedophiles and serial killers."

Duke: "Hasn't that always been the market for porn?"

Rob: "No. I think there's been an erotic market for it and there could be again. You've got people who try to shoot for a younger market but they're a bunch of posers."

Duke: "How would you like to be stuck on an island with people who are fans of your porn films?"

Rob: "I wouldn't."

Duke: "Do you pornography promotes race mixing?"

Rob: "I don't think all pornography promotes race mixing. That's a diplomatic answer."

Duke: "What do you think of interracial porn?"

Rob, who grew up in the South: "I'm not a fan of it.

"A lot of porn is revenge porn. Guys who couldn't get laid want to see girls beat up on."

Rob started off in horror movies.

Keiko says she's stopped doing interracial scenes because black guys take so long to get it up (a common observation in the industry).

9/6/05

Keiko says she's got 15 performers who are willing to work for free to make a porn video whose proceeds will go to the Red Cross. "If we get enough people to participate in the auction, that will cover the printing and duplication costs," she says.

Rob Longshot Disses Director Eon McKai

He writes on XPT:

Eon is even more of a worthless posuer whore than Dana. Maybe he can go impersonate a rapper and do some hip hop porn next. I wanted to think he had a vision, when in reality he's such a little wannabe emo fag its sad. Point in case, Art School: Kei was told I want a goth girl for my goth movie... she gets to set and he dresses her all emo and in pastel blue and shit. Not to mention the Scene i did for him for KgK2 where the asshole told me all week i was domming this girl and she gets there and shes like "ok, wheres the guy im domming.... " a 5' tall Dom girl and a 5' 10 Dom guy... no one in there right mind would book that.. it started off strong but we cancelled each other out and just went through the motions, after the scene he goes, "its ok, i didnt plan on using this scene anyway i purposely booked an extra". but beyond that his "Alt porn" persona is a f---ing image that he hides behind to try to get the kids to think hes cool. Everything is about "street cred" Even his namesake called him a poseur in an interview. If you want Goth Porn, look in my direction. If you want someone who rapes "alterna subcultures" because he sees dollar signs, look at the man who wont even show his face...

Eon McKai responds: "Rob I'm sorry you fell that way your [bad] scene will appear on KGK3 as an extra scene, so it's not shelved."

Eon's production manager Malachi Ecks writes on XPT:

I'm sorry you feel that way too Rob. I always found you affable, and I thought we were cool; but I guess not. We make no money because we don't crank out movies all of the time. There are more dollar signs in teens, all anal, or something normal for porn. Your captious enmity feels so left field to me. The best/worst/interesting thing is: The scene isn't cut yet. The girl was horrible to you; I felt bad because she sucked and wasn't what she was perceived and presented to me as. As far as I knew the scene was going to be cut to make you look great. You might have just dug your proverbial grave on this one.

11/1/05

Keiko and her husband (they married Oct 27 after living together for five years) Rob shaved most of their heads. They look like white children kidnapped by Indians.

Keiko explains that her hair was fried from five dye-and-fry jobs this summer and was falling out.

Rob did the jagged shave job on her head.

Luke: "What prompted you to get married?"

Keiko: "We looked at each other and said, 'It's our five-year anniversary. We're not going anywhere. We might as well get married."

Luke: "That's beautiful."

Keiko has not done a scene since August. "I have a bunch of wigs," she says. "If a director hires me and wants me to be a blonde that weekend, we're good."

City Beat Covers Porn Star Karaoke

Keiko Keiko Captain Bob (L-R) Estella Leon, Alexis Silver, Pamela Peaks, Echo Valley Estella, Alexis, Pamela Estella, Alexis, Pamela, Echo Alexis, Pamela, Echo Alexis, Pamela Alexis, Pamela Estella Leon Estella Leon Estella Estella Estella Estella Blonde, Judy Blonde, Judy Blonde, Judy Blonde Blonde, Judy Jeremy Steele Jeremy Steele Ron Jeremy, Monica Pastore Ron Jeremy, Monica Pastore Ron, Monica Ron, Monica Flower Tucci, Jimmy Mofo Flower, Mofo Flower, Mofo, April Storm Seymour, Ron Jeremy Seymour, Ron Jeremy Estella Leon Estella Leon Estella, Tee Reel Estella, Tee Reel Seymour, Monica Pastore Seymour, Monica Seymour, Monica Seymour, Monica Seymour, Monica Tee Reel, Stacey Tee Reel, Stacey Tee Reel, Stacey Judy, Seymour Judy, Seymour Seymour, Monica Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy Kayla Kupcakes Kayla Kenny Carolina and his partner Mike Katie, Ron Jeremy, Monica Alexis Silver Monica, Gianna Alexis Silver Alexis Jeremy Steele, Estella Leon Estella, Powder Estella, Powder Estella, Powder Estella, Powder girls Judy, Blonde, guy Stacey, Judy Judy, Stacey, Blonde

1/17/06

Rob Longshot and his wife Keiko are moving back to Florida February 1. Keiko says she'll study Forensic Anthropology. Rob has a "great job" and will try to finish his Engineering degree.

"You've heard about Donkey Punch, haven't you?" asked Keiko.

"No, I have not."

"Someone thought it would be a good idea to make a film about punching girls in the back of the head as you are about to come.

"OK, if we are going to keep catering to the wanna be serial rapists and serial murderers, then I'm out of here."

"Have you gradually grown disillusioned with porn?"

"Yes, and not all that gradually."

"Was there a time when you realized you had to get out?"

"I have no regrets about what I've done.

"I think a lot of the things came to a head with the Eon McKai debacle."

"Did you and Rob take this journey together [they moved to LA almost three years ago]?"

"We have this bizarre psychic connection where we make the same decisions at the same time."

"How many friends are you going to take from the porn industry into your real life?"

"About two or three. The sober ones. The ones that will remember me in two months."

Tara: "Eon McKai has been the hot topic in porn."

Keiko: "Considering I called him that ['the hot topic in porn']. He's about as edgy as a butter knife."

"Do you think Donkey Punch is edgy?"

"I think it is disturbing, disgusting and says something about the climate in this country and the way we're raising our children."

"What disturbs you about porn?"

"That the only thing they try to do to expand into other markets is to go into disturbing niches where it's all about vomiting, pissing, and bizarre crap that is not erotic."

Keiko says porn has "not changed me at all. I'm more addicted to caffeine that when I started.

"I've considered myself part of the porn community, but because there's such a drastic difference between myself and most porn stars, not really... Most of them are so high, they don't know which direction is up. Most of them bleach their hair so much, they don't have any brain cells left. They're doing [porn] to support their habits and their dead-beat boyfriends."

"You bleached your hair a lot."

"I didn't bleach my hair to be blonde. I bleached it to dye it red. And I only did it four times in six months."

"What percentage of porn stars would you estimate have a drug problem or alcohol problem or an unhealthy relationship problem?"

"About 93-95%. There are 10-15 of us who are all right."

"What have you learned from your time in porn?"

"That it is not as glamorous as it looks in the finished product. And even the finished product isn't all that glamorous."

"What have you learned from your time in porn?"

"In the last three years, I've learned that this isn't a good place to be for an extended period of time, especially not if you want to have a family and raise kids."

"Could someone have told you this three years ago?"

"I would've believed them but I would've said, I've got three years to spare, so I'm going to go ahead and do this and see what it is like and make my own mistakes and then be a homebody."

"Can there be such a thing as a pornographer who is a good person?"

"It's possible but highly unlikely. Just to be a part of this business, this childish juvenile bulls---, dealing with it makes you want to hurt people and be a bad person. The way you're treated, you're just scum like everybody else. Eventually you become what you've been acting like.

"Pornographers are capitalizing on lives that have already been ruined. If the market is there for you to take people whose lives have been ruined and make a profit off of it..."

"Do you think that is honorable?"

"No more dishonorable than selling alcohol or cigarettes or guns to people who will use them to hurt people."

Rob Longshot: "The evening news does nothing but make money off of people's ruined lives."

Keiko: "Good news doesn't sell. If there's not a body or a fire or thousands of dollars in damages, people don't want to hear about it."

Rob: "All forms of media feed off of people's misery."

"Was there a moment when you realized you had to get out of porn?"

"When I realized that everything I said I was not going to do, I was doing. Before I came out here, I wasn't a believer in the rough stuff. Then I found myself shooting it. One day I took a look at myself and said I can contribute more to society than this. This happened a while ago."

"Was it the Eon McKai thing?"

"No. It started before then.

"I'm a big fan of erotica, but the people who are currently making it don't have the creativity to make erotic art. So they go for the lowest common denominator, which is what sells. It takes a lot more [effort] to sell something that is not degrading. The degrading stuff is already sold.

"The moment I decided to leave LA was when Donkey Punch came out."

Keiko laughs: "Future serial killers."

"How did you find yourself making nasty porn?"

"It all comes down to the almighty dollar, and in LA you need a lot of them. That's why I'm going to [Florida] because you don't need as much of it there."

Luke: "Did you lose any illusions during your time in porn?"

Rob: "Quite a few."

Keiko: "None of those girls are really that hot."

Rob: "I found myself more attracted to the real world. It grounded me. It made me appreciate the real world more.

"My creativity has been sapped the past three years. I haven't written a song in three years. In the past few weeks, since we've planned to go back, I've written an hour's worth of music."

Gia Jordan writes on XPT: "When I was brand, brand new, someone told me PSK would be a great way to network in the business. Network my ass! I guess if you're dying to be in a Dave Pounder production, sure. I've been there a total of 3 times and maybe once every blue moon, someone from a good company is there. I'm not much of a drinker anyway and I'm not much of a karaoke person in general, so just because it includes the word porn star..."

Gen Padova writes: "I've been to PSK a few times a little over a year ago. If you're not big on drinking or tolerating a wild drunken irritating crowd of people that are trying very hardly to land a spot in the biz, its not for you. I'd have to say every time I've been there I never felt comfortable to be myself. I was very shy, reserved and well kept to myself because I was so freaked out by the weirdos. The only cool kat there was being able to sit with Stormy."