Violet Blue Update

I call Violet Oct 29, 2004. She's waking up from a nap.

Remember me? I did the ultimate Violet Blue interview with you for www.setgo.com.

Violet: "Oh, that interview. I got into so much trouble over that. People just can't read sarcasm. The whole second half of the interview I was just f---ing with you and nobody could understand that."

I thought it was great.

"It was awesome."

People got so upset.

"Especially people up in Berkeley.

"The Black Broom is having a grand opening party tonight. Me and a bunch of other girls are going to be dancing there. It's at 5050 Vineland in Horth Hollywood. It sells Wiccan stuff. Chalices, oils, cauldrons.

"I just got back from doing a movie for Heidi Fleiss.

"I went to Burning Man. I've been four times."

I chat by phone May 14, 2003 with 26-year old porn star Violet Blue.

Luke: How did you get into this industry?

Violet: By way of an agent named Roy Garcia. He met me while I was dancing at a club in Salt Lake City, Utah. He asked me if I wanted to do some magazine shoots. I said yes. We came out here in April 2000. I didn't get any magazine shoots because I was pale and had short black hair. He wouldn't put me into any gothic stuff. He wanted me to run out of money so that I would do porn.

Violet giggles.

Violet: I ran out of money after three weeks so I started doing porn and I realized that I liked it. It's easy money.

Luke: What do you hate about the business?

Violet: I hate when new people come into the business and don't get tested for gonorrhea and chlamydia. I hate people writing me emails asking me to escort with them. I feel there's a big strong line between prostitution and porn.

Luke: How long did you stay with Roy Garcia and why did you move on?

Violet: For about a year. He wasn't getting me any work so I just started getting my own work. Then we had a big fight and we made up. If he gets me work, I pay him for it. He hasn't gotten me a job in eight months. [Black agent] DK got me more work. I guess DK has quite a past...

People listen to me more with brown hair. [Violet's been a brunette since October 2002.] When I was blonde, I'd be talking to somebody and they wouldn't hear me. The first day I was a brunette, I went to work and one of the lighting guys said, 'Yo, I actually heard what you said. You're actually a smart girl. I thought you were stupid because you were blonde.' I prefer being a brunette. I don't get nearly as much attention on the street but it's a lot nicer to have people listen to you as opposed to look at you. I like to do movies that have a lot of acting in them. I like to do anything strange.

Luke: Do you wear a pentagram around your neck?

Violet: Yes.

Luke: And what does that symbolize?

Violet: Protection. It symbolizes that I am a free person and I can do whatever I put my mind to.

Luke: But isn't it considered a Satanic symbol?

Violet: No. Anton LeVay adopted the upside down one. He started the Church of Satan. The Pentagram has existed since ancient Egypt.

Luke: Now, you're married and you also have a boyfriend?

Violet: Yes. I've been married for four years. I have a little boy who is three-and-a-half years old. I also have a boyfriend for [a year or so] who's my webmaster.

Luke: Does your boyfriend know about your husband and vice versa?

Violet: Yeah, they hang out together. They're friends.

Luke: That's not weird?

Violet: Not at all. I don't have sex with my husband. I haven't had sex with him in eight months. We love each other and we care about each other but we're basically best friends. We're a partnership. We're raising our son together. We live together. We share a bed. I stay with my boyfriend every other night. My boyfriend and I have an open relationship. So long as I let him know about it, I can have sex with anyone I want. I like everything to be really open. Communication is key.

Luke: Does your husband ever bring other women home?

Violet: He has. There was one girl he was seeing for quite a while. But she was crazy, so they broke up. I tried to tell him but he wouldn't listen to me. He was blinded by the fact that she was gorgeous.

Luke: It says on your website that you are into studying religion?

Violet: I started studying religion when I was six years old. Then I really got into alternative religions when I was 14. I got into witchcraft and Wiccan when I was 16. I was initiated into a coven when I was 19. I was initiated into my second coven when I was 21. I've been a member of the OTO (Order of the Temple Orientis) since I was 21.

Luke: I went to the OTO website and found this:

"Ordo Templi Orientis is the first of the great Old Æon orders to accept The Book of the Law, received by Aleister Crowley in 1904 EV. This book proclaims a New Æon in human thought, culture and religion. The Æon arises from a single supreme injunction: the Law of Thelema, which is Do what thou wilt."

"This Law is not to be interpreted as a license to indulge every passing whim, but rather as the mandate to discover one's True Will and accomplish it; leaving others to do the same in their own unique ways. "Every man and every woman is a star." The Law of Thelema can ultimately be fulfilled only through the individual efforts of each person. Nevertheless, many worthy aspirants to the Great Work of Thelema have a genuine need for information, guidance, fellowship, or the opportunity to assist their fellow aspirants and serve humanity. Such aspirants will find welcome in OTO."

"OTO was originally affiliated with European Masonry but is no longer a Masonic organization, though it shares some terminology and traditions with Masonry. The complex but intriguing history of OTO may be of interest for the light it sheds on the origins of our current organization and goals."

Violet: We perform Gnostic masses the way they were meant to be performed before the Roman Catholics changed it.

Luke: Do these organizations have anything to say about the adult industry?

Violet: Not really. Their whole motto is - "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."

Luke: Are a lot of other people in the adult industry in these organizations?

Violet: No. I know that Jewel DeNyle is a witch, a strega, Italian witchcraft.

Luke: Does OTO have anything to say about abortion?

Violet: Do what thou wilt. As long as you are listening to your true self, and not your ego self, then whatever you do is God's will because every man and woman is God.

Luke: Have you encountered anyone who's freaked out that you are into these things?

Violet: Not really. I believe in God. I don't really believe that Jesus was the Son of God. As soon as people study [devil worship, witchcraft] they realize that it is harmless and a comforting way to live.

Luke: Have you encountered many people who are freaked out you are a porn star?

Violet: Oh yeah. Family and friends from childhood. My Dad doesn't quite understand. He's 87-years old. He doesn't know anything about the porn industry. He knows that I do adult movies. My Mom is cool with it. She's 58. My brother Chris is cool with it. Nobody approves because they were all raised Baptist Christian and it is set in stone that you are not supposed to sell your body. My brother Kenny thinks that I am just a slut. He's the only one who spent two years in prison so I can't be any worse than him.

Luke: Was there anything in childhood that predisposed you to working in this industry?

Violet: The drive to make money and be successful.

Luke: How old were you when you lost your virginity?

Violet: Thirteen.

Luke: That's a bit young.

Violet: Not for my area. Around my school, everyone lost their virginity when they were eleven and twelve. I was one of the latest ones.

Luke: You won Best New Starlet from AVN in 2002. What did that mean to you?

Violet: That I was finally recognized as a porn star.

Luke: It says on your website that it was one of the happiest moments of your life.

Violet: I don't think I wrote that. My webmaster writes stuff. He takes liberties. I was happy. It was the first award I'd ever won aside from cheerleading, and Miss Congeniality in high school and Miss Composure. I was wearing this huge red ball gown and I was walking with my father up a flight of stairs. My Dad fell and I managed lift my Dad up and walk the rest of the stairs and remain composed.

Luke: So you haven't had any bad experiences with agents?

Violet: No, I've been lucky. Belladonna had to climb out the window once at Roy's house.

Luke: Do you ever regret getting into this industry?

Violet: I regret not starting medical school when I was younger. I should've taken harder classes high school so I wouldn't have had to waste time getting other classes taken care of so I could go to university. I wish that I would've been able to stick with college. I didn't have the money. I didn't get any scholarships because I only had a 3.71 GPA. I didn't do very well because I was a stoner. I started smoking pot at age 15 and I quit when I left college. I eat it every now and again. It cured my glaucoma.

Luke: How long do you plan to stay around this industry?

Violet: Another year or so... It depends on if I get a contract.

Luke: Do you have tattoos?
Violet says she has four.

Luke: Did you breastfeed your son?

Violet: Yes.

Luke: Did it do anything to your breasts?

Violet: No. They still look the same as they did before I got pregnant. My stomach muscles aren't as strong as they used to be. I had some stretchmarks on my boobs and bum but they're gone. I'm 5'3" and I weigh 110.

Violet doesn't like to rise before noon.

Luke: Are most of the people you like to socialize with within the industry?

Violet: No. My only friends within the industry are Julie Knight and Monica Mayhem. I don't hang out with girls often. For eight months, I dated Steve Taylor, male porn star. He got out last year. I mainly hang out with my husband and OTO members.

Luke: When you deal with civilians, what do you say you do for a living?

Violet: Model, actress.

Luke: When they press you?

Violet puts on an excited voice: Adult actress? Oh my... Can you get me videos?' I just want to pat them on the head.

Luke: You don't feel like you've paid a huge price for entering this industry?

Violet: Not at all. All my peers from school are really cool with it. They think it is neat that I am an award-winning porn star. A lot of the older people around my home town don't know, but a lot that do, don't approve. They think that I am stupid icky dirty slut. I'm going to have to deal with that when I move back home, because my Mom gave me a house. When I move back to Washington, I'm going to have to deal with being shunned. But all you have to do to start being accepted in that community is to start going to church, which I don't mind doing.

Luke: What are your favorite Christian hymns?

Violet: I don't know. I haven't sung a hymn since I was six.

Luke: How have you changed from your time in the industry?

Violet: I've gotten more apprehensive about meeting new people. I'm also a bit more shallow. I don't have as much patience with things as I used to. Whenever I want something, I get it. It's made me more business oriented.

The industry relies on using people. A lot of the people you meet in the porn industry, they pretend to be your friend. And they're nice to you. But you know that deep down inside, they don't give a crap.

Luke: Is it going to be hard for you to grow old?

Violet: No. My beauty is all inside. My face is just a bonus. If I'm not happy with myself as I age, I'll get plastic surgery.

Violet plans to have another kid in a year with her present husband.

Luke: You'll have to have sex.

Violet: We have sex about once a year. I don't really like having sex with him but he is my husband. I do love him. I will have sex with him if I want a child.

Luke: Is he going to be reading this interview?

Violet: I don't care if he does or not. He knows I don't like having sex with him. He doesn't much like having sex with me either. He likes eating my pussy though.

Before I had my kid, I could enjoy sex with my husband. But after I had my kid, I couldn't. I was just too big. Flapping in the wind.

Luke: I've experienced that. I can't stir the drink with my straw.

Luke: What books are you reading?

Violet: Magick by Aleister Crowley, Fahrenheit 451, Genesis, and Time out of Joint by Phillip K. Dick, and Heavier Than Heaven, the Kurt Cobain biography.

Luke: Who are your heroes?

Violet: I don't think I really have any.

Luke: Do you cast magical spells on people?

Violet: I have done two. I was casting a love spell on a guy and my roommate ended up walking in while I was doing this, so he fell in love with her. They're still together six years later.

Luke: Did you kill anybody?

Violet: No. I don't need to cast spells. All my spells were done out of necessity - cleansing spells on myself... I can just think of something I want to happen and it will happen.

In my religion, I don't need to sacrifice living things to my god. Of course in Christianity, they are supposed to sacrifice living things to Yahweh, which is scary. He's a resentful mofu. He's the first one. He's the Old Testament god. The New Testament god is very happy and pleasant. Jesus was loving and caring and great. The one before that, he was a terror. He was always blowing up stuff, making mountains erupt and killing a bunch of people.

Luke: What about the New Testament god demanding human sacrifice of his son?

Violet: Well, he's not really the New Testament god. He's the Old Testament god.

Luke: Who demands sacrifice of his son?

Violet: Yeah. Whenever they did sacrifice Jesus, it was because he needed to die. He told Judas to tell them to come get him.

Luke: Do you believe Jesus is God?

Violet: No.

Luke: Do you believe that if you believe in him, you will have eternal life?

Violet: No. I think Jesus was an amazing prophet and that it is really sad that the Jews killed him, because he could've been a great leader.

Luke: Do you think the Jews have suffered for two thousand years for doing that?

Violet: Yes.

Yes, I definitely think that. I mean, look at the history. I definitely think that. They were really stupid to have done that because he could've really led them to victory. And they hung him up on a cross next to thieves and murderers.

She laughs.

Luke: So how did they go from killing Jesus to running the pornography industry?

Violet: Do Jewish people run the pornography industry?

Luke: Yeah. Steve Hirsch, Paul Fishbein, Ed Powers. Ron Jeremy.

Violet: They're not really Jewish.

Luke: They're not practicing Orthodox Jews.

Violet: Exactly. That means that they are not Jewish.

Luke: They're ethnically Jewish but not...

Violet: There's no such thing as ethnically Jewish. Either you are Jewish or you are not. It's a religion not anything to do with ethnicity.

Luke: Were there any Jews where you grew up?

Violet: I never met any.

Luke: Until you entered the porn industry.

Violet: No. I don't know that many Jews. I don't know anybody who practices Judaism. I've met a few people who do practice but half the time I know more about the damn religion than they do, especially about the Jewish mysticism, the Kaballah. I don't consider them true practicing Jews unless they're like a rabbi and of course I've never even talked to a rabbi. They'd never talk to me.

Luke: Why?

Violet: Because I'm not Jewish.

They're not likely to knock on your door and ask you... They like to keep their religious thing closed. They're a very closed society. They're a lot like witches.

Luke: I've got a list here of all the Jews in the porn industry.

Violet: But are they practicing Jews?

Luke: None of them are.

Violet: Then they are not Jewish.

DUC reads off a list of names, including Ron Jeremy.

Violet: Ron Jeremy doesn't look Jewish. Not without that little thing on top of his head. Ed Powers looks Jewish. Paul Fishbein doesn't look Jewish.

If you look at the number of people who were Mormon before they got into the industry, there's a lot. Like Belladonna.

Luke: There are quite a few from religious backgrounds...

Violet: Breaking out of the structure of religion, out of their moral selves.

Luke: All the Jews in the industry are not religious.

Violet: I know. They couldn't be. If they actually believed in Judaism, they wouldn't be doing porn. That's for certain.

Luke: If someone was doing Judaism, could they write about the porn industry?

Violet: Sure, they could write about it, as long as they are not participating in it.

Luke: Did you gain any benefit from studying the mystical side of Judaism?

Violet: Of course. I learned how the universe worked.

Yahweh has been dead for over a thousand years. He just disappeared. Haven't you noticed? There haven't been any hands of God coming out of the sky destroying entire cities because they have sex? That hasn't happened in over a thousand years because He's gone. He probably got kicked out by some other gods.

Luke: If He showed up again, would you be surprised?

Violet: Yeah.

Luke: Would you change your life?

Violet: No, I would strike to kill him. He's a bad bad god. He's horrible.

Luke: What did you think about the war to free Iraq?

Violet: I think it was kinda silly but I think we should just kill the entire Middle East. That way we wouldn't have terrorism any more.

Luke: Are you bothered that California is being overrun by illegal immigration?

Violet: Yeah, I think they should all go back to where they belong or learn how to speak English. Did you know that there's no word for 'maintenance' in the Mexican language? I know a lot of nice Mexicans but there are a lot of Mexican scum who tend to live off the government and have a bunch of babies. I don't think we should be that open to immigration from Mexico.

Luke: Do you think we need more Muslim immigrants.

Violet: No, they keep buying up all the 7-11s. I think all immigrants should learn how to speak English. If they speak English, I'm happy. I hate when I drive through the Valley and I can't read any of the billboards because they are in Spanish. That's why I am going to go back up to Washington where all there are a few American Indians and Koreans. Everybody is white. It's a wonderful wonderful thing. It's clean. There aren't a lot of icky people. If you look at it, most bums are either black or white. I'm surprised there are not more Mexican bums.

Luke: I think we've gone places in this interview I've never taken any porn star before.

Violet: I feel special.

12/9/04

On Set With Cytherea, Kelly Wells, Violet Blue

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Rob Spallone is producing another edition of America's premiere heart-warming family-favorite series since the Cosby Show -- Bang My Tight White Ass.

Within a few minutes of walking inside, shaking hands with director Ron Sullivan, photographer Bill Diehl, production manager Kenny Carolina and greeting Brian and Cytherea (of Cytherea Productions), I find my bad mood lifting. I start laughing. I check out the new girl -- Kelly Wells. She's 20 and slim and blonde and real.

Everyone thinks she's petrified. She'll be taking on two big black guys -- Byron Long and Bishop.

I find there's nothing like an interracial double penetration to take away the blues.

I'm a lonesome dove no longer. I've got important work to do.

It's 10 am. Brian lounges on the couch surrounded by Cytherea's four dogs. Cytherea's just gotten up. She wears no make-up. She's coming to life.

Brian shows me their Santa Claus. It has a male appendage.

Rob Spallone drives up and walks in, amping up the excitement. He has a major Penthouse casting call Tuesday. Rob hands out business cards for its Holiday Inn location in Woodland Hills.

Ron tells Cytherea that he wants to get his ear pierced again. He had it done the first time at Cytherea's house around his 65th birthday.

"She made a big thing about it," says Ron. "Just as they were about to puncture my ear, she unzipped my fly and took my dick out and started sucking my dick to distract me."

I have my tape recorder out capturing everything.

Rob warns Ron: "He's writing everything you say."

Ron: "I don't care."

Rob's still talking about Bill Margold's dire predictions for his talent call.

Despite it all, he's as happy as two black men with a white girl to poke. He boasts that he has no more warrants out for his arrest, and just a minor court appearance Friday morning.

Rob just graduated from anger management (not that the 52 classes have done him much good).

Rob says about his teacher (after telling me to shut off my tape recorder): "He says that I am one client he will never forget. And he don't make much money. He gets like a $100 per class.

"Usually, when someone graduates, they have pizza. I have never graduated from anything in my life. I wanted a diploma. The guy went out and bought me a diploma.

"Then I find out there's a warrant out for my arrest. I was supposed to be in court in October. If I had been pulled over, [Rob might've gone to jail]."

Byron Long, 35, arrives. He carries a drink. I guess 10am is not too early for a beer. But it turns out he's sipping a non-alcoholic energy drink. What kind of set is this? Soon they'll be passing out milk.

Bishop arrives late. He's eager for his "prison rape season" with Byron and Kelly Wells.

At a shoot earlier this week, Bishop had his car alarm go off. The LAPD rolled up and questioned him. Bishop was not cooperative. So they through him in county jail for two days. Now he's a free man and he's got a beautiful young white woman to pork. Life is good.

Bishop: "They ran my background information. And based on a warrant from many years ago..."

Ron: "How long have you been black?"

Bishop: "For about 40 years now."

Ron: "Haven't you learned yet?"

Duke to Bishop: "Did you get raped?"

Bishop laughs: "Almost."

Duke: "When was the warrant?"

Bishop: "Twelve years ago. Marijuana found its way into my possession. I met all the state's requirements for that infraction -- probation, work release."

Kelly looks up as the conversation progresses. Do I read fear in her eyes?

Duke: "Were you drunk [when Bishop was questioned by the LAPD]?"

Bishop: "No. I was on my way to work so I wasn't drunk yet.

"Apparently they didn't like my attitude."

Duke: "Why weren't you more cooperative with the nice police officers?"

Bishop: "They weren't playing nice with me. They asked me a bunch of questions that they had no right to ask. Once I proved that this was my vehicle and that I wasn't breaking into it, that should've been the end of our interaction."

Duke: "What questions were they asking?"

Bishop: "Where I been. What I was doing there."

Duke: "Did you tell them you were a porn star?"

Bishop: "I didn't think that would be helpful. Men cannot be porn stars. Only women can be porn stars. Men are just props.

"Every time I've talked with the LAPD, it has been an unfavorable interaction. Those guys and I just don't see things from eye-to-eye."

Ron says Kelly looks nervous. "I'd be nervous too if I was about to be f----- by Byron Long."

Rob tells a story about dropping off his kids to his ex-wife this week. They were hanging out in a clubhouse and accidentally tripped off an alarm. When they walked outside, they were surrounded by LAPD officers who had weapons drawn.

Bishop: "Lucky you weren't a black man or you would've been shot in the back."

Rob says he's going to McDonalds. Anybody want anything?

Byron: "Get some young meaty girls."

Duke: "What's wrong with the one you got?"

Byron: "She's only a snack. I need meat."

Ron says he would never hire Sean Michaels because he spoke like a white man.

Byron says that it is not a matter of talking white, but talking educated.

As I listen to Byron, I realize he talks like a white man. I ask him if he went to college. Yes. He got his degree in biology from UCLA in 1991. His parents expected him to go to medical school.

Byron served in the military full-time from 1990-94, and was then in the reserves for six years. He entered porn in 1994. "In the lull of life," he says.

Duke: "Why didn't you go to medical school?"

Byron: "Because doctors are jokes."

Duke: "Why are they jokes?"

Byron: "They're practicioners."

Bishop: "They kill people."

Duke: "What's wrong with being a practicioner?"

Bishop giggles.

Byron: "There's people who heal and there are people who practice. All doctors really do is hand out medication. When you go see a doctor, he has no real idea of what's the matter with you. But you're going to leave that day with a prescription."

Byron says prescription drugs don't help people.

Duke: "But what about lithium?"

Duke owes his sanity, such as it is, to lithium.

Byron: "Bipolar? Let me tell you a story about a girl I knew in the business. She was bipolar. As long as she smoked the good bud, she was straight. As soon as she started hanging out with people who told her it wasn't good to smoke that herb, and she went back to that medicine..."

Byron makes dramatic swinging motions with his arms to indicate her changing moods.

So no, Byron (who grew up in Inglewood, a middle-class black community near LAX) does not endorse lithium for people with bipolar disorder. Instead, he recommends "the good bud." Otherwise known as "that herb."

Byron: "Another case in point. My mother almost died a couple of years ago. She had a brain aneurism. It had grown the size of your fist lodged in her brain. She was going brain. We take her to the hospital. She gets surgery. She was the one person that lived. The reason that it never exploded is that she smoked the bud all the time with me.

"When she got out of the hospital, she was given a medication with the side effect of seizures. They gave somebody who had brain surgery medicine that had the side effect of seizures. I took her off that s---. I put her on herb. She smoked the herb all the time and she hasn't been sick since. Every six months when she goes to the doctors, they ask, are you taking the medicine we gave you? They're trying to figure out why she's still alive, because they know the medicine they gave her is crap."

Byron speaks against pharmaceutical companies and for Eastern medicine. "The only reason it isn't accepted in Western society is that Western society is based on religious beliefs. How are you going to accept that somebody else has a better system of medicine than you when you believe the earth didn't start until 3,000 years ago and you have a group of people who had medicine 4,000 years ago. That doesn't sound right [from a Western perspective]. How are you going to have medicine longer than you've been on the planet? When you have a society developed by a religious group, certain things can't happen. Western medicine is based, not on healing, but on making money. If you heal somebody, they don't come back.

"Any time you have a corporation that has made six billion dollars, I don't think the mother------- need much more money. You should drop out of the game and let some other people make money."

Duke: "Do you think porn heals people?"

Byron is taken aback for a few seconds. He thinks before speaking: "Some porn does, but there's a lot of porn in this industry that's just wrong."

Duke: "Like what?"

Byron: "Anybody who wants to do the most extreme thing [is probably not healing]. What people don't realize is that we are dealing with women. The same young ladies we are calling sluts, hos, bitches, whatever... That's your momma. Because she's a woman too. If you one woman is bad, you must think all women is bad. A lot of the porn made in this industry is not geared towards sexuality. It's geared towards a group of men who don't particularly like women. They want to make sure that there's pain...anger. That there's no sexual anything. When you have a scene where they're trying to make a girl cry. Where they're trying to break her. 'Yeah, we f----- her up. She ain't going to work for days.'

"You don't like women."

Duke: "You don't do those scenes?"

Byron: "No. They say I'm too nice. They call me a lover. That's not what they're looking for. I won't call women bitches. They're pretty girls. They're all pretty girls. I like getting women off."

Ron Sullivan lectures his talent before the scene. Ron is not a fan of double penetration (because, he says, people don't do it in real life), yet he must shoot it because the market (and his producer Rob Spallone) demands it. So Ron comes up with creative scenarios to make the scene more meaningful and humane. The guys are supposed to take turns "doing her in the butt. I like it slow. It's nasty when it's slow. I can see it better."

Kelly looks scared.

Byron and Silvio (a black performer in his early 40s) discuss colors. I don't quite follow. I press for explanations. Byron asks if I have noticed that most black men in the business wear the same color -- blue.

I'm not sure if these "colors" are gang-related or slavery-related. It's not easy being a poor outgunned white child on a black man's shoot.

It used to be a scandal if a white woman went with a black man. Now it's cool.

Byron uses the phrase, "to true-up."

Duke: "What does it mean?"

Byron: "They're true to their colors. They're true-blue."

Duke: "Are those gang colors?"

Byron and Sylvio protest. "No, not necessarily."

They're smiling broadly at the ignorance of this white man.

Sylvio: "I just like to wear red a lot. That way they know it's me. We'll leave it at that."

Duke: "Sylvio, what gang do you identify with?"

Sylvio and Byron repeat that it had nothing to do with gangs. It's just that Sylvio's favorite color is red.

I ask Byron what was the predominant gang in his home community of Inglewood.

Byron: "I wouldn't say there was a gang in Inglewood. There was a family."

Duke: "What was it called?"

Byron: "Inglewood family."

Byron smiles. "Hey Sylvio. There's no gang in Inglewood, right? There's a family."

Sylvio agrees. They laugh in the hearty manner of the well endowed black man who knows that the tiny white girl is his oyster.

Duke: "What about Crips and Bloods?"

They say they don't know nothing about that.

Byron: "I would never be caught slip-walking. My friends wouldn't appreciate me doing that."

They won't explain "slip-walking" to me.

Sylvio: "It's exactly what it sounds like."

I guess it is some inner-city black gang thing.

Ron Sullivan is married to a black woman (though he does not recommend it) and it is his best marriage yet (after five tries).

When Byron Long takes off his red beanie, he displays a pair of ponytails.

He tells Ron Sullivan to remove the disinfectant wipes he's been using on the sink and floor in Cytherea's kitchen from the scene (taking place in the kitchen) in case the girl mistakes them for the sanitary wipes she'll use later on intimate parts of her body.

Kelly (20yo, 5'10, and 34B) says she's been in porn three months (after three months stripping in Las Vegas at Palominos) and done 40 movies. She got into it through a friend who said she'd make a lot of money and have a lot of fun.

Kelly said she couldn't f--- on camera. Her friend said that's where the money comes in. It's a good motivator.

Kelly says that if you are going to do porn, you might as well do it right.

As the scene begins, I walk outside into the sunshine and throw a football back and forth with Rob. Football is our favorite sport to watch.

I ask Sylvio when he was last in prison. He says it was 17 years ago.

I hear Misha has quit as publicist for VCA. As could be expected, there has been a ton of turnover at the company since LFP bought it.

I hear former VCA owner Russell Hampshire is looking good and doing well. He was just off to Hawaii for a vacation. I suspect he's playing a lot of golf and working in his garden.

White kid Mike Johns learned Spanish and headed down to Costa Rica a few years ago to work in Internet gambling. He made a ton of money and now shoots for Red Light District, which is funded by its owner's (David Joseph Giarusso) Costa Rican gambling operation.

I hear Kelly said to Byron, "Did you just put your head in my ass?"

Byron: "The good news is -- my cock ain't got no shoulders."

Harry Weiss had Thanksgiving dinner at the home of Cytherea. As he cut up some pork, he said, "This pink turkey ain't bad."

Violet Blue, 29, drives up. She gets out of her car and shakes Brian's hand. Then she gives him her bag.

Her scene partner Sylvio walks up. They start making out.

Brian: "I'm carrying your bag and you only shook my hand."

Cytherea has crashed her scooter a couple of times. After she drives off, I ask Brian if his wife is a good driver. "Yes," he says, "except when she gets distracted, and is talking on her cell phone, and having a drink while she's driving."

A few minutes later, we hear a car roar outside the gate. It's Cytherea. She can't work the code to get in.

Violet Blue and Sylvio make out again.

Taking a breath, she says, "Good thing we're both married."

I ask Sylvio how his wife likes him working in porn. He says she don't. She's 57.

"Most wives wouldn't like their husbands working in porn," says Violet.

She yawns, even though she had more than eight hours of sleep last night.

She's been married for five years, and has had a boyfriend for three years. Now she has a new boyfriend in addition to her other two men. She and her husband are talking about divorce. They're only married for the sake of their son.

Violet is about to take her fourth degree of Wiccan test. She'll become an elder.

Rob has Brian put on the movie Donnie Brasco, one of Rob's favorites. He's long named my Donnis Brasco. Rob says I'm an undercover FBI agent who will bring everybody down. "Agent Luke Brasco dot com."

Rob asks if I ever wear my uniform. "Only on dates," I say. "Some women like that."

I imagine Rob as the Al Pacino character in the movie, playing with his birds and waiting for his crime family to whack him.

Rob tells Brian to put the sound on.

"Wait till Fellini's done in there," says Brian.

"Tell them to go outside and shoot," says Rob.

Jim South handed off Rob Spallone's mail to an assistant. Now Rob has the stack on the table in front of him. He has six offers for credit, from mortgage refinancing to new credit cards. Don't they know this man is filing bankruptcy any day?

We hear loud moans from the kitchen. The two black men are thrilled with their delicate white maiden Kelly, whose yelps indicate she's far from unhappy. It's a good thing Dr. William Pierce never lived to see the series Bang My Tight White Ass.

Rob says I have caused him more aggravation than anybody in the past eight years. He's disappointed he wasn't able to raise $200,000 from the industry to frighten me away from porn.

Cytherea's black cocker spaniel wanders into the kitchen during the scene. "She wants some too," says Kelly.

Brian says to Ron that he has a feature and some gonzos for him to shoot.

"Features are for faggots," says Ron, probably the greatest feature director of the 1980s.

I ask Brian if he shoots bestiality. "Some of the girls we had at the house a few weeks ago," he says, "could've been confused to animals."

Brian's black t-shirt says "white guy" on the front and "f--- y'all, you all." But without the dashes on the obscene word.

Brian remembers Ron shooting a scene in his pool a few weeks ago. Brian pulled out his remote control and directed his boats in the pool into the scene.

"What are those dildos doing on the window sill?" I ask.

"They're air fresheners," says Rob.

Brian complains that on every Rob shoot, Rob and his crew raid the kitchen. "Rob's crew descends like locusts."

Rob sucks down a load of Brian's custard.

"It's a Rob Spallone shoot," says Brian. "I'm out of food and my kitchen smells like turds."

The scene is finished. Kelly is cleaning off. Ron Sullivan collars her in a corner and tells her all about himself. That she should stay in touch with him so he can get her work. She should give him her number. That he was Henri Pachard. She should search "Henri Pachard" on the Internet. That he shot more pornos on film than anybody during the 1980s.

"I'm as humble as an elephant in heat," Ron admits to me later.

12:35: Violet Blue says, "Ron, you're out of enemas."

Rob gives Ron money and he drives to 7-11 to buy more.

I ask Kelly if she's sore after her scene. "Not at all," she replies.

She's shooting for Meatholes.com on Tuesday.

"Is that the one where they have the girl beating up on the girl?" Violet Blue asks.

"Yeah," I say.

"I did that. I beat up a little asian girl. I beat up people in my personal."

Duke: "How many people do you have to beat up to become an elder in Wicca?"

Violet: "You don't. That's a stupid question."

Photographer Bill Diehl: "Hey Rob. People are asking for water."

Rob: "I just sent Ron to the store."

Brian asks Kelly, "What don't you do?"

Kelly: "I do everything."

Rob boasts about his AVN nominations for The Sopornos.

Kelly has red eyes. She got stung with the man seed. It happens every time. They're just supposed to shoot on her face but they always get some in her eye.

I hate it when that happens.

Violet and Kelly discuss stripping at Palominos in Las Vegas. They both know Kat, the morning manager.

Kelly: "She has big breasts. She can make her pussy talk."

Violet nods.

Kelly says stripping was boring. She grew to resent guys. They wanted to see all of her without paying for it.

Brian: "I know this guy who'd go to clubs and his thing was -- he wanted girls to stomp on his nuts."

Violet Blue says she is a "ceremonial magician" in OTO.

"Ordo Templi Orientis, the Order of Oriental Templars, or Order of the Temple of the East..."

Duke: "Do you guys have gun?"

Violet: "We don't need guns."

Violet says "we can only do spells on ourself. It's your own will acting... When I was in college, I cast a spell [for] this guy I was madly in love with. My roommate walked in as I was casting the spell. My energy got divereted towards her. He ended up falling in love with her and they're not married."

Violet majored in "Environmental Studies" at college but she did not graduate.

Kenny: "Do you guys have orgies?"

Violet: "Unofficially. There have been some parties that got wild. Usually it ends up in spankings and whippings as opposed to orgies. It's not an OTO event but OTO people tend to be wild."

Violet Blue's husband is a production manager for Stony Curtis at Lethal Hardcore.

Duke: "Does your husband every say, take your hands off my wife!"

Violet: "Why would he say that? He could care less who has his hands on me."

Kelly asks Violet: "You've been in the business for a while, right?"

Violet: "Yeah, four years now."

Kelly: "How often do you shoot?"

Violet: "About four times a month. Not very much."

Kelly: "Not very much. You probably shot a lot, huh?"

Violet: "Oh yeah. I was shooting every day for two years."

Kelly: "Tiring."

Violet: "It's not that. People shoot you for all their gonzo lines and then they can only shoot you for features. Features only happen every so often. I don't even know what this one is for."

Kelly: "The rumor is that if you shoot four or five days a week, you won't be in the business in four months, because you'll be shot out.

"I met a woman who shot every day for years [Bridgette Kerkove]. She's done over a thousand scenes and she's only been in porn for a few years."

Violet: "It helps that her husband Skeeter is a director and she'll take a baseball bat up her ass."

Bridget Kerkove won Best New Starlet in 2000. Tera Patrick won in 2001. Violet Blue in 2002. Jenna Haze in 2003. Stormy in 2004.

Violet: "Bridget said that after she won Best New Starlet she didn't work for a long time. The same thing happened to me. Everyone thinks your rates are too expensive. It didn't help that my manager Roy G-rcia told everybody that my rate went up $200. Stay far away from Roy."

Roy replies: "Funny, last week she was e-mailing me & calling me for work and I haven’t been an agent for almost 2 years – idiot. Especially since I was calling her today for a job I’m shooting. Double idiot. Word of advice to talent – show up, (on time) look good, don’t complain. And stop blaming everyone else for your problems, because even if those problems are legit, there’s nothing you can do about them, you can only change yourself. And learn another skill, hell, learn a lot of them – no-one ever got to the top of their industry staying the same, not evolving, and not diversifying. So do that, and stop whinning – this is the ADULT Biz – act over 18."

Duke: "Does OTO have a feeder program into porn?"

Violet: "No. I think I am their only porn star but we have a few rock stars."

I try to have an intellectual conversation with Violet Blue but Kenny Carolina keeps taking it into the gutter. He wants to know about the freakiest things Violet has done while I want to explore her spiritual side.

Rob's friend Bogie (tattooed, muscular, hulking figure) comes over. Every year for the past four years, Rob has arranged a photo for Bogie of him with some porn chicks.

Bogie once killed a guy in a bar fight. He wasn't convicted of any crime but he went out of his mind afterwards. He's been arrested three times but never convicted.

He works in computers.

Ron says he looks good. Bogie says he's lost 35 pounds.

Bogie asks Ron: "You got any decent girls this year?"

Rob: "Do we have any girls for him or he's going to get angry?"

Rob rounds up Cytherea and Violet Blue.

Bogie: "I'm a Jehovah Witness. Anyone want to donate?"

Bogie says he has a WWII Italian rifle for sale. Never fired. Dropped once.

1/24/05

Author Violet Blue Vs Porn Star Violet Blue

Regina Lynn writes about why she changed her name from "Gina Lynn":

Violet Blue is the author of the bestselling The Ultimate Guide to Fellatio and The Ultimate Guide to Cunnilingus, among several other sex books. She founded the Good Vibrations Magazine and for the past eight years has helped build the most dangerous robotic shows on earth with the Survival Research Laboratories.

A few years ago, it came to her attention that a porn actress was performing under the name "Violet Blue." At first, she didn't worry too much about it. The majority of adult actresses don't have long careers, whereas the real Violet Blue -- which is her real name -- already had a strong following.

"The problem for me has been that [the porn actress] did a few interviews in which she expressed homophobic, racist, and anti-Semitic remarks," says the real Violet. "That's when I realized I needed to make sure people made a distinction."

Violet increased her efforts to keep her web presence strong, and to make sure her site ranks high in the search engines. "As a sex-positive sex educator who values diversity and equality, I'm naturally concerned when you Google my name and it says 'Violation of Violet Blue.' I have a lot of things out there on the web that let people know we are two different people," she says.