| --Friday, August 31, 2007--
Bedwetting Puppeteers
Loup visited the set of Bedwetting Puppeteers and found that his levelheadedness and wit saved the day.
Read the story here.
Previously: Meeting Loup and the Goo Goblins
Labels: "set visits", literature, loup
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--Thursday, August 30, 2007--
Goo Goblins 12
I will be taking some time off as my family increases, and so will leave you in the capable hands of Loup Perch-Tounge, who is a character created out of every self-important porn writer I have met in my lucky association with this business.
Loup puts himself in the story, uses words like "aforementioned", and is generally a buffoon, faced with the unenviable task of treating seriously something that shouldn't be, and then convincing himself that he should be taken seriously, too.
Loup wrote a series of stories in 2003 about fictitious porn sets he'd visited, and the positive impact he'd had thereupon. I swear on Viper that Loup is not based on anyone currently alive.
Read his coverage of Goo Goblins 12 here.Labels: "set visits", literature, loup
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--Wednesday, August 29, 2007--
Meet your bowlers, read the rules
Porn Star Bowling, like Porn Star anything, is worth the price of admission. Kickass Pictures has fielded a team of bowlers, taking advantage of the summer filming slump to "practice".
Meet your bowlers, and read the code of ethics they'll be bowling for, after the gap.
"Bare Bowling" will take place at some yet to be disclosed alley in Porn Valley on September 2. The event will putatively benefit an organization called Protecting Adult Welfare (PAW), the website of which is adorned with teddy bears.
While porn personalities are often sweet and kind, they are never, ever children. Addressing them with the type of imagery commonly used to attract children is wrongheaded, even if PAW is trying to make the point that porners are "just adult juvenile delinquents", which may have been true in a different generation, but is not now.
Miss Kitty has been in porn about a month, having moved from Texas. I met her on the set of a Pussy Party recently. Kick Ass prides itself on its "No Implants" (or French tips) rule, but I see it has not gone so far as to ban tattoos.
The bowlers will be playing for a rigid belief system.
The "Ten Commandments of XXX", published on PAW's webpage, are in equal parts logical, random, and self-serving. Number Ten, "Be Loyal to Your Original Agent", clearly reflects the worldview of (former?) PAW trustee Jim South, founder of the late World Modeling, for years the first place hopeful porn talent would go upon disembarking from the Greyhound. What this rule really means is "Don't ever leave World Modeling".
 Despite Misti Love's being less bare than her teammates, the coaching staff is confident she'll remove her warmup suit for the competition.
Rule Nine is "Don't Sign a Model Release until You've Been Paid". This is great advice in that no producer can make a sale unless a performer has signed off on his or her appearance in a film. I have never been to a set in which performers have been paid before signing a model release, however. Even in the days of under the table cash transactions the paperwork got signed and the sex got had long before money got paid.
Number Six is my favorite, and I quote it verbatim:
You Are Being Paid To Be Cooperative
Remember that the screenwriter, producer and director have hired you to do a project that they envision. Most of them have spent hours developing a project that you could ruin in minutes by being uncooperative. Although most film-makers will listen to constructive criticism, or ask for some creative input, be very tactful and never forget that they are paying you to be in their project, not the opposite. Also be courteous, friendly and respectful of your co-workers. Prima donna attitudes are not tolerated easily. It can lead to less work simply because nobody wants to be "stuck on a set with a bitch ... Or an asshole". Despite the fact that most porn screenwriters have never done the hiring, I like that this rule mentions that the producers have spent "hours" getting things together, and that the talent should be quiet, respectful, and meek. Extra points for "envision". "Prima donna attitudes are not tolerated easily" has been true on every set I've visited but one.
 I don't know anything about Isabella de la Cruz other than she doesn't look like Earl Anthony.
PAW's rules were mostly written by a person who had a big problem with my mentioning to the police that I was assaulted on a porn set. You can read his defense of the fictitious "Family of X" here.
As with all charities, it is important to make sure the money raised by Bare Bowling actually goes to adult performers in distress. Amicably request an accounting from PAW organizers of how your money will be spent while you pray for splits.
Previously: (Pop) Shot in the foot See also: The Ten Commandments of XXX, Kick Ass PicturesLabels: events, philanthropy
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Lystra is cage candy
One comes across an image like this and is incapable of thinking, "Did David Aaron Clark have a fire sale?"
Previously: Gia Paloma's fan letter See also: Julie SimoneLabels: "david aaron clark", asian, BDSM, because, fetish, julie simone
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--Tuesday, August 28, 2007--
Nom de Porn du jour: Adrenalynne
Not since Strokahontas and Suckable has a porn name caught my attention like that of Adrenalynne. It seems like it is a new breed of porn name, half-WWE and half-old school porn naming convention, in which every name has to end with -lynn, -lee, or -sohoth*.
But I will let director/performer Tee Reel tell you the rest, because I have become incoherent. Read his press release after the gap.
"Adrenalynn Lighthouse Talents newest scarlet shoots her first B/G interracial scene for director Tee Reel’s “Get Reel” this 5’3 former ballet dance r and stunning beauty sets the screen on fire in a hot scene with Nat Turnner. Tee was happy to get her in his new action movie where she plays the sister of the lead assassin. Originally from Texas Adrenalynn says she always had a desire to get into the adult business. “I was happy to have her in the movie this girl is smart ,sexy and can act. It was great shooting her and I hope to work with her again soon." It is not lost on me that I have never heard from Suckable or Strokahontas again. I hope that Adrenalynne's name does not overwhelm her career. I don't think it will; she seems to have spirit.
Previously: I am the world's greatest porn director; Lighthouse 1, Hansen's Disease 0; I <3 Suckable; Meet Strokahontas See also: Lighthouse Talent *we need more Lovecraft pornLabels: adrenalynne, agency, because, lighthouse talent, lovecraft, noms de porn, tee reel
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--Monday, August 27, 2007--
Roxy Panther's Sugarloaf
That's right: you never would have expected to see those three words together. But they fit, goddamn you.
It was an overcast day overlooking Copacabana Beach when this photo was snapped. After some deliberation, it has been determined that the beach in the background is not itself a photograph and that Panther was really there (because I am an an ancient mariner, I studied the tides). I didn't want you to think Porn is based on Lies.
Previously: Brazilian Bar Hopping; Don't do that if it hurts you, Caylian Curtis See also: Woodman EntertainmentLabels: because, brazil, pierre woodman, roxy panther
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--Sunday, August 26, 2007--
Porner's Almanac - week two
This week's Porner's Almanac podcast concerns the sleight-of-boob antics of Jenna Jameson and Mattel's selective persecution of China Barbie.
The delightful Joanna Cachapero of XBiz wrote an article about last week's podcast launch and I entertained the notion of taking myself seriously, like everyone else who hires a secretary in this business and sends out a press release about it.
So I gamely provided a porn star boilerplate response.
Read it after the gap.
“The podcast has been up for two hours on iTunes and the offers are already rolling in. I've been working all the time. I've got the affiliate program set up and my boyfriend's building my website,” Ponante said, with his tongue planted firmly in his cheek.
“I'm taking a meeting with Derek and P.T.’s writing a movie for me. I'm going to set up a fan portal and funnel an ad server through it. I’m living the dream. It’ll be bigger than Bad Seed. I’m hosting a party at Privilege. I’m sending out my own press releases. I've just signed several contract stars to million-dollar podcast deals. The harem has never been happier,” he said. Somebody wrote, "I didn't know you were gay. Do you simulate sex with Jenny Hendrix to throw people off the trail?"
No, I'm not gay. How do I know? Because your suggesting I'm gay doesn't make me want to beat you up.
After anything is written about me in a publication that is not AVN, I can be assured of receiving a venomous little chestnut from someone at AVN. The other day I got this, with the subject heading "Prairie Homo Companion" and which quoted another part of the article:
Good luck with your PODCAST, Gram “One Too Many I-Knows” Potato!
Asked if he feels like most adult aficionados are familiar with Keillor, Ponante responded with his usual witty prose.
“I know that when I leave work at 7 p.m. and drive home while being serviced by some hot prostie I've installed by the floorboards of my Putty H3, I know I'm listening to Garrison Keillor,” he said. “I can't imagine that other porn consumers aren't exactly the same way.” OK, well good luck with EUROPE.
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--Friday, August 24, 2007--
Report: Night of 101 Girls "Pleasant", "Good"
I attended last evening's Night of 101 Girls and found it pretty O.K.
There seemed to be no occasion for the party, other than I recently got my hair cut, but sponsors L.A. Direct Models, Vivid, Skinnie Magazine, and Effen Vodka nevertheless put on a brave face and threw a party anyway.
Read more after the gap.
The evening was billed as An Unforgettable Night of 101 Girls, and I suspect that, with my photographic memory and obsessive-compulsive disorder, I shan't. But what about everyone else? Someone is bound to forget, and how will that reflect on the adult party-throwing industry's reputation?
While I counted only 81 girls at the Cabana Club (I even checked the bathroom and the bottom of the pool), I was incorrect in my prediction that there would be exponentially more guys. It was not a sausage party; it was a reverse-Beach Boys with two guys per girl which, while it doesn't reflect America, makes for hardly a challenge with my new haircut. Besides, who wants to reflect America, anyway?
I hung out with my personal bartender, Jenny Hendrix. She introduced me to the Liquid Panty Remover a couple of months ago and told me she had a new one.
"It's Blueberry Stoli, pineapple juice, and Sierra Mist," she said.
I replied how I could already tell how it would taste coming back up.
"What do you call it?" I asked.
"My friends in Tampa call it 'Gator Juice' but I've got to come up with a better name for it," she said. My suggestion is Crococide.
Hendrix hosts swinger parties. I mention this because she is one of America's Most Affable Porn Stars, and she made sure she talked with everyone at last night's event. Swinger hosts are often different from the swingers themselves. {I was on a set the other day when one of the people I cringe to admit does a similar job as me was shrieking at a visitor, "You're in the lifestyle?! You're too cute to be in the lifestyle!! Swingers are ugly and creepy!!" I have seen people act like the revolted object of Pepe Le Pew's affection when this person walks into a room.}
The party had an open bar sponsored by Effen Vodka, which I'd never heard of before. I think open bars are good. This bar was to be open for 90 minutes, from 9 until 10:30, but since the Cabana Club had not let anyone other than a gaggle of L.A. Direct Models in until 10, I had to drink fast. Hendrix and I approached the bar at 10:20.
Effen is a Holland-based company. The name in Dutch means smooth and fast. I suspect that the Effen people didn't do too much market research in the northeastern United States, because there their company name is fighting words, as in:
"I'm gonna hit you with an f'n baseball bat you f'n queefsmoker."
It's like if the apocryphal Chevy-Nova-in-Mexico story were true.
But I am known for my worldliness, so I ordered three f'n Cape Codders in ten minutes and no one knew I was violent.
It was good I'd been drinking, because it dulled the shock of seeing Sophia Lynn.
"I heard you were dead!" I said, averting my eyes.
"I was a little sick," she admitted.
Lynn's early career in the adult business has been marked by tumult and confusion. In less than two years, she has been a short-lived contract performer for Adam & Eve, an almost contract performer for NinnWorx, has appeared on the same unflattering "Prime Time" show as Sunny Lane, and has had the kind of publicity porn people kill for.
"There's no such thing as bad publicity," she said. I wish this were a business in which that statement wasn't true.
She is now signed with L.A. Direct Models, and said she is working all the time.
One of the selling points of the party for me was that there were to be Vivid makeup artists there who were going to paint lucky ladies like porn stars.
I asked Kayla Synz, who had just been made up, if she could designate whether she could be softcore, harlot, or whore.
"I'm a little less than harlot," she reflected, then told me she was very in tune with her sexuality. I asked if she was from San Francisco.
"How did you know?" she asked.
"People from San Francisco use the word 'sexuality' a lot," I said. My BART driver was talking about his sexuality the last time I was up there.
"I'm a transgender activist," he said.
"Yes, but how do I get to f'n Oakland?"
The makeup lady asked me if I wanted to get made up, but I replied that if I became more perfect I would become inaccessible, and would no longer be America's Beloved Porn Journalist but America's Icy And Unattainable Porn Journalist.
Plus I didn't want to get mistaken for Dave Navarro on the way to my car.
I saw Ava Rose, who is also with L.A. Direct. I wasn't aware that contract performers need agents, but her contract allows outside still photography and softcore work.
She insisted on wearing a drink sticker on her forehead. But she could wear New Haven, CT and still look passable.
I like the way Ava dresses. She told me she's been going to the gym. I told her that she'd look good even as a perfect sphere in a muumuu.
"I'll tell (L.A. Direct owner) Derek you say it's OK to get fat," she said.
I asked her if I could continue my Ava Rose in a booth series, and she agreed. It's important to me that my career has goals.
As I was leaving I saw the Republican porn icon Savanna Samson. It was my first time meeting her. She seemed to float above the crowd a little, and I wondered if that was because of her confidence as a vintner.
She did not know me from a hole in the ground, because Vivid tries to keep me away from its contract stars due to the world-destroying heat it might generate, as predicted by Science.
Regardless, I risked telling her I liked her in Stood Up, and she smiled tolerantly.
"Could you give me a factoid about your wine?" I asked.
Not to give short shrift to anyone else there, but Samson is a veteran media professional and she seemed poised to deliver a practiced soundbite.
"Well," she said, "There's a little bit of me in every bottle. I get myself right into it and move my hips around."
I thanked her, but then we locked eyes and had the following conversation with our minds:
"Savanna, it's me, Gram. Why can't you let your guard down and just Be. Be with Gram. Be, Savanna, Be. Be, Goddamn You!"
"I'm afraid." The party was f'n pleasant.
Previously: Gia Paloma's fan letter; Hirsch's Heavies heave haunches heavenward; Obama behind porn endorsements? See also: Vivid, L.A. Direct Models, Skinnie MagazineLabels: alcohol, Ava Rose, events, jenny hendrix, LA Direct, savanna samson, vivid, WGL
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--Thursday, August 23, 2007--
China Barbie no dream ho for Mattel
I spoke with performer/director China Barbie, who Tuesday was sued by Mattel lawyers in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. The manufacturer of the blonde, blue-eyed doll Barbie claims the performer made a "bad faith attempt to profit from Mattel's Barbie trademarks."
The New York-based model, who is part African-American and part Chinese-American, says "I am the antithesis of the blonde, blue-eyed girl. It's ridiculous that Mattel is suing me."
Read more after the gap.
Barbie learned of the suit yesterday when a friend called to tell her. She has not been contacted by Mattel or the court.
"I was wondering why I was getting all these friend requests on MySpace," she said.
Barbie, who adopted that name in late 2000 because "another model I liked used Barbie, and I liked the sound", launched her website in 2002.
She wonders why Mattel is so poky and selective in suing her, when there are dozens of Barbies on the web, and on sites like One Model Place and Model Mayhem.
It does seem odd that it has taken Mattel's lawyers so long to find her, but the focus may have come as the result of an unhappy accident: Mattel has had to recall several Barbie products made in China for lead poisoning. Google search terms bring the world together.
"I've always been under the radar," Barbie said. "I did a few movies and then I left the business." According to the Internet Adult Film Database, Barbie appeared in 26 films. She is now directing a line called "Butt Cakes" in New York, where she lives. She might appear in future films, she said, but only those she directs.
"I'm overwhelmed by this suit," she said. "I'm in no position to fight Mattel. But you can see from my website that I absolutely don't trade on the name or image of Mattel's 'Barbie'. I don't use the illustrations, I don't even use the font."
Barbie says she is willing to talk with Mattel and even make changes to avoid a legal battle, but Mattel has demanded that she transfer her domain to the company and cede whatever money she has made from her nom de porn to them, in addition to $100,000.
"That's ridiculous," she said. "Why me out of the 50 or so girls out there named Barbie, and why after six years?"
Previously: Hardcore hears a hammer; No easy way out for Body Magic See also: Mattel sues adult entertainment 'Barbie' site (usatoday), Toy recall puts attention on lead poisoning (reuters), China Barbie, China Barbie on MySpaceLabels: asian, china barbie, legal, new york, WGL
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Dana Vespoli from 2004 - just because
I am not the gadabout your cards, letters, and offers of timeshares suggest. I am still prone to say "Who is that?" about someone who has been in the business for several years.
The dangerous Dana Vespoli reminds me of a post-apocalyptic Phoebe Cates in this excellent scene from Pat Myne's Ass Slaves 2, included on his recent X-Rated compilation. I have never wanted to go beyond Thunderdome so much.

Previously: X-Rated review; Today in porn swag See also: MetroLabels: because, dana vespoli, directors, metro, pat myne, WGL
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Lex launches latest load litany, lensing lipward-lofting love loogies
Because it contains no impurities and because I only have sex in wind tunnels, my semen is as white as the Virgin Mary's veneers. Because of this, it often disappears on the alabaster skin of the vampire girls I pick up at the 240 Metro route bus stop outside CSUN.
Lexington Steele has addressed this monochromatic conundrum by releasing Semen Shooters I, a black-on-black cumshot collection, containing 47 performers and 52 scenes.
Because ejaculate is a viscous white or yellow, and because all Semen Shooters' performers are black, it was easy to account for the sperm at the end of the day.
"I was in 80 percent of the scenes," Steele did not say, "but I know where 100 percent of my ropy volleys alighted."
I am assuming that each scene is longer than the ten-second pop shot, so viewers can expect to see why the likes of Angel Eyes, Carmen Hayes, Vanessa Blue, Shi Reeves,Jenna Brooks, Jemini, Naomi Banxxx, Roxy Reynolds, Havana Ginger, Jada Fire, Desiree, Tina Price, Tia, Olivia Winters, Courtney Divine, Ariel Alexis, Capri Styles, Ashley, Samaya, Lena, Mahlia, and Persuajon deserved it.

Previously: Kala Prettyman does not need airbrushing; At home with Lexington Steele See also: Mercenary PicturesLabels: dvd, lexington steele, race movies
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--Wednesday, August 22, 2007--
Jason Sechrest's Twink-o-rama
Jason Sechrest is a ridiculously talented raconteur and provocateur. He doesn't sleep. Thursday night at MJ's Bar in Silverlake he hosts The Porno Palace, featuring "lewd interviews, live dirty dancing, autograph signings and free porn giveaways."
This week Sechrest welcomes a young man named Jayden Holloway, billed as a twink porn sensation. I have never known my gay friends to engage in hyperbole, so I am sure Mr. Holloway is in fact a sensation even though I haven't heard of him here in the straight community, of which I am a leader.
Sechrest belongs on stage, so you should go see him even if you think twinks are a Hostess product.
Previously: Curious member of Flaming Ones See also: Jason Sechrest, Jayden HollowayLabels: events, gay, jason sechrest, twink
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Savanna Samson hosts Night of 101 Girls, exponentially larger amount of guys
Savanna Samson, LA Direct Models and Skinnie Entertainment Magazine will present "An Unforgettable Night of 101 Girls" Thursday night at the Cabana Club on Ivar in Hollywood.
"Every female who attends will get to walk the red carpet like a celebrity and Vivid is providing two of its make-up artists to transform a select number of lucky female guests into sexy vixens over a three hour period," said Vivid, briefly taking human form. I'm not sure if this is disingenuous, because I think there's only one way in to the Cabana Club, unless you go in a window. But if you are a female, I will pay you five dollars to get made up like Kim Kardashian.
Previously: Stood Up: Is it good for the Jews? See also: Vivid, Cabana ClubLabels: agency, events, savanna samson, vivid
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Spyderz to play Viper Room, Key Club this week
Evan Seinfeld's new band, The Spyderz, will play the Viper Room and the Key Club, both within staggering distance of each other on the Sunset Strip, Thursday and Friday night, respectively.
Whether you are a fan of Biohazard and Seinfeld's song stylings or if you just want to rub against Tera Patrick's iPhone, join the audience for a band Sinjon St. Swithern described as "like the ghost of Nick Drake driving a tour bus containing Al Stewart, Livingston Taylor, and Devendra Barnhardt into the side of a fucking mountain made of the piled up bodies of the Black Crowes and the Georgia Satellites."
Previously: Navarro film to explore duality, empowerment, avoid grandiosity; EXCLUSIVE: Tera Patrick appears on Internet; Porn rumors and how to handle them See also: The Spyderz, TeravisionLabels: evan seinfeld, events, pop, tera patrick
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More drink booze parties, more questions
I don't know which river River Rats refers to, but this boxcover is compelling for several reasons, not the least of which involves this woman's right breast.
Find out why after the gap.
1. According to the back cover, this movie was shot in June. What kind of low-rent educational facility has its spring break in June? (Smart money's on Brandeis.)
2. This 18th installment promises "more college gals". I don't know about you, but I don't think anyone under 45 uses the term "gals". Therefore I look forward to seeing the kind of pornography made by someone who thinks of women as gals. It has to be better than porn made by someone who calls women "whores", right? Right?
3. Ditto the "drink booze parties". What the hell does that mean? As decreed by the Bible, every party following the establishment of the State of Israel has to have booze drinking. There must be something really special about these drink booze parties if the producers see fit to mention them.
4. Finally, the fact that this woman's right breast is squished against her thigh indicates that there must be plenty of boobs in this movie, else one wouldn't be so flagrantly wasted on the cover.
Previously: Consumers demand more drink booze parties See also: Flashpoint Productions Labels: breasts, deep reading, dvd, flashpoint
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Pornic Voices - blind item
"I'm gonna be real professional and sincere. Can everybody hear me? I'm being real professional. I want to know who said I had a yeast infection. Why would you say that? I'm not drunk. I want to tell anyone who said that to shut their damn mouth. Why would you say that? Now the street is coming out. You better step off and stop talking shit about people! ... I called my lawyer twice! ... Ja Rule ate my pussy, he says it's fine. He said to tell you it's fine. I'm not even tipsy. Why would you say that? Don't you know I have a child?"Labels: blind item
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--Tuesday, August 21, 2007--
Mika Tan, wearing some kind of jerky - just because
Mika Tan is currently off on a journey from which I hope she returns safe and sound. But earlier this year Otto Bauer got her up in this complicated network of flaps, strips, and boots.
As you can see, it hardly covers anything. I have a feeling that she could wear something like this the wrong way and no one would know or care.
I asked GramPonante.com's newly-minted Native American correspondent, Stands Uncomfortably To One Side While the Cool Squaws Dance, if Tan's ensemble had special significance to her people.
Read her reply after the gap.
"Heap sexy outfit," she said, a single tear trailing down her cheek.
Tan is thus arrayed for Supercore's Backroads, due any day now and also starring Audrey Hollander and Naudia Nyce.

Previously: Nurse Mika Tan - just because See also: American ViceLabels: because, fashion, mika tan, otto bauer, WGL
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--Monday, August 20, 2007--
AVNAds breaks up with AdBrite
AVNAds, the completely transparent and bug-free ad-serving program that was the shadowy adult side of AdBrite, has broken from its mainstream partner, which is now seeking adult signups via its Black Label Ads program. Both AVN and AVNads were down over the weekend, but both seem to be functioning properly now. No news as to why Mom and Dad parted ways, but I've got dozens of dollars in allowance at stake here, so I hope things get patched up soon.
Philip Kaplan's AdBrite loses porn-ad network (by Valleywag's Owen Thomas)
When you talk about "the Valley" in tech, it's taken for granted that you mean Silicon Valley. But in the world of porn, "the Valley" is the San Fernando Valley, where the adult-film industry has established itself. Now, as porn goes online, there's a long, drawn-out war for dominance fought by the two valleys. And a tremendous battle has just been lost -- by AdBrite, the online-advertising network based in San Francisco. AdBrite, Valleywag has learned, has lost the partner that gave it an entrée into the business of selling porn ads.
AdBrite is not keen to let people know it's in the admittedly lucrative business of selling ads for pornographic websites. But for some time, AdBrite has had a partnership with AVN, a powerful trade publication covering the porn industry, to sell ads for AVN's websites and many others, through a site called AVNAds.com. Philip Kaplan characterized the AVNAds relationship as a "technology-licensing agreement," though it's clearly more than that; until this morning, AVNAds listed AdBrite's fax number on its contact information, and ads were served on the adbrite.com domain.
This morning, however, AVN has broken off the relationship and redirected the AVNAds.com domain to a new, hastily built, barely functional website. The ads on the host of porn sites contracting with AVNAds, however, continue to be displayed from AdBrite's servers. From what I've heard, there's a legal tug of war over the relationship. And last month's meltdown at 365 Main, the datacenter hosting AdBrite's servers, doesn't seem to have helped matters. The press release announcing the new AVNAds website stresses that the new venture will serve ads from multiple datacenters. AVN's new online-ad network promises to be up and running by September 30.
BlackLabel AdsIn the meantime, though, it seems that Kaplan has a Plan B to keep AdBrite in the porn business under the name "BlackLabel Ads." Until Friday, when I called an AdBrite executive for comment, BlackLabelAds.com displayed a site identical to AVNAds.com except in name. The list of sites on BlackLabelAds.com, and the structure of the site, was identical to AVNAds.com; it even shared the same fax number as AdBrite and AVNAds.com. Today, though the site remains mostly hidden, the logo remains on AdBrite's servers. (The BlackLabel site currently redirects to AVNAds.com, but I believe that's simply because AdBrite execs were hoping to hide the existence of BlackLabelAds.com and were caught offguard by today's move by AVN.)
So here's how the battlefront stands: AdBrite has the actual ads served today on the AVN network; AVN has the AVNAds.com domain itself. The question will be -- assuming AdBrite's not going to just give up on the adult-ads business altogether -- is whether AdBrite can tell customers about BlackLabelAds faster than AVN can sign them up on the new AVNAds website. Like everything to do with the adult-entertainment business, this battle promises to be messy, dirty, and thoroughly entertaining. And it's all just one more back-and-forth tussle in the war between the two valleys of porn.
Previously: AdBrite, AVNAds See also: Philip Kaplan's AdBrite loses porn-ad network (valleywag.com)Labels: avn, business, trademags
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Dreams really do come true at Porn Week
Nikki Jayne is a British lady (we call them "birds") who tentatively approached Harmony Films, the group that produces Porn Week, saying she would like to be in porn movies.
In the same way that we are presumed innocent until proven guilty, we answer Yes to any woman who expresses an interest in appearing naked on film, and question our judgment later. So the people of Harmony Films/Porn Week did the right thing by casting Jayne on the spot.
Read more after the gap.
Jayne performed her first filmed Boy/Girl scene in Brno for Porn Week, the event where, for a price, civilians get a chance to experience firsthand the sights and smells of a porn set. I asked Porn Week director Big Bad Dave if it was a fan or a professional with whom Jayne shared her first scene.
"It was an actor and not a civilian who had the pleasure," he said.
Jayne appears to be 12 feet tall and in this is distinctive, as most porn talent is fairly petite. Among other things, petite women make the dicks of male talent look bigger. An excellent pickup line for lonelyhearts little women, dwarfesses, or midgetrices would be, "I'll make your cock look huge."
But tall women in porn are rare.
That said, Ms. Jayne is so spinner, and hopes are high at Harmony Films that she will be "the next Jenna or Tera". Not since Private's Priva has a European company had a contract star, and Harmony is planning a whirlwind Porn Valley tour with Jayne next month.
But I think Jayne looks neither like Jenna Jameson nor Tera Patrick. Instead, she reminds me of a delightful combination of Sophie Dee and Puma Swede, with a little Adrianna Nicole thrown in. I would love to visit that lab.
Previously: Porn Week's Czechs for Cash; I am the world's greatest porn director See also: Porn Week Labels: england, gazzman, harmony films, nikki jayne, porn week
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Introducing the Porner's Almanac (not according to Terrence Trent D'Arby)
As I invented the podcast art form in 1984 I thought it was high time I cashed in on it.
Inspired by Garrison Keillor's earnest, thoughtful, and affected The Writer's Almanac, I put together a weekly digest of porn birthdays, musings, and some of the most trenchant dialogue gleaned from today's porn films. I'll stick with it until I get sick of it.
You can subscribe to it on iTunes here.
See also: The Porner's Almanac, Sananda MaitreyaLabels: podcast
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--Friday, August 17, 2007--
Classic sex tourism for the weekend
In that he ceased publishing his sex-tourist blog last November, the Londoner traveling abroad known as Morally Diminished has a site full of quaint depravity. It is like reading "Heart of Darkness" except with Thai hookers, katooeys, and other strangers instead of the Congo.
Read more after the gap.
Spent all day smoking fat jays in my hot sunny pool (after five Weetabix), watched Waiting (I fucking loved the Bat-Wing manoeuvre). After-dark ventured outdoors and soon returned with one of the hottest chicks I've EVER been with- a honey-skinned 22 year-old angel from Sukhothai. Drank a bottle of Moet together then, after chowing down on her sweet shaven box for a delicious tounge-cramping forty minutes, fucked like nasty-pigs for a few hours before sleeping soundly in each others arms (*puke*). I even still liked the little minx after I'd shot my load. I mean, read this, a post titled "Things I Need":
Ten nine eight seven six more properties inc. East-Village Manhattan loft, canal-side Keizersgracht Amsterdam townhouse, gothic Hampshire castle with privet-hedge maze, cherry orchard, dungeon, helicopter on the roof, and snipers on the roof of the next building to make sure no-one steals my helicopter, packs of fast dogs and wild-cats, red-tiled pool, Pinoy gangster lair, paedo pad in Tokyo, brothel in Rio, retreat in Costa Rica, fuck-farm in Fiji, new old-Levis, Air-Max, more RAM, royal Nepalese temple ball, The Greenhouse's Arjan's Ultra Haze, Barney's Breakfast Bar's G13 Haze (plus all of these), Fabrique Nationale de Herstal's Five-seveN, "sticky shockers", Beluga, Ossetra, Sevruga, thallium sulphate, polonium-210, handmade Nickolas Buckalew skull-bong, GHB, ketamine, alprazolam, Klaxons tunes, to watch sally from Black People Love Us as a victim of The Gangbang Squad (while Johnny watches, perhaps taking a dark-sword in the shitter himself), that mega-shy phone girl from the latest True-Move ad, aLeda cellulose papers, Doctor Theodor Gilbert Morell magic prescription pad, and fortnightly "six-hole" threesomes with Am Patcharapa and May Pittanahd (minus disapproving Kantana chaperone), and so on... People tend to think of all sex tourism as the act of traveling to other countries for the purpose of preying on minors. That is not always so. Sometimes it is preying on prostitutes, other hotel guests, or on people as fascinated with your skin color and income level as you are with theirs.
I found Morally Diminished entertaining and compelling truth in advertising.
Can't be sure whether she's always like this or whether it was her one-night-stand guilt combined with her recreational pharmaceutical consumption (something called Five-Fives that she buys in Singapore, no idea of trade-name). She was very turned on that she was being fucked and abused by a total stranger and, as I refused to tell her my name, and as had forgotten her's by this afternoon, we swapped phone numbers both using the name "stranger". Previously: Leg Sex Flirts; Run for the Border 3 See also: Morally Diminished (courtesy Rollertrain's excellent site about the triumphs and perils of working for a North Carolina-based porn company)Labels: "sex tourism", asian, found, website
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Navarro film to explore duality, empowerment, avoid grandiosity
Rock star Dave Navarro is directing porn, as was inevitable considering his proximity to this world over the past few years.
Dave Navarro: Broken was shot this summer for Teravision and features Sasha Grey, Jenna Haze, Victoria Sin, Audrey Bitoni, Kayla Page, Lisa Daniels, Tommy Gunn, Marco Banderas, Mark Davis, and Spyder Jonez (but not Tera Patrick).
Read more after the gap.
Porn world shorthand for Navarro's music career has always mentioned his role as guitarist for Jane's Addiction (currently broken up) and also the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Navarro has been with Jane's Addiction through all its incarnations but only played with the Chili Peppers for 1995's "One Hot Minute" album.
But his work as a hired gun has also been impressive. He has played with Christina Aguilera, Marilyn Manson, and was featured on Alanis Morrisette's 1995 "Jagged Little Pill". Currently, he fronts the band Panic Channel, hangs around porn, and is involved in a number of new media ventures, including Spread Entertainment.
Navarro's dabbling in porn was an open secret this year, and the question was which side of the camera he'd show up on.
"We're trying to get him to perform, but I don't know if he'll do it," Teravision president Evan Seinfeld told me in July. Navarro does not perform in Broken.
Navarro, whose father was a Spanish immigrant, grew up in Los Angeles and has led a rich and varied life. Married and divorced three times, most recently to Carmen Electra, Navarro co-authored his biography, "Don't Try This At Home", with "The Game" author and Jenna Jameson's ghostwriter, Neil Strauss.
Even more autobiographical is Navarro's solo album "Trust No One", which is excellent.
Teravision decribes Broken's protagonist, Sasha Grey, as "a young woman torn apart by the duality of control and powerlessness in her life." Navarro told adult trade publication XBiz that he wanted the movie to contain themes of empowerment without being "grandiose".
Dave Navarro: Broken will be released September 27.
Previously: Jameson and Navarro: Hosting duties left vague; XFanz porns burlesque See also: Rock Star Dave Navarro Directs for Teravision (xbiz), Teravision, |