Smells like Jenna Jameson
Labels: ava devine, avn, bluray, HDDVD, HDTV, jenna jameson, nick manning, sasha grey
This is Gram Ponante with Your Porner's Almanac on January 22, 2008.
I have a manageable crush on Stoya. But she is nowhere in the following text. To hear hear her dulcet tones, listen to the podcast)
I just returned from the AVN Expo and Awards in Las Vegas, where I lost my voice while yelling at people I liked in clubs that sounded like this. This is why people text each other while standing three feet away from each other.
You know, some people say that since the mainstream world is becoming so porny, that porn will cease to be interesting. Luckily, the lack of real human interaction one can have standing in a club with a thousand other people, 15-dollar drinks, and the inability to communicate makes a creampie blowbang seem very intimate by comparison.
Sasha Grey appeared in several of my top picks of movies last year, including Broken, Naughty Flipside 1, and The Skin Trade. In the last two movies Grey's character brandished a shotgun at someone. The world is coming around to this method of dealing with problems now that the porn braintrust has blazed a trail.
(Check here for reviews.)
And Grey walked away with AVN's Female Performer of the Year award, too. Oddly enough, many of AVN's past performers of the year, including Grey, were in their first full year in the business. It says a lot about the amount of work one can get done in the first year. Things tend to drop off after that. But I think Grey will stick around - I just hope she doesn't get typecast as a shotgun-wielding mopey teen out for revenge.
Distinct from Female Performer of the Year is AVN's Best Actress Award. This went to Eva Angelina for Upload, and it was richly deserved. The filmmakers were so serious about making a serious porn movie that they included the word "-load" in the title by mistake.
Nick Manning won my best Male Performer of the Year award, but Evan Stone got it at AVN. If a straight male has to watch a guy in a porn film, that guy has to have the talent to not make the viewer feel resentful. Manning is very good at stealing a scene only when he's allowed to.
With the recent announcement that Warner Brothers and Fox Studios have thrown their weight - and $480 million - behind Blu-ray. Porn will follow suit. Even if porn looks awful in HD. Because it was less expensive, porn companies like Wicked and Digital Playground released titles in HD-DVD, but then a small company called CDGirls released a Jenna Haze movie in Blu-ray and then Vivid made a big splash with releasing "Debbie Loves Dallas...Again" in Blu-ray. Look for more Blu-Ray releases this year, even though you will probably regret it. Porn is one of the only media that would benefit from smaller screens.
One of the tragedies of porn is when your innocence is lost in a place you weren't expecting it. It's great to lose one's innocence in a likely place, like, say, the restrooms at the Bellagio or the ass, but when it blindsides you it can be cruel.
This happened twice, when I met and was charmed by Sapphic Australian barefoot underwear wrestlers the Abby Winters girls, only to find that Abby Winters was an invention and that these Dove billboards gone good were working not for a mythical sex positive lesbian photographer but for a dude every bit as pervy as I am. Does it change the content at all? Not one bit. It's sort of like when Cat Stevens came out against Salman Rushie. We didn't listen to Peace Train any differently. Had Cat only been a juicy Australian underwear model I would have taken Salman Rushie down myself.
The other incident was more terrifying. I met an 18-year-old woman who told me she was in Vegas for the first time. Turns out she had shot before! Lesbian scenes! I can't tell you the sadness that overtook me when I found out the stripper Jean Laconia wasn't taking off her clothes for the first time for me.
The biggest news from the AVN show came from Jenna Jameson who - some say unceremoniously - announced her retirement from porn and her embarcation on a fragrance and clothing career. On the one hand, best of luck to her. On the other hand, a fragrance that will allow you to smell like Jenna Jameson is a joke waiting to be written. Oh hell. I'll write it. Did you hear about the new Jenna Jameson fragrance? It makes men roll over and go to sleep.
Birthdays this week include Sinaloan hottie Sativa Rose, who is 24, Overzealous fan greeter Ava Devine, who is 28, and Jasmine Byrne, who is 23.
The Porner's Almanac is brought to you with the help of the Internet Adult Film Database at IAFD.com. For all your pornographic and pornotextual needs, surf on over to Porn Valley Observed at GramPonante.com. Talk to you soon.
See also: Gram's Dirty Dozen; Gram's Oscars of Porn; AVN Wrap-up; Manning Manning sperm booth (2003)
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