| --Tuesday, September 23, 2008--
Bree Barrett busts out the abacus
 "But the numbers don't go that high," says Bree Barrett as she tries to calculate Jake Malone's age (56) in She Is Half My Age 4. Not since Attention Whores and Raincoaters P.O.V. (both of which are also JM Productions titles) has the name of a series so deftly capyured both subject and audience.
 When Nicole Banks is asked when she was born, she says "April." When pressed, she says "April 1987." She also hesitates when asked where she is from.
"Arizona?" she says.
I'd feel the same way.
Download She Is Half My Age 4 here.
Watch She Is Half My Age 4 here.
Previously: This girl is half his age; Godel, Escher, Bree Barrett
See also: Brandon IronLabels: arizona, bree barrett, canada, halia hill, jake malone, new porn daily, nicole banks
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--Saturday, March 29, 2008--
Voices from the Tempe Phoenix Forum
 So I was able to sneak into Tempe's Phoenix Forum with the help of trusted associates and, after twenty minutes, determined that it was just like XBiz Hollywood except with nowhere else to go. While a couple of friends reported the sealing of long-germinating business deals at the Forum, I was most impressed with the number of stray cats on the grounds of the Mission Palms Hotel and the following snippets of conversation:
"This is a fantastic Flash-based application."
"But what does it do?"
"Well, it's Flash-based."
"You need to work on your pitch."
"Don't take it personally. She doesn't even call people back who paid for their admission."
"It doesn't do much for the cause when six yahoos go strolling down Mill Avenue with 'Pussycash' lanyards."
"The party's at Hooters."
"Hooters? Those girls hate me more than hookers do."
"I hear next year the Phoenix Forum will be in West Covina."
"How'd you get past security?"
"These guys like to pretend they're not making money the way they're actually making money."
"Then how do you explain naming your business 'SexSearch', 'Pussycash', or 'BangBucks'?"
"That's not what goes on the tax return. You only see those names when they're sponsoring an open bar."
"You're making this more complicated than it is. See you at Hooters."
"It was the most useless meeting I've ever been to, and I've been to some useless meetings. I wonder if she knows she probably shouldn't have showed up drunk."
Previously: Lockdown at the Tempe Phoenix Forum; XBiz panels tackle piracy, butt piracy, Mylie Cyrus
See also: The Phoenix ForumLabels: arizona, events, outrage
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--Wednesday, December 19, 2007--
Extreme Holly's Extreme Perspective
 I'd never heard of Extreme Holly until I started receiving DVD compilations of her website exploits from Pink Visual. Like Kelly Madison and Moxxie Maddron, Extreme Holly was a little bit more physically substantive than your average porn star, but she outdid the other two in a certain freakiness.
Months after Holly left the adult business ("Apparently this industry was not for her and she moved on to pursue other interests," the webmaster of her eponymous site told me), her movies keep coming out. Just like Teagan and Tupac!
"We still have many unreleased episodes of her so new content is not a concern," her webmaster said.
Extreme Holly's latest, Extreme Holly's Threesomes, features some interesting scenes shot in and around her Scottsdale, AZ home, but the most compelling thing about this posthumous relic from her porn career is the expressions on some of her scene partners' faces as well as the camera angles.
See more after the gap.
 Whoa! Is this guy a Mason? Do we run porn, too?
 This woman looks like my mechanic when he finds a squirrel in the transmission.
 Like any good hostess, Holly makes sure to check in with us now and then.
 A shy (and seven months pregnant) couple finally loosen up.
 All right. Pregnant 19-year-old in a ball gag. This is what we in the entertainment industry call a casting coup.
 Lisa Sparxx is the type of woman other women say "has such a pretty face." Other women can be so cruel. Lisa Sparxx is America's Plus-Sized Sweetheart.
Holly did not run her website; she was a paid performer. Her webmaster belives she is still in the Scottsdale area. Maybe she joined Eastern Star?
Previously: Bat not included
See also: Pink Visual, Extreme Holly
Labels: arizona, extreme holly, kelly madison, moxxie maddron, pink visual
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--Friday, November 02, 2007--
Porn elbow: Mena's POV past clouds tennis career
 I spoke with Geoff Mena, occasionally known as Chef Jeff, who last month was fired from his job at an Arizona community recreational facility when a "concerned parent" found out, via a Google search, that Mena had worked in porn.
"(Porn is) a legal profession," Mena said, "and my (now) former boss knew all about it."
Mena has been Elegant Angel's website designer, a KSEX porn jockey, a director, and an occasional POV performer. He also maintained mainstream websites and had a diverse resume that could easily have had the porn massaged out of it.
"But porn isn't something I hid," he said.
Read more after the gap.
Last December, Mena decided to get out of porn and seek another line of work.
"I was a tennis professional for 12 years prior to getting into the adult entertainment industry," Mena (seen above with Anna Kournikova) said. "I always told myself that if I ever wasn't happy with what I was doing, that I would get back into tennis. That time came and I got back into it and landed that job."
Mena, who lives in Buckeye, AZ, got a job as a tennis pro and administrator at the new rec center in the nearby town of Surprise. His boss, John Austin, was a friend and knew of Mena's past porn affiliation.
Mena got the job in August and the concerned parent sent the letter on August 30 (read it here). This was a Thursday. His boss told him about the letter the next day, and Mena spent the weekend being nervous.
"The writing was on the wall," Mena said, unable to admit that the writing was actually in a letter. He dusted off a domain he owned, I Bang Porn Stars.com, and made a content deal with an affiliate company.
"What can porn stars learn from tennis?" I asked.
"Nothing in particular," he said.
Mena was fired on September 11. Arizona can terminate employment "for no reason", Mena said, "unless there is a specific reason."
Illegal reasons could be age, race, or sexual orientation.
"My feeling is that they fired me for a particular reason - my affiliation with adult entertainment," Mens said. "But they said there was no reason."
"Can a porn affiliation be construed as an extension of one's sexual orientation?" I asked.
"Well, it definitely says you're comfortable with your sexuality," Mena said.
I think this is true for some people, and I'm willing to believe it is true of Mena. But I know plenty of people in porn who are decidedly uncomfortable with their sexuality, as I've met several people in the psychiatric profession who are crazy, priests who don't know God, and sous chefs who can't julienne a carrot.
Mena has been talking with attorneys, but can't afford to pay one. The loss of his job forced him out of his apartment, he said, and he is not sure about his stamina to pursue a legal challenge against the town of Surprise.
"You have to have money to sue someone," he saidd, "even if you know you're right."
While he ponders his options, Mena continues shooting for IBangPornStars.
"Every time I try to get out, they pull me back in," he did not say.
Previously: Barely Legal 75: Stacks of nudes spotted in Sunland; Tough time for Arizona prostitutes; Couples Seduce Teens 3
See also: I Bang Porn StarsLabels: arizona, interviews, legal
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