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Bobbi Starr is the Gunslinger
 Otherwise known as Miss November 2009.See what I'm talking about here. Labels: bobbi starr, geekery, nerdcore
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Nerdcore: All the naked girls are nerds these days
--Sunday, November 16, 2008--
 I'm spending more and more time in comic book stores, which is weird, because I wouldn't be caught dead going into one when I was younger (I am now 23) for fear of becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. I'd imagine people seeing me and saying, "Well of course."But now being a nerd is cool, and nerds are surrounded by nudes.  Well, nerdy men are still not cool but, just like with everything else in that 30-year stretch between 15 and 45 in which they can do no wrong, women can be nerds whenever they feel like it.That is the appeal of Nerdcore, the 2009 calendar that will launch tomorrow night at Melrose Ave.'s Golden Apple Comics. Models in attendance will be Justine Joli, Kimberly Kane, Karlie Montana, Zoli Suicide (I thought all the Suicide Girls had been exiled; it will be fun to see one), Georgia Jones, Sara Brinsfield, Sarah Levis, and covergirl Crystal Klein.  Visitors will get a free mini-poster of the above image of Justine Joli's take on Capricorn One.Bobbi Starr, who adorns the calendar in a Westworld motif ("the Telly Savalas version," she said, "not the new one") will also be in attendance. I have been asked to not display the image yet because it is so hot it would make Elliot Gould rise from the grave. What? He's still alive? Previously on Porn Valley Observed: Hotter than a Balrog; Don't tell Pazuzu; Audrey Bitoni - Not that kind of Cardassian See also: Totally Nerdcore, Labels: bobbi starr, Crystal Klein, geekery, Georgia Jones, justine joli, karlie montana, Kimberly Kane, Sara Brinsfield, Sarah Levis, Zoli Suicide
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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Party report: The Cropping and flogging of O
--Tuesday, June 10, 2008--
 HOLLYWOOD -- It's 90 degrees out, the hills are on fire, and I'm wearing leather pants. I'm walking west on Sunset Blvd. feeling ornery. I've spent 40 minutes looking for parking because valeting my car just to see it being parked within my field of vision strikes me as everything that's wrong with Hollywood. That and the Landmark Forum.I find parking in a yellow Loading Only spot outside the Crossroads of the World. Little Known Fact: Yellow Loading Only zones equal free parking in Hollywood after 6 p.m. I check my camera. No lens cap. The pictures are going to look as filthy as I feel. I am the Lizard King. I think: With this hard-hitting observational prose style I should start a blog detailing my two-fisted porn journalist adventures. I'm walking the two blocks to Boardner's for the launch party of O2: The Surrender of O. I get in and sign a form about the pictures I'll be taking. I don't think the form was meant to be read, as it was handed to me in a dark alcove, so I didn't read it. I just signed it. That's how I live, and how I roll. I roll how I live. It's also how I got a sweet deal on an adjustable rate mortgage. People are walking out as I'm walking in. You're thinking, "That's a bad sign." Not if you knew these people, pal. It was actually good they were leaving. Inside it is like the kitchen of a really good party where all the women are wearing assless pants. I stand still (I might have leaned on something) and people appear in my viewfinder.  The first is Ava Rose. Who is not transported with joy when he encounters Ava Rose? A cold, senseless person, that's who. With nipples Xed out with electrical tape and an ass poking out of her Syren latex ensemble (this was the uniform of many attendees), Rose makes me think once again that all I want is what's beyond Thunderdome.Rose is dancing from Los Angeles to San Francisco at gentlemen's clubs near you (if you live near either of those places). I am concerned for her psychic well-being. "Are the house girls nice to you?" I ask. Gyratrices in residence at strip clubs often resent the higher-paid touring "feature" dancers. It's just like the Bolshoi. "Yes," she says, and she says plenty of other things, too, about Alaska, and Reno, and crime, and the Spearmint Rhino, but I am gazing too deeply into her assless pants to recall any of it.  Then I see both Bobbi Starr and Aiden Starr (no relation). "Lick her armpit clean!" I demand of Aiden, who is a famous submissive. "Yes, sir," she does not say.  I talk to a man wearing an ankle-length Cenobite-meets-Matrix jacket. He has just finished reading The Odyssey in the original Greek and tells me that there is a Greek word that means "to burn something down in retaliation." It is my favorite conversation of the night, though I never learn the word.My next favorite conversation is when a woman tells me she gives the best blowjobs ever and I tell her that no, I don't believe she does. In any case, a show has started, and Mika Tan is being surprised by the icy hands of Claire Adams.  And then Ava Rose proves that she can delight females as well. Here she asks Bobbi Starr back to her place for crepes and Gram. Though she was not in O2, Satine Phoenix came dressed for the occasion. Because I posed her in front of candles, I call this photo Wax Dat Azz, in honor of my signature expression around the house. Finally, Co-Mistresses of Ceremonies Claire Adams and Nina Hartley object to my cutting an ass out of my own pants."But I'm going native," I say. "You're frightening us," they say. See the gallery here. Previously on Porn Valley Observed: O2 review See also: Adam & Eve Labels: aiden starr, Ava Rose, BDSM, bobbi starr, bree olson, claire adams, ernest greene, events, fetish, mika tan, nina hartley, satine phoenix
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Nikki Jayne makes Mancunian sound dirty
--Thursday, May 29, 2008--
 Nikki Jayne is the newest Vivid girl, joining the ranks of all the other household name Vivid girls. She is tall and full-figured and hails from Manchester, England (beyond the Atlantic Sea).Jayne was discovered by the crew from Porn Week and brought to America for a few days last September, during which she shot scenes with Bobbi Starr and was courted by several companies, including Digital Playground. But a Nikki Jayne and a Jesse Jane in the same roster would be too much for fans to handle, as evidenced by the confusion that erupted when both Sophia Santi and Carlos Santana were contract girls there. It takes moxie, gumption, chutzpah, great boobs, and thighs that could crack a fire hydrant to be a successful contract performer, and Jayne has all of these (although in England fire hydrants are called hooded ficuses). Jayne's first movie will be shot at the end of the month by the intense and sensitive director B. Skow. It is unclear at press time if Vivid plans to follow up its branding of Vivid Rims with the fielding of an English football team. Previously: Postcard from Porn Week; Untitled Briana Banks project; I like to see a little more fat; Meggan Mallone: Head on her shoulders; Vivid's imprint-o-rama; Monique Alexander: "May God have mercy on my soul" See also: Vivid, Porn Week Labels: "contract girls", b skow, bobbi starr, gazzman, jesse jane, nikki jayne, sophia santi, vivid
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
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Enter the Adrianaconda
--Tuesday, April 29, 2008--
 Adrianna Nicole wishes, in retrospect, that she'd chosen a different porn name, but at least she can try on a new one when she's wrestling."If I'd only thought of 'Adrianaconda' sooner," she said. Visitors to San Francisco (with the exception of school groups and religious zealots) should make a point of stopping by Kink.com's massive Armory building, built in the early 20th century during a time of nationwide worker unrest and featuring - I'm not kidding - a stream running through its basement for the benefit of a National Guard under siege (hint to disgruntled workers of the future: all you need to do is poop in the water; that's what my coworkers did at AVN). Among the Armory's many charms is an indoor parade ground, dozens of creepy rooms used for water bondage and various flavors of submission with and without straps, and a wrestling ring.  It is there that Nicole, redubbed Adrianaconda, will participate with 15 other wrestlers in the sweaty and pant-astic Ultimate Surrender, fighting against and alongside such bendy and brutal grapplers as Madison "The Butcher" Young, Amber "The Rogue" Rayne, and Ariel X: "The Assassin.""If you win, you fuck the loser with a strap-on," said Nicole, who has made it to this semi-final round in "The Summer of Vengeance." "My incentive to win early on was I had been in a couple of scenes before my match and I just didn't want to get fucked again." The wrestling starts off in bikinis and things devolve from there. I asked Nicole if she ever felt fear. "Well, I'm a little bigger than most," she said. She mentioned Madison Young who, though wily, seemed easy pickings. "I could kick her ass. But her partner is very muscly."  Next week Ultimate Surrender will film matches before a live audience of Kink.com subscribers on specially-erected bleachers, but the matches will be available on line up to and including the final showdown in August.Whatever Nicole is doing with her left arm here doesn't seem like it would be in accordance with FILA standards, but whatever. Other wrestlers in this season of Ultimate Surrender have included Annie Cruz, Delilah Strong, Bobbi Starr, and Harmony Rose, none of whom seems stoppable by mortal hands. See a gallery of Ultimate Surrender's Season 5 here. I am glad Nicole was not "Adrianaconda" from the start; the name seems to negate her sweet and gentle nature. Previously: Back to the Apocalypse at the San Francisco Fetish Ball; Adrianna Nicole is her own massage table; Ultimate Surrender See also: Ultimate Surrender, Kink Labels: "Kink.com", adrianna nicole, annie cruz, ariel x, bobbi starr, delilah strong, harmony, interviews, madison young, san francisco, WGL, wrestling
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The Whore Within Me, Without You, or: Being for the benefit of Visual Blurr
--Friday, September 14, 2007--
 With a title so fraught with porn's importance, I expected to not like this first-time effort by a New Sensations' director calling himself Visual Blurr.But he clearly had been thinking about this movie for a long time, and had something to say. Some of his performers really oblige him, where others might just be working their shtick and cashing a check (which is their right, too). But you be the judge, because I've spent too much time talking about the space between us all. Read the review here. Previously: Life in a Porn Dorm Isn't All Pillowfights And Orgies See also: New Sensations Labels: adrianna nicole, bobbi starr, lorelei lee, madison young, new sensations, reviews, visual blurr
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Postcard from Porn Week
 Porn Week Vacations was established in 2000 to offset the cost of filming porn movies, and has become an international brand with several revenue streams."We knew that fans wanted to see porn being shot, and that they'd probably pay for it, but we didn't want 30 guys hanging around," said founder Dave West, a Chicago native who began his career in direct marketing before capitalizing on Internet porn. "So we kept the guest list small and invited the right girls." Read more after the gap. Porn Week will attach itself to one or several movies being shot in a given area and open the doors to fans, each of whom has paid upwards of $2150 for the privilege. Since the company's first outing in the Dominican Republic in 2000 (with a stable of willing porn stars that included Belladonna), Porn Week has traveled to the U.K., Prague, the Czech Republic, and has regular stops in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. "We tell the guests what's expected of them so that everyone knows the rules," said director Gazzman, production manager of London's Harmony Films, who partnered with West in 2004. "But the environment is light enough so that lines don't get crossed." That is not to say that guests only watch. If the right guest has been tested and if he (or she) is willing to step in front of the camera, he might be part of the action on film. But most guests are happy watching. "People ask if we're being laid all the time, but it's not like that," said former Porn Week guest and current production assistant Big Bad Dave. Big Bad Dave (not to be confused with West) was learning how to white balance a camera he had trained on Nikki Jayne, a stunning Manchester native in the United States on her first porn jaunt. "But we definitely try to find the women who are not only comfortable in front of the camera but also with a party full of fans."  Guests must fend for themselves with hotels and transportation, but they attend parties with the performers, which are then filmed for XXX Porn Parties, a regular pay per view event. In addition, the guests are encouraged to bring cameras themselves.As an executive at Harmony and a partner in Porn Week, Gazzman has a built-in party destination. Born in Scotland, Gazzman worked for several years directing television in the U.K. and then began what he calls his "porn apprenticeship" filming BBC documentaries about porn. "I followed porn directors around for four years, thinking I knew what to do and what not to do in a porn film," he said. "But I ended up making some of the same mistakes." Gazzman praises writing partner Victoria Stuart, herself a documentarian, who writes porn scripts keeping in mind "that you've got to write them like interchangeable dolly heads, because some of the dollies don't show up." Still, Gazzman's first porn film was the big-budget ($100k) The Scottish Loveknot for Private, which won AVN's Best Foreign Feature award. He has since become known for what in the United States are called "high-end gonzos" but what he refers to as "professional low budget features." This translates to porn with good lighting design, attractive international locations, and leggy Euro models. What is low budget for Gazzman is actually about twice as expensive as a standard U.S. gonzo, but Gazzman tends to shoot at rental castles by the banks of Loch Ness rather than Encino. I always feel a little awkward when attending a porn shoot if the cast is unprepared for guests not involved with the production. I asked West if there was a learning curve since 2000 with regard to fostering a good dynamic between the cast and Porn Week guests. "All of our performers tend to be very friendly," he said, pointing out that Porn Week regular Poppy Morgan has become a face of the show, "but we definitely have to get the right mix of people. In the early days we did get a lot of the performers saying 'What are these guys doing here?'"  At a recent party in downtown L.A. at Eli Cross' and Kylie Ireland's Fallout Shelter studios, it seemed the blend of vacation revelry and porn filming had reached a balance. Guests (who asked not to be filmed) milled around an open bar or just outside as a group of women including Poppy Morgan, newcomer Katie K., Nikki Jayne, Gwen Diamond, and others cavorted in hanging cages, on prop beds, or "Star 80"-style bondage chairs for a scene from Gazzman's "Slam It In" series.The big event of the evening was the U.S. debut of Nikki Jayne who, after disrobing spectacularly, delivered a blowjob to performer Oliver Sanchez, who was posing as a photographer and pretended, at least for a few seconds, that the stunt wasn't staged. Jayne walked into Harmony's booth at Birmingham's ETO adult trade show on July 22 saying she wanted to do porn. "We had her on a plane to (a Czech Republic Porn Week event in) Brno the next Wednesday," Gazzman said. Jayne is tall and blonde and looks like a California girl save for her charming accent. Porn Week does not have contract girls (though Poppy Morgan has come to be associated with the company) but a special effort was made to introduce Jayne through Porn Week, and it has been successful; Jayne has already met with Digital Playground and Vivid, she said. Digital Playground's Samantha Lewis reminded Jayne that the company already had a "Jane", so a possible contract would require her to change her name. Prior to her trip to the states, Jayne was intent on a Vivid contract, but Digital Playground has already wined and dined her and had the good luck of meeting her before her meeting at Vivid. We'll see what happens; this might be the last time you see "Nikki Jayne".  Across Porn Valley in Poltergeist Hills, an area so named because it resembles the rolling housing development built over a graveyard in the movie Poltergeist, the Porn Week guests have gone home but the Harmony crew is still there, filming scenes between Jayne and San Jose's Bobbi Starr. Just before her anal scene with Sanchez, I took a picture of Jayne on the carpeted stairs. "I don't want a pattern on me bum," she said."That's the least of your worries," I said. Gazzman and West explained Porn Week's marketing forks, starting with Bravo UK's midnight broadcast of the company's exploits.  "We are fortunate to have a deal with them in which we retain ownership of the material, they just broadcast it on the telly," Gazzman said. To that end, Gazzman and West may make DVDs, sign pay per view deals for XXXPornParties, and continue to add Porn Week publicity to productions by other companies. Ownership of the product is great.It seems like this week witnessed the crossed paths of two exciting commodities, Porn Week and Nikki Jayne, who appears poised to be very big. I asked Gazzman what advice he might give to Jayne in the American porn market, and he replied with a Scottish brogue, "Ach, she won't listen to an old man." See a gallery here. Previously: Wayne doesn't know why he's being interviewed, either; Czechs for cash; 2007 AVN wrap-up See also: Porn Week Labels: "eli cross", "set visits", bobbi starr, directors, fallout shelter, gazzman, kylie ireland, nikki jayne, porn week, vivid, WGL
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