Ashlynn Brooke and Tommy Gunn deliver poignant anti-alcohol message
By the 10-minute mark in most AVN award shows, the heady thrill that accompanies the 2-hour wait for the show to start has dwindled considerably. That is why many people don't remember that the band Buckcherry played the AVN show in 2007 on the strength of their 2006 hit "Crazy Bitch."
I use "Crazy Bitch" as the ringtone for someone very special, and many Buckcherry songs speak to other parts of my life, including "Lit Up," "Borderline," and "Porno Star." The L.A.-based band picks up where George Thorogood left off in that they don't just perform songs about drinking.
But they don't completely exclude drinking. The video for their song "Too Drunk To Fuck" follows a chubby, bearded man and his hot girlfriend to a houseparty where Buckcherry is playing (the band has been forced to play smaller venues as has been the fate of any mainstream act that appears at the AVN show). The bearded man drinks too much and cannot perform for his woman, then vomits in what appears to be a Swiss alpenhorn.
Appearing as a tender, lovemaking couple in the video are real-life couple Ashlynn Brooke and Tommy Gunn who, even in keeping all their clothes on, still manage to convince Hot Girlfriend that she can do better than a man who appears to be a porn production assistant who can't hold his liquor.
Brooke and Gunn are friends of the band, who played the AVN show the night Gunn won as Best Male Performer.
"When the fans see us in mainstream projects like this, they tell me it's like they're in a secret club and knowing who we are is the handshake," Brooke said, not adding "drinking is wrong."
Getting previously-released music into a movie - even a porn movie - is tough, but Circa '82 director Dave Naz had an in.
"Keith (Morris) asked if I wanted to use the Jerks' music in a movie," he said. "I took him up on it."
Naz, who grew up in L.A. and who was in his early teens circa '82, later played in bands with the Circle Jerks and Bad Religion, and is friends with original Jerks Morris and Greg Hetson. Prior to the Circle Jerks, Morris formed Black Flag, and Hetson founded Bad Religion during one of the Jerks' many breakups.
Morris even makes a cameo as an "old man." Ouch.
The only other musical coup that comes to mind with regard to porn movies is when Joanna Angel managed to get Rancid's "Time Bomb" on Joanna's Angels 2.
Circa '82 is a great movie. See a review here and a gallery here.
In the porn/metal interview DVD Radium 2, Kristina Rose (as well as Camryn Kiss, Dana DeArmond, and Devon) are asked what their favorite metal music is to fuck to (DeArmond says Pantera).
But Rose cites Nine Inch Nails' "The Fragile," explaining "It's for the ladies."
I think if you got 100 people in a room to listen to that double album it would be very unlikely anyone would say, "It's for the ladies," but she's right.
Rose's review of "The Fragile" is right up there with my friend Sherman's review of Jaws 4.
"Jaws 4 makes Jaws 3 look like Jaws 2," he said. I had to wipe away a tear.
Another interesting thing about Radium 2 is Devon and Camryn Kiss. What sweet faces, I thought. And look what they're doing to themselves.
That is why Brittany Starr's single, "I Wanna Fuck the DJ" will at the very least get airplay.
Starr is of that group of porn stars who I think would be comfortable in professional wrestling; there is something very 1987 about her.
Not only porn performers, but also mainstream stars have little success with music. So it is a pleasant surprise to hear Starr's single with its Animotion vibe and clean beats.
That is right. I just wrote "clean beats."
I could totally hear this song playing in a club whilst tripping my face off and me and my friends dancing on the prostrate forms of people who couldn't make it out in time before the fire started.
Starr will play the song on her appearance on Howard Stern's show tomorrow. I like her much better than Moby.
By the 10-minute mark in most AVN award shows, the heady thrill that accompanies the 2-hour wait for the show to start has dwindled considerably. That is why many people don't remember that the band Buckcherry played the AVN show in 2007 on the strength of their 2006 hit "Crazy Bitch."
