Since it's only April and the heat is already at record-breaking levels here in Porn Valley, what better way to celebrate the slow roasting of the oceans than to talk with Alaska's own Ava Rose, contract star for Adam & Eve and, if there could be a contract star of the pants, well, there too.
Rose and her sister, Mia, grew up in Sutton, AK, a town of (then) 400 people just up Rt. 1 from Anchorage.
"You spend most of the time preparing for the winter there," she said. "It's a good place to grow up, I realize now, but that's why so many adults commit suicide; they work their asses off to get snowed in."
Ava and Mia left Sutton for Reno in 1996. When Ava began dancing in Reno at the Wild Orchid, she didn't like it.
"I'd make a little money onstage but I couldn't stand to bullshit the guys with the lap dances and steal their money," she said. "It's much easier to spread your legs in porn.
"Porn's pretty easy," she said, "if you're clever about things and you know when to say no."
Rose worked for Naughty America, Metro, and Lethal Hardcore before she signed her Adam & Eve contract. Sometimes she would be cast with her sister, but Mia took more gonzo roles and Ava became Adam & Eve's lone brunette. She has appeared in that company's Carolina Jones, Dark City, and just wrapped Roller Dollz.
I asked what she thinks about the term "mainstream" as it applies to porn.
"Every time a porn star is in a movie she plays a stripper or a prostitute," she said. "I like staying where I am. People seem to always want a way into porn or a way out of it. When porn tries to look mainstream, it just ends up looking like Ultimate Porno."
Having a contract allows Rose a lot of time to read. She lives in Hollywood north of Sunset, and her bookcase is filled with true crime novels.
I asked if she read them for pointers.
"If someone offered me a million dollars to brutally murder someone else," she said. "I couldn't do it. But I like reading about it."
What is dating like?
"I don't date exclusively," she said. "It might not be the time in my life for it. It's also a little dangerous emotionally. I mean, open relationships are hard but finding out a lie is harder. Hardly ever do people not cheat."
What do you mean?
"I can't stand jealousy and obsession."
Do people get obsessed with you?
"Sometimes. That kind of insecurity is unattractive. But I'm still young and working things out. One thing's for sure: when you plan for a threesome it never fucking goes right."
Rose is 22. She gets a monthly check from Adam & Eve, a company that probably pays the highest of the major adult studios. Without makeup and wearing sweats, Rose is indistinguishable from any other young actress in her neighborhood, aside from the fact that she's working.
I asked if it was necessary to have an exit strategy from porn.
"I'd like to stay in L.A. and study Criminal Psychology," she said.
And what about relationships after Porn?
"I smoke a lot of cigarettes so I don't know how I'll age," she said. "But I think someone will like me and my loose asshole when I'm done."
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I think there should be a contest among Porn Valley's Five Companies to make a five-scene feature out of this story using the exact same dialogue but uttered by different teacher/student combos, naturally including black teacher/white student, old teacher/young student, White teacher/Asian student, female student teacher/MILF returning to school, and Carmella Bing/America's Beloved porn Journalist.
Once a nation was charmed when Jackie Kennedy threw open the doors of the White House. Today our hearts leap up anew as Tera Patrick shows us her pink version.
(That is also one of my most treasured pickup lines: "Please show me your pink version.")
Tera Patrick spirits us around her office in this searing look backstage of the adult industry. Cry with Tera as she fears being perceived as a jackass, blanch in horror as she reveals who really does the cleaning. Set your brow in grim determination as Evan Seinfeld refuses to submit to Apple. Finally, crumple with joy as Tera comes to terms with her own Japanese consumer product sexuality.
(I'm using Youtube for lack of a better solution while I build a Flash player for my site.)
As you know, I am one of the world's premier filmmakers. I talked with Dana DeArmond the other day about squirting (we get together every few days to discuss the niche's progress).
Since I cannot let go of the 2007 AVN convention, we must let God. Turn your cheek, then, to this video of (some of) Our Lord visiting Sin City to chat up the likes of Dana DeArmond, Jewess Joanna Angel, Taylor Wane, Summer Haze, and Nikki Nievez, a personal favorite who I never even saw the whole week I was there. Mysterious ways, indeed.
J.C. Superstar is played by Brady Hall of Seattle's The Stranger. His forgiveness and grace is evident even unto his exchange with Gene Simmons, who can try anyone's patience. Hall manages to resist several of the desert temptations in His walk through the Sands.