Not necessarily.

It can also depends on the LEVEL of the performer.

It is no question that the Ron Jeremies, the Stormy Daniels, the Jessica Drakes, and similar level of performers are [...]]]> You said that: "The problem is that the industry attracts the very people who have the least business being in the industry."

Not necessarily.

It can also depends on the LEVEL of the performer.

It is no question that the Ron Jeremies, the Stormy Daniels, the Jessica Drakes, and similar level of performers are at least levelheaded enough to thrive in the industry and remain at the top of their game.

The rest - the Gonzo performers (basically) - well, you have to be realistic. Many, if not most of them, come from a job market (assuming they HAD jobs previously) that entailed working at things that could possibly LEAD to doing adult - like stripping at clubs and, well, to be polite let's just say less desirable things. For them, this industry is a natural progression and, frankly, perfectly tailored for their experience and, for many, their only opportunity to advance.

Which leads to your comment that: "If you come into this biz with a drug problem, it's going to get worse. If you come into this biz with emotional issues they are going to get worse. If you expect to come out of this biz well adjusted you damn well better come into it very well adjusted.". How true that is! However, I suspect that drugs are as readily available at strip clubs as on a porn set (probably more so!). But let me ask you this: do you see people more stoned in scenes or working in clubs? Clubs by far! For this reason I submit the outrageous statement that strip clubs - regarding drugs - far eclipse the porn industry and, for that reason, IF the person is level-headed enough to handle it - the industry can actually be a blessing in disguise.

Well said DB except for strip clubs eclipsing porn in drug use...specially these days....I'd say they are pretty even and if you throw in viagra/cialis/caverject etc and steroids porn eclipses strip clubs by a far. But honestly thats pretty tit for tat, stripping probably isn't any better or worse than porn in terms of emotional stability of the performers....Thanks DB!

 The highlight of the trip came when [...]]]> Lindsey Lovehands came up a few days after I arrived and we did have a blast. Lindsey is just such a little cutie and her and Fifi made quite the pair as you can see.

 The highlight of the trip came when we all went out to the Air Force Museum and Wright Pat AFB. OhioFlyboy met us out there and gave us a tour that very few people will ever get. OhioFlyboy  knows his stuff, having authored and/or photographed over 30 books on military aviation. He has photographed every plane there it seems and probably all of the people who flew them. His personal experiences with the aircraft and the people who flew them added far more to the experience than would otherwise be attainable. I owe OhiFlyBoy a HUGE thank you for taking a day away from his busy schedule to give us this rare treat, and I highly recommend the Air Force Museum to anyone, it's an amazing experience.

And as usual hanging out at Flamingo Showclub was pretty much the entertainment most nights.tim runs a good club, it's rock and roll, clean, no ripoffs and most importantly, fun.  He has some cute girls and a rock and roll staff, I consider all of them to be my friends. I miss them already. If yer in Dayton check the place out, it's on North Dixie just south of Vandalia, tell em I sent ya and get in free.

One guy I don't ever see much of in Dayton anymore is my old pal Dirty Bob, used to he was the only guy i knew there but he doesn't seem to be able to get away as much as he used to, he hasn't even been to a shoot in ages.  He usually drops in the club a time or two though, it's always good to see him.

Mike: Regarding Montcalm Publishing and your reader's Nicole Graves layout:  I did the ghostwriting for Christi Lake's monthly column for many years and never had a problem getting paid P.O.P. (Payment On Publication).  Since you are a year past that point, the best thing it to call them direct and ask [...]]]> Dirty Bob Writes:

Mike:
Regarding Montcalm Publishing and your reader's Nicole Graves layout:  I did the ghostwriting for Christi Lake's monthly column for many years and never had a problem getting paid P.O.P. (Payment On Publication).  Since you are a year past that point, the best thing it to call them direct and ask for their bookkeeper and directly ask when the checks will be cut.  Not IF - ask WHEN.
db

TVShooter Writes:

In response to the post on having not been paid: depends on your deal. If you’ve already released the copyright, you’ll have a hard time getting your money at this point, and it’s going to be a royal pain in the ass.

The first question: is there a deal memo? A deal memo outlines the details of the shoot, such as payment, time frame and method of payment, delivery date ect…in short everything.

The deal memo I use specifically states that copyrights of the work (my case it’s video) remain with my company until such time as the payment is made in full. Make your client sign this and initial next to the copyright paragraph.

Now it’s not just a situation of small claims court, you’ve just moved into circuit court with a copyright infringement case….and any magazine, TV show or website will have to pay attention to this, as penalties run in the $50,000 range and up.

Also in the memo, you need to state where any legal issues will be handled. Unless this is done, you’ll have to sue the person in the state and county where they live- and they know it, so it’s a real pain to be dealing with a small claims case via email. And you must show up on the trial date or for depositions….in their area. So the hassle is yours.

NEVER release photos or video without something in writing. I’m betting the poster never did that. In fact, I’m betting he just shot the pics and sent them in.

If so…you pretty much have no recourse. The rules of the “contest” (GND) are slanted toward the magazine. They can even claim you didn’t “follow the rules” therefore are ineligible to receive any prizes.

Almost all…if not all…”contests” are frauds. It’s a way to get free content. All pics submitted to the magazine become property of the magazine and can be used for anything they wish to use it for. Forever.

Take a look at the release on Gallery’s website here: http://www.girlnextdoor.com/gnd-form.pdf .

If you submitted these pics a year ago, you are pretty much NOT going to get paid. If they wanted to pay you, it would have been done.

Again...never send content-video or stills…to a “contest”…they are all designed to screw you. Very few people get “discovered” or famous from being in these “contests”...the winner is the contest getting free content.

 Richard Campbell

Tvshooter Video Productions

Atlanta, GA

www.tvshooter.net

4-Play Video: Review these or I'll bribe Randy West to come out of retirement to "pump up" my sales.

DreamGirls Video: Review these or we will send Hayden over to flash your wife.

Evasive Angles: Review these or T.T. Boy will send over a Latin Lovely with no [...]]]> Here are a few your forgot:

4-Play Video: Review these or I'll bribe Randy West to come out of retirement to "pump up" my sales.

DreamGirls Video: Review these or we will send Hayden over to flash your wife.

Evasive Angles: Review these or T.T. Boy will send over a Latin Lovely with no green card to move in with you.

Jill Kelly Productions: Review these favorably and we will make you the sole owner of all of the JKP stock.

JM Productions: Review these or we will film a segment in the desert featuring Zebra Boy getting tit-fucked by a pair of disembodied 42DDD breast implants.

and you goofed with DIGITAL PLAYGROUND: It should say: Review these or we will send Adella over to write your review for ya!
Last Week or So I Had A Story About A Note That Came With Kick Ass Pictures Screeners:

Kick Ass had a note in with their screeners that said if you didn't review the movies they would send Mary Carey over to clean out your refridgerator.

So I Got To Wonderin....What Do Other Companies Notes Say....Well Here ya go:

Black Widow: Review these movies or we will send John Thmpson over to shoot a 666 movie in your living room. (some also say review these movies or we will send Wankus (thats Mr Faith to you) over to explain how how he isn't a suitcase pimp)

Wicked: Review these movies or we will send Brad Armstrong over and you will have to do him to stay on our screener list

Metro: Review these movies or your check will bounce

Max Hardcore: Review these movies or we will book Max to be the featured speaker at your daughters Career Day.

Red Light District: Review these movies or we are sendin Vince Voyeur over for a little ass to mouth.key word being..."little"

Nick Manning: Review these movies or we are sending the little baggies of jizz that thawed when Nick forgot to pay his electric bill.

Vivid: Review these movies or we are sending Paul Thomas over to explain artistic film making and why his films aren't boring.

Michael Ninn: Review these...hey wait, Vivid stole my idea, that's OK though I can explain it much better.

Digital Playground: Review these movies or we will send Devon over to clean out your medicine cabinet.

Hustler: Review these movies or we will send Larry Flynt over, along with Dustin and Jimmy. Keep em all if you want em.

Club Jenna: Review our movies or we will send over Jay Gardinia and David Bowie and you have to tell who is who.

Homegrown: Review our movies and we will do anything you ask, we mean it, anything, just please review them.

Wildlife: Review our movies or we will send Dave Cummings over to do your wife, please.

Evil Angel: Review our movies or we will send over...wait who gives a fuck who fucked Rocco...theres a title for ya.

That's Cold

Ebola Monkey Man Writes:

Mike, Just read that interview. One thing came to mind. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.com That was great.

Ebola Monkey Man

And Dirty Bob Writes:

Mistah South: Ah needs to apiligize for my son, Moe Green's addytude. Ever since Little Moe began to be a man and grown them short [...]]]>

Steve Writes:

That's Cold

Ebola Monkey Man Writes:

Mike,
Just read that interview.
One thing came to mind.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.com
That was great.

Ebola Monkey Man

And Dirty Bob Writes:

Mistah South:
Ah needs to apiligize for my son, Moe Green's addytude. Ever since Little Moe began to be a man and grown them short 'n curlies down there in that part that he washes once every weak or two (or whenever Ma can't tell if that ripe smell is dinnah or Little Moe), he has had a fashynashun with that skinny hoah Nakeeta Kash.

Me and Ma are worried that this fashynashun will someday lead to seeing Our Misteak (don't tell Little Moe, but he was spoosed to be a spot on Granny's quilt, but ah didn't pull out of the barn in time) on one of them thar TV shows we watch at night through the window at Rifles and Spuds Department Store.

Moey won't leave this bada bimbo alones, Mistah South. We aren't sayin' that we aren't glad to see him leave the famly farm, but he took all the money we was savin' from plowin' the North Forty and left last week to hitch to Floridee to find her and spend our money on her for lap dances.

Mistah South, can you help us? I'm afeered that Little Moe is gonna give the beech all of the money - which I figgur will be about seventeen dollars unless he buys one of them Baby Ruths (he likes them Baby Ruths) one the way down there - for a lap dance, and since the little bastard hasn't taken a bath since before plowing, I think that Nakeeta will take one sniff of his ripe, healthy manhood smell and rush him to the preacher man before he comes to his senses.

I heered that you go to Floridee all the time to catch them fish we can't get in the crick. If you see Little Moe before he gets to Nakeeta, can you take him fishin' first and makes sure he smells like fish. Me and Ma figgur that this way he will smell like fish when Nakeeka plops her skinny arse on his lap and will think of Little Moe more as a woman when she smells the fish smell and won't find him Husband matereeal.
Thanky...

0 Moe Green Sr.
And for those of you who somehow think that I wrote that bit, Thank You but I don't write that well, even on my best day. Moe Green is a regular contributor to my site and despite the fact that he has only one eye, his observations are, rather keen.

OK THAT'S Funny!

I just read Mark Kernes' reply to my email to you, and here are my thoughts.

I've always found Mr. Kernes' prose to be corpulent; with a lot of adipose tissue surrounding very little lean meat. So where' the beef in this? There's not much, I'm afraid. But [...]]]> Hi Mike,

I just read Mark Kernes' reply to my email to you, and here are my thoughts.

I've always found Mr. Kernes' prose to be corpulent; with a lot of adipose tissue surrounding very little lean meat. So where' the beef in this?
There's not much, I'm afraid. But there is obfuscation, irrelevance, and threats. The fat cats at AVN really want to put a lid on this, don't they?

In the first paragraph Mr. Kernes seems to think I'm a lawyer correspondent In my original email I didn't address any legal issues, I just presented my view of the events. I didn't use any legal terminology, though once I used the word "malice", but it was not in a specific legal context. Mr. Kernes is hallucinating lawyers here. He also accuses me of paranoia, which is hyperbole on his part. Would I be paranoid if I (like many others) thought MatrixContent (the prime suspect in the Acacia mailing list scandal) had sold my name and address to the enemy?

The second paragraph is a bloated exercise in irrelevance.

In the third paragraph he repeats the paranoia charge, this time marrying it with "lawyerly''. His prose is not just portly, but also turbid and inelegant. He then rambles from the subject of reputation, to oxen being gored, to remedial math. His orotund style seems to smother whatever it is he's actually trying to communicate. I won't bore you by reviewing the rest of his reply, but I must ask him a favor: please stop capitalizing words to create emphasis; it's very annoying.

I can't believe Paul Fishbein told his leviathan of letters, Mr. Kernes, to reply to my email. I thought their best tactic would be to ignore you and your website, and just let this die down and be forgotten and forgotten quickly as most people in the adult biz have abbreviated attention spans.
But no, AVN themselves are keeping it going. And after setting their counsel, Mr. Cambria, into action, they move their journalistic heavyweight, Mr. Kernes, off his steatopygic rump to keep this ball in play. Do they need the publicity, or something?

AVN just doesn't get it, do they? A quick poll of my Internet friends and associates finds that most now think AVN has something to hide, because of how they reacted to the revelations that Acacia may have acquired their mailing list. Most people I spoke to (and you and I) don't believe AVN would willingly cooperate with Acacia, which reveals a lot of goodwill towards AVN. But having Mr. Cambria come out swinging, and having Mr. Kernes follow up in his typical swagbellied style was just fatuous.

I'm now finished with this subject. I'm too busy to be constantly trade barbs with gargantuan talents like Mr. Kernes, so this will be my last email about this matter. As far as I (and many others) are concerned, AVN should do some real reporting on the Acacia issues. Perhaps they could show some leadership. What about sponsoring a seminar where the companies involved in litigation with Acacia could share information with the people who recently received the "final notice" letters? Or perhaps they could do some investigative reporting (admittedly more effort than reprinting press releases) on how Acacia operates, and the story behind the dramatic rise (and slow fall) in their stock price this summer, despite posting a big loss at the end of June? What about it, Mr. Fishbein? Something? Anything?
Leadership?

Cookie Guy

Ok this guy has a vocabulary...and a valid point, I too would like to see AVN pick up the ball and take a stand on this.

Dirty Bob Writes:

Mike:

I think you really OOPSED on this one. You posted this comment today:

"First I find it highly unlikely that AVN would choose to sue anyone over all of this. The fact is Cookie Man and others came to the same conclusion independently, to say the information came from AVN is not any more a lie than it is to say it didn't come from AVN. I am sure that AVN protects this list but the possiblity that it leaked out covertly is certainly within the realm of believability."

The OOPS has to be this part: "to say the information came from AVN is not any more a lie than it is to say it didn't come from AVN."

C'mon, Michael. It either is a lie or it isn't. You can't say both. It either did or did not come from AVN. There is no middle ground. If it leaked out from someone at AVN, as you suggest the possibility, then it did indeed come from AVN - although not officially. If not, the same goes. Period.

For the record, AVN is very possessive of it's property and name. I personally doubt that this information was released on purpose, and I see no way it could have been accidental.

Dirty Bob

Actually it isnt an oops.

I need to add my 2 cents in to the Ron Jeremy fiasco. I'm like everyone else in the biz and have known him since Day One. You see things, you hear things, and discard 90% of what you hear, and store the last 10% away for the future.

First: [...]]]> Mike:

I need to add my 2 cents in to the Ron Jeremy fiasco. I'm like everyone else in the biz and have known him since Day One. You see things, you hear things, and discard 90% of what you hear, and store the last 10% away for the future.

First: Ladies, I am NOT being unsympathetic to your feelings. I am also NOT trying to defend Ron. I am trying to show you how it looks to an OUTSIDER who could NEVER fully understand the porn world and the people therein. If you feel he raped you, then the ball is in your court. This is serious stuff.

Is Ron a strong-arm or forceful rapist? Doubtful. Half the time he can't stay AWAKE - I've seen him fall asleep while getting blown! He gets winded cutting a steak! Is Ron a horndog? You betcha. That's the beauty of Ron (did I just use Ron and Beauty in the same sentence?). Ron CAN get laid at the drop of a taco anytime and anywhere and DOES - I've seen it happen too many times to count. I've asked quite a few women why they do it, and more than a few have answered that it is because the always wondered, down (ahem!) deep, if they could "accommodate" this above-average shlong. Well, that and bragging rights, naturally. Ron and Elvis. Go figure.

Ron is no Angel. Like any other guy, he has his own methods of weaseling into a woman as well as a chow line with equally impressive results. Hell, he is so damn good at it that sometimes he even uses the fact that he sweats to his advantage, but I can't give away all of his secrets, right? Fortunately, he usually has the women coming on to him.

One of the recent complaints against him that has widely surfaced was, I believe, a woman (no names here!) claiming that he took advantage of her because he took things farther than "just putting the tip of his dick in her pussy." That complaint is incredibly stupid. If Dr. Phil heard that he would probably ask when she fell off The Stupid Tree. Here is a woman, obviously not to ever be confused with Mother Theresa, who willingly gets naked in a hotel room with a porn performer, gets him hard (we really DON'T need to know how she accomplishes this!), lets him stick the tip of his dick in her pussy, and then bitches because he may momentarily go deeper than just the tip? We aren't talking about getting off, either. Just deeper, momentarily. And remember, we are also not talking Nick Manning here; this is the Hedgehog, Ron Jeremy. I don't care if it is for a quick picture or whatever - if you consent to let a porn stud put part of his dick in your pussy, can you reasonably expect a guy with a raging hard-on to smile, say thank-you-very-much for getting me all excited and horny and having to stop at that point, and get dressed and walk away? THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS HALF A RAPE. C'mon now. A male porn star is like a vampire trying to enter a home: if asked to come in, he invariably will do so, but he has to be given permission to enter first. So enough already. Would you expect to take Ron (or anyone) to a steak house when he is starving, buy him a sizzling steak, put it in front of him, and tell him that he can only chew on it but not swallow it? Yeah, right. Actually, Ron would eat his food AND everyone else's left-overs, but that is another story. Can you imagine Judge Judy hearing someone say that "Yes, Your honor, I am a porn star. I fuck for a living. I love anal, d.p., and bukkake and could probably take on the Morman Tabernackle Choir in half an evening with enough lube. My complaint? Well, uh, I was naked in a room with another naked porn star, just the two of us, and told him that he could put part of his dick inside me, and he slid it in deeper than I would have liked for a few seconds, so I think that means he raped me." Save THAT one for Sweeps Week!

All this aside, I think that the real reason for the sudden Jeremy complaints is timing. Ron is hot, and people are riding his coat tails whenever possible - especially people who NEED some publicity at this stage in their fading or stale careers. I am suggesting no names in particular. Hell, even writing this letter to you, South, could be construed the same way (trying to get publicity due to someone else's recent press) but we both know that isn't the case, fortunately. I am just trying to clear things up or at least put things in perspective.

Bottom line: I like Ron. I like Ginger. Hell, I like 'em all. This is the fuck business, and people WILL get fucked one way or another.

How hot IS Ron right now? Very. I just received my advance copy of the October issue of Playboy. On the back inside page where they list what is coming up next month (Nov. issue) is this blurb:

"THE HEDGEHOG AT 50 - You've seen Ron Jeremy in action, but do you know how the unlikely sex star became one of porn's titans? Having reached the half-century mark, with more than 1600 films under his bulging belt, he finally comes clean. Plus: six inches of separation, starring Ron's A-List friends. An unforgettable profile by Erik Fleming."

Like I said, it is all in the timing.

Dirty Bob

Ron Jeremy A rapist:

I have been trying to figure out what to say on this because honestly, I don't know what to say. Then along comes JimmyD who sums it up pretty damn well cept for one thing...No Ronnie isn't Isreali Yes Ronnie IS Jewish.

From Simplyjimmyd.com

Wow! I smell a Made-for-TV movie. Something along the lines of “Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?” Maybe they’ll call it “Who is Raping the Great Pornstars of America?” And then it could be subtitled, “The Ron Jeremy Story.” I know, I know, that’s a stretch. I just felt I needed to make a food connection. Get it? Chefs… Food… Pornstars… Sex… Ron Jeremy.

Now look people, I have no clue whether Ron Jeremy is a serial rapist or not. And I’m certainly not about to call anyone a liar. I know Ronnie and I know some of his accusers. Ron Jeremy does not strike me as a rapist, unless you’re talking about raping a buffet line. But then, some of the girls who are accusing him don’t strike me as liars or worse either. So what we have here is a genuine mystery.

There are, however, a few things I’m pretty sure I do know. Contrary to what Ginger Lynn says, I’m pretty confident there hasn’t been some giant, Ron Jeremy cover-up on a global, porn-world scale. I’ve been in this biz for more than a decade and no one--NO ONE-- has ever asked me to keep my mouth shut about something as lurid as the Hedgehog raping women. Mostly, in the jizz biz (and only on very rare occasions), if someone asks you to keep your mouth shut about something, the something usually has to do with money and someone screwing someone out of it, or it has to do with the private life of someone in the jizz biz who wants their life kept private. But also remember that secrets are generally not well-kept in this business which makes me wonder how Ron Jeremy could be going around raping lots of women for a long time and I never heard a fucking word about it.

Also remember that ( for the most part) pornographers LOVE to gossip! They—make that we-- LOVE to talk shit about each other. And also remember something else about pornographers: We love to fucking lie. That’s right! Lying and/or taking the truth and turning into chopmeat is practically the national pastime for pornographers. That’s not to say I’m saying anyone’s lying here. I’m just saying there’s a lot of lying that goes on in the porn biz in general if you get what I’m saying. And please believe me, I’m not lying about this!

Of course, there’s liars and there’s liars. And in the XXX industry the most consummate liars are generally Israelis, which neither Ronnie nor his accusers are. I know that sounds bigoted--maybe some would even say it sounds anti-Semitic-- but bigotry and anti-Semitism aside, the fact is it's true. We have a saying here in our little, Bill Margold-christened 'Playpen of the Damned' -- we sometimes say about someone, “He (or she) has Israeli Disease.” And if someone asks just what Israeli Disease is? We tell them: “Israeli Disease is where every time his (or her) lips move, they lie.”

But again, and please believe me about this, I’m not saying anyone is lying here! Although we all must face the plain naked truth that someone is… lying that is.

So the big, BIG million-dollar question is: “Who is lying?”

P.S. Don't expect this story to take on the magnitude of the Kobe Bryant rape story. Don't even expect it to make it to page two in the Valley papers. Cuz you see, in the grand scheme of things when it comes to shit goin on in this fucking business--this kind of shit that is--the rest of world could basically give a shit less. Of course, that's just my humble opinion.

Charging somone with rape is a pretty damn serious thing. Matter of fact, unless that someone has been convicted of rape calling him a rapist is slanderous. I don't know enough of the facts or the people to say much. I do know Ron Jeremy, pretty damn well even and while I wouldn't leave him alone with my refridgerator and while I do know him to be a bit touchy he has never, to my knowledge asserted himself on any of the girls I have introduced to him. One other thing I can testify to is that I have never ever been asked to keep anything in porn quiet except when it involved someones personal life. A large scale cover up in this biz seems unlikely, I'm 4 square with JimmyD on that one. I'm sure that this will get uglier before it gets resolved and may even end up in court.

The best Parody Yet, The Maxim issue you NEVER want to read.

Ten Signs a Porn Chick is Interested in You:

I was reading the net today and stumbled across a story titled 10 signs a girl is interested in you...Well knowing that porn chicks aint yer average girls I decided to do all my readers a favor and list the ten signs a pornchick is Interested in you.

10. She keeps glancing at the bulge in your pants, the one where your wallet is to be exact.

9. She smiles at you at a porn show, and she actually remembers the 1600 dollars you paid her for an hour of sex booked through erotica2000.

8. She goes out of her way to get you to notice her, for example you live in Orange County, she lives in Reseda and she shows up on your doorstep because she was evicted.

7. She lets you play with her hair. Hey she didnt spend all that time in make up so that you could fuck it up ya know.

6. She initiates the conversation, and it isn't the sentence "Get the fuck off of me" when someone says "cut"

5. She laughs at your jokes, the ones your are telling on stage at the AVN Awards that is.

4. She asks if you like certain activities, like an extra girl, or in the case of Jill Kelly, being buttfucked by a gay guy.

3. She pays you a compliment, like "Wow your band is really good, I'm surprised you dont have a record deal yet, you can sponge off me till you get one.

2. She makes sexual comments, like I normally charge 1600 per hour, but since you are a washed up musician with no future I will do you for free and keep you in dope and strippers to boot.

1. She kisses you, hey sex is no big deal but kissing, now that's personal.