I’m going on my third year of doing this site, making it the oldest porn news, gossip, blog site on the net that is still owned and operated by the guy that started it. Only lukeford.com has outlasted me as a continuing site but it has changed ownership and writers many times.

I started reading in my archives back on day 1, January 29, 2002. I had written before that but not on a daily basis. As I read forward a few things really started to stand out. One is that porners aren’t as careless in thier public stupidity as they used to be and the other was that it was a LOT better read than Jenna’s book.

I was a funny mother fucker at times too….and harsh as hell. I seem to have lost a lot of that, maybe it’s old age, maybe it’s just hard to write almost everyday for three years and stay fresh. probably it’s both.

I have been critical at times with the Free Speech Coalition, AIM, Digital Playground, AVN and countless others, all in what I felt was a constructive way and looking back I actually think I may have had some effect, not enough I don’t think but if nothing else I raised awareness and said what a lot of people had been thinking.

Go back and give the archives a read, its funny, fascinating, sad and interesting and if you happen to know anyone that might wanna make a book out of it all, send em my way.

Finally, Happy New Year to all my readers and thank you for allowing me into your lives via this site.

A Letter From A Member:

Mike South,

I have never written a letter before to an adult site maybe because I have only joined a few. I got a new dual layer DVD burner for christmas and I was intrigued by what I saw on www.ezmadedvd.com. I admit I didn’t expect much but with only 29 bucks at stake I decided it was worth a shot.

I joined and I downloaded 8 of your scenes Paulina, Butterfly, Kylie, Brooke, Kimber, Makayla, Jill Austin and Maggie, They totaled about 2 hours of video. It took one hour to download them all on my cable connection.

I have never made a dvd in my life. My DVD burner came with Sonic MyDVD I started it and added all your scenes it was very simple, much simpler than I thought.

As you said on the site it would need to transcode the audio, it took it about 20 minutes to do that and to decide how to layout the DVD, it then burned the single layer DVD in 15 minutes and said it was done.

I thought that there was no way this was going to be this quick and this simple. I took the DVD and put it into my DVD player on my widescreen TV. I was blown away. The picture and sound quality was perfect, just as you said it would be. It was even way better than some of the Vivid DVDs I purchased at a video store. The menus were automatically generated and everything.

You are on to something Mike, in less time than it would have taken me to go and buy a DVD I downloaded it, burned it and got exactly the scenes I wanted on it. best of all the quality was absolutely perfect.

I have not seen this anywhere else, even the big sites like Digital Playground, Vivid, Wicked and Hustler don’t have anywhere near this quality. Congrats to you on an outstanding website and may it be hugely successful for you.

Marlon, A Very Happy Customer

Marlon, Thank You! I need feedback like this because this site is a brand new concept. Nobody else is doing it not mainstream not anywhere. You really can download and burn your own DVDs and it really is simple.

Thanks for your letter.

Hey Mikey, sometime back you wrote a bit about how the girls should behave when signing for a company. Could you please repost that? I am going to make every girl who is going to sign for us in Vegas read it and sign it.

Thanks and keep up the good work!

I didn’t post his name because he may not want anyone to know he reads my site but his request is granted. If you own a company feel free to reprint this and do with it as you see fit, add to it, whatever….

I wrote the following four years ago. Remember if you are a contract girl you are a representative of your company, whenever you step out of your house you are at an industry function.

OK ladies it’s time for some straight talk with you. The annual Adult Expo and InterneXt Shows are coming up and most of you will be involved in some capacity or another. Some of you will have signing or hosting duties, others may just be attending to see and be seen, still others may be brand new and looking to get into the business. No matter which category you fit into your behaviour at these shows reflects directly on you as both a professional and a person, you would do well to heed the following advice. One would think that this would all be common sense but it obviously isn’t.

BE ON TIME! 60% of success in this business is just showing up on time, ready to do your job, whether it is sucking cock or signing autographs you are being paid to do a job and to do it at a particular time. When you are late or unprepared you cost your employer money, and that isn’t cool.

BE PREPARED! That means dressed appropriately and ready with promo materials, sharpies and anything else you might need to get you through the day. If the company that is paying you to sign wants you to dress in specifically designated clothing that is what you do, if you cannot do that don’t accept the job. Your employer has every right to designate what you can wear or will wear in his/her booth while signing.

BE COURTEOUS! If you ever forget that the people coming up to you asking you for your autograph or your picture are the ones who are paying your bills for you then you deserve to starve. Treat your fans with respect. You are not better than they are, you aren’t doing anything to make the world better. You are a porn star, that in and of itself is not worthy of respect, respect is earned by how you conduct yourself.

BE PROFESSIONAL! This is not a party for you. This is not a time for you to get high. This is not a time for you stay out all night and then drag in late to work the booth the next day reeking of alcohol and looking like something the cats drug up. Remember that what you do is a direct reflection on the person or company who paid your way out there and whose booth you are signing in. If you want to massacre your brain cells that is fine but do it on your own time. Your own time is when you get back into your own house. From the time you step onto that airplane to the time you step off of it to return home you are obligated to whomever is paying your way. Your obligation is to put that person or that company in the most positive light possible. You do not talk bad about them, you do not talk bad about promo material they are having you sign. You do not drink at all on the show floor, every minute of every day you are where you are supposed to be when you are supposed to be there. Do not pick up your next boyfriend while at the show, Los Angeles is full of out of work musicians who will be more than happy to sponge off of you, you may seek them out when you return home. This is not a pussy hunt or a dick hunt, do your job.

I cannot over emphasize how important it is that you understand that what you do and how you behave, not just on the show floor but throughout the entire day and night is a direct reflection on you and the company you represent. It is standard in this business now days that the contract girls have to have babysitters. People whose job is to keep the girl from getting fucked up, keep her on time for her appearances, keep her from running out and partying,. making sure she is dressed appropriately, making sure she doesn’t run off with some guy or girl and making sure she doesn’t say anything embarrassing.

Now just imagine what a girl would be worth if she didn’t have to have a baby sitter. She could always be depended on to be on time, properly attired and pleasant. Nobody had to worry that she would run off on a coke or alcohol binge with some lowlife. Nobody has to cringe when she opens her mouth, praying she doesn’t say anything overtly stupid. Everyone is always confident that she represents her company in the best possible manner. She would be worth a fortune, because she would free up the PR person (read babysitter) to do things that are more important than making sure she doesn’t fuck up.

Are you that girl?

A porn chick who lies about a degree from MIT and medical school? I’m shocked.

I know, what’s the world coming to when we can’t even believe a pornette….Maybe Tara is taking the Sharon Mitchell worthless degree route. Maybe MIT stands for Modesto Institute for Trickery.

The other Tera - BT Writes:

Mike: Just out of curiosity, have you followed sales for Tera Patrick’s comeback vid, or traffic to her website? Evan’s self-promotion aside, I wondered what the response to Tera has been. My local video store, which carries a heavy selection of Vivid in the rental section, still doesn’t have a copy of Tera, but several copies of the Janine flick in both VHS and DVD.

according to my local video store buyer the lull in her “career” combined with the fact that she only does Evan has all but destroyed any fan base she might have retained….

They stock one copy of her new vids, by comparison they stock 10 copies of any given Red Light District video.

At 11:11 AM 12/29/2004, you wrote:

Japchick Writes:

“Hey did you ever find out if that Tara Moon (Chante in Canada) Chick really has a degree from MIT?”

Yes I did, and of course she doesn’t…never even has attended under her real name anyway…reckon how many bets were lost on that one ….

During the AEE the number of “pharmacists” in Las Vegas will double.

The phrase “I hate that fucking bitch” will be will be whispered over 300 times.

The phrase, “the blonde with the big tits” will be used to describe ½ the female talent at the show.

“Just because it comes in your size, doesn’t mean you should wear it,” will apply to most porn-a-bees and some talent.

Within a 12 hour period, Steve Seidman will hit a jackpot, only to lose it all betting on college football.

Jesse Jane will kiss Mike South, right after blowing Kid Rock.

Someone will explain to Tera Patrick that Jerry is the rich Seinfeld.

Quasarman will not be fired from Zero Tolerance, until they find out how much booze he charged to his room.

Wankus will attempt to convince Paul Fishbein that AVN should have an award for the best internet porn-jockey whose name starts with a “W.”

Mike South will not win the AVN Award he’s nominated for, and no one on the AVN staff will admit nominating him.

Exhibitors will be able to open a line of credit for food and beverages at the Sands Convention Center.

Felicia Fox will realize that Tim Case is Willie Nelson’s Mini-Me, and dump him for the real thing.

Unlike last year, Mike South will with hold his date’s airline ticket, so she can’t skip town on him.

Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Brown Bunny:

For many critics, the worst film ever admitted into the competition of the Cannes film festival.

In particular, Roger Ebert called the film “the worst in the history of Cannes” to which Vincent Gallo responded that Ebert was a “fat pig with the physique of a slave trader”. Ebert paraphrased a remark of ‘Winston Churchill’s and responded that “although I am fat, one day I will be thin, but Mr. Gallo will still have been the director of ‘Brown Bunny’”. Gallo then put a “hex” on Ebert’s colon, to which Ebert responded that “even my colonoscopy was more entertaining than his film”.

Both Winona Ryder and Kirsten Dunst were already on the set, shooting scenes, when director/star Vincent Gallo fired them from the project. Gallo revealed this during a press conference in Cannes 2003.

Chloë Sevigny claimed in interviews that the fellatio scene was not simulated.

The oral sex scene was filmed using remote cameras with only Vincent Gallo and Chloë Sevigny in the room.

On 31 July 2004 a billboard for the film was put up on Sunset Blvd. It depicted the infamous fellatio scene, cut off and blurred. Due to limited (but vocal) community outcry, the billboard was taken down on August 5.

Dear Mike…

Happy Birthday, first of all, you worn-out old redneck fucker.

Tell me, in your honest opinion — and this is a leading question if I ever heard one — what do you think the BIG STORY is going to be at this year’s AVN expo? Chasey Lain death rumors for the second year in a row? Luke Ford shacking up with Harry Weiss? Porno Steve Seidman hitting a progressive jackpot on the Binion’s slots for $1.5 Million, then having to give it all to Dennis Hof?

Tell me, oh seer of seers, oh Carnack of the Jizz Bizz…what do you see happening in Vegas?

Love ya (even though you are in a certain company’s back pocket)

Tim Case

HMMMMMM1 I predict the following:

Nobody will take a photo of Tera Patrick that doesn’t have Evan it someplace

More than one pornchick will not show up to her signing because of drugs or alcohol.

A Fight between 2 porners.

A major company will have a big rush at the booth because of the appearance of a somewhat mainstream personality.

I will NOT win the AVN Award I am nominated for.

I will NOT be asked to present an award.

AVN will be accused of giving the awards to the biggest advertisers

Teagan Presley will win Best New Starlet

Attendees and exhibitors will be gouged for food and beverages by the Sands Convention Center.

Carmen Luvana will hug and kiss me, so will Jesse Jane (eat your heart out Case)

Tera Patrick will not

2 porners will engage in another sham on the institution of marraige

The AVN Awards will sell out at 250.00 per ticket.

Wannabe and washed up rappers will hang out at Metro’s Booth.

Quasarman will get drunk

Binions will not be closed down by the feds

Ray Pistol will not pay me for the videos that I own and he duplicated and sold at catalog pricing without my permission.

Digital Playground will not commission me to shoot a feature

Wankus will not humbly do anything

If anyone hands Aria a microphone anywhere they will have to call someone with a crowbar to extricate it from her hand.

There will be no porstar karaoke (thank God)

The Free Speech Coalition Booth will not get half as many donations without Bill Margold in it.

IBill will have a riot in thier booth if they show to either Internext or Adult Expo

Gene Ross will not get press credentials

Tim Case will have a badge with someone elses name on it

Harry Weiss will write me with some funny prognostications of his own

Thanks for all the cards and emails…y’all are the best.

Some Fun Videos:

The Japanese Trick: This is funny

Piano Players: This is real talent!

Cleaning the Flat: Now this dude like beer

and the best of the year

Mastercard: Priceless

Brown Bunny From a Chicks Perspective (The Porn Bloggers Favorite Chick “Crickett”):

What I Think of the Brown Bunny Blowjob:

First off, apologies to Tod Hunter. I’ve not seen the whole movie, though I plan to, and the instant availability of the BJ scene just was too easy to resist. I hope you can forgive me.

Now, about the scene. She looks nervous, but seems like she’s trying to do a good job nonetheless. Heaven knows he comes quick enough, so she had to have been doing SOMETHING right. My beef is with Gallo. Why the fuck does he have to keep moving around like that? Is he *dancing*? On coke? He’s unable to stand still, and I duno if he does that during ALL of his blowjobs or this one was special, but it seems to me that it’s a good way to get some teeth dragged on yer dick.

Chloe Sevigny: Good job, girl!
Vincent Gallo: Stand fucking STILL, you dolt.

happy whatever,
Crickett

Just want to wish all of my readers the happiest of holidays!

( Ponchicks note: an email good for one blowjob in Vegas is perfectly acceptable gift..hint hint)

Tod Mentioned Something that Got Me Thinking:

” Joone said that porn is the only place where you can really get in and challenge the audience, as long as you also give them their money’s worth with the sex.”

I have long held that Ole Jewn is wrong, dead wrong. Now don’t get me wrong Jewn has serious experience in this area and his opinion may be right but I don’t think so.

I have watched a lot of movies in my days here on earth, both porn and not porn and some I’m not so sure about. I have seen amazingly good, horrifically bad and everything in between. I have been involved in both pre and post production, cast and crew on porn as well as mainstream.

Lets take one of the borderline porn movies, a really successful one, “9 1/2 Weeks” It’s a great example because it dealt with sexuality. I loved this movie, not because the acting was good (it wasn’t), not because the story was particularly good (it wasn’t) and not because the sex scenes were hardcore (they weren’t). So why do I love this flick…that’s easy …. It got me laid by more hot girls than all the shots of tequila I ever bought. Chicks got HOT over this movie. I will spare you the why…I know why but it’s not within the scope of this particular observation.

Now, who in porn could have made this movie? think about that a moment.

Would the movie have been better had it pushed the envelope? Had it “challeneged” it’s audience and “given them their moneys worth” would it have been as successful? I’m sure tons of people would have flocked to see Kim Bassinger give Mickey Rourke a hardcore blowjob in this vid and ya it could have fit within the storyline but in doing so the movie would have become secondary, it would simply be known as the movie where Kim Bassinger sucked a dick.

You see as soon as you put hardcore sex into the movie you lose your audience, the story you are telling is now secondary, hardcore sex is too real.

Would “Center of the World” have benefitted from some more overt sexuality? In my opinion no, as soon as it goes there it stops being about the story and starts being about the sex…bad move.

Now can Porn Valley make a cmpelling story about sex? Ya it’s been done, “The Opening of Misty Beethoven” comes to mind. But it’s still porn and nowhere near the standards of even “Wild Orchid”

Will there be a breakout film that is successful even with one little hardcore scene it in? I’m sure there will be.

Will Porn Valley ever make a good movie with hardcore? That’s a difficult question but the answer is a resounding no, at least not with the current thinking, you see when you have to have 5 or 6 sex scenes in a two hour movie it doesn’t give you much time to even tell a good story, certainly not to develop characters and how many people in porn know what a character arc is much less how to present it in the allotted time frame. Even 9 1/2 Weeks had strong character arcs, without which a story is very flat and dull. Character arc is what makes you the viewer identify with a character.

So don’t hold your breath untill Michael Raven or Paul Thomas gets an Academy Award Nomination.

I thought this was an original idea until I had this conversation today with Tod Hunter and he told me:

“That’s what Orson Welles said on The Dick Cavett Show in the ’70s when it was really possible that good filmmakers might include hardcore in their movies. He said that real sex is too powerful, it’s like real death. “

Which, I guess, just goes to prove that there are no original ideas in porn….

It’s interesting what a difference a couple of years make, isn’t it.

I haven’t rented the flick. But as you say, this was supposed to be the vehicle that took Alisha mainstream and all she gets is a credit as a Random Stripper.

Yet when the film went public, the producers and distributors used Alisha’s presence to promote the film on the web. They had this video of what were probably all Alisha’s outtakes in some fairly explicit stripping.

It looks like about all Alisha’s done since then is happen to be hanging around when that poor little guy drowned in Tommy Lee’s swimming pool during a birthday party.

Jenna is still the exception to the cross-over rule. And even in mainstream, Jenna’s known as a porn star.

And she always will be, no matter how hard we try for mainstream acceptance (That I personally don’t think we really want anyhow) we will always be outlaws. The “other” side of Hollywood.

And lets face the truth here while we are at it…who in porn can act? direct? write a real book? remember Jenna didn’t write her book, it was done by someone who can write, she just related the stories in it. If anyone in Porn Valley were capable of doing mainstream Hollywood, they would be.

The Center Of The World

I saw this in the video store and vaguely remembered some hoopla in the biz about it so i figured I’d give it a rent.

Interesting movie.

The Premise is pretty straight forward, a successful but lonely computer geek (Peter Sarsgaard) befriends a stripper (Molly Parker). Knowing he isn’t going to spend time with her in any other way he offers her ten thousand dollars to spend a weekend with him in Las Vegas. It’s subtle but you can tell that in his eyes he expects that she will see him for who he really is and fall in love. In her eyes she isn’t a hooker but ten grand is a lot of money and she kind of likes the guy so she sets some rules that he agrees to and its off to Vegas.

I’m not going to give any more info really because this is actually worth a view. The thing that makes this story so compelling is how brutally honest the character portrayals are. You will see yourself and your past experiences in these characters. If you are looking for an escape from reality this movie isn’t where you are going to find it. The dialogue isn’t contrived, it’s honest, you have said this stuff before, you have felt these feelings. Director Wayne Wang did a good job of puncuating the story with visuals and situations that underscore the psychological game that’s unfolding.

When I saw the closing credits I remembered why I remembered the title. This was supposed to be Alisha Klass’s big break into mainstream, she quit porn to pursue a mainstream career and she was busy telling everyone what a major part she had in “The Center of the World”

In the credits she is billed as “Random Stripper”, she had not even 2 seconds of screen time and any dialogue she may have had ended up on the cutting room floor. Oddly enough this seems to fit perfectly with the movie.

It’s a good movie and it’s treatment of both strippers and dot com’ers is intelligent and spot on.

You pull a review that puts Digital Playground in a bad light, and you call it being “filled with the Christmas spirit”? That must be some sort of Southern term I’m not familiar with. Up North, we’d call that “PLAYING FAVORITES” Mr. Fair and Impartial. May I recommend slathering your lips with medicated chapstick the next time you feel the need to do some heavy duty butt kissing? I’m sorry, the next time you’re “filled with the Christmas spirit.”
I have one question for you: if JimmyD or some other director/company made that movie, would you have pulled the review for them???
Christmas spirit my ass.

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Goddess
www.theworldofgoddess.com
“Changing the world, one trailer at a time.”

Sigh….For once in my curmudgeony life I decide to do something kind and you’d think I sold military secrets to the Taliban LOL…

Pulled Digital Playground Review:

Geez the damn thing wasn’t even down an hour and I had a record number of emails about it.

Here’s the facts….I didn’t really think the movie was up to par for Digital Playground. Yes I was asked to pull the review and in the spirit of Christmas I pulled it. My opinion of the movie hasn’t changed and I didn’t pull it for any reason other than I just felt benevolent, call it filled with the Christmas spirit.

If you want to read what the other sites are saying, go there and read their reviews of it.

If you want the review in its entirety email me and I will send it to you.

A Closing Note on Jim Holliday:

From www.theworldofgoddess.com

I was really shocked and saddened to hear about Jim Holliday’s passing. Lo’ so many years ago, I was trying desperately to get a picture of my favorite porn actor of ALL time, John Leslie. I exhausted every avenue, until I bought Jim’s book and decided to write to him. He not only sent me this pic of him and John, and this pic of him and Sharon Kane, both personally autographed by John, Sharon and Jim, but he called me to make sure I received the pics. The picture of John and Jim still remains framed and on my desk, a symbol of a lot of things, none the least of which is perseverance and a reminder of the kindness of strangers, and how one small act can mean so much to someone. I only talked to Jim three or four times, but I will forever remember his kindness to me.

” Yup you read that right, he not only sent the pics but he called to make sure she got them. Say what you want about Holliday but that was a stand up thing to do and a good way to end my writings on his death”