SHOW WEDNESDAY. JAY CREW AND HIS LOVELY WIFE OLIVIA PARRISH!
I’m so lucky to have not one, but two amazing guests for my show on the 1st. It’s been a while since I had a couple on with me, so we should have a good time. See you there!
Home From Vegas
I know, I’m waaaay behind on blogging.
The show this year was an odd mix of seeing old friends, meeting new ones, and seeing how the industry has shrunk over past years. It was the first time in the Hard Rock hotel and I can say that no one seemed to like it there.
The staff at the HR is great: each one was friendly and helpful to a fault. The venue itself was, IMHO, pretty horrible. The food was not so good (my Darling got sick two out of five days from the food, though I was unaffected), the rooms are very dim and dark, the halls were small and crowded, so there was NO escape from the incessant cigarette smoking, to name just a few of the annoyances.
The hotel’s convention rooms weren’t quite large enough to hold everyone in one room, so the show was split, between the convention rooms and The Joint, the HR’s performance venue, where they host the music acts that come through town. The main floor of The Joint is poured concrete, tiered a bit, and separated by waist-high metal fencing into pens. These are for folding chairs or, for the wilder bands, SRO spaces.
It may work well for concerts but for the AEE is was hard, as the fencing separated the models from the fans, making it a bit hard to take pictures. I ended up having a basic pose of me sitting on the fence with the fan next to me, either hugging me or putting his face near my butt. Sheesh.
In the main convention rooms it was more like old times (I signed one day in the convention rooms, for Hard Candy Films, Nica Noelle’s new studio with AEBN), with crowded aisles and booths full of girls. The booths were smaller than before, but there seemed to be a lot of them.
I can’t remember all of the women I saw, but a few that I remember: Sinn Sage, Zoe Voss, Bree Olsen, Belladonna (looking amazing!), Asa Akira, Bobbi Starr, Sunny Leone, Alexis Texas, Alex Ford, Stoya, Devon Lee, Anita Blue, Jessie Jaymes, Veronica Avluv, Nica Noelle, Aaliyah Love, Tori Black, Julia Ann, Lisa Ann, Nikki Charm, Lizzie Borden, and more.
Some of the guys I ran into : Mr. Marcus, Marcus London, Tom Byron, James Deen, Danny Wylde, Rob Black, Valentino, and, I hear, Sean Michaels, though I didn’t see him in person.
Whew!
I was on two panel discussions, which was a nice way to dress, and act, like a grown-up, and got off campus one afternoon to speak at a class at UNLV. My friend Sara Vibes, current International Ms. Leather ’10′/11, came with me to the class. She has a lot of good things to say, and a lot of insight to offer, about being Queer, Black and female. She’s just great.
The Awards show was an exercise in barely-controlled pandemonium, to say the least. I rushed back from the hairdresser’s to change into my outfit for the night: black satin evening pants and a black silk satin tuxedo blouse, unbuttoned pretty low, and a push up bra. The red carpet was supposed to get underway at 6:30 (!), for a supposed start time of 8:00 (!).
If you go to avnonline dot com and look at the pix, you’ll see that the line of people waiting to walk the carpet, and stop every few feet for photos or interviews, was many hundreds of feet long. Even though my Darling and I were whisked to the front of the line, we still had to wait over 20 minutes for our opportunity to speak a few words to the various media outlets. By the time we sat down in our seats on the floor of The Joint (it having been swept clear of all traces of the show and now filled with chairs and tables for the awards), it was 7:45 and nearly empty. We were among the first to arrive!
Needless to say the show didn’t get started until 9:45, almost two hours (!) late. There were several technical glitches (which will be fixed before the show is aired on, I think, Showtime), and it was all over by 12:15.
There were plenty of after-parties but we blew them all off and went back to the room to collapse.
Unlike previous years, Saturday was the end of the show, so no more hung-over people putting on the act of “working” on Sunday.
We stayed over on Sunday, packing and I got to watch the Niners lose in a heartbreaker to the Giants. Sara is a NY fan, so she was happy!
I wasn’t unhappy, as the Niners had no offense and would have, I fear, embarrass themselves in the Big Game.
It was a nice, rainy drive back home and we got in in plenty of time to eat at a decent hour.
Naughty America
I did a fun scene yesterday for Naughty America’s venerable series, “My Friend’s Hot Mom,” working with someone new to me, Daniel Hunter. It was fun and we got to work on a comfy couch.
Girl Candy
I do a g/g tomorrow for Nica Noelle’s new studio for Girl/Girl, Girl Candy Films. Her B/G studio is Hard Candy, for which I’ve already done one scene.
I’m grateful for all the work this month, as it’s been much needed.
That’s all for now. See you Wednesday!