Art School Girls are Easy

Studio: Vivid-Alt
Director: Eon McKai
Cast: Andy San Dimas, Kasha Bella, Stevie Hart, Pixie Pearl, Daniel, Vin Vericose, Dane Cross

Yes, "Art School Girls are Easy" is a "remake" of the seminal pomo porn "Art School Sluts." Is it a brilliant twist on porn's relentless reinvention of the same topic? Is it a nostalgic cry for a simpler time? Is it a sign that Eon McKai is just completely out of ideas? We're still puzzling all that through—but we can say for certain that it's a pretty hot film.

Fans of the original will be familiar with the structure of this release: the opening car crash segues into a girl-girl scene with Kasha Bella and Pixie Pearl, a trip to art school results in Pixie and Daniel getting it on in front of the class (while Kasha takes photos, natch), Kasha and Stevie Hart seduce Vin Vericose into a threeway, Andy San Dimas and Daniel giggle their way through dialogue and get down to the fucking, and—last but not least—Kasha seduces Dane Cross, who's stopped going to art school in favor of doing drugs.

When "Art School Sluts" hit the scene, it was hailed as groundbreaking, revolutionary, and influential—and truly, a porn unlike any other that had come before. Five years later, "Art School Girls are Easy" doesn't have the same impact: quite literally, we have seen something like this before.

So if you strip away the novelty and the newness, what's left of the girls of "Art School"? Hot sex, for one: Pixie Pearl and Andy San Dimas give knockout performances, the now retired (and much missed!) Stevie Hart takes a walk on the B/G/G side, and newcomer Kasha Bella proves that she has what it takes to fill shoes of the original Mia, Keiko.

And at the end of the day, isn't that what matters most?

One often wonders what an artist would do, if they had the chance to do it all over again. Perhaps Eon McKai is giving us his answer: he would have used more Pixie Pearl.

· Vivid-Alt (vividalt.com)

Pixie Pearl and Kasha Bella
Pixie Pearl and Kasha Bella
Stevie Hart, Kasha Bella, and Vin Vericose
Stevie Hart, Kasha Bella, and Vin Vericose
Kasha Bella and Dane Cross
Kasha Bella and Dane Cross
Andy San Dimas and Daniel
Andy San Dimas and Daniel
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Pixie Pearl
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Pixie Pearl and Daniel

A tribute to lady-lady love (and, of course, riot grrlism), "Riot Grrrls" is a six scene DVD featuring the sapphic stylings of Mandy Morbid, Pixie Pearl, Nova T.A., Jessie Lee, Cadence St. John, Jayded, Envy Vicious, Eden Von Sleaze, Allister, Audrey Angel, and Asphyxia. (Yes, that's a lot of grrrl.)

Diehard riot grrrls may be disappointed to learn that much of the riot in this film is skindeep: there's a kicking soundtrack by Shiragirl, and the girls are punked out to the max—but not once do we see any evidence of zine making (and no one hooks up at a Bikini Kill concert, either). But it's easy to forgive that slip: once the brief plots run their course, and the girls get down to getting each other off...well, they're empowered enough to make any third-wave feminist proud.

"Riot Grrrls" releases today. Enjoy this preview gallery—and then go buy a copy of your own. It's what Kathleen Hanna would want.

· "Riot Grrrls" (burningangel.com)
· Buy "Riot Grrrls" (gamelink.com)

· Eon McKai and his lens of doom (more @ popporn.com)

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Ava Cummings (galleries.pimproll.com)

Angelina Croft (nudepornstarz.net)

MIsty B (eroticbpm.com)

India Suicide (sucidegirls.com)

Pixie Pearl

Regan Reese (neighboraffairpage.com)

Palo Suicide (suicidegirls.com)

Abby Ray (live.naked.com)

Tokyo (punkgalleries.com)

Tiffany Suicide (suicidegirls.com)

Jennifer Hurt (centerfoldlove.net)

*****

Previously: Fleshbot Requests Archive

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· "POV Punx" (DVD info @ burningmerch.com)

· Burning Angel (burningangel.com)
· Brenda Staudenmeier (thelovelybrenda.com)
· Goliath Books (burningangel.com)
· Order "Burning Angel" (amazon.com)

Early reports about the movie, which has been over a year in the making, described it as a story about tutu-clad suburban Gothic hotties being recruited for some sort of anti-capitalist terrorist cell. That's true enough, we guess, though the finished project is a lot more disjointed and impressionistic than that: if "The Doll Underground" is "about" anything, it's that sex is as much about power as it is about pleasure, maybe even more so. From our eminent colleague Violet Blue's five-star review:

Pulsing with energy, eerie visuals, clever pacing and deliberate editing, the film is a haiku telling the story of five young women tired of being controlled by society ("buy nothing" is repeated as a mantra) who emulate a mashup of the Weather Underground and Patty Hearst's SLA ideals. They band together in the Belmont Tunnel in Los Angeles under the direction of uber-sexy goth Lorna Adorn (Pixie Pearl), create and distribute anti-capitalist and anti-conformity propaganda (podcasts and screenprint pasteup art), build bombs and make things go boom ... Visually and throughout the delivery of the minimalistic story arc, it plays like a long, gorgeous, lush yet also somehow dark, saturated but bleak music video.

(... ) I wonder, did The Doll Underground *actually* come from porn valley? There are no blondes, no long fingernails, no fake breasts, no skinny girls, no big boobs, no fake female orgasms. The soundtrack never interrupts the sex; the sounds of sex are the focus. The women's bodies look like regular *hot* girls; the have ass, thigh, meat on those bones that make you want to cuddle and fuck and snuggle. Half the cast, at most, is tattooed; many are pierced, and two of the men are uncut. There are no unsafe or scary sex acts; no anal, no "gapes" and thankfuckinggawd no ATMs. The negative? People still wear white belts.

But let's talk about the sex; the mood is disaffected, the visuals dream-like, but the sex is riveting. Besides Pixie's solo masturbation scene (a Goth dream come true), the performers do not acknowledge the camera during sex scenes — with one deliberate exception. Outside of sex, the performers have direct viewer "eye contact" as part of the narrative. The storytelling is for the viewer; for the sex we are but voyeurs. The editing is tight yet deliberate.

(... ) The Doll Underground is one of the best porn films I've ever seen, and it feels like anti-porn — it's almost against the system it came from by being all that it is — a deep investigation of culture from an industry we regard as being utterly bereft of culture beyond the superficial. Rise up, indeed. Highly recommended.

We couldn't have said it better ourselves, except maybe to add that "The Doll Underground" is one of those rare porn movies that we find ourselves watching as much for the interstitial parts and high style as for the fucking itself ... although once we remember how hot the fucking is, we find ourselves wanting to fast forward to that again too. It might not be everyone's cup of dirt pipe milkshake, but if you're looking for an utterly original porn experience that'll leave you with something more than just a sticky feeling in your pants, "The Doll Underground" is the place to be. Anti-capitalist gothic Lolitas never looked so good.

· "[review] the doll underground" (tinynibbles.com)
· "The Doll Underground" Trailer (eonmckai.com)
· Vivid Alt (vivid-alt.com)
· Order: "The Doll Underground" (Adult DVD Empire)

Check out our exclusive preview gallery after the jump.

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· "Not Another Porn Movie" (DVD info + trailer @ burningmerch.com)

This year's crush object list was derived from a secret formula involving nominations by Fleshbot contributors; number of times they were mentioned on the site; a patented coefficient extracted from each subject's astrological chart; and a subjective measure of how much each one of us wanted to date and/or cook a morning after breakfast for each one of the crush objects in question. Find out who they are after the jump.

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10.

Pixie Pearl
According to a certain member of the Fleshbot staff, Burning Angel's Pixie Pearl is "the girl that keeps me up at night." No, we won't tell you who it is ... but Pixie, if a certain Fleshbot staff member approaches you in public sometime and throws herself at your feet in an insomniac frenzy, don't say we didn't warn you.

9.

Monique Alexander
Vivid's wonderful contract star actually smiles at the camera. Who does that anymore? We applaud her courage in not sticking her finger coyly in her mouth at every opportunity and slapping her own ass. We would like to reserve that right for ourselves.

8.

Brandi Belle
The always delightful Brandi Belle manages to set herself apart from all those other amateur and solo gal sites out there by a geeky sense of humor and some genuinely hot setups for her videos. If her stunts haven't made the initials "CFNM" sexy for you ... well, you haven't been paying close enough attention.

7.

Jenny Hendrix
The hardest-working woman in porn, Jenny Hendrix hasn't even taken a nap since July. The world recently teetered at the brink of the abyss when she toyed with the idea of getting new boobs, but she has decided against it for the time being. At 22, she has at least three more months before things start going horribly wrong.

6.

Sophie Howard
It was hard to pick up a lad mag this year without running smack into Sophie Howard's magnificent rack. Fortunately, running into Sophie Howard's rack is something we can't see ourselves getting sick of anytime soon.

5.

Eve ("Iga") Wyrwal
It came from Poland ... the mysterious Eve Wyrwal, that is, who was suddenly everywhere you looked on the babelog scene as "Iga" this fall and then started appearing under her even more consonant-heavy modeling name in the pages of lad mags not long after. Whatever she decides to call herself, we hope she sticks around for a while. (As long as she doesn't keep adding to her aliases; we're having a hard enough time keeping track of her appearances as it is.)

4.

Stoya
Stoya is more than just Digital Playground's attempt at going Alt (whatever that means), but her non-mainstream porn pedigree is so much different—God's Girls, Lzrbunny—from the Hawaiian Tropics via Hooters route taken by Jesse Jane that she is already the highest-profile contract girl with tats since Janine Lindemulder and the recently-departed Sophia Santi.

3.

Maria Ozawa
Maria Ozawa would have made Bill Murray's character in "Lost in Translation" stay in Japan. (So what if she's half Canadian?)

2.

Gianna Michaels
Had Michaels been around at the time of the great Renaissance artists no work would have been done, aside from them crawling over each other to get at her. (Save for Michelangelo of course; he didn't go in for the boobies. Well, more for us.)

1.

Sasha Grey
Next year Sasha Grey turns 20, and she will no longer be America's Sexy Mopey Teen. Luckily for us there is the Porno-Industrial Complex which will ensure that she is in pigtails and plaid skirts until she's at least 26. With luck, by then she will have blown up Chatsworth.

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See also Fleshbot's Crush Object Hall Of Fame:

2005's Crush Object Of The Year

Joanna Angel

2006's Crush Object Of The Year

Dana DeArmond

(And all the other crush objects who made our 2005 and 2006 lists. We'll always have a place in our hearts for you too.)

The latest of the recent "Debbie Does Dallas" resurrections, Eon McKai's version telegraphs his love for toes, indie bands, and mopey teens, mashing them up with the first non-alt girls of his career.

Debbie Loves Dallas

Studio: Vivid-Alt
Director: Eon McKai
Cast: Cassidey, Dana DeArmond, Charlotte Stokely, Pixie Pearl, Tommy Pistol, James Deen, Julius Ceazher, Icarus Corpse, Daniel, Justin Syder, Monique Alexander

Review by Gram Ponante

An altporn reimagining of the 70's porn classic "Debbie Loves Dallas", Eon McKai's version is not going to make any converts to the altporn stable of stars, all of whom do an amazing job of telegraphing how not seriously they take their jobs. The eye rolling, gum smacking, and bad posture, the delivery of every line as if it had a question mark at the end of it, and the relentless irony of the performances made me think less like I was watching a porn movie than I was substitute-teaching an eighth grade class.

All except Cassidey, who plays Debbie. The bad seed Vivid Girl (or so she is depicted in the Showtime/World of Wonder "reality" series "Debbie Does Dallas .. Again"), Cassidey alone seems to be making an effort to do her best with what is admittedly a porn script.

She and her pals (DeArmond, Stokely, and Pearl) meet at a music video shoot playing listless cheerleaders. They take a break and hang out with local ticket scalper/drug dealer Deeze, who takes a shine to Dana.

"I'm from East Los Angeles," he says. "So far east I have a New York accent."

Back at Debbie's place, Cassidey makes James Deen fuck Pixie as punishment for not cleaning the apartment. I don't understand Altkid anthropology; if Deen had cleaned the house, would he have got to fuck Pixie twice?

Regardless, a good sex scene is always a welcome departure from bad acting, and a lack of dialogue takes one's mind off the poor sound. We can hear the "record" button being pressed each time a performer speaks.

Meanwhile, we meet Punky of Dallas, whose mating dance seems to be the constant readjustment of his glasses. We are treated to Dallas' music video, a trippy interlude that puts Punky in Deen's place fucking Pearl.

A story element is added that the girls are fighting. Stokely versus Cassidey over Punky. Cassidey tells Stokely that the loser in their struggle will have to "go back to making porn in the Valley." (At this point I suddenly felt defensive of the Valley. "Well, these girls don't seem so together, either," I thought).

The groupies crash a recording session and Pearl and DeArmond hook up with the backup musicians. It's like "The Wall", except with MySpace bands. Two headscratchers of porn pseudonyms are featured in this scene: Julius Ceazher and Icarus Corpse. If I was 12, Icarus Corpse would be my band.

Down the hall, Cassidey and Stokely try to find Punky but are blocked by his bodyguard.

"I'll introduce Punky to the one who sucks the best cock," the bodyguard says. (Shouldn't it be "sucks cock the best?") Anyway, they blow him, but he betrays their trust. It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock 'n' roll.

A surprise visit by Monique Alexander from Paul Thomas' recent "Debbie" reimagining is every bit as exciting as when Gary Coleman did a cameo on "Silver Spoons" as Arnold Drummond. It is the Vivid contract girls who deliver the most inspired performances in this movie.

You might say, "But Dana DeArmond is the new Thinking Man's Porn Star, and Charlotte Stokely was the face of suburban blight in 'Girls Lie'! How is it that cookie cutter contract girls are so refreshing in this movie?"

Probably because the script was unequal to the talent of these people. At that point it became a personal choice whether to let the audience know. Cassidey made me forget the script; Dana drew attention to it.

In the end, Cassidey gets her man. Punky, played by Alex Gonz, and Cassidey provide a sweaty and messy ending to the movie, real porn as opposed to metaporn, which is a welcome relief. Still, we could hear an offstage voice yell "Two minutes!" as Gonz worked up to his pop shot. I asked McKai if things other directors might smooth over - like stage directions - were included purposely in this movie.

"Truth to materials," he said, quoting the architectural fad that prohibits gussying up building blocks. If that is true, why not have a split screen at all times showing what the crew is up to? What about a CNN news ticker or real-time L.A. traffic reports that would give insight into conditions on the set? Sometimes I think Altporn means never having to admit you're phoning it in.

· Vivid-Alt (vividalt.com)
· Buy "Debbie Loves Dallas" (gamelink.com)

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Previously: Vivid Alt's "Debbie <3 Dallas", Debbie Did Dallas: The Search For Bambi Woods, Porn Valley (Adjacent) Dispatch: Not-Debbie Does Manhattan, Breaking: Debbie Still Doing Dallas, Porn Valley Dispatch: Debbie Dies (Dallas)

Long after the entire Fleshbot editorial staff has retired to their rocking chairs on the front porch of the Shady Acres Rest Home for Superannuated Porn Bloggers, the indefatigable Debbie will still be cartwheeling and cock-gobbling her way into the hearts and underpants of smut fans as yet unborn. (And probably still doing it in Dallas, too—as much as we'd love to see her expand her franchise someday, "Debbie Does Dubuque" just doesn't have the same resonance as the original.) Fresh from her latest incarnation in Vivid's "Debbie Does Dallas ... Again", altporn wünderdude Eon McKai brings Debbie to the MySpace generation in the forthcoming "Debbie <3 Dallas", starring Cassidey in the title role and also featuring an all-star cast of Fleshbot faves including Charlotte Stokely, Dana DeArmond, Pixie Pearl, and Tommy Pistol. The DVD streets on August 9, but as a special treat we were able to grab some exclusive on-the-set shots by superstar lensmen Octavio "Winkytiki" Arizala and Dave Naz ... because we all know you can't have enough Debbie in your lives. Especially since she's going to outlive us all.

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· Sneak Peek: Vivid Alt's "Debbie <3 Dallas" (Fleshbot Gallery)
· Vivid-Alt (vivid-alt.com)

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Previously: Breaking: Debbie Still Doing Dallas, Porn Valley Dispatch: Debbie Dies (Dallas), Fleshbot Facials: Monique Alexander Returns From The Grave, Party Report: Debbie Does Manhattan, Fleshbot AltWatch^TM: Dana And Eon Do Charm City, Debbie Did Dallas: The Search For Bambi Woods