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Mike South 2.0

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Those of you who have a kindle can now read the Mike South on your kindle. He is charging $1.99 a month to read his site from your kindle. This seems to be the first ever adult only blog approved by Amazon.

The Amazon Kindle is a software and hardware platform developed by Amazon.com for reading e-books and other digital media. Three hardware devices, known as the “Kindle”, the “Kindle 2”, and the “Kindle DX”, support the platform, as does a popular iPhone application called “Kindle for iPhone”.

Active in the adult industry for over 16 years now, MIKE SOUTH is a two time Adult Video News Award-winning producer and director. He was best known for his ongoing series of pro-am XXX videos featuring first-time performers, many of whom – including names like Anna Malle, Melissa Hill, & Felicia Fox – went on to enjoy adult industry stardom.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002I9Z01A is the direct link to the product.

Christian vs Mike South about Kayden Kross … OOOPS!

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I was reading a great story about how Kayden Kross hired Mike South to be her personal career adviser and it was actually from Christian.   Now I was with up at first. It was pretty damn good reading. This story from AdultFYI goes on about how Mike South is a little dated and out of touch with current happenings in the industry. For one the man doesn’t even live in LA, nor has he really done anything remotely relevant to the LA scene in years.


I’ll give Christian that. I’ll also agree that Kayden Kross probably didn’t make the best choice in advisors when the man on your payroll is going around making threats saying you bow down to him because without his okay he isn’t signing off on dick.


So basically if you are his enemy or he doesn’t like you for any number of personal reasons Kayden Kross can’t perform with you despite it possibly being good for her career. That’s not good business sense. That’s someone with some serious personality issues.


But then we come to the part of his story where he continues to try and discredit Mike South. There are many ways to do this without having t0 flat out lie. Because when you lie and people catch you in that lie it makes you look like a dumb ass.   What I’m getting to is the part about Christian talking about Mike South’s blog. In this rant he claims to have 15,000 visitors a day and talked about how his blog gets more traffic than Mike South’s blog.  Or maybe he really just doesn’t know better.  Maybe in his mind he really has 15,000 people view his blog a day even though really it’s probably more like 1,500.  Oh, or maybe it was a typo and he really mean 1,500.

AdultFYI – Lets review. Kayden Kross hires Mike South to “advise” her. Kayden knows my blog is read by 15,000 people daily. Kayden has had some negative press lately. Mike South then PURPOSELY ANTAGONIZES ME ON THIS VERY BLOG, when he knows I am going to respond. So the dude she hired to advise her and garner her positive publicity just purposely garnered her NEGATIVE publicity. Does that make any sense at all to anyone? Holy hell that was dumb.


This got me thinking. Man how the fuck does Christian’s blog get 15,000 people a day? That’s damn impressive. I’m not going ot lie – that’s damn impressive, especially considering the fact that there are some decently known porn stars whose websites don’t get that much traffic a day.


Taking what the man said at face value, I went to do some digging to see what kind of traffic Mike South gets in comparison.


I know how much traffic LukeFord.com gets each day because I can see my server logs. So using that as a base comparison I thought I would do a three way Alexa report on the three websites – LukeFord.com, MikeSouth.com and christiansingstheblues.com.


What I found is that the three were very close on the chart – so much so that you could barely tell the three sites apart across the bar line.


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So I ran a report over at Compete.com. They actually have a very nice site analystics tool that some say is more accurate than Alexa. I don’t know if this is true or not but what I do know is that, at least according to them LukeFord.com gets the most traffic, MikeSouth.com gets about half of what LukeFord.com gets and christiansingstheblues.com gets slightly less than that. And even more interseting is that they are reporting Mike South’s traffic is up 23% this month, well for the month of November while christiansingstheblues.com seems to be down by 56%.


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So our lesson today is this ……. if you are going to call soemone out for being a dumb ass and saying their blog sucks and yours rocks, make sure their blog isn’t more successful than your own.

Workers Union in Porn?

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Just as Mike South is reporting the faults of the Free Speech Coalition, Ben English / Derek Hay from LA Direct Models is rambling on about creating a porn union. Of course first he was talking about teaming up all the major modeling agencies to edge out the small guys and make them comply with THEIR rules, THEIR prices and THEIR standards. Not sure if that ever got off the ground but now he wants to unionize the entire adult industry? Is he to retarded to know that a Union would hurt his bottom line even more? That performers would suddenly demand and get higher wages?

Imagine how high production costs would go when companies had to have clean sets, new, unopened dildos in their original packages, eatable food, better costumes and makeup artists and pay the girls AND GUYS more money?  They would also eventually start demanding other things like health insurance, paid AIM tests, and so on.  Or does he simply mean organize porn companies and fuck the workers so that he now has a say in how you run your porno business and if he and his buddies don’t like you they can fuck you up and get you out of the industry.   Think of it as organized crime porn.  Don Derek? Here is his actual post ……

2 Cents worth?

Now that we are fast approaching 2009, the adult entertainment industry is starting to show possible signs of faultier. We already know that the industry in general is shrinking and consumers are tightening the purse strings around their little money bags. Reports that various agencies have been slow maybe some what over exaggerated. Yes it is slower but no slower that it normally is this time of year.

The problem the industry is facing is a decline in production. Costs have gone up forcing many newer companies to shoot less. Of course many other factors are involved with the ever increasing number of girls into the business and other issues such as cancellations (which incidentally cost production companies money) or fees increasing to above $1000.

But the truth is, has the golden age of porn ended? Since the departure of Jenna Jamerson, many do not realize that she kept the industry in the lime light. But now with her back to the industry and the negativity felt towards the business in general, the public simply are not longer interested. You may sit and think that how can one person impact the industry and what has it got to do with anything? Well, look back at when she became the biggest thing in porn 2-3 years ago when every company was booming away.

The key now to success largely draws down to quality. No longer can random Joe and or Joesphine (have to be PC) just build a porno site and expect millions. We now have to work for our money. As history shows in any genre, the weak perish will the strong survive. Evident only in today’s stock market alone.

We need to start getting picky with what we are doing and who we are trying to impress. Remember, it’s not raving reviews or a popularity contest in the porn biz that makes you money. It’s the public’s perception that chooses what works and what doesn’t work. Just cause someone says it is the greatest movie ever made does not make it the best selling.

The adult industry needs to pull together to survive this. The industry, at its current point, is too disorganized and separated into too many pieces with everyone fighting for the same piece of pie. Mainstream films have never done so well this year celebrating some of the biggest box office takings world wide. Are they affected by the shrinkage or the economical down turn? The box office would certainly disagree. A lesson to some extent to be learnt here is that movie business is unified in some way. Could their ever be a Porn Union of some description one day? It’s not impossible.

So as we move into 2009, don’t just sit there are wait for the next big thing and ride off that wave. It may never come unless WE do something.

A day late and a dollar short?

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Recently (as in, on October 8 at 2:13 pm) Tim Case posted on Mike South’s blog that he’s been around so long in this business he has great contacts and one of them told him about the new Digital Playground contract girl and that it will be Angelina Armani (aka the renamed Arianna Armani).


Only thing is, this was speculated about up to 4 days prior and actually revealed the day before.  So how great can your contacts me if you reveal something already known to the public?  I’m not trying to be a dick.  I”m just saying I wouldn’t go around bragging about contacts I had that gave me information that everyone already knows.  Here you have an image posted on a fan message board from the previous day showing the information was so common knowledge it was even on the stars MySpace page already. 



To quote him he says “I’ve worked in and around porn for about 8 years now, and I have good contacts.”  That may or may not be true but what we do know is that if you have good information and don’t reveal it until after everyone already knows, then really what is the point?

Jana Jordan is one busy little bee

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Luke is Back recently reported that Jana Jordan has signed on to be one of the sites celebrity bloggers.  Just after she posted about her own experience with hurricane Ike.


janajordan Says: I evacuated to Austin from Houston for the hurricane. I just came back, and Houston is a fucking mess still in my area. My power is back on, and most of the street lights are working again and stores are opening up but there is still a curfew and trash/trees are still all over the place.


Now Mike South is reporting that Jana Jordan may very well be in talks and closing a deal this very second with Vivid Entertainment to become the next Vivid Girl.  He says … “This one is sketchy but the source is generally right.   Word is Jana Jordan is about to be announced as a contract girl for Vivid.”


It seems that Jana Jordan has been one busy little bee.  We don’t know if there is any truth to this rumor about her signing with Vivid and our contact at Vivid had only this to say …..


“It is not our normal policy to confirm nor deny that we may or may not be in talks with any given starlet.   If such a rumor turns out to be true we will make a statement at that time.” She wouldn’t say much else, not even confirming if she even knew who the hell Jana Jordan even was.


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Mike South’s plan to save the US Economy and maybe the world!

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I was reading Mike South’s blog today and this is the best shit I have ever read.  Basically the idea he posted, which I think came from one of his readers simply said instead of giving $85 billion to bail out AIG, fuck them and give it to us, the people.  We the people deserve it more than some dumb ass bank and it would have more of a direct impact on stimulating the economy.  I would have laughed it off as bullshit at first glance but something about it actually made sense.  So I kept reading and then I did the math.  That’s when I realized that although the plan sounds great on paper, turned out to be total and complete bullshit.


$369 a person isn’t exactly the same as $100,000 per person.  To give each of us over 18 $297,500 (as proposed on Mike South’s post) that would work out to be $68,471,359,127,500 – that is $68 TRILLION, which is of course far more than the $85 billion they are spending to bail out AIG. Let me explain where he went wrong

I did some research and some of my own math. According to the US Census as of September 24, 2008 at 23:01 GMT (EST +5) there are 305,246,457 people in the United States. I don’t know if this accounts for illegal immigrants or just US citizens but I’m going to guess just the legal citizens. An estimated 75.4% of that is over 18. That means that right now we have about 230,155,829 people over the age of 18 in the U.S.

If you give each of those 230ish million people even just $150,000 that works out to be about $34,523,374,350,000. Yes that’s about $34 TRILLION so that wouldn’t work. But if you take the $85 billion that they have ear marked for AIG and give it to the 230 million that works out to be about $369 per person which is pretty much less than we got with our stimulus checks this year.  Yes 369*230,155,829=34,523,374,350,000.

Now let us examine the new numbers that President Bush gave out in his press conference tonight.  He said in all we are looking at $700 billion.  So $700 billion divided by the 230 some odd million US citizens over the age of 18 means each person would get about $3041.  Nice but still not remotely close to what you see below.

So although in theory the plan is great but …

SOMEBODY NEEDS TO LEARN TO DO FUCKING MATH

Generally speaking when I get these kind of things I just trash them, but this one stands out because there is a very basic problem with it Of course I know it isn’t going to happen but It should stand to remind you all that this is OUR money.


The government does not have any money other than what it takes from you and me at gunpoint.

Ok now lets see who can spot the flaw in this scheme….anyone? anyone? JimmyD?

THIS IS A REAL DAY DREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG.

Instead, I’m in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a We Deserve it Dividend.

To make the math simple, let’s assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S. citizens 18+.

Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child.

So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up.

So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billion that equals $425,000.00.

My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a We Deserve It
Dividend.

Of course, it would NOT be tax free. So let’s assume a tax rate of 30%.

Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes. That sends
$25,500,000,000 right back to Uncle Sam.

But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket. A
husband and wife has $595,000.00.

What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family?

Pay off your mortgage – housing crisis solved.

Buy a second home – stimulate the economy

Repay college loans – what a great boost to new grads

Put away money for college – it’ll be there

Pay off credit cards – more disposable income to invest or purchase

goods and services – stimulate the economy

Save in a bank – create money to loan to entrepreneurs.

Buy a new car – create jobs

Invest in the market – capital drives growth

Pay for your parent’s medical insurance – health care improves

Enable Deadbeat Dads to come clean – or else

Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18+ including the folks who lost their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company that is cutting back. And of course, for those serving in our Armed Forces.

If we’re going to re-distribute wealth let’s really do it…instead of trickling out a puny $1000.00 ( “vote buy” ) economic incentive that is being proposed by one of our candidates for President.

If we’re going to do an $85 billion bailout, let’s bail out every adult U S Citizen 18+!

As for AIG – liquidate it. Sell off its parts. Let American General go back to being American General. Sell off the real estate. Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up.

Here’s my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesn’t.

Sure it’s a crazy idea that can “never work.”

But can you imagine the Coast-To-Coast Block Party!

How do you spell Economic Boom?

I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85 Billion

We Deserve It Dividend more than I do the geniuses at AIG or in Washington DC.

And remember, The Family plan only really costs $59.5 Billion because $25.5 Billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam.

Ahhh…I feel so much better getting that off my chest.

Kindest personal regards, , A Creative Guy & Citizen.

Mike South speaks out about Kayden Kross

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For days now porn bloggers across the net have been posting up a shit storm of information (true or not) about the pending Kayden Kross legal matter. In addition to the facts or so called facts they dig up they tend to throw in a sling of mud or two per post at other bloggers. “OMG YOU POSTED 10 HOURS LATER. YOU SUCK” or “YOU ARE A PIMP BECAUSE SOMEONE PAID YOU A CONSULTING FEE. HA HA LOSER” or “YOU ARE A DRUGGIE SO LIKE ANYONE CARES WHAT YOU SAY.  GO SMOKE SOME MORE CRACK”. Most of the posts have been slightly insightful with a side order of weirdly placed bitter resentment.


Mike South has been closest to the entire mess because Kayden Kross blogs for him on his website and has ironically had the least to say. However today he has decided to speak out about it and address a person or two slinging some of the mud.  Well to be more specific to the what he calls attacks but the likes of Scott Fayner. And he brings up a good point …

Mike South blogs … What nobody seems to comprehend is why a second rate, drug addled trust fund baby has such a grind with Kross?  Or maybe it’s Adam and Eve…who knows.


I understand reporting on a story, and giving the facts as you see them but that isn’t what’s been going on here.  As I pointed out the other day, in my story about telling the truth, Scott Fayner and others have gone out of their way to try and gain sympathy for one of the prosecution’s witnesses in this case.


Some sources are calling him a poor, disabled vet, in an attempt to show how evil Kayden Kross is for what she did.  But in reality this man was no more injured in war than I was.  He had a accident at work and was on disability as a result of that accident from work NOT A WAR and that is why he fell behind on his mortgage payments and as such the bank was going to foreclose on him.  This man may have been in the Marines but he sure the fuck isn’t a disabled vet.  However some people are calling him that so that you have more pity for him.


But truth is we don’t know to what extent Kayden Kross was actually involved in any of this mess.  We know she had some involvement, sure but how much?  We don’t know if the person they are all interviewing is telling the truth or just speaking out of anger and bitter resentment and maybe like any normal person would when they are hurt and pissed off, skewing his recollection of the story toward his own benefit.  It’s only human nature to do that.


So why are people who love to brag about what great journalist or bloggers they are, go out of their way to employ such tactics?  Do they have sort of secret thing against Kayden Kross that we don’t know of?   Clearly there is some hidden issues here, that hopefully will come to light soon enough.


What we do know for a fact is that the government has some sort of case against Kayden Kross for fraud but we know almost none of the FACTS.  We can assume based on a few things provided to us or based on stories told to us by ex boyfriends, and jilted business partners but those don’t make them FACTS.  They make them assumptions and in some cases down right slander.


I will be the first to admit that I don’t like the fact that Kayden Kross is playing the I was young and stupid card while every day for the last 6 months we’ve had to hear her boast about her brilliant and independent she is through her many blog posts.  You have to pick one side of the fence or the other.  She clearly wants to play both and that just annoys the fuck out of me.


It also annoys the fuck out of me that she OR SOMEONE that may or may not be Kayden Kross took some stupid fuckers rent payments and then didn’t pay the mortgage with them.  That is wrong no matter how you look at it or how you twist it and if it was Kayden Kross she sure as fuck better do the right thing by this guy no matter how this criminal case turns out.


I don’t care if you were “young and stupid”, give the man his money back.  Not because you have to legally but because it is the right thing to do.

Myspace Fuck Raffle is a big fat scam

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I was reading a story by Kayden Kross over at Mike South which talked about something called a Myspace fuck raffel.  Long story short, you buy a ticket for a chance to win, which the prize is you get to do a scene with a porn star.  Kayden Kross was very clear in that she in no way had anything to do with this website or these people and it was a lie that her name was on the prize list.

Fuck Raffle is a Fraud

Kayden blogs : A few months ago I got a number of emails asking if I was in the sex raffle through myspace. I said something to the tune of fuck no. Then yesterday I got two emails about it. Apparently I’m on the list (http://www.fuckraffle.net/?page_id=6). Not cool. Let this first be my absolute denial of any and all involvement in the thing. Mine was not the only name I was surprised to see on the list though. Jesse Jane? I can’t honestly see Digital Playground letting that happen. So obviously the people running the site have no intention of actually following through on their end of the raffle. Maybe it’s an obtuse ploy to just direct traffic to their site or gain media attention for some other half baked idea? I don’t know. Either way it’s fucked up.


I decided to check out this little scam of a website and just like I thought, it was in fact a scam.



Tawny Roberts?  Lanny Barby?  I don’t think so.  Tawny Roberts hasn’t been active since 2005 and Lanny Barby is on leave for at least the last few months and even then, she is still under contract with Vivid so that would legally prevent her from doing any sex scenes with anyone.  Beyond that, she isn’t even in the country right now and my sources say nor does she have plans to be any time soon.


Still not convinced that it’s a fraud?


Aria Giovanni NEVER does sex scenes with anyone.  She is a nude model, not a porn star.  Any Aria Giovanni fan can tell you that.


Bree Olson is under contract with Adam and Eve and also can’t perform on camera with other people due to the restrictions of her contract.  It’s kind of the point of being “exclusive” with a company.


Jesse Jane?  Don’t think so.  A representative from Digital Playground said aboslutely no way, is Jesse Jane or Digital Playground involved in any such thing.


Dasha?  Big no on this one.  Dasha retired years ago, married and moved to Europe.


The MySpace Fuck Raffle is a Fraud


Don’t give these dumb asses any money.  Don’t buy any tickets from them.  Don’t be stupid.

Kayden Kross is one busy little bee

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Porn Star Kayden Kross may very well be the Ryan Seacrest of the porn business, in that she has more jobs than you can shake a stick at … to say she has been one busy little bee is an understatement.  First we have the release of her new movie from Vivid called Busting The Babysitter.  (click the title of that movie to get to the link for the movie trailer)  It looks to be a quirky little sex comedy, that was directed by Chuck Lords.



We all know that Kayden Kross blogs over at Mike South but did you know that she also blogs on her Myspace page, and now for Adult Stars Magazine too?!  She’s also busy working on her official website (ClubKayden.com) and promises that she personally will be involved in it.  Interestingly enough, apparently she also blogs over at xCritic as well, along with Penny Flame, Shay Jordan and Eva Angelina.

And somehow she found time to fly to Vegas for the Xbiz summer 2008 show last week and win the iporn hot body contest as well as taking 3rd in the MIss XBIZ pageant.


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Mike South has a thing for Jesse Jane

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Well my friends it seems that Mike South (as shown in the photo below in case some of you fine folks at home where actually wondering what Mike South looked like) couldn’t let sleeping dogs lie and well that’s kind of good I guess because it makes for great gossip and after all, that is what this site is about.



So it seems that after I posted my original story about Mike South calling Jesse Jane and Bree Olson frauds and made a few jabs at other talented young beauties for their lack of brains by saying things like

let’s be honest here if these pornchicks could write they wouldn’t be porn chicks


He decided to add to the story by speaking up again. Only this time he decides to dig himself in a little deeper.  In summary he states that he doesn’t really feel it was a big deal that he said what he did and he isn’t sure why people are making a big deal of it because what he revealed wasn’t a national secret or anything, everybody knows they are fakers, so that is our problem.  To be exact he said ….

Mike South blogs : Good lord y’all. You’d think I was selling some kind of national security secret to Muslims or something…I mean do ya’ll really think that the world doesn’t know they don’t write these columns? And where exactly do I call them frauds? I simply said I’d bet my last dime they didn’t write a word of it…and really…who cares?


Well apparently a lot of people care because it was the single story that caused the most people to write me. It seems that Mr. Mike South used to be on quite good terms with the lovely Jesse Jane.  Then rumor has it one day that all changed and he started calling her “fucked up” and another rumor has it that Jesse Jane’s man almost kicked Mike South’s ass for it but he ran little a little boy.  Who knows if there is any truth to these rumors but they are damn sure funny.  SO KEEP THEM COMING!!!  If nothing else they make for a great read.  Us “lesser” bloggers have to have something to do in our off time, you know?


Back to his “Who really cares” comments, I can’t help but wonder why he cares to go out of his way to keep talking trash about Jesse Jane.  Why does he care?   Is he secret in love with Jesse Jane or some shit like that?   Is the real story that she shot his ass down when he made the moves on her so now he’s obsessed with trying to discredit anything she does besides sucking cock?  It seems the official word from the Jesse Jane camp is a big fat

LOL

They don’t seem to think Mike South is even significant enough to even bother with a real response but I will say this, I think it’s a shame that Mike South is spending so much time talking trash about Jesse Jane and trying to tell her fans not to support the work she does because it’s not really her doing it.   It’s kind of a dick move.  I mean what is the real motivation behind his actions?


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For those who don’t know the image below is of Jesse Jane.  I don’t know how anyone can not know what Jesse Jane looks like but well, now you do.