Bathroom Interview: Joanna Angel

In twenty years I think people will look at Joanna Angel the same way they look at Ron Jeremy now. She's already well on her way to icon status in the porn industry. She's undoubtably one of the smartest women in the business. She's ridden the alt-porn wave and carved out her own little niche within the niche. Her website, BurningAngel.com, is not just a porn site, it's a community where tattooed models write blogs and get naked. Her latest DVD with VCA, Joanna Angel's Guide to Humping, premeires tonight at Theo and Michael T's Rated X. I caught Joanna in the bathroom at Tristan Taormino's DVD release party way back in February. Maybe I sat on this interview a little too long...

What first drew you to work with Tristan Taormino?
I think she’s the most amazing woman to walk the earth. I used to stalk her, kind of. I used to read her books and go see her speak. I tried to interview her for my [college] paper. I’d never really had, like, an idol and I just thought she was amazing. Two years later she came up to me at AVN and was like, “You’re Joanna. You’ve been doing an amazing job.”

What is feminist porn to you?
You know, it’s hard, because I really don’t think it means anything. I think that a feminist…is a feminist. And someone who’s not a feminist is not a feminist. I think it has a lot more to do with the porn you make than the porn you watch.

When are we going to see Joanna Angel strap on a dildo and fuck a guy?
I don’t know! As much as I love being in control and being the leader of a movement, when it comes to sex I’m submissive. I like to be roughed up, whether it’s a guy or a girl. It’s almost an empowering feeling for me when someone can just throw me around and call me a whore and just fuckin’ beat the shit out of me. And to be honest, the desire to fuck a guy with a strap-on…it doesn’t really turn me on. I’d like to put another girl doing it to a guy in one of my movies.

What’s happening with BurningBoys.com?
Oh god! It’s an idea we had a long time ago, and we want to launch it. But it’s very hard because Burning Angel is a small company where me and one other person have to do everything. When it’s at the point that Burning Angel runs by itself, we can take on another project. I don’t want to do Burning Boys unless we really do it right and we can throw all our energy into it.

What is the perfect porno soundtrack for you?
Well, in Joanna’s Angels Rancid was on the soundtrack and so was Death By Stereo. I really want to get Turbo Negro to sing in one of my movies because all their songs are about, like, fucking and having fun and giving head and going to parties and being crazy. And that’s what my porn is all about.

Do you have trouble getting bands to lend their songs to pornos?
No, because I grew up in the music scene. The people I grew up with in the music scene, they really care about me, they really support me, and they’re really into other people who are being creative. I don’t think they’d give music to most other porn that’s being made, but they’ll give music to me.

Last question: What is Joanna Angel drinkin’ tonight?
A Kamikaze. It’s always Kamikazes. If you see Joanna Angel out on the town, you buy her a Kamikaze. She will be your best friend.

Bathroom Interview: Tommy Hottpants

Tommy Hottpants is one of my favorite NYC DJs, partly because of his penchant for playing Siouxsie and the Banshees and the Cure and Romeo Void, and partly because I really really really want to make out with him. Seriously. I think I had a boner during this whole interview.

John: So Tommy Hottpants, where are your hot pants?
Tommy Hottpants: My hot pants…well, I’m not wearing anything under my jeans, so they’re not there, but they may be in my suitcase which is packed up and ready to go to San Francisco in like 2 hours.

J: So these aren’t you’re hot pants?
TH: No. No these are not my hot pants.

J: If you had to DJ a porno, what would your porno soundtrack be?
TH: Probably something along the lines of a remix of this Faint song, a little bit of Manson, a little bit of Mötley Crüe. And perhaps…Def Leopard? It’s all about the metal stripper thing, you know? For me at least. You’ve gotta be wild and sexy in bed or else it’s not gonna happen, you know? Nothing pussy like Björk.

J: You think Björk is a pussy?
TH: She’s great. I want to meet her. I totally would like to hang out with Björk. But, for sex music…No. You know, none of that lovey dovey, like tweeky, creeky coo coo coo…none of that.

J: So if you’re going to be having sex tonight, what song will you be having sex too?
TH: Well, I will be having sex in an airplane. High above the skies.

J: Where are you going?
TH: San Francisco. My flight’s at six o’clock in the morning. And there will most definitely be sex in the Mile High Club. Already a member. Yeah, it’s gonna be hot. And in San Francisco it’s just gonna continue.

J: Umm…I think I’m out of questions. What would you ask me if you were doing this interview?
TH: Top or bottom?

J: Oooh. Both, definitely.
TH: Versitile! Oh that’s nice. Um, if you were locked in a bathroom and you could be with anyone, name four people.

J: I don’t know.
TH: I’ll answer my own question. It’s gonna be Pierre Fitch. Look him up online. He’s the hottest porn star ever. You’re gonna fall in love with him. It’s gonna be Pierre Fitch, Nikki Six, Henry Rollins, maybe, because you need one muscle guy. And probably Heath Ledger, but a la Ten Things I Hate About You, but without the hair. So that’s the bathroom party.

Bathroom Interview: Tristan Taormino

Tristan Taormino should be the patron saint of anal sex. Seriously, someone call the pope. She’s built her own little empire – including her Village Voice sex column, several books, and two pornos – on the premise that more people should be taking it up the ass. She just released the newly revised second edition of her first book, The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women, and has returned to the world of porn with her new DVD, Tristan Taormino’s House of Ass. I found Taormino in the bathroom of Crash Mansion where we were celebrating the release of both the book and DVD.

John: It's been five years since The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women 2. Why so long between DVDs?
Tristan Taormino: The thing is, truthfully, there’s so much that I do. Things just come into focus. There are some years where the focus is on teaching and some years where the focus is on writing. And I just felt this year, in 2005, newly inspired to make cool porn. I’m not a fulltime pornographer and I don’t want to just do it to do it, or do it to cash the check. I only want to do it when I feel really jazzed about it.

J: How is House of Ass different from every other porno out there?
TT: Well, my whole thing is that I want to see a different kind of gonzo. Gonzo is porn without a plot, where the camera is acknowledged. Like cinema verite, sort of. I want to see gonzo where there isn’t stupid degradation, of both women and men. And I want to see porn where there’s no circus stunts. Cause that’s the thing. There are great things about gonzo, but then a lot of the stuff in gonzo is crappy. So, can you capture the spirit of gonzo, which is spontaneity and just raw hot sex? But can you take out some of these things that sort of dominate the genre?

J: Did you get to sample any of the talent before filming?
TT: (laughs) No.

J: During filming?
TT: Yes. In the video, you’ll see, Justine [Jolie] played with my boobs a little bit and pinched my nipples. There may be some lost footage, not on the DVD, of me with Mr. Marcus’s cock in my mouth. Enough said!

J: What is the best soundtrack for anal sex?
TT: The best soundtrack for anal sex…See that’s the thing. There is no one soundtrack. People make these assumptions, like it has to be rough and down and dirty. You can have anal sex to “fuck me like and animal” or you can have anal sex to, like, Everything But the Girl. It can be sweet and tender and intimate and really nice, or it can be rough and dirty and nasty and raunchy, and everything in between.

J: So what’s your favorite song to have anal sex to?
TT: I’m gonna go with anything on “Disintegration” by the Cure.

J: Who do you think is having anal sex tonight?
TT: I think that Rachel Kramer Bussel is gonna have anal sex tonight. I think that Bridget Everett is gonna have anal sex tonight. There were just so many couples who I don’t even really know, but who came up to me and were like, “You changed our sex life.” Which, you know, is my favorite thing in the whole world. So all those people, whose names I probably can’t even remember now, all those people are gonna have anal sex.

Bathroom Interview: Buck Angel

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Bathroom Interveiw: Ashton Ryan

Ashton Ryan has been in gay porn for most of his adult life. After an extremely successful stint with Junior Studios, he took a hiatus from the adult biz. Now he's back, at the helm of Eon Films - a.k.a. Twinks R Us - producing, directing, starring, and breakin' hearts.

Bathroom: penthouse suite at the Venetian, Las Vegas.


John: So, you have a boyfriend?

Ashton Ryan: I do.

J: Is he in the industry too?

AR: Hell no! No more of that. Tried that and it doesn’t work.

J: Why not?

AR: It just doesn’t. There are press issues.

J: Your last few films have been movie parodies. What’s that all about?

AR: That was my idea. You know, you grow up watching them…I did anyway. I come up with these twisted porn ideas all the time. They’ve all been my idea. I come up with the name, but I don’t write the stories.

J: And you actually have a lot of pull at your production company, Eon Films.

AR: Yes. Technically, right now I am one third owner [of Eon Films].

J: What’s your favorite porno right now?

AR: My new one, Ashton’s Eleven.

J: If you had your own line of sex toys, would you fuck yourself with a dildo molded from your own penis?

AR: Oooh. Well, I’ve been told it’s really nice, so yes. Just to see if it actually was really nice. And actually, that’s coming.

J: The Ashton Ryan dildo?

AR: Under a different name. It’s a long story involving another movie parody.

Bathroom Interview: Michael Brandon

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