Annie Cruz’s Indie Adventure

Annie CruzAnnie Cruz might be best known as one of porn’s baddest bitches – being one of Kink.com’s most impressive resident dommes will do that to your reputation – but the Filipino fuck-fiend has also got a soft spot for some good ol’ indie rock! Ex-Pavement frontman, Stephen Malkmus, with his band The Jicks and Tenacious D’s Jack Black (in acting mode) are among Cruz’s latest co-stars, but no, this isn’t an indie-rock porno. Cast in Malkmus’s latest video, “Senator”, from his Minor Traffic album, Cruz plays a suitably sexy partygoer that encounters Jack Black’s schmoozing, boozing Senatorial candidate at a party and presumably proves the songs chorus “What the Senator wants is a blowjob,” to be undeniably accurate.

“Senator”, a politically-charged tune that features such pseudo-nonsensical lines as “heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy smelter – fuck it!”, isn’t Cruz’s first flirtation with the non-mainstream edge of an industry. Since 2009 she has only been shooting scenes and photosets for her self-maintained website instead of whoring herself out to the majors – something Malkmus’s former band, Pavement, also refused to do. Even in the regularly disparaged porn business, Cruz is known her doing things her own way and being unafraid of confrontation. Her blog, Memoirs of the Damned, reads like a punk/goth slut’s defensive diatribe against the small-minded, sexually insecure, dolts who can’t handle a sexually aggressive woman making a living doing what she loves. And, like the best work of all artists, that’s some inspiring shit.

James Franco’s Kink.com documentary

Kink.comAfter praising adult performers for their acting abilities while in the company of such socially acceptable thespians as Colin Firth, Natalie Portman, and Annette Bening at Newsweek’s ‘Oscar Roundtable’ discussion back in January 2011, Hollywood renaissance man James Franco recently announced that an upcoming documentary project would focus on a man named Peter Acworth, best known to Mr. Pink’s readers and horny fellas everywhere as the founder and lead producer of a little company called Kink.com. Housed in the historic San Francisco Armory, Kink’s dungeons, cellars, ballrooms, dining halls, and bedrooms have hosted a virtual who’s who of top-tier pornographic talent from Amy Brooke to Charley Chase, Sasha Grey to Faye Reagan. In late June, a now-deleted tweet from Kink regular Rain DeGrey said Franco was in the house and attracting lusty stares from all the girls; business as usual for the 33-year-old actor, author, director, painter, producer, screenwriter, NYU professor, and perennial student.

With Kink.com’s continually evolving slate of fetishistic online endeavors as his palette – websites Hogtied, Water Bondage, Sex and Submission, Bound Gang Bangs, Everything Butt, and Men in Pain included – whatever Franco and his crew come up with is sure to be an intriguing look into one of porn’s most exciting and groundbreaking production entities.

Oh, and what else has Franco been up to lately? Why, starring in a movie called Cherry, described as “A drama centered on a troubled young woman who moves to San Francisco, where she gets involved in pornography and aligns herself with a cocaine-addicted lawyer.” In a hardcore version of Diablo Cody’s rise to screenwriting prominence, Cherry is based on a screenplay written by none other than Lorelai Lee.