In case you’ve missed it, our friends over at Fleshbot recently held their first annual Fleshbot Awards in a stylish New York club called The Box, and from all Twitter reports it was an entertaining if a little bizarre night. Sasha Gray (not attending) shared crossover porn/mainstream honors with Levi Johnston (attending). Yes, the non son-in-law of the former governor of Alaska Sarah ‘Nailin’ Palin and future Playgirl pin-up was there to enjoy the smutty accolades along with the rest of the usual suspects. Sexiest advertising award went to American Apparel and sexiest TV Show went to True Blood, so make of all that what you will. Congratulations do go out to Joanna Angel who was there along with her sexy party girls and walked away with the Fan Choice Award for being this year’s Sexiest Female, although I’d hate to see what would happen if a site’s Supreme Commandress didn’t get a win. Here is a video. It’s almost like you got an invitation!

Halloween always means monster fucking! This year horror schlock stunt cock and star of BurningAngel’s Re-penetrator and XXXorcist features, Tommy Pistol is getting his Zombie on. When I first saw these, they cut the thumbnails so you couldn’t see his makeup other than what was on his cock and I really thought they were using diseased talent. All I could see was a cock with red sores sticking into the frame (and Joanna and Andy). I never thought I’d be like, oh good, he’s a Zombie. I wonder if the billing rules have change though. I do remember some drama from a few years back when alt sites like BarelyEvil were given 24 hours to remove all monster sets with special effects stage blood etc. on October 1st while Burning Angel was given a pass through Halloween to keep their Re-Penetrator content on their site. I read somewhere that several other sites were not very happy about that. Maybe if they relax the obviously stupid rules on monster movie inspired ‘gore’, sites like BellaVendetta won’t be stuck with off brand non-standard billers like Hughes for their membership processing. That would be good. Getting back to the program though, watch sexy french maids Joanna Angel and Andy San Dimas give a lucky Zombie a different kind of ‘brain’ in this fun Halloween gallery from BurningAngel. Click the pick for a free sample gallery.

Wow, what a hot and colorful tattooed pornstar threesome! Joanna Angel scores with two of the hottest inked up alternative porn girls in all of Europe. Skin and Holly D are looking so sexy and it’s great to see them all together. I can’t wait to see the video to see just how dirty these girls get together. The photos look great and very sexy, but with three girls all billing themselves as pornstars, I would have liked to see somebodies fingers in somebody at least. Toys? Saliva? It’s like it’s almost sex, but maybe that’s just how the photos were shot. They look great and everybody looks really hot, but I want to see the video to hopefully see the sex. I wonder if it will go on the main Burning Angel site or their Heavy Metal Pussy Party site that you also get access to for joining BA, since that’s where they post their all girl videos.

Globe trotting Joanna Angel went all the way to Paris France to shoot some hot stuff with new pink haired tattooed pornstar sensation Skin, whom you may also recognize from her October layout in Bizarre Magazine, shot by the talented Steve Neaves. Our friends over at Yuhmm have more sexy samples from that, in case you missed it (thanks guys!) But BurningAngel goes all the way and give you the goods! Skin is really hot, although I imagine that name can cause a little confusion. I can’t wait for the video, but in the meantime, go check out all the hot photos of this beautiful new porn starlet.

I know some of the APN boys have little crushes on Fleshbot’s newest editor Lux Alptraum, so I am probably going to take some heat from them for pointing this out, but I don’t mean this article in a bad way. Posts like the most recent altporn-tagged one (below) on Fleshbot make me wonder if Vivid purchased Fleshbot from Gawker back when original editor John D. left. The gist of the Fleshbot article is that Club Jenna is totally ripping off Vivid-Alt by launching some sort of altporn line and including Joanna Angel in one of their titles. First off, Club Jenna has worked with alt superstars like Belladonna in the past, and Janine has more ink than Joanna Angel and Belladonna combined these days, so this is not Club Jenna’s first foray into altporn. Okay, I’m just going to stop and roll my eyes for a moment. Although APN covers Vivid-Alt releases, I have never been assigned one for review, but I still have a clue.

Has Joanna Angel ever worked for Vivid-Alt? I am 99% sure the answer is no. I think Joanna Angel did work for Vivid’s more gonzo lines in non-altporn roles, but she definitely worked in an altporn capacity for VCA after Hustler purchased the company. VCA was candid about getting inspiration for their alt titles both from original VCA titles like Cafe Flesh and from Blue Blood and SuicideGirls, going so far as to explicitly name their inspirations in DVD extras and press releases.

If Fleshbot had asked whether Club Jenna called their altporn imprint Undrgnd without vowels to avoid a trademark infringement lawsuit from Penthouse, that would have been a valid question. Penthouse did launch their largely unheralded Penthouse Underground altporn imprint some years ago. I’m not defending Penthouse as Penthouse Underground did tap porn director Guy Capo to direct for them and he was responsible for Gothsend, possibly the most awful embarrassing example of video altporn ever created. I have never seen a Penthouse Underground video, so they could be great, but the pedigree is questionable.

Back to Joanna Angel. Burning Angel has released video of her directly. Other more mainstream video companies with Joanna Angel in releases they have distributed include New Sensations, 3rd Degree, Digital Sin, Adam & Eve, Diabolic, Zero Tolerance, Video Team, Digital Playground, Mile High Xtreme, Red Light District, 5th Element, Evil Angel, Wicked, and even Penthouse, and of course Vouyer Media who is putting out her upcoming L.A. Pink feature.

Joanna Angel is a successful pornstar, so how is it derivative of Vivid-Alt for Club Jenna to hire her to do her job, a job she has already done successfully for many companies?

The set up for this video is kind of complicated. I like the BurningAngel videos where they mostly just do it, but this one has a scenario where Joanna Angel and Draven supposedly have people tell them they look alike and so they both fuck Joanna Angel’s boyfriend James Deen to see if he can tell the difference. Supposedly he can’t really tell them apart, even though they are not even wearing the same outfits. I actually found this video and accompanying pics really depressing. Joanna looks really genuinely sad through most of this. Draven appears to be getting off, but Joanna does not. I’m closer to Draven’s age than Joanna’s, but I think it would be awful to share my boyfriend with someone who looked kind of like me, only younger and prettier with better tattoos. If I enjoyed this video more, I might have more to say about the sound levels on the slurpy kissing being kind of gross at how loud they were, but mostly this whole video just made me incredibly depressed and feel so sad for Joanna.

Sean Michaels is by far one of the best performers in Adult and from the promo I’ve seen so far, the sex in this up coming Burning Angel video release looks very hot. I’m looking forward to enjoying this one when it hits the streets. Actually it looks like it was released yesterday, but it hasn’t hit my street yet. It still seems like we are still not comfortable enough yet with the concept of interracial sex though, and that’s sad to me. Why does it have to be marketed as ironically stereotypical? I don’t want to be the Alt/PC police, but did Joanna Angel really have to feature a rap about her mother setting her up with a Jew Lawyer but his penis wasn’t big enough? Really? That’s fucked up. Am I being too sensitive? Let me know. The sex does look really hot and I’d be even more excited about it if it was pitched as a hot new AltPorn title starring Burning Angel girls having sex with great black male talent. I know we’ve come to expect a certain amount of stereotyping within the AltPorn genre, pornstars dressed punk and acting like even bigger idiots, but I didn’t think BA would go there on the Big Black Cock thing.

I think Joanna Angel got the giant hair flower, which reminds me of the ones altmodel Xanthia Doll makes, as part of her outfit for the LA Ink spoof DVD LA Pink. Nothing says she can’t keep wearing it now that filming has wrapped. How adorable does Joanna Angel look with that rockabilly getup! I had heard that The Hootenanny event Joanna is dressed rockabilly to attend was usually really anti-porn, but BurningAngel seems to have a booth, although they are listed next to last on the official vendors list. Usually The Hootenanny retro rockers festival is held around July 4th but not actually on Independence Day, so may they are just shaking things up this year. Joanna Angel says, “when I put flowers in my hair I feel like a REAL girl hahaha.”

We’d like to thank our friends over at Fleshbot for hipping us to these sexy galleries from alt photographer Steve Prue. He’s been assigned to cover the EroticaLA FAME Awards and captured the girls messing around in the Burning Angel booth. I spy Bella Vendetta, Draven Star, Misty Dawn, Envy Amor, and Jessie Lee. Joanna Angel was busy getting her spanking new Escalade stolen from the convention center parking lot. Fortunately for her, Lo Jack has been kind enough to offer her a full refund for equipment and installation fee, although I think she was looking for something more along the lines of locating her stolen car.

Babeland Premieres debuts their first ever porn release, The New Romantix by first-time filmmaker/ director Max Royale. The premise of the film starts with an interview of each of the six porn stars followed by a porn scene with one extra thrown in for good measure. The film is marketed as profiling “six beautiful, intelligent, funny, and amazing women on their passionate quest for sexual liberation and empowerment”. The girls in the film are hot (Joanna Angel, Ryan Keely, Riley Mason) and a few of the interviews are very good, in particular Ryan Keely who comes across as “beautiful, intelligent, funny, and amazing.” Joanna unfortunately doesn’t really seem to know what to say, looks uncomfortable and is a bit lame during her interview. Lexi Belle’s interview is shot in downtown LA with a graffiti backdrop, which is visually interesting, although she comes across a very young and a bit naïve. The girls talk about first-time sexual experiences and some of this is interesting and enlightening. I always love getting to know the performers better so this was the best aspect of the film for me.

I was hoping that the sex scenes would highlight their fantasies and “empowerment”, but only Ryan’s scene comes close to being empowering as she masturbates solo with a dildo and is in control of her own fantasy. Since she talked about lesbian encounters quite a bit in her interview, I was expecting a girl-girl scene with her, but unfortunately this was not the case. This is the only solo scene in the film, and most of the sex is girl/boy with two girl/girl/boy scenes that are more about the girls giving the guys double blow-jobs than about the girls getting it on together. So if you are hoping for a bit of lesbian/queer action, you won’t see it in this film.

Joanna Angel and James Deen have a lot of chemistry in their scene together and the sex is hot, with Joanna squirting several times. Lexi Belle, Lexi Bardot and Tommy Pistol romp and bounce in a bouncy castle, which was a novel idea and could have been fun. However, the atmosphere is ruined by the distracting music which drowns out any sexy nuances and moans it may have had. The sex is pretty typical and apathetic. Avy Lee Roth is a rock-chickita groupie who claims to be the daughter of David Lee Roth. She gets it on with a long haired guy in leather pants, but neither performance is especially amazing. Riley Mason is super hot and has a pool table scene with Daniel. This scene would have been great if the music wasn’t again so distracting, as Daniel is always fun to watch and such a pro. James Deen has another quick vignette with Joanna and Lexi Bardot as they compete to see who will get to suck his cock, and that’s about it.

The final scene is between Lexi Bardot and James Deen again and says it is shot with Infrared in total darkness. I’m not sure why they say this, as Infrared is not red (as the scene is) but B&W and highlights heat, not color. Usually people’s eyes glow and you can see their veins under porcelain skin with Infrared photography. Also, you can see shadows everywhere in this scene, which leads me to believe that it was shot with lighting and not in a pitch black room at all, as in blackness there are no shadows. So, not sure what they were trying to pull here, except they thought it would be a cool special FX for an Altporn flick? They do use a wide angle or fisheye lens to distort the image somewhat, but it does nothing to enhance the scene which is again ruined by the music.

There are just too many things wrong with this film to list how they may have improved it. Certainly having some connection between the interviews and the sex scenes would have helped with continuity and a connection to the stars. A girl-girl scene would have been fabulous to include and there could have been way more focus on the girl’s pleasure than the typical blow-jobs and facials. Also, the music should have been integrated much better into the overall soundscape. Finally, I’m not sure how well the final rendering of the film was, as my DVD set has a lot of pixilation in it throughout it. The New Romantix is an ambitious project for a first-time filmmaker that ultimately does not deliver. It is just the same-old, same-old, marketed with an alt-porn aesthetic, but there is really nothing new or interesting about it. I do look forward to seeing Ryan Keely in more films, as she was The New Romantix one saving grace. Hopefully, Max Royale will have a chance to redeem himself with future attempts.