News From Marie's Play Place: What Kind of Day Has it Been

If you’re a fan of Aaron Sorkin, you recognize this Blog title. It was an Episode title on “Sports Night”, then “The West Wing” and then again in “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip”.

I understand now how this happens, when the same shit keeps happening over and over again – well, it’s bound to find it’s way into your writing.

Today was one of those days.

It started like most all the others. Coffee with E-mail, Overnight Numbers, the ‘Industry Boards’ and Social Networks. It was then I was reminded of a snarky comment I published to the new GMD Films Facebook Page yesterday.

It’s not there anymore, so don’t bother to look. But it was one of those things you think out loud after the intended conversation is long over. One of those “I should have said…” moments. I was talking to a new DVD Distributor who was surprised to hear that we still retain 100% of the rights to all of our films. He said it in a condescending, “well, your films must not be any good then,” sort of way. I didn’t think of it at the time, so about an hour later – when it actually hit me – I posted the following to the GMD Films Facebook page.

“To answer your question, it’s because I didn’t sell off my movie to the highest bidder like it was fetal tissue. Residuals pay my gas bill.”

So I dunno. I do stupid shit now and again.

Well, actress Katie Russell assumed I was talking about another film maker who works in this area and made an equally snarky comment in return.

Here’s a shot of Katie with Larry Laverty on the set of “House of Bedlam”.

Don’t make a judgment about her look, I beat her up pretty good on that movie. She got hit by a car for fuck’s sake.

Truth is, a day or two before I ended a fight with Katie she didn’t know we where having. Again… I do stupid shit sometimes. Anyway… I let her snarky comment slide, and in fact corrected her that it wasn’t the guy she was implying. If you knew her, you’d know that Katie is in fact snarky… so whatever.

Well as it turned out, some low level groupie of the guy Katie was actually talking about read this retarded little exchange between us, and if by some stroke of ego I can’t fathom, decided the comment must certainly have been about this local film maker. I only wish I was kidding about this. If it feels all “Third Grade”, well… it is. And of course, GMD Films was at the heart of it and taking the brunt of all their flaming little shits.

Seriously, these are the type of folks who throw the term “Pornographer” around like it’s an insult to me and the company I work for. Even after 7 AVN Nominations (the uhm, ‘Oscars of Porn’) and moving more DVD copies out of our west coast warehouse in the first quarter than these two company’s have moved in their entire careers. They’re bragging about “Shooting in HD” and we just put out our 16th Blu-Ray.

By the time I realized the whole thing wasn’t a joke, my stomach hurt from the laughter.

Whatever. I had to shoot a Custom Video for Maddy’s Fiverr account. This little opus was called “Up Marie’s Skirt 2 – Pantyhose Edition”. It answers all those nagging questions left over from “Up Marie’s Skirt 1”.

And because I am actually reading your e-mail and listening to you fuckers… I got a few shots for the feet & shoes fans among us.

So clearly, I had a lot on my mind.

At the same time, I got the news that Alexis Golden’s new movie scheduled for release January 24th was stalled at the Manufacturing Plant because the DVD Inserts were lost.

It looks like this, in case anyone saw them floating around:

Exactly. How the fuck do you lose something like that? Yet alone, 1500 of them? So while “Up Marie’s Skirt” was rendering I was trying to track down these DVD inserts.

We did finally find them, thankfully. They turned out to be mixed in with stuff from PHE, Inc. If you don’t know ‘Porn’, that’s Adam & Eve. Again… how the fuck do you get us mixed up with them?

Good news arrived in the Afternoon when I learned the guy’s at the FX House shipped “The Monster” prop for “Blood of Ohma”. I’m dying to finally get to see this thing in ‘the flesh’.

I finished the day having a chat with Madison Marie about Showtime’s Fall lineup. It’s harder to sound ‘normal’ around a chick like that than it would seem. And I’ve been in Porn 12 years now.