Johnny Toxic and Kid Vegas, porno's new tag team, came into the AVN offices, recently. These guys aren't dressed like U.S. Senators. Toxic has his own thing going on, but Kid Vegas is something else. The platinum-haired Vegas wears a neon shirt, and looks like he could be picking a fight with a flamingo on somebody's front lawn. Someone at the XRCO awards show made the comment that Kid Vegas is the next Rob Black. Kid Vegas makes Rob Black look like Al Gore.
Vegas hunches his shoulders like the Las Vegas lounge Elvis taking care of business. Vegas also drawls like Elvis and does this manic thing with his hands - kind of like Jerry Lee Lewis pounding Great Balls of Fire on the piano. Kid Vegas is also wearing these goggles which resemble those x-ray specs advertised in the back of comic books. You know, the kind of glasses you're supposed to see through women's clothes with.
Vegas says he's got some kind of promotional deal with a sunglass company called Lush. That's why he's wearing these glasses. A "Lush" babe or spokesman is accompanying Toxic and Vegas. She doesn't say much. She just smiles, mostly. Shows a lot of leg.
Toxic talks about a domestic disturbance he just had with Nina Wett. Furniture throwing, yelling, stereo systems flying across the room. The whole nine yards. Wett had him arrested and Toxic just spent three days in the clink on an O.J. rap. He was there on $50,000 bail, but Wett evidently dropped the charges. The criminal system may be eternally grateful for that. Toxic was cooped up in a 3x3 jail cell wearing fingernail polish and freaking a couple of guys out.
On another subject, pornos,Toxic and Vegas talk about how they'll do anything for their craft, including running through fire. Toxic talks about running through fire a lot, as though he's just discovered how to do it. Vegas, who's real name is Scott, says his background is in "cellular" [he was an account manager for cellular phones]. He says he's buddies with Max Hardcore.
Vegas: "Ah love Max Hardcore. He's a great guy. Ah love his style - rough, hard, a little crazy. He didn't discover me. Ahm just friends with him. Ah like JM Productions. Notorious. Ah like a lot of different companies, but those are the main ones that I've been hangin' around 'cause ah like their style. Ah like the way they are. Ah like that Jim Powers. Jim Powers is a smart man. He does good dialogue, good movies. Ah like his footage. But I'm taking the footage to a new aspect. Ah run through fire. Ah do some real acting."
Fuck the interview. Toxic and Vegas start carrying on their own private courtroom sidebar about the cable sales potential of running through fire.
Kid Vegas, who says he lives in a lotta places and draws broad inferences that he can tap into some major funds, says maybe he'd like to square off against Kid Sparkle. Maybe not. Maybe have a pay-per-view. Apparently there's only room for one kid in porn. Kid Vegas says there's an imposter out there on the Internet. Talking shit about Kid Sparkle. Imagine a Kid Vegas imposter? Vegas says somebody's impersonating him on Luke Ford's website.
Vegas: "He's [Kid Sparkle] got some hard feelings. Ahm not a great friend with him or anything. Ah met him a couple of times. He's a nice guy. Ah don't hang out with him. He thinks I'm saying a bunch of stuff. Ah don't have nothing to do with it. Ah just laugh, kick back. Ahm my own man. Ah don't need to listen to that. Ah don't care. Ah think it's funny. They can battle it out. Whoever the wannabe Kid Vegas is that's puttin' that stuff up there. I'm the REAL Kid Vegas. If ah have somethin' to say, ah say to someone's face. Ahm not gonna talk shit about somebody behind their back. Ah don't wanna fight anybody unless I have to."
Toxic is demanding an immediate Congressional investigation. Find out who's impersonating Kid Vegas.
Toxic: "Could be Luke Ford himself. This stuff's coming from Kid Vegas at hot mail. That's any anonymous person. Someone saying they're Johnny Toxic can go on hot mail. The hot mail's free. Anybody can open that up. The question is who is Kid Vegas on the Internet. The real Kid Vegas is rich, he comes from Vegas, he's a gambler. You're fuckin' crazy. You don't need to use the Internet, do you?
Vegas: "Ah don't need to use the Internet for anything. Ah get everything from mah RE-sources. Ah got RE-sources everywhere."
Toxic: "To think I got thrown in jail over this whole thing."
Toxic is ready to name names, amplify what he just said, but Vegas interrupts for a word from his sponsor - Lush sunglasses. He starts doing a sales spiel about the eyeware he's got on. Kid Vegas says he's going to be wearing Lush eyewear in all his videos.
Toxic says he and Vegas are working on putting out a clothing line, Toxic-Vegas.
Toxic: "We're taking this to a whole new level."
Toxic bristles a little at the suggestion that the Gen-X porn market might not be what it's cracked up to be.
Toxic: "The guys who are the distributors right now are from a much different age. Every day there's new 25 year-olds coming around. Sooner or later, whether you guys want to admit it or not, the kids who are 25 are going to want to rent Zane, Vegas, Toxic, Sparkle, that kind of stuff because it's from the era that they know. It's got a punk rock attitude. It's got whatever. It's different. I don't consider myself Gen-X. I make whatever I want."
Vegas: "Ahm not really total Gen-X. Ah kind of mix my stuff. Mah stuff is Gen-X, rock 'n' roll, old school hardcore, old school punk rock. Ahm like in different modes. Ah mix it all together. So that's how we're goona make that. I do skateboardin', leapin.' Ahm doin' Karate. Breaking stuff on mah desk, kicking the phones."
Vegas says he's got the Whore Master coming out in April. "Mah manager's handlin' all that. It might be JM. We're workin' with Jeff Mike. Or it might be mah own thing on Legend. Or Jim Powers. Jim Powers is a goodfriend of mine, and Jeff Mike's a good friend of his. Ah got all kinds of camera guys, including Johnny Toxic." Vegas sounds like he's got all his bases covered.
Toxic: "It's rebellious, crazy, drug-oriented. I'll run through fire. I don't care if it sells 1000 copies. I wish I could do better, but I get fan mail. If the distributors jumped on the bandwagon, the fan mail that I get would increase. I get mail, literally, from people saying it's the best stuff they've ever seen. That its real ballsy. 'You're taking chances. You're doing things other people won't do. There's room for gonzo. There's room for Tom Byron. There's room for softcore. There's room for what we're doing. There's a market for it. It's just that distributors are afraid of it because it's so new and wild. By the time guys like us are distributors, our lines will be doing well. But everyone's got their opinion."
Vegas: "We're not lookin' for a fight, we wanna have fun, make porn, meet all the girls, get 'em all goin'.
