Thursday, August 31, 2006

Exhausted & Stressed, but overall Happy!


Wow, I would love to write a long entry about the shoots in LA and everything but I have to be at the airport in less than 8 hours to catch a red eye to CT for a wedding so time is of the essence...if you have e-mailled me about something and I have not replied, this is why, I just need to get site stuff ready and fill book orders before getting to the e-mail...not to mention that I have only had around 10 minutes of web access per day for the last 5 days and tomorrow, I again will not have web access for another 3-4 days...ugh, nothing worse than being cut off from the www.

All in all, the shoots rocked, my crew rocked, the models rocked...well 5 out of the 6 did, one had a pain attitude and was a pain in the ass but I guess you can't win 'em all. The pic is of Kimberly Kane (my new porn wife) suspended after I have fucked her with my cock! I have a serious crush on Miss Kimberly Kane let me tell you, expect to see a lot more of her at http://www.chantasbitches.com

Will write more soon!
Chanta

Friday, August 25, 2006

Introducing Charlotte Slander!


God, I love red heads with glasses...they just have this fantastic innocent librarian look about them...which makes it even more fun to make them my bitch!

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Money, Money, Money...

Ugh, I spent so much of it today I feel sick. The flight to the UK, and then off to JCX where I got another 500 watt light (lowel omni), speed ring and softbox, and also an arri 650 with barn doors.

Basically the soft box is for lighting the face when I am shooting bondage positions where the face faces the floor and is usually dark (think strapado)...I have 2 of these lights already but one is used for the "money" shot and the other is for fill...I needed one more to light things a little more evenly. I like soft, even light.

The arri 650 is for the boiler room, it is to light the backgrounds better as my 250's just weren't cutting it. Actually, this light was very, very reasonably priced which is why i didn't wait to get it in a few weeks even though I really don't need it for my LA trip.

Ugh, the LA trip is going to cost a fortune but I just love the choice of girls I have down there...and the fact that they're easy to work with. San Francisco has some pretty new girls but fuck, I am so sick of explaining to them that in porn you need to shave your pussy (and ass, and underarms) and wear deoderant. The hippy chick thing gets old really quick when you're in an intimate situation with someone on a porno set LOL!

Take care,
Chanta

London and Toronto Flights Booked!

Funny isn't it? I don't fly to London until late September...and Toronto is mid October and I have these flights booked...yet, I am supposed to be in NYC in less than 3 weeks and still haven't booked that ticket LOL! I suppose I had better do that asap but for some reason things keep coming up that make me put it off...you know, like small changes to my plans. I may be going on Sirius while there but it will be just my luck I book my flight and then they say they need me a day before, or a day after, etc and I'll get hit with flight change fees...so I am trying to hold off until everything is definite.

Got a fantastic line of classes in Toronto in October. I hope they are well attended as Canada is not my favorite place to travel (sorry guys but your immigration people are mean and I have had my fair share of mean immigration over the last few years) and I doubt I'll teach there very often.

Still need to finalise my London classes but Master Cosmic and Jenis will take care of that, details should be availbale on www.justrope.co.uk as things get worked out. They're determined to get me 'oop north on this trip, I think to Manchester which will be a new experience for me. I lived in London for 4 years and only went up to Yorkshire 3 times for shoots...and they were some of the worst shoots of my career (sorry to you guys too, but Phil Sutcliffe is a photographer up there...yes, the brother of the Yorkshire Ripper...need I say anymore?) so I stayed away after that. Jenis (a sexy northern lass) has promised to protect me though!

Just realised, this blog entry is really about nothing...oh well, back to work!

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Berlin in the Boiler Room!

Yesterday Berlin flew up to shoot with me for Chanta's Bitches. I was originally scheduled with her in LA but 2 things happened that made me re-schedule; firslty, I have already shot Berlin in that location and secondly a Vivid girl said she wanted to shoot but could only do the time I had Berlin booked. So, not wanting to cancel on one of my favorite bitches I moved things around to get her up into my dirtiest of dirty locations...the boiler room!

I'm really happy with what we did yesterday, we started with some cool breast bondage and I used my new cattle prod on her...ouch! What a way to start the morning, getting your tits tied tight and cattle prodded, she is definitely one brave girl! Then some nice cross-legged bondage and face sitting, followed by a doggy style strap on fuck with a big jelly dildo and then a cool missionary fuck with my noise activated electric cock. Berlin really is great to work with and I just love that she'll let me do things to her that no one else is allowed to do LOL!!!

I'll get some pics up from the shoot as soon as I have the chance to edit them.

Take care,
Chanta
http://www.chantasbitches.com

Monday, August 21, 2006

Malfunctioning?

Not me, but rather everything around me...I guess it's just been one of those days but they rarely (if ever) happen to me. I am reliant on technology...but unlike a lot of people I take precautions, ie. I back up my files, etc...but today, shit just kept breaking down!

First it was the car, the bloody thing would not let me change gears out of park...it happened a couple of times and I could make it work by turning off the car and restarting it...then it just wouldn't work...thankfully this happened only 1 block from CNE (I was dropping off a book order at Good Vibes) so hubby came and helped, we got it going and took it straight to the shop to be repaired.

So, without a car I had to catch the muni (train) home...and then that broke down too.

And, to top it off, the fucking server has been crashing all day. I don't think it has been a good day for Chanta's Bitches uptime and I haven't been able to run this weeks update through the script because the fucking server keeps crashing...AGH!

Hopefully tomorrow everything will work...as it usually does.

Sunday, August 20, 2006

Madison all fucked up Chanta Style!!!


Had to share this pic with you all...love it!!! Love roughing Madison up in general really...and when I'm not doing that we have intelligent, adult conversation about various things (not all porno and bdsm would you believe)!

Saturday, August 19, 2006

Accomplishment!

You know, it is a feeling I have not felt in a very long time. I used to feel it at CNE all the time...everytime I would check the monthly sales on MenInPain I would feel accomplished (they were always up on the previous month)...it wasn't just that I was going to earn more that month (although that was also nice) but rather it made me feel valuable, like I was doing my job well and achieving something for the company. It is a felling that I miss on a daily basis.

Well, yesterday I felt it just a little bit. It was a big day for my little publishing company (those that have not figured it out I am a partner of BDSM Press, the publisher of my book "Bondage for Sex"), we filled an order of 1500 books. This leaves less than 600 books from the initial print run...and we haven't even supplied to the UK or Europe yet, these sales are in Canada, USA and Australia only. Needless to say, it is time to reprint!

Unfortunately, that takes money, upfront and even though my books have sold like hot cakes the company itself has not yet received it's first payment from general trade (ie. Amazon, B&N, etc)...and these are the larger cheques we need to be able to reprint. It's a text book case in publishing really, most small publishing companies struggle with cashflow for this very reason...you have the printer who gets their money upfront and then you have the general trade that make the publisher wait 90-120 days for their money...so the publisher is stuck in the middle waiting to get paid by the general trade so that they have the $$$ to pay the printer, etc LOL! We'll figure it out though! I do not want my book to become unavailable, and I need to sell lots more to generate the $$$ to be able to shoot/layout/print/etc Volume 2 (which I brainstormed some ideas for the other day actually).

Had dinner with Madison Young last night at Picaro in the Mission. I LOVE Tapas!! We ate A LOT of food...but there is always room for dessert so I had my favorite chocolate mousse in all of the sity...YUM!

Gotta go edit the porno now!

Ciao...

Thursday, August 17, 2006

This Weeks Update: Mika Tan!


Looking as stunning as ever and still as tough as always! Go to http://www.chantasbitches.com to see the update!

Take care,
Chanta

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Happenings on Planet Chanta!

Slowly getting back into the swing of things. I'm getting a lot done but I just wish I had a twin that could help or something...I've spent a lot of time today recruiting talent, chasing up orders and updating my site, etc but absolutely none on marketing for http://www.chantasbitches.com which can be the kiss of death for a new site...I need to market every day to keep the new sales flowing in and then hope they stay as recurring memberships.

I'm about to need a lot of liquid in my business account as the book is doing so well that it's almost time to reprint! Now, this is good news and bad news, yes, lots of books have sold and that's great but I have not yet been paid for these books...in some (most) cases the publishing company has to wait 90 days to be paid...now if I need to reprint before receiving some of these larger payments that could create a serious cashflow problem for the company. I have my fingers crossed it will all be fine though.

Am totally bummed to have had to say no to a trip to France as a rigger and photographer. It was kind of last minute and would have meant flying from here to the UK on the 31st August and the back here on the 9th September...that would have been fine if I didn't have to fly to NYC on the 10th September or if I wasn;t in LA shooting until late on the 30th August...can you imagine: wrap shooting in LA on the 30th, breakdown gear and rive to SF only to get no sleep and then jump on a plane to the UK...car to the South Engladn, ferry to France...shoot for the week then get back to the UK (ferry and drive) to hop a plane back to SF for one night and then fly to NYC the next day...ugh, not even I could handle that. Still, I am upset about it, would have loved to have gone and it was very flattering to be recognised for my rigging and photography skills rather than just being a model.

Take care,
Chanta

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

WTF Amazon?

I could have an entire blog dedicated for my love of hating Amazon.com

I just went to the page for my book and what does it say? That "Bondage for Sex" is not available...not, that it will be in soon or anything...that it's just not available.

I log in to check to see how many copies they have left and they have 21 units, plus they had 30 units arrive today which probably just haven't been processed yet...so that's 51 books that they have to sell and they have the book listed as unavailable...for fucks sake.

I'll say the same I always say, please buy it somehwere else: TwistedMonk stocks it, so does Extreme Restraints, Agent SM and Madame S.

Grrrrrrr....

Check out my Fetish Flame Interview!

A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Nova & Atticus of the Fetish Flame Podcast, check it out:

http://www.fetishflame.com/

Let me know what you think!

Chanta

Monday, August 14, 2006

WooHoo, Wi_Fi at TPA!!!

Just taking advantage of the airport facilities!

Homeward Bound!
Chanta

Sunday, August 13, 2006

More of the Con!

So today is offically the final day of the convention. I am glad it has come to an end, I am tired and just want to go home now....BUT, tonight should be fun, we have a FetishCon Ball and then I am determined to make it to the pool. There have been pool parties every night and yet I have missed them all LOL!

My classes here went well, especially the one today (Bondage for the male submissive) as I was very pushy in getting people to actually participate and rig their partners. Yesterday was a little strange (Bondage for Sex class), there were a lot of people just watching and not joining in...it's a workshop, not a demo! I don't know if it's exciting to watch an instructor help out people she is trying to teach bondage too but that is what a workshop is, you're supposed to bring rope and learn by doing, not watching. I only had one box of books with me (30 units) and sold out, I wish I had have bought another box with me as a lot of people were still asking about it.

Satine has flown back to LA now. She couldn't stay for the final night as she has a shoot tomorrow. Her and I ended up on totally different body clocks by the end of the weekend. She'd be getting ready to go out when I would be going to bed...then she'd come home at like 5am...and then my alarm would go off at 6am and I'd get up and get ready to go to a shoot, etc. I feel like such a square LOL!

Just came back from dinner with Madison Young and Tyler (model booker for CNE). None of us could handle the hotel food any longer, and they're both vegan. There is no vegan food at the hotel so they have been living off of bread. We went to a nice Thai restaurant (called Thai Thai funnily enough) and had good food and good conversation in a normal non-kinky atmosphere. Sometimes it's nice to step outside of the fetish bubble we live in.

Take care,
Chanta

Friday, August 11, 2006

Made it to FetishCon 2006!

Wow, getting here was not an easy task! I arrived at SFO around 4:40am for a 6:00am flight only to see huge lines for check and security was even worse...like nothing I have ever seen. Security doesn't open until 5am but in light of the recent news in London and the huge line forming (and doubling back on itself) you would think they could have been more prepared. Usually I walk to check in at first class as I am premier executive member of United and this is one the perks but they were only allowing 1K and actual first class passengers to do so, so I joined the "normal" line to check in...ugh. Long, boring and lots of grumpy people not happy at being awake so early. We were all told to check any liquids and I thought I had but sure enough I forgot that I had nail polish and perfume in my hand bag so I had to throw those away.

Got to the flight at 6:30am. The plane had waited for everyone but unfortunately we did not make up enough time to get to my connection so I had to hang out in Denver for a few hours. Made it to Tampa at the same time as Madison and Satine so we shared a cab and got all checked in, changed, made up, etc.

Headed downstairs for what must have been only 20 seconds and Matt (Williams...of Hogtied) scoops me up in a huge hug. It was so great to see him, I had been nervous about this moment as we haven't talked or seen each other in 15 months and I thought he may laugh at me...my own insecurity about how my life has failed over the past year and a half. Anyway, Matt puts me down and before I know it Peter (yes, Peter who owns CNE...and who ruined my life in so many ways he will never understand...or care to know about for that fact) throws his arms around me. Okay, so I have been preparing myself to see Matt for months...but Peter? I did not even know he was going to be here and then he has the nerve to hug me like every thing is okay? WTF? I busted my ass at that company and would have done forever (and still would) but he put an end to that and what followed was 9 months of crying every day and another 6 months of struggling. I can't pay my fucking mortgage and he's hugging me? I just don't get it. He couldn't talk to me after he got back from Europe last year but now he can hug me? Don't get me wrong, I would LOVE for everything to be fine between us (Peter, the company, and I, etc) but that would involve turning back time....or something...I don't even know, I am rambling, as I do when I get emotional. Sometimes I just feel like I am dying inside....I can't believe I loved (love?) a corporate entity so much. So anyway, I didn't know how to deal with this hug (LOL, which to him is just a hug and to me is an emotional ambush!) so I just said "Sorry Peter, 15 month of manic depression, I'm not ready". At least it was a graceful response I suppose!!!

That night at the Meet & Greet I saw lots of people I have not seen in years and of course, many of my bitches! Christina Carter and Stacy Burke were both having a lot of fun (with and without me!), Madison Young was a delight to be around, Satine fuelled her fetish for food, Kendra James looked sexy as fuck and of course, Eden Wells and Anastasia Pierce had the nicest latex dresses! I was loud as I usually am in that kind of place! Lots of tit-grabbing, ass spanking and dirty talk at the top of my lungs....this kept on until around 2am and then I crashed.

Okay, that's it for now!
Chanta!

Monday, August 07, 2006

2257 Fears

I certainly know I have been spending a lot of time in the last week making sure my record keeping is up to date as have many companies. I've never been one to worry too much about this law like others have but I do think it's very important to make an effort to follow the law, and that means lots of paperwork and making sure it is filed correctly, etc. Others are being even more cautious and I can't say I blame them at all: http://www.seriousbondage.com/

Take care,
Chanta

Friday, August 04, 2006

New "Chanta's Bitches" Review!

Just in, at Rabbit Reviews:

http://www.rabbitsreviews.com/s3230/Chantas-Bitches.html

I like this review a lot, it's nice to see people notice the effort I am putting into this site, hopefully I'll be able to afford to start another soon!

Take care,
Chanta
http://www.chantasbitches.com

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Small Quake last night...

Did anyone else in Northern Cali feel it? It was 8:08pm and made my house shake. Hubby and I were watching TV, we had just finished dinner and this strange noise started and then the house began to shake. It did start small and work it's way up and then stopped suddenly, it was probably only 5 seconds but that was long enough for us both to jump up off the couch and into the doorway. Hubby said "oh shit, it's the big one!" We waited for a couple more minutes in the doorway to make sure it was done and then sat back down again. This quake was different to others I have felt. I have woken in the middle of the night before to a nice gentle, smooth rocking of the ground which has lasted longer (say 20 seconds) but been very calm. This shake definitely had more violence to it.

Anyway, turns out it was a 4.4 out in Santa Rose (40 miles away), very cool. I just hope the "Big One" holds off for another year or so. We are getting our foundations replaced in the next few months and I'd like those to be finished before the earth decides to shake again LOL (hey, my house is an 1894 Victorian, it has survived 2 big quakes but it's time to replace the foundations).

Here's some links:
http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Maps/SF_Bay.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/03/BAG29KADKF1.DTL

So, did anyone else feel it?

Take care,
Chanta

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Time to let it RIP

I really don't even know where to begin, so we'll start a few weeks back:

I was contacted by some people in Toronto, Canada about teaching and book signing there later in the year. Now, I have never had a good experience in Canada, or with Canadian immigration. Actually last time I went there I was detained and questioned for 2 hours and swore I would never entre the country again, so needless to say, for me to go to Canada the offer would have to be pretty good.

I started to look for work in the area to see if I could make a trip financially worthwhile and catch up with some friends. A model friend told me about whipped-pussy.com and I e-mailled them to see if they were looking for Dommes. They were, so with that we locked down dates for 3 days of shooting in Tornoto with flight paid, hotel paid and my fee for each day which I was to be paid in US dollars.

All seemed fine until a couple of weeks later when someone told me a model had worked for them for 5 days, had the shit beaten out of her and then, while flying back to her home town the owner cancelled her cheque. So this guy has the videos, has the models ID and filled in release forms and the model has nothing. Great. I found the particular models MySpace page and e-mailled her asking to act as a reference for W-P and to let me know if there was any reason I should not go, no reply. I will never understand models that do not share information about shitheads in the industry...fuck, make as much noise as possible and get them the hell out.

I decided to e-mail the owner to confirm the shoots and stipulate that I am to be paid cash daily...there's no way I'm doing 3 days to find out at the end of it there's no payment. I also decide not to do any paperwork (releases, etc) until after I am paid just as a precaution. At least this way he would ne be able to use the content.

About 5 days before leaving I hear from another friend to be careful so I phone a good friend of mine that worked for them (she had told me she didn't enjoy the experience but not that there was any money problems). It turns out she was paid only half what she was told and the Domme hired was not paid at all.

I have now outlayed $450 on my ticket to go to a Country that I dread entering so I decide to e-mail the owner again and now I stipluate I will need to be paid BEFORE any and every shoot we do. No $$$, no shoot, simple as that. He is still absolutely polite and agrees but this isn;t enough to get me on a plane so i also check with 2 models I know in Canada to see if they have ever had money problems. They both say no, they've always been paid and it's been fine. This, along with my rules get me hesitantly on the plane.

Good news, Canadian immigration let me right on by...shame what i walked into was a fiasco I have no interest in reliving. In my 10 years of adult modeling NEVER have I had shit like this happen.

20 minutes into my ride into downtown Toronto my friend (who was renting their studio to W-P) is on the phone discussing some cheque, some money problem, etc. Basically, it was clear this was not going to be an easy 3 days. This guy who owns W-P is living in a fucking fairy land....and doesn't have the $$$ to pay for his fantasy. Myself, the studio owners (that I am staying with, they;re very good friends of mine)and the other models are all waiting by the phone; are we shooting, are we not? What the hell is going on, are any of us going to get paid? Am I even going to have my flight reimbursed?

This guy just gives one excuse after another; this cheque won't clear, oh there's a problem with the payment processor on the site, etc, etc. Now, I am in business and understand unexpected costs can arise but wake up MotherFucker, you already owe other models over $10,000 (I didn't know that, oh, and another Canadian model also had a cheque bounce from him) and you knew this but you still brought me out here?

Somehow he rounds up the money to pay for the first day shooting and my airfare and hands it over in Canadian dollars. I remind him I want US, she says he can go and change it but I decide to take it in Canadian...if he walks out the door with this money I'll probably never see him again. Sure enough, when I exchanged it it was around $50 (USD) short on what we had agreed to for ONE shoot (remember, I'm booked for 3).

We shoot. Fuck, I don't know how to do a bad shoot so he gets some good footage which I absolutely resent but that's just the way it goes. Please, if you're a fan, join any other site I am on but not this one.

The next morning we are supposed to hear from the owner at 11:30am. 12:30pm rolls around, then 2:30pm, then 4:30pm, etc. So basically I am just waiting around not knowing if we're shooting or not. I could have hopped a plane back to SF but no, he keeps me 9and everyone for that fact) waiting around. Finally he calls and says we're not shooting but will be the bext day and that I will receive a kill fee for this day. I keep reminding him that I don;t want to hang around with nothing to do, if he can;t shoot then tell me and I will hop a plane home but no, he keeps me waiting, and waiting , and waiting.

The next morning (well, actually it would have been after 12noon when I called him wanting to know when we are shooting) he again give me the run around. I remind him again, I would like to go home. Don't keep me waiting for nothing so he offers me a kill fee...but now I have to wait for him to bring it over...which of course never happens.

Then I was supposed to be wired it yesterday morning, then today, etc. You get then picture. It's always going to be toomorrow, next week, etc. he'll keep stringing models he owes money too in the hope they won't destroy his reputation and so far, so good. It's worked, well not anymore. 5 years ago a producer bounced a cheque on me and to this day (because of my big, loud mouth) that producer still has to be most models in cash (or they won't work for that company). This is going to be much worse. I never told him I knew about the other models, but I do. They may choose to stay quiet in the small hope that they will get paid, I will not. As a past model it is my duty to warn others against him and his company.

Models; DO NOT WORK FOR HIM. There is no promise he can make you that will make it worth your while except for sending you your ENTIRE payment in advance and him booking your flight. This is the only way you will be guaranteed your money. Of course, he won't have the moeny to do that, and if he does he probably still wouldn;t in case a model did a no show. People that expolit others do not want to be exploited themselves after all.

Amir (owner of whipped-pussy.com) this is the sex industry, this is basic work for hire. You want pussy, you want porn, you want content, etc you pay for it. There are no "net 30 terms" here. You shoot, you pay. Simple as that. You book a girl, you pay. And seriously, lets cut the written and verbal diarrhea crap out of it now. You knew damned well you owed models money (a lot of fucking money), and you still wasted mine (and others) time, and if I hadn't have known about you and if I hadn't have demanded cash then at the end of 3 days shooting you would have written me a cheque that would have bounced and what would you have: great sex content that you didn't have to pay for. It stops now, and trust me, of all of the models you could have booked and fucked over you chose the one with the loudest, biggest mouth in the business. Oh, and as someone that has been booking all the girls in the biz myself for many years and never, ever bounced a cheque, etc they tend to listen to me.

Chanta