Sasha Grey update, from her MySpace blog. Probably more than anyone needs to know, but she's a very thorough self-promoter. (Sorry, most of the links didn't copy to here.)
Monday, May 18, 2009
Grey Art, Rolling Stone, and The Girlfriend Experience
Current mood: adventurous
Category: Life
My life has been non-stop for, well 21 years, 2 months, and 4 days…but enough silly talk. I’ll continue…non-stop for 2 1/2 months. I haven’t had a real day off since my birthday in March, and not a lot of time to reflect-which bothers me. Personally, I think it’s imperative that we as human beings reflect in the now, challenge our current circumstances whether they are positive or negative, and put a magnifying glass on everything we do. Otherwise, we become complacent. We blame politicians, religion, celebrities, parents, friends, and lovers, for everything we don’t want to be responsible for. Peter Sellers said it, “we live in a society of mediocrity” people didn’t want to face the truth 40 years ago, and they sure as hell don’t now. None of that really has anything to do with my updates to all of you folks, I just felt like getting that off of my chest. And, I’m a bit caffeinated, and starving-the two don’t mix well together.
In early April, I started shooting content, which would (and has) become the beginnings of Grey Art. Grey Art is my brand new production company; I founded it with director, Oren Cohen. We will be producing an array of adult videos, most importantly, my directorial debut: The F@%K Junkie. I have worked long and hard to find a home to sew my seeds (no pun intended) in which I would be happy with, the decision came down to me having creative control over my products. The beginning will be a roller coaster, but in the end, I will be satisfied and happy knowing that I am able to be a business woman and porn star in the truest sense of both. While busy shooting for Grey Art, I unfortunately missed the XRCO awards, but I did win mainstream adult media favourite! Thanks XRCO, and I hope to make it out next year J
SashaGrey.com, (18+) soon to be launched will be the official company website.
TheFuckJunkie.(18+) com will be a promotional site used for the movie, coming soon as well.
I also got to see one of my all time favourite bands, Throbbing Gristle at Coachella, and in Los Angeles. I guess this counts as two days off!!! There is really nothing I can say, except I am still in awe with their music, and each and every one of their independent personalities. Throbbing Gristle laid a lot of groundwork for “mainstream” transgressive art and [Industrial] music, much respect is owed to them from countless artists… that they will probably never receive.
In other exciting news, The Girlfriend Experience premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival April 28th! I was in NY for a few days busy with press junkets, and night two we did a q&a with Steven, and my co-star Chris. Of course didn’t get to see the city much. I did, however make a stop to my favourite place, Blue Ribbon with Riss, Ian, Ahmir (?love), Joe, and another girl who’s going to kill me for forgetting her name. Ian and I also got to see The Roots play, the last night we were in town-they always put on a great show. If you live in NY, they play every week, so I highly suggest you see them.
Right after New York, I headed to Boston and spoke at Brandeis College; the following morning I did radio, and print interviews as well (all on about four hours of sleep)! Here’s one particular interview I’d like to share:
The [Boston] Phoenix
My three days home felt like a gasp for fresh air. I took a few good meetings, and before I knew it I was packing my bags for Exxxotica Miami. Thanks to all of the fans that made it, each year it gets better!
This week is keeping me busy with pre production for The F@%K Junkie, and yet more press junkets for The Girlfriend Experience in LA.
I’ll also be hosting the official The Girlfriend Experience release party at Lavo in Las Vegas, on Friday May 29th, so be sure to come out! More info on that soon…
And….if you haven’t seen this month’s issue of Rolling Stone, you must! There is a lengthy article on me, I’m extremely proud of making it into Rolling Stone! Not to mention, freaking Bob Dylan is on the cover, it doesn’t get any better than that.
Special thanks to photographer, Theo Wenner, and Vanessa G.
I’m also on the current cover of AVN, and there’s a Q&A style article paired with it. I’d like to thank everyone at AVN who helped make this happen!
Here’s some info on The Girlfriend ExperienceDirected by: Steven Soderbergh, Starring: Sasha Grey
http://www.girlfriendexperiencefilm.com/In theatres May 22nd-see the website for a theatre near you
Available now through the following cable/Satelleite providers: Comcast, Time Warner Brighthouse, Cablevision, Charter, Cox, Verizon, Insight, RCN.
And exclusively online through Amazon.com Video On Demand at
http://tr.im/k8jYTwo Interviews on The Girlfriend Experience:
http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-14/from-triple-x-to-the-multiplex/ In between all of this excitement, I did photo shoots and interviews for a ton of people. Here are some that I had fun with, and should be published in the very near future.
Blurt Magazine
Vman Magazine
Flaunt Magazine
Last Call with Carson Daly
Blender Online
In light of the recent accomplishments I’d like to thank Steven Soderbergh, Greg Jacobs, Magnolia Pictures (especially Arianne), 60 Thompson for letting us shoot “questionable content” that is The Girlfriend Experience, my manager Larissa Friend, publicist Brian Gross, IPC, and last but certainly not least, our awesome Russian driver in NY: Felix. You ask why I say Russian? Well he was showing us beautiful, snowy pictures of mother Russia, his family, and dogs-he’ll probably never read this in one million years, but here’s to you Felix!
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