Aly this is great! I am waiting for more....... tick tock tick tock

11. Why did you choose the porn industry for a career? Are you obsessed with sex like everyone else in this business?
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I really didn't choose the porn industry for a career. I figured it would be a good way to pay off some bills before I moved on to something more appropriate. My plan was to work at Python for 2 years max, make lots of money, then go back to the 'real' world. The real world's still waiting. :winkwink:

As far as being obsessed with sex... Not really. No. Maybe that's more of a boy thing...? Actually, thinking about some of the women I know, perhaps not! I'm disgustingly well-balanced so I don't get particularily obsessive about anything really... Except my cellphone... I obsess about my cellphone; if it doesn't ring every ten minutes I turn it off and on again to see if it's still working. It's a bit of a problem.

OK, who hacked into Aly's account!

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

OK, everyone dial Aly up in the next 10 minutes!

1000+ page views in the first 24 hours - NOICE!

Nice Interview :thumbsup

Nice Sig Sleazy!

:1orglaugh Please do! LOL..

Answers!

Get back to the answers :winkwink:

I like it when Aly spanks me

It's been a while since we've had a question answered.

:sigh:

Maybe the rumours are true that Aly's at the point where she needs a midday nap.

12. What's the meaning of life?
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I'll try and keep this brief!


Here's the deal: Imagine a graph... like a waveform for example

http://www.alytv.com/graph1.jpg


Now, each of those dips and spikes represents good things and bad things (big and small) that happen in a day or a life even. Now imagine that your emotional or physical response to those triumphs and adversities is reflected as a shade of either red (negative) or blue (positive).

There are of course myriad shades of red to blue, but I've simplified that for this explanation.

If you were to take a snapshot of your life, or even the sum of a whole life and look through it from one end to the other, with all those responses washed into one colour, what shade of purple would you see?

A bluer response?

http://www.alytv.com/graph2.jpg


Or a redder response?

http://www.alytv.com/graph3.jpg


I'm not suggesting that we shouldn't allow ourselves to feel bad things or respond to tragedy but I think we sum up our lives with the levels of positivity that we not only present to others but also choose to allow ourselves. I also believe that the energy we exude and affect upon others (thus affecting their own responses) is the only logical legacy we leave behind.



So, the meaning of life my friends... is Periwinkle.

Sorry, I had to make graphs...

I would HIT IT!!!!

Periwinkle is a desaturated color in the blue-violet family. Its name is derived from the lesser periwinkle or myrtle herb (Vinca minor) which bears flowers of the same color.

I love wikipedia.org.

Was looking at your sig-

You may wish to look at our licensing of your content options.

13. Talk about nature vs nurture in the homosexual community and why is one often sceen as more valid than the other and your thoughts on this.
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We human beings are driven to 'make sense of' things and categorize them and create words to identify one thing from another. This is of course terribly clever of us and necessary for communicating as well as understanding our world. However, the downside of all this is that it's also rather limiting; we don't have the capacity or time to individually label an infinite number of shades of grey, and frankly that would be impractical. So, in order to make sense of things, we limit ourselves to the words BLACK, WHITE and GREY. We're all born perfect, and within that perfection lies a unique shade of grey that could just as easily sit at either end of the spectrum, and that unique shade of grey will most definitely be adjusted by personal development and experience.

FABULOUS!

14. How many different schools did you attend as a child? public/private?
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Four, I think.. All private.

100..........,

15. How many languages do you speak?
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One.
(and my French is pretty decent)

(unless you're French of course, in which case... Je parle seulement anglais :winkwink: )

You're almost halfway there Aly! You can do it!

You just haven't tried the right woman yet... It really is about time I show you what you've been missing. :winkwink:

I love aly!!

Can I watch and take notes? :winkwink:

1/2 way there

16. What was it like living in the sex.com mansion?
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I was living in an apartment in San Diego (briefly) when a large fellow came into my place one night uninvited. We had a scuffle, I won and he ran away, but I was a little nervous about staying there alone the next night, so Gary and Sue Whatley (LadyLaw) invited me to come and stay at the Sex.com mansion for a few days. I ended up staying a year...

That year was a huge one in my life on many levels for many reasons, and the location and cast of characters had everything to do with that.

The weather was perfect up there. Almost as if the higher the property taxes you pay, the better the weather. It could be raining in downtown San Diego, cloudy at the beach a mile or so away... but it was always perfectly sunny over Rancho Sant Fe! It was also perfectly silent an awful lot of the time.

During the year I lived there, there was a stream of people that stayed in the house for various amounts of time. Until J$style$ they were all women, so I called the mansion 'Gary's Home for Wayward Girls'. Which was really no exaggeration!

Gary is a very generous, entertaining, brilliant guy. We'd sit in the hottub scheming brilliant business startegies that we'd rarely implement, just for fun. He loved to throw parties at the mansion and I think was taken advantage of a little too much in that respect... although he didn't seem to mind that if the party was a hit. LOL.. :winkwink:

KB was there right from the beginning (and probably still is, I imagine) he'd drop by almost every day with either a girl on each arm, or the photographs to prove it! He was funny as hell and a great friend at the time.

J$tyle$ moved in not too long before I left. There's an awful lot I could say about Jon but you've all heard it before and he doesn't need to hear it again from me. My fondest moments with him were sitting late at night (many nights) by the fireplace outside my bedroom (an outside fireplace) staring at the flames and not really saying anything at all... those were very peaceful times!

I learned a lot about myself during that year, and it was also a lot of fun.

Thanks, Gary! :thumbsup

17. How many conventions do you attend a year? Favorites other than internext? (hey you work there - you have to say them first)
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Remember back when CE was throwing the AWE events? They were monthly in different cities across the states and I went to every single one of them, along with every other show/ event that happened. I got SO tired of travelling!

The convention/ event options change a bit every year, so it's hard to give you a solid number on that. My top three favourites (and NO, I wouldn't call Internext my favourite because it's my job, fuck that) are Summer Internext, Phoenix and LA Webmaster Access (I'm REALLY excited about the Amsterdam webmaster access too!)

After going to so many events for so long, I love looking at the folks I met at events years ago and how they've changed, made millions, lost millions, grown up, or in some cases regressed. :winkwink:

18. Who do you look up to in the adult industry? Down on?
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I have respect for the people in this industry who created new and innovative ways to make it work for them. Ron and Dave Levine back in the earliest moments of this industry built affiliate programs that laid the foundation for how the largest segments of this industry now operate. Yishai and Fred Warner broke new ground in marketing tricks and mechanisms that, again, became common practice in online marketing. There are others who broke new ground who are very impressive for their innovation.

The others who've impressed me are the ones who took existing models and substantially improved upon them. Marc deForest for example... I remember looking at ARS at the New Orleans show a few years ago and marvelling at how they took the basic affiliate program model at the time and pumped it up to kick the asses of the larger programs in a matter of months. That required brilliance, an immense amount of hard work and some very innovative ideas... :winkwink: SilverCash did a similar thing... very impressive.

What doesn't impress me at all is the type of 'webmaster' or other business owner who is basically just lucky. One trick ponies (if that) who make loads of money because they happened to be in the right place at the right time. Good for them. That's great... but I'm not particularily impressed.

I also look up to people who are honest, intelligent and have good manners, no matter what they've accomplished business-wise. I dislike people who are arrogant, self-righteous and rude.

I try to live my life by the Golden Rule. When I encounter others who don't I just kind of turn them into 'chatter' that I either deal with politely (most of the time!) or ignore.

I also have a lot of respect for the independent free-thinkers that I've met in this industry: Fred, Halcyon, IrishPimp... and a few others. There are far too many people in this business who jump on bandwagons and trends and spend very little time thinking for themselves. That's very unimpressive.

19. What would you do different with your career if you had to start over from the begining?
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Assuming we're talking about my Online Adult career...

Actually, I'm pretty satisfied with the choices I've made, so I'll just leave it at that.

I'm often asked why I haven't started my own program. One reason is that I wouldn't want to turn around and fuck with Python; they're my friends and everything I know about this industry I learned while there. That's also why I didn't move to a different affiliate program when I left.
BUT... the primary reason is that I'd never want to have my own online adult company. The liabilities and headaches aren't remotely attractive to me and I've never really been driven to make millions of dollars a month. The wealthiest people I've known have been, without question, the most miserable, too. I'm not saying that's a general rule, but the fact that money can't buy happiness certainly is. I'd rather have the freedom of being somebody else's liability. :winkwink:

nice :thumbsup

20. What happened to AlyTV? Every had any other mainstream or adult media opportunities? What happened?
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AlyTV was a wonderful experience for me and I really enjoyed doing it. As time passed I got to enjoy improving and developing the show so that it got better each week, which was very fulfilling. When I started at AVN I had every intention of continuing the show, but I ended up becoming far too busy to do it. Earlier this year I made the choice to archive all the episodes on the site and focus on my day job. I've been presented with quite a few adult and mainstream opportunities but for various reasons they didn't grab my interest enough to drop everything and pursue them. I still get offers, and maybe one day one will work for me but, shockingly enough, I'm not going to jump on the first opportunity to be infront of a camera simply out of a desire to be there.

I bet at least 700 of them was KB refreshing :1orglaugh

Nice answers so far..pls keep going

:1orglaugh THANKS!

Okay... I probably should speed this up a little...!

Why would I do that, I consider Aly an old friend-
and she is deserving of all the attention she gets-

More people need to know who Aly is-
She is a very passionate woman with strong beliefs

I don't fault her for taking a paycheck and not knowing that she works for the devil-

In due time, people learn things for themselves through trial and error.

It's a nice read actually.

Up with Aly
Down with AVN.
:pimp

21. Do you perfer blondes, brunettes or redheads. Discuss.
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Brunettes, redheads... and possibly pinkheads. :winkwink:

I don't have anything against blondes, I really don't... I just never seem to find myself attracted to them. (That said, all stunningly goodlooking, brilliantly witty blondes should feel free to contact [email protected] anytime!)

:pimp

Thanks darling. I knew it would be awkward but never imagined this.

Anyway... moving right along...

You are paranoid, but I can say that because I know you-

By the way did u find out who our friend Judy Sweeney is yet?


:1orglaugh

22. Why do you come to GFY? What topics interest you here. Personal/professional.
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Great question! Nowadays I primarily come to GFY to answer posts about AVN and Internext. One of the things they were doing wrong in the past was to not respond to public criticism (or praise). It gave the impression that they weren't playing with the other kids, not participating with the community, not keeping 'in-touch', and not listening to their key audience.

Threads that catch my attention usually touch on industry news (even gossip), and general news if I haven't heard it yet (eg: the fire in St Louis today). I click on drama if it involves someone I like, respect or detest. The random posts about nothing in particular, and joke threads I usually skip.