Phoenix Forum Stories Contest Winners

[corvette]

GFY 2007 Phoenix Forum Story Contest

$1000 Grand Prize Winners

Rochard $500 & Niko $500

Rochard - $500

The Day I met Niko Bimini.
A few years ago directly before Phoenix Forum I was working at the Lightspeed Office when I got a phone call from a "local photographer" who wanted to break into the adult internet. I talked to him for a few minutes, wanted to get him off my phone, and told him - rather bluntly - that if he was a real photographer interested in working in the adult internet he would surely be attending Phoenix Forum the next day. I even gave him the suite number to the Lightspeed Party suite.

The next day, first day of Phoenix Forum, there I am in the middle of the afternoon in a very important business meeting when there is a knock on the door. Steve answers the door, and it's this Niko Bimini character is asking for me. Bad fucking timing.

However, I met Niko, spent the weekend "networking" with him, and perhaps even saw him naked (which isn't that uncommon with Niko). A short time later he was working full time in the industry, was working for Lightspeed Cash, and had opened up his own program. He's a quick learner.

Niko and I are still good friends today. Beat that for networking.... It's possible Phoenix Forum changed the direciton of Niko's life....

Niko - $500

The Day I met Niko Bimini.

A few years ago directly before Phoenix Forum I was working at the Lightspeed Office when I got a phone call from a "local photographer" who wanted to break into the adult internet. I talked to him for a few minutes, wanted to get him off my phone, and told him - rather bluntly - that if he was a real photographer interested in working in the adult internet he would surely be attending Phoenix Forum the next day. I even gave him the suite number to the Lightspeed Party suite.

The next day, first day of Phoenix Forum, there I am in the middle of the afternoon in a very important business meeting when there is a knock on the door. Steve answers the door, and it's this Niko Bimini character is asking for me. Bad fucking timing.

However, I met Niko, spent the weekend "networking" with him, and perhaps even saw him naked (which isn't that uncommon with Niko). A short time later he was working full time in the industry, was working for Lightspeed Cash, and had opened up his own program. He's a quick learner.

Niko and I are still good friends today. Beat that for networking.... It's possible Phoenix Forum changed the direciton of Niko's life....

Most of the above is not accurate so let me straighten some of it out.......
1) It was 5 years ago (man we are getting old!)

2) You were and asshole to me via email and not phone.

3) You did not see me naked THAT weekend it was a few weekend later ;-)

4) It was a year and a half before I went to work with you at LightSpeedCash.

5) YES meeting you and going to that Phoenix Forum changed the direction of my life forever!

6) YES Rochard is my oldest and dearest friend in the industry!

Runner Up Winners

Azlord - $250

So...here's the ending first, like Mr. Tarentino (sp?)

The Phx forum golf tournament is coming up right? I will enter the story on how I ended up in the lake, Raj in the driver seat and our golf clubs at the bottom of the lake.

Let me also preface the story with how the golf tourney ended the year before last. I brought some of our models to the course. The lovely Spring Thomas and Sophia. Well, they are booze hounds, ended up drinking too much, hitting one of the boys from MobBucks with their cart. The bad part was, he (I think Mike) was standing behind his cart, so he got sandwiched between 2 carts. Knocked off the course and sent to the ER. So then Sophia and Spring are in the bar and one of the guys from UltraDNS (Jon) is giving Sophia a hard time. Sophia decides it would be a good idea to cause a huge scene and get thrown off the course. Her and Spring both booted. They needed a ride back to the hotel, so one of the greens keepers was nice enough to give us all a ride back.



So Fast FWD a year to last year...

I signed up by myself that year because my brother Billy Watson punked out on me, so I'm flying solo. I have no idea who I am going to be paired up with. So I show up, take the bus to the course, and find out who I got grouped with. It was Poppy, and Mike (from Vivid) in one cart and Raj and me in another cart. We start on hole 2 and will end the day on hole 1.



Well, we are starting to get to know each other, having a good time. Nothing too crazy, a few beers here and there. Teasing the cart girl a little. Just having a good time.

We come to the 16th or 17th hole. Let me explain this hole a little bit,you tee off about 40-50 ft higher than the pin. It's only a par 3, and it's the silvercash 50k hole in one contest. We pull up and see Chris from FTVGirls hanging out in his cart. He had a lil' to drink and we were chatting and hanging out. I go to tee off and he tells me that if I hit this hole in one, he will match the 50k from SilverCash and he prolly really would have. So I laugh, pull out my 8 iron and tee off.

It's headed dead straight to the pin. Drops about 18 feet short and starts rolling. Now Chris and the people there are screaming, cause it looks good. It's rolling to the pin, but stops short by about 10 ft. Chris starts throwing golf balls at me telling me to do it again, and again and again. I hit 3 more and of course I never come as close.

So Mike, Poppy, Raj and I finish out the day. We are the last ones on the course. Everyone is up in the club house getting ready for the dinner to start. Raj and I are driving towards the clubhouse. We see the Park Ranger riding on the path towards us (he's going to call us in for the day). We give him the friendly wave, he stops his cart and puts it in reverse. We keep heading towards him...
---Now this was all in slow motion---
Raj is heading towards the ranger, the ranger is in reverse and by the look on his face, he's having fun with us. Like some sort of reverse chicken game or something. He's laughing, we're laughing as we head towards him. Now, I don't know if Raj realized this, but we were going much faster forwards than the ranger was going backwards. Now the happy face on the ranger turns into panic. Raj starts to panic too... why not hit the brake? Who knows? Raj tries to pass the ranger on the left, but notices that the cart path is too narrow and there is a lake to the left so he over corrects to the right, we hit the ranger's cart. We don't hit it head on, the front passenger wheel (where I am) hits the passenger side wheel well of the park ranger. We drive over it and Raj tries to cut left again. So we basically ramp the ranger's wheel well and the cart is on two wheels, heading left towards the lake.

There is a 2 foot drop from the grass and the water. We're on 2 wheels still, and drop off the side of the grass into the lake. The cart lands sideways, half of the fucking cart is underwater. We are fucking freaked out. I look over cause I am scared Raj is pinned under the cart and drowning or some shit. He wasn't thank god. All I hear is Poppy and Mike dying with laughter. Non-stop laughing. I'm sorta pissed for a minute, then I lighten up.







Raj had his phone and wallet on the dash of the cart. It was never seen again. Good thing he has his passport in his hotel room. Next thing I know, we are fishing out the clubs and our other shit that was in the back of the cart. Hats, shoes, and anything else that wasn't attached to the cart. At this point word must have gotten back to the club house. JFK comes up with his camera and starts snapping pics... fun times. My BlackBerry stops working. I'm a lil bummed, but Raj said he would buy me a new one. It dried out and started working again, so he didn't need to.

Some security guys from the course came and interviewed us, then they interview the beer cart girl. They thought we were wasted or something. But we weren't. We head up to the dinner sopping wet and get couple of drinks and tell the story about 100 times. During the raffle, I win a new golf bag. Pretty fun considering mine was ruined LOL.

NOW Fast Forward to about 3 months ago. I am looking through the FUBAR magazine, and I come to an ad. It's for SexSearch. The ad showcases the pics from this story. Set up like a comic book, with a "water color" photo shop filter on it for adding humor. Yup, there's me, Raja, and Poppy all in this ad. Me and Raj in the water with funny cartoon bubble captions added. blah blah blah

2 years in a row, something fucked happens to me at this tournament. Wonder WTF is going to happen this year.

[corvette]

JFK- $250

You know my favorite story actually concerns Frank Cadwell. No, I am not brown nosing. It was my first time at the Phoenix forum and I wasnt as well know then as now. Frank came up to me introduced himself, asked if I was ok, being a cordial host of hosts.

Then he asked me if I would like to take a private tour of the CCBill offices, he would drive me and bring me back. I'm thinking wow isn?t this nice.

He took me to the office, showed me around made all the introductions, made me feel like a million. On the way back he gave me an extended tour of Phoenix, including showing some family property.

The way he treated me was like he knew me for a lifetime. People wonder what makes CC Bill what it is. It is the people Like Frank, the rest of the family and the staff who make sure that you are welcomed and taken care of at events like the Forum.

Frank, Thank you for that early welcome, I never had the chance to talk about it, but it stayed with me after all this time. So that's my story and I'm sticking to it.




He took me to the office, showed me around made all the introductions, made me feel like a million. On the way back he gave me an extended tour of Phoenix, including showing some family property.

The way he treated me was like he knew me for a lifetime. People wonder what makes CC Bill what it is. It is the people Like Frank, the rest of the family and the staff who make sure that you are welcomed and taken care of at events like the Forum.

Frank, Thank you for that early welcome, I never had the chance to talk about it, but it stayed with me after all this time. So that's my story and I'm sticking to it.




TaDoW - $250

Ahh yes, Many a good time have been had at the forum :-)

I have so many great stories, it's hard to pick out my favorite...

I think my fav has gotta be 2005.

Brett and I went down there feeling awesome, looking forward to partying with Charles and Lou from Karups. One of the nights down there we hooked up with them, Corvett, Steve Lightspeed, Chris from FTV, Ron, SweetT, and a few others (like a dozen or so local girls) and all piled in to the Party Bus. Out came the Cristal and red party cups and we embarked on our mission to Axis Radius. On the way there, one of the assistants was on the phone with Axis, turned back to Ron and said hey - Young Buck (G-Unit) and Steve Nash(Phoenix Suns) are in the VIP - you wanna party with them?

Ron: **Shakes Head**

Assistant turns back to the phone and says "Naw, we want it... cool... okay."
The party continues for another 15 minutes or so as we roll along to Axis. When arriving, we're ushered in past the 22 mile long "regular" line (saturday night), the 6.3 mile long "VIP" line, and straight through the front entry. On our way up stairs, here come Young Buck and Steve Nash, with the Axis Radius manager behind them, escorting them to the exit!

We kick it there for maybe 2 hours or so ... The usual lineup - Grey Goose & Cristal. We're having a fuckin blast. Awesome environment, Awesome Drinks, Great Company, Great Beats, it was a perfect 10!

At about 1 am we gather our crew and decide to hit the road. When we get back out front there were 2 busses waiting - some of the folks got on one, and headed back to the hotel while others hopped on the other one and headed out to the hills. About 40 minutes later, after twisting and winding our way up a hillside we arrive at an immaculate house. I'm talking LA Movie Star sick. The guy who owned the house ( ) had his assistant let us in - we stroll in and are blown away. Floor to ceiling glass walls overlooking Phoenix. Grey Goose from a Frozen tap at the bar upstairs and down. Amazing Pool in the background with an illuminated erupting volcano and a sick patio and BBQ setup. It was outta control.

We spent some time in the hot tub, took some dips in the pool, and kicked back for the rest of the night - chill evening where we just hung out, courtesy of an awesome host, had an absolute blast sipping on great drinks and conversing with some of the guys who have become some of my closest friends.

Without a doubt, this is the most amazing night out on the town I've ever had.

[corvette]

WEG Cory - $250

It is 10:30am when I open the door to my hotel room. I am flanked by a bell boy that just one year ago, wanted me to set up a sex scene between him and the infamous Extreme Holly.

“There is a fucking tree blocking the courtyard. Can they move the fucking tree? I don’t have time to move rooms. I am on a schedule.”

I had requested a courtyard view. My view was blocked by a big fucking tree. I wanted to saw the branches off. But I knew that would not be appropriate and well, I do care about the environment.

Whatever.

“You want your bags in the corner?”
The bell boy asked, hoping to avoid my tree dilemma.

I couldn’t get my mind off that fucking tree. Even when I looked away from it, I felt branches taunting me. I love having a view of the courtyard so I know who is at breakfast.

10:45am.
As I am unpacking my suitcase, it becomes apparent that a shoe crisis was in full swing. It was like the movie outbreak, all the shoes were suddenly infected with my disdain. I carry a lot of clothes when I travel because I need options.

The phone rings. I answer.

“Cory? This is Mark Johnson again. Johnny Cash has requested a hotel room for the night.”
“Since when did Johnny Cash become a diva? This is like 2 days from the big event? I will call you back.”
I replied, hanging up the phone in true Hollywood Agent style.

My level of aggravation was now at an unprecedented high for just before 11am. I changed the diva alert system to code red.

We were only two days way from what would soon be known as the infamous Sagauro Soirre. Wegcash and Paycom had collaborated financing, creativity and staffing in an effort to put on one of the more unique events in the history of the adult industry. The past week had been spent dealing with celebrity impersonators that were aimed at “shocking” our guest, Andy Kaufman style. Hence, the Johnny Cash phone call.

“Johnny wants a hotel room for the night”
I said when Paycom Rand picked up the phone. I never thought I would ever be having such a ridiculous conversation, then again, I never knew a window with a big fucking tree in it was considered a courtyard view.

“Is he even worth that much? Don’t we have Nicholson?”

“No. Yes. Goodbye.”
I hang up.

Redial.

“No on Cash. I am not a concierge.”

“You got it.”
Mark said while hanging up.

Redial.

“Do you consider a window with a tree in it a courtyard view?”

“Would you like to move rooms sir?”

“No. I guess not.”

The next morning, I awoke around 9:30am. One of the tree’s branches had cast a long shadow across the room’s floor. But that didn’t discourage me. In fact, I was excited. When I opened the window, I could hear the sound of new Phoenix Forum arrivals as they wheeled luggage across the courtyard, mingled, laughed, and checked in with Phoenix Forum staff. I was quickly reminded what a great show this is.

Every year, the Phoenix Forum serves as the pinnacle for success of all shows. It is the in demand. The must be seen at show. The one trip you take. The big deal you make. The meeting you can’t miss. The seminar that you don’t sleep through. The show with velvet ropes.

And behind that big tree, I could hear the sound of the 2006 Phoenix Forum as it was beginning in the Hotel’s courtyard. I really couldn’t see who was down there, but it sounded like people I knew.

Another reason for my excitement about the day involved a big basketball game that we planned out months in advance. A group of us intended to head down to a local basketball court and play some ball.

I love basketball. If I hadn’t become a webmaster, I would probably be a point guard in some youth Chinese league. Seriously.

So, just shortly after 1:00pm, the congregation of webmasters sporting bad athletic fashion wear slowly started to fill the Hotel lobby like avian flu at a Vietnamese airpot terminal. Once the first case was confirmed, you suddenly had 12 other cases before you even had a second to work on the first case.

But that was neither here nor there; the important thing was that the ball would soon be in play. On the car ride over, I began to think about how flabbergasted the webmaster community would be when I unveiled my infamous swoop move. Basically, when I take the ball to the hole, I suddenly morph into a combination of Allen Iverson, Kobe Bryant and Leonardo DiCaprio (in a rainstorm, of course). The move has stunned opponents from Venice Beach to Newport Beach for years. They moved to ban the move at the Y years ago.

After several hours of figuring out who had the ball, why some people couldn’t find the court, who was on whose team, which basket each team was using, what points we play to, which ball was the best ball, which ball was too bouncy, which team was unfair, which goal had too much “lean,” and whether or not the earth’s rotation would effect 3 point shots, the game started.

Within only two minutes of play, disaster struck. Somehow, my knee snapped out of place and I collapsed on the ground. Not only was I laying on the pavement facing north, knee facing southwest, but I was also at the mercy of a herd of webmasters. And I was in agonizing pain. The circle of webmasters formed quickly around me, sympathy poured out, but really no solutions existed. The knee was locked out of place. One webmaster remarked that he was going to vomit.

It was what you call a real shitty situation.

Soon though, Poppy from Jupiter Hosting came over. I looked at him, he looked at me, I said,

“Do it.”

And SNAP.

The knee was back in. However, it was still painful and I now had to figure out how I was going to walk on it at the big show event the next night. The ACL was completely torn and my knee was the size of a softball.

The next morning when I awoke, I had a sense of energy surrounding me that I couldn’t quite pinpoint. I couldn’t walk and soon realized I was trapped in my bed staring at that damn tree. The pain meds were helping. I was just sort of dazed.

“Hey man, open up. I need to talk to you.”

I heard the wall say. Fuck, why was the wall talking to me?

Not good at all.

“Hey man, come here.”

Jesus.

I walked closely towards the wall.

KNOCK KNOCK

Oh my god I thought. It wasn’t the wall at all, it was the connecting door. And while I wasn’t much less hesitant, I did go ahead and open it to find Ynot Bob and Moxxx in mid lock pick. I thought at first that Bob was Jesus and Moxxx was a profit.

“I can barely walk.”
I said, and they offered me a place to lay, leg elevated, still hanging on to a vicodin dream.

“We have been trying o pick your lock all morning. We felt a bad vibe coming from your room.”
Bob said as he adjusted his boxers.

To be honest, I really wasn’t sure what was happening. I started to think I was a part of a man orgy. I asked Moxxx for some water and I quickly swallowed another vicodin. I really didn’t want to be conscious for the orgy.

“It’s the tree.”
I replied.

“What tree?”
Bob replied.

“Go look.”

Bob walked through the connecting door that he had been chiseling at for the past three hours.

“Holy shit man.”
Bob cried from the other room. I could only imagine his expression.

“What are you going to do?”
He continued.

“I can’t do anything about it.”
I said, vicodin surging through my temples.

“Dude, you can’t see the courtyard!”
Bob said as he and Moxxx began to laugh loudly.

“No shit? I get that.”
I said, picking my leg up from the bed and hobbling back over to my room.

I was damaged goods. I couldn’t see the courtyard. Johnny Cash was being a fucking prick and I was out of vicodin.

Talk about being down and out in Phoenix. I felt as though I needed a miracle.

2 hours later

8:30pm.
“Nicholson is groping me.”
Hot model spouts.

“I will talk to him.”
I replied.

“Where is Rand?”
I continued.

“Cory, I am here. Jack is drunk and groping people, did you hear? I am going to talk to him about it.”
Rand said, popping up through the Velvet rope, sporting a true paparazzi outfit.

Why the fuck is Nicholson groping the girls, I thought?
I said under my breath.

“Because you said I could asshole.”
Jack said with flare.

“I never said such a thing!”
I said, hoping my inflection would ensure the masses of females in the vicinity that I didn’t tell Jack Nicholson to put his hand down anyone’s blouse.

“You said it. You did.”
Jack said once again.

And with that the Saguaro Soirre was underway. It was a spectacular event. There were stars. There were big lights. There were lots of cameras. And most of all, with every industry person that flaunted their outfits on our red carpet, a new star was born. The intention to make everyone feel like a huge success had been achieved. Rand and I were ecstatic.

Happiness was in the air.

“Rand! Cory! Fucking Nicholson is hogging the mic!”
The Churchlady screamed.

Happiness was almost in the air.

It was at that point that I realized that a miracle had happened. No, my knee still fucking hurt. Yes, the tree was still blocking my view of the courtyard. But I had nothing to complain about that night. Not a thing. : )

I didn't need Jesus or his profit.

Phoenix Forum: Saugaro Soirree, 2006. Thanks Rand and Paycom.

[corvette]

SteveLightspeed - $250

I have lots of favorite memories and crazy stories, unfortunately I can't tell all of them without getting myself in trouble!

Last year we had all the girls from Strip Dodgeball game up in my suite changing clothes after the event. To be funny, I picked up the phone and called the front desk to ask for some "supplies."

"Hi, this is Steve from Lightspeed. I have 8 naked girls in my room and we need a few things if thats ok... Yeah, ok, we need some whipped cream, a pingpong paddle, a bunch of AA batteries, a giant cucumber, and some video tape. What? No ping pong paddles? Do you have ANYTHING that could be used as a paddle? Like maybe an oar from a rowboat?" She seriously said, "HOLD ON WHILE I LOOK AROUND!!!" HAHAHAHAHA

My most sentiimental moment was last year's forum, when I retired the white Lightspeed jerseys with Frank and Joanne Cadwell. If you look at the pictures from that moment, you can see that I was beaming with pride!

Steve Lightspeed

CuriousToyBoy - $250

What a blast this thread has been .. SOOOO many good times and SOOOO many awesome memories .......

No wonder Forum is still the benchmark as THE show to be at.

CCBill have always been top notch, and well, the Forum is simply THE one show you cannot EVER afford to miss.

I have had SOOOO many unbelievably good times and had SOOOO much fun, the stories just keep flooding on back .....

MANY stories are forever locked in the vault, to protect the guilty of course, because there is NO such thing as an innocent at Phoenix Forum.

He he.

The Sunday night last year fits that bill ... started at Christies with a bunch of peeps led from the front by Alan and Paulie from CapitalBucks, with AdultWhosWho Derek capturing a BoyAlley moment on video between me and Chaos from PinkPays ... and the Justin and the TrafficGigolos team joining in and picking up an awesome party up in the VIP..... and THAT was just the START of a LONG night .... J-Reel got pics (as he does), but those are locked away tight .. well at least some are ... the one of me test-driving the Fleshlight slipped out - what didn't was who was really doing the driving !! A 9am Monday party finish meant I got to the airport late, then got bumped off the flight anyway, and spent that night recovering at the Marriot on the AmericaWest account .......

Good times, good times ;-)

My favorite memory (amongst MANY) was also last year at the Friday night late night Lightspeed party ....... and have not Steve and Shannon always stepped up to the plate when it comes to turning it on for the Phoenix party crowd !! Thanks for the past and thanks in advance I expect !!!! ;-)

Well it was Saturday morning to be exact .....

About 4.30am'ish and the party was still rocking on hard.

There I was, after my (failed) 2nd audition as a new Lightspeed girl (LindsayLightspeed.com has a cool ring to it), but despite my Thursday night attempts in lingerie, even the Friday's effort was crashed and burned by Steve. He he.

So here I am relaxing next to the bar in their suite out by the pool area, resplendent in a purplish floral 2 piece swimsuit, TERRIBLE, yellow blond long hair wig, sucking on my 10000th drink of the Forum, when who saunters across but the lovely Shannon L herself.
Shannon looks at me and I say "hi" and "thanks" for the hospitality, and she has this whole confused look on her face as she looked at me....

So Shannon says to me, "Lindsay, Steve and I are really tired and would like to go to bed. Now this does not really make any sense to me, but Sweetums said that if I wanted to shut down the party now so we can, you are the man to see ?"

The confused looks stayed as I said, "Sure Shannon, anything for you guys, so you want everyone to leave now?"

"Errrr... that'd be great ....", said a still unsure Shannon.

So I put my drink down, put my fingers to my lips and let out my best and loudest whistle and everyone went quiet.

In my usual booming voice I then said, "Steve and Shannon are tired folks and want us all to leave so they can go to bed. Please thanks them heaps for this great party, grab your drinks and head for the door now!".

And everyone did.

And Shannon just looked at me, still confused.

And Sweetums just smiled.

Years and years in security, bouncing and crowd control did count for something.

He he

Good times, good times.

Now that you have read the story .. this thread would have been USELESS without pics ;-)





Juicy D. Links - $250

http://www.nymalegigolos.com/cms/videos/franck.wmv

[AaronM]

I thought I was supposed to win?

[seeric]

Go Nameless!!!!!!!!!

[Martina Warren]

Didn't you receive the story i wrote about the day i met you, Corvette?

[TaDoW]

LOL :-) Glad the family enjoyed it - Looking forward to more good times with ya'll over the years

[BrettJ]

Originally Posted by TaDoW

LOL :-) Glad the family enjoyed it - Looking forward to more good times with ya'll over the years

congrats timmy timmy!

[CuriousToyBoy]

Woo-fucking-hoo !

That $250 is going straight up on the bar for shots !!!

EXACTLY where it belongs.

So 5 minutes after Corvette finds me on Thursday afternoon when we get in, I suggest you follow us BOTH to the nearest bar to get yours !

Thanks Mark, thanks CCBill and 'grats to all the others for the great memories.

;-) ;-)

[JFK]

Thanks Guys, CONGRATS to all the winners

[Rochard]

Originally Posted by Martina Warren

Didn't you receive the story i wrote about the day i met you, Corvette?

Come to think of it, I'll never forget the day I first met you Martina. It was at my birthday bash in Phoenix at my house a about two or three years ago. I was so excited that a Penthouse Pet was at "my party" I wanted to cry.

Since then we've shared many memories.

And hopefully many more!

Oh, Thanks CCBill! You guys rock!

[Lia19]

Corvette what about Monty.....

[Azlord]

Woot! I am excited, thanks for choosing my story!

[The Adult Broker]

I must say that alot of my Forum memories are mostly about how much business there was to be had. Everything else is pretty much a blur which I attribute to the quantity of alcohol. So if my fondest memories are of successful business at the Phoenix Fourm, I am in good shape.

[baddog]

congrats to the winners

[Niko Bimini]

Hahahaha that great news!

Thanks Marc and CCBILL!!!

[corvette]

congrats to the winners