I’ve been posted up in my new spot for about a week now and haven’t even gotten around to furnishing it yet. I don’t like to bring old shit into new living spaces so I’m getting some Ikea stuff this week, and Suze baby if you’re reading this I’m gonna need to use your employee discount On to more pressing matters, for the past 4 days I haven’t been able to get too much actual website/computer work done cause this white chick has been staying with me for a little bit trying to make her some bucks on the internet. And she has done so, which is a good thing because when I went to get her the power had got shut off at her apt and she was in all kinds of dire straits. So after a few days with me she is back on her feet and in a few hours I’m gonna run her happy ass back home. Thats the good news, her problems are solved and she’s outta my hair.

I wish 18 year olds had a mute button. really i do. All day and night on the phone, computer, webcam with her loser boyfriend wondering why she’s broke and has no hot water or utilities. I wanna buy a big fish from an open air seafood market and just smack the shit out of her with it I swear. But anyhow such is life, and I do what I can for people. Just the annoyance factor that goes with the territory is unbelievable. So much so, I should tape record some of this shit for rainy day entertainment. This chick litterally gets in arguments with herself, and loses all day and night. Constant drama addiction, like its a narcotic… and some nigga she’s got on deck is actually stupid enough to answer the phone and argue back with her at 3am. She lives for this shit. Me on the other hand, I’m 31 and can’t wait to hear the quietness of the birds chirping on my balcony in the morning while I do pushups and my exercise ball workout, and watch some of my own porn on my flatscreen. I gotta run for now, will update more in a bit. At least I checked some C notes for my trouble. Nice to meet all you yoga folks and hippie chicks too today, you know who you are. Laters.

Well I made it through the year alive and well, and its been a good one. Really! Despite the fuckedup economy and all I managed to make a come up. This time last year I was up in Canada, broke, cold, and freezing my nuts off. I didn’t even own a video camera or a website other than this silly blog. In less than a year I’ve gotten all my camera gear, POV filmed about 30 girls, attended 7 porn conventions all over the country, launched my first paysite in almost a decade (Ndngirls.com) and am on the fast track to getting my shit back together, with many new sites and concepts in the works that I won’t get discuss. All I can say is these new sites of mine are fucking funny, and fun to create. I like what I do. Whereas before, 10yrs ago in the biz I didn’t. I didn’t really like porn actually, it was just a ways to a means. Now I like making porn my way, and its fun and lucrative. Its an enjoyable hobby, and even though it requires long hours of post production to piece everything together it is fun to conceptualize shit in your head and then get living breathing humans to follow through with it.

I could be working a square job still, like I’ve had so many this year just so I could hustle up cash for my video equipment and money to pay the girls and all, but that sucks. I don’t want a soul crushing, life draining occupation that makes my feet, back, and brain hurt at the end of every day. Whether you know it or not, a year ago I was delivering newspapers in Canada. I was an illegal USA immigrant up there, trying to do the ‘right thing’ and live near my kids and all and that was the only “under the table” hustle job I could get. I would strap on 2 80lb sacks filled with papers, and have to trudge uphill icy driveways in -40 degree weather in snowstorms and shit just to get by. I think I made 10 cents for every paper I delivered, and it had to be in their mailbox by 8am or I would catch hell. That job fucking sucked, and I nearly lost 2 of my fingers to frostbite its a miracle I can still type. Everyone has setbacks and hardships, not trying to say I’m all special and shit, and if you’ve got a blog with a similar story I’d love to hear/read it for reals.

So anyway after getting my shit back together, I returned up north to get my money from them niggas in the snow. I film about half of my girls up there, often in the same neighborhoods I delivered papers to in the morning. It brings a smile to my face to get some get-back, and make some cash at the same time. So in wrapping things up for this year, most of my goals have in fact been accomplished. Check out this earlier post from February 2009 to see what I mean and when you’re done, you can listen to my whole yearend wrapup podcast at shimmyshow.com

See yall in Vegas for AVN and Internext in a few days, happy new years and kwanzaa

Shimmy

I’m busy with site designs and selling DVDs… lotsa shit to keep my plate full lately, and I’m planning another trip to make some more skin flicks. Thought I would take it easy for a change and play with Adobe Premiere. Enjoy, now I will have my nap… after you play the clip, check out www.hitthebitch.dk its some real far out shit some dudes in holland made… not my cup of tea but I can’t lie I did get a few cheap laughs in.  Laters

It is a HUGE hassle to do the NDNGIRLS.COM project, and I don’t think you niggas realize how much work, travel, and logistics actually go into me getting these hard to find girls on remote indian reservations to do sex movies with me, so I thought I would compile just a small fraction of this shit that I have to go through in order to come home with just a few tapes. This doesn’t include the airfare, border crossing and immigration hassles, and the mandatory ripping up of your cars interior, involuntary detainment, and the occasional arrest and car impound… once you’ve made it through all that you’re going to freeze your nuts off and basically have to travel through a world like CJ in grand theft auto san andreas to find your girls. Narrow dangerous unmarked roads leading to nowhere, little signs of civilization, ice and snowstorms, wannabe gangsta ass indians who act WORSE than real hood niggas…. wild fucking deers, bears, and moose around every corner. Its totally a real life video game, but is it worth it….. yes to me it is. So you niggas had better join up my site when it goes live real soon because I put my all into it, you’re not gonna get some bullshit ass LA “porn valley” production. You’re gonna get the real fucking deal. And for the record, the croc hunter don’t have shit on shimmy…

Man I feel accomplished today. I actually carried out about 90% of the things on my to do list which I am back in the habit of making everyday. Funny how shit gets done when you write it down. After some tumultuous times traveling last week to canada and back I decided to splurge and do some impulse shopping once I got back on US soil. I went ahead and ordered a 32″ LCD to use as my computer monitor because I have a LOT of video editing to do here. I filmed 3 new indian girls up in canada and they delivered some smokin hot scenes, and I’ve done quite a bit of local filming right here in florida. Believe it or not as I type this at the office, this little puertorican chica who sold me this GPS for my car on craigslist knocks on my door and says she wants to do a video with me. I told her first thing friday since my ass is kinda broke right now from all the shopping and traveling I’ve done. By the way that is big boobed 18 year old Hailey Cummings in the photo there. I shot her first scene so maybe she will go places and it will be a classic shimmy production. We shall soon find out. The glasses were my idea to kink her up a bit…

So yeah yesterday I filmed Hailey and her boyfriend getting it on and it was actually the first time I paid money out of my own pocket to film other people fucking in 3rd person. White folks at that, see I’m not racist The video came out well but the only issue is that its a bit vanilla, and it will probably pay for itself  (lets fucking hope so) on clips4sale or hotmovies. Maybe… but as we all know white on white just is not a hot seller lately. Usually i’m the talent in all my movies but like anything you have to experiment with different styles of shooting every now and then. My only regret is dude took over an hour to blow his load on his little busty teen hottie, but it was ok as I wasn’t late for my evening driver job. Overall it was alright and not too bad. You can certainly get camera angles POV doesn’t allow for when you know how to frame up your shots well.

There are so many details I’m leaving out about my life as an adult webmaster/pornographer, and its probably not too concerning to the average citizen. I basically work a job just like you guys and gals do, and deal with the same people, doing the same shit basically. Its probably not even worth mentioning the minute details. But for those of you who want the true inside scoop, make sure you check out the shimmy show for audioblog episodes of my crazy life. I really need to start putting advertisements etc on these pages because a lot of you niggas are hitting my blogs and radio show up lately and I’m sure you wanna see some tits and ass and not just read and listen to me drone on about shit. I’d rather talk than type anyday.

At least I got my oil changed today, washed the ride, dropped off my iphone to get fixed, and got a big ass jumbo sized computer monitor ordered up. My new shelltoe adidas came in the mail today too. Its nice to be able to finally buy some shit after living po’ for so long. And its nice to have your phone ringing and your door knocking with girls who wanna fuck on video too. Man this shit is getting easier and easier by the day I can’t wait to see how much progress I’ve made by the end of this year. I’m going to also submit Hailey and Sean to this couples website that pays for sex tapes, the same one I tried to get foxy roxy to do with me last month and we’ll see how it goes. I think I can sell them if I pitch their audition video right…

peaceout

Shimmy

A lot of folks listen to me talking shit on the shimmy show and think I don’t care about the girls I work with both on and off camera, and that couldn’t be further from the truth. I’m not a hardcore gangsta nigga gorilla pimp I do actually give a shit, and in the case of what happened over the last few days I cared a bit too much about the 18 year old white girls “problems” and got fucked over myself by going soft. I exhibited a sign of weakness, broke the rules of the game, and pretty much fucked myself out of a few hundred dollars. Should recoop it today, we will see if the girl remains true to her word, should be an interesting night. See that little text message I got on my phone there… my main chick the 18yr old white girl has self inflicted money problems. She has rent that is $1000 a month, her roomate skipped out on her without paying, and she got an eviction notice (or at least the customary warning papers) on her door the other day. So that alone was motivation for her to get some real money hustling for me. I said I would double up and even triple post her ads to keep her phone ringing and help her out. Well to make a long story short she made $800 last night from 2 calls. We have this agreement where 2 calls or less we split 50/50 and 3 calls or more I get 50 per delivery along with a little kickback for ad posting and gas money. It works out about the same so long as she keeps moving, and isn’t lazy.

By the way, thank you Jayda for helping me forget about these problems…. so anyhow instead of my $400 cut last night, she tried to renig on our written agreement and give me like $160 for the whole night, pocketing about $700 for herself. I set her straight and she went into this bit about my rent this, my life that, blah blah blah and I told her I don’t want to see her ass evicted so just pay the fucking rent and don’t expect me to bend the fuck over for you like this because these were some high risk calls in lakeland that I had taken babygirl on, and some unneccesary risks if you ask me and I don’t like doing anything remotely that hot. So I really really fucked myself out of my money for this little 18 year old bitch, who just spent $340 on a freakin cell phone 2 days ago (gee where did that rent money go…) and I made it clear to her this would not happen again.

I’m not the type of nigga to rub shit like this in peoples faces or hold stuff over their heads cause it just makes for awkward moments. So long as she knows it’s back to business as usual we’re good. Surprisingly after she made rent, she tells me she could not work yesterday cause she is sick, stomach hurts (hangover likely) and I said no problem but today (sunday) you’re going out EARLY and getting me some motherfuckin money. And that she will do. Cause I’m leaving on Monday… up to Canada for a week to see my kids and get them some winter clothes, shoes and shit before it turns cold up there. I’m also gonna film some enough indian girls to get hotnativeamericangirls.com launched. I spent the afternoon yesterday booking a plane ticket, researching hotel/rental cars, making sure my bills here are all straight for my office space, gym membership (thanks, girl with glasses) and other shit so that when I get back in the country everything is on the up and up. I ended yesterday by having Jayda over for an office POV video, same type of scenes as last week only with better lighting, and broke in that natuzzi leather sofa finally. Keep up to date on my travels on the shimmy show audioblog, as this might be my last post here on shimmysbookmarks for about a week or so, as I’ll be busy filming, with my kids, with friend, girls, etc for the next week and I don’t have a laptop. Maybe if I can update this site through my iphone… we’ll soon see.

peaceout

shimmy

It has been a busy busy BUSY week, would make a good script for a movie or a reality tv show (or the shimmyshow.com!). Quit the rickshaw job, got a job as an escort driver, quit that, partnered up with an 18 year old italian chick who is bratty and annoying as fuck, and setup a blowbang scene in tampa for next weekend since this week all the male talent was acting like little pussies… so busy, so little sleep… pimpin ain’t easy.

LISTEN TO THE FULL STORY HERE…. MP3 format… too long to write, I am just oh so tired dude…

peaceout

Well, that last shoot kinda crashed and burned. After a week of searching for a replacement girl/couple I just said fuckit to that project and decided to focus more on finishing up the native american indian girls website for October. Only problem is, my funds are low since I just moved here from Cali on a whim, and there isn’t really any “male talent’ gigs to be found here, and girls are just acting kinda flaky for filming at the moment (wait until the middle of the month whey they asses is broke… they’ll be calling) so for now I need some cash asap and I’m not trying to sell off my cars and equipment and shit. So as a last resort, I turned to the so called real world of work.

Hopped on craigslist and put in for a temp job at an adult video store, and also I’m doing the weirdest shit ever being a rickshaw driver at night for a pedicab company in orlando. I use my mountain bike to tow drunk fat white girls from their favorite bar/nightclub to their car or hotel for cash money while they take photos of my sweaty black ass from behind in their carriage. Tonite is only my 2nd nite out there, and its hard work pedaling a bike for 7 hours straight while towing 700lbs of disorderly humans behind you, but its only short term work. Gimme 3 weeks of that, and I’ll be up north filming, getting the site up, and all this shit will be distant memories. You have to realize that I’m not so self righteous or proud that manual labor is beneath me. I’m hustling til the sun comes up damn near and don’t get home til after 3am. Oh the sacrifices I’m making to produce some good unique porn for you niggas… if you see me riding, do me a favor and don’t pretend like you’re cracking a goddam whip on my back, and tips are appreciated

Shimmy

Economy still in a crunch. Nobody giving out credit to anyone. Or are they?? Hmm… Last week I posted about the importance of getting yourself a DUNS number from dnb.com to keep your business credit profile separate from your personal credit score you already have with Equifax and those other 2 knucklehead credit bureaus. I found another good (free) resource to get your business profile added on more 411 exchanges, and that is YellowPages.com Business Solution Center which is now owned by AT&T. As I said before once you’re in one 411 directory, you typically get listed in all of them, but you can speed up the process dramatically when you apply to them individually. It is key for your biz to get listed because when you apply for business lines of credit at Staples, Ikea, Costco, Home Depot, etc to get all your furniture, lights, equipment, etc the first thing they are going to do is call 411 to make sure your company is listed and is legit. And the more directories you are listed in the better.

After that, they will check your Paydex score (similiar to your FICO) to see how well you have been paying your business credit. The typical order I recommend to people is once you get your Staples account, go buy something small and pay the bill in full right away, like a few days later right at the store. This will raise your paydex up high really fast. About a month later, you’ll be able to get biz credit from Nebs, Quills, and a few other office supply merchants. After 3 months you’ll be able to get a Citibank biz card, TigerDirect.com, Home Depot card, and probably a few gas station cards. At the 6 month mark you can get Ikea (nice!) and a lot of the other bigger accounts. Initially most of these guys will give you a credit limit of around $3k each which you can do a lot of nice things with, all without ever entering a PG (personal guarantee) meaning your name and SSN#. Everything is done in the company name. For more details check out the Business Credit Forum at the Credit Boards.

On a less serious note, I co-starred in a little kinky skin flick with India Summers this weekend and that was pretty fun jizzing all over her. I can’t believe they pay me for this. She’s fucking gorgeous, has a smokin hot bod, and the prettiest little almond brown eyes. As always, the bloopers and clumsy behind the scenes hijinks are the best part of any adult film. But its just another day here in California for me. I guess I’ll post clips here when the footage is uploaded so I can make a few bucks of this little site of mine. And for something totally unrelated but funny, check out Tourette’s Guy on YouTube for a few laughs and have a good one folks:

You know what, Shimmy likes cash… and more of it! It sure as hell makes Shay Laren (to your right) smile. She’s gorgeous ain’t she… Shay will be at CybernetExpo in San Francisco this June by the way. And let me be straight and say that I’m totally against the hippied-out lifestyle of living in public parks and holding up handmade cardboard signs beggin for quarters. At the same time I am not exactly a fan of hard work either, unless of course it is for some project I have cooked up for myself that has a huge potential payoff…

I started on the road to rebuilding my business credit profile this weekend (from scratch) since the job scene in California isn’t really happening, and here I’m going to document how to do it step by step for those of you who don’t know the process and think you’re assed-out of luck because you don’t have any cash to fuel your business dreams. Where there’s a will, there’s google to find a way I say. When I started out back in 1997, I used my personal credit and student loan money to fund my adult internet business once it took off from my initial $65 investment… A few months later I did a risky move by maxxing out all my credit cards, pouring my tuition money into shaky projects, and living off top ramen noodles for a few months. Of course it was well worth it and I’d do it all over again in a heartbeat. Made over a million bucks and have no regrets about anything…

The problem for me, and many others my age is that now, after many years of marriage/kids/divorce anyone who isn’t Houdini has some scarred credit. Chalk it up to being young, inexperienced, bad judgement, and trying to keep a canadian woman happy (and fed on time, oink!) and you’ve got a subpar credit score. I can’t even get a freakin bank account in most places anymore. I’ve got car repos from Mercedes, BMW, and a bunch of other creditors on file, along with “a lot” of charged off credit card debt, judgements, late mortgages, student loans gone awry, etc… and that shit sticks on your record longer than 7 years despite what they tell you. I’m facing about a half mil of “bad debt” after just now getting back on my feet and back in america, so what’s a brotha to do when he has equipment to buy, films to finance, and dreams to chase…. we go for a little well kept secret called “busiiness credit”.

Business credit is different than your personal credit, which is linked to your social security number. Anybody who starts a legit company qualifies too, and the great part is the credit limits are higher, easier to get, and you’re basically a ghost in the system. In other words “you” might not be able to get a car loan for a crusty 1983 toyota corolla, but “your company” might qualify to purchase/lease a whole fleet of new ones. So how does this process work, well there are a few guides available on the web to purchase, and some for free with limited knowledge, but I will post how I am doing it all over again on this blog for your reference. Here goes:

• First step, even if you don’t know what your company will be doing/selling thats not really important yet. This whole process is a timeline so the sooner you get started the better. All you need is to think of a company name at this point and stick with it.
• Next you will want to go and get your business an address. If you’re hi-rollin’ big baller then go rent some office space. If you’re on a budget like me, go rent a mailbox… not a PO box either. A real mailbox. You can usually do this in a UPS store, or even better what I do is support little independent mailbox rental places. The service is better, usually cheaper, and they often don’t charge for packages to be delivered there to your company. Cost: About 20-30 bucks a month. You may have to pay 3mos. ahead of time when setting up at first.
• Now your business needs a seperate phone number. Call your local phone co and setup a business line if you have cash handy. Expect to pay about 40 a month even if you don’t use it “just because” its a business. My budget method is to setup a SkypeOut number on Skype. I use their calling plan that is $3 per month and you also get voicemail with that which is perfect. Other method is to get a cheapo prepaid phone. Now since you didn’t register this as a business line you can fix this real easy, and Free too! Go to www.ListYourself.net and register your business and new phone number. Next go to www.Superpages.com and do the same. These are 411 directories and they will propagate to one another, eventually to your local phone book as they all share information with one another. If you’re in a real hurry, call Verizon wireless at 1-800 722-0577 and have them list you in their foreign number directory, its like a $10 charge.

With all that said, the importance of having your business phone number listed is so that creditors can pull you up. Remember, you’re not using your real name, you are now “Joe Blow Consulting” or whatever creative name you thought of for your biz. I like to have fun with mine and have some real creative company names.

Now the next step is for you to register for what is called a “Duns number”. Your duns number will become somewhat like your biz credit social security number. For the quick way to get a duns all you have to do is go to DnB.com and find the link that says you need a duns number for government contracts. Fill out the webpage with your company info, new mailbox address, and new biz phone number and they will issue you one within about 2 days via email. If you don’t specify you need the number for gov. contracts you will have to wait up to a month, and be subject to all their telemarketing shit, which I don’t really have time for. Just gimme the dam number so I can get my credit on…

After you’ve got a Duns number, you’ll want to go to the IRS website and request an EIN. That stands for employer indentification number. It’s free and you get the number instantly. Again, use your business number and address, but this time (and the only time) you will have to enter your real social security number and your name/address. Tell the truth too, this is for tax purposes, and your creditors when you apply for lines of credit, only the IRS.

You should have been able to do all of this within a weekend. I did at least. Total cost should be under $100 including the mailbox and phone number. Now its just a waiting game to get your number listed in the 411 directory. I would recommend waiting at least 30 days, then calling 411 and checking to see if your company is listed. Once it is, congratulations you can start building your credit profile! Go to this page here on the Staples.com website and apply online for a business credit card. It will likely say yes, or send you to a page that says call their 1-800 number and give them some more info. Don’t take this as a rejection, call it up and usually they will ask you to fax in a copy of something official, like a business lic, phone/utility bill, etc. All you really have to do if you don’t have these things yet (and you will very soon anyhow, right?) is to get or make some really good business stationary and fax a letter back to them with your letterhead on it, including your address, phone number, website (non-adult silly) saying you will send them the info they need soon. Generally this will suffice. Hell if you’re a photoshop wiz just photoshop a biz lic certificate until you get your real one in the mail. Staples will grant you a credit line from between $750-$2000 right off the bat. You can use this online or in the store to help you get started… get an office chair, cheap pc, supplies, etc. And pay the dam bill… early if possible. It affects what you call your “paydex” score.

In the next installment I will move on to how to get more and bigger accounts added to your biz credit profile. By the way, a good resource for cheap biz cards and stationary is VistaPrint. I recommend using all their free services and only paying for shipping. You can get 250 biz cards for free + about $5 in shipping and they’re not half bad. They take forever to mail your stuff to you (3 weeks is average) but its good stuff to have for looking official. Ya’ll have a good nite.
Shimmy