Porn Star Karaoke.
At it's most basic, the name is the review. But if we liked most basic, On The Martini would be a Twitter feed.
It's become a bit of a tradition over here to head over to Sardo's Grill & Lounge on Tuesday nights for a bit of Porn Star Karaoke. It's sort of a weird mix of voyeurism and drinking, and as someone who doesn't really recognize clothed porn stars, I tend to do more of the latter.
The lovely and talented Nikki Hunter hosts the evening, keeping things moving, offering free porn (mostly to Casey), occasional body shots and encouraging you to cheer the singers and tip your waitresses. I've got a great glamour shot of Nikki Hunter that she signed for me a while back below the fold that makes it worth clicking Read More even if you can't stand to read another word.
Some weeks, PSK is full of absurd numbers of Porn Stars, singing, drinking and generally acting like fools, happy to entertain the civilians with the antics that we expect of porn stars. More often, though, it's a sort of low-key affair, one that you wouldn't know was attended by porn stars at all. I've been to way sluttier-looking clubs in Hollywood without even meaning to. There are always a lot of dudes there (it does seem like the sort of place that you and your guy friends should go, at least until you've been once, then you remember that everything is more fun with girls), and sometimes the normal-folks-to-leering-creepster ratio is on the too-high side. It's a risk you take, I guess.
The bar itself is tiny - it looks like a converted italian restaurant, and they do serve decent pub fare late into the evening to help soak up the beer. It's no Metropolitan Opera House for acoustics (it's a small favor that you can't always hear the karaoke singers, for example) and just seeing the singer is a challenge from some of the side booths, but if you wanted good karaoke above all, you wouldn't be at Sardo's on a Tuesday night, would you? What you get is exactly what you want - very few pretentious actor-types that infest other Karaoke places trying to impress you, just porn stars and civilians belting out tunes with varying success and varying levels of intoxication.
The picture on the left of those two smiling cats (Jeremy & Casey) was snapped just after they each did bodyshots off of (out from between?) Nikki's boobs. Sadly, I was ill-positioned to get an action shot, but you can imagine how it went. It's the sort of shots special that most hostesses are too pretentious to offer, no matter how much the audience begs. Not here, no indeed. We offer body shots.
There are a couple more pictures below (including a great animated .gif), and eventually, I'll create an entire album of PSK shots, but what's here will get you started, at least.
Porn Star Karaoke is exactly the sort of thing that you can't get many other places on earth, and that's more than enough. The fact that it's also fun (like everything, more fun with friends) and that you can go home with free porn makes it an even better addition to the pantheon of awesome LA entertainment options.
