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An Interview with Stoya
/ Brandon Stosuy
01.18.08
I'm terrible at remembering band and song names, so I have the worst time answering that question. When I was dancing, the DJs would ask if I had any requests, and I'd be like "yes! that one track... from two weeks ago... there was this redhead dancing on the bar... a female singer... kind of dancy... it goes like 'doo do doo thump thump' yeah, nevermind."
The Fanzine: You told me you're really into Sci-Fi. You also list Sid Meier somewhere as a hero. How'd you get into all this sorta "cyber punk" stuff. What are you reading right now?
Stoya: Civilization was my favorite computer game when I was 6. My dad taught me how to navigate DOS when my mom was teaching me how to read. Sid Meier was the coolest in 1992. I read a lot, and always have, so I've read pretty much every genre of book out there. I think cyber punk is like Jules Verne was in the turn of the century, and it's awesome to see how the 1980s version of the future is accurate in certain ways and way off in others. I just finished The Difference Engine by Gibson and some other guy and Making Money by Terry Pratchett. Terry Pratchett's Discworld series is great. He started writing it because he always wondered about the inner workings of the cities in fantasy novels. Like, who feeds the heroes? What do the heroes and magicians do when they aren't out killing dragons and toppling gods? It's so original and it's all annotated with british humour. Now I'm reading Spangle by Gary Jennings. It's historical fiction about the circus directly after the U.S. Civil War. Gary Jennings is super rad because he spent so much time doing research. I read somewhere that he traveled around Mexico
for twelve years while he was researching Aztec.
The Fanzine: Any New Years resolutions?
Stoya: Take over the world one vagina at a time? No, wait, that's one of my hobbies. Can it be both?
Filmogrophy: Stoya's had non-sex appearances in a couple Vivid Alt titles, Man's Ruin and Debbie Loves Dallas. She recently did a boy/girl scene in Jack's POV 9. Her first star vehicle, Stoya: Sexual Freak 7 is out later this month. Also, she was recently sainted.
Read her blog here for more info.
Images of Stoya™ are courtesy of DigitalPlayground.com
The Fanzine: You told me you're really into Sci-Fi. You also list Sid Meier somewhere as a hero. How'd you get into all this sorta "cyber punk" stuff. What are you reading right now?
Stoya: Civilization was my favorite computer game when I was 6. My dad taught me how to navigate DOS when my mom was teaching me how to read. Sid Meier was the coolest in 1992. I read a lot, and always have, so I've read pretty much every genre of book out there. I think cyber punk is like Jules Verne was in the turn of the century, and it's awesome to see how the 1980s version of the future is accurate in certain ways and way off in others. I just finished The Difference Engine by Gibson and some other guy and Making Money by Terry Pratchett. Terry Pratchett's Discworld series is great. He started writing it because he always wondered about the inner workings of the cities in fantasy novels. Like, who feeds the heroes? What do the heroes and magicians do when they aren't out killing dragons and toppling gods? It's so original and it's all annotated with british humour. Now I'm reading Spangle by Gary Jennings. It's historical fiction about the circus directly after the U.S. Civil War. Gary Jennings is super rad because he spent so much time doing research. I read somewhere that he traveled around Mexico
for twelve years while he was researching Aztec.
The Fanzine: Any New Years resolutions?
Stoya: Take over the world one vagina at a time? No, wait, that's one of my hobbies. Can it be both?
Filmogrophy: Stoya's had non-sex appearances in a couple Vivid Alt titles, Man's Ruin and Debbie Loves Dallas. She recently did a boy/girl scene in Jack's POV 9. Her first star vehicle, Stoya: Sexual Freak 7 is out later this month. Also, she was recently sainted.
Read her blog here for more info.
Images of Stoya™ are courtesy of DigitalPlayground.com
