The blog of author Dennis Cooper

Month: November 2018 (Page 4 of 7)

‘If my exterior interests you, it is most successfully set ajar by suggestions of the dark and the unethical’: DC’s select international male escorts for the month of November 2018

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DaddyandSon, 18
Le Havre

Real father and son, an explosive complicity.

We are Maxime (42 years, 1m71, 63kg, muscular, 17cm) and his son Julien (18 years, 1m80, 62kg, 18cm).
We offer you sex, in an exhibition before you or in action with you.
We offer you a whole range of scenarios: daddy dominates the son or you do or we do or the boy takes the upper hand with us … it’s up to you!

I play guitar and my son skates and has a couple lame music projects.
We don’t expect much from life and we just try to be happy.

Available only on weekdays, more rarely on weekends because family life is sacred!

Dick M, Uncut
Orientation Gay
Body Slim
Body hair Not very hairy
Position Versatile
S&M Soft SM
Dirty No
Kissing Yes
FF No
Safer sex Needs discussion
Rate per hour 80 €
Overnight On request

 

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heartgasm, 23
Aarhus

I am a spiritual healer. I have learned the ways of tantra with shaman over the years. I offer a deeper experience for you to experience both great physical pleasure, and your own Divine Love. If you are ready, we can even bridge to other realities.

Guestbook of heartgasm

Nash_1978 – Nov 3, 2018
If you’re wondering what the hell he’s offering, he just gives blow jobs unless I missed something. Excellent washing machine style blow jobs with multiple orgasms, 2x for 50 €/hour, as many as you can shoot for 75 €/? hours. He stays dressed, doesn’t like to be touched. You can stroke his hair. He swallows, but he prefers to get sprayed. Your cock must be shaved, and he made me shave mine on arrival. He scarfed 5 loads out me, each bigger and more gut churning than the last, which is I guess what he’s describing in his profile, most impressive. If you just want to drain some pressure I’d recommend the 50 € option.

Dick L, Uncut
Orientation Gay
Body Slim
Body hair Smooth
Position
S&M No
Dirty No
Kissing No
FF No
Safer sex Needs discussion
Rate per hour 100 €
Overnight No

 

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spookyboy, 21
Manhattan

My profession is an exterior designer of myself to make coming indoors my body a unique and exciting goal. As for the visiting experience, once inside, my interior is comfortable, welcoming, regular and nonjudgemental. If my exterior interests you, it is most successfully set ajar by suggestions of the dark and the unethical.

Apropos of nothing, I also love the aesthetics of albinism.

I have over 250 pairs of underwear.

Dick S, Cut
Orientation Gay
Body Athletic
Body hair Shaved
Position Bottom only
S&M Soft SM
Dirty No
Kissing Depends on person
FF No
Safer sex Needs discussion
Rate per hour 300 $
Overnight 600 $

 

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man-crazy, 19
Milan

Hey men.
I spend two weeks visiting my parents home, but here it means for me: experience everything you want, everything that appeals to you and as much as possible ??

Yes, I am “only” 19, but that does not mean that I am good or inexperienced. On the contrary. As for sex I am mercilessly open and unrestrained.

Although I have stated that I am BI, well it is more like that I’m 90% on male types and only from time to time on drag girl and then mainly to protect the appearance in front of the family ?

If you want to have sexual opportunities with me then I have to find you hot. And you should already have at least one L cock and preferably large eggs that also decently cums ??♂️?

Last: I arrive TODAY in Milan. I will NOT make any dates TODAY, but only tomorrow. Well, … let’s write and then who knows, if you like me until then you can like to make out with me tomorrow ?

Until you’re fucking horny me, love Noah ??

Guestbook of man-crazy

Dramatically – Nov 1, 2018
ok its deep but its definitely flat

man-crazy (Owner) – Nov 1, 2018
My ass isn’t flat, are you insane??!! I practically have to pull men out of my ass with a tow truck!

Dramatically – Oct 31, 2018
he has fake photos, a flat butt, tiny baby balls and he cums prematurely

Dick M, Uncut
Orientation Bi
Body Slim
Body hair Smooth
Position Versatile
S&M No
Dirty No
Kissing Yes
FF No
Safer sex Needs discussion
Rate per hour 150 €
Overnight 450 €

 

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JasonWitter, 18
New York

Teen top looking for cash fags. I don’t mind showing you what’s in my red sweat pants if you need that to decide but frankly you should probably want me mainly for my face and build.

Dick L, Cut
Orientation Hetero
Body Athletic
Body hair Shaved
Position Top
S&M Soft SM
Dirty No
Kissing No
FF No
Safer sex Always
Rate per hour 80 $
Overnight 175 $

 

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NotUnderAged, 18
Agia Paraskevi

Hi, I know I look young and I like to roleplay with that :p, but I’m 18.

I only love older guys (40 – 99 years). I don’t really care about how fat you are unless you have a little dick ;D kidding, I love you all.

If I am slow to respond sorry I have 17 appointments scheduled and 38 people on the waiting list :0.

Guestbook of NotUnderAged

seeker2000 – Nov 9, 2018
I saw him last Thursday. He said he rarely hosts because he has a boyfriend but he agreed. They are in an open relationship and rarely play together. His boyfriend is even cuter and younger looking than him. I asked for a 3-way and for extra payment he agreed. During the sex I gave most of my attention to the hot boyfriend. He grew jealous and sulked and left the bed. As I was leaving they got in a big fight, screaming and throwing things at each other. Three hours later I got an SMS from the boyfriend asking to meet. We did and fucked all night. I think the boyfriend and I are in love now. Life is funny.

Dick M, Uncut
Orientation Gay
Body Slim
Body hair Smooth
Position More bottom
S&M Soft SM
Dirty No
Kissing Yes
FF No
Safer sex Needs discussion
Rate per hour On request
Overnight On request

 

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WeLikeThugDrugDealers, 20
Atlanta

We’s Spoiled Smoke Weed EveryDay And Want A Man With His Own Car, Money, And Crib. We’s Looking For SomeOne Who Gone Keep It ? Wit Us … We’s Real Asses Luh Baby We’sa Keep It A Stack.

Guestbook of ILikeThugDrugDealers

chm_bf_xxl24x7 – Oct 28, 2018
dont step in my privte life be chilled fck off u boring mthfckas

Dick M, Uncut
Orientation Bi
Body Average
Body hair Not very hairy
Position
S&M Soft SM
Dirty Yes
Kissing Yes
FF Passive
Safer sex Never
Rate per hour 50 $
Overnight 300 $

 

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EvanTheHonest, 18
Modesto

I play basketball.
I can do back flip.
I swim thats why I have broad shoulders, lucky.
I love food, I can eat anytime without getting fat
I had sex when I was 12. 1 hr before my 13th birthday with the daugther of our maid.
My dad had a secret drawer inside our shower room with playboy magazines. I discovered it and starts to masturbate with the naked girls, learned inside and out part of a pussy.
I had my first handjob with our driver when I was in first year high school and dont give a fuck with it because i was on drugs.
I had my first official sex with a girl friend the day after our driver jack me off.
And a lot more to share.
I have a beast inside my boxers since when Im 18 years old.
Im smart I can do my classmates homework for a free lunch, ride home, and a fuck.
I get free condoms for fucking a friend working in a convenient store.
I was kicked out of school this year cause Im caught fucking our guidance counselor in her office.
My parents also kicked me out.
Thats why Im here.
Gay thing is not new to me, Im just not used to it, so calm down.

Guestbook of EvanTheHonest

big_pig – Oct 30, 2018
i would add perfunctory but effective

justhornyiguess – Oct 23, 2018
The sex he gives feels very rehearsed but is well sequenced.

Dick L, Uncut
Orientation Gay
Body Athletic
Body hair Smooth
Position More top
S&M Soft SM
Dirty
Kissing No
FF Active
Safer sex Needs discussion
Rate per hour 250 $
Overnight 750 $

 

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TheShadower, 19
Los Angeles

I love to jack off while it’s pouring rain and heavy thunder storms are about. I love to jack off in the forest at night it keeps my sanity from passing into insanity. I dislike those who are disloyal in any way shape or form. I love to listen to The Smiths and only them. Message me if you want to jack off together.

Guestbook of TheShadower

The Shadower (Owner) – Nov 8, 2018
I’m also an artist and I love drawing flowers because they’re just so beautiful.

Dick L, Uncut
Orientation Gay
Body Slim
Body hair Smooth
Position
S&M No
Dirty No
Kissing No
FF No
Safer sex Always
Rate per hour 100 $
Overnight On request

 

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ahmed, 20
Al Sayeda Zeinab

Okey men now get in formation

Guestbook of ahmed

ahmed (Owner) – Oct 17, 2018
I believe I am superior and that you are here to pay the superior I feel bad saying it but I have found it to be the truth

maverick – Oct 17, 2018
snotty arrogant shithead

Dick L, Uncut
Orientation Hetero
Body Slim
Body hair Not very hairy
Position Top only
S&M Yes
Dirty Yes
Kissing No
FF Active
Safer sex Never
Rate per hour 500 €
Overnight 3000 €

 

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Body4Papers, 22
Rome

Hi, im a student and despite my constant working i always seem to be in debt so im trying this to hopefully get my way out. Im studying law but have struggled to recently and I model part time but that has also been slow recently hit me up. I really need to pay my rent and this is the only way i can think to do it, so ill pretty much do anything at this point. Ehhh otherwise i dunno ask me shit i have my own place my own car im weird all I do is study and drink and watch anime.

Guestbook of Body4Papers

SkyloverDD – Nov 6, 2018
Agree 100% with the first reviewer about this guy’s ass. It’s as if Michelangelo had managed to pack all of his talent into a carry-on item. There’s one issue in that from the waist up, he’s quite reserved and gives off chilly vibes, but I just took that in my stride because so does the “David” statue.

lovefuckinass – Oct 29, 2018
Bitch has an ass on him got my cock so damned hard it split my pants like a fire exit then rammed him so deep so fast it sent splinters flying or should I say bitch HAD an ass on him … etc lol.

Dick M, Uncut
Orientation Bi
Body Slim
Body hair Shaved
Position More bottom
S&M No
Dirty WS only
Kissing Yes
FF Passive
Safer sex Needs discussion
Rate per hour 200 €
Overnight On request

 

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-that-boy-, 18
Vienna

Standard 40€
__________
body massage
music
oil
oragsm
.
..
.

+ 60€
_________
full-body massage
oil
candle
fairy lights
music
tee
oragsm
.
..
.

++ 70€
_______
full-body massage
face massage
oil
candle
fairy lights
music
tee
oragsm

Dick XL, Uncut
Orientation Gay
Body Slim
Body hair Not very hairy
Position Versatile
S&M No
Dirty No
Kissing Yes
FF No
Safer sex Always
Rate per hour On request
Overnight On request

 

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chase__anderson, 22
Nuremberg

Hello I am porn star Chase Anderson now available in Nuremberg. I live for the THRILL. Nothing is ever planned with me, and I accept no planning. Decide, arrive, see, take. Don’t say a word until post-fuck. Be Arab or Bearded. I take each thing you do and I make it burn harder and… hotter than the last. Sure I love me some cash but I live for fucking and I only fuck for a living because duh.

Guestbook of chase__anderson

chase__anderson (Owner) – Nov 6, 2018
Im back left site cause mom died.

alphadad4yng – Sept 13, 2018
I did a date and can confirm it is him, but it’s been a few years since his Staxus era, and he’s aged some. He currently sports a Rapper from the 1990s style with heavy chains, short hair, a lot of prong-fingered hand gesturing, baggy nylon pants that frankly suit him better than the faux Bieber drag that he continues to false advertise, but the change made me realise it was that tension, the ‘trying to be something he isn’t’ divide between the adopted cutie pie look and his rather coarse features, that had made me work my cock so passionately while watching his videos. Not that he isn’t still trying to be more than who he is, but this laddish, uneducated lout hiding that in an ill-fitting coy act and pop idol prettiness had more appeal than him just exaggerating his drawbacks (he has a megaphone for vocal cords and laughs like a mule, to name a couple) by imitating Eminem or someone like that. How was the sex? He’s not my personal type anymore, but objectively, once he’d shed the outfit and taken the mannerisms down to a minimum, he remains a great piece of ass. He still makes those rubbery, over the top silent film star faces when he’s being sucked and fucked, and that helped to center me in my original mission.

Dick XL, Uncut
Orientation Bi
Body Athletic
Body hair Shaved
Position More bottom
S&M Soft SM
Dirty WS only
Kissing Yes
FF Active/Passive
Safer sex Needs discussion
Rate per hour 600 €
Overnight 3000 €

 

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comehereyoubottom, 19
San Jose Del Monte

STRAIGHT HERE FOR HIRE (Reason: Needs money for special emergency needs)

INFORMATION
I am a straight guy so I dont allow someone to fuck me but I allow myself to fuck you as Hard as you want. As well as I dont suck but you can suck mine or rim me as much as you want. Strictly No rimming you!

My dick size is 5.5 inches (Medium Size), Height is 5.6 ft and 70 Kilograms an average guy. Very good looks I hear, My skin color is more dreamy than average, Red lips, Pointed nose, Somewhat ethnic but mostly not.

Typically Likes
– Playing intellectual Sports
– Listening to Soul Music

TRANSACTION
It depends what do you want or what service you want me to do and additionally on how far your location. Reservation is equal to your 1/4 of your total payment as advance cash via LBC or Smart Padala. Then the another 1/2 is once we met and the total of the payment once we’re done. Also availble to hire as your date 🙂

Example:
You want to have a sex and your offer is 3000(service fee) + 1000(Fare & Effort on how far you are) total of 4000. Therefore 4000/4 is 1000 so the advance payment will be 1000php that will pay via LBC or smart Padala. Then the another is 4000/2 is 2000 will be pay once we met. The remaining which is 4000/4 is 1000 once we’re done.

Guestbook of comehereyoubottom

KindaOutOfIt – Nov 8, 2018
That’s my ass.

KindaOutOfIt – Nov 8, 2018
Retired teacher who always surreptitiously checked out (front & back!) the beautiful young studs in my classrooms… ALWAYS wished they would faint or fall asleep so I could gain a closer look, a scent, a taste, a new appreciation of what it means to be a beautiful teen nowadays… You remind me so much of one of my favourite students, so dare I ask you for a date? Many apologies in advance: with declining memory & judgment I may not always remember your name or demands (but reminders are appreciated not rejected).

Dick XXL, Uncut
Orientation Hetero
Body Athletic
Body hair Not very hairy
Position Top
S&M Yes
Dirty No
Kissing No
FF No
Safer sex Never
Rate per hour 200 €
Overnight 500 €

 

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The_little_king, 19
Decatur

u seen me dancing on the internet now pay me
i like sex& drugs alcohol and more alcohol
im a singer but only for heavy metal music
im white not caucasian and im a SSatanic BeaSSt
if ur not a gay republican go kill yourself

before u ask again: no i dont fall into toilet, because i have a special seat

Dick L, Cut
Orientation Bi
Body Slim
Body hair Smooth
Position Versatile
S&M Yes
Dirty No
Kissing No
FF Active
Safer sex Never
Rate per hour 800 $
Overnight On request

 

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BeMyGod, 18
Poznań

Hello everyone I’m Lekin 18 years old and I have been dealing with Agoraphobia my whole life. I’m not going to go into to much detail about it unless you ask because no one really cares or wants to read it or understands. I really love horror and gorey movies or just anything weird, Creepy and out of the ordinary in general, I prefer weird and creepy people to normal people anyway. I’ve honestly been in some pretty fucked up situations with people so my trust issues are pretty much screwed at the moment. People Will tell you one thing for days, weeks, months or even years saying they care or that they love you and want to be with you forever then they just randomly leave and ghost you out. I know I’m not easy because I won’t leave my house pretty much ever, just walking out in the yard to take the profile photo freaked me out so bad I stayed in bed for days after. As of right now I’m trying to get my life together I guess and meet interesting people who share similar interest as I do so we can see where things go. I would honestly really want something serious but now a days that seems impossible because no one likes to stick to just one prostitute and people jusy like to screw around. If you would like to come over and get to know eachother a lot more better then feel free to do that.

Guestbook of BeMyGod

Anonymous – Oct 30, 2018
Lekin has told us that he does not want to marry, because he has a serious problem with whom he has been involved.

BeMyGod (Owner) – Oct 19, 2018
What I like about me:
+ my hair color and eye color
+ The name Lekin ?❤️? (I think that’s so attractive)
+ I can have profound conversations
+ School (I wish I wasn’t psychotic depressed so I could to go to school. Please do not beat me up for that)
+ Jesus ? (I am a believing Christian and I stand by it!)

BeMyGod (Owner) – Oct 18, 2018
What I do not like about me:
-my extreme self-critical view of myself.
-my body ? hate my face. I always look tired too strangely.
– everything negative, even the smallest things, make me depressed.
-my mouth and my nose
-my penis ?

BeMyGod (Owner) – Oct 12, 2018
I should have told you right from the beginning that I had psychotic depression this year. If that should be a problem for you, you can save your money.

Dick M, Uncut
Orientation Bi
Body Slim
Body hair Smooth
Position Bottom
S&M Yes
Dirty Yes
Kissing Yes
FF Passive
Safer sex Needs discussion
Rate per hour 5 €
Overnight 10 €

 

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badguy20, 20
Bangor

Throwing caution to the wind and saying “fuck it”, time to do whatever necessary to get myself out of my financial hole and not second guess what doing something like this means about me!

App keeps crashing.

I like Macrophilia and Vorarephilia, but they’re both impossible. So I like things that revolve around those things in my head but are realistic and doable in the flesh even if they’re depressingly inadequate and look silly.

The only thing I don’t like is actual sex. I don’t like penises. I don’t like mine or someone else’s. I don’t like people seeing mine or me seeing someone else’s. I don’t like having orgasms but someone is welcome to dryhump me if they need to get off.

Guestbook of badguy20

blackbull – Oct 26, 2018
We agreed on 500 but it’s not like I’m actually going to pay him.

PCruz – Oct 26, 2018
sweet, how much did that cost you, blackbull?

blackbull – Oct 25, 2018
Pic of badguy20 just before I loaded him in the back of a rental truck and drove him to my place upstate.

Dick M, Cut
Orientation Hetero
Body Athletic
Body hair Smooth
Position
S&M Yes
Dirty No
Kissing No
FF No
Safer sex Always
Rate per hour On request
Overnight On request

 

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sillyboy, 18
Visalia

Im a boy but i can pls u if u like suck you take u i have never been fucked be4 so lol wanna play my clit is tiny my ass your pussy 2 fuck 4 right price lol if ur cock over 8ich ill do it feel ill let u get involved trun my ass inside out ???????

Guestbook of sillyboy

ciaobaby – Nov 7, 2018
Excellent candidate for breeding and can extend to mpreg but in that event he would need a ride.

sillyboy (Owner) – Nov 3, 2018
Im not liking 2 myself anymore i am ashamed but i know whore is who i was born 2 be

AlbLatin44 – Nov 3, 2018
The twerking or movements with the ass is in his blood and the doggy position becomes a paradise.

ZONSTER54 – Nov 1, 2018
don’t try to give him a boner as you’ll be wasting both your time

TamerofTigers – Oct 29, 2018
Just wanted a fem boy to get on top of and pound for a few hours and he was all that.

Dick M, Uncut
Orientation Gay
Body Slim
Body hair Shaved
Position Bottom only
S&M Yes
Dirty Yes
Kissing Yes
FF Passive
Safer sex Sometimes
Rate per hour 100 $
Overnight 200 $

 

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FuckATourist, 22
Dortmund

I’m from Russia, I hear a lot about bad Russians! But I’m the person who wants to say that Russia is a good country! That in Russia there are good, honest people who also dream of having happiness in their lives! And I am the person who wants to show the best qualities of the Russian person! If you have a problem with the fact that I’m Russian, I’m sorry! If you don’t mind that I’m from Russia and am not gay and do this just for money then I’ll be happy to sleep with you and even get to know you as a person! And remember that not all Russians are bad, and in this world there are still good and honest people!

Guestbook of FuckATourist

FuckATourist (Owner) – Nov 9, 2018
Maybe I just want revenge.

LorisXs – Nov 8, 2018
this boy with the adorable face is a pathological liar and a thief. he says everywhere to be honest and not gay. it’s wrong. he has run away from russia to escape the arrest. safe source! His story is very well put together. I hosted 3 days and he stole clothes and computer and 2 watches including a boss (brown leather) 350th! I complained this on the website. he has 16 complaints on his back already. he would also escort in my house when i was away and fuck without a hood !! but I learned it too late … I believed all his stories! Do not get fooled. I write this only to warn you and find it! he often trains on the bus on Saturday evening.

Dick XL, Uncut
Orientation Hetero
Body Slim
Body hair Not very hairy
Position Versatile
S&M No
Dirty No
Kissing No
FF No
Safer sex Needs discussion
Rate per hour 450 €
Overnight 1000 €

 

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TheBoundGirl, 21
Zurich

I am available for sex by anyone as long as we can make the necessary arrangements. Age, appearance or sexual tastes are irrelevant. Equally if you know me from elsewhere, including from ‘normal’ life, you’re very welcome to make contact, from saying hi to requesting a single opportunity to fulfil your repressed lust for me, irrespective of whether it could make our acquaintanceship awkward in the future or put an end to it.

Guestbook of TheBoundGirl

Leskovac – Oct 27, 2018
The most beautiful, flawless creature to have ever walked the face of the earth. I can honestly say if I’d had a fatal heart attack while fucking him, I would have thought, Shit happens.

Daddy155 – Oct 21, 2018
We were talking and I was thinking he’s not all that but I was hard anyways and then he put his tongue in my mouth and I immediately ejaculated before we even took our clothes off. WTF?!

Vasai – Oct 15, 2018
First time in my life I’ve been struck deaf, dumb and almost blind in total awe of the boy I was fucking.

Dick M, Uncut
Orientation Gay
Body Slim
Body hair Smooth
Position Bottom only
S&M No
Dirty No
Kissing Yes
FF Passive
Safer sex Always
Rate per hour 240 €
Overnight 800 €

 

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Playstation, 19
Vienna

⚠️Achtung⚠️
Being positive on Hiv, above the detection limit, and very addicted to hardcore sex, I am only available to people affected by the same fate. Why? Well, because every human being is important to me.

Dick M, Uncut
Orientation Gay
Body Slim
Body hair Not very hairy
Position Versatile
S&M Yes
Dirty Yes
Kissing Yes
FF Active/Passive
Safer sex Never
Rate per hour 60 €
Overnight 240 €

 

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HandsomeCynic, 20
Cambridge

Looking for a guy to feed me his shit ass to mouth for $1000. I’ll swallow it down so no mess. It’s just a lot more pleasurable for you than using a conventional toilet.

Guestbook of HandsomeCynic

tim139 – Nov 12, 2018
Currently not in service.

manoriginallyfromflorida – Nov 2, 2018
Next time you’re sat on the toilet going for your morning poo, imagine how powerful it would make you feel to have this lad’s face open mouthed below you ready to drop your load in.

Dick S, Cut
Orientation Bi
Body Slim
Body hair Shaved
Position Versatile
S&M Soft SM
Dirty Yes
Kissing Yes
FF No
Safer sex Needs discussion
Rate per hour 1000 $
Overnight On request

 

 

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Rouzbeh Rashidi Day

 

‘Jean Cocteau called cinema ‘death at work’, and it is this aspect of the medium that I am chiefly concerned with here. Filmmaking itself becomes a ritual act, trapping images, re-arranging them (montage) to tap their inherent powers and then unleashing them in this concentrated form (the projection of this material into light).

‘I happened to start making films at the beginning of the millennium, in the year 2000. From the very first day, I thought of only one concept and that was the discovery of what cinema is in this new era. This question has pushed me to continuously experiment and investigate in the laboratory of my filmmaking.

‘The films one makes are nothing but the haunting shadows and light of the films that one has seen in the past. There is no original film, except for the very first ones by the medium’s pioneers.

‘In both my feature films and my on-going short film series, “Homo Sapiens Project”, I have been formally experimenting with deconstructing and decomposing film genres. I have radically minimalised genre elements, attaining what could be described as a ground zero of drama through the systematic removal of narrative structures. What this has achieved is a series of experimental films that foreground mood, atmosphere, visual rhythms, the nature and subjectivity of the image and the gaze that engenders it, the permeability of the borders between documentary and fiction, and the role of architecture and landscape as palimpsest of hidden histories.

‘All of this emerges in the ambiguous context surrounding the circumstances of the moment of shooting in contrast to what is assembled in editing. As Donal Foreman says “each image is a single event” and “cinema is a dialogue between will and reality”. In this way the edit is also part autopsy, and the series of filmed events full of life, colour and movement lie frozen in the frame, dormant. They are scrutinised, examined, explored then reassembled soon to become light, shape and rhythm once again but as spectres among the living. This amounts to the idea of film as an ‘undead’ medium- any given moment refers to a ‘dead’ moment filmed in the past, yet behaves as if ‘alive’ due to being replayed and edited.

‘Godard/Gorin once stated that the distinction between documentary and fiction is false, however I would go with Donal Foreman’s suggestion that the distinction between documentary and fiction is meaningless. Once something is filmed it becomes a fiction, whether it is your fiction or my fiction depends on where you put the camera; “the camera is always part of the scene” (Foreman)

‘Raul Ruiz said that “In narrative cinema—and all cinema is narrative to some degree—it is the type of image produced that determines the narrative, not the reverse.”

‘‘Form’ in my view, is the most important and vital part of the 7th art. When you conceive a unique form, the narrative, drama or story can be articulated with it. Or you can simply have the form itself, which is amazingly expressive in its own right.

‘To my mind the filmmaker should, as Foreman said, “be, not illustrate”.

‘“Cinema is not an illustrative or descriptive tool. You have to build images and things have to exist within them. There are more and more filmmakers who show a thousand trees and in the end you feel as you have not seen a single oak during the two hours. Image has to stand on its own, the image is not something arbitrary. A finished image does not describe anything, it is its own entity, it does not describe.” – Jean Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet

‘It is widely believed to be impossible to envision a film without a screenplay; the script is still secured as the cornerstone of filmmaking. It is thought of as the collected information of all that is seen and heard; but nothing is seen, nothing is heard. Of course scriptwriting is an art unto itself but it has very little to do with filmmaking. One mysterious synopsis is enough to make an entire feature length film. Mysteries can be preserved while petty details are dispensed with, exciting and activating the mind. For example this synopsis for Bela Tarr’s “Kárhozat” (1988)

‘“A penniless drifter’s relationship with a nightclub singer is put under strain when he offers the woman’s husband a smuggling job.”

‘And as Godard expressed recently in an interview: “…the ideas come gradually, and there is no screenplay. At the beginning, I thought we had to have a screenplay […] And then I realised that the screenplay came not only after shooting, but after editing”.

‘The most enjoyable part in cinema, apart from watching films from the history of cinema, is the actual craft of filmmaking, shooting/gathering the material and editing/montage, both heavily technical processes. After that there is a feeling of loss and nostalgia, each film when it’s done is an absolute death although the film behaves as if it is alive. That is why cinema is all about ghosts and shadows in my view. In this process, if you are lucky, you may find great collaborators and as a result of this you don’t have to endure this feeling alone. Everything else is waste of time for me!

‘We, at EFS, treat all formats, devices, and cameras, including celluloid and video, as equal and don’t have any sentimental attachment to them. The 21st century filmmaker uses any image-recording device to make his/her film and as Orson Welles said “a film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet”. Cinema is 100% reliant on the technology of its time and the way in which you make films and screen them is entirely up to the nature of that technology. Technology of our time is digital and many filmmakers must embrace it fully in order to express themselves and advance cinema. As much as cinema is about the past, it is about the future too.

‘Our films are about images and the progression of images. When there’s sound or music, they’re about the interaction of sound and image. Cinema itself is always the subject, experimenting with its forms. Not necessarily pushing its limits, because I believe the limits of cinema have already been reached by Structuralist filmmakers like Sharits, or by Garrel’s early films, for instance. You can’t go beyond that. But if a filmmaker’s experiments are true to his or her perception and personality, the medium’s possibilities are constantly renewed.’ — Rouzbeh Rashidi

 

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Further

The Films of Rouzbeh Rashidi
Rouzbeh Rashidi @ IMDb
Experimental Film Society
Phantom Islands @ The Art of Slow Cinema
Rouzbeh Rashidi @ MUBI
PHANTOM ISLANDS @ desistfilm
New Voices in Irish Experimental Cinema: Rouzbeh Rashidi
Phantom Islands – blurring lines between documentary and fiction
rouzbehrashidi
PHANTOM ISLANDS – DESTABILIZING
“A True Actor-Director Collaboration”
“The Paradox Of Acting – Boredom Of The Disgust And Monotony Of The Tediousness”
AN ABSTRACT END ( HE )

 

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Extras


In Conversation | Rouzbeh Rashidi


Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch The Movie (trailer)


Homo Sapiens Project (157) by Rouzbeh Rashidi

 

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Interview
from Cinepaxy

 

Cinepay: We know that all of your works have been carried out with restricted budgets. Do you consider that this lack of resources necessarily influences the quality of the work itself?

Rouzbeh Rashidi: So far, I have made 34 feature films and 240 short films (200 of them are part of an ongoing project called the ‘Homo Sapiens Project’). Out of all these films, only four of the feature films were made with funding and grants, and the rest were made entirely on zero budget. I look at everything that I made on zero budget as a crucial and vital aspect of becoming a filmmaker. I look at them like the notebooks and scientific results of Baron Victor von Frankenstein; the recordings and the scientific research that he made in his laboratory that led to the creation of the monster. This description is humorous and perhaps ironic, but not for me. I believe I have reached the limit with no-budget cinema and cannot push it any further, nor do I want to spend my time in such a way anymore. Those no-budget films are so crucial for me, and I enhanced my skills and craft with them. They made me a resilient and thick-skinned filmmaker, and now I am ready to tackle more ambitious films on a more significant scale and with bigger budgets and more professional casts and crews. But for me, all these categories have always been a phase: independent, experimental, underground, mainstream and what have you. I look at them merely as challenges. They are all simply filmmaking and creating cinema at the end of the day. Give me a small VHS camera and a close-to-nothing budget, and will I make films. Give me 100 million dollars; I will still make movies. But I would never compromise, that much I know.

CP: Your works always catch up with the history of cinema, as if to honour the cinema of the past. On the other hand, there is a breakup with it; a rejection that makes impossible – and that’s the point you’re talking about – a compromise that perhaps would be useful to move towards the festival circuit as well as towards commercial production. How do you see yourself in relation to these realities?

RR: I can answer this questions in two parts. Firstly, even if I wanted to change, I am absolutely incapable of it. I only know one way to make films and since the year 2000 I have been doing this non-stop. The history of cinema and the mechanism of the medium of cinema is everything for me. I think there is no national cinema or even international cinema; it has always been the continent of cinema where all films belong. Therefore, the only way that I could think to make movies is always to go back to the beginning of cinema, analyse what has happened from then until today, and then prepare my films accordingly for the future – which immediately becomes the present and past as soon as you make them.

Secondly, yes, only opinionated people won’t change. I am radical but not dogmatic – at least that is how I assess myself – I could be wrong of course. It is hard, almost impossible, to look at yourself as if from the outside. I believe, perhaps, that with ‘Phantom Islands’, I have reached the point where I had made a film that was accessible and capable of entering into the commercial system, and yet which has preserved my ideas about how my movies should function radically and on a personal level. It took me years to reach this formula, and I hope from now on I can reach a larger audience and access a better distribution system, and also go on to more challenging projects. Cinema is an utterly magical thing, almost like a séance or spell. I always surrender myself to this conjuring of wizardry and can only react based on my skills and cinephile knowledge. We’ll see what happens!

CP: Regarding your formula: its boldness demands an essential effort from people who want to be near to your work, something viewers nowadays don’t tend to sustain. Viewers could feel themselves estranged in dealing with your work, since the average observer is not accustomed to avant-garde work. Don’t you care too much about sacrificing the public?

RR: Believe it or not, I am 100% against elitism. I would never make my films for a particular targeted audience. In fact, one of the attitudes I genuinely despise in the realm of avant-garde cinema is the belief that certain films belong to a specific context. I never shared this snobbish view whatsoever. When I make movies I literally make them for anyone on earth regardless of who they are and where they are. I designed my works as autonomous entities that would either devour the spectator, or the audience would ingest them in bits. There is no neutral ground or indifferent possibility; again that is my intention. How much I succeed is a different matter, of course. In addition to that I believe that the audience, if given a chance, can easily connect with such cinema. I refuse to think the audience are inexperienced and cannot comprehend challenging films. This is not true. I’ll give you an interesting example: I brought one of my friends, who has no strong connection to cinema, with me to watch my feature film ‘Ten Years In The Sun’ in a cinema. After the film ended, he said I was tortured and to this day he is always complaining about the film. He describes the film as some sort of nightmare he had the night before, each time with a different version of the event. Sometimes when we are drinking with friends, he winds me up and tells everyone about his experience. This means the film is working internally, within his system. So I think cinema is only a matter of exposing the mind of the audience to the radioactivity of the film and they are changed forever. Films need to be continuously screened, repetitively; that is key. This is what I am after with EFS, a system that produces and shows the films on a regular basis, all the time.

CP: So, how would you like a potential viewer to think about your work? As something to reflect on, or more as a visceral experience?

RR: Complicated question. To be honest, I don’t know. Perhaps I never will. Because it is impossible to know the audience. There is an active element of science fiction in all of my films, and whether they are projections into the future or past, they are always about how this machine of images works and creates dreams or nightmares. Therefore, the best and only thing for me to do is to look at my audience as aliens and extraterrestrial life forces. I assemble and make my films for such extreme circumstances. They can survive on earth or even in outer space. For me, logic and understanding were always overrated concepts. I prefer survival and co-creation with the audience during the viewing process. I look at cinema as a catastrophe: mushroom clouds, radiation and chaos. There is always a silence before the main event of a film (a great place to be to gather the material); then you have the main explosion, which has little place in my films (the script or storyline perhaps?); and finally the aftermath, the images and sound of what has happened, and how long their force affects you (which is the main carcass of my work – I call it ‘editing’). Cinema will always invade the audience, and you just have to keep making and screening films without hesitation.

CP: But where does it come from – this need to embrace an experimental approach?

RR: I just don’t know what is experimental and what is not. I literally have no way to distinguish between what I do and what mainstream cinema does. I think they are cinema. Only cinema. I never intended to become an experimental, alternative or even underground filmmaker. I just wanted to be a filmmaker and express my love for cinema, and share my most personal experiences. Sadly, it didn’t work like that. I had to choose a title or a category to survive. But a great deal of my decision-making, thinking, attitudes, and all of my films are not intellectual. They are deeply experiential and practical. I am a 100% pragmatic man. I set no store by systems or political imperatives. The socio-political trends of the day change so fast. New ones rapidly emerge; they are only like flash bulletins. I have no affinity with them. I live in my time, I see and experience what happens around me and I, of course, reflect this indirectly in my films. That should suffice. I don’t look at cinema as a tool or as a means of conveying information. I am not interested in films that are only text and have no respect for images and sounds. My primary focus and goal is to make my films, help my colleagues to make theirs, and eventually screen them all around the world. Then after all that I will stand aside and observe what happens as long as I’m still alive. And when I am dead, I do not need to worry anymore. The films will continue their journey. This is my whole philosophy.

 

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19 of Rouzbeh Rashidi’s 56 films
Rouzbeh Rashidi’s film can be watched VOD here.

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Phantom Islands (2018)
‘There is something that permeates the entire film and that didn’t let me go. It was Rashidi’s decision to blur most images to varying degrees. No image is fully clear. Neither is it completely blurred. Rashidi plays with degrees of masking, something that gives Phantom Islands a feeling of being exactly this: a phantom. The film, the characters, the scenery, even the music – all of this has a strangely unreal, surreal feeling. As if a ghost creeps up on you without it being a horror film. As if you dream. As if you merely imagine things in your seat instead of watching something that has been created for you to see. It is as if Rashidi puts mind images on screen. Phantom Islands is not a film as such. It is a collection of mind images, sometimes mere flashes of thoughts, sometimes more complex thoughts that take time to develop.’ — Nadin Mai


Trailer


Prelude to Phantom Islands: Jungle Formula

 

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Rouzbeh Rashidi and Maximilian Le Cain Self Decapitation (2017)
Self Decapitation is a Janus-headed self-portrait by Rouzbeh Rashidi and Maximilian Le Cain in which death and desire each take possession of this film in two parts. The ambiguities of inhabiting a human body are conjured by way of film technology in its faults, faulty memories and false promises. There is no escape from its haunting – except perhaps to haunt it in turn…’ — RR


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TRAILERS (2016)
TRAILERS unites the most personal and experimental aspects of underground filmmaking with a scope that is as cosmically vast as a science fiction epic. Rashidi’s ongoing exploration into the nature of cinema sees a group of characters adrift in space, each locked into their own sexual rituals while a cataclysm of universal proportions unfolds. Humanity has become a mysterious burlesque show for alien eyes: the gaze of the film camera. This visionary spectacle uses multiple formats and visual textures in weaving an erotic anti-narrative suspended in its own space and time.’ — RR


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Ten Years In The Sun (2015)
‘An assortment of obscure private obsessions, conspiracies and perversions flicker on the verge of incoherence against the context of vast cosmic disaster in Rouzbeh Rashidi’s one of boldest film to date. This sensory onslaught combines a homage to the subversive humour of Luis Buñuel and Joao Cesar Monteiro with the visionary scope of a demented science fiction epic.’ — RR


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Poetics (2014)
‘Part three of Rouzbeh Rashidi’s ‘Rearrangement Trilogy’. These three wonderfully warm features that celebrate friendship and creativity, and display a gentleness and lightness of touch.’ — RR


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Conditions (2014)
‘Part two of Rouzbeh Rashidi’s ‘Rearrangement Trilogy’.’ — RR


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Hypothesis (2014)
‘Part one of Rouzbeh Rashidi’s ‘Rearrangement Trilogy’.’ — RR


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Investigating the Murder Case of Ms.XY. (2014)
‘Combining searingly intense ciné-portraits of actor Mario Mentrup and actress Olympia Spanou with hallucinatory passages of found footage, it cuts its single hint of narrative adrift in a cosmic void that equally questions human relationships and the cinematic image itself.’ — RR


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Homo Sapiens Project 100 (2014)
HSP 100 is a portrait of experimental filmmaker Maximilian Le Cain. As Le Cain discusses his life, work and relationship with cinema, Rashidi envelops him in a hallucinatory audio-visual ambiance that ultimately results in a poetic dialogue with the ideas and feelings he expresses.’ — RR


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HSP: There Is No Escape From The Terrors Of The Mind (2013)
‘A mysterious loner, perhaps a poet, journeys through a series of uncanny surrealistic landscapes with an unclear purpose. His adventure is divided into three sections. The main theme of this experiment is to compare the eerier qualities of different landscapes and interpose the characters within them, elaborating the project’s ongoing preoccupation with extracting sinister moods from ordinary settings. In a way, these can be seen as experimental horror films in which an atmosphere of dread is evoked and sustained without the expected narrative trappings.’ — Behance


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Excerpt

 

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Circumcision of Participant Observation (2013)
‘One of Rashidi’s freest and most mysterious films to date, CIRCUMCISION OF PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION weaves a series of humorous, frightening and ultimately hypnotic vignettes into a visionary tapestry of cinematic dreaming.’ — ECS


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HE (2012)
‘HE, the third work in the ongoing collaboration between Rouzbeh Rashidi and actor James Devereaux, is a troubling and mysterious portrait of a suicidal man. Rashidi juxtaposes the lead character’s apparently revealing monologues with scenes and images that layer the film with ambiguity. Its deliberate, hypnotic pace and boldly experimental structure result in an unusual and challenging view of its unsettling subject.’ — RR


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Boredom of the disgust & monotony of the tediousness (2012)
‘Rashidi continues his collaboration with actor James Devereaux in this unsettling and ultimately touching portrait of an isolated actor possessed by film history.’ — RR


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Structures, Machines, Apparatus and Manufacturing Processes (2012)
‘As in a number of his recent films, Rashidi uses images accumulated over years to explore memory and cinematic form. In this case, he creates an elaborate and haunting montage that mainly interrogates still images.’ — EFS


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Hades of Limbo (2012)
‘A bleak, cryptic vision of life in contemporary Iran that eschews overt social commentary in favour of a very personal vision of stifled lives. Directed remotely by Rashidi from Ireland over Skype, the making of this unique film reflects the alienation it so compellingly portrays.’ — RR


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Cremation of an Ideology (2011)
‘The enclosed, private space a man occupies is penetrated only by images brought from across distances by the internet. Space, distance and memory collapse in this haunting meditation on absence and virtual presence in the 21st century.’ — RR


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Zoetrope (2011)
Zoetrope deals with the quality of being expressive, explores the locations & reveals a life in a small house and its surrounding. The film slowly evolves and shows the history of nothingness of the characters who are in Zoetrope.’ — RR


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Reminiscences of Yearning (2011)
Reminiscences of Yearning is so many ghosts, searching the landscape for traces. there’s no sense of the past- it’s in the present, searching the footage for what remains, a summoning of the disappeared. We’re invited to patiently wait and see if they appear or not. A ritual. At least …’ — RR


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Only Human (2009)
‘A tale of people unfolds under the night sky. These doomed couples and lost individuals begin journeys and attempt to find resolution in their lives. Love is observed from a distance, sadness is in the air. With little sympathy for the loss and destruction caused to the characters, the stories progress and become neatly woven into a minimalistic portrayal of modern life.’ — RR


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