The blog of author Dennis Cooper

Month: June 2019 (Page 1 of 13)

Meet procrasturbator, blackholedown, DOOMED, Patient-4-Doctor, and DC’s other select international male slaves for the month of June 2019

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pieceofmind, 22
Wanting r a p e d
Wanting k I d n a p e d

Treat me like a mutt dog make me eat drink out of a food and water bowl
Collar me to a corner that I can be used as a public urinal and put a sign up that says free for use make me piss and shit outside like a dog
Video me being gangbanged and email it to my relatives

I live to be owned used we’re ever whenever
My limits are extreme pain and permanent damage but I can always work past em
I am very perverted pathetic piece of shit

Comments

Electro_Cute – June 20, 2019
Can you trolls, like, go talk about this somewhere else. Some of us are trying to jack off here.

Anonymous – June 20, 2019
ahhhh … the golden hour

Anonymous – June 20, 2019
Actually there’s an initial hour +/- depending on the conditions where the differences between dead and unconscious are almost indistinguishable. The dead can even “snore”.

Anonymous – June 20, 2019
how a guy looks asleep or passed out is nothing like how he’d look dead, i thought so too but it’s like the difference between a real baby and a doll.

pieceofmind (Owner) – June 17, 2019
Thats funny cuz a guy choked me unconscious once and after he brought me around he said I looked so hot unconscious he was sorry he did.

Electro_Cute – June 17, 2019
I’m sure you look great when you’re screaming or dead :O.

pieceofmind (Owner) – June 16, 2019
Cause I’m ugly

Electro_Cute – June 16, 2019
Maybe you were just in a bad mood that day why don’t you take new pics?

pieceofmind (Owner) – June 16, 2019
Possibly both but it’s about all I got lol

Electro_Cute – June 16, 2019
You look angry or constipated.


 

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brianna, 22
I’m Bryan but I want to become a Brianna and used as a cumdump and go with the flow

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brianna (Owner) – June 18, 2019
glad to be slave

MasterSilverWolf – June 16, 2019
19h36 26/05/19 Brianna needed to be fixed. I cut her nuts off. I will modify her in any other way I desire.

MasterSilverWolf – June 10, 2019
Brianna 04h18 23/05/19

Anonymous – May 17, 2019
“Only dead fish go with the flow”




 

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procrasturbator, 22
I prefer to fix a problem if it’s in my capacity regardless of benefits. Some things are not in control of a single person unless you are omnipresent. You know nothing else in this world can make you feel better than being helpful. It gives you a sense of purpose. A single doctor cannot save thousand patients at once actively but if thousand patients listen to an advice doctor gave in some internet forum and applies in their life, chances are they can prevent an upcoming disease. But there is always both side of the coin. Sometimes I can be harsh and be irritating. I cannot stay for long. If I do, people tend to get used to me and try to take advantage. I do however believe if someone is so determined to use you, you are probably useful. Life is too short and in the end I will be eaten by maggots when I am a dead cold corpse laying around so hey in the end, good or bad, headaches or migraines I just… LIVE.

Comments

procrasturbator (Owner) – June 22, 2019
You already know, chicken!

KingWithBeard – June 22, 2019
I think you do so come on share with everyone. I’m curious is why.

procrasturbator (Owner) – June 22, 2019
I’m saying I have done so before, why?

KingWithBeard – June 22, 2019
Are you saying it’s not a secrete now?

procrasturbator (Owner) – June 22, 2019
I don’t want to secretly now but I have done so in the past though, why?

KingWithBeard – June 22, 2019
Do you secretely want to get snuffed but haven’t done anything about it?

 

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LivingStatueObject, 19
Looking to be encased permanently inside wax as a wax figure or plaster and sculpted and kept as a living ornament, statue for a collection or sold to private buyer. Unable to move inside my prison for admirers or special collectors forever more.

Willing to travel.
5”11
Feet size 10
Cock size 7”
26 waist



 

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slampunk, 19
Dirty pimply slam addicted junkie teen unwashed no limits looking for the same.

SPOILERS AHEAD. I’m no longer a prostitute. END OF THE SPOILERS.

Let’s speak now??? As I’ll surely not be here a very long time…

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Anonymous – June 7, 2019
Other than “because all life is sacred”, I say no.

MrTeapott – June 5, 2019
Rehab?

Anonymous – June 3, 2019
If you remember him from his porns using and abusing him in this terrible state is very emotionally powerful


 

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blackholedown, 18
Me: I’m the boy you see skateboarding. Walking home from school down the street. The boy who notices you looking and wishes he was tied up at your feet. I’m the boy who has struggled his whole life accepting his submissive nature.

You: You live for the moment that You finally have me. Naked. Collared. Hands cuffed behind my back. Dirty sock in my mouth with about 5 wraps of tape around my head. Blindfolded. And as you gently graze your leather gloved hand along my body you remind me. “this is exactly where you belong.”

Drawback: You will need to be able to handle or ignore the splash of my disappearance trending heavily on the news for some weeks because my mother is very famous.

 

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i_did_something_bad, 21
Since our very birth we are violently indoctrinated in the damaging ideology that we all are –or SHOULD be- *equals*, and should relate to each other as such on a sexual, emotional and spiritual level. This authoritarian pedagogy negates the obvious fact that we all have different capacities, needs and desires, and forces us to spend most of our lives trying hard to adapt ourselves to those imposed egalitarian lifestyles, fighting permanently against our innermost feelings, thoughts and desires. And we do it because the social cost of defying the dictatorship of equality is too high: from losing friends and family to being bullied or ostracized, or even incarcerated.

I am a slave in the Roman sense of the word-with postmodern skills-; that is, an extremely docile sub-human creature whose only existential engine is to make His life better. I am a butler, a cook, a pet, a urinal, sometimes a piece of furniture, sometimes a lab rat or a burden beast; all in one. In an ideal world, my Owner would chose my clothes and my haircuts, He would determine my eating habits and training routines, He would manage my sexual, social and financial life. He would organize and rule my entire existence.

On a sexual level, I am psychologically castrated, I am 100% passive, an extremely docile living fleshlight for His enjoyment. My only sexual motivation is to satisfy Him in whatever way He wants. My cock and balls are His as He pleases, but I believe they exist only to be tortured, and to remind me of my place in the world through denial, pain and frustration.

Once a Contract has been signed, I -previously a fake “he” for social survival- becomes the “it” it has ALWAYS been secretly since it was born. By this act, it loses the provisory decision making and denial capabilities it developed throughout its life to preserve itself for its Owner.

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TheContess – June 26, 2019
I have taken permanent ownership of it formerly him. It is undergoing extensive hypnosis, psychotropic medication and programming. In my opinion the start to any good slave’s journey is the destruction of its brain’s archive and capabilities, whereupon the body and mind mold themselves around the necessity of becoming a new it. A slave should learn to crave the state of being a figurative inspiration for sperm and dread the releases of its own orgasms. This slave’s high intelligence and verbal acuity have proved a great challenge, but through strict mental draining and sculpting the “he” is nearly gone now and the process has been immensely enlightening.


 

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Keith, 18
Been able to comfortably take a fist since I was 16 and getting bigger ones each time.

Had a very harsh breathplay harsh experience recently and I felt in love. Like I was expecting that since my childhood.

Pay for travel I’m yours.


 

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disporecois, 20
Want to experience all their is to experience and have new existences. Don’t know what to expect.

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MasterSamrat – June 11, 2019
Difficult to say with one photo. Let’s talk privately. Best guess … anywhere from 10k to 40k? If it can get to no limits, up to 50?

userunknown – June 11, 2019
Vietnamese, cute. How much?

MasterSamrat – June 11, 2019
Looks Asian, Spanish, Arab? If Asian with a cute face, very interested. If other, possibly.

userunknown – June 11, 2019
I wld love to disquisition my slave, 22, w/ a few usual limits. I attach sample pic. Are you interest to resale it?

MasterSamrat – June 8, 2019
Hi dears this is Master Samrat here.
I have acquired the rights to this slave as one of my turnaround flips. He is in the midst of 3 weeks training for no limits usage at my compound in Duisburg.
Visits, inspections and purchase offers begin on June 1.
If the slave is not acquired privately he will be auctioned on June 11 at the usual venue (ask if you don’t know) in Hamburg.
If anybdy has questions or a slave they wish to deacquisition than contact me.

TheWalkingDad – June 2, 2019
You’re not my type.

Master-NoLimit – May 29, 2019
Hello, thank you for reading carefully the following. I am Master Nolimit. I warn all fantasizers, especially you with your halloween makeup, thank you to take into account that if you tell me “I love it all”, I will make you see that the meaning of the words have a huge importance. That said, I am very respectful of the laws in force in France, so you will either save your death wish if you have one for another Master or you will need to do some traveling.



 

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e$$ere, 18
Nice blond -> Daddys . I am spoiled all in a nice car or in a luxury home !!

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e$$ere (Owner) – June 15, 2019
Now everything I have in my hand are cash !! It excites me !!!

Nipple99 – June 15, 2019
He has a daddy now. He’s mine. Completely. Avert eyes. Hands off.

 

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dumbmedown, 19
Just want a bf as dark and creepy as I am sweet and innocent who is a teen like me who wants to break me mentally until I’m just dumb and dependent. If you’re into it and wanna make it happen that’s cool but I’m gonna warn you tho I’m not the most stable person.

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metalX – June 9, 2019
I’m not teen, i’m 46 n i want to fuckin dumb u down bad and i CAN. I can do it fast, i can do it hard. Teens always want me, want me n they ‘ll keep wantin me, cuz i have my own style, my own personality n i really care about any word they say. Many people said 2 me that i can’t be as perfect as i seem. But i am, cuz i WANT 2 be perfect. The others care more about what they ‘ll get, than what they ‘ll give. So i’m not pedo. The teens r the ones who r tryin 2 make me their bf. I don’t try anythin cuz they’re not hot like u. N they r always happy. Cuz they know that there is someone who understands em n helps em. N it’s 2 difficult 2 find such a person. So i know who’s the pedo. U r the pedo, who is at the same age as ur bf n destroyed n will keep destroyin their lives with ur disgustin character.

mel_hrd – May 31, 2019
dumbing him down like taking someone already brain dead off life support

keenan435 – May 18, 2019
Already dumb gay mess who only likes Star Wars and vodka



 

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pozboy06, 19
Let’s go to Slave ,, I am Slut, Cum is all around, Welcome to my world, Please torture my ass please please.

Just don’t waste my time .., you better be dirty enough so I don’g get bored

Eating disorder ,.,, dancer .,,, poz detect!!! ,… model

Comments

Waldeinsamkeit – June 20, 2019
You’re such a fuckin’ cutie, and I’m so vanilla, ugh it isn’t fair.

pozboy06 (owner) – June 9, 2019
Yes I do

teamdrizzy – June 9, 2019
He doesn’t mean torture in the way you think.

BiBoy502 – June 9, 2019
Dont torture his ass … my God are you crazy?!!!!!!

pozboy06 (owner) – June 6, 2019
Thomas , I am not Flori .., but my ass can be avialible for you 11:00 to 14:00 Sunday June 2

rockstar – June 6, 2019
Oh wow … I used to fuck him back when he charged for it.

Flori, respond if you read this. I’ve got so many toxic loads saved up for you, your ass is going to back up like a sewer.

Thomas (the one with the black Porsche 😘)


 

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HappyBlondBoy, 18
Was straight a month ago but I partied really hard about a month ago woke up to some older guy I didn’t know fucking me. Lol told him he just turned me gay and don’t stop. I ended up finding a couple chat rooms and have met a few weirdos’ I have been fucked by 4 of my friends now. I haven’t worn a condom once and don’t plan to. I like tying a fishnet around an onion and beating myself senselessly with it, as another boy watches. I always eat the onion afterwords. The only thing that scares me is being tied up and helpless (but maybe that’s because I’m only 13 haha.) For all I know, they’re going to murder me or some shit.

 

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trueskinnylegend, 21
Make me a pooper scooper for your yard
Thanks for reading and get in touch

 

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Eatmeplease, 25
Pig for the dinner table. Cook me and eat me. 73kg. 7” cock medium balls. Size 10 feet. Eat them, Remove them for display, Stuff them as taxidermy. Sell them to a far away land.

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Anonymous – June 14, 2019
togerther………………………………………………………………

 

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rasta_baby420, 19
stoner fucks only stoners (ages 45 – 70) connect!! i love you xoxo

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losingame – June 3, 2019
one had the impression that were one not required to be stoned oneself one could go fairly nutso with this baked, complacent beauty.

 

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FullOfJuices, 20
Some things about me I play most games on xbox live I watch any movies except comedy
I listen to good music no jazz or heavy metal or stuff like that
I am very highly sexed
I like to make desserts
I live with family cause I take care of my grandma with my mom and I have a Part time job at night while mom is home my main goal is get my life together get a car and help get the house fixed up and looking good
I like to sing but can”t unless I have the music in my ears so I can”t hear myself
What makes me unique I care about every person until u respect me too much then ur done with talking to me
It bears repeating that I am very highly sexed
I never imagined that I would post in this “KIND OF STUFF” but sometimes UNFORTUNATE things happen.
I love u more than anything in the world
We will be fine

Comments

FullOfJuices (Owner) – June 10, 2019
U are given to hyperbole, sir

DeathBreeder – June 10, 2019
he wants a lot of “getting to know him” and friendship grooming but once overpowered very horny, so horny you get everything you want, the whole night he does everything and by everything i really mean everything.

FullOfJuices (Owner) – June 7, 2019
I get that a lot

Matino0 – June 7, 2019
Hey I’m only commenting because I really want to put my hand in you.

treeman5 – June 4, 2019
I am looking for a hot sex, and I am horny been horny all my life I don’t like women

FullOfJuices (Owner) – May 27, 2019
Nah

RapeFaggots – May 27, 2019
In a relationship but hes not into my kink, so after a year I get to play outside and, lucky you, I really really fucking like you.

Things I will do to you: Fuck your mouth and ass, I do not “start slow” or “ease it in” I fuck how I want from the first thrust. I’ll throat fuck you as you wretch and spit up bile all over my cock. I will slap you very hard, punch you, give you two black eyes and choke you until you turn dark red. Spit on you, step on you, kick you, stomp your head until it cracks. I cum where I want when I want. I’ll cum in your blacked fag eyes so they burn. Over and over. Always consensual, always a safe word although your mouth will be gagged shut or so wrecked to shit and broken that I’ll probably never hear it.


 

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Treatmelikeshit, 18
Only time we don’t speak is during “Sex and the City”
I gets Carrie fever, but soon as the show is over
I’m right back to being your soldier
The few guys I’ve been with say I’m good
My penis has been described as “impressively small”
I am below the knee amputee, one leg
No one is cut like me, the fabric is different

Comments

Treatmelikeshit (Owner) – June 23, 2019
Fuck you. Shut yo… I do not give a fuck.

alexnew – June 22, 2019
I like the color of the new hair color


 

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DEXTER, 22
Nothing excites me like being whipped and flogged until I’m shredded and bloodied; looking for a serious player who knows how to get the job done. Due to my insatiability I will only accept a weekend experience at the very minimum; no sleeping but a few shorts naps are acceptable



 

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D00MED, 23
₦Ø₮ ₥Ʉ₵Ⱨ ₮Ø ₭₦Ø₩

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Anonymous – June 19, 2019
@drugsfordinner no allen was murdered by his “drug dealer” in november. bashed his head in with a sledgehammer. they had to use dental records to identify him. if you knew him you can guess the real story i’m sure.

Extrovert05 – June 16, 2019
if you look at the stats he hasn’t logged in here in 8 months.

drugsfordinner – June 16, 2019
Christ Allen you’re still alive??!!!



 

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Leviathan, 20
Please follow the socially accepted rules of engagement (face, dick, no harassment, money offer, more than three words)

Me: perfectionist, Jew

Shalom

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ihavehugecock – June 13, 2019
Kind of lethargic. Maybe ill or something. That ass tho. A+

GODSTEFF – June 5, 2019
I’m a fuckin SSuperSSexy, dropdead gorgeouSS, horny, 18 yo SSatanic NAZI bull SStud addicted to hard raw fuckin SSex with jews: the more fuckin depraved and fuckin twiSSted it gets, the fuckin better! No fuckin bloody morals here! Morals are for that fuckin shit xrist of nazareth and its fuckin filthy whore mother torah!



 

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Twinsbrothers, 19
In Berlin for 1 month. Show us that the crazy stuff that we have heard is true.
👬

 

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Patient-4-Doctor, 20
Name says it all

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DoctorGoodglove – June 20, 2019
Doctor will see you now

Surgeon – June 18, 2019
I will be capped, masked, gloved and gowned and entering the operating theatre with my latex clad hands raised in front of me, anticipating the stainless steel to be passed to my skilled fingers when I command it.

DrCherno83 – June 16, 2019
You need chemo stat

Medicalextreme – June 14, 2019
* Exams/dental/surgical/catheters/stethoscope/ECG/blood pressure monitoring
* Anesthesia/KO (meds,gas,chocking,rebreather,forced nitrous )
* Forced sedation and nipples and boner pierced
* Extreme clinic scene IV/IO line, NG/ breathing tubes

DoctorProstate – June 5, 2019
I’ll tie you down to the hospital bed where will take my sweet time in anally extracting ALL of your milk – If I don’t feel I’ve extracted every drop of semen then the electro plugs will be used and I’ll pound the last drops of cum out of you through hard anal electro.

doctorbear – June 5, 2019
Can not wait to get my professionally trained gloved hands on the outside & on the inside of you.

DoctorJordy – June 3, 2019
When I play doctor, I play to win.

 

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SnuffLad, 21
Served men since a young age and I’m now looking for my” final” sadistic Alpha.

The more twisted and sadistic the snuff the better.

Prefer to travel for it, the further the better, think it’s best for everyone that I am unknown and undetectable when it happens just to be realistic.

100000000000000000% anorexic (I don’t eat).

Serious beyond belief and looking for a murderer.

Turned on by all aspects of kink sex, violence, suffering, horror and I’m completely open to extended, insane use of my body before the snuff – nothing bothers me.

I consider myself more as a useless object with accidentally attractive aspects to be used, destroyed, murdered and discarded, rather than anything else

Further pictures available on request, as are references from others who can vouch.

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Anonymous – June 7, 2019
I can vouch that this lad has been obsessed with getting snuffed since he was quite young and I am among the many who have had sane snuff play sessions with him. What he doesn’t mention is -and I think anyone considering this commitment should know- the compulsion to die for real is because his wife just had triplets and then died during child birth.


 

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SlaveForLifetime00, 21
I am a completely broken straight slave fresh from 8 months in prison where I was trained to suffer. I was trained in prison by the white gang members who bought me. But I’m currently homeless and willing to let you do anything to me in exchange for a place to stay. I’m looking for a very cruel and violent sadist who wants a slave to be kept completely naked and barefoot in a dark freezing cold basement in heavy chains and isolation. I am also available for no limits overnight sessions from men who are from the local area. Like I am currently available for the whole day today.

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TheBoundCollective – May 22, 2019
We are TheBoundCollective – an international art collaboration of rugged guys who love to publicly display their passion for boys, bondage and objectification.

We’re not talking about a quick fuck in the park. We’re talking about the dehumanization of the human being! We’ll transform you into nothing but a faceless object. That’s why we love tape. It covers up your individuality until nothing remains. With each layer, you feel your humanity disappear: stiffened joints, useless hands, blind eyes… You’ll be objectified into perfect insignificance.

It’s about art. We focus on situations of everyday life that we attack with the complete dismantling of human self-determination.

TheBoundCollective made their debut at Folsom Europe 2016 with the installation “Tape Mummies @ Victoria Luise” inside a Berlin subway station.




 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** David Ehrenstein, Ah, very interesting, yes, thank you. ** Keatonkini, That happened to me two days ago. I was in my local Monop, which is kind of the classier French equivalent of a 7-11, as I think you know, and I saw this guy, and I was like, That guy looks insanely like what Mike Love from the Beach Boys must look like now that he’s 70 years old or something. Uncanny. Then I walk out the door and up the street, and, sure enough, on the marquee of the legendary Olympia venue, which is two blocks from where I live, who’s playing that night? Yep, The Beach Boys. Or rather Mike Love and a bunch of musician toadies milking the brand name. ‘Works but it’s boring’ … hm, that’s not such a lure. I think I’ll save it for a plane. Whitehead directed the vid for my all-time favorite Stones song, ‘We Love You’. That’s their ‘Citizen Kane’ if you ask me, and it’s also the all-time greatest use of mellotron, if you ask me. I’m with the Stones up through ‘Exile’ and then barely for a couple of subsequent albums and then not at all, which I guess most people who are discerning are. I think ‘Some Girls’ is insanely overrated. Anyway, … Today is supposed to be most horrifying and peak heatwave day, and since I was already sweating in my apartment at 7:15 am, I think that’s right. Supposed to fade down a bit tomorrow. God, Jesus. Hm, if I were to record a ‘rock’ record … Well, you know I was in a rock band in high school. Lead singer/rhythm guitar. George Miles was the keyboardist in the band. And that band sounded like a cross between Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, early Alice Cooper, and the first couple of Love albums. And even though we were terrible, I still think what we were trying to do in our pathetic way was pretty fucking hot, so maybe I’d go back to that sound and try to do it right? Characterise your record in progress please. ** Steve Erickson, Hi. No, no air-conditioning in my apartment. I honestly don’t think a single person I know in Paris has air-conditioning. I’d take the high 80s right now in a heartbeat. I think an embed of ‘Charlie Is My Darling’ was available in full in the post if you want to see it? ** Misanthrope, Hi. Oh, okay, thanks about the crash pad offer. I think I’m going to go to London, but I think in September most likely. What’s up with LPS? You’ve been quiet about him, so I assume things are on an even keel? Own stuff sounds good. To me too. I’d probably be digging away at my own stuff if it wasn’t too boiling here to think. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hey, Ben. Cool, I hope that works out with the Finlay project if it continues to interest you. Oh, wow, his dad is Ian Hamilton Finlay? That’s wild. I like his work, and his poetry is excellent too. I haven’t heard people talk about his work that much recently. I should do a post. Like Lene Lovitch! Fantastic, yeah, when a long term gap in contact with a friend disappears in a second, that is the total best. Wonderful! ** Okay. End of the month always means a bevy of slaves, and there you go. See you on Monday when I hope I will writing to you from a comfortable and liveable place.

Peter Whitehead Day

 

‘Peter Whitehead, who has died aged 82, could justifiably claim to be one of Britain’s most distinctive and provocative film-makers. His film about the Rolling Stones, Charlie Is My Darling (1966), was a pioneering portrait of the group amid the whirlwind of fan mania, its on-the-road intimacy a precursor of Donn Pennebaker’s Bob Dylan film Don’t Look Back and a blueprint for countless future music documentaries.

‘In Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London (1967), Whitehead created what for many critics was the definitive document of swinging London in its period as a white-hot crucible of music, fashion and film. The many short music films Whitehead made in the 1960s foreshadowed the era of the video promo clip that blossomed in the MTV era of the 80s.

‘But by the time he made The Fall (1969), arguably his masterpiece, the intellectually restless Whitehead had moved beyond being merely an onlooker recording events with his camera and was pursuing his own inner journey through a period of violent social and political change.

‘His most intensely creative period began in 1965, when he filmed the International Poetry Incarnation – a gathering of beat poets, including Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti – at the Royal Albert Hall in London, to make the 33-minute documentary Wholly Communion.

‘Word of this reached the Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham, who invited Whitehead to film the Stones’ trip to Belfast and Dublin in September that year. The resulting Charlie Is My Darling had its first public screening at the 1966 Mannheim film festival, where it was considered for the gold medal (which was won instead by Wholly Communion). However, a clash with Oldham about the film’s portrayal of the Stones meant that it never went on general release.

‘Whitehead did further work with the Stones, including the promo film for the single Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? (1966) and the audacious clip for We Love You (1967). The latter was shot the day before Mick Jagger and Keith Richards appealed against their drug convictions, and starred the two Stones and Marianne Faithfull in a remake of Oscar Wilde’s indecency trial. “My ambitions are very high – none higher – to be a genius in and with the cinema,” Whitehead wrote in a letter to Oldham.

‘Though he was a classical music enthusiast with little interest in pop, Whitehead understood its potency. He shot films with the Small Faces, the Beach Boys, Eric Burdon, Jimi Hendrix, Nico, the Beach Boys and Pink Floyd, and in 1970 he made a memorable concert film of Led Zeppelin at the Albert Hall.

‘While Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London made Whitehead the toast of the 60s in-crowd, the film also included critical remarks about the vapidity of the London milieu from Jagger, Michael Caine and David Hockney. Whitehead himself, a vehement opponent of US imperialism and the Vietnam war, had a theory that the invention of “swinging London” was “a CIA manoeuvre designed to make British counterculture appear inconsequential and impotent”, as he wrote in 2002.

‘Thus he was enthusiastic about Peter Brook’s invitation to film his experimental Royal Shakespeare Company play US, designed to challenge British apathy about the escalating Vietnam conflict. When the resulting film, Benefit of the Doubt, was screened alongside Tonite … at the New York film festival in September 1967, Whitehead was invited to make a film about the New York “scene”.

‘He was eager to oblige, but the project, eventually released as The Fall (1969), ballooned into a panorama of politics, violent protest and an anguished examination of the role of the documentary film-maker, as Whitehead became a participant in the 1968 student occupation of New York’s Columbia University. His filming schedule was bookended by the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy. He wrote that when he got back to London, “I had a nervous breakdown. Didn’t speak for three months.”

‘The traumas of making The Fall prompted Whitehead to move away from film-making. Though he made Daddy (1973), a sexual psychodrama about the sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle, and Fire in the Water (1977), a vehicle for his then partner Nathalie Delon, his attention now centred on breeding falcons. A student of ancient Egyptian mythology, he was obsessed with the story of Isis and Osiris giving birth to Horus the falcon.’ — The Guardian

 

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Further

Peter Whitehead Official Site
Peter Whitehead @ IMDb
Whitehead, Peter (1937- 2019)
Notes from Underground
‘The Films of Peter Whitehead’, by Robert Chilcott
Peter Whitehead – Réalisateur de ‘Pop Concerto’
Peter Whitehead et Niki de Saint Phalle : Daddy
DVD: Peter Whitehead and the Sixties
Peter Whitehead @ datacide
The Word and the Image: The Films of Peter Whitehead
Peter Whitehead, il filmmaker della lotta e del rock
Peter Whitehead @ The Sticking Place
From pop concerto to falconry – a beginner’s guide to Peter Whitehead’s world
PETER WHITEHEAD: REVOLUTION, REVELATION – PINK FLOYD LONDON 1966-1967
Peter Whitehead Was There
‘I’ve never been interested in the real world’

 

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Extras



In the Beginning was the Image: Conversations with Peter Whitehead


The Move in a rare early interview by Peter Whitehead


Peter Whitehead Piece


Peter Whitehead in conversation with Nicole Brenez at The BFI

 

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Interview
from Electric Sheep

 

CLF: What can you tell us about the film you’re now working on, Terrorism Considered as one of the Fine Arts?

PW: My new film can be considered The Fall‘s sequel since it enacts the end of representation. The protagonist is Michael Schlieman, a MI6 spy working in the terrorism section of the British intelligence. He disappeared and will publish his ‘confessions’ on the internet, revealing the truth about secret operations carried out by various governments. There is a parallel between the sinking of the French Greenpeace boat, the Rainbow Warrior, and the terrorist state murder of a Greenpeace photographer. Schlieman is now part of an eco-terrorist group… the central element of the film is the killing of an ideal victim. I want to investigate the CIA’s influence on English culture, which is based on misinformation. This new film is influenced by Thomas De Quincey’s novels, Confessions of an Opium Eater and Murder Considered as a Fine Art, and I’d say that it is about fear and control, or better still, about the fear that the state spreads in order to control. After having destroyed the Third World now we are also destroying this planet; Gaia is now, rightly so, revolting.

CLF: Can cinema participate in social struggles, or does it merely register/ document?

PW: Yes, partly it can but it’s just a little part. I think that avant-garde art always has to be directly and belligerently dangerous, destructive, but not towards itself, rather, towards the collective inertia. The true aim of art should be to cultivate acts of war… it’s not enough to paint words on walls, these walls need to be torn down.

CLF: Can you tell us more about the magazine you co-founded, Afterimage?

PW: I founded that magazine with Field and Sainsbury in 1970, we were mainly influenced by Cahiers and its political commitment and wanted to bring across the channel some avant-garde cinema such as Godard’s British Sounds (Peter Whitehead was the first one to translate Godard’s films into English) which remains little seen to these days. We were the first to publish the Manifesto of Third Cinema by Solanas and Getino in Europe besides reviewing Guney, Fassbinder and Herzog among others.

CLF: While watching the early Rolling Stones performances in Charlie is My Darling I felt that back then they were using a language that many found dangerous and hyper-kinetic. What attracted you most to that band?

PW: You got the point, the media back then was focusing on the style of the band while for me it was a matter of form or language, as you said. They were adopting the musical culture of the Afro-Americans, an oppressed minority, therefore that music was carrying a strong political message in itself. Jagger himself said, ‘music is one of the things that can change society, don’t let white kids listen to black music if you want them to remain how they are’.

CLF: I’ve just watched your first film The Perception of Life, and in spite of being poles apart from the rest of your production I thought that it somehow represented your cinema quite well. What do you think of that film?

PW: I have to admit that back then I didn’t like the film but, later on I got interested by the fact that it was all shot through a microscope, in other words I was not using the camera, I was using a microscope, and many sequences are shot through the oldest machines used by scientists. We were looking for what these scientists were seeing through those lenses. Perception shows how theories are determined by what is visible. You’re right, in a sense all my films are linked to the idea of using the camera as a microscope. I think that in all my films I enter a situation and I try to analyse it from the inside.

 

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9 of Peter Whitehead’s 16 films

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Wholly Communion (1966)
‘Now celebrated as the quintessential document of the event that marked the arrival of the counterculture in England, Wholly Communion was actually captured under highly restricted conditions – and was almost never completed. The First International Poetry Incarnation, an evening of American and British Beat poetry, took place on 11th June 1965; the film’s birth was as spontaneous as the event itself. Peter Whitehead had attended an intimate reading by Allen Ginsberg, at which was suggested the apparently foolhardy idea of booking the Albert Hall for Ginsberg and his contemporaries to gather and perform their poems. Yet after a few days’ organisation, 7,000 people of various hitherto unconnected subcultures arrived, with many turned away as tickets sold out.

Wholly Communion is perhaps the most distinctive British example of a documentary movement that attempted to capture reality while interrogating it: ‘direct cinema’. Whitehead’s camera draws attention to itself and the filmmaker’s presence by filming Gregory Corso’s reading from between two other poets talking during the performance. This technique emphasises the filmmaker’s subjectivity while also identifying the camera (and therefore the viewer) with the perspective of the audience present at the event.

‘Whitehead shows as much interest in the audience as he does in the poets. Exotic spectators such as the girl who dances with a flower to the cadence of Ginsberg’s oratory appear just as significant as the central performances. The sense of disintegration between audience and performance is most palpable when Whitehead’s camera searches the auditorium to train in on a poet in the audience who, in a state of intoxication, interrupts Harry Fainlight’s reading by crying out the words “Love! Love!”‘ — bfi


the entire film

 

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The Rolling Stones: Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? (1966)
‘Peter Whitehead’s promotional film for the single was one of the first music videos.’ — Wikipedia

 

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Charlie is my Darling (1966)
‘Whitehead catches the band while its feet are still touching the ground and while its members are still facing both the homey pleasures and the mounting terrors of a relatively un-insulated life, while their joy in making music and in having a limber jaunt together is still fresh and their success is still a lightly gilded serendipity. Whitehead, filming in black and white with agile, handheld cameras, gets some crucial things right. He wants to hear the Stones speak, and he keeps them aware of the camera, eliciting the unique mixture of the unguarded and the self-dramatizing that is the hallmark of cinema verité. The film captures some fine moments of performance, some revealing moments of offhanded intimacy, and others of purposeful reflection—and, over-all, it presents an astonishingly clear sense of the grandeur and decadence of Stones-ism.’ — The New Yorker


the entire film

 

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Jeanetta Cochrane (1967)
‘More consciously experimental than Whitehead’s other works, this film draws on a variety of sources, including sequences of London shot while Whitehead was at the Slade School of Art, glimpses of the singer and model Nico, and footage of the psychedelic underground nightclub UFO. There is also on-screen text, a voice critiquing it, and music from Pink Floyd, at this point still fronted by Syd Barrett–Whitehead’s old painting friend from Cambridge. The track here, “Interstellar Overdrive”, was recorded by Whitehead before the band signed to EMI and is much more exciting and beat-driven than the version they would later record for the label. There is no explicit link between the content of the film and the Cochrane Theatre, which is is named after, but the theatre was used as a venue for the Spontaneous Festival of Underground Films in 1966.’ — letterboxd


Excerpt

 

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The Rolling Stones: We Love You (1967)
‘The promotional film for the single was directed by Peter Whitehead. It included footage from recording sessions along with segments that re-enacted the 1895 trial of Oscar Wilde, with Jagger, Richards and Marianne Faithfull respectively portraying Wilde, Marquess of Queensberry, and Lord Alfred Douglas. Footage also appears of Brian Jones, apparently high on drugs with his eyes drooping and unfocused. The producer of Top of the Pops refused to show the film on that programme. A BBC spokesman stated the producer did not think it was suitable for the type of audience who watches Top of the Pops. He went on to say there was not a ban on it by the BBC, it was simply this producer’s decision.’ — Wikipedia

 

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Tonite Let’s All Make Love in London (1967)
‘Peter Whitehead’s disjointed Swinging London documentary, subtitled “A Pop Concerto,” comprises a number of different “movements,” each depicting a different theme underscored by music: A early version of Pink Floyd’s “Interstellar Overdrive” plays behind some arty nightclub scenes, while Chris Farlowe’s rendition of the Rolling Stones’ “Out of Time” accompanies a young woman’s description of London nightlife and the vacuousness of her own existence. In another segment, the Marquess of Kensington (Robert Wace) croons the nostalgic “Changing of the Guard” to shots of Buckingham Palace’s changing of the guard, and recording act Vashti are seen at work in the studio. Sandwiched between are clips of Mick Jagger (discussing revolution), Andrew Loog Oldham (discussing his future) – and Julie Christie, Michael Caine, Lee Marvin, and novelist Edna O’Brien (each discussing sex). The best part is footage of the riot that interrupted the Stones’ 1966 Royal Albert Hall concert.’ — collaged


Trailer


Excerpt


Excerpt (Eric Burdon & The Animals ‘When I was young’)


Excerpt

 

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The Benefit of the Doubt (1967)
‘Based on a play by Peter Brook, entitled U.S., is a critical look at the devastation and inhumanity of war. Whitehead adds to the original footage gathered from television news about the Vietnam conflict, a conflict that bled in all its fullness and divided the world into peace and imperialists.’ — film affinity


Excerpt

 

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Pink Floyd London ’66-’67 (1967)
‘Shot by movie maestro Peter Whitehead, this film features rare full length performances from the classic late 60’s Pink Floyd line-up at Sound Techniques London & material from the legendary ‘14 hour Technicolor Dream’ extravaganza in April ’67 at Alexandra Palace.’ — letterboxd


the entire film

 

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The Fall (1969)
‘Between October 1967 and June 1968 he filmed in and around New York. Whitehead concentrated on some of the central figures of the civil-rights movement and counter-culture like Stokely Carmichael, Robert Lowell, Paul Auster, Arthur Miller and Robert Rauschenberg. He even managed to get behind the barricades of the radical students from Columbia University while police units insist on trying to break up the occupation of the campus. John Patterson (Vienna Festival Catalogue): ‘Whitehead was his own one-man film unit and was fond of asynchronous images and sounds, allowing new meanings and feelings to arise from the creative use of incongruity. The exemplar of his approach was the dizzyingly impressionistic essay-movie The Fall. Like many a 60s Englishman in America – Hockney, Boorman, Schlesinger, Peter Watkins – he came to the U.S. equipped with freshly-peeled eyeballs and saw a turbulent, vibrant, violent nation in ways Americans themselves often did not. The Fall is unlike any other record of the period – a time a lot like now, full of anti-war and civil-rights demonstrations and profound national self-examination – perhaps because its very obscurity has kept it fresh.’ — EH/iffr


the entire film

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** Shane Christmass, Hi. Oh, let me check the apartment. Sometimes Yury gets the mail and my stuff gets sidelined in some out of the way spot. But, in any case, a pdf would be great, thanks! Yeah, I think the Kanopy deal is only for North America, but I’m not 100% sure. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi. Oh, you are too kind. I’ve heard of Alec Findlay, but I don’t think I know his work directly. That does sound like a very interesting, beautiful project. Have you discovered more about it? Is it something you could do? ** David Ehrenstein, I sort like waxworks just out the mild pleasure of nitpicking the differences, I guess. Paris has a pretty top waxworks, the Grévin, although if you don’t know French pop culture history, it’s like being in a building full of wax strangers. I think I saw ‘The Green Room’, but so long ago that I don’t remember it. Huh. I would have thought the Silent Theater would be occupied again by now. Wasn’t there talk of some offshoot of Cinefamily reopening it at some point? Weird/sad, as that place has always been a treasure in all of its guises. ** KK, Hey. Very happy that Blake was so helpful. His advice is great advice, and you can trust that if you gave it to you, he meant it. He can be tough on things he thinks are mediocre or shit. Fantastic! The New Yorker, whoa! Why not? Wouldn’t that be amazing? In the meantime, excellent news that you’ll be in SCAB! I love SCAB. It’s one of the top lit biggie enterprises for me. Big congrats to you and to its great editor, Dora! ** Bill, The plug was my fervent wish and sad but heartfelt attempt to astral project myself there. I used to know this weird guy who swore he astral projected himself into my bedroom all time. But that’s another story. I’m glad you like the Meijer book. She’s great, and I actually spent an afternoon with her when she was passing through Paris a few months ago, and she’s an awesome human too. Ha ha, right now I would trade all my ‘Sluts’ reading fans for the same number of the mechanical type, which shows hot it is here. Two more days and then, supposedly, liveability returns. ** Misanthrope, Happy the post hit your home. I think they were ultra-ultra-sincere. You shall! Count on it! ** Corey Heiferman, Hi, Corey. I forgot to mention last time that I watched your film/video and liked it a lot. I thought it was very effective and full of interesting decisions. Good one, man! Things are good with me other than, whinge alert, the fucking heat. Okay, now, that is a very cool, lucky break/opportunity re: the hook up with the documentary making couple. Curious to hear what fruit it bears. ** Right. The filmmaker Peter Whitehead died just a week or two ago, and that got me to exploring his work, and, as is usually the case in situations like that, I made a post about him and his work along the way. You’ve likely seen some of his stuff — his Rolling Stones films, perhaps — along the way. But here’s an overview of his oeuvre. See what you think. See you tomorrow.

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