The blog of author Dennis Cooper

Meet darthgaydar, aphextwink, an_eyesore, 4cops, and DC’s other international male slaves for the month of December 2016

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Dawn_of_man, 20
Looking for some one that has dildos. I want to get my ass stretched to the max. I would love to take a huge dildo. I’m into dildos. I love getting my ass stretched with large dildos. I love having my hole gaped open and left gurgling. Im looking to get to have deep anal penetration with large dildos. The more dildos the better. Sex is not a must. I will bristle if you say I’m loose.

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darthgaydar, 24
Hey I am 6ft 3 inches tall and smooth all over
I possess a micropenis with tiny balls too
I like to go out have fun and go out for dinner
I am straight but if you are gay that is fine

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bornsomeones, 18
Merry Christmas Masters!

Im a goody two shoes teen whos fantasy is to roleplay as a juvenile delinquent that receives reformatory whippings on the bare butt with a strap, paddle or cane.

Example scenes:
~ up to 36 strokes of the tawse on the bare breech like was given to delinquent teen boys in Scotland.
~ up to 12 strokes of the reformatory cane like in English schools or the Royal Navy.
~ Canadian prison strap for breaking rules in juvenile detention.
~ Hard wooden paddle for American style school or domestic discipline.

Not looking for any form of sex.
Also warning that my cock might not get hard.. been having problems

Stats:
Age 18
Height 5’4″
Weight 8st 9lbs
Smooth body
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aphextwink, 19
I am feminine something from the heart of Russia.
I have ever feel deep inside me since I was very young I was a dog.
Time flies and feel now it is time to find my dogtrainer.
I want to eat in dog bowl only dog food once a day.
I want to live in a dog kennel.
I want to go as far as possible and at the end have only a dog mind and delete my human one.
I wanna be dog micro chipped too.

Comments

aphextwink – Dec 11, 2016
@pantsuit, I do not want your mother to die but I am so tired of men like you.

pantsuit – Dec 4, 2016
i will kill my own mother to slide just my tongue in side you mouth you so beautiful!!!!!!

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twink4fatdaddy, 20
Restrain me, spank me, fuck me, choke me out in that order.

Now with all that out of the way, I want to say hi.

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bedheadboy, 21
I like to get raped and MAKE LOVE ALSO.
I have the biggest cock in Thailand probably because I’m not Thai.
I won’t fuck you and you can’t suck my cock.
But I can talk all night long about the importance of Euripides to contemporary theater or debate to what extent Pina Bausch revolutionized dance.
PLEASE RAPE ME UNCONTROLLABLY, I LOVE YOU SO MUCH.

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Ownershipislife – Nov. 29, 2016
I misread your name as “beheadboy” and was about to write to you but never mind ):

bedheadboy – Nov. 27, 2016
god, I so agree, YES!

MwB – Nov. 27, 2016
Do you agree that perpetuating the Pina Bausch Company after her death has led to insufficiently rigorous performances that are not only a disservice to her work but ultimately harm her legacy?

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Readilyavailable1998, 21
bout Me:
My name is Olly I live in Blackpool. My interests are learning anything cool to do with psychology.

My Sex Life:
I need someone who will make sure im the best version of me because that makes me happy.

What am i looking for?
The only thing i need is someone who will reel me in when im getting stupid and who is fine with how gaurded i am. If you can put up with my temper tantrums and bad ideas im all urs.

Want To Message Me?
What you must remember is im a brat and therefore I am going to tell a million jokes twist all ur words and wind you up.

Likes:
I like doms who want to know lots about me.

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Siggi – Dec 17, 2016
The slave boy with golden hair…:-)
He was with me today …
A slave is not a subject – behind the slave stands a human being. And I had the honor to fuck and abuse an extraordinary body but an obnoxious boy.
It is hard for me to let this body go but as a human being the boy is impossible!

Love wishes
Siggi

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Repressed, 18
I have been fighting many repressed urges most of my life one of the many repressed urges is to be a bottom skinhead masochist no limits slave with a real sadist insane Nazi who would cause me the most extreme pain possible and any other horrifying things to please him.
Ideally I am looking for someone to maybe help me with many other repressed urges as well.
I would need to talk for at least ten minutes before he starts hurting me as I am very nervous.

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PunkypigSpeakingguy, 20
Im genuinely what I do.

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MarilynManson1995, 22
Make me your loaned out dope whore.
I’m partying, slammed, looking to be slammed up to the point where I’m so brained I don’t care what is in me as long as it’s gaping my hole.

I’m getting a ton of messages….nice. But do not fucking offer me money! Dumb fags I’m staying at an expensive ass hotel I don’t need your bloody money.
Also what’s with all these so called tops refusing to send me face pics. Ditch the fucking paranoia.
Lastly, I’m pretty much hooking up everyday of the week if your a good top might be with you…if not on to the next.
And yes, my photo is real!

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an_eyesore, 19
I can be anywhere around USA

-6.1ft. (wishin for 6)
-120Lbs(wishin for 150)
-smokes(aLot)
-drinks(aLot..shitLoads)
-snores&drooLs
-fake ID
-whisky fLask
-mp3
-good …drinker
-i stare &i point
-10-12 gLasses of H20 per day
-eldest child(I DEMAND ATTENTION!!)grrrrrr
-Doesnt give a shitty rat’s ass aLL the Time
-rather be dead than be n a coma
-rather shoot peopLe n d head than watch them cheat
-brother of three well technically fivr
-enemy of all “anti christ” they all 7(espanyol)!!
-24/7 hard…headed =D
-good at spying
-great at scheming
-master at revenge
-brain activity aLLocation:
-50%pLotting
-30%perversions
-10%reserve power for bLackouts
-5%sociaL improvement
-4.99%physicaL improvement
-.01ademic improvement
-swears&curses Like heLL
-not gettin Laid LateLy

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your_legal_dream, 21
Don’t really know what to say other than the fact that I’m not the best looking or have a gym fit body, but what I lack in normal hotness I make up for if you’re a certain kind of master because I’m a freak of nature for my age. I’m 4’8″ and skinny and can pass and have many times passed for a pre-teen boy. This has both advantages if men are pedos and disadvantages if they’re normal gays. Emotionally I go weak at my little knees with the sight of a tall man, 6′ or taller, bear or biker especially when he’s got a nice big cigar or businessman. I’m new to anal but I’ve had enough to know I like it. In essence I want any guys out there who fit my physical criteria and dream of rimming and fucking little boys without going to prison to take me for a ride.

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OUTRAGEOUS_, 18
I’m a rubber doggo! O_O
Welcome to the page of a crazy kinky rubber pup!
I love everything and pretty much have no limit although a few nono’s will be scat, gore and needles! This pupper no likey!
Ruff! Ruff!! Ruff!!! >=3

Comments

i-love-dreams – Dec 13, 2016
i wanna play fetch with you in the fast lane of a freeway, hit me up.

123123TESTING – Dec 11, 2016
Dogs shouldn’t try to type.

OKpunchyou – Dec 11, 2016
Ick

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alwaysparched, 18
Hmm How to pique the interest of a nasty guy other than just putting up a picture of my ass and saying if you’re my age you can fist that

How about I’m in three bands if that makes me cool I’m the drummer for a Hardcore/Dbeat punk band called Dandruff the drummer for the street punk band Bleach And I play all instruments (Bass, Guitar, Drums, Vocals) for my solo project called Quo Vadis (i know go me right)

I look like I’m 21 but I can ensure you I am 18

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WhatareThose,19
I’m good. How are you? Are you in a hurry?
Gay unattached living in the best city in the world London!
I did sport since I was 2 years old so I have strong arms and legs.
Don’t ask me how long my penis is, I dont know that.
New to slavery. Heard good things.

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Anonymous – Dec 10, 2016
Old wine in new tubes

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JakeNeel, 18
Hey. Jake Neel here. Can join all of you as I’m 18 years old now. Living in San Francisco last six months. Graduating high school end of May and relocating with dad to Japan. Once in Japan I can ditch dad.

I am a very fun person. Love cock honestly, all kinds from 5″ to BBC 12inches. Don’t have a great body but I’m great and my face is very cute. Ps I swallow and with most men so far because of my cute face that’s usually enough to make up for the body thing.

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MeGoinBad, 21
I want someone in P.A.R.I.S who will be interested in me in a sick way even when he’s not erect, who is always horrid and and Rich. I am a slave with luxury tastes, you give me what I want and I would give you what you want.

I am less beautiful in real I warn you. So if you find me very attractive in picture you would probably not like real.

I am all about meaningfull meaningless sex. I am 21 and quite sexperienced with crazy perverts. Want to see lots of precum?

I am looking for a long term enslavery BUT I still require a gift (of my choice) from the first day. I can seem very superficial and materialistic, a little pig who sacrifice anything to be rich but that is not the case, I’m just a little shy.

No joy rides.

B.E.Y.O.N.C.E

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boy, 19
looking for a father/son relationship. someone decisive who believes in strict discipline for boys my age. always been straight but after watching some hypnosis videos I have not been able to stop thinking about worshipping a father. my only ask is that you must legally adopt me. parents, sister and brother all dead (in a fire). living with my alzheimers grandfather who wont know i’m gone.

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sc88 – Dec 19, 2016
he do what u like ,/ but will not love u / If he say hes love u than hes lieing.

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Cycloneboy, 21
So u should totally hit me up if ur in PARIS 2 december – 7 december and need a good fuck hole.

I’m 175 cm tall, I weigh 55 kg and I got slim legs & an ass like a suspicious unattended bag and my calling card.. a donkey dick thats 19.5 cm (8″) and very wide.

U can fuck me any way u want it and u cum where u want to cum, but warning: I need to talk a little bit before if u shove it in.

Yeah I also kiss. And my donkey dick can entertain you from the sideline as a lollipop or joy stick or…

I’m interesting, I promise! I have many interests.

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sluthater – Dec 11, 2016
boy who cried wolf

Cycloneboy – Dec 7, 2016
Hope my date tonight isn’t reading this. I have pneumonia, temperature 103°. I look bad like complete shit not hot.

Cycloneboy – Dec 6, 2016
Need to see a doctor. Master CClair hooked me up with a gay doc, chill, into the scene. Seeing him at 5.

Cycloneboy – Dec 5, 2016
Running a fever but met with Master CClair. Glad I did. Brutal, wrenched me wide open. Heavy partying. He kissed me so intensely it chipped my front tooth. Felt lost, not sure what I was doing. “Danny (that’s my name) maybe it’s time to stop…”

Cycloneboy – Dec 4, 2016
Same night with my favorite “crapule” so far. Got me bombed, bound me up, very violent, kicked me around. Bruised up now, guys, it’s part of the package now. Fisted me deeper than thought possible almost not stopping for 3 hours. Feel a little sick after, cancelled my 3am date.

Cycloneboy – Dec 4, 2016
Afternoon almost too much with bbc-guy and two his friends with body blows with fists, face slaps, fisted and double sodomized. They came to the end of my gluttony. “You can go there close your eyes …”

Cycloneboy – Dec 3, 2016
Very good night with hooded Master virile-in-hood. Very insane fucker, giant stiff dick, hot boiling cum, punctual. I highly recommend him. Hungry bottoms will not be disappointed.

Cycloneboy – Dec 2, 2016
I’m going to use this as a diary.. FUN?

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CompleteDeadbeat, 18
Total complete scum deadbeat teenager looking for a total ruthless amoral master to disappear me with psychotic sex. Shove so much viagra down my throat and meth up my nose I don’t know horny from horrendous. Beat me, whip me, cage me, give me brain damage, stab me, cut my arms and legs off, ect.. I need this! Never let me jack some shitty little puddle on my tummy again. Make me drip profusely!


 

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JUSTBEYOU, 18
Good evening,

I’m looking for a Master.

I’m only eighteen. I do not particularly care to speak of superfluous personal details which do not interest many people.

As a small animal without a leash, I wish to belong to someone, so that little by little, I am totally acquired by him for a totally unequal relationship where I am submissive but not vulgarly in the SM fantasy sense.

I accept to totally abandon myself to a man with only the condition that it is done well.

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ceasar48 – Dec 4, 2016
EAT MY COCK EAT MY ASS EAT NOW

Underfoot92 – Dec 1, 2016
Love thinking wearing my boots all day then taking the time to crush you with them.

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4FairyGodmother, 18
take me that who i am

im 18 turning 19 on dec 11th

ill happily sign away all my rights to you but only for 12 years until 2028 bcuz theres somethin important i need to do in 2028

my limit are children girls pets
do not try to negotiate, its dead

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Pig, 20
Not able to live as pig just now. Soon. Born a pig. Took wrong path, married. Not for much longer.



 

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UnbalancedCouple, 21
Hi! 🙂

I’m Carl (middle photo, 22) and I’m seeking a sadistic torturer for my pretty, slow upstairs boy Jack (top and middle photos, 21).

He’s a total pain pig and enjoys to suffer for me, but I’m looking for someone who doesn’t care about him like I do and will trash and torture the living fuck out of him while I watch!

We are looking for:

– A severe sadist.. You must have no empathy and enjoy inflicting a lot of pain.
– An alpha.. I’m in charge! If I say my boy needs to suffer even more than what you’re doing then that’s what you make happen!
– An ultra-discreet.. You must keep your mouth shut about what happened afterwards even if we go too far and there’s a accident or tragedy.

I am super flexible on details and Jack lives in a haze so we’re ready when you are.

Carl <3

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trashme?, 21
I need to be humiliated & degraded and for me there is nothing worse than having my nice designer trackies and jackets trashed with all sorts of shit; gunge, mud, oil, paint…anything really, as long as it fucks my clothes up good and proper and leaves me asking myself why I would do such a thing…

I love my clothes, I’m the sort of person that can’t stand to leave a bit of dirt on my trainers so to see nice designer clothes messed up for me is completely wrong and quite traumatic, but at the same time completely right and insanely horny.


 

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AutisticBoy4Mature, 19
BIG GOVERNMENT NOT NEEDED as much when INTELLIGENCE passed along (The HELP U NEED) in a LOYALTY Chemistry manner for sure. DECEPTIVE Unacceptable ONLINE Banking, Shopping and Social Network Spy Tools Business has to use VAGUE Trigger Words in order 2 justify corruption drugs and PORNO void of Loyalties Trust and Love on more Local Economic basis. This is why leaked documents show that such folks are NEVER what they seem on a witness stand or public podium.

Dont feed into INVISIBLE Social Network Spy tools. Make yourself “FREE AT LAST” by shopping and socializing LOCALLY instead of a minority ZION attempting to do to the world what it failed at in SOVIET Version of a Corrupt Banking Kingdom.

Lady acquaintance got more DEAD IN THE EYES over time (she was unofficial MOM after Original MOM passed away). LODGE DUDE Acquaintance told her NAZI DOCTOR MENGELE 2 reduce SUICIDAL side effects or would report his ASS 2 MEDICAL BOARD that many don’t know exists.

HAD THIS BEEN an ACTUAL EMERGENCY yer Naughty Bum would be led 2 FEMA CONCENTRATION CAMPS near railroad Tracks as the HELP U NEED 4 Easy LOADING and UNLOADING of the ISSUES. Death Camps will be in 3 Groups: A Place 4 MOMMY, A Place 4 DADDY and a Place to lose track of yer kids to NATO Arrangements VOID of Loyalties.

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4cops, 20
Arrest me.

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CALLmy, 20
Hi, I’m a young boy in paint and leather.
What I offer here?
1. Private photos of myself in various paint and leather outfits. They are partial solo recordings or together with my Master. Quality of the photos is good and there are 150 pieces partly in the hotel room and partially in the SM studio. Price for 150 photos = 30 euros.
2. Short film (13 minutes) of me in the tight leather panties. I present myself in the hot panties of black leather. My Master uses the opportunity to fiddle me in the leather everywhere and plays around the hole.
3. Have mixed with different Masters 2 different private pornos with proper action and in feature film length. All the trimmings including fucked, blow, rimming, scat, toyplay, bondage, whipping, blood, fist and much more. These 2 movies are available on DVDs or for direct download very easy. The quality is equivalent to HD quality.
5. Of course, I make myself available Live for no cost, however, only with my Master there. But he does not have to take part in session and sex Himself. Gladly the meeting can be filmed at cost by him for you as a reminder. Of course with your mobile phone or Camera and only for you personally.
At live meetings I can either wear normal clothes or a short leather pants.
I do almost everything except kissing and blood. Kissing even lightly on the lips makes me wretch and vomit if I’ve eaten. Was cut in one of the movies for blood draining but was not my thing. Never again!

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Skorpian, 20
Hey Men please my mouth and ass to you too pale one.
Im unque cant without ANYBODY ANALLY WITH WITH ME.

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RileyJackson – Dec 21, 2016
cuter even than his photo but has a neurological condition that makes his speech slurred and hands shake like leaves. the fuck was strange and afterwards he got very tense.

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Useless_lowlife, 19
Just your average 19y/o medical student who sometimes pretends to be a spider.

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4White, 20
Asians are born inferior. I believe white men are superior and has the right to use and abuse any Asians as an object.

It is my greatest honor to be used, beaten and harshly fucked by any white and receive your precious cum that’s filled with superior white DNA in me.

I will never be white but by receiving as much cum from white men I hope I have right to exist.

I am willing to bleed and suffer any pain just to help you to shoot one good load.

 

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iowapagan, 18
Throughout grade school this slave was a chronic masterbater. The slave could not control it’s urges or thoughts. To clear it’s mind the slave would jerk off, dump it’s thoughts into a rag or toilet. The slave was aroused at the most deviant and obscene images and videos, and soon found its own imagination more despicable than what it could find on the internet.

These perversions prevented the slave from forming any real relationships with anyone. Something lead the slave to craigslist were it found a Man willing to mentor a 15 year old slave in a law abiding way.

It was this Man that placed the slave in chastity. It was this Man who loaned the slave to Masters of all walks of life. It discovered that it has a high pain threshold and realized that it’s purpose was to submit itself entirely.

Now the slave is legal as of a week ago and knows it can do better than the Man that trained it for three and a half years. The slave is still a virgin, but that is meant to change now. To any sadist, pervert, deviant, twisted individual.. take this slave’s virginity in the most devastating and brutal way You can possibly imagine. Do not hesitate, the wait has been long enough.

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Anonymous – Dec 3, 2016
Jake, I really like you!

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pony247, 21
I’m the best pony from this site.
I´m looking for permanent master. I can relocate
* You can have dinner sitting in my face
* I will dress you all the days and put your pijama
* I can be without food 3 days
* You never will be happy with me

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transformboy, 18
I’m into transformation, so that means into something I’m not at the moment.
Looking for real encounters.

For example:
– from slim shy boy to a scary muscle jock (roids…)
– transformation into a animal (remove feet and hands, ears stretched, hairs implant…)
– transformation into a princess (genital surgery, add breasts, botox, skeleton reconstruct…)
– …
– interested in becoming bird (feathers implant, cage, throat operation…)

Transformation stories turn me on. Someone want to try that in real? Hit me up!

Also open for sex encounters but not main focus.

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PINK_Prick – Dec 20, 2016
Awe that’s sad

transformboy – Dec 20, 2016
Just a tube running on one side of my face. I have some organ problems.

PINK_Prick – Dec 20, 2016
What’s that?

transformboy – Dec 20, 2016
Yeah well it’s hiding something that’d be questioned.

PINK_Prick – Dec 20, 2016
Would be hot if you didn’t have the dog face

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p.s. Hey. ** Michael karo, Well, hi there, Michael! What a rare pleasure. HNY! Yeah, I would definitely be interested to find out what killed that golden-seeming idea. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. Well, the sound in the ‘SCUM’ film is just a reading of the manifesto, I believe, so maybe you could have an English hardcopy handy and use it as lap-based subtitles? Nice Welsh in Chicago story. He still lives there? Wow, he really stuck it out. Lovely guy. ** David Ehrenstein, Yes they are. So happy you’re also on board. ** Sypha, Hi, James. Lists are made for shuffling. I guess they wouldn’t be so addictive to make if they got stuck. Yes, Skullflower, they’re great. And still at it and going strong, I believe. Well, yes, I hope you will get Cheap Trick within your grasp. ** Tosh Berman, Hi, Tosh. Yes, there are strong parallels between Cheap Trick and Sparks for sure, and Rick Nielsen, CT’s mastermind, has often mentioned Sparks as a kindred spirit. Both are highly intelligent subversives working in the popular music language. CT is much darker, and there’s always a core playful nihilism modulating in their work, sometimes thoroughly and sometimes tenably behind the scenes. One difference is that Cheap Trick is a rock band. That’s their field of interest, and their persona and stage act are a kind of mocking yet celebratory presentation of ‘the rock band’. Cheap Trick’s heroes and biggest role models are The Move, and that’s a good light to see what they’re doing in. I think Robin Zander is the greatest rock singer of all time. One problem that has beset both Sparks and CT is that, at the times they started, it was in an atmosphere where rock/pop were considered art and taken more seriously, so the brilliance and nuances and very sophisticted comedy of both bands’ early works was grasped and characterized and celebrated by critics and brainer rock fans, but that period is long gone, and both are now doing very artful work in a context where such work has been forced into the margins. Cheap Trick did consistently great work up until around 1983. The album just after ‘The Dream Police’, a rather experimental album they recorded with Beatles producer George Martin called ‘All Shook Up’, is very, very interesting. Then the subsequent two albums ‘One on One’ and ‘Next Position Please’ are very strong. Then they entered a ten year period where things got messy. They made a lot of compromises in order to stay on a major label. They made a couple of albums with mostly excellent songs but trendy, now-dated production that was imposed on them by the labels. Then they made two albums that are largely just them recording material written by outsider songwriters with a Cheap Trick veneer. That lead to them having a massive hit in the form of the rudimentary non-band written power ballad ‘The Flame’, but those two albums are pretty weak. They started returning to form in the mid-90s, and their two most recent albums ‘The Latest’ and this year’s ‘Bang, Zoom, Crazy… Hello’ are very, very good. Anyway, if you want to expand your Cheap Trick collection, and I hope you will, I would say get ‘All Shook Up’ and ‘One on One’, for sure, and then ‘Next Position Please’ if you’re still interested at that point. Thanks, Tosh. I love talking about Cheap Trick — and Sparks too, naturally – and I rarely get the chance. ** Steevee, Hi. Oh, no, criticism is fine, obviously. As I said to Tosh, the way to proceed with Cheap Trick after the first four albums is ‘All Shook Up’, ‘One on One’, and ‘Next Position Please’. If you end up falling in love, their two most recent albums are very good. My guess is that the 80s comp. you bought concentrates on their later decade compromised work, which, yes, is only of interest really to diehards like me who like looking for them even in weak places. There is a very, very good 2-disc compilation which I highly recommend called ‘Sex, America, Cheap Trick’. It’s a career overview up to 1996 and includes the best stuff from their lesser period, mostly restored to what the band had wanted, i.e. without the imposed trendy gloss and so on. Of course that insurance company crap you’re going through is insane and I suppose one of the many things that makes American heathcare seem like a form of punishment from over here. I hope everything works out okay. ** Dóra Grőber, Hi! I’m glad you enjoyed the Cheap Trick gig. Yes, it’s tricky with our film’s main character. We still want to try to audition handicapped guys — luckily, we prefer people who aren’t actors, so that opens it up — and we’ve left the main character’s disablement flexible. But, emotionally, it’s a complicated part to perform, so … we’ll see. No news yet about Milo. I think we’ll re-approach his dad and him next week and see if the former has calmed down and will let us meet with the boy (and with his dad, I imagine). That hanging out you did sounds really nice. I just worked. I had thoughts to go out and see/do some random stuff, but it’s very cold here right now, and I chickened out, ha ha. Are you celebrating the big year change-over tonight? I don’t think I will. It’s too cold, or that’s my excuse, at least. HYN!!!! ** Misanthrope, Yay. I totally cop to swiping that book’s title very reverently from the Trick. Yeah, I don’t know. I get that celebrity deaths give social media people a reason to cyber-hug and schmooze and all of that, and why not, it’s harmless. But there’s something about how it plays out that makes me feel like grief is the new opiate of the online social set. I makes me suspicious. Could just be my problem. Why did you read that 75-page thing aloud? Or were you being metaphoric? You dream in self-pity? That’s interesting. When I do rarely remember smidgens of my dreams, I seem to be always in a state of complete terror in my dreams. Yeah, better there than here, for sure. Have a great New Year’s dawning. ** Jonathan Bryant, Hi, Jonathan! How really nice to see you, man! Yes! Me too! I.e., Cheap Trick and Sparks are in my Top Five favorite bands as well. We’re like long lost fellow members of the excellent taste brigade. And you have everything from their peak, impeccable period up through ‘Next Position Please’! If you were in Paris, I would insist on a champagne and macaron celebration. Well, there’s another opportunity for you feel complicated right up above. Me too, just to continue the theme of continuity. What is a turducken? I feel like I should know that. I’ll do a google thing when I finish this. You finished a co-written novel with your guy? Very nice. Co-written novels are a rare phenomenon. The few I can think of off the top of my head are all wonderful. That’s very exciting! Of course I’m very happy that your relationship goes so well. They call them exes for a reason. I wish you an absolutely fantastic 2017 too! Let’s make it happen, deal? Again, lovely to see you, pal! ** Right. Please say goodbye to 2016 in the company of slaves. See you in 2017 and, more particularly, on Monday.

22 Comments

  1. Dóra Grőber

    Hi!

    First and foremost, as always, thank you for the boys!
    I really like movies which feature amateur actors or people who aren’t actors at all, I mean who didn’t even have aspirations like that. I certainly hope you find the perfect person for the role – either way! Please do tell me how it goes when it’s time!
    And I also keep my fingers crossed for the Milo-and-father situation!!
    Uh, I understand why you didn’t feel like going out! It’s quite cold here, too.
    One of my friends holds a party tonight but I really don’t like celebrating New Year’s Eve. I mean I don’t like this “you MUST get stupid drunk and have super fun” attitude. So I’m not so sure I’ll go just yet. Or maybe I’ll go if my writer friend comes along and we’ll simply leave if we feel shitty. Anyhow: Happy New Year to you!!
    I hope you have a lovely weekend! See you on Monday!

  2. MyNeighbourJohnTurturro

    Dennis, pal! How do? That was a great Cheap Trick gig yesterday. A big gap in my musical knowledge, I am listening to their self-titled album as I type this. They’re a great band, far greater than I had initially thought. Surprising, inventive, yet oddly familiar. I think they will provide the soundtrack for our New Year celebrations. Doesn’t Robin Zander have a voice of gold? My BF said they’re like the missing link between psychedelic rock and glam.
    How did your Xmas pan out? Ours was fairly non-existent. My contact in The CCA got back in touch re LCTG. I have an email address for you, shall I email it to you? If you already got it sorted feel free to ignore me.
    Anyway, speak soon!

  3. David Ehrenstein

    “I look like I’m 21 but I can ensure you I am 18”

    Shouldn’t that be the other way around?

    That “Useless” dude reminds me of THIS!

  4. David Ehrenstein

    I don’t know how many people in here use Facebook, but there’s been some major trouble over there of late what with Kevin Sessums being banned for 24 hours for calling Trump-supporters fascists. Everyone protested and the band was removed. There’s a story on nit in the Washington Post. Now we’ve just learned that the lovely and talented Davis rake has been banned from Facebook for the same thing!

  5. James Nulick

    Dennis,

    Am I too late for the Cheap Trick celebration? Meant to respond yesterday but I am still in heavy editing mode and do not have time for much of anything else, sometimes I even forget to breathe, lol. But after I am finished editing these two texts, I really, really need to start work on my psychotropic card game novel because it eats away at the back of my mind every day, it is demanding that I sit at the laptop and get things done!

    Well anyway, CT. When I was in 6th grade, a new boy came to class the second week in, and of course anytime someone new arrives into an already-established homeroom classroom once it has begun, once social orders and hierarchies have been established, it really upsets the apple cart, causes hallucinations, and double talk, and the kids get excited, like piranha circling a severed finger in a fish tank. So the new boy is named Arthur and he has a sister who is a year older than us. Me and Art immediately hit it off – he is 11, I am 11. We both love metal (my older sister was a Black Sabbath fan), but we also love Pop. I soon become a piece of furniture at his house, hanging out after school, listening to albums (vinyl!), and most importantly, receiving a rock and roll education from his older brother Gilbert, who was a drummer, had a huge Tama drum set, lived in the garage (so cool! I thought at the time), was about eight years older than us, and owned a ton of vinyl R&R albums. Well Art’s sister Rachel often came into the garage to hang out with us, and I soon found myself becoming Robin Zander. I didn’t realize it at the time but she had a huge crush on me, and She insisted that I sing ‘I want you… to WANT Me!’ – Budokan version – with my Goody comb microphone as I lip-synced to the album on Gilbert’s turntable. It was the only acting I have ever done, and she often insisted on me singing that particular track (it took me a few years to understand why, ha), and of course being a little weird 11 yr old homo at the time, I was up there prancing around like Ethel Merman, loving my audience, and perfectly syncing to ‘I want you to want Me,’ as Art and Gilbert laughed at how idiotic I was. This went on for quite a while, then I turned 12 and forgot how to walk, and lost all confidence, and that is my Cheap Trick story…

    Thank you for the boys, Dennis. The puppy dog is intriguing… is that a weird plastic butthole that he has? I can’t figure it out, looks like a weird piece of fruit, the kind I stare at at the store, but never bother to pick up.

    Much love,
    James

  6. Tosh Berman

    Yes, I will go on next with the George Martin production of Cheap Trick! I will follow your recommendations to the very C.T. It’s interesting that The Move was quite a big thing for both Sparks and Cheap Trick – and if I’m not mistaken, I think Russell Mael is on a Cheap Trick album (?) Your observation that they are very much in the ‘rock’ mode or landscape is correct. Also, they tour like crazy in the good and bad times. I did see some of maybe all of their presentation of them doing Sgt. Pepper on YouTube. Which sounds like “oh god know,” but on the other hand, their love for the material, and again Robin’s lead vocals are of course, superb. He sings like an actor. He’s very good in getting into a character’s head when singing. And I gather Cheap Trick songs are sort of character driven, no? Sort of short little narratives of sorts or traces of a narrative. Their ballad “Voices” is chill-skin beautiful. Ok back to the boys today in today’s blog. Happy new year Dennis!

  7. steevee

    My favorite Cheap Trick album is their debut, although I think what they were able to achieve with higher production values on HEAVEN TONIGHT & DREAM POLICE is really impressive as well. Still, I value its raw energy. I’ve heard that when they first emerged, some people mistook them for a punk band; unlike Tom Petty, I can understand this.

  8. Kyler

    Hey Dennis, happiest of New Year’s to you. I was in Paris once during New Year’s. We went to the newer opera house that night, but didn’t like it as much as the real L’Opera. I heard Montserrat Caballé in Turendot there (at L’Opera), 4th row center – what an experience that was. Ever go there?

    My friend is publishing chapters from my nonficiton book as articles. You saw the first in the series a few weeks ago, and today’s there’s another, “Actor Turned Psychic; Setting Out on the Path of Magic” – You saw this a few years ago when it was on my site – but now it’s official. Hope you enjoy again.

    http://peopleofshambhala.com/actor-turned-psychic/

    (I predict a wonderful new chez toi for you in the New Year!)

    • Kyler

      Oh Dennis, BTW, lest you think I’m a big opera queen, I’m not – friends had tickets – Puccini is not normally my thing. I do love Wagner, though, and have seen them all at the Met here.

  9. Sypha

    your_legal_dream is cute but I’m not sure about that nose ring. That’s quite an outfit CALLmy is sporting there. I wonder how one goes about washing leather S&M outfits like that when they get dirty… I don’t imagine that you can simply just dash ’em through a washing machine. You know me, I love to focus on the trivial details.

  10. steevee

    Watch the Ken Loach film I just reviewed for some insight into the US health care system, although he depicted a bureaucracy that’s supposedly benign and acting on behalf of its users. American health insurance doesn’t even hide its greed – obesity isn’t a medical condition? Please!

  11. _Black_Acrylic

    @ DC and all DLs, here’s wishing the Happiest of New Years to everyone! I’m spending the evening at home with my parents in Leeds, so it’s very much a low key thing going on around here. Meanwhile up in Dundee at the Stud Farm, that big house where they have the Halloween fancy dress party, they’re having a Fuck Off 2016 Party and I just asked them to tell 2016 to fuck off from me. But may 2017 be everything you want it to be and more besides.

  12. _Black_Acrylic

    Via social media, an exclusive picture from tonight’s Fuck Off 2016 Party in Dundee.

  13. Bill

    Happy 2017, everyone!

    It’s hard to resist a profile that mentions Pina Bausch. The boy in 3 bands, and the one who looks like a Francis Bacon painting, are umm stiff competition though.

    Went to a little local electronics/noise gig, and scored some fetish Coil vinyl. Usual low-key evening on the 31st. Hope you and Zac had great champagne and macarons!

    Bill

  14. h

    Commented this yesterday, but I was too late, so Mr Cooper missed it. HAPPY 2017 to everyone!

  15. Misanthrope

    Dennis, It’s a cottage industry now, the grief. It’s like the outrage, which has become so shrill. Luckily, I have that little scroll button on my mouse and…zip!

    Well, you see it in things like, “I never saw any of her movies and I don’t know much about her career, but SO SAD and such a big LOSS to the world!” Everybody’s gotta get in on it, you know?

    It’s the same with the outrage. “I don’t really understand what’s going on here, but THE HORROR!”

    (Of course, my quotes up there are amalgamations for effect, but I think you know what I mean.)

    A lot of it reminds me of comedian Anthony Jeselnik’s bit in his stand-up show, “Thoughts and Prayers.” He talks about how every time there’s some big, horrible event, you see all these posts and tweets like, “My thoughts and prayers are with…” His argument is that 1. those thoughts and prayers do nothing; and 2. what most of the people who post those things (about which they don’t really know or care) are saying is, “Hey, look at me! Don’t forget about me! I matter too!”

    Oh, re: the proofreading, that’s not metaphoric but literal. The person who is the “author” of the document sends me the clean, fixed copy, which I read aloud word by word, punctuation mark by punctuation mark while they follow along on the marked-up copy to make sure all the addenda and corrections are there.

    Sometimes they’re 90-page documents that take hours to read, and sometimes they’re 1-page documents that take a couple minutes. Kind of crazy, no? But I do find it’s a much more exact way to proofread.

    Yes, I find that I dream about the past a lot or about people from the past a lot and I find myself trying to right wrongs or wrong rights, and in the end, I end up being a spectacle that’s very much like the people that I described Anthony Jeselnik describing above. “Look at poor ol’ me…I’m trying, I’m really trying. Just look at me trying.”

    Oh, “The Dream Police” is your book? I had no idea. It’s pretty good. 😀

    Have a happy new year, Big D. If you remember, I said at the beginning of last year, that I had a feeling 2016 was going to be crazy. And it was. I don’t know, I have a feeling that 2017 is gonna be pretty awesome.

  16. Montse

    Hi, Dennis!

    How are you? Sorry for my absence. I’ve been meaning to write for a long time but December was pretty busy and I ended up not doing it until now. How was your New Year’s Eve? Ours was very quiet. We stayed in and had a nice dinner and today we woke up early and went to the beach with Mick, our dog. I’ve read that you and Zac are starting to work on your new movie. That’s awesome. Are you working on any other projects at the moment too? I guess so, you like being busy. How is Zac doing? Send my love to him. I missed you, Dennis, sorry for being so bad at keeping in touch. Happy new year to you, Zac and everyone in the blog! xxx

  17. Joakim

    Hey Dennis,

    ゚*。☆ヾ(´∀`)Д Ндррч Йёш Чёдя!(´∀`)ノ☆。*゚

    Thanks for the quality batch of slaves, as usual. Aphex Twink is THE perfect alias and I also love this: Time flies and feel now it is time to find my dogtrainer.

    So true. Go fetch pup!

    Early in the month should be fine, I’m giving Louka a few days to figure out if it’d be possible to stay at his parents flat, if not I think we’ll stay at a hotel in Gare de l’est, Michael gave me a few tips and the prices don’t look so bad. Godparent is way better btw, thanks for sorting that out.

    This was definitely my calmest NYE ever, I just made dinner with Asger and two friends and then we asked questions and played with tarot cards, which btw was a little bit creepy at times but mostly fun and interesting. My friend Ockie had the cards and they were from Kenzo and said “Psy-chic” on the front. Hah! She had bought them in Paris. How was your night?

    Btw I emailed you the tribute piece, let me know how you feel.

    <3,
    Joakim

  18. steevee

    I have quite mixed feelings about Martin Scorsese’s SILENCE, the first film I saw in 2017, but it does have a lot of strengths and is definitely worth seeing, better than most recent Scorsese. (I hated THE WOLF OF WALL STREET.) Weirdly, the theater was completely sold out yet full of people who fell asleep! This is totally gonna bomb in wide release and should never have gone out beyond the arthouse circuit.

    Have you ever made a mixtape/CD for actors you’ve worked with in theater or film? I’ve been listening to the angriest music I could find since the election, which has boiled down to ’70s punk, ’70s roots reggae and recent hip-hop. As well as Stevie Nicks and Kate Bush for other moods, I have to admit. (I wish there was more angry, politicized contemporary rock – we need an indie equivalent to Run the Jewels!) I’ve realized that I could use a mix CD of songs from these favorites to tell the backstory of the character’s life beyond what’s in the script, running from being a teenage punk to a collegiate pothead to his current middle-aged disillusionment. I think it might be helpful to give this to the actor I eventually work with.

  19. PP Hartnett

    Dennis, hello.

    A bigBIGbig THANKS for your continued efforts with this blog, which functions on the level of an essential library.

    One recent unearthing has been the work of Thomas Moore, which is not to be found upon the shelves of Gay’s the Word or Waterstone’s in the UK, as yet. That speaks volumes about the degree of censorship that so many book buyers exercise.

    I look forward to the next film, wishing you and Zac all the best for 2017.

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