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Alifeofchance, 18
Las Vegas

I’m open to a lot of things, as long as you’re very attractive 🙂 Looks are important to me, I don’t care if you think I’m superficial.

I wouldn’t say I’m a 10/10, but if you’re reading this, please think twice about whether I could possibly be interested in you.

Guestbook of Alifeofchance

Alifeofchance (Owner) – Jan 6, 2026
No raw membrane to membrane contact.

RinTinTin – Jan 3, 2026
Nail him if you can hahahaha doubt it

Body Type Slim
Ethnicity Latin
Body Hair Smooth
Smoker No
Languages English, Spanish
Position Versatile
Dick M – Uncut
Fisting Ask
PNP Ask
Kissing Consent
Hourly Rate On request
Overnight Rate On request

 

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prizedpossession, 18
Montreal

now most of what I want can be talked about from back and forth talking but most of it is I’m looking for the real deal now primarily I want to be kidnapped and locked away so no one and I mean no one can ever ever find me for the rest of my life, but the thing is you have to pay money to my parents who hate me and know about this and will be fine and keep it secret for 20k dollars so anyone who can and wants to kidnap me please message me and we can go into more detail I do prefer over 40yrs but if you’re kinky enough and especially if you have a huge cock or if you’re black then message me

also if you don’t live in the same state or country as me I still don’t mind if ya wanna kidnap me it might even be better for it

also if ya got a secret basement or sex dungeon in your house no one knows exists id love to be stored in there perhaps attached or stored or chained to something within it and accessed by a special key

Guestbook of PrizedPossession

Tickleyouinsane – Jan 7, 2026
I have 27 AI generated images of his spread asscheeks available if that would help you decide.

PrizedPossession (Owner) – Jan 7, 2026
i am not being a smart ass by any means – im VERY respectful – but if you don’t have or want to share photos of your cock don’t demand that i take photos of my spread asscheeks and send them to you

Body Type Slim
Ethnicity Asian
Body Hair Little
Smoker Socially
Languages French, English
Position More bottom
Dick M – Uncut
Fisting Passive
PNP Ask
Kissing Yes
Hourly Rate On request
Overnight Rate 1200€

 

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StraightForToiletFags, 21
Louisville

Hi,
Something made you curious, which is why you’re reading this.
As my headline says, I am straight…
Which maybe made you ask yourself “why the fuck is a straight boy on here!?”
Well,
I’ve been looking for women to shit on or in for quite some time…
It still didn’t happen… but I remain optimistic
And recently, the thought came to me that I should just try it on someone and see how it feels like…
And the more I thought about it, the more it felt like using a person as a toilet, could be mentally stimulating…
So less than a week ago (as I’m writing this, it is January 6) – I went on GrindR and created a profile.
I had quite a few people texting me daily, and did it so far three times…
The very first one had proposed money, which is not something I particularly considered, but opened the door to the possibility to get paid for it…
Now that I am exploring what I wanted to explore, I would do it again for a fee…
I’m especially looking for the kind of person that looks at me and imagines my shit and goes crazy and drooling…
As this is where your pleasure meets my convenience, and where everyone is happy.
Hit me up, I’m the most normal person ever outside of these unusual acts and always up for a chat.

Guestbook of StraightForToiletFags

venerator – Jan 9, 2026
I have always known that your life purpose is to be a prostitute.

Superdave777 – Jan 7, 2026
By what terrible twist of fate did the most beautiful anus on the face of the earth end up situated in this young man’s ass!

Tyke – Jan 3, 2026
It’s better to have eaten his shit and paid him than to have never had sex with him at all.

Body Type Slim
Ethnicity White
Body Hair Shaved
Smoker Yes
Languages English
Position No answer
Dick L – Cut
Fisting No
PNP Yes
Kissing No
Hourly Rate 150$
Overnight Rate On request

 

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pedrotheunique, 21
Madrid

Expert anal artist, no cock too big, put me to the test

Guestbook of pedrotheunique

pedrotheunique (Owner) – Jan 8, 2026
I started as a straight boy, thought I’m gonna stay like this forever, but one man in my past decided otherwise.

YourAssmyDick – Jan 8, 2026
I like you act like str8 dude because being gay doesn’t turn me on.

Johnnywhite – Jan 5, 2026
Ate it, shoved it in, filled it three times, god that’s the life.

Body Type Average
Ethnicity Latin
Body Hair Some
Smoker Yes
Languages English, Spanish
Position Bottom only
Dick L – Uncut
Fisting Ask
PNP Yes
Kissing Consent
Hourly Rate 100€
Overnight Rate On request

 

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InaweofMoney, 19
Pittsburgh

My sugar daddy has placed a tent in his backyard.
It is my sleeping arrangement if I didn’t please him.
I am to sleep there if I gain even one pound.
I am to sleep there if I didn’t go to work on bicycle.
I am to sleep there if he has straight friends on visit.
There is a sleeping bag that he can take away as a means to enforce the punishment.
When in the tent I have nothing on but a shirt no matter how cold it is.
I am naked in the tent and available if he meets men who want to pay a modest amount to give me a nighttime visit.
The shirt must be removed and may be used as a gag, makeshift handcuffs or a pillow.

Guestbook of InaweofMoney

Demetrius – Jan 13, 2026
Neglects to add that if it wasn’t for his sugar daddy (me) he’d still be in police custody.

twinksonly – Jan 12, 2026
I could say a lot about things because there are a lot of things that I would like to say, but mostly I just enjoyed making him make silly little noises because I’m slowly being grounded dust by the sands of time.

malecarcranking – Jan 10, 2026
He’s pretty much a loser and has a lot of insecurities that he covers up with a synthetic personality, and his sexual abilities are abysmal and the execution therein is very poor.

Bearwaldon – Jan 8, 2026
I was looking for something in between molestation and a “boyfriend” but definitely not some egotistical demented projection that hovered around me like a helicopter trying to nitpick every aspect of my life for no good purpose whatsoever.

BroNxtDoor – Jan 7, 2026
He has a developmental disability called being deranged so he often forgets what he was going to do.

leche – Jan 4, 2026
Says a lot of things and offers everything but in bed he comes off like a passionless dead piece of wood.

Body Type Slim
Ethnicity White
Body Hair Shaved
Smoker Yes
Languages English
Position Versatile
Dick M – Cut
Fisting Passive/Active
PNP Yes
Kissing Yes
Hourly Rate 200$
Overnight Rate 1000$

 

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Twinkshark, 23
Bournemouth

Former OF Top 30 content generator (@twinkshark) is getting older, girlier, puffier, alcohol making things blurrier, not the brightest tool in the shed not that I ever was but all in all I’m content with who I am. Dont take pity on me, nothing can change that.

Guestbook of Twinkshark

Twinkshark (Owner) – Jan 10, 2026
Overwhelmed by grief and depression. I’m sorry if I don’t respond.

Ballworshipper67 – Jan 7, 2026
I’ve watched alot of hardcore porn starring you and I want to have the most intense crazy sex with you that anyone has ever had or ever possibly could. I would like to invent some kind of way of being able to spin you around really fast while sucking you so the pleasure is super intense. I’m open to any ideas you have too.

MarlboroMonster – Jan 7, 2026
Even though your one time pucker is now a gash, it can never be loose enough for me!

BlondeBeef – Jan 1, 2026
Snot is my main fetish.
On many occasions there’s been cute lads sneezing in my face or on my clothes, I’ve even had cute boys’ snot wiped on my face, sometimes eaten it.
Sometimes I just want to eat a pretty guy’s snot. It’s a disgusting but extremely erotic fetish.
I’ve seen boys who press their nostrils against some man’s else’s jackets and blow really hard out their nose so their snot goes into the material.
That’s something I want to happen with you.

Twinkshark (Owner) – Dec 28, 2025
Recently, I’ve felt the loneliest I’ve ever been. When I look up at the ceiling, I wonder if I’ll ever find someone.

Body Type Slim
Ethnicity White
Body Hair Shaved
Smoker Yes
Languages English, Lithuanian
Position Bottom only
Dick XL – Uncut
Fisting Passive
PNP Yes
Kissing Yes
Hourly Rate 60€
Overnight Rate 65€

 

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ethelcainbiggestfan, 20
Potsdam

i’m liam pls hmu i’m bored

Guestbook of ethelcainbiggestfan

SluttyPanther – Jan 11, 2026
I am inside your sperm, within you. A small, wriggling, viable seed from you.And I so desperately wish to be born from your sperm, from within you, and to be allowed to live.

ethelcainbiggestfan (Owner) – Jan 9, 2026
In real life I would love to meet in person the following men and sit and have a cup of tea, I would be nervous, but I find them fascinating for lots of reasons
Thom Yorke, Dominic Monaghan, Tom Hardy, Michael Sheen, Kelly Jones.

ElectroniK – Jan 6, 2026
There was something about this boy’s charisma and laissez faire attitude that brought me into a mental space filled with joy/ecstasy. However, I still can’t define what attributes of his got me and kept me in that mentality.

Body Type Slim
Ethnicity White
Body Hair Smooth
Smoker No
Languages English, German
Position Versatile
Dick L – Uncut
Fisting Ask
PNP Ask
Kissing Consent
Hourly Rate 150€
Overnight Rate 400€

 

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Jose, 18
Baldwin Park

I’m a loyal responsible obedient and submissive Latin boy who’s currently homeless and staying in some guy’s backyard and without a vehicle and he’s ready to release me to any guy of my choice based on mutual agreement because that’s what he does for business, he’s into buying and selling of Latin boys.

If it matters I’m especially into very old, overweight people, regardless of whether you’re a man, woman, non-binary.

Guestbook of Jose

Jose (Owner) – Jan 5, 2026
I forgot to mention you have to hide me from ICE like this guy has been doing.

goodgoodboy – Jan 4, 2026
Earlier in his career.

Body Type Athletic
Ethnicity Latin
Body Hair Little
Smoker Socially
Languages English, Spanish
Position Versatile
Dick L – Uncut
Fisting No
PNP Yes
Kissing Yes
Hourly Rate On request
Overnight Rate On request

 

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JayIneedmoney, 21
Houston

Homeless poz boy here mostly a bottom for obvious reasons.

Often whore myself out to men that don’t mind a bit of risk when they fuck.

I whore myself out to survive and get out of the cold.

Spenders only

Guestbook of JayIneedmoney

iamfriendly – Jan 10, 2026
Spread eagle or standing doggystyle.

JayIneedmoney (Owner) – Jan 6, 2026
Ok I have a partial left foot amputation (trans-metatarsal, all toes and forefoot removed).

Not looking for amputee fetishists, just don’t want any freak outs if the shoes come off.

And no, I’m not risking infection and further amputation to stick what’s left of my foot up your ass.

whoknowsreally – Jan 6, 2026
When you just wanna get it over with but have to act all mysterious and nonchalant first.

Ohbabybaby – Jan 2, 2026
Let him show you his favorite party trick where he deepthroats you and licks your balls at the same time.

Body Type Slim
Ethnicity Mixed
Body Hair Shaved
Smoker Yes
Languages English
Position Bottom only
Dick XL – Cut
Fisting Ask
PNP Yes
Kissing Yes
Hourly Rate 100$
Overnight Rate 500$

 

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Twink_Boy_Sluthigh, 19
Bonn

If you need xxl and hole I need T and I need MONEY.

Remember: I caused this.

To all those bloodthirsty men who have hired me before: I’m ready to bring it to a satisfactory conclusion this time.

Guestbook of Twink_Boy_Sluthigh

Straightguyzurich – Jan 3, 2026
A REAL HOT BITCH AND I MAKE HER DRINK ALL MY MILK IN THE MOUTH THEN INSIDE
THE ASS TO MAKE CHEESE WITH A MALE’S MILK THAT WE BOTH ATE!

josephrogers – Jan 3, 2026
HES THE REASON I SMILE

overruled – Jan 3, 2026
HE CAN FUCK YOU ALL NIGHT AND HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH HIS ERECTION. HE LIKES TO MAKE YOU SWALLOW HIS WHOLE COCK WITH YOUR THROAT TO THE BOTTOM UNTIL YOU VOMIT THAT MAKES HIM VERY HOT.

Body Type Slim
Ethnicity White
Body Hair Shaved
Smoker Yes
Languages German, English, Russian
Position Versatile
Dick XL – Uncut
Fisting Passive/Active
PNP Yes
Kissing Consent
Hourly Rate 250€
Overnight Rate 1500€

 

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TrialRun, 19
San Diego

Slut for hire
19
Wants gang bang
Owned so u have to pay
Will also make fake snuff vids

Guestbook of TrialRun

TrialRun (Owner) – Jan 9, 2026
If you want to hire me, you’re awesome. If you’re thinking, “This guy’s the worst,” do an awesome backflip.

Body Type Average
Ethnicity Mixed
Body Hair Little
Smoker Yes
Languages English
Position Bottom only
Dick S – Cut
Fisting Passive
PNP Yes
Kissing Yes
Hourly Rate 50$
Overnight Rate On request

 

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I-do-it-4-you, 19
Charlotte

Bisexual, for ladies or gentlemen, I take it or give it or both.

Only tonight! Not tomorrow! No! ONLY TONİGHT!

Guestbook of I-do-it-4-you

Beautifultime – Jan 8, 2026
His don’t-give-a-fuck streak makes it insanely hot.

readyforchange – Jan 7, 2026
I asked him if he woke up and found himself naked, tied to a tree and his asshole prolapsed and all greasy, would he tell anyone? He said no. I asked, “Want to go camping?” And we did.

I-do-it-4-you (Owner) – Jan 2, 2026
Folk singer. My career is very important to me. Ask for my instagram.

Leoreadyforyou – Jan 1, 2026
Be xxl or xxxl.

Body Type Slim
Ethnicity Mixed
Body Hair Some
Smoker Socially
Languages English
Position Versatile
Dick L – Cut
Fisting Ask
PNP Weed only
Kissing No
Hourly Rate 100$
Overnight Rate 500$

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** Dr. Kosten Koper, Hi. Not every Italian film is dubbed, but it is or at least was a very common practice, yeah. You have to sort of get into the artificiality of it, I guess. But yeah. It’s a thing. I did see Flesh Eaters, yeah. They were strong, obviously. And I used to read Chris D’s writings and criticism in, I think, the LA Weekly. Super talented, smart guy. I didn’t know about that book. I’ll go hunt it. Thanks, sir. ** _Black_Acrylic, Derek Raymond is cool. I should spotlight a book of his. Maybe that one. ** Steve, Oh, shit, about Anna’s Archive. I hadn’t checked recently. Damn, after zLibrary got killed, Anna’s was kind of the only site like that left. Grr. How cool to go to Locarno. It may not be the wildly adventurous festival it once was, but it’s still one of the less commercially driven. Nice about that psych comp, obviously. ** kenley, Hey. Yeah, I work really hard on my writing to try to make a whole little world, and I don’t like it being interfered with, and I don’t think it needs a soundtrack. A few times I’ve read while an artist projected stuff over and behind me, and it was kind of interested. I grew up seeing psychedelic bands where light shows were standard, and I always really liked the added trippiness. I personally think that tech girl sounds like a keeper, yes. ** Eric C., We’re scouring the midwest possibilities. Fingers crossed that one of them will be within your reach. And, yes, Paris, do keep me in mind. Good day to ya. ** Everyone’s Secret Valentine: Diesel Clementine !, Well, hey there. I’m okay, and I can’t speak for the gang, but they seem to be thriving as much as one can thrive and be a complicated person at the same time. Where’s that review? And, you know, hopes on the job. I think that back when I wrote my stuff by hand and later typewriter I did have a pickiness about the tools and materials. Now that I write on my laptop except when I scribble something on a piece of paper when I’m out and about, I don’t really think about it, which is sad, come to think of it. I’m good. You certainly sound fabulous. ** Lucas, Well, hopefully your thing is just a little pop up, quickly fading thing. Wow, extremely alluring collage. Everyone, Go look at a new, spooky and complex collage by Lucas. It’s located here. Terrific! I read digitally all the time essentially by default because the books I read come from non-French sources. I don’t mind. I don’t have enough shelves to hold the books I do have. ** Laura, Wow, amazing response and take on Bene. Awesome that he so sunk in. You’ve made me singlehandedly glad I made that post. Good luck to you indeed. Sometimes the frontier decides. I don’t think I’m confused today. A little work-beset, but that’s only confusing in, like, ‘when will this be over?’ Hugs back. ** Steeqhen, I am a serious investor in Bandcamp, which is where I hear maybe 90% of the music I hear, and no qualms from me. Fingers strangling crossed on those two prospects. ** jay, Italy produced some of the best cinema ever for a couple of decades. I wonder what happened. RIP Anna’s, yeah, ugh. You can surely imagine how much it helped my blog post making. ** HaRpEr //, You have a bead on it. Good, you’ll be fine, resident difficulties not withstanding. ‘Sarraute starting off with ‘Tropisms’’: yeah, that’s so interesting, isn’t it? I can’t think of another example like that. I love Kali Malone’s work. And she’s a friend through Stephen O’Malley, and she’s a great person. Radigue: so great. And still alive and making stuff! Wow. ** Jeff J, Hi. I can’t remember how I found Bene. Maybe a friend tipped me off. I’ll watch for your email. ** Tony, Hi. Haha, my sister and two of my old friends call me Denny, and now you’re the fourth. Anyway, nice to meet you. Did I read correctly that you’re in Utah? Where, if so? What’s that like? We should have a coffee. You ever get to Paris? Take care. ** Malik, Hey. Apologies for not remembering that we’d talked about ‘Negrophobia’. Bene’s films are largely based on/in theater works or contexts, if I’m not mistaken. Like a kind pf dreamy crossbreed of film and theater? Maybe that would interest you since you work in theater? ** nat, You made it. I’m a little behind today. I tend to sort of especially like books that I don’t completely get even when I’m mostly through them. Strange that. You’re good. I have no patience with extremely tough bosses. When I hit them I tend to shut down the game and look for a new one. But I will see if your game is on Switch because why not. That dialogue thing is cool. And they look ominous. Tempting. Having to move, the worst. Hope you don’t have to, but all the luck if you do. ** Okay. Today belongs to the escorts as usual at this time of the month. See you tomorrow.

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‘The filmmaking career of Carmelo Bene (1937 – 2002) lasted from 1968 to 1973, six years out of a lengthy time spent in the theater that made Bene one of the most celebrated figures of the Italian avant-garde in the second half of the 20th century. He first made a name for himself with a controversial production of Camus’ Caligula in Rome in 1959. Subsequent productions retained this sense of notoriety, and Bene (like Pasolini) quickly acquired a police record. Bene, however, would come to bemoan the controversy his work created, because it attracted an audience looking for shocks and titillation, while he himself was more concerned with reinventing the vocabulary of the theater: sets, gestures, texts.

‘Bene’s turn to cinema expanded that quest to reinvent. His films resist synopsis because, although they are often derived from narrative sources, Bene uses these sources against themselves and as a springboard for his critique of the stultifying traps of representation and interpretation. The films are wildly inventive and visually arresting on several levels: the performance styles of his actors, including eccentric movements, gestures and grimaces; the sets, costumes and makeup; the editing; and the use of the camera, with stable shots regularly punctuated by handheld camera work, extreme close ups and the occasional baroque use of zooms, dollies, cranes, elaborate pans and exaggerated camera angles. They resemble something like the work of Jack Smith crossed with the experimental Pasolini of Teorema and Pigsty.

‘At some point Bene worked closely with Gilles Deleuze and was interested in the complete annihilation of the “self”, intended as a conscious entity. He refused to “exist” and became a rather popular figure in Italy because he was controversial and every time he appeared on TV he aroused all kinds of outrage and scandal. In particular he was accused of speaking in riddles, of nothing and being just a clever trickster who kept fooling the audience with his nonsensical, artificially shocking performances, just to draw the attention. Most of everyone was against him, he was deliberately an antagonist, and had a very troubled and animated relationships with his critics, who were continuously trying to frame him, diminish him or celebrate him, depending on their credo.

‘One constant feature of Bene’s work is its satire of heterosexuality. The two sexes keep trying to communicate with each other, but always fail to do so. Bene’s work constantly deflates masculinist pretenses at mastery: his male characters tend to be hapless and often hysterical, while his female characters are alternately predatory and remote, and unknowable in either case. But this satire is merely the most visible form of Bene’s revolt against convention and communication. Over and over again in the films, everyday actions become hopelessly complicated or endlessly interrupted. His characters often end up staring quizzically offscreen or even into mirrors, as if they were no more sure than we are of the meaning of what they see. Indeed, identity and by extension agency seem to get suspended, along with meaning. What is left is glorious spectacle and enigmas for the eyes and ears: endless music; babbling, stuttering text; excessive and exciting images.’ –– Harvard Film Archive

 

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Stills

 

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Further

Carmelo Bene obituary @ the Guardian
Carmelo Bene @ IMDb
Carmelo Bene @ Anthology Film Archives
Carmelo Bene @ mubi
‘Retro: Carmelo Bene’
Carmelo Bene oriented Blog
‘Cosmic wonderful magic Carmelo Bene’
‘Carmelo Bene, genius’
‘Eccentric and Visionary, the Films of Carmelo Bene’
‘Surgically Imprecise Notes on the Great Carmelo Bene’
‘Carmelo Bene, Lectura Dantis’

 

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Extras

Carmelo Bene – Macbeth Horror Suite (finale)

Carmelo Bene’s home

Carmelo Bene – Four Moments on All Nothingness

Carmelo Bene as Pinocchio

 

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Quotes
from Looping Wor(l)d

 

If someone has defined the “phonè” as a dialectic of thought, then I deny being part of it. I’m looking for the emptiness, which is the end of every art, of every story, of every world. The language of the Great Theater, incomprehensible by definition, becomes completely comprehensible on a different level of understanding, being all about the signifier, and not the signified, or sense.

*

Language creates failures, it is only made of black holes and failures: (quoting Montale/ Nietzsche) “Only this we can now say: what we are not, what we do not want.” Who says “I say I exist, I say this” is two times a stupid. First because he believes in his self, secondly because he’s convinced of saying, and even a third time because he’s convinced of saying what he’s thinking. Because he believes that what he thinks is not signifier, but signified, a sense. That happens under his authority. It’s all noise. I think conscious intelligence is misery. I refuse to consider the ontology.

*

I do not speak, I am being spoken.

*

“The gods, plural is the noun, played yourself. The gods returned you to the mythical dawn of times. They carved you empty of simulation. Freed you of codes.”

*

“We are but ghost lights, representation and model. You and I, in the illusion of being. Sincerity in the lie, truth in contradiction. As truth does not exist, given only in the delirium of language.”

*

“Voice and language, delirium of omnipotence. Delirium because it’s not there. It does not exist.”

*

(talking of amplification through a microphone, in theater) The actorial machine is the consequence of the Great Actor, stripped of expressive corporeal human capabilities (vocal, facial expression, gestures, etc..) to wear an amplified attire, both visual and voiced. The voice of the actorial machine is not just a simple amplification, but an extension of the tonal range, becoming a whole. The autorial machine is a fusion between actor and machine; amplification is not a prosthesis, but a further organic extension where the voice is defined by the process. In the same way one doesn’t “have a body” but one “IS a body”, so one is or becomes amplification, equalization, etc…

This amplification is not a mere enlargement of the sound. As an example, it’s as if I’m reading this page at this distance. So I see and understand. But if I bring this page very close, the outlines begin to blur. Closer and closer till they vanish, and I see nothing. At this point, “everyone has his own visions”. What is infinitely large, as discovered in physics, corresponds to what is infinitely small. A step beyond the threshold. That’s why I make myself smaller, “so that he can augment, I have to wane”. It’s the conscious “self” that needs to get smaller. The emptying of the “I”, the abrogation of subject, and so of history. I refuse to be in history. I stepped out of thought.

*

Art has always been bourgeois, consolatory, idiotic, stupid, it has been especially blathering, whorish and pandering. Art has to be incommunicable. Art has only to overcome itself. That’s why it’s up to us, once we get outside ourselves, to become masterworks. Exit modality to reach the place where modality ceases to be. I can only try to explain my discomfort. I can’t engage with what’s real, what’s obvious, what’s rational. The darkness. Turning off the lights. I even hate symbolism as an artistic language. Poetry is shit. We’re still within words, trying to find a way and unable to come out. I have found in myself a desert, and I speak to the desert who’s the other, and not to someone else’s desert. I possess absence. That’s all. I am being honest because I am not myself.

*

Universe is one, one only. The pluriverse… is. One can’t say the pluriverse is “what’s left”. The universe is just a tiny, tiny sliver of pluriverse.

 

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6 of Carmelo Bene’s 8 films

 

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p.s. Hey. ** jay, Hi. Cool, I’m happy you like his work. I find it really irresistible. Your wifi managed to eek it through. Well, obviously. My uneducated guess is that home wifi issues would get old very quickly. But I love the spirit behind your daydream. Amazing about that box of childhood goodies. I have literally zero memory of my childhood bedroom and what was in it. My teenaged bedroom with its posters and disguised drug paraphernalia and piles of French novels, no problem. But earlier? Nothing. Strange. I must have been a minimalist as a kid. ** _Black_Acrylic, Wonderful about your friend Morgan! She must be awfully cool. Thank you so much for alerting her! ** Malik, Yes, that’s the book! I do highly recommend ‘Negrophobia’ if you’re in a fiction reading mood. It’s brilliant. True, such a tireless and visionary artist, that Bakshi. ‘Wizards’! I haven’t watched that since forever. I’m going to cue that up. Thanks, pal, and very bon day to you. ** Bill, That splattered construction paper piece is so great. If I could have one of Tom’s pieces, I think would be it. How great about the Yasunao Tone piece. He’s so incredible, and his very late work is as incredible as his earlier work if not even more so, I think. There’s a mind-blowing video out there somewhere of him performing at Cafe Ono very late in his life, and it’s astounding. ** kenley, Hi. Mutual fans is the best! Ok, the guitarist. My guess was totally wild. I’m sure the bespectacled guitarist is the kingpin. Do your bands ever play together. I’m imagining you guys with all lights on juxtaposed with his band’s heavy atmospherics could be quite exciting and flattering to you both. It was very cool to be able to clearly see your audience members exploding. Oh, as a writer, you don’t really get any say in the presentation. You just show up, and they show you the set-up — usually just a spotlit lectern, and then you do your thing. Simple is okay for me. The only thing I won’t do is read with music playing. Big no on that, but projections or whatever are fine. Do let me know if any Searing gigs in my general hood get cemented. Even a tourist visa gives you Schengen travel. Unless you mean some kind of special travel. It’s really easy. They rarely even look at your passport. ** Hugo, Such a beautiful description of Alice’s work. Alice is lucky to have you as an insider/intoner. Mm, yeah, in a way I guess the blog is like keeping a journal, although I’m pretty discrete about my actual life. But, yeah, no, that makes a lot of sense. ** Eric C., Here’s hoping the film shows near you. We’re working on midwest screenings right now. It’s going to show in Iowa, but I doubt that’s near you. And maybe Cleveland. So far. The ICE stuff going on around is just so nightmarish. Great that you’re doing what you can to fight it with your presence. The only good thing about all of that is what you said — people actually uniting for a cause that’s bigger than the personal. I have to think the unifying will have to help kill off the monsters, but I guess we’ll see. I will search Drone Not Drones on bandcamp. How totally interesting. Wow, thanks. If you get in the area of Paris on your trip, do let me know so we can meet up, if you like. ** Lucas, I saw your email. I’ll open it in a bit and get back to you. Thank you so much, pal! Like I said, I got so sick recently, and I never get sick, so that shit is happening out there. I hope the doctor starts fixing it. ** Måns BT, Oh, cool, happy you like his work. It does have a scariness, sure, that makes sense. Shit, Moodysson is pro-Israel? God, that does throw a wrench into the works. But I should make the post anyway and let what happens happen, so I will. But that’s a really boring, gross provocation on his part. Ok, I’ll use those release clues to help find ‘Thriller’ if possible. Awesome that you and your friend are making those works. Excited to hopefully see the results. Getting stuff out there? Hm, well, with short films you’re kind of stuck trying to get them into festivals and screening them probably with other shorts. Photos … social media and TikTok and all of that, and gallery showings if you want to get ambitious enough because that can be a toughy. Just make them and believe in them and dedicate yourself to people seeing them and the paths will appear. That’s my policy, I guess. xo. ** Jeff J, Welcome back, and thanks. TF used to show at Hudson’s great Feature gallery, and I saw most of his early works there. And they appear in museums and stuff. And I did a long interview with him for a big book on his work that Phaeton put out, and I saw a bunch of his work around that. I think this weekend could work for a Zoom if that suits. ** Steeqhen, The Granary Theater, yes, that rings the bell. Luck with the Library/CV of course. I don’t know where Logan is off the top of my head, but southern Utah is one of the most beautiful areas on the face of the earth, so you might have had a helluva of a view and playground if nothing else. ** HaRpEr //, The thing with editing is to not make snap judgements and give yourself time to try rejecting and embracing the possible decisions before you decide. I love editing, but you have to fight off the personal stuff. I think John is right as long as you think the decision through and don’t just lop things off on a whim. ** Laura, Yeah, making his things on tightrope, it feels that way. I thought ‘Adolescence’ was quite impressive. The single shot thing is kind of incredible just on a technical level. And it’s gotten boring to say so, but that young actor is really good in it. I think assuming the new script works out and there would then be three narrative film scripts, publishing them together could be a possibility. Happy Wednesday to you (too)! ** Right. Carmelo Bene was kind of a big deal in Italy, as far as I can tell, but his work seems to be barely known outside of Italy, and it’s curious work, so I thought I would give you guys a look at it. See you tomorrow.