The startling, the blaise....ho-hum, another ad for crotchless briefs.......from repressed silence to fun in the sun; but the ship still sails away!

THIS CLIP IS SILENT, BY THE WAY.....












visiting my friend Jon, in NYC, in my youth.....Jon and I went to Jon's mother, Dot's apartment across from the 55th St. Playhouse......One of her girlfriends stopped by, so we "boys" were sent to the moviehouse, down and out the front door, to view a collection of independent sticky britches erotic films...this was an eye-opening experience for me....wow! Afterwards, i delved into Highbrow Derek Jarman films in latin, no less; campy work like Pink Narcissus, which influenced aesthetic eccentrics like Guy Madden; and the films of Ken Russell as well as the low-brow work of Kenneth Anger.... A common thread is always repression, fantasy and masturbation....this world of "X-ness" is flowing into the world of popular sentiment, more and more...In Amsterdam, years ago, friends had dinner while watching a program on the proper use of condoms, while our Dutch hosts, uninterested in this "educational" programming, smoked pot with the local beat cop.........America's middle class is swimming in the miasma of it all, from Sogo to Funtown! Then, it's all down the slide to the world of guiltless pleasures, Giulietta.......who lives a fantasy, goes home alone.......right, Baz? Ask Jack Smith......!