Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Spider Woman Strikes Back
THE SPIDER WOMAN STRIKES BACK
“I feel like Gale Sondergaard in
The Spider Woman Strikes Back”
—Manuel Puig
____________________
Betrayed by Rita Hayworth—
Done in by Miss Hurt in a kimono
How can such politically correct Str8t—
Play a faggy femme fatale?
___________________________
C’mon honey, gimme a fucking break—
Can you really see Miss Hurt going down?
Giving a blowjob in the Bijou Balcony—
Sloppy slut on a Saturday night?
_____________________
Does one ever expect a flighty queen—
To butch it up with her weak wrists?
To be muy macho instead of a bitch—
Swishing outta the faggy Men’s Room?
_______________________
How can Miss Hurt ever hope to be—
Anything but a faux pas faggot?
Only kitschy queens know how to—
Be both chic & disgustingly de rigueur
Sunday, January 27, 2013
The Conformist
THE CONFORMIST (1971)
“Molina is the moviegoer as auteur.
Babenco was reaching for something
larger, something tragic and aggressively
moral”—Pauline Kael, The New Yorker
Perhaps this film, “The Conformist,” directed by Bernaldo Bertolucci is the reason why Manuel Puig preferred Jean-Louis Trintignant to play Molina in “Kiss of the Spider Woman”—rather than William Hurt.
European directors like Bertolucci, Visconti and Pasolini—as well as actors like Jean-Louis Trintignant—are relatively more sophisticated and acquainted with decadence and homosexuality on the screen.
“The Conformist” was probably seen by Puig in Buenos Aires—known as the Berlin of South America. The way Trintignant plays Marcello, a repressed homosexual in pre-war Fascist Italy, is perhaps close to what Puig had in mind in terms of an actor who could authentically play a gay personality like Molina.
Molina and Marcello aren’t naïve when it comes to being gay in a repressive anti-gay fascist society—in many ways Italy and Argentina are scenes of the same perverted fascist belief systems.
Pauline Kael in her review of Spider Woman in The New Yorker quipped that “Hurt as Molina is like having a basset hound playing a chihuahua.”
The problem is did William Hurt have any experience or idea what goes through the head of a Latino drag queen—who like so many movie-loving gays had arranged a personal theater of romantic fantasy constantly playing inside her imagination.
Puig in his novel is saying that queens may be useless, silly window-dressing, like movie romances—but it can be lovely to enhance life, making it more rapturously giddy despite or because of how awful the world around them can be.
Trintignant plays Marcello in “The Conformist” with a homoerotic depth much more seriously and authentically—than a rather clueless Hurt who never quite manages to capture the pathos, irony and fag jouissance of Puig’s Molina.
The Italian novelist Alberto Moravia who wrote the acerbic “The Conformist” met Puig in a colloquium discussing movies in Rome. Moravia, a seasoned cineaste, was asked by Puig how a star’s presence affected the interpretation of a novel—wondering if it either strengthened or weakens a character.
One has to ask would Trintignant playing Molina had been as successful at Cannes and the Academy Awards—as William Hurt playing Molina was?
Obviously, one has to also ask to what extent did the Hollywood str8t bourgeoisie mentality—purposely “transumptively” recast Molina as a politically correct courageous heroic fag femme fatale in respect to Puig’s quite different version of Molina in his movie?
Puig wasn’t a sentimentalist. There is no authorial voice as such—and the motives behind what the men say are elusive.
There’s an indication that both men are subversively using each other. Molina using Raul Julia to squeal to the warden—and to get her release. And Julia using Molina to pass the time and fuck every once in awhile.
The movie supposedly about Molina’s transfiguration thru the power of love, happiness and self-respect (that is shedding his effeminate mannerisms)—all this bourgeois redemptive crap is as phony as the forties screen movies that Molina watches.
Puig shrugged—responding to interviewers with an author’s fatalism, alluding to the nasty old Hollywood story in which writers so often felt cheated fiscally as well as creatively.
The Other Molina
Jean-Louis Trintignat
THE OTHER MOLINA
“Ahora yo…soy tū”
(Now I…am you”)
—Manuel Puig
Kiss of the Spider Woman
“Puig had definite ideas—
about the kind of actor
who should play Molina.
His first choice was Jean-
Louis Trintignant”
—Suzanne Jill Levine
Manuel Puig and the
Spider Woman: His
Life and Fictions
_________________
Just because La Hurt gets—
awarded the Cannes Palme d’Or
as well as the first Oscar for
Best Actor playing a faggy queen,
Manuel knew that such str8t
recognition was just a facade
It was the way that “La Metro”—
Hollywood posed & pretended
to be tres avant garde, rolling
out the red carpet for itself to
be God’s gift to the queers.
__________________________
"I found myself getting
used to watching Hurt
playing Hurt playing
Molina"—Manuel Puig
When really it was just simply—
Gloria Swanson doing her tacky
old Norma Desmond routine all
over again like “Sunset Boulevard”
with another great comeback as
she descends the spiral staircase
ready for her DeMille close-up again.
Glorious gauche Silver Screen—
tragic tacky Technicolor so very
crummy with Cinemascope and
syrupy Stereophonic kitsch with
lewd vapid VistaVision schmaltz,
butchy reverberations and dark
sinister faggoty misgivings
__________________________
"Between Molina's
earthy levity and
Hurt's neurotic
intensity yawned
a huge abyss."
—Suzanne Levine
Manuel Puig and Kiss
of the Spider Woman
La Hurt playing maudlin Molina—
masculinized ersatz muy macho
dying for a heroic political cause,
missing the while point Puig was
making: that effeminate queens
aren’t necessarily cowardly when
it comes to being gay and proud
Saturday, January 26, 2013
After the Revolution
AFTER THE REVOLUTION
—for Richard Blanco
It was in the early Sixties—
and here they all were
spread out from Miami
all the way to New Orleans
Such a loud and nervous—
bunch of exiled young Cubans
speaking Spanish so very
quickly nobody could
keep up with them
Exiles of Castro’s revolution—
children of all the wealthy
Havana elite class: doctors,
lawyers, politicians, spawn
of gone Batista fat cat days
This was Latino diaspora—
Arenas, Servo Sarduy,
Even Manuel Puig and
Kiss of the Spider Woman
exiled gay writers that
were more like me than
anybody thought back then
My exile was slower—
about as revolutionary
as a slug track of mucous
in some Garden of Str8t Eden
from which I’d been cast into
my own “gringo” diaspora
I was born in bondage—
raised in a pig sty of
bigots and exiled the
minute I started lisping,
swishing, flipping my
nelly fag weak wrists…
______________________________________
William Hurt as Luis Molina in "Kiss of the Spider Woman"
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Inaugural Poem
INAUGURAL POEM
—for Richard Blanco
“Better to have a granddaughter
who’s a whore than a grandson
who is un pato faggot like you”
—Richard Blanco, “Making a Man
Out of Me,” Who’s Yer Daddy?
Richard Blanco’s poem—
That he read that cold January
Day of the Inauguration
Caught America by surprise
Such a handsome Latino—
Born in Miami after Castro’s
Cuban Revolution and now
All these years later
But do things get better—
Does the abuse & bullying
Ever stop for our young gays
Exiling them to the Closet?
Did our Stonewall Riots—
And our Gay Revolution
Ever trickle down to the
Young exiles of today?
So much homophobia—
Intergenerational warfare
Like Blanco’s prejudicial
Cuban grandmother
Guilting the young poet—
For being effeminate and
Gay back when he was
Just seven years old
Philip Larkin knew it—
In his “This Be The Verse”
How they fuck you up, your
Parents and your peer group
They mean to, they want to—
They fill you with the faults
They had and add some extra
Especially just for you
Perhaps the only solution—
Letting the older generation
Finally kick the fucking bucket
Let Whitman back in town.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Devil in a Blue Dress
DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgVXpDIHIrE
"A man once told me that you
step out of your door in the
morning, and you are already
in trouble. The only question
is are you on top of that trouble
or not?”—Walter Mosley,
Devil in a Blue Dress
They told me I was gonna be good as new. What they didn’t tell me was—I’d end up in a blue dress. A Devil in a Blue Dress…
They flew me to Paris—it was the only place where the surgeons could do such a thing. That’s how I ended up in a blue dress—with a you-know-what down there. Instead of what I used to have.
“as different as a
funeral piano and
electric congo drums”
—Ahmos Zu-Bolton,
“Songs from An Afro/Phone
and Belly Song, Black World
September 1974
The surgeon was the best that money could buy, they said. Cosmetic surgery had come a long way since way back then—when all they did was to pull the wrinkles tight for an expensive Hollywood face-lift. That’s about all they could do.
Things had changed. Now they had stem-cell research—and different kinds of genetic reconstructive surgery. They could rebuild an aging broken body now—with new spare parts grown in test-tubes and huge reverse genetic engineering vats of swirling, stinky bio-chemicals.
That’s how my life as a Mickey Spillane detective in drag began all over again—shedding my previous existence as a rough-trade, no-nonsense, snarling Mike Hammer Private Eye Dick outta my hardcore pulp fiction tough guy days…
And now getting started all over again with a new life—posing as a Transvestite Private Dick in a Blue Dress. My last best-selling block-buster novel made into a movie—was “Kiss Me, Deadly” directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Ralph Meeker as the butchy private eye.
The only catch to this new deal I made with the devil was—I wouldn’t be a guy anymore. I’d end up a “Devil in a Blue Dress” instead.
“’cause it had come to me
in less time than it takes
to think”— Walter Mosley,
Devil in a Blue Dress
My whole reputation as a macho mystery writer was gonna go down the drain—no more Ralph Meeker sociopathic shoot-then-ask-questions later muy macho Private Dick.
In fact, I wouldn’t have a dick anymore at all—I’d be wearing a slinky chic sexy blue dress and no more private dick either, baby. I was gonna end up as a Transvestite Private Dick in a Blue Dress, honey.
It was either that or “Goodbye, Sayonara, Adios, Auf Wiedersehen, Chou, baby” and that was that. I told them I’d never do it—getting reborn as a Private Dick without a dick and a pussy instead…
My publisher laughed, the Hollywood moguls just smirked—I was too valuable an All American Best Selling Mystery Writer to lose, more successful than even Hemingway, Henry James and Edgar Allan Poe.
“After all,” they said, “your first paperback pulp fiction Mickey Spillane blockbuster best seller, “I, the Jury”—got us millions and climaxed with a really surprise ending.
“Yeah, sure—and WTF was that?” I said.
“You know,” the Hollywood mogul and Robert Aldrich said. “The Devil in the Blue Dress in “I, the Jury”—turns out to be a Transvestite Killer who gets it right in the fucking groin with a ’45 bullet, Ka-Bang!!!”
I nodded knowingly—something told me I was heading for a similar surprise ending too. A Ka-Bang right between my legs—and it wasn't gonna be pretty either with me as a reverse genetically-engineered Brain Transplant Transvestite Private Dick on the prowl that I’d end up becoming.
And sure enough—that’s how I ended up as a new improved version of tough-guy Mike Hammer doin' drag in a slinky smooth Devil’s Blue Dress.
Plus one other thing—I forgot to mention. My new persona was gonna be this chick named Daphne Monet—whose real name was Ruby. And Ruby was this swanky beautiful High Yellow Octoroon Lady—who was passing as white in high society. The same thing with me—I was gonna end up passing for white too. Except I was a white chick with a nice dark Creole cock...
Monday, January 21, 2013
Mulatto Kid Brother
MULATTO KID BROTHER
FAMILY SECRETS
I had this love-hate thing—
With my cute kid brother
Most kid brothers are just—
Stupid fucking pains in the butt
But young Tyrone was cute—
He was Black Chocolate Divinity!!!
He was tall, long and lanky—
And really good at basketball
He had this smooth sweet smile—
So Svelte the way he moved
Everything was a basketball court—
No matter what he was doing
He had these sexy slam shots—
That went straight thru my heart
DARK GENEALOGY
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness—
Ran deep thru both Tyrone & me
Sometimes black genealogy—
Plays hide and seek with families
Hiding in the closet or like—
Hidden where it can’t be seen
Mother was a cute redhead—
A high yellow Chicago chick
I was fair-skinned too & my—
Pubes bright-orange like hers
But Tyrone was different—
His proud black genealogy showed
How could my young kid brother—
Sport a twelve inch piece of meat?
How could he be so sexy jet-black—
With a nice big uncut pink head?
Mother blamed her mother & father—
Especially her hung black chauffeur father
Or was it that Chicago black musician—
Young jazz saxophonist at the nightclub?
SIXTY-NINE
It was just your usual male incest—
Nothing more than some brotherly love
So what if it was male miscegenal—
Me in love with his big black meat?
I was full of penis envy for Tyrone—
I’m not ashamed to say so either
I felt short-changed with just six—
While Tyrone had a whole twelve inches
He knew I wanted it really bad—
So he played hard to get with me
From junior high on Tyrone did—
This nasty “Sixty-Nine” on himself lots
He’d let me WATCH sometimes but—
I wasn’t supposed to like TOUCH!
He didn’t need a nice cute girlfriend—
He had his own really hot Expert Lips
Tyrone did himself twice a fucking day—
Then spit out the cum just-for me
YOLANDA
I hated Tyrone because he’d—
Like drive me up the fucking wall
He’d tease me with his #1 thing—
I really wanted and needed it bad
His exquisite ebony manhood tool—
The thing made me just drop dead
Sometimes he’d give me a long kiss—
Letting me taste his drooling wad
Oozing slowly outta his tight lips—
Just for me my Romeo kid brother
But I couldn’t get my lips on it—
His engorged penis endowment why?
He’d just shrug and say too queer—
A real mind–fuck for me for sure
Tyrone said his dick was worth $1000—
You got that much dough, Big Brother?
He jived about his Nice Sex Life—
But his big black veiny Penis be Taboo!!!
His wad in itself worth plenty, though—
Just the taste of him made me cream
Then one day Yolanda showed up—
But she wouldn’t give Tyrone a fuck
So that’s how we started doing 3-ways—
Yolanda getting Tyrone’s upper half
Me finally getting his tense lower half—
Her kissing upstairs with me down below
He didn’t come nice and smooth like—
More like riding a fucking bucking bronco
I must’ve sprained my neck a dozen times—
But Tyrone sprained his dick even more
Finally Yolanda was like ready to FUCK—
Which left me outta the Big Bad Picture
SAN DIEG0
I followed him home from school—
I didn’t trust him one little bit at all
I knew the first Thing he’d do—
Get naked in bed & suck himself off
He’d beat off in the shower too—
Simply just a terrible waste of cum
He’d masturbate all the fucking time—
I had to be eternally cum-vigilant
Just thinking of Tyrone getting himself off—
Such a greedy little fucking kid brother
When he dropped outta school—
I thought good! Finally he’ll be all mine
But I was heart-broken & blue, oh man—
When he signed up to join the NAVY!!!
RAINY DAYZ LONELY NIGHTS
I saved some of Tyrone for a rainy day—
A Crème of Olay Jar full of his nice Cum
It lasted for a short time, my dears—
A quickie reminder of my Lost Love
Talk about nostalgic dinge déjà vu—
A tart spasm of you know who!
How could I ever forget Tyrone—
Even though he done flew the coop
But Tyrone was glad to ditch me—
He actually hated me that much
He joined the Navy just to get—
Outta town & away from my lips
It was my queenly penis envy—
Wanting every fucking inch of him
I guess there’s nothing worse than—
Having an older faggoty brother?
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Black Narcissus
BLACK NARCISSUS
“The most scandalous of
all of Buñuel’s films, surreal
dreamlike and deliberately
pornographically blasphemous”
—Pauline Kael
BLACK NARCISSUS—a rarely seen exquisitely obscene and scurrilously surrealist film—paid for and seen only by a few rich patrons of the nefarious Salvador Dali collaborating with his gay Spanish lover Garcia Lorca in Paris.
It was filmed in a little-known Paris male bordello in 1931—sometime between UN CHIEN ANDALOU and L’AGE D’OR. Luis Buñuel was busy with his next film after UN CHIEN ANDALOU—and it was Dali who emphatically declined to continue with Buñuel’s more political anti-religious second surrealist film L’AGE D’OR.
Dali and Lorca were not that interested in Andre Breton’s Second Surrealist Manifesto anyway—nor with Buñuel’s concerns with framing the irrational automatic writing of dreams within a more narrative mise-en-scene context such as L’AGE D’OR.
The Catholic Church’s problems in Spain—the political upheavals of the approaching Civil War. The poverty and misery of most of Spain’s lower classes—and the hypocrisy of the Church. All this had provoked Buñuel to dress up like a nun or priest in drag and scandalize busloads of shocked Parisian passengers—with his slutty anti-religious sexual behavior and trashy fag noir theatrics.
These politicized undercurrents in almost all of Buñuel’s future films—these surrealist socialist soap operas didn’t particularly appeal to Dali or Lorca. So they continued with their own pet pornographic film projects—stimulated by their gay relationship which Buñuel was much too str8t to thoroughly enjoy because of all his Catholic guilt trips and fuck-ups..
Instead Miss Dali and Miss Lorca were both much more interested in Surrealist fag amour fou—both of them frequenting a little known Parisian male bordello there in one of the more dirty disreputable slums of the city. Chez Dick Cheese offered mostly young Algerian and Sudanese male prostitutes. Both Dali and Lorca had become especially enamored with one of the sullen Sudanese youths in particular—an exceptionally photogenic Valentino-type prostitute who was well-endowed with simply shameless size.
The youth was in love with himself—and who could possibly really blame him, my dear? If Dali or Lorca were young again and endowed like him—they most certainly would’ve been as indubitably vain and in love with themselves as the moody African youth was playing all the time with himself.
The kid’s huge manly Mandingo monster went up past his bellybutton—and when he got loaded on hash he’d faint in Lorca’s trembling arms. Consumed with fag noire amour fou—the youth was always playing with himself and cuddling his tool like it was his little newborn black licorice baby.
Both Dali and Lorca could easily recognize a stunning young Black Narcissus—totally in love with himself when they saw one. And so they immediately made plans to do their own UN CHIEN ANDALOU film version—portraying the travails and transgressions of this well-hung narcissistic young prostitute.
“It’ll be a piece of cake,” Miss Dali remarked, sipping her tinted glass of absinthe. Miss Lorca nodded in agreement—lying on the rug after taking too many long tokes from the big brass hookah on the floor of the shameless prostitute bordello.
“And it won’t be pale pasty-white Angel Food cake either, my dear,” said Miss Dali. “Just look at that deep dark chocolate Devil’s Food piece of lovely cake, honey. His exquisitely hung fag noir beauty—it’ll fill our coffers and bank accounts with rich fag filthy lucre once my millionaire patrons get a taste of this kid’s exquisite amour fou!”
Dali soon appealed to the appropriate wealthy Parisian cognoscente as well as the filthy rich Baron von Gloeden intelligentsia. Soon they had the necessary funding for the expensive camera equipment—and early color studio film processing they had in mind. Then they began filming the seductive young Black Narcissus—doing what he did best. Giving himself hours of exceptionally obscene “69” blowjobs—endless surrealistic scenes of him going down on himself in all sorts of positions.
They used the same spontaneously oneric dream logic images—scripting the scenes according to their previous night’s nocturnal unconscious promptings. The haze of hashish and the blur of absinthe—tinted the chartreuse chiaroscuro of the shooting schedule daily.
The same irrational oneric images appeared—the kid’s hands with his palms full of worms crawling out of his petulant asshole. Breton’s homophobic ugly mouth suddenly silenced—morphed into the kid’s hairy armpit squelching Miss Breton’s protestations.
Then the Sudanese youth tied up in bed—his arms and legs spread-eagled in the oozing stony moonlight. A close-up shot of Lorca’s cheesy lips smeared with cum and smegma—having sucked the kid’s writhing anaconda meat down to the last gauche greedy squirt.
Even years later in 2013, the shocked audience at Cannes couldn’t believe it—ogling at the rare footage of this recently released shocking Dali-Lorca screening at the Cannes Film Festival. A riot broke out just as it did in Paris during the Thirties—it was seen live on CNN and FOX-News in America.
All the famous cineastes at the prestigious Cannes Festival—suddenly became possessed by some strange revisitation of ghostly mad fag noire amour fou. Famous Hollywood directors and important LA producers—immediately sensed the lucrative possibilities of such a new Fag Surrealism cinema.
Quick as you could blink your razor-sliced Ogling Eyeball—this new Dali-Lorca high definition restoration version of “Black Narcissus” was made available at WalMart. And also through The Criterion Collection—a series of famous forgotten unimportant classic films out of the past.
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