DRUMMER POETRY
©Jack Fritscher. See Permissions, Reprints, Quotations, Footnotes |
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The Video Is Mud.
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Written November 6, 1988, and published in Drummer 127, April 1989. I wrote this little “free verse” jerk-off piece to illustrate four of my photographs which Drummer requested and published. On October 27, 1988, I had shot a two-part video of porn superstar J. D. Slater. The first part was a short-film homage to Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. The video, titled Mud! Apocalypse Again was based on the texture of my short story, “The Shadow Soldiers,” published also in this same issue of Drummer, following its first publication in two parts in the “virtual Drummer” of the actual Man2Man Quarterly #4, June 1981, and Man2Man Quarterly #5, September 1981. For me, after twenty years, the publication of “The Shadow Soldiers” in Drummer, the magazine for which it had been written so many years before, was a satisfaction. The Irish-American J. D. Slater, always a trooper, did not mind when I set him up inside a muddy wooden shed outside on a rugged coastal hill near the Pacific Ocean–and cornered him with my camera which I held on him like a gun. We both kept going until we thought we had edged into something new for the plastic gay video genre that bored us both. Drummer, of course, liked the ideo of the porn star and the Drummer writer creating together on a video, but the real hook, of course, besides the obvious tie-in to publishing “The Shadow Soldiers” was Drummer was hungry for the nasty photographs taken during the video shoot. As research for my ongoing “Rear-View Mirror” series, which also appears in this same Drummer issue, written at the request of Drummer publisher Anthony F. DeBlase, I had on several other occasions conducted intense audio and video interviews of J. D. Slater telling his tale of his history in gay culture. Those gay popular-culture tapes, in the Fritscher-Hemry Estate Collection, are yet to be released. J. D. Slater had previously starred in many videos including: Wakefield Poole’s, One, Two, Three; __________ . –Jack Fritscher, January 24, 2000 ©2000, 2003 Jack Fritscher |
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The Grunts called him “Dirt.” ©1989, 2003 Jack Fritscher |
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