sotos

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RyanWreck

#105
Quote from: bitewerksMTB on November 30, 2011, 07:09:52 PM
http://www.videodrom.org/article.php?id=26

I think I may have watched that before. Not too exciting. For some odd reason, I was thinking if he shaved his beard & wore a baseball cap, he would look like Michael Moore. Even the way he speaks, reminds me of Moore.



I saw this on another site but the video didn't work, thanks for linking it. I don't read French and web-translators suck but it says 1999 so I am assuming that this was recorded then? I like how the translation says he choose to read "his less offensive material" but I'm pretty sure a good deal of it is from both Tick and Playground Sex.

*edit* A girl I have over woke up at the part where the dude is jerking off a couple minutes in and asked why I was "downloading gay porn".

RyanWreck

I like how "TAINT" is one of the keywords he used in the heading.

HongKongGoolagong

Quote from: RyanWreck on November 30, 2011, 07:19:17 PM* A girl I have over woke up at the part where the dude is jerking off a couple minutes in and asked why I was "downloading gay porn"

Well, I hope you put her straight about this. There's obviously nothing gay about that video and nothing gay about any of his books :D

Really pissed off I missed 'Mine' but hopefully there will be a paperback at some stage.

RyanWreck

Quote from: HongKongGoolagong on December 04, 2011, 01:42:01 AM
Quote from: RyanWreck on November 30, 2011, 07:19:17 PM* A girl I have over woke up at the part where the dude is jerking off a couple minutes in and asked why I was "downloading gay porn"

Well, I hope you put her straight about this. There's obviously nothing gay about that video and nothing gay about any of his books :D


I fucked her in the ass and called her Robert.

HongKongGoolagong

#109
Quote from: bitewerksMTB on December 04, 2011, 04:17:38 AM
Gay as in lame?

Gay as in screaming fag queer homosexual of course. FWIW, I'd place Mr Sotos alongside Dennis Cooper and Jean Genet as the three best homo writers over the last 75 years.

Ex-bandmate of mine told me amazing shit years ago about toilet-trading with married guys who would show pictures of their kids to him before the action.

I can't really figure out the meaning of 'Waitress' myself. Prefer waitresses to businesswomen though.

RyanWreck

I wonder what videos are going to be transcribed in Pure Filth (other than Walking Toilet Bowl)? I am assuming at 340 pages that we should get a good amount of material and hopefully some new Sotos text.

P-K

not Sotos but a tiny bit Sotos-related : http://www.creationbooksfraud.com/

wtf ....

HongKongGoolagong

James Havoc - died in drink binge in Tokyo some years ago, it's on wikipedia so must be true.
Mark Perry CEO of Creation Books lives in Thailand and does not wish to be disturbed. Founder of Alternative TV, publisher of Sniffin Glue zine.
John 'The Rabbit' Bundrick is Creation Books legal and PR when not being a legendary session musician, notably for The Who.
James Williamson joined The Stooges after their second album. Real name cited as Julian Halibut in a book on Creation Records.

Everything about this story is bizarre and hilarious. Publishing sensation of the decade.

Quote from: bitewerksMTB on December 16, 2011, 07:38:05 PM
There are a ton of Gillis home videos. I had or have a trailer tape that has scenes from a bunch I never read about or came across on any lists. Most do not look rough though.

The Humiliation Of Heidi was made for a more mainstream audience (relatively speaking) towards the end of his life but has some great trademark dialogue with those sudden brutal/gentle flips. His verbals were his amazing talent in lots of ways.

RyanWreck

#113
Quote from: Peterson on February 08, 2012, 12:02:09 AM

Also, anyone who can provide rip of aforementioned Gillis video, please do. Have been wanting to see for some time.

There are torrents of this floating around.

Here is one with 5 seeders and features both "The Humiliation of Heidi" and another private video with "D Starr":

http://www.onlytorrents.com/torrent/jamie-gillis-2-films-very-sick-shit:239d6b660a87f0202e5a5ceb6b221ec60e3f0678

And in case you didn't see it in the Porn thread here is one of the "Walking Toilet Bowl" torrents (the Carol video, which is my favorite):

http://tracker.zaerc.com/torrents-details.php?id=15329

RyanWreck

Did anyone go to this (Feb 2012)? It was a show with other authors/artists like Pierre Dourthe, Hans Bellme, etc.

http://www.centrepompidou.fr/Pompidou/Manifs.nsf/0/AA423CC4A0B27266C125799100353580?OpenDocument&sessionM=2.5.2&L=1

Here is a translation of the main body:

QuoteFree admission subject to availability
The content of this conference may offend the sensibilities of the public and especially the younger ones.

"I have selected in the audio interviews relating to sexual abuse. I found the instructions of psychologists and police reports and I have separated children from adults. Carefully chosen, poorly arranged. Some sources were treated with expertise, while others, when my interest exceeded my ability, remained coarse collages copied / pasted. Of pornography low end, extremely important. A trend, looking at their faces, thinking about these things I had seen in the most vile and degrading situations. I wanted to drag on, draw more than a quick glance or a deliberate cum as much evidence against me. Foul, brooding, malleable. So this time stretches into a thought and a constant quest. I edited the images of weeping parents, nothing more. No selling, no preaching, no lessons given unless it was by someone who had basically nothing to say and only then noticed it. I could dig in everywhere. From countless smaller tragedies and taped. Other news did not interest me at all."
Peter Sotos

humanpulp

wondering the same. also, didn't he perform with Sutcliffe Jugend a few weeks ago, a supposed reading and film performance?
of course, i doubt any kind of documentation was made. still interested to know about it.



HongKongGoolagong

Some kid slashed his wrists at that Paris SJ/CE/Sotos show the other week. Seen the picture, it was a deep cut.

HongKongGoolagong

Quote from: bitewerksMTB on March 11, 2012, 07:46:15 PM
Quote from: HongKongGoolagong on March 11, 2012, 03:21:19 AM
Some kid slashed his wrists at that Paris SJ/CE/Sotos show the other week. Seen the picture, it was a deep cut.
Wow. They must have been awful!
A nuisance for the promoters and venue.

As the magazine it's published in (Hiroshima Yeah! from Glasgow) has no web presence and a small circulation, this seems a suitable place to drop a review I did:


Philip Best 'American Campgrounds' (Creation Books 2010)

So many circles. Like the ring of Mundy, Best and Dennison on the back inlay of Ramleh's
'Works III' compilation but here it's skinny-armed children whose rings are formed as
protection against the natural disasters, the animal predators, the possibly evil intent of
the readers of this morbid and peculiar photo-collage novel.

Children on almost every page but precious few to whet a pervert's appetites. These children
are vulnerable, tiny, helpless wretches. Best has stated that Shasta Groene, survivor of a
horrific kidnapping by serial killing paedophile Joseph Duncan, is the central figure of the
book. As well as Shasta, some of the other faces I recognised among the anonymous foundlings
are Susan Smith, Ulrike Meinhof with her children and Richey Edwards.

Leaving aside Bests's meanings - and Peter Sotos gets nowhere near discussing them in his
entertaining and bitchy introduction, focusing instead on himself as usual - there's some
aesthetic pleasure to be gained from the layout on the pages of the collages. The
arrangement of the shapes: trees facing childens limbs. Like planting a garden and deciding
to have a row of flowers here, just so.

So much of this material is taken from National Geographic magazine. In 2001 a Russian child
pornography ring was broken which used National Geographic videos of pandas to disguise
their product. Four years later, Joseph Duncan's obscure blog The Fifth Nail was befriended
by an enigmatic blogger fixated on Russian boys whose site was called The Panda Conspiracy.
Some true crime websites have claimed that Duncan used his laptop to upload the footage he
took of the Groene children at the campground later that year,the footage that caused such
upset at his trial. Best has stated that the book is shows "hope, redemption and exemplary
resistance to black, titanic forces". Shasta's resistance, certainly, but also that of
anyone who doesn't succumb to nihilism and atavistic urges and strives for empathy, however
hard it may sometimes be to locate. The final page juxtaposes what appears to be a
trendy-looking anorexic teenager's midriff with feeding tube attached against a desperate
street child in Latin America, huddled in the gutter in filthy clothes. It's hard not to
sense moral stones being cast here: 'American Campgrounds' is advertised as a jeremiad after
all.

It's the elements of scrying and sortilege which fascinate me the most in the composition.
There's a page featuring Frank Corder who set off on the night of September 11th 1994 in a
stolen Cessna and tried to crash it into the White House. Best seems to hint at a mirror
world, at hidden vistas of reality. At worst the book is incomprehensible, but at best it's
unheimliche.

Fan of his work in music will find plenty more of the very personal and esoteric mythology
used in various projects in this nice collector's item which has higher production standards
than most things published by Creation. The real Philip Best book in which he gets to show
off his unique way with words at length has yet to appear.             

Tenebracid

Quote from: bitewerksMTB on April 10, 2012, 10:32:50 PM
Just took a look at Creation's site & all the film books + Sotos have been removed.

Looks like TOTAL FILTH will be published this summer. It's on Amazon & It's listed as 'coming soon' on Feral House's site also (Amazon is cheaper).

Ran across some photos from Tesco Fest & there's one of Sotos signing a book. Looks like he's lost alot of weight & shaved the beard. Can't remember the name
of the tumblr I saw it on.

I think this is the photo you mean:

RyanWreck

#119
That queer speed (tina) is taking its toll. Has Sotos ever said whether or not he truly has AIDS? All of the interviews I have no one asks, he even pushes some guy to ask him but the interviewer doesn't go for it. (Speaking of interviews with Sotos, does anyone have his contact information? If so, would you be so kind as to PM it to me?)