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Hi, this is Troy de Ward,
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and I'm a little perplexed to be here
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giving a commentary
for this dirty little film
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I made a half-century ago,
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especially as I haven't seen
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the damn thing in years,
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but, yeah.
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Let's... let's see what
we can piece together here.
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My memory's a little shot
these days,
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but, anyway, for what it's worth,
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these are my thoughts as an old man
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looking back on something
long since gone.
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So, here he is,
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restored from decades
left in a film canister under my bed.
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I first came across Wade
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when I was putting up
a Christmas window display
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one evening in the early seventies
at some old department store uptown.
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He stopped by to admire my baubles.
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I caught his eye and then, you know...
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Hook-ups were a breeze back then,
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but Wade was so much more than that.
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He wasn't any old trick;
he found his way into me
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and then it made sense
to continue what we had together
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in front of the camera.
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I got to use a lot of materials
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and stuff from those
department store displays
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to make my little private worlds.
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I had this railroad apartment
in the Lower East Side
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that, with enough window dressing,
dry ice and the odd papier-mâché tree,
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could double as a horny world
for Wade to exist in.
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I was normally filming tricks
I picked up from the Saint Mark's Baths,
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but nothing really worked out
with those guys.
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Wade was different.
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He was a writer and he had that ability
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to summon something within himself
that came alive onscreen.
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He knew how to invite the camera
into his world.
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He knew how to make any viewer
feel they were alone with him,
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and the more I filmed him,
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the closer I felt to his screen image
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than the real person
I ended up living with.
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There was no narrative
or structure in these reels;
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just scenarios I had in my head
when I was feeling bored or horny.
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Initially, these were private reels
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just for me to get off on.
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Besides, this stuff was illegal,
unless you disguised it
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as something along the lines
of fitness, action or adventure.
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But within those constraints,
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you could get away with a certain amount
of what you'd politely call "activity"
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and find yourself an audience.
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We always had to pretend
that what we did
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was somehow not illicit,
even though everyone knew otherwise.
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We couldn't do
what we really wanted to do
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because of the fear of prosecution,
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but we pushed it as far as we could.
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The law made us use our imagination,
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but beyond that,
other stuff always got in the way.
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We had some guy
ready to hide in that tree,
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only he got into an argument
with Wade about Nixon,
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which kind of ended in tears.
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Wade claimed
that he didn't blow Republicans
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and then we had to start all over again.
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I didn't have much time to find
someone else with the rental costs,
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but there was this stud I once balled
from the Continental Baths
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who was willing to do it.
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Turned out he was
another Republican voter,
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but when he saw how hot Wade was,
he pretended to be a Democrat.
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Only problem was
he caught the clap,
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and there was no time
to find another replacement,
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so what you see in the end
is a prosthetic I got from a joke shop.
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Not the most convincing cock
in the world,
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but it probably saved Wade
from catching the clap
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and me from needing
a public attorney for obscenity.
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The whole thing
didn't turn out as planned
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and Wade hated sour cream,
as you can probably tell from that shot.
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We'd circulate duplicates
of these little adventures
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at 12 bucks a pop on 8mm
and 20 bucks on 16,
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and we both got off on the idea
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of arousing complete strangers
with these reels,
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only we didn't consider
much beyond that.
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So, it's kind of strange
to have this unearthed
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and to be doing a commentary for it
50 years later,
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and even stranger knowing
that I wouldn't recognise Wade
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if he walked past me on the street now.
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If he were still around,
I sure hope he'd give his blessing,
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only we lost contact decades ago.
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I thought with all the social media
out there, I'd find him, but nothing.
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He might not even be alive anymore.
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We didn't part on the best of terms,
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but kept it amicable enough
for cards each Christmas
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until it was clear that even
that ritual of civility was pointless.
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Watching this now,
all that excitement's gone.
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Now I'm just reminded
of something that went so wrong
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after a blissful year living together.
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I'm reminded of how cold he became
during our final months.
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First, we stopped sleeping together.
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He said it was my snoring,
so I took to the couch.
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But we still balled each other
pretty regularly, or so I thought.
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What I failed to realise at the time
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was how his eyes
stopped lighting up when we spoke,
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how his interests
and social priorities changed
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and how vacant and unresponsive
he was when I was balling him.
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He stopped communicating
with his voice,
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his eyes and even his body.
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Sometimes it felt
as if I was making love to a rug,
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all the joy and affection bled dry.
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He stopped initiating anything,
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and if I didn't make a move,
then nothing would happen.
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I once tested him
by waiting to see if he'd need me,
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and it went on for months.
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That time without the passion
I needed was torture,
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but then again, it was also
an exercise in self-hatred
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to ball someone who had no passion.
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Seeing how he could happily function
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without needing me
or my body became hell.
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It was a kind of loneliness
I'd never experienced before,
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to live with someone,
yet feel so unwanted and lonely.
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I was still desperately
in love with him,
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but we both lost that intimate language
we both shared,
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and it felt like the hardest thing
in the world to get it back.
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What once felt so natural
and spontaneous
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became riddled with doubt, fatigue
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and worst of all,
indifference on his part.
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I was still trying to resuscitate
what we once had,
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but each gesture I made
was one of futility.
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He was no longer interested.
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He was no longer curious.
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He even stopped asking me about my work,
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and he retreated further
into his own writing.
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Completely separate worlds
within the same apartment.
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Apathy had won.
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We reached that strange limbo
of knowing it was over,
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but delaying the inevitable,
probably out of mutual laziness.
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And this shot here,
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hopelessly marred by a phone call
from our landlord raising the rent.
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He claimed the interest
was going up on his mortgage,
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but, of course, we were the ones
taking the hit, not him.
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He wouldn't even meet us halfway.
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That kind of soured the mood.
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Wade couldn't get hard
and I flunked the camera move.
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I always blame him
for ruining that shot,
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and we couldn't do it again.
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That was the nature
of these underground reveries.
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There was only enough money to hire
the camera and lamps for one day.
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One take and then
it was on to the next shot.
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But, you know,
we got something done
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and Wade really sets my balls on fire
when I look at him here.
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I often wonder what that flesh
looks like now in his old age.
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Do his joints hurt the way mine do?
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Does he bruise all the time?
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And would his eyes still have
that voltage he had back then?
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Maybe it'd just be enough
to be friends again
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and no longer be haunted
by how something so profound for us
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ended up in the trash.
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It'd even be enough
to know he's OK and enjoying life.
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For that money shot, there was no way
he was going to come on demand.
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Those ten-minute 16mm reels
are pretty unforgiving
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if you need to reach orgasm,
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and the poor guy kept going limp
whenever I tried to hurry him.
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In the end, we played it safe by
squirting more sour cream from a syringe
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and throwing as much baking soda
into the water as possible.
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The vestiges of our romance
dragged on for another few months,
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us, slowly withering.
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We'd pass by each other in the apartment
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without touching or smiling,
and all this you see here,
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that was our apartment,
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our apartment transformed
into a fantasy world,
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and once all that cheap decoration
was taken down,
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all the tedium and resentment
in our relationship
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was exposed
against those bare white walls.
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We were just another
dysfunctional couple.
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