Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
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:05:01
- 10?
- Going on 10.

:05:04
Where are you from, Robert?
:05:05
Azusa, California.
:05:07
Where do you go to school up there?
:05:10
I don't go to school right now,
:05:13
I just got out of the hospital.
:05:15
We are glad that you're out
and you look very well.

:05:17
Now, you created that yourself,
did you, Robert?

:05:20
Yes.
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Oh, it's a little television set--
:05:23
sort of in relief, isn't it?
:05:26
Raised out of the background.
:05:28
Are you interested
in becoming an artist, Robert?

:05:30
No.
:05:34
Well, you do seem to have talent.
If other things fail,

:05:36
you may be able to fall back
on that in future years.

:05:39
What are your interests,
professionally speaking?

:05:41
To be a doctor.
:05:51
I wanted to--
a couple of years ago, for a show,

:05:54
make an autobiographical version
of "The visible Man"

:05:56
that was pertinent
to my particular interests and problems.

:06:02
So I decided my visible Man,
to mirror me,

:06:05
would have green mucus
coming out of the mouth,

:06:07
and of course sperm,
'cause coming and coughing

:06:11
is about the only two things I do
on a consistent basis.

:06:13
And also shitting--
:06:15
with Cystic Fibrosis, shit--
:06:18
bad digestion has been with me
all my life,

:06:21
and bad runny bowels
is a constant thing,

:06:25
so I figure my visible Man
should shit all the time.

:06:27
The next question was,
"What should I use for the fluids? "

:06:31
So I start with the sperm,
that's the easiest thing to do,

:06:35
it just comes right out of the bottle.
:06:36
What better thing for sperm
than White Rain Hair Conditioner?

:06:41
Let's see.
Just look at it.

:06:43
That is great come.
:06:47
I don't come like this,
by the way.

:06:50
This is wishful thinking on my part.
:06:53
'Cause when I come,
it's like--

:06:54
I could masturbate for hours and hours,
:06:56
and then ejaculate, I think--
:06:58
I would have an orgasm
and nothing happens.


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