Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
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When we were in 6th grade,
I used to like--

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I don't how graphic
I'm gonna get on this--

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I would be going at it in the bedroom
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and the bed would be squeaking,
by myself.

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The door would be open
and he's sleeping in the bedroom

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across the hall.
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And suddenly I'd hear,
"Tim, I know what you're doing."

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I'm gonna tell Mom.
You better stop!"

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I don't remember that at all.
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So to me he was this moral cop.
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I know, that's what's so hysterical.
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By the time we got into
early adolescence and early puberty

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it was like, no,
he was this absolute Puritan-

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the first one
that told my parents I was doing drugs;

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the first one to, you know, to sort of
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rat on me about everything
that I was doing wrong.

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I thought that
he was just extremely religious

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and spiritual and moral.
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I felt like this decadent,
horrible human being.

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Every Friday night-- since I didn't
have to go to school the next day,

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Friday was my big night.
I'd wait till everybody went to sleep,

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about 2:00,
and I'd wake up and I'd start to play.

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Started off simple.
Things like--

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I loved the feeling of being
totally naked all night long,

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waiting for the sun to come up, feeling
the cold air, come in the window.

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I'd lie naked in high school,
on the floor at 2:00 in the morning,

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and pourwhite glue over my body.
Why? I don't know.

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It was a sensation.
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And in the morning,
a lot of the glue dried,

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you had to pick it off your testicles.
That was fun.

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I'd be trussed up by 3:00 in the morning
by these plant hooks.

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I used to get off the chair
for a while and swing.

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The scary thing is I'm sitting
with these ropes in the ceiling


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