Territorial Pissings (2001)  Super 8mm 


" Fame requires every kind of excess . I mean true fame , a devouring neon, not the somber renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings . I mean long journeys across gray space . I mean danger , the edge of every void , the circumstance of one man imparting an erotic terror to the dreams of the republic . Understand the man who must inhabit these extreme regions , monstrous and vulval , damp with memories of violation . Even if half-mad he is absorbed into the public's total madness : even if fully rational , a bureaucrat in hell , a secret genius of survival , he is sure to be destroyed by the public's contempt for survivors . Fame , this special kind , feeds itself on outrage , on what the counselors of lesser men would consider bad publicity - hysteria in limousines , knife fights in the audience , bizarre litigation , treachery , pandemonium and drugs . Perhaps the only natural law attaching to true fame is that the famous man is compelled , eventually , to commit suicide .


(Is it clear I was a hero of rock'n'roll?) "


Don Delillo