Full transcript of the short film Come. Bill Hicks, PayPal & the art of female masturbation
Transcript kindly provided by Bernie Glynn
Episode 35 of 250
A short note from the film makers
If you are shocked or offended by the vision in Part One
We would ask that you consider the point of view
Being explored in Part Two
We do not seek to shock, embarrass, cheapen, tease
Or titillate
We seek only to be truthful
However biology is what it is
When you’re dealing with sexuality
And many people have many points of view
And many different reactions
This is our point of view on the subject of
What is pornography
And who decides on your behalf
Some pretty big corporations hold
A very different point of view to us
Therefore it is a debate
Between us and them
This is our rebuttal to their actions
Banning this 250 film art project
Dealing with the exploration of female sexuality
Because in their view
It is sexually explicit & pornographic
Therefore not fit for the general public
Because there is a naked body
Seriously
We didn’t believe art dealing with sexuality
Should be marginalised to the porn market
With all its associated shame and excesses
To drag its audience there
Vimeo is the only mainstream media supporter of this
Point of view
We believe there should be more
Therefore..
With all due respect
We disagree with the companies
Who have banned us
Well
Not that much respect
As you will see at the end
I did not know PayPal’s mother had a penis
I think that is good to know
Those companies use what is available to them to censor us
We use what is available to us to fight it
At its heart this film is about censorship
It is very personal for us
We believe this is a worthy topic for debate
Because it’s about your right
To decide for yourself
What is pornographic
And what is not
Missy & Max Jubilee
Sydney Australia
15th march 2014
When you’re learning, Especially in your early years
Technique is really important. But once you`ve got your technique
It`s what you do with it that becomes important
– Angelo Bruschini/guitarist/Massive Attack
Poetry is no one’s business except the poet’s. Everyone else can fuck off – Philip Larkin
‘You have a pretty shallow existence
Maybe that’s how you ended up so bitter and hollow
Enjoy your supremely facile and myopic life’ – 40 Year Old Male, USA
START
If I could put my orgasms into words, I wouldn’t shut up
I would have written a thousand books
And I would have been more prolific than Shakespeare
How I get to orgasms is through memories
Of misdemeanours and turn-ons past
Probably like you
I come with what I got, what I was given and what I take
Diving in. Turned on. Hellhounds loose in my mind.
I am just a whip chaining, BDSM appreciating, regular nice girl
With freckles from next door
If you lived next door to an amusement park
So don’t be shy because I’m not
I refuse to accept shame and judgment from others anymore
If I was meant to be controlled, I would have come with a remote
So hush already with the fake outrage
It’s just biology remixed as art, and truth be known
Everyone does it. So what’s the big dealio yo?
And now I’m ready to come. Are you?
Adapted for the screen from the poem
‘Come’ by Edge & Missy Jubilee
Music/It don’t come easy/Paul Whitrow & friends
Original composition by Ringo Starr
Man the Beatles were so high, they even let Ringo sing a few songs – Bill Hicks
Time to orgasm: 2 mins 42 secs
Who’s a clever girl then
For assistance solving your sexual issues, just ring Missy Jubilee
1-800-ain’t-gonna-happen
Ext: 3-got-too-many-of-my-own
Scare the world. Tell the truth about sex
Now there’s a concept I can get behind
And the coloured girls go
Do doo doo do doo do doo do doo doo doo doo do doo do doo do doo doo
We never really grow up, we just learn to act in public
Well. Some of us do
Doo doo doo doo doo
Tonight is the night I’m gonna celebrate
Stay at home
Order in
Watch a movie
Smoke some weed
Then masturbate
Water some plants
Follow a few b-list celebs on twitter
Get stoned again
Watch some YouPorn on my iPhone
This is how we all assume any man masturbates
Not because someone’s watching him
Not because he’s in a particularly sexy mood
Just as something he’s doing
When he’s got a little down time
-Sarah Silverman
This attitude is apparently all too rare among women
46.5 percent of whom say
They masturbate less than once a month
The fact remains that many women and girls
Don’t masturbate at all and may not even know how to
We expect boys to start playing with themselves
While they’re in utero
Decades after the sexual revolution
In our supposedly post-feminist era
Cultural ideas about women and masturbation
Remain much more complex, repressed, hidden & shameful
Taboo in fact
-New York Times
This film would be banned if put up on
YouTube, Daily Motion or any other video sharing site
Apart from Vimeo
And porn sites
This is not porn
This is what nice girls are taught not to do
Or discuss
That it is shameful
How can you ban normal?
It’s got me beat
I must write every day. Otherwise I die. One unspoken hypocrisy at a time – Bill Hicks on hypocrisy
The following corporations & countries have banned
This project on the basis that it is sexually explicit
YouTube
PayPal
China
Syria
Iraq
Iran
What an interesting list
PayPal has withdrawn the ability for people
To contribute donations to this project
They said they don‘t associate their brand with ‘porn’
And our account was banned forever
They said forever
They are also holding all donations made to date
Subject to ‘arbitration’ by them
This is the company that withdrew donation facilities
From Wikileaks
You haven’t heard the last of this PayPal
I am a touch uppity regarding this matter
As a society, when did we allow corporations to decide that a naked body is sexually explicit or shameful?
When did we become Syria, Iraq, Iran & China?
PayPal. ‘We know lots about money. We know shit about art’
If you would like to support our case against PayPal
They would love to hear from you
Why is it so hard to contact PayPal?
PayPal had to be sued in 2003
Just to have them put their telephone number
In a place where most people could find it
PayPal actively discourages people from contacting them
Their complaint e-mail address is:
service@paypal.com.au
If you support us, we clap for you
If you don’t support us, we clap for you too
We clap for everyone. Yay everyone
Censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it created in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion – Henry Steele Commager
Some days I really wonder why I am doing this and then I remember
It’s better than where I was with people, just like PayPal, telling me I should be ashamed of myself because I was different
Fuck that shit
By the way
2 mins 42 seconds is slow for me
There are many benefits to being unrepressed
I wish I know sooner
I recommend it
For what that’s worth
It’s a focus group of one really
Personally, I never trust those sorts of focus groups
There’s too much statistical bias
PayPal
We touch you every day, so you don’t have to
Because we don’t like that kind of stuff
This is where we are right now, as a whole we are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies & illusions. A world where greed is our God, and wisdom is sin – Bill Hicks
Not sure I am going to add to the debate here; but I will try.
I have never considered your video’s as pornographic. They stray into the erotic by association rather than the explicit. The words often do not combine with the images. The raw, open honesty often impedes any sexual connotations rather than assists. But it is all beautiful.
Summarising your work is impossible. I have attempted before and because I love it so, will probably attempt again, but it is a futile endeavour. Your work is beyond categorisation.
The really strange thing in all this is not the fact that nudity is considered pornographic by some really fucked up people; but that the way in which the faceless corporate is able to censor without governance.
You need your own means of publishing your art, and your own means of gathering your donations. Perhaps the latter before the former, if you are to try and self fund. There is something very noble about your rage against the machine, and we in your small annoying gang will get all worked up, but I am afraid we are pissing in the wind here. The icebergs are looming and they are not going to move for you. It is time to set a course avoiding those bastards.