Useless Generation

What turns you on? Richey: "The books that I find erotic, that turn me on are stuff like Dennis Cooper's 'Frisk', or Mishima's 'Confessions Of A Mask', or JG Ballard's 'Crash'- which is very sexual all the way though. He dreams of being in a car crash with Elizabeth Taylor: auto-imagery, just piling into Elizabeth Taylor and the tail lights meshing into each other, the bonnet being ripped out. It's very violent. There's a Japanese film called 'Tetsuo, The Iron Man'. I love that film. All it is is a man turning into a machine, and in his mind he's got a girlfriend and a potential male lover. I find it really sexy. I think people are becoming more machine-like and that's the imagery I like. Also sex and death are closely linked. Sado-masochistic imagery, bleeding..." Is That Why You Cut Yourself Up A Lot? Richey: "I find it attractive. I find it... sexual."