Life Of A Secret Agent
Bill Pritchard, Hydrate Nightclub and BrentCorriganInc present an evening with adult industry’s most popular entertainer
I’ve been writing as well as reading and learning about writing. I’m not sure what I’m going to do with it all, but it’s going to be something very special. I can’t post my work here because if I decide it’s good enough to approach someone to have it published my chances could be diminished.
Last week I flew to Fort Lauderdale for a mainstream screen test. A production company got in touch with Casper Andreas, the director of The Big Gay Musical (out on the festival circuit this summer), and asked him to put us in contact for an audition. It’s a French production company that has teamed up with a French Canadian company and two American distribution companies to develop this project. I don’t want to give away too many details on it because I’m not sure where it’s going. It seems like every time I write prematurely about something new that could be happening for me – it folds before my very eyes. It’s not some mystery as to why, but I merely making the point. Here’s what I can say: It’s a Christmas film – so even if it does go through I won’t be on set until there is snow on the ground in Montreal. Then the project won’t be released until the following Christmas season. The part they want me for is actually a straight boy and he’s the lead. I read for the writer/director and his partner in Fort Lauderdale and they had great remarks for me.
While I was out there in Fort Lauderdale I got some rest and rays. It was a much needed quasi-vacation for me. Thanks to my friend Bob who was very kind to me and sponsored my trip out there as well as my stay in a very comfortable hotel. I remained current on the work I have been doing faithfully behind the scenes here.
It’s pretty obvious one of the reasons why I have been absent is that much of what I have been working on is not ready to be revealed yet. From mainstream to writing and pre production on a big film I was set to do next month – much of it is busy work or too sensitive to divulge publicly. It’s sort of like . . . the life of a secret agent. Except I’m not dealing with national security of anything (just my own job security, if you will 
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So often I feel like I am the kind of person who gets all excited about something only to have it slip through or just simply not come to fruition. The last 30 days I have been making arrangements for a big feature I was intending to shoot in Palm Springs. I went as far as to book the resort and half the cast before yesterday I decided to opt out of the shoot altogether. In place of it I am using the resort to shoot internet related content for the week. Every fiber of my being yearns for a creative outlet right now. I want nothing more than to direct, produce and star in something more than JUST THE SEX or Big Easy.
In a lot of ways, just doing porn is beginning to make me feel less of a person. The sad part is, there was once a market and a place for the difference between what porn is and what I want to do with the adult industry. The sad part being; in this market those hopes and aspirations seem to dwindle with each passing day.
The Cobra Civil Suit prevented me from making money, but did not prevent me from being productive. Being fucked out of my first website and business venture set me back 8 months. Then having the trial looming overhead for so long – all of these things have severely limited my potential. None of these things have persisted to stand in my way but if it’s not THIS then it’s THAT. They sky is now the limit, but answer me this: how high is the sky in a broken economy?
There is no doubt in my mind that Being Brent (that’s the name of the new feature) will be wildly successful – even in today’s economy. But right now I need to very calculative with where I put my time and my resources. To me, developing a Member’s Site seems like such grunt work. I’ve passed this project off to other people so many times now and it has failed to come to life. I can’t keep dancing around the prospect of it. Not to mention, I would be a fool not to recognize the declining sales numbers of DVD’s. I’ve been able to ignore this fact for the past year because my product has been largely released in DVD format.
If the Member’s Site was done and behind me then I would be ready and poised to direct and produce a project like Being Brent. In today’s market, moving forward on a feature like that right now and not having the website done is like putting the cart before the horse. I like horses more than carts, so that just seems ridiculous to me (i love horsies).
It’s completely transparent what this post is really about. I am still convincing myself that the Member’s Site is the right way to go right now. It isn’t that I don’t see that. This, for me, is about doing what I NEED to do rather than what I WANT to do. In a lot of ways I’ve spent my life doing much of what I wanted to do, so even now, at 22 I struggle to be smart about it.
But, Palm Springs will be fun. I know it will be a lot more fun for me this way rather than shooting Being Brent. I can shoot a few scenes, relax a little more and enjoy time in a beautiful boutique-style resort that we’ll have all to ourselves. Plus I can can go into the development of the website feeling secure that I have plenty of content to start off.
Next week I’m off to The Grabby’s and Chicago there and all the craziness that will ensue for the long weekend there. It seems like a distant prospect still, though my departure from San Diego is not less than a week away. For me, going to Chicago will be more like a balancing act than anything. I have been trying more and more as I leave home for trips and work related travel to stay focused on the usual things. Writing, memorizing the various mainstream work I have coming my way, the gym, the development of the new website, and hopefully even a few blog entries
And as I wrap this up, there is this ridiculous, completely zaney picture of me on a magazine cover circulating . . . I think that I owe all of you an explanation for that one, ha! There will be a Freshman Publisher’s Party May 27th from 8-10 at Micky’s in West Hollywood. Within the coming few days I’ll have more to contribute about Freshman. I’ve always got something to say, you should know that by now!
Your Friend and Secret Agent,
Brent Corrigan
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*I don’t normally comment on people’s blogs, but for you, I’ll make an exception lol. Normally I have enough trouble keeping up with people commenting on my vlogs!*
I’m glad your life is on a full speed ahead sort of track, and I’m excited to see what comes of you. If you ever, for some god-awful reason, come to Missouri, then hit me up
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hey secret agent corrigan!
haven’t posted for a while myself, and felt it was a good moment just to drop you a note and say hi! good to hear that you’ve been busy and it all sounds pretty interesting and cool. i am sure that getting the members’ site up and running is a bit of a drag and i can understand your trepidation should it not be the money spinner you hope, but i figure you’re probably right about dvd sales too…anyway, i am sure you’ll work it out and whatever you decide i know you’ll do a great job – as ever!
oh, i just saw some of the pics from a certain forthcoming magazine spread and i can truly say i thought they were hot, hot hot! can’t wait to hear what you have to add. i thought the cover was goofy, but cute.
all best wishes to you as always.
m. x
It is a little daunting how everything is at the moment.Its almost as if a mild form of rapture has descended into the worlds of business and started swiping at the fun. I’ve really been playing way too much BioShock.
I’d love to read some of your fiction, though your blog probably isn’t the best medium to publish it through. I do know your a very good writer from your posts so why not create another secret identity and infiltrate http://www.authonomy.com. Its a networking community from the publisher HarperCollins to flush out the best new writers. Lots of people I know really love it, and it seems like a great way of landing either an agent or getting in contact with prospective publishers while keeping you in full control of what you submit and offering you limited copyright protection. And the worst scenario is you might get some feedback from people who have no idea who you are
Maybe not dancing around the members site might help. Cos of your knee and all.
Good luck with everything that’s coming up
p.s
Now that I think of it, you totally should have been in the GIJoe film.
Some of us have always anticipated an eventual mainstream film career for you.
I recall a much younger Brent saying, “I will never be accepted by mainstream society. I have had too many dicks up my ass.”
You were wrong and I am here to remind you of that.
See you next Friday.
Hi, boy. I like you so much though you are growing bigger. You just inspired me that one could be a star in each field, any field. So please just be yourself and keep the warm beautiful smile~
I’d LOVE to see you in the third installment of EATING OUT. For info on trying out, here is the link http://web.me.com/kirkcruz/eo3auditions/Eating_Out_3_Auditions.html
Did they let you keep the cowboy boots?
Brent, I’m so glad to have you back on the blog. I would love to have you continue pursuing a mainstream career and also launch a successful member site. Just remember, people would want to see YOU on the web site, in front of the camera at least as much as you’re behind it. If it’s just scenes you directed of guys you cast, without you in the scenes, I’m not sure it’s really worth your effort.
If you can pursue mainstream acting options and simultaneously continue to be the phenomenal porn star that you are, that would truly be the best of both worlds.
If not, I’d suggest you devote the next few years to being the best XXX-rated Brent Corrigan you can be, and then transition over to mainstream acting and leave the adult world behind.
Either way, I hope you keep them blog and the candid photos. I’ll read your posts no matter which career you have.
Geoff,
Yes he was allowed to keep the boots! We provided the wardrobe and the set. The boots are about an 18 to 20 year old pair of hand-made Lucchese (pronounced- LU-CASEY, El Paso, Texas) full quill ostrich boots that I bought for myself as a Christmas present in the late 80’s. They’re not quite as old as Brent, but close!
http://www.lucchese.com/products_detail.php?id=482
I believe the retail back then was just over $600.00. They were the most expensive shoes or boots I had ever bought. I’ve bought a few that have come close since but still haven’t paid more for any shoes… So by default the boots encompass a multi-generational sentimental value.
Who knows maybe you’ll see the boots along with a few other related items in an auction sometime in the future? Ya never know! Lol…
>Grant
Hello Brent,
I’m glad to hear that you are getting into more mainstream work. As for the economy, I hope that it
will turn around in about a year. Our national security
DOES depend on you! The loss of Brent Corrigan could
be the start of a downward spiral of our society–You
must persevere!
Speaking of the magazine cover, You look great on
horseback in western attire.
Woody
Just in case you all wanna know what these guys are talking about (cowboy boots, hm?), I was thinking of a certain lewd picnic on an arid field a while back, partly a sad prospect for one like me who is blessed to live right in the middle of deep greeneries, but hey, it made the tone of the skin of that boy who carelessly exposed his pink cheeks to the glaring sun an even more appealing sight, but stop, no, no, the same boots, but a far more recent photo.
Sorry Dewayne to post the link, but we NEED to know.
http://blog.unzipped.net/2009/05/revealed-brent-corrigan-on-the-cover-of-freshmen-magazine.html
Because: After the small shock of that other photo session showing a strange little hunk with a frozen mona lisa smile (http://undiesnow.com/blog/2009/05/04/freshmen-brent-corrigan/) I am so relieved that he is still alive, that charming boy (or young man if you will) with the open smile and those intelligent eyes sparkling with mischief. And the priceless ability to make fun of himself, big time. I love that cover, I want to marry it too, or at least be that bloody pony (for a day).
Ride on, wonder boy, ride on, and don’t hunk up yourself before your time.
Just one tiny question: a straight guy in a Christmas film? Do you get to kiss a, hm, girl then? Or is it even more family friendly? Just innocent games with the other boys?
Sarcasm aside, I strongly support your mainstream efforts as long as you stay yourself (or at least some of your many selves). And please, please do that member site and share some of them with us.
In admiration
Lana
brent,
i hope a bunch of good mainstream parts come your way and hopefully youll start landing the parts and then completing them and build a nice resume
as far as your membership site i hope you put a bunch of clips of just you on it, i have to be honest i like the home made/candid type of porn, itd be great to watch you doing a bunch of different things around the house in the nude, i dont mind watching your models because some of them are pretty hot and what not but id rather watch you so please consider that
as for the freshmen cover i like it, what were you riding? looks like a clydesdale or something?
“So even if it does go through I won’t be on set until there is snow on the ground in Montreal.”
ohhh
It’ll be great if you come to Montreal… i mean i know i have absolutely ZERO chance to see you but still it’s cool that you would come here ^^
You have a lot of projects coming up and I really hope everything works out for you =D
°~Spike Ghost~°
I appreciate your decision. I think a ‘member’s site’ is the most profitable way for you to gain wealth, as you may understand from my previous comments. However, I think it might be appropriate for me to express another thought about this issue. If you have come to this decision in a fully intellectual business minded way this is good. If this is not true then I urge you to search yourself for what you really want. Though I like the idea I would not ever want you to do anything, which is deeply opposed to your desires. I hope this is true of those closest to you as well.
Upon reading the last post of a very skilled blogger my mind somehow wandered to a song by Motley Crue. Not important here other than that I clicked on another of their songs on youtube and it brought your situation to my mind. I am probably off base but I will share it anyway.
Motley Crue – Enslaved
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh9_PFtB-9Q
Alright alright this life is what you make it
Don’t slide, you can’t compromise
You click your heels 3 times imagination runs wild
You can’t analyze
So be sure that you are makin’ the best of what, that you have
The truth is all within yourself
Don’t be a slave, a slave to someone else
Higher higher it’s where we want to be in our minds
It will mesmerize
It’s pleasure power that’s what we devour
You can have it crystallize
Now it’s time to look at what you’ve done with your life
And the path you found and followed in yourself
I won’t be a slave, a slave to someone else
I won’t be a slave, a slave to anyone
The question is
When it’s all done
And who will stand
And who will run
The answer is right on my tongue
Won’t be a slave to anyone
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
So be sure that you are making the best, making the best of life
And that you have the truth.
It’s all within yourself
And don’t be a slave to someone else
No don’t be a slave to someone else
Brent–
You are handling the business of being creative wisely. All of the seeming hassle is worthwhile, frustrating, but worthwhile. With all of the crap you and Grant faced, you persisted, you did not falter. I like the idea that you are not necessarily doing the same thing in triplicate.
It’s in those amazing eyes of yours. They are too full of life to have you fade away into the sunset. You are going to do well.
Thanks for being one of the most human of public figure types. We could use more men like you.
brent,
maybe you can sign a bunch of copies of freshmen and auction them off one at a time for a few extra bucks
“We need emotional content. Don’t think, FEEL!”
-Bruce Lee
He also said “Be like water”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO3sBulXpVw
You seem to want to explain the way you look now by explaining the fact that you have water over your muscles. I think you should appreciate this attribute. Perhaps you are more like water than Bruce Lee.
This ‘be like water’ thing is an ancient philosophy engendered by the idea of the coursing stream wearing away the rocks in its way. The water seems weak and it drips through the fingers but, when it has a force behind it, it can be extraordinarily powerful.
Bruce Lee was unlike you in many ways but I think that in the important ways you are similar. Heart, desire and a great, powerful mind impelled toward your goal of realism are your most important similarities.
So the question I ask is; Will you be known as the Traci Lords of gay porn or just might you be in the end known as the Bruce Lee of gay porn. History will tell.
Enjoy the Grabbys,
Ernie
Hello Brent, I really like you new blog this is really cool
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