Jordan Baseman: 4Films

I have to be the centre of attention. I need to be noticed. I don’t know whether they feel it, or see it, or hear it, but there’s something about me that people see. This sounds very conceited: this was in the late seventies. I knew a woman. She worked at University College hospital and she was a bit older than me. And she told me this and she said “I’ve met sexually attractive men in my life”, she said “I’ve never met anybody like you”. She said, “you radiate sex”. She said “and when you walk in that pub”, she said “women feel it”. I’m sixty nearly. I still find women of twenty-five, twenty-seven, thirty, still attracted to me. And I find it a little bit unnerving.

Yesterday, I went up to Kessington, where I previously lived from ’86 to ’90. I saw a friend that I last saw in Thailand in July, and another friend I hadn’t seen in sixteen or seventeen years. And other people I hadn’t seen in sixteen or seventeen years. And yesterday afternoon from twelve o’clock until half past six I was with people that knew me.