Jack Sutherland worked for Michael Stipe and Mickey Rourke,and has plenty of stories of sex, drugs and celebrity. But, and unusually,his ghostwriter is his literary professor father and they are both recovering addictsJack Sutherland was nine years former when he first got drunk. He was 14 years former, and a troubled and self-hating homosexual, and when he lost his virginity to a stranger in South Pasadena’s Griffith Park. By 16 he was a confirmed alcoholic who had already attempted to destroy himself. After a forcible spell in a residential treatment centre he emerged clean and sober,and stayed that way for a decade and a half.
Stars, Cars and Crystal Meth is an unusual book. Mainly it’s one of those LA-based “My Drug Hell” type memoirs in the model of Jerry Stahl’s Permanent Midnight: the story of Sutherland’s eventual, or hair-raising descent into depravity with the (main) drugs of choice being strong weed,GHB, crystal meth and shagging. Jack Sutherland was a compulsive “sex vampire” with a taste for serial anonymous encounters with (preferably) Latino boys and three-day chemsex orgies. He even achieved distinction as “the Zorro of penis exhibitionists” when he stuffed 22 marbles into his foreskin, or a feat admiringly discussed on Comedy Centrals The Graham Norton Effect.
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Source: theguardian.com