I love Burroughs voice. I could listen to him for hours. A true genius of the 20th century. Thankfully, we have these interviews and audio interviews for future generations.
This man was a genius-maybe not in the conventional way that most people know,but he was a true original personality.It is hard for people to understand when you have a mind that never shuts down and is constantly scanning and trying to learn new things.I think the main thing that he lived for was knowledge.I can listen to him talk forever, he is such an interesting person to me.I named my band after his book-My band was called The Naked Lunch- and we played Steely Dan covers.
Cannot believe this man lived as long as he did considering all the chemicals he abused from 1944 with morphine,heroin,cocaine until his death in 1997,still hooked on methadone(plus he drank alcohol like a fish).53 years this dude went till the wheels fell off and the axles grinded into the pavement.Unbelievable.
Burroughs was a very well educated, self-educated, read and all in all an exemplary intelligent and clear-minded person, who I think knew a lot about human psycho-physics and of the way that 'machinery' operates, and yes, one would think exactly what you said, but, as far as junk is in question, he often said (I think he first made that claim in Junkie and repeated it many times afterwards) that in his opinion on he is in better health because of using junk', than he would have been had he not been using it half of his life. After his 83 years on this planet, and such statements one has to ask a question of revising the 'official' WHO stance on the matter hahahaha...but, off course, there's one thing we should/must take in consideration that Bill had some first class stuff, and didn't shoot up rat poison. Not too often anyway
I cannot help but feel that it's _such_ a shame that no-one thought to TV/Film interview him until his later years - after a lifetime of hard mischief! (and often by people he didn't know, or like - I nkow he was said to be friends with KA though) I'd *Love* to see him really on-form conversationally (as he was so renowned for being, in those Alt-Lit circles at that time) in a Video interview from around, say, 1949 - '69. - A great shame! (you get a real sense of it from the pieces wrote by Paul Bowles: "William Burroughs in Tangier" / Alan Ansen: "Whoever owns a frying pan owns Death" etc at this time)
He as not received the quarter of is influenced... Hello whiteout Burroughs , Kerouac, Ginsberg there wouldn't be any peace n love period that almost save the world
Don’t mess with a man who kicked heroin 97 times and shot his wife, got off, and later used the same gun to make art. The book, junkie was awesome.. precursor to NL. Easier read. This guy was a lyrical genius
Yea but he was an honest crimminal. He told the truth about eveything he did, while moralists could not bear to confess their timid sins until they were found out. When Conservatives, politicians, prieists or preachers are caught being human, all to human, it is a big scandel. There were no scandels in Bill's life, because everybody already knew.
"No society is free without criminals"-Asimov. Burroughs never built munitions or murdered innocent people at a wedding with flying robots. Most Americans keep sucking up the Netflix and ignoring police mass murder of citizens and they dare to call others criminals. America is truly an air conditioned nightmare,and Burroughs continues to be a force of insight and power for thought in this fucking horror show world.
I really like Bill, but one thing bothers me a bit. From reading about his life i got that he evaded going to jail quite a few times on different charges, but in "Junkie" when one of his friends (Roy or Herman, don't remember exactly) ends up in jail, and his lawyer comes to Bill and asks for money to buy a bond, Bill sends 2 bucks and says "if a man is going to do time he might as well start doing it". Sounds weird from a guy that didn't go to jail even after killing his wife..
True. Some people are just bullet proof. Most are not. People much younger than him, who lived like he died, including his son, died before he did. It's a good thing he continued to relate well to the young, because all his freinds kept dieing. His physeology, like his mind, are just one of the universes mysterys.
The rich son of the Burroughs family, longtime heroin addict, writer of degenerate drug addled smut, shit as art, etc., gets his CIA reward for his lifetime achievement for destruction of western civilization by being "honored" with attention and renown as an "artiste" with a showing of his doodling in a prestigious gallery in London. You can tell he's lying about everything by the look on his face.
An interesting interview, if an awkward one. Kathy probably thought she'd have more in common with Burroughs than she did. Whatever, we've all been there. When JG Ballard invited crazy fans into his house, they were always surprised to learn that the guy who'd written "Crash" was actually a boring middle-aged suburban gent who'd voted for Thatcher.
They were both formalists. I feel related to both of them. Content is another matter. Even there, they were both honest, often brutal and generally not dealing with mainstream culture, except in a critical sense. They both were drawn to visual elements that combined with text. I think they had quite a lot in common.
thanks for the interesting upload. -- this was recorded (broadcast?) WHEN ? and (taken from?) where? -- Please add to the description ! == (as always,) a PLAYLIST (linked-to from the vid's description) would be nice-to-have.
What up, legions of Burroughs fans. I'm surprised more of you aren't also (or aren't more vocally) Kathy Acker fans. Also, if it's Burrough's voice that drives you wild, I point you to (phenomenal) grungy hip-hop that samples him: Dalek's "Images of .44 Casings" (/watch?v=NOy-zABtc18). Um. So long, then?
Kathy Acker was an idiot who vouched for "alternative" medicine and paid the ultimate price for it, just like Steve Jobs and every other foolish white person who romanticizes non-"Western" medicine. It's sad to contemplate how many other people she dragged down that path with her big-mouthed naivety.
@@t.n.3819 My father was given 6 weeks to live after his Dr. diagnosed liver cancer. "Nothing more we can do." He said fuck this shit, I'm going macrobiotic - and bought himself another 18 months.
when i see ppl hurting themselfs to go into shops to get the new iphone i feel we reached a new bottom, we really where turned into numbers its a matter of time between the logic of the ones who rule and our new reality turns into new laws and the ones who dont fit this new world will be terminated, only empty producing consumers will have a place in this world, dont thing, just follow, produce buy, no need for art of critical thought process, everything can be easy, like a dream/go to sleep
You’re right... and it’s happening as we speak, people dismiss it as one big nonsense or conspiracy theory yet there’s the transhumanistic element within this social Darwinism via consumerism that many are not paying attention to. God bless you Mary, stay safe and ignore the mean people online. We all need God at this point!
He did spend time in jail. He just had the money to be able to buy himself out of bad situations. I think among the Beats there actually was a bit of respect paid for those who took the fall for crimes that were committed. When Ginsberg flipped a car in NY he was with Herbert Hunke. Hunke went to jail and did the time and Ginsberg never got charged. He did it out of love for Ginsberg. Burroughs was just lucky that he had deep pockets.
> He was a very tired and very honest man. tired, yes, but still dancing e.g. with Laurie Anderson, with 80+ years. == WHEN I BECOME DEATH - DEATH IS THE SEA FROM WHICH I GROW -- ? Burroughs
4:22 or around there, when he's talking about how he wants to make the reader see what he sees in the film. "I just want to make *him* see it..." then he suddenly and randomly adds "him OR HER!" Bill was trying to be a nice fella complimentary to the burgeoning feminist movement in his later years, you see .
Shan I think that, other than for comforting, nostalgic reasons, this is probably very true. Like most art "movements" however, the "Beats" only had three to four good exponents to start with; who were then surrounded by a coterie of "also rans". However, I also think it something of a misnomer grouping Burroughs in with the "Beats". Other than the fact that he was friends with the core group of people who originated the Beat "school", he had next to nothing in common with them: either as a writer or by sensibility. The Beats tended to be somewhat "Utopian", Burroughs was nihilistic and apocalyptic. The Beats were concerned with community, Burroughs was a somewhat isolationist individual. The Beats tended to express a Rousseau like "back to nature" primitivism, Burroughs wrote sci- fi. The Beats were, primarily, an American aesthetic, Burroughs' aesthetic was not particularly, - if at all, - concerned with America (remember, Burroughs spent from the early 50s through to the mid 70s, largely out of Northern America). The Beats tended to laud exhibitionist displays, Burroughs was formal and somewhat conservative in his public mannerisms. Most importantly, the quality, style, content, themes and approach of Burroughs' writing was entirely distinct from the typical Beat aesthetic and fit much more neatly with the European post modern art scene. Because of all this, I don't really think of Burroughs as being a "Beat" writer at all. To my mind, and like all great artists, he is somewhat "Sui Generis" and should be compared against the likes of Joyce, Beckett, Mcarthy, Celine, Genet, etc, etc as opposed to being bracketed in with a style, "school" or "group" of writers. Quite simply, Burroughs' writing - by and large - has survived the vagaries of 50s and 60s fashion and "counter-culture" style and stands on its own.
Beefheart1 Outstanding take on Burroughs! I agree; he should be compared with the likes of Beckett, Celine, etc.. I'm swamped with work, or I'd expound upon your great post.
The beefheart guy is quite right. For me , as someone born in 1989 and who came up with a predominately non white community (though im white) in an urban area, the primary beats were actually hard to comprehend after a certain point. Like beefheart said, kerouac and ginsberg were so americanized and also seeking acceptance i think, that oftentimes reading them wuld become depressing, because it was this vision of life that was so far from me. In a sense reading them was almost like reading, i dunno, Rober frost or something, at a certain point. It was like going into the past and also into a white, comfortable world and while that is sometimes fun it isn't really always the best, especially when you're not in it . Burroughs is ironically the most relatable of all in my opinion, from a non white urbanperspective! And the reason for this is because he was , I call him an "airport" kind of writer. He was very international and also to a degree he was interested in classics, but not american classics, rather british classics, which makes all the difference. There is something more european about him. He's the most european of the 20th century ameriacn writers I think , in a huge way. He was very " cosmopolitan "which many americans stil aren't, even in new york. He was parisian to me in many ways. Note Brion Gysin who literally left canada and became a lifelong parisian. Gysin is like burroughs shadow. Burroughs if you look at him is so interesting becaues he sort of operated in two extremes: He loved urban travel across international locales, and then when he came back to america at the end, he didn't go to the suburb society, like kerouac loved, but rather to Kansas . So he was always sort of operating at an extreme, always "outside". Even hunter s thompson is almost , in my opinion, too bogged down by that one time period in which he wrote, as well as a sense of being connected to this specific american society of outlaw bikers. Burroughs escaped it, not completely, but in a large way. I can read him and not automatically have to also think of the 50s, or the 60s, or the 70s, et cetera, and personally I find that relieving. He detached himself from his time period and I think the best authors always do that. I think hemingway did it too personally, with certain books. Old man and the sea really almost seems like it could have hapened at any point in a sense. I think those are the best styles sometims. but thats just me. I think yu could read burroughs at any age. He matured alongside his work. Kerouac is a different story. you read him when you want to feel young you know.
Man was crazy talented. Stress the term CRAZY but talented nonetheless. Despite all the heavy drug use. Or maybe because of all of the heavy drug use. Funny how the world works huh??🤔
I was performing at the Melkweg, Amsterdam, 1981, as a Musician/Poet. Burroughs was also on the event. Some of the Poets were in the Green Room, and a Dutch Poet beckoned to me tomeet Burrows and said that I was the World's greatest flutist. I said "Correction ! The greatest flutist in the Universe". Burroughs looked at me a little bit sideways, we then sat down and shared a Joint.
Yeah, that would be one of them...along with his son emulating him in the worst way possible by drinking himself to death, or being hooked on opiates for many years of his life, what's your point man? I think that's what he meant
Gun Club met Shotgun paint. Art Spray paint punk rock meets the White L.A. blues explosions Jon Spencer and brother Jeffery Lee Pierce, part time Junkie, bad ass drunkard
He looks like a cross between my paternal grandfather, Peter Cushing and Fred Phelps. That was an insulting thing to say about my grandfather, Peter Cushing and William S. Burroughs, and I apologize.
shrimpfarmersunion it wasn't a joke. It was a game of Russian Roulette that they'd always do to each other when anyone new was around, to freak the guest out. Unfortunately rather than the usual empty gun there was one in the chamber & Joan got it in the head.
@Magic Penny Productions Just noticed the pyramid. Damn! He was in on manipulating the population too! That must be why he knew so much about it. ruclips.net/video/uEeWvoXFets/видео.html
+Eric Wolfe I think she actually knew and was inspired by him and other Beat writers very much. His work is a hard thing to "get" in a way. Or at least when you try to explain it it seems elusive.
+Eric Wolfe I disagree. She refers very well to his previous writing and work and his ideas. He's obviously engaged and interested to be talking with someone who asks intelligent, respectful questions.
![Bacon Meets Burroughs [Compiled & Coiled Edit]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/2HZPvg671R0/mqdefault.jpg)
I love Burroughs voice. I could listen to him for hours. A true genius of the 20th century. Thankfully, we have these interviews and audio interviews for future generations.
I love the way he says "in '82" and then adds "1982", he he he
This man was a genius-maybe not in the conventional way that most people know,but he was a true original personality.It is hard for people to understand when you have a mind that never shuts down and is constantly scanning and trying to learn new things.I think the main thing that he lived for was knowledge.I can listen to him talk forever, he is such an interesting person to me.I named my band after his book-My band was called The Naked Lunch- and we played Steely Dan covers.
Cannot believe this man lived as long as he did considering all the chemicals he abused from 1944 with morphine,heroin,cocaine until his death in 1997,still hooked on methadone(plus he drank alcohol like a fish).53 years this dude went till the wheels fell off and the axles grinded into the pavement.Unbelievable.
Burroughs was a very well educated, self-educated, read and all in all an exemplary intelligent and clear-minded person, who I think knew a lot about human psycho-physics and of the way that 'machinery' operates, and yes, one would think exactly what you said, but, as far as junk is in question, he often said (I think he first made that claim in Junkie and repeated it many times afterwards) that in his opinion on he is in better health because of using junk', than he would have been had he not been using it half of his life.
After his 83 years on this planet, and such statements one has to ask a question of revising the 'official' WHO stance on the matter hahahaha...but, off course, there's one thing we should/must take in consideration that Bill had some first class stuff, and didn't shoot up rat poison. Not too often anyway
Better drugs back then
53? That's no qualification for living "as long as he did". That's dying young imo. Edit: and look how old he looks here, like he's in his late 70s.
@@riteasrain first commenter probably meant to say 83, which was how old WSB was when he died
Ljudi Čovjek
Also an abysmal father and a selfish black-out drunk on the very few occasions he ever got off heroin.
9 years later and were still watching you old Bill
The biggest influence of my life
He has such a cool voice...
Most heroin users eventually sound similar what his voice sounded like
I love you William
I cannot help but feel that it's _such_ a shame that no-one thought to TV/Film interview him until his later years - after a lifetime of hard mischief! (and often by people he didn't know, or like - I nkow he was said to be friends with KA though)
I'd *Love* to see him really on-form conversationally (as he was so renowned for being, in those Alt-Lit circles at that time) in a Video interview from around, say, 1949 - '69. - A great shame!
(you get a real sense of it from the pieces wrote by Paul Bowles: "William Burroughs in Tangier" / Alan Ansen: "Whoever owns a frying pan owns Death" etc at this time)
He as not received the quarter of is influenced... Hello whiteout Burroughs , Kerouac, Ginsberg there wouldn't be any peace n love period that almost save the world
10:21 - "the printer, who didn't read English incidentally - and made fewer mistakes in consequence" HAHAHAAAA!!!
William was also good friends with Francis Bacon.
Wish he was my grandpa.
Are you sure that he isn't?
blood & guts should be a movie now!
Don’t mess with a man who kicked heroin 97 times and shot his wife, got off, and later used the same gun to make art. The book, junkie was awesome.. precursor to NL. Easier read. This guy was a lyrical genius
Not to mention cutting off the tip of his left pinky finger with a knife in order to impress a guy he liked….Yikes!! (True story)
Yea but he was an honest crimminal. He told the truth about eveything he did, while moralists could not bear to confess their timid sins until they were found out. When Conservatives, politicians, prieists or preachers are caught being human, all to human, it is a big scandel. There were no scandels in Bill's life, because everybody already knew.
Ethan Davidson
Well put.
"No society is free without criminals"-Asimov.
Burroughs never built munitions or murdered innocent people at a wedding with flying robots. Most Americans keep sucking up the Netflix and ignoring police mass murder of citizens and they dare to call others criminals. America is truly an air conditioned nightmare,and Burroughs continues to be a force of insight and power for thought in this fucking horror show world.
Here, Here. So well articulated.
Nice
@@azimovist yes that's a good way to put it the usa is an air conditioned nightmare.
He is just my hero now at 45 years old . Just like metal bands where soon important. Mostly. Ozzy's and metallica...
I really like Bill, but one thing bothers me a bit. From reading about his life i got that he evaded going to jail quite a few times on different charges, but in "Junkie" when one of his friends (Roy or Herman, don't remember exactly) ends up in jail, and his lawyer comes to Bill and asks for money to buy a bond, Bill sends 2 bucks and says "if a man is going to do time he might as well start doing it". Sounds weird from a guy that didn't go to jail even after killing his wife..
True. Some people are just bullet proof. Most are not. People much younger than him, who lived like he died, including his son, died before he did. It's a good thing he continued to relate well to the young, because all his freinds kept dieing. His physeology, like his mind, are just one of the universes mysterys.
Legendary guy.
I love his shaky voice, RIP you old reprobate
The rich son of the Burroughs family, longtime heroin addict, writer of degenerate drug addled smut, shit as art, etc., gets his CIA reward for his lifetime achievement for destruction of western civilization by being "honored" with attention and renown as an "artiste" with a showing of his doodling in a prestigious gallery in London. You can tell he's lying about everything by the look on his face.
An interesting interview, if an awkward one. Kathy probably thought she'd have more in common with Burroughs than she did. Whatever, we've all been there. When JG Ballard invited crazy fans into his house, they were always surprised to learn that the guy who'd written "Crash" was actually a boring middle-aged suburban gent who'd voted for Thatcher.
They were both formalists. I feel related to both of them. Content is another matter. Even there, they were both honest, often brutal and generally not dealing with mainstream culture, except in a critical sense. They both were drawn to visual elements that combined with text. I think they had quite a lot in common.
The question is WHY he did vote for a fascist.... ok....
JG Ballard was not boring at all in daily life ....
steeped in the dark arts, extremely intelligent, inspirational, master head
david floyd-hoddy
Abysmal father, junky, black out drunk...
@@kelman727 it's almost like humans are dualistic by nature... hmm...
Life lesson no. 245: Don't mess with a man who paints with a shotgun.
#223
Yes the attraction was the power of truth
icon of the beat world and beyond the wild blue yonder.
miss u man...
Suffering Genius!
This guy invented the heavy metal (technically).
The heavy metal addict...
The Master @ Work.
Break through in grey room.
thanks for the interesting upload.
--
this was recorded (broadcast?) WHEN ? and (taken from?) where? -- Please add to the description !
==
(as always,) a PLAYLIST (linked-to from the vid's description) would be nice-to-have.
What up, legions of Burroughs fans. I'm surprised more of you aren't also (or aren't more vocally) Kathy Acker fans. Also, if it's Burrough's voice that drives you wild, I point you to (phenomenal) grungy hip-hop that samples him: Dalek's "Images of .44 Casings" (/watch?v=NOy-zABtc18). Um. So long, then?
ministry: NWO, just one fix,...
duran duran: wild boys (no voice-over)
Kathy Acker was an idiot who vouched for "alternative" medicine and paid the ultimate price for it, just like Steve Jobs and every other foolish white person who romanticizes non-"Western" medicine. It's sad to contemplate how many other people she dragged down that path with her big-mouthed naivety.
Agree she is also a great writer who passed on way to early.
@@t.n.3819 My father was given 6 weeks to live after his Dr. diagnosed liver cancer. "Nothing more we can do." He said fuck this shit, I'm going macrobiotic - and bought himself another 18 months.
when i see ppl hurting themselfs to go into shops to get the new iphone i feel we reached a new bottom, we really where turned into numbers its a matter of time between the logic of the ones who rule and our new reality turns into new laws and the ones who dont fit this new world will be terminated, only empty producing consumers will have a place in this world, dont thing, just follow, produce buy, no need for art of critical thought process, everything can be easy, like a dream/go to sleep
windcrys mary
You have problems.
You’re right... and it’s happening as we speak, people dismiss it as one big nonsense or conspiracy theory yet there’s the transhumanistic element within this social Darwinism via consumerism that many are not paying attention to. God bless you Mary, stay safe and ignore the mean people online. We all need God at this point!
Touché
Mr. Burroughs predicted today's CoronaVirus in exact detail, but 1 must uncover the true message...R. Roemer
Kathy looks a little starstruck.
From brain to hand written on paper is felt by the reader _ everyone has their own frequency _though that frequency can be copied some
Anyone know the year of this interview? Thanks for posting.
He did spend time in jail. He just had the money to be able to buy himself out of bad situations. I think among the Beats there actually was a bit of respect paid for those who took the fall for crimes that were committed. When Ginsberg flipped a car in NY he was with Herbert Hunke. Hunke went to jail and did the time and Ginsberg never got charged. He did it out of love for Ginsberg. Burroughs was just lucky that he had deep pockets.
subsamadhi l
Deep pockets & crooked judges will always be in season.
his parents bought him out of trouble many times. also gave him a monthly allowance until he was…50
> He was a very tired and very honest man.
tired, yes, but still dancing e.g. with Laurie Anderson, with 80+ years.
==
WHEN I BECOME DEATH - DEATH IS THE SEA FROM WHICH I GROW
-- ? Burroughs
Uncle Bill
Does this get more interesting in pts. 2 and 3, because this is like listening to ASMR.
4:22 or around there, when he's talking about how he wants to make the reader see what he sees in the film. "I just want to make *him* see it..." then he suddenly and randomly adds "him OR HER!" Bill was trying to be a nice fella complimentary to the burgeoning feminist movement in his later years, you see .
Does WB have a southern american accent? Reading his biography in Junkie he described himself as a true Southern american.
Missouri.
RobKirbyson14 I love Southern accent is really cool.
Willy mad tho
The worst thing you can do to most "Beat" writers, is to reread them at age 40.
Shan I think that, other than for comforting, nostalgic reasons, this is probably very true. Like most art "movements" however, the "Beats" only had three to four good exponents to start with; who were then surrounded by a coterie of "also rans".
However, I also think it something of a misnomer grouping Burroughs in with the "Beats". Other than the fact that he was friends with the core group of people who originated the Beat "school", he had next to nothing in common with them: either as a writer or by sensibility. The Beats tended to be somewhat "Utopian", Burroughs was nihilistic and apocalyptic. The Beats were concerned with community, Burroughs was a somewhat isolationist individual. The Beats tended to express a Rousseau like "back to nature" primitivism, Burroughs wrote sci- fi. The Beats were, primarily, an American aesthetic, Burroughs' aesthetic was not particularly, - if at all, - concerned with America (remember, Burroughs spent from the early 50s through to the mid 70s, largely out of Northern America). The Beats tended to laud exhibitionist displays, Burroughs was formal and somewhat conservative in his public mannerisms. Most importantly, the quality, style, content, themes and approach of Burroughs' writing was entirely distinct from the typical Beat aesthetic and fit much more neatly with the European post modern art scene. Because of all this, I don't really think of Burroughs as being a "Beat" writer at all. To my mind, and like all great artists, he is somewhat "Sui Generis" and should be compared against the likes of Joyce, Beckett, Mcarthy, Celine, Genet, etc, etc as opposed to being bracketed in with a style, "school" or "group" of writers. Quite simply, Burroughs' writing - by and large - has survived the vagaries of 50s and 60s fashion and "counter-culture" style and stands on its own.
Beefheart1 Outstanding take on Burroughs! I agree; he should be compared with the likes of Beckett, Celine, etc.. I'm swamped with work, or I'd expound upon your great post.
The beefheart guy is quite right. For me , as someone born in 1989 and who came up with a predominately non white community (though im white) in an urban area, the primary beats were actually hard to comprehend after a certain point. Like beefheart said, kerouac and ginsberg were so americanized and also seeking acceptance i think, that oftentimes reading them wuld become depressing, because it was this vision of life that was so far from me. In a sense reading them was almost like reading, i dunno, Rober frost or something, at a certain point. It was like going into the past and also into a white, comfortable world and while that is sometimes fun it isn't really always the best, especially when you're not in it .
Burroughs is ironically the most relatable of all in my opinion, from a non white urbanperspective! And the reason for this is because he was , I call him an "airport" kind of writer. He was very international and also to a degree he was interested in classics, but not american classics, rather british classics, which makes all the difference. There is something more european about him. He's the most european of the 20th century ameriacn writers I think , in a huge way. He was very " cosmopolitan "which many americans stil aren't, even in new york. He was parisian to me in many ways. Note Brion Gysin who literally left canada and became a lifelong parisian. Gysin is like burroughs shadow.
Burroughs if you look at him is so interesting becaues he sort of operated in two extremes: He loved urban travel across international locales, and then when he came back to america at the end, he didn't go to the suburb society, like kerouac loved, but rather to Kansas . So he was always sort of operating at an extreme, always "outside". Even hunter s thompson is almost , in my opinion, too bogged down by that one time period in which he wrote, as well as a sense of being connected to this specific american society of outlaw bikers.
Burroughs escaped it, not completely, but in a large way. I can read him and not automatically have to also think of the 50s, or the 60s, or the 70s, et cetera, and personally I find that relieving. He detached himself from his time period and I think the best authors always do that. I think hemingway did it too personally, with certain books. Old man and the sea really almost seems like it could have hapened at any point in a sense. I think those are the best styles sometims. but thats just me. I think yu could read burroughs at any age. He matured alongside his work.
Kerouac is a different story. you read him when you want to feel young you know.
Balderdash !
Kimson Bonney well said!
i think they both transitioned the same year.
Man was crazy talented. Stress the term CRAZY but talented nonetheless. Despite all the heavy drug use. Or maybe because of all of the heavy drug use. Funny how the world works huh??🤔
I was performing at the Melkweg, Amsterdam, 1981, as a Musician/Poet.
Burroughs was also on the event.
Some of the Poets were in the Green Room, and a Dutch Poet beckoned to me tomeet Burrows and said that I was the World's greatest flutist.
I said "Correction ! The greatest flutist in the Universe".
Burroughs looked at me a little bit sideways,
we then sat down and shared a Joint.
intresting.what year is this
1988
i juiced to read the last
page of a crimestorymagszine
before
i
ate it.
Yeah, that would be one of them...along with his son emulating him in the worst way possible by drinking himself to death, or being hooked on opiates for many years of his life, what's your point man? I think that's what he meant
protect the aged. I know that trying to get this published isv a diffferent story because they are mostly fully humpped upn against their influence.
scrap sgsindt mrtsl werk. i hope that he would understand
How many times does she say "Ahhhhh"?
Gun Club met Shotgun paint. Art
Spray paint punk rock meets the White L.A. blues explosions
Jon Spencer and brother Jeffery Lee Pierce, part time Junkie, bad ass drunkard
He looks like a cross between my paternal grandfather, Peter Cushing and Fred Phelps. That was an insulting thing to say about my grandfather, Peter Cushing and William S. Burroughs, and I apologize.
"a giant collaboration of very tragic events", among which the wife he shot in the head as a drunken joke.
shrimpfarmersunion it wasn't a joke. It was a game of Russian Roulette that they'd always do to each other when anyone new was around, to freak the guest out. Unfortunately rather than the usual empty gun there was one in the chamber & Joan got it in the head.
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Sounds just like lou reed
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throws a masonic sign as he opens his first sentence
@Magic Penny Productions
Just noticed the pyramid. Damn! He was in on manipulating the population too! That must be why he knew so much about it.
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Lol oh do shut up ffs. You people get everywhere and you're hilarious.
no remorse for the wife killed? why? genius is superman
she's nervous and doesn't know his work very well...
+Eric Wolfe I think she actually knew and was inspired by him and other Beat writers very much. His work is a hard thing to "get" in a way. Or at least when you try to explain it it seems elusive.
+Eric Wolfe I disagree. She refers very well to his previous writing and work and his ideas. He's obviously engaged and interested to be talking with someone who asks intelligent, respectful questions.
Not even Burroughs knew his work very well.
She is one of the closest persons, to his vision, in a latter age, more than Foucault. Could not be a better interviewer than k A.
throws a masonic sign in his opening sentence--Harvard son.
what on earth are you talking about?
Magic Penny Productions very good obs.he did give the sine