Ahhh so glad I found you. I love to hear "the old man" speak, whether it is him reading his own stuff, music to my soul, or him in Drug Store Cowboy. I miss him being on the planet 😭
For what it's worth, my own experience in this vein: fifteen or sixteen years ago I was writing a novel, and there was a scene in which my central character was sitting in front of a microfiche machine, looking for a particular newspaper headline. I made up a few random headlines for him to roll past before he found what he was looking for, and one of them was: "Fire destroys Philadelphia Street home". One day in early 2009 I opened the morning paper to see a headline about a house fire in a neighboring town. Sure enough, it read: "Fire destroys home on Philadelphia Street in Muscle Shoals". I had not known, at the time I was writing the book, that there *was* a Philadelphia Street in Muscle Shoals. Coincidence? Maybe. Food for thought? Certainly.
It's funny you wrote this. I had something similar happen to me. I wrote about a man I saw on the street, snorting tobacco up his nostril. On the floor. I wrote his life story that day. Imagining it. When I talked to him a few days later, most of what I wrote from my imagination, was true, from simply watching him snort tobacco up his nose next to the church. Strange...
@@JayTheAuthor Art can plug you into something bigger :) Keith Richards used to say that songwriting is like being a radio receiver picking up signals, and I've always liked that analogy.
@@JayTheAuthor No problem. I've written some songs but they felt like gifts: pieces that just came to me (whole, or nearly so) rather than things I had to labor over. It's very much like what Keith Richards said, or the way that Burroughs described his moments of inspiration while writing "Naked Lunch." There's a spontaneity that feels almost eerily good.
I've also uploaded a second Naropa Burroughs lecture from 1976 that complements this one: "William S. Burroughs lecture,July 20,1976,on paranormal,EVP,text+tape cut-ups,prognostication." Plus an entertaining, short (9 min.) Burroughs reading for animal lovers: "The Cat Inside - William S. Burroughs,alternate early draft excerpts,1985 reading" with material not included in the published book.
Thank you for sharing. 5 years ago I didnt know about burroughs' work. I actually heard about him in an Iggy Pop interview. Point is, im sure many people will visit this video for years to come!
I was a student at Naropa in the 90s, and a student of Allen Ginsberg as well as a teaching assistant. The usual way that a lecture was recorded was literally with a cassette tape recorder and sometimes a mic. Someone like William would have an amp and maybe a professional set-up but it was nothing too fancy.
"Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk?" Material [with Michael Franti] made a great album from this called "Spare ass Annie..." Superb
Read most of his work. One book of essays, with question and answer chapters. Reall stood out to me when I read it years ago. The depth of this book, philosophically, it's psychological prowess, and the sheer amount of different subjects covered made this book for me an instant classic. Within his voice I hear a man of such intelligence that he was often misunderstood. Died on my 25th birthday. Aug 2nd '97. I love his quote, perhaps the best: MAN? WHAT IS MAN? MAN IS A BAD ANIMAL. "The priest" SO before his time🏴👍🏻
indeed he did. Its on the back of every one of WSB's paperbacks. this is the sort of promoter every young writer should be looking out for. Buy her a few drinks when you meet her. @@libornovotny9637
Animal lovers will enjoy this other short (9 min.) Burroughs reading I've also upped to yt: "The Cat Inside - William S. Burroughs, alternate early draft excerpts, 1985 reading": ruclips.net/video/7IppLHP7pvI/видео.html
I've just upped a new, short (5 min.) Burroughs lecture excerpt on his fave "junkie lit" addict authors, here: ruclips.net/video/u9glD7Z-mUg/видео.html on Alex Trocchi, Jean Cocteau, & De Quincey. Plus, Burroughs talks about his own books Junky, & Naked Lunch.
Digging into to the dangerously self deceptive , self destructive , /narcissistic/ nature of Burroughs's expressionism leaves a trail of an inextricable enigma behind
I don't know why. All I know is the original recording from the Naropa archives has the same audio drop-out at that same spot. I think their recording system was primitive, & it shows in spots.
he spell it out well. Hope the makers of the film, The Big Lie, have the balls to acknowledge where they got the name. Hasn't been seeable here yet. Yet I doubt it.
I spent most of my life on Heroin - if you like Burroughs, you might like my writing which you can see here: chrisdangerfield.substack.com/p/whatever-happened-to-hunting
Nick (the Greek) Dandolos was a high-stakes poker player. Thru his astoundingly high-end abbilities as a player he rose up to riches up to 500million dollars (as wikipedia quotes). Also it quotes that he donated 20mil for charity and other altruistic endeavours - not so common among gamblers (IMO), but as it often goes with that lot, he ended up playing at 5$ tables and died a pauper without a dime to his name - inducted in poker hall-of-fame non the less...there's a article on him on wikipedia as is with nearly (I'd say in life as general) all things in which you don't/can't get the reference about lately. Wikipedia rulzz ;)
Synchronicity exists as does a cognitive hive mind AI consciousness. Thurston Moore & baby with BB. Imagine seeing Moore’s wife Kim helping out in a restaurant in the Chelsea Mkt b4 her book came out. I couldn’t think of her name. Like now. Saw her again & asked her if she was Kim with SY. She said no. It was her. Like a few other semi famous ppl answering my stupid Q, she denied who she was. Michio Kushi the same b4 he died. His denial was in another store same mall. This is the zeitgeist lining me up for, “yeah, they denied it bc you imagined the whole thing to make yourself important by dropping a name.” Which blends nicely with YT & the troll swamp it’s been turned into peaking but not ending in Nov 2016.
Hello, could someone write me the name of the book and author, where he talks about the wishing machine. I'm watching the video with a Spanish translator, and I get: Bhaiji Harry, it's cold at the borders. But I don't know if it's correct, since I can't find anything about it. I do not know if it is a translation problem or there is no trace of information on the web about this book. Thanks for sharing! Nice to have found these videos.
@@PERFECTGINGERBASTARD I wonder when the edit was made... on the physical tape or within the digital file. Seems like a mystery of sorts now that you've put it that way.
@@PERFECTGINGERBASTARD The toilet seat was swirling, and it was fairly hypnotizing. These demons are so powerful. I also saw what looked like a ghost or shadow creature on the floor next to the toilet, outlined by a translucent silver. I clamped my fingers together lightly and the insect crumbled like dust, it's legs floating spirally to the ground. I tried to kill myself last november with a pistol but the demons moved the gun to the back of my head when the gun went off through my couch. It is the worst of possessions. It was kind of a dusty bathroom, and there were glowing insects attracted to the dust. I put my finger on the ground, and let one crawl onto my finger.. They looked like ants, mini spiders, and other insects which probably don't exist, and they looked bioluminescent. Eventually I was close to the turnstiles and finally got myself into a position in front of one of the turnstiles, I then noticed that one supporter had entered the turnstile but was involved in a conversation with the bloke on the gate. I have been possessed for almost 4 years by demons. They talk to me every minute of the day commenting on all of my thoughts. The policeman then grabbed hold of the supporter by the arm and tried to push him out of the turnstile entrance but with the crowd there was nowhere for the policeman to go, so he turned said something to the gateman and let the supporter enter through. The demons have taken control of my soul (mind, will, & emotions),& my physical body. The demons do not let me sleep. What the problem was I don't know because I couldn't hear anything, but it was obvious that even at this early stage the police had no control. I examined it more closely, and it's movements were that exactly like a bugs would be. It had feelers, and was 'feeling' me. He was completely 2-dimensional, and appeared to be asking for my help, though I couldn't actually hear anything he was saying. Suddenly the policeman who was stood next to the turnstile turned and entered the turnstile and started talking to the gateman. But they give me their power to function without sleep. I finally peed (at least more than I had yet) and felt immensely better, though I felt sorry for the shadow creature. They want me to suffer every minute of the day.
Uploader Hermesacat in his upload details which is always a good idea to read: "This recording comes from Naropa's audio archives available free to stream & download at archive.org. There the recording is listed as: "William S. Burroughs class on the technology and ethic of wishing - Part 1 (June 25, 1986)", plus Part 2. I've joined both parts together in this YT upload & edited out nothing. The short silent gap somewhere in the middle is found in the original too."
@@marko1978st I accept that - but SOMETHING was magically edited out right? All censorship is despicable. Also, anyone who knows anything knows Bill's opinions on guns. Big second amendment guy.
About writing your dreams down you wind up dreaming about your writing about dreams. I don't believe dreams to be predictions, not even when that thing happens, try and calculate all the times it doesn't happen not concentrate on when it does.
Karl Consiglio But the likelihood of some of those predictions is just unfathomable. Add to that the fact that you can sometimes discover something (of real world utility) in a dream that you didn't know when conscious. This makes me believe there's much more at play then what we can explain rationally. I completely sympathise that it's a tough idea to get your head round though, since there's no real way to get scientific evidence to prove it's the case and it's comparable to say believing in miracles. None the less I know that dreams can be predictions, whatever the implications of that fact may be.
Dreams, as a whole, are of course mystical and mysterious, but in general it seems obvious to me that dreams are simply the 'airing out' of your subconscious. As you let you mind free to roam it picks up on little moments from your immediate and not so immediate past as they appear and roll along like clouds.
I agree with u partly, I don't think they a full on predictions, more visual metaphoric guidance. What u see is not to be taken at face value. Rather, to be worked out to try understand their true meaning? Who knows? The man was an unique individual. 🏴👍🏻
what's meant here with "sterner" (or "stirner" ?)..around min 5 or so.. Anyone knows.. ? I have at least 3 - completely different - interpretations in mind.. ^-.
anecdote about danger of guns being based on false evidence, example being some legal owner/ user who does something, we know not what. a lot can happen in 1 minute 10 seconds. this guy does seem to attract trouble: lives in End of World place, educated at Alamo, bomb place, ETC. read the book.
As if you struggle in maintaining understanding of Burroughs lectures in real-time..As If! Dennis Reynolds is capable of dryly accurate recollections. Hehe
I have a CD box set of his recorded readings but it's amazing to find something new. Thanks, and may Ah Pook bless you! 😊
Hey you could upload them ? I bet there’s lots in that box set that many people haven’t heard be. 🙏
Ahhh so glad I found you. I love to hear "the old man" speak, whether it is him reading his own stuff, music to my soul, or him in Drug Store Cowboy. I miss him being on the planet 😭
For what it's worth, my own experience in this vein: fifteen or sixteen years ago I was writing a novel, and there was a scene in which my central character was sitting in front of a microfiche machine, looking for a particular newspaper headline. I made up a few random headlines for him to roll past before he found what he was looking for, and one of them was: "Fire destroys Philadelphia Street home". One day in early 2009 I opened the morning paper to see a headline about a house fire in a neighboring town. Sure enough, it read: "Fire destroys home on Philadelphia Street in Muscle Shoals". I had not known, at the time I was writing the book, that there *was* a Philadelphia Street in Muscle Shoals.
Coincidence? Maybe. Food for thought? Certainly.
It's funny you wrote this. I had something similar happen to me. I wrote about a man I saw on the street, snorting tobacco up his nostril. On the floor. I wrote his life story that day. Imagining it. When I talked to him a few days later, most of what I wrote from my imagination, was true, from simply watching him snort tobacco up his nose next to the church. Strange...
@@JayTheAuthor Art can plug you into something bigger :) Keith Richards used to say that songwriting is like being a radio receiver picking up signals, and I've always liked that analogy.
@@jonathanmitchell9886 That's a beautiful way to look at it :) I will look into Keith Richards! Thanks for sharing Jonathan
@@JayTheAuthor No problem. I've written some songs but they felt like gifts: pieces that just came to me (whole, or nearly so) rather than things I had to labor over. It's very much like what Keith Richards said, or the way that Burroughs described his moments of inspiration while writing "Naked Lunch." There's a spontaneity that feels almost eerily good.
Wow,,,the under rated or noted power of our subconscious mind!!
"Wishers should be made of sterner stuff!!" love it!
A genius I discovered to late in life.
*too
@@BurtTurbolol
Somebody tell me what Naked Lunch was really about.
I've also uploaded a second Naropa Burroughs lecture from 1976 that complements this one: "William S. Burroughs lecture,July 20,1976,on paranormal,EVP,text+tape cut-ups,prognostication." Plus an entertaining, short (9 min.) Burroughs reading for animal lovers: "The Cat Inside - William S. Burroughs,alternate early draft excerpts,1985 reading" with material not included in the published book.
Thank you for sharing. 5 years ago I didnt know about burroughs' work. I actually heard about him in an Iggy Pop interview. Point is, im sure many people will visit this video for years to come!
I was a student at Naropa in the 90s, and a student of Allen Ginsberg as well as a teaching assistant. The usual way that a lecture was recorded was literally with a cassette tape recorder and sometimes a mic. Someone like William would have an amp and maybe a professional set-up but it was nothing too fancy.
28:22 William S. Burroughs with Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth.
"Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk?"
Material [with Michael Franti] made a great album from this called "Spare ass Annie..."
Superb
I used to have that CD. What a superb recording!!
+Hermescat Thank you so much for this, and for all of the other Burroughs videos you've posted!
Read most of his work. One book of essays, with question and answer chapters. Reall stood out to me when I read it years ago. The depth of this book, philosophically, it's psychological prowess, and the sheer amount of different subjects covered made this book for me an instant classic. Within his voice I hear a man of such intelligence that he was often misunderstood. Died on my 25th birthday. Aug 2nd '97.
I love his quote, perhaps the best:
MAN? WHAT IS MAN?
MAN IS A BAD ANIMAL.
"The priest" SO before his time🏴👍🏻
Norman Mailer said that W.S.Burroughs is possibly the one author possibly possesed by Genius.
indeed he did. Its on the back of every one of WSB's paperbacks. this is the sort of promoter every young writer should be looking out for. Buy her a few drinks when you meet her. @@libornovotny9637
Thank you for posting this.
Thank you, keep uploading!
I love how dope he sounds in this recording, and his small ramblings that tail off, you can hear his high is carrying him 💯
Actually, I think he's sipping a drink.
Animal lovers will enjoy this other short (9 min.) Burroughs reading I've also upped to yt:
"The Cat Inside - William S. Burroughs, alternate early draft excerpts, 1985 reading":
ruclips.net/video/7IppLHP7pvI/видео.html
I've just upped a new, short (5 min.) Burroughs lecture excerpt on his fave "junkie lit" addict authors, here: ruclips.net/video/u9glD7Z-mUg/видео.html on Alex Trocchi, Jean Cocteau, & De Quincey. Plus, Burroughs talks about his own books Junky, & Naked Lunch.
Thanks for sharing, awesome !
It's called opening the portal
I enjoy the picture of him and Tom Waits
and the one w/Thurston Moore & child!
Digging into to the dangerously self deceptive , self destructive , /narcissistic/ nature of Burroughs's expressionism leaves a trail of an inextricable enigma behind
Allen Ginsberg and James Grauerholz are in the 'class' too.
Drugstore cowboy
Great man I was on my to visit him when he passed
Future legends with events...window is famous...fab 4
I don't know why. All I know is the original recording from the Naropa archives has the same audio drop-out at that same spot. I think their recording system was primitive, & it shows in spots.
primitive as good or bad or 1986?
29:05 techniques of The Big Lie
he spell it out well. Hope the makers of the film, The Big Lie, have the balls to acknowledge where they got the name. Hasn't been seeable here yet. Yet I doubt it.
at 31:21 ...isn't that Thurston Moore w/his & Kim Gordon's child, standing next to Bill?? i know Burroughs & Sonic Youth did something together.
Yep
I spent most of my life on Heroin - if you like Burroughs, you might like my writing which you can see here: chrisdangerfield.substack.com/p/whatever-happened-to-hunting
1:40 Who is "Nick the Greek"? I don't get that reference. Would be cool if someone could explain it to me.
Nick (the Greek) Dandolos was a high-stakes poker player.
Thru his astoundingly high-end abbilities as a player he rose up to riches up to 500million dollars (as wikipedia quotes). Also it quotes that he donated 20mil for charity and other altruistic endeavours - not so common among gamblers (IMO), but as it often goes with that lot, he ended up playing at 5$ tables and died a pauper without a dime to his name - inducted in poker hall-of-fame non the less...there's a article on him on wikipedia as is with nearly (I'd say in life as general) all things in which you don't/can't get the reference about lately.
Wikipedia rulzz ;)
@@ljudicovjek6092 Thanks, that's interesting.
any lowdown sleazy crook. Racist isn't it?
Synchronicity exists as does a cognitive hive mind AI consciousness. Thurston Moore & baby with BB. Imagine seeing Moore’s wife Kim helping out in a restaurant in the Chelsea Mkt b4 her book came out. I couldn’t think of her name. Like now. Saw her again & asked her if she was Kim with SY. She said no. It was her. Like a few other semi famous ppl answering my stupid Q, she denied who she was. Michio Kushi the same b4 he died. His denial was in another store same mall. This is the zeitgeist lining me up for, “yeah, they denied it bc you imagined the whole thing to make yourself important by dropping a name.” Which blends nicely with YT & the troll swamp it’s been turned into peaking but not ending in Nov 2016.
What do you expect from a page devoted to the theft and pirating, or destruction, of art? Intelligence discourse? Get real
still work,amazing!
Anybody knows if this lectures were ever published as a book?
Can someone identify the man who recommended the interesting book to him, lamb Magruder Magruder institute?
probably the audio reels run out at 30 minutes and they have to replace them
Who's he mention gave him the book? "one lam mcrouter"?
Hello, could someone write me the name of the book and author, where he talks about the wishing machine. I'm watching the video with a Spanish translator, and I get: Bhaiji Harry, it's cold at the borders. But I don't know if it's correct, since I can't find anything about it. I do not know if it is a translation problem or there is no trace of information on the web about this book. Thanks for sharing! Nice to have found these videos.
try John MacGruber?
On the frontiers of science by g Harry stine
"The Master".
Sounds like Ginsburg at 18:09.
That's not a lot of likes, but Bill would like that.
30:45 Did he say something too much for RUclips, or was there just a problem with the recording equipment?
@@PERFECTGINGERBASTARD I wonder when the edit was made... on the physical tape or within the digital file. Seems like a mystery of sorts now that you've put it that way.
@@PERFECTGINGERBASTARD The toilet seat was swirling, and it was fairly hypnotizing. These demons are so powerful. I also saw what looked like a ghost or shadow creature on the floor next to the toilet, outlined by a translucent silver. I clamped my fingers together lightly and the insect crumbled like dust, it's legs floating spirally to the ground. I tried to kill myself last november with a pistol but the demons moved the gun to the back of my head when the gun went off through my couch. It is the worst of possessions. It was kind of a dusty bathroom, and there were glowing insects attracted to the dust. I put my finger on the ground, and let one crawl onto my finger.. They looked like ants, mini spiders, and other insects which probably don't exist, and they looked bioluminescent.
Eventually I was close to the turnstiles and finally got myself into a position in front of one of the turnstiles, I then noticed that one supporter had entered the turnstile but was involved in a conversation with the bloke on the gate. I have been possessed for almost 4 years by demons. They talk to me every minute of the day commenting on all of my thoughts. The policeman then grabbed hold of the supporter by the arm and tried to push him out of the turnstile entrance but with the crowd there was nowhere for the policeman to go, so he turned said something to the gateman and let the supporter enter through. The demons have taken control of my soul (mind, will, & emotions),& my physical body. The demons do not let me sleep. What the problem was I don't know because I couldn't hear anything, but it was obvious that even at this early stage the police had no control. I examined it more closely, and it's movements were that exactly like a bugs would be. It had feelers, and was 'feeling' me. He was completely 2-dimensional, and appeared to be asking for my help, though I couldn't actually hear anything he was saying. Suddenly the policeman who was stood next to the turnstile turned and entered the turnstile and started talking to the gateman. But they give me their power to function without sleep. I finally peed (at least more than I had yet) and felt immensely better, though I felt sorry for the shadow creature. They want me to suffer every minute of the day.
Uploader Hermesacat in his upload details which is always a good idea to read:
"This recording comes from Naropa's audio archives available free to stream & download at archive.org. There the recording is listed as: "William S. Burroughs class on the technology and ethic of wishing - Part 1 (June 25, 1986)", plus Part 2. I've joined both parts together in this YT upload & edited out nothing. The short silent gap somewhere in the middle is found in the original too."
@@marko1978st I accept that - but SOMETHING was magically edited out right? All censorship is despicable. Also, anyone who knows anything knows Bill's opinions on guns. Big second amendment guy.
@@daisytelescope5564
Relatable... :/
30:44 -- Censored ??
About writing your dreams down you wind up dreaming about your writing about dreams. I don't believe dreams to be predictions, not even when that thing happens, try and calculate all the times it doesn't happen not concentrate on when it does.
Karl Consiglio But the likelihood of some of those predictions is just unfathomable. Add to that the fact that you can sometimes discover something (of real world utility) in a dream that you didn't know when conscious. This makes me believe there's much more at play then what we can explain rationally.
I completely sympathise that it's a tough idea to get your head round though, since there's no real way to get scientific evidence to prove it's the case and it's comparable to say believing in miracles. None the less I know that dreams can be predictions, whatever the implications of that fact may be.
Dreams, as a whole, are of course mystical and mysterious, but in general it seems obvious to me that dreams are simply the 'airing out' of your subconscious. As you let you mind free to roam it picks up on little moments from your immediate and not so immediate past as they appear and roll along like clouds.
I agree with u partly, I don't think they a full on predictions, more visual metaphoric guidance. What u see is not to be taken at face value. Rather, to be worked out to try understand their true meaning?
Who knows? The man was an unique individual. 🏴👍🏻
predictions of something you know already is a likelihood at least but thought you didn't want to know! @@asderc1
what's meant here with "sterner" (or "stirner" ?)..around min 5 or so.. Anyone knows.. ? I have at least 3 - completely different - interpretations in mind.. ^-.
He means if you're gonna wish, go for it and fear nothing!
17:21 What is that man screaming in the background? Sounds like "hey, shut up" and something else.
why is 30:46-30:56 blacked out?
anecdote about danger of guns being based on false evidence, example being some legal owner/ user who does something, we know not what. a lot can happen in 1 minute 10 seconds. this guy does seem to attract trouble: lives in End of World place, educated at Alamo, bomb place, ETC. read the book.
If you want absolute agony, listen to this video at 50% speed.
If you listen in 125% speed it sounds like a normal person.
Why does the recording go away after he says 'Anti-Gun propaganda'?
See prior comments in this section where this topic is discussed between me and David Sutherland
Crowley!!
Anyone got a transcript? I'd rather read that than listen to him speak.
What? Burroughs's voice is a soothing balm to listen to. That gravelly, but smooth voice of his is unmistakable!!!
As if you struggle in maintaining understanding of Burroughs lectures in real-time..As If!
Dennis Reynolds is capable of dryly accurate recollections. Hehe
Dennis Reynolds!! Its me!! Nikki Potnick! Remember when you and the gang crashed my car into a tree??! On Kelly street, remember?!
willia m shouldve been prime minster ....not jesus ..this guy was real
Dale Gribble. That's all.
Now the old texan tuberous cartoon was the Chan's tits (for lack of a better reference of tale.) Ol Bill Lee. You were far too far ahead..
686th like...50th comment...beat that 'yez egg beaters.
31.00-31.19 sounds like Trump's tactic or any politician for that matter Republican or Democrat
Daddy
Thank you for posting this.