Benny Bunter
Well-known member
Lol, anyone remember this trip hop Burroughs album?
the WILLIAM SEWARD BURROUGHS thread
- Thread starter Buick6
- Start date
-
- Tags
- battle instructions blue desert of silence crab men! from a land of grass without mirrors kill the priests most distasteful thing i ever stood still for my ice my perfect ice rub out the words sacred sewers of death smash the control images the heavy metal kid the mayan caper the word broken pounded twisted exploded in smoke trak utilities uranian willy
william_kent
Well-known member
according to my faulty memory it's a good one - as far as I can recall it's the link between Wild Boys, Blade Runner: A Movie, and Cities of The Red Night
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
I had a thought last night that if what Burroughs says about us developing towards astral projection into space and shedding the body is true and that the controllers will die if that happens so they're desperate to prevent it then you could posit the internet as some sort of snare or decoy.
We gradually shed the body, but, rather than traveling into space, we're funneled into cyberspace. A prison for the astral body that's still governed by the controllers.
I'm picturing the collection of venom from a snake or semen from a horse by tricking them into thinking they're interacting with another organism. A hijacking of the biological functions steering them into a cul-de-sac.
We gradually shed the body, but, rather than traveling into space, we're funneled into cyberspace. A prison for the astral body that's still governed by the controllers.
I'm picturing the collection of venom from a snake or semen from a horse by tricking them into thinking they're interacting with another organism. A hijacking of the biological functions steering them into a cul-de-sac.
william_kent
Well-known member
diving deep into thee gray zone, slicing away the accumulated layers of crusty spunk and mouldy blood, I surface with this psychic tv "deep cut", featuring not one, not two, but three, nay, a trinity, of thee underground's most infamous junkies
Dave Ball & Genesis P-Orridge featuring Christiane F & William S. Burroughs - Dreams ( Decoder OST )
not sure about Dave Ball's habits, although I suspect he maybe have been more into "uppers"
Dave Ball & Genesis P-Orridge featuring Christiane F & William S. Burroughs - Dreams ( Decoder OST )
not sure about Dave Ball's habits, although I suspect he maybe have been more into "uppers"
This was the edition that was out of stock when I had a look the other day but I've picked it up on eBay now. I ordered a stack of the ones I didn't already have: The Job, Exterminator!, Interzone, The Ticket that Exploded, The Western Lands and the first letters volume.
woops
is not like other people
just to show off for a sec I've got a copy of dead fingers talk
i mentioned i was reading the naked lunch again and what bit me was how lucidly i remembered it from first reading maybe 25 years ago
i started reading dft when pissed up and felt like id read that before too
i mentioned i was reading the naked lunch again and what bit me was how lucidly i remembered it from first reading maybe 25 years ago
i started reading dft when pissed up and felt like id read that before too
You can get that on Amazon for £7.
Is it any good? I had a look at it, but cutting up his own novels seemed like milking it a bit. Apparently it's bits of Naked Lunch and The Soft Machine along with some original material. The first chapter seems to be the exact same as NL; "I can feel the heat closing in", etc.
william_kent
Well-known member
I have too few bookshelves
I have failed to unstack perilous piles of books in a futile effort to uncover my copy of Victor Bockris' "With Burroughs" where he tried to capitalise on his association with famous junkies by inviting them to the "bunker" where WSB would hold court and Victor would tape the proceedings to translate into hard cold cash that could rush up his arm
there are many sections i hoped to transcribe for our collective amusement but for the life of me i can't find the book due to the risk of being crushed under toppling piles of paper and hard backs
one such episode that i hoped to type out was when John Giorno, or was it Gregory Corso?, anyway, it was a beat up poet who turns up at at the "bunker" with a carrier bag of stolen prescription drugs and the wizened old guys are sifting through them saying "let's inject this" and WSB sneers at their inferior knowledge of pharmaceuticals and caustically informs them that "you'll be pissing all night, no high to be gained" when the ignorant beat up poet holds aloft a diuretic*
* although, my speed freak friends were into one diuretic that had an amphetamine rush, for the life of me can't remember the name
there also was a hilarious episode where Lou Reed, and maybe Bowie? ( i wish I could excavate my copy ) visit and WSB is just so sarcastic, but I'm only mentioning this because WSB guested on an album by Lou's future wife
Laurie Anderson ft William S. Burroughs - Sharkie's Night
I have failed to unstack perilous piles of books in a futile effort to uncover my copy of Victor Bockris' "With Burroughs" where he tried to capitalise on his association with famous junkies by inviting them to the "bunker" where WSB would hold court and Victor would tape the proceedings to translate into hard cold cash that could rush up his arm
there are many sections i hoped to transcribe for our collective amusement but for the life of me i can't find the book due to the risk of being crushed under toppling piles of paper and hard backs
one such episode that i hoped to type out was when John Giorno, or was it Gregory Corso?, anyway, it was a beat up poet who turns up at at the "bunker" with a carrier bag of stolen prescription drugs and the wizened old guys are sifting through them saying "let's inject this" and WSB sneers at their inferior knowledge of pharmaceuticals and caustically informs them that "you'll be pissing all night, no high to be gained" when the ignorant beat up poet holds aloft a diuretic*
* although, my speed freak friends were into one diuretic that had an amphetamine rush, for the life of me can't remember the name
there also was a hilarious episode where Lou Reed, and maybe Bowie? ( i wish I could excavate my copy ) visit and WSB is just so sarcastic, but I'm only mentioning this because WSB guested on an album by Lou's future wife
Laurie Anderson ft William S. Burroughs - Sharkie's Night
His language and imagery's so potent. The voice too. I can hear him reading the stuff. That dry croak. It helps that he hammers the same ideas in so many books too. Each one drives the groove in your brain deeper.
william_kent
Well-known member
sorry, I prefer the cover of the copy @woops owns - that's what i call proper exploitation paperback artwork
here is my glorious book
"Dead Fingers Talk, like many of Burroughs' works, was controversial upon its release. It was the subject of a scathing review in the Times Literary Supplement that resulted in a war of words between supporters and detractors of the novel (and Burroughs in general) that played out in the magazine's letters page for months."
😂 🔥
woops
is not like other people
his style in the naked lunch at least is so congenial and clear. if he introduces an obscure word he will frequently define it in brackets. never assuming you know more or less than he does. he also maintains a cranky old sense of humour throughout. the straight man remains poker faced no matter how deranged his subject matter.