Burroughs at 100

[HowieBass]

[b]Burroughs at 100[/b]

"Here comes Johnny Yen again, With the liquor and drugs, And the Flesh Machine."
Even for those that don't know William Burroughs, he's easy to find. He's in the lyrics to Iggy Pop's Lust For Life and on the cover of Sgt. Pepper.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03v9p0x

Edited February 16, 2014 by HowieBass

[TimR]

I've watched some of his films.

Once...

A tormented man.

[alyctes]

Thanks for this. Bill Lee changed my life in several ways. I preferred his stuff when it was harder to find; these days it's all rather industrial, "oh Burroughs wrote it so it must be worth publishing". Call me a snob if you will...

[Leonard Smalls]

I'd recommend a listen to Material's "Seven Souls" album.
It's got WilIiam Burroughs giving his stream of consciousness over an ambient Bill Laswell backing.
Cracking!

[HowieBass]

This? http://youtu.be/SQc3T45pRWY

[ahpook]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNDRzrMtGtY[/media]

Edited February 16, 2014 by ahpook

[skej21]

[quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1392567622' post='2370096']
[b]Burroughs at 100[/b]

"Here comes Johnny Yen again, With the liquor and drugs, And the Flesh Machine."
Even for those that don't know William Burroughs, he's easy to find. He's in the lyrics to Iggy Pop's Lust For Life and on the cover of Sgt. Pepper.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03v9p0x
[/quote]

And stars in a U2 video lol!

Junky is still one of the best books I've read. He was a great and troubled man but has inspired such much of popular culture through his involvement with the Beat Generation. Inspirational and much preferable to Kerouac or Ginsberg IMO.

[Leonard Smalls]

[quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1392569675' post='2370142']
This?
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Aye! [url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seven-Souls-Material/dp/B0000057RJ/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1392904313&sr=1-2&keywords=material+seven+souls]Cracking Album[/url].

[Dingus]

The thing about William Burroughs is that his association with drugs, the Beat movement and his adoption various elements of popular culture , not least of all popular music, tends to obscure his achievements as a notable post-modern novelist and man of letters.

At his best, he was a supremely original creative force and a genuinely subversive voice amidst a culture of stultifying conformity. He was fixated with the forbidden, most notably drugs, homosexuality and death, but he explored them from the perspective of a man who was detached from his own mythology. He continued to be relevant and creative because he had the innate intelligence and sufficient never to become enamoured of his own publicity, no matter how much others encouraged him to do so.