HowieBass Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 (edited) [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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimR Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 I've watched some of his films. Once... A tormented man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alyctes Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HowieBass Posted February 16, 2014 Author Share Posted February 16, 2014 This? http://youtu.be/SQc3T45pRWY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahpook Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 (edited) [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNDRzrMtGtY[/media] Edited February 16, 2014 by ahpook Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skej21 Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 [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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 [quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1392569675' post='2370142'] This? [/quote] 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]. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingus Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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