Holy shit this is prescient! Uncle Bill really *was* a prophet, he really *was* a shamen...He truly saw things that the great percentage of us do not. Utterly remarkable. A legend, and I do not say that lightly.
I wouldn't worry about it. If you don't like violence why don't you just ask the defense department to send a Peacekeeper (MX) to his hometown. Then you won't have to worry about any person in St. Louis betraying your nice serene sense of moral dignity ever again. Mabye you could write a made for TV memoir about it afterwards, a lifetime special, Upright Citizen's Nukin and Dukin for God volume 1.
I woke up with Poppy's "Let's Make a Video" stuck in my head and this pops up first in my recommended list. I love what Burroughs is saying. Forget about how you appear to others, or even to yourself, and set up your life the way you want it to play out. Even your past. Push your past aside, put it in the bloopers reel, or rewrite your life so much that people remember you differently. Memory is just an image. The screen is just an image. "Death to the image. Hail the new flesh."
Hah neat. You know her music too. It's clever stuff. Im new to beat writers so that's why I found this video. I currently have read naked lunch and I'm reading "one the road " neat stuff. I enjoy the philosophy and story telling with entertainment whether it is modern or old.
It's from The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, created by Allen Ginsberg (and others) in JK's memory at Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado. Anne Waldman still leads the summer school there-I went from the UK in 2014.
I found it a little ironic that a video about making your life a movie, would most cleverly leave you hanging with a short audio track compared to the photo edit of Mr. Burrows. Makes you say HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
not really. he met him once for the Priest They Called Him sessions and had a rather dim opinion of him: "There's something wrong with that kid he frowns for no reason.."
@@freonholderlin2941 He didn't even meet him for those recording sessions. They were done completely separately. Cobain wanted Burroughs as the old man in the Heart Shaped Box video, even going so far as to offer to blur his face out, but nothing came of that. Cobain did end up visiting Burroughs at his Lawrence home. There's a pretty good photo of Cobain inside an orgone accumulator.
Evrybodys going to heaven,you too,oh,is that right?My cigar too?-yes,and me!-and my typewriter?-Oh yes,its going to heaven too!!!Listen and youll get it all with you,and laugh!
The audience is laughing like it's a joke...what he is speaking is entirely true...must be a bunch of lousy, dumb kids. Much of his work was satirical, but when he spoke plain, solid truth, he spoke plain, solid truth.
I get you Greg, yet Bill actually had a wonderful sense of humor. Listen to his inflections as he plays to the audience... He was seriously an hilariously, salacious and fallacious malcontent! Rock on Bill!!!
Greg Tallent I didn't get any vibes of an audience that was laughing off cue, yet I wonder if it's not you, who may have missed the wit contained therein, of those truths? Maybe.... I would have to give it a second listen, but the laughs I heard seemed to be on cue. Oh well. ;)
I was actually just listening to this for the 100th time or so, and thinking about how this audience really gets it. Sure it’s true in some sense. It’s also hilarious in some sense. But hey, it’s all sense. My sense, your sense. Who cares.
@@romo2674 the Jungian shadow is real - I see them and they see me - but I still seek salvation... from myself and them - it ain't over till the fat lady sings ...... but with WW3 it's edgy - it's edgy just shopping .
@@romo2674 Double Virgo - double perfect pain in the ass . The perfect pain . But those are the cards - dealt . The curse of perfection . The curse of those who declaim - the truth - it's called prison . But I'm old and sagacious - really don't give a fuck can afford to - this world is an evil joke . But still - old habits -die hard very hard until they die ......
limited analogy- the camera doesn't feel,which is the difference-we do and imagining myself as a camera cannot negate the fact of my feeling,so old uncle Bill shortchanges me with indifference-void is not vacuum, if it were ...
@Brian Brookes Perhaps, but you get what he was driving at. The wit and humour are what make his obervations trenchant. I wish more poems were as entertaining, but then, I don't read much poetry.
NOT meant NOT a typical Harvard U Grad, of course (He did graduate- it would be absurd to claim otherwise..but he (Bill Burroughs) did not go on to medical school after, what r u talking about?
Considering that Burroughs killed his common law wife in a drunken stunt, I would have thought that he would have taken the greatest care not to associate himself with guns ever again. Unfortunately this was not the case. Some of his musing fall a little flat in lew of this fact. His entertainment value is somewhat diminished.
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Holy shit this is prescient! Uncle Bill really *was* a prophet, he really *was* a shamen...He truly saw things that the great percentage of us do not. Utterly remarkable. A legend, and I do not say that lightly.
I love listening to him.... His voice is a great match for his words and ideas.
I'm so grateful that his voice so enhanced his genius, how much luck is that? He really was a sweet man, ultimately, that was his best attribute.
so what? r
Yup. A junkie and a murderer. What a charmer.
i dont know about that... he sure was fascinating though
Accident or no, he did kill his wife. Technically, he perhaps didn't *murder* his wife, but that distinction doesn't remove the bullet from her head.
I wouldn't worry about it. If you don't like violence why don't you just ask the defense department to send a Peacekeeper (MX) to his hometown. Then you won't have to worry about any person in St. Louis betraying your nice serene sense of moral dignity ever again. Mabye you could write a made for TV memoir about it afterwards, a lifetime special, Upright Citizen's Nukin and Dukin for God volume 1.
I highly respect this man for being such an advocate for good music such as Nirvana
I woke up with Poppy's "Let's Make a Video" stuck in my head and this pops up first in my recommended list. I love what Burroughs is saying. Forget about how you appear to others, or even to yourself, and set up your life the way you want it to play out. Even your past. Push your past aside, put it in the bloopers reel, or rewrite your life so much that people remember you differently.
Memory is just an image. The screen is just an image. "Death to the image. Hail the new flesh."
Hah neat. You know her music too. It's clever stuff. Im new to beat writers so that's why I found this video. I currently have read naked lunch and I'm reading "one the road " neat stuff. I enjoy the philosophy and story telling with entertainment whether it is modern or old.
This should be "required listening" for all "you-tubers".
This reading, was recorded in August, 1976.
Thanks
At least people use to be creative
awesome meaning...Burroughs is genius
I love this old man ....best humor ...🖤🖤🖤🖤🔥🔥🔥🔥😻😻😻🐈⬛🐈⬛
So many fancy words used to describe the indescribable
Meh not something I would disparage, but if that's what you're doing you do you.
It's from The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, created by Allen Ginsberg (and others) in JK's memory at Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado. Anne Waldman still leads the summer school there-I went from the UK in 2014.
Would Kerouac . . . have gone to a Naropa University summer school (?)
I doubt it.
@@QED_ If his mom was there.
@leo alex: Right. Props.
This is gonna happen to us all when we have our life reviews after we cross over.
This is great!!!
I found it a little ironic that a video about making your life a movie, would most cleverly leave you hanging with a short audio track compared to the photo edit of Mr. Burrows. Makes you say HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
He was actually good friends with Kurt Cobain
Mitchell Mueller nice profile picture
not really. he met him once for the Priest They Called Him sessions and had a rather dim opinion of him: "There's something wrong with that kid he frowns for no reason.."
@@freonholderlin2941 He didn't even meet him for those recording sessions. They were done completely separately. Cobain wanted Burroughs as the old man in the Heart Shaped Box video, even going so far as to offer to blur his face out, but nothing came of that. Cobain did end up visiting Burroughs at his Lawrence home. There's a pretty good photo of Cobain inside an orgone accumulator.
@@freonholderlin2941 Perhaps he sensed that Cobain's rage could be inauthentic.
@@freonholderlin2941 That's a somewhat out-of-context quote, the idea I got was that he liked Cobain but felt sorry for him/sensed he was disturbed.
William Burroughs ( 5 Febuary 1914 - 2 August 1997 ).
Cut|Up, Cut| it all|Up!!
Love it
I love you sir dear sir a true man sir.
Futuristic vision of what would become social media, powerful!
Mind Muscle Academy no
I wanna buy a camera. Wait a sec..I am the camera!!
Me no Leika.
Genius
i have never tried to hide because it's pointless for me my bad scenes and good scenes aren't sorted
The soft machine is a human,and The soft machine is a band that got the idea from the book by Burroughs.I prefer both,if you ever can say like that!
In fact i prefer Burroughs,casuse the music of The soft machine is a psycedelic has been,Burroughs isnt,even though hes sadly passed away by now.
Evrybodys going to heaven,you too,oh,is that right?My cigar too?-yes,and me!-and my typewriter?-Oh yes,its going to heaven too!!!Listen and youll get it all with you,and laugh!
Yes.Thank You.
The audience is laughing like it's a joke...what he is speaking is entirely true...must be a bunch of lousy, dumb kids. Much of his work was satirical, but when he spoke plain, solid truth, he spoke plain, solid truth.
+Geoffrey Williams good point
I get you Greg, yet Bill actually had a wonderful sense of humor. Listen to his inflections as he plays to the audience... He was seriously an hilariously, salacious and fallacious malcontent!
Rock on Bill!!!
Greg Tallent I didn't get any vibes of an audience that was laughing off cue, yet I wonder if it's not you, who may have missed the wit contained therein, of those truths? Maybe.... I would have to give it a second listen, but the laughs I heard seemed to be on cue. Oh well. ;)
Are you saying truth can't be funny? That is the dumbest thing I've heard in a while.
I was actually just listening to this for the 100th time or so, and thinking about how this audience really gets it. Sure it’s true in some sense. It’s also hilarious in some sense. But hey, it’s all sense. My sense, your sense. Who cares.
Jesus loves you!!!!! God bless you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How could this get any clearer ? Seriously ...
“My life a movie”
For me 3 masters of fiction, Huysmans Houllebecq and Burroughs,
You got the last one right, the other two are shit.
You must be an intense person, innit.
@@romo2674 the Jungian shadow is real - I see them and they see me - but I still seek salvation... from myself and them - it ain't over till the fat lady sings ...... but with WW3 it's edgy - it's edgy just shopping .
@@romo2674 Double Virgo - double perfect pain in the ass . The perfect pain . But those are the cards - dealt . The curse of perfection . The curse of those who declaim - the truth - it's called prison . But I'm old and sagacious - really don't give a fuck can afford to - this world is an evil joke . But still - old habits -die hard very hard until they die ......
I should have added Thomas Mann - but that was back in 70s different times....
Imagine life if Billy Burroughs was your Gran'pappy.
I would constantly ask where's my gran'mammy, then he would say," You ever played William tell boy?"
+Chris Richards please stop trying to write like your burroughs
dog_gazed_ duct-tape And I was thinking the EXACT same thing.
It's "you're"
Well his son died of liver failure. Cirrhosis.
limited analogy- the camera doesn't feel,which is the difference-we do and imagining myself as a camera cannot negate the fact of my feeling,so old uncle Bill shortchanges me with indifference-void is not vacuum, if it were ...
@Brian Brookes Perhaps, but you get what he was driving at. The wit and humour are what make his obervations trenchant. I wish more poems were as entertaining, but then, I don't read much poetry.
Anybody know what kind of revolver that is in the pic ?
looks like his beloved .45
who can tell
yep he was a father/&,a grandiose g-pa..but he says in his autobiographies. ..read them...
according to his son, he was a shit father.
Do you have any idea where I could get permission to use this? I'm writing a piece based on it.
lol the recording stops at 9:00 why did it go on until 10:00? 10:00 ad revenue?
^ it's Allen
on the nod
If the picture was made about the same time, probably about 1990. He would've been 72 then.
Bolivar Shagnasty 76
someone know where i can find what he says in a text format?
cheap beautiful
What happened to the audio at the end?
EH,yup
unfortunately, shame, humiliation and embarrassment are fake emotions created to control the shameful.
why the almost 2 min. of dead at the end ?
some kind of technical glitch or oversight, i imagine.
caseyface3 whats the difference between an alien and non native english speaker???
someone who isnt supposed to be here as opposed to someone who is. both talk funny.
prophet 1989!
NOT meant NOT a typical Harvard U Grad, of course (He did graduate- it would be absurd to claim otherwise..but he (Bill Burroughs) did not go on to medical school after, what r u talking about?
Not a Harvard grad? Or not TYPICAL? Pretty sure he got a degree from Harvard and went on to medical school afterwards.
Dude
DS Rule D3 2 have fun bros :; ))
This approach must have helped him to live with memories of killing his wife.
the drink he spilled was his wife's blood on the rocks
Seen and obscene, ha aha!
Isn't Logic Fun!
what the fuck is that jack nicholson?
?
Annoying laughter.
Another typical Harvard grad-NOT!!
Considering that Burroughs killed his common law wife in a drunken stunt, I would have thought that he would have taken the greatest care not to associate himself with guns ever again. Unfortunately this was not the case. Some of his musing fall a little flat in lew of this fact. His entertainment value is somewhat diminished.
what's so funny? :(