whatr ASTOUNDS me is that he actually got away with putting out book after book of nonsense for as long as he did.quite the character.............still remember being a teen and carrying his books from classroom to classroom from swimming pool to swimming pool trying to follow the story line....total sucker.........lol.
If he had just kept on writing in the style of Junkie and Queer, with its dry humour and astute observations, instead of trying to be more bohème than the other beat writers.
The audio transcription of the part where he's reading is really something else... and fits the reading in a weird way. And it gets the "heavy metal gimmick" right!
@bornwithoutwarning Burroughts accidentally shot his wife while drunk. They were both addicts. As for the pedophilia claim, I've never heard that, nor have I seen anything to back it up. I highly doubt it's true.
@lifeasacloud Just read any book on the Beats (I've read a few) or google 'william burroughs' and 'pedophile' or 'pederast.' Believe me, it's no secret. He was into young boys.
@90eyehategod To me W.B. was a great genius, i dont care if he fucked a cow or whatever, he was a guy with strong opinions and he stand for it. I think is irrelevant to speak about his sexual preferences.
@bornwithoutwarning Ofcourse, that is the definition by law. I don't know many details of WSB's sexual habits as far as the youngest he would go for. I was just making a point that I wouldn't think of him as a rapist as far as the knowledge I have of him. I'm not trying to debate you though, just a passing comment.
Looks like we've been visit'd by one of our feather'd friends: crap on the window. Some friends! ("Are you a crap?" I asked the cop. An armed go-between with medical benefits he was.)
though I became serious naked and homosexual, but Never considered myself fascinated with sedative pills. Burroughs read novel parts of being straight Alcohol to it, taking up a junkie lunch more my thing, found the habit I keep on returning too, junkie Never even tried junk, are own of which I Tried to copy .
I became fascinated with Burroughs' novel "junkie". Tried to read parts of "naked lunch" but found it too homosexual, being straight myself. I keep on returning to the copy of "junkie" which I own. Never considered taking up a serious habit though. Never even tried "junk". Alcohol and sedative pills are more my thing.
I guess that shows you the experience that homosexuals have to go through life "forced" to appreciate straight sexual scenes in most other literature. give the book another chance it's great!
Yes it was done in the 20's but no one had done it with anything on such a scale as he did.. poems and small pieces of literature.. nothing like a novel had been done
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I used to do a method simialr to WB cut up method that I think worked better. I would go to a place where there was many people talking and I would sit down and without paying attention to any one conversation I would just start writing whatever words or parts of sentences I would hear then move to another location and continue to do this till I have a note book full of words then I would go home and read them set them in sentences and paragraph and stories would just come out it was amazing
@drumlord420 Good lucky with it....I would also study people and record interesting or wierd quirky things about them that I either admired or hated about them and would put these characteristics about them together to form a personality. Then after I had say 8-12 characters I would build a story around the characters. I ended up with dozens of characters that I would pull out to write different stories with.....Good luck
@osocali777 Cool. I keep a mental record of people. Don't have the patience to sit and write stories...Maybe one day I will, but music, education, and personal research take up most of my time. Cheers!
you can see his pretty well fucked up in the head. but i like it, his was a true role model for us introspectives neurotic bastards, with vignette inclined head thought.
HELP! does anyone know where William S. Burroughs said this, i quote: "The rulers of this most insecure of all worlds are rulers by accident - inept, frightened pilots at the controls of a vast machine they cannot understand - calling in 'experts' to tell them which buttons to push."????????????????? LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU! thanks in advance!
or rather the times are way behind his way of thinking. So that's relatively the same thing. But when will the times ever be in tune with such a complex thinker? That's not going to happen. We'll just get fragments of reality held here and there by different groups of people still conditioned to cherish their narrow realities to the exclusion of all else, to the extent of smothering those realities that lie outside their own parameters of what's real. Cut-up seems like a quirk now, unless ...???
Ginsburg and Burroughs, complete opposites, yet so involved in messing up the coherence of all things society holds to be dear. Amen, Novelist Nihilists.
at the end of the day, whoever done the cut up technique or wrote in burroughs [RIP] way, you hear him talk and you can read the books in the way he speaks it makes more sense
@rodmunday@skawashers it's not surrealism, it's dadaism. it was in fact widely used in poetry (aka concrete poetry). but he did it for prose, which is interesting.
@sergiost The dadaist poetry by tristan tzara and others was a different method of random- the first meeting and presentation by tristran was drawing individual words out of a hat.. The fact that Burroughs looks for these lines of poetry from prose he typed. makes it a totally different experience. And Concrete poetry is more a visual presentation of poetry if not just a collage of texts and not necessartily poetry or prose....so that iststill different.
@sergiost The dadaist poetry by tristan tzara and others was a different method of random- the first meeting and presentation by tristran was drawing individual words out of a hat.. The fact that Burroughs looks for these lines of poetry from prose he typed. makes it a totally different experience. And Concrete poetry is more a visual presentation of poetry if not just a collage of texts and not necessartily poetry or prose....so that is still different.
@sergiost The dadaist poetry by tristan tzara and others was a different method of random- the first meeting and presentation by tristran was drawing individual words out of a hat.. The fact that Burroughs looks for these lines of poetry from prose he typed. makes it a totally different experience. And Concrete poetry is more a visual presentation of poetry if not just a collage of texts and not necessarily poetry or prose....so that is still different.
@sergiost The dadaist poetry by tristan tzara and others was a different method of random- the first meeting and presentation by tristan was drawing individual words out of a hat.. The fact that Burroughs looks for these lines of poetry from prose he typed. makes it a totally different experience. And Concrete poetry is more a visual presentation of poetry if not just a collage of texts and not necessarily poetry or prose....so that is still different.
@sergiost The dadaist poetry by Tristan Tzara and others was a different method of random- the first meeting and presentation by Tristan was drawing individual words out of a hat.. The fact that Burroughs looks for these lines of poetry from prose he typed. makes it a totally different experience. And Concrete poetry is more a visual presentation of poetry if not just a collage of texts and not necessarily poetry or prose....so that is still different.
@sergiost Dadaist approach was different the first being randomly drawn words from a hat. Words taken from newspaper. And concrete poetry a visaul poetry often not being poetiuc at all ,but being abotu the visual arrangemtn of texts or characters.
@sergiost Dadaist approach was different the first being randomly drawn words from a hat. Words taken from newspaper. And concrete poetry a visual poetry often not being poetic at all ,but being about the visual arrangement of texts or characters.
@skawashers Burroughs never claimed to invent cut-ups. At every opportunity, he acknowledged that many others had done it before him and that he was first introduced to it by Brion Gysin. The difference is that Gysin had experimented extensively and even developed a repeatable methodology as opposed to early surrealists. William Burroughs took an idea and made it his own - and there is nothing wrong with that.
burroughs & gysin have both acknowledged Dadaist and Surrealist practices that share in the genesis. they are well aware that their thoughts as well as experiments have not existed in a vacuum. Tristin Tzara's poetry is cited by the both ov them often in interviews and their own texts.
its application, perceived effects and technique is not the same, however.
@skawashers doesn't the entire notion of the cut-up subvert typical conceptions of authorship? its kind of ironic to play chicken or egg in this context.
It's not just the combination of words, but his voice that makes this click... that bizarrely rough and monotone voice that makes everything sound possible... It's as if he were a doctor and he were reading medical reports: it sounds like he is correct in all he says - whether or not he is in the least bit logical!
Burroughs jr,His beatnickfather killed his mother and did not take his responsability to care for his son seriously,the only good thing he should have done-nevermind his books.The kid died young.
The quotes were taken from recording done by Burroughs and Byron Gysin starting in the 1950s and released on an LP called 'Nothing here but the recordings' in the UK by Rough Trade in 1981. You can read the transcript by googling the title (you tube won't let me post the url!!)
@rodmunday I have a copy of the original. This video only uses about 25% of the original. The cut up of the 1920's writers, Apollainaire, Jarry, Daumal etc was very different to Burroughs, Ginsberg, Synder etc.
What the fuck does it matter if he was bisexual or homosexual or whatever??? He was a writer, so read, get your own conclusions and stop screwing around.
okay, let's clear this up for good...I'm not usually inclined to get involved in these silly post-message conversations but nevertheless. Burroughs had and evil side and a creative decent side - as all writers and people do. He shot his wife: 1. as an accident 2. because his "dark" side over-road his ego; in fact if your read ted Morgan biography you'll see that he had premonitions that something evil was soon to be 3. because he was self-destructive to himself and anything else
What I took was that yeh, he had a premonition (the crying) and dark feeling but to say his dark side took over,well,it's a tad simplistic. A good piece of retro-reductivism but not entirely accurate. Unless you belive all accidents are the dark side taking over...
hmmmm... very nice wording seems like you've read some post-Freudian psychoanalysis. Although my intention was not to entirely... reify the man in one youtube post but I do appreciate the peer review.
He used pages from newspapers, cut them with scissors, mess pieces while looking on the other side, and then investigate results, construct new sentences, with unusual meanings. As far as I know. He also said: ''Life is cut-up'', which I consider true. But the implications of cut-up are much, much more deeper...
"It was an accident" He was drunk and intoxicated, shooting a gun in room with friends at a bottle that was placed on his wife's head. If this was an accident than jail is full with innocent people.
Not for a laugh. They were both on drugs, and they were playing a game of William Tell against their better judgement. He's tried to lighten his burden by writing and making light of such things, "Shoot the bitch and write a book," but it's always been something that's bothered him. Most of his writing is about awful things and regrettable unconscious decisions made while on morphine or whatever they were on at the time. Even through his writing is odd, he's not a mysoginistic humour killer.
@BuggedSatelite yes I used to read WB when I was a teenager. As a teenager I found his writing interesting but only becuase it was shocking and rebelious, after all what is being a teenager all about, as I grew up I found them very insipid and ephemeral....WB was at his best subversive and at his worst pedestrianly pornographic. WB was simply a midwestern oddball kook who suffered from lack of Daddys love....and we all know thats rare...LOL
to plutoohno: Shooting wife in head does not fall in the it could happen to anyone category. You have to be very high on drugs, booze or whatever, and or you have to be very foolish, stupid or selfdestructive. It is a very hostile and stupid act.
We can be like Burroughs w/ or without enough money. How much discomfort are you comfortable with? The carrying capacity for that is the defining point.
when u got money coming in,time to get over hangovers and cold turkey,it's cool.the rest of us have to go to work bleeding our eyes out.otherwise we would all be like William.
i came across burroughs videos randomly on here tonight, while sitting at my desk and working on a cut-up letter to send back to the friend who sent me the original letter! Love it.
UNCLE bILL said there are sonsofbitches who know it all and there are good people or JOHNSONS... A johnson MINDS HIS OWN BUSINESS does not judge harshly and would help a fellow ccreature in need be it man,woman,cat,or lemur.....he is a citizen america can be proud of unlike that shit GEORGEWBULLSHITTER...
It's true, when you believe in god there is no fault possible by you because god loves you no matter what you do, but the god of catholicism or neo-pagan christianity is so far from the truth. It becomes a charade wherein entire populations not only fight but KILL over this intangible force none truly believes in because their belief has been handed down through history and has lost almost all of its reality. Divinity comes from within: ignore every religious peddler: you are god.
I am appalled by all of you charlatan's. Burroughs doesn't need me to stick up for him and those of you that berate him, why don't you write some ingenious works of literature, create art as brilliant as this Good Man and talk. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
What did Geddy Lee have to do with Viet Nam?
mrrusss 3 hours ago
whatr ASTOUNDS me is that he actually got away with putting out book after book of nonsense for as long as he did.quite the character.............still remember being a teen and carrying his books from classroom to classroom from swimming pool to swimming pool trying to follow the story line....total sucker.........lol.
posthumanhero 22 hours ago
If he had just kept on writing in the style of Junkie and Queer, with its dry humour and astute observations, instead of trying to be more bohème than the other beat writers.
hisredrighthand 2 months ago
this monolog is like a declaration of war.
edichkaa 2 months ago 2
sixty years spent chasing the crap of a sad old man
lovethingsandsuch 3 months ago
The audio transcription of the part where he's reading is really something else... and fits the reading in a weird way. And it gets the "heavy metal gimmick" right!
b00mhauer 4 months ago
thumbs up if your here because of protege :D
thelamefob 4 months ago
wow that spoken word in the middle about something something rockerfeller.... he fucking knew what was really going on in the world! holy shit.
anaemiabag 6 months ago
William Burroughs was a pedophile and a wife-killer. Fact. Other than that, I'm sure he was an absolutely fantastic guy.
bornwithoutwarning 8 months ago
@bornwithoutwarning Burroughts accidentally shot his wife while drunk. They were both addicts. As for the pedophilia claim, I've never heard that, nor have I seen anything to back it up. I highly doubt it's true.
lifeasacloud 8 months ago
@lifeasacloud Then you don't know much about William Burroughs. Check into it, you'll find out quick. It's not even an open question.
bornwithoutwarning 7 months ago
@bornwithoutwarning if you could send me a link to anything proving it, I would be much obliged.
lifeasacloud 7 months ago
@lifeasacloud Just read any book on the Beats (I've read a few) or google 'william burroughs' and 'pedophile' or 'pederast.' Believe me, it's no secret. He was into young boys.
bornwithoutwarning 7 months ago
@bornwithoutwarning so?
90eyehategod 4 months ago
@90eyehategod Care to elaborate on your question? Not sure what you're getting at.
bornwithoutwarning 4 months ago
@90eyehategod To me W.B. was a great genius, i dont care if he fucked a cow or whatever, he was a guy with strong opinions and he stand for it. I think is irrelevant to speak about his sexual preferences.
90eyehategod 4 months ago
@90eyehategod You don't care if people molest children and shoot their wives? You don't sound like much of a thinking human being.
bornwithoutwarning 4 months ago
@bornwithoutwarning WELL i just say we have to give some credit to this guy, besides we dont have the right to jugde.
90eyehategod 4 months ago
@lifeasacloud This is one that I read: The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries, Rebels, and Hipsters, 1944-1960 by Steven Watson.
It's a pretty good book. Might be able to get it at your local library.
bornwithoutwarning 7 months ago
@bornwithoutwarning You're right, he was definitely into teenage boys. Though I'm sure it was consensual, atleast.
mutilatedLips81 5 months ago
@mutilatedLips81 By definition. there is no such thing as consensual sex with people under the age of consent.
bornwithoutwarning 5 months ago
@bornwithoutwarning Ofcourse, that is the definition by law. I don't know many details of WSB's sexual habits as far as the youngest he would go for. I was just making a point that I wouldn't think of him as a rapist as far as the knowledge I have of him. I'm not trying to debate you though, just a passing comment.
mutilatedLips81 5 months ago
Looks like we've been visit'd by one of our feather'd friends: crap on the window. Some friends! ("Are you a crap?" I asked the cop. An armed go-between with medical benefits he was.)
procommenter 9 months ago
ROSETTA WEST
mielazul 9 months ago
Nice footage. The English interviewer is John Walters (John Peel's producer) by the way...
diskochimp 10 months ago
What documentary is this from?
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CUT UP OF ilupir 77
though I became serious naked and homosexual, but Never considered myself fascinated with sedative pills. Burroughs read novel parts of being straight Alcohol to it, taking up a junkie lunch more my thing, found the habit I keep on returning too, junkie Never even tried junk, are own of which I Tried to copy .
mylittletelly 11 months ago
Good old Uncle Bill. And Gysin, too.
What a treat. Thanks!
moosey62 11 months ago
I became fascinated with Burroughs' novel "junkie". Tried to read parts of "naked lunch" but found it too homosexual, being straight myself. I keep on returning to the copy of "junkie" which I own. Never considered taking up a serious habit though. Never even tried "junk". Alcohol and sedative pills are more my thing.
ilupir77 11 months ago
@ilupir77
I guess that shows you the experience that homosexuals have to go through life "forced" to appreciate straight sexual scenes in most other literature. give the book another chance it's great!
shemkhobali 10 months ago
The street he turns at 3:46 is where Orange Street meets Charing Cross Road. The building on the right is the National Portrait Gallery.
fastn1 1 year ago
I wish I knew where to get a copy of "A Man Within" but I can't seem to find it anywhere yet. I suppose it is still reasonably new.
Jon79K15 1 year ago
great clip
nyundergroundmuseum 1 year ago
Yes it was done in the 20's but no one had done it with anything on such a scale as he did.. poems and small pieces of literature.. nothing like a novel had been done
theeofboozeroony 1 year ago
free spirit they didn't think how money they will do
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Georgie2500 1 year ago
Master of copymasters, rearranged his own fucked up reality with everybodies words. Shut up and enjoy.
MarceloDelcampo 1 year ago
Google The-CutUp-Method-of-Brion-Gysin
murcuryvapor 1 year ago
@murcuryvapor nice name bro!
drumlord420 1 year ago
I used to do a method simialr to WB cut up method that I think worked better. I would go to a place where there was many people talking and I would sit down and without paying attention to any one conversation I would just start writing whatever words or parts of sentences I would hear then move to another location and continue to do this till I have a note book full of words then I would go home and read them set them in sentences and paragraph and stories would just come out it was amazing
osocali777 1 year ago
@osocali777 that's cool! I'm gonna try that...
drumlord420 1 year ago
@drumlord420 Good lucky with it....I would also study people and record interesting or wierd quirky things about them that I either admired or hated about them and would put these characteristics about them together to form a personality. Then after I had say 8-12 characters I would build a story around the characters. I ended up with dozens of characters that I would pull out to write different stories with.....Good luck
osocali777 1 year ago
@osocali777 Cool. I keep a mental record of people. Don't have the patience to sit and write stories...Maybe one day I will, but music, education, and personal research take up most of my time. Cheers!
drumlord420 1 year ago
@drumlord420 Cheers back at ya and good luck in all you put your hands to.....
osocali777 1 year ago
this dude probably is my great great grandpa
joshbupinhere123 1 year ago
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11TwoWhiteRabbits11 1 year ago
what a legend.
13KeY37 1 year ago
you can see his pretty well fucked up in the head. but i like it, his was a true role model for us introspectives neurotic bastards, with vignette inclined head thought.
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eddie2angel 1 year ago
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eddie2angel 1 year ago
i'm a insomnia.
When i want to sleep at night
i often read Soft Machine or Naked Lunch.
YoungBelaLugosi 1 year ago
Language is a virus!!!
Dachtewitz 1 year ago
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YoungBelaLugosi 1 year ago
Polybyupta
deniapavao 1 year ago
word is bond
thenoah23 2 years ago
HELP! does anyone know where William S. Burroughs said this, i quote: "The rulers of this most insecure of all worlds are rulers by accident - inept, frightened pilots at the controls of a vast machine they cannot understand - calling in 'experts' to tell them which buttons to push."????????????????? LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU! thanks in advance!
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like i said, he stole this technique from miley cyrus.
roejogan8 2 years ago
strange intelligent old man
dirtynuke 2 years ago 2
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This guy is dumb. not very smart at all, or fucking interesting either. MILEY CYRUS INVENTED THE CUT-UP TECHNIQUE NOT THIS FUCKING CLOWN ASS
roejogan8 2 years ago
@roejogan8 are you insane??
bartmillerbelgium 2 years ago
@bartmillerbelgium I think you got trolled son.
senorsquiid 1 year ago
please see on you tube: lupetto without prejudice we have in italy living the last guy of beat generation in acilia near rome
convinzioneobastone 2 years ago
they say no artist is befor his time he is the time...it is others who are behind the times
TheSmellrose 2 years ago 3
or rather the times are way behind his way of thinking. So that's relatively the same thing. But when will the times ever be in tune with such a complex thinker? That's not going to happen. We'll just get fragments of reality held here and there by different groups of people still conditioned to cherish their narrow realities to the exclusion of all else, to the extent of smothering those realities that lie outside their own parameters of what's real. Cut-up seems like a quirk now, unless ...???
wireandwood 2 years ago
could someone give me an imdb link to this film.
filmfanatic99 2 years ago
Why did you get two thumbs down for asking this?
subterranean47 2 years ago
no idea
filmfanatic99 2 years ago 2
Why did you get one thumb down for asking this?
Bi0mesis02 2 years ago
what?
subterranean47 2 years ago
Burroughs is worth the time..
mistertakahashi 2 years ago 16
Ginsburg and Burroughs, complete opposites, yet so involved in messing up the coherence of all things society holds to be dear. Amen, Novelist Nihilists.
cm2dude 2 years ago 3
messing up, or just exposing society's incoherence and inconsistencies?
wireandwood 2 years ago
Due to the fact that such "coherence" in society could be destroyed is evidence of its flaws. It is no objective system, thus.
cm2dude 2 years ago
"We're here to go." -WSB
MCKRUSH 2 years ago
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
NewSocialSF 2 years ago 3
at the end of the day, whoever done the cut up technique or wrote in burroughs [RIP] way, you hear him talk and you can read the books in the way he speaks it makes more sense
Necrothorn666 2 years ago
I too follow this practice.
jcanderson360 2 years ago
and he´s a gun nut??
meeresarmgecko 2 years ago
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the whole idea of Burroughs cut ups was well done in the 1920s surrealist movements in Hungary , holland, , So Burroughs is a coppiest than a pioneer
skawashers 2 years ago
Interesting claims, do you have any evidence to support them?
rodmunday 2 years ago 8
burroughs himself mentions, in this video, how this came from painters here: @ 1:56
rsswd 1 year ago
@rodmunday @skawashers it's not surrealism, it's dadaism. it was in fact widely used in poetry (aka concrete poetry). but he did it for prose, which is interesting.
sergiost 1 year ago
@sergiost The dadaist poetry by tristan tzara and others was a different method of random- the first meeting and presentation by tristran was drawing individual words out of a hat.. The fact that Burroughs looks for these lines of poetry from prose he typed. makes it a totally different experience. And Concrete poetry is more a visual presentation of poetry if not just a collage of texts and not necessartily poetry or prose....so that iststill different.
greggrybrdfrd 10 months ago
@sergiost The dadaist poetry by tristan tzara and others was a different method of random- the first meeting and presentation by tristran was drawing individual words out of a hat.. The fact that Burroughs looks for these lines of poetry from prose he typed. makes it a totally different experience. And Concrete poetry is more a visual presentation of poetry if not just a collage of texts and not necessartily poetry or prose....so that is still different.
greggrybrdfrd 10 months ago
@sergiost The dadaist poetry by tristan tzara and others was a different method of random- the first meeting and presentation by tristran was drawing individual words out of a hat.. The fact that Burroughs looks for these lines of poetry from prose he typed. makes it a totally different experience. And Concrete poetry is more a visual presentation of poetry if not just a collage of texts and not necessarily poetry or prose....so that is still different.
greggrybrdfrd 10 months ago
@sergiost The dadaist poetry by tristan tzara and others was a different method of random- the first meeting and presentation by tristan was drawing individual words out of a hat.. The fact that Burroughs looks for these lines of poetry from prose he typed. makes it a totally different experience. And Concrete poetry is more a visual presentation of poetry if not just a collage of texts and not necessarily poetry or prose....so that is still different.
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@sergiost The dadaist poetry by Tristan Tzara and others was a different method of random- the first meeting and presentation by Tristan was drawing individual words out of a hat.. The fact that Burroughs looks for these lines of poetry from prose he typed. makes it a totally different experience. And Concrete poetry is more a visual presentation of poetry if not just a collage of texts and not necessarily poetry or prose....so that is still different.
greggrybrdfrd 10 months ago
@sergiost Dadaist approach was different the first being randomly drawn words from a hat. Words taken from newspaper. And concrete poetry a visaul poetry often not being poetiuc at all ,but being abotu the visual arrangemtn of texts or characters.
greggrybrdfrd 10 months ago
@sergiost Dadaist approach was different the first being randomly drawn words from a hat. Words taken from newspaper. And concrete poetry a visual poetry often not being poetic at all ,but being about the visual arrangement of texts or characters.
greggrybrdfrd 10 months ago
did he copy them or just come across the same technique?
did they come to same shamanic conclusion?
i dont think you have any way of qualifying that statement - or the intelligence
modlang23 2 years ago
if you watched the video brion gysin says he made it up no one argues with that
polistyrenejassband 2 years ago
@skawashers Burroughs never claimed to invent cut-ups. At every opportunity, he acknowledged that many others had done it before him and that he was first introduced to it by Brion Gysin. The difference is that Gysin had experimented extensively and even developed a repeatable methodology as opposed to early surrealists. William Burroughs took an idea and made it his own - and there is nothing wrong with that.
electromusicblog 1 year ago 3
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dearyou1994 1 year ago
@skawashers Why don't you do crying home to your Dada?
dearyou1994 1 year ago
@skawashers "COPPIEST"???
lambertech 1 year ago 5
@skawashers agree is a well none method, even used in france, oulipo movement.
beatrixtarantino 1 year ago
@skawashers
burroughs & gysin have both acknowledged Dadaist and Surrealist practices that share in the genesis. they are well aware that their thoughts as well as experiments have not existed in a vacuum. Tristin Tzara's poetry is cited by the both ov them often in interviews and their own texts.
its application, perceived effects and technique is not the same, however.
friendshiprainbow 9 months ago
@skawashers doesn't the entire notion of the cut-up subvert typical conceptions of authorship? its kind of ironic to play chicken or egg in this context.
laudanum09 8 months ago
@laudanum09 chicken or egg or scissors and the paper
skawashers 8 months ago
@skawashers He actually admits this in the interview :). Him and Brion never lied about it, they were aware of the dadaist movement.
macistbassist 6 months ago
@skawashers He's pretty much said as much. He talks about Tristan Tzara in his Cut Up essay.
pauljessup 5 months ago
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cut ups = an out of ideas day
ukidding 2 years ago
It's not just the combination of words, but his voice that makes this click... that bizarrely rough and monotone voice that makes everything sound possible... It's as if he were a doctor and he were reading medical reports: it sounds like he is correct in all he says - whether or not he is in the least bit logical!
sex6cult9revolution 2 years ago 4
@sex6cult9revolution Absolutely the best way I've ever seen anyone put it. I could listen to him read all day.
b00mhauer 4 months ago
Nice work. keep it up. mean time come for social media marketing for esteembpo**com fhyg
MonroeOgden 2 years ago
Burroughs jr,His beatnickfather killed his mother and did not take his responsability to care for his son seriously,the only good thing he should have done-nevermind his books.The kid died young.
jhbdfbksdhgfjldsnglg 2 years ago
The quotes were taken from recording done by Burroughs and Byron Gysin starting in the 1950s and released on an LP called 'Nothing here but the recordings' in the UK by Rough Trade in 1981. You can read the transcript by googling the title (you tube won't let me post the url!!)
rodmunday 2 years ago
@rodmunday I have a copy of the original. This video only uses about 25% of the original. The cut up of the 1920's writers, Apollainaire, Jarry, Daumal etc was very different to Burroughs, Ginsberg, Synder etc.
RobinAre3 11 months ago
Its so long ago since I visited Tangiers but my memories are of a large house, overlooking the souk and with views of the sea. Maybe painted yellow.
mikongo 2 years ago
Damn, I never realized before that Burroughs was actually a Dalek!
dehypnotist 2 years ago
The voice of the Late john Walters interviewing.This is the kind of thing radio one used to cover.
TheEyeOfJustice 2 years ago
I didn't mean to write that but someth...ingg happennned.
parannoyance 2 years ago
2:40 - The jesus and mary chain use this passage in one of their songs :)
jesperjnielsen 2 years ago
What the fuck does it matter if he was bisexual or homosexual or whatever??? He was a writer, so read, get your own conclusions and stop screwing around.
Witchcrownedwithweed 2 years ago 6
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Aunt Nellie love William, she might of fucked him.
phrydoom 2 years ago
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phrydoom 2 years ago
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Well - at least he wasn't gay.
gradrix 2 years ago
Well, he was gay in fact.
panfranek 2 years ago 12
@panfranek I should think that would be obvious to anyone who reads his books--at least one ref to spunk in every paragraph lol
eddie2angel 1 year ago
lmao...he was super bi sexual...well known fact
jackhackett80 2 years ago 4
he really tends to disassociate himself from any emotional entanglement to the subject matter...
by virtue of junk..
Morthund 2 years ago
okay, let's clear this up for good...I'm not usually inclined to get involved in these silly post-message conversations but nevertheless. Burroughs had and evil side and a creative decent side - as all writers and people do. He shot his wife: 1. as an accident 2. because his "dark" side over-road his ego; in fact if your read ted Morgan biography you'll see that he had premonitions that something evil was soon to be 3. because he was self-destructive to himself and anything else
thatcatdontquit 2 years ago 2
What I took was that yeh, he had a premonition (the crying) and dark feeling but to say his dark side took over,well,it's a tad simplistic. A good piece of retro-reductivism but not entirely accurate. Unless you belive all accidents are the dark side taking over...
parannoyance 2 years ago
Burroughs may been many things but never simplistic. He knew his audience needed an explanation they could follow.
nerviosa1173 2 years ago
hmmmm... very nice wording seems like you've read some post-Freudian psychoanalysis. Although my intention was not to entirely... reify the man in one youtube post but I do appreciate the peer review.
thatcatdontquit 2 years ago
What's wrong with shooting your wife in the head cos of misogyny? Sure many guys can relate!
Certex 3 years ago
i dont really understand the cut up method. what did he use it for ?? can anyone help me out??
cohzy 3 years ago
he used it to alter language and thinking. The soft machine has some of that in it, as does other novels
greeniem 3 years ago
For cohzy:
He used pages from newspapers, cut them with scissors, mess pieces while looking on the other side, and then investigate results, construct new sentences, with unusual meanings. As far as I know. He also said: ''Life is cut-up'', which I consider true. But the implications of cut-up are much, much more deeper...
vokshumana 3 years ago
I miss him.
Gwyll2501 3 years ago 3
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This man shot his wife in the head for a laugh. Do any of you feminists care about this?
ismokealot01 3 years ago
It was an accident. Get your facts right.
argenteum 3 years ago 2
"It was an accident" He was drunk and intoxicated, shooting a gun in room with friends at a bottle that was placed on his wife's head. If this was an accident than jail is full with innocent people.
ismokealot01 3 years ago
nope. it was a great shot! not a mark on the bottle!
evol121 3 years ago 3
oh god, why has it never been clear to me before. BURROUGHS SHOT HIS WIFE IN THE HEAD BECAUSE OF MISOGYNY!
a stunning revelation. thank you.
gnarlsbukowski 3 years ago
Do your research. With a stupid comment like that you certainly do seem to be smoking a lot.
Paulph04 3 years ago
" a stupid comment like that you certainly do seem to be smoking a lot."
fuck mate, you say that like its a bad thing...
Morthund 2 years ago
out of this world!
taynghi 3 years ago
this is an absolutely classic burroughs bit. love it.
mercury110 3 years ago
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TheGreenTeaKid 3 years ago
That has to be the voice of modern legend Alan Moore!
VariedInterest 3 years ago
none of these videos have enough views
floydtibbs 3 years ago
What an unmistakable voice!
su79nioj 3 years ago 2
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This man shot his wife in the head for a laugh. Do any of you feminists care about this?
gypsyrose188 3 years ago
Not for a laugh. They were both on drugs, and they were playing a game of William Tell against their better judgement. He's tried to lighten his burden by writing and making light of such things, "Shoot the bitch and write a book," but it's always been something that's bothered him. Most of his writing is about awful things and regrettable unconscious decisions made while on morphine or whatever they were on at the time. Even through his writing is odd, he's not a mysoginistic humour killer.
BuggedSatelite 3 years ago 11
@BuggedSatelite yes I used to read WB when I was a teenager. As a teenager I found his writing interesting but only becuase it was shocking and rebelious, after all what is being a teenager all about, as I grew up I found them very insipid and ephemeral....WB was at his best subversive and at his worst pedestrianly pornographic. WB was simply a midwestern oddball kook who suffered from lack of Daddys love....and we all know thats rare...LOL
osocali777 1 year ago
what does shooting yr wife have to do with feminism? it was a game of william tell. it could happen to anyone really.
plutoohno 3 years ago 5
lol
Doderhultarn89 3 years ago
"it could happen to anyone really. "
Hehe
MarxBakuninMe 3 years ago
to plutoohno: Shooting wife in head does not fall in the it could happen to anyone category. You have to be very high on drugs, booze or whatever, and or you have to be very foolish, stupid or selfdestructive. It is a very hostile and stupid act.
joeo78501 2 years ago
That's how I want to do film editing.
pataphysician66 3 years ago
We can be like Burroughs w/ or without enough money. How much discomfort are you comfortable with? The carrying capacity for that is the defining point.
MrEddie21 3 years ago
when u got money coming in,time to get over hangovers and cold turkey,it's cool.the rest of us have to go to work bleeding our eyes out.otherwise we would all be like William.
garzaeduardo 3 years ago
Orobourous?
ePhilosopher 3 years ago
I think it's that symbol of the two snakes coiled up eating each other's tails.
skullketon 3 years ago
it's actually one snake swallowing its own tail
myroncope 3 years ago 2
Uroboros. myroncope is right.
pataphysician66 3 years ago
Correct.
VariedInterest 3 years ago
Très inspirant et applicable à peu près à toutes formes d'art.
FidoCastrel 3 years ago
This truly is great work. cut ups can be quite the interesting art form.
Greenman329 3 years ago
What is a cut up? Is it a random form of editing?
pataphysician66 3 years ago
did you watch the video you schmuck?
taffertime 3 years ago
WHY ARE YOU BEING SO FUCKING RUDE?
pataphysician66 3 years ago 2
Yeah, it's random editing.
People are rude. .. lol.
OrchidMaroon 3 years ago
That was beautiful
MoonBarrett 4 years ago 2
i came across burroughs videos randomly on here tonight, while sitting at my desk and working on a cut-up letter to send back to the friend who sent me the original letter! Love it.
RatatRatR 4 years ago
UNCLE bILL said there are sonsofbitches who know it all and there are good people or JOHNSONS... A johnson MINDS HIS OWN BUSINESS does not judge harshly and would help a fellow ccreature in need be it man,woman,cat,or lemur.....he is a citizen america can be proud of unlike that shit GEORGEWBULLSHITTER...
caitlynwillow 4 years ago 4
It's true, when you believe in god there is no fault possible by you because god loves you no matter what you do, but the god of catholicism or neo-pagan christianity is so far from the truth. It becomes a charade wherein entire populations not only fight but KILL over this intangible force none truly believes in because their belief has been handed down through history and has lost almost all of its reality. Divinity comes from within: ignore every religious peddler: you are god.
Seraserai 4 years ago
well said.
UTNO4NOLA 4 years ago
thanks for posting this up. Brilliant
thebrotherspleasant 4 years ago
william s burroughs....
godfather of cyberpunk!!!
mduff051 4 years ago
I am appalled by all of you charlatan's. Burroughs doesn't need me to stick up for him and those of you that berate him, why don't you write some ingenious works of literature, create art as brilliant as this Good Man and talk. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
Mojave700 4 years ago 3
I think Burroughs would be laughing in his grave if he heard your comments Mojave700
mikongo 4 years ago
Very much appreciated.
Mojave700 4 years ago
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he didnt believe in God that was the whole problem. WHEN some one believes that , then anything goes.
there in is the problem, and root of all stress and bad stuff.
sneakyman149 4 years ago