this iis still the most incredible entertainment- There was one time- and its gone and here it is as it was-we get to be witness-this is privilege at its best- this is what keeps man alive. experiencing being awestruck. about anything. that breath that is the humbleness of heart having witnessed something extraordinary or so rare
ok..consider these gentlemen; Aldous Huxley.(Brave new world/new age?) Jimi Hendrix.(musical Genius) Francis Crick.(l.s.d. lead him to discover D.N.A.) Terrence McKenna(Genius,author,philosopher) Timothy Leary(Harvard) Alan Ginsberg(also associated with the beats...alan's persona is very much that of a 60's counter-culture figure) surely some of the most influencial people in History preach "hippy" ideals. Jesus Christ Gahndi buddah
I would replace Crick (plagiarist) with Richard Feynman or Carl Sagan. And I don't know who T McKenna (and I don't care). Otheriwse, they're mostly cool.
I don't hate hippies, except those that became yuppies (most of them). I do hate dumb hippies, like pheonixaqua.
mckenna suggests in his book "food of the God's": that early man's departure from relying upon instinct alone- was none other than the illegal pysilosybin mushooms that were common on the ancient plains.
+ this theory has been seriously considered by the world of antropolgy.
a thought: if the police were to get a time machine....and "Bust" the ancient ape-men(there by preventing any "pyschedelic"effect )- could undo all of Human history.
Yes I agree...I didn't mean to imply he got this way from drugs.....but the vibrational avenue while on drugs allow perceptions to be warped thus illusions/veils...are withdrawn and reality spits in your face...
There is much more here than you even realize....dig deeper....look past the p and s...beyond the youngins....and you too will be able to walk in his footprints...and simply perceive...it's wonderful......i'd say he could be a humanist...very much so.....when the veil is pulled back...and you have risen above the Illusion...you can only be a humanist......because the reality is...we are all one.
What a useless thing to say, you dumb hippy. Eat a mushroom, read a few sentences out of the "The Prophet", and watch some Osho or Alex Jones or some other cult/conspiracy bullshit you pay attention to to get you by.
@skrewey God and Hate in the same sentence. So typical. tsk tsk
its apparent you have nothing better to do but attack people on utube to make you feel better about yourself....
I hope it worked. LOL oh you gotta love the sick society we live in when someone goes out of their way to attempt to hijack your sensibilities and intelligence.
@PhoenixAquua2012 I can only hope you're joking. 1. "God and hate in the same sentence." 2. "GOD. I HATE DUMB HIPPIES." Mind the full stop. (And the irony). I actually didn't look at your profile until I read this. But apparently I was spot on. Now you assume I went out of my way to "hijack" this?: "...when the veil is pulled back...and you have risen above the illusion..." You don't see how this is funny? Go jerk off to slam poetry, Alex Grey, and quantum TM. I HATE DUMB HIPPIES.
@skrewey It is a waste of your good time and energy to place all dumbness or stupidity on hippies. Most people don't know there were very brave ones, dangerous ones, and the rest were like the average kid who just wanted to fit in. And yes, just like a religion or club, there are doctrine and behavior that are acceptable as part of the group. How about I HATE DUMB PEOPLE!!
This one time, i sent a monkey to the store, but it started raining, and the monkey melted (it was made from clay) and it didn't bring back my groceries at all. I was ever so dissapointed. Also you like manlove !
if you love metaphisic world of W.. B. you have to watch a video on you tube : looking lupetto acilia and after lupetto without prejudice , a famous streeet man in Acilia ( Rome) on the other side of Dragoncello
why i have known you really only now that you are dead ? why in this fucking country i listened Antonello Venditti ? fucking country Italy , I'm in trouble for this
What's great is how many people with opposing views each sound like they really know what they're talking about, but collectively undermine each others credibilty. I wear my humanity on my sleeve, but I also think starvin Marvin is funny.
This old dude is the greatest master of written and spoken english language since Joyce, Nabokov, and maybe Ginsberg in poetry. He just pwn the rest of em authors and performers.
Superfluous musical accompaniment has been attaching itself to Burroughs, like a virus (to use his own paraphrase) attaching itself to a receptor molecule ever since the beginning of the 1980s.
I'm a great admirer of Tom Waits, but that doesn't change my opinion of this recitation - the music is unnecessary, and it detracts from the potency of Burroughs' speech. Sometimes less is more.
Excuse me gentlemen, but this song is not by Tom Waits but by Kurt Weill and a version of it was recorded by Tom Waits in 1985 - this version recorded by Wm Burroughs - equally brilliant but different was also produced by Hal Willner but for the film, September Songs.... and those instruments... brilliant musical understatement that somehow capture the melodic essence of Weill's original.
@SeptSongs And not even by Kurt Weill, but B.B. aka Bertolt Brecht. Music is well done, but September Songs gives off this whole vibe that Weill only did threepenny and Mahagonny.
@kreigaffenumber10 And Happy End, and Johnny Johnson and Knickerbocker Holiday and Street Scene and Marie Gallante and One Touch of Venus and Ölmusik and... There is actually of lot of Weill of different flavours used in the film... however, yes there is something distinctly Brechtian in the techniques, the feel....
Williams S. Burroughs and Pat Buchanan were good friends and drinking buddies. Instead of putting down others, realize that we can sit down and discuss our differences.
probably becaus ein the end due to nostalgia, they would just reminesce or they were both out of it to care about politics and social policy. Or it was strictly back biting
Gentleman? I don't think so. Shot his wifes head off and then wrote a poem about it! I think the heroin made him totally selfish, arrogant and cold. I loved the beat poets but this man scares me. He's got no soul and all he ever cared about was where his next fix was coming from.
gyporose. do you know anything about this gentleman? he is more relevant today than any other bullshit pseudo-intellectual creep still traipsing about the planet. I suggest getting informed before passing comment.
I agree totaly whit you. gypsyrose188 probably have no idea of the influences and respect mr. Burroughs gain in is life. Speaking of "irrevalent"you sure is on top of the list commenting on wat you dont get! Ignorence make peoples scared just like gypsyrose...
stupid tosser. we see who the horrible, stuck up, arrogant twat is here. you loved the beat poets, but this man scares you? burroughs wasnt a poet (he may have done a poem or few, but was far from being classified as a poet... get your facts straight before frothing off like a republican). go read the davinci code or some nicholas sparks crap if you want something you can understand and/or handle. idiot pretending to be real? guess thats better than really being fake eh? loser
Excuse me, i dont understand english quite well, but i cannot imagine what the kind of a person W. Borroughs was. How is it possible that a man can live up to 83 years old after 16 years on heroin. I havn't seen one single person who was quite adequate after spending only 2 or 3 years on H.
He was on H much longer than 16 years, he was on methadone for the last 16 years of his life alone. Heroin is a perservative. Booze will kill you long before H does--look at Jack Kerouac and Neal.
And what if he used lsd and speed instead? He would have went crazy much earlier and died? Syd Barret used lsd for few years (four or five) and irreversibly went balmy. Does that mean that H keeps mind and intellect normal?
No, probably not. He did coke and weed as well. He also did yage. It just takes a heartier human being to keep that lifestyle up. That's really all there is to it. Like Keith Richards. Why is he still alive when countless others die from doing what he does? Genetics and heartiness mostly. I'm sure brains helps. But why do them in the first place if you are smart? Drugs take a lot of energy and time to get into in the first place. That's how I see it.
LSD will make most people nuts. It took Brian Wilson 20 years to recover. It'll crack your brain like an egg if you're a normal, creative sensitive person. My point was that lots of people function on Heroin. I and I think a lot of people have found it easier to hide an opiate addiction than a hardcore drinking habit.
What about speed? I used it once but i took too much. I didnt sleep for 4 days and my blood pressure was too high so I was praying not to die. A fucking junky bitch did it to me, she forced me to do that cause I was too young. I cannot still recover after that. Something happened to my psychic, I better took H instead.
Well, yes, Joan Vollmer was a speed freak. So, genetically at least, Burrough's son had little more chance than Jan Kerouac. Bill Jr. drank enough to kill his liver before he was 30. He got a transplant and kept drinking and died before age 35 if I remember. He probably would've been better off on smack. But of course, who wants to be like their parents?
Guy asking how Burroughs stayed sane and lived so long while he was on smack. I think it was just luck. The right physiical sonstitution for it. Lots of his friends died after just a few years.
He was smart enough to know how to dance with it and not let it ruin him. He did junk for close to 40 years, not 16. Kind of a rarity though really. Not many who do it are as smart as he was.
Hi . You are defenetly not well informed on heroin . The Heroin and other opiates such as morphine are highly addictive . Yes Therefore they do not arm brain , muscles or tissues of humain bodies. What is destructive is the life most of heroin users are having . Not eating , sleeping and living in dumpsters. Rich users such as many rock stars (Rolling Stones, Iggy Pop , Lou Reed , Johnny rotten etc... ad money so they did not suffer from bad treatment streets users goes trough .
Sheer genius! WS Burroughs was like having HL Menecken, Frank Zappa, Mark Twain and Hunter S. Thompson all rolled into one. The world is at a loss without him. RIP WSB.
haha. I would say something about the fact that calling me a moron probably diminishes my opinion of you as a lover of poetry. Especially since I said 'I think', therefore implying it is my opinion only.
but firstly, i think you should look up your facts.
bertolt brecht wrote it in 1928 for the Threepenny Opera (originally in German) and it has been performed MANY times before burroughs performed it. Tom Waits performed it after that.
Actually, Tom Waits performed it on the 1985 album "Lost in The Stars" and Burroughs for the 1994 film "September Songs", for which the soundtrack was released on CD in 1997 - and the music producer for both the '85 and '94/'97 tracks was the legendary and brilliant Hal Willner.
You should look for a french version of Brecht/Weil's "The Threepenny Opera" - (from which the ballad comes of course)- I know that there is one in existence as I had English, the original German and French versions of the Threepenny Opera...but the French version was very old ...and on vinyl...but the translation must exist somewhere if you keep digging..
thats not true at all...he got 400 a month at a time when a steak dinner cost 1.50 with all the trimmings.. and that dosen't even include what he made durring his drug sales...although he prolly squandared all of that on drugs
according to wikipedia=according to a bunch of drunk assholes who make shit up.
just kidding.
i've been reading a lot of biographies on this cat. he had an allowance, so it seems he worked odd jobs to give himself something to do, and maybe something to write about too. sometimes it kept him off junk, but i'm sure he couldn't have supported his habit without both the allowance and the part-time gigs.
according to wikipedia=according to a bunch of drunk assholes who make shit up.
just kidding.
i've been reading a lot of biographies on this cat. he had an allowance, so it seems he worked odd jobs to give himself something to do, and maybe something to write about too. sometimes it kept him off junk, but i'm sure he couldn't have supported his habit without both the allowance and the part-time gigs.
To be a hippy is to be fully human! Peace n Luv folks! :-)
MrMephisto38 11 months ago
Last quote from his journal in 1997
Love! What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is. LOVE
robin14669 11 months ago
if you have respect of Borroughs watch video made in italy nazareno italiano canta
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blomahmartin 1 year ago
is it a movie? a mtv?
yeewaishun 1 year ago
this iis still the most incredible entertainment- There was one time- and its gone and here it is as it was-we get to be witness-this is privilege at its best- this is what keeps man alive. experiencing being awestruck. about anything. that breath that is the humbleness of heart having witnessed something extraordinary or so rare
moesez1 1 year ago
novaflo339 1 year ago 2
@novaflo339
I would replace Crick (plagiarist) with Richard Feynman or Carl Sagan. And I don't know who T McKenna (and I don't care). Otheriwse, they're mostly cool.
I don't hate hippies, except those that became yuppies (most of them). I do hate dumb hippies, like pheonixaqua.
skrewey 1 year ago
@skrewey
i concur on your latter points,
mckenna suggests in his book "food of the God's": that early man's departure from relying upon instinct alone- was none other than the illegal pysilosybin mushooms that were common on the ancient plains.
+ this theory has been seriously considered by the world of antropolgy.
a thought: if the police were to get a time machine....and "Bust" the ancient ape-men(there by preventing any "pyschedelic"effect )- could undo all of Human history.
novaflo339 1 year ago
@novaflo339 OK.
Huxley, Hendrix and Ginsburg were briilaint in theire variouse fields.
The next two I don't know about.
Leary was a narcicistic jerk who fried his brain.
milascave2 3 months ago
@novaflo339 As for the last three:
Jesus was inconsistant. Preached peace then went nuts with a whip.
Gandi was pretty cool exept for his patronizing support for the caste system
Buddha was a total genius. Best,phsychologist known to history.
milascave2 3 months ago
Yes indeedy doody
56BUICKRiviera 1 year ago
amazing where the mind can go via drugs....he is the most unique individual that either you hate him or you love him....no grey....
:-)
PhoenixAquua2012 2 years ago
His superior intellect is what made him so good....not drugs.
zimmerface 2 years ago 3
Yes I agree...I didn't mean to imply he got this way from drugs.....but the vibrational avenue while on drugs allow perceptions to be warped thus illusions/veils...are withdrawn and reality spits in your face...
;-)
PhoenixAquua2012 2 years ago
hehe. funny junkie. i can't really tell if he's humanist or anti-humanist. i just know he likes peepee and skag!
0800BOY 2 years ago
There is much more here than you even realize....dig deeper....look past the p and s...beyond the youngins....and you too will be able to walk in his footprints...and simply perceive...it's wonderful......i'd say he could be a humanist...very much so.....when the veil is pulled back...and you have risen above the Illusion...you can only be a humanist......because the reality is...we are all one.
PhoenixAquua2012 2 years ago
@PhoenixAquua2012
We are all alone.
Jcolinsol 1 year ago
@PhoenixAquua2012
What a useless thing to say, you dumb hippy. Eat a mushroom, read a few sentences out of the "The Prophet", and watch some Osho or Alex Jones or some other cult/conspiracy bullshit you pay attention to to get you by.
GOD. I HATE DUMB HIPPIES.
skrewey 1 year ago
@skrewey God and Hate in the same sentence. So typical. tsk tsk
its apparent you have nothing better to do but attack people on utube to make you feel better about yourself....
I hope it worked. LOL oh you gotta love the sick society we live in when someone goes out of their way to attempt to hijack your sensibilities and intelligence.
PhoenixAquua2012 1 year ago
skrewey 1 year ago
@skrewy
how do u feel about genius hippies?
novaflo339 1 year ago
@novaflo339
Like who?
skrewey 1 year ago
@skrewey It is a waste of your good time and energy to place all dumbness or stupidity on hippies. Most people don't know there were very brave ones, dangerous ones, and the rest were like the average kid who just wanted to fit in. And yes, just like a religion or club, there are doctrine and behavior that are acceptable as part of the group. How about I HATE DUMB PEOPLE!!
deltatangofoxtot 1 year ago 2
@deltatangofoxtot
This one time, i sent a monkey to the store, but it started raining, and the monkey melted (it was made from clay) and it didn't bring back my groceries at all. I was ever so dissapointed. Also you like manlove !
HeatIIEXTEND 1 year ago
if you love metaphisic world of W.. B. you have to watch a video on you tube : looking lupetto acilia and after lupetto without prejudice , a famous streeet man in Acilia ( Rome) on the other side of Dragoncello
convinzioneobastone 2 years ago
why i have known you really only now that you are dead ? why in this fucking country i listened Antonello Venditti ? fucking country Italy , I'm in trouble for this
convinzioneobastone 2 years ago
I wish I were never born. Good bye.
ghostofdayinperson 2 years ago
los alamos ranch school , where they later made the atom bomb and couldnt wait to drop it on the yellow pearl.
W.S.B.
sean57 2 years ago
true nice poem
cakinosala 2 years ago
What's great is how many people with opposing views each sound like they really know what they're talking about, but collectively undermine each others credibilty. I wear my humanity on my sleeve, but I also think starvin Marvin is funny.
23DW23 2 years ago
This is superb!! Thanks so much for the post!!! Love the threepenny opera. Love Burroughs. What a combo. Thank you.
marensinc 2 years ago
Mastermind
Zaratustra1380 2 years ago
talking
westboundfilms 2 years ago
monkeys
westboundfilms 2 years ago
This old dude is the greatest master of written and spoken english language since Joyce, Nabokov, and maybe Ginsberg in poetry. He just pwn the rest of em authors and performers.
reallyhatejazz 2 years ago 23
Thank you for describing Burroughs as 'pwning ' something, thus bringing his work into the 21st Century even more.
allaboutdmagic 2 years ago 3
@reallyhatejazz
He also shot his wife and had an awkward streak towards Boys.
Not saying He's not awesome, just saying
HeatIIEXTEND 3 months ago
sounds more like kurt weill than burroughs to me
tenparab 2 years ago
Brecht.
mafrick40205 2 years ago
Doesn't seem like anyone on Youtube knows anything about Burroughs. I have studied his work for many years. He is right on.
ninjajo11 2 years ago
"Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts". No one knew that better than Burroughs. The man was a genius-he was a prophet.
daddycrockett23 3 years ago 2
the music sounds worn down phonograph playing kurt weil or drugged out klezmer
ThomasJeromeNewton 3 years ago
that was the idea
antcol8 2 years ago
Superfluous musical accompaniment has been attaching itself to Burroughs, like a virus (to use his own paraphrase) attaching itself to a receptor molecule ever since the beginning of the 1980s.
dannyamosflynn 3 years ago
A powerful recitation, although the music only clutters it, I feel.
garethac81 3 years ago
poopoo you
Sfarabaktivocaal 3 years ago
Thanks for that.
garethac81 3 years ago 3
well it is a song
dedauw 3 years ago
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dedauw is right. This is a song. By the great Tom Waits.
Mss34 2 years ago
I'm a great admirer of Tom Waits, but that doesn't change my opinion of this recitation - the music is unnecessary, and it detracts from the potency of Burroughs' speech. Sometimes less is more.
garethac81 2 years ago
Excuse me gentlemen, but this song is not by Tom Waits but by Kurt Weill and a version of it was recorded by Tom Waits in 1985 - this version recorded by Wm Burroughs - equally brilliant but different was also produced by Hal Willner but for the film, September Songs.... and those instruments... brilliant musical understatement that somehow capture the melodic essence of Weill's original.
SeptSongs 2 years ago 15
thank you
antcol8 2 years ago
@SeptSongs And not even by Kurt Weill, but B.B. aka Bertolt Brecht. Music is well done, but September Songs gives off this whole vibe that Weill only did threepenny and Mahagonny.
kreigaffenumber10 8 months ago
@kreigaffenumber10 And Happy End, and Johnny Johnson and Knickerbocker Holiday and Street Scene and Marie Gallante and One Touch of Venus and Ölmusik and... There is actually of lot of Weill of different flavours used in the film... however, yes there is something distinctly Brechtian in the techniques, the feel....
SeptSongs 8 months ago
you're both wrong... I'm not putting down Tom Waits, but these are Burroughs' words
bloodytofu 2 years ago
Nope. Bertolt Brecht wrote it. It's from The Three Penny Opera. This show, September Songs, was a Brecht and Weill tribute.
winosapien 2 years ago 6
i love this video!
superlia123 3 years ago
W.S.B makes Cruise look like a rank amatuer in the zombie stakes. whoooshhhh
falconelly 3 years ago 2
Williams S. Burroughs and Pat Buchanan were good friends and drinking buddies. Instead of putting down others, realize that we can sit down and discuss our differences.
olives639 3 years ago 3
probably becaus ein the end due to nostalgia, they would just reminesce or they were both out of it to care about politics and social policy. Or it was strictly back biting
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Gentleman? I don't think so. Shot his wifes head off and then wrote a poem about it! I think the heroin made him totally selfish, arrogant and cold. I loved the beat poets but this man scares me. He's got no soul and all he ever cared about was where his next fix was coming from.
gypsyrose188 3 years ago
Gentleman and champion of the underdog and the junk was only one of many chapters.
nondor13 3 years ago
you're lost, and this little paragraph you wrote was your next fix, so go suck your own cock. Burroughs is the King.
Bassemup 3 years ago
That's not what happened at all.
theoriginal72 3 years ago
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Look at this idiot pretending to be real. He doesnt realise how irrevalent he is. What a horrible,stuck up, arrogant twat!
gypsyrose188 3 years ago
gyporose. do you know anything about this gentleman? he is more relevant today than any other bullshit pseudo-intellectual creep still traipsing about the planet. I suggest getting informed before passing comment.
23KLT23 3 years ago 2
I agree totaly whit you. gypsyrose188 probably have no idea of the influences and respect mr. Burroughs gain in is life. Speaking of "irrevalent"you sure is on top of the list commenting on wat you dont get! Ignorence make peoples scared just like gypsyrose...
etiennepic 3 years ago
stupid tosser. we see who the horrible, stuck up, arrogant twat is here. you loved the beat poets, but this man scares you? burroughs wasnt a poet (he may have done a poem or few, but was far from being classified as a poet... get your facts straight before frothing off like a republican). go read the davinci code or some nicholas sparks crap if you want something you can understand and/or handle. idiot pretending to be real? guess thats better than really being fake eh? loser
ahdamone 3 years ago 2
Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts! And for once you must try to face the facts! Brilliant.
subsamadhi 3 years ago 3
Excuse me, i dont understand english quite well, but i cannot imagine what the kind of a person W. Borroughs was. How is it possible that a man can live up to 83 years old after 16 years on heroin. I havn't seen one single person who was quite adequate after spending only 2 or 3 years on H.
Chlorproteksen 3 years ago
maybe all the other drugs had some sort of counter effect.
RapidAssassin 3 years ago
He was on H much longer than 16 years, he was on methadone for the last 16 years of his life alone. Heroin is a perservative. Booze will kill you long before H does--look at Jack Kerouac and Neal.
zoetropez 3 years ago 3
And what if he used lsd and speed instead? He would have went crazy much earlier and died? Syd Barret used lsd for few years (four or five) and irreversibly went balmy. Does that mean that H keeps mind and intellect normal?
Chlorproteksen 3 years ago
No, probably not. He did coke and weed as well. He also did yage. It just takes a heartier human being to keep that lifestyle up. That's really all there is to it. Like Keith Richards. Why is he still alive when countless others die from doing what he does? Genetics and heartiness mostly. I'm sure brains helps. But why do them in the first place if you are smart? Drugs take a lot of energy and time to get into in the first place. That's how I see it.
subsamadhi 3 years ago
LSD will make most people nuts. It took Brian Wilson 20 years to recover. It'll crack your brain like an egg if you're a normal, creative sensitive person. My point was that lots of people function on Heroin. I and I think a lot of people have found it easier to hide an opiate addiction than a hardcore drinking habit.
zoetropez 3 years ago
What about speed? I used it once but i took too much. I didnt sleep for 4 days and my blood pressure was too high so I was praying not to die. A fucking junky bitch did it to me, she forced me to do that cause I was too young. I cannot still recover after that. Something happened to my psychic, I better took H instead.
Chlorproteksen 3 years ago
Well, yes, Joan Vollmer was a speed freak. So, genetically at least, Burrough's son had little more chance than Jan Kerouac. Bill Jr. drank enough to kill his liver before he was 30. He got a transplant and kept drinking and died before age 35 if I remember. He probably would've been better off on smack. But of course, who wants to be like their parents?
zoetropez 3 years ago
Guy asking how Burroughs stayed sane and lived so long while he was on smack. I think it was just luck. The right physiical sonstitution for it. Lots of his friends died after just a few years.
daddycrockett23 3 years ago
He was also independently wealthy.
godofsloth 3 years ago 2
He was smart enough to know how to dance with it and not let it ruin him. He did junk for close to 40 years, not 16. Kind of a rarity though really. Not many who do it are as smart as he was.
subsamadhi 3 years ago
Hi . You are defenetly not well informed on heroin . The Heroin and other opiates such as morphine are highly addictive . Yes Therefore they do not arm brain , muscles or tissues of humain bodies. What is destructive is the life most of heroin users are having . Not eating , sleeping and living in dumpsters. Rich users such as many rock stars (Rolling Stones, Iggy Pop , Lou Reed , Johnny rotten etc... ad money so they did not suffer from bad treatment streets users goes trough .
etiennepic 3 years ago 3
This is the most terrifying speech/poem ever. Brilliant!
tekalynn 3 years ago 2
What a liberal!
Snotra 3 years ago
hmmm I wonder if Burroughs could've sung it with that weakened, broken voice of his. Naa, probably not. I love his speaking voice, though.
I wonder why he couldn't recite something of his own, though. I mean, this is a song--and Kurt Weill's music isn't something you can just subtract.
123obo123 4 years ago
Full truth and nothing but, the naked truth.
Thanks,
flyagaric23 4 years ago
But WSB nailed it ^^
zeldaenlink 4 years ago
Burroughs didn't write it, Bertolt Brecht did.
armills20 4 years ago
tom waits made a song from this text!! goog stuff
SEHD 4 years ago
Tom Waits sang the original song, he didn't write the song.
Burroughs version is a reading of the text from the original song.
wiredjazz 4 years ago
Sheer genius! WS Burroughs was like having HL Menecken, Frank Zappa, Mark Twain and Hunter S. Thompson all rolled into one. The world is at a loss without him. RIP WSB.
nhilst600 4 years ago
the Junk life 4 ever!!!!
mduff051 4 years ago
Also check out the Tom Waits version..good stuff
ousia79 4 years ago
Despite what you may have been told, first you feed the body then you feed the soul
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Please stop that. It's superstitious nonsense!
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Hirnlego999 4 years ago
a great reading, but i think tom waits did it better.
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jamesreynolds1 4 years ago 2
haha. I would say something about the fact that calling me a moron probably diminishes my opinion of you as a lover of poetry. Especially since I said 'I think', therefore implying it is my opinion only.
but firstly, i think you should look up your facts.
bertolt brecht wrote it in 1928 for the Threepenny Opera (originally in German) and it has been performed MANY times before burroughs performed it. Tom Waits performed it after that.
Check your facts before you make judgements.
wiredjazz 4 years ago
Actually, Tom Waits performed it on the 1985 album "Lost in The Stars" and Burroughs for the 1994 film "September Songs", for which the soundtrack was released on CD in 1997 - and the music producer for both the '85 and '94/'97 tracks was the legendary and brilliant Hal Willner.
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i agree, we should kill all the niggers on this planet
Tbar20 4 years ago
mr. provocative~your the nig
pryorandrew 4 years ago
im doing you an egg
Tbar20 4 years ago
love this version...
hoss1962 5 years ago
Somone knows where i can find the translation in french?
arismatic 5 years ago
You should look for a french version of Brecht/Weil's "The Threepenny Opera" - (from which the ballad comes of course)- I know that there is one in existence as I had English, the original German and French versions of the Threepenny Opera...but the French version was very old ...and on vinyl...but the translation must exist somewhere if you keep digging..
hoss1962 5 years ago
Superbe.
bardamur 5 years ago
burroughs, the coolest, smartest junky ever!!!!
zoesdad420 5 years ago
yes,and it's a myth he had inherited money to burn,it was a small allowance
danrose 5 years ago
thats not true at all...he got 400 a month at a time when a steak dinner cost 1.50 with all the trimmings.. and that dosen't even include what he made durring his drug sales...although he prolly squandared all of that on drugs
lotusjuggalo14nyc 4 years ago
According to Wikipedia he had a lot of drudge jobs to support the habit
danrose 4 years ago
according to wikipedia=according to a bunch of drunk assholes who make shit up.
just kidding.
i've been reading a lot of biographies on this cat. he had an allowance, so it seems he worked odd jobs to give himself something to do, and maybe something to write about too. sometimes it kept him off junk, but i'm sure he couldn't have supported his habit without both the allowance and the part-time gigs.
veloboy 4 years ago
oops, thought i was replying to a post on page 3--8 months ago. who's the drunk asshole now?
veloboy 4 years ago 2
according to wikipedia=according to a bunch of drunk assholes who make shit up.
just kidding.
i've been reading a lot of biographies on this cat. he had an allowance, so it seems he worked odd jobs to give himself something to do, and maybe something to write about too. sometimes it kept him off junk, but i'm sure he couldn't have supported his habit without both the allowance and the part-time gigs.
veloboy 4 years ago
damn it! that wasn't meant for this page. not my fault!
veloboy 4 years ago
Forget the biogs and just read his work
seerauberjohnny 3 years ago 2
Brilliant!
Manwithcam 5 years ago
WOW... Great stuff here!
yostie 5 years ago
holy mother of god this is great.
xdfpep 5 years ago
Magnifico!
jhv48 5 years ago
Where did you find this? Loved it!
daveTmkio 5 years ago
I like his voice
ifeeltoast 5 years ago
absolutely brilliant and so pertinent to now...
doublevelvet 5 years ago