William S. Burroughs in Lawrence home movies, part 1

[dunskie]

Cool. Thanks.

[NeoSilvanus]

hurr durr i get fucked up on drugs and play with guns, hurr durr oops i killed my wife

[danielvlee]

he was another postmodernist con artist

[WormTyrant]

@danielvlee

oooohh sounds like you aint smart enough to understand a single word of his novels. I know how frustrating it can be, trying to stay focused while yr learnding things. Take a deep breath you'll get there one day.

[iowafilmdude22]

Haha. Uncle Billy toking up.

[TheCorsair00]

I guess he was cool. He was a very strong influence, especially for what has come to be experimental artists in music and writing etc. But his most important work, along with Ginsberg, was the discovery of shamanism in the Amazon, and the work "The Yage Letters". The most important thing he contributed is actually "New Age" and supportive of metaphysics and the need for a stronger and more experiential connection to life. All of the nihilistic art freaks are obsolete. Get over the heroin.

[666yanco]

i guess burroughs would just tell you all to fuck off with your "insider" comments.......unless you've got some heroin on you,that is.....heroin rules

[MegaCozzy]

@666yanco twat.... come on dick bring it on bad man

[666yanco]

@MegaCozzy listen dickhead, get back to fuckin your grandma as you do in england....

[leybach]

the invisible man behind the visable word

[raytroughton]

We need a voice like his as we enter the second decade of the twenty first century/ as we consider our evolution/ fancy caves rising penetrating the sky and clubs that leave a searing light and mushroom cloud

[DNKitty]

One thing that is always so incredible.. No matter how old Burroughs gets.. Or looks.. He's still so active.. If not a bit jittery.. FYI, the man has LOOKED that old for 30 years before this was recorded.. He ended up outliving most of his friends, especially his first generation ones.. And multiple things, drugs and stressful situations aged him quite a bit..

[Snotra]

What's mind blowing was his life long fascination with weapons. I understand he killed his wife accidently playing with a gun.

[EricBraun]

@Snotra He did then incorporated it into one of his most famous books naked lunch

[DNKitty]

Indeed he did.. While he was highly intoxicated, and she was.. Well high. It was in Mexico though, So he ended up just coming back to America.

[3443bh]

Tremendous video! Seeing him smoke weed was different. I wonder if he like Percocets and oxycontin in his later years!

[DNKitty]

Not really. Once you get stuck in doing what he did.. Addicted to Morphine from the age of 22-83.. He smoked pot, hated any sort of psychoactive drugs, he drank.. But not too much modern perscriptions interested him.

[CountThrillhammer]

Patti Smith - please leave Burroughs,Rimbaud and Artaud alone. You are an imbecile not a poet, not shaving your legs doesn't make you a Beat just a smelly hippy.

[PrePiovaPost]

I totally agree with you

[WormTyrant]

@CountThrillhammer

Yeah I suppose you're the type of person that likes Lady Gaga and Madonna. Patti Smith is Goddess. Now suck my fucking dick, fool.

[CountThrillhammer]

@WormTyrant I don't listen to pop music you imbecile, I suppose you think Rimbaud and Artaud are boy bands ? You must be one sorry faggot if you can't get your penis sucked , just go to your local mens toilets you fool.

[formsofthingsunknown]

such vital and beautiful souls depicted here...

[h75dale]

WSB is god

[ma0namaste]

*Spellbinding* Like sitting a sacred meditation.

[loren1283]

You do realize they are talking about weapons.

[TrulyTrixy69]

Jesus ....hewas prety far gone by this stage, wasn't he??? More or less mad as a March Hare.

Forsaken by reason and nothing but fried chicken shit for brains

[compactdisk2]

@TrulyTrixy69 What the hell are you talking about? He seems perfectly lucid, he's just old.

[taoslightning]

You see what you're looking for.

[vincentbryce]

So its just William Burroughs and Ginsberg chillin in some apartment @ the same time as Buscemi?

Hm

[TheLastDugong]

About 3 minutes in I see tired old man who's lived the life of twenty men and simply wants the stupid singing and cameras and sychophantic hangers-on out of his house so he can finally relax and go to bed. He's not orchestrating the Moscow Symphony, he's saying, "Cut!, ....Cut!....Cut!..." And then he disappears. Sickening. No class.

[wireandwood]

yes, indeed, and I feel like a bit of a prying dick just watching this. Leave the guy alone, and think about what he wrote. Or read it, even.

So much of what people like Burroughs and others who were associated with him have come to stand for is just image, now. It's like our media conditioning has morphed them into flat icons of cool, robbed of substance. Is this comment too long for you tube? Can people focus for more than a couple of seconds on anything other than moving images?!

[duhduhduhda]

william burroughs is amazing and my idol proof that junkies can live to a ripe old age

and also one of VERY few people whose home movies i would actually watch

maybe brad nowell too.............

[Duganoff09]

Sublime! R.I.P Brad

[scarrumble]

cool stuff, thanks. buscemi's mind expands at 3.55.

[gardnjw]

Uncle Bill is my Anti Hero

[ambianimaton]

Burroughs didn't consider himself a beatnik, he was older than them.

sure Jack was the main beat.

Burroughs was the greatest author in the english language that has ever lived

[subsamadhi]

You are right. Even the "beatniks" didn't consider themselves as such. Beatnik was a stupid label put on them by the media, just like hippy and "generation X" and all the other idiotic monikers the American media invents.

[DownSyndromeArmy5]

great stuff, pattis music is wonderful, but I think i'd rather hear burroughs speak

[duhduhduhda]

most certainly

though he tends to ramble about conspiracies and other dumb things sometimes.

but if you sit long enough you always hear something totally amazing and mind blowing

[absinther666]

Thank you William...RIP

[vascopn]

william burroughs is a must

[vascopn]

william burroughs is a must

[Underpalace]

Hee! Uncle Bill's house! He's so wiggly.

[jedediahliddell]

is that steve buschemi?

[KineticRic]

I think so!!

Can anyone confirm?

[DarkEyesOfLondon]

HOLY COW LOOKAT HIM BLAZE!!

Thanks for sharing, I miss Burroughs' presence in this world.

A man of true quality.

[eleusis66]

Yea it was an accident , they were playing the william tell act and he had a bbad day cause he was a sharp shooter..

[Snotra]

What a nut waiving a gun around! Didnt he kill his wife accidently with a revolver?

[Subutubiata]

Yeah, he claimed his whole vocation as a writer was an attempt to free himself from posession by the 'Ugly Spirit' that precipitated his wife's death in a drunken game of 'William Tell.'

[bookslave454]

Less than one year from the time of this home video our friend W.S.B. past away.He departed this earth and no more will we see Bill in the flesh.Keep your hearts and your minds open,Bill is with us in spirit and word .....

[asdffd]

Man, I love his voice. It's amazing.

[mancheromanchero]

yeah? thats a junky\s voice. they all sound the same. in all seriousness...

[Anthony113010]

You read a lot of shit on these forums but 'all junkies sound like that'. Unbelieveable! The virus at work. Foolish.

[AlannahBabalon156]

Thank you for sharing this bleedingkansan, its a privilege to see great footage like this. As for Burroughs, "you're sorely missed my good man".

[ole9872]

ooahw..!!Cool stuff man..! Wish i was there..! peace

[Dollarbob]

if i was there, i'd tell patti to stop playing...we can't hear ourselves talk

[ChrisRichnak]

This man is a genious. He went to harvard, and started the beat generation after jack Keroak. The Exploiding Ticket is one of his greatest novels, next to the Exteminator!

[Dollarbob]

started it AFTER jack? what do you mean...on the road was the big bang of it all man..inspired by neal cassady...burroughs was part of it but older than jack and the gang...and a bit removed from the generation...though a part of the literary movement

[geekfreaklover]

Yes, I would say Jack was the main beat. The other three being Burroughs, Gingsberg amd Gregory Corso.

Buroughs was Jack's teacher and mentor back in New York in the 1940s. He was in Tangiers and Paris at the time the Beat thing exploded. Naked Lunch was published in US in 1963, buy which time a west coast beat scene had emerged. Burroughs distanced himself as a more serious writer than many of the poet writers jumping on the beat wagon.

[redpaul79]

Burroughs is tops, then Kerouac and Ginsberg... corso ws pure horseshit...

[geekfreaklover]

Spoken like a true scholar,

[redpaul79]

a what?

[vincentbryce]

indeed

[WormTyrant]

@redpaul79

Nah Gregory was awesome !

[GrecoAlbo68]

Truly an eccentic genious. Read a book, and you'll see your in for more than you think. You'll either love him, or despise him. I love him, and I second that. R.I.P. I missed my calling. The Beat Generation

[moneymasterjet]

He either never has a boring moment, or he's completely bored out of his mind.  Edge.

[TomBandfield]

Holy shit this is fucking quality! Burroughs, Ginsberg and Patti Smith! Beautiful, thanks for uploading. :-)

[KingJSantos]

funniest comment of all fucking time stuntmanbryan.

[scottdkr]

I love Burroughs voice.

[eleusis66]

R.I.P

[baboonlwka]

I love you.

dr Benway

[creamytreee187]

godamn it.  william s burroughs.... peace bill! rock n roll

[Endimione17]

Only you fuckin'americans can scorn a genius. Go get lost

WSB forever!

endimione

[stuntmanbryan]

Only you fucking nazi cunts can murder six million Jews.

[thesemenincident]

who's music/what song is that in the video? I think it compliments the video really well.

[pants362]

Maybe Patti Smith? Not sure though.

[kansasgayboy]

yes i live in lawrence

patty smith !

[teflonmagnet]

the man was obsessed with his steel...that 'ol croaker.

[SureShotDC]

I want my 8 minutes back.

[Drusdrus1975]

don`t judge a genius for his ancient!!! he was friend of Kero and Cassady!!! He was on the road!!! he is one of the giants!!! love from spain

[6billionghosts]

only the power of the dead and famous can make me feel this way in video. i made the same video but no one was famous. it was all friends i watched and the melancholy wasn't there. maybe later in life i'll feel it. the loss, the religious gaze

[ichbineintoober]

The slow, horrible death of the elderly shabbos goy. What did he get for his work? Only pain.

There is NEW WORK, and NEW LIFE! I tell you if you shoot a rabbi in the head, you will be rewarded.

The lawrence kansas model is: use lots of dope and die slow.

White children are being born every day. The bolsheviks can't do a damn thing about it.

As whites, we must arm ourselves. defend against the william burroughs of this world.

[9ightech666]

what are u on man?

[frankieIII]

show some respect, man, and take your dated racist remarks elsewhere. you're not welcome here...

[gleventhal]

Youre a stupid misled cunt, aren't you? I only wonder how you're even aware enough to know who William seward Burroughs actually is. I'm white, and let me be the first to say, fuck you, you arent wanted by our race.

[ichbineintoober]

You aren't white, Leventhal. You'll claim it when it serves your purposes.

[ichbineintoober]

Do you see him? You see the hell he's in? He was in hell long before he died. I wouldn't wish that slow twitchy death on anyone.

Burroughs looked and acted just like the crack whores all over this nation. He was miserable.

He was a great man though! How to kill your wife and get away with it 101

[RideMyBMW]

dude, these guys been friends for 40 odd years! Miss the Big Kero...Taken too soon.

[biggesthitter]

Life doesn't make any sense. Thanks. RIP WSB. and all you other beloved fuck-ups.

[jfc326]

as it says in the description - yes, that's patti smith, yes, that's steve buscemi, and ginsberg is there, too. sounds like a good song to me...ginsberg died within a year of this movie, burroughs almost a year to the day later.

[KARMABRIGADE]

is that Patti Smith?

[zappyhod]

bill ya life was a train wreck but thankyou for the things you wrote...r.i.p.

[lowgrau]

Really, MCKRUSH, time to hit the mute button.

And that sure looks like Buscemi...

[MCKRUSH]

Nix on the chick with the guitar. Folk music: A total buzz kill.

[fredjhenzel]

did I see steve buscemi in there?

[ramblingvine]

This is very interesting, just hanging out in one of those old American houses. Did Burroughs know he was being filmed?

[snapkat]

yeah. Bit surreptitious?

[ifthereishell666]

Weird

[pigshavebeards]

I really love Burroughs obsessions and how they realate to his writing. You can see some of them here: cats, guns and drugs.

[fredpim11]

il ne tient pas en place ce petit vieux

[mylgas]

Burroughs is stroking a big hairy pussy and waving around with a gun. Nice video.

[STEVEFINNERTY]

i met him in the Hacienda manchester england early 80s ,,,

gave him some skunk spliff , he said it smelt like "dutch cheese !!!".

[ja137676a]

I love you, I miss you, Burroughs,.

[67annorexorcist94]

the date on this has to be wrong, burroughs died in '93

[freestylefunk]

he died in 97. .around same time as lady diana

[67annorexorcist94]

ohhh, nevermind, I was thinking of Anthony Burgess. Sorry about that.

[slobomotion]

Mixed feelings. Most interview materials with Uncle Bill let me down. It was best to hear him read in person and to see him around NYC. I fear people who see this sort of thing won't "get it."

[inkwell64]

Why do you 'fear' we won't 'get it'? Are you the only one who understands? Do you feel generally misunderstood, and 'let down'? And if so, are you armed?

[slobomotion]

I am glad you obviously enjoyed it. There are some good recordings of Bill reading, and these should be checked out. His voice while reading was really something and made me "get it."

[robshaka00]

Burroughs looks really good and able for 82-considering his phenomenal life-long drug habit.

[AnaKosta]

Instead of Patti's song it would have been better if we could hear what Burroughs was saying...

[murcury]

Agreed.

[TexasRounder]

Agreed

[cregmac79]

methadone 80mgs, i do like to die on that...

[mathemaddicts]

need a litre 2 kill me!

[cregmac79]

does it make you gay for liking thiw?, i read naked lunch, queer, exterminator... qctually wuite a few of his books and... i thought he was just a great writer, who honestly didnt seem to give a shit about gays, although she sounds like mazzy star.. lol newbs

[dasher1982]

wow..what is this from? how?

[trailortrashredneck]

my hero

[sbrosseau]

this is the best footage i've ever seen...xox ...w.prop

[Rick02115]

would love to have been there but for that awful woman singing. Can't she just serve the food and leave? Better yet, can't a good looking boy take her place?

[webofmimicry]

It's Patti Smith not your mom

[Rick02115]

i know, she's william's token female friend. her and susan sontag. we all have them. they're just lucky he didn't shoot them!

[draeven57]

He and Laurie Anderson were friends too.. Don't forget here.. she has more talent than either of the other two... :)

[Jojoseahorse]

Yeah, a good-looking boy can serve the food :) Wish there was some footage of Patti chatting with William; I bet they had some fascinating conversations.

[traciragen]

trully beautiful

[lennysrv]

" a classic italian design"

[lennysrv]

"a little smokey smokey"

bizarre fucking old man-cool is just cool.... sex and murder still fascinates.