i really like his books and everything, but in person he's just some old man, like a grandad or something. you should never meet your heroes, or see them on facebook
Correct on all three counts: he was open about being a heroin addict....he accidentley shot & killed his wife in Mexico during a drunken "William Tell"-type shenanagin...and is considered a hero of the Beat & Avant Garde movement. A truly unique & "one of a kind" individual....
Hey everyone, I too am an opiate addict. I was using IV heroin everyday for over 4 years. I got on suboxone at first without insurance and had to pay $7 per pill for 90 pills per month plus Dr. fees, which was more than $1000 a month just to stay clean. I've since gotten great insurance which allows me to get all my suboxone for free and I have a lot of extra suboxone scripts left over. I am willing to help anybody out who wants to get clean but doesn't have the funds to do it. Message me.
@Longetty They would think twice about trying to colonize a planet that could produce this! lol Thanks for sharing, I am always looking for faves for my other channel, and there's never enough... a lot of writers are too boring to translate to video ;)
East St. Louis Toodle-oo, a duke ellington song (cowritten by some guy, sry). Funny enough, it was later covered by Steely Dan, who got their name from Naked Lunch, on their 1974 Pretzel Logic album.
He was a good wholesome Christian who attended church each sunday and spoke with his minister regularly on matters of faith, god and man. Sober and thoughtful , he voted Republican and wore a good cloth coat in the winter. Holidays he would spend serving food to the needy and washing their wounds.
Believe it or not, he actually did most of the heinous things he did out of principle. He wanted to be the antithesis of "American values". This was the reason he chose to be gay. For him it was a choice because he was married at one point and had a kid. He had a very interesting take on what it meant to be a human being.
OK so you are telling me he shot his wife not because he was wasted? Was a junky not because of a chemical cumpulsoin towards and appreciation of heroin? That he was gay not because of his sexual attraction to men? Instead they are all attributable to his desire to subvert values?
Surely you realise this suggestion is preposterous? Even if Bill alluded to such things himself it does not mean they are true.
Here's a silly scenario:say Hitler's ghost is found floating around the streets of New York City. Some plucky producer sees the ghoul and eventually entices it onto TV. When Letterman says to the spook: 'Now see Adolf what the people really wanna know is why'd you do all that stuff with the gas chambers?', to which Ade's ghost replies 'Well Dave I was just subverting a few ideas on what it means to be human', would you then think to yourself 'how interesting'?
you obviously don't know your Burroughs very well. That's fine. Go read up on some of the details of his philosophies and come back and talk to me when you do. Thanks.
You can quote all the text by Burroughs you want, but using his nonconformity in context of Joan's death isn't very cool, let alone mature. Joan's death haunted him till his death.
william burroughs was a man who liked men more than women, cats more than dogs, opiates more than psychedelics and space more than time. He was also a really good writer.
it's funny that he was actually on television at one point. For someone who hated America so passionately this was a pretty interesting moment for sure.
I don't think you need to be gay or a junkie or anything to prove a point but you should fight the power even though it is easier to let them own you, and tax you. At least you have a nice house, tv, wife and dog and if you accept this in return for letting them control you? what can William Burroughs or anyone do for you?
what ever you think about William Burroughs, he and his kind redress the balance. His message is dont be controlled, think about the rules and laws you are following, who made them and why? The rules were not made to help us they were made so power can stay in power, so power can hand down power to its sons. Dont be cattle be ninjas and stand up for your rights. Not the rights they say you should have, I mean your right to live and be a free human.
Thanks for your kind comments fuck_a_crony.Your maths is excellent as is your grasp of the english language. It's your soul that I worry about. You should find out about this 'man' before you start making a hero of him. And as for his for his writing style, I'd just like to say 'Shite of load what a '.
thou shalt not indulge yourself by engaging in the idle pursuit of mindless bloggers.
in fact I would like to take this opportunity to express my concern for your soul... as you have on this very page... and I quote 'Thank god he's dead!'
and in my second to last point again with regards you debating skills. You have twice committed what is known as the 'ad hominum fallacy'.
which in simple terms (for you sweetheart) means by attacking the man you go no way towards proving your point... either about him... or about anything I have said.
Sorry Gypsyrose188... I have to say that it doesn't suprise me that you do not like WB's work. It seems that your basic grasp of the english language is so poor that you cannot compose a literate post. Considering that WB shot his wife in 1951 then your post would seem to indicate that you went off WB at this time. This would point to you having been born in the thirties. Are you in fact seventy years old?
There is another problem with this your statement, Burroughs was not published untill 1953 so unless you are actually secretly Ginsberg or Kerouac then I very much doubt that you ever had the oppourtunity to appreciate his work before he 'accidently shot his wife's head off'.
What seems much more likely to me is that you read some burroughs recently couldn't appreaciate it and so decided that the only reasoned response was to disparage him from the safety of your keyboard.
Also with regards to your earlier comment about poetry for pretentious idiots... the extract that WB reads in the above vodeo are taken from what I like to call 'novels' and hence is not poetry at all.
This was in point of fact an oblique reference to Burroughs' writing style, which throws away traditional sentence structure and grammer in favour of style. I felt that in this instance, gypsyrose deserved the more insulting 'you' as opposed to the, I feel more formal 'your'.
Which is of course a load of BS to camoflague what was an honest error. Although if you want to get technical; my last sentence should read 'hence ARE not'. An oversight I believe in you marking.
i really like his books and everything, but in person he's just some old man, like a grandad or something. you should never meet your heroes, or see them on facebook
Correct on all three counts: he was open about being a heroin addict....he accidentley shot & killed his wife in Mexico during a drunken "William Tell"-type shenanagin...and is considered a hero of the Beat & Avant Garde movement. A truly unique & "one of a kind" individual....
Hey everyone, I too am an opiate addict. I was using IV heroin everyday for over 4 years. I got on suboxone at first without insurance and had to pay $7 per pill for 90 pills per month plus Dr. fees, which was more than $1000 a month just to stay clean. I've since gotten great insurance which allows me to get all my suboxone for free and I have a lot of extra suboxone scripts left over. I am willing to help anybody out who wants to get clean but doesn't have the funds to do it. Message me.
@Longetty They would think twice about trying to colonize a planet that could produce this! lol Thanks for sharing, I am always looking for faves for my other channel, and there's never enough... a lot of writers are too boring to translate to video ;)
East St. Louis Toodle-oo, a duke ellington song (cowritten by some guy, sry). Funny enough, it was later covered by Steely Dan, who got their name from Naked Lunch, on their 1974 Pretzel Logic album.
He was a good wholesome Christian who attended church each sunday and spoke with his minister regularly on matters of faith, god and man. Sober and thoughtful , he voted Republican and wore a good cloth coat in the winter. Holidays he would spend serving food to the needy and washing their wounds.
Believe it or not, he actually did most of the heinous things he did out of principle. He wanted to be the antithesis of "American values". This was the reason he chose to be gay. For him it was a choice because he was married at one point and had a kid. He had a very interesting take on what it meant to be a human being.
OK so you are telling me he shot his wife not because he was wasted? Was a junky not because of a chemical cumpulsoin towards and appreciation of heroin? That he was gay not because of his sexual attraction to men? Instead they are all attributable to his desire to subvert values?
Surely you realise this suggestion is preposterous? Even if Bill alluded to such things himself it does not mean they are true.
Here's a silly scenario:say Hitler's ghost is found floating around the streets of New York City. Some plucky producer sees the ghoul and eventually entices it onto TV. When Letterman says to the spook: 'Now see Adolf what the people really wanna know is why'd you do all that stuff with the gas chambers?', to which Ade's ghost replies 'Well Dave I was just subverting a few ideas on what it means to be human', would you then think to yourself 'how interesting'?
you obviously don't know your Burroughs very well. That's fine. Go read up on some of the details of his philosophies and come back and talk to me when you do. Thanks.
You can quote all the text by Burroughs you want, but using his nonconformity in context of Joan's death isn't very cool, let alone mature. Joan's death haunted him till his death.
william burroughs was a man who liked men more than women, cats more than dogs, opiates more than psychedelics and space more than time. He was also a really good writer.
it's funny that he was actually on television at one point. For someone who hated America so passionately this was a pretty interesting moment for sure.
I don't think you need to be gay or a junkie or anything to prove a point but you should fight the power even though it is easier to let them own you, and tax you. At least you have a nice house, tv, wife and dog and if you accept this in return for letting them control you? what can William Burroughs or anyone do for you?
what ever you think about William Burroughs, he and his kind redress the balance. His message is dont be controlled, think about the rules and laws you are following, who made them and why? The rules were not made to help us they were made so power can stay in power, so power can hand down power to its sons. Dont be cattle be ninjas and stand up for your rights. Not the rights they say you should have, I mean your right to live and be a free human.
Thanks for your kind comments fuck_a_crony.Your maths is excellent as is your grasp of the english language. It's your soul that I worry about. You should find out about this 'man' before you start making a hero of him. And as for his for his writing style, I'd just like to say 'Shite of load what a '.
thou shalt not indulge yourself by engaging in the idle pursuit of mindless bloggers.
in fact I would like to take this opportunity to express my concern for your soul... as you have on this very page... and I quote 'Thank god he's dead!'
and in my second to last point again with regards you debating skills. You have twice committed what is known as the 'ad hominum fallacy'.
which in simple terms (for you sweetheart) means by attacking the man you go no way towards proving your point... either about him... or about anything I have said.
Sorry Gypsyrose188... I have to say that it doesn't suprise me that you do not like WB's work. It seems that your basic grasp of the english language is so poor that you cannot compose a literate post. Considering that WB shot his wife in 1951 then your post would seem to indicate that you went off WB at this time. This would point to you having been born in the thirties. Are you in fact seventy years old?
There is another problem with this your statement, Burroughs was not published untill 1953 so unless you are actually secretly Ginsberg or Kerouac then I very much doubt that you ever had the oppourtunity to appreciate his work before he 'accidently shot his wife's head off'.
What seems much more likely to me is that you read some burroughs recently couldn't appreaciate it and so decided that the only reasoned response was to disparage him from the safety of your keyboard.
Also with regards to your earlier comment about poetry for pretentious idiots... the extract that WB reads in the above vodeo are taken from what I like to call 'novels' and hence is not poetry at all.
This was in point of fact an oblique reference to Burroughs' writing style, which throws away traditional sentence structure and grammer in favour of style. I felt that in this instance, gypsyrose deserved the more insulting 'you' as opposed to the, I feel more formal 'your'.
Which is of course a load of BS to camoflague what was an honest error. Although if you want to get technical; my last sentence should read 'hence ARE not'. An oversight I believe in you marking.
I've gotta agree with your first sentence, gypsyrose. I think this yo-yo is unmitigated proof that, with the right promotion, you can get not a small number of dimwits to drop to their knees and sing praises for virtually anybody/thing.
Hey Gypsy, go peddle your worthless opinions at the retail store. You are just full of ironic humor... Hell you radiate it. Im not a WB fan but I do believe he was quite talented. You need to take your opinion about his work and contrast it to your obvious and stupidly personal problem with him having murdered his wife. Until then your wares are worthless.
I've gotta agree with your first sentence, gypsyrose. I think this yo-yo is unmitigated proof that, with the right promotion, you can get not a small number of dimwits to drop to their knees and sing praises for virtually anybody/thing.
Hey Gypsy, go peddle your worthless opinions at the retail store. You are just full of ironic humor... Hell you radiate it. Im not a WB fan but I do believe he was quite talented. You need to take your opinion about his work and contrast it to your obvious and stupidly personal problem with him having murdered his wife. Until then your wares are worthless.
I am reading his first book, "Junky". The restored text version. From here it's on to Naked Lunch. Junky is an easy read, very entertaining and dark. Good place to start.
The cut up technique is tiring...He's at his best when talking politics... He could of been a C.I.A. operative. He reminds me of a right winger who happened to take the wrong road into junk land.
When it comes to William Burroughs, I think his writing style was so interesting and unique. I liken it to removing the barrier between our minds and his subconscious. I wish we all could have the courage to be so free in our expression of ideas. The freedom to just......write.
I would also like to know the song at the end of your video...more specifically, the trumpet player, is that Louis Armstrong? Maybe we could get western202589 to show us how brilliant he/she is?
Burroughs farmed in Texas in the 1940s. There's a very good bio on him - Literary Outlaw. He was a Harvard grad from St. Louis who lived in senior years in Lawrence, KS. To say he lived an interesting life is to put it mildly.
The jazz at the end is Loius Armstrong - "East St Louis Toodle-e-oo"-menioned in Naked Lunch and later coverd by Steely Dan as a burroughs homage (they got their name from naked lunch)
Do you think there is a sign in the studio telling the audience when to laugh? I perserved with Naked Lunch when I wouldn't noramlly just because everyone had gone on about how good it was I read it twice. It's complete gibberish, ppl who say it's good would probally benefit from reading the Emporers New Clothes. Don't get me wrong I thought Junkie was amazing 1 of my favourite books
The Jazz, whats the jazz playing at the end of the story? Cmon, I speak the english language, I live in North America, I may not be a meat and potatoes okie but I don't have to be to know that that was the national anthem! I'm no ignoramus.
Brambolius...I agree with you, but isn't the solution for people like yourself and myself to stand up and do our best to, at the very least, try to fill a portion of the void?
Information is a start, and gives birth to the style and voice, as one learns and develops a voice.
Burroughs was in his 40's before his literary career began. I am only 36 and should have a book out before I am 40. You're right about the dumbing down of the world, and I really felt confident about having an audience I would work faster.
On the other hand I realize that I might be addressing on of the last generations of our species, so I want to say what needs to be said well.
Many writers are not very good at reading their work, but Burroughs is a real entertainer. Sorry if the Jesus freaks and other such Nazis don't like him.
God bless you my son whiteaddresextras. I was no one's peddler and no one's degenerate. The only posters in this Tube are degenerates of their own mind. Their self inflicted monologues are impervious to my admonitions.+++The Saint+++
I'm tired of this entertainer-fluff always trying to put degenerates on a pedastal. If anything legitimizes the Muslims, it is this. I'd love to see these peddlers of degeneracy beheaded.
I've often wondered if you fundamentalists sympathized with one another. Maybe you can stage a showdown under the big ol' Texas sky, under the smelly armpits of your f----g desert god and annihilate each other.
That's debatable Scott, see becuase unlike you the Founding Fathers were all good thinkers. Maybe Ben Franklin would think of you as what he half expected and most feared would end up being the "rightful heir" of this nation.
Burroughs is one of the great heirs of Western liberal tradition- not to be confused with the more limited sense in which liberal is used in U.S. politics, referring to an economic philosophy that found traction after the Great Depression...
The Constitution of the U.S. is also one of the great documents to come out of the Western Liberal tradition, so obviously you don't clearly understand which team your bating for.
But I guess that was clear when you showed us how much your beliefs mingle with those of an authoritarian and theocratic persuasion. No, the Founding Fathers would understand you to be a threat to everything they believed in.
Dumbasses like Burrows and the other degenerates play right into the hands of those who wish authoritarianism - the Founding Fathers are quite clear about the need for responsability for there to be freedoms. This degenerate pusher of depravity is just what they need to justify more laws - and have.
(ScottfromTexas) "degenerates on a pedastal" Do you question Mr. Burroughs literary merit, or is it his cultural significance, do tell? Perhaps you would explain?
Great, and thanks for also including the final section with "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo", the perfect soundtrack for Burroughs.
DonPMitchell 6 months ago
He reminds me of Fred Phelps.....
lukeisareilly 9 months ago
i really like his books and everything, but in person he's just some old man, like a grandad or something. you should never meet your heroes, or see them on facebook
celeocanth 11 months ago
@celeocanth you are a fucking idiot.
Jimney00 10 months ago
Junkie. Murder. Hero.
skullgame 11 months ago 2
@skullgame
Correct on all three counts: he was open about being a heroin addict....he accidentley shot & killed his wife in Mexico during a drunken "William Tell"-type shenanagin...and is considered a hero of the Beat & Avant Garde movement. A truly unique & "one of a kind" individual....
JubalCalif 7 months ago
The cure is only 47 cents
inforapint 1 year ago
Nowadays, to even fathom that a show such as this was shown on television....oh dear....
NICC234 1 year ago
"Ladies and gentlemen, there is no cause for alarm. We have a minor problem in the boiler room, but everything is now under ... "
Hahahaha.
gonetubing 1 year ago 3
Any Burroughs fans out there know whre I can find the episode of Saturday NIght Live he starred on? I can't find it anywhere.
chichikov8 1 year ago 3
THANK you for posting
MaryHarper 1 year ago
Hey everyone, I too am an opiate addict. I was using IV heroin everyday for over 4 years. I got on suboxone at first without insurance and had to pay $7 per pill for 90 pills per month plus Dr. fees, which was more than $1000 a month just to stay clean. I've since gotten great insurance which allows me to get all my suboxone for free and I have a lot of extra suboxone scripts left over. I am willing to help anybody out who wants to get clean but doesn't have the funds to do it. Message me.
Georgie2500 1 year ago
never knew Uncle Bill was on NBC's Saturday Night!This is what we need to send into space to scare the sheeit right outta 'em!
Longetty 1 year ago
@Longetty They would think twice about trying to colonize a planet that could produce this! lol Thanks for sharing, I am always looking for faves for my other channel, and there's never enough... a lot of writers are too boring to translate to video ;)
agriffina 1 year ago
great
lainstoker 1 year ago
Such a ghoulish old fag, say what you will about his talent, but he murdered his own wife.
sk9utube 1 year ago
please if you love the metaphisic W.B. see a video : lupetto without prejudice
lupetto lives in Acilia extreme perifery of ROME
convinzioneobastone 2 years ago
I saw this when it aired on Saturday Night Live back in the mid-70s. I was 13-14 years old. WSB and punk rock saved my life!
edesaute 2 years ago 2
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postalsock 2 years ago
What's the name of the jazzy song played at the end?
Kingofcards222 2 years ago
East St. Louis Toodle-oo, a duke ellington song (cowritten by some guy, sry). Funny enough, it was later covered by Steely Dan, who got their name from Naked Lunch, on their 1974 Pretzel Logic album.
DylanTMathews 2 years ago
Very appropriate, as WSB was from St. Louis. This kind of thing doesn't happen on TV anymore.
edesaute 2 years ago
goood
twincesticide 2 years ago
He was a good wholesome Christian who attended church each sunday and spoke with his minister regularly on matters of faith, god and man. Sober and thoughtful , he voted Republican and wore a good cloth coat in the winter. Holidays he would spend serving food to the needy and washing their wounds.
korgri 2 years ago
I tip my Vodka Tonic to William B. Cheers mate.
Wabiisabii 2 years ago 14
habla bien borracho hijueputa william burrows repartia el culo y hablaba pestes de los paises latinoamericanos.
amarillista3d 2 years ago
malculeado
amarillista3d 2 years ago
happy birthday william, where ever you are...
HunterMann 3 years ago 3
Maybe good with words,but I just detest him probably because he is a murderer...
sinmix 3 years ago
Believe it or not, he actually did most of the heinous things he did out of principle. He wanted to be the antithesis of "American values". This was the reason he chose to be gay. For him it was a choice because he was married at one point and had a kid. He had a very interesting take on what it meant to be a human being.
subsamadhi 3 years ago
This is the dumbest thing I have read on youtube
autoben 3 years ago
what's so dumb about it? it's all true.
subsamadhi 3 years ago
OK so you are telling me he shot his wife not because he was wasted? Was a junky not because of a chemical cumpulsoin towards and appreciation of heroin? That he was gay not because of his sexual attraction to men? Instead they are all attributable to his desire to subvert values?
Surely you realise this suggestion is preposterous? Even if Bill alluded to such things himself it does not mean they are true.
autoben 3 years ago
Here's a silly scenario:say Hitler's ghost is found floating around the streets of New York City. Some plucky producer sees the ghoul and eventually entices it onto TV. When Letterman says to the spook: 'Now see Adolf what the people really wanna know is why'd you do all that stuff with the gas chambers?', to which Ade's ghost replies 'Well Dave I was just subverting a few ideas on what it means to be human', would you then think to yourself 'how interesting'?
autoben 3 years ago
Not Saying the 2 are the same but nonetheless you can't justify what you've done by spouting inept flaccid ideology
autoben 3 years ago
you obviously don't know your Burroughs very well. That's fine. Go read up on some of the details of his philosophies and come back and talk to me when you do. Thanks.
subsamadhi 3 years ago
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Manusturbo 2 years ago
You can quote all the text by Burroughs you want, but using his nonconformity in context of Joan's death isn't very cool, let alone mature. Joan's death haunted him till his death.
Manusturbo 2 years ago 4
He would be a good actor in radio and TV plays.
vokshumana 3 years ago
william burroughs was a man who liked men more than women, cats more than dogs, opiates more than psychedelics and space more than time. He was also a really good writer.
netAIsparker 3 years ago 19
@netAIsparker
thanks Captain Obvious! anything else?
jimbobklyn1963 1 year ago
@netAIsparker cool,me too
gutterculture 1 year ago
it's funny that he was actually on television at one point. For someone who hated America so passionately this was a pretty interesting moment for sure.
subsamadhi 3 years ago
he also did a nike commercial which is probably on youtube or somewhere through google video.
horuzrizing 3 years ago
too late
smell of jasmine
cobblestone gardens
lulzdrama 3 years ago
Still as poignant now as it was then.
sisterdiggins 3 years ago
I don't think you need to be gay or a junkie or anything to prove a point but you should fight the power even though it is easier to let them own you, and tax you. At least you have a nice house, tv, wife and dog and if you accept this in return for letting them control you? what can William Burroughs or anyone do for you?
5purnlad 3 years ago
what ever you think about William Burroughs, he and his kind redress the balance. His message is dont be controlled, think about the rules and laws you are following, who made them and why? The rules were not made to help us they were made so power can stay in power, so power can hand down power to its sons. Dont be cattle be ninjas and stand up for your rights. Not the rights they say you should have, I mean your right to live and be a free human.
5purnlad 3 years ago 4
East St. Louis Toodle-oo makes me smile. The Steely Dan version, especially. A nice little jig to dance in front of all the phonies.
BoozehammerOfGalem 3 years ago
I wish i could have met this man
zergrezz 3 years ago 2
Thanks for your kind comments fuck_a_crony.Your maths is excellent as is your grasp of the english language. It's your soul that I worry about. You should find out about this 'man' before you start making a hero of him. And as for his for his writing style, I'd just like to say 'Shite of load what a '.
gypsyrose188 3 years ago
Ahh thankyou gypsyrose for once again peeking your small minded head over the cover of your blogging trench.
1st up once again your debating skills have let you down.
As I will now show
fuckacronym 3 years ago
Not once did I ever make a positive comment about Bill's personality, or his moral fibre, or wax lyrical about his achievments as a person...
All I did was point out the inconsistancies in you own argument; which was poorly made and reactionary in the extreme.
Further more, thankyou for your concern about my mortal soul if I have one, which is something I doubt, I am sure it is fine thankyou very much.
I don't think I have put it at risk... maybe the 11th commandment is
fuckacronym 3 years ago
thou shalt not indulge yourself by engaging in the idle pursuit of mindless bloggers.
in fact I would like to take this opportunity to express my concern for your soul... as you have on this very page... and I quote 'Thank god he's dead!'
Your's must be a vergeful god!
Smite her god not me
fuckacronym 3 years ago
and in my second to last point again with regards you debating skills. You have twice committed what is known as the 'ad hominum fallacy'.
which in simple terms (for you sweetheart) means by attacking the man you go no way towards proving your point... either about him... or about anything I have said.
fuckacronym 3 years ago
Sorry lialyss - After he 'accidently' shot his wifes head off when he was high on heroin, I couldn't quite appreciate his work anymore.
gypsyrose188 3 years ago
Sorry Gypsyrose188... I have to say that it doesn't suprise me that you do not like WB's work. It seems that your basic grasp of the english language is so poor that you cannot compose a literate post. Considering that WB shot his wife in 1951 then your post would seem to indicate that you went off WB at this time. This would point to you having been born in the thirties. Are you in fact seventy years old?
fuckacronym 3 years ago
There is another problem with this your statement, Burroughs was not published untill 1953 so unless you are actually secretly Ginsberg or Kerouac then I very much doubt that you ever had the oppourtunity to appreciate his work before he 'accidently shot his wife's head off'.
What seems much more likely to me is that you read some burroughs recently couldn't appreaciate it and so decided that the only reasoned response was to disparage him from the safety of your keyboard.
fuckacronym 3 years ago
Also with regards to your earlier comment about poetry for pretentious idiots... the extract that WB reads in the above vodeo are taken from what I like to call 'novels' and hence is not poetry at all.
Thankyou and good night.
fuckacronym 3 years ago
'This would point to YOUR having been born...'
ofcoursehesthefarmer 3 years ago
This was in point of fact an oblique reference to Burroughs' writing style, which throws away traditional sentence structure and grammer in favour of style. I felt that in this instance, gypsyrose deserved the more insulting 'you' as opposed to the, I feel more formal 'your'.
Which is of course a load of BS to camoflague what was an honest error. Although if you want to get technical; my last sentence should read 'hence ARE not'. An oversight I believe in you marking.
x
fuckacronym 3 years ago
ScRew<.< forMalitY It's (quite) ''"legible"'' without it.
CzUp4Life 3 years ago
Great, and thanks for also including the final section with "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo", the perfect soundtrack for Burroughs.
DonPMitchell 6 months ago
He reminds me of Fred Phelps.....
lukeisareilly 9 months ago
i really like his books and everything, but in person he's just some old man, like a grandad or something. you should never meet your heroes, or see them on facebook
celeocanth 11 months ago
@celeocanth you are a fucking idiot.
Jimney00 10 months ago
Junkie. Murder. Hero.
skullgame 11 months ago 2
@skullgame
Correct on all three counts: he was open about being a heroin addict....he accidentley shot & killed his wife in Mexico during a drunken "William Tell"-type shenanagin...and is considered a hero of the Beat & Avant Garde movement. A truly unique & "one of a kind" individual....
JubalCalif 7 months ago
The cure is only 47 cents
inforapint 1 year ago
Nowadays, to even fathom that a show such as this was shown on television....oh dear....
NICC234 1 year ago
"Ladies and gentlemen, there is no cause for alarm. We have a minor problem in the boiler room, but everything is now under ... "
Hahahaha.
gonetubing 1 year ago 3
Any Burroughs fans out there know whre I can find the episode of Saturday NIght Live he starred on? I can't find it anywhere.
chichikov8 1 year ago 3
THANK you for posting
MaryHarper 1 year ago
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Georgie2500 1 year ago
never knew Uncle Bill was on NBC's Saturday Night!This is what we need to send into space to scare the sheeit right outta 'em!
Longetty 1 year ago
@Longetty They would think twice about trying to colonize a planet that could produce this! lol Thanks for sharing, I am always looking for faves for my other channel, and there's never enough... a lot of writers are too boring to translate to video ;)
agriffina 1 year ago
great
lainstoker 1 year ago
Such a ghoulish old fag, say what you will about his talent, but he murdered his own wife.
sk9utube 1 year ago
please if you love the metaphisic W.B. see a video : lupetto without prejudice
lupetto lives in Acilia extreme perifery of ROME
convinzioneobastone 2 years ago
I saw this when it aired on Saturday Night Live back in the mid-70s. I was 13-14 years old. WSB and punk rock saved my life!
edesaute 2 years ago 2
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postalsock 2 years ago
What's the name of the jazzy song played at the end?
Kingofcards222 2 years ago
East St. Louis Toodle-oo, a duke ellington song (cowritten by some guy, sry). Funny enough, it was later covered by Steely Dan, who got their name from Naked Lunch, on their 1974 Pretzel Logic album.
DylanTMathews 2 years ago
Very appropriate, as WSB was from St. Louis. This kind of thing doesn't happen on TV anymore.
edesaute 2 years ago
goood
twincesticide 2 years ago
He was a good wholesome Christian who attended church each sunday and spoke with his minister regularly on matters of faith, god and man. Sober and thoughtful , he voted Republican and wore a good cloth coat in the winter. Holidays he would spend serving food to the needy and washing their wounds.
korgri 2 years ago
I tip my Vodka Tonic to William B. Cheers mate.
Wabiisabii 2 years ago 14
habla bien borracho hijueputa william burrows repartia el culo y hablaba pestes de los paises latinoamericanos.
amarillista3d 2 years ago
malculeado
amarillista3d 2 years ago
happy birthday william, where ever you are...
HunterMann 3 years ago 3
Maybe good with words,but I just detest him probably because he is a murderer...
sinmix 3 years ago
Believe it or not, he actually did most of the heinous things he did out of principle. He wanted to be the antithesis of "American values". This was the reason he chose to be gay. For him it was a choice because he was married at one point and had a kid. He had a very interesting take on what it meant to be a human being.
subsamadhi 3 years ago
This is the dumbest thing I have read on youtube
autoben 3 years ago
what's so dumb about it? it's all true.
subsamadhi 3 years ago
OK so you are telling me he shot his wife not because he was wasted? Was a junky not because of a chemical cumpulsoin towards and appreciation of heroin? That he was gay not because of his sexual attraction to men? Instead they are all attributable to his desire to subvert values?
Surely you realise this suggestion is preposterous? Even if Bill alluded to such things himself it does not mean they are true.
autoben 3 years ago
Here's a silly scenario:say Hitler's ghost is found floating around the streets of New York City. Some plucky producer sees the ghoul and eventually entices it onto TV. When Letterman says to the spook: 'Now see Adolf what the people really wanna know is why'd you do all that stuff with the gas chambers?', to which Ade's ghost replies 'Well Dave I was just subverting a few ideas on what it means to be human', would you then think to yourself 'how interesting'?
autoben 3 years ago
Not Saying the 2 are the same but nonetheless you can't justify what you've done by spouting inept flaccid ideology
autoben 3 years ago
you obviously don't know your Burroughs very well. That's fine. Go read up on some of the details of his philosophies and come back and talk to me when you do. Thanks.
subsamadhi 3 years ago
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Manusturbo 2 years ago
You can quote all the text by Burroughs you want, but using his nonconformity in context of Joan's death isn't very cool, let alone mature. Joan's death haunted him till his death.
Manusturbo 2 years ago 4
He would be a good actor in radio and TV plays.
vokshumana 3 years ago
william burroughs was a man who liked men more than women, cats more than dogs, opiates more than psychedelics and space more than time. He was also a really good writer.
netAIsparker 3 years ago 19
@netAIsparker
thanks Captain Obvious! anything else?
jimbobklyn1963 1 year ago
@netAIsparker cool,me too
gutterculture 1 year ago
it's funny that he was actually on television at one point. For someone who hated America so passionately this was a pretty interesting moment for sure.
subsamadhi 3 years ago
he also did a nike commercial which is probably on youtube or somewhere through google video.
horuzrizing 3 years ago
too late
smell of jasmine
cobblestone gardens
lulzdrama 3 years ago
Still as poignant now as it was then.
sisterdiggins 3 years ago
I don't think you need to be gay or a junkie or anything to prove a point but you should fight the power even though it is easier to let them own you, and tax you. At least you have a nice house, tv, wife and dog and if you accept this in return for letting them control you? what can William Burroughs or anyone do for you?
5purnlad 3 years ago
what ever you think about William Burroughs, he and his kind redress the balance. His message is dont be controlled, think about the rules and laws you are following, who made them and why? The rules were not made to help us they were made so power can stay in power, so power can hand down power to its sons. Dont be cattle be ninjas and stand up for your rights. Not the rights they say you should have, I mean your right to live and be a free human.
5purnlad 3 years ago 4
East St. Louis Toodle-oo makes me smile. The Steely Dan version, especially. A nice little jig to dance in front of all the phonies.
BoozehammerOfGalem 3 years ago
I wish i could have met this man
zergrezz 3 years ago 2
Thanks for your kind comments fuck_a_crony.Your maths is excellent as is your grasp of the english language. It's your soul that I worry about. You should find out about this 'man' before you start making a hero of him. And as for his for his writing style, I'd just like to say 'Shite of load what a '.
gypsyrose188 3 years ago
Ahh thankyou gypsyrose for once again peeking your small minded head over the cover of your blogging trench.
1st up once again your debating skills have let you down.
As I will now show
fuckacronym 3 years ago
Not once did I ever make a positive comment about Bill's personality, or his moral fibre, or wax lyrical about his achievments as a person...
All I did was point out the inconsistancies in you own argument; which was poorly made and reactionary in the extreme.
Further more, thankyou for your concern about my mortal soul if I have one, which is something I doubt, I am sure it is fine thankyou very much.
I don't think I have put it at risk... maybe the 11th commandment is
fuckacronym 3 years ago
thou shalt not indulge yourself by engaging in the idle pursuit of mindless bloggers.
in fact I would like to take this opportunity to express my concern for your soul... as you have on this very page... and I quote 'Thank god he's dead!'
Your's must be a vergeful god!
Smite her god not me
fuckacronym 3 years ago
and in my second to last point again with regards you debating skills. You have twice committed what is known as the 'ad hominum fallacy'.
which in simple terms (for you sweetheart) means by attacking the man you go no way towards proving your point... either about him... or about anything I have said.
fuckacronym 3 years ago
Sorry lialyss - After he 'accidently' shot his wifes head off when he was high on heroin, I couldn't quite appreciate his work anymore.
gypsyrose188 3 years ago
Sorry Gypsyrose188... I have to say that it doesn't suprise me that you do not like WB's work. It seems that your basic grasp of the english language is so poor that you cannot compose a literate post. Considering that WB shot his wife in 1951 then your post would seem to indicate that you went off WB at this time. This would point to you having been born in the thirties. Are you in fact seventy years old?
fuckacronym 3 years ago
There is another problem with this your statement, Burroughs was not published untill 1953 so unless you are actually secretly Ginsberg or Kerouac then I very much doubt that you ever had the oppourtunity to appreciate his work before he 'accidently shot his wife's head off'.
What seems much more likely to me is that you read some burroughs recently couldn't appreaciate it and so decided that the only reasoned response was to disparage him from the safety of your keyboard.
fuckacronym 3 years ago
Also with regards to your earlier comment about poetry for pretentious idiots... the extract that WB reads in the above vodeo are taken from what I like to call 'novels' and hence is not poetry at all.
Thankyou and good night.
fuckacronym 3 years ago
'This would point to YOUR having been born...'
ofcoursehesthefarmer 3 years ago
This was in point of fact an oblique reference to Burroughs' writing style, which throws away traditional sentence structure and grammer in favour of style. I felt that in this instance, gypsyrose deserved the more insulting 'you' as opposed to the, I feel more formal 'your'.
Which is of course a load of BS to camoflague what was an honest error. Although if you want to get technical; my last sentence should read 'hence ARE not'. An oversight I believe in you marking.
x
fuckacronym 3 years ago
ScRew<.< forMalitY It's (quite) ''"legible"'' without it.
CzUp4Life 3 years ago
Poetry for pretentious idiots. Thank god he's dead. Lets hope it was painful like the pain he inflicted on others.
gypsyrose188 3 years ago
shut up man, you cnat say that, WB was a genius
lialyss 3 years ago
I've gotta agree with your first sentence, gypsyrose. I think this yo-yo is unmitigated proof that, with the right promotion, you can get not a small number of dimwits to drop to their knees and sing praises for virtually anybody/thing.
UnseenCaller 3 years ago
Hey Gypsy, go peddle your worthless opinions at the retail store. You are just full of ironic humor... Hell you radiate it. Im not a WB fan but I do believe he was quite talented. You need to take your opinion about his work and contrast it to your obvious and stupidly personal problem with him having murdered his wife. Until then your wares are worthless.
CzUp4Life 3 years ago
I've gotta agree with your first sentence, gypsyrose. I think this yo-yo is unmitigated proof that, with the right promotion, you can get not a small number of dimwits to drop to their knees and sing praises for virtually anybody/thing.
UnseenCaller 3 years ago
Hey Gypsy, go peddle your worthless opinions at the retail store. You are just full of ironic humor... Hell you radiate it. Im not a WB fan but I do believe he was quite talented. You need to take your opinion about his work and contrast it to your obvious and stupidly personal problem with him having murdered his wife. Until then your wares are worthless.
CzUp4Life 3 years ago
I've read bits an pieces of his work...I love his shit, one of the great poets of the beat Generation for sure...
I havn't read any of his Novels...anybody have any suggestions on a good book, to start me of in the right path Burroghs creations?
CANNIBALCON 3 years ago
I am reading his first book, "Junky". The restored text version. From here it's on to Naked Lunch. Junky is an easy read, very entertaining and dark. Good place to start.
tejaspics 3 years ago
Try the later work of the 80s: "The Western Lands," for example. It's much more accessible than his early work.
mrsmxyzptlk 3 years ago
I started with Naked Lunch, loved it.
retread01 3 years ago
Naked lunch will change your life... it did mine
keesip 3 years ago
Beautiful satire here. Let the dead man breathe. For no other could do the same.
EgilsMaltExtrakt 3 years ago
Unkey bill was truly a unique man, the greatest mind of our time. Along side Hunter S and Noam Chamski
boogievanman 3 years ago
The cut up technique is tiring...He's at his best when talking politics... He could of been a C.I.A. operative. He reminds me of a right winger who happened to take the wrong road into junk land.
finley40 3 years ago
the gay savior... thank you universe
randygunnman 4 years ago
absolutely brilliant, precious! uncle bill lives!
thanx so much!
theInterzone 4 years ago
When it comes to William Burroughs, I think his writing style was so interesting and unique. I liken it to removing the barrier between our minds and his subconscious. I wish we all could have the courage to be so free in our expression of ideas. The freedom to just......write.
Paroxysm714 4 years ago
old bull lee
zabari 4 years ago
poor video quality, but very good content, thanks
bob5291 4 years ago
I would also like to know the song at the end of your video...more specifically, the trumpet player, is that Louis Armstrong? Maybe we could get western202589 to show us how brilliant he/she is?
Thanks for a really great video.
brokepainter 4 years ago
Its called East St. Loius Toodle-oo and is by Duke Ellington
Why2J 4 years ago
This was so cool. Saturday Night Live, once upon a time, had balls.
RatatRatR 4 years ago
Burroughs farmed in Texas in the 1940s. There's a very good bio on him - Literary Outlaw. He was a Harvard grad from St. Louis who lived in senior years in Lawrence, KS. To say he lived an interesting life is to put it mildly.
mocary 4 years ago
Universal Known Law:
Anyone that isnt from Texas, doesnt like Texas.
Its pretty widely accepted. I mean, look who has come from there. Take a minute and think.....
SidMute 4 years ago
The jazz at the end is Loius Armstrong - "East St Louis Toodle-e-oo"-menioned in Naked Lunch and later coverd by Steely Dan as a burroughs homage (they got their name from naked lunch)
mathemaddicts 4 years ago
thanks a bunch
dopemunky 4 years ago
Do you think there is a sign in the studio telling the audience when to laugh? I perserved with Naked Lunch when I wouldn't noramlly just because everyone had gone on about how good it was I read it twice. It's complete gibberish, ppl who say it's good would probally benefit from reading the Emporers New Clothes. Don't get me wrong I thought Junkie was amazing 1 of my favourite books
yakacm 4 years ago
whats the song playing at the end?
dopemunky 4 years ago
Dumb ass...it's the gay ass national anthem
western202589 4 years ago
The Jazz, whats the jazz playing at the end of the story? Cmon, I speak the english language, I live in North America, I may not be a meat and potatoes okie but I don't have to be to know that that was the national anthem! I'm no ignoramus.
dopemunky 4 years ago
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ashleed2fine 4 years ago
i was born in the wrong time......where are ppl like burroughs and phillip k. dick in this day and age????
im telling you...99% of the world's population is getting dumbed down while 1% is getting way too powerfull............
brambolius 4 years ago
A-fucken-men.
preacherman86 4 years ago
Brambolius...I agree with you, but isn't the solution for people like yourself and myself to stand up and do our best to, at the very least, try to fill a portion of the void?
Information is a start, and gives birth to the style and voice, as one learns and develops a voice.
Drogon7 4 years ago
I hate to say it but I have to agree with you. Burroughs, hell. At this point, I'd settle for Henry Fonda.
MKFaizi 4 years ago
Burroughs was in his 40's before his literary career began. I am only 36 and should have a book out before I am 40. You're right about the dumbing down of the world, and I really felt confident about having an audience I would work faster.
On the other hand I realize that I might be addressing on of the last generations of our species, so I want to say what needs to be said well.
TexasRounder 4 years ago
You and I both, Brother!
western202589 4 years ago
Completely agree with everything you said. Where are the Fassbinders?
superjdt 3 years ago
Many writers are not very good at reading their work, but Burroughs is a real entertainer. Sorry if the Jesus freaks and other such Nazis don't like him.
nicogum 4 years ago
God bless you my son whiteaddresextras. I was no one's peddler and no one's degenerate. The only posters in this Tube are degenerates of their own mind. Their self inflicted monologues are impervious to my admonitions.+++The Saint+++
saintfletcher 4 years ago
If anything they would at leastsupport his rights to freedom of speech and expression, and besides who are you to call him a degenerate?
TheViolentPacifist77 4 years ago
...CUT-UP-X-UP-CUT...
7630549 4 years ago
I'm tired of this entertainer-fluff always trying to put degenerates on a pedastal. If anything legitimizes the Muslims, it is this. I'd love to see these peddlers of degeneracy beheaded.
ScottfromTexas 4 years ago
I've often wondered if you fundamentalists sympathized with one another. Maybe you can stage a showdown under the big ol' Texas sky, under the smelly armpits of your f----g desert god and annihilate each other.
dentedtrumpet07 4 years ago 2
I'm not a "fundamentalist" and between you and me, the Founding Fathers would think of me as the rightful heir of this nation.
ScottfromTexas 4 years ago
they would think of you as a joke.
rovingstarone 4 years ago
That's debatable Scott, see becuase unlike you the Founding Fathers were all good thinkers. Maybe Ben Franklin would think of you as what he half expected and most feared would end up being the "rightful heir" of this nation.
TexasRounder 4 years ago 2
Burroughs is one of the great heirs of Western liberal tradition- not to be confused with the more limited sense in which liberal is used in U.S. politics, referring to an economic philosophy that found traction after the Great Depression...
TexasRounder 4 years ago 4
The Constitution of the U.S. is also one of the great documents to come out of the Western Liberal tradition, so obviously you don't clearly understand which team your bating for.
But I guess that was clear when you showed us how much your beliefs mingle with those of an authoritarian and theocratic persuasion. No, the Founding Fathers would understand you to be a threat to everything they believed in.
TexasRounder 4 years ago 2
But they would have fucking loved Burroughs!
TexasRounder 4 years ago 2
Dumbasses like Burrows and the other degenerates play right into the hands of those who wish authoritarianism - the Founding Fathers are quite clear about the need for responsability for there to be freedoms. This degenerate pusher of depravity is just what they need to justify more laws - and have.
ScottfromTexas 4 years ago
You mean this IV drug-user wastiod sodomite? You really are insane.
ScottfromTexas 4 years ago
(ScottfromTexas) "degenerates on a pedastal" Do you question Mr. Burroughs literary merit, or is it his cultural significance, do tell? Perhaps you would explain?
OscarCommie 4 years ago
Pure genius!
1928javier 4 years ago