U2 & William S. Burroughs (Last Night on Earth)

[neoclassicatfish]

well not die but you know..

[neoclassicatfish]

Fuck off Bastards who hate u2... u2 are the best band in the world.. if you cant take that then you can go fucking die!!!!!!!!!

[dewexdewex]

Someone once told me that Beefheart's response by being asked by Bono to do some collaboration was "Sure thing, Bongo". Not sure if it's true, but it made me laugh.

[kdmitche]

Wicked!

[signoguns]

Bono should really just fuck off and go bald in peace.

[dewexdewex]

@signoguns in pieces, preferably.

[superpelinator]

Bono = jinx

[thSubliminalCriminal]

@superpelinator

how so?

[SatanicalEve]

Burroughs instead should have hooked up with Phil Lynott when Phil was still alive. :)

[MrVoulezvous]

U2 are rich mommas boys. Execute the rich.

[tansyfairy77]

As a person from Dublin, I also agree U2, Westlife, Boyzone(jeez, what a name!) all suck terribly.

Why William Burroughs agreed to meet up with such a shower of tossers is beyond me- well , musically and artistically they are all tossers, imho, and personally Bono (or God, he often mistakes himself for God) is devoid of any traits one would find interesting.

I am sorry that William died shorrtly after his was made, he looks so very old in it...

R.I.P. William, Ah Pook is here x

[wilhelm808]

@tansyfairy77

If it's any consolation, apparently William wrote in his journal after this that he was in a video with "Me Too". Either he was totally oblivious or was being facetious...either way, he obviously didn't care too much. I live in KC and had the good fortune of meeting him at a gallery opening the year before he died. I didn't know he lived in Lawrence, KS at the time or I probably would have made "the pilgrimage" like so many others.

[sydbarrett5]

I love Burroughs, but some of the choices he made, I don't understand. He said "No" to being in Nirvana's Heart Shaped Box video, but "Yes" to this U2 video.

[trenchrun]

burroughs was an admitted mercenary...he did it for money and attention...as if a middle of the road pretentious band like U2 (has anyone ever been offended or challenged by U2 music??) understands anything about his work.

[thewhack64]

@trenchrun .u2 challenge me and offend me. everytime i hear them on the radio i have to get up off my big fat hole and turn them off before their music offends me.when your 18 stone and the radio is across the kitchen,thats a fucking challenge

[cajosocabon]

mam this is like kick your ass whith all that you love...fuking old queer .. its all for Bono rigth

[sonofdamocles]

wut the shit?

[flicker1969]

WOT THE FUCK DID BORROUGHS HOOK UP WITH THESE IRISH CUNTS FOR?BONO AND THE SHITTY-MOB PROBABLY THOUGHT IT WAS TRENDY?BAD ARSE-HOLES ! ! !

[MrWeltschmerz]

Burroughs was hung up abt Jesus - quotes him often

[forugh]

@MrWeltschmerz any good sources? cause id like to hear what he says. just saw an interview refering to notes he was writing for new a book on jesus, obviously he didt do it

[MrWeltschmerz]

off the top of my head:

in the movie about Burroughs where he's talking with his son Billy - Burroughs becomes visibly upset and angry when Billy suggests some Christians might be o.k.-

he played a junkie priest in Drugstore Cowboy who quotes bible

there's his 10 commandments of course and the green nun and anitxitian rants are scattered throughout his works - i think one of the last was "ghost of chance"

[forugh]

thanx

[retread01]

Burroughs is untouchable. Even being brought into contact with Bono doesn't denigrate his legacy. And by contrast, being brought into contact with Burroughs doesn't elevate Bono.

[santiago2u]

old farts like WS have no teeth

[allaboutdmagic]

It's like James Joyce meeting Westlife...why??

[wireandwood]

it's like people on youtube watching videos about writers who seek to undermine and subvert national institutions and the oppressive mechanisms of the state. Why??

Because even people who's integrity you doubt share some of your curiosity and need to be closer to something "authentic" -

it's just a shame that U2's career is a slow slide away from authenticity

and that even the well-intentioned can be so full of shit that they end up just getting a "WHY?"

[harleygough]

I agree. Bono is deluded in thinking he is somewhat connected with literary greats. Have you seen him read Bukowski's Roll The Dice? What a joke.

[Thanksandy]

who gives a sh**. people takes things so seriously, why even waste your time making a comment about it. So what Bono read Roll The Dice, i bet everyone thinks he's a douche now or whatever ridiculous word or label people that want to give him.

[Wanderlustus]

@allaboutdmagic agreement.

[pazisad]

u2 suck!

[DendrilopisXaggro]

burroughs rules!

[santiago2u]

yeah, and here you arem watching a video of them

[melinahewson]

@pazisad You suck!

[IFoLgOsI]

@pazisad your life suck..........you piece of shit!!!!! You don't deserve the right to comment about U2!!!

[MarxBakuninMe]

William Burroughs was the coolest man on the planet.

[coffeefish]

Dope heads are not cool, Jimmy.

[MarxBakuninMe]

Being a dope head does not make you cool, no . . . But Burroughs was cool. Actually, 'Junky' put me off the idea of doing junk. It was a much more honest picture than what you get in government commercials.

[wireandwood]

too right. honesty's the best policy

[coffeefish]

Hey,,,,, the Homo heroine addict, who lived off the tiny monthly allowance his Mommy and Daddy gave him.

What a "real" man, and artist.

[MLS239]

Hey coffeefish, before you get critical of someone with a lifetime of experience at the edges of the human condition, try to learn to spell, eh? ("heroinE addict" indeed...) Love & Compassion to All Sentient Beings (and those on YouTube)

[coffeefish]

Screw off shit ball.

[crossybhoy]

he was a heroin addict you idiot. A homo heroine addict is a paradox you fuckin clown.

[coffeefish]

A paradox????What the hell are you talking about? all this because of a misspelled word?

Oh,,,,,,,,keep up the great work.

He was a 'queer as hell' heroin addict; and he lived off a tiny allowance that "Mommy and Daddy" gave him.

[CoverTracks]

the fucking legend

[santiago2u]

yep. They're from Dublin.  XD

[stlmxc]

that's the closest thing to a direct commentary on christianity as i've ever heard from him.

see matthew 10:34

[AdrianFeuchter]

I bring no peace, but a sword.

[srtydtyj]

G.W.B. or W.S.B. whose ideas would most likely help this planet become a safehaven for war powerty and spite? If god forbid one of them ever became elected president. Never you mind about drugs murder or genocide for that matter. And what in a saints name does humanity stand for.

[Fandalg]

Wow, just... Wow at the comments...

[FasterThanYou321]

William Shit Burroughs was a killer. William Shit Burroughs was a spreader of veneral disease wherever he went. William Shit Burroughs was a coward.

All in all, William Shit Burroughs was the most vile, corrupt, pathetic loser in modern times. Worse even than Barack Insane Obama, and who would have thought that was even possible?

[aubreylear]

haha, faster than you went to all the burroughs videos on youtube to complain.

what's the matter, mommy won't listen to you?

[FasterThanYou321]

Aubrey - My mother is being held in a Turkish prison because when Muslim rebels hijacked the tourist bus she was on, they found Christian material. Thanks.

[aubreylear]

so that answers my question. she won't listen to you. serves her right for being christian.

i guess she'll be getting raped faster than You.

[FasterThanYou321]

It must be painful for a woman such as yourself to be so physically unnatractive that the other person has to be stoned on LSD and Heroin to want to fuck you. Not just LSD, and not just Heroin, but both, together, at the same time.

Don't worry, Sarah, you can always buy another German Shephard...

[exc1t3r]

So it`s like this. YOU (FasterThanYou321) ARE AN IDIOT. I don`t mind that. But you`re not just an idiot. You`re a disgrace to idiotism. Idiots all around the world should be (if they could) ashamed of you. If you want to offend somedbody don`t just turno on "Yo Mamma" and than writing it down here. I`m sure you can`t do better so just try to restrain youself from thinking or writing, or you know what... don`t bother people with your idiotic comments.

[vulturgore]

You had to be ¨faster¨ to understand what Burroughs wrote...but if you support Bush or Mcain or any of the other chicken hawks, I mean, what are the possibilities you have read a book in your life??? that ¨insane¨ is now your president retard...you should be ¨faster¨...

[huxleylover]

'All in all, William Shit Burroughs was the most vile, corrupt, pathetic loser in modern times.'

maybe. but he had a sense of perception which enabled him somehow to write like a genius.

but to appreciate this one needs firstly to be able to read. And having an ego smaller than the world's proudest fucking comment box doesn't hurt.

[jayporks]

Wow, "faster than you" (by the way your not) Your a real moron arent you? So you'll just ignore the fact that Burroughs alongs with Ginsberg and Kerouac founded a movement that still to this day is relevent? Why? because you don't like homosexuals? Where are you from Texas or something, its 2008 men have sex with each other and people do drugs. And some have redeeming social value, like the writings of the beats.

[FasterThanYou321]

Dude, there is frankly nothing wrong with men having sex with each other. However, there is something very wrong with an evil, wretched, putrid man ruining the lives of other people by turning them on to drug use. I bet you don't have children do you? If you do, do you want them shooting heroin and ingesting all the drugs this vile thing encourages? And yes, he IS a killer because he killed a man once.

When did I say anything against homosexuals? I just hate drug pushers...

[jayporks]

First off, he was cleared of those charges if you'd do some reading. And when does he "encourage" doing drugs? at what point does he ever say "hey everyone, drugs are cool lets do them!"? He never did. The dude is one of the pioneers of a generation that completely took on the literary status quo at the time, and his books are classic, timeless tales. I see you all over every Burroughs vid with this same shit, i never thought I'D be telling someone to get a life

[standards11]

I like the writing of Burroughs as much as anyone, but I don't think anyone whose read anything about him can call him a 'good' person. I mean, this is a guy who shot his wife in the head in a drunken game of William Tell and never faced jail time.

[jayporks]

He didn't do it intentionally, and she was just as into it as he was. But I don't think you have to necessarly be a quote unquote good person to be considered genius, the dude just is.

[RandomBoredom1]

Your a dick my mother read all of Burroghs books and shes anit drug, I used to be a drug addict and now im clean and I read burroghs stuff and at no point did I see him trying to glorify drugs, infact the message im getting is "don't make the same mistake as me" and as for him killing a man he accidently killed his wife playin a game. So eeh try actually learning the facts before you judge somebody and have you ever heard of respect for the dead!

[dcmayo]

This DVD is a huge ripoff and the menus don't work right, btw.

[dcmayo]

This is the best thing he's done since "Howl"

[DAVETYIOP]

Howl was Allen Ginsberg. William S Burroughs was Naked Lunch.

[14691]

So awesome. William Burroughs, U2 and Kansas City. Any more videoes of Burroughs with U2?

[MushZoomZ]

No, I've reseached it. Burroughs died shortly after this video.