James Baldwin said, "I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually"
Thanks for VEVO, advertising a mass-produced corporate whore like Katy Perry as a banner ad alongside the work of a genius like William S. Burroughs. Thanks for crass commercialism.
And what are you truly thankful for, Mr. Burroughs? American is not a perfect country. None of us are as individuals, either. But she is, indeed, a great country. As many of us are as individuals as well. I'm blessed and thankful to live here, and I'm blessed and thankful to know some of the most wonderful people in the world, who call themselves, "American".
Well worth watch... Citizen USA: A 50 State Roadtrip
I have ADHD and often have multiple tabs open on my browser. Anyway, I happened to have this video open with Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" playing at the same time. William Burroughs voice and LZ's music is just an epic experience when played together. Try it, you won't be disappointed.
It's so funny to me that people bring up Burroughs' own mistakes as an argument against what he brings up. Like the world's biggest genocide doesn't matter at all. Of course we all know it doesn't to white people. How do Burroughs' naysayers account for all the ugly things that America has done to innocent people all over the world? Oh yeah, I forgot THEY DON'T AND NEVER WILL!!!
@subsamadhi I agree that the acts of early "american settelers" are often forgotten around Thanksgiving. You don't need a college education to realize that white people (myself being white) seem to want to point the finger at Hitler for comminting genocide, but they choose tocall their own ancestors actions "Manifest Destiny"
@inredress yeah, thanks for committing the world's biggest genocide against Native Americans. 23 million dead Native Americans. Thanks for sending innocent Native Americans to die needlessly on the frontlines in American wars up to and including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Do some fucking homework before you make a stupid comment like that, dipshit.
@subsamadhi For AGES before Frankenstein Controls apeoidic niggers interbreedable with APES had no alphabet, not even NUMERALS! Slavery conspiracy over 300 years ago ideally tiny-brained apeoidic nigger Gangster government Eyesight TV Gangster spy cameras, Computer God New World Order DEGENERATION! "ONE WORLD COMMUNISM" (Top Secret codeword!!!) meaning "worldwide absolutely helpless-and-hopeless simple-languaged mongrel-mulatto- apeoidic NIGGERS"!!
@subsamadhi all living, have a Computer God Containment Policy brain bank brain, a real brain in the brain bank cities on the far side of the moon we never see.
@tertommy If you are going for just some kind of random weirdness, you aren't even really cool about it. It's not even funny or interesting. Burroughs wouldn't approve.
@subsamadhi I am quoting snippets of the rants of Francis E. Dec...the Kook Genius of this or any age and yes, curmudgeon Billy boy would approve I believe.
@tertommy I guess that's interesting, but really he probably wouldn't. Burroughs didn't even like Jack Kerouac's writing for chrissakes. He didn't like anybodys' writings. He probably wouldn't have liked that shit either.
@tertommy yeah, all that stuff about nigger gangsters and repeating stupid words with hyphens and crap...I don't even like it, and I'm not a writer. Burroughs probably wouldn't even laugh at it. The guy who wrote it was just practicing verbal diahrea (sp?).
@BlottoForever Thanks for the only other "nice, white middle class" clearly heterosexual family in the whole neighborhood, whose 11 yr old son molested our son when he was only 6 years old. It's everywhere. Don't forget USA Gov Nanny teaches that it's all right for strangers to look at our children's private parts if they have a badge.
@elreboK No you are, Thanks of what has never been, thanks to what your bed is, thanks to what you type on, thanks to your belly full, when so many have not. Thanks to what you have the right to speek out when so many have no voice. You fukin puke with 31 thumbs up!
@amptoys YOU are the fool, go back to watching you Fox Snews, kill some people in the name of God & reproduce more idiots like you and multiple...You PUPPET OF CHRIST
William S. Burroughs was nearly jailed for obscenity for his words half a century ago. Now you can find his thanksgiving prayer on youtube, framed by Vevo artist Rhianna, pre-empted by a commerical for Ford Trucks. The revolution will be televised to sell Nike sneakers.
Is this man saying that amongst the highest of the American body politic they prefer to murder womens and perpetuate war, even to and beyond the ends of the earth? What a funny old man.
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I love all the anti american bullshit from a burntout dead junkie had he taken the needle out of his fucking arm and the cock out of his mouth he may have had a better out look on life what a fucking waste ps way overrated
Who pays you drugged moron for comments from your no-video channel:Tea(party)addicts or da biggoted rotten Sarrah Palin clan?Some Americans should be forbidden even weed because they can´t get along iwth it.
i hate even more the bigoted American so-called"religious"racist women.
BLOCKED.
Get a withdrawal from your mama´s ideological milk bar tits which are even worse than heroin-
+ i never used heroin.
ANITA BRYANT in 1978: "Kill a queer for christ´s sake"
@ricaldrich I love the USA-it's my home-but living in this nation should not require that you find nothing wrong with it. I feel that this nation is still overwrought by, among other things, greed, ignorance, and bigotry. I relish the freedoms that are provided to people of this nation, but there is definitely room for improvement. Just my opinion...
quiter powerful...more a comment on the human condition rather than america, I dare say, for me...as perhaps humanity is in battle against "type" rather than ideology. ...taliban is teaparty....christian is muslim is jew is hindu...too.
This is the speech of a prophet. A prophet USA will never see again. American? Maybe, but rather first Woldwide beatnik (next would be Brion Gysin) - He spent most of his productive life and created his most important works (writting, cinema, cut-up's, music) outside USA - Mexico, Eastern America, Tangiers (Morocco, North Africa), France (the famous Beat Hotel with Gysin, Ginsberg, Corso, Balch, Sommerwile), London (England)....
The first time I heard of Burroughs was at a LACMA retrospective when I was 14. This was the first of a loop of films that I saw that day. I'd be different today if I hadn't seen it I'm sure. What would probably be the next most influential thing from that show would be the dream machine. I hadn't done any drugs at the time, but it was damn interesting. My dad, who hadn't done drugs either, almost OD'd on the damn thing.
I play this every Thanksgiving just before we sit down to eat. I usually get teary . makes me sad that we started with such high ideals and did so little with them.
He loved America, just hated what mindless corporate lies that this great country is based around, swimming in it's vast seas gleeing happily even though the waters this country is swimming in are far past contaminated with false hopes and dreams that have been shattered oh so many times. The lie that it believes. Burroughs was just as American as any good ol' patriot, he just comes from a different life lived. God bless him even though he is not really religious.
Thank you Mr Burroughs. Its so sad that people see critical thinking as a bad thing. Read a book! ( or 1000) I believe he was as american as apple pie.An AMERICAN writer. Lived in Kansas, and loved Americans, Indians, women, men, children, junkies, the poor, and I have heard he even showed kindness to strangers.
Thank you Mr Burroughs. Its so sad that people see critical thinking as a bad thing. Read a book! ( or 1000) I believe he was as american as apple pie.An AMERICAN writer. Lived in Kansas, and loved Americans, Indians, women, men, children, junkies, the poor, and I have heard he even showed kindness to strangers.
thanks for burroughs- too bad too few understand his importance and influence. you think he hates america. and he does. this america- the twisted, depraved version. look around you fools...
Leave it to the likes of @arubberball to apply the polemic discourse to Burroughs. Clearly this person never read Burroughs, never ventured outside the Establishment walls, and ate ever last morsel of nationalistic, jingoistic juice fed to them by it's mother. I assume the quote about "Christian women with their angry twisted faces" or some such quote applies here....whether you are male or female. This isn't liberal or conservative (which arubberball would be unable to define). Lost u r.
I remember seeing this on MTV Europe back in the early nineties (back when MTV used to play music)
It blew me away and has only become more prescient with each passing year.
I post it up in my blog every year and dedicate it to Burroughs' memory and everyone who has been shat, used up or abused by the great lie of liberty, prosperity and inclusivity for all; especially in these cash-strapped times.
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Thanks for freedom of speech...love these bitter liberals, that never can point to another shinning example. America has its flaws, but over all we are good, and honorable people.
@arubberball The neo-liberal is about as liberal as Archie Bunker. They are doctrinaire, intolerant of dissent and essentially unable to think outside of the talking points they get at the Daily Pus and Mania Matters. impressionable. gullible and driven by a deep seated hatred of western civilization, nee Christianity. That may be why they identify with Muslims, Castro and every other species of arrogant ideologue and totalitarian. Neo-Liberalism is a dangerous auto-immune disease.
@HomoNoMore, but mostly to all you Neo Cons with your bullshit values relfecting war, hatred and the so-called American Dream. We are a cancer. A bunch of cock-sucking pansies shit out of our mothers wombs. We support the fags, more specifically, I support the fags and their butt-fucking antics. I want gay kids. We will always be here. Being liberal and progressive, because just like you own a Walmart bought gun, we own our voices. We are a cancer. We are Americans. JUST. LIKE. YOU.
@arubberball Of course...The problem isn't the problem. It's the people mentioning the problem. Typically American, If we pretend shit's not fucked up, it's not fucked up.If we lambaste and label those who are effected enough to speak up about it, calling them "Bitter Liberals" and "Haters," they will just get fed up and stop,right?
@johnnywalker1 it is what it is... for your sake, i'll just call him bitter. the majority of the sarcastic thanks he dishes out, stems from progressive/liberal elitist polices in the first place. unlike some, i'll defend your right to speak out, if need be to the death. washington is corrupt( democrats and republicans alike), but to say the country is rotten to the core is, not true. if you think that, then i feel sorry for you.
@arubberball But America IS rotten. It's been demolished by closed-minded, unwelcoming people.
We meddle in other people's shit. If you want to be communist, be communist, as long as you don't bother us.
We worship people who haven't a sense of what is important.
We raise our children to be rude, unthankful, and over-protected. When people actually punished their children appropriately, we raised an artistic, brilliant country.
@arubberball Now that we don't punish them, they've become lazy, unwilling people who have no idea what is going on in the world. They're ignorant, stuck up. When children have more power than their parents, there's a problem.
We hide current events, and when people find them, they are arrested or the facts are exaggerated in order to scare the people.
We wait until EVERYBODY knows and is affected by the problem before we try to fix it.
@arubberball WRONG! This country IS rotten to the core and the bullshit it used to feed the machine for all these years has gunked up the cogs...Thus the sound we now hear of it's screech to a halt.
Burroughs was a genius. This is actually pretty mild. My favorite Burroughs quote: "This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games."
@nixiedixie I always dug his quote: "The history of the world is the history of idiocy highlighted by a few morons who stand out as comparative geniuses." Or something like that. The man's words were pure gold.
@binstence Well, your literary style as evidenced by your lame comment leaves a lot to be desired; namely any measure of ability. So it's ironic that you would even attempt to weigh in on the words of a literary icon and semi-religious figure. What brand of asshole are you anyway? Neo-con, Christian queer-hater, patriotic douchebag American who fails to see the obvious --- that this country is rotten to the core and as a result is beginning to rot away. The bare lies shining through...
Thanks for mindless American idiots with no fucking concept of reality or the rest of the world while artists and poets die penniless because the mind is a terrible and threatening place in which to dwell.
@verbaud If artists and poets are dying penniless perhaps they should find another line of work, find a patron who will subsidize them or produce art that people want to buy. Where is it written that one should be able to make a living at whatever one chooses to do?
where is it written that private property is the end-all be all of existence, or even that its a legitimate concept when it allows humans to make the earth permanently uninhabitable for future generations?
oh yeah, its scrawled on the inside of your tiny monkey brain in your daddy's handwriting.
wow! buying stuff is almost as fun as creating something, but only requires the cognitive skills of a counting german shepherd. you're right! consumerism IS better than thinking.
Naked Lunch is a seminal work - 'linear successor' to Joyce blah blah blah lol (got a recording of Joyce reading from Finnegan's Wake; read it to impress a girl doing english lit, really got into it but Ulyses was too much to hack, too much commitment required -NkdLunch tho -got a narrative style like a weird nightmare; seedier than Bukowski's reportage if that's possible -grown out of Bukowski but you don't grow out of Burroughs -you just start reading midway thru, next thing, an hour's passed
@NoPrivacyANYMORE10, I remember having to read this with a thesaurus in college. His indictment of "control-addicts" through language as authority- enough to get a book banned. The father of the Beat Generation poets spoke from a knowledgeable position- his family having invented the Burroughs Adding Machine. I actually got to meet him and hear him read. A very gracious man. A very honest man. Old Bill Lee would just smirk at all of this. He embraced the new generation. Tore down the walls.
Burroughs amazing-gritty and real.Never lost his edge and wasn't afraid to speak his mind.His sarcastic,caustic quotes opened alot of peoples minds.Kerouac,Hunter S Thompson,Hoffman-to name a few-dust off books and read again....all still applies to this day.The day we stop questioning authority is the day we cease to grow....peace
@joeverdeal So, in your Christian love, you celebrate the fact that you think he's in hell? People like you make me grow in my atheism. Thanks for that.
@sottier. Of course we should celebrate that someone who has not embraced the love of Jesus (by drinking his blood and eating his flesh!) is burning in hell. Forgiveness is only for fellow Christians and only if their dues to the church are paid in full. The rest shall suffer for all eternity and Christians get to gloat about it. That is what religion is all about, being holier/better than thou.
@MrSelidor7 what sort of anointed *ss would gloat over another's eternal damnation and torment...you are a perfect encapsulation of things you would never imagine about yourself.
As hard it might be its so true about America... the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams.
MarziodeMari 1 week ago
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MarziodeMari 1 week ago
thanks for @latteboy123, for complaining about commercialism while he himself browses youtube, on a computer made by slave labour
2012clynep 1 week ago
Oh vevo you worse than senseless things, you sully everything you touch with your 'advertising' Can't you just STOP?
WRESTLERBULL 2 weeks ago
fuck the nsa, fbi, cia, current vrersion of this distorted amerikan government, etc, etc, etc.....
hi J.D....you fuckin asshole
zencat999 3 weeks ago
thank you saint william
zencat999 3 weeks ago
Favorite video ever... It will always have a special place in my heart
beads6666 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
Thanx for William S. Burroughs telling it how it is.
Tarabass666 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
the churchgoing women line always gets me. i dont know why, it isn't the funniest part of this video by far
kidzoom221 1 month ago
This is amazing.
MrDylaneric 1 month ago
"williamburroughsVEVO" makes me sad but also smile, for no word this terrible, can live long
mistarcraw 2 months ago
You're welcome.
eziekial101 2 months ago
Thanks. Great post. One of the greats speaking the truth.
NoorAlHaqiqa 2 months ago
Don't you guys think it's Ironic how right after a day of thanks for all they have people go out and buy a bunch of crap?!?!? smh
bailess980908 2 months ago
Thanks for killing the redman and the murdering of niggers!
dirtyscrotumpuncher2 2 months ago
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Who's gonna be able to write it upon his own country. Every country needs it.
scalpel49 2 months ago
Thanks for VEVO for ruining the enjoyment of short video clips.
MindbenderMilo 2 months ago 7
VEVO = one long advertisement after another.
treid100182 2 months ago
This is the fourth year in a row that I have watched this video on Thanksgiving. Still great.
MadStruggle 2 months ago 2
Yes sir! Thank you for the name of Jesus which we associate with all things antithetical to christ.
Thank you for corporatocracy, where firms compete for legislated advantage and lax oversight over the tradition of customer service.
Thank you pubescent chinese for sacrificing your lives to the foundation of true capitalism: exploited labor.
Thank you
MrElividal 2 months ago 2
i had to watch a Wal Mart video before watching this video ahahahahahahaha
russxl 2 months ago 6
@russxl I got those insufferable Charmin bears. I found it eminently appropriate.
mintclassic 2 months ago
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Good use of this weeks vocab words!!!! B+
skulleton 2 months ago
James Baldwin said, "I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually"
samaraisnt 2 months ago 3
Who are those pink weenie hominids promoting their crap teenie tinny music? They are like the anti-Burroughs.
FraterSoddi 2 months ago
I CANNOT BELIEVE VEVO HAS CLAIMED WILLIAM BURROUGHS TOO.
Also: FUCK Thanksgiving. It should be renamed Thankstaking, banned, and celebrated as Indigenous People's Day Part 2 (Columbus Day would be Part 1).
brainfeeeeder 2 months ago 3
we can always do better
moondog50002000 2 months ago
If this makes you insecure, uncertain, or angry, congratulations! You are the human refuse that William S. Burroughs scorns in this secular prayer!
animesuxxxx 2 months ago
He was such an inspirational person.
However, I think he also should have added the line: "Thanks for commercialist companies even trying to make money and fame from these words."
zirtapot57 2 months ago
Thanks for VEVO, advertising a mass-produced corporate whore like Katy Perry as a banner ad alongside the work of a genius like William S. Burroughs. Thanks for crass commercialism.
LatteBoy123 2 months ago 38
Thanks for saying grace Bill. Now let's eat!
risqueclay 2 months ago
And what are you truly thankful for, Mr. Burroughs? American is not a perfect country. None of us are as individuals, either. But she is, indeed, a great country. As many of us are as individuals as well. I'm blessed and thankful to live here, and I'm blessed and thankful to know some of the most wonderful people in the world, who call themselves, "American".
Well worth watch... Citizen USA: A 50 State Roadtrip
susankps 2 months ago
I have ADHD and often have multiple tabs open on my browser. Anyway, I happened to have this video open with Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" playing at the same time. William Burroughs voice and LZ's music is just an epic experience when played together. Try it, you won't be disappointed.
ElSickoFucko 2 months ago
Like Stanhope said, being proud to be American is like being proud to be the prettiest Denny's waitress.
flamboastin1 3 months ago
@flamboastin1 These days, at least that means you have a job.
sleslie23 2 months ago
It's so funny to me that people bring up Burroughs' own mistakes as an argument against what he brings up. Like the world's biggest genocide doesn't matter at all. Of course we all know it doesn't to white people. How do Burroughs' naysayers account for all the ugly things that America has done to innocent people all over the world? Oh yeah, I forgot THEY DON'T AND NEVER WILL!!!
subsamadhi 4 months ago
@subsamadhi I agree that the acts of early "american settelers" are often forgotten around Thanksgiving. You don't need a college education to realize that white people (myself being white) seem to want to point the finger at Hitler for comminting genocide, but they choose tocall their own ancestors actions "Manifest Destiny"
OrezThegrey 3 months ago
Thanks for William S. Boroughs For helping to give ordinary Americans the right to speech, no matter how much it offends the powers that be.
Mcgruvr777 5 months ago
Thanks to you Old Bull Lee. . .
TheArtichokeMan 6 months ago
@williamburroughsVEVO you should add 'The "Priest" They Called Him' it features Kurt Cobain On Guitar
DaveMorrisonOfficial 6 months ago
"Be cool, but care." - McClintock Sphere
williamscottwork 6 months ago
thanks for me getting away with shooting my wife
inredress 7 months ago
@inredress Awww...You're just jealous.
CleoTheSim 7 months ago
@inredress yeah, thanks for committing the world's biggest genocide against Native Americans. 23 million dead Native Americans. Thanks for sending innocent Native Americans to die needlessly on the frontlines in American wars up to and including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Do some fucking homework before you make a stupid comment like that, dipshit.
subsamadhi 4 months ago
@subsamadhi For AGES before Frankenstein Controls apeoidic niggers interbreedable with APES had no alphabet, not even NUMERALS! Slavery conspiracy over 300 years ago ideally tiny-brained apeoidic nigger Gangster government Eyesight TV Gangster spy cameras, Computer God New World Order DEGENERATION! "ONE WORLD COMMUNISM" (Top Secret codeword!!!) meaning "worldwide absolutely helpless-and-hopeless simple-languaged mongrel-mulatto- apeoidic NIGGERS"!!
tertommy 4 months ago
@tertommy wow.....that's the most retarded fucking commment I have ever had as a response with on this thing. You get a gold star for that one.
subsamadhi 4 months ago
@subsamadhi all living, have a Computer God Containment Policy brain bank brain, a real brain in the brain bank cities on the far side of the moon we never see.
tertommy 4 months ago
@tertommy If you are going for just some kind of random weirdness, you aren't even really cool about it. It's not even funny or interesting. Burroughs wouldn't approve.
subsamadhi 4 months ago
@subsamadhi I am quoting snippets of the rants of Francis E. Dec...the Kook Genius of this or any age and yes, curmudgeon Billy boy would approve I believe.
tertommy 4 months ago
@tertommy I guess that's interesting, but really he probably wouldn't. Burroughs didn't even like Jack Kerouac's writing for chrissakes. He didn't like anybodys' writings. He probably wouldn't have liked that shit either.
subsamadhi 4 months ago
@tertommy yeah, all that stuff about nigger gangsters and repeating stupid words with hyphens and crap...I don't even like it, and I'm not a writer. Burroughs probably wouldn't even laugh at it. The guy who wrote it was just practicing verbal diahrea (sp?).
subsamadhi 4 months ago
@inredress How about thanks for letting my homosexual buddies molest my own 14-year-old son.
BlottoForever 2 months ago
@BlottoForever Thanks for the only other "nice, white middle class" clearly heterosexual family in the whole neighborhood, whose 11 yr old son molested our son when he was only 6 years old. It's everywhere. Don't forget USA Gov Nanny teaches that it's all right for strangers to look at our children's private parts if they have a badge.
onedot 2 months ago
people that are offended by this are just denying how real it is.
elreboK 7 months ago 57
@elreboK You are absolutely right.
GenoGod666 2 months ago
@elreboK No you are, Thanks of what has never been, thanks to what your bed is, thanks to what you type on, thanks to your belly full, when so many have not. Thanks to what you have the right to speek out when so many have no voice. You fukin puke with 31 thumbs up!
amptoys 2 months ago
@amptoys YOU are the fool, go back to watching you Fox Snews, kill some people in the name of God & reproduce more idiots like you and multiple...You PUPPET OF CHRIST
pseudokowski 2 months ago
@pseudokowski Thanks for the advice! I believe I will. See you in the cross.lol
amptoys 2 months ago
hah never mind, I got it.
fuzzwahmrp 7 months ago
@fuzzwahmrp naw, I lied, what the hell is this song? seriously...
fuzzwahmrp 7 months ago
William S. Burroughs was nearly jailed for obscenity for his words half a century ago. Now you can find his thanksgiving prayer on youtube, framed by Vevo artist Rhianna, pre-empted by a commerical for Ford Trucks. The revolution will be televised to sell Nike sneakers.
drunkpimp3000 8 months ago 5
@drunkpimp3000: Yes, as it appropriately has been put by the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. But, of course, it's the use you make of television.
tht707 7 months ago
This sux
parkermartin161 8 months ago
I will NEVER buy any product that is shoved in my face. Thanks for Billy Burroughs
geminidefect 8 months ago
Thanks to a Lady Gaga advertisement on this video.
Thanks for the barely repressed vomit arisen for the aforementioned thanks.
IXB34RXI 8 months ago 2
The problem is not the message, it's the interpretation. Clearly most folks on here got it wrong. Bashing Americanism is so early 2000's.
odhinn178 9 months ago
America's been bashing me for decades.
drunkpimp3000 8 months ago
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fitzgeraldbr 9 months ago
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majortgm 9 months ago
Is this man saying that amongst the highest of the American body politic they prefer to murder womens and perpetuate war, even to and beyond the ends of the earth? What a funny old man.
Lieu3C4 9 months ago
@Lieu3C4 The evidence is overwhelming that when it comes to money & power, all options to gain it are on the table.
Mcgruvr777 5 months ago
i wanna join the pee-party, where is the application?
EnjoyTheSurface 9 months ago
Fuck your commercials good bye
OscarLimaMike 9 months ago
Gone but not forgotten Bill. Keep saying it like it is! :-)
MrMephisto38 10 months ago 2
Bracing, scary! Geez, I thought I was cranky, but not compared to Burroughs.
But Bill, don't beat around the bush. How do you _really_ feel?
raudiobrown 11 months ago
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I love all the anti american bullshit from a burntout dead junkie had he taken the needle out of his fucking arm and the cock out of his mouth he may have had a better out look on life what a fucking waste ps way overrated
ricaldrich 11 months ago
@ricaldrich
this dead, burned out, cocksucking junkie is more important to more people than you or any of your retarded offspring will ever be. cheers!
paranoidjones 10 months ago 4
@ricaldrich:
Who pays you drugged moron for comments from your no-video channel:Tea(party)addicts or da biggoted rotten Sarrah Palin clan?Some Americans should be forbidden even weed because they can´t get along iwth it.
i hate even more the bigoted American so-called"religious"racist women.
BLOCKED.
Get a withdrawal from your mama´s ideological milk bar tits which are even worse than heroin-
+ i never used heroin.
ANITA BRYANT in 1978: "Kill a queer for christ´s sake"
Rotten fascist U.S.cow.
MrSKINFLICK 9 months ago
Thank you, Mr. Burroughs, for seeing my broken nation for what it really was/is. RIP.
Meeper27 11 months ago 3
@Meeper27 your a fucking dick as well move to france asswipe
ricaldrich 11 months ago
@ricaldrich I love the USA-it's my home-but living in this nation should not require that you find nothing wrong with it. I feel that this nation is still overwrought by, among other things, greed, ignorance, and bigotry. I relish the freedoms that are provided to people of this nation, but there is definitely room for improvement. Just my opinion...
Meeper27 11 months ago 36
quiter powerful...more a comment on the human condition rather than america, I dare say, for me...as perhaps humanity is in battle against "type" rather than ideology. ...taliban is teaparty....christian is muslim is jew is hindu...too.
newnewly 11 months ago
This is the speech of a prophet. A prophet USA will never see again. American? Maybe, but rather first Woldwide beatnik (next would be Brion Gysin) - He spent most of his productive life and created his most important works (writting, cinema, cut-up's, music) outside USA - Mexico, Eastern America, Tangiers (Morocco, North Africa), France (the famous Beat Hotel with Gysin, Ginsberg, Corso, Balch, Sommerwile), London (England)....
TheAnalStaircase 11 months ago
The first time I heard of Burroughs was at a LACMA retrospective when I was 14. This was the first of a loop of films that I saw that day. I'd be different today if I hadn't seen it I'm sure. What would probably be the next most influential thing from that show would be the dream machine. I hadn't done any drugs at the time, but it was damn interesting. My dad, who hadn't done drugs either, almost OD'd on the damn thing.
mhz23 11 months ago
Right-wingers think liberals actually say this before dinner.
ryukXsayu27 1 year ago
It pays to pay the boys off,uncle bill is still the main man.thanks to be god
35mrgerard 1 year ago
I play this every Thanksgiving just before we sit down to eat. I usually get teary . makes me sad that we started with such high ideals and did so little with them.
vudu8ball 1 year ago
"the last and greatest of human dreams"- this man was a patriot, but a concerned patriot, as I think most Americans should be.
montybus20 1 year ago 2
Love it or leave it you liberal idiots.
Snotra 1 year ago
I wish he was alive now..he would have alot to write about...
dahleric74 1 year ago 4
He loved America, just hated what mindless corporate lies that this great country is based around, swimming in it's vast seas gleeing happily even though the waters this country is swimming in are far past contaminated with false hopes and dreams that have been shattered oh so many times. The lie that it believes. Burroughs was just as American as any good ol' patriot, he just comes from a different life lived. God bless him even though he is not really religious.
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Thank you Mr Burroughs. Its so sad that people see critical thinking as a bad thing. Read a book! ( or 1000) I believe he was as american as apple pie.An AMERICAN writer. Lived in Kansas, and loved Americans, Indians, women, men, children, junkies, the poor, and I have heard he even showed kindness to strangers.
TheVinylhoney 1 year ago
Thank you Mr Burroughs. Its so sad that people see critical thinking as a bad thing. Read a book! ( or 1000) I believe he was as american as apple pie.An AMERICAN writer. Lived in Kansas, and loved Americans, Indians, women, men, children, junkies, the poor, and I have heard he even showed kindness to strangers.
TheVinylhoney 1 year ago 3
Well done William.
hendrix163 1 year ago 2
And a happy new year!
henrythesteinberg 1 year ago
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TheJomogogo 1 year ago
@TheJomogogo He was a heroin-addicted faggot, sure. And he did shoot his wife. But he's still far more successful than you'll ever be. :D
TwoCows23 1 year ago 2
@TheJomogogo Did dumbass click on the link thinking it was some kind of traditional thanksgiving prayer?
wistoncap 1 year ago
Oh, you, Vevo!
eziekial101 1 year ago
thanks for burroughs- too bad too few understand his importance and influence. you think he hates america. and he does. this america- the twisted, depraved version. look around you fools...
deviltrombone 1 year ago 4
I'm sure he would have loved the comericial
janesays218 1 year ago
This video is more relevant today than ever before.....
NICC234 1 year ago 4
Wow what a load of bullshit, but I'm sure you America haters loved it.
NJburbsSeeker 1 year ago
@NJburbsSeeker Those who really love America and true freedom realize that this man was pointing out the bullshit. We are the true patriots.
TheEmilio16 1 year ago
pretty negative video
Drummafolife 1 year ago
Thanks Vevo for making me sit through an ad for Intel before this poem. You always are a heache and you always are a bore.
TheFleurieuLA 1 year ago 2
@TheFleurieuLA Press f5 to refresh the page when those ads start. My good deed is done.
Bfresh99 1 year ago 2
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TheFleurieuLA 1 year ago
What the fuck vevo?
PandaPawAttack 1 year ago 3
having rihanna behind burroughs is quite disturbing
siandrasejfullai 1 year ago 3
Leave it to the likes of @arubberball to apply the polemic discourse to Burroughs. Clearly this person never read Burroughs, never ventured outside the Establishment walls, and ate ever last morsel of nationalistic, jingoistic juice fed to them by it's mother. I assume the quote about "Christian women with their angry twisted faces" or some such quote applies here....whether you are male or female. This isn't liberal or conservative (which arubberball would be unable to define). Lost u r.
MrMshannon20 1 year ago 4
FUCK VEVO
lonemilkman 1 year ago 4
Well done! Thanks for posting! Greetings from Hong Kong, China!
88yp88yp 1 year ago 2
Happy thanksgiving everybody, first thing I listened to this morning and the last thing I listened to before I went to sleep
jellychair 1 year ago 4
Am I the only one who noticed that he forgot to say amen??????
SustenanceNCovering 1 year ago
@SustenanceNCovering Ha ha, true. But on the CD where this appeared, there are other tracks where he from the Good Book.
sleslie23 1 year ago
I remember seeing this on MTV Europe back in the early nineties (back when MTV used to play music)
It blew me away and has only become more prescient with each passing year.
I post it up in my blog every year and dedicate it to Burroughs' memory and everyone who has been shat, used up or abused by the great lie of liberty, prosperity and inclusivity for all; especially in these cash-strapped times.
darklordzden 1 year ago 2
the fact that this is on vevo is PERFECTION. hahahahahaha
honkles 1 year ago
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Thanks for freedom of speech...love these bitter liberals, that never can point to another shinning example. America has its flaws, but over all we are good, and honorable people.
arubberball 1 year ago
@arubberball saying that you are honorable doesn't make you so.
ComradeCarl10 1 year ago 2
@ComradeCarl10 saying i'm not doesn't make it so.
arubberball 1 year ago
@arubberball The neo-liberal is about as liberal as Archie Bunker. They are doctrinaire, intolerant of dissent and essentially unable to think outside of the talking points they get at the Daily Pus and Mania Matters. impressionable. gullible and driven by a deep seated hatred of western civilization, nee Christianity. That may be why they identify with Muslims, Castro and every other species of arrogant ideologue and totalitarian. Neo-Liberalism is a dangerous auto-immune disease.
HomoNoMore 1 year ago
@HomoNoMore, but mostly to all you Neo Cons with your bullshit values relfecting war, hatred and the so-called American Dream. We are a cancer. A bunch of cock-sucking pansies shit out of our mothers wombs. We support the fags, more specifically, I support the fags and their butt-fucking antics. I want gay kids. We will always be here. Being liberal and progressive, because just like you own a Walmart bought gun, we own our voices. We are a cancer. We are Americans. JUST. LIKE. YOU.
theDarkAlleyPress 1 year ago 2
@arubberball Of course...The problem isn't the problem. It's the people mentioning the problem. Typically American, If we pretend shit's not fucked up, it's not fucked up.If we lambaste and label those who are effected enough to speak up about it, calling them "Bitter Liberals" and "Haters," they will just get fed up and stop,right?
johnnywalker1974 1 year ago 2
@johnnywalker1 it is what it is... for your sake, i'll just call him bitter. the majority of the sarcastic thanks he dishes out, stems from progressive/liberal elitist polices in the first place. unlike some, i'll defend your right to speak out, if need be to the death. washington is corrupt( democrats and republicans alike), but to say the country is rotten to the core is, not true. if you think that, then i feel sorry for you.
arubberball 1 year ago
@arubberball johnywalker is right. It isn't rotten to the core. It's rotten from the core out. There is a difference. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.
SustenanceNCovering 1 year ago 3
@arubberball But America IS rotten. It's been demolished by closed-minded, unwelcoming people.
We meddle in other people's shit. If you want to be communist, be communist, as long as you don't bother us.
We worship people who haven't a sense of what is important.
We raise our children to be rude, unthankful, and over-protected. When people actually punished their children appropriately, we raised an artistic, brilliant country.
dadope20202 11 months ago
@arubberball Now that we don't punish them, they've become lazy, unwilling people who have no idea what is going on in the world. They're ignorant, stuck up. When children have more power than their parents, there's a problem.
We hide current events, and when people find them, they are arrested or the facts are exaggerated in order to scare the people.
We wait until EVERYBODY knows and is affected by the problem before we try to fix it.
We are unhonorable, stuck up, ignorant assholes.
dadope20202 11 months ago
@arubberball WRONG! This country IS rotten to the core and the bullshit it used to feed the machine for all these years has gunked up the cogs...Thus the sound we now hear of it's screech to a halt.
johnnywalker1974 1 year ago 28
@johnnywalker1974 That's the point.
amyrosepdx 4 months ago
@arubberball
lol you really think this
SelfHatingWhite 1 year ago
@binstence Your literary style isn't effective. It is needlessly flowery and pretentious. Bravo.
dronehymns 1 year ago
Faults cannot be repaired if they are never recognized.
jody4403363881 1 year ago 2
Burroughs was a genius. This is actually pretty mild. My favorite Burroughs quote: "This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games."
nixiedixie 1 year ago 6
@nixiedixie I always dug his quote: "The history of the world is the history of idiocy highlighted by a few morons who stand out as comparative geniuses." Or something like that. The man's words were pure gold.
subsamadhi 4 months ago
Thanks for SARCASM for with out it how could we cope..!!
Ridgid 1 year ago 3
@Ridgid - this is sarcastic? I didn't know THAT!
WKRPinCINN 1 year ago
@binstence Well, your literary style as evidenced by your lame comment leaves a lot to be desired; namely any measure of ability. So it's ironic that you would even attempt to weigh in on the words of a literary icon and semi-religious figure. What brand of asshole are you anyway? Neo-con, Christian queer-hater, patriotic douchebag American who fails to see the obvious --- that this country is rotten to the core and as a result is beginning to rot away. The bare lies shining through...
ApResMoiLeDeluge8787 1 year ago 4
william burroughs VEVO?? what is the world coming to?
is nothing sacred?
missingNYCITY 1 year ago 7
Oddly enough, my great granddad's name was Bull and my grandpa's was Lee.
Corkskrew999 1 year ago
Thanks for mindless American idiots with no fucking concept of reality or the rest of the world while artists and poets die penniless because the mind is a terrible and threatening place in which to dwell.
verbaud 1 year ago 49
@verbaud If artists and poets are dying penniless perhaps they should find another line of work, find a patron who will subsidize them or produce art that people want to buy. Where is it written that one should be able to make a living at whatever one chooses to do?
kpadmirer 11 months ago
@kpadmirer
where is it written that private property is the end-all be all of existence, or even that its a legitimate concept when it allows humans to make the earth permanently uninhabitable for future generations?
oh yeah, its scrawled on the inside of your tiny monkey brain in your daddy's handwriting.
have a nice day.
paranoidjones 10 months ago 3
@paranoidjones Why, thank you! I did have a nice day. Bought a new car.
kpadmirer 10 months ago
@kpadmirer
wow! buying stuff is almost as fun as creating something, but only requires the cognitive skills of a counting german shepherd. you're right! consumerism IS better than thinking.
paranoidjones 10 months ago
@paranoidjones Amen, brother!
kpadmirer 10 months ago
@verbaud: Welcome to the commonplace thought collective. Aw, come on.
tht707 7 months ago
Truly bizzare watching this on a background featuring some vapid moron.
Kernocker 1 year ago 2
@stew3128561 public libraries exist you cheapskate fuck
adolfeinkman 1 year ago
...Beneath are advertisements for "Rihanna". To despoil and poison indeed...
MahoCanada2 1 year ago 2
Thanks for subsides on corn, and rampant obesity
Agitpropist 1 year ago 2
A Bill Burroughs VEVO?!!!!!!!!
PMishkin 1 year ago
~ " Alright, let's see your arms ! "
LordHillsidor 1 year ago
Naked Lunch is a seminal work - 'linear successor' to Joyce blah blah blah lol (got a recording of Joyce reading from Finnegan's Wake; read it to impress a girl doing english lit, really got into it but Ulyses was too much to hack, too much commitment required -NkdLunch tho -got a narrative style like a weird nightmare; seedier than Bukowski's reportage if that's possible -grown out of Bukowski but you don't grow out of Burroughs -you just start reading midway thru, next thing, an hour's passed
NoPrivacyANYMORE10 1 year ago
@NoPrivacyANYMORE10, I remember having to read this with a thesaurus in college. His indictment of "control-addicts" through language as authority- enough to get a book banned. The father of the Beat Generation poets spoke from a knowledgeable position- his family having invented the Burroughs Adding Machine. I actually got to meet him and hear him read. A very gracious man. A very honest man. Old Bill Lee would just smirk at all of this. He embraced the new generation. Tore down the walls.
kil2gore 1 year ago
what the fuck is vevo
JoeyTHEArms 1 year ago 5
Thanks for making me pay money to read books, because we all know literacy should have a price tag
stew3128561 1 year ago
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@stew3128561 "Thanks for making me pay money to read books, because we all know literacy should have a price tag"
What, does the greatest repository of knowledge ever conceived and created by mankind, i.e. the Internet, not have enough for you to read on it?
And by the way, being literate is only half way to being educated - if that.
fuzzywzhe 1 year ago
Thanks for making me pay money to read books, because we all know literacy should have a price tage
stew3128561 1 year ago 2
Thanks to making gods out of those who made an idea popular, instead of making better people out of the idea.
tayloreh 1 year ago 3
@tayloreh Thanks for pointing out that fact.
stew3128561 1 year ago
Burroughs amazing-gritty and real.Never lost his edge and wasn't afraid to speak his mind.His sarcastic,caustic quotes opened alot of peoples minds.Kerouac,Hunter S Thompson,Hoffman-to name a few-dust off books and read again....all still applies to this day.The day we stop questioning authority is the day we cease to grow....peace
trippinvic 1 year ago 3
the only reason I gave this a thumbs down, was because you added the commercial to it. Thanks for the irony.
1human 1 year ago 3
I love Old Bull Lee, junkie pederast fuck that he is.
cridantis 1 year ago
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
seefeel100 1 year ago
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CtrlRm 1 year ago
Finks and the war on terrorism.....Noses in everbodys busy-ness....and still the shit house burns. The horse left the stable a long time ago.
awellfedbottomfeeder 1 year ago
Amen to that El Hombre!!!!
broken1394 1 year ago 2
THANKS TO WILLIAM BURROUGHS!
jeddazenovka 1 year ago 2
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I always get a kick out of hearing this old coot.
I wonder if the afterlife has been kind to him?
Jesus is Lord. Jesus died for this man.........and for all of us. All we need to do is accept the salvation that he offers.
joeverdeal 1 year ago
@joeverdeal So, in your Christian love, you celebrate the fact that you think he's in hell? People like you make me grow in my atheism. Thanks for that.
sottier 1 year ago 4
@sottier. Of course we should celebrate that someone who has not embraced the love of Jesus (by drinking his blood and eating his flesh!) is burning in hell. Forgiveness is only for fellow Christians and only if their dues to the church are paid in full. The rest shall suffer for all eternity and Christians get to gloat about it. That is what religion is all about, being holier/better than thou.
MrSelidor7 1 year ago
@MrSelidor7 what sort of anointed *ss would gloat over another's eternal damnation and torment...you are a perfect encapsulation of things you would never imagine about yourself.
desertrun 1 year ago
@desertrun.
7 letter word. Begins with S. Ends with arcasm.
You need to learn to understand what you are reading. There are lots of big clues in my post that I was taking the mickey out of bible thumpers.
MrSelidor7 1 year ago