The Western Lands

The drive from Karshi to Termez in southern Uzbekistan

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• uzbekistan
• afghanistan
• Qarshi
• Tajikistan
• William
• Burroughs
• Bill
• Laswell
• Material

[soulharvest2012]

Get rid of the captions. It ruins the video. If you want to do a documentary then do it. But don't blend genres. Especially with Uncle Bill. It's blasphemous.

[iftreedog]

thanks. is there no option for endusers to turn off the captions themselves?

[igd93]

You can apparently turn off the captioning with the Up arrow button on the extreme right of the bottom of the playback window. select and scroll up and select again and PRESTO!

[cgbaldwin]

@veloboy i was just explaining the countryside and a little bit about the history of that part of uzebkistan.

[antyclub]

@groundless Bill Laswell

[veloboy]

@iftreedog Now I'm curious about the aforementioned captions. Were they just Burroughs' words? Or some other commentary?

[tracksuitjim]

@davevad9 i think all the traxcks of william reading excerpts with the cool bass beats goin on fit his writing perfectly in most cases. it illustrates the flow of his writing. it just shows how perfectly his words go together and how perfectly he speaks them.

he had the most unfathomable kind of intelligence. he is probably my biggest hero, although i dont plan on indulging in heroin.

[davevad9]

@milascave

I can understand your view, but this is taken from an album of tracks like this, it's not a youtube user adding a shite beat.. I think the beat works excellent with the poem and for a lot of people this is their first experience of Burroughs. If it gets them into him, then who are we to complain?

[milascave]

The cool thing about watching Buroughs was watching an old man in a gray suit reading all that freaky stuff. None of these youtube videos capture what it was like to see him live. Putting hipster music and graphics on it kind of ruins it.

[jenkem23]

@groundless the bands "MATERIAL" i think

[groundless]

whats the song?

[stringlur]

thanks