William Burroughs NIKE CM

william s burroughs doesnt give a fuck what you think

This commercial is DOPE and anyone who thinks otherwise needs to reevaluate.

Burroughs never wanted to be an icon for American counter-culture, and was a self confessed 'factualist' and 'libertarian conservative', who despised what he percieved his good friend Ginsebergs marxism, so its not really any kind of stain on his legacy, as he never claimed to be anti-capitalist or hold some kind of high-cultural high ground.

He was a junkie, a criminal, and an outlaw. He loved gangsters, Dillinger, Dutch Schultz, and anyone that broke the rules. He was a HOMOSEXUAL. His books and readings despise and ridicule control, government, and large corporations. I don't know what kind of intellectual shit you are talking, but the message from Burroughs was clear.

Ah i forgot HOMOSEXUALS couldn't be capitalists, my bad. read Junky, read the part where he attempts to cultivate a farm on Texan desert, a real reflection of frontier America. He considered himself not a 'communist' or A 'liberal', but a 'factualist' who had no qualms about making money, especially if it could score him a hit of smack. The 'message from Burroughs' was anything but clear, it was individualistic and amoral.

This is so wrong on so many levels. Jesus.

I moved to Portland to become a writer paritly because I knew Burroughs spent at lot of time here in the late 80s and would chill with Gus Van Zant. It make me sad to see that Nike (based outside of Portland in Beaverton) kind of got on to having him to do this. it kind of takes the awe of having him been here

Or perhaps Bill Hicks was just completely wrong.
Few people, Hicks included, are quite as Cool as William Burroughs.
I see no problem with Burroughs doing this.
If any of my favorite Bands did it, if Palahnuik did it, if Hicks did it, if most people did it, it would be artistic betrayal and a cheapening of their artistic work.

It doesn't apply to Burroughs, he is beyond such concepts as selling out.

Bill Hicks said that once you do a commercial, you are off the artistic role call. Burroughs may be an exception to this rule if only because he had paid his dues, contributed so much to literary and artistic culture, and yet sadly was never given the credit he deserved. He was also ill at the time and most likely needed the money. R. I. P. Mr. Lee

COMBAT!