William S Burroughs on September Songs
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He also shot his wife and had an awkward streak towards Boys.
Not saying He's not awesome, just saying
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@novaflo339 As for the last three:
Jesus was inconsistant. Preached peace then went nuts with a whip.
Gandi was pretty cool exept for his patronizing support for the caste system
Buddha was a total genius. Best,phsychologist known to history.
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@novaflo339 OK.
Huxley, Hendrix and Ginsburg were briilaint in theire variouse fields.
The next two I don't know about.
Leary was a narcicistic jerk who fried his brain.
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@kreigaffenumber10 And Happy End, and Johnny Johnson and Knickerbocker Holiday and Street Scene and Marie Gallante and One Touch of Venus and Ölmusik and... There is actually of lot of Weill of different flavours used in the film... however, yes there is something distinctly Brechtian in the techniques, the feel....
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@SeptSongs And not even by Kurt Weill, but B.B. aka Bertolt Brecht. Music is well done, but September Songs gives off this whole vibe that Weill only did threepenny and Mahagonny.
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To be a hippy is to be fully human! Peace n Luv folks! :-)
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Last quote from his journal in 1997
Love! What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is. LOVE
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if you have respect of Borroughs watch video made in italy nazareno italiano canta
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This one time, i sent a monkey to the store, but it started raining, and the monkey melted (it was made from clay) and it didn't bring back my groceries at all. I was ever so dissapointed. Also you like manlove !



This old dude is the greatest master of written and spoken english language since Joyce, Nabokov, and maybe Ginsberg in poetry. He just pwn the rest of em authors and performers.
reallyhatejazz 2 years ago 23
Excuse me gentlemen, but this song is not by Tom Waits but by Kurt Weill and a version of it was recorded by Tom Waits in 1985 - this version recorded by Wm Burroughs - equally brilliant but different was also produced by Hal Willner but for the film, September Songs.... and those instruments... brilliant musical understatement that somehow capture the melodic essence of Weill's original.
SeptSongs 2 years ago 15