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The Yage Letters

2008-01-16T02:19:19Z

Has anyone read "The Yage Letters" exchanged by Allan Ginsberg and Willam Burroughs? It was revised by Oliver Harris. I'm halfway through it and it is an amazing read so far.

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The Junkys Christmas

2008-01-06T14:50:37Z

has anyone seen this

http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/B000HIVIQ0/ref=s9_asin_image_1-hf_favarpcbss_2238_p/002-9467875-1833638?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=067JS5ASJP1H146DHZJ0&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=279581001&pf_rd_i=507846

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Yage?

2007-11-25T03:49:44Z

Discuss.

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ANTIBOTHIS - Occultural Book, Vol.1

2007-05-31T21:08:45Z

Soon will be available our first book, an occultural anthology called ANTIBOTHIS with contributors such as : Ionna Miller, Adel Souto, Pennti Linkola, Center of Tactical Magic, Wulf Zendik, Corrupt, Denny Sargent, Technoccult, Kenji Siratori, Jorge Mantas, Socialfiction, Jon Swabey among many others.
Along with this book a cd compilation will be released with artists Like : Jarboe, Kenji Siratori, Phil Von, Christophe Demarthe, Rasal.asad, Euthymia, Wildshores among others.

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Invaluable...

2007-04-06T01:52:38Z

Hi group,
In 1990 I sent some artwork and writing to Burroughs, thanking him for being such an influence on my work.
One month later he sent me a hand-written note thanking me for the work, and he signed it:
"Yours in Chaos, William S. Burroughs"
It was a great experience, I'll never forget it. I still have the letter, one of my most prized belongings.

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ULTRACULTURE JOURNAL ONE—FEATURING NEW MATERIAL BY BRION GYSIN

2007-03-26T08:15:56Z

http://www.ultraculture.org

Ultraculture Journal One is AVAILABLE NOW. UC1 collects under one cover the most volatile and direct transmission of the tantric traditions of India available in the English language, featuring groundbreaking work from culture-spanning masters like Ganesh Baba and Brion Gysin. Ultraculture steers away from mere syncretism to examine the attempts made to translate the teachings of the East into terms which genuinely speak to Western consciousness.

6" x 9", 418 pages, perfect bound, $23.

This is the "Beta" edition as the publication is currently awaiting an ISBN and barcode for distribution on Amazon and in stores; it is available to purchase now without a barcode in what is sure to soon be a limited collector's item...

It is also available as a $10 shareware download.

This issue includes:

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge on the holographic Garden of Eden

Brion Gysin’s travelogue of his journey to Alamut, the citadel of the Assassins

Lalitanath and Shivanath on the Magick Path of Tantra

Jason Louv’s essential guide to Western magick

Peter-R. Koenig on the occult career of David Bowie

Beat legend Ira Cohen on John Dee and the Kumbh Mela, the biggest religious festival in the world

Dave Lowe and Hans Plomp travel across India’s mountains and rivers without end

The psychedelic rantings of Ganesh Baba, the world’s most tripped-out guru

Johnny Templar broadcasts live from the tomb of Christian Rosenkreutz

Mordant Carnival on working with Loki, the Man With the Tattered Smile

Elijah casts a Spell to Open the Sky

Joel Biroco on the “War on Terror”

Prince Charming interviews Tibetan Tantric Adept Monica Dechen Gyalmo

New fiction from Jason Louv

New lyrics from the late Jhonn Balance of Coil and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

Treasure chests full of rituals, reviews and wish-granting genies

Cover by Nelson Evergreen

The first in a series, Ultraculture Journal promises to catalyze a twenty-first century actually worth living in.

Welcome to the psychedelic make-out party at the beginning of history.

http://www.ultraculture.org

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Writing beyond words . . .

2007-02-07T18:43:53Z

Wow, Newt-Boy! (& WSB pals!)

It had been a while since I looked at this tribe . . . the photo section is GRRRREAT now. Bunniculux, er, I guess is partly repre-sponsible (--hensible? --honsible? :-).

Anyhoo, a lot of this imagery reminds me of the "Old Writer" often muttering that he had done all he could do with words . . . yet in practice, he kept scribbling them out to the very end.

All the best writing IMNSHO (& this includes WSB's beloved Castaneda books,) I personally feel point us to what is beyond words. Few have done anything of this kind as well as our beloved Mr. B, who could pack more in a phrase than many writers put on a page.

Peace,
Bruce
AKA Swami

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Burroughs and Erotic Electro Stimulation?

2006-12-22T00:10:06Z

Was William S. Burroughs ever into erotic electro stimulation?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_electrostimulation

It seems like something he'd be into. Anyone know if he was?

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dead fingers talk

2006-12-17T03:13:41Z

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Fingers_Talk

I'm reading a copy of this book that I got out of the library.
Some of the routines in this book are just hilarious and it would be a shame if they're ONLY in this book and not anywhere else.

The routine, 'the parties of Interzone' is one of them. WSB writes about the rich socialite AJ and a bit about biotechnology as well that's also in there. Such as using insects as a weapon, telepathy, human osmosis, ergot poisoning, heterosexual conditioning, and the issue of control.

Are most of the routines in this book included in other books that are published?

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Don't forget your prayers...

2006-11-22T22:37:05Z

Don't forget to say your Thanksgiving prayers this holiday...

William S. Burroughs - Thanksgiving Prayer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Z_08o108E

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How to build a Dream Machine

2006-09-18T04:11:25Z

Dream machine, so damn cool, she can turn on the night...

See link for illustrations:
http://www.spress.de/author/gysin/dream/english.htm

HOW TO BUILD A SIMPLE AND CHEAP DREAMACHINE
Discoverer : BRION GYSIN

__________________________________________________

EQUIPMENT
- 1 record player working at the speed of 78 tours/minute,
- 1 big cardboard sheet, rigid enough for the future cylinder to stand up, and soft enough to be easily cut and worked; you can get sheets of different thickness and dimensions in an office stationery. Choose the darkest colour you can find as the cardboard must be opaque to the light of a 100 watts bulb.
- 1 graduate rule of 30 or 40 cm long,
- 1 set square,
- 1 thin lead pencil,
- 1 rubber,
- cardboard glue,
- 1 cutter,
- 1 100 watts bulb,
- 1 lamp socket,
- 1 male plug,
- electric lead (5 to 6 meters long),
- 1 multiplug,
- 1 tape measure to measure the circumference of the turn table of the record-player,
- clothes pegs.

PRINCIPLE OF THE DREAMACHINE
To build a dreamachine, you need a cylinder with holes in ti, fixed upon the turntable of a record player turning at the speed of 78 tours/minute.
In the middle of the machine, one 100 watts bulb. When you seat in front of the machine, the light of the bulb must come in front of your closed eyes intermittently, according to a rhythm from 7 to 13 light-flashes per second, which is the rhythm of alpha waves of the brain.
For the effects, refer to "Colloque de Tanger", vol. 1, Christian Bourgois éditeur, or "Here to Go - Planer R 101", Brion Gysin - Terry Wilson.

BASIC CALCULUS
- The rhythm of the light flashes is from 7 to 13 flashes/second.
- The turntable of the record-player turns at the speed of 78 tours/minute = 78 tours/60 seconds.
- In one second, the turntable makes : 78/60 = 1,3 tour.
- 1 flash corresponds to a hole in the cylinder.
- 1 row of 6 holes (6 flashes) will give for every tour a rhythm of 6x1,3 = 7,8 flashes/second
- 1 row of 7 holes : 7x1,3 = 9,1 fl/s
- 1 " " 8 " : 8x1,3 = 10,4 fl/s
- 1 " " 9 " : 9x1,3 = 11,7 fl/s
- 1 " " 10 " : 10x1,3 = 13 fl/s
The length of the cardboard sheet must be equal to the circumference of the turntable. The dimensions of the plan are the ones of a Dual 1010 record player; the circumference of its turntable is 85,5 cm.

PROCEDURE
1. Measure the circumference of the turntable with the tape measure.
2. Transfer this dimension on the length of the cardboard sheet from the left side at the top and at the bottom of the sheet. Draw a line joining the 2 points, parallel to the width of the sheet.
3. Once the line is drawn, draw another one, parallel to the first one, 4,5 cm on the right far from it; this is to delimit a little band which, at the end of the operations, will be stuck to the left width to make the cylinder. With the cutter, cut the sheet along the second line. So the final length of the cardboard is : 85,5 cm + 4,5 cm = 90 cm.
4. At the top of the cardboard, on the right and left widths, measure 2,5 cm. Draw a line joining the 2 points. You get a band of 85,5 cm x 2,5 cm. Do the same at he bottom of the cardboard in drawing a band of 3 cm wide (see the drawing). The width between the 2 bands is 65,5 - (2,5+3) = 60 cm.
5. Now divide this width of 60 cm in 5 equal parts of 12 cm. Measure 5 times 12 cm on the right and left widths. Draw the lines joining those new points. You get 4 new lines, parallel to the length.
6. Now calculate the dimensions of the holes in every row. The upper row will contain the most numerous holes (10) and the row of the bottom, the less numerous holes (6), so the base of the cylinder is as solid as possible (see the plan of the cardboard of the cylinder).
a) Upper row :
* Divide this row in 10 equal parts : 85,5/10 = 8,55 cm
* Measure 10 times this dimension at the top and at the bottom of the upper row, in beginning by the left.
* Draw the lines joining the new points : you get 9 parallel lines 8,55 cm far from one another (these lines will be in the middle of the holes) delimiting 10 rectangles of 12x8,55 cm.
* Take the plan of every hole : the line IJ represents the new lines you have just drawn. On this line IJ, measure 2 times 1,5 cm, from I and from J, so you get the points K and L. From these points, perpendicularly to IJ, measure the points A, B, C and D, 2 cm far from K and L. raw the lines joining A and B, B and D, D and C, C and A. The rectangle you get is the hole.
* Proceed the same way to get all the holes of the row. On the left width of this row, you only get half a hole. On the right side, at the end of the row, the last hole encroaches upon the band to stick; the second half of this hole will fit to the half hole on the left when you stick the cylinder, and this for every row. In other words, the left half hole and the hole at the right end of the row will make the same hole.
b) Second row :
It will contain 9 holes. Proceed as you did for the upper row, but divide the length of the cardboard by 9 : 85,5 / 9 = 9,44 cm. Proceed as before with this new dimension and so for the other rows :
c) Third row :
8 holes : 85,5 / 8 = 10,62 cm
d) Forth row :
7 holes : 85,5 / 7 = 12,14 cm
e) Fifth row :
6 holes : 85,5 / 6 = 14,16 cm
Every hole has the same dimensions, whatever the row may be.
7. Once you have delimited all the holes, cut them with the cutter. Put the cut pieces of cardboard aside, you will need them later on.
8. Put the cardboard sheet upon the turntable in giving a cylindrical shape to it. Temporarily fix the 2 widths the one on the other with clothes pegs. Make sure the base of the cylinder fits with the dimensions of the turntable and that the left half holes fit with the holes of the right width. Do not stick the edges yet.
9. If the turntable is covered with a rubber surface, delicately unstick the edges of this surface; you are going to use it to maintain the cylinder in position. If there is no rubber surface, take a thick piece of rigid cardboard and cut it according to the exact dimensions of the turntable. Make a hole in the middle, like a LP record, in introducing it in the axis of the turntable.
10. Go back to the cardboard sheet. Take the cut rectangles ABCD you had previously put aside, and solidly stick them at the bottom of the sheet on the width so you get little tongues to be fold and slipped perpendicularly under the rubber surface, to keep the cylinder upon the turntable. Put as many tongues as needed.
11. Your cylinder is ready. Stick the 2 widths one upon the other, maintaining the stuck band with the clothes pegs, in adapting them in the holes. Leave the pegs until the cardboard and the glue are dry.
If the upper row is not perfectly circular, in cases the cardboard would fold over the holes, make the cardboard more solid in sticking the remaining little triangles ABCD inside the cylinder.
12. Then you adapt the cylinder on the turntable in slipping the little tongues under the rubber surface or the cardboard disc. The body of the dreamachine is ready now. If you turn the record player on, the cylinder must turn on the turntable in remaining solidly fixed.
13. Then you take the bulb, the lamp socket, the electric lead and the male plug. Fix the whole lot together.
14. Put the dreamachine on a stool, near a power point, let the bulb hang in the middle of the cylinder without it to touch the edges. Adjust the length of the lead over the dreamachine in the most adapted way to the room where you are (you can pass the lead in a hook screwed in the ceiling, make a bracket system, etc...). The length of the lead must be adjustable, so the bulb can be put in front of every row.
15. Plug the bulb, plug the record player, turn it on in setting it on the 78 tours speed. Sit comfortably in front of the machine and approach your face the closest you can. Close your eyes and watch : you get inside your head multicolored geometric and stereoscopic 360° images, and lights, the colors, shapes and designs of which constantly changes. You can vary the images in increasing or lessening the pressure of your eyelids and the distance between your face and the machine and in experimenting the different rows.
A record has been specially made to be listened to while watching the dreamachine, its rhythm is the same as the light flashes : "Heathen Earth", Throbbing Gristle (International Records), best in stereo with a headphone.

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Billy B. on YouTube

2006-08-13T18:36:20Z

Only the hand-picked good ones for you lot...!

HELLO…YES…?
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Naked Lunch performance (2:47)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8orE1vRAjFI

The Cut-Ups, featuring WSB and Brion Gysin (1:57)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMQSDwQUwWM

Commissioner of Sewers (6:24)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fShSNE__QJc

Towers Open Fire (9:34)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB-xWALVXhY

WSB’s first tv appearance, reading selections from ‘Naked Lunch’ & ‘Nova Express’ (4:58)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIl7J7gQbKg

The Place of Dead Roads (6:35)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt8hG109NVE

William Buys A Parrot (this one’s cute!) (1:29)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc3bp7s0378

Thanksgiving Prayer (2:20):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Z_08o108E

Drugstore Cowboy clip (1:15)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UZJWtXLowY
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GOOD...THANK YOU…WHERE ARE WE NOW…?

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Burroughs' artwork.

2006-08-11T07:28:36Z

Some pretty interesting stuff.
Does anyone know if/where the paintings are on exhibit or if they are just owned by private collectors/the estate of William S. Burroughs/or his lover James Grauerholz?

http://www.riflemaker.org/s-The%20Unseen%20Art%20of%20William%20S.%20Burroughs

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cut-up engine

2006-08-10T00:59:33Z

digital cut & paste...

http://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/v4/cutup/

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rarebooks.

2006-08-09T23:21:56Z

Anyone here ever read of or hear of these rare Burroughs books?
The retreat diaries, The dead star, Dead fingers talk, and the third mind.

I have access to a university library and I can borrow the 3rd mind but the rest are not circulated.

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BURROUGHS ......THE REAL DEA STORL ..... IM PUBLISHED ALONGSIDE HIM THIS MONTH

2006-04-11T07:57:01Z

I love Brroughs and think his writing is great but do know that the man vs his writing was a different animal and animal might be a good word. My pal John Gilmore was a good friend of Burroughs and hung out with him during the beat days in Paris and he said he pissed his pants all the time and shit his pants and was really fukked up .... hah aha... i thought alla that was really funny and he was alwasy chasing 13 year old boys. That is the reality of the situation . At any rate....his books are great and im honored to be published with him , alongside him and Norman Mailer, Yoko Ono, as well as Gilmore and Kerouac and Bukowski in the 4th issue of VAN GOGHS EAR . go to amazon .com to find it its version #4 kidz. >>>>JUSTICE HOWARD

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WSB @ NYTimes online...

2006-03-06T02:35:06Z

NYTimes Burroughs archive....
They put up a bunch of their old articles and reviews from 1962 though his obituary. Read 'em online here...
http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/13/specials/burroughs.html

Also, there's an article on the NY Library acquisition...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/01/books/01beats.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&th&emc=th
Public Library Buys a Trove of Burroughs Papers
By EDWARD WYATT

In Folio 110 of a meticulously constructed, voluminous personal archive, William S. Burroughs offers a fanciful autobiographical sketch that is part "Junky," part "Naked Lunch."

"As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous," he wrote in an unpublished essay that serves as a sort of cornerstone for the archive. "They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow ponge silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hasiesh and languidly caressing a pet gazelle. ..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/01/books/01beats.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&th&emc=th

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AUDIO - CBC As It Happens 03.01.2006 - John Giorno

2006-03-04T00:03:44Z

http://www.cbc.ca/insite/AS_IT_HAPPENS_TORONTO/2006/3/1.html
BURROUGHS ARCHIVE
Duration: 00:06:25

By the end of his life, William S. Burroughs had become something of a pop-culture eminence grise -- a dryly witty senior citizen possessed of a gravelly monotone. He made appearances in movies and on albums, dispensing the wisdom of a former junkie for a generation that knew him largely in his dotage.

But as a younger man, beginning in the '50s, William Burroughs scared the hell out of people. He was gay; he was an inveterate drug addict; he hung out with an unpredictable crowd of Beat writers; and his books were stylistically daring, nihilistic nightmares. Now, the New York Public Library has acquired the archive of some of those nightmares -- an archive that includes the most productive and important part of his writing career.

Poet John Giorno is a former neighbour and friend of William Burroughs. We reached him in New York City.

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Evil River (WSB's elusive posthumous book)

2006-02-24T03:00:03Z

Hey Group . . .

Does anyone know anything about EVIL RIVER the posthumous "non-fiction" book about his family that he was working on when he died. It was said to be unfinished & not polished, but was scheduled for publication for several years after 1998. My bookstore connections had it listed as upcoming . . . then without it showing up, as remaindered. I've still never seen it . . . does anyone know anything???

Peace,
Bruce

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The Third Mind

2006-01-29T07:13:56Z

does anyone know if a complete (with illustrations) english version of The Third Mind ever got printed? The Viking one was incomplete I believe (but still going for boatloads used) and the french version had the illustrations, right?

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staying public.

2006-01-16T01:09:51Z

FYI, this tribe is staying public.
enjoy!

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Everything is true, nothing is permitted.

2006-01-10T17:19:12Z

"Nothing is true, everything is permitted." -- Hassan i Sabbah

An apocalyptic statement. Let us consider it's post-apocalyptic inverse and necessary analog -- Everything is true, nothing is permitted. When everything moves from the realm of imagination and into the world of representation, the possibility of action is precluded. It is Philip K. Dick's Black Iron Prison made of advertising campaigns, cartoons, government propaganda and candy bar wrappers. What can be the artists response to this our current dilemma?

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radiation sicknesss...

2005-12-30T10:10:51Z

not burroughs related, but i thought you'd dig it anyway...

this is the first thing i've written since coming back east in the beginning of oct. i just finished it n am going to post it without editing. it concerns depleted uranium n the poppy. i was thinking about all the poor addicts to opiated who are now probably being poisoned by radiation as well as the drugs...
its definitely different than what i usually post, so let me know what u think of it... thanks n blessings... gb

radioactive regions revering perfect poisonous poppies, depleted uranium decaying delivering deadly dust having hazardous half life, 4.5 billion years, becoming more n more radioactive as centuries n millenia pass by, passive population programmed, your told just what you need, so full of hatred, fear n bigotry, you can't even percieve of the destruction your ultimate greed has caused you to concieve, a planetary plague deadlier than any disease, only solution left now is to leave, all the oil will be made of us before this poisonous particle is gone, ironic justice justifying our own delayed destruction, wanna be heroes sacrificed like the chess master's pawns, shooting radioactive isotopes turns me on, a new shade of yellow, all my problems gone, contented as a newborn fawn, fiending for the itch,radiation junkies twitch, unknown hand flips a switch, causes the poles to flip, prying open old atomic bombs just to get one more fix, nuclear reaction blast can't hurt me, i've survived all this, just take a little taste of this new shit,
the first one's on me, i insist...
an offer like that, who can resist...

nodding off, the newest fix, the junkies are glowing, impossible to miss, noone to fight back, can barely stand up let alone make a fist, now to combine dope n radiation sickness, new level of turnover, death arrives with a never before seen quickness, now the deserts dust delivers decaying death, bullets betraying benefitors, blowing back, breathed in n brought back in blood n birthing babies born deformed, sullen soldiers semen spreading state sponsored sickness, secret sinners sitting safely underground, insulated in inner sanctums, official existance dutifully denied by deadly designers, war mongers puppets profitting, sit back n laugh, telling half truths to those on their staffs, silenced soldiers symptoms mean pensions won't last, more money to blow on the next big bash, exchanging the lives of all the poor on the planet for a little more cash, throwing away lives as if they were trash, a couple of years worth of oil for billions of years of death,dinosaurs decayed into oil, laughing as we poison the soil, burning what's left of their remains, every drop paid for with a infinite amount of pain, scientists constantly figuring out new ways to kill n say that we mystics are insane, thay've put too much trust into the power of their brains, but their only shells longing to fill a hole, never realizing that they're missing their soul, always wanting more without realizing this is an empty goal, never realizing the simple joy of being kind, believing those in power have their best interests in mind, but if you could read them you would be terrified at what you would find, controlling you from inside your brain, get in line to get onto the train, we'll take you to a place where there's no more pain, creating a new final solution through total pollution of body n mind, satellites see everywhere, astral projection the only way left to hide, if we came togethor we could realize it's all lies use the truth to revitalize, so control is imposed to conquer and divide, resisting negative influences from the outside , gather your strength, build it up inside, regardless of the likely outcome it's about time that we tried...

realize how control is imposed from outside...
stand up for yourself n take back your mind...

it's all up to you, only you can decide...

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naked lunch record

2005-12-19T18:38:21Z

i have been listening to a 4 part reading of Naked Lunch by WSB, the one with weird music sporatically dropped in.

it is hilarious and disturbing, if you don't have it then get it.

amazing

j

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Did anyone read "Last Words"?

2005-12-14T22:37:03Z

I'm re-reading it now, after five years, and still finding it almost unbearably sad.

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and we are alone, not we but i and you

2005-12-12T01:42:34Z

the drunken geography,it all meakes no sence to me ,climbing a tree.
nothing make se=sende=t0 me
'the world is full of cannibals'
and the monsters are a a prowl
and the monsters lie wide awake amongs cold shivers amongngst the world.

as scared as you aere
a,mongst the c9olsd and manshing keyb0erd, they6 are here....
what comma comapared the moon are you???

nothing aginst the disaster so fuck the moon...
forgey the tragity and imbrace the grit.
feel the bitte aginst the skin and the flesh rips like a banna,
damn the storm forget the scrutny and the spelling...
i eat the feilds with my breath and the world has nothing.
i am but a moment in the grass
i am but a syllibal in the spoken first words, to be forggton. and loved./

what is the mystreyoy but a toy
and a playmate..
that goes away after childhoood a
and allreality is gone,
and the emotions are all alone./and the world is real
and we are alone
not we but i and you
seprate as walls and lonelynessand the crumble of religon and faith
everory nothing makes distaster
that makes sence, in not enough time to explain it stlgf
na d my spelling makes n\utts
and we are no more.....
but we are all that is .....
and we are all just farts in the wi nd

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Burrough's biographies?

2005-11-26T03:23:30Z

Hello,

First, its great to find this tribe. Im a huge fan. Im curious, What are some of the beter Biographies any of you have read? I read one a couple years ago and lost it. Maybe someone here knows the names and authors of some of them?

Anyways yeah. I just found and read my copy of the Yage Letters. It re-sparked my appreciation for his writing.

Thanks

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Favorite Burroughs books?...

2005-11-23T15:20:27Z

Mine (it's so hard to pick one or two):

Cities of the Red Night

The Third Mind

The Last Words of Dutch Schultz

Naked Lunch

The Cat Inside

The Job...

and I would like to reread Ah Pook Is Here, Soft Machine / Ticket That Exploded / Nova Express, since it's been so long I've forgotten them...

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Something REALLY heretical (maybe to SOME) . . .

2005-11-17T20:32:22Z

IN fact, folks, I really enjoy the Cronenberg film of NAKED LUNCH in some ways more than the book. (OK, beat me!)

As anyone who's seen it knows, it's more of a loosely-related film sort of in it's own way about the period when WSB wrote the book, more than a filming of the book itself. Cronenberg's sort of de-homosexualizing of the man is a bit ludicrous, or at least ambivalent & dicey. I find less bothersome his "metaphorizing" of the drugs into Bug Powder & Black Scorpion Meat. I find the film fun for it's visual qualities, the cheesy special F-X, & many actually rather amazingly succesful moments.

Judy Davis in her SORT OF dual role is quite amazing . . .

Any comments???

Peace or Whatever,
Bruce

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"Burroughs: The Movie"

2005-11-14T02:43:46Z

I watch it about ten times a year; it's a beautiful portrait of Burroughs, warts and all.

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As Thanksgiving approaches...

2005-11-14T02:15:24Z

* I've posted the MP3 of this spoken word piece from Dead City Radiio here: http://post-literate.com/nougat/archives/2005/11/a_thanksgiving_prayer.php

"A Thanksgiving Prayer"

(For John Dillinger, and hope he is still alive)

Thanks for the wild turkey and
the passenger pigeon, destined
to be shit out through wholesome
American guts.

Thanks for a continent to despoil
and poison.

Thanks for Indians to provide a
modicum of challenge and
danger.

Thanks for vast herds of bison to
kill and skin, leaving the
carcasses to rot.

Thanks for bounties on wolves
and coyotes.

Thanks for the American dream,
To vulgarize and to falsify until
the bare lies shine through.

Thanks for the KKK.

For nigger-killin' lawmen,
feelin' their notches.

For decent church-goin' women,
with their mean, pinched, bitter,
evil faces.

Thanks for "Kill a Queer for
Christ" stickers.

Thanks for laboratory AIDS.

Thanks for Prohibition and the
war against drugs.

Thanks for a country where
nobody's allowed to mind his
own business.

Thanks for a nation of finks.

Yes, thanks for all the
memories - "All right, let's see
your arms!"

You always were a headache and
you always were a bore.

Thanks for the last and greatest
betrayal of the last and greatest
of human dreams.

- William S. Burroughs

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Burroughs as painter . . .

2005-11-10T22:46:16Z

Anyone else have the excellent book PORTS OF ENTRY: WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS AND THE ARTS by Robert Sobieszek, 1996? It's actually a big museum catalogue, large format 192 pp. The afterword is a masterpiece of late concision. Very few words saying so much so well.

AAAHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh . . .

Bruce

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Burroughs got better & BETTER . . .

2005-11-10T21:07:04Z

Hey, Group!

Looks like mostly thunderous silence here so far. Thought I'd look in & see what's stirring . . . not mucho . . . kinda like those ghostly lemurs in GHOST OF CHANCE.

Well, Burroughs has had a lasting & continues an ongoing influenza on me--not only the work, but the man himself, his person--& in my far from humble opinion I feel WSB kept getting finer & finer over the course. Norman Mailer was correct, I feel that WSB was a rare indvidual literally "possessed by genius" particularly so in the Latin sense of genius as a genii or spirit. That so-called "Ugly Spirit," and evil embryonic entity born of the accidental (?) shooting of Joan. In reality WSB was NOT an impersonal Intergalactic Insect Intelligence as some have suggested, but fully human. The insane-making trauma of that event, he transformed into the writing-his-way-out-of-it idea.

Plus, aside from the genius of condensing so much into so few words so exquisitely, it's WSB's relentless, outrageous & unapologetic sense of humor I cherish. Though NAKED LUNCH is hilarious & has numerous brilliant flashes (not hard to imagine the man laughing like an insane hyena while writing it, as he recalled) but a "novel"? Stretching definitions there.

Personally I much prefer the late-life CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT trilogy of novels, THE CAT INSIDE, GHOST OF CHANCE, the non-fiction gems of MY EDUCATION & LAST WORDS. To me, the old man on methadone got enough clarity to make use of all he'd learned during the years of junks & other stuff, when he lived as a gentleman & scholar indulging only in his daily cocktails & a puff of reefer here & there. Thank you James Grauerholz for taking good care of WSB without damping his fires down.

Others may or may not agree on my assessments. I'm always interested in other opinions. Hey Newt, thanks for creating this group--I'd love to see some action here!

Sooooooooooooo . . . . . . . . .

Bruce

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Would you? (Burroughs the man, not the author.)

2005-11-10T20:59:17Z

Let Uncle Bill fsck you in teh ass?

And not in any snarky way either, I'm serious.

No, I don't know how it'd work, maybe some time machine or something, but no cloning bullshit. And, then, I guess the questions is, at what age would you want him? Would you want him hight? On what? Would you wanna be high?

Me? Probably not.

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WSB & the use of cut-ups . . .

2005-11-03T10:05:38Z

Dear WSB Tribe:

Weyull, I'm happy if Newt's feeling better . . . also happy if, as it appears, he's grown back some whiskers. Is that the new goatee, Newt? If so, it looks mucho better than the shaved baby-face, though I know you said why you did that for a bit.

For me an interesting development over Mr. B.'s career was his use of cut-ups, which I often found incredible for the compacted poetic density & sort of Dada-ist conjunctions of the unexpected . . . however if language is a virus . . . . sometimes you develop a natural immunity when you're overloaded with basically incoherent, if charming verbiage. At least I do.

As anyone reading this tribe (Anyone THERE???!!!) knows, I favor Mr. B.'s later works as his finest IMNSHI--there he uses the cut-ups selectively to indicate either drugged or psychologically-addled states--which I find more interesting in both life & writing when you go in & out of them, rather than getting stuck anywhere on either side of the coherency fence.

Of course, coherence is a subjective & relative matter, right?

I'm interested in any responses or feedback, from now until ETERNITY in those Western Lands where we can still encounter ole Bill himself in our dreams.*

Peace,
Bruce

____________________________________
* See: MY EDUCATION, WSB, 1995

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a short film: "Apocalypse"

2005-11-03T09:40:43Z

Hi all,

I made this film in 2001... It uses footage from the Burning Man festival in Nevada, and of course Burroughs' Apocalypse.

http://www.onetruemedia.com/otm_site/view_shared?p=e5559a3f6882d466832f&tpid=1

enjoy, Brian

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Burroughs and chaos magick.

2005-10-31T03:29:33Z

ok, I don't claim to be a practitioner of chaos magick; but I've noticed that in some of WSB's works he gets into a bit of it. Such as in Cities of the red night when they are doing the ritualistic sex magick scenes or the hanging scenes where they switch bodies with other people.

If the use of cut-ups or the act/process of writing are chaos magick to Burroughs, this makes a lot of sense. Feel free to add more if you want to, or know/practice chaos magick.

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The Nova Convention

2005-10-13T15:25:48Z

UBUWEB has an extensive collection of literary mp3’s, including most of the John Giorno Dial-A-Poem records. One of the best of them is The Nova Convention, a recording of an event held in New York City in 1979 as a tribute to the work of William S. Burroughs, with readings by Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, Terry Southern, Laurie Anderson, John Cage and Frank Zappa. Check it out—
http://www.ubu.com/sound/nova.html

I’ve made my own mix of this material, interspersing the readings with music and other clips from my own collection. I sometimes play it on my internet radio show. I’ll let you know the next time I do.

“This is the Space Age, we are HERE to GO!”
--Burroughs at the Nova Convention

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"THE LAST WORDS OF HASSAN SABBAH"

2005-10-13T13:30:09Z

"THE LAST WORDS OF HASSAN SABBAH"

Oiga amigos! Oiga amigos! Paco! Enrique!
Last words of Hassan Sabbah,
The Old Man of the Mountain!
Listen to my last words, anywhere!
Listen all you boards, governments, syndicates, nations of the world,
And you, powers behind what filth deals consummated in what lavatories,
To take what is not yours,
To sell out your sons forever! To sell the ground from unborn feet forever? For Eve-R
Listen to my last words, any world! Listen if you value the bodies
for which you would sell all souls forever!
I bear no sick words junk words love words forgive words from Jesus
I have not come to explain or tidy up
What am I doing over here with the workers, the gooks, the apes, the dogs,
the errand boys, the human animals?
Why don't I come over with the board, and drink Coca-Cola and make it?

"Now for God's sake, don’t let that Coca-Cola thing out!"

Thing is right, Mr Whoever is responsible for that Who-Done-It!
Explain how the blood, and bones, and brains of a hundred million
more or less gooks went down the drain in green piss!
So you on the boards could use bodies, and minds, and souls that
were not yours, are not yours, and never will be yours.
You want Hassan Sabbah to explain that? To tidy that up?
You have the wrong name and the wrong number!
Mr Luce Getty Lee Rockefeller

"Don't let them see us, don't tell them what we are doing!"

Are these the words of the all powerful boards and syndicates of the Earth?

"Don't let them see us, don't tell them what we are doing!
Not the cancer deal with the Venusians, not the green deal! Don't let that out!
Disaster, unevaluable disaster!
Don't show them that, these things take time and that's my business."

As usual, Mr Luce! Short time to go. Minutes to go!
Blue heavy metal people.

"Don't let that out! Don't show them the blues!"

Are these the words of the all powerful boards and syndicates of the Earth?

"And don't whatever you do let them see us."

Crab men! Tape worms! Intestinal parasites!
Squeezing the air and shitting it out, and eat it again, forever!

"Don't let them see us! Don't tell them what we are doing! Don't let us pay!"

Are these the words of the all powerful boards, syndicates, cartels of the Earth?
The great banking families of the world?
French, English, American?
Like Burroughs, that proud American name?
Proud of what exactly? Would you all like to see exactly what
Mr Burroughs has to be proud of?
The Mayan Caper, the Centipede Hype,
The Short Time Racket, the Heavy Metal Gimmick?
All right, Mr Burroughs, who bears my name and my words, bear it all the way
For all to see, in Times Square, in Piccadilly,

Play it all, play it all, play it all back!
Pay it all, pay it all, pay it all back!

Listen: The word comes before English American German French,
and pain and live are arsenic for all
How the bones went - use never you have light
All of you, all all all, green people crab people blue heavy metal people,
compliments of Mr Burroughs for the Heavy Metal Gimmick

”Don’t let them see us, don’t tell them what we are doing!
Premature, premature, reconversion, reconversion blues."

Shall I show them the blues?

"No! No! No!
Premature! Premature! Premature!"

Are these the words of the all powerful boards and syndicates of the Earth?
I say to all: these words are not premature, these words may be too late.

Minutes to go. Minutes to go. Minutes to goo. Minutes to green goo.
What I have to say is everywhere now
Rub out the word Jew and you rub out the word Hitler
The answer comes before the question
My words are for all - for all,
I repeat for all!
No one is excluded!
Free to all who pay, free to all who paying pay, for all to see,
for all to see!
In Piccadilly, in Times Square, Place de la Concorde,
In all the streets and plazas of the world!

Pay, pay, pay!
Play it all, play it all, play it all back!
Pay it all, pay it all, pay it all back!

See my writing the silent - across all your skies,
The silent writing of Brion Gysin - Hassan Sabbah.
All out of time! All into space! Forever!
Take what is not yours to skies squeezing the eye bodies forever
All out of time! All into space! Forever!
You cannot take words into space
That is all all all, Hassan Sabbah
You cannot take woman into space
I repeat, you cannot take woman into space
That is all all all, Hassan Sabbah
See my writing silent - across all your skies,
The silent writing of Brion Gysin - Hassan Sabbah.
The silent writing of space, the writing of Hassan Sabbah.
Look, Look, Look!

"Don't let them see us! Don't tell them what we are doing!"

Are these the words of the great nations, the all powerful boards
and syndicates of the Earth?
These are the words of liars, and cowards, and collaborators and traitors
Collaborators with insect people,
With any people anywhere who offer you a body forever, to shit forever.
For this you have sold your sons forever,
The ground under unborn feet forever!
Traitors to all souls everywhere!
You on the board, who want others to pay for you,
With your deals to take what is not yours!
And leave your human animals to be eaten alive by the crab people,
to go down the drain in green shit and piss.
The green deal

"Don't let them see us! Don't tell them what we are doing!"

You on the board, who now say:

"Protect us from our our gooks,
Protect us from our human animals."

Are these the words of the all powerful boards and syndicates of the Earth?
And you want the name of Hassan Sabbah on your filth deals
To sell out the unborn?

"Protect us from our gooks, our dogs, our human animals!"

Are these the words of the all powerful boards, the all powerful syndicates,
the all powerful governments and nations of the Earth?
Liars! Liars! Liars! Cowards! Cowards! Cowards!
Who cannot even face your own dogs!
Traitors to all souls everywhere! Sold out to shit forever:
You miserable collaborators,
Now ask the protection of Hassan Sabbah?
Are these the words of the all powerful boards?

"Protect us from our gooks, our human animals!”

No, no, no, I will not protect you,
And you will never use the name of Hassan Sabbah - William Burroughs
to cover your green shit deals with crab men.
With the Elders of Minraud.

Listen, listen, listen:
I rub out all the words and reports of the board forever
I rub out your thing police forever, for Eve-R
I rub out the words of Marx Lenin Einstein Freud fraud forever
I rub out the formulas of Einstein Oppenheimer forever
I rub out their words forever
I rub out the Qabalah forever
I rub out the Talmud forever
I rub out all the formulas and directives of the Elders of Minraud forever
I rub out the word forever

Listen, all all all,
In you I cancel all your words forever
You cannot take words with you into space
That is all all all, Hassan Sabbah.

- William S Burroughs, 1914-1997

http://www.geocities.com/interzonelibrary/10tnlastwords.html

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welcome!

2005-10-05T15:16:11Z

welcome to the tribe about William S. Burroughs.
I decided to create this tribe since there were lots of tribes about the beats, Kerouac, Ginsberg, and others and the other Burroughs tribe doesn't see much activity and focuses mainly on his work with Gyson.

So post about anything Burroughs related you want, and invite your friends.
All I ask is that you don't spam about non-Burroughs tribes or the latest pyramid scam that you recieved in your email inbox.

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