wild boys - martinis - shotguns - the amazon - tickets that explode - amateur surgery - exterminating word virus - eliminating addiction - defending interzone agents - erasing the word - turkish bath - james and michael - methadone - tangier - avoiding annexia - cannibis - my clark nova - cats - yage - correspondence - sweatlodge - mexico city - specialty canes for self defense - old croaker write like a major - collage - radioactivity - plunger down real tasty like - panorama of the city of interzone - gas flames - new orleans is a dead museum -
Folks who know how to mind their own business...
Bring together state of news - Inquire onward from state to doer - Who monopolized Immortality? Who monopolized Cosmic Consciousness? Who monopolized Love Sex and Dream? Who monopolized Life Time and Fortune? Who took you from what is yours? Now they will give it all back? Did they ever give anything away for nothing? Did they ever give any more than they had to give? Did they not always take back what they gave when possible and it always was? Listen: Their Garden of Delights is a terminal sewer - I have been at some pains to map this area of terminal sewage in the so called pornographic sections of Naked Lunch and Soft Machine - Their Immortality Cosmic Consciounsness and Love is second-run grade-B shit - Their drugs are poison designed to beam in Orgasm Death and Nova Ovens - Stay out of the Garden of Delights - It is a man-eating trap that ends in green goo - Throw back their ersatz Immortality - It will fall apart before you can get out of The Big Store - Flush their drug kicks down the drain - They are poisioning and without any chemical corn - All that they offer is a screen to cover retreat from the colony they have so disgracefully mis-managed. To cover travel arrangements so they will never have to pay the constituents they have betrayed and sold out. Once the arrangements are complete they will blow the place up behind them.
Paregoric Babies of the World Unite. We have nothing to lose but Our Pushers. And THEY are NOT NECESSARY.
Look down LOOK DOWN along that junk road before you travel there and get in with the Wrong Mob...
A word to the wise guy.
-W.S.B.
Heavy Metal Be Bop - Patti Smith - Lou Reed - Jelly Roll Morton - Steely Dan (I invented phrase) - Soft Machine (ditto...) - Karlheinz Stockhausen - Moby - Fats Waller - Butthole Surfers - Brian Eno - Ornette Coleman - Throbbing Gristle - Ennio Morricone - Minutemen - Greenlief/Amendola duo - Duke Ellington - Tricky - Diamanda Galas - John Zorn - Painkiller - Albert Ayler - Morphine - Pole - Kryzystof Penderecki - Ruins - Son House - Ikue Mori - Coil - Lightnin' Hopkins - Ottomo Yoshihide - Carl Stone - Splatter Trio
Anything by: Samuel Fuller - Pier Paolo Pasolini - John Waters - David Lynch - David Cronenberg - Peter Greenaway - Fritz Lang - Roman Polanski - Georges Franju - Alexandro Jodorovsky - John Huston - Gus Van Zant - Catherine Breillat - Jean Pierre Melville - Derek Jarman - Pedro Almodovar - Nicolas Rogue - Rainer Werner Fassbinder - David Lean - Stanley Kubrick - Stan Brackhage - Man Ray - Jean Cocteau - Luis Bunuel - Maya Deren - Quentin Tarantino - Andrei Tarkovsky - Michelangelo Antonioni
photo by gus van zant
worthless endeavor - waste of incandescence - transmission fade to black - explode nova mob message - record signal run it through multiple tape recorders - erase main line - flying scorpion men sank needles in empty flesh - garden of delights breed orgasm death - cut off nova junk lines - junk is image - the effects of junk can easily be produced and concentrated in sound and image track - erase the signal - eliminate word virus - without you i beyond pavement - combat troops in area - on all the living and the dead - outskirts of mexico city - plunger down -
Mine?
Well, OK:
Queer
Junkie
Exterminator
Early Routines
Naked Lunch
The Soft Machine
The Ticket That Exploded
Nova Express
The Wild Boys
Electronic Revolution
White Subway
Last Words of Dutch Shultz
The Job
Ali's Smile
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
The Adding Machine (essays)
Port of Saints
Cobble Stone Gardens
The Retreat Diaries
The Yage Letters
Ah Pook is Here (and other texts)
Cities of the Red Night
Place of Dead Roads
The Western Lands
My Education
The Cat Inside
The Third Mind
Interzone
Dead Fingers Talk
The Burroughs File
Letters to Allen Ginsberg
Letters, Volume 1 (1945-1951)
Word Virus (The William S. Burroughs Reader)
Tornado Alley
The Seven Deadly Sins
Ghost of Chance
Painting and Guns
The Junkie's Christmas and other Yuletide Stories
Paper Cloud, Thick Pages
Last Words
I may have forgotten a few...my memory isn't what it used to be...
Joan Lee, Marquis De Sade, James Grauerholz, William Seward Hall, Brion Gysin, Sinclair Beiles, all the Indians and all the Green Boys, Rabelais, Inspector Lee of the Nova Police, Joe the Dead, Jim McCrary, Jacques Derrida, Gary Cooper, Roland Barthes, Hassan i Sabbah, Michael Emerton, Jean Genet, Barry Miles, David Cronenberg, James Joyce, Julia Kristeva, Allen Ginsburg, Jack Kerouac, Alva Starr, Marbles, Boy Jones, Mike Chase, Frank the Lip, Odor Eaters of Tibetan Mythology, Gregory Corso, William Tell, The Johnson Family, Doc Benway, Samuel Beckett, Kim Carsons, Michael Portman, Mr. Bradly, Mr. Martin, John Cage, Laurie Anderson, Peter Orlovsky, Denton Welch, Angela Davis, Paul Bowles, Alan Ansen, The Effects Boys - Uranian Willy - Kiki
burroughs with brion gysin