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 5Cats
Male, 40-49, Canada
 17000 Posts
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Thursday, November 15, 2012 9:24:36 PM
Oooo! Thanks @Thdot, nice find. |
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 Thdot
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
660 Posts
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Thursday, November 15, 2012 5:14:58 PM
Here it is without music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqBIgCb7dv0 |
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 _Cenya_
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
34 Posts
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Thursday, November 15, 2012 1:52:22 PM
If you read everyone's comments here in the same voice as Burroughs, you'll think anything anyone says is sound advice. |
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5Cats
Male, 40-49, Canada
17000 Posts
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Thursday, November 15, 2012 12:47:43 PM
1:27 KITTEH!
Burroughs was a cat-lover! One of his last publications was a book about cats...
Cats, guns, heroin, booze, other drugs... he was a true Bohemian!
vv Dammit! I spelled "Junkie" wrongly... Oh, both spellings were used! Learn something new, eh?
The Cat Inside (1986)
Burroughs is in the crowd here too! |
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5Cats
Male, 40-49, Canada
17000 Posts
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Thursday, November 15, 2012 12:35:43 PM
@VirtualParty: Burroughs was very innovative & creative! He'd write poems that sounded like stories and stories that sounded like poems (on purpose! lolz!) just to be weird.
Of course his dead-pan voice is uniquely well suited for him to read his own works... RiP, WSB!
@patchouly: You didn't like the "hippy trippy" style music? I thought it suited the reading pretty well.
@spani: Good point: GOTO YOUTUBE to read the transcript, eh?
@Lordjim: I own all his books! I've even read half of them (pretty rare for me! mountains of un-read books fill my house). Junky is by far my favorite...
THANK YOU @FancyLad (or @The Mods) for fixing up my crap-tacular description. AND adding the NSFW warning too! I'm so used to Burroughs' swearing, it doesn't even register...
And IAB-BOT sent me a "duplicate submission" e-mail = LM-F-AO!! |
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LordJim
Male, 50-59, Europe
2422 Posts
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Thursday, November 15, 2012 12:08:21 PM
Love it. I met Burroughs in the late seventies (well, I went to a reading and he signed a couple of books for me and imparted a little wisdom.)I have this album on cassette, but just labeled 'Burroughs' so I don't what it is. Thanks for this. |
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spandi
Male, 18-29, Europe
106 Posts
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Thursday, November 15, 2012 11:03:23 AM
Listened, thought I understood. Then read the transcript on Youtube, and realised I misheard everything! But in my mishearing I came up with some pretty interesting advice e.g. "Beware of whores who say they don't walk funny." |
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 patchouly
Male, 40-49, Canada
2980 Posts
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Thursday, November 15, 2012 10:22:20 AM
Music was so annoying I couldn't get through it. I guess I'll have to pass on the advice. To be fair...I'm not a "young person" any more. |
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 VirtualParty
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
794 Posts
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Thursday, November 15, 2012 10:09:33 AM
Sounded more like a poem. Interesting suggestions but I take them with a grain of salt. It's too easy to be so simple about the conclusions you arrive to about other people. |
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 kangoala
Male, 18-29, Australia
626 Posts
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Thursday, November 15, 2012 10:02:44 AM
That's some good advice. |
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5Cats
Male, 40-49, Canada
17000 Posts
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Thursday, November 15, 2012 9:33:23 AM
Link: William S. Burroughs: Words Of Advice [Rate Link] - Words of advice for young people! With a transcript! Pure genius. Also, NSFW language. |
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