Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Willam S Burroughs

This is research for a music project I am about to get knee deep into (I will update this from time to time). For the longest time, I was not that sure what the deal with Burroughs was, but he seems to like drugs and boys a lot. I didn't realize the extent of the homoeroticism of old boy, it may explain a lot. He lived in Morocco, and ate mushrooms with Tim Leary (but he didn't like them, which may be why I never got into reading him a ton). I like Morocco.

Burroughs Wikipedia Page- mentions an Album called "The Nova Connection" and has Zappa, Cage, and Glass recordings on it.

PopSubCulture.com's Bio Page- Has the quotes listed below in it and has a good list of works.

Burroughs Shit turned into Art- WTF

"Horses are a dying artifact."
"Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage."
"The Pusher always gets it all back."
"Language is a virus."
"This is a game planet."
"In Timbuktu I once saw an Arab boy who could play a flute with his ass, and the fairies told me he was really an individual in bed."
"My purpose in writing has always been to express human potentials and purposes relevant to the Space Age."

Note, the next to last quote is pretty f'd up.

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