Stoning the Devil (Free subscription) | yesterday
Artists are (sometimes) bonkers. Many of us who are in the game know this, and understand the reality of it. Are psychiatrists bonkers? Judging by what just happened in Texas, probably. How about lawyers and politicians? Probably; the human race often seems pretty bonkers, actually. But in the hierarchy of madness, artists are at least “up there.” I defy any artist worth his or her salt...
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
DOWNLOADS: (65) PLAYS: (127) I love seeing Laurie Anderson live; I've seen her about four times and have never been less than electrified. I was lucky enough to have bought the VHS version of Anderson's concert film, Home of the Brave, back when it came out briefly in the early 1990s. Laurie has been promising to put it out on DVD someday, but so far it's remained unavailable in digital form. It featured...
WFMU's Beware of the Blog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
This post arrives slightly late for Halloween, but I'll take both William S. Burroughs and Edgar Allen Poe any time of the year. After some Poe readings by James Mason, we have this gem from the 1995 videogame "The Dark...
Wakkablog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
After some consideration into what I am going to write about, I concluded that I am going to investigate post-modern literature. I'm going to focus on three books by two authors and look into various aspects of the writing styles and how both authors use a post-modern approach to communicate their ideas and in particular, their experiences. The authors in question are Hunter S. Thompson and William...
Touched By A Monkey (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
No doubt William S. Burroughs would be touched. Via Boing Boing . Thanks, Laura , for the tip.
Click World News (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Boing Boing reader Greg Zilm sent in this photograph of a fine pumpkin homage to William S. Burroughs....
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Boing Boing reader Greg Zilm sent in this photograph of a fine pumpkin homage to William S. Burroughs....
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Filed under: iPhone , iPod touch , App Review Dreamr [ iTunes Link ] is an app for the iPhone or iPod touch running OS 3.1 or better that turns your device into a dreamachine. And what exactly is a dreamachine (also known as a dream machine)? A dreamachine is a strobing flicker device, invented by Brion Gysin and Ian Summerville, that pulses light in a frequency range relating to alpha waves present...
Circle of 13 (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Wilson's Blogmanac (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
1853 Arthur Rimbaud (d. November 10 , 1891), French poet ('Poésies'; 'Le bateau ivre'; Illuminations ) and lover of poet Paul Verlaine , who shot him and was sentenced to two years in prison. Rimbaud's main work was written in his youth; he published his first poem at age 16. Rimbaud wrote Une Saison en Enfer ( A Season in Hell ) in prose, widely regarded as one of the pioneering instances of...
Wakkablog (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
This post is relevant to both the Post-modern and Narrative projects Having already looked into Sweding for the Narrative project, I'm pretty familiar with what has been done in that area. The trailers that switched genres were great, and could also prove useful in the development of the Narrative project. I think with something like that however, in order to change a films genre for comical results...
Slog (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Over at Reality Studio , there are two really interesting stories up about writers at the dawn of personal computing . It turns out that while William S. Burroughs never got around to embracing computers: As far back as the mid-1960s, Burroughs was aware of the possibilities of the computer and computer-generated poetry . In Insect Trust Gazette , Burroughs’ work appears alongside an early computer...
Bad Lit:Journal of Underground Film (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Oct. 10: The School of Visual Arts is screening films based on the work of William S. Burroughs, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Naked Lunch.
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
LONDON.- In 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road on his typewriter as a continuous 120 foot-long scroll, feverishly recording in twenty days his experiences during road trips in the United States and Mexico, which he began with Neil Cassady in the late 1940s. On the Road was finally published in 1957, and Kerouac was immediately acknowledged as the voice of the Beat Generation, a new group of writers,...
Wakkablog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Having watched a few post-modern films, I've though about what makes those films fit within the post-modern scope. Pulp Fiction was great, as it is every time I watch it. Referencing earlier films, tv shows and popular culture. What I love about Pulp Fiction is it looks a various subject matters and themes, which it then takes and mould them as it sees fit it, for example with Vincent Vega (Travolta)...
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drummer40 | 01/26/2009
January 26, 2009 - West Los Angeles – William "Nova" Lee, a writer, publicist, drummer and aspiring artist influenced by the works of William S. Burroughs, has added new content "CJ Gun" to his online gallery, dedicated to this infamous artist. The online gallery can be viewed at: http://drummer40.deviantart.com/gallery/. DeviantArt is an online art community with a mission of providing a destination...
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