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Date:         Sun, 3 Aug 1997 22:28:41 -0500

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>From Mississippi  - david rhaesa - 1992

 

 

anyway I introduced to mike the backcracker and Allen asked for some

networking and they discussed Ouji borads and Rikki and rebirthing karma

darma Buddah shit and Mike got out the Tibetan bowl and Jack said he=92d

heard of that from a monk in Leary=92s head on LSD and Burroughs sat ther=

e

 

silent stone

silent stone

silent stone

 

and Burroughs read the Sermon on the Mount while Sinead O=92Connor sang

Silent Night, Holy Night and the Carpenters sang We=92ve Only Just Begun

and Burroughs said he wanted to force feed Karen Carpenter some buffalo

meat he=92d shot when hunting with Black Elk in Outer Mongolia.  he said

he was hunting for Ghenghis Kahn but settled for a Buffalo and the White

Buffalo and the Polar Bear went with him to stare down Stalin=20

 

and Stalin turned over in red square.  Stalin did cucking cartwheels in

red square and Genghis Kahn and Mao watched grinning like a Cheshiere

cat from across the borderline....Nicholson grinned from across the

border sitting by the Laker bench and Burroughs climbed inside his

typewriter and went back to Kansas for a minute or two just to check the

burning house and then he returned to the dormitory recited some

thoughts about Hitler and Gandhi and dictators and Silent Night played

in the background like Simon and Garfunkel on the six o=92clock news and

the electrical circuitry in the center fried from the inside out and

then was repaired by ghosts a few days later.

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Date:         Sun, 3 Aug 1997 23:22:42 -0500

Reply-To:     Patricia Elliott <pelliott@SUNFLOWER.COM>

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From:         Patricia Elliott <pelliott@SUNFLOWER.COM>

Subject:      Re: William Burroughs Is Dead

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Rinaldo Rasa wrote:

>

> David,

>

> the Burroughs death is televised by the three domestic TV channel,

> i hope that's appreciate by William S. Burroughs, who is in paradise!,

> (broadcasting nationwide, meaning audience 20 000 000 of italians),

> in primis the "Catholic" channel RAI UNO Corporation from Rome,

> that stated Burroughs tragic life & way of Life, Burroughs is/was

> the other side of the "American Dream" & latin pietas is the message,

>

rinaldo, i just want to let you know that i really appreciate the

quality of your posts. your are a dear and knowing man.

patricia

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Date:         Mon, 4 Aug 1997 00:48:30 -0400

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hi folks,

        if it makes any kind of difference, I work in a book store and

ever since i started the job (2 months ago) i've been bugging my manager

to order beat books because we have customers who buy all the time. With

Burrough's death i'm sure we'll be flooded with copies of Naked Lunch.

While looking through the store's database i was trying to order a copy

of "Algebra of Need" but its out of print. Does anyone know how to get a

copy or know what it's about? I know it contains essays analysing

Burrough's stories.

                                        thanks,

                                                jason

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Date:         Mon, 4 Aug 1997 01:07:04 -0400

Reply-To:     Neil Hennessy <nhenness@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>

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Subject:      The News

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He always knew. "A writer's will is the winds of dead calm in The Western

Lands." I heard today of Burroughs's final journey into The Land of the

Dead. If I had a God to pray to, I'd pray Burroughs makes it across the

Duad. Walk well in The Western Lands William S. Burroughs.

 

Neil Hennessy

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Date:         Mon, 4 Aug 1997 01:36:47 -0400

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From:         Corduroy <corduroy@EARTHLINK.NET>

Subject:      Beat Generation Writer Burroughs Dead at 83

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    LAWRENCE, Kans. (Reuters Limited) - Beat generation writer William S.

   Burroughs, the counterculture author best known for the novel "Naked

   Lunch" based on his experiences as a drug addict, died Saturday at the

   age of 83.

 

So the news comes about that yet another hero comes to pass. First Leary,

followed

by Ginsberg, a short time on the edge of our seats with Dylan, and now

Burroughs.

Ironically, as a student and a member of a sub-culture of coffeehouse

pseudo-

intellectuals (all with Bukowski hanging out their backpockets) I have

witnessed

a resurgence of worship of these icons, only to witness the demise of the

idols a

short while later. I can only assume that many of you offer some sympathy

for

some of not all of the writers who have left our world recently, and with

this I

invite you to a few virtual shrines available on the 'net.

 

The Last Words of Dr. Benway

http://www.levity.com/corduroy/burroughs

 

Constructed in record time immediatly after the news of Burroughs' death,

The Last

Words contains interviews, biographies, samples, links, and bibliographies

pertaining

to the works of William Seward Burroughs. As it was with Ginsberg, many

memorial

sites are sure to appear, as well as articles from slower but more in-depth

news

sources, all of which should appear on The Last Words in time. Also, as it

was with

Ginsberg, the Last Words of Dr. Benway has a special section for reader

comments,

good-byes, thank-yous, and even a little slander if your heart so desires.

 

Ashes & Blues

http://www.levity.com/corduroy/ginsberg

 

Mentioned in the paragraph, this memorial site is dedicated to the Life and

Times of

Allen Ginsberg. If The Last Words wouldn't have taken up the evening as it

so required,

the official site for Jerry Aronson's The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

would have

officially met the web. Being that there is now an obvious delay, the video

site should

appear shortly. Please check back before the week is out for a glimpse at

the video,

including highlights, quotes, and ordering information.

 

The Official Bob Dylan Website

http://www.bobdylan.com/

 

Currently the site only holds a little about his 41st  album, but worth the

click to your

listof addresses nonetheless. Word has it that many talented people are

involved

with the site in one way or another-- two of which being Levi Asher of

Literary Kicks,

and myself, Christopher Ritter of Bohemian Ink (and all sites listed above).

 

                                                            (cR) Bohemian

Ink http://www.levity.com/corduroy/

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Date:         Mon, 4 Aug 1997 01:42:44 -0700

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cribbed from the patti smith list (thanx fiona w.):

 

 

-=-=-=-

 

J. G. Ballard called him "the first mythographer of the mid-twentieth

century, and the lineal successor to James Joyce, to whom he bears

more than a passing resemblance--exile, publication in Paris,

undeserved notoriety as a pornographer, and an absolute dedication to

the Word . . . His novels are the first definitive portrait of the

inner landscape of our mid-century, using its unique language and

manipulative techniques, its own fantasies and nightmares."

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Date:         Mon, 4 Aug 1997 11:10:55 +0000

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From:         Daniel Fascione <m.d.fascione@CITY.AC.UK>

Subject:      OFF - Calling Alan Reese

 

Apologies to all for off topic.

 

Alan Reese are you there? I have lost your address. please mail me

off list.

Daniel

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Date:         Mon, 4 Aug 1997 06:54:25 -0500

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A few New Englanders had wanted more details.

 

Tuna's radio salute will be Wednesday 1:30 - 3:30  at 90.1 on your radio

dial (do you still say dial these days?)  He is up and listening to

stuff this morning - a salute percolating in his former east lawrence

brain.

 

david rhaesa

salina, Kansas

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Date:         Mon, 4 Aug 1997 10:20:00 -0400

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From:         Michael Stutz <stutz@DSL.ORG>

Subject:      Re: William Burroughs Is Dead

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On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Brian M Kirchhoff wrote:

 

> i suppose this stands as testament to the fact that these men remained

> influential and important, _literally_ until their last days (and

> beyond).  at least they were able to see some of the impact of their

> writing. (unlike the kafkas and poes of the world).

>

> burroughs didn't die in obscurity (as he may have had he stayed in

> london).  he died at a time while people were still excited to hear him

> and talk to him.  i can only hope he died content (i first typed happy,

> but i guess that may be asking too much.)

 

i can only speculate, but my impression is that his last years were quite

content. i think of him as a "writer's writer" in the role model way i think

of sonic youth -- unsullied in their art, recognized in their time, famous

yet able to lead reasonably happy, somewhat private lives. bill and allen

had good lives, i think.

 

i feel like having witnessed the passing of wordsworth and coleridge (only

our beats were better). i mean, there was something very powerful about

them, they were shamans and warriors and now, the idea of life without them

-- though inevitable and good and natural -- is downright unsettling.

everything outside my window is still the same today. why?

 

"there is nobody left

to

come to in my bones

 

oh lord jesus

i feel so

alone"

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Date:         Mon, 4 Aug 1997 12:36:28 -0400

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From:         Attila Gyenis <GYENIS@AOL.COM>

Subject:      Re: the real story behind "beat"

 

In a message dated 97-08-02 12:21:00 EDT, SLPrdise@AOL.COM (MiKe KaNe)

writes:

 

<< i have transcripts from a 1962

 senate hearing in which jack lobbied for beet (beat) farmers to receive a

 government stipend to keep the beet industry >>

 

I believe that it was the same hearing where Popeye was lobbying for yams.

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Date:         Mon, 4 Aug 1997 13:06:01 -0400

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From:         Richard Wallner <rwallner@CAPACCESS.ORG>

Subject:      Last Time I Committed Suicide (review)

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(Found this review on CNN's database today...RJW)

 

 

 

 

Letter to Kerouac provides thin

                            basis for 'Suicide'

 

                            July 10, 1997

                            Web posted at: 11:06 a.m. EDT (1506 GMT)

 

                            From Reviewer Paul Tatara

 

                            (CNN) -- I've often said that there's a great

                            movie to be made about the Beat Generation

                            writers of the early 1950s. Guys like Allen

                            Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Jack

                            Kerouac have always been more fascinating

                            to me as people than they are as writers. You

                            have to suspect that their free-falling

                            lifestyles would make for some prime

                            entertainment ... if you could just capture

                            their pharmaceutically speeding energy

                            without making the actors look like fools.

 

                            "Naked Lunch" is probably half that great

                            movie, and half David Cronenberg getting

                            off on being one sick puppy. Writer-director

                            Stephen Kay's "The Last Time I

                            Committed Suicide" isn't even that lucky,

                            with the period details and the wonderful,

                            driving music (from geniuses like Charlie

                            Parker, Miles Davis, and Charles Mingus)

                            being the most enjoyable aspects of the whole

                            production.

 

                            The story is based on a letter that was sent

                            by Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac in the

                            late 1940s, when Cassady was working at a

                            Goodyear tire factory in Denver.

                            Cassady is the inspiration for Kerouac's

                            trailblazing novel, "On the Road," and later

                            drove the bus for Ken Kesey and the Merry

                            Pranksters during their highly misguided

                            (and unproductive) early-'60s LSD

                            experiments.

 

                            By all accounts Cassady was a drug- and

                            alcohol-exposed live wire, John Belushi

                            before there was really a market for someone

                            like John Belushi. You wouldn't know

                            this from the way Thomas Jane portrays him in

                            "The Last Time I Committed

                            Suicide," though. Here, he seems more like a

                            sexually aggressive Dennis the

                            Menace, with his drinking limited to your

                            average Friday night intake of Miller High

                            Life and his more socially questionable

                            pill-popping all but non-existent.

 

                            As might immediately be expected from a movie

                            inspired by what was stuffed into an

                            envelope, the story is mighty thin. Cassady

                            works at the tire shop, and has a

                            girlfriend, Joan (Claire Forlani), who

                            inexplicably tries to kill herself one night.

                            While Joan is recuperating in the hospital,

                            Neal thoughtfully takes up with a

                            16-year-old hellcat named Cherry Mary

                            (Gretchen Mol, a live wire of a completely

                            different sort.) He also hangs out at the

                            pool hall with a much older buddy named

                            Harry (pseudo-actor Keanu Reeves). That is

                            all ye need to know. The rest is

                            supplied in "hey man" voice-overs by Cassady.

 

                            I've always been partial to Burroughs over

                            Kerouac and the far less prolific

                            Cassady. Even in his younger days, Burroughs

                            looked and sounded like death

                            warmed over, the Black Angel in a business

                            suit. He's always seemed vaguely

                            embarrassed by the course his life took after

                            he started in on the drug experiments,

                            but Kerouac was a little too self-satisfied,

                            pretending that fat, drunk and sitting on

                            his mother's couch is where his "vision" was

                            always leading him. That's not to say

                            that there wasn't a ton of angst involved,

                            but it was nothing that a couple of tall cold

                            ones couldn't settle.

 

                            Unfortunately, Cassady's voice-over in the

                            movie smacks of Kerouac's

                            bebop-inspired riffing. Though I know the

                            passage of time has blunted this stuff,

                            you can't help (during some of the more

                            purple-prosey moments) envisioning the

                            narrator as a cartoon tomcat wearing a

                            turtleneck, beret, and a pair of Ray-Bans.

                            Bongos optional.

 

                            Any screenwriter will tell you that

                            voice-over can be a highly problematic device

                            when writing a script -- too much and you're

                            being redundant, too little and what's

                            the point of using it? Kay gets the quantity

                            right, but Cassady's spelling out of every

                            plot point often seems like nothing more than

                            a springboard into what is supposed to

                            be a visual representation of the Beats'

                            fragmented poetry.

 

                            This is a big, big mistake. Kay drives

                            himself into a tizzy trying to make the leap

                            from jabbering language to jabbering visuals,

                            a transition that's destined to look

                            rather desperate. You name it and he throws

                            it into the mix -- jump cuts, tilting

                            cameras, spinning cameras, fake home movies

                            (a major cliche by now), slow

                            motion, unmotivated zooms, long dissolves,

                            and unexpected freeze-frames.

 

                            It all must have looked good in film school,

                            but powerful filmmaking, as much as

                            anything else, is knowing what to leave out.

                            The Beat writers were conveying the

                            racing thoughts and images that came pouring

                            out at them every day from the radio,

                            movies, magazines, and their own drug-addled

                            craniums. On a 30-foot tall screen it

                            looks obvious and gives you a major headache.

 

                            The actors, with one exception, are all quite

                            good. Thomas Jane is likable enough as

                            Cassady; he just seems to be held in check by

                            a director who doesn't know how far

                            he wants to go. Claire Forlani displays a

                            highly charismatic, numbed beauty as Joan.

                            She's given little to do, but I found myself

                            waiting for her to show up again during

                            the slower middle portion of the film. I've

                            never seen her before, but this is a very

                            promising performance. Gretchen Mol, as I've

                            already suggested, is the embodiment

                            of Cherry Mary. One hopes that she doesn't

                            get typecast as world class jailbait.

 

                            Then there's Keanu Reeves. Reeves is an

                            absolute mystery to me, an actor so openly

                            void of talent I wouldn't let him near a

                            senior class performance of "The Egg and I."

                            But here he is again, reciting his lines as

                            if they're non-related words strung together

                            as a memory exercise. He's an actor who begs

                            for a Burger King uniform, but his

                            hunka-hunka burnin' looks will keep him

                            periodically in front of me for the rest of

                            my life ... unless, of course, I outlive him.

                            I'm going to start working out right now,

                            just to make sure.

 

                            "The Last Time I Committed Suicide" is a

                            beer-soaked, but fairly spruced-up

                            rendering of some pretty sweaty times. The

                            degrading treatment of the women in the

                            film is its most offensive element, though

                            this is sadly in keeping with the characters'

                            world view.

 

                            Rated R. 95 minutes.

 

                            J

 

 

 

                                   CNN In-Depth: Showbiz

 

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Date:         Mon, 4 Aug 1997 13:31:20 +0000

Reply-To:     Brian M Kirchhoff <howl420@JUNO.COM>

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From:         Brian M Kirchhoff <howl420@JUNO.COM>

Subject:      clogginng the list

 

sorry to take up list space.  i lost all of my saved messages last week

and i need to unsubscribe during my vacation.  can someone forward me the

introductory message that explains how to do that.  thanks.  talk to

y'all in a couple of weeks.

 

Brian M. Kirchhoff

howl 420@juno.com

 

 "I am the perfect man...the Buddha of this world!"

      -Kerouac, Brooklyn Bridge Blues, Chorus 4 (unpublished)

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Date:         Mon, 4 Aug 1997 12:53:55 -0700

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Here's a great obit from Salon Magazine...

 

I N + M E M O R I A M

 

         william s. burroughs

 

 

                         - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

                         BY GARY KAMIYA | the last of the great

                         shockers is gone. Joyce's Bloom sat

                         contentedly amid the smell of his shit, Henry

                         Miller shoved pricks in our faces, Genet and

                         Celine ripped off the masks, but for pure

                         literary devastation, William S. Burroughs

                         trumped them all. He came in from another

                         galaxy and left the door open behind him. You

                         had to put on a space suit to read Burroughs,

                         and you still froze.

 

                         Burroughs brought the Big Cold into our

                         literature. He pushed literature way out, past

                         all the stop signs, into a wasteland where the

faces screamed like Francis Bacon portraits and the pain wasn't

literary.

He was the first writer to visit the other world of junk with a

functioning

camera, and nobody has ever run that nightmare movie so well. But it

wasn't just about dope -- that would have been a mere novelty act,

sensationalism for decadents. Burroughs had the scary genius to turn the

junk wasteland into a parallel universe, one as thoroughly and

obsessively

rendered as Blake's.

 

Burroughs was the killer, the icy-faced old poet who recorded every

movement of the extraterrestrial machinery that was eating his flesh. He

was 20th century drug culture's Poe, its Artaud, its Baudelaire. He was

the prophet of the literature of pure experience, a phenomenologist of

dread. While the rest of the Beats were rehearsing their

fuck-you-mom-and-Eisenhower-too versions of Romanticism, Burroughs

was already unspeakably old, already a veteran of evil campaigns on

several really gnarly planets. Next to him, Ginsberg and the rest seemed

like schoolkids.

 

That this laconic Midwesterner -- "Old Bull Lee," Kerouac dubbed him in

"On the Road" -- ended up as the paterfamilias of his renegade

generation

is one of our odd half-century's better jokes. Some father figure! A

homosexual ex-junkie whose claim to fame rests on one book, who killed

his wife playing William Tell in Mexico City and whose epiphanic image

-- repeated ad nauseam when he later foolishly codified his "cut-up"

technique into a system -- was a teenage cock ejaculating while train

whistles blew nostalgically in the distance. Follow him!

 

But when you read "Naked Lunch," you understand why Burroughs was

the man. "Naked Lunch" remains one of the unquestionable masterpieces

of the 20th century -- eminently worthy of its honored place as the book

whose obscenity trial effectively ended literary censorship in America.

 

The odyssey of "Naked Lunch," as recounted in John De St. Jorre's

"Venus Bound," is a fascinating one. Burroughs wrote the book in

Tangier, Morocco, between 1954 and 1957. Writer Paul Bowles visited

Burroughs and described his somewhat unusual compositional technique:

"(Burroughs' hotel room) was the dirtiest place I had ever seen. 'What's

all this paper on the floor, Bill?' I asked. 'It's my new work,' he

said. He

told me it was all right to leave it there. There were hundreds of pages

of

yellow foolscap all over the floor covered with footprints, bits of old

cheese sandwiches, rat droppings -- it was filthy. When he finished a

page he'd just throw it on the floor. He had no copies and when I asked

him why he didn't pick it up, he said it was OK, it would get picked up

one day."

 

In 1957, a raft of Burroughs' Beat friends, including Allen Ginsberg,

Jack

Kerouac and Peter Orlovsky, arrived in Tangier and placed his chaotic,

provolone-encrusted manuscript in some order. And finally, in 1959, it

was published by Maurice Girodias' legendary Olympia Press, which

released it in Paris as No. 76 of the "Traveller's Companion" series.

(According to Girodias, he initially rejected the manuscript because of

its

moth-eaten condition and total lack of conventional narrative

organization. According to Terry Southern, however, the Frenchman

initially rejected it because it didn't have enough sex in it: "All the

way to

page 17!" Southern recollects Girodias as saying. "And it's still only a

blow job!" ) Grove Press published it in the U.S. in 1962. The state of

Massachussetts tried to suppress it in 1966 but lost, in a landmark

case.

 

Burroughs may turn out to be the last experimenter who could still

surprise us. Perhaps that's because his experimentations seem

organically

linked to actual experience. His vaunted "cut-up" technique, a kind of

literary version of 12-tone composition, would have been merely an

empty formalism -- except that it recapitulated the eternally recurring

nightmare logic of the junkie's brain. If hell circled around and around

without end, then Burroughs' sentences would, too. And they did.

 

The abysses and demons of "Naked Lunch" are justly celebrated -- the

horrific vision of an age of coming Total Control, the cosmic entropy

that

collapses everything into insect twitches, the time loops that make

escape

impossible. But often forgotten, beneath the book's monstrous

outer-space aspect, is how screamingly funny it is. "Naked Lunch"

combines audacious formal experimentation -- endlessly recurring motifs,

a deliriously non-linear narration, half-psychotic, half-allegorical

science

fiction-y themes -- with a deep-dish American slapstick humor made up

of equal parts Mad magazine, Jonathan Swift, Catskill comedy and

drag-queen bitchiness, all delivered in deliciously dead-on slang.

Burroughs is probably the hippest writer of slang since Mark Twain:

Certainly you'd have to go back to Twain to find another writer whose

jokes carry the vernacular rightness of Burroughs'.

 

Burroughs' trademark is the rapid and hilarious juxtaposition of

outrageous, cartoony metaphysical evil -- people turning into huge blobs

of ectoplasm, prolapsed rectums wandering around blindly feeling for

some action -- with casually deflating argot, sometimes that of a bland

bureaucrat but usually that of a world-weary New Yawk hustler.

 

Take the scene in "Naked Lunch" when a narc named Bradley the

Buyer, a man "so anonymous, grey and spectral the pusher don't

remember him afterwards" "hunts up a young junkie and gives him a

paper to make it." "'I just want to rub up against you and get fixed.'

'Ugh

... well all right ... But why cancha just get physical like a human?'

Later

the boy is sitting in a Waldorf with two colleagues dunking pound cake.

'Most distasteful thing I ever stand still for,' he says. 'Some way he

make

himself all soft like a blob of jelly and surround me so nasty. Then he

gets wet all over with green slime. So I guess he come to some kinda

awful climax ... I come near wigging with that green stuff all over me,

and he stink like a rotten old canteloupe.'"

 

And then, in one of those dazzling insane changes that the man runs,

Mahler to Captain Beefheart to Coltrane on the same page, Burroughs

pulls back, focuses wide and blows away the whole Beat tribe of

America-bashers: "And the U.S. drag closes in around us like no other

drag in the world, worse than the Andes, high mountain towns, cold wind

down from postcard mountains, thin air like death in the throat ... But

there is no drag like U.S. drag. You can't see it, you don't know where

it

comes from. Take one of those cocktail lounges at the end of a suburban

street -- every block of houses has its own bar and drugstore and market

and liquorstore. You walk in and it hits you. But where does it come

from? Not the bartender, not the customers, nor the cream-colored

plastic rounding the bar stools, nor the dim neon. Not even the TV. And

our habits build up with the drag ..."

 

Taken alone, any one of "Naked Lunch's" many voices -- allegoristic

sci-fi, drug-crazed fever visions, haunted personal memories -- would

pall. Together, however, they make a wild cocktail that captures, with

singular precision, something at once mad, hilarious, terrible and

essential.

I've read "Naked Lunch" four times -- for fun and terror. How many

avant-garde works can you read four times for any reason?

 

Others have pushed through the doors left open by Burroughs.

Performance artists, evil unfettered cartoonists like S. Clay Wilson and

R.

Crumb, high poets of modernist hallucination like Denis Johnson,

musicians like Jim Morrison and Lou Reed, numberless directors and

painters. But he will have no real follower, for he was an original. He

was

a lab-coated technician of an inner world whose dreadful charts are

documents -- and an artist who summoned new words to describe

experiences for which there had been no name. He walked the line

between art and experience, what happened and the telling of it, with an

amazing and dangerous style.

 

Adios, Bill ... The great gray wind is blowing forever now ... skin

sloughed off like old lizard parchment ... no more creepy ectoplasm and

twitch of unspeakable insect need ... sleep on, amigo. You're out of

this

cough-syrup burb for good ... you gave us new language for old dreams

...

Aug. 4, 1997

 

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Date:         Mon, 4 Aug 1997 15:01:09 -0400

Reply-To:     GYENIS@AOL.COM

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From:         Attila Gyenis <GYENIS@AOL.COM>

Subject:      McSorleys on Tuesday

 

Hello,

 

This is an open invitation for anybody interested in getting together at

McSorleys on Tuesday Night (tomorrow) for a beer or two and a chat or two.

This is not necessarily a beat thing, but more a social thing (an excuse to

drink beer). McSorleys -- New York's oldest bar, located on 7th Street

(forget off what Avenue but it's on the eastside, off 2nd Avenue maybe), at 8

pm.  How will you know each other. Maybe by Kharma, or someone using a beat

term or terminology. Or maybe you'll meet someone who doesn't give a shit

about the beats but still interesting to talk to.

 

later, Attila

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Date:         Mon, 4 Aug 1997 13:48:05 -0500

Reply-To:     Sara Ellefson <Sara.Ellefson@INFORES.COM>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Sara Ellefson <Sara.Ellefson@INFORES.COM>

Subject:      Burroughs

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     I just found out this morning that Burroughs died over the weekend.

     I've been off the list for a while cause of work and life and no time,

     etc.  Can someone please forward me info . . . what's going on?  Any

     events planned in Chicago?

 

     Thanks

 

 

     Sara.Ellefson@infores.com

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Date:         Mon, 4 Aug 1997 18:11:04 -0400

Reply-To:     Carrie Sherlock <csherloc@UOGUELPH.CA>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Carrie Sherlock <csherloc@UOGUELPH.CA>

Subject:      Re: clogginng the list

Comments: To: Brian M Kirchhoff <howl420@JUNO.COM>

In-Reply-To:  <19970804.133122.3262.20.howl420@juno.com>

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Diddo on that one.  Could that same someone send a copy to me aswell.

Ta very much.

Carrie sherlock.

 

On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Brian M Kirchhoff wrote:

 

> sorry to take up list space.  i lost all of my saved messages last week

> and i need to unsubscribe during my vacation.  can someone forward me the

> introductory message that explains how to do that.  thanks.  talk to

> y'all in a couple of weeks.

>

> Brian M. Kirchhoff

> howl 420@juno.com

>

>  "I am the perfect man...the Buddha of this world!"

>       -Kerouac, Brooklyn Bridge Blues, Chorus 4 (unpublished)

>

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Date:         Mon, 4 Aug 1997 19:03:59 -0400

Reply-To:     Michael Czarnecki <peent@SERVTECH.COM>

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From:         Michael Czarnecki <peent@SERVTECH.COM>

Subject:      Fresh air - Burroughs

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Just heard on intro to fresh Air on NPR that they will be playing some

rearly recordings of Burroughs during the program. It's 7:03 eastern time

and the hour long program is just starting.

 

Michael

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Date:         Mon, 4 Aug 1997 19:10:16 -0400

Reply-To:     Michael Stutz <stutz@DSL.ORG>

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   8:58am  4.Aug.97.PDT _"Kim had never doubted the existence of God or

   the possibility of an afterlife. He considered that immortality was

   the only goal worth striving for. He knew it was not something you

   automatically get for believing in some arbitrary dogma like

   Christianity or Islam. It is something you have to work and fight for,

   like everything else in life."_

   - _The Western Lands,_ William S. Burroughs, 1987

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   A great liberator has passed from our midst. William S. Burroughs,

   born 1914 in St. Louis, Missouri, died Saturday afternoon in Lawrence,

   Kansas.

  =20

   Frequently called one of the greatest writers of the 20th century - as

   often as not by people who never actually read his substantial body of

   work - Burroughs ripped literature out by its Victorian roots,

   examining the very elements of language. He experimented with it and

   he changed it. And in the process he became a somewhat reluctant

   harbinger of a revolution in culture itself. Burroughs was a writer,

   but he was much more, and much less, than that.

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   Burroughs would become an icon of apocalyptic hipster cynicism.

   Simultaneously, he would be a kind of black-humored advice counselor

   to avant garde psychedelicists and magicians seeking a "breakthrough

   in the gray room." And he would eventually become an honored "man of

   letters" within the literary establishment itself.

  =20

   Burroughs' writing resonated deeply within the best minds of several

   generations, because it reflected both the frantic horror and

   liberatory potential of our unmoored scientific and technological

   epoch. But it was his presence and his voice that would enter the

   public imagination. He was the great gray gentleman junkie Godfather,

   and you didn't need to be particularly literate to pick up the vibe.

   Burroughs looked and sounded like death itself.

  =20

   Recalling a childhood incident, Burroughs would write frequently about

   "the St. Louis matron who said I was a walking corpse." But his

   spectral presence had a charming, dapper, dignified quality. And to

   _hear_ Burroughs read his own writing was to understand that he wasn't

   just a talented experimentalist, he was the funniest goddamned

   stand-up comedian of his time.

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   Burroughs first came to prominence when his second novel, _Naked

   Lunch,_ became the subject of an obscenity trial in the early '60s. He

   emerged, along with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, as one of the

   major icons of the beat literary movement. But it was in the 1980s and

   '90s that Burroughs became an omnipresent pop culture apparition.

  =20

   Appearing with recording artists ranging from Laurie Anderson to

   Ministry, in films such as _Drugstore Cowboy,_ and referenced by every

   punk and post-punk artist from the United States to Slovenia,

   Burroughs was able to semi-retire in relative comfort in Lawrence,

   Kansas, where he moved to escape the hardcore druggie party scene that

   had developed around his infamous "bunker" in New York's Bowery.

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   wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who

   can use them. Loot the Louvre! ... Steal anything in sight...." would

   even appear in a Nike advertisement. For William S. Burroughs - junkie

   faggot, interdimensional voodoo tactician, and antediluvian comedian -

   the American dream lived perversely. A boy from Kansas with the

   courage to write about talking assholes, junky scammers, and

   autoerotic asphyxiated young boys spurting semen while being sodomized

   by venal government operatives could make a name for himself.

  =20

   Now he's passed over to the other side, what he referred to as "The

   Western Lands." He believed in an afterlife - in a magical universe. I

   hope that, for William, the other side is as imaginative,

   entertaining, and dignified as he was.

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Date:         Mon, 4 Aug 1997 20:25:20 -0700

Reply-To:     Tellyman <Tellyman@BIGFOOT.COM>

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From:         Tellyman <Tellyman@BIGFOOT.COM>

Organization: nah

Subject:      Re: the real story behind "beat"

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> I believe that it was the same hearing where Popeye was lobbying for yams.

>

Is that where "I yam what I yam, and thats all that I yam" came

from??

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 00:05:28 -0400

Reply-To:     "Hipster Beat Poet." <jdematte@TURBO.KEAN.EDU>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

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Subject:      let us all be creative

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hey folks,

        what if someone actually made a Beat Generation movie which used

material from Barry Miles and Anne Charters just to name a few? Who would

play which beat? Assuming the movie will focus on how they all met at

Columbia and from associating with friends of other friends, maybe we

can speculate and make a list?

 

possible candidates:

william burroughs= steve buscemi? Gary Oldman?

Allen Ginsberg= Jeff Goldblume?

Jack Kerouac= "Older jack could be played by Al Pacino possibly"

Lucien Carr= Leonardo DiCaprio

Joan Vollmer= Uma Thurman (okay i'm starting to digress into Hollywood)

Brion Gysin= Rutger Hauer

 

please add and/or suggest different ones.

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 01:12:01 -0400

Reply-To:     "Diane M. Homza" <ek242@cleveland.Freenet.Edu>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         "Diane M. Homza" <ek242@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>

Subject:      Re: let us all be creative

 

Reply to message from jdematte@TURBO.KEAN.EDU of Tue, 05 Aug

>

>hey folks,

>        what if someone actually made a Beat Generation movie which used

>material from Barry Miles and Anne Charters just to name a few? Who would

>play which beat? Assuming the movie will focus on how they all met at

>Columbia and from associating with friends of other friends, maybe we

>can speculate and make a list?

>

>possible candidates:

>william burroughs= steve buscemi? Gary Oldman?

>Allen Ginsberg= Jeff Goldblume?

>Jack Kerouac= "Older jack could be played by Al Pacino possibly"

>Lucien Carr= Leonardo DiCaprio

>Joan Vollmer= Uma Thurman (okay i'm starting to digress into Hollywood)

>Brion Gysin= Rutger Hauer

>

>please add and/or suggest different ones.

 

 

Leonardo DiCaprio as Lucien Carr....oh my....somehow he just seems a little

too pouty to play fun-luvin' Lucien...or maybe his portrayal of Romeo just

sticks in my brain too well...

 

Diane. (H)

 

--

"Everyone I've ever loved has killed me a little."

--Richard Powers, _The Gold Bug Variations_

                                                  ek242@cleveland.freenet.edu

                                                  Diane M. Homza

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 00:24:53 -0500

Reply-To:     LISA VEDROS <2ndbeat@TELAPEX.COM>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         LISA VEDROS <2ndbeat@TELAPEX.COM>

Subject:      Second Beat #5

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well...with second beat #5 we had planned to stop the theme issues for a

bit and go back to our usual chaotic mess of a magazine. Sadly (as you all

probably know already) William S. Burroughs died Saturday. Therefore our

fifth issue will be a memorial tributee to him. In the words of my partner

Domenic, "No one should have to do two memorial issues in one year." but

sadly, we must. Any submissions will be gladly accepted, as with the

Ginsberg issue. Still only a buck, if anyone wants to order WAY in advance.

Scheduled print date: Mid-September. any submissions, questions, anything:

<2ndbeat@telapex.com> is where you should send them. Thanks for all the

interest and orders and money and stuff from all you wonderful beat kats

out there. We hope we're keeping you interested and those of you who've

received any of our issues to date, we hope you're enjoying them. Thanks

again,

Thadeus D'Angelo, Camellia City Books

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 08:23:26 -0400

Reply-To:     MATT HANNAN <MATT.HANNAN@USOC.ORG>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

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Wired is much admired for it's style and "cutting edge" journalism, too bad they

didn't have room in the budget for a fact-checker's salary. St. Louis moves to

Kansas from paragraph 1 to paragraph 9.  Burroughs was very much the

upper-middle class St. Louis boy gone bad......  Kansas was an afterthought,

'tho I'm sure he grew to love it (If he ever loved anything other than his sweet

cats).

 

sign me,

 

a nitpicking nosepicker with the language virus,

 

love and lilies,

 

matt

 

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Date:    8/4/97 7:10 PM

 

 

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   8:58am  4.Aug.97.PDT _"Kim had never doubted the existence of God or

   the possibility of an afterlife. He considered that immortality was

   the only goal worth striving for. He knew it was not something you

   automatically get for believing in some arbitrary dogma like

   Christianity or Islam. It is something you have to work and fight for,

   like everything else in life."_

   - _The Western Lands,_ William S. Burroughs, 1987

 

   A great liberator has passed from our midst. William S. Burroughs,

   born 1914 in St. Louis, Missouri, died Saturday afternoon in Lawrence,

   Kansas.

 

   Frequently called one of the greatest writers of the 20th century - as

   often as not by people who never actually read his substantial body of

   work - Burroughs ripped literature out by its Victorian roots,

   examining the very elements of language. He experimented with it and

   he changed it. And in the process he became a somewhat reluctant

   harbinger of a revolution in culture itself. Burroughs was a writer,

   but he was much more, and much less, than that.

 

   Burroughs would become an icon of apocalyptic hipster cynicism.

   Simultaneously, he would be a kind of black-humored advice counselor

   to avant garde psychedelicists and magicians seeking a "breakthrough

   in the gray room." And he would eventually become an honored "man of

   letters" within the literary establishment itself.

 

   Burroughs' writing resonated deeply within the best minds of several

   generations, because it reflected both the frantic horror and

   liberatory potential of our unmoored scientific and technological

   epoch. But it was his presence and his voice that would enter the

   public imagination. He was the great gray gentleman junkie Godfather,

   and you didn't need to be particularly literate to pick up the vibe.

   Burroughs looked and sounded like death itself.

 

   Recalling a childhood incident, Burroughs would write frequently about

   "the St. Louis matron who said I was a walking corpse." But his

   spectral presence had a charming, dapper, dignified quality. And to

   _hear_ Burroughs read his own writing was to understand that he wasn't

   just a talented experimentalist, he was the funniest goddamned

   stand-up comedian of his time.

 

   Burroughs first came to prominence when his second novel, _Naked

   Lunch,_ became the subject of an obscenity trial in the early '60s. He

   emerged, along with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, as one of the

   major icons of the beat literary movement. But it was in the 1980s and

   '90s that Burroughs became an omnipresent pop culture apparition.

 

   Appearing with recording artists ranging from Laurie Anderson to

   Ministry, in films such as _Drugstore Cowboy,_ and referenced by every

   punk and post-punk artist from the United States to Slovenia,

   Burroughs was able to semi-retire in relative comfort in Lawrence,

   Kansas, where he moved to escape the hardcore druggie party scene that

   had developed around his infamous "bunker" in New York's Bowery.

 

   Eventually the man who once wrote "Words, colors, light, sound, stone,

   wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who

   can use them. Loot the Louvre! ... Steal anything in sight...." would

   even appear in a Nike advertisement. For William S. Burroughs - junkie

   faggot, interdimensional voodoo tactician, and antediluvian comedian -

   the American dream lived perversely. A boy from Kansas with the

   courage to write about talking assholes, junky scammers, and

   autoerotic asphyxiated young boys spurting semen while being sodomized

   by venal government operatives could make a name for himself.

 

   Now he's passed over to the other side, what he referred to as "The

   Western Lands." He believed in an afterlife - in a magical universe. I

   hope that, for William, the other side is as imaginative,

   entertaining, and dignified as he was.

 

   _Related Wired Links:_

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   11.Jul.97

 

   [10]Ginsberg: A Web unto Himself

   7.Apr.97

 

   [11]Burroughs Pops Online Cherry with Drag Queens

   20.Feb.97

 

 

 

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References

 

   1.

LYNXIMGMAP:http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5739.html#masthead.map

   2. LYNXIMGMAP:http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5739.html#nav1.map

   3. http://www.hotwired.com/cgi-bin/redirect/10010/http://stocks.wired.com/

   4. LYNXIMGMAP:http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5739.html#nav2.map

   5. http://www.hotwired.com/cgi-bin/redirect/10012/http://www.wired.com/wired/

   6. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture

   7. mailto:rusirius@well.com

   8. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/3545.html

   9. http://www.wired.com/news/news//story/5132.html

  10. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/2981.html

  11. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/2173.html

  12. http://www.wired.com/newbot/

  13. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture

  14.

LYNXIMGMAP:http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5739.html#navstrip.map

  15. mailto:news_feedback@wired.com

  16. mailto:tips@wired.com

  17. http://www.wired.com/wired/full.copyright.html

  18. LYNXIMGMAP:http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5739.html#nav3.map

  19.

http://www.wired.com/event.ng?Type=click&ProfileID=19&RunID=25&AdID=354&Redirect

=http:%2F%2Fwww.netobjects.com%2Fanti-chaos%2Fhotwired.html

  20. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5739.html

  21. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5727.html

  22. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5720.html

  23. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5739.html

  24. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5732.html

  25. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5718.html

  26. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5717.html

  27. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5683.html

  28. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5685.html

  29. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5755.html

  30. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5649.html

  31. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5632.html

  32.

http://www.wired.com/event.ng?Type=click&ProfileID=19&RunID=25&AdID=354&Redirect

=http:%2F%2Fwww.netobjects.com%2Fanti-chaos%2Fhotwired.html

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 12:06:58 -0400

Reply-To:     "Diane M. Homza" <ek242@cleveland.Freenet.Edu>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         "Diane M. Homza" <ek242@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>

Subject:      WSB/MTV

 

to-day on MTV their little MTV NEWS stint (about 7 minutes before the hour)

includes a tribute to WBS.  My favorite part was when Bono of U2 said,

"He's lived the lives of 10 men in just one."

 

Diane. (H)

 

--

"Everyone I've ever loved has killed me a little."

--Richard Powers, _The Gold Bug Variations_

                                                  ek242@cleveland.freenet.edu

                                                  Diane M. Homza

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 09:21:59 -0700

Reply-To:     Steve Silberman <digaman@WIRED.COM>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Steve Silberman <digaman@WIRED.COM>

Subject:      Burroughs Webmasters Speak

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Burroughs Spun a Legacy of Naked Sense

http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5771.html

 

My story on the Net's response to William's death is on Wired News this

morning.  Levi Asher, Christian Crumlish, Malcolm Humes, Tim Franklin, and

others are quoted.  Please don't post the entire text to mailing lists for

a day or so, but links are most welcome and appreciated.  Thanks!

 

 

Steve Silberman

 

 

**********************************

Steve Silberman

Senior Culture Writer

WIRED News

   http://www.wired.com/

***********************************

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 12:26:18 -0700

Reply-To:     stain@earthling.net

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Russell Harrison <stain@EARTHLING.NET>

Organization: Switch Magazine

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William S. Burroughs was truly a literary giant whose influence will be

felt for generations to come. The cutup method that Burroughs developed

with Brion Gysin has provided many artists a new objective through which

to develop their literary perspective. The first cutup I ever read of

his

from The Third Mind blew me away...I'm sure that many participating in

this tributes feel the same way about the sum of his writing. He had so

much courage, and it was this fearlessness that made his art shine in a

world of homogenized, pop-culture conformity.

 

To help develop the use of the cutup method and electronic text

randomization, cybeRhyme, the         literature section of Switch

Magazine in Montreal (http://www.switchmag.com/rhyme/, houses the

realitymachine cutup machine, developed by Eric Nyberg of Carnegie

Mellon University. We hope

that writers and fans of Burroughs' work will check out our experimental

cutup section and use it. It can be found in our Special Sections area.

 

Thank you again, William S. Burroughs. Rest in Peace.

 

Russell Harrison

Editor, cybeRhyme

Switch Magazine

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

http://www.switchmag.com/rhyme/

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 09:49:20 -0700

Reply-To:     Christian Crumlish <xian@POBOX.COM>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Christian Crumlish <xian@POBOX.COM>

Subject:      Re: Burroughs Webmasters Speak

Comments: To: Steve Silberman <digaman@wired.com>

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nice job, digaman. thanks for quoting me in such a good light!

 

        --xian

 

At 9:21 AM -0700 8/5/97, Steve Silberman wrote:

>Burroughs Spun a Legacy of Naked Sense

>http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5771.html

>

>My story on the Net's response to William's death is on Wired News this

>morning.  Levi Asher, Christian Crumlish, Malcolm Humes, Tim Franklin, and

>others are quoted.  Please don't post the entire text to mailing lists for

>a day or so, but links are most welcome and appreciated.  Thanks!

>

>

>Steve Silberman

>

>

>**********************************

>Steve Silberman

>Senior Culture Writer

>WIRED News

>   http://www.wired.com/

>***********************************

 

 

--

th'ezone: http://ezone.org/ez

the'mezone: http://pobox.com/~xian

th'egress: http://coffeehousebook.com

 

        Recognition of fortuitous accident

        may be the real meaning of "talent."

 

        --Robert Hunter

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 10:20:45 -0700

Reply-To:     Christian Crumlish <xian@POBOX.COM>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Christian Crumlish <xian@POBOX.COM>

Subject:      10K pardons?

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i realize i pathetically cc:d yer friggin' list in my sappy reply to steve.

please forgive me.

 

        --xian, an eternal newbie

 

--

th'ezone: http://ezone.org/ez

the'mezone: http://pobox.com/~xian

th'egress: http://coffeehousebook.com

 

        Recognition of fortuitous accident

        may be the real meaning of "talent."

 

        --Robert Hunter

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 11:17:16 -0700

Reply-To:     "Timothy K. Gallaher" <gallaher@HSC.USC.EDU>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         "Timothy K. Gallaher" <gallaher@HSC.USC.EDU>

Subject:      Re: Burroughs Webmasters Speak

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Interesting that the epitome of the corporate establishment gives such e-ink

to our old boy Bill.

 

Not knocking it one way or the other, just observing.

 

 

 

At 09:21 AM 8/5/97 -0700, you wrote:

>Burroughs Spun a Legacy of Naked Sense

>http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5771.html

>

>My story on the Net's response to William's death is on Wired News this

>morning.  Levi Asher, Christian Crumlish, Malcolm Humes, Tim Franklin, and

>others are quoted.  Please don't post the entire text to mailing lists for

>a day or so, but links are most welcome and appreciated.  Thanks!

>

>

>Steve Silberman

>

>

>**********************************

>Steve Silberman

>Senior Culture Writer

>WIRED News

>   http://www.wired.com/

>***********************************

>

>

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 14:36:06 -0400

Reply-To:     Michael Stutz <stutz@DSL.ORG>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Michael Stutz <stutz@DSL.ORG>

Subject:      NYC

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Hey Beat-l, any interesting literary or Beat-related happenings in NYC this

weekend? I'll be around and looking for this sort of thing. Please reply

off-list. Thanks.

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 11:22:45 -0700

Reply-To:     Leon Tabory <letabor@CRUZIO.COM>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Leon Tabory <letabor@CRUZIO.COM>

Subject:      Re: Burroughs Webmasters Speak

Comments: To: Steve Silberman <digaman@WIRED.COM>

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Steve Silberman wrote:

>

> Burroughs Spun a Legacy of Naked Sense

> http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5771.html

>

> My story on the Net's response to William's death is on Wired News this

> morning.  Levi Asher, Christian Crumlish, Malcolm Humes, Tim Franklin, and

> others are quoted.

 

I am very pleased that you included our very own Chris Ritter and Luke

Kelly's work among the others. BTW, we in the San Francisco Bay area had

our own, just so happened, gathering Saturday night thanks to James

Stauffer again. When we got the news, my first reaction was, oh no, not

our time to party. Then I immediately realized how great to be with

these particular friends together to absorb this moment. The impact of

Burroughs  was etched in our faces, in our realigned breath standing

around the festive table. We proceeded to have a very great evening.

Fittingly floating across the "generation gaps". Thank you James and

everybody.

 

Leon

 

> Please don't post the entire text to mailing lists for

> a day or so, but links are most welcome and appreciated.  Thanks!

>

> Steve Silberman

>

> **********************************

> Steve Silberman

> Senior Culture Writer

> WIRED News

>    http://www.wired.com/

> ***********************************

> .-

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 11:52:57 -0700

Reply-To:     Steve Silberman <digaman@WIRED.COM>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Steve Silberman <digaman@WIRED.COM>

Subject:      Re: Burroughs Webmasters Speak

Comments: To: "Timothy K. Gallaher" <gallaher@HSC.USC.EDU>

In-Reply-To:  <199708051817.LAA19641@hsc.usc.edu>

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At 11:17 AM -0700 8/5/97, Timothy K. Gallaher wrote:

>Interesting that the epitome of the corporate establishment gives such e-ink

>to our old boy Bill.

>Not knocking it one way or the other, just observing.

 

Tim:

 

Observing with a rather jaundiced eye, it appears.  If you think Wired News

is "the epitome of the corporate establishment," you haven't looked at

news.com, msnbc.com, cnn.com, Fortune, Barron's, US News and World Report,

Time, Newsweek, or the Wall Street Journal lately.

 

In fact, WiredNews and HotWired have been covering Beat stuff very very

thoroughly for years, owing in no small part to the fact that I'm the

senior culture writer here at Wired News, and a former student of

Burroughs' and friend of Allen Ginsberg's. I was the reporter who wrote the

very first news story anywhere on Allen's illness, in fact, and we've

devoted a tremendous amount of space to Beat stuff on the Net - as well as

many other progressive social movements that you won't read about on

news.com or msnbc.com or the other major news sites.

 

The proof is in the pudding - related links, just a partial list!

 

Farewell, Junkie Godfather

http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5739.html

 

Godard, Burroughs Join 'Network Conspiracy'

http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/3545.html

 

Ginsberg: A Web unto Himself

http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/2981.html

 

The Club Wired Interview with Allen Ginsberg

http://www.hotwired.com/club/special/transcripts/96-12-16-ginsberg.html

 

Burroughs Pops Online Cherry with Drag Queens

http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/2173.html

 

 

Steve Silberman

 

 

**********************************

Steve Silberman

Senior Culture Writer

WIRED News

   http://www.wired.com/

***********************************

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 15:01:25 -0400

Reply-To:     Ddrooy@AOL.COM

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Diane De Rooy <Ddrooy@AOL.COM>

Subject:      Stuff from Levi Asher

 

The wholly perspicacious Levi Asher, granddaddy of Beat sites on the

Internet, forefather and founder of the much-lauded (and award-winning)

Literary Kicks, has a new site you all should check out. <A HREF="http://www.c

offeehousebook.com/index.html">coffee house book web site splash page</A>

 

Along with Christian Crumlish (<A HREF="xian@POBOX.COM">xian@POBOX.COM</A>),

Levi (<A HREF="brooklyn@NETCOM.COM">brooklyn@NETCOM.COM</A>) has assembled a

sort of anthology of writing taken from various personalities and locations

in cyberspace (but these people exist in real-time, too, or at least they

claim to). This has turned into an actual BOOK!

 

The site's very friendly and gives an overview of the book, which can also be

cyber-purchased for those of you with VISA or Mastercard (no, I don't get a

cut of the take). I'm especially impressed with the design, which is simple

and dynamic, two of my favorite qualities in websites, as well as in people.

 

If you've never been to Levi's site (What? What the hell have you been doing

with your life? Get over there, right now!) you can visit it thusly: <A HREF="

http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/HomePages/LeviAsher.html">Levi Asher</A> .

Actually, I don't have the link here, but that will take you to Levi's little

autobiography, and you can figure it out from there. Oh, here. Let me make a

link for you:  <A HREF=" http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/ ">http://www.charm.ne

t/~brooklyn/</A> .

 

Co-editor/author Christian Crumlish has a site, as well, and you can visit

him by going here: <A HREF="http://www.ezone.org:1080/homies/xian/top.html">of

f the top of me head</A> . Lotta stuff there.

 

If you've tried to email me as MemBabe and gotten a message saying I can't

receive mail, that's because I have 8 month's worth of correspondence to sort

through, and was taxing the limits of my filing cabinet. Please feel free to

write me here: <A HREF="mailto:ddrooy@aol.com">ddrooy@aol.com</A> .

 

Finally, for those who've asked, the beat generation private chat room on AOL

has no formal meeting times through the summer. Why would people want to sit

in a chat room when they could be outside pulling weeds and suffering bee

stings? However, for anyone who ever wants to show up there any time, to

discuss all things Beat, here's the link:  <A HREF="aol://2719:2-2-beat genera

tion">beat generation</A> .

 

You'll find me there a lot more after Labor Day.

 

Questions? Answers? Write me a letter.

 

diane

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 12:33:41 -0700

Reply-To:     Levi Asher <brooklyn@NETCOM.COM>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Levi Asher <brooklyn@NETCOM.COM>

Subject:      Re: Burroughs Webmasters Speak

Comments: To: gallaher@HSC.USC.EDU

In-Reply-To:  <199708051817.LAA19641@hsc.usc.edu> from "Timothy K. Gallaher" at

              Aug 5, 97 11:17:16 am

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Tim wrote, about Wired:

> Interesting that the epitome of the corporate establishment gives such e-ink

> to our old boy Bill.

 

I know I'm asking for it here, but what the hell.

 

Okay Tim: why is Wired (a pretty progressive and free-thinking

place, as far as I can tell) the epitome of the corporate

establishment?

 

Honest question, no flame war please.

 

------------------------------------------------------

| Levi Asher = brooklyn@netcom.com                   |

|                                                    |

|    Literary Kicks: http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/ |

|     (3 years old and still running)                |

|                                                    |

|        "Coffeehouse: Writings from the Web"        |

|          (a real book, like on paper)              |

|             also at http://coffeehousebook.com     |

|                                                    |

|                *--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*  |

|                                                    |

|                  "It was my dream that screwed up" |

|                                    -- Jack Kerouac |

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 12:58:22 -0700

Reply-To:     "Timothy K. Gallaher" <gallaher@HSC.USC.EDU>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         "Timothy K. Gallaher" <gallaher@HSC.USC.EDU>

Subject:      Re: Burroughs Webmasters Speak

Comments: To: Levi Asher <brooklyn@netcom.com>

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I think the biggest qestion is why is there something wrong with being

corporate establishment?

 

How many CEO's do they interview?

 

How many corporations advertise big time in their leaflets (ie pages)?  Just

look at Wired and you can't even find the index due to all the corporate ads.

 

To my mind "progressive and free thinking" has permeated the culture so much

that it is corporate culture.

 

Burroughs was doing ads for Nike a huge corporation.

 

Steve mentioned comparing Wired to US News and World Garbage (I mean report)

 

I took a gander at it the other day and it's big story was a positive

feature on the burning wickerman festival.  That's also what Wired hypes as

well.

 

It's all the same to me.  All I am pointing out is rhetoric and semantics.

Saying it is corporate establishment is immediately taken as a slam.  I mean

it as an objective observation.

 

 

At 12:33 PM 8/5/97 -0700, you wrote:

>

>Tim wrote, about Wired:

>> Interesting that the epitome of the corporate establishment gives such e-ink

>> to our old boy Bill.

>

>I know I'm asking for it here, but what the hell.

>

>Okay Tim: why is Wired (a pretty progressive and free-thinking

>place, as far as I can tell) the epitome of the corporate

>establishment?

>

>Honest question, no flame war please.

>

>------------------------------------------------------

>| Levi Asher = brooklyn@netcom.com                   |

>|                                                    |

>|    Literary Kicks: http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/ |

>|     (3 years old and still running)                |

>|                                                    |

>|        "Coffeehouse: Writings from the Web"        |

>|          (a real book, like on paper)              |

>|             also at http://coffeehousebook.com     |

>|                                                    |

>|                *--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*  |

>|                                                    |

>|                  "It was my dream that screwed up" |

>|                                    -- Jack Kerouac |

>------------------------------------------------------

>

>

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 16:11:07 -0400

Reply-To:     Marie Countryman <country@SOVER.NET>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Marie Countryman <country@SOVER.NET>

Subject:      he punched my ticket,

In-Reply-To:  <33E76F75.8A6855AF@cruzio.com>

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and my world exploded.

furthur, wsb.

and fare thee well

 

special thoughts for all beat-l folks here everywhere who knew him well.

mc

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 12:58:48 -0700

Reply-To:     Leon Tabory <letabor@CRUZIO.COM>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Leon Tabory <letabor@CRUZIO.COM>

Subject:      Re: Burroughs Webmasters Speak

Comments: To: Levi Asher <brooklyn@NETCOM.COM>

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Levi Asher wrote:

>

> Tim wrote, about Wired:

> > Interesting that the epitome of the corporate establishment gives such e-ink

> > to our old boy Bill.

>

> I know I'm asking for it here, but what the hell.

>

> Okay Tim: why is Wired (a pretty progressive and free-thinking

> place, as far as I can tell) the epitome of the corporate

> establishment?

>

> Honest question, no flame war please.

 

I hope it is getting time to let us know that you are kidding us again,

Tim. Hurry up, please...

 

leon

 

 

>

> ------------------------------------------------------

> | Levi Asher = brooklyn@netcom.com                   |

> |                                                    |

> |    Literary Kicks: http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/ |

> |     (3 years old and still running)                |

> |                                                    |

> |        "Coffeehouse: Writings from the Web"        |

> |          (a real book, like on paper)              |

> |             also at http://coffeehousebook.com     |

> |                                                    |

> |                *--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*  |

> |                                                    |

> |                  "It was my dream that screwed up" |

> |                                    -- Jack Kerouac |

> ------------------------------------------------------

> .-

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 13:49:26 -0700

Reply-To:     "Timothy K. Gallaher" <gallaher@HSC.USC.EDU>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         "Timothy K. Gallaher" <gallaher@HSC.USC.EDU>

Subject:      Re: Burroughs Webmasters Speak

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Well, Leon, I have responded, e-mail is fast I guess but not instantaneous.

You'll get it.

 

As a follow up I present exhibit z an article from a corporate establishment

rag like Fortune or Forbes or something else

 

you make the call

 

_______

 

 

  F O L L O W T H E M O N E Y  |  Issue 5.07 - July 1997

 

=20

 

 Market Corrections

 

     By Michael Murphy

 

     Although I expected a serious correction this year, I thought trouble

would come in the old economy - industrial

     and mass-production consumer stocks - not in the technology sector. The

market's volume and momentum at the

     end of 1996 convinced me that I wouldn't need to buy protective puts

until the second half of the year.=20

 

     Right idea, wrong time. The Nasdaq 100 rallied over 12 percent in the

first few weeks of 1997, then proceeded

     to tumble 15.3 percent to a bottom on April 2, before climbing again.

The correction came earlier than I'd

     expected. Caught off-guard, I asked myself three questions:=20

 

     Why did it happen?=20

 

     Should I change my investing process?=20

 

     Is there a way to take advantage of the situation?=20

 

     The last thing an investor should do is distill rules from recent

experience and blindly apply them to the future -

     this is rearview-mirror investing. In analyzing market history, you can

always find some investment strategy that

     worked. And just as you do, it stops working.=20

 

     First, ask why?

     The market entered 1997 with PC-related stocks - computers, software,

data storage, semiconductors, and

     semiconductor equipment - very undervalued. Only the largest companies

like Intel, Microsoft, Adobe, and

     Applied Materials were rallying. I knew PC sales were strong and

expected most PC-related companies to

     report sequentially better March and June quarters. In fact, I still

predict a strong year for sales - growing close to

     20 percent over last year.=20

 

     In contrast, communications stocks entered 1997 grossly overvalued and

in decline. Most of the tech stocks

     selling at 100 times earnings or 20 times sales were in communications

and the Internet. I thought these stocks

     would have soft March and June quarters due to weak foreign markets.

Many companies preannounced poor

     quarters and took a beating.=20

 

     How did the communications sector drag down PC-related stocks? Momentum

mutual funds suffered sharp

     drops when their 100-times earnings stocks plummeted. When investors

started redeeming shares, managers

     who had been running with little or no cash had to sell anything they

could - including PC stocks.=20

 

     My second mistake goes back to the recovery following the market

sell-off last July; large stocks in most

     industries rallied early, while small stocks stalled. One-third of the

entire gain in the Nasdaq 100 index for 1995

     and 1996 was accounted for by three stocks: Intel, Microsoft, and

Cisco. That phenomenon intensified in the last

     half of 1996, as mutual fund investors responded to the midyear decline

by choosing index funds over actively

     managed funds. Microsoft gets 19 cents out of every dollar invested in

a Nasdaq 100 index fund; Intel gets 19

     cents, Cisco 5 cents, Oracle 4 cents, and MCI 3 cents. So more than 50

cents out of every dollar invested in

     these funds goes into five stocks.=20

 

     I should have seen this coming when a well-known aggressive fund

manager described his funds by saying, "This

     one buys large and mid-cap stocks, but that one only buys small-cap

stocks - under $1 billion."=20

 

     Under $1 billion! For years I bought stocks with market capitalizations

of $35 to $70 million, confident that as

     the companies progressed and the market cap passed $100 million, the

institutions would come piling in. I

     snickered at the $1 billion cutoff point when I should have been

listening harder. What this seemingly bizarre

     statement meant is that the institutions are managing so much money,

they cannot afford to look at stocks with

     market capitalizations under $200 or $300 million. A whole class of

stocks have been abandoned to the retail

     network, left to independent brokers and individuals. And I owned too

many of those stocks.=20

 

     Next, question your investing process

     The inflows to professional money managers have been gigantic over the

last five years. Demographics suggest

     there will be no slowdown in the next five. While I'm not ready to call

a $1 billion company a small-cap stock, I

     am raising the bar to about $100 million. Stocks in the TWIT$ portfolio

meet the new minimum.=20

 

     Finally, take advantage of the situation

     While technical questions about Intel's production capacity remain,

earnings at Intel, Seagate, and Microsoft

     show that business is strong. The underlying truth is that PC sales are

good and will improve as the year

     progresses. Semiconductor sales, excluding DRAM chips, will do well.

Communications will resume its 30

     percent growth rate in 1998.=20

 

     The long-term picture for technology has not changed. The massive shift

from a mass-production consumer

     economy based on oil to a technology economy based on semiconductors

will continue to generate major

     investment opportunities for years to come. This is a correction; nasty

but transient. Ultimately, it will mean very

     little to your long-term rate of return. Take advantage of the reduced

prices of TWIT$ stocks to the extent that

     you can; that is the intelligent investor's response to a correction.

Believe it or not, before long people will be

     griping because they did not buy when they had the chance.=20

 

     TWIT$

     I am going 100 percent invested by buying 24,000 shares of Informix,

the leader in object relational database

     management systems. The market capitalization is more than $1.10

billion and the stock is down 77 percent from

     its high last September.=20

 

 

     Michael Murphy is a money manager who publishes the California

Technology Stock Letter in Half Moon

     Bay, California.

 

     TWIT$ is a model established by Wired, not an officially traded

portfolio. Michael Murphy is a professional money manager

     who may have a personal interest in stocks listed in TWIT$ or mentioned

in this column. Wired readers who use this

     information for investment decisions do so at their own risk.

 

     Copyright =A9 1993-97 Wired Magazine Group Inc. All rights reserved.

     Compilation Copyright =A9 1994-97 Wired Digital Inc. All rights=

 reserved.

 

 

 

 

At 12:58 PM 8/5/97 -0700, you wrote:

>Levi Asher wrote:

>>

>> Tim wrote, about Wired:

>> > Interesting that the epitome of the corporate establishment gives such

e-ink

>> > to our old boy Bill.

>>

>> I know I'm asking for it here, but what the hell.

>>

>> Okay Tim: why is Wired (a pretty progressive and free-thinking

>> place, as far as I can tell) the epitome of the corporate

>> establishment?

>>

>> Honest question, no flame war please.

>

>I hope it is getting time to let us know that you are kidding us again,

>Tim. Hurry up, please...

>

>leon

>

>

>>

>> ------------------------------------------------------

>> | Levi Asher =3D brooklyn@netcom.com                   |

>> |                                                    |

>> |    Literary Kicks: http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/ |

>> |     (3 years old and still running)                |

>> |                                                    |

>> |        "Coffeehouse: Writings from the Web"        |

>> |          (a real book, like on paper)              |

>> |             also at http://coffeehousebook.com     |

>> |                                                    |

>> |                *--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*  |

>> |                                                    |

>> |                  "It was my dream that screwed up" |

>> |                                    -- Jack Kerouac |

>> ------------------------------------------------------

>> .-

>

>

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 22:56:52 +0200

Reply-To:     Rinaldo Rasa <rinaldo@GPNET.IT>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Rinaldo Rasa <rinaldo@GPNET.IT>

Subject:      older than God

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        this

        night summer

        i must keep

        a tear

        looking at

        the stars

        in the deeper dark

        anyone know of

        a place

        broken

        my catholic

        hearth

        if it's

        my time to go

        so be it

 

Rinaldo.

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 14:11:39 -0700

Reply-To:     "Timothy K. Gallaher" <gallaher@HSC.USC.EDU>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         "Timothy K. Gallaher" <gallaher@HSC.USC.EDU>

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At 11:52 AM 8/5/97 -0700, you wrote:

>At 11:17 AM -0700 8/5/97, Timothy K. Gallaher wrote:

>>Interesting that the epitome of the corporate establishment gives such e-ink

>>to our old boy Bill.

>>Not knocking it one way or the other, just observing.

>

>Tim:

>

>Observing with a rather jaundiced eye, it appears.

 

 

Yes.

 

My eyes are so yellow they look like my teeth.

 

I wanted to get back to you about the cynicism because I didn't answer it

directly in my responses to Levi on the beat-l.

 

I remember laughing when Wired wrote up Levi's site Literary Kicks because

in the write up they couldn't even tell the difference between his site done

by him on charm.net with all the cool write ups and info levi did, and my

site on a totally different server where I slapped up a bunch of Jack

kerouac soundbites.

 

This is the great Wired magazine the leader of the great digital cyber

revolution and they couldn't even tell one web site from another?

 

That sort of thing breeds cynicism.

 

And lest you think this is a sour grapes because my site wasn't mentioned

(or rather I wasn't credited for it) that's not the case.  I have always had

this opinion about Wired due to all the ads and the content of the magazine.

 

The point I want to reiterate is I see nothing wrong with the label "part of

the corporate establishment".  It is not, to me, a put down.

 

I've seen too much to buy into any pretensions of counter culture or cutting

edge or other such things. I am very cynical (as you might put it) but

rather than cynicism I call it joie de vivre.

 

Keep up the good work Steve Silberman, people (meself uncolluded) appreciate

you.

 

 

>If you think Wired News

>is "the epitome of the corporate establishment," you haven't looked at

>news.com, msnbc.com, cnn.com, Fortune, Barron's, US News and World Report,

>Time, Newsweek, or the Wall Street Journal lately.

>

>In fact, WiredNews and HotWired have been covering Beat stuff very very

>thoroughly for years, owing in no small part to the fact that I'm the

>senior culture writer here at Wired News, and a former student of

>Burroughs' and friend of Allen Ginsberg's. I was the reporter who wrote the

>very first news story anywhere on Allen's illness, in fact, and we've

>devoted a tremendous amount of space to Beat stuff on the Net - as well as

>many other progressive social movements that you won't read about on

>news.com or msnbc.com or the other major news sites.

>

>The proof is in the pudding - related links, just a partial list!

>

>Farewell, Junkie Godfather

>http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5739.html

>

>Godard, Burroughs Join 'Network Conspiracy'

>http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/3545.html

>

>Ginsberg: A Web unto Himself

>http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/2981.html

>

>The Club Wired Interview with Allen Ginsberg

>http://www.hotwired.com/club/special/transcripts/96-12-16-ginsberg.html

>

>Burroughs Pops Online Cherry with Drag Queens

>http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/2173.html

>

>

>Steve Silberman

>

>

>**********************************

>Steve Silberman

>Senior Culture Writer

>WIRED News

>   http://www.wired.com/

>***********************************

>

>

>

>

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 14:18:52 -0700

Reply-To:     Steve Silberman <digaman@WIRED.COM>

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From:         Steve Silberman <digaman@WIRED.COM>

Subject:      Re: Burroughs Webmasters Speak

Comments: To: "Timothy K. Gallaher" <gallaher@HSC.USC.EDU>

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At 1:49 PM -0700 8/5/97, Timothy K. Gallaher wrote:

 

>As a follow up I present exhibit z an article from a corporate establishment

>rag like Fortune or Forbes or something else

>

>you make the call

 

 

I'll make the call, Tim.

I call that you extracted an article about finance from the finance section

of Wired magazine to prove your point.

 

Yes, Wired runs articles about finance, which are - shockingly - about

money, stocks, capitalism, corporations, and other items of interest to

"suits."  We also run articles about organizations like Free Speech TV

(http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5683.html) who aim to tear

down the monopoly of corporate media and put culture-making tools in the

hands of non-corporate culturemakers like yourself.  Does the Wall Street

Journal do this?

 

Did you even crack open any of those Beat links I sent before?

 

Can you name another news organization that runs interviews with CEOs *and*

hour-long audio broadcasts by Allen Ginsberg, Eno,  and other luminaries,

plus articles about Burroughs' one and only online appearance, plus

everything else we cover, like the collaboration between Ginsberg and

painter Francesco Clemente archived here

(http://www.hotwired.com/workshop/95/49/index1a.html)?

 

Somehow, though, I'd rather be talking about Burroughs.

 

Steve Silberman

 

 

**********************************

Steve Silberman

Senior Culture Writer

WIRED News

   http://www.wired.com/

***********************************

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 14:08:54 -0700

Reply-To:     Leon Tabory <letabor@CRUZIO.COM>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Leon Tabory <letabor@CRUZIO.COM>

Subject:      Re: Burroughs Webmasters Speak

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Hi Tim and everybody,

 

I have no quarrel with your calling attention to the Corporate

Interests, Power and Profits that Wired and Hot-wired represent. In fact

it fascinated me from the very beginning of their explosive, leading

edge creative innovations. What's happening here? The Well, Negraponte,

Rheingold and Silberman or Dr. Weill invading corporate culture, or are

they invaded by it? Who is exploiting whom here? Is it the revolutionary

march that is infiltrating the mainstream power structure, or is it in

the process of being swallowed by it? I am not putting either of these

forces up or dow, like you observing in fascination, because I do no

think the radical creative pioneering fringe is not in the same phase as

the methodically efficient corporate systems. I watched Hot Wired in

fascination and continue to do so. Their sight is one of the very best

in my eyes, with the help of corporate resourcefulness I am sure.

 

I thought you were kidding when you expressed surprise:

 

> Timothy K. Gallaher wrote:

>

> Interesting that the epitome of the corporate establishment gives such e-ink

> to our old boy Bill.

>

> Not knocking it one way or the other, just observing.

 

For god's sakes, this is the site that had the longest and best forum

about Leary's last trip. They have always fearlessly promoted creativity

in all its manifestations, open-mindedly giving expression to

independent, controversial thought and experimentation aesthetically and

otherwise. You really surprised at the e-ink ( I like this word. Are you

coining it?) devoted to Burghs?

 

I am just straightforwardly surprised at your surprise. No knocks. Next

question: Is Hotwired Beat? No no. Nevermind.

 

leon

>

> At 09:21 AM 8/5/97 -0700, you wrote:

> >Burroughs Spun a Legacy of Naked Sense

> >http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5771.html

> >

> >My story on the Net's response to William's death is on Wired News this

> >morning.  Levi Asher, Christian Crumlish, Malcolm Humes, Tim Franklin, and

> >others are quoted.  Please don't post the entire text to mailing lists for

> >a day or so, but links are most welcome and appreciated.  Thanks!

> >

> >

> >Steve Silberman

> >

> >

> >**********************************

> >Steve Silberman

> >Senior Culture Writer

> >WIRED News

> >   http://www.wired.com/

> >***********************************

> >

> >

> .-

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 14:29:32 -0700

Reply-To:     "Timothy K. Gallaher" <gallaher@HSC.USC.EDU>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         "Timothy K. Gallaher" <gallaher@HSC.USC.EDU>

Subject:      Re: Burroughs Webmasters Speak

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At 02:18 PM 8/5/97 -0700, you wrote:

>At 1:49 PM -0700 8/5/97, Timothy K. Gallaher wrote:

>

>>As a follow up I present exhibit z an article from a corporate establishment

>>rag like Fortune or Forbes or something else

>>

>>you make the call

>

>

>I'll make the call, Tim.

>I call that you extracted an article about finance from the finance section

>of Wired magazine to prove your point.

>

 

Actually, it was a random pick.

 

I went to www.wired.com

 

clicked on a random back issue

 

looked at the link called follow the money

 

and clicked on it

 

and found that article

 

very spontaneous and random

 

What I don't understand is why you think I have called wired bad.

 

Or for that matter why having articles on Ginsberg or Burroughs makes it not

a corporate establishment player?

 

I've read many of these links many times before.  I remember reading the one

where you showed Ginsberg the web and he said he was glad he didn't know how

to do it.

 

That was fun.

 

We all appreciate your work.

 

 

>Yes, Wired runs articles about finance, which are - shockingly - about

>money, stocks, capitalism, corporations, and other items of interest to

>"suits."  We also run articles about organizations like Free Speech TV

>(http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5683.html) who aim to tear

>down the monopoly of corporate media and put culture-making tools in the

>hands of non-corporate culturemakers like yourself.  Does the Wall Street

>Journal do this?

>

>Did you even crack open any of those Beat links I sent before?

>

>Can you name another news organization that runs interviews with CEOs *and*

>hour-long audio broadcasts by Allen Ginsberg, Eno,  and other luminaries,

>plus articles about Burroughs' one and only online appearance, plus

>everything else we cover, like the collaboration between Ginsberg and

>painter Francesco Clemente archived here

>(http://www.hotwired.com/workshop/95/49/index1a.html)?

>

>Somehow, though, I'd rather be talking about Burroughs.

>

>Steve Silberman

>

>

>**********************************

>Steve Silberman

>Senior Culture Writer

>WIRED News

>   http://www.wired.com/

>***********************************

>

>

>

>

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 14:34:07 -0700

Reply-To:     Steve Silberman <digaman@WIRED.COM>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Steve Silberman <digaman@WIRED.COM>

Subject:      Re: Burroughs Webmasters Speak

Comments: To: "Timothy K. Gallaher" <gallaher@HSC.USC.EDU>

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At 2:11 PM -0700 8/5/97, Timothy K. Gallaher wrote:

 

>I remember laughing when Wired wrote up Levi's site Literary Kicks because

>in the write up they couldn't even tell the difference between his site done

>by him on charm.net with all the cool write ups and info levi did, and my

>site on a totally different server where I slapped up a bunch of Jack

>kerouac soundbites.

>

>This is the great Wired magazine the leader of the great digital cyber

>revolution and they couldn't even tell one web site from another?

>

>That sort of thing breeds cynicism.

 

 

Oh, I see.  I (or another writer) followed a link on Levi's site into

another site, and got a URL wrong in an article, and thus the reputation of

Wired is down the tubes.  Just wonderin' - did you email the author at the

time and tell him about the botched link, which can be fixed in an article

on the Web site in three minutes?

 

Of course, stewing in cynicism for an imagined target ("the leader of the

great digital cyber revolution") is more fun than simply correcting an

error.  Call it "joie de vivre."

 

Regards,

 

Steve

 

 

**********************************

Steve Silberman

Senior Culture Writer

WIRED News

   http://www.wired.com/

***********************************

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 14:41:01 -0700

Reply-To:     Steve Silberman <digaman@WIRED.COM>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Steve Silberman <digaman@WIRED.COM>

Subject:      Re: Burroughs Webmasters Speak

Comments: To: "Timothy K. Gallaher" <gallaher@HSC.USC.EDU>

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Tim wrote:

 

> Or for that matter why having articles on Ginsberg or Burroughs makes it not

a corporate establishment player?

 

And that's a very good point.

 

Somehow I dived into a flame war here, and I'm sorry.  I'm also sorry if I

got that link wrong in whatever original article it was about Literary

Kicks, leaving Tim's site unacknowledged.

 

I need a rest.  I've had too many father-figures die in the last year.

 

Carry on -

 

 

Steve Silberman

 

 

 

 

**********************************

Steve Silberman

Senior Culture Writer

WIRED News

   http://www.wired.com/

***********************************

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 14:41:40 -0700

Reply-To:     "Timothy K. Gallaher" <gallaher@HSC.USC.EDU>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         "Timothy K. Gallaher" <gallaher@HSC.USC.EDU>

Subject:      Re: Burroughs Webmasters Speak

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At 02:08 PM 8/5/97 -0700, you wrote:

>Hi Tim and everybody,

>

>I have no quarrel with your calling attention to the Corporate

>Interests, Power and Profits that Wired and Hot-wired represent. In fact

>it fascinated me from the very beginning of their explosive, leading

>edge creative innovations. What's happening here? The Well, Negraponte,

>Rheingold and Silberman or Dr. Weill invading corporate culture, or are

>they invaded by it? Who is exploiting whom here? Is it the revolutionary

>march that is infiltrating the mainstream power structure, or is it in

>the process of being swallowed by it? I am not putting either of these

>forces up or dow, like you observing in fascination, because I do no

>think the radical creative pioneering fringe is not in the same phase as

>the methodically efficient corporate systems. I watched Hot Wired in

>fascination and continue to do so. Their sight is one of the very best

>in my eyes, with the help of corporate resourcefulness I am sure.

>

>I thought you were kidding when you expressed surprise:

 

I didn't express surprise, just interest.

 

Your paragraph above I think is along the lines of my pseudothoughts.

 

>

>> Timothy K. Gallaher wrote:

>>=20

>> Interesting that the epitome of the corporate establishment gives such=

 e-ink

>> to our old boy Bill.

>>=20

>> Not knocking it one way or the other, just observing.

>

>For god's sakes, this is the site that had the longest and best forum

>about Leary's last trip. They have always fearlessly promoted creativity

>in all its manifestations, open-mindedly giving expression to

>independent, controversial thought and experimentation aesthetically and

>otherwise. You really surprised at the e-ink ( I like this word. Are you

>coining it?) devoted to Burghs?

 

 

I was going to write inked but since it was not ink but pixesl I made upo

the term e-ink.

 

So I would take credit for coining it,

 

but,

 

I decided that I better check that out so I typed http://www.e-ink.com

 

to see what would happen

 

and there it was

 

the e-ink website

 

So it was original to me not wasn't original to the world.

 

Although, they are calling themselves electronic ink and claim to be

"Electric Ink=A9 is the new Electronic Printing & Publishing division of=

 Pilot

Advertising=A9."

 

 

>

>I am just straightforwardly surprised at your surprise. No knocks. Next

>question: Is Hotwired Beat? No no. Nevermind.

>

>leon

>>=20

>> At 09:21 AM 8/5/97 -0700, you wrote:

>> >Burroughs Spun a Legacy of Naked Sense

>> >http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5771.html

>> >

>> >My story on the Net's response to William's death is on Wired News this

>> >morning.  Levi Asher, Christian Crumlish, Malcolm Humes, Tim Franklin,=

 and

>> >others are quoted.  Please don't post the entire text to mailing lists=

 for

>> >a day or so, but links are most welcome and appreciated.  Thanks!

>> >

>> >

>> >Steve Silberman

>> >

>> >

>> >**********************************

>> >Steve Silberman

>> >Senior Culture Writer

>> >WIRED News

>> >   http://www.wired.com/

>> >***********************************

>> >

>> >

>> .-

>

>

 

I must add though here at the bottom where no one will probably read it that

I find Negroponte, Reingold, Weill,

um, please forgive me for saying this, ach-hem, boring and well very nice

fellows I am sure.  Nothing personal at all.

 I do like Steve Silberman's pieces though.

 

I am surprised at how mainstream Andrew Weill has become though.  Does he

cop to taking drugs when he goes on Oprah?

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 16:49:10 -0500

Reply-To:     Patricia Elliott <pelliott@SUNFLOWER.COM>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Patricia Elliott <pelliott@SUNFLOWER.COM>

Subject:      Re: he punched my ticket,

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Marie Countryman wrote:

>

> and my world exploded.

> furthur, wsb.

> and fare thee well

>

> special thoughts for all beat-l folks here everywhere who knew him well.

> mc

 

dear mc,

i will wax silly here,  i have been posting to assorted people that i

have found to be thughtful and thought profoking, i have appreciated

your careful and imaginative posts. he punched my ticket too.

 

  it is an interesting time here in lawrence, silly remarks in the

newspaper where they quote one girl as saying well i think its wierd he

was a small local celebrity and they are making a big deal out of it.

the lawrence journal world always finds a man in the street with an

understanding of a carrot and then quotes him. Lawrence was remarkable

for ignoring william, part jealousy part provicialism, it seemed to suit

william fine. he had a lot of personal freedom here, and many caring

people. the fact that one friend of mine totaled thirty major papers

carrying his death on the front page, around the world, seemed to take

the local celebrity remark away. i am amazed at the ease people form

oppinions about subjects that they know nothing about and then when the

oppinions are questioned start randomly coming up with arguments that

support the ill thought out oppinion. well, i quess i sound pretty weird

by now.

i am expecting charles plymell and race here sometime in the next couple

of days. i have lost it, the house is a mess and i suddenly started

cleaning all my cabinets, and cooking. A german genetic flaw that seems

to be one way of dealing with grief.

Jennif, if you are listening  come by wed. for lunch around 1:))

i just made enough pasta salad and cherry pie for thirty.

 

i am being careful not to flame people because when i deal with death i

have anger that god knows where it comes from.  i have been deleting all

of tims post because i suspect he quite innocently is 20.

p

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 19:11:42 -0500

Reply-To:     RACE --- <race@MIDUSA.NET>

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From:         RACE --- <race@MIDUSA.NET>

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Every road trip needs a montage of music.  Here is mine for tomorrow's

Journey to the East

 

LEAVING

1)  Pack Up Your Sorrows - Richard and Mimi Farina

2)  Williams Welcome (We're All Here to Go)  WSB

3)  Mothership Connection Starchild - George Clinton and the Pfunk All

Stars

4)  Everybody Knows - Leonard Cohen

5)  Western Lands (a dangerous road mix) WSB

6)  Magic and Loss - Lou Reed

7)  Imagine - John Lennon Live in NYC

8)  Ah Pook the Destroyer/Brion Gysin's All Purpose Bedtime Story  WSB

9)  Ancestros -  Andesmanta

 

ARRIVING

1)  Magician -  Lou Reed

2)  The Sounds of the Universe Coming in my Window - Jack Kerouac

3)  A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke

4)  Seven Souls  WSB

5)  Apocalypse  WSB

6)  Amazing Grace - Allen Ginsberg

7)  End of Words  WSB

8)  Faith Interlude - Carlos Santana and Buddy Miles live in a volcano

9)  Bye-Ya - Thelonius Monk

 

So hopefully this will get to dinner safe and sound (and sane).

 

Now i must do laundry

 

david rhaesa

salina, Kansas

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Date:         Wed, 6 Aug 1997 02:12:27 +0100

Reply-To:     Brynjar Agnarsson <brynjar@EASYNET.CO.UK>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Brynjar Agnarsson <brynjar@EASYNET.CO.UK>

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Hi, thought I'd introduce myself,

 

My name is Brynjar and I am Icelandic but live in England.  I'm a

student but trying to make it as a writer in Iceland, couple of little

things published first book in the works.  Been on the list before but

leaft when I moved to Chile for one year, didn't participate much just

enjoyed the intelligent conversation.  Joined again now after hearing

about Burroughs' death, just wanted to feel a part of a community of

people experiencing the same but will stick around again so thought I'd

say hi.

 

Brynjar

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Date:         Wed, 6 Aug 1997 02:12:17 +0100

Reply-To:     Brynjar Agnarsson <brynjar@EASYNET.CO.UK>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

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 Feel a loss because of Burroughs death although nowhere near the loss

his friends must feel.  The world needs people like wsb, an

inspirational and groundbreaking man of vision and as Mailer said

possessed by genious, he also warned of the powers of authority and all

malign influence by others on your actions.

Read that the compliment he held most dear was when Beckett called him a

writer and I don't think that I can add anything more to that, I grief

the loss of a writer but one that is immortal always here for guidance

towards the western lands and more importantly perhaps an inspiration

for greatness in other writers/artists, how many great writers are born

from the works of one great writers.

In 20 years time the children of my generation will be studying wsb's

works at school when his works find their niche in literature, whatever

you think of academia just think of how many people his works will

influence and how many people are already influenced by wsb now.

Well that thought kind of lessened my sense of loss.

 

Brynjar

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 18:39:11 -0700

Reply-To:     runner <babu@ELECTRICITI.COM>

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Subject:      western lands (1997)

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I humbly submit this collage in honor of WSB:

 

http://www.electriciti.com/babu/images/Western_lands2.html

 

Douglas

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 20:43:17 -0500

Reply-To:     Patricia Elliott <pelliott@SUNFLOWER.COM>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Patricia Elliott <pelliott@SUNFLOWER.COM>

Subject:      Re: Returned mail: Host unknown (Name server: cunyvm.bitnet: host

              not found)

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Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote:

>

> The original message was received at Tue, 5 Aug 1997 20:48:17 -0500 (CDT)

> from dv126s33.lawrence.ks.us [24.124.33.126]

>

>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----

> <WXGBC@CUNYVM.BITNET>

>

>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----

> 550 <WXGBC@CUNYVM.BITNET>... Host unknown (Name server: cunyvm.bitnet: host

 not found)

>

>     ---------------------------------------------------------------

> Reporting-MTA: dns; challenge.sunflower.com

> Received-From-MTA: DNS; dv126s33.lawrence.ks.us

> Arrival-Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 20:48:17 -0500 (CDT)

>

> Final-Recipient: RFC822; WXGBC@CUNYVM.BITNET

> Action: failed

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> Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 20:48:20 -0500 (CDT)

>

>     ---------------------------------------------------------------

>

> Subject: subscribe for my other computer

> Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 20:41:56 -0500

> From: Patricia Elliott <pelliott@sunflower.com>

> To: Bill Gargan <WXGBC@CUNYVM.BITNET>

> References: <BEAT-L%1997071715340012@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

>

> bill,

> i have tried to subscribe to the libeat list with my other computer and

> failed. can you help. it would be great if i could get two on line in

> time for tomorrow,

> wed.

> the email address is lena@sunflower.com

> if you tell me again what to do i will try again,

> patricia elliott marvin

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 19:31:31 -0700

Reply-To:     James William Marshall <dv8@MAIL.NETSHOP.NET>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         James William Marshall <dv8@MAIL.NETSHOP.NET>

Subject:      CBC Newsworld

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  Just now watching an interview with Michael McClure and Ray Manzarek.

They're speaking of commercialism and the Beats (McClure doesn't like it but

admits he hasn't yet been approached).  Manzarek describes commercial offers

for songs by "The Doors" to be associated with ridiculous products.

  McClure describes Jim Morrison as the best poet of his generation.  Clips

of McClure reading his poetry over Manzarek's piano playing are shown.

McClure speaks of the "biological" deepening of poetry coupled with music.

Manzarek recommends sticking with the tried-and-true psychedelic drugs of

the sixties for opening "the doors of perception".  Just thought some of you

guys might be interested.

 

                                                   James M.

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 22:37:07 -0400

Reply-To:     Michael Stutz <stutz@DSL.ORG>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Michael Stutz <stutz@DSL.ORG>

Subject:      Re: CBC Newsworld

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On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, James William Marshall wrote:

 

> Clips of McClure reading his poetry over Manzarek's piano playing are shown.

 

Did you ever hear "Love Lion"? It's gooood...

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 20:58:21 -0700

Reply-To:     stauffer@pacbell.net

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         James Stauffer <stauffer@PACBELL.NET>

Subject:      Re: Burroughs Webmasters Speak

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Timothy,

 

What is your point here?

 

Is Wired guilty because they actually mention money and financial

markets?  Is this some sort of kiddie porn to you or what?  You don't

use money, have no stock portfolio or pension plan, don't buy anything

made by a "corporate" organization?  Economics are verbotin?

 

It was nice having Silberman on the list--hope he doesn't feel too

burned and leave.

 

J. Stauffer

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Date:         Wed, 6 Aug 1997 00:08:11 EST

Reply-To:     DUST MY BROOM <breithau@KENYON.EDU>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         DUST MY BROOM <breithau@KENYON.EDU>

Subject:      The Final Ride

 

William Burroughs was a Johnson among shits. We won't see his kind again for a

long while. Anyway, while looking through an old literary magazine called

MAINSTREAM, I found an early poem published by Richard Brautigan. This mag came

out in 1957. I would like to pass on Brautigan's poem in memory of William

Burroughs. It is called; THE FINAL RIDE

                         The act of dying

                         is like hitch-hiking

                         into a strange town

                         late at night

                         where it is cold

                         and raining,

                         and you are alone

                         again.

 

                         Suddenly

                         all of the street lamps

                         go out

                         and everything

                         becomes dark,

                         so dark

                         that even the buildings

 

                         are afraid

 

 

                         of one another.

 

 

 

Dave B.

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Date:         Wed, 6 Aug 1997 00:18:05 -0700

Reply-To:     mike@infinet.com

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         "Michael L. Buchenroth" <mike@INFINET.COM>

Organization: Buchenroth Publishing Company

Subject:      Beats across America "On the Road!"

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Charles Plymell is on the road to Lawrence,KS. For photo of Charles and

Beth at ML Buchenroth's visit www.buchenroth.com/cplymell.html

Next stop is Patricia Elliott's ...

***

I now have my own server with a direct T1 connection to web and

abundantly more hard drive space for file storage. The domain name

remains the same, however, I now have a permanant IP at

203.103.235.51

In addition to previous methods, you can now access Charles' web site at

203.103.235.51/cplymell.html

or go directly to above IP, then select Charles' icon linked...

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 22:08:41 -0700

Reply-To:     runner <babu@ELECTRICITI.COM>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         runner <babu@ELECTRICITI.COM>

Subject:      Re: The Final Ride

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At 10:08 PM -0700 8/5/97, DUST MY BROOM wrote:

 

>                          of one another.

 

and shotguns!

 

>

>

>

> Dave B.

 

Douglas

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 22:12:24 -0700

Reply-To:     runner <babu@ELECTRICITI.COM>

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From:         runner <babu@ELECTRICITI.COM>

Subject:      Re: Beats across America "On the Road!"

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At 12:18 AM -0700 8/6/97, Michael L. Buchenroth wrote:

 

> www.buchenroth.com/cplymell.html

 

which yielded this shotgun! gem:

 

 

 

a Loaded

Gun by Emily

Dickinson

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

 

My Life has stood - a Loaded Gun -

In corners - till a Day

The Owner passed - identified -

And carried Me away -

 

And now We roam in Sovereign Woods -

And now We hunt the Doe -

And every time I speak for Him -

The Mountains straight reply -

 

And do I smile, such cordial light

Upon the Valley glow -

It is as a Vesuvian face

Had let its pleasure through -

 

And when a Night - Our good Day done -

I guard My Master's Head -

'Tis better than the Eider-Duck's

Deep Pillow - to have shared

 

To foe of His - I'm deadly foe -

None stir the second time -

On whom I lay a Yellow Eye -

Or an emphatic Thumb -

 

Though I than He - may longer live

He longer must - than I -

For I have but the power to kill,

Without - the power to die

 

 

http://www.electriciti.com/babu/        |   0   |

step aside, and let the man go thru     |  { -  |

        ---->  let the man go thru      |  /\   |

super bon-bon (soul coughing)           =========

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Date:         Wed, 6 Aug 1997 06:48:39 -0400

Reply-To:     Marie Countryman <country@SOVER.NET>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Marie Countryman <country@SOVER.NET>

Subject:      Re: Burroughs Webmasters Speak

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james stauffer wrote:

>It was nice having Silberman on the list--hope he doesn't feel too

>burned and leave.

>

yes, i agree james and hello steve: i met you at the ddn weekend last

summer. sure hope you pull up a chair and stay.

in my opinion wired and hotwired are two of the most provocative and

breaking wave of blending online with 3D world and with a philosophy which

is anything but 'corporate'

hey tim: chill out for a while, could you?

thanks

mc

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Date:         Wed, 6 Aug 1997 09:10:58 -0500

Reply-To:     Patricia Elliott <pelliott@SUNFLOWER.COM>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Patricia Elliott <pelliott@SUNFLOWER.COM>

Subject:      lawrence

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there were tear drops from salina to wamego and then there was a pink

sunrise. yes david has arrived. Both computers work, i have recieved

calls from across the country and now i know the answer should you call

or are you bothering them, and it is call.

it is clear here, i found the living room floor and don't know if my

housekeeping is at all bear related, suspect it isn't.

Lamb and rhubarb pie was williams favorite, i use to split a pie , half

for william and half for my mother, they both thought they were missing

half a pie.

p

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Date:         Wed, 6 Aug 1997 06:01:17 -0700

Reply-To:     Lena <lena@SUNFLOWER.COM>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Lena <lena@SUNFLOWER.COM>

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So perhaps perfectly perhaps not, my drive began up Ohio street which is

named after a state that will house the archives of William S. Burroughs

- at least as I understand it - and a train was running through at six

plus a few in the morning and it was going all the way through for what

seemed like hours but not really and the posts lifted for me to drive

forward to the mecca of kansas as the soundtrack began William

Burrough's voice telling of the journey to the Western Lands.

        I stopped in Abilene the sight of the last major world figure i had

mourned when i was eight years old and went to Eisenhower's funeral and

i thought to myself that some times folks are so far away from each

other that they almost touch buttocks.  I bought some caffeine and some

postcards of Ike and the woman at the checkout asked me if something was

wrong with my eyes - apparently thrown by the presence of purple

sunglasses at six forty-five in the morning - i said i was in mourning.

She said that is always tough.  I said that last funeral i went to was

Eisenhower's.  She didn't ask who died.  In the land where we believe

that Ike is still president, purple sunglasses in the morning and the

mention of Ike's funeral can really throw them off.

 

I moved along to the soundtrack through the words and the music when Lou

Reed sang of clouds disappearing in Magician the teardrops of rain began

to end somewhere past Council Grove where the Indians met and before

Wamego where i'm certain something happened.  I stopped somewhere near

Paxico and asked if they had a black tie for sale.  They didn't.

 

The second trip through Western Lands on the soundtrack hit just as i

was running through that hole of a capital city Topeka during what

amounts to rush hour for a place in Kansas.  This time the travels were

more dangerous fitting the subtitle to the soundtrack's subtitle.

 

Apocalypse made me laugh.  And from then on it was all smiles with a

pinkish sunrise gliding into the skies somewhere near Lecompton in the

distance.  I think Lecompton was the capitol once.  (I have now spelled

capital/ol both ways so that one will be correct).

 

I am now safely at the Beat-Hotel with coffee and will visit before

going to visit Calamity at his office.

 

david rhaesa

salina, Kansas

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Date:         Wed, 6 Aug 1997 14:42:52 UT

Reply-To:     Sherri <love_singing@MSN.COM>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Sherri <love_singing@MSN.COM>

Subject:      Yage Memorial  Cut-up Poem

 

Myth of White God

Pisco neuritis

cold water infusion

blue flashes and slight nausea

Ayuhuasca (Yage)

 

Naked propaganda falling in dead silence

 

Hello Joe

Fucky, fucky

louche Peruvian bistros

 

The End Of The Road

 

As ever, William

 

to those of you in Kansas -  please bid him a fond farewell for me...

 

ciao,

sherri

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Date:         Tue, 5 Aug 1997 23:52:17 -0700

Reply-To:     Diane Carter <dcarter@TOGETHER.NET>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Diane Carter <dcarter@TOGETHER.NET>

Subject:      next reading project

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What do all of you think about next attempting a group reading of Naked

Lunch, Howl, and On the Road simultaneously.  With the deaths of Ginsberg

and Burroughs in such a short period of time and the anniversary of the

publishing of On the Road coming up, it seemed to me kind of appropriate

to touch the roots of how beat began and see how these three works, all

published in the mid/late fifties are similar/different in their themes.

 Are any of you interested?

DC

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Date:         Wed, 6 Aug 1997 11:50:48 -0400

Reply-To:     Michael Stutz <stutz@DSL.ORG>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Michael Stutz <stutz@DSL.ORG>

Subject:      Re: Journey to the East - The drive

Comments: To: Lena <lena@SUNFLOWER.COM>

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On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Lena wrote:

 

> So perhaps perfectly perhaps not, my drive began up Ohio street which is

> named after a state that will house the archives of William S. Burroughs

 

6 Aug 97 in Ohio is where

the sunflower in my backyard

planted after Ginsberg's death

has finally begun to bloom.

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Date:         Wed, 6 Aug 1997 07:25:48 -0700

Reply-To:     Lena <lena@SUNFLOWER.COM>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         Lena <lena@SUNFLOWER.COM>

Subject:      Re: Journey to the East - The drive

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Michael Stutz wrote:

>

> On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Lena wrote:

>

> > So perhaps perfectly perhaps not, my drive began up Ohio street which is

> > named after a state that will house the archives of William S. Burroughs

>

> 6 Aug 97 in Ohio is where

> the sunflower in my backyard

> planted after Ginsberg's death

> has finally begun to bloom.

 

And since the Sunflower is the state flower in kansas, if i look closely

for the right patch of sunflowers along ohio street, i will certainly

find another vortex to something ... who knows what it will be !!!!

 

david rhaesa

salina (in lawrence), Kansas

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Date:         Wed, 6 Aug 1997 08:59:44 -0700

Reply-To:     "Shannon L. Stephens" <shanstep@CS.ARIZONA.EDU>

Sender:       "BEAT-L: Beat Generation List" <BEAT-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>

From:         "Shannon L. Stephens" <shanstep@CS.ARIZONA.EDU>

Subject:      Re: next reading project

Comments: To: Diane Carter <dcarter@TOGETHER.NET>

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I'm up for Diane's suggested reading. I have silently started reading On

the Road for the first time as a great bang way to start my 27th year.

 

-shannon (in Tucson where it is not quite as hot but strangely humid for

Arizona.)

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Date:         Wed, 6 Aug 1997 12:05:00 -0400

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On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Lena wrote:

 

> And since the Sunflower is the state flower in kansas, if i look closely

> for the right patch of sunflowers along ohio street, i will certainly

> find another vortex to something ... who knows what it will be !!!!

 

To the same recursive golden clime I will find looking at my backyard

Sunflower! Go for the vortex!

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Date:         Wed, 6 Aug 1997 09:50:17 -0700

Reply-To:     "Timothy K. Gallaher" <gallaher@HSC.USC.EDU>

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At 06:48 AM 8/6/97 -0400, you wrote:

>james stauffer wrote:

>>It was nice having Silberman on the list--hope he doesn't feel too

>>burned and leave.

>>

>yes, i agree james and hello steve: i met you at the ddn weekend last

>summer. sure hope you pull up a chair and stay.

>in my opinion wired and hotwired are two of the most provocative and

>breaking wave of blending online with 3D world and with a philosophy which

>is anything but 'corporate'

>hey tim: chill out for a while, could you?

 

No,

 

corporate is not derogatory.

 

Steve is not scared off.

 

I will chill in that I will point folks back to Leon's message of yesterday

for the overview of the topic.

 

I think this brings up a bigger question to me.

 

Why is everyone so afraid of being labeled "corporate"?  Why is this

considered such an evil thing?

 

To thineownselfbetrue

>thanks

>mc

>

>

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Date:         Wed, 6 Aug 1997 10:23:36 -0700

Reply-To:     Steve Silberman <digaman@WIRED.COM>

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From:         Steve Silberman <digaman@WIRED.COM>

Subject:      Re: Burroughs Webmasters Speak

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Tim:

 

>Why is everyone so afraid of being labeled "corporate"?  Why is this

>considered such an evil thing?

 

 

Tim, it's not a big mystery why the discussion took off on this track.  No

one denies that Wired magazine has corporate ads and whiteboy CEO

interviews up the yin/yang.  It's that in your original post, you wrote -

 

> Interesting that the epitome of the corporate establishment gives such e-ink

to our old boy Bill.

 

...which placed honoring Bill's work, and covering the Beats, at the

opposite end of some imaginary axis from being "the epitome of the

corporate establishment."  The corporate/Beat dichotomy in this thread

began here, with this post.

 

As many people - even you - pointed out later, the idiosyncracy of Wired is

that it covers *both* corporate and creative worlds.  I got so pissed off

because I busted my butt injecting extensive Beat coverage into Wired News

- so much so, it's been the only dependable source of frequent Beat updates

among majornews sites.  I did this because I saw a continuity between Beat

and cyber communities, as I explain somewhere in a long tedious interview

ith me archived here:

 

http://www.faludi.com/upstart/archive/arch_2.html

 

(Excerpt:

 

"Poet Michael McClure, one of the original Beats, once told me, 'The Beats

gave one another

permission to be excellent.' I think that's exactly what's happening in

Multimedia Gulch. We're giving

each other permission to be excellent, and helping one another to realize

our visions.

And just as the Beat 'vision' was not one standardized party line, there's

no one party line that's

driving the Net forward. William Burroughs, being a proto-cyberpunk,

science-fiction queer, had a

very different vision than Jack Kerouac, who was a football-playing,

lyrical, Thomas Wolfe-like poet

in prose. They had very individual visions, but they had a shared sense of

mission. I think that's what's

happening with the Web and in Net culture: Individual geniuses working

together so that they can

each express their own particular flavor of genius.")

 

So - I think it's important to honor your concerns about Wired being

corporate, and your interesting observation that corporate & Cool are no

longer as estranged as they once were, hard to tell the difference these

days, after all, even WSB did Nike ads, so where does that leave us, etc.

 

And it's also important not to be reductive about Wired.

 

That's all.

 

 

Steve Silberman

 

 

 

 

 

**********************************

Steve Silberman

Senior Culture Writer

WIRED News

   http://www.wired.com/

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Date:         Wed, 6 Aug 1997 11:01:01 -0700

Reply-To:     "Timothy K. Gallaher" <gallaher@HSC.USC.EDU>

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Yeah

 

Just a couple things on the side.

 

If you remember Millbrook belonged to a coroporate heir.  He gave use of it

to the Leary group.  Mellon said he was involved with LSD so he could learn

how to make more money on the market.

 

Back in 84 in the pre-monkey business TKO days I remember talking to a

friend about Gary Hart(pence).  As I recall it was something about my friend

saying Hart was a typical politican guy, same ol same ol, and I said

something like but he's friends with Hunter Thompson, to which my friend

replied, "sure, he's hip..."

 

Que se yo?

 

At 10:23 AM 8/6/97 -0700, you wrote:

>Tim:

>

>>Why is everyone so afraid of being labeled "corporate"?  Why is this

>>considered such an evil thing?

>

>

>Tim, it's not a big mystery why the discussion took off on this track.  No

>one denies that Wired magazine has corporate ads and whiteboy CEO

>interviews up the yin/yang.  It's that in your original post, you wrote -

>

>> Interesting that the epitome of the corporate establishment gives such e-ink

>to our old boy Bill.

>

>...which placed honoring Bill's work, and covering the Beats, at the

>opposite end of some imaginary axis from being "the epitome of the

>corporate establishment."  The corporate/Beat dichotomy in this thread

>began here, with this post.

>

>As many people - even you - pointed out later, the idiosyncracy of Wired is

>that it covers *both* corporate and creative worlds.  I got so pissed off

>because I busted my butt injecting extensive Beat coverage into Wired News

>- so much so, it's been the only dependable source of frequent Beat updates

>among majornews sites.  I did this because I saw a continuity between Beat

>and cyber communities, as I explain somewhere in a long tedious interview

>ith me archived here:

>

>http://www.faludi.com/upstart/archive/arch_2.html

>

>(Excerpt:

>

>"Poet Michael McClure, one of the original Beats, once told me, 'The Beats

>gave one another

>permission to be excellent.' I think that's exactly what's happening in

>Multimedia Gulch. We're giving

>each other permission to be excellent, and helping one another to realize

>our visions.

>And just as the Beat 'vision' was not one standardized party line, there's

>no one party line that's

>driving the Net forward. William Burroughs, being a proto-cyberpunk,

>science-fiction queer, had a

>very different vision than Jack Kerouac, who was a football-playing,

>lyrical, Thomas Wolfe-like poet

>in prose. They had very individual visions, but they had a shared sense of

>mission. I think that's what's

>happening with the Web and in Net culture: Individual geniuses working

>together so that they can

>each express their own particular flavor of genius.")

>

>So - I think it's important to honor your concerns about Wired being

>corporate, and your interesting observation that corporate & Cool are no

>longer as estranged as they once were, hard to tell the difference these

>days, after all, even WSB did Nike ads, so where does that leave us, etc.

>

>And it's also important not to be reductive about Wired.

>

>That's all.

>

>

>Steve Silberman

>

>

>

>

>

>**********************************

>Steve Silberman

>Senior Culture Writer

>WIRED News

>   http://www.wired.com/

>***********************************

>

>

>

>

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Date:         Wed, 6 Aug 1997 14:42:19 -0400

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Subject:      Signed Beat Posters

 

I am selling several signed Beat Posters.  These include Ginsberg, Corso,

Burroughs and Ferlinghetti.  Email me privately at Paul@louisville.lib.ky.us

 

Thanks!

 

Paul

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Date:         Wed, 6 Aug 1997 12:10:19 -0700

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A few days ago i was asking some questions for fun.

 

1.  "I can goof if I want to"--where was this quote from.

 

A:  Visions of Cody by Jack kerouac.  It is the first line of one section

near the end of the book.  (pg 3489 maybe but don't quote me on that).

 

2.  What is ayahuasca?

 

A:  Ayahuasca is the vine where the concoction/potion/drug Yage is derived.

(Burroughs and Ginsberg, as you all know, published some of their

correspondences as The Yage Letters--these letters being written around the

time Burroughs went to S. America to find some of this potion).

 

I was inspired to ask the question when one fellow here posted with the

email name YageCola.

 

I guess no one wins the jackpot this week.  That means it carries over.

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Date:         Wed, 6 Aug 1997 10:32:14 -0400

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     A "monumental" task to our dear and departed.  I've got to get my

     hands on the Annotated Howl though.  Anyone got any ideas where I can

     get one quick (or a spare one to sell?).

 

     Will we approach this chapter by chapter or book by book?

 

     I'm contemplating a public reading of OTR here in the Denver/Colorado

     Springs area in early September if anyone would like to join in the

     planning.....

 

     love and lilies,

 

     matt

 

 

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Subject: next reading project

Author:  Diane Carter <dcarter@TOGETHER.NET> at Internet

Date:    8/5/97 11:52 PM

 

 

What do all of you think about next attempting a group reading of Naked

Lunch, Howl, and On the Road simultaneously.  With the deaths of Ginsberg

and Burroughs in such a short period of time and the anniversary of the

publishing of On the Road coming up, it seemed to me kind of appropriate

to touch the roots of how beat began and see how these three works, all

published in the mid/late fifties are similar/different in their themes.

 Are any of you interested?

DC

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Date:         Wed, 6 Aug 1997 16:20:56 -0400

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Subject:      Re: For Brian Kirchhoff: Don't be discouraged

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Arthur--

 

I have a few comments regarding what you wrote last Saturday in a post

directed to Brian and his frustration with _The Ticket That Exploded_ and

Uncle Bill's cutup process.

 

 

>  Conceptually, it's a fascinating and thought-provoking idea- Writing was 50

> years behind painting, as BG pointed out, and the techniques of collage and

> other methods that were well-established in the visual arts were overdue to

> be applied to writing.

 

Well, a question for you and anyone else who might be able to answer: what

was the state of painting 50 years from _today_? Or 25 years ago or even

_right now_, for that matter? I wonder if the answer to that question could

yield any interesting ideas for directions in writing. I wonder if print

advertising follows painting trends, at least in part; I can find examples

that borrow from the painting techniques of 75 years past -- take, for

example, the Mondrian-esque packaging on the Iomega Zip drives or the "This

is not a pipe" irony of many magazine ads.

 

 

> WSB contributed his own uniquely brilliant ideas

> about the nature of the cutup process- he believes that it is a way of

> subverting the pre-recorded nature of the universe, and that it is closer to

> the experience of real life as one walks down the street, etc. than regular

> linear writing .  He also believes that from time to time, a door into a

> prophetic, supernatural dimension is opened by application of the process,

> and has cited instances where this was the case.  My own occasional

> experiments with cutups seem to bear this out.  Amidst the fragmented

> gibberish is an occasional phrase that may be the product of "the third mind"

> as WSB & BG would say, more interesting and spookily insightful than the

> whole piece from which the cutup was made. Now, this is all very well and I

> highly respect the ideas behind cutups, but, as I'm sure you  percieved while

> throwing TTTE across the room, the results of this method are for the most

> part incomprehensible, a test of endurance to actually READ and not just

> admire the philosophy behind.

 

So then, what role can cutups currently play in writing? Burroughs produced

texts using this technique that were, for all purposes, practically

_unreadable_. I did trudge through some, but it was difficult. However,

there were some enlightening passages, products of the "third mind," as you

say. And regardless of readability, his texts stretched the limit of what

could be called "writing."

 

Surely, Burroughs' own works such as _The Soft Machine_ still have immmense

value; put these texts into a computer and further experiments could be made

with his work -- cutup these old texts in new ways, find patterns in them

only discernible through use of computer, etc. But if a _new_ text were to

be created using the cutup technique, what of its literary value? For

example, I have been performing experiments with cutups using my computer,

as described in a previous post. On one, I used the phrase "Allen Ginsberg"

and had the computer output all the possible combinations of those

characters that formed known word combinations. The resultant output was

_huge_, just pages of gibberish. I did sift through it and find these

phrases most interesting:

 

genres nag bill

 

beginners gall

bells enraging

balling greens

 

brings neal gel

 

 

These five phrases interested me most when I first looked through that file.

But thinking about this, I believe there is great value to work produced via

the cutup method above and beyond these "third mind" phrases, simply because

_the importance of any one phrase will change over time_. In fact, I believe

this was a major point Burroughs was making with his work, expounded upon in

_Painting and Guns_. For Burroughs, the entire Universe was alive -- not

just us animals and the plants we eat, but all of stinking Universe was a

living process. And he demonstrated this via his cutup texts, splattered

paintings and shotgun holes -- all of which, when looked at in certain ways,

are indistinguishable from things in nature, such as the stars in the sky or

microscopic views of pond water or whatever. Other 20th century explorers

have demonstrated this too, most notably in my mind right now John Cage (his

music is every-sound), Alan Watts (lectured about Pollack paintings looking

like nature) and Buckminster Fuller (~"Mankind will find that the lines

between the animate and the inanimate will continually decrease"). But the

point is, I think, that this work is potent not just in its sifted "finds"

from any one viewpoint/moment, but as a whole -- what makes sense today

might not tomorrow, and vicey versey. Eh?

 

 

 

> As for NL itself,

> although some commentators have incorrectly identified it as a cutup work, it

> is not.  Although the episodes are arranged in a non-linear way and, as the

> author himself notes near the end of the book, can be re-arranged into

> infinite variations by the reader with no "beginning" or "ending" in the

> accepted sense, the episodes and phrases themselves have not been cutup and

> are comprehensible.

 

This, again, would make for a great Web project. A gentleman by the name of

Luke Kelly has been performing some impressive research in this department,

observeable at <http://www.bigtable.com/research/>. Unfortunately, I have

not succeeded in making contact with Luke. From that page:

 

 

                                  _PROJECT:_

   REVERSE COMPILING BURROUGHS' WORD HOARD

       Verion 1.0, _Naked Lunch_

 

                                  _PURPOSE:_

   _Naked Lunch_ contains multiple reference points, _flashpoints_, which

       propell the reader forward and backward through time and space.

       Using cutups and other montage techniques, Burroughs has

       effectively created a work that can be "intersected at any point."

       The ultimate goal of the project is to locate flashpoints and

       recycled cutup fragments throughout Burroughs' work, in effect

       locating the _wordholes_ in His Universe.

       Interesting note: when you go through a Burroughs wordhole, the

       context is not always the same . . . like a dream. For a good

       example, look at the hyenas:Scandenavians wordhole-- 39 and

       122.

 

                                  _METHOD:_

   The works are methodically scanned and converted to plain vanilla

       ASCII text. Next, they are parsed through several programs,

       locating patterns. The patterns are then analyzed by machine and

       human to locate significant patterns.

 

 

 

 

Finally, that Burroughs had the kind of foresight to create and experiment

with this kind of work when he did is why I consider him to be a

proto-cypherpunk (of which _Eletronic Revolution_ is practically a training

manual).

 

 

onNow: Orbital, _Snivilisation_. I feel like it's 1994 all over again.

 

m

 

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Date:         Wed, 6 Aug 1997 16:45:49 -0400

Reply-To:     Marie Countryman <country@SOVER.NET>

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matt wrote:

A "monumental" task to our dear and departed.  I've got to get my

     hands on the Annotated Howl though.  Anyone got any ideas where I can

     get one quick (or a spare one to sell?).

___________

the beats are much more likely to be found at barnes & noble than not.

however, since we have stalwart jeff from waterrow you may be able to email

order. jeff? you there?

mc

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Date:         Wed, 6 Aug 1997 13:57:44 -0700

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Timothy K. Gallaher wrote:

>

> A few days ago i was asking some questions for fun.

>

> 1.  "I can goof if I want to"--where was this quote from.

>

> A:  Visions of Cody by Jack kerouac.  It is the first line of one section

> near the end of the book.  (pg 3489 maybe but don't quote me on that).

>

> 2.  What is ayahuasca?

>

> A:  Ayahuasca is the vine where the concoction/potion/drug Yage is derived.

> (Burroughs and Ginsberg, as you all know, published some of their

> correspondences as The Yage Letters--these letters being written around the

> time Burroughs went to S. America to find some of this potion).

>

> I was inspired to ask the question when one fellow here posted with the

> email name YageCola.

>

> I guess no one wins the jackpot this week.  That means it carries over.

> .-

 

Hey - Sherri got the yage!

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Date:         Wed, 6 Aug 1997 14:04:46 -0700

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Michael writ:

 

<<

>>  Conceptually, it's a fascinating and thought-provoking idea- Writing was

>>50

>> years behind painting, as BG pointed out, and the techniques of collage and

>> other methods that were well-established in the visual arts were overdue to

>> be applied to writing.

>

>Well, a question for you and anyone else who might be able to answer: what

>was the state of painting 50 years from _today_? Or 25 years ago or even

>_right now_, for that matter? I wonder if the answer to that question could

>yield any interesting ideas for directions in writing. I wonder if print

>advertising follows painting trends, at least in part; I can find examples

>that borrow from the painting techniques of 75 years past -- take, for

>example, the Mondrian-esque packaging on the Iomega Zip drives or the "This

>is not a pipe" irony of many magazine ads.

>>

 

Well, without any textbooks handy, let me say that 50 years ago, in

1946, I would say that post-WWII art was just happening.  That's how

it's commonly broken up in art historical circles (pre-1945 and

post-1945).  In America (and abroad) Abstract Expressionism was on the

rise.  The New York School.  A bunch of men who loved to smoke, drink,

and live the hard life.  That was the lifestyle.  that was the theory.

Interesting to hear you cite Pollack in a 'natural' context.  This is a

recent development, me thinks.  Usually, one gets the Rothko crossover,

where all kinetic and spurious motions are considered suicidal and

depressing.  Interesting thing about Pollack, is that before he

discovered drip paintings, he did a series of 'myth' paintings.  More

iconic in form.  Perhaps, one could argue that the location of

abstraction in the medium (vs a conceptual formalism) between painting

and writing is the critical issue to focus in on??

 

I don't know much about the history of print advertising, but magazines

such as Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Harper's Bazaar have in the last 5-10

years really upped the ante as far as quality of photographs go.  It's

not uncommon to see a lot of fashion and fine photographers mixing their

fields.  Annie Leibovitz is a good example; I have 2 fine WSB pictures

from Vanity Fair hanging on my office wall.

 

25 years ago, 1974, hm, I'm not sure what would have been big.  Right at

the tail end of pop art?  Feminism, minimalism?  What was happening in

Europe?  Robert Rauschenberg has always been a favorite of mine.

Regarding theory of writing and art, I wish I could say more.  There

always seems to be someone somewhere who is quote unquote before their

time.  Look at James Joyce.  It's hard to say, generally speaking.  and

then, don't forget film either.  It pleases me that you recognize print

>advertising as an "art" media.  Lots of people don't.

 

and regarding those "ce n'est pas un[e?] pipe" (Magritte) ads, there are

also lots of Warhol (banana), Woods (American Gothic),  and Lichenstein

(comics) ripoffs.  In general, I think David Carson and a lot of other

"unintelligible" graphic designers have led a recent wave of "media

catchup".  And to hook in a recent thread, Wired magazine usually has

some <ahem> groovy stuff.

 

>generally speaking Douglas

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Date:         Wed, 6 Aug 1997 05:27:20 -0700

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> Timothy K. Gallagher wrote:

> Why is everyone so afraid of being labeled "corporate"?  Why is this

> considered such an evil thing?

 

I think it goes back to the beat writers themselves, Kerouac's insistence

that the American dream was somehow doomed, Ginsberg's vision of Molach

in Howl,

 

"Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton

treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations!

invincible madhouses! granite cocks! monstrous bombs!

They broke their backs lifting Molach to Heaven! Pavement, trees, radios,

tons! lifting the city to Heaven which exists and is everywhere about

us!"

 

And even Burroughs who left America to do much of his writing in Mexico

and Tangiers.  The idea of corporate America is linked to money and

possessions, America building bombs but not feeding her hungry.

Corporate America was much of what the beats stood outside of, unwilling

to be a part of.  At the same time, later in their lives, both Ginsberg

and Burroughs found that they could use corporate America to their

benefit. It's the difference, I think, between being young and idealistic

and older and idealistic.  I think they realized that there was nothing

wrong with using corporate America, money and self-promotion to a certain

extent, to get across their ideas.  Why not use American money to

change American civilization.  It is the same way with any publication,

any magazine.  Ads from corporate America pay the bills.  One hand pats

the other. It is their money that allows words to be published, that

allow our freedom to write about the beats, to know their ideas and have

those ideas reach immortality.  We should applaud any publication like

Wired, which gives space to ideas that matter. The good side of corporate

is the money that affords writers and artists a way to say whatever they

want, gives magazines and to publishers the means to devote space to

writers and works that are experimental and/or outside of the mainstream.

DC

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Date:         Wed, 6 Aug 1997 16:11:14 -0400

Reply-To:     Judith Campbell <boondock@POBOX.COM>

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From:         Judith Campbell <boondock@POBOX.COM>

Subject:      Intro

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I'm not sure if it is the tradition here, but since I'm new to the list, I

thought I'd introduce myself.

 

My name is Judith.  I'm a hippie wildchild sliding downhill toward

cronehood.  I've read every written word by and about the Beats I've been

able to locate.  I'm madly in love with the Jack Kerouac that exists in the

first 96 pages of Desolation Angels, and spend way too much time re-reading

his words.

 

I live in the booming metropolis of Talking Rock, Georgia (pop. 66 people,

10,000,000 chickens, and 721 hound dogs) where I'm sideway supervising

while my spousal unit builds us a solar powered geodesic dome on 13 acres

of wooded mountain top.

 

This week, I've been very sad about the passing of Mr. Burroughs.  Spent

the evening yesterday listening to all my WSB spoken word CD's and wishing

he could have stayed another 83 years.

 

I'm very happy to have found this mailing list, and will probably spend

most of my time listening respectfully and learning all I can.

 

Judith

aka Book Woman

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Date:         Tue, 6 Aug 2097 23:18:27 +0200

Reply-To:     Dufour <dufour@ULISSE.IT>

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From:         Dufour <dufour@ULISSE.IT>

Subject:      Hallo!

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Hallo!

I'm a new user from Italy, delused for the poor information about the death

of WSB here in Italy.

If there are other italians on this list, please e-mail me!!!

We should try to do something against this "annus horribilis" for the beat

generation.

F.D.

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Date:         Wed, 6 Aug 1997 17:45:43 -0400

Reply-To:     Michael Stutz <stutz@DSL.ORG>

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From:         Michael Stutz <stutz@DSL.ORG>

Subject:      Re: For Brian Kirchhoff: Don't be discouraged

Comments: To: "Penn, Douglas, K" <dkpenn@OEES.COM>

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On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Penn, Douglas, K wrote:

 

> Perhaps, one could argue that the location of  abstraction in the medium

> (vs a conceptual formalism) between painting and writing is the critical

> issue to focus in on??

 

This may be a good way to put it. I don't intend to start drawing hard lines

and us coming up with serious maxims about all this, but it may prove

interesting to observe what some of their techniques were/are at an abstract

level and see how that could be applied to writing and other forms.

 

It seems interesting to me to see where abstract principles are borrowed

from one form to create work in another -- such as Keroauc's "jazz writing."

Is the 90s indie rock rennaissance helping to create a net-based pantheon of

indie literature? I think so. What else, and where will it go?

 

> Regarding theory of writing and art, I wish I could say more.  There

> always seems to be someone somewhere who is quote unquote before their

> time.  Look at James Joyce.  It's hard to say, generally speaking.  and

> then, don't forget film either.  It pleases me that you recognize print

> advertising as an "art" media.  Lots of people don't.

 

Well, I do and I don't. Advertising is a now-necessary energy-gathering tool

for the Corporate Virus. It was not always here, and it will not always be.

The interesting thing about advertising is the advanced mind-control

techniques that have been put into play, as well as the ad's use of what we

humans call "art." Put the art in the ad as bait. So yeah, lots of "art"

appears in ads.

 

 

m

 

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Date:         Wed, 6 Aug 1997 18:41:43 -0400

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From:         Richard Wallner <rwallner@CAPACCESS.ORG>

Subject:      Re: On the Road movie

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Has anyone heard anything more about the major motion picture version of

"On the Road" being produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola?  I

thought the original idea was to have the film out this year for the

fortieth anniversary of the OTR publication (and 75th of JK's birth), but

havent even heard if its in production yet.

 

I know Coppola wrote the script adaptation and wanted Leonardo DiCaprio

to play Kerouac/Sal Paradise.  Anyone heard anything else about it?

 

RJW

 



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