William S. Burroughs & John Waters [NYC, 1970s] Burroughs had anointed Waters the "Pope of Trash"
- THE FALL OF ART | William S. Burroughs
- FROM ATAVISM TO ZYKLON B | Genesis P-Orridge & TOPY
- SYBARITE AMONG THE SHADOWS | Aleister Crowley
- DREAMACHINE | An Information Montage
- BECAUSE AND COSMOS | C. John Taylor
- THE VIDEODROME | Situationism & Death TV
- WORDS FROM A ROOM | An Interview With Hubert Selby Jr.
- DEAD FINGERS TALK | An Interview With William S. Burroughs
- THE JOHNSON FAMILY | William S. Burroughs
- SMILE | An Introduction To Neoism A Rapid Eye Report
- TIME MIRRORS | The Art Of Austin Osman Spare
- [MORE INCLUDED...]
Source: archive.org
“WILLIAM BURROUGHS” (NYC) ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE // 1981 [gelatin silver print | 19 1/8 × 15 1/4”]
“BUDDHA FROM EXPLODED CAN” WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS // 1989
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Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages Dir. Benjamin Christensen Sverige, 1922 Svensk Filmindustri / Aljosha Production Company / Universum Film (UFA) / Janus Films / Antony Balch Films
William S. Burroughs with a claw-hand glove in front of John Giorno’s Life is a Killer poem painting. | @ THE BUNKER [NYC, 1989]
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“I was standing outside myself trying to stop those hangings with ghost fingers… I am a ghost wanting what every ghost wants-a body-after the Long Time moving through odorless alleys of space where no life is, only the colorless no smell of death…Nobody can breath and smell it through pink convolutions of gristle laced with crystal snot, time shit and black blood filters of flesh.” ― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
Above: The Grove Press Naked Lunch
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William S. Burroughs’s funeral program.
Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs using a Dreamachine. | London, c. 1970 “A Dreamachine is ‘viewed’ with the eyes closed: the pulsating light stimulates the optic nerve and thus alters the brain's electrical oscillations. As users adjust to the experience, they see increasingly complex animated yantra-like patterns of color behind their closed eyelids (similar effects may be seen when travelling as a passenger in a car or bus; close your eyes as the vehicle passes through the flickering shadows cast by regularly spaced roadside trees, streetlights or tunnel striplights—these were the hypnagogic effects Brion Gysin said he sought to recreate with the device). It is claimed that by using a Dreamachine meditatively, users enter an alphawave, or hypnagogic state. This experience may sometimes be quite intense, but to escape from it, one needs only to open one's eyes. The Dreamachine may be dangerous for persons with photosensitive epilepsy or other nervous disorders. It is thought that one out of 10,000 adults will experience a seizure while viewing the device; about twice as many children will have a similar ill effect.” [PH: Charles Gatewood; Harold Chapman | TXT: Wikipedia]