Resonance tonight : Burroughs special

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I'm on this talking about Uncle Bill* tonight, or I might just do shitloads of cheap heroin and Special Brew in honour of St Patrick and you'll be able to tune in and listen to me gauge out. Slainte!

ATOMIC BARK!
Thursday 17th March, 7 – 8pm (GMT) on Resonance 104.4FM (www.resonancefm.com)

Burroughs Brilliant Mind Bomb

Who was the phenomenon known as William Burroughs, and why was he so important and vital in the last decades of the 20th century? The man who (re)introduced the ‘Cut-Up’ technique to the literary world, accidentally shot his wife dead while playing a game of ‘William Tell’, and kick-started the multi-form, experimental, hallucinogenic Uber-Beat cult, was also inspired by, and borrowed, the techniques of pulp science fiction in his work. In the best traditions of a drug addled, down at heel, private dick we ask – Burroughs: How, what, where and why?

Hosted by James DC, with James Hollands, Richard Strange, Robin Tomens

Go to www.atomicbark.wordpress.com for more info on this and the Atomic Bark! radio series and film club.


*TM Spud Jones RIP
 
Mr. Tea

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Way cool! I just bought The Soft Machine and Cities of the Red Night - not read 'em yet though. I'll tune in tonight to prep myself for them. :)
 
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Mr. Tea said:
Way cool! I just bought The Soft Machine and Cities of the Red Night - not read 'em yet though. I'll tune in tonight to prep myself for them. :)
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Yay! Enjoy! Queer is my favourite though, he's actually a human in that one before he metamorphosised into, erm, whatever he turned into.
 
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Mr. Tea said:
Haha, ketamine always makes me think "Fuck, this must be what it felt like to be William Burroughs all the time." :cool:
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I kinda think that it was just that the acid was really great. Everyone I've met from that time who was around LSD seems genuinely different, they've got this light in their eyes that seems to come from somewhere else. Sirius, probably.
 
Mr. Tea

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He's said to've been one of the first outsiders, if not the very first, to take yage/ayahuasca. Which I gather can be a bit of a shock even to the seasoned lyserg-aholic. Anyway, I should get back to work - looking forward to the show!
 
Benny Bunter

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ace I love WB. Reading his collected letters at the moment and they're fascinating. Will try and tune in for this.
 
Benny Bunter

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Excellent discussion. I love the nova trilogy books because you can just dip into them at any point and just read short sections at random, it doesn't really matter what order you read them in (as Burroughs himself recommended). You find amazing writing on every page.

Even though Burroughs later dismissed it, I really enjoyed Hippos boiled in their tanks, his first book in colloboration with Kerouac. I think anyone who enjoyed Junky would like it, even if it is a minor work. Couldn't really get into Cities of the red night, but I haven't read Queer yet so I'm now itching to read that one after listening to this show.
 
Mr. Tea

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This was pretty good. I especially loved the anecdote about Burroughs being grossed out by jellied eels, haha. Really looking forward to starting on those books. Cheers Jim!
 
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bandshell said:
It always surprises me that he was a human.
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I think that's still up for discussion!

Thanks for all the nice comments, will pass these on to the guy who runs the show. It's a thankless task doing a radio show so I'm sure he will appreciate them.
 
slim jenkins

slim jenkins

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Pleasure to meet yer Mr Sloane.
Weird, not knowing this is you.
Then you said who you were.
And you then knew who I was.
And now we both know who we are.
Here, and in the real world.

Mr Bradley/Mr Martin
 
slim jenkins

slim jenkins

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No need for the 'oops' - how would you know? ;)
First time on radio. I don't think I embarrassed myself.
So much to discuss around and about Bill, so we inevitably ran out of time.

One thing I'd say to newcomers, listening to his readings is a great way to get a feel for what he's about. There's a good, cheap collection here with some classics on: Amazon product ASIN B00442ORPO
 
Mr. Tea

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slim jenkins said:
No need for the 'oops' - how would you know? ;)
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By a bit of detective work (appropriately) on your 'Shadows' blog. Which is cool, by the way, really mean to read some more of that soon.

slim jenkins said:
One thing I'd say to newcomers, listening to his readings is a great way to get a feel for what he's about. There's a good, cheap collection here with some classics on: Amazon product ASIN B00442ORPO
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Cheers, I might just get that - I could listen to WSB's voice all day, it just has this hypnotic quality to it - almost soothing, which is ironic, given the kind of stuff he's usually talking about.
 
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slim jenkins

slim jenkins

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Yes, his delivery is perfect. He has great comic timing. It makes sense since some of his early pieces were first spoken as comic routines with friends.

Re 'Shadows', it's an experiment that I'm only partly satisfied with but after working on it for so long I had to leave the damned thing. It should be read, perhaps, as a dream, although as I say in the intro, there is a development regarding events. It happens in a 'fractured' manner, however, as befits the state of mind of the narrator.
 
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