owen
Part of My Generation
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Post by owen on Dec 14, 2005 13:29:30 GMT 1
anyone else into him? some of his stuff is amazing, he used to get off his tits on bad drugs, and record the hallucinations as they happened, some of naked lunch is absolutely disgusting but at the same time hilarious, check out cities of the red night
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Post by rocinante on Dec 15, 2005 15:32:19 GMT 1
I need to read Naked Lunch. The film fucked my mind...and did he write Atrocity Exhibition?
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Post by Lisa on Dec 15, 2005 16:06:01 GMT 1
ah another one of those books where the book is better than the film i think...i love naked lunch, the freaky bits are ace...although there are bits in the book which are a bit crap i suppose
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owen
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Post by owen on Dec 15, 2005 20:47:25 GMT 1
I need to read Naked Lunch. The film fucked my mind...and did he write Atrocity Exhibition? ah atrocity exhibition was balllard, oh yeah the film with peter weller, its nothing like the book, the film was based on burroughs when he wrote naked lunch in tangier, naked lunch the book is practically unfilmable, you could make it but it would never see the light of day! the censors and the daily mail would go spare
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Post by Lisa on Dec 17, 2005 0:04:33 GMT 1
i'd watch it
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Post by rocinante on Dec 17, 2005 14:20:10 GMT 1
Right, I'll make a list of "books t'buy" then, including some Burroughs!
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Post by Lisa on Dec 17, 2005 16:40:18 GMT 1
why buy when there's a whole library full?
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owen
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Post by owen on Dec 17, 2005 17:32:40 GMT 1
apart from naked lunch I'd recommend the ticket that exploded, nova express and the soft machine
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Post by rocinante on Dec 23, 2005 2:26:01 GMT 1
Oh I like reading books that inspired people to rock.
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owen
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Post by owen on Dec 23, 2005 15:44:22 GMT 1
in fact burroughs invented the term "heavy metal"
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