The Revised Boy Scout Manual was composed circa 1970 by the Beat novelist and counterculture wizard-figure
William Burroughs; parts have appeared here and there since then, but Ohio State University Press has only now made the full text available for the first time.
John Waters: This Filthy World is John Waters' one-man show, a 'vaudeville' act that celebrates the film career and tastes of the man, that
William Burroughs once called 'The Pope of Trash'.
Sci-fi scenarios draw from a gumbo of influences and allow Segal to devise dissonant and disorientating backdrops in which the spirits of writers John Wyndham and
William Burroughs, plus jazz giants Pharoah Sanders and Thelonious Monk are summoned.
The book charts the influence of French writers and French cultural movements, such as Surrealism and Situationism, on the early Beat circle of
William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac, who were originally connected through the French language and French literature.
Names already suggested include, The Elongater, Dir Diggler, Tunnel McTunnelFace and our personal favourite,
William Burroughs. Musk himself suggests "Ultimate Boring Machine, the Second", explaining that adding "the second" to the name lends credibility.
Le peintre a connu a Tanger nombre d'artistes et d'intellectuels prestigieux :Robert Rauschenberg, Truman Capote,
William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Mohamed Choukri et bien d'autres, temoins de son itineraire singulier.
"Call Me (
William Burroughs): A Conversation with Barry Miles." Interview by Davis Schneiderman.
Years later (1983), director Tom Huckabee got the rights to some writings of
William Burroughs, added an audio track and shot some new footage.
Featured is Mark Pesce, author of "The Playful World", comparing computer programming and spellcasting; Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, the father of Industrial Music and Rave culture, explaining how samples in a rave song can have magical consequences;
William Burroughs and the occult; Nevill Drury, Australia's most noted occult writer, telling of Dion Fortune, Austin Spare, and Rosaleen Norton; Donald Tyson's "The Enochian Apocalypse Working" asking if the seeds of the end of the world sown in the Elizabethan era; a biographical essay on Marjorie Cameron, the fascinating character from Los Angeles' occult and beatnik scene; Hitler and the occult, and much, much more.
In July of 1957, an unknown writer named
William Burroughs visited a friend in Copenhagen.