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| 1. Williams Welcome (What Are You Here For?) |
| 2. A Thanksgiving Prayer |
| 3. Naked Lunch Excerpts (You Got Any Eggs For Fats?)/Dinner Conversation (The Snakes) |
| 4. Ah Pook The Destroyer/Brion Gysin's All-Purpose Bedtime Story |
| 5. After-Diner Conversation (An Atrocious Conceit)/Where He Was Going |
| 6. Kill The Badger! |
| 7. A New Standard By Which To Measure Infamy |
| 8. The Sermon On The Mount 1 (WSB Reads The Good Book) |
| 9. No More Stalins, No More Hitlers |
| 10. The Sermon On The Mount 2 |
| 11. Scandal At The Jungle Hiltons |
| 12. The Sermon On The Mount 3 |
| 13. Love Your Enemies |
| 14. Dr. Benway's House |
| 15. Apocalypse |
| 16. The Lord's Prayer |
| 17. Ich Bin Von Kopf Bis Fuss Auf Liebe Eingestellt (Falling In Love Again) |
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Customer Reviews
As both a lover of music and literature it is rare to find many good cross-over / hybrids of these two forms but this works well, with some great sympathetic musical soundscapes such as William's Welcome to the sonic youth penned 'Dr. Benway's House' which is creepy and perfect. My personal favourite is 'Kill The Badger', a piece of pure Burroughs, mixing the humour and the horror up nicely, cleverl, cool and ultimately nihilistic.
Perfect tnen if you're a fan of Bill's and / or love your music slightly bent out of shape in the Zone......
Remember: 1)Control is controlled by the need to control- just like a junky on junk, 2)Everything is permitted BECAUSE nothing is true, and It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to destroy.
Some of the best are hard to pick out, but there are highlights: the reading of a particularly hanuting excerpt from Naked Lunch involving The Black Market Cafe done to shadowy chamber music will send chills down yr. spine, the short story Where He WAs Going which flows along at a snail's pace pulling you into the mind of a worried bank robber knowing death is creeping around the corner (and this one has great ending, plus organ music, and the overall effect will leave a mark on yr. mind), the readings of the Bible are amusing and not meant to be taken seriously, but the best prize here is his nearly 10 minute telling of the Apocalypse done to some sweeping mixes...basically sums up all his post apocalyptic desires in one amazing track.
The rest are just as interesting, his political theories are expressed in "No More Stalins, No More Hitlers" and the classic sardonic peice "A THanksgiving Prayer" which since Burroughs is neither a Christian or celebrates that holiday you can guess the idea. "Bryon Gysin's All-Purpose Bedtime Story" includes some great short philosophies: "Control is controlled by it's need to control." and the idea that this universe is a glob of spit on it's way to the floor...SPLAT! "Love Your Enemies" will send jollies down yr. loins and laughing devices if nothing else...when he says love your enemies, he means it in a different light. "Kill THe Badger" is just plain sad, "A New way To Measure..." is unsettling somewhat, and that German song he sings at the end is simply odd.
Basically, this is Burroughs' mind done to music. It's tour de force...whiter and redder than life.
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