Another super interesting Burroughs home video…the quality is kind of crappy but it has a lot of amazing stuff in it regardless. Happy 98th would-have-been birthday.
Patti Smith - Southern Cross - William S. Burroughs Home in Lawrence, Kansas - August, 1996
Happy Birthday William S. Burroughs!
this movie is a perfect example of why i’m so glad to be at the jack kerouac school for my MFA…
(Source: asymptoticsilence)
"I believe that we, that this planet, hasn’t seen its Golden Age. Everybody says it’s finished … art’s finished, rock and roll is dead, God is dead. Fuck that! This is my chance in the world. I didn’t live back there in Mesopotamia, I wasn’t there in the Garden of Eden, I wasn’t there with Emperor Han, I’m right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age …if only each generation would realize that the time for greatness is right now when they’re alive … the time to flower is now."
- Patti Smith (via thebeathotel)
