Comments on: No glot… C’lom Fliday http://www.ballardian.com/no-glot-clom-fliday Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:59:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike B. http://www.ballardian.com/no-glot-clom-fliday/comment-page-1#comment-2895 Mike B. Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:22:23 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/?p=867#comment-2895 Thanks for posting this Simon, I must make the effort to get to what sounds like a great event. I was also deeply affected by Naked Lunch, it blew a big hole in my small-town brainpan. It convinced me that art could make a difference. It gave me a whole new vocabulary of ideas and techniques, and, importantly for me, it made me feel less horrified by my own deranged adolescent outpourings. Burroughs' influence has been enormous, one great example I was reminded of with the recent death of Barrington Bayley, his great Burroughs inspired short, The Four-Colour Problem. I was also moved to create the original Wikipedia entry for the Beat Hotel, which should be world famous for the sheer tornado of creativity to which it was home: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Hotel Thanks for posting this Simon, I must make the effort to get to what sounds like a great event. I was also deeply affected by Naked Lunch, it blew a big hole in my small-town brainpan. It convinced me that art could make a difference. It gave me a whole new vocabulary of ideas and techniques, and, importantly for me, it made me feel less horrified by my own deranged adolescent outpourings.

Burroughs’ influence has been enormous, one great example I was reminded of with the recent death of Barrington Bayley, his great Burroughs inspired short, The Four-Colour Problem.

I was also moved to create the original Wikipedia entry for the Beat Hotel, which should be world famous for the sheer tornado of creativity to which it was home: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Hotel

]]> By: Anthony Osborne http://www.ballardian.com/no-glot-clom-fliday/comment-page-1#comment-2894 Anthony Osborne Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:00:55 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/?p=867#comment-2894 Diamond Dogs is a wonderful mix of Orwell and Burroughs - the Dogs themselves being very much a homage to the Wild Boys. Bowie, bless him - always had a way with an influence. Fifty years since Naked Lunch? A nice round number to celebrate. Oh, and a very happy birthday to Mr Ballard. Diamond Dogs is a wonderful mix of Orwell and Burroughs – the Dogs themselves being very much a homage to the Wild Boys. Bowie, bless him – always had a way with an influence.
Fifty years since Naked Lunch? A nice round number to celebrate.
Oh, and a very happy birthday to Mr Ballard.

]]> By: Simon Sellars http://www.ballardian.com/no-glot-clom-fliday/comment-page-1#comment-2893 Simon Sellars Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:51:21 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/?p=867#comment-2893 Ah, thanks for the reminder. I've always wanted to see Cracked Actor, and have been meaning to seek it out. I really love Future Legend: And in the death As the last few corpses lay rotting on the slimy thoroughfare The shutters lifted in inches in Temperance Building High on Poacher's Hill And red mutant eyes gaze down on Hunger City No more big wheels Fleas the size of rats sucked on rats the size of cats And ten thousand peoploids split into small tribes Coveting the highest of the sterile skyscrapers Like packs of dogs assaulting the glass fronts of Love-Me Avenue Ripping and rewrapping mink and shiny silver fox, now legwarmers Family badge of sapphire and cracked emerald Any day now The Year of the Diamond Dogs Ah, thanks for the reminder. I’ve always wanted to see Cracked Actor, and have been meaning to seek it out. I really love Future Legend:

And in the death
As the last few corpses lay rotting on the slimy thoroughfare
The shutters lifted in inches in Temperance Building
High on Poacher’s Hill
And red mutant eyes gaze down on Hunger City
No more big wheels

Fleas the size of rats sucked on rats the size of cats
And ten thousand peoploids split into small tribes
Coveting the highest of the sterile skyscrapers
Like packs of dogs assaulting the glass fronts of Love-Me Avenue
Ripping and rewrapping mink and shiny silver fox, now legwarmers
Family badge of sapphire and cracked emerald
Any day now

The Year of the Diamond Dogs

]]> By: John Coulthart http://www.ballardian.com/no-glot-clom-fliday/comment-page-1#comment-2892 John Coulthart Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:15:28 +0000 http://www.ballardian.com/?p=867#comment-2892 The BBC documentary Cracked Actor captures Bowie in America during that period, between Diamond Dogs and Young Americans. As well as seeing him coked to the eyeballs there's also some stuff where he's preparing lyrics by cutting up lines of text. The words of Future Legend always sounded very cut-up to me. Last time I looked the whole thing was on YouTube. The BBC documentary Cracked Actor captures Bowie in America during that period, between Diamond Dogs and Young Americans. As well as seeing him coked to the eyeballs there’s also some stuff where he’s preparing lyrics by cutting up lines of text. The words of Future Legend always sounded very cut-up to me. Last time I looked the whole thing was on YouTube.

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