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  • Or the entire Waits oeuvre come to think of it. But TBR would make a great episode. There's been at least one Burroughs episode Weird Studies/Naked Lunch
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    • Weird Studies/Naked Lunch

    14 Apr 2022 - 16 Dec 2022
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      • More about the film than the Burroughs novel.
      • Opening discussion of fox/hedgehog mapped onto Beatles and themselves. Interesting. I guess I am a hedgehog of sorts, I basically have one idea, couldn't quite tell you what it is but "agency" is trying to point there.
      • One of the epigraphs, from Burroughs, paraphrasing from memory: "Hustlers of the world, you will finally realize there is one mark you cannot beat, the mark inside."
        • Hm, I think this is a typical algebraic Burroughs construction, that points to a certain kind of negative self-awareness. It instantly paints a picture of Maya, the mind constantly feeding illusions to itself (and others) but ultimately failing.
      • Nostalgia for things you never experienced.
      • Fluidity of world-crossing, yep.
      • Oddly they didn't know Burroughs has the IP on "zones", they got it from Tarkovsky.
      • It's kind of like fan fiction...or a remix of Burroughs material.
      • JFM is a big Burroughs fan.
      • "Wall-to-wall mindfuckery" (heh)
      • Burroughs, junk gives you crystalline clarity into the working of the mind (as says de Quncey), lucidity. Suppresses affect and lets you see the machinery. Heh take that MM.
      • The resonances of different drugs at different times.
      • JF hasn't done acid, how can that be
      • de Qunicey, art and crime. All art is subversive, its ontologically part of the process. Is that really true? (subject of JFM book, which I ought to read). "Works of art are machines for destroying ideology".
      • Art is not group-ish, it's about the response to an individuals absolute aloneness...works of art are also always singular.
      • You can't play the same piece of music twice the same way, because you and the situation are never the same.