David Foster Wallace on American life.

Some real shit from a German TV interview in 2003.
 

Ordinary Madness

Charles Bukowski

William Burroughs interviewed by Kathy Acker

Bertrand Russell interviewed on the BBC in 1959

Robert Anton Wilson interviewed by Genesis P. Orridge and Richard Metzger

J.G. Ballard - future now

Grant Morrison on Magick and art.

Lecture at disinfo.con (which was the first I'd ever heard of him...)

"The Invisibles is a comic book series that was published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics from 1994 to 2000. It was created and scripted by Scottish writer Grant Morrison, and drawn by various artists throughout its publication.^[1]
The plot follows (more or less) a single cell of The Invisible College, a secret organization battling against physical and psychic oppression using time travel, magic, meditation, and physical violence.^[2]
For most of the series, the team includes leader King Mob; Lord Fanny, a Brazilian shaman; Boy, a former member of the NYPD; Ragged Robin, a telepath with a mysterious past; and Jack Frost, a young hooligan from Liverpool who may be the next Buddha. Their enemies are the Archons of Outer Church, interdimensional alien gods who have already enslaved most of the human race without their knowledge."



A documentary about the man's life.

Aldous Huxley on life, freedom and control.

"Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death.

Huxley was a humanist, pacifist, and satirist. He later became interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism,^[1][2] in particular Vivekanda's Neo-Vedanta and Universalism.^[3] He is also well known for his advocacy and consumption of psychedelic drugs.
By the end of his life Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time."

Burroughs Called the Law

My basic life's religion is a mix of things I got from punk, acid, burroughs, tolkien, norse mythology and total basement hesher satanic death worship... and of all the manners of occult business I've looked into over the years in some kindof quest for context and power this magic is what makes the most sense to me... and it really is magic, dude. it turns the void in on itself, like a big mirror on the power structure... a spell against control and cosmic oppression... a celebration of not being beaten yet, you fuckers... we're on to you... William Burroughs had a way of venomously illustrating the worst and most destructive aspects of human nature and the dangers and excesses of control; both as a concept and as the reality and context we presently exist in. He was also really fucking funny. dude was way ahead of his time, which just becomes more and more evident as you delve further into his work... he was and is doing the good work for our species as a whole. of this I am sure. Anyway, I give this stuff a lot of lip service, and I do spend a good deal of my time listening to these recordings, so I figured it might be cool to share it with my friends or people who might not hear it through the floor late at night at 134 or hear me quoting from it all of the time for seemingly no good reason... For this, I've comprised a mix of some of my favorite bits of Burroughs' spoken voice. There's a lot from place of dead roads and the western lands, a few cut ups, some random stuff and a few nova express era spells and curses... there are a ton of great interviews and other pieces that are way longer and not so easily cut and put into a mixtape, but maybe I'll start in on those at some point... I dunno... I figured this would be a good starter at least, and while certainly not for everyone, I've gotten a lot out of it and I feel a kindof responsibility to pass it on in hope that you might gain from it or do something valuable with it as well.

enjoy.

J. G. Ballard on the BBC

South Bank Show: JG Ballard from grebmops on Vimeo.

William S. Burroughs: Commisioner Of Sewers