On 8/3/05 12:02 PM, "Richard Jeffrey Newman" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> On it (from a 3CD album called I think The Beat Generation)
> I am now listening to bits of Kerouac, Burroughs (heroin relaxes the vocal
> chords, says my son), Ginsberg, none of them great to listen to but great
> historical curiosities now. And 27 seconds of Carl Sandburg 'On Beatniks',
> saying he was one round 1910...
Personally, my fave bit of Burroughs live is on the CD of Black Rider, the
opera he wrote with Tom Waits. To the accompaniment of a saw he (kind of)
sings
It ain't no sin
To take off your skin
And dance around in your bones
(Wonderful opera, recently on in Sydney but of course I missed it).
Best
A
Alison Croggon
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Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
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