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William S. Burroughs: A Man Within review by Kaja Popko

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within explores the life of a Beat writer who was arguably the grittiest and most bedeviling of the group. Despite his association with punk and grunge, Burroughs's work was lyrically plaintive and his voice provided a window to his ineffable sadness. The documentary features interviews with Burroughs and his admirers, but they frustratingly only alight on his literary significance when speaking in terms of personal influence. Leyser attempts to equate Burroughs's gun fetishism with Hunter S. Thompson's recklessness, but Burroughs's most accomplished fiction was the boiling run-off of his inner-demon-induced sweat. Burroughs epitomized the 20th-century ideal of the over-educated libertine and forever changed the conversation about sexual orientation, but his last boyfriend recounts an evening where he confessed his love, only to be laughingly dismissed. A Man Within persuasively argues that Burroughs's most dangerous addiction might have been the refusal of love.

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Here is a track for my Plug and Play Module where we had to write a track based on the cut up technique. 

For this i used an article by the Guardian on ‘Aquatic Ape Theory’. 

As for the production style I thought I would try something a little different from my normal either acoustic approach or metal. 

Lyrics- 

Phase, in our ancestry

Land, a return to aquatic existence

We hunt in the water

What we actually know

Is more likely related to the thrive of evolution

The mosaic of habits 

both far too extravagant, too simple to explain

The great shame, the elaboration