I was on a Methadone Clinic with Mr. Burroughs at KU Medical Center in Kansas City, he was very friendly and would talk to us and answer questions no matter how ridiculous they were, he would also sign books 📚 if asked, he was a wonderful person and is missed , when he was done at KU he would go to Nichols Lunch and eat breakfast, when he would see me at Nichols Lunch he would always say hello or tip his hat , RIP Mr. Burroughs
@@tonywalton1052 Were you on the morning or afternoon clinic, what was nice about KU is that you were treated like a normal person and not a convict or a person with a disease, it was amazing how the clients changed through the years, when I first got on the clinic it was mostly Vietnam Vets and Black Mafia, then in the late 1990s it changed to people doing Dilaudid, in the early days everyone was doing heroin, anyway, KU was a good clinic, I was on a clinic in Austin Texas and they were mean, they talked to you like you were in prison, it was like Cool Hand Luke , " shaking it up here boss " if you gave one dirty urine , they would kick you off
@@tonywalton1052 Hey Tony, who was your nurse at KU Methadone Center , do you still live in Kansas City, give me a text , I would like to hear from you
@@tonywalton1052 Burroughs always went to Nichols Lunch after he left the clinic, he also had at least one, sometimes two assistants that helped him, I can't imagine Bill leaving KU Methadone Clinic and going to McDonald's, we went on the same days and he always went to Nichols Lunch, I know because after I was dosed I would go there also and get breakfast, Burroughs was like clockwork, he got dosed , got his carryouts ,then headed to Nichols Lunch
Every time one of our friends would stop by unexpectedly with dope, all of us would say "God Bless you son, may you go to heaven," as a tribute to WSB. It never got old.
Burroughs. A writer, junky, poet, prophet, humorist, social commentator, homosexual, satirist, "schizo," philosopher, etc.... But most importantly, a very special human being. This film (along with "Trainspotting," "Fear and Loathing," "A Scanner Darkly" and "Requiem for a Dream") dig deep beneath the surface of the "just say no"/D.A.R.E. mentality that my generation and others were made to grow up with, exploring not only the dark, seedy underbelly of the drug culture but also exposing the underlying hypocrisies that permeate through the various cultures that denounce such vices. Most important of all, these films do not simply glamorize or condemn drug usage, rather they offer reasons as to why people get caught in the vicious cycle of addiction in the first place. The ultimate truth is this; in the end, we are all fragile. We are all human. (Way too preachy but I think you get where I'm coming from).
Lucas Davis Saw this film at the theater when it came out. The 1st Gus Van Sant film I can recall. Love the way it was shot along w/ Matt Dillion's standout performance as well as Bill's cameo. For me the best drug movie ever made on the planet earth.
Well written analysis 🧐. Great realistic drug movie of the 1980s. Matt Dillion did ☝️ one hell of a acting job portraying a cross country drug addict. BRAVO 👏!!!!!!!!!
I had the privilege of spending 3 days with Burroughs' best friend, John Giorno. Giorno was with William when he passed away. He told me that near the very end Burroughs had reached a state that the Zen Buddhists call kensho. There is no direct translation for the Japanese word kensho to English but it approximately means a state of spiritual enlightenment. The world misses your wisdom, Mr. Bill.
A man who shot his wife in the head and spent two weeks or so in jail for it would not normally be liked, never mind be recognized as a literary pioneer. He wrote his way out of the Ugly Spirit of his guilt, showing that literature is truly redemptive and world changing.
I think his life story shows the fact that most horrible things happen because people are high. Him shooting his wife, Hitler, and many famous murderers
Harrison Thompson who hasn't thought that at the clinic? I for damn sure have. Everyone has. Hell weve all let people go ahead of us in line so we could go to another nurses window at the clinic if we end up at the "Junkie Nurses" window so we dont get shorted watered down bullshit. You all know Its true!
After getting fucked over by my pharmacy today regarding my pain medication that I need for my chronic migraines due to Lyme disease I agree with William S Burroughs 100%
Mr. Burroughs was fortunate for many things besides the fact he lived into his 80's and was able to remain active for as long as he did. It makes me think his decision to turn to the criminal networks for inspiration was his comment on the variable foolishness of treating a deviant as violent and vice versa. A person who thinks differently doesn't necessarily pose a threat and desire you dead.
@@daisychainmilk An Indulgence is a monetary donation to the church to improve one's or one's family member or friend's placement in heaven upon their judgement. This scene is very funny because Burroughs is saying his gift of dilaudid is so great that Bob has surely earned himself a place in heaven.
This was a really great movie that almost went completely overlooked by moviegoers back then, in a time when huge blockbusters were the only thing people started caring about. Still, this movie was a brilliant story ahead of its time. Seems very relevant now, especially with the opiate epidemic and pharma drug problem we face in this country.
I felt the exact opposite. All the people that should have saw this film did so The theaters were packed here in Chicago. Those in the know were extremely excited. It was an extremely popular indie flick that had a rabid following. This wasn’t a film for squares.
I hate the catch phrase opiate epidemic. The only thing that has changed is China and Mexico have flooded the states with cheap fentanyl analogs. Thanks to the US government abandoning the afghan poppy fields thereby opening the floodgates for a stronger cheaper drug designed to kill. Big pharma is a convenient scapegoat. Very few heroin addicts back in the day started because of an oxy addiction. We live in a shit world filled with ghouls.
garyd044 Im sorry but burroughs, jack kerouac, are far from 'shakespeares' imo the only one with some real talent was Ginsberg, especially his "Howl", but its hard to read a poem written by a guy who likes young boys. The best american writers imo, are those from the 19 and 18th century. (Emerson, Poe, etc) Beat generation.... i cant believe burroughs came up with this 'cutt and paste' technique lol. Thats just silly, afcourse sometimes u get an interesting sentence, but i mean, come on ;) lol.
@@SimplyLimbo I think it's hard to compare Burroughs and Kerouac with Allen Ginsberg, the first two being writers and Allen a poet. Too, I think Ginsberg had 2 TRULY great works; "HOWL" and "Kaddish"...of course, there many gems in his body of work. It is futile (to say nothing of ill-advised) to allow your views on morality come into play when it comes to literature. We'd have NO literature at all if the morality yardstick was applied. Having said that, some of Ginsberg's poems turn me off with the focus on pederasty. Take care.
Joachim Peiper SS Love Drugstore Cowboy as well. Uncle Bill was no less than a prophet...one of only a few writers that In my opinion were possessed of the gift, the other two main ones are George Orwell and Aldous Huxley...Ray Bradbury deserves a nod for "Fahrenheit 451". But Bill's words (and make no mistake, he made these pronouncements in the '50's) spoken during 3:17 to 4:34...are prophetic warnings that have come to pass...as we all know...especially we who are afflicted with "The Sickness". Be well.
@@1060michaelg i have the same thing. When i read "Howl", and the gay bjts come along i skip them.;) But i read Howl once in a blue moon. I forgot to name two other great amerixan piets. Ezra Pound and T. S Eliot. Love these two !
How right BURROUGHS was. How right BURROUGHS is. It kills me a little inside to know that my favorite writers were correct. Only because they are correct. I am scared to know what I am gonna have to go through when I am his age (here) and know that I will receive very little help. Years of pain and complaining and telling my grandkids how it used to be or: HOSPICE for a week of bliss...
When the patron Saint of junkies asks you if you are holding you don't wanna answer in the negative. However our boy was able to make up for it before the end. The Immaculate Fix.
Saw this movie coming down from a (hungover) LSD trip at an art-house cinema in Milwaukee, 1989. It changed my life so much I wrote James Fogle (the screenwriter who this movie is based on) soon after to thank him. He was incarcerated in the WA State Penn in Walla Walla. He wrote back, and we corrssponded for a year or two. This ( 4:50 ) was my favorite scene in the movie.
Man! As a recovering addict i can identify with " getting a little bit ahead of schedule ", even when i got on methadone ( pills for pain, actual pain). I,d take to many and come up short and sick!
I do junky math to stay on schedule. But as Bill says you always justify an exception and you get a head of your schedule. I love the way he meticulously describes the reduction cure - and then says it has never been known to work.
Did you cop anything after hearing that line? No matter how it turned out, mate, I wish you all the best. From an old, tired and almost dead dope fiend...
those who spent any time in a catholic school years ago should be rolling on the floor at that line burroughs says at 5:38...."this should earn you an indulgence"
my favorite part in the movie other than the hat in the bed is when hes like "that shits for squares" it always makes me laugh and I tell the same thing to people that offer me vicodin and percocet. pretty good for a murderer LOL
Acidbath, i hated that line, there were times i would have killed for just darvocet!, Ive never known a junkie to turn down anything! But of course he was on methadone so i guess he didn't get to " ahead of schedule ".
"The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate, is anathema to these idiots." What's more true than most realize is that it is the illegality of these drugs that brings about almost all of the negative consequences of their use. Most are simple plant compounds. They should cost pennies per dose. But instead the laws incentivize a black market that makes drugs unaffordable by normal means. You can't score in a timely manner, so you can't ever insure that you'll be somewhere on time for a job. You can't afford what you need to stay well from the wages of said said job, so a junkie is forced into a life of crime to gain money for his habit. Because the drugs are illegal, there is no reliable system for identifying what's in the drugs one is sold, so two shots that appear absolutely identical can contain wildly different amounts of drugs, so overdose is common. If these compounds were regulated and subjected to the laws of supply and demand, their prices would plummet and overdose deaths would cease. But the banking cartels need the massive influx of black market cash to run their fractional reserve system. Without it, the banks would crash in a month's tme.
I gave this Dvd to my ex girlfriend for her birthday....outside the methadone clinic.....she had never seen it.....I just wanted to something nice....she remembered me on my birthday...we were bad dopers.
Watching this now gives me fond memories of the old downtown Portland, such a beautiful place in the summertime. Back when junkies and straights had their own lanes and for the most part the boundaries were respected --- now the utter hopelessness and lifeless void of drug addiction runs around rampant. Its toxicity and osmosis affecting every Portlander and visitor. What was such a great and special place, now merely a husk of its old self.
One of the last great films of the 1980's. I still have the framed poster. A nice double feature for this film would be "Rush" with Jennifer Jason Leigh.
boy I bet burroughs knew a few junkie priests in his day I did ,years ago I much prefer to listen to the sermon of a junkie then the ones that said mass on booze. on the drink
Bob and the priest....morphine sulfate was the bottom of the barrel... remember the 1st deal?? They kid said he hated that "downtown trash" and that was all bob would trade...he had dilaudid and everything else but the or they "the junkies" hated morphine...they still do till this day...morphine is garbage, especially when your injecting heroin and powdered D(dilaudid)....
I think for me it just shows that he was smart and he applied himself. He was interested in being a writer and he put his mind to it through his studies. That says something in itself I think.
I'm in Portland currently ...I forgot this was filmed here ...it's weird to watch this movie n then go walk around downtown...last night I smoked a joint under the i5 viaducts where Gus shot that artsy scene where they were hiding behind the viaduct poles.... Something to do I spose.... All I know is the same eery vibe from the movie is exactly what I feel here everyday . Portlands fucking weird .
@@calaveen It's implied that it is pure powder, as earlier in the film they steal the pure dilaudid that Matt Dillon's character calculates will be worth thousands on the street.
Matt Dillon has to be the coolest looking guy I bet he was honored to work with the pope of Dope in all his beatnik royalty. Burroughs was even old for the beat poets they all looked up to him. Kerouac, and Ginsberg this probably is my favorite Gus Van Sant movie was disappointed with my own private Idaho
Does anyone known what hotel that was on the last scene? I live in Portland Oregon and will gladly go there and perform an invocation (yes I will include the bait.) Thanks for any info.
You've misunderstood me. I like William S Burroughs and his writing. But I hated that a guy that I admire could be bought by a sneaker company. And by the way going to Harvard is no big deal. I went to Stanford (graduated 1992).....it's all hype kid.....its the job you get that matters.
He was 70 and needed to pay for his Kansas home. Secondly he even said "If you can sell out do it immediately." And "No real artist gives a shit about being an artist when all we want is a little money and peace"
".... narcotics have been SYSteMAticAlly scapegoated and demonized." well, well, well.... it's important to stay true to your very own demons and avoid getting screwed by the machine.
Jackmonster3231: Nah, that was just Burroughs being himself... Nobody said he was an actor, but for the most part, that is what people wanna see. Ever hear him on that one Laurie Anderson record?.. Same deal. Also one Dilaudid over ten of heroin! Any time!..
Matt dillions, americns, character's good actors, n... his times 1980s 1990s, today's he's mights had retired from actions, good jobs, performances dillions, you's can acts so well, also matts dillions, happy birthday's, aging artisited 63s yrs old,
I was on a Methadone Clinic with Mr. Burroughs at KU Medical Center in Kansas City, he was very friendly and would talk to us and answer questions no matter how ridiculous they were, he would also sign books 📚 if asked, he was a wonderful person and is missed , when he was done at KU he would go to Nichols Lunch and eat breakfast, when he would see me at Nichols Lunch he would always say hello or tip his hat , RIP Mr. Burroughs
I was at the same clinic with Burroughs. We used to go out to mcdonalds together
@@tonywalton1052 Were you on the morning or afternoon clinic, what was nice about KU is that you were treated like a normal person and not a convict or a person with a disease, it was amazing how the clients changed through the years, when I first got on the clinic it was mostly Vietnam Vets and Black Mafia, then in the late 1990s it changed to people doing Dilaudid, in the early days everyone was doing heroin, anyway, KU was a good clinic, I was on a clinic in Austin Texas and they were mean, they talked to you like you were in prison, it was like Cool Hand Luke , " shaking it up here boss " if you gave one dirty urine , they would kick you off
@@tonywalton1052 Hey Tony, who was your nurse at KU Methadone Center , do you still live in Kansas City, give me a text , I would like to hear from you
@@tonywalton1052 Burroughs always went to Nichols Lunch after he left the clinic, he also had at least one, sometimes two assistants that helped him, I can't imagine Bill leaving KU Methadone Clinic and going to McDonald's, we went on the same days and he always went to Nichols Lunch, I know because after I was dosed I would go there also and get breakfast, Burroughs was like clockwork, he got dosed , got his carryouts ,then headed to Nichols Lunch
That’s awesome ❤️
Every time one of our friends would stop by unexpectedly with dope, all of us would say "God Bless you son, may you go to heaven," as a tribute to WSB. It never got old.
Think it’s “may you go to Him.”
Burroughs. A writer, junky, poet, prophet, humorist, social commentator, homosexual, satirist, "schizo," philosopher, etc.... But most importantly, a very special human being. This film (along with "Trainspotting," "Fear and Loathing," "A Scanner Darkly" and "Requiem for a Dream") dig deep beneath the surface of the "just say no"/D.A.R.E. mentality that my generation and others were made to grow up with, exploring not only the dark, seedy underbelly of the drug culture but also exposing the underlying hypocrisies that permeate through the various cultures that denounce such vices. Most important of all, these films do not simply glamorize or condemn drug usage, rather they offer reasons as to why people get caught in the vicious cycle of addiction in the first place. The ultimate truth is this; in the end, we are all fragile. We are all human. (Way too preachy but I think you get where I'm coming from).
Lucas Davis Saw this film at the theater when it came out. The 1st Gus Van Sant film I can recall. Love the way it was shot along w/ Matt Dillion's standout performance as well as Bill's cameo. For me the best drug movie ever made on the planet earth.
Well said.
doomzday Hahaha! You're a moron. I've forgotten more about Burroughs than you will ever know!
Well written analysis 🧐. Great realistic drug movie of the 1980s. Matt Dillion did ☝️ one hell of a acting job portraying a cross country drug addict. BRAVO 👏!!!!!!!!!
One quick look at Burroughs was enough to persuade most to never do drugs.
Burroughs' incredibly tilted way of talking sounds incredibly easy on the ears. It's soothing, in a way. Mesmerizing, almost.
Dr
Beatnik
The man’s voice is soaked in dope. It’s lovely
He has that whining I’m so high ahhh was was sound kind of hate it
Magical technique
Bill's not "acting a part"...he's just being Bill Burroughs!!
"Starring William S. Burroughs as William S. Burroughs!"
True, but then to act like oneself in front of a camera is not always as easy as it might appear.
Burroughs stole all his scenes in this film! Awesome compilation
He was famous for a reason. Another genius.
It's amazing to hear him say the simple words "Well, well..." when he turns around to address Matt Dillon.
Old age can sometimes (if you are lucky and not too unhealthy) be awesome. What a voice! What presence...
I had the privilege of spending 3 days with Burroughs' best friend, John Giorno. Giorno was with William when he passed away. He told me that near the very end Burroughs had reached a state that the Zen Buddhists call kensho. There is no direct translation for the Japanese word kensho to English but it approximately means a state of spiritual enlightenment. The world misses your wisdom, Mr. Bill.
the man knew his shit , both philosphically and pharmaceutically , way ahead of his time ,a visionary and gifted writer /orater ...a great man
i used to own this movie on VHS. Somebody stole it on me... I understood.
So we can all enjoy the movie.
He must've shot a million bucks in his arm lol loved that line
A man who shot his wife in the head and spent two weeks or so in jail for it would not normally be liked, never mind be recognized as a literary pioneer. He wrote his way out of the Ugly Spirit of his guilt, showing that literature is truly redemptive and world changing.
Hero, baby.
I think his life story shows the fact that most horrible things happen because people are high. Him shooting his wife, Hitler, and many famous murderers
@Saucy Boy Yes. Did I not spell it correctly?
@Saucy Boy dummy can’t read? hero.
I still don't get what happened with his wife..... was it really an accident? Why no manslaughter charge?
"and sometimes I think some junkie nurse might be stepping on my medication" lol!! rip W.S.B.
But I can't be sure.
Harrison Thompson who hasn't thought that at the clinic? I for damn sure have. Everyone has. Hell weve all let people go ahead of us in line so we could go to another nurses window at the clinic if we end up at the "Junkie Nurses" window so we dont get shorted watered down bullshit. You all know Its true!
@@randomvideosfilmcollection3161 i am in mmt been in that line for 6 yrs now.... Idk maybe im a lifer?
@@g.g5060 Don't fret friend I think I am too. Thankfully we still get the wafers down in ol Alabama. So I know she ain't stepping on my dose.
Uhm. Guess that would be me...^^
Those smooooth unit vocals.....Well...Well.........Luck to have a post card from him .....years back...
3:37 "Narcotics have been systematically........well Bob, in another life, in another life" love Burroughs
After getting fucked over by my pharmacy today regarding my pain medication that I need for my chronic migraines due to Lyme disease I agree with William S Burroughs 100%
Same with me and my messed up back it’s ridiculous
yeah I'm 78 and I got completely cut off of everything by my doctor this week. Been bedridden three years
he's so cool for doing this movie
Mr. Burroughs was fortunate for many things besides the fact he lived into his 80's and was able to remain active for as long as he did. It makes me think his decision to turn to the criminal networks for inspiration was his comment on the variable foolishness of treating a deviant as violent and vice versa. A person who thinks differently doesn't necessarily pose a threat and desire you dead.
Such a distinctive voice.
To see Burroughs pop up in this gripping film is a real good surprise.
His role is a calm in this stormy saga.
One of the core writers from the Beatnik's. This scene means SO very much to me!!!
This.....a hundred sixteenth of Dilaudid...this should earn you an indulgence ! As he puts the bottle down on his old bible.
I fucking love dilaudid.
I'm confused what does that mean?
Snow Bunny Prince I'm confused.
are you a snow bunny prince who looks like a snow bunny princess?
@@kineticblues2766 yeah, I guess. I'm a boy but alot of people think I'm a girl sadly.
@@daisychainmilk An Indulgence is a monetary donation to the church to improve one's or one's family member or friend's placement in heaven upon their judgement. This scene is very funny because Burroughs is saying his gift of dilaudid is so great that Bob has surely earned himself a place in heaven.
This was a really great movie that almost went completely overlooked by moviegoers back then, in a time when huge blockbusters were the only thing people started caring about. Still, this movie was a brilliant story ahead of its time. Seems very relevant now, especially with the opiate epidemic and pharma drug problem we face in this country.
It should have been a warning not glorification in the time before fentanyl and 100,000 annual US deaths.
They overlooked this movie and the 1991 movie Rush.. Rush is a great movie
I saw Drugstore Cowboy when it came out in the late eighties I loved it an is one of my favourite movies 🍿 🎉
I felt the exact opposite.
All the people that should have saw this film did so
The theaters were packed here in Chicago.
Those in the know were extremely excited.
It was an extremely popular indie flick that had a rabid following.
This wasn’t a film for squares.
I hate the catch phrase opiate epidemic.
The only thing that has changed is China and Mexico have flooded the states with cheap fentanyl analogs.
Thanks to the US government abandoning the afghan poppy fields thereby opening the floodgates for a stronger cheaper drug designed to kill.
Big pharma is a convenient scapegoat.
Very few heroin addicts back in the day started because of an oxy addiction.
We live in a shit world filled with ghouls.
Love the shot at the end of that scene where Father Murphy sits the bottle of dilaudid on the bible. Certainly as close to heaven as I may ever get.
never a truer word spoke bill about drugs and a police state
Richard do you still feel this way? I'd love to talk with you. I am in total agreement of what you said.
Absinther. GREAT VIDEO. THANK YOU. ☺☺ Drugstore Cowboy one of my favorite. movies. And William Shakespeare Burroughs was a Genius beyond his time.
garyd044 Im sorry but burroughs, jack kerouac, are far from 'shakespeares' imo the only one with some real talent was Ginsberg, especially his "Howl", but its hard to read a poem written by a guy who likes young boys.
The best american writers imo, are those from the 19 and 18th century. (Emerson, Poe, etc)
Beat generation....
i cant believe burroughs came up with this 'cutt and paste' technique lol. Thats just silly, afcourse sometimes u get an interesting sentence, but i mean, come on ;)
lol.
@@SimplyLimbo I think it's hard to compare Burroughs and Kerouac with Allen Ginsberg, the first two being writers and Allen a poet. Too, I think Ginsberg had 2 TRULY great works; "HOWL" and "Kaddish"...of course, there many gems in his body of work.
It is futile (to say nothing of ill-advised) to allow your views on morality come into play when it comes to literature. We'd have NO literature at all if the morality yardstick was applied. Having said that, some of Ginsberg's poems turn me off with the focus on pederasty. Take care.
Joachim Peiper SS Love Drugstore Cowboy as well. Uncle Bill was no less than a prophet...one of only a few writers that In my opinion were possessed of the gift, the other two main ones are George Orwell and Aldous Huxley...Ray Bradbury deserves a nod for "Fahrenheit 451". But Bill's words (and make no mistake, he made these pronouncements in the '50's) spoken during 3:17 to 4:34...are prophetic warnings that have come to pass...as we all know...especially we who are afflicted with "The Sickness". Be well.
@@1060michaelg i have the same thing. When i read "Howl", and the gay bjts come along i skip them.;) But i read Howl once in a blue moon. I forgot to name two other great amerixan piets. Ezra Pound and T. S Eliot. Love these two !
@@SimplyLimbo Yes! Agree!
3:57-4:16 Were getting damn near close. Very wise man Burroughs was. RIP
Especially odd considering burroughs was himself a right-winger
I'm not sure about him being rightwing, he was no communist.
That's for sure.
We need William S Burroughs in today's world
Wise old man, he was.
"now...oh ya, this...uhhh, this is for squares, never touch this stuff..."
I was looking for this line! I use it still today lol
How right BURROUGHS was. How right BURROUGHS is.
It kills me a little inside to know that my favorite writers were correct. Only because they are correct. I am scared to know what I am gonna have to go through when I am his age (here) and know that I will receive very little help. Years of pain and complaining and telling my grandkids how it used to be or:
HOSPICE for a week of bliss...
When the patron Saint of junkies asks you if you are holding you don't wanna answer in the negative.
However our boy was able to make up for it before the end.
The Immaculate Fix.
Was out of town when I first watched this movie, but it made me feel good to think of Burroughs stalking around Portland in such a good flick
How about it , wanta score ? I do, I do !
We should start a new "me too" movement in reply to your comment :)
I can imagine what having a shot with Burroughs would be like. I imagine it would be quite a fun experience.
Burroughs basically playing one of his own characters here. The Priest They Called Him.
Fight tuberculosis, folks.
A Beatnik. An inspirational scene!!!
I loved William S. Burroughs...still do. His books, life are all crazy good.
Saw this movie coming down from a (hungover) LSD trip at an art-house cinema in Milwaukee, 1989. It changed my life so much I wrote James Fogle (the screenwriter who this movie is based on) soon after to thank him. He was incarcerated in the WA State Penn in Walla Walla.
He wrote back, and we corrssponded for a year or two. This ( 4:50 ) was my favorite scene in the movie.
Such a splendid thing. Thanks from a fading old beatnik.
Beautifully put together in a kind of movie sequencing, brilliance! Thank you absinther666.
The best part of UA-cam
and a damn good movie BTW....
Great shot closing with the curtain ! 👏
Gotta be an old junkie to dig this!
This guy is a god. I liked his mind.
Man! As a recovering addict i can identify with " getting a little bit ahead of schedule ", even when i got on methadone ( pills for pain, actual pain). I,d take to many and come up short and sick!
I do junky math to stay on schedule. But as Bill says you always justify an exception and you get a head of your schedule. I love the way he meticulously describes the reduction cure - and then says it has never been known to work.
Fatty, im been trying to catch up for 20 years.
@@shivasirons6159 oh yeah! Been there for almost that long!
I still reference the quote from this movie when I stream video games. As he is sorting thru the drugs from the brown bag - "now this, THIS.."
.. Big Bill shoulda won the Oscar > best supporting actor > at year's end award season for this one.. How could anyone else have been better?..
Hearing Burroughs say "you wanna score?" almost makes me want to go fix.
Did you cop anything after hearing that line? No matter how it turned out, mate, I wish you all the best. From an old, tired and almost dead dope fiend...
@@barneyronnie I hope you manage to get by and wish you luck, Greetingz from an oldtimer in Holland
@@orgonebox4mi357 Thank you, sir. Happy Holidays to You!
It scares the shit outta me just thinking about it! Cause i,d be like, " gimme the money ".
Two years later and i havent picked it up yet.
those who spent any time in a catholic school years ago should be rolling on the floor at that line burroughs says at 5:38...."this should earn you an indulgence"
inkey2 I wasn't raised catholic but I do know what he means about earning an indulgence and that is pretty funny
@@harrisonthompson8627 what does it mean?
5:10 The best line ever!! Been sayin it every since lol
i love william s burroughs....but he was no william tell
Sid maybe if he wasnt drunk or if he had a fresh shot flowing he would have been a better aim
lol that's not a nice play on words, is it sid?
For those interested you gotta here him read Junky. I found it on youtube. It's fabulous to hear him read his book.
Haha yeah I listen to that and naked lunch as i doze off to sleep
oh, is it an audio book, I want it if it is.
please tell me , virtual friend
@@elmochingko1281 I never understood Naked Lunch, guess I am thick
my favorite part in the movie other than the hat in the bed is when hes like "that shits for squares" it always makes me laugh and I tell the same thing to people that offer me vicodin and percocet. pretty good for a murderer LOL
Acidbath, i hated that line, there were times i would have killed for just darvocet!, Ive never known a junkie to turn down anything! But of course he was on methadone so i guess he didn't get to " ahead of schedule ".
@@shivasirons6159 I thought the reason they were called Junkies is because they do anything. Like a junk box
Such a great movie.
Greatest American writing of all time, but not much for acting.
"The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate, is anathema to these idiots."
What's more true than most realize is that it is the illegality of these drugs that brings about almost all of the negative consequences of their use. Most are simple plant compounds. They should cost pennies per dose. But instead the laws incentivize a black market that makes drugs unaffordable by normal means. You can't score in a timely manner, so you can't ever insure that you'll be somewhere on time for a job. You can't afford what you need to stay well from the wages of said said job, so a junkie is forced into a life of crime to gain money for his habit. Because the drugs are illegal, there is no reliable system for identifying what's in the drugs one is sold, so two shots that appear absolutely identical can contain wildly different amounts of drugs, so overdose is common. If these compounds were regulated and subjected to the laws of supply and demand, their prices would plummet and overdose deaths would cease. But the banking cartels need the massive influx of black market cash to run their fractional reserve system. Without it, the banks would crash in a month's tme.
I'd totally gscore some dope with a man like Mr.Burroughs
I gave this Dvd to my ex girlfriend for her birthday....outside the methadone clinic.....she had never seen it.....I just wanted to something nice....she remembered me on my birthday...we were bad dopers.
Brilliant! Good movie ...
RIP James Fogle
Watching this now gives me fond memories of the old downtown Portland, such a beautiful place in the summertime. Back when junkies and straights had their own lanes and for the most part the boundaries were respected --- now the utter hopelessness and lifeless void of drug addiction runs around rampant. Its toxicity and osmosis affecting every Portlander and visitor. What was such a great and special place, now merely a husk of its old self.
One of the last great films of the 1980's. I still have the framed poster.
A nice double feature for this film would be "Rush" with Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Rush is a great movie.
One nite we watched blue velvet....drug store cowboy and wonderland ....bottle of gin and an eight ball....
@@patdisaster8543 I bet you were floating on a cloud of titties feeling all unnecessary
Dilaudid, you had to be there...
It is a beautiful feeling alright
28 dollars an ounce. That was in '33. About as much as you can put on the end of a toothpick, the big end. A lot of guys killed themselves with it.
This movie was good and having Uncle Bill make an appearance was really special. However my favorite drug movie is The Panic in Needle Park.
I liked the movie very much, wasn't aware of Burroughs or who he was.
I would relapse a thousand times to do a shot with Burroughs.
boy I bet burroughs knew a few junkie priests in his day I did ,years ago I much prefer to listen to the sermon of a junkie then the ones that said mass on booze. on the drink
This is for squares, never touched the stuff...
The best line ever. What do you think was in that pile? I bet it was demerol.
Hydromorphone
@@michaelcadd6533 no the Dilaudid he wanted...he put the other pile away...it was morphine sulfate. They hate that shir
Bob and the priest....morphine sulfate was the bottom of the barrel... remember the 1st deal?? They kid said he hated that "downtown trash" and that was all bob would trade...he had dilaudid and everything else but the or they "the junkies" hated morphine...they still do till this day...morphine is garbage, especially when your injecting heroin and powdered D(dilaudid)....
M.S. Not my favoeite, but for squares!? Id never turn anything down, when your,re sick who cares?
I think for me it just shows that he was smart and he applied himself. He was interested in being a writer and he put his mind to it through his studies. That says something in itself I think.
"100 sixteenths of Dilaudid.... This should earn you an indulgence"! Ha! Damn tootin'!
I'm in Portland currently ...I forgot this was filmed here ...it's weird to watch this movie n then go walk around downtown...last night I smoked a joint under the i5 viaducts where Gus shot that artsy scene where they were hiding behind the viaduct poles.... Something to do I spose....
All I know is the same eery vibe from the movie is exactly what I feel here everyday .
Portlands fucking weird .
@Saucy Boy ive been away for a year n half ...is downtown still total chaos everynight or what ?
100 1/16ths of hydromorphone … sounds kinda fun lol
Unlikely he'd be asking a question like "Are you holding?" in such a loud voice, in public . . . but great scenes, nonetheless.
100 sixteenths is about 400mg roughly if anyone is curious.
Thanks so they are 4mg tablets!
I was wandering that. That should have earned Bob an indulgence. That's alot of D. K2 K4 and K8. Makes my mouth water abit.
I've never heard of that expression.. Do you mean there were 100 of the yellow K-4 's in the bottle??
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@@calaveen It's implied that it is pure powder, as earlier in the film they steal the pure dilaudid that Matt Dillon's character calculates will be worth thousands on the street.
Matt Dillon has to be the coolest looking guy I bet he was honored to work with the pope of Dope in all his beatnik royalty. Burroughs was even old for the beat poets they all looked up to him. Kerouac, and Ginsberg this probably is my favorite Gus Van Sant movie was disappointed with my own private Idaho
Very good movie.
Interdependence is the key; enlightened interdependence.
I knew it was him by the picture on the novel of Junky.
saw it the theatre the day before i saw living colour open for the stones (only reason i went was to see them cover the clash)
@NeoTRP Nope. The Father doesn't die. He actually peeks out of the window as Bob is on a gurney, being questioned by the fuzz.
Does anyone known what hotel that was on the last scene? I live in Portland Oregon and will gladly go there and perform an invocation (yes I will include the bait.) Thanks for any info.
You've misunderstood me. I like William S Burroughs and his writing. But I hated that a guy that I admire could be bought by a sneaker company. And by the way going to Harvard is no big deal. I went to Stanford (graduated 1992).....it's all hype kid.....its the job you get that matters.
He was 70 and needed to pay for his Kansas home. Secondly he even said "If you can sell out do it immediately." And "No real artist gives a shit about being an artist when all we want is a little money and peace"
@@dullknifefactory That's right, and Uncle Bill also said, "Always keep your snout in the public trough if you possibly can."
".... narcotics have been SYSteMAticAlly scapegoated and demonized."
well, well, well.... it's important to stay true to your very own demons and avoid getting screwed by the machine.
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See, filmmakers? Even having a character introduced by coming down on an elevator is vaguely innovative. Especially if it's Dr. Burroughs himself.
Did you ever go cop? No matter what, best wishes, mate, from a tired old dope fiend...
Well....Well. damn, how lucky was matt dillion to have acted with burroughs.
Watch JUNKYS CHRISTMAS by Burroughs
He was right about the "International police" bit. And hysteria is the order of the day..!
This is for squares, never touch the stuff lol
Does his character die in the movie? I watched it a long time ago; is that what forces Dillion's character off drugs in the end?
Mr Dead, the Talking Corpse
On the nod.
Jackmonster3231: Nah, that was just Burroughs being himself... Nobody said he was an actor, but for the most part, that is what people wanna see. Ever hear him on that one Laurie Anderson record?.. Same deal. Also one Dilaudid over ten of heroin! Any time!..
Sharky,s night i remenber and he did a litlle tango with Laurie Anderson GreetZ from Holland
Jesus, I wish I had known him. Born too late.
Is this old guy the voice of the giant tortoise in the never ending story? Sounds alot like it
Great movie, but burroughs made it brilliant.
Matt dillions, americns, character's good actors, n... his times 1980s 1990s, today's he's mights had retired from actions, good jobs, performances dillions, you's can acts so well, also matts dillions, happy birthday's, aging artisited 63s yrs old,
God Bless that Old Croaker who wrote like a major.
I bet the junkies finally ran him out of business.
he write like a major
the old croaker