Anyone remember the William S Burroughs Nike commercial?
 

I remember it was on TV when I was 11. And even back then I scratched my head whenever I saw it and said " Why the hell is William S. Burroughs in a Shoe commercial??

I remember during it Burroughs recited his poem about " The basic unit in technology is not the bit. The basic unit is " you "

you were cool when you were 11

never saw it. wonder what's it like...

never saw it but am interested in seeing it now if anyone can get some details of it

not the nike commercial but here is wsb's thanks giving prayer : http://www.youtube.com/player.swf?video_id=j5XnSH_d5FA

So you knew who William Burroughs was at 11 years old.
Oh, and you remember that you were precisely 11 when you saw him on TV!!

Bullshit!
You troll twat

yes i also find that bit a little to hard to comprehend, most adults don't understand wsb's writing let alone a small child. this is my most prized posession along with my sy collection

I see. Irony. Well, not actually irony, more effective lampooning. Tres bien.

Yes, I knew who he was and I had read all of his books and I loved them all and I was a total intellectual as a kid, and I'm better than you cause I got into him at an early age. What do you think?

Of course I didn't but I knew his name and his face, and that he was an author. And yes i do remember I was exactly 11 when the commercial aired because I was taking an extra curiccular however you spell it, school activity at a community college and I was around college students alot, so I " KNEW " who WSB was per say, and that he was a famous novelist. That's why I said it made me wonder why he was in a commercial for shoes. It was ALSO the year Beastie Boys ILL Communications came out which was 1994, and that means I was ............ guess how old, ELEVEN

Thanks for your accusations and your insults though. They're appreciated. Isn't that what they call being a " Troll? "

you were reading naked lunch when you were 11, but you cant spell curricular when you are 23?

i dont nessicarily think you are lying, just giving you a hard time...

On the subject of Mr. Burroughs, has anyone ever heard The Saint They Called Him, the project with Kurt Cobain. I can't find it anywhere. I was just curious. Oh shit, i hope i'm not getting this wrong.

priest not saint, umjammer atomsk...a mistake anyone could make. & golden child of all people has no business correcting anyone's spelling but i still see he has a napoleonic penchant to be a smart ass whenver the opportunity presents itself. After all he's the same dude that recently said Hussein "killed millions"; I suppose he was getting his wires crossed with Hitler.

yeah, to answer your question (& that's all this topic requires is a 'yes' or no' answer really with a small comment & not all this bullshit) i remember the commercial...i was thinking at the time that bill must be low on fundage.

i'll take the word that the commercial was shown in'94. i guess khchris also didn't consider that this fact also could have been googled beforehand & thus, EyeballGrowth would have been able to determine how old he was when the spot aired simply just by that. Oh & khchris is still on my ignore list, but his post was reproduced as a quote above.

ARRRGHH!!!! When the hell did I say I read Naked Lunch at 11???

and no I didn't google it. I remember the damn commercial word for word. I was a huge couch potato back then and it really sticks out in my memory. Burroughs says " The basic unit in technology is not the bit. The basic unit is YOU. A shoe that glistens in the moonlight. The basic unit in technology is not the bit... but the BODY " His face is shown on a TV screen in a store window, and there are shots of an athlete jogging through alley ways. And there's a harmonica playing in the background.

I just checked google, and the commercial does not exist on the internet. I know you were just giving me a hard time, I'm just saying the reason I remember is because I have a very good memory. I can recite like, whole commercials and tv show openings from back then, it scares me.

everything exists on the internet


true, sometimes i just feel the need to be a pain in the ass

(like i said eyeball, i believe you. i just feel the need to be a pain in the ass)

i mentioned that as far as khchris knew you could have googled for it possibly. at that point in the thread, you hadn't yet replied back to him. Nor was i implying that i thought that you googled it & were lying or embellishing the truth. i did figure that i would be misunderstood as soon as i wrote my reply though. people are so damn predictable it makes this board boring for me. & this board is so damn stagnant. i come back to the computer every hour or two & there's hardly ever anything going on here worth a damn.

Who gives a fuck. Burroughs is an idiot for connecting himself with Nike. It is bad enough he likes underaged Mexicans.

burroughs is an idiot period

I wouldn't say that. While his cut-up novels aren't for everyone, he is a very intelligent man, even if it doesn't show in some of his novels. I enjoy reading interviews with him more than I do his actual work. However, I believe Junky to be one of the best, if not the best, books on heroin addiction.

hey Terminal Pharmacy
where did you get the framed pic of Old Bill? can you tell me some of the history of that? its very very fuckin cool

why do you think that?