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Paranoid Alice - Superglue (music vid) William S. Burroughs, The Cut Ups'' (1966)
Debut Album: Mental Illness For The Masses https://open.spotify.com/artist/78j13yWCkTuW9trZhwt9Aa?fbclid=PAAaY0sY7Ce9lNsn0OLVi221AlnyzHJIwi2SeghcFtcPyEAMQQJFr1q_z32hU

The 1966 short The Cut-Ups is probably avant-garde writer William Burrough’s best-known foray into experimental film, which he made with filmmaker and renowned smut/horror distributor Antony Balch. The film features random, repetitive shots of Burroughs in New York, London and Tangiers spliced together in precise lengths but with little regard for the content of the image. The audio is a cut-up conversation with the words “Yes” and “Hello,” getting looped over and over and over again.

The film is a trippy, mesmerizing experience. The mind struggles to make sense of the chaos. It feels like you’re watching a dream that has somehow short-circuited. Also starring Brion Gysin, a British-Canadian painter, writer, sound poet, performance artist and inventor of experimental devices such as The Dreamachine.

When the film first premiered, film audiences were reportedly freaked out. Some declared that the movie made them feel ill while others demanded their money back. You can watch it for free above. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

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Transcript
00:00Hello? Hello?
00:14Do you want help?
00:18Are you trying to talk to us?
00:22I'm sorry, dear.
00:30I'm sorry, dear.
00:34I'm so sorry.
00:36I'm sorry.
00:40I'm sorry.
00:43I'm sorry.
00:54I'm sorry.
00:57You don't sound surprised, malignant or unwind
01:08If I could decide to poison my mind
01:16Drink a bell of thorn out of the graveyard
01:21Dancing with the snakes out of the brine
01:25Lord have mercy, let's go insane
01:30I said, out of my head
01:35No one is around
01:38Let's go, out of my head
01:43No one is around
01:55The party's divine
02:05I let the night eat the skyline
02:09Curse of the witch
02:14Halloween hour
02:17I walk the wall before the sun
02:21Let me put my arms around her head
02:25Strange favors, shrug up fashion
02:29Dirty mirror, smashing sun
02:33I said, out of my head
02:39No one is around
02:41Let's go, out of my head
02:46No one is around
02:49No one is around
03:20No one is around
03:23No one is around
03:26No one is around
03:50You don't sound surprised, malignant or unwind
04:09If I could decide to poison my mind
04:17Drink a bell of thorn out of the graveyard
04:21Dancing with the snakes out of the brine
04:25Lord have mercy, let's go insane
04:30I said, out of my head
04:35No one is around
04:38Let's go, out of my head
04:43No one is around
04:54I said, out of my head
04:59No one is around
05:13No one is around
05:43No one is around

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