Music for the afternoon: Material's Seven Souls, featuring William S. Bourroughs lobbing his words from the crypt over sounds made by genius bassist and producer Bill Laswell, guitarist Nicky Skopelitis, and reggae drumming legend Sly Dunbar. Here's Burroughs from Track 3, "Soul Killer":
There is intrigue among the souls, and treachery. No worse fate can befall a man than to be surrounded by traitor souls.
Can any soul survive the searing fireball of an atomic blast? If human and animal souls are seen as electromagnetic force fields, such fields can be totally disrupted by a nuclear explosion. The mummy's nightmare: disintegration of souls.
And this is precisely the ultra-secret and super-sensitive function of the atom bomb: a Soul Killer, to alleviate an escalating soul glut.
Scientists always said there's no such thing as a soul. Now they're in a position to prove it.
Total Death -- Soul Death. It's what the Egyptians call the Second and Final Death. This awesome power that can destroy souls forever is now vested in far-sighted and responsible men in the State Department, the CIA, and the Pentagon.
Governments fall from sheer indifference. Authority figures, deprived of the vampiric energy they suck off their constituents, are seen for what they are: dead, empty masks, manipulated by computers. And what is behind the computers? Remote control, of course.
Look at the prison you're in -- we are all in: this is a penal colony that is now a death camp, Place of the Second and Final Death.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything we have ever believed in can hope to escape.
Don't intend to be there when this shit-house goes up. Nothing in and out but the recordings. Shut them off. They are as radioactive as an old joke.
You can also listen to Track 2, "Seven Souls", here. It's inexplicably paired with video from Closet Land, featuring perennial villain Alan Rickman and a pre-lip job Madeleine Stowe.
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