Full Version", "The "Priest" They Called Him: A Dark Collaboration Between Kurt Cobain & William S. Burroughs", "The Junky's Christmas: William S. Burrough's Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford Coppola (1993)", And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs, Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs, You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With, Words of Advice: William S. Burroughs on the Road, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Junky%27s_Christmas&oldid=963681516, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 21 June 2020, at 05:23. Danny returns to his room. 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Unable to find heroin anywhere Danny decides to visit a doctor with the hopes of obtaining some morphine. It originally appears in the 1989 collection Interzone and on the 1993 album Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales. [7][8], The "Priest" They Called Him is the spoken word version of The Junky's Christmas done by William S. Burroughs over a guitar track by Kurt Cobain. With his morphine tablet secreted away, Danny rents a room for two dollars. [Aggregate score: 9.25], Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS. With discussions on video games, movies, literature, philosophy, and more, The Lost Signals is a podcast platform for analysis of pop culture at large. Danny offers to call an ambulance, but soon realizes that the paramedics will not come as they believe the young man is faking illness to obtain opiates. All Rights Reserved. [6] Burroughs' reading of the story recorded for Spare Ass Annie serves as the narration of the film, while Burroughs appears in live-action footage at the beginning and end of the film. The morphine immediately alleviates the young man’s pain. CopyRight 2020 Develop by books.mediafile.live . Christmas is a time of good cheer and celebration that s the official version A Junky s Christmas shows that there are other stories to be told This feisty, ironic celebration includes works by Omar Sattau, A.L Kennedy, William Trevor, Anne Macleod, William S Burroughs, Francis King, and many others. Disgusted, he discards the legs and tries to find a buyer for the suitcase. As he prepares to inject the morphine, he hears groaning coming from the next room. “The Junky’s Christmas” begins with William Burroughs, seated by a Christmas tree and fireplace, reading from Interzone. The black-and-white live action gives way to animation, showing junk-sick Danny trying to break into a car. Hoping to make enough money to buy his next hit of heroin, he scours the streets looking for something to steal. (The recording is the same as that found on the Spare Ass Annie CD.) The doctor is suspicious but gives Danny a quarter of a grain of morphine free of charge. [1] It was later adapted into short claymation film[2][3] and a spoken word version was performed through a collaboration between William S. Burroughs and Kurt Cobain.[4]. After an unsuccessful attempt to break into a parked car, he discovers an unattended suitcase sitting in a doorway. Distracted, he follows the sound of the groaning across the hall to find a young man suffering from kidney stones. It was later adapted into short claymation film and a spoken word version was performed through a collaboration between William S. Burroughs and Kurt Cobain. TLS taps the vein of “The Junky’s Christmas.” William S. Burroughs’ bittersweet tale of a down-on-his-luck addict during the holidays, and to determine whether he/they are filled with the Christmas spirit, or the Grim Reaper. TLS taps the vein of “The Junky’s Christmas.” William S. Burroughs’ bittersweet tale of a down-on-his-luck addict during the holidays, and to determine whether he/they are filled with the Christmas spirit, or the Grim Reaper. [5], In 1993, The Junky's Christmas was adapted into a short claymation film which was co-directed by Nick Donkin and Melodie McDaniel and produced by Francis Ford Coppola. At first he tries to break open someone’s car and steal everything from it, but the owner arrives, so Danny has to flee away. Christmas is a time of good cheer and celebration that s the official version A Junky s Christmas shows that there are other stories to be told This feisty, ironic celebration includes works by Omar Sattau, A.L Kennedy, William Trevor, Anne Macleod, William S Burroughs, Francis King, and many others. He makes off with the case and takes it to an abandoned park to examine its contents. When he reaches the doctor’s house he pretends to be suffering from facial neuralgia. All of a sudden he begins feeling the effects of heroin; it appears that his good deed has been rewarded with “the immaculate fix”. On Christmas day, penniless and withdrawing from opiates, Danny emerges from a 72-hour stay in a police holding cell. The Junky's Christmas is a short story by William S. Burroughs. The film was released by Koch Vision on DVD in North America on November 21, 2006. Danny nods off to sleep. The Junky's Christmas: And Other Yuletide Stories, Elisa Segrave William S. Burroughs Francis King Mark Kurlansky Mandla Langa Anne MacLeod Seán Mac Mathúna Andrew O'Hagan, Kindle, EPUB, PDF, AZW, Audio Book, Archive. There he finds that the case contains two severed human legs. [4], "Christmas - William Burroughs - The Junky's Christmas - The Allen Ginsberg Project", "The Addiction Labyrinth: William S Burroughs - The.Junky's Christmas. You can watch The Junky’s Christmas here This story originally appeared in the 1989 collection, Interzone and in the 1993 recording Sparse Ass Annie and Other Tales. William Burroughs’ centennial draws to a close but not without the necessary December treat of The Junky’s Christmas. William Burroughs: The Junky Christmas Objective summary This short story of William Burroughs is about Danny the Car Wiper, a Junky, who tries to “score a fix” on Christmas day. [Aggregate score: 9.25] He finds a buyer who gives him three dollars but also informs him that the local heroin dealer has been arrested. The Junky's Christmas is a short story by William S. Burroughs.It originally appears in the 1989 collection Interzone and on the 1993 album Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales.
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