Comments on: William Burroughs and Andy Warhol https://realitystudio.org A William S. Burroughs Community Mon, 15 Mar 2021 01:35:17 +0000 hourly 1 By: Andrew Dungan https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/william-burroughs-and-andy-warhol/comment-page-1/#comment-769932 Wed, 29 Aug 2018 05:40:25 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/?page_id=828#comment-769932 just came across and should tell the true story for authenticity. I am Andrew Dungan, a great fan of Burroughs’ work, who attended Stanford Univiersty prior to being drafted into the Vietnam War. Unable to live with myself given my opposition to the war I chose to desert the army in 1967. I made my way to New York City hoping to get aboard a cargo ship. I did choose Julian Burroughs as a sort of homage to William Burroughs and because I thought he lived in Tangiers and I knew he had a son. I thought it might fool someone looking for the real Andrew Dungan. I had been to the March on the Pentagon and arrived in NYC on Halloween day. Walking down the street I was approached by Paul Morrissey who engaged me and was a little taken aback with my cover story. He asked me to be in a movie that night. That was Nude Restaurant. My story was soon picked apart but by then I had ingratiated myself into the entourage. I do think Andy enjoyed my prank, called a “put-on” in that period and I was a clever guy who came up with some ideas for Lonesome Cowboys and my own short file- “Burn the War.” But the fear of some FBI agent finding me and sending me off to some military prison became too intense and I left for France where I lived until I was pardoned as part of the Nixon pardon I saw Andy there once and years later saw William Burroughs in LA. To be sure, he enjoyed my story. I even met Bill, Jr. who strangely enough had become a friend of my brother. Now 50 years later, I still have fond memories of those days/years although they were crazy times and many did not survive.

]]> By: David MacGowan https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/william-burroughs-and-andy-warhol/comment-page-1/#comment-58680 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:21:54 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/?page_id=828#comment-58680 Reading your consideration of how Bill may have appeared (or otherwise) in front of Andy’s movie camera (el hombre invisible) reminds me of critic/author Kim newman’s short story/novella ‘ANDY WARHOL’S DRACULA’, in which Andy and his various hangers-on are imagined by the main character to BE vampires, and hence invisible to movie cameras!

I’m kinda glad they got on better in later life – as your article shows, they had some interesting points of connection.

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