Headpress, Issue 25 ("Flicker Machine Edition"), 2003

Includes "The Burroughs Brain Machine", an interview of Burroughs by Johnny Strike and Gregory Ego, pp. 15-21. This is accompanied by multiple photos of Burroughs by Gregory Ego.

Also includes "Dream On" by Klarion the Witch-Boy, an article on the Dreammachine, Gysin, and Burroughs' involvement, pp. 5-8. This is followed by Jerry Glover's "Waking up to the Dreamachine: Do It Yourself", pp. 9-13, an instructional for creating a Dreamachine.

An interview by Jan Bruun of David Woodard entitled "Dreamachines, Wishing Machines or Feraliminal Lycanthropizers, Anyone?", pp. 27-34, contains discussion of Gysin and Burroughs. Photos by John Aes-Nihil and by Christina Buckingham of David Woodard and William S. Burroughs accompany the interview.

Also includes "Beats in the Interzone", an interview with Paul Bowles by Spencer Kansa, which mentions Burroughs, pp. 22-26.

At page 14, Jan Bruun contributes a combined review of Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs 1960-1997 edited by Sylvère Lotringer, William S. Burroughs' Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs, Graham Caveney's The Priest They Called Him: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs, and Giorno Poetry Systems' The Best of William S. Burroughs

Cover art of Burroughs by Nils Brakchi ["Sunrise Tangier #2 (featuring W. Burroughs)"]. Back cover photo of Burroughs by Gregory Ego.

Published in Manchester, England by Headpress in 2003.

Bibliographic Information:

• Shoaf IV.267
• Schottlaender v4.C662
• Raven 20030000HEAD.0.25, b17

Selected Contents:

• Niks Brakchi: "Sunrise Tangier #2 (featuring W. Burroughs)" (cover art)
• Gregory Ego: photographs of William S. Burroughs
• David Kerekes:
• editorial
• review of Peter Grant: The Man Who Led Zeppelin by Chris Welch
• review of Photographs by Charlie White
• review of The Comics Journal
• review of Jack Kirby edited by Milo George
• review of Pulp Culture by Frank M. Robinson and Lawrence Davidson
• review of The Great American Paperback by Richard A. Lupoff
• review of Auf Wiedersehen by The Buzzcocks
• review of Divine's Shoot Your Shot and Live at the Hacienda
• review of Straight Outta Rampton by Ceramic Hobs
• combined review of Vamp Babes, Miss Libido 2000, and Bride of the Atom by Messer Chups
• Klarion the Witch-Boy: "Dream On: Looking Again at the Dreamachine" (essay)
• Progeas Didier: "l'abécédaire chimerique" (illustration)
• Jerry Glover:
• "Waking up to the Dreamachine: Do It Yourself" (essay)
• review of Wild 7, v.1, by Mikiya Mochizuki
• review of To Afghanistan and Back by Ted Rall
• review of The Rare Movies by James Dean
• Jan Bruun: combined review of Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs 1960-1997 edited by Sylvère Lotringer, William S. Burroughs' Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs, Graham Caveney's The Priest They Called Him: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs, and Giorno Poetry Systems' The Best of William S. Burroughs
• Johnny Strike, Gregory Ego, and William S. Burroughs: "The Burroughs Brain Machine: An Interview with William Burroughs" (interview)
• Spencer Kansa and Paul Bowles: "Beats in the Interzone: An Interview with Paul Bowles" (interview/essay)
• Jan Bruun and David Woodard: "Dreamachines, Wishing Machines or Feraliminal Lycanthropizers, Anyone?" (interview)
• David Kerekes and Noel Lawrence: "Tuning the Sleeping Machine: An Experiment in Terror" (interview)
• Anton Black: "Search and Destroy: London, Saturday March 8, 2003" (essay)
• Phil Tonge: "Chase Me, Chase Me..." (review of Paul Anderson's Shopping)
• Mikita Brottman and Michael Moore: "Guns & Moses" (interview)
• Riotgibbon: "Public Autopsy: An Eyewitness Report: London, November 20, 2002" (review of the Bodyworlds exhibition, photographs)
• Stephen Portlock and Richard Kern: "The Not so Evil Cameraman: An Interview with Richard Kern" (interview)
• Richard Kern: photographs
• John Harrison and John Backderf: "My Friend Dahmer: Killer Komix" (interview)
• Tom Brinkmann: "It's a Violent World: LSD, Cannibal Hippies, Devil's Children & Snuff Vampires!: Bad Mags" (on Front Page Detective)
• Anthony Petkovich and Amee Donavan: "Flesh Feash: An Interview with Amee Donavan" (interview)
• Dr. Spike: "Size Matters? The Film Career of Luis de Jesus" (essay)
• Stephen Portlock and Michel Reilhac: "The Good Old Naughty Days! Erotica from a By-Gone Age" (interview)
• Martin Jones: 
• review of Bizarrism, #8, edited by Chris Mikul
• combined review of Random Precision: Recording the Music of Syd Barrett 1965-1974 by David Parker and of Progressive Rock Reconsidered edited by Kevin Holm-Hudson
• review of The Legendary Joe Meek: The Telstar Man by John Repsch
• review of Joan Book 1 by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
• review of Trekkers: True Stories by Fans for Fans edited by Nikki Stafford
• combined review of Raptors, v.3, by Jean Dufaux and Enrico Marini and Dixie Road, v.2, by Jean Dufaux and Hughes Labiano
• review of Little Doors by Paul Di Filippo
• Simon Collins: 
• review of Firelight Shocks, #4
• combined review of Death Cults edited by Jack Sargeant, and Female Terror by Ann Magma
• review of Epileptic, v.1 by David B.
• review of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, v.1, by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
• review of Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by W. & K. Grimm, Doug Wheeler, and David Wenzel
• review of Trosper by Jom Woodring and Bill Frisell
• Darren Arnold: 
• review of Raindance Film, #10, edited by Leigh Singer
• review of Storm Riders, book 1 by Wing Shing Ma
• Anton Black: 
• review of Blackharvest, #6
• review of Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and The Germs by Brendan Mullen, Don Bolles, and Adam Parfrey
• review of The Yellow Jar by Patrick Atangan
• Justin Bomba: 
• review of From the Tomb, #9, edited by Peter Normanton
• review of Alien Apocalypse 2006 by Kathy Glass, Spain, and Harry S. Robins
• Rik Rawling: 
• review of Gene Simmons' Tongue, #1
• review of Shit Magnet by Jim Goad
• review of Hale Phil by Phil Hale/"Tray Batey"
• review of Planetary: The Fourth Man by Warren Ellis and John Cassady
• Will Youds: review of Looking for Orthon by Colin Bennett
• Stephen Sennitt: 
• review of Tyr: Myth, Culture, Tradition edited by Buckley, Cleary, and Moynihan
• review of Demons of the Flesh by Nikolas and Zeena Schreck
• review of Hooky the Cripple by Mark "Chopper" and Adam Cullen
• review of 20th Century Eightball by Daniel Clowes
• Mikita Brottman: 
• review of Running on Emptiness by John Zerzan
• review of Orpheus Emerged by Jack Kerouac
• Michael Carlson: 
• review of Brusel by François Schiten and Benoit Peeters
• review of Prince Valiant, v.44 by Hal Foster and John Cullen Murphy
• "When Patsy Met Jacky" (combined review of Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper: Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell and of the documentary Patricia Cornwell: Stalking the Ripper
• review of Polissons et Galipettes: The Good Old Naughty Days edited by Michel Reilhac
• Colin Wilson: "A Tea Dance at Savoy: Philosopher Meadley's Book" (essay)
• Micky Murphy: review of L'oeil a courts thèmes la semaine exemplaire X. Voto by Didier Progéas
• James Marriott: review of The DNA Cowboys Trilogy by Mick Farren
• Anthony Petkovich: combined review of I Want to Be a Millionaire and Five Song CD by Gregory Ego

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: David Kerekes