http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI0ciYJKBxQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI0ciYJKBxQ&feature=related William Burroughs and Brion Gysin popularised the concept of cut-ups in the late 1950's and early 1960's but the action can be traced back as far as the 1920's when the Surrealists first played with the idea of "consequences" when Tristan Tzara offered to create a poem on the spot by pulling words randomly from a hat to build the poem from the act of chance. David Bowie and Kurt Cobaine revered Burroughs and quoted him as an influence on their writint. Cobaine recorded with Burroughs in fact.