NEAL CASSADY ALLEN GINSBERG 3

[JazSmithPresentation]

I love to watch this and think

That's Carlo Marx and Dean Moriarty!

[ricfl10137]

that woman to the right of neal is like the token example of a woman conditioned in the 50s. i'm so glad women learned how to speak up. so much liberation came with the 60s. an incredible social revolution for u.s. indeed.

[MrPrinceOFpa]

@ricfl10137 i wish women would keep their mouth shout. for example sarah palin, rachel maddow, the whole cast of the view (past and present), michele bachmann, lady gaga, alot of women should keep silent and stay inthe kitchen...

.....baefoot and pregnant

[bornwithoutwarning]

Ken Kesey on Neal Casady: "his was the yoga of a man driven to the cliff edge by the grassfire of an entire nation's burning material madness."

[AndreRelaxSun]

exactly Dean Moriarty!

[MEpianist]

Wow, I get to see Dean Moriarty talk... thanks YouTube!

[libralala]

some people worship Neal cause of "On The Road". but realistically he was just a spaced-out fuck-up.

[burningmanheartbeat]

@libralala he's one entertaining fuck-up

[ricfl10137]

@libralala how do you know?

[celeocanth]

neal scratching his bollocks on 1:25

[luckyswine]

Neal's pessimism does not seem so outlandish close as this is to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Many people expected the world to go up in smoke next year as the Cold War continued to bite. Plus if you drive through the south today you'll here of nothing but "the rapture" and the end of the world buzzing over the radio. Neal is channelling Edgar Cayce no doubt though, and clearly is on speed/speed come down. A couple of times you can tell he is wondering what he just said.

[gamoonbat]

I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes[a] so that it will be even more fruitful.

[verbaud]

Were these guys prescient? Can you say FOXNews?

[nat00ben06]

Well Ginnie's right none of them are here, who's left? Farlenghetti is!

[paperroute50]

good observation. Neal favored speed, per his bios 

[fearlesssockpuppet]

I wonder if Neal Cassady is on speed, judging by his bizarro facial expressions?

[zyxquark]

I can see why they liked cassaday. He looked like an old cowboy, sounded like an old cowboy, but thought like an intellectual jazz musician. He's probably some distant offspring of butch cassaday (which makes kerouac the sundance kid). See ya later, old pard.

[veyblu7]

Wow, you can really see the kind of ticks and movements of Cassady that Kerouac describes in OtR.

[MeesterChum]

neal was heavy into his jesus freak phase born out of his readings of edgar cayce AND he was on some good crank and whatever else they were plying him with.

crank + jesus= bad news

[buckfushes]

Meth killed the Hippy movement.

Fuck Meth!

[nat00ben06]

@buckfushes No Manson did!

[delareealena]

@buckfushes any idea how popular meth was during the hippie movement?? Talk to a few, maybe...

[CRAZYTORPEDO]

@delareealena not meth.

benny's, speed, pure, perscription amphetamines. waaaay better than meth XD

JK liked to pop them alot and stayed up for days writing on the road

it was common, like, no biggie, pop um if ya got um with anything else you could get after a 6 pack to keep you up

[jhop9898]

@delareealena well, that's natural selection for you...

[delareealena]

@buckfushes 

[pacific1814]

I'd give a million bucks to be in that room. The political talk doesn't interest me that much. But I love the exchange of ideas and getting excited about everything. The manic,mad conversations. I would love to have been there with them and participated.!!!! Talking,talking,talking till you transform yourself!!!! I think we love these guys because of their enourmous capacity to live!!!!

[OcdEnabled]

neal the prophet

[Cabinator]

Attractive?

[spaceheadsam]

Never realized Neal would hold such a dark creepy view. I though he was in love with life. Sounds a bit extremist himself here. I wonder if he's egging Ginsburg on.  Facinating videos.

Goes to show how we mainly know Neal through Jack's stary-eyed vision.

[YouDonteverhavetodie]

fuck ginsberg

[iorioriorio]

I'm calling neal on the John 15:1 quote:......that refers to disciples, not the warmakers, pentagon, and "20 yrs of paranoia" allen mentions...take more peyote, neal!! Or meth

[dnggitg]

Neal is a charismatic crackpot. It's fascinating to watch footage of someone you've seen romanticized, aggrandized, and lionized in Wolfesque rhapsodies over and over.

[owsleythebear]

@dnggitg I think you're right, and I think this video shows that. He made a great character and he said some interesting things, but I find it kind of amusing that they thought he was so intelligent. To me he's more of a 'holy fool.'

[xxFNORDxx]

Its ridiculous to call someone insane based off of a few minutes of video. Who know what kind of drugs he was on or if there were some other factors (like being filmed while on said drugs) that were making him very nervous.

[localfornia]

allen is the fag focul point of liberal extremism. neal speaketh the trojan truth by slipping in "well no, just kinda the focul point." at the end, allen didnt even hear it. haha neals cool.

[esldave]

Nicotine is f*******ing marvelous man!

[greenrate]

Well, this is what you invariably get . . . when two of the Karamazov brothers show up without the third (Kerouac).

Personally . . . I can't take Ivan as we see him here -- makes me gag. If I had to choose between just these two -- give me Dmitri every time.

But that's neither here nor there -- just a personal inclination.

The bigger point is that . . . anything less than all THREE of them together . . . is always going to be a travesty of Life's possibilities.

[brikiss77]

Neal Cassady sounds a lot like Kramer

[howl8]

hahaha yeah. it's awesome to hear these two talk like as if there were no cameras. reminds me of dean and carlo in on the road

[SeanyPancakes]

And Allan Ginsberg looks like Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Anyone agree?

[spaceheadsam]

@brikiss77 Yeah, and his body gestures and facial reactions -- just like Kramer. Uncanny!

[tintala]

you'd think with the "MIND EXPANSION" and perception from lsd, that it would allow them to see and be aware that tobacco is disgusting and unhealthy.

[acidhippy1990]

You just watched these two jitter and jab, and pry into each other's minds, and all you can focus on is the nicotine they're inhaling. To quote Cassady: "Enjoy it."

[tintala]

umm sorry but you do not need to be so presumptuous on my attention span on this video , 'ALL I CAN FOCUS ON", you have no idea what i got from this. Lsd, DOES help one realize how to be healthy and in retrospect what not to partake. NICOTINE is deadly and disgusting, i grew up with parents smoking the shit with the windows up in the car, I HATE NICOTINE. LSD made me realize , NICOTINE is pure poison.

[purplemonkeyelephant]

He means you watched the video and all you could spill to YouTube was your personal bent on smoking. Be angry with your parents then, not the rest of the world.

Chill :)

[iorioriorio]

Not true, I find tobacco takes the electric jive edge off the acid during certain crucial moments of the trip...they are both natural by the way (acids in morning glory,woodrose, and a hundred other plants)

[tintala]

hahahah , you made me laugh when you said tobacco is natural, bullshit , what planet do you hail from , it aint earth.

[gremz01d]

@tintala where do you think tobacco comes from? Outer space? A test tube? Humans have been eating it, drinking it in tea and smoking it for tens of thousands of years... It grows wild in may parts of the world... Everything gives you cancer, non smokers die every day...

[tintala]

@gremz01d : it comes from the factories that taint that shit to all hell, talking about chemicals, you think the tobacco companies make and sell organic tobacco?? hahahahahahah!I don't know of anyone who eats the shit either, tobacco is processed , you think Phillip Morris advertises organic tobacco, hey it's even better when you eat it! lol.! why the fuck are you supporting tobacco.

[gareke]

You really get a sense from this video that they did indeed talk for hours, all night, as in 'On The Road'.

[kookooboy]

Neal WAS his charisma. I know that will enrage Cassady fans. But for real--regardless of sexual orientation, would anybody have been fascinated by what this man said and did if he hadn't been attractive?

[UhLyssUh42]

I feel really bad for Neal, it looks like his jail time put a huge beating on him.

[lo0O0o0O0ost]

dont feel bad for neal

[atbundros]

Those guys make me laugh! Seriously, Cassady is funny. I love how Ginsberg questions him directly. Those guys are awesome

[AhYaOk]

focal points and panoramic views. :)

[platoon018]

What year was this? I'm pretty sure it was after Neal got out of jail.. so it must be in the sixties.. close to his death.. Its not Neal at his peak you see here... Only what remained of him after years of high speed driving... Hence the "psychosis" some people commented about.. I'm sure Neal in his late teens, early 20's would have charmed any of the skeptics out here... BTW.. Dean Moriarity is based on Neal in his early days..

[mick005usa]

Well, given that Ginsberg is still smoking the "corporate weed", it must be fairly early on in the chronology.

[PampasWind]

I can't use english well ,but I just want to say that I think I'm very lucky to watch these videos about the Beat Generation. I am interest in them. I want to improve my english to understand more

[funkyfoolfromVanNuys]

keep reading my friend, the beat generation is responsible for some of america's best writings, if not the best this country has ever authored. check out lenny bruce, he was sort of a beat comedian, same sort of style anyway.

[manconoo]

That Neal Cassady is one gone crazy cat.

[sivlesevil]

1:25 deaner is rubbing dangle, girl next to him is in love.

[mohair8he]

WHEN WAS THIS MADE? If it was made when it looks like it was made, you had a lot of civil rights leaders and supporters getting beaten/killed, a war in South East Asia, the young hippies, the old BEAT cowboys, new drugs, everyone knows the history, this is a film of TWO people who played a part in that history, talking about what was going on at the time, just a conversation like we may have now about the Middle East or North Korea. This is fun to watch, thank you OM, you are great.

[theMAXILOPEZpsycho]

This illustrates why kerouac had the most class out of the beats; he didn't like to make such an exhibition of himself in front of camera...what a ridiculous era it must've been - the 60's that is - a few guys write, by my reconing, 2 good books, a few ok books, some good poems, a few ok books and poems, plus mountains of rubbish, then they're wheeled out in front of camera and treated like everything they say was pure budda wisedom!!!

[TheOneThatFlewOver]

These are your opinions, and therefore, for you, are valid. But remember that everything is relative. Many people found those to be great books, and even if they hadn't found them so wonderful they might still have been wonderful. For example, Sometimes a Great Notion, I feel, is under-read and nowhere near as appreciated as it should be. And the first of those is fact. It is not a popular book, but it may well be one of the the best works of american literature.

But everything is relative.

[99lions]

wow you just dont know. cassady just walked in on this. no big deal. kerouac read excerpts on tv man. spell wisdom right there? have you ever seen the word in print before?

[mohair8he]

Read chapter 8, part 1, ON THE ROAD.

[DannyA123]

I'm a big, big fan of Kerouac's On The Road, but until now I'd never seen or heard Neal Cassady in a video. And there he was, with Allen Ginsberg (alias Carlo Marx), talking his pseudo-intellectual gibberish while rubbing himself with his hand down his pants.

[electricitycomesfrom]

yes yes. and the girl next to him. spasmic facial expressions.Pure dean

[wiseoldfool101]

neals not an intellectual. hes been put on the spot and he's trying to look smart.When you do that you look like an idiot. Like those guys whove read a few books in prison,and try and speak like they have a legit education on the topic being discussed.

[kerouac217]

Dean Mowiawty. In the flesh.

[trewqwert]

I don't miss indoor smoking.

[KAS318]

You could smoke in City Lights back then....The girl sitting next to NC is pretty hot.

[CrazyJustin2006]

yeah we made love to her soul.

[durco01]

Umm its the weed dude.

[gantock]

mojojojo787, it is delightful reading your comment, YOU have understood what neal was: he really WAS the embodyment of american freedom, he LIVED what these disgusting creeps nowadays only TALK about - remeber ZORBA THE GREEK, too: " a man, to be SANE, NEEDS INSANITY!"

[mojojojo787]

Had Cassady's life progressed no further than his own train-hoping existence rather than on Kerouac's pages to millions the world would have lost a treasure of a character and the American essence of spiritual freedom; which given our political climate the desperate need to reinvigorate a new movement is all the more apparent. Without insanity there cannot be progression.

[99lions]

yeah i dont trust anyone that claims to be sane

[papertigerlove00]

well it's gettin scary!!

[queeniefox]

WOW, I love this! Never seen film of Cassady before, just photos.

[spayspay]

Thanks

[l7oLj]

Please! Those who understood what is John 51 means explain to me,i can't here Neal's explanation it would be great if you spell his exp-s.Thank you for attention).

[fAtbOyfAn]

i think he said john 15:1 and quoted the bible

[l7oLj]

Thank you)

[hlymn]

john 15:1....its a passage from the new testament scriptures

[hewholiveinmoment]

I've venerated cassady since I was

about the size of a literary firehydrant but

damn, for some reason his facial

tics are more reminiscent of Seinfields

Krammer than that of Kerouac's

cosmic beat chaffeur

[AsRolfes]

I saw his ticks as spot on. Something in that rambling twitchy way that Kerouac writes Dean. "Yes, yass, yes!" I get it. See it. Jumpy and crazy as a loon, man. Gone.

[nakayummy]

when he's talking about extremists, i take it that he's talking about people's habit of taking an issue and making it more than themselves, and their own lives. he was an in-the-moment kind of guy. no need to plan or get hung up on things, just have your kicks.

[ps0195]

You people who are saying Neal was crazy . . . .well not sh#t. He wouldnt have been so great if he wasnt. He would have been boring and inconsequential like all of you people. How many books have been written about you?

[docattheradarstation]

lol neal cassidy has always been portrayed through the various media I've seen that has referenced him as being a driving force behind the beats, the heart if you will, and to see this paranoiac in its place is refreshing to me, he's extremely paranoid, and i love how one genius reacts with the other, cassidy's mind is spewing thoughts and ginsburg is then deciphering them and even relaying them at points.

[incongra]

casady's a slavering nincompoop. The guy so obviously had "issues". Just shows you can fool some of the people all of the time.

[mark1007]

Of course he had issues, do you know anything about his life, I don't believe he was particularly interested in 'tricking' anyone either..he just blazed a mean trail, end of.

[99lions]

did you just use nincompoop and put "issues" in quotations? they should write a book about you man.

[Rebelscreamer]

thanks for this its really priceless .I'm so glad they had the foresight to tape this stuff,I'd read about it but never had the opportunity to see it.

[longlostlove86]

wow.. i had never seen video footage of the legends themselves. to think that as an adolescent i used to idolize cassady's supposed freedom and spontaneity is alarming. his psychosis is more than apparent.

[AbsintheColour]

Yeah, the madmen of the century before this were "insane" too....I always thought insanity was birthed in a deep exposure to the harsh reality of certain truths that many people tend to ignore because they are happy with the comfort of their status lie

[boobyprize1]

???

[boobyprize1]

Sounds like the mindless rantings of a couple of Paranoids in a mental hospital. I find it quite insane,and kinda funny too.

[AbsintheColour]

no i believe those could have been separate thoughts that came about by his sporadic nature. Also it would seem that he could have possibly meant the extremists who advocate against the civil rights movement...or even the extremists within and around the civil rights movement who may have been going about it the wrong way..not sure exactly...

[RamblinTroubadour]

did he say that the Civil Rights movement people were extremists?

[AbsintheColour]

;^P

[marionorso]

Bonjour ,je suis Gildas ,quelqu'un peut-il me traduire ce que dit Neal ?Merci

[ArthurJimbo]

Thanks OM!

[hippiedipster]

Wouldn't it be groovy if all those kids in the background would see this and commnet on it. In their 60's now hahaha!

peace is still a good idea. War is killing people man.

[TheatreOfTheAbsurd]

Ah, it's all clear to me now.

[popsuckits]

Stunning timing...