Sampled by DJ Mark Farina for the intro track "This Beat" offa Mushroom Jazz volume 6. The accompanying music is haunting and chill and fits the read PERFECTLY.
Why God aren't we as free as this? Keruac has this way of reminded people that they are FREE. And without people like that we somehow forget to remind OURSELVES. It makes me almost think I have something to prove to myself. Can someone else tell me if they feel this way when they read his work?
The best thing about my ex-girlfriend was the fact she introduced me to the writings of Kerouac. So I'll give her credit for that. Oh...she swallowed too.
What an incredible reader! His soul speaks through his own words. Wonderful. He was such an unhappy man, read Nicosia's biography it's so sad. But what wonderful gifts he gave us. Literally sacrificed his life for these beautiful thoughts.
and everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, it be-at, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world
I never get tired of listening to this, it's from the middle part of his book "Desolation Angels" and it's amazing to hear his voice pronounce his words so uniquely.
EVERYTHING IS GOING TO THE BEAT... AND EVERYTHING IS GOING TO THE BEAT... AND EVERYTHING IS GOING TO THE BEAT... AND EVERYTHING IS GOING TO THE BEAT... AND
If you love Kerouac like I do, check out my new book Road Trippn' (by Sean McLaughlin), a tribute to Jack; youth; Freedom; Love; God; sex, drugs, rock'n'roll and America set across the country and culminating in the streets of NYC, a month prior to the attacks of 9/11. Check it out at Amazon.com and support another working class artist from one of America's other former industrial glory towns - Cleveland this carnation around instead of Lowell.
Jack Kerouac's "On the road" inspired me to hitchhike and generally give the world the finger in 1998. I was 20 years old and didn't really give a shit. But I had the brains too and wrote stories, lyrics and music of my own. Now life is different and it feels good actually to be over 30 and luckily, sober.
@ilupir77 19 years old hitch hiking in 1982 i saw the world give me the finger, but i was tripping on massive doses of lsd and could only laugh and laugh and have been laughing ever since, through countless jobs, a marriage, friends and relatives who won't understand or take the time to try to see why i find this life a hysterical embarrassment to be taken seriously... now pushing 48, nothings different, still reading "on the road" and luckily, joyously, still intoxicated, hitch hiking, smiling!
how could you not like this, or perhaps they are ignorant to the appreciation this should be given always!!!! who wouldn't drink a bottle of scotch or red wine out of a paper bag with Kerouac while being lost in drink in San Fran!
Yea people are crafting smart new lyrical flow of true beat.. Its just a fucking shame no one reads anymore, the Television, and techno world has drove us to be lambs, where we once were as wolves
@bigt0530 They will never get it, or get it when its to late, But its not important as a creative mind or person in general to grab peoples attention... If they don't get it, then fuck them.. You start creating, as you start it with the intention its always going to be flawed, and loved or not.. You never was the judge yet you we're the subject to be judged. Which end of the rope are you on? Your always loving Post-drunk poet David Graham.. AkA Sydney Dowful ;)
Kerouac's words fly over your head and you're left ducking down in astonishment wondering "What the hell happened" but happy to have been in the way of the wave of emotion and abstract detail. RIP Jack. Catch you On The Road.
in regards to the modern street protestor. when a G20 comes around, if you take a more intellectual stance,(as opposed to clogging streets), you may achieve more results in the form of politicians actually listening to you and taking you more seriously. actually, You must become the politician!! its tricky, its a fine art! you gotta a rough road ahead!
These are such brilliant thoughts from Oll Jack. I loved running through the Duluoz Legend and this tid-bit here made me earmark the page and repeat WOW out loud for a few minutes.
Well, that was surprising when I watched this on Roger Ebert's blog and the line "and everything is going to beat" came up. Now I know where Passion Pit sampled that from..
I definitely cried too when I was there in May... dream come true. My life list got a little bit shorter that day... unbelievable. and yeah it is City Lights.
@AcePilot101 Agreed, though honestly on my travels I have found tiny groups on friends who are creating something similar to the beat generation within their own significant worlds.
why do people talk without knowing? WRSB is right, it's from desolation angles... for the others, there is at least google that can help you in giving the right answers
Today is the day you decide against mainstream views: and one of those views is so-called "beat poetry." The Wacks are the true artists of modernity. WE aren't to be feared or hated. WE are you. Search The Wacks on YouTube. Many thanks.
question: since so much of the beat music is linked with jazz. Poems quoted over Jazz music. Could you not say Beat was the precursor to Rap? Sometimes when I listen to old beat stuff It sounds so much like Rap.
Beat is not a precursor to rap it is a different thing entirely.
Beat was painting with words it was impressionist art in prose rap had a genesis of it's own rooted in oral tradition and something known as the dozens.
Rap is not poetry, not really and it is hard to explain why but I would suggest some careful consideration of the differences and separate history of the two.
I knew eventually that time I spent as a lit major would pay off.
I emplore you to check out Immortal Technique or Mos Def. They are as much poets as Jack Kerouac, Williams Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, and the whole lot.
Yeah , man but i think that maybe both,beats and rappers got an alike expression form.But I don´t think beats were precursor to Rap,long ago in jamaika the 45 rpm single records got the hit in the a side and the same song in the b side instrumental without vocals, and people in the sound system sing their own lyrics over the instrumental version.The beats read poetry with a bongo bakground and shit, but i think that the only beat poet that got that bop soundis Kerouac.Sorry my english is shit
Yeah, I dig Jack like he is my brother. No, more like myself really he sums everything up for anyone who thinks about things. much more than Dean or Ginsgurg - this guy is a so much underrated god of culture.
I love you Jack, wherever you are in your deep deep head of a thousand constellations.
jack kerouac is dostoevsky's "the idiot". if you don't know what that is, look it up. his mind is learned and his heart has felt pain. people see his actions in the end as bummish, he fought the materialism and conformity of the time, and society kicked his ass. you live for materialism and conformity; he's bigger than society. jack kerouac's ideals live.
Nah its Jack. I have this on CD. He did a lot of recordings. Unique stuff that u dont hear everyday. Its really amazing huh? He was a beautiful man. Beautiful soul. God rest him.
It's not a rumor, and the story is that he wrote it in three weeks using Benzedrine and coffee to stay awake as much as possible. It's not even that it's fast-paced, it's just how deeply layered and beautiful his words are.
This genius was the best friend of my grand-father in his childhood, who was from Quebec, and living in the same town. They had to change their names in order to be accepted in school. My grand father was Henri-george...and then he became George. Same thing happened to Jack Kerouac. Look at his original name.
He could have been a soon of his age, but he refuse it. They talked about everything that was forbidden -tabbued, if the word exists- at the time, they opened so many roads...
It's a great book, indeed, but I highly recommend The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels...On The Road is good, and it's what made him famous, but he has better books, most notably Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels
dharma bums is by far his best work. well, not by far, that almost implies that "road" is less than. but the tenor of it {dharma bums]is easier to follow than on the road. and the story is less disjointed(although that may have been the intention). both are tremendous pieces of literature. works of art in the truest sense of the term. also, let us not forget dr. sax.
Personally, what I liked about Bums was the beauty of the writing and the compassion expressed in the book. Certainly it was easier to follow than Road (easier to read does not mean better). I have yet to read Dr. Sax, however. I have read pretty much everything else of Kerouac's, but not Sax.
easier to read most certainly does not mean better. but in this case, as i said, the story just felt more rounded. on the road was jagged. this is a layman's interpretation, of course. although, when he started talking about the bodhisattva and the like, i almost went crosseyed. but, as you stated, the beauty of the prose helped to allay my ignorance of the religious aspects. the scene with him in the woods when he went back home, him and the dog "meditating", was beautiful.
I also like his first (?) book The Town And The City, but it's very different from his later works. I found Sax being really difficult, kinda psychedelic.
Call of the Kerow-Hack: "come all ye commonplace drudges and ignorant low-class failures, and find with me that you're really interesting, profound, deep, & have a true self." Translate: Onanism for the soul. Someone should have slipped some Hemlock into his liquor.
How come I always find your comments on videos like this? Every time you sound so bored of being disgusted by it; do you haunt these places just to put in an insightful pisstake? There's Jungian work afoot here, I think I'll meet you sometime in the future and it'll have some kind of social physio-spiritual relevance. Munich, you say?...
What has any of this to do with those examplary models and precursors of all contemporary American degeneracy? Are you defending your hero? OR have you none?
You are a little unusual, I admit. But you run with the herd: not all cattle sound or look the same. You won't ever meet me here in my elysian fields, where I enjoy all the trans-alpine good and fine things. Especially the air. Sometimes I go to the Cisalpine to think of my friends.
Yes. And the one after it for most persons is hardly worth living. The Calabanites have taken over America, and catamites are dancing to their tune.
Kerow-hack's book is hardly literature. Hardly. It flatters ordinary boring no-knowthings that they can be somebody interesting. That they are important or profound. Ptui!
Well it's like Dylan said it changes your life like it changes everyone else's. There are brilliant moments in it that are like genius emotion. He misspells and trails off and discards literature but he fathoms tiny eternals meanwhile.
He talks in a train of consciousness, but though I've read some of 'On The Road' and I still can't understand what the fuck he's talking about, what he's complaining or praising about, and what's his point.
Someone help me better understand what he's trying to talk about.
Listen man ... Don't torture yourself. Grab yourself some bourbon and a quite corner. Now pull yourself some excitement up from somewhere ... Think about your first date, your first shag, your first hit of mdma ... Now hold that feeling take a good viking shot of bourbon and read like your playing in a bebop band.
How could you come to this problem? You can follow this stuff anytime. But I'd say listen to your intuition about everything and wait, and never force it, for the time you think to yourself gee I'd kinda like some Kerouaky right now - then you just go from there. It comes in waves of escalating size: at first you read a bit, next time some more, until you read for days, and until the cycles span years of contemplation.
I think Jack Kerouac's point was to write fast without really thinking about it too much. His writing is described as a "muscular narrative" because he writes so fast that there's punctuation and grammar errors that dot his narrative path like potholes on a worn down road. I think you might enjoy "Big Sur" and it's probably best if you read it while eating and listening to soft jazz in the background.
It reminds me of what Tocqueville says about America, ad the industry of literature she is inundated with. It's all garbage, but easy reading, and slack. But there is more to be said. These men corrupted healthier instincts. And these instincts were al
Sampled by DJ Mark Farina for the intro track "This Beat" offa Mushroom Jazz volume 6. The accompanying music is haunting and chill and fits the read PERFECTLY.
TheBigMansini 1 month ago
Why God aren't we as free as this? Keruac has this way of reminded people that they are FREE. And without people like that we somehow forget to remind OURSELVES. It makes me almost think I have something to prove to myself. Can someone else tell me if they feel this way when they read his work?
johnnychaos91185 1 month ago 2
...just recieved a postcrd from sal paradise. it was a picture of the earth from the edge of the solar system; it read: 'wish you were here"...
1skullduggery 1 month ago
The best thing about my ex-girlfriend was the fact she introduced me to the writings of Kerouac. So I'll give her credit for that. Oh...she swallowed too.
sherman546 2 months ago 42
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sherman546 1 month ago 15
@MsGatonegro "My fault,my failure,is not in the passions I have,but in my lack of control of them." -Kerouac
sherman546 3 weeks ago 8
@sherman546 :D Very clever, I admit it
betinabut 3 weeks ago
@sherman546 Ok, white flag!
MsGatonegro 3 weeks ago
@MsGatonegro lol!
sherman546 3 weeks ago
Someone pleasee write this down.
Afallinglight 2 months ago
where can i find the full version of this?
kngdms 3 months ago in playlist kngdms's favorites
if you heard the song sleepyhead by passion pit, you can hear the sample from the beginning by 0:24
CAMESTER56 3 months ago
it's the beat generation, it's the be-at, it's the beat to keep
mega89vision 3 months ago
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mega89vision 3 months ago
I THREW IT ON THE GROUND!
Sheenious 4 months ago
Now i can understand whyhe is called father of the beat
denysz1993 4 months ago 3
Beatnik blues and walkin' basses..."somethun' funny" at echster...and I love this video.
echster 4 months ago
and everything's going to the beat.
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calico992 5 months ago
What an incredible reader! His soul speaks through his own words. Wonderful. He was such an unhappy man, read Nicosia's biography it's so sad. But what wonderful gifts he gave us. Literally sacrificed his life for these beautiful thoughts.
johnsher2 6 months ago
what we read and see today is thanks to jack, before him nothing as we see today would have never happen. snap your fingers.
MrDantex31 6 months ago
I just realised that a part of this reading is sampled in one of my favorite songs, Passion Pits "Sleepyhead".
JKumlin 6 months ago 15
@JKumlin Oh sweet Jesus it is. Now I know why I loved that song so much in High School
kiwillamas 5 months ago
@JKumlin yeah apparently this is a popular sampling bit.. cuz its in a few other songs too.
EastBayFM 3 months ago
@JKumlin excellent catch.
freethebikes 2 months ago
@JKumlin Try 'The Jazzual Suspects - This Beat (Original Mix)' same thing goes for me, this is used in such a laid back funky track, awesome.
dutchdude1985 1 month ago
The time passed way too quickly when I listened to this.
Raha123456789 7 months ago
He's made to be heard more than read.
andrelebaron 7 months ago
and everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, it be-at, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world
theIwka 7 months ago
I never get tired of listening to this, it's from the middle part of his book "Desolation Angels" and it's amazing to hear his voice pronounce his words so uniquely.
FatMat426 7 months ago
EVERYTHING IS GOING TO THE BEAT... AND EVERYTHING IS GOING TO THE BEAT... AND EVERYTHING IS GOING TO THE BEAT... AND EVERYTHING IS GOING TO THE BEAT... AND
(Sleepyhead)
1CDubCDub1 8 months ago 3
what work is he reading from?
sweatersnug 8 months ago
@sweatersnug
He's reading from his poem "San Francisco Scene"
hellococomo 8 months ago
what poem is he reading??
sweatersnug 8 months ago
he is reading a poem or just talking about the beat generation?
bcpbmx 8 months ago
@bcpbmx I rackon that he reading part of a "On the road" from Jack Kerouac. (Excuse me my english...)
ZakoCZ 8 months ago
and everything is going to the BEAT
curiosityplease 8 months ago
If you love Kerouac like I do, check out my new book Road Trippn' (by Sean McLaughlin), a tribute to Jack; youth; Freedom; Love; God; sex, drugs, rock'n'roll and America set across the country and culminating in the streets of NYC, a month prior to the attacks of 9/11. Check it out at Amazon.com and support another working class artist from one of America's other former industrial glory towns - Cleveland this carnation around instead of Lowell.
- John McParadise
johnmcparadisio 9 months ago
Amazing
ivan14wreck 9 months ago
can anyone write down the transcription, please?
R085103 9 months ago
@R085103 That's like telling Gene Krupa not to go boom bat ba boom boom boom bat ba bat ba boom boom.
LambrettaSXsepcial 9 months ago
awesome, click my name for some more beats
00Narayana00 10 months ago
And everything is going to the beat...
And everything is going to the beat...
And everything is going to the beat...
Pipsocle 10 months ago 5
@Pipsocle i thought about the same thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kiokio21 9 months ago
I love this man.
snowtoology 10 months ago
beatniks/hippies/yippies/punks/hiphop/rap/spokenwordmusic/since time began/wildprophets/dancing in the streets
Shere no such thing as social class. Not when you spend time with individuals. Even Kerouac denied he was a 'beat' He hated the term.
As for the 'beat generation'
No there such things as generations, people are born every day.
The 30's 40's 50's 60's 70's they are happening right NOW.
calico992 11 months ago
The best American writer of the 20th Century. All too human but striving for ultimate connection. A crazy real person. Still great.
johnsher2 11 months ago
wow
MrBlacknail69 1 year ago
free will harmony destiny = synchronicity
brittonalex 1 year ago
"and everything is going to the beat" I wish i could repeat x3
artsychild1351 1 year ago
The lord works in mysterious ways?
No! No! No! No! No!
The mind does.
22jakev 1 year ago 4
Jack Kerouac's "On the road" inspired me to hitchhike and generally give the world the finger in 1998. I was 20 years old and didn't really give a shit. But I had the brains too and wrote stories, lyrics and music of my own. Now life is different and it feels good actually to be over 30 and luckily, sober.
ilupir77 1 year ago 4
@ilupir77 19 years old hitch hiking in 1982 i saw the world give me the finger, but i was tripping on massive doses of lsd and could only laugh and laugh and have been laughing ever since, through countless jobs, a marriage, friends and relatives who won't understand or take the time to try to see why i find this life a hysterical embarrassment to be taken seriously... now pushing 48, nothings different, still reading "on the road" and luckily, joyously, still intoxicated, hitch hiking, smiling!
a1zzzz 9 months ago 4
0:23 passion pit- sleepy head
sefgerXD 1 year ago 5
@sefgerXD holy poopies is this were that came from
docBOSS1444 1 year ago
@docBOSS1444 haha yep yep
sefgerXD 1 year ago
@sefgerXD holy shit...
curiosityplease 8 months ago
Fuck. Stream of consciousness. Nothing more raw and human. Nothing more beautiful.
This makes you smarter. Or. . . more aware. I don't know. I just know I need this.
Elfinesmom 1 year ago
how could you not like this, or perhaps they are ignorant to the appreciation this should be given always!!!! who wouldn't drink a bottle of scotch or red wine out of a paper bag with Kerouac while being lost in drink in San Fran!
porkfriedbacon 1 year ago
Yea people are crafting smart new lyrical flow of true beat.. Its just a fucking shame no one reads anymore, the Television, and techno world has drove us to be lambs, where we once were as wolves
sydneydowful 1 year ago 4
@sydneydowful Right on brother. I rambled on for hours about this book to my friends. They just didn't get it
bigt0530 1 year ago
@bigt0530 They will never get it, or get it when its to late, But its not important as a creative mind or person in general to grab peoples attention... If they don't get it, then fuck them.. You start creating, as you start it with the intention its always going to be flawed, and loved or not.. You never was the judge yet you we're the subject to be judged. Which end of the rope are you on? Your always loving Post-drunk poet David Graham.. AkA Sydney Dowful ;)
sydneydowful 1 year ago
Kerouac had a beautiful, hypnotic voice.
pheno09 1 year ago 8
Passion Pit - Sleepyhead.
WIN!
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tomcat13claws 1 year ago
Kerouac's words fly over your head and you're left ducking down in astonishment wondering "What the hell happened" but happy to have been in the way of the wave of emotion and abstract detail. RIP Jack. Catch you On The Road.
jordan3119 1 year ago 3
As with all great minds, Kerouac slipped into despair, sad contempt and delirious alcohol induced ramblings of patronizing anecdotes, self loathing.
He was mad and we're all mad on the lonely road, under the sad stars.
I hope you found your god jack...
jizzfish 1 year ago 6
ti jean
solimiansky 1 year ago
And everything is going to the beat
and everything is going to the beat
and everything is going to the beat
anthraxman 1 year ago 3
@anthraxman haha sleepyhead?? passion pit i guess people who have good taste in writting have good taste in music
itskingAddrock 1 year ago
@itskingAddrock Yeah it made me Love the sound of passion pit even more
anthraxman 1 year ago
@anthraxman
of montreal!
lovechild98 1 year ago
in regards to the modern street protestor. when a G20 comes around, if you take a more intellectual stance,(as opposed to clogging streets), you may achieve more results in the form of politicians actually listening to you and taking you more seriously. actually, You must become the politician!! its tricky, its a fine art! you gotta a rough road ahead!
acerb45666555 1 year ago
Great bit, loved it on LP, & glad when I found it on CD !
PlayIt4MeAgainSam 1 year ago
my heroe!!!!!!!!!!!
smvalive 1 year ago
Tout un Québécois !!
franc0228 1 year ago 4
These are such brilliant thoughts from Oll Jack. I loved running through the Duluoz Legend and this tid-bit here made me earmark the page and repeat WOW out loud for a few minutes.
cassady41 1 year ago
That was amazing
jairywhorer 1 year ago
Kerouac wrote my bible!!
Brandon1890ify 1 year ago 4
This is played on "the beat" by the jazzual suspects, it sounds really good.
vBlogmiscarrage 1 year ago
i saw the original scroll of on the road in 2008 in person, one of the greatest moments of my life
kross621 1 year ago
Well, that was surprising when I watched this on Roger Ebert's blog and the line "and everything is going to beat" came up. Now I know where Passion Pit sampled that from..
michaelbolton83 1 year ago
What is this from? i am half way through "on the road"..is it in that?
allionstallion 1 year ago
@allionstallion Pretty sure. He mentioned Dean.
EyesLikeHoles 1 year ago
nope, it's in desolation angels
alesslak 1 year ago
Fucking cool
SunTeleLeo 1 year ago
I definitely cried too when I was there in May... dream come true. My life list got a little bit shorter that day... unbelievable. and yeah it is City Lights.
PennyLane017 2 years ago
I remember cryin' in the stairs of City Lights Bookstore (I think thats the name) famous Beat bookstore in San Fran.
jamesgroome 2 years ago
"...12 years old, what will happen!!..."
what a phrase, so full of possibility.
ghonzalo 2 years ago
and everything is going to the beat
4AMsunshine 2 years ago 3
sample found!
candlewhiskey 2 years ago
a group called 'united future organization' made a great track called 'poetry and all that jazz' with this entire vocal sample in it. its awesome.
funkatram 2 years ago
2012 the song - Harry Loco the missing link between the 60's and the future !
ANEWWORLD2012 2 years ago
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There can be no doubting the superiority of the English.
ilkinond 2 years ago
Of course there can be.
cc8277 2 years ago
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But only with non sequiturs
ilkinond 2 years ago
doubting that English is superior as a premise and having a conclusion that does not neceserally follow the premise, does not make the premise false
cc8277 2 years ago
At least the flexibility of the language
Yorboxl 2 years ago
You are deconstructing the article.... And I don't like geraniums because they are hairy.
ilkinond 2 years ago 3
beatniks/hippies/yippies/punks/hiphop/rap/spokenwordmusic/since time began/wildprophets/dancing in the streets
time for another revolution
outside time
AcePilot101 2 years ago 79
@AcePilot101 Agreed, though honestly on my travels I have found tiny groups on friends who are creating something similar to the beat generation within their own significant worlds.
pheno09 1 year ago
@AcePilot101 this is the "fate" of the Counterculture my friend, this is its "mission"
DrLearyUSA 1 year ago
@AcePilot101 Do you do any live performances?
VisivisiV 1 year ago
@AcePilot101 Do you do any live performances?
VisivisiV 1 year ago
Listened to this in my History class, I don't believe that this is the whole thing because the orignal is about five minutes.
yourstruleyanonymous 2 years ago
You have an excellent History teacher!
High school or college?
subterranean47 2 years ago
That beat is wicked...its so internal.
nukedoom3000 2 years ago 3
You sir are and idiot :/
ph0ny0n 3 years ago
and idiot?
nice. haha
MrLovington 2 years ago
Thank you for adding these!
kissingband 3 years ago 3
This is pure artistry. Check out my vids... I've written my own style of beat prose... Check out TheSolitaryTravelr...
TheSolitaryTravelr 3 years ago
yeah, it's called Vision of Cody
dig it!
sautsitumorang 3 years ago
yr an idiot then
goldengrillzz 3 years ago
he ain't JUST talkin, he's paintin a picture. watch it!!!
mick005usa 3 years ago 35
anywone know what poem this is???
MISFITROBBY138 3 years ago
It's a passage from On The Road.
AllBobsAllTheTime 3 years ago
that's where i thought it was from,
but it is actually from "desolation Angels".
WRSB 3 years ago
i think its on the road..at one point he says so and so came to a party with Dean and the gang..and in desolation angels cassady was cody, not dean.
zwickhouse 3 years ago
why do people talk without knowing? WRSB is right, it's from desolation angles... for the others, there is at least google that can help you in giving the right answers
alesslak 1 year ago
Godbless Ti Jean Kerouac March 12, 1922 -- October 21, 1969 may peace have found you!
nukes27 3 years ago
Is the little kid he is talking about Ray Charles
scrumptious1983 3 years ago
Is it just me or does Jack Kerouac look then like Clive Owen does now? Maybe a biopic is due?
K1j2cat 3 years ago
One of the most memorable things anyone has ever said to me -
"You look like Jack Kerouac!"
mmm, well, the mind determines the face.
beachcomber23 3 years ago 4
Today is the day you decide against mainstream views: and one of those views is so-called "beat poetry." The Wacks are the true artists of modernity. WE aren't to be feared or hated. WE are you. Search The Wacks on YouTube. Many thanks.
AntiBeater 3 years ago
question: since so much of the beat music is linked with jazz. Poems quoted over Jazz music. Could you not say Beat was the precursor to Rap? Sometimes when I listen to old beat stuff It sounds so much like Rap.
tr33887 3 years ago 4
Beat is not a precursor to rap it is a different thing entirely.
Beat was painting with words it was impressionist art in prose rap had a genesis of it's own rooted in oral tradition and something known as the dozens.
Rap is not poetry, not really and it is hard to explain why but I would suggest some careful consideration of the differences and separate history of the two.
I knew eventually that time I spent as a lit major would pay off.
TheKiDFoX 3 years ago 5
"Rap is not poetry"
RAP = RhythmAfricanPoetry :)
kapor00 3 years ago
I emplore you to check out Immortal Technique or Mos Def. They are as much poets as Jack Kerouac, Williams Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, and the whole lot.
COLOSSALYOUTHmusic 3 years ago
Yeah , man but i think that maybe both,beats and rappers got an alike expression form.But I don´t think beats were precursor to Rap,long ago in jamaika the 45 rpm single records got the hit in the a side and the same song in the b side instrumental without vocals, and people in the sound system sing their own lyrics over the instrumental version.The beats read poetry with a bongo bakground and shit, but i think that the only beat poet that got that bop soundis Kerouac.Sorry my english is shit
brokeandhungryxx 3 years ago
it does i agree.
COLOSSALYOUTHmusic 3 years ago
Fantastic
featheredmusic 3 years ago
Youre in my heart always Jack. I love you.
stacyblue1980 3 years ago
Yeah, I dig Jack like he is my brother. No, more like myself really he sums everything up for anyone who thinks about things. much more than Dean or Ginsgurg - this guy is a so much underrated god of culture.
I love you Jack, wherever you are in your deep deep head of a thousand constellations.
Thankyou so much for sharing your head.
B23
beachcomber23 3 years ago 3
Jack Kerouac, lay the bane off me.
mikemckv 3 years ago
this is used in refused's 'shape of punk to come'
excellent.
shitabrick 3 years ago
i like this..
unrescued 3 years ago
yeah this voice sounds just like Allen Ginsberg's America recording
RIPShaneCross1 3 years ago
a bit different accent tho..
psychedelichobo 3 years ago
If you loved this, type (paste) in search: JAZZ IS MY RELIGION
Amsterdam, 1964.
Best regards Django.
djangonovo 3 years ago
I Dig!
acerb45666555 4 years ago
yass yassss, listening to him talk it's hard not to dig.
theredneck3 3 years ago
Kerouac's work takes on a whole life when you hear him read it himself.
wesdancesongs 4 years ago 7
jack kerouac is dostoevsky's "the idiot". if you don't know what that is, look it up. his mind is learned and his heart has felt pain. people see his actions in the end as bummish, he fought the materialism and conformity of the time, and society kicked his ass. you live for materialism and conformity; he's bigger than society. jack kerouac's ideals live.
hillsonger 4 years ago 32
Another comment better that youtube.
whoaboyo 3 years ago
@hillsonger beautifully put <3 so much truth to that!
TheTamaroo1 1 year ago
Hey boys, i got word from Downtown,...she was staggerin' around...with a bottle of whiskey in her hand!....yeah, she was!
ruotze 4 years ago
This is Allen Ginsberg reading, correct?
sgalloberklee 4 years ago
no...
moriartydee 4 years ago
yeah, i've heard kerouac speak and i've heard ginsberg speak. this is ginsberg.
poopypilgrimboy 4 years ago
kind of sounds like ginsberg.
acerb45666555 4 years ago
I've also heard them both speak, this is Kerouac.
piewalker 3 years ago
I'll agree this does sound like Ginsberg at times, but I really think it's Kerouac.
Enright9591 3 years ago
Nah its Jack. I have this on CD. He did a lot of recordings. Unique stuff that u dont hear everyday. Its really amazing huh? He was a beautiful man. Beautiful soul. God rest him.
stacyblue1980 3 years ago 4
i love how fast paced kerouac's writing is, no wonder there is the rumour that he wrote 'On The Road' in one night off his head on drugs......
MiniMimiglu 4 years ago
It's not a rumor, and the story is that he wrote it in three weeks using Benzedrine and coffee to stay awake as much as possible. It's not even that it's fast-paced, it's just how deeply layered and beautiful his words are.
Cuseman15420 4 years ago 2
This genius was the best friend of my grand-father in his childhood, who was from Quebec, and living in the same town. They had to change their names in order to be accepted in school. My grand father was Henri-george...and then he became George. Same thing happened to Jack Kerouac. Look at his original name.
Anyway, great poet, great man !
cinemoica 4 years ago
October 21 1969
Once again on the road
looking for it
we miss you.
Thank you for everything!!!!!!!
greenglowingbanana 4 years ago
He could have been a soon of his age, but he refuse it. They talked about everything that was forbidden -tabbued, if the word exists- at the time, they opened so many roads...
All my respect.
tonimoroni 4 years ago
his book on the road is amazing.
djpenguin14 4 years ago
It's a great book, indeed, but I highly recommend The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels...On The Road is good, and it's what made him famous, but he has better books, most notably Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels
Cuseman15420 4 years ago
dharma bums is by far his best work. well, not by far, that almost implies that "road" is less than. but the tenor of it {dharma bums]is easier to follow than on the road. and the story is less disjointed(although that may have been the intention). both are tremendous pieces of literature. works of art in the truest sense of the term. also, let us not forget dr. sax.
ARRaymond1981 4 years ago
Personally, what I liked about Bums was the beauty of the writing and the compassion expressed in the book. Certainly it was easier to follow than Road (easier to read does not mean better). I have yet to read Dr. Sax, however. I have read pretty much everything else of Kerouac's, but not Sax.
Cuseman15420 4 years ago
easier to read most certainly does not mean better. but in this case, as i said, the story just felt more rounded. on the road was jagged. this is a layman's interpretation, of course. although, when he started talking about the bodhisattva and the like, i almost went crosseyed. but, as you stated, the beauty of the prose helped to allay my ignorance of the religious aspects. the scene with him in the woods when he went back home, him and the dog "meditating", was beautiful.
ARRaymond1981 4 years ago
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way- Bukowski
roadtorinpoche 4 years ago 5
I also like his first (?) book The Town And The City, but it's very different from his later works. I found Sax being really difficult, kinda psychedelic.
unebelette 4 years ago
Sentimentalize the gutter. That's Kerouackee
rabmunch 4 years ago 2
Call of the Kerow-Hack: "come all ye commonplace drudges and ignorant low-class failures, and find with me that you're really interesting, profound, deep, & have a true self." Translate: Onanism for the soul. Someone should have slipped some Hemlock into his liquor.
rabmunch 4 years ago
How come I always find your comments on videos like this? Every time you sound so bored of being disgusted by it; do you haunt these places just to put in an insightful pisstake? There's Jungian work afoot here, I think I'll meet you sometime in the future and it'll have some kind of social physio-spiritual relevance. Munich, you say?...
Seraserai 4 years ago
What has any of this to do with those examplary models and precursors of all contemporary American degeneracy? Are you defending your hero? OR have you none?
You are a little unusual, I admit. But you run with the herd: not all cattle sound or look the same. You won't ever meet me here in my elysian fields, where I enjoy all the trans-alpine good and fine things. Especially the air. Sometimes I go to the Cisalpine to think of my friends.
rabmunch 4 years ago
We all live two lives. One before On The Road. And one after it.
pavanj2 4 years ago 5
Yes. And the one after it for most persons is hardly worth living. The Calabanites have taken over America, and catamites are dancing to their tune.
Kerow-hack's book is hardly literature. Hardly. It flatters ordinary boring no-knowthings that they can be somebody interesting. That they are important or profound. Ptui!
rabmunch 4 years ago
Well it's like Dylan said it changes your life like it changes everyone else's. There are brilliant moments in it that are like genius emotion. He misspells and trails off and discards literature but he fathoms tiny eternals meanwhile.
Seraserai 4 years ago
New York and San Francisco missed the point, and here we are sinking in our own despair, whining spirals, down, licking wounds in our handsome lairs.
subwaysleuth 4 years ago
He talks in a train of consciousness, but though I've read some of 'On The Road' and I still can't understand what the fuck he's talking about, what he's complaining or praising about, and what's his point.
Someone help me better understand what he's trying to talk about.
SpikeJonze 4 years ago
Listen man ... Don't torture yourself. Grab yourself some bourbon and a quite corner. Now pull yourself some excitement up from somewhere ... Think about your first date, your first shag, your first hit of mdma ... Now hold that feeling take a good viking shot of bourbon and read like your playing in a bebop band.
lesallue 4 years ago 2
How could you come to this problem? You can follow this stuff anytime. But I'd say listen to your intuition about everything and wait, and never force it, for the time you think to yourself gee I'd kinda like some Kerouaky right now - then you just go from there. It comes in waves of escalating size: at first you read a bit, next time some more, until you read for days, and until the cycles span years of contemplation.
Seraserai 4 years ago
I think Jack Kerouac's point was to write fast without really thinking about it too much. His writing is described as a "muscular narrative" because he writes so fast that there's punctuation and grammar errors that dot his narrative path like potholes on a worn down road. I think you might enjoy "Big Sur" and it's probably best if you read it while eating and listening to soft jazz in the background.
bicycledays 4 years ago
I like your comment and find it amusing.
It reminds me of what Tocqueville says about America, ad the industry of literature she is inundated with. It's all garbage, but easy reading, and slack. But there is more to be said. These men corrupted healthier instincts. And these instincts were al