when fernanda shows the booklet, she says kerouac's eyes were that kind of blue. not light blue, but that kind of deep blue. she says that that colour didn't even look real... she also says they put water in the glass they gave him, so they managed to have him saying a few comprehensible words for a little while!
Compared to Scott Fitz, Kerouac is stone cold sober here. Self conscious about his lack of Italian clearly. And evasive. Looks like he wishes he were away from the camera's eating eye.
Maybe he had an untreated bipolar disorder. Sure looks like a possibility. And I didn't realize he was becoming bald. Just never think of him this way.
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.
Kerouac probably wasn't sober for more than 15 minutes from about his 14th birthday until his premature death. He did write the bible for an entire generation of the disaffected though.
That whole generation drank like fish. The only difference between his generation and the hippies, is that the hippies indulged in drugs instead of booze. Now, with alcohol energy drinks, we have a generation that combines booze and drugs. That is the pattern professional psychologists are noting about 20th to 21st century America.
Eccoli qua: il signor libertà e la signorina anarchia. Che bello quando la poesia non prendeva il potre ma ci sputava sopra! Kerouac, il mangnifico e struggente disperaro e la Pivano, la ribelle con grazia.
pixie....nerd. you dont get it! jack doesnt you need your sympathy! please dont comment on something or someone you know NOThing ABOUT! to all you self righteous ten steppers...save it!
@PixiesFanatic screw moderation man, drink up tennessee whisky till you cant pay the barman's fee, you get home and the lock vomits back the key... lol drink like nuts and collapse on a busy highway man with howl in one hand and the talmud in another , a scar running down your face like a ziggurat
Lots of evidence for Kerouac as unacknowledged bisexual. For a bisexual, he lived in tough times and grew up in the wrong religion in the wrong neighborhood with the wrong mother.
This is a little sad to watch because we can see here the slide into the last and most self-destructive phase of Jack's life. He was a dear soul and toward the end it all just got to be too much for him. God bless Jack Kerouac who wrote my favorite little book, that marvelous "Dharma Bums".
I think when people cave in like this, into excess, it doesn't take away from the skill and importance of their work, but it does give their critics a gift, of being able to watch them become less threatening to the established order
Great! Thank you Jack! Jack wrote some great things on Buddhism. The book 'Some of the Dharma' has some amazing insights. Alcoholism is a disease. It's cunning baffling and powerful. Here he is teaching the dangers of alcoholism. Thank you Jack. R.I.P. brother.
@ericineffible I really like that you see it that way...that he is teaching the dangers of alcoholism....for some reason when we see Jack like this, we do not glamorize like we do with say, rock stars or actors....if you read Big Sur, that is DEFINITELY a story that should scare any binge drinker straight....it saddens me terribly ( to borrow a word he repeats continually in the novel) however how his life ended....
You know maybe with a guy like Jack, he just ran out of things to say coherrently. Some great writers/thinkers compile all they have to say in one great book, and then they pass away. Jack hung around, and this is sad but perhaps his time had passed, but he remained. How many of us will go like this?
I love Kerouac's writing and I consider him one of the purest stylists in a literary world full of technicians and engineers. But his life in the late sixties breaks my heart: he looks so much the parody of the buffoonish lumberjack.
He was too honest as a man and as a writer, and he had lost much. Too much. After 'On the Road' Dean Moriarty was 1,000 miles away from his soul and from his mind and where were the other friends now? Alcohol has devastated him, what he says to Fernanda Pivano in this video is absolutely non-sensical, but his books remain important out-of-the-mainstream-classics.
Republican you are not the ideal specimen... keep ranting and One might expand, faggot. Do I speak similar. JK Discredidation. But you are botton line uptight and totally engrossed with for Democractics for some odd reason. Please say somethine worth your salt!
God doesn't exist, Kerouac is dead and McCain favors the economic policies which precipitated the current economic crisis. And let's not forget that McCain's running mate is a Bible-toting ignoramus and a liar. Barak Obama will be the next president, and hopefully the superstitious nitwits will finally understand that America is not a "Christian nation", but a democracy hijacked by greed and superstition.
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If Obama gets elected (and sadly, I agree that he will) it will be by idiots like you. John McCain isn't perfect but he's a much better choice than a Muslim wannabe like Obama. So go ahead and vote for him and watch the US go even further down the drain. Those that vote for Obama will get exactly what they deserve.
shame he never transended the purely adolescent in his life and also his work. in fact he degenerated into a raging infantile. there is real tragedy to his life and the inheritor of it was his daughter -who he barely acknowledged even after undertaking a blood test.
Kerouac was not the JAMES DEAN OF THE TYPEWRITER, you know? He wasn't perpetually cool. Slurring in a girl's face is never hip. He was child-like. A scared little boy.
He was a decent fellow w/a raging drinking problem. He was a Catholic man, not a good one, but there was a Catholic theme in all his works. May God have mercy on his soul.
Haters of Ti Jean are confused...Jack's politics were almost completely absent, he was a Catholic/Budhist/Catholic with a drinking problem. His books are raw lightly edited art, some shine better than others. If you dont like our Jack...move on and embrace the art of your choosing.
ubriachissimo,,,un grande alcolizzato!il narratore attribuisce il suo gesticolare all'essere anticonformista,io all'eccesso di alcol.ahahahaah cmq bravo
What do you mean overrated??? it is beautiful poetry on the road´s descriptions of landscapes, the natural dialogues, the caption of the spirit from that time. Just relax, open your head and read it again!
Sometimes you just dont read an author at the right moment.
Overrated author and unabashed alcoholic.See the 1968 "Firing Line" with William F. Buckley. Poor Bill was trying to ask him intelligent questions in vain.
'Unabashed Alcoholic' wow what a scathing appellation. You are aware of the prodigal alcohol consumption of Hemingway, Anthony Burgess, Fitzgerald etc. I wish the neo-Victorian temperance society wouldn't watch this video.
I respected Kerouac's work but it is just embarassing that he would show up to TV appearances in that condition. See the "Firing Line" appearance video with Bill Buckley. Very sad. He couldn't come up with any coherent thoughts. He could have shown up sober then gotten drunk afterwards.
I read Big Sur in Big Sur, in my early 20s when I had no home and was living in my car overlooking the great rocks of the pacific coast. I drove up to the Safeway in Carmel to clean up.
Neither from his letters nor his journal is there any indication that anyone in his life encouraged him to stop drinking, though his biographer mentions his memere admonishing him during her visit to his house in Long Island. Kerouac makes one or two references to his not wanting to see Cassady because he will get on him about his drinking problem.
he drank a lot, but as great of a mind as you can be, alcohol will take some effect. people look too much at football (white america) than at the ideals and mind he possessed. he, along with the other beats, was in search of a religion. read the first three lines of allen ginsberg's howl. they were more than good times and "revolution"; a word this generation loves to spew.
i don't know - i think artists are always alone (dylan said so). also, if you read kerouac's early stuff, when he was trying to become a writer, he actually romanticized about being a drunken artist - he made his fate, sad or not; he lived life as he chose...none of us know for sure who we'll until we are, then it's too late. if there's a trick, i guess it's to live with little regrets & few worries.
wondering what he could've done? if he hadn't fell off the face of reality and into the ocean of booze... after all he was the pedal that started a ripple~
Jack's writing went largely ignored in the years he was most prolific. In the years he was accused of being a "bum", his writing output was the greatest. When "On The Road" was finally published by Viking, he had already written nearly five novels. We Americans treat our artist with such ignorance and misunderstanding. Alcoholism knows no color or creed.
I've been looking for this document for years and years... thanks lupine 22 - great video, great sadness to see beloved Jack so BEAT - so drunk and lost - pity it all ended up so bad- he could have been here with us now, enjoying his family (poor Jan!) and playing with his grandchildren - the simple joys of life he wasn't able to taste - the price of his fame was too high - a great teaching to us all !!!!
Kerouac coulda been anything (frick! he went to Columbia) but decided to be a drunken bum. Kerouac shoulda played college ball and woulda made the NFL.
drunken bum? Drunken yes, bum no. He is one of the most important writers in American history. That likely wouldn't have happened if he had pursued a football career you dolt.
"He is one of the most important writers in American history" - aG
Sure. But what did it get him ? A pickled liver ? A beat-up old trailer buried in the middle of a stinking trailer park in no-man´s land FLA. NICE. No wonder it was always "ma mere, ma mere" with him.
Perhaps the drinking and indugence and bad liver would have happneded whether he was a writer or an thlete - and his football career was plagued by injuries.
I wish he would have kept up both writing and football for alonger period. Quit football young and quit life young... but he did live a big life or no one would be talking about him or writing about him 50 years later
mi ha fatto molto male vedere lo sguardo perso di un genio che ha sconvolto il corso della letteratura anglo-americana. Sono commossa! Thanks for this fantastic video.
That Italian interviewer was a real enabler...All you need is a hot cliche beatnik chick, a never ending supply of whiskey and a woman who looks like she had a botched sex change operation...he could go on forever
when fernanda shows the booklet, she says kerouac's eyes were that kind of blue. not light blue, but that kind of deep blue. she says that that colour didn't even look real... she also says they put water in the glass they gave him, so they managed to have him saying a few comprehensible words for a little while!
monsieureynaldo 2 weeks ago in playlist Altri video di lupine22
some can't stand life without booze
fedorwand 3 months ago
Compared to Scott Fitz, Kerouac is stone cold sober here. Self conscious about his lack of Italian clearly. And evasive. Looks like he wishes he were away from the camera's eating eye.
luckyswine 4 months ago
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luckyswine 4 months ago
chingon....¡¡¡¡¡¡ kerouac
cesarion29 6 months ago
Maybe he had an untreated bipolar disorder. Sure looks like a possibility. And I didn't realize he was becoming bald. Just never think of him this way.
lucychinn149 6 months ago
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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 10 months ago
Kerouac probably wasn't sober for more than 15 minutes from about his 14th birthday until his premature death. He did write the bible for an entire generation of the disaffected though.
bailinnumberguy 10 months ago 2
That whole generation drank like fish. The only difference between his generation and the hippies, is that the hippies indulged in drugs instead of booze. Now, with alcohol energy drinks, we have a generation that combines booze and drugs. That is the pattern professional psychologists are noting about 20th to 21st century America.
EdMahoney19 1 year ago
Eccoli qua: il signor libertà e la signorina anarchia. Che bello quando la poesia non prendeva il potre ma ci sputava sopra! Kerouac, il mangnifico e struggente disperaro e la Pivano, la ribelle con grazia.
Tellthemoff 1 year ago
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supafly88 1 year ago
Poor guy...lived what any of us would love to live, and is poor because of that.
We're afraid of exactly what we want and what we want is exactly what make us afraid.
DaniboyBR2 1 year ago
pixie....nerd. you dont get it! jack doesnt you need your sympathy! please dont comment on something or someone you know NOThing ABOUT! to all you self righteous ten steppers...save it!
jacktala1 1 year ago
Poor guy, one of the best showcases of why moderation is KEY!
PixiesFanatic 1 year ago
@PixiesFanatic screw moderation man, drink up tennessee whisky till you cant pay the barman's fee, you get home and the lock vomits back the key... lol drink like nuts and collapse on a busy highway man with howl in one hand and the talmud in another , a scar running down your face like a ziggurat
xtrmsprts 1 year ago
It's a damn shame this talented writer ended up this way. Shame on the filmmakers for taking advantage of him while he was drunk.
sneezepal 1 year ago
looks like jackie duluoz is on the sauce here
NicktheBarber31 1 year ago
have another drink Jack... talented guy...just couldn't handle air.
roostertrigger 1 year ago
drunken, repressed fraud...
jclarencelove3rd 2 years ago
@jclarencelove3rd How was he repressed?
TheMerlinOfAR 1 year ago
Lots of evidence for Kerouac as unacknowledged bisexual. For a bisexual, he lived in tough times and grew up in the wrong religion in the wrong neighborhood with the wrong mother.
luckyswine 4 months ago
God bless Jack Kerouac and Fernanda Pivano!!!
Thanx
Grazie
willyankees82 2 years ago
Poor Jack! Poor us!
jhawkridge 2 years ago
This is a little sad to watch because we can see here the slide into the last and most self-destructive phase of Jack's life. He was a dear soul and toward the end it all just got to be too much for him. God bless Jack Kerouac who wrote my favorite little book, that marvelous "Dharma Bums".
rr7firefly 2 years ago
wow endless
tessdivision 2 years ago
Poor shy Jack......
D1G17ALTR1PP3R 2 years ago
I think when people cave in like this, into excess, it doesn't take away from the skill and importance of their work, but it does give their critics a gift, of being able to watch them become less threatening to the established order
MKUltra3 2 years ago
You're assuming that he ever was, I suppose?
whalefish83 2 years ago
I think time has done most of the work....
but I think if Truman Capote was still alive, he'd still be hard on Jack.
"Typing"
sclogse1 2 years ago
that was very well said. he is my favorite writer because of his talent and honesty.
well done.
dorian947 2 years ago
He's drunk but he showed up.
grainofsandfan 2 years ago
R.I.P. JACK...
...from Italy
99roverhendrix99 2 years ago 2
Right on!
mushroomagical 2 years ago
pop phenom
johnbourbon 2 years ago
Great! Thank you Jack! Jack wrote some great things on Buddhism. The book 'Some of the Dharma' has some amazing insights. Alcoholism is a disease. It's cunning baffling and powerful. Here he is teaching the dangers of alcoholism. Thank you Jack. R.I.P. brother.
ericineffible 3 years ago 7
you can say that again
littlejjoasi 2 years ago
@ericineffible he ain't teaching just inadvertently demonstrating.
VexBlack 1 year ago
@ericineffible I really like that you see it that way...that he is teaching the dangers of alcoholism....for some reason when we see Jack like this, we do not glamorize like we do with say, rock stars or actors....if you read Big Sur, that is DEFINITELY a story that should scare any binge drinker straight....it saddens me terribly ( to borrow a word he repeats continually in the novel) however how his life ended....
savagembrace 1 year ago
You know maybe with a guy like Jack, he just ran out of things to say coherrently. Some great writers/thinkers compile all they have to say in one great book, and then they pass away. Jack hung around, and this is sad but perhaps his time had passed, but he remained. How many of us will go like this?
malmswax 3 years ago
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The only people for me are the mad ones,
the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved,
desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing,
but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars...
Jack Kerouac, On The Road, 1957
logansGT 3 years ago
I love Kerouac's writing and I consider him one of the purest stylists in a literary world full of technicians and engineers. But his life in the late sixties breaks my heart: he looks so much the parody of the buffoonish lumberjack.
skanemermaid 3 years ago 3
grandioso!!
buddaciaro 3 years ago
I could of been a somebody, I could have been a contender!
VariedInterest 3 years ago
he drank him self to death, in a way he commited suicide in a very catholic way.
asonofleemarvin 3 years ago 3
He was too honest as a man and as a writer, and he had lost much. Too much. After 'On the Road' Dean Moriarty was 1,000 miles away from his soul and from his mind and where were the other friends now? Alcohol has devastated him, what he says to Fernanda Pivano in this video is absolutely non-sensical, but his books remain important out-of-the-mainstream-classics.
panovideo 3 years ago
Amen to that
goatsinherkitchen 2 years ago
He keeps trying to kiss her!
kookooboy 3 years ago
uhahahahahahahahahahahahahaha....he's weasted...but still the greatest..
cristianoserati 3 years ago
What? they just gave him alcool to see him wasted, that's so Italian haha
lamibenoit 3 years ago
jack was wasted!
pecorino69 3 years ago
with fernanda pivano
bibidibobidibuf 3 years ago
Republican you are not the ideal specimen... keep ranting and One might expand, faggot. Do I speak similar. JK Discredidation. But you are botton line uptight and totally engrossed with for Democractics for some odd reason. Please say somethine worth your salt!
ghslax619 3 years ago
We are not a democracy you moron..We are a fedaral republic. Lay off the sheeba, get a job, and go back to school hippie!
Snotra 3 years ago
Thank God Jack was Catholic and republican.. McCain 2008!
Snotra 3 years ago
God doesn't exist, Kerouac is dead and McCain favors the economic policies which precipitated the current economic crisis. And let's not forget that McCain's running mate is a Bible-toting ignoramus and a liar. Barak Obama will be the next president, and hopefully the superstitious nitwits will finally understand that America is not a "Christian nation", but a democracy hijacked by greed and superstition.
burgernfries45 3 years ago
YEAH!!!!!!!!
BURTNA10 3 years ago
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If Obama gets elected (and sadly, I agree that he will) it will be by idiots like you. John McCain isn't perfect but he's a much better choice than a Muslim wannabe like Obama. So go ahead and vote for him and watch the US go even further down the drain. Those that vote for Obama will get exactly what they deserve.
elliottrainbow 3 years ago
Fuck you man, why does every ignorant son of a bitch gotta bring politics into everything.
Seanradical 3 years ago
I hate liberals!
Snotra 3 years ago
thank you jack
m00mm00 3 years ago
shame he never transended the purely adolescent in his life and also his work. in fact he degenerated into a raging infantile. there is real tragedy to his life and the inheritor of it was his daughter -who he barely acknowledged even after undertaking a blood test.
DREWJAMES1234 3 years ago
i think even in his imperfection he was brilliant. he was unabashedly honest which is jarring for many...
jamesmarchii 3 years ago
GRANDE!!! Abbasso il conformismo!5 stelle!
veocytoi 3 years ago
American tragedy. Or the tragedy of being an American. Castastrophy for the world in any and every aspect! THat's why alcohol with Jack....
Mazurka1001 3 years ago
This is a very sad video...I love all his work, but if you've read Gerald Nicosia's excellent bio, he explains what a painful time this was for Jack.
spd13062 3 years ago
Kerouac was not the JAMES DEAN OF THE TYPEWRITER, you know? He wasn't perpetually cool. Slurring in a girl's face is never hip. He was child-like. A scared little boy.
momwentcrazy 3 years ago 3
Thank god, he wasn't the James Dean of the Typewriter, just imagine what bilge Dean would have come out with
wildereemoss 3 years ago
He was a decent fellow w/a raging drinking problem. He was a Catholic man, not a good one, but there was a Catholic theme in all his works. May God have mercy on his soul.
jimfarrowlove 3 years ago
Haters of Ti Jean are confused...Jack's politics were almost completely absent, he was a Catholic/Budhist/Catholic with a drinking problem. His books are raw lightly edited art, some shine better than others. If you dont like our Jack...move on and embrace the art of your choosing.
nukes27 3 years ago
our Jack um excuse me but saying that makes it sound like he was your slave Jack Kerouac is no one's slave.
CrazyJustin2006 3 years ago
Un genio assoluto!
Grazie Jack. E grazie anche a quel matto di Neal.
ilzappatore 3 years ago
ubriachissimo,,,un grande alcolizzato!il narratore attribuisce il suo gesticolare all'essere anticonformista,io all'eccesso di alcol.ahahahaah cmq bravo
gastrafetes 3 years ago
What do you mean overrated??? it is beautiful poetry on the road´s descriptions of landscapes, the natural dialogues, the caption of the spirit from that time. Just relax, open your head and read it again!
Sometimes you just dont read an author at the right moment.
alvmarcoux 3 years ago
questo maledeto era stato ubbriaco come un cane!hahaha
Lillogambino 3 years ago
Always separate the artist from the real person ok
Pravindaswani74 3 years ago
my hero
jowhatsgood 3 years ago 3
Overrated author and unabashed alcoholic.See the 1968 "Firing Line" with William F. Buckley. Poor Bill was trying to ask him intelligent questions in vain.
sjddvm 3 years ago
wow are you dense
drmiglin 3 years ago
Overrated?...take a booze! lol
Pravindaswani74 3 years ago
wrrrrrrrrong. Try again, sir. Certainly not overrated.
theredneck3 3 years ago
'Unabashed Alcoholic' wow what a scathing appellation. You are aware of the prodigal alcohol consumption of Hemingway, Anthony Burgess, Fitzgerald etc. I wish the neo-Victorian temperance society wouldn't watch this video.
wildereemoss 3 years ago
I respected Kerouac's work but it is just embarassing that he would show up to TV appearances in that condition. See the "Firing Line" appearance video with Bill Buckley. Very sad. He couldn't come up with any coherent thoughts. He could have shown up sober then gotten drunk afterwards.
sjddvm 3 years ago
I read Big Sur in Big Sur, in my early 20s when I had no home and was living in my car overlooking the great rocks of the pacific coast. I drove up to the Safeway in Carmel to clean up.
seans10 3 years ago
Where "Big Sur" would be...Alaska?
Lillogambino 3 years ago
Its on the central coast of California
theredneck3 3 years ago
He got drunk with his crapulous and loathsome mother, and the two may have been more than just drinking buddies. His mother was his main problem.
ScrofulousBoy 3 years ago
He got drunk with his crapulous and loathsome mother, and the two may have been more than just drinking buddies. His mother was his main problem.
ScrofulousBoy 3 years ago
shell of a man
smokinbill 3 years ago
man this is awful. hes just an alcoholic here a guy right at the end.
celeocanth 3 years ago
wotta good lookin' guy.
pretty good writer, too LOL
springthrash 4 years ago
Glamorous.
JoshDone 4 years ago
Mi piange il cuore a vederlo così, ma se così non fosse stato, non sarebbe stato lui e non avrei potuto leggerlo...
Jack un saluto a te, dalla Terra al Cielo.
m00mm00 4 years ago
Neither from his letters nor his journal is there any indication that anyone in his life encouraged him to stop drinking, though his biographer mentions his memere admonishing him during her visit to his house in Long Island. Kerouac makes one or two references to his not wanting to see Cassady because he will get on him about his drinking problem.
holden1787 4 years ago
this is kind of how it works.
baytamusic 4 years ago
IMMENSA FERNANDA!!!
mimmoferrara 4 years ago 3
Kerouac is The Great Fire...
YURIMOURAO 4 years ago 4
I love Jack and personally knew Fernanda Pivano,she's from Genova,north west Italian town where I was born in 66
italianeaglemaniac 4 years ago
he drank a lot, but as great of a mind as you can be, alcohol will take some effect. people look too much at football (white america) than at the ideals and mind he possessed. he, along with the other beats, was in search of a religion. read the first three lines of allen ginsberg's howl. they were more than good times and "revolution"; a word this generation loves to spew.
hillsonger 4 years ago 2
love jack! drowned in an ocean of booze or not. & screw football!! jesus man, who gives a rat's ass if he'd have been drafted?!
jksmadone 4 years ago
he said his greatest mistake was giving up football for poems.
johnbourbon 4 years ago
i'm glad he made that big mistake - i can't get a hell of a lot more from his books that are, then old football clips that might have been.
jksmadone 4 years ago
tough call. he was a pretty tortured guy and he probably suffered a lot. i think i'd prefer people to just be happy.
johnbourbon 4 years ago
then we'd have no art, just happy & sad people.
by the way, i meant 'i can get more from his books then old football clips that might have been'
peace. :)
jksmadone 4 years ago
i guess it kind of begs the question, can happy people make art? could he have?
johnbourbon 4 years ago
i don't know - i think artists are always alone (dylan said so). also, if you read kerouac's early stuff, when he was trying to become a writer, he actually romanticized about being a drunken artist - he made his fate, sad or not; he lived life as he chose...none of us know for sure who we'll until we are, then it's too late. if there's a trick, i guess it's to live with little regrets & few worries.
jksmadone 4 years ago
god bless jack kerouac...all the mad ones. :)
jksmadone 4 years ago
colossalmente sbronzo!
hsfhpslp99 4 years ago
wondering what he could've done? if he hadn't fell off the face of reality and into the ocean of booze... after all he was the pedal that started a ripple~
nuactive 4 years ago
sembrava inebriato, e triste.
shiroukbah 4 years ago
Jack's writing went largely ignored in the years he was most prolific. In the years he was accused of being a "bum", his writing output was the greatest. When "On The Road" was finally published by Viking, he had already written nearly five novels. We Americans treat our artist with such ignorance and misunderstanding. Alcoholism knows no color or creed.
fletch212 4 years ago
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Kerouac shoulda stuck to college football. Woulda gone pro in ´56.
RideMyBMW 4 years ago
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Pro in ´46 I mean.
RideMyBMW 4 years ago
Amen..
christianhannig1 3 years ago
I've been looking for this document for years and years... thanks lupine 22 - great video, great sadness to see beloved Jack so BEAT - so drunk and lost - pity it all ended up so bad- he could have been here with us now, enjoying his family (poor Jan!) and playing with his grandchildren - the simple joys of life he wasn't able to taste - the price of his fame was too high - a great teaching to us all !!!!
memorybabe63 4 years ago
I think he could have drank Morrison under the table. lol
aGua421 4 years ago
morrison is insignificant in comparison to the mind of kerouac
sirskeemalot 4 years ago
SO what does that make you?
aGua421 4 years ago
jesus?
sirskeemalot 4 years ago
our man jack.....he lived as he wanted to live!
marxred 4 years ago
drunk as a pope
got into her more than she ever
he got his share all right&left, wham!
and never let them forget
fflunxx 4 years ago
Oh! Alas! Alas! Poor Jack. How could he have been saved?
buzznumberone 4 years ago
Very, Very, sad.
theriots100 4 years ago
Kerouac coulda been anything (frick! he went to Columbia) but decided to be a drunken bum. Kerouac shoulda played college ball and woulda made the NFL.
RideMyBMW 4 years ago
drunken bum? Drunken yes, bum no. He is one of the most important writers in American history. That likely wouldn't have happened if he had pursued a football career you dolt.
aGua421 4 years ago
"That likely wouldn't have happened if he had pursued a football career you dolt." - aG
What ? The guy woulda won the Heismann, guaranteed, had he played college and pro-ball.
RideMyBMW 4 years ago
"He is one of the most important writers in American history" - aG
Sure. But what did it get him ? A pickled liver ? A beat-up old trailer buried in the middle of a stinking trailer park in no-man´s land FLA. NICE. No wonder it was always "ma mere, ma mere" with him.
RideMyBMW 4 years ago
the question shouldn't be 'what did it get him' but rather 'what did he give us.'
answer--much. much.
tenzing9 4 years ago
Perhaps the drinking and indugence and bad liver would have happneded whether he was a writer or an thlete - and his football career was plagued by injuries.
wildmuir 4 years ago
"his football career was plagued by injuries" - wild
True dat. Nevertheless, he shouldna quit.
RideMyBMW 4 years ago
I wish he would have kept up both writing and football for alonger period. Quit football young and quit life young... but he did live a big life or no one would be talking about him or writing about him 50 years later
wildmuir 4 years ago
"wish he would have kept up both writing and football" - wild
Me too. Would made a wicked sports columnist.
RideMyBMW 4 years ago
he did write for a while for the Lowell Sun--editors probably didn't like his bop prosody...
metrodash 3 years ago
mi ha fatto molto male vedere lo sguardo perso di un genio che ha sconvolto il corso della letteratura anglo-americana. Sono commossa! Thanks for this fantastic video.
shalyma 4 years ago
porca vacca se era ubriaco fradicio... Riposa in pace fratello..spero che tu stia continuando a viaggiare.. magari insieme a Dean Moriarty...
MoraxBluEyes 4 years ago
That Italian interviewer was a real enabler...All you need is a hot cliche beatnik chick, a never ending supply of whiskey and a woman who looks like she had a botched sex change operation...he could go on forever
zola731 4 years ago
fernanda pivano is one of the best writer, traslator, interviewer, woman....in the world!!!
carolina1807 4 years ago
i guess, but the last 40 years have been tough on her... Yes, i'm sure Jack had a lot of enablers..
irish89055 4 years ago
wooow
JackKerouac1922 4 years ago
man he WAS drunk
acax83 4 years ago
i don't know who was harder to understand, the italian reporter or the drunk writer.
schiziodman 4 years ago
Haha indeed!
chigirl28 4 years ago
Fantastico.
Cru3l86 4 years ago