Neal Cassady

[wimbovv]

i'm sorry i sound like a cunt. i was sixteen. it was a school project. why do people insist on being assholes on the internet? honestly i find this video horrifically embarrassing because of my voice and would have deleted it ages ago if i didn't think people were learning something from it and appreciating it for it's content rather than quality. if i'm wrong i will gladly remove it asap. thoughts?

[iiwatcher]

Good stuff but the cunts annoy me.

[TheSchlampampe]

Was this filmed in the museum? It looks like a thrift store, love it. Really nice video, thanks!

[wimbovv]

@TheSchlampampe ya it was filmed at the beatnik museum in north beach san francisco.

[72vino]

I have been to this museum. What a joke. These Beats are who started all the filth in San Fransisco.

[tanisfilms]

this is great thanks

[directorpat]

Great job!

[SuperSquishface]

Christ, I want to marry you too (The person who made this, not Christ Himself!)

[wimbovv]

@SuperSquishface wow so many proposals! i should round all of you up to write me beat poetry as some sort of competition. then we will all drop acid and drive across the country. deal?

[jackblacksutube]

@wimbovv im down for the trip but you wont get my proposal

[southpawax]

Go furthur...

[wimbovv]

@southpawax in the process.

[lgmccarville]

it was a syntax revolution of cool

[d33pS3Ad1v3r]

Some of your narration has no punctiation, sentences flowing into other sentences, it's annoying. You're annoying.

[shadesofb]

what is the song playing in the background?

[partakoff]

Quick correction, for anyone watching and learning. Around the 6:50 mark the video mentions Tom Wolfe, author of the famed book "Electric Kool Aid Acid Test". (definitely required reading!). He was not, however, "...another renowned Beat author..." as the voiceover describes. He was a straight East Coast writer who, by his own admission, really went nuts by wearing white suits and rakish ties. He was astute enough to write what he heard, tho, and nicely captured an outsider's view of the scene.

[gregjones78]

Thanks for that! I really enjoyed watching it.

[Lillogambino]

true anarchists...fuck all thebeatles revolutions or whatever...I just wanna write!

[bogeball]

in what ways would you say the Beat writers have affected your life?

[skatezombieBITCH]

i wish i lived in the 50s, but at the same time to treat these people like myths or gods is the exact opposite of how theyd wanna be treated.

[Rhonlynn]

Thankyou. they changed my life. I've read everything Kerouac wrote, atleast 2 or 3 times, OTR, I read 6 times.

[Rhonlynn]

Thankyou

[dirkbogarde44]

You will go far young lady. If you don't, I'll eat my goldfish.

[wimbovv]

@dirkbogarde44 thank you. that means a lot. keep an eye out for me!

[jackblacksutube]

@dirkbogarde44 i already ate mine....  i miss him:(

[nordzville]

LoL Pets and Animals for category

[nordzville]

This is why YouTube in my life = Relevantly necessary dictionary of similar but not known parts of culturez Voices.. I'm 28 and reprezent Hippies :) Forever 27

[VulturesAwait]

great job on this video!

[yurtseed]

i enjoyed that , thanks , your great x.

[arbutus27]

If you really are sixteen, you're pretty bright. Good luck in your life.

[wimbovv]

ha, thanks for all the feedback. i had no idea my video would receive so much feedback...i just posted it here for my teacher because i didn't have any blank dvds. i made it when i was 16 so that explains the young voice. i apologize. also it had to be under 10 minutes so sorry if i glazed over many factors of the beatnik history but they definitely shaped my life, even at 16, and now at 18 they still continue to do so. for those who were worried about them losing their relevance, don't...

[gamoonbat]

Blame Carolyn. Hah! Hah!

[cultfilms1963]

hello there great vid!!-i am an indie filmaker here in tx-just finished a short called "JUNK"

it has a very burroughs/beat overtone-these guys were a big influ-on me.i am gald to see the younger people keeping alive the great beat writers.

COOL WAY TO LAY THE VISION ON THE MASS POP OF KATS N KITTENS.LOL

[MckyMseNTarotCrds]

What is the music in the beginning? Ooops, never mind-you listed it at the end. Nice video, btw.

[MckyMseNTarotCrds]

What is the music in the beginning?

[infoanalysis]

Did you ever meet a psychopath quite charming and invigorating. Why because they are dead inside and can not find peace without pushing the envelope

[greenrate]

Cassady was the physical side of the Ginsberg (intellectual), Kerouac (emotional), and Cassady friendship. (Think of them in terms of the Karamazov Brothers, if you like . . .).

Any kind of conclusion (such as in this video) that one was more significant than the other . . . just repeats the mistake that untimately doomed each of the three of them.

Unless you find a way to integrate head, heart, and body . . . distortion is inevitable.

[spekinewicz]

To correct Jerry Cimino, the curator of the Beat Museum, HOWL was not dedicated to Neal Cassady. It was dedicated to Carl Solomon.

[raceyboy]

I want to marry the girl who made this. Does any one believe in chivalry any more?

[wimbovv]

@raceyboy

I'll marry you.

[squeapler]

Nicely put together. The interviews with Cassady's children are especially interesting - they seem like really cool, intelligent people in their own right. Only thing I didn't like was the narrator's voice, which didn't seem to fit the subject matter (too young, sounds sort of like a freshman-year book report) but overall, pretty good job.

[Pearlmonroe]

Thanks for adding this.When were the interviews with Carolyn and Neal's children filmed?

[RATTLEY67]

Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[leyrax]

hello charlotte ! hello from france ! just happy to see this film about cassady...just happy...

[cozmicgravy]

I just really want to thank-you for this

Cozmicgravy

[jarrod1789]

Henry Miller did seem to lead the way for these hipsters with that sense of freedom that is the main trait of Henry and the the Beat generation, the only difference is Henry Miller pulled it off with the words of a pure genius!!

[TubeSpoker]

Most writers had inspiration on various common lifre figures. We cannot judge them by they way they speak or the background they had ! These video is a important historical register of art, poetry, personas and personages. The myth of youth, nowadays, through the cinema, brought by figures like James Dean, always will live in the human set of archetypes.

[buchananstreet]

true !! henry miller was the father of the beats, along with rimbaud, hesse, thomas wolfe, baudelaire, blake, celine, mallarme, whitman.

[starlight9275]

@buchananstreet NONE of this would have ever happened if it wasn't for HENRY MILLER.

I loved this video.

My daughter is named Cassidy after the grateful dead song which was STRONGLY influenced by the death of Neal Cassady and the hope for the resurection of the brightness of his spirit through the birth of the baby Cassidy Law.

I have a puppy named Ginsberg. I am just so cool. lol

[prkeller2]

Congrats! Amazing!

[Pirate88179]

Very well done, I enjoyed this.

Thanks,

Bill

[MamaJacqueroo]

Thank you, enjoyed it. This type of documentary is hard to come by- definitely history that influenced my life. I am 54.

[MeaningCorrupted]

i'm trying to keep up with all of this with the best of my knowledge but it's too overwhelming! i have on the road in front of me. it was given to me by a guy i met on the grayhound bus while i was on my way back home from chicago. i haven't read it yet but plant to soon

[CaglioStraw22]

Neal certainly knew where all those dopamine hormones do come from, his only trouble was the booze and something like a kind of Grössenwahn that made him counting the railway logs in a cold mexican desert.

RIP

[Surfinman09]

I could not agree with you more. As brilliant as he was, it was a sad day to See Neil make a bet about walking the railroad tracks to Bet the Bus. If he was driving it would have been a sure thing. He underestimated his body by trusting alcohol and that just made his speed worse. I will always remember him

[Poemsapennyeach]

Interesting...thanks...

[jeromekerngarcia]

Little do you know, cowboy Neal @ the wheel.

[blastofre]

I agree! Henry Miller was a quintessential influence on the Beats. And as much as I love the Beats, nothing compares

to Tropic of Cancer, Sexus and Plexus.

[putitupmike1]

I appreciated and enjoyed this. For some reason nobody remembers how much Henry Miller had to do with opening up the way writers approached life. Without Henry, there is no beat movement either. All Hail Henry!

[FuttBucker667]

@putitupmike1 Don't forget Celine. His disjointed style of writing which mirrored natural speech, along with his contempt for modern life, was a huge influence on the Beats (Miller as well). But I think Miller and Celine were on a higher scale than the Beats . . . with the exception of Corso of course.

[killyourego1983]

@putitupmike1 what about Rimbaud and other writters..its not only about Millet but I agree that he was starting point for them in that era..

[eibiii]

Very nice! Thanks for posting.

[websidanjeppe]

Great documentary! I'm just reading Carlyn's Off the road and im just in the middle of it and she have just given birth to the boy John Allen... Crazy to se him live as well as John Allen as well. Thanks a bunch!!!

[websidanjeppe]

oops it went to fast.... Carolyn, of course...

[electricitycomesfrom]

I think putting this is the the pets and animals category is a stroke of genius. Perfectly sums up neal cassadys nature and his place in the beat generation.

[lamtcobbpa]

Makes me want to reread visions of cody or on the road...Good vid.

[ddobbssf]

Well produced and very informative. Nice work Charlotte!!

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