October In The Railroad Earth

[redjess1206]

Thumbs up if Ben Gibbard sent you here

[mackjay2]

Beautiful job with the images while hearing the poem...



[CubsFanJohn]

Even though I don't like Trains I really like this!

[bonuscheesemilk]

I listen to this video and I JIZZ IN MY PANTS

[order57]

Thanks!

[noobz0r]

Condition Oakland :'(. beautiful

[highndriving]

@noobz0r best on that album

[Dancewith6]

It comes to an abrupt end, but BRAVO and thank you to all responsible for this upload.

[chenarch]

@Dancewith6 The ending has been edited off about getting thrown out of the bar. But this is a good place to end it... in my opinion.

[ZebraJones01]

This isn't the full recording though, like the one on the Beat Generation compilation, still, the imagery complements the words I love so much wonderfully

[Laic27]

anyone know where to find a text version of this?

[MontagTheMagician]

It's in a book called Lonesome Traveler from Grove Press.

[BrigondaX]

@MontagTheMagician Oh thanks!

[solimiansky]

epic

[arbutus27]

It's among my favourite Kerouac prose too... I was so moved by Railroad Earth that on my first trip to the US in 1980 I went and stood at Third and Townsend... a first literary pilgrimage. I had worked on freight trains in the UK, and found some delightful connections in his observations from the S.P.

[tomelifeisjustonebig]

Awesome dude! :-)

[Dutchman4000]

my all time favorite kerouac

i loved this before i moved to sf

while i lived in sf

and now in I LA i still love it

timeless

[pilgrimsareillegal]

this chapter from the railroad earth is perhap his finest poetic prose...so wonderful

[pilgrimsareillegal]

that is, from Lonesome Traveler

[tomelifeisjustonebig]

I agree.

[osu612]

thanks for posting. really nice.

[9jimmy24]

the band jawbreaker uses a sample of this in a song called Condition Oakland

[harmonicapparition]

That's where I first heard this spoken word poetry, actually, although I had read Kerouac before. Great to see good music and prose mingle together. The singer of Jawbreaker, Blake Schwarzenbach, is a big fan of Kerouac.

[davidnc76]

thanks for posting.