His vision had the purity of a child. But a sad and broken man. His anxieties regarding his sexuality and spiritual and social identity destroyed him.
What is disrespectful is how the interview puts him in a petri dish...other countries are fascinated by the early American cultural idiom...whether it is Kerouac or Ellington...they like poking at it to abstract meaning...however it only takes a few moments to garner the realization that these figures do not consider probing to be flattering.
@griffo1968 well, in regards to Kerouac, what keeps me sober more than anything else is his writing, in particular, when I compare his writing in novels like The Dharma Bums to a novel like Big Sur. Have you ever read Big Sur? Prehaps the most agonizingly detailed journey through severe alchoholism I have ever read. As a young novelist who has also been gratefully sober for two years straight, I consider that novel to set a prime example for precisely how I do NOT want to end up as a writer.
wow this is amazing...he is pathetically sleeping drunken! Well at least he isnt rude, unpleasant or violent, as so many people are when drunk. But boy he is pathetic! She should not have indulged him, disrespectful drunken shlep!
@griffo1968 well said. I too felt this way long before discovering Jack. People seemed honest when drunk. The next day people said sorry for who they were, shameful of what they were truly; that I thought was a shame. The public has been fed the lie that those who drink are making an effort to 'hide', I say it is to reveal and those who do not drink who are attempting to hide. To hide themselves from their judgmental friends, family members, or theirself.
@jonnyburgo Projecting your bitterness on the world of people who drink because of something it sounds to me like you experienced in the past is no way to cope with it. By the way, I'm people and I don't drink to escape, I drink to arrive, same for any substance I choose to consume.
@wtw88 he was one of the greatest poets/writers of 20 century too. It's not about happiness at that level he's a man of art, and when it comes to art you gotta live it all, be exposed even overexposed to life, that's what On the Road is about.
kerouac i suppose has seen the world and got dissapointed like any normal human being and he speaks from the heart and if you want to be moral vertical look at yourself like jesus said and then throw the stone. judging is easy, loving and forgivness is hard! and for all of you that think he couldnt write without being drunk try it your self...
@griffo1968 well, could he write what he wrote while completely drunk? i doubt it. drunks never do anything as good as they do it sober--especially with regard to thinking and writing at a high level. but i admit, being drunk does inspire...as c. bukowski liked to say. fuck it--put it this way, if it weren't for a completely sober kerouac, you'd never've 'eard of 'im, boy.
@eightyeightthousand 1. okay, you removed your comment here. you say you never agree with generalizations, thus you do not agree with griffo 1968 and myself (1961). fair enough. i see your point, in that certainly there are exceptions. but, as an example, i once met an ambulance driver, whose one advice for me, was to always wear a seat belt. sure there are the some who get thrown out to survive before the car sinks into the river, but he was right that in general, wearing a seat belt is the...
2. ...best policy. e. hemingway, who could drink kerouac under the table (and whip his ass easily), as pointed out by his biographers, wrote such classics as "the old man and the sea" while he was stone cold sober. sure while drunk someone can hit on something, but to produce great literature, one generally needs to do it "sober" in front of the type writer. you make a bad mistake dissing the concept of generalization. a brain fucked up on alcohol does not, in general, function as well, no?
@eightyeightthousand well, just listen to kerouac here in this interview. do you really think he could've written what he wrote while in this mental stumbling state. i think he's a great soul...a rare one to have come along. hemingway (kerouac, once too) knew how to separate the heavy drinking from being in front of the type writer.....only hem shot himself because of side effect of electro-convulsive shock treatment for depression, which was like being drunk--fucked up. (the "general" is real.)
I love his books,his style,most of his beliefs...he was so talented!A genious!And what makes him so special is his weird (weird for the "normal" ones) personality!
one of the most inspiring and groundbreaking interviews.. not merely from the fact that it's Kerouac unbridled and speaking freely, but because he is drunk and he is in his decline, it's a beautiful and heart breaking exhibit of his life and all life, my life, your life, all life as people who drink..
I love Kerouacs work and have lots of it including his books of letters on my shelf at home, however he was a deeply flawed human being, conservative yet bisexual, buddhist yet catholic, a hopeless drunk, unable to take responsibility, his daughter and ex wife lived in poverty while the money rolled in, he denied responsibility for his daughter and only met her twice, Ran back to his mother when he needed bailing out throughout his adult life, lived with his mother and died at home drunk and sad
Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, Lenny Bruce, Bill Hicks, Sam Peckinpah, and Delmore Shwartz. The greatest none musician artists of the past hundred years.
I don't agree with thedavidwilson. The beat movement layed the foundation for the 60s pop culture. They were bohemian at a time when it was much more hostile towards non-comformity. By the time the 60s rolled around, these 'beatniks' had softened up societal norms.
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.
@thedavidwilson A foundation of the beat movement of the 1950s, which was a haven of jazz, the abstract, beatniks & poetry. The 60s counterculture was a much more broad & dirty animal, brought about by war, civil rights, change of perception, political radicals, & drugs. The beat movement easy going and gentle by comparison.
I am very happy to see the this dude on video. I knew he probably wasn't as calculating in person as I may have imagined him by his writing of On the Road. This dude is putting out some awesomeness buzzed like a Joe Nameth interview or not.
I don't think there's anything wrong with marriage, family, career etc. for people need spouses, kids and a job..but for me JK is speaking against the unthinking vapidness of modern American life and against the seeming futility of all that as created by advertising and the mass media..it induces a sort of cultural insanity...in the end he became rather conservative and did not even want to be bothered by the hippie types tracking him down in NY state..Ecclesiastes speaks similar themes- vanity
He was at his real end. Totally kaputt. Some men reach the wisdom when they're quite old (Henry Miller), some other - like Jack - are burnt with 30 or 40 'cause they cannot accept the loss of youth. This man on the video is not the Kerouac we loved.
This does break my heart though. I'll tell ya, the BEST artists are also SO OFTEN the most self-destructive, broken, and pained....but in between those moments of fear and pain are also moments filled with brilliance and purity....sigh.
@MsPerfectsquare You are so wrong I can't even begin to describe just how WRONG you are!!! lol I think that should be a fact written in stone that what you just wrote above is perhaps the falsest statement EVER made on youtube. WRONG WRONG WRONG. Just stating FACT.
I started to watch the video..but I cried.....I can´t watch longer.... It´s fuckin sad what the world can do with so different person...I fuckin bless him...I love him in my way... and I hope there are more people feeling it the same way I am!!! I really hope....And just for stupid mother fuckers I´m not a drunk or drug person.....love you Kerouac!!!
@margovallen what are you starting to shit about? I´m sorry but I just dislike when someone is arguing about another´s way of expression.. who gives a fuck? I don´t... there are much more important things to pay attention to.... but other thing... I know my expression can be annoying for a prim kind of people.. but hell... you read Kerouac.... you might be more opened and liberal..
My heart aches for him. "At age 47 in 1969 Kerouac died from internal bleeding due to long-standing abuse of alcohol." After all the desperate searching he and his friends did, they never found sustaining happiness... Now that's a sad story. Rest in peace, Jack Kerouac you darling.
My heart aches for him. "At age 47 in 1969 Kerouac died from internal bleeding due to long-standing abuse of alcohol." After all the desperate searching he and his friends did, they never found sustaining happiness... Now that's a sad story. Rest in peace, Jack Kerouac you darling.
This video makes me really sad. I am almost done reading "On the road" and I had built such a powerful image of Kerouac in my mind but this interview just .... ruined it. He looks like a homeless, drunk, loser. I refuse to watch any more of it. I want to remember him in a positive light.
Are there any real people left in the world or all just Zombies seriously I'm reading Visions of Cody and everyone I know is stuck to video games and department stores what should I do?
He was a real genius with a sad life after becoming "famous". i completly understand his reaction! Thats why i think it's a shame to remember kerouac as drunken mad man like this interview shows him!
@venakew drugs and alcohol do that to so many people. you'd think that people would learn but they don't. i guess drugs and alcohol will always be "cool"
Amazing!!!! At last I can see my hero in one of his memorable moments. I've read all about this interview, but I've never seen it before. THANKS A LOT MAN!
Drunk as a skunk- lol. He was a sad individual- probally felt missunderstood(like James Dean). If he had got his act together he probally would still be around today.
By Big Sur he was beyond the beyonds. Pathetic and sad, and as fun to watch as somebody cutting themself. As a recovering alcoholic whenever I think about having a drink, I watch this and the Buckley Firing Line interview. Works every time.
@hesitantes Very close. I would say "pitiable", that is, deserving of our pity and perhaps, empathy. He was Catholic, and had a hangup about suicide, but killing yourself slowly by drink was OK. I see myself here if I didn't quit, so it strikes a nerve, for sure, because I was also an ugly, stupid and self-destructive drunk. He seems so helpless, like he's caught in a whirlpool, and I understand that feeling completely.
@dewanevl What's so pathetic and sad about a man creating art? So what if he was a drunk? He was also an incredibly gifted writer and artist. How many drunken idiots run around doing nothing but be drunken idiots? Give credit where credit is due. Big Sur was a good book. He was writing about an inspiring place where he basically lived a hobo's lifestyle. When was the last time you wrote a book?
@dewanevl I heard one of the last interview of Fernanda where she told about this occasion (09/27/1966) . She said Jack was so excited to be in Italy that immediatly opened up a bottle of whisky to celebrate his arrival with Gian Pieretti (the man at his left). He ended his italian tour in Naples (my birthland) where one night, at the Otto Jazz Club, climbed upon the stage and defended the american armed intevention in Vietnam. God bless him. My favourite author of all the times.
@horuseye1972 Very interesting story about this video! Thanks for sharing. I'm guessing the Vietnam speech didn't go over too well...Great writer, no question, most people (even Ginzburg, who Kerouac attacked at every opportunity in his later years) felt bad about the way he ended up. A hard way to go.
He's drunk. He couldn't handle non-fame and he couldn't handle fame.
But where Marlon Brando changed acting, Kerouac changed writing.
Their lives were more interesting than their writings but no one is interested n anyone's life until he or she is famous. and the person has to be really really famous for a long time for anyone to be really interested.
If you are a Beatnik-fan then you should consider that many of them where homosexuals and like Jack he never had any prejudice against them, so stop using "Gay" as an insult!
Thats so cute "Little faggot"! You make me blush and wear long nylon stockings and do I look really pretty? Yeas, I do! You flatter me! Tiddeli dooo! You naughty boy.....
Translation of tainoarawak's last comment: Yes, yes, oh yeah, yeah, yeah I'm so fucking awesome. Come on you filthy bitch. Yeah that's right you like that. Ow, Ow, AHHHHHHHHHH!...................Uh, mom can you come up here and clean up my computer screen for me, I've made what you call "the mess of satan" again. Err gross mom you were watching. Well yeah I guess I do find that kind of hot. What do you mean Steve's not just my father he's also my brother.
His vision had the purity of a child. But a sad and broken man. His anxieties regarding his sexuality and spiritual and social identity destroyed him.
Didgebaba 2 weeks ago
Drunk at the interview!
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What is disrespectful is how the interview puts him in a petri dish...other countries are fascinated by the early American cultural idiom...whether it is Kerouac or Ellington...they like poking at it to abstract meaning...however it only takes a few moments to garner the realization that these figures do not consider probing to be flattering.
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@griffo1968 well, in regards to Kerouac, what keeps me sober more than anything else is his writing, in particular, when I compare his writing in novels like The Dharma Bums to a novel like Big Sur. Have you ever read Big Sur? Prehaps the most agonizingly detailed journey through severe alchoholism I have ever read. As a young novelist who has also been gratefully sober for two years straight, I consider that novel to set a prime example for precisely how I do NOT want to end up as a writer.
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savagembrace 3 months ago
His writing might have merit but he's creepy in all his interviews. You'd freak if anyone other than Jack Kerouac acted like this to you.
R0773N 5 months ago
His voice is priceless.
gittty 5 months ago
his expressions are priceless
chloeimus682 5 months ago
He is fucking clobbered. lol. the only way i'd have it.
Levipaulsen 5 months ago
wow this is amazing...he is pathetically sleeping drunken! Well at least he isnt rude, unpleasant or violent, as so many people are when drunk. But boy he is pathetic! She should not have indulged him, disrespectful drunken shlep!
2tuque2 5 months ago
@griffo1968 well said. I too felt this way long before discovering Jack. People seemed honest when drunk. The next day people said sorry for who they were, shameful of what they were truly; that I thought was a shame. The public has been fed the lie that those who drink are making an effort to 'hide', I say it is to reveal and those who do not drink who are attempting to hide. To hide themselves from their judgmental friends, family members, or theirself.
hungryferstink 5 months ago
@hungryferstink That has to be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read, people drink to escape reality.
jonnyburgo 3 months ago
@jonnyburgo Projecting your bitterness on the world of people who drink because of something it sounds to me like you experienced in the past is no way to cope with it. By the way, I'm people and I don't drink to escape, I drink to arrive, same for any substance I choose to consume.
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Basically Jack was just a poor, sad derelict. I shudder to see him like this.
wtw88 5 months ago
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Basically Jack was just a poor, sad derelict. I shudder to see him like this.
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Basically Jack was just a poor, sad derelict. I shudder to see him like this.
wtw88 5 months ago
Basically Jack was just a poor, sad derelict. I shudder to see him like this.
wtw88 5 months ago
@wtw88 he was one of the greatest poets/writers of 20 century too. It's not about happiness at that level he's a man of art, and when it comes to art you gotta live it all, be exposed even overexposed to life, that's what On the Road is about.
0live0wire0 5 months ago
So very well said. Cheers.
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vinnynumbnuts 6 months ago in playlist Jack Kerouac
kerouac i suppose has seen the world and got dissapointed like any normal human being and he speaks from the heart and if you want to be moral vertical look at yourself like jesus said and then throw the stone. judging is easy, loving and forgivness is hard! and for all of you that think he couldnt write without being drunk try it your self...
cicinavi7 7 months ago
@griffo1968 well, could he write what he wrote while completely drunk? i doubt it. drunks never do anything as good as they do it sober--especially with regard to thinking and writing at a high level. but i admit, being drunk does inspire...as c. bukowski liked to say. fuck it--put it this way, if it weren't for a completely sober kerouac, you'd never've 'eard of 'im, boy.
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eightyeightthousand 6 months ago
@eightyeightthousand 1. okay, you removed your comment here. you say you never agree with generalizations, thus you do not agree with griffo 1968 and myself (1961). fair enough. i see your point, in that certainly there are exceptions. but, as an example, i once met an ambulance driver, whose one advice for me, was to always wear a seat belt. sure there are the some who get thrown out to survive before the car sinks into the river, but he was right that in general, wearing a seat belt is the...
vinnynumbnuts 6 months ago
2. ...best policy. e. hemingway, who could drink kerouac under the table (and whip his ass easily), as pointed out by his biographers, wrote such classics as "the old man and the sea" while he was stone cold sober. sure while drunk someone can hit on something, but to produce great literature, one generally needs to do it "sober" in front of the type writer. you make a bad mistake dissing the concept of generalization. a brain fucked up on alcohol does not, in general, function as well, no?
vinnynumbnuts 6 months ago
@eightyeightthousand well, just listen to kerouac here in this interview. do you really think he could've written what he wrote while in this mental stumbling state. i think he's a great soul...a rare one to have come along. hemingway (kerouac, once too) knew how to separate the heavy drinking from being in front of the type writer.....only hem shot himself because of side effect of electro-convulsive shock treatment for depression, which was like being drunk--fucked up. (the "general" is real.)
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Go to angelbaby2011(.com) Jack was truly inspiring to help me write my book Angel Baby- A Moment of Truth
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naughtypollyband 7 months ago
I love his books,his style,most of his beliefs...he was so talented!A genious!And what makes him so special is his weird (weird for the "normal" ones) personality!
starshaped41 7 months ago
the human family
loxab2 8 months ago
one of the most inspiring and groundbreaking interviews.. not merely from the fact that it's Kerouac unbridled and speaking freely, but because he is drunk and he is in his decline, it's a beautiful and heart breaking exhibit of his life and all life, my life, your life, all life as people who drink..
ihatemyjobman 8 months ago
I love Kerouacs work and have lots of it including his books of letters on my shelf at home, however he was a deeply flawed human being, conservative yet bisexual, buddhist yet catholic, a hopeless drunk, unable to take responsibility, his daughter and ex wife lived in poverty while the money rolled in, he denied responsibility for his daughter and only met her twice, Ran back to his mother when he needed bailing out throughout his adult life, lived with his mother and died at home drunk and sad
jonnyburgo 8 months ago 3
Whats the Italiano del fin saying? I bet it's hilarious.
Epicpofunk 8 months ago
this is an amazing example of fast language learner partway to fluency, freakin wasted. priceless
Epicpofunk 8 months ago
Non capisco perchè dovremmo leggere i tuoi.
heimdall90 8 months ago 2
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ParadoxThirteen 9 months ago
non capisco perche si debbano ascoltare i deliri di un ubriaco...
lallidelallis 9 months ago
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elicottero 9 months ago
my hero. Drunk or sober
StraightPunkEdge93 9 months ago 24
This interview is a joke.
Resenbrink 9 months ago
Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, Lenny Bruce, Bill Hicks, Sam Peckinpah, and Delmore Shwartz. The greatest none musician artists of the past hundred years.
killpena 9 months ago
@ twopointsup I think you you forgot the 'nt after could ;)
pieXinfinity 9 months ago
I don't agree with thedavidwilson. The beat movement layed the foundation for the 60s pop culture. They were bohemian at a time when it was much more hostile towards non-comformity. By the time the 60s rolled around, these 'beatniks' had softened up societal norms.
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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
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elicottero 10 months ago
This is the foundation of the 60's counterculture. Knowing that our modern day progressives makes sense.
thedavidwilson 10 months ago
@thedavidwilson A foundation of the beat movement of the 1950s, which was a haven of jazz, the abstract, beatniks & poetry. The 60s counterculture was a much more broad & dirty animal, brought about by war, civil rights, change of perception, political radicals, & drugs. The beat movement easy going and gentle by comparison.
B360Lightning 10 months ago
@thedavidwilson It's nice that others have bothered to respond to your statement as if you weren't a complete moron, but...
Cubroncs03 9 months ago
I am very happy to see the this dude on video. I knew he probably wasn't as calculating in person as I may have imagined him by his writing of On the Road. This dude is putting out some awesomeness buzzed like a Joe Nameth interview or not.
seant7 10 months ago
what a beatiful human being.
makisjnx007 11 months ago
Is this what benzedrine does to your brain??
chanctonbury63 11 months ago
No man ....Alcohol ....lots and lots of alcohol ...what a shame ....
bostonboyo 10 months ago
Kerouac is a legend, period! You na-sayers are just a bunch of wanna-bees, and could write a good book if your fucking life depended on it!!!
TwoPointsUp 11 months ago
car crash TV. A shame.
iangordoncraig 1 year ago
Why did they cut off his voice right before he talk of on the road. 4:50
d2thh725 1 year ago 2
Its just sad! i don't get him, but i know he is well respected by many!
sbradley26 1 year ago
I hate drunks.
duncanstpt 1 year ago
what year is this?
TheAlienroad 1 year ago
@TheAlienroad It was September, 28th 1966.
BeatVideosTV 8 months ago
@BeatVideosTV great! solamente per la exactitudine io te demando la tua amiccizia!
TheAlienroad 8 months ago
I don't believe he was drunk rather I suppose he had taken morphine he looks like who is under oppiods effects
marcovittozziii 1 year ago
@marcovittozziii he was heavy drunk...Pivano confirms that in interviews and books...Few months later he died literally drowned in alcohol...
Viandanterosso 1 year ago
@Viandanterosso I have understood what you said but I know he was a morphine addicted....this isn't a critic is just an humble observation
marcovittozziii 1 year ago
@marcovittozziii alcoholic drunkeness most likely. his death was attributed to liver failure.
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bobblerbaz 1 year ago
@dogieblitz: you mean The Big Slur :)
idic5 1 year ago
what year did this take place?
idic5 1 year ago
this interview is great, i don't care what any of you say
erotramp 1 year ago 2
I don't think there's anything wrong with marriage, family, career etc. for people need spouses, kids and a job..but for me JK is speaking against the unthinking vapidness of modern American life and against the seeming futility of all that as created by advertising and the mass media..it induces a sort of cultural insanity...in the end he became rather conservative and did not even want to be bothered by the hippie types tracking him down in NY state..Ecclesiastes speaks similar themes- vanity
rds1958 1 year ago
Also watch: Bukowski in Apostrophes
figocooldude 1 year ago
Even when he was drunk out of his mind, he could still be witty. The reporter did not realize that he was mocking her while she was mocking him
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mmmarinuska 1 year ago
He was at his real end. Totally kaputt. Some men reach the wisdom when they're quite old (Henry Miller), some other - like Jack - are burnt with 30 or 40 'cause they cannot accept the loss of youth. This man on the video is not the Kerouac we loved.
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MsPerfectsquare 1 year ago
This does break my heart though. I'll tell ya, the BEST artists are also SO OFTEN the most self-destructive, broken, and pained....but in between those moments of fear and pain are also moments filled with brilliance and purity....sigh.
savagembrace 1 year ago 2
@savagembrace so I see you have bought into the 'artist as savant' myth? That's ok. You are not alone.
MsPerfectsquare 1 year ago
Pathetic. I've tried to like his writing. It is just masturbatory self congratulation. Burroughs is so much better.
MsPerfectsquare 1 year ago
@MsPerfectsquare You are so wrong I can't even begin to describe just how WRONG you are!!! lol I think that should be a fact written in stone that what you just wrote above is perhaps the falsest statement EVER made on youtube. WRONG WRONG WRONG. Just stating FACT.
savagembrace 1 year ago
@MsPerfectsquare and I LOVE William Burroughs btw. Just sayin.
savagembrace 1 year ago
@MsPerfectsquare Burrourghs? Yeah... I think you've got that backwards.
bodhisattva99 10 months ago
@MsPerfectsquare Great, then don't read it, your opinion is obviously superfluous.
Cubroncs03 9 months ago
I started to watch the video..but I cried.....I can´t watch longer.... It´s fuckin sad what the world can do with so different person...I fuckin bless him...I love him in my way... and I hope there are more people feeling it the same way I am!!! I really hope....And just for stupid mother fuckers I´m not a drunk or drug person.....love you Kerouac!!!
mmmarinuska 1 year ago
@mmmarinuska Hey! I think you missed a spot or two in your comment to drop the "F" bomb. I love Jack Kerouac, too.. but Goodness!
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@margovallen what are you starting to shit about? I´m sorry but I just dislike when someone is arguing about another´s way of expression.. who gives a fuck? I don´t... there are much more important things to pay attention to.... but other thing... I know my expression can be annoying for a prim kind of people.. but hell... you read Kerouac.... you might be more opened and liberal..
mmmarinuska 1 year ago
Poor Jack, it breaks my heart. How easy it is to kick a dead man, you people make me sick. This man changed my life, and I love him dearly for it.
superduck77777 1 year ago
3.25
- Which writers have any influence on your writings?
- NOT DANTE!
(Not Leopardi... Petrarca, nahhh)
XDDD
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budadenieve 1 year ago
el mejor.....
cesarion29 1 year ago
Jack is still a legend in my book, ...
rwprifive 1 year ago
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MegaSpaghett 1 year ago
how sad...
Apothecary138 1 year ago
Nanda is something magic... and Jack is Jack! God bless both of them...
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My heart aches for him. "At age 47 in 1969 Kerouac died from internal bleeding due to long-standing abuse of alcohol." After all the desperate searching he and his friends did, they never found sustaining happiness... Now that's a sad story. Rest in peace, Jack Kerouac you darling.
warmestglow 1 year ago
My heart aches for him. "At age 47 in 1969 Kerouac died from internal bleeding due to long-standing abuse of alcohol." After all the desperate searching he and his friends did, they never found sustaining happiness... Now that's a sad story. Rest in peace, Jack Kerouac you darling.
warmestglow 1 year ago
This video makes me really sad. I am almost done reading "On the road" and I had built such a powerful image of Kerouac in my mind but this interview just .... ruined it. He looks like a homeless, drunk, loser. I refuse to watch any more of it. I want to remember him in a positive light.
asopaso07 1 year ago
Are there any real people left in the world or all just Zombies seriously I'm reading Visions of Cody and everyone I know is stuck to video games and department stores what should I do?
I'm the only living boy in New York (state)!
mimesis6mime 1 year ago 4
He was a real genius with a sad life after becoming "famous". i completly understand his reaction! Thats why i think it's a shame to remember kerouac as drunken mad man like this interview shows him!
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fleshandb0nes 1 year ago
big slur
rtyees 1 year ago
big slur
rtyees 1 year ago
I couldn't finish watching this-its too sad, looking at my copy of on the road where kerouac doesn't look like a homeless alcholic
venakew 1 year ago
@venakew drugs and alcohol do that to so many people. you'd think that people would learn but they don't. i guess drugs and alcohol will always be "cool"
2Modern4Angel2 1 year ago
He's had quite a bit of italian wine in this clip :]
PieceofMindmusic 1 year ago
awfully drunk, helplessly drunk.
ellissoidale536 1 year ago
JK: "I wish I could speak Italian, 'Señorita'"
FP: "But it's not imortant"
JK: "Signorina... Signora?"
FP: "Never mind"
Either she's halfway giving up on him or she's telling him to pay no mind to her marital status LOL.
IViewMusic 1 year ago
he should have stopped being famous before the interview
overban888 1 year ago
Great Person - Great Author - Great Idea!
knowot 1 year ago
that's not interviewing, that's disgusting
DoctaDualist 1 year ago
Amazing!!!! At last I can see my hero in one of his memorable moments. I've read all about this interview, but I've never seen it before. THANKS A LOT MAN!
morrissey02 1 year ago
lol italy doesnt have 1 good poet...yea right!
ilPitproductions 1 year ago
@ilPitproductions ye he kinda showed his ass in this interview. Alcohol has the propensity to do that :/
still a really brilliant guy.
PieceofMindmusic 1 year ago
@ilPitproductions whats u think abt Dante Alighieri ignorant asshole?
SeniorConcha 1 year ago
@SeniorConcha it was sarcasm, other people got it.
ilPitproductions 1 year ago
"IM NOT GONNA BE A BITCHYCLETA" haha
jpruett10 1 year ago
lol He's shitfaced.
ChristopherDmusic 1 year ago
Creo que los reporteros sabían a lo que se enfrentaban.
calixtoramirezcorrea 1 year ago
Better to have drunk and do what he did than have done nothing at all like everyone else.
cccustard 1 year ago
This world doesn't treat people well. All the best people are mad.
DeathNeedsTime 1 year ago
Drunk as a skunk- lol. He was a sad individual- probally felt missunderstood(like James Dean). If he had got his act together he probally would still be around today.
gemini16th 1 year ago
no expectations.... too sensitive for this world...
bypsycho 1 year ago
@bypsycho nice comment... jack Kerouac and hunter s. thompson simply too sensitive for this world...!!
cuteEvil87 1 year ago
haha, im gonna be interviewed today! in Italy! lets get drunk! kindred spirits man, kindred
netcyrus 1 year ago
1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
4. Be in love with yr life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
Garret00074 1 year ago
Shit Kerouac's drunk again.. he's still a fuckin literary genius just liked the bottle dont we all though :/
Elbarfknarf 1 year ago
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TeoGibson 2 years ago
saaaad :/
tonytron1 2 years ago
it's not so much a fabulous portrait as much as it just makes me sad
cl433028 2 years ago 4
@cl433028 - it's terrible to see him like this. Terrible.
Resenbrink 2 years ago 2
Aaaaah, just after Big Sur. The lack of sense makes more sense now.
Mat2001uk 2 years ago 4
god its unbearable to watch him like this
csgeorgemanhl 2 years ago 8
@csgeorgemanhl i totally agree...he was such a great writer and poet i love his poetry and literature
sweatersnug 9 months ago
tainoarawak and sayannes need to get a room....
pauldubyou 2 years ago
real people of substance cant handle fame
mrkrinkle72 2 years ago
other way around
Pawnlamp 2 years ago
By Big Sur he was beyond the beyonds. Pathetic and sad, and as fun to watch as somebody cutting themself. As a recovering alcoholic whenever I think about having a drink, I watch this and the Buckley Firing Line interview. Works every time.
dewanevl 2 years ago 18
This is the best reward ever for having posted it. Thank you so much and all the best for xmas and new year, everybody!
dogieblitz 2 years ago 5
@dewanevl...
pathe´tic, meaning "strongly emotional, causing one to feel sadness"???
hesitantes 1 year ago
@hesitantes Very close. I would say "pitiable", that is, deserving of our pity and perhaps, empathy. He was Catholic, and had a hangup about suicide, but killing yourself slowly by drink was OK. I see myself here if I didn't quit, so it strikes a nerve, for sure, because I was also an ugly, stupid and self-destructive drunk. He seems so helpless, like he's caught in a whirlpool, and I understand that feeling completely.
dewanevl 1 year ago
@dewanevl What's so pathetic and sad about a man creating art? So what if he was a drunk? He was also an incredibly gifted writer and artist. How many drunken idiots run around doing nothing but be drunken idiots? Give credit where credit is due. Big Sur was a good book. He was writing about an inspiring place where he basically lived a hobo's lifestyle. When was the last time you wrote a book?
subsamadhi 1 year ago
@dewanevl I heard one of the last interview of Fernanda where she told about this occasion (09/27/1966) . She said Jack was so excited to be in Italy that immediatly opened up a bottle of whisky to celebrate his arrival with Gian Pieretti (the man at his left). He ended his italian tour in Naples (my birthland) where one night, at the Otto Jazz Club, climbed upon the stage and defended the american armed intevention in Vietnam. God bless him. My favourite author of all the times.
horuseye1972 1 year ago
@horuseye1972 Very interesting story about this video! Thanks for sharing. I'm guessing the Vietnam speech didn't go over too well...Great writer, no question, most people (even Ginzburg, who Kerouac attacked at every opportunity in his later years) felt bad about the way he ended up. A hard way to go.
dewanevl 1 year ago
@dewanevl
awww what do you know. who needs pity? bet you feeld glad you gave him your pity and passed your judgments. next time try COMPASSION
outinthewind 1 year ago
bahahaha he's so toasted
gardenheadgold 2 years ago
amazing,great
tessdivision 2 years ago
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el cabrón está drogado...what a pitty.
rokentin 2 years ago
He's drunk. He couldn't handle non-fame and he couldn't handle fame.
But where Marlon Brando changed acting, Kerouac changed writing.
Their lives were more interesting than their writings but no one is interested n anyone's life until he or she is famous. and the person has to be really really famous for a long time for anyone to be really interested.
Bless the beats.
grainofsandfan 2 years ago 24
@grainofsandfan
No, their lives weren't necessarily more interesting than their writings.
Carlnabel 1 year ago
@grainofsandfan very nicely put.
thebignoize 1 year ago
saturated
negativeEclipse 2 years ago
thanks. big sur is one of the best books ive ever read.
mercyc1rcus 2 years ago 2
this guy as well as the other beat writers were the hipsters of their time....sad but true...
adriandido21 2 years ago
why is that sad?
kerouac invented the term to describe him and his friends
tiarnan17 2 years ago
mi emoziona sempre rivederlo.. evabbhè resta sempre un dio.. come Bukowski
laviergenoire 2 years ago
...e John Fante
cv41393 2 years ago 2
hey ma la Pivano è stata anche giovane cazzo! e pure carina ma il beat ad ostia acilia rimane Lupetto see video lupetto withot prejudice
convinzioneobastone 2 years ago
wasted..............
23HappyApples 2 years ago
KEROUAC WILL LIVE FOREVER
ostricalungimirante 2 years ago 2
lol epic 'debate' guys...
BeeGrau 2 years ago
he is trashed....
wilsola 2 years ago
LOL sayannes you got REMOVED! And revealed yourself to be the big homo perv you accused me of being--priceless!
tainoarawak 2 years ago
If you are a Beatnik-fan then you should consider that many of them where homosexuals and like Jack he never had any prejudice against them, so stop using "Gay" as an insult!
Melchersson 2 years ago
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Yeah, I know a lot of 'em were fudge-packers & butt-jockeys. Btw, your PC correction was so gay. Stop being such a sensitive little faggot.
tainoarawak 2 years ago
Thats so cute "Little faggot"! You make me blush and wear long nylon stockings and do I look really pretty? Yeas, I do! You flatter me! Tiddeli dooo! You naughty boy.....
Melchersson 2 years ago 3
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I rest my case...
tainoarawak 2 years ago
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Translation of tainoarawak's last comment: Yes, yes, oh yeah, yeah, yeah I'm so fucking awesome. Come on you filthy bitch. Yeah that's right you like that. Ow, Ow, AHHHHHHHHHH!...................Uh, mom can you come up here and clean up my computer screen for me, I've made what you call "the mess of satan" again. Err gross mom you were watching. Well yeah I guess I do find that kind of hot. What do you mean Steve's not just my father he's also my brother.
drjekyllandmrjackass 2 years ago
Not dante! hahah
millenniumguy1885 2 years ago 2
stop flame idiots... just keep silence during Kerouac freewheelin'
ostricalungimirante 2 years ago 2