I don't know if it was worth it. That's not my call. You have probably done as much reading as I have about Kerouac, Corso, Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Kesey. I took a class taught by Ginsberg at Naropa Institute and he brought in Corso and Burroughs. (And his father.) It was interesting, wistful, and a bit sad. Kerouac was their hero, or Ginsberg's, anyway. They had a wild and wonderful ride as described in Visions of Cody. And as described in all their biographies.
@lucychinn149 I feel somehow thankful to people that live their lives they way they think it should be liven and then share it to others. For me all of them sound as possibility of life that i can go through, or just enjoy and imagine the people that chose this life.
That's how literature works for me in this sense. And that's why Jack London is my favorite author, i guess.
@scienceisknolwedge I understand. I used to romanticize these guys like I did Hemingway, Fitzergerald, his wife Zelda, and Vita Sackville-West, and Virginia Woolfe. The Bloomsbury crowd; the Algonquin crowd that included Harpo Marx, who played croquet on the tops of buildings with the New York with the old New Yorker crowd, including Dorothy Parker, who wrote the great short story, "Will He Call?" And Alice Duer Miller. And Dawn Powell. I had these nights. And days. Raucous laughter.
@lucychinn149 The process of breaking the myth i had about the beats and my favorite writers it was by far the most important thing. It made my reading improve and their life suddenly got a meaning, a real one. Even though I know for a fact that some of them lived a rough life and it wasn't easy and fun.
what can i say in tribute to jack? Blessings, Jack. and only that we shared the same ether in san francisco and that he was dead before i knew that he existed. his prose thrills the senses illuminating that bygone era; whilst he and Ginsberg whom i met at the Fillmore in san francisco (i remember his sweaty palm, his warm sympathetic mien) are enshrined especial-as literary cosmic scribes-they brought forth soulful searching being today mindset etchings for the edification of mankind.
insisto :-) nel voler conoscere il titolo del Brano di questo video, e se magari si può sapere l'intero Cd! Jack. Kerouac, grazie al mio vecchio maestro al ritrovamento di vecchi libri tuoi dell'elementare son cresciuto con te, cosi come con altri grandi della poesia-Anima!
mi farebbe piacere conoscere il titolo del brano, se non sbaglio della bella tromba di Miles Davis, che si ascolta in questo video stupendo su Kerouac!
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.
magnifico ! ..Lessi il primo libro di Kerouac a 16 anni ( SULLA STRADA ) e fu un'esperienza indimenticabile ...conservo gelosamente quel libro ridotto a brandelli insieme agli ( Big Sur , I vagabondi del Dharma , Angeli della disperazione....) .......è un pezzo della mia vita ..
@davevanfunk - Legendary Gerry Mulligan. Bass Sax. Can see him playing in a classic b&w CBS live scene of Billie Holiday in 1957 singing a mislabeled "My Man Don't Love Me" (Actually, "Fine and Mellow") -- on YouTube. Lots of other great sax, trumpet & trombone solo players around Billie. It's a classic piece of jazz film. Mulligan is prominent and was one of the best sax players of that era. He wouldn't be with those other musicians in that video if he wasn't. Hope you enjoy it Dave.
Of course the Pollock analogy is correct aesthetically but the power of the Beats is somewhat equal to the moment when the first impressionists and Van Gogh were breaking down the barriers of the classical art to begin the revolution of the modern art and the avant garde. But they were hardly aware of the fact they were changing the world at the time. Imagine the amount of money they would have made if it was happening today...Well, does angels need money after all?
thanks for opening me up to jack again neil 5 star.and that wonderful jazz music.soul to soul.i am now going into "on the road" again with a fifty yrs break.i am now 78 and can't wait to meet the beats again.todays "music" is shit.just tune into x factor and you will see. long live miles and miles of davies and the long and winding road of jacks.
he knew we are all the same deep down, and could never accept or understand why everyone acted so indifferent. seems like he felt this for a long time and grew to accept it as life.
I'd love to get more into jazz like this...this music is awesome. I'm kind of lacking in any sort of knowledge of jazz though. I'll definately check out the suggestions in the comments below. I just thought I'd share too-- I went to the Jack Kerouac exhibit in NYC that was displaying the original scroll of On the Road. They also had sound clips of Kerouac singing some jazzy tunes that you could listen to. It was awesome.
I know you posted that question three weeks ago. That trumpet sounds like Miles Davis. It's mesmorizing and, ultimately addicting. I Reccomend Kind of Blue" by the Miles Davis sextet. If someone already reccomended that - try "round Midnight"
You won't be sorry. Miles plays a muted trumpet and just holds long controlled notes.
Did anyone say which recording is playing behind this Kerouac montage.
Man, on the cusp of despair Still night Morning awakes, bright light loneliness still there Imortality,still aware Glass half full Sleep a peacefull lull Reality absent for awhile Oblivion a lovers smile. Words swirling through the mind The storyline that you can`t find The half glass stills my thought The genius that can`t be bought.
@serberious what is this from?? So far all I've read is The Dharma Bums and I am in the middle of Big Sur right now...beyond amazing....I've made a promise to myself I'm going to read every piece of writing he has written...so far, I'm in heaven...*sigh*
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life. jack kerouac
hey man, do you know kerouac never even acknowledged his own daughter? did you know that? I mean he is great. you cannot touch his prose. Legenary writing. you cannot not take that away from the guy. but like evryone he was terribly flawed; people should never overlook that.
I remember in Ann Charter's biography of Kerouac there are two pictures sitting side by side of Jack and Neal in later life. Jack is a bloated alcoholic; Neal is behind the wheel on the Keasey bus and looks so electric you wouldn't need any light bulbs in your room. Been there, done that on both. These days I feel more like Corso's "Writ On The Eve Of My 32nd Birthday": "I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace".
well durr, if you read his writing, he's the first one to admit--many many times over--that he is terribly flawed. That's part of what I like about his books.
It was not one sitting. It's well known that he spent three weeks writing it. His prose was spontaneous and largely unedited, but calling it flawed is like calling Shakespeare's dialog flawed, because people don't talk like that. It's not flawed; it's for the people who like it that way. Read something else. How hard is that?
i just read dharma bums and it literally made me realize that giving thanks for everything is far more important than asking for anything
if history repeats itself then there's no such thing as history, or repetition, only now... but also forever. yet also the realization that the only way for us to conceive this life is if there is another one after this. For it doesnt make sense for us to concieve the concept of our lives now, unless we have a deeper understanding later...
Desolation Angels for starters...still young and looking ahead...and if you really want to reach.. dare I say " The Town and the City", his first and totally different novel...got panned..
To all of you who would like to be beats, then by all means, please do... and DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT! This is great noir, but what have you done lately, eh...?
There's just a lot of STUFF out there is all I'm saying. Well done page.
I'm so unhappy by living in 21st century. If there's any time I'd like to live at, it'll b 1940s to 1960s in America. The most beautiful period in the history of the universe...
Thanks a lot for this nice video... That's a great tribute to a great American writer and the image succeeds in conveying the flavour of his main book but also of all this revolutionary period !!!
this short 6 minute clip is immeasurably more beautiful than the film 'the source' itself. For me it sums up the generation more effectively and powerfully than anything I've seen. To remind me of there greatness i needn't hear countless recitals from passages in 'On The Road' this alone is bliss.
Jack couldn't wait to get off the road and run to Black Jazz clubs to hang with real people who played real music...ack n Neal, oftentimes the only white guys in a Black Club...before there was Rock n Roll, there was extemporaneous Jazz, the Bebop of Miles and Bird, Kerouac dove into it headlong....his typewriter was his trumpet.
The clouds out of reach since they formed, thought-to-be pillow from innocence of childhood where imagination's encouraged, unchained;-where creativity's explored, unchained;- populated by breath-sights & hear-sounds blistering my precious earsores continuing a ring on repeat, this folk-driven palace of wisdom being lost by the year shapes-as comin', & questions asked, repeated driven out in the dark cold night, searching for old mysterious lives of past to uncover & make new a mindful friend.
Ti Jean Kerouac, shining Bodhisattva, gracious giving sky, bebop jazz poet, hitch hiker, drunk, poet, lover reaching out from gutter to den, from page to stage, always stunned by humanity, handsome, wasted, angry, gentle, crushed, couch surfer, drug ruined mountain-top buddha, gutter mumbler, ghost brother, lone soul, ya fucker, you ruined yer body but came back for the last few words, angel hobo, soft heart, lover, "the world was never meant for one as beautiful as you."
discount me, if you will, and what I have to say in my nascent adulthood (and isn't that a trip), yet, I, as clear as a ray of the sun do say that beauty is beseeched and discovered, no matter where it does hide. beauty is omniscient and everlasting. I draw so much, I draw blood from this rhythm, a beautiful, unachieavable high note, an all to sinking low...note. a feeling that in cannot touch. a learned lie.
GOD DAMN THAT'S BEAUTIFUL!!!!The music is perfect...Jack chatting up that girl, she doesen't look like she's buying what he's selling. Then he checks out another as she walks past on the sidewalk...Whoever put this together understands.
Old jazz, old New York, old footage, beat poetry, the sixties, the seventies...I miss that feelig, I was not born then, but still...the world has lost the urban sensuality of old times.
since I read on the road, I travel much more and I cant care less about the comfort of a trip...no 3-4 stars hotels anymore....Since that time I happy to live in this world of rubbish :)
Ah, but you look with such critical cutting eyes. Can't you see the buddha nature in Jack? Why stop and not head past his faults onto the road he wrote down for us, onto his heart,the real one, pure and perfect. You can't relax and just nod "yeah man, I hear ya" This discriminating mind can block up yr ears and stomp on yr compassion light with big black boots. He wrote for you, gentle reader.
If you like Jack Keroauc, check out Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" and Nikolia Gogol's "Diary of a Madmen." Those two authors influenced Jack's style greatly.
definitely he pushed something forward, everybody understands things their own way, its just living, kerouac is the most clear example of social thinking freedom, cuz he knew he was going to die, so he couldnt care less, its just another thinking, he ist good, or bad, not talented or a genious, he just lived his own way and tried to understand things too
Thought Experiment: Sit down right now and read "The Town and the City", all the while trying to find one phrase that is not a half-assed rip-off of Thomas Wolfe (Look Homeward Angel Wolfe, not Electric Kool-Aid Wolfe). When you find this impossible, attack me for telling the plain truth: Kerouac was to literature what Shemp is to acting.
Does your thought experiment work with any of his other books? Kerouac himself admits that he imitated Wolfe in that book. Your thought experiment has nothing to do with Kerouac's contribution to American literature.
A man on the verge of understanding, yet still so confused. He had much to overcome, and came close to doing so, but seemed to have created as much, if not more, confusion than he cleared up. A demonstration of man- intelligent, articulate, confused, and imperfect.
On the verge of understanding what? That he needed another drink? That he was a wet-brain and a mamma's boy? What? What was he on the verge of understanding?
a feast for the ears, the eyes, the heart and mind...New York was so amazing then.....Coltrane! Miles! Bird! Jack! Neil! The photo of the road!!!! The train tracks!! Does footage get any better? Thanks! Does anyone have the rest of the doc?
Ya the whole thing inregards to, truth being subjective,buddhism,defective logic, lead them to no moral restraints,debauchery,and ultimtely to libberal hippie life. Thank goodnes the baby boomer generation is dieng out.
Beat became too common and some principles lost, its just the drug taking and stealing without necessity and without any kind of moral responsibility, no buddha. I love the beat generation for what it was then but for what its caused, maybe freedom, but humans are sickening.
People people, dont worry about the quotes for a minute, why not talk about the extract, isnt it a wonderful sequence? thankyou jordiqui for putting this one up.
O and jksmadone your so right, what they had was beautiful but it was beautiful because it was new and bold and different, we shouldnt dwell on it or get our selfs down because what we've got isnt as good, but instead we should be inspired and seek the answers to are own questions like hillsonger said and maybe one day there well be a new and brilliant time of our own created. peace
the beats were in search of a religion to answer their questions. allen ginsberg says," I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night...." they were more than good times and poetic metaphors. those came as a result of seeking.
Yeah, well I saw the best minds of MY GENERATION destroyed by marketing, especially the repackaging of the past for the sake of no$talgia. It wasn't anywhere nears glorious as many would have us believe. These were troubled men and they way they treated their women was atrocious. Revere them for their work, not their deeds.
Who says we're revering thier deeds. I revere thier work, which was brilliant BECAUSE they were troubled and able to be honest about thier struggles. We stand on the shoulders of giants, as did they. But they were pioneers in a sense, they pushed something forward. This is real footage, and nothing wrong with it as far as I can see.
What happened to us? Where did we drop the ball? What happened to style, to coolness, geniune seeking and hope?... It was the beat to keep but we lost it, slipped thru our fingers. Maybe squeezed to hard
Damnit I'll tell you what happened...The media and politicans man. You want to talk about style and coolness and respect, check out the greatest generation who fought in WWII. After that, our society lost much of its moral bearing. Now look at piss ant countries who dare us and watch TV for a few minutes if you can stand it. It is over man. Over.
Jack Kerouac ended up sad, living with his mother, no on-the-road romanticism remaining.
lucychinn149 6 months ago
@lucychinn149 so? What's your point? That Borroughs was rougher than him? Make a point along your statement
scienceisknolwedge 5 months ago
@scienceisknolwedge My point is nothing more complex than what I said.
lucychinn149 5 months ago
@lucychinn149 it seems your trying to say that it wasn't worth it or he's not a good example for any of us and his life in the end didn't work
scienceisknolwedge 5 months ago
@scienceisknolwedge
I don't know if it was worth it. That's not my call. You have probably done as much reading as I have about Kerouac, Corso, Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Kesey. I took a class taught by Ginsberg at Naropa Institute and he brought in Corso and Burroughs. (And his father.) It was interesting, wistful, and a bit sad. Kerouac was their hero, or Ginsberg's, anyway. They had a wild and wonderful ride as described in Visions of Cody. And as described in all their biographies.
lucychinn149 5 months ago
@lucychinn149 I feel somehow thankful to people that live their lives they way they think it should be liven and then share it to others. For me all of them sound as possibility of life that i can go through, or just enjoy and imagine the people that chose this life.
That's how literature works for me in this sense. And that's why Jack London is my favorite author, i guess.
I got your point now.
scienceisknolwedge 5 months ago
@scienceisknolwedge I understand. I used to romanticize these guys like I did Hemingway, Fitzergerald, his wife Zelda, and Vita Sackville-West, and Virginia Woolfe. The Bloomsbury crowd; the Algonquin crowd that included Harpo Marx, who played croquet on the tops of buildings with the New York with the old New Yorker crowd, including Dorothy Parker, who wrote the great short story, "Will He Call?" And Alice Duer Miller. And Dawn Powell. I had these nights. And days. Raucous laughter.
lucychinn149 5 months ago
@lucychinn149 The process of breaking the myth i had about the beats and my favorite writers it was by far the most important thing. It made my reading improve and their life suddenly got a meaning, a real one. Even though I know for a fact that some of them lived a rough life and it wasn't easy and fun.
scienceisknolwedge 5 months ago
qualcuno può aiutarmi sul brano che accompagna questo video? vorrei sapere musicisti titolo del brano+ nome del cd, Vi ringrazio!
giuseppe5680 6 months ago
what can i say in tribute to jack? Blessings, Jack. and only that we shared the same ether in san francisco and that he was dead before i knew that he existed. his prose thrills the senses illuminating that bygone era; whilst he and Ginsberg whom i met at the Fillmore in san francisco (i remember his sweaty palm, his warm sympathetic mien) are enshrined especial-as literary cosmic scribes-they brought forth soulful searching being today mindset etchings for the edification of mankind.
foopedlo 7 months ago
insisto :-) nel voler conoscere il titolo del Brano di questo video, e se magari si può sapere l'intero Cd! Jack. Kerouac, grazie al mio vecchio maestro al ritrovamento di vecchi libri tuoi dell'elementare son cresciuto con te, cosi come con altri grandi della poesia-Anima!
giuseppe5680 7 months ago
mi farebbe piacere conoscere il titolo del brano, se non sbaglio della bella tromba di Miles Davis, che si ascolta in questo video stupendo su Kerouac!
giuseppe5680 7 months ago
What is the name of this song? Lovely,nit is.
snowtoology 7 months ago
i'm imagining Kerouac settling down and finding contentment with a nice wife and the sunday papers in some out of the way suburb of Wisconsin....
frankysandwich 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 2
magnifico ! ..Lessi il primo libro di Kerouac a 16 anni ( SULLA STRADA ) e fu un'esperienza indimenticabile ...conservo gelosamente quel libro ridotto a brandelli insieme agli ( Big Sur , I vagabondi del Dharma , Angeli della disperazione....) .......è un pezzo della mia vita ..
BarryLyndon63 10 months ago
Ahhh... Jack...
linkbekka 10 months ago
Nice musical accompaniment. Who is the sax player after Charlie Parker?
davevanfunk 1 year ago
@davevanfunk - Legendary Gerry Mulligan. Bass Sax. Can see him playing in a classic b&w CBS live scene of Billie Holiday in 1957 singing a mislabeled "My Man Don't Love Me" (Actually, "Fine and Mellow") -- on YouTube. Lots of other great sax, trumpet & trombone solo players around Billie. It's a classic piece of jazz film. Mulligan is prominent and was one of the best sax players of that era. He wouldn't be with those other musicians in that video if he wasn't. Hope you enjoy it Dave.
lastrada52 9 months ago
@davevanfunk Gerry Mulligan
PREDINEFlorian 7 months ago
@Guanomysterio thank you so much for your kind response.
sohooded 1 year ago
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greenrate 1 year ago
what is the name of this Harry Beckett tune?
sohooded 1 year ago
Can anyone tell me the name of this music........
sohooded 1 year ago
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greenrate 1 year ago
@greenrate Why are you such a mean, critical person? I got the Metropolis album a hour after I heard it.
sohooded 1 year ago
Of course the Pollock analogy is correct aesthetically but the power of the Beats is somewhat equal to the moment when the first impressionists and Van Gogh were breaking down the barriers of the classical art to begin the revolution of the modern art and the avant garde. But they were hardly aware of the fact they were changing the world at the time. Imagine the amount of money they would have made if it was happening today...Well, does angels need money after all?
anniemihn 1 year ago
cult hero, his book "on the road" is brillian
aidosargioi 1 year ago
great music...
schlons 1 year ago
Brilliant! Love the references to 50's culture/art...and of course Mr. Jack
venturaal 1 year ago
Daniel Craig should play Kerouac. Dead ringer.
RollingOrmond 1 year ago
Jazz is great
hafzep 1 year ago
Beautiful.
GraysMood 1 year ago
Thanks for this Masterpiece Harry Beckett, R.I.P.
toontheloon 1 year ago
Writing what he saw ... hippity bippity be-bop!
But his dahrma opened like the road and beyond he went, tearing away but held fast to sad, beat, power hungry, sex starved America searching for ...
thestoryplease 1 year ago
some of the dharma
mingk1d 1 year ago
sexiest man ever !
karinammm1 1 year ago 2
thanks for opening me up to jack again neil 5 star.and that wonderful jazz music.soul to soul.i am now going into "on the road" again with a fifty yrs break.i am now 78 and can't wait to meet the beats again.todays "music" is shit.just tune into x factor and you will see. long live miles and miles of davies and the long and winding road of jacks.
june1932 1 year ago 2
@june1932 wow, you must have seen it all, you must have been there !. I`ll bet you have lots of stories.........
serberious 1 year ago
@june1932 I forgot to ask, where are you from ?.
serberious 1 year ago
@june1932 Look up "Escape Artist Sage Francis" and then tell me todays music is shit. Or "Crack Pipes Sage Francis"
PolemicArts 1 year ago
Sometimes i wonder why he hung around as long as he did.
A complete genius who was absense of ego. I guess he had a few friends that were as real as he and memere
cassady41 1 year ago
he knew we are all the same deep down, and could never accept or understand why everyone acted so indifferent. seems like he felt this for a long time and grew to accept it as life.
rayMESHUGGAHban 1 year ago
I'd love to get more into jazz like this...this music is awesome. I'm kind of lacking in any sort of knowledge of jazz though. I'll definately check out the suggestions in the comments below. I just thought I'd share too-- I went to the Jack Kerouac exhibit in NYC that was displaying the original scroll of On the Road. They also had sound clips of Kerouac singing some jazzy tunes that you could listen to. It was awesome.
ReebiPhoebi 1 year ago
Great video, thanks for uploading!
Naked4Jesus 1 year ago
i love the sounds of that trumpet/saxophone (?)
can you recommend me anything simillar?
Seciula 1 year ago
@Seciula
I know you posted that question three weeks ago. That trumpet sounds like Miles Davis. It's mesmorizing and, ultimately addicting. I Reccomend Kind of Blue" by the Miles Davis sextet. If someone already reccomended that - try "round Midnight"
You won't be sorry. Miles plays a muted trumpet and just holds long controlled notes.
Did anyone say which recording is playing behind this Kerouac montage.
scottmagnerod 1 year ago
jack....you're eternalized!!!
bophead2003 2 years ago 2
after writing, "on the road", there was nowhere left 2 go, said it all in one book, top vid. thx
willgonow 2 years ago
i think were all drawn to jack because he could express that crowded lonliness all around us go grown alone...
mrkrinkle72 2 years ago 15
@mrkrinkle72 the essential despair of a deep inner loniliness is the great chalenge to all human beings.....
sohooded 1 year ago
I have to keep coming back............
serberious 2 years ago
Me too....
zeldiy 2 years ago
Cool for Candy!
toontheloon 2 years ago
Harry Beckett - Pure Bliss!
toontheloon 2 years ago
love you jack
tessdivision 2 years ago
Yeah, he inhabited a different world alright but, I think, a World that is still there if only we have eyes to see. He had the eyes to see.
serberious 2 years ago 5
when the world troubles me, I come back to Jack's world and feel safe
zeldiy 2 years ago 5
he's like a big ole grizzly bear who needs a hug.
Natokowsky 2 years ago 2
serberious 2 years ago 26
Beautiful words .Jack would approve, I think. :-)
zeldiy 2 years ago
Thanks zeldiy, it kinda sums up what I think of him, what I believe he was about. I may be totally wrong, but there it is......
serberious 2 years ago
@serberious what is this from?? So far all I've read is The Dharma Bums and I am in the middle of Big Sur right now...beyond amazing....I've made a promise to myself I'm going to read every piece of writing he has written...so far, I'm in heaven...*sigh*
savagembrace 1 year ago
@savagembrace It`s from me, it`s a poem that I wrote after reading " On the Road ", it just kinda bubbled out of me.
serberious 1 year ago
this music and imagery burns deep in my stomach
rayMESHUGGAHban 2 years ago 5
Me too. I always come back to it, to reconnect to something so deep I haven't any words for it.
zeldiy 2 years ago
just look sometime at a can of Budweiser. Warhol was right; it is art.
Jcobb1018 2 years ago
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
HARBOURSONG 2 years ago
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life. jack kerouac
HARBOURSONG 2 years ago 2
Thankyou for that quote. He's certainly done that for me too.
zeldiy 2 years ago
hey man, do you know kerouac never even acknowledged his own daughter? did you know that? I mean he is great. you cannot touch his prose. Legenary writing. you cannot not take that away from the guy. but like evryone he was terribly flawed; people should never overlook that.
Jcobb1018 2 years ago 3
he drank himself to death. i think that about covers it.
rbhumes 2 years ago
you will breathe yourself to death. I think that about covers it....
hoopleheadfurshure 2 years ago 6
I remember in Ann Charter's biography of Kerouac there are two pictures sitting side by side of Jack and Neal in later life. Jack is a bloated alcoholic; Neal is behind the wheel on the Keasey bus and looks so electric you wouldn't need any light bulbs in your room. Been there, done that on both. These days I feel more like Corso's "Writ On The Eve Of My 32nd Birthday": "I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace".
rbhumes 2 years ago 5
rbhumes, who are you ??. You strike a resonant chord within me !!!.
serberious 2 years ago
well durr, if you read his writing, he's the first one to admit--many many times over--that he is terribly flawed. That's part of what I like about his books.
4zxeue 2 years ago 2
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His prose is terribly flawed too.
On the Road reads like it was written in one sitting, largely because it was, in fact, written in one sitting on a teletype paper scroll.
As Capote said, 'That's not writing; that's typing.'
benmines 2 years ago
I think the quote was 'That's not writing, it's typewriting.'
ritasid 2 years ago
It was not one sitting. It's well known that he spent three weeks writing it. His prose was spontaneous and largely unedited, but calling it flawed is like calling Shakespeare's dialog flawed, because people don't talk like that. It's not flawed; it's for the people who like it that way. Read something else. How hard is that?
SquareTraveler 2 years ago 2
i just read dharma bums and it literally made me realize that giving thanks for everything is far more important than asking for anything
if history repeats itself then there's no such thing as history, or repetition, only now... but also forever. yet also the realization that the only way for us to conceive this life is if there is another one after this. For it doesnt make sense for us to concieve the concept of our lives now, unless we have a deeper understanding later...
are you free yet?
jud2w 2 years ago 5
whats another good book aside from On The Road that Jack Kerouac has written?
casimir1011 2 years ago
The Dharma Bums
tymoneymoney 2 years ago
Desolation Angels for starters...still young and looking ahead...and if you really want to reach.. dare I say " The Town and the City", his first and totally different novel...got panned..
hoopleheadfurshure 2 years ago
the subterraneans
tehBabby 2 years ago
Not a big fan of the all slow motion but a great track and a cool video.
Bdubya15 2 years ago
was this post "road?" has to be. so this makes it 1958?
Jcobb1018 2 years ago
cool
polonista 2 years ago
thanks for the video, it's really something verrrry close to a masterpiece.
Oh, and I can see Allen from here!
winsletgirl 2 years ago 3
To all of you who would like to be beats, then by all means, please do... and DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT! This is great noir, but what have you done lately, eh...?
There's just a lot of STUFF out there is all I'm saying. Well done page.
goonzies 2 years ago
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the one page
left my hand
falling like leaves
calling like breezes
making the moments
finding a reason
to be
Unknownn9 2 years ago
the one page
left my hand
falling like leaves
calling like breezes
making the moments
finding a reason
to be
Unknownn9 2 years ago 4
shame all the people living like the beats these days are crusty hippy retards.
ghostmonkeyrape 2 years ago
this is so fuckin gorgeous, man......
this is beyond it all. This is the living.... life.
elizabethmydear 2 years ago 4
get outof the car Jack , walk
ArtAristocracy 2 years ago
absolute cool and to hear him speak a gift thanks~:)!
brightlightbabe 2 years ago 3
Further!
Chickenhawk9932 2 years ago
the song is Mike Westbrook - Part 9, form the album Metropolis.
rgtomx 2 years ago 2
I'm so unhappy by living in 21st century. If there's any time I'd like to live at, it'll b 1940s to 1960s in America. The most beautiful period in the history of the universe...
MicrocebusRufus1 2 years ago
the time we have will be robbed from us. so now take this time that the hand has given you and blow as much as you want to blow, L.
blue2134 2 years ago 2
Doesn`t it just make your soul bleed ?.
serberious 2 years ago 3
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 6
what tune is this? its beautiful
layla545 3 years ago 3
I don't know, Layla, but the trumpet player might be Miles Davis, who's in the vid.
Wonderful listening to it while watching the images.
logansGT 3 years ago 3
the music is simply amazing! Goes well with the movie.
guzsaj 3 years ago 3
Thanks a lot for this nice video... That's a great tribute to a great American writer and the image succeeds in conveying the flavour of his main book but also of all this revolutionary period !!!
Mlledepomme 3 years ago
I love his books,shame he died of alcohol abuse.
Bridgejones08 3 years ago
a toast for him!
barbudillo 3 years ago
Wow - excellent .
This is really fine . Thank you .
Please keep -in touch.
never stop.
2shorthairs 3 years ago 2
so beautiful. and how perfect the music....
ellaswoon 3 years ago 2
lovely.. sad sad paradise... how sad he was...
lesabotage 3 years ago 4
this short 6 minute clip is immeasurably more beautiful than the film 'the source' itself. For me it sums up the generation more effectively and powerfully than anything I've seen. To remind me of there greatness i needn't hear countless recitals from passages in 'On The Road' this alone is bliss.
calumcroft 3 years ago 3
so true
zeldiy 2 years ago
Can anyone tell me the the music that is playing?
BeatleUniversity 3 years ago
Artist: Mike Westbrook
Album: Metropolis
Song: Metropolis Part 9
Rauding 3 years ago 2
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this guy is a racist who idiot left wing teenagers latch onto him and orwell.
sammyharr 3 years ago
how is he a racist? he once said, and i quote "i wish i was a n!&&€r."
joshcoleman1 3 years ago
Jack couldn't wait to get off the road and run to Black Jazz clubs to hang with real people who played real music...ack n Neal, oftentimes the only white guys in a Black Club...before there was Rock n Roll, there was extemporaneous Jazz, the Bebop of Miles and Bird, Kerouac dove into it headlong....his typewriter was his trumpet.
verbaud 3 years ago 4
you've miss quoted him! kerouac would never use 3 dots like that, inappropriate grammar! you are a judas!
joshcoleman1 3 years ago
yer right. now go back in line and grab your brains they need to be checked out
veritas1005 3 years ago
very good
bibidibobidibuf 3 years ago
The clouds out of reach since they formed, thought-to-be pillow from innocence of childhood where imagination's encouraged, unchained;-where creativity's explored, unchained;- populated by breath-sights & hear-sounds blistering my precious earsores continuing a ring on repeat, this folk-driven palace of wisdom being lost by the year shapes-as comin', & questions asked, repeated driven out in the dark cold night, searching for old mysterious lives of past to uncover & make new a mindful friend.
DylanKerouac42 3 years ago 4
Jack the Beaten soul. Shine on Brother!
RATTLEY67 3 years ago 2
Ti Jean Kerouac, shining Bodhisattva, gracious giving sky, bebop jazz poet, hitch hiker, drunk, poet, lover reaching out from gutter to den, from page to stage, always stunned by humanity, handsome, wasted, angry, gentle, crushed, couch surfer, drug ruined mountain-top buddha, gutter mumbler, ghost brother, lone soul, ya fucker, you ruined yer body but came back for the last few words, angel hobo, soft heart, lover, "the world was never meant for one as beautiful as you."
verbaud 3 years ago 35
Wonderful post!
dazmalski 3 years ago
@verbaud sounds like a Charles Manson jailhouse interview.
DrHogfan 1 year ago
discount me, if you will, and what I have to say in my nascent adulthood (and isn't that a trip), yet, I, as clear as a ray of the sun do say that beauty is beseeched and discovered, no matter where it does hide. beauty is omniscient and everlasting. I draw so much, I draw blood from this rhythm, a beautiful, unachieavable high note, an all to sinking low...note. a feeling that in cannot touch. a learned lie.
betomas 3 years ago
Wonderful! It's great to actually find heartfelt art in here...
rbhumes 3 years ago 3
That's NYC recovering from WWII and Korea.
Imagine what it was like in Europe and
Asia.
danger0usknowledge 3 years ago
Wow, is that "THE" storied bus at the end?(i.e., "You're either ON the bus or your OFF the bus" - from Electric Koolaid Acid Test??)
sandiegoactress 3 years ago
GOD DAMN THAT'S BEAUTIFUL!!!!The music is perfect...Jack chatting up that girl, she doesen't look like she's buying what he's selling. Then he checks out another as she walks past on the sidewalk...Whoever put this together understands.
spd13062 3 years ago 3
Evocative--nice job
Raymantico 3 years ago
Monstruo sagrado!
LUCPROUDHON 3 years ago
Old jazz, old New York, old footage, beat poetry, the sixties, the seventies...I miss that feelig, I was not born then, but still...the world has lost the urban sensuality of old times.
joppler 3 years ago 22
yeah, yeah ..let's do it..count me in..
nantiabret 3 years ago 2
Mad wrote curtains
of
poetry on fire
Drusdrus1975 3 years ago
Wow the guitar sounds like a horn, that's how you know he's good!
WartsHogNYC 4 years ago
It is a horn, better yet, a trumpet.
Lillogambino 3 years ago
What song is this called?
JimmyJazz332 4 years ago
Artist: Mike Wwestbrook
Album: Metropolis
Song: Metropolis Part 9
It's beautiful.
alex333x 4 years ago 3
Damn, I was sure it was Miles.
DickFest08 3 years ago
I miss this old flavor of New York...even though I wasn't born yet.
toecutterr6 4 years ago 3
who is the saxophonist at 2:17? I recognize them all lse but him!
sacul125 4 years ago
That's Gerry Mulligan. It's from the CBS studios live recording of 1957.
roadtorinpoche 3 years ago
since I read on the road, I travel much more and I cant care less about the comfort of a trip...no 3-4 stars hotels anymore....Since that time I happy to live in this world of rubbish :)
giorgiobello1 4 years ago
Make way for the bohemian revolution!
1200Flashbacks 4 years ago 2
yeah...its about time!
internetj888j 4 years ago
hozomeen hozomeen, the scariest damn mountain I ever seen.
PhotonSherades 4 years ago
yes yes...don't roar at the bees!
snapperdust 4 years ago
what happened to style and coolness? Thing's change.Just gotta keep on flowing anyway.
Idig4ad 4 years ago 2
A great bit of British jazz for the soundtrack - Metropolis by Mike Westbrook, with the beautiful lilting soaring flugel horn of Harry Beckett.
goldenmantis 4 years ago 3
Ah, but you look with such critical cutting eyes. Can't you see the buddha nature in Jack? Why stop and not head past his faults onto the road he wrote down for us, onto his heart,the real one, pure and perfect. You can't relax and just nod "yeah man, I hear ya" This discriminating mind can block up yr ears and stomp on yr compassion light with big black boots. He wrote for you, gentle reader.
bottomdogman 4 years ago 3
If you like Jack Keroauc, check out Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" and Nikolia Gogol's "Diary of a Madmen." Those two authors influenced Jack's style greatly.
theknicks 4 years ago 3
definitely he pushed something forward, everybody understands things their own way, its just living, kerouac is the most clear example of social thinking freedom, cuz he knew he was going to die, so he couldnt care less, its just another thinking, he ist good, or bad, not talented or a genious, he just lived his own way and tried to understand things too
evendwarf 4 years ago
Thought Experiment: Sit down right now and read "The Town and the City", all the while trying to find one phrase that is not a half-assed rip-off of Thomas Wolfe (Look Homeward Angel Wolfe, not Electric Kool-Aid Wolfe). When you find this impossible, attack me for telling the plain truth: Kerouac was to literature what Shemp is to acting.
normaseattle 4 years ago
Does your thought experiment work with any of his other books? Kerouac himself admits that he imitated Wolfe in that book. Your thought experiment has nothing to do with Kerouac's contribution to American literature.
wolfeman6805 4 years ago
wolfeman6805 points out the irony in your statement; there is an indication of a lack of originality, but the indication, per se, is not original.
roadtorinpoche 4 years ago
A man on the verge of understanding, yet still so confused. He had much to overcome, and came close to doing so, but seemed to have created as much, if not more, confusion than he cleared up. A demonstration of man- intelligent, articulate, confused, and imperfect.
roadtorinpoche 4 years ago 2
On the verge of understanding what? That he needed another drink? That he was a wet-brain and a mamma's boy? What? What was he on the verge of understanding?
normaseattle 4 years ago
He was on the verge of understanding the true nature of things.
roadtorinpoche 4 years ago 2
a feast for the ears, the eyes, the heart and mind...New York was so amazing then.....Coltrane! Miles! Bird! Jack! Neil! The photo of the road!!!! The train tracks!! Does footage get any better? Thanks! Does anyone have the rest of the doc?
345red 4 years ago
Ya the whole thing inregards to, truth being subjective,buddhism,defective logic, lead them to no moral restraints,debauchery,and ultimtely to libberal hippie life. Thank goodnes the baby boomer generation is dieng out.
Snotra 4 years ago
You can be in my dream if I can be in yours. Bob Dylan said that.
whoamusanyway 4 years ago 2
not sickening jhyunb sleeping..... The Buddha said that
goingdeaf 4 years ago
Beat became too common and some principles lost, its just the drug taking and stealing without necessity and without any kind of moral responsibility, no buddha. I love the beat generation for what it was then but for what its caused, maybe freedom, but humans are sickening.
JhyunB 4 years ago 2
People people, dont worry about the quotes for a minute, why not talk about the extract, isnt it a wonderful sequence? thankyou jordiqui for putting this one up.
calumcroft 4 years ago
O and jksmadone your so right, what they had was beautiful but it was beautiful because it was new and bold and different, we shouldnt dwell on it or get our selfs down because what we've got isnt as good, but instead we should be inspired and seek the answers to are own questions like hillsonger said and maybe one day there well be a new and brilliant time of our own created. peace
calumcroft 4 years ago
the beats were in search of a religion to answer their questions. allen ginsberg says," I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night...." they were more than good times and poetic metaphors. those came as a result of seeking.
hillsonger 4 years ago
Yeah, well I saw the best minds of MY GENERATION destroyed by marketing, especially the repackaging of the past for the sake of no$talgia. It wasn't anywhere nears glorious as many would have us believe. These were troubled men and they way they treated their women was atrocious. Revere them for their work, not their deeds.
priorzola 4 years ago 2
Who says we're revering thier deeds. I revere thier work, which was brilliant BECAUSE they were troubled and able to be honest about thier struggles. We stand on the shoulders of giants, as did they. But they were pioneers in a sense, they pushed something forward. This is real footage, and nothing wrong with it as far as I can see.
andysnadden 4 years ago
What happened to us? Where did we drop the ball? What happened to style, to coolness, geniune seeking and hope?... It was the beat to keep but we lost it, slipped thru our fingers. Maybe squeezed to hard
bottomdogman 4 years ago 2
maybe squeezed "too" hard you got the BeAt! you are IT man! keep writing, beat is closer than you think.
redloms 4 years ago
Damnit I'll tell you what happened...The media and politicans man. You want to talk about style and coolness and respect, check out the greatest generation who fought in WWII. After that, our society lost much of its moral bearing. Now look at piss ant countries who dare us and watch TV for a few minutes if you can stand it. It is over man. Over.
sickoflogin 4 years ago
Long live now!
AmbientaGoGo 4 years ago
yeah id love something like the beat generation to come back around
poopylindz44 4 years ago
Just live man. And YOU are the beat generation.
theknicks 4 years ago
im gona chuck my job and hit the road,go live in the mountains or something,read books all day!
kerouac1032 4 years ago
is the rest of metropolis as good as this track?
kerouac1032 4 years ago