"The road to the Beat Hotel"

A short vignette capturing the unveiling of the plaque at the legendary Beat Hotel by Jean-Jacques Lebel.

With Eddie Woods - Oliver Harris - Jean Jacques Lebel - Lee Harris - River Styx

The Beat Hotel was a small, run-down hotel of 42 rooms at 9 Rue Gît-le-Cœur in the Latin Quarter of Paris, notable chiefly as a residence for members of the Beat poetry movement of the mid-20th century
Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky first stayed there in 1957 and were soon joined by William Burroughs, Derek Raymond, Harold Norse and Gregory Corso, as well as Sinclair Beiles. It was here that Burroughs completed the text of Naked Lunch [4] and began his lifelong collaboration with Brion Gysin. It was also where Ian Sommerville became Burroughs' 'systems advisor' and lover. Gysin introduced Burroughs to the Cut-up technique and with Sommerville they experimented with a 'dream machine' and audio tape cut-ups. Here Norse wrote a novel, Beat Hotel, using cut-up techniques [5]. Ginsberg wrote a part of his moving and mature poem Kaddish at the hotel and Corso wrote the mushroom cloud-shaped poem Bomb.

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http://www.myspace.com/riverstyxworld
http://www.nakedlunch.org

Full version to be screened at the Portobello Film Festival 2009 http://www.portobellofilmfestival.com

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Music

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• Naked lunch
• William Burroughs
• Beat Hotel
• Allen Ginsberg
• Gregory Corso
• Peter Orlovsky
• Harold Norse
• Jean Jacques Lebel
• Lee Harris
• River Styx

[coolnewsforyou]

and another one of our online faves at the moment!!

[mrdjangola]

Great Video!