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.
Great. Like a vision record of now long lost America and it's dream, real poetry, shows the sleeping prophets, now gone with the moths and rust. great.
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."
In 2022 we are in the middle of Kerouac revival. His work is being reassessed and many scholars are ranking him in the 20th century's top tier with Faulkner and Hemingway.
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 ..
we were all born to late. We need a new beat generation. I think one will come to rescue us. Jack will be back. He left in the first place because he would be needed later.
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.
@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.
@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 TH-cam. 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.
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.
@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.
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
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?
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...
Something similar to this could probably be done to useful effect elsewhere: (1) choose old B&W movie sequences (Renoir, Powell & Pressburger, Ford) (2) record them in slow motion (dropping the sound) (3) add contemplative music Things typically happen way too fast in movies . . . and you miss a lot that could be recovered with this method.
@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.
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?
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.
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.
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 :)
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.
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 ...
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
@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.
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.
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.
@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.
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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.
Great. Like a vision record of now long lost America and it's dream, real poetry, shows the sleeping prophets, now gone with the moths and rust. great.
the music is simply amazing! Goes well with the movie.
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."
Harry Beckett - Pure Bliss!
The video song is : Mike Westbrook - Metropolis 9
Thanks a lot!
In 2022 we are in the middle of Kerouac revival. His work is being reassessed and many scholars are ranking him in the 20th century's top tier with Faulkner and Hemingway.
2022 was his birth year centenary
Hell yeah🙏
Very cool, thank you
Beautiful. Glad to see this is still up.
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 ..
Wow - excellent .
This is really fine . Thank you .
Please keep -in touch.
never stop.
we were all born to late. We need a new beat generation. I think one will come to rescue us. Jack will be back. He left in the first place because he would be needed later.
Me too. I always come back to it, to reconnect to something so deep I haven't any words for it.
Great music and wonderful nostalgic clips. Levittown..Charlie Parker..neon and brick...Neal at the wheel..going "further" All wonderfully done!
this tune pushes a guy down the road
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.
Daniel Craig should play Kerouac. Dead ringer.
when the world troubles me, I come back to Jack's world and feel safe
@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.
so beautiful. and how perfect the music....
@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 TH-cam. 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.
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......
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.
Very nice music&vid
@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.
poor jack, destroyed by alcool !...........................
Evocative--nice job
lovely.. sad sad paradise... how sad he was...
Doesn`t it just make your soul bleed ?.
I have to keep coming back............
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
Jazz is great
Is the Neal Cassady footage from the bus "Further", the vechile for Kesey's Electric Kool Aid Acid Test tour?
@savagembrace It`s from me, it`s a poem that I wrote after reading " On the Road ", it just kinda bubbled out of me.
what tune is this? its beautiful
Further!
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.
"Question is not, is there a beat generation, is there a world? Sometimes im walking on the sidewalk and i see right through it. " j kerouac
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?
@mrkrinkle72 the essential despair of a deep inner loniliness is the great chalenge to all human beings.....
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...
Something similar to this could probably be done to useful effect elsewhere:
(1) choose old B&W movie sequences (Renoir, Powell & Pressburger, Ford)
(2) record them in slow motion (dropping the sound)
(3) add contemplative music
Things typically happen way too fast in movies . . . and you miss a lot that could be recovered with this method.
Sal paradise and dean moriaty
mike westbrook
Thank you.
Jack the Beaten soul. Shine on Brother!
@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.
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?
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.
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.
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 :)
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.
@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
Your're right. I now how to stand on my own. I'm hoping for a new Rennasaicance. An exchange of ideas of new ideas. Screw this Corporate era.
@june1932 wow, you must have seen it all, you must have been there !. I`ll bet you have lots of stories.........
@lucychinn149 so? What's your point? That Borroughs was rougher than him? Make a point along your statement
@greenrate Why are you such a mean, critical person? I got the Metropolis album a hour after I heard it.
rbhumes, who are you ??. You strike a resonant chord within me !!!.
A great bit of British jazz for the soundtrack - Metropolis by Mike Westbrook, with the beautiful lilting soaring flugel horn of Harry Beckett.
what is the name of this Harry Beckett tune?
That's NYC recovering from WWII and Korea.
Imagine what it was like in Europe and
Asia.
Ahhh... Jack...
what happened to style and coolness? Thing's change.Just gotta keep on flowing anyway.
sexiest man ever !
Monstruo sagrado!
Not a big fan of the all slow motion but a great track and a cool video.
@scienceisknolwedge My point is nothing more complex than what I said.
Brilliant! Love the references to 50's culture/art...and of course Mr. Jack
who is the saxophonist at 2:17? I recognize them all lse but him!
You can be in my dream if I can be in yours. Bob Dylan said that.
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 ...
@verbaud sounds like a Charles Manson jailhouse interview.
Can anyone tell me the the music that is playing?
Can anyone tell me the name of this music........
@june1932 I forgot to ask, where are you from ?.
I love his books,shame he died of alcohol abuse.
what is the name of this very hip piece?
...but please tell us what the music is!!!!
...but please tell us what the music is!!!
thank you....almost cried..........
yeah, yeah ..let's do it..count me in..
Mad wrote curtains
of
poetry on fire
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
@davevanfunk Gerry Mulligan
@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.
What song is this called?
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.
i think were all drawn to jack because he could express that crowded lonliness all around us
go grown alone...
Jack is back!
Nice one...very nice.
I hope you are right.
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.
@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.
Yo tambien
Cool for Candy!
Jack Kerouac ended up sad, living with his mother, no on-the-road romanticism remaining.
very good
JimmyJazz332 : It's IX from Metropolis by Mike Westbrook ;)
@Guanomysterio thank you so much for your kind response.
absolute cool and to hear him speak a gift thanks~:)!