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Cassady in the Backhouse (1972)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 มี.ค. 2023
- Cassady in the Backhouse (1972)
The film was shot on the property of writer Ken Kesey (“One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”) in La Honda, CA, in 1965 and depicts Beat Generation figure Neal Cassady high on amphetamines and speaking in a stream of consciousness.
An Intrepid Trips Production. Camera: Page Browning. Sound: Mountain Girl. Editors: Ken Babbs, John Babbs.
Preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by The Film Foundation. Laboratory services by Audio Mechanics, DJ Audio, Inc, Stanford Theatre Film Laboratory. Special thanks to Zane Kesey.
I’ve seen this dance a hundred times at Dollar General
Blasted on crank
They had their heyday 75 years ago and must have looked like Beelzebub to ordinary middle class Yankees
Don't think I could handle five minutes of his endless blabbering.
And he was the guy who drove the bus!
Neal was unemployed at this time, and frequently in jail.
Neal and the chick kinda remind me of Dick Shawn and Barrie Chase in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World."
Neal was 39 here. An early performance artist.
Considering his background, he reminds me here of countless homeless/Skid Row types I have seen over the years.
"It hides my Thumb but reveals my
Greek TORSO !"
awesome
To me he seems, like others have said, rather common in his meth-addled prattling. What’s interesting is that he’s considered such a countercultural icon, and that he was taken so seriously by talented writers like Ginsburg, Kesey, and Kerouac. I can only assume that mainstream culture must have been so dull and buttoned up that this kind of behavior felt freeing, by comparison.
Interesting point, but then.... read his letters and follow his steps across the entire USA, he was a DUDE OF ACTION, not just words❤
GINSBERG, by the way. Learn your literary heritage!
@@jackcrane7853 Please, don’t be typo police on TH-cam. I saw GinsbErg read several times in the 70s and 80s. Shoot, my friend’s stepfather turned him on to mushrooms.
Most likely, his strength of personality does not translate in film and audio. If you listen to interviews with people who hung out with him it’s obvious his personal presence was an awesome force. Although, true that it definitely doesn’t translate in this film.
@@GaryBensonmusic film was a rather new medium back then, so is it any wonder they wouldnt exploit its full potential, not really recognizing what's possible. But to deduct that Neal was a dork is to ignore all of his letters, Carolyns book and Jacks description, of him in VISIONS OF CODY plus all the testimonies of those whose path he crossed. He definitely cant have been just another self important repressed hustler with dick issues🔥😂, no way! He had huge knowledge on all sorts of things and was well read as hell, too. But he also had this wonderful love for life and tremendous DRIVE. His immense impact made him possibly THE SINGLE MOST INFLUENTIAL, RELEVANT AND IMPORTANT HUMAN BEING OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. FOR ALL HIS FLAWS, AND WHO HASNT GOT ANY.... BUT LIKE FEW OTHERS HE EMBRACED THIS INCREDIBLE ADVENTURE CALLED LIFE...... HE UNDERSTOOD WHAT A PRECIOUS AND INSANE OPPORTUNITY IT IS. MAYBE HE WAS A SAINT.
this was filmed in year 1965
Back when tweekers were considered eccentrics
It was genius!🤣
exactly and very funny, very funny and exactly!
Genius or madman? Many say it’s a fine line 🤔
The godfather of all tweakers.
What is the song in the background
I’m a big fan of the 60s and was around then. But watching Cassady in this is eerily similar to watching gyrating homeless on Skid Row in 2024.
Tweeking bad
eesshh, it may have been interesting back then, and I like Neal, but shit... now you can walk down many a city block and see people flailing around on meth, etc any day of the week, and it is kind of sad...
Umm.... Ditto!. We're older now. The world has changed. Toodaloo....
And you? You got it all together huh? Straight and in line.
He's right where he's supposed to be, in a room at a residence surrounded by friends. Not on the street. Not occupying our public spaces and right of ways.
@@darkspar72 On that we agree.
@@searing7549dumb comment
Speed kills.
his speaking manner is like a friendly version of manson...
reminded me a little of Matthew McConaughey
Benzedrine
And Marylou？
Not 1972
Released in 1972. Filmed in 1965.
Seriously...is he insane?
Yes😂 he was, thank God. Look at Ukraine 2024 then you see where THE NORMALS have brought us to...
He was really high on a mix of pot, crystal meth and a good but of other shit. Possibly acid as well depending on when this was recorded. He wasn't insane he was just never in his "right" mind.
Neal's reputation was the need for being in motion and having sex all the time.
Who’s the girl?
Hernando's Hideaway.
i'll have what she's having
Could you handle it?
@@MarlinWilliams-ts5ul how many people could??
Drugs at teir finest
Oy vey.
It makes more sense if you're tripping......Nah.
@@thomasshoener2154 it really actually does.
@@bonzomcduffy8336not really, but rave on
0nly in America where embarrassment is an unknown means for detecting bullshit would a consummate-bore like Cassady be taken seriously .. what a dull chump he was ..
😂🎉His blubber at the wheel recorded and available on yt is indeed unnerving and yawny, but I am afraid he must be seen in context, must be witnessed alive and driving, all else is a bw film... He cant have been THAT dull given the incredible amount of road and train and bus travelling he did.... I guess it was all about his LIFE, not what he said. I dont find REXROTH, KESEY, JACK, GINSBERG AND EVEN MCLURE VERY ORIGINAL OR INTERESTING EITHER.... NOR BOWLES, NOR CORSO. Ted Joans was funny, I once met him. I guess we also have to give it to them that SEVENTY FIVE YEARS BACK many, of the things they said, thought, wrote and did were PRETTY DEMANDING, DARING, INNOVATIVE.... They must have been considered veritable TERRORISTS then, to the white middle class Doris Day American Establishment.... 😂 💥👍🔥
When you are tripping on acid, a lot of mundane, ordinary and even dull things seem profound. I think that was the secret of his appeal to his admirers.