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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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 RUclips. 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.
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."
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...
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 ..
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
@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.
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.
@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.
@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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
@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.
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 :)
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 ...
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.
Beautiful. Glad to see this is still up.
Me too. I always come back to it, to reconnect to something so deep I haven't any words for it.
so beautiful. and how perfect the music....
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.
lovely.. sad sad paradise... how sad he was...
Great music and wonderful nostalgic clips. Levittown..Charlie Parker..neon and brick...Neal at the wheel..going "further" All wonderfully done!
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.
when the world troubles me, I come back to Jack's world and feel safe
the music is simply amazing! Goes well with the movie.
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.
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🙏
Thank you.
thank you....almost cried..........
Harry Beckett - Pure Bliss!
Jack the Beaten soul. Shine on Brother!
The video song is : Mike Westbrook - Metropolis 9
@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 RUclips. 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.
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."
Brilliant! Love the references to 50's culture/art...and of course Mr. Jack
i think were all drawn to jack because he could express that crowded lonliness all around us
go grown alone...
A great bit of British jazz for the soundtrack - Metropolis by Mike Westbrook, with the beautiful lilting soaring flugel horn of Harry Beckett.
Thanks for this Masterpiece Harry Beckett, R.I.P.
Very cool, thank you
this tune pushes a guy down the road
I have to keep coming back............
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?
Nice one...very nice.
absolute cool and to hear him speak a gift thanks~:)!
Thanks a lot!
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...
this music and imagery burns deep in my stomach
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 ..
Monstruo sagrado!
Wow - excellent .
This is really fine . Thank you .
Please keep -in touch.
never stop.
Jack is back!
Beautiful.
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.
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
Mad wrote curtains
of
poetry on fire
The soundtrack music is by Mike Westbrook, from his album Metropolis.
@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.
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......
great music...
Great video, thanks for uploading!
mike westbrook
Wonderful post!
That's NYC recovering from WWII and Korea.
Imagine what it was like in Europe and
Asia.
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.
Very nice music&vid
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
Evocative--nice job
Ahhh... Jack...
yeah, yeah ..let's do it..count me in..
Doesn`t it just make your soul bleed ?.
very good
Cool for Candy!
@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.
Jazz is great
I love his books,shame he died of alcohol abuse.
@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.
@savagembrace It`s from me, it`s a poem that I wrote after reading " On the Road ", it just kinda bubbled out of me.
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.
@Guanomysterio thank you so much for your kind response.
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.
Not a big fan of the all slow motion but a great track and a cool video.
Sal paradise and dean moriaty
Is the Neal Cassady footage from the bus "Further", the vechile for Kesey's Electric Kool Aid Acid Test tour?
Further!
Yo tambien
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?
@mrkrinkle72 the essential despair of a deep inner loniliness is the great chalenge to all human beings.....
what tune is this? its beautiful
You can be in my dream if I can be in yours. Bob Dylan said that.
@june1932 wow, you must have seen it all, you must have been there !. I`ll bet you have lots of stories.........
Daniel Craig should play Kerouac. Dead ringer.
JimmyJazz332 : It's IX from Metropolis by Mike Westbrook ;)
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.
what is the name of this very hip piece?
Can anyone tell me the name of this music........
who is the saxophonist at 2:17? I recognize them all lse but him!
@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.
...but please tell us what the music is!!!!
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 :)
what is the name of this Harry Beckett tune?
@june1932 I forgot to ask, where are you from ?.
@lucychinn149 so? What's your point? That Borroughs was rougher than him? Make a point along your statement
rbhumes, who are you ??. You strike a resonant chord within me !!!.
Can anyone tell me the the music that is playing?
Jack Kerouac ended up sad, living with his mother, no on-the-road romanticism remaining.
What song is this called?
sexiest man ever !
poor jack, destroyed by alcool !...........................
I hope you are right.
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 ...
@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
what happened to style and coolness? Thing's change.Just gotta keep on flowing anyway.
@davevanfunk Gerry Mulligan
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