Jack Kerouac: Life On The Road
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Source/Further reading:
Britannica, full biography: www.britannica.com/biography/...
Biography, overview: www.biography.com/writer/jack...
Vanity Fair, Kerouac Unbound: www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/...
Paris Review, the Queer Crime that Launched the Beats: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2...
Irish Times, Kerouac’s Catholicism: www.irishtimes.com/opinion/pr...
LA Review of Books, review of Kerouac biography: lareviewofbooks.org/article/s...
Third Way, interesting article analyzing Kerouac purely through the lens of Catholicism: thirdway.hymnsam.co.uk/editio...
Neal Cassady: www.theguardian.com/books/201...
Kerouac’s last days: archive.nytimes.com/www.nytim...
Sea is my Brother review: lareviewofbooks.org/article/t...
Did Kerouac sustain a serious head injury? www.newyorker.com/sports/spor...
When Kerouac met Kesey: theamericanscholar.org/when-k...
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Can you do a Biographic episode about Jack Kevorkian “Dr.Death” “Dr.Life”
Could you do a biography of David Lloyd George please
@@leighpowell1062 I second this
Here is an idea James Cook
No
My uncle graduated high school in 1957. He was bound for college, but; like so many young people (then and now) he wanted to travel. My uncle had read "On the Road" in December 1957. By Spring of 1958, he had saved enough money to buy a then brand-new Harley and to cover traveling expenses. He also worked along the way to California. Years later; on the night I graduated high school; my uncle handed me a battered and dog-eared copy of "On the Road." After giving me his copy of "On the Road," my uncle said to me, "The Bible and this book are the only road maps you'll need -- go West until you meet the Pacific, as I did." Thank you, Jack Kerouac. Special thanks to my uncle.
"It's often at our lowest point that we turn to new things"
That definitely stood out to me, especially since the last two months were up and down for me mentally and emotionally.
“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry”
Jack Kerouac
Behind every smile is a row of teeth
-Jack Kerouac
Sure. He lived with his mother. LOL
He was one of the three people that genuinely changed and affected my entire life.
How so?
Who were the others
The other 2 were?
This merely the recitation of a hipster mantra.
His books had a major impact in my life, as a Québecois, a man living in america....i went to Lowell to try to find a link when i was in my 20's....i still think of him almost every days...he had something....His books filled my younger self with meanings....he lighted something in me....Salut Jack!
Met him in a Florida bookstore in '68. Henry Miller section. Introduced myself. Then ran. I was young. 😎
After writing Desolation Angels Jack was supposed to meet Henry Miller but he never left the bar he was in to go to that meeting.
The world missed a great story that night.
O that's too bad. I imagine Miller might be the empathetic sort who would help someone who had lost their way.
They did meet.
@@jameskohlermusic but the night I am speaking of would have changed Jacks life I think.
It might have sparked something in Jack that would have kept him from going down the road he went.
Nah, a better literary meeting is when Proust met Joyce. They both admitted they'd never read each others work, and then talked about their illnesses.
@@joseybryant7577 I think they are both worthy events, given their members, and times.
I'm so glad you covered Kerouac. A personal favorite of mine.
I love weird writers.
Is there any other kind?
@@excelsior999 SellOuts ?
I read On the Road in my early 20s and I'll never forget the feeling of joie de vivre it gave me. It encapsulates the spirit of youth and the sheer excitement of life.
I felt the same when I read it all those years ago. I revisited it again in my 40s and I felt very different. I read the pointlessness of it, how they were doing drugs with their kids running around, then abandoned those kids. I became a mum not long after I read and was so inspired by On the Road, ironically. I even went on to date a jazz musician and decided I hated jazz. I can appreciate the Spirit of the book tho, and the Way Kerouac wrote it is inspiring!
@@geniferprice8596 good point. I may have to give it a re-read with the benefit of my advanced years haha
@@geniferprice8596 It has different impressions at different ages.
People who feel like that about this book are almost always men.
@@ImCarolB I am indeed but I would be keen to hear the female perspective on the book?
I liked On The Road, but Dharma Bums will always be my favorite novel from Kerouac. I remember reading it in my early 20's and it changed my life at the time. Now living in Denver, it's cool to visit the same places Jack visited.
Fun fact: he hated beatniks, the very generation he created, because they took the wrong message from his novel.
I hope Allen Ginsburg is the subject of a video in the near future. Freud would have loved for him sit in his chair.
Freud was more suitable to be sitting in that chair
What was the wrong message, and what was the right (according to him)?
@Jessica Jujubean I can believe that.
@@treyheller6276 Kerouac was more conservative and spiritual than that generation gave him credit for.. they treated him like he was some sort of "outlaw" bad@ss. He never saw himself that way.
@Jessica Jujubean I can definitely believe all of that. Every interview I've ever seen of him he seems really . . . off. Not all there.
"On the Road" is one of those books that people who haven't read it, and don't know the backstory, feel they completely understand and can relate to, based wholly on the inside-cover blurb that they read in high school while trying to cobble together a book report at 3AM.
Cliffs Notes got many of us through assigned High School reading. No doubt!
It took a t-shirt that I saw and bought from a quirky novelty store at Pike Place Market.. white with a simple statement:
"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
Good stuff.. I prefer Twain.
I just prefer laughing at our existence..
But yes, his is a popular name to drop into a conversation and quickly exchanged for a lively discussion about Dr. Seuss..
Be Well!! 😃
You did not! I literally searched for this video a few days ago, as i’m really into his books right now. You’re the best Simon!
😂😂😂 Great Comment
Read subterraneans and Tritessa
Literally 😂
Jack finds his people
1:25 - Chapter 1 - Faith & family
4:15 - Chapter 2 - New york blues
6:45 - Chapter 3 - On the road
10:00 - Mid roll ads
11:20 - Chapter 4 - The scroll
14:25 - Chapter 5 - Lonesome traveller
17:50 - Chapter 6 - Decline & fall
Thank you
I first read "On the Road" at age 17, a few months before Kerouac died. That book and Dylan's music changed my life. RIP Saint Jack.
I see a lot of ppl that say that. I'm curious how did the book change your life?
Mrs. X, thanks for your question. Will try to shorten a long story.
In1969, two weeks after high school graduation, I entered a large state university, experiencing my first taste of freedom and escape from my loving but repressive Southern Baptist family. There at age 17 read "On the Road." Led to Ginsberg, Henry Miller, many more.
Caught up in the civil rights and anti-war movements of the time, also inspired by Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" and having little money, began travelling by thumb. Hitchhiking was common and fairly safe in those days. Met all kinds of people, made lots of friends, had several adventures.
Years later, married with a daughter, after working all kinds of jobs, finally worked my way to the profession that suited me: on-the-road salesman. Customers became friends, traveled hundreds of miles each week, came home weekends. With a large measure of independence, traveled 3 states, visiting my friends, enjoying the seasons, making a good living.
Retired now, enjoying nature from my back porch, reading Kerouac again.
Greetings from Massachusetts. "Lowell" more or less rhymes with "bowl." It should not be confused with the community of people who speak Laotian.
I went to Lowell, Asked a mail carrier about an address. All she would say is "Dunno, Dunno". I believe that was the extent of her English.
By the way, there is actually a thriving Lao-American community in Lowell, Massachusetts.
We call it bowell
Thank you for this. I live near Lowell and have taken part in Kerouac weekends there. It makes me remember a great but fragile soul.
I’ve watched many of your videos and this one really was one of your best work. Thank you.
Kerouac changed my life, I've been travelling for 6 years now thanks to his work. "nowhere to go but everywhere, so keep on rolling under the stars"
But soon you will have to put down roots and start a home for yourself. Find a good woman to civilize you. Or maybe not. . . 😉
there are some poets around here
& who will civilise the broads
I enjoyed this immensely ! Thank you Simon!
Steinbeck, Kerouac, and Thompson. Their writings on traveling the open road, especially about the Pacific Coast Highway area south of San Francisco, continues to inspire to this day. The Big 3 of 20th Century Americana writing.
Funny coincidence im literally in the middle of reading this book and reading up about all the beat characters. Interesting to see the contrast of how these people lived during their travels vs the lasting effects afterwards
Read electric acid kool aide test. Next. OTR follows neil cassidy “dean” 1940s-1950s. EAKT features cassidy at the center of a second counterculture in 60s.
@@salmonsandwich3183 Shot his wife dead, and bribed the local Mexican authorities to get off charges.
I first heard of Jack Kerouac from Tom Waits, and my god, this man is a wordsmith
Author Paul Maher Jr. has written biographies of Jack Kerouac and Tom Waits.
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So excited every time I get a push notification from biographical. Simon and crew you guys are amazing.
Thank you. I've been asking for this.
I suggested this years ago. Thank you biographics, I'm sure it wasn't just for me but this is awesome.
Great episode Simon, thanks for the insights.
My name is my favorite Kerouac novel. Love that he did him!
I was in a rock band for a while called Dharma Bums
Please make a biography on
William Burroughs his life was insane!
He needs to do all the Beats. Burroughs, Ginsberg, etc.
Burroughs was a cold blooded murderer and woman abuser. Even worse he was a mediocre writer
Exactly ; )
@@courtesyofdickboak hahaha loved this comment
Thank you so much for this.
Saved this one for tomorrow. Kerouac was my favourite of the Beat Generation when I was younger. Gotta hit the sack, but 'Thanks for this.'
Thank you for this. I like the insights.
I've seen the On The Road scroll, it is definitely a sight to behold!
Where did you see it?
Very well done!
One major thing that was left out - "On The Road" was also made possible by the use of large quantities of amphetamines sustained over a period of several weeks.
It's perhaps the main reason why the story was written like one continuous stream of consciousness. It's because he sat at his typewriter for several hours at a time, uninterrupted, hacking it out in several day-long sessions of typewriting, on speed the entire time.
He definitely paid the price for it, though, as it took a significant negative toll on his physical health, and presumably on his mental health too.
I'm not trying to glamorize drugs. Amphetamines can be very dangerous and potentially deadly in the wrong hands and/or the wrong situations. But it's an essential part of his story.
LOVE "Dharma Bums". I visited Lowell (L O well), in the early 1990's, just to see the Kerouac monuments.
About time mate
These are so damn good! Do you have a staff of writers/researchers? I love these biographies!
Hi Erich! Yes, we do! You can find the writer in the end credits. Our writers are responsible for doing their research and providing their resource which are found in the SHOW MORE section.
GREAT!!!...love Kerouac, n love your work!!! Kongrats XXX
Could you please do a biographics of my hero and legendary sir David Attenborough.
@Sebres Ludolf and you are a legend for saying that 👌
@Sebres Ludolf same! My dad brought me the life on earth documentary on VHS when I was like 7 or something and I watched it back to back for like 3 days. It completely blew me away. The footage was incredible but it was Attenborough's passion and love for what he was narrating that brought it all together. I'm now 33 and my collection of Attenborough DVDs and VHS is nearly twice the hight of me when piled up 😂. My 8 year old daughter loves him aswell.
I concur.
Oh that'd be fantastic!!!
That would be awesome! One on Richard as well would also be very much enjoyed.
Great videos
"On the Road" and "Dharma Bums" are two of my favorite works.
Both cool! 😎
Hey Simon love all of you and the others who work to create this channel! I'm wondering Simon, do you have any hero or someone who particularly inspires you from history, and have you done a video about them?
I'm 20 now i read Electric Koolaid acid test when I was 15 shortly after I first tried lsd, than one flew over the cuckoos nest a short time later, and my grandpa one of the beat generation told about on the road and I finally read it last year, and it not only showed me how every perspective every influence on and in the world is interesting and unique, it showed me a form of writing and a culture I could very much get down with, all these people and ideas and movies they watch it all became so much more interesting, gave me hope to branch out beyond my little society to find others everywhere. things today seems different more tight ass more categorized at least it had to me only what I've come to realize is that the beatnik adventure is still accessible and their to anyone willing to push past their niche and find it. I don't think it'll ever be the same but I don't want it to cause even better it'll always be different and that's where lies fear and hope, the thrills that bleed into adventure and freedom. Just using myself and my perspective as an example for any other who may feel walled into their societal niche like the judgement of your few peers surrounding you cascades into all others that society is not an IT, that is their is no singular society but a fluid thing an ocean with waves that go off in all directions and meaning to be derived shifting perspectives that can sink or rise with the ebb and flow of its tides, and infect influence them, create more. Today the internet gives us unprecedented access to all variety of opinions and easy to see just a word or two and in common and categorize them in strict groups to pass over as a means of saving time that never seems to change, but I just wanna say to embrace the chance of uncertainty, to waste some of that precious nothing time, and create space for more to see more to learn and hope for that's an opportunity right there in front of you and anyone can take hold and be cast out into infinite ocean, you just gotta dig it.
Thank u very much for shared this 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I love jack Kerouac ❤
As a Kerouac, I read quite a bit of his work growing up (not all), but never did much research on the man himself. Interesting video. Thanks!
Good video 👍
Amazing!
thank you !
King Crimson's "Neal, Jack and Me" is about Cassady and Kerouac and a Studebaker Coupe.
NEAL CASSADY
Thanks for the correction. I fixed the comment.@@janeewalker
The second I read this title my brain just went, "Hit the road Jack, and dont come back. No more, no more, no more, no more."
And now it's stuck in my head lmao.
Indeed
@@nineteenfortyeight6762 Teal'c? Is that you buddy?
@@dudepool7530 nopes! 🤷♀️
@@nineteenfortyeight6762 damnit... I guess I have too high hopes that the S.G.C. is real...
Thank you for bringing up the lost novel I never knew about.
Thanks for that, I’ve just finished reading On The Road, as a writer myself, and my father is a writer, it has thoroughly affected my perception especially of American life.
Thank you, he was always just a name for me before. I was a homeless teen and everyone would suggest I read him - now I know why!
Can u do one on Robert Pirsig, the author of the next iconic book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?
Sorry to be pedantic but it's Robert M. Pirsig. Also be good to get some background on his writing of 'Lila, an inquiry into morals', a very odd book, in my opinion.
Great book.
Good book
Amazing book
I’ve been waiting for this for so long Neal cassady is one of my hero’s
He also wrote On the Road on a ton of speed.
I can believe that. A lot of it seems like the ramblings of someone very high.
My lord.....it's Lowell. It rhymes with mole.
‘High on Crack street in Lowell MA .’
Darn...you got so close to mentioning the Hotel Chelsea. That’s where the Kerouac/Vidal encounter occurred. And trust me...it was more like Vidal convincing Kerouac to have the encounter. I’m sure he got Jack good and drunk.
Love this channel.
Could you do John Fante?
Read On The Road two years ago, stuck with me. Plan to get more into him after this!
Great job simon.. 🏴☮️💯
Absolutely fantastic day when I saw the title of this video :) love kerouac his books made me fall in love with literature
You ought to do a video on the greatest musician that you never heard of, Flaco Jimenez. He plays the accordian. He has won 6 Emmies, countless other awards, played with the likes of The Rolling Stones, member of the Texas Tornadoes, Countless lifetime achievement awards and honorary degrees. Considering that he is a virtuoso playing the accordian, an instrument quickly going the way of the lyre and harpsichord. I actually got to meet him and spend a few hours with him. He's a great story teller. He is reserved and respectful. If you want to see his performances there are videos of him performing on Austin City Limits. I really believe that he is perfect for your biographos channel
I read on the road I started reading the book when I was in a real bad mental health time period. It really healed me a lot I just ordered Dharma Bums it’s suppose to arrive this week!
I wrote my University thesis on the Beat Generation. I'd argue his best book isn't On the Road but Dharma Bums.. It encompasses the beat vision much more succinctly than OTR.
Whats not mentioned in this video is his huge benzedrine use while he was writing OTR. It wasn't just coffee that fueled him... 😂😂
Heads up to Carolyn Cassady and her book Off the Road - the real truth behind Kerouac and Neal Cassady's relationship. (violence, extreme mysogonistic tendancies, alcoholism).
Same! My uni advisor and I shared a love of Beat and road literature. I'd email observations that I had about Kerouac/ Road years later.
Great video! What an interesting man! As usual, I'm here to request a Biographic on Ip Man, the martial arts mentor to the late, great Bruce Lee! A bunch of over the top action movies just can't do such a great man the justice that Biographics can! Thank you I'm advance, as always! -A Loyal Subscriber
Very moving conclusion .....
It’s very interesting that his childhood home isn’t a museum or something. I understand he didn’t spend the bulk of his life there, but it would still be a good idea to try and do something special with it besides a plaque that states “Jack Kerouac was born here”.
I have a suggestion for a video, The Stolen Tank Rampage of San Diego 1995 which was commited by Shawn Timothy Nelson.
Excellent. Suggestion box: Next up: Henry Miller. This would be epic. A hell of a life literally to the very end.
Was just ordering some of his books, and this came up. Thanks for reading my mind biographics
Besides Hunter S. Thompson and Charles Bukowski, Kerouac is among my favorite writers. As a 25 year old, currently unemployed student barely scraping enough to make through my monthly rent, Kerouac’s poetry and other writings hit me, and I mean hit me, deeply. Thanks for this vid!
We need Cassius Marcellus Clay biography. The legendary abolitionist from Kentucky!
A good one. Will search if you’ve done a vid on Yukio Mishima. If not....
Yes! Finally!!!!
Before I watch this, I want to say, _On The Road_ a 2/3 year period of Kerouac's life, was supposedly written in 6 days while he was on *speed* ...so awesome
Yeah that happens, i'm surprised it didn't turn into incoherent nonsense and word salad towards the end of the six days. That's a long time to stay awake
Actually he wrote it in 3 weeks and he was on the road for 7 years. To back this up you can hear Jack explain it himself if you search his appearance on the Steve Allen show where he is interviewed by Allen before reading from On the Road. Steve Allen, after Jack explains he wrote it in 3 weeks after being on the road 7 years, quips, 'I was once on the road for 3 weeks and it took me 7 years to write about it. Sort of the other way around'....
@@stella-vu8vh i wrote my 28 pg thesis on Adderall, _then_ went to a job interview, landed them both
If you haven't already, doing a video on J.D. Salinger would be great!
And include his PTSD from seeing the horrors of WWII.
That would be great.
PLEASE do a vid on William S Burroughs!! Kerouac one of my major hero's as well
I found out about Kerouac when I was younger researching all of the events in We Didn't Start the Fire.
Simon, I'm gonna be the Masshole that corrects you. The city is Low-ell MA, as in you feel low and add ell. Other than that brilliant job
We know Mass holes well. I'm from New Hampshire
On the Road is my life's anthem book.
Don't do as the beatniks did.
Wonderful video! If I may provide a critique, I would avoid using some of that modern stock footage when attempting to visualize a concept or topic, it appears very cheap. Not only that, but it makes the presentation appear less authentic and elevated compared to other amateur channels. Keep up the good work, I find these videos comforting and informational!
Albert Camus
FINALLY!!!! PLEASE work your way thru all the Beats 😁
Or at least Neal.
You should do a video on Upton Sinclair
Jack Kerouac, loved him. loved the book, wow did not know that he had an affair with another great Gore Vidal, incredible man. Actually could you do a biographic on Gore Vidal, the man was possibly the most articulate man who ever lived. Really enjoy your biographics they are everything I need . Thank you this was superb made me all excited again, I going downtown tomorrow to find that book and read it again and Big Sur yes. Brought back a wonderful feeling that book got me travelling and I looked for the romance everywhere I went , loved his spirit. He was definitely an American Great.
It was a one night stand with Vidal. i wouldn't call it an affair.
I love you Jack, thank you for everything❤
Despite the tragic end to his life, you still have to envy him living in America in that time, really for him, the perfect time.
Imagine what he would think of America in 2021
Interesting. I've always been so curious about Jack.
Ive been on a kerouac kick lately and speaking of his brother Gérard, visions of Gérard is one of the books ive read recently.... cant reccomend it enough its a beautiful book!
Kerouac's stories about Lowell are his best. Low-well
1:38
theres also a nice local coffee shop across from those factories. "Top Donut". They make all the pastries on site, which used to drive me crazy in the AM lol. Totally worth checking out if you ever visit, though there really isn't that much to do in Lowell, unless you like heroine...
"You have offended the Holy Ghost" is perhaps the greatest diss of all time.
The movie the Beatnicks is why i really want to name any future son I have Lucien (just really like the way it sounds)
Can you do Karl Lagerfeild. And also ............ UR KILLNG IT i love all of your channels
Could you do a biography on Eugene V Debbs? I’d love to see that!
That would be great.
Jack, Neal, and Allen stood for compassion, freedom, and joy.
Everyone check out the app Share the Meal where people can help feed kids that need it and pass it on!!
I'm pretty sure Simon mispronounces "Lowell" just to make Bay Staters angry