Dean Moriarty and Carlo Marx have a conversation.

@dharmabum8549

4 жыл бұрын

Shit like this just doesn't happen anymore.

@barryg528

3 жыл бұрын

Hell yes!

@ericmuschlitz7619

3 жыл бұрын

No. Dean and Carlos were constructs inspired by them, in the mind of kerouac

@ericmuschlitz7619

3 жыл бұрын

@@dharmabum8549 yeah it does you just don’t see it.

@daveandhelenkirkland6898

3 жыл бұрын

@@ericmuschlitz7619 I think it was a joke

I was blessed to have met Allen Ginsberg on several occasions: A really great courageous and righteous mensch-especially when he bravely risked his life chanting OM and leading a group meditation, creating a palpable vibration of Peace amid all the violent chaos of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago; definitely reducing the degree of violence and probably saving lives. And he was really a very nice kindhearted guy. It meant alot to me that he actually took my poetry seriously-more than I did at the time. I was so young and shy and self-conscious; when he was first reading my poetry, I kept defensively murmuring and making excuses and disclaimers; until he admonished me with loving exasperation “Will you shuttup already! I'm trying to read, and this is good!" He showed me line-by-line where I was really “making-it” and where I was just talking-about-it in conceptual terms. He brought it home to me that every line needs to be painting-a-picture and making music. Good advice that I instinctively apply in all of my writing.

@CharlotteSimmons1

2 жыл бұрын

Allen was wise but not necessarily that nice.

@clovergrass9439

4 ай бұрын

And promoted doing boys. To the work camp he goes.

@stevelafarga3296

3 ай бұрын

@@clovergrass9439lol

@soraya2218

Ай бұрын

He was a "boy lover" aka pedo who supported NAMBLA

@user-ru3ie6cx5m

17 күн бұрын

@@clovergrass9439 is there any evidence he actually participated in illegal sex, or is it more guilt by association?

It's amazing to see Neal's mannerisms while speaking. Kerouac talks about the fact that no-one was as fast as Neal. You can see thar in this video. He speaks so fluidly, almost like he's composing music - one of the best ways to convey thoughts I think. Thankyou so much for putting this up.

@johnfranklin4980

7 жыл бұрын

He talks that fast and has those mannerisms because he's twacked out.. every tweaked acts just like that.. I don't see anything special about it.

@karlhungus5436

7 жыл бұрын

Well dude, I find it interesting within context. This is quite an interesting period for the history of thought. There is an intellectual trend that extends far past Neal and the beats. The beats brought this trend into popular culture. Cassady is expressing a sort of philosophical pessimism here. I heard a story of Cassady reading Schopenhauer in a library. Schopenhauer is considered a philosophical pessimist. Schopenhauer was counter to the culture in his own time - circa 1800 ( Schopenhauer influenced Nietzsche, who influenced postmodern thought, which influenced anyone interested in thinking counter to tradition e.g. the beats). Outside of this context - sure its nonsense. However, every meaning exists in a context from which it derives its meaning. So ultimately the pessimist agrees with you ...Just another Twack! The question is why the pessimist says this, or why Neal is saying what he is saying in the video. - Cheers plato.stanford.edu/entries/schopenhauer/

@jiles7726

2 жыл бұрын

@@karlhungus5436 It is intresting, sure. Darkly comic too. But the truth is Neal's babel in this clip is more Charlie Mansion than philosophical pessimism. Ginsburg uses the word pessimism because he's being nice. Neal was going on about getting rid of people he finds extremist and mentions civil rights activists a few times. His ego is oblivious to the fact that he's being extremist here himself -- and yet for a creepy moment he was about to implicate his pal Ginsburg as being an extremist in need of some weeding. The nicest thing you can call this is drugged up bullshit. The Beats were awesome and amazing, but they also had plenty of bullshit, like this, or like Kerouac at the end. Atleast Ginsburg had integrity and compassion.

@karlhungus5436

2 жыл бұрын

@@jiles7726 it is always surprising how so many people are quick to downplay Neal's intelligence. Like why are you so offended by it?

@theirishbandit7301

Жыл бұрын

@@karlhungus5436 this guy yapping his high and mighty “I’m the decider on who’s philosophy and thoughts are superior” is complete bullshit. I’m sure he’s well versed on all the drug/drunk rants he’s critiqued over the years but he doesn’t understand intellectual thought and prose and that’s very clear here. Neal was one of the greatest ever and they all knew that and they were all inspired by him in some way. Who cares what some hack on KZread comments has to critique about him. There’s this guy and thens there’s Neal Cassidy. Who’s shooting shit with Ginsberg right here? Like would Gins waste his time just shooting with any fast talking person? Na I don’t think so. He’s knew what he was doing here.

Thanks for re-uploading this, it's just marvellous. So much on show about the relationship and contrasts between these two and obviously it's fantastic to have video of Neal.

Cassady was the artist and the art.

This is great. Ann Murphy at his side. I recall seeing a longer version of this at one point, where Cassady first arrives as Ginsberg is talking.

@TheColdplay200

3 жыл бұрын

Geez, I'd love to see that

"enjoy it", Cassady says half-heartedly. He understood everything would always be corrupt and the best thing to do is enjoy as much as you can while you can. Yet there was always Ginsberg there to say something can be done. Still not exactly sure who was/is right

@matthewatwood1060

7 жыл бұрын

Maybe both? Or .aybe turn your back on it all, let it all burn down, & create something new to take it's place?

@flowerswild

5 жыл бұрын

@@papa_pt it has been since the beginning of time.

@CravenTHC85

5 жыл бұрын

@@papa_pt Depends on your definition of sustainable. If you think that humans can harm the planet beyond the point that we can feasibly exist then you haven't been paying attention to the last 20,000 years of history. Humans are the largest cockroaches that have ever existed. When paradigms shift we adapt. We've survived famine, drought, disease, and war on apocalyptic scales already. The question isn't will we persist, but how destructive are we destined to be. In the game of checks and balances climate change is the check, and the balancing will be deserved. It probably won't be the end though. We're capable of some pretty amazing things, but look where that's got us so far. For everything's sake I hope we never achieve interstellar travel. We've completely bastardized the ecosystem of the Earth for our own gain, and we're bound to continue that streak unceasingly unless stopped by a greater apocalyptic event.

@pattymulligan2389

5 жыл бұрын

Del Flo. yes! You dig Neal perfectly.

@nathanbellamy3308

3 жыл бұрын

My lifetime conundrum. But I've learned the universe is controlling everything. Nothing the ego can do about it. Neal is right. Enjoy it.

Came across this from a L.A. Times article: "Hidden in an otherwise joking, high-on-pot, mocking letter to Allen Ginsberg in 1947, Neal Cassady offhandedly gives the key to his life: "[S]ee how I write on several confused levels at once, so do I think, so do I live, so what, so let me act out my part at the same time I’m straightening it out, so as to reach an authentic destiny.”

@oughtssought1198

2 жыл бұрын

nice find thanks for sharing

I fucking love Allen Ginsberg's voice

Neal reminds me of the enigmatic homeless figures I've come across in SF and LA who lure you into genuinely wondering if they're speaking higher truths or babbling lunacy.

@tunedime

4 жыл бұрын

Nick Montana broooooo

@ZenFox0

3 жыл бұрын

Probably lunacy, although they do have a lot of time and impetus to contemplate the great mysteries.

@barryg528

3 жыл бұрын

True that

@walterlippmann6292

3 жыл бұрын

Neal was the first one of those.

@1958Saturday

3 жыл бұрын

Both are true and at the same time.

Around this time I spent a couple of years with these two word shamans,running with señor Cassady in and out of the woods of La Honda, California and living,hanging out with Allen in NYC for the following year. Allen's mind was brilliantly mystical and his essence was pure kindness, Neal was brilliantly mad and maddening, fascinating to listen to, a testosterone driven driver who almost made sense..some of the time..Neal could be the cleverest fox in the hen house and the ladies loved his vulpine ways...Allen was your old dear Jewish grandfather even if you weren't Jewish.

@changstein

7 жыл бұрын

knowing cassady himself, what's your personal opinion on his matter of death? did he walk into the desert until he collapsed? did he lay down on the tracks and face the barrage of a speeding train?

@ufotofu9

7 жыл бұрын

wow. very cool. Did Allen Ever call out Cassidy's nonsense?

@AllThatIKnowNow

7 жыл бұрын

According to his former wife, Carolyn (R.I.P) was told by Mexican authorities that Neal collapsed near the train tracks just "yards" out of San Miguel Allende. According to the autopsy he died due to "general congestion of all systems" after attending a friend's wedding party that day. Guests at the party said Neal had been using a powerful barbiturate sold under the brand name Seconal - which you could buy without prescription in Mexico, although Carolyn thinks it was most likely, Nembutal - a drug Neal was fond of using. Apparently Neal never used to drink heavily because of his sensitive stomach. Carolyn once said that Neal would only have a few drinks to be sociable and the Mexican authorities did not write up a detailed coroner's report due to the fact that he was a foreigner with drugs in his system. She suspected he died of renal failure and not exposure or hypothermia, but agrees he felt his life had been a failure and wished it would end.

@jazzmanchgo

5 жыл бұрын

@@changstein The usually accepted version (verified by Ken Kesey) is that Cassady accepted a dare to count all the railroad ties from Celaya (about fifteen miles away, where he'd gone to retrieve some luggage) and San Miguel de Allende. According to this story, his last words were "64,928" -- the point at which he's stopped counting.

@changstein

5 жыл бұрын

David Whiteis and then what happened? How did he actually die?

"I had to put this back on youtube...." Well we're glad you did. It keeps a fascinating time, culture and people alive.

Neal was cracked ( a consequence of being intelligent and beautiful and born poor.) but I get the impression he was refreshingly honest

Cassady and Kerouac just weren't cut out for the 60's that they did so much to help create

That was brilliant between Ginsberg and Cowboy Neal. I have heard of both men, but never got to see them in person until now. Both are intellectual giants and I'm very glad to see this. Thanx for posting this.

Thank you for posting this. It makes Kerouac's description of Cassady more alive. He really was a force of nature! He completely steals the whole room, just like Jack described.

The Dean moriarty, thanks very much for uploading this

Thanks for putting this back up!

"A tremendous thing happened when Dean met Carlo Marx. Two keen minds that they are,they took to each other at the drop of a hat."

Wow, 8 hours? My god. So the full video of this interview is 25 minutes? That's excellent! Can't wait to see it.

this is exactly how i imagined dean moriarty and carlo marx. legitimate goosebumps right now.

This is a sad demonstration of the distortion you get when two Karamazov brothers try to figure things out without the third . . .

@TheHalliday123456789

8 жыл бұрын

Never read the Karamazov Brothers, explain to me.

@andrewptob

8 жыл бұрын

"Pretentious much? Yuck." --Yours truly, Smerdyakov

@nathanhumes2088

7 жыл бұрын

ToniSoproni

@guitarlover1370

7 жыл бұрын

Perhaps the funniest and saddest comment I've ever heard

@Vic-on5ic

3 жыл бұрын

Good comment!

i think i have watched this vid at least 100 times...thank you.

Thank you for this . Fascinating. I think Neil must have been perceived like the living truth that Alan and Jack was searching for . A bright mind unrestrained by society and free from conditioning that I suspect a strict formal education does to you . I’ve known people on the street and they chat like Neil . There’s no holding back . That street upbringing with that intelligence must have been a revelation to more restrained minds searching to break free and write in a more spontaneous and genuine way 💚Xx

@oughtssought1198

2 жыл бұрын

some said much the same of Emmet Grogan

Love this. Glad I spent some time in Allen Ginsberg's presence.

THANKS FOR POSTING I watch this and then the movie "On the Road" and the 2 are entirely mutually exclusive it seems. Good interview.

'The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough' - William Blake. Coincidentally Blake was one of Ginsberg's favourite poets. Whatever you believe about the 'Beats' and their lives, and attacking them personally, all that is left of them is writing. They all took that road to excess in their own personal journey and wrote about it - that's the wisdom they left behind, and that's all there is to it.

@MichaelSherrer

10 жыл бұрын

Nice use of my favorite WB Quote in context, LeBretto. Thank you. The only other time I heard the 'Palace of Wisdom from the road of excess' used effectively was when Eric Clapton brought it up in 1986 on the BBC South Bank Show to host: Melvyn Bragg who assisted with the WB reference. That is a good show if you can ever find it via Google. Thanks again.

@LeBretto

10 жыл бұрын

Michael Sherrer Thanks for that recommendation Michael. I'll check that out.

@dlhitch2007

10 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I never heard the entire quote until now. It reminds me of a Hunter S. Thompson quote which I bet it inspired: The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

@MundaSquire

7 жыл бұрын

Links to Walt Whitman too.

@Birdlives247

5 жыл бұрын

What wisdom is found at the palace other than what is excessive? My question is sincere. (I demand an answer, please.)

Hi. The whole 25 minutes is an Extra on my 8 hours DVD set, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALLEN GINSBERG which will be re-released this March or April. It contains the full 85 minute feature and over 6 hours of lots of amazing Extras.

Ginsberg had been knocking it out of the park promoting the beats for 10 years by the time of the recording. Yet his loyalty to his tiny San Fran publisher meant that he was the least-read most famous poet in America ever. Howl's effortless destruction of the era's obscenity law was solid evidence for the excellence of his best poems

"Enjoy it." I crack up every time I see this. In 2 words encapsulates the dharma of the "holy goof". Thanks for reposting this.

Pay attention. " Life goes where the forms are"

Exactly how I pictured him in On The road

All the these geniuses ( The Beat generation) were born WAY before their time. I wish we had more people that still read Proust.

"Just enjoy it"...and he shrugs.

Jerry Aronson, this film's creator, was my documentary film professor at the University of Colorado.

Interesting to hear Neal Cassady rambling in the way Dean Moriarty does in On the Road. Looks as though he might have calmed down a bit by this time, though...

This is one of the most interesting comment threads. Somebody printed the text of most of Cassidy's talk. It's about halfway down the thread.

I wish I had the full video of this. I was looking for a part where Neal talks about the La Honda bust at Ken Keesey's house.

"Born to be, Cassady."

Cassady was brilliant. Ginsberg and Kerouac, as literary celebrities struggled to keep up with Neal. He was a genius who couldn't find a medium.

@RonMillermymymy74

8 жыл бұрын

Genius?

@Freddyonacid

8 жыл бұрын

+Ron Miller putting it mildly, yes. his lifestyle and personality inspired the beat movement, so i think there is something to be said of him. he's not the same kind of genius as Isaac Newton obviously.

@RonMillermymymy74

8 жыл бұрын

Take away the speed and grass, what then, was Cassady? I think he was well read, but confused as to what it all meant. Join the club, right?

@Freddyonacid

8 жыл бұрын

+Ron Miller yeah, we tend to reap what we sow. he died in a sad but timely manner, freezing to death drunk right as the hippie movement collapsed. I think he served his purpose

@RonMillermymymy74

8 жыл бұрын

I just reread "Visions of Cody" in which Kerouac taped several conversations while high on MJ living with the Cassadys. Jack hoped to uncover some magic insight into Cassady's mind. What it does is show me a fun guy to party with but nothing genius-like whatsoever. Lots and lots of near psycho-babble from Cassady and Kerouac, too.

Neal reminds me of a few people I have met over the course of my life that are ultra intelligent and their brains are constantly in motion with thoughts. My experience with those type of individuals is they use drugs as a way to escape their own minds. If you think about how restrictive it must be to have your mind constantly in motion, it must be awful. Just a very unique person and if I could ever get a ride on a time machine it would be one person I would like to go back and watch him interact in a room.

@christinahutton9983

2 жыл бұрын

How could a mind NOT constantly be in motion,I wonder? Do some people's minds just think of nothing at times,do thoughts just stop in some people's minds and be...blank or something?

those who live careful lives, who marry careful wives...living in homes with carefully manicured lawns who upon their death let out careful yawns. you are not the ones to judge those who came before you, those who never walked the careful path.

@davemahar

10 жыл бұрын

I was there, at the time and ended up careful. Careful lasts, these clowns were rockets, bright light for a while but ended up signifying nothing. Updike, Cheever et al were careful and had significance. Just my judgment!

@DennisNedryisStillAlive

9 жыл бұрын

+QueerAndUnplugged Did you write that?

@QueerAndUnplugged

9 жыл бұрын

Hunter Aikins Yes, I did!

@whatsaleppo6298

8 жыл бұрын

+David Maher They fought against conformity. Careful may last, but careful often comes with chains.

@MarvelInTheGarden

7 жыл бұрын

I love this!!!!!!

I read "the first third", Neal's writing is really coherent, different to his spiels. Here he looks and sounds first and third person at the same time...

@markewings7525

3 жыл бұрын

I read it and I thought Cassidy made a better character than a writer .

People just seem silenced by their awe of Neal...

Cassady was a brilliant man, he may not have known, but he was.

@jiles7726

2 жыл бұрын

He was but its too bad we have this clip of him talking about weeding out people, seems we caught him at a bad moment here

@justinhiggins2210

2 жыл бұрын

@@jiles7726 Jiles, you are 100% correct. I so wish you weren't, but you are.

moves just like dean Moriarty.

@matthewatwood1060

7 жыл бұрын

t mac ...because he is.

@keithklassen5320

4 жыл бұрын

Deeeeeean More Ee Art Ee.

I'll check them out, thanks

=2 LEGENDS:* in their own time and many times to come and only had to do is stand up, be strong, fight to be hear, be honest:even if hardcore, and be themselves! - Trip Lucid

In Carolyn Cassady’s memoir Off The Road she says that Neal had a near photographic memory for things he had read many years before, quoting whole passages of poetry, novels, even railroad manuals and letters from friends and not just recite but give an intelligent commentary on those recitations. Obvs the drugs ruined it a bit but you get a damaged glimpse of it here where he recites a little and comments on John 15:1. I think some of the commenters here who don’t see what was great about him was that Ginsberg and Kerouac knew him as a young man in the 1940s before stresses of life and drugs took some of the magic away. Back then he would have been undeniably intriguing and I guess mind blowing.

He also appears in the documentary of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters driving their bus, the further.

I haven't ignored them. That's why I've apparently caused a firestorm of comments from devoted Beat acolytes who enjoy reading about Allen Ginsberg's STD-causing adventures and also his cussing people out( see "In Society", "Anger"). The 3 Musketeers of Doped-Up Literature did leave a lasting impression, but that is only because people's artistic sense was going down the toilet.

always great to see neal and ginsberg too

Everyone in that room looks high as a kite.

Do you have the video of an old b/w film that he played where there was a character called Morrissey and the police were after him? He played it at the Edinburgh Playhouse. I think it was on the Tormentors tour

haha, Ginsberg laughing at the end: "... for years he's been talking like this."

@MichaelSherrer

10 жыл бұрын

Ginsberg plays the 'straight man' (no pun intended) while Neal riffs all these ideas from the ether in a perfect stream of consciousness. The depopulation theme from the Jesus fig tree parable and how the Pentagon controls the world -bring a gushing reaction by Ginsberg. Perfect timing. One of my favorite parts.

That guy up the back looks so sceptical when Neal speaks!

@jordanjodge

8 жыл бұрын

I would be too... he's a bullshitter... a great extrovert... but not much substance.

@HARDL3FT

3 жыл бұрын

@@jordanjodge Were you listening to what he was saying though? "They're going to kill a lot of people off in the next year or two." He basically predicts the Vietnam War and the subsequent events.

@jordanjodge

3 жыл бұрын

@@HARDL3FT That's interesting, i didn't take that from it. i guess I'm struck by the facial expressions that seem to indicate he doesn't know what he's talking about really, "forms"?

this is beautiful

I think a Beat Poets biography film should be produced: David Cross as Gingsberg Woody Harrellson as Cassady Clive Owen as Kerouac James Cromwell as Burroughs

Salut quelqu'un pourrait-il me traduire la conversationde Cassady et Ginsberg Merci car je pige que dal !!! Gildas de Bretagne

i made that video, it was taken from Jerry Aronson's documetary; The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

@Shroomeryslearyfan

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thanks man.

"No one knows who's running the country?" These guys we're so intelligent. This is still the case. But we do have a clue Bohemian Grove

@Vingul

4 жыл бұрын

A lot of people of Ginsberg's ethnicity, among others.

@andrewfrankovic6821

3 жыл бұрын

@@Vingul The country isn't being run, iT's being looted wherever loot can be had. Where 1%'ers control all the money they also control just about everyone's money. They save on storage by letting people transport iT around back and forth buying things like mutant enzymes dissolving reality away. Ook kook a chook.

@Vingul

3 жыл бұрын

@@andrewfrankovic6821 «corporation t-shirt, stupid bloody tuesday...» I don’t disagree with the looting bit. The U.S. is experiencing a slow collapse, and is now in what many call the «looting phase».

@Vingul

3 жыл бұрын

@@andrewfrankovic6821 well, if not many, then *some*

@andrewfrankovic6821

3 жыл бұрын

@@Vingul I think what iT really boils down to is not acknowledging the fact that people worship entertainment more than anything else. Heaven will be the ultimate entertainment capital where everyone gets instantaneous, perfect room service. Some people can entertain themselves and make something worth making and having, while too many people just want to make money or just be entertained and iT's all but entirely subjective as to how shallow or deep any entertainment is.

I don't see why enjoying their work means agreeing with their life choices.

can you upload the beginning when neal walks in

The days when everybody knew John 15:1 off the top of their heads

What is Neil doing with his right hand deep in his pocket at 2:51? Looks like the least subtle game of pocket pool I've ever seen.

@sikkemeister101

4 жыл бұрын

finding a lighter :)

Ah, those happy days when it all seemed so easy.

"who threw potato salad at lecture on Dada" was a great line. The point being that any self respecting Dadaist would have done the same. Dada tried to destroy the art establishment, but later was incorperated into it, very much against it's original spirit.

Neal Cassady was a Buddhist Kramer. "Jerry, you gotta have a panoramic view of this thing."

Ginsberg was a member of the North American Man/Boy Love Association.

@lisawhite6948

3 жыл бұрын

Gross!

@MarlinWilliams-ts5ul

Ай бұрын

Let that fact sink in.

This is great! Thanks. Just remember this. All of the Beats--Burroughs, Kerouac, Cassady, and Ginsberg--were also part of The Greatest Generation. Think about that. That's the "Contradiction" that you need to understand. When you understand this "Contradiction," your life will get a lot easier because of your acceptance. Only a few will understand this.

@oughtssought1198

2 жыл бұрын

I understand that "The Greatest Generation" was an obscenely extreme baited hook of History-warping media flattery

The women of the Beat Generation, although few in number, had a major impact. Diane di Prima, wrote lots of essays and 1000s of poems. I've read some of their assessments of the times and most think the men were largely misogynists and downright mean to women. See Kerouac, Burroughs and especially, Cassady. The Beat women thought Cassady, the hero of the movement, was a sociopath and dangerous.

@dollreemappmmk14

5 жыл бұрын

Bet they all sucked his cock,though. 🤣🤣🤣

@rev.jimjonesandthekool-aid4488

2 жыл бұрын

Kerouac was described as polite and a gentle lover. You s uffer from endless vic tim hood complex.

But it was more than just 'poisoning one's nervous system.' It's just that, for you, that's all you choose to see. The 40s and 50s saw the development of the 'dream of abundance,' and this eventually led to Yates' Revolutionary Road. I'm not criticising the people, it came after years of depression and war, it was only natural that what might follow was a boom for commercialism. These writers were trying to find something beyond the physical thing that they believed had taken over

Who is the lady to Cassidy’s left? Anybody know?x

If you're a fan of all things Beat and you haven't read Carolyn Cassady's book "Off the Road," you have a real treat ahead of you. You'll learn a lot about her husband Neal and so many other things you never knew.

@someonewithballs

9 жыл бұрын

LoveFlatfootin1 jack kerouac wrote that

@LoveFlatfootin1

9 жыл бұрын

someonewithballs Jack Kerouac wrote "On the Road." Carolyn Cassady wrote "Off the Road."

@ImSoAppalled777

8 жыл бұрын

+someonewithballs damn you stupid

Does anyone know what happened to the other parts of this clip? Starting from when Cassady comes in to the store.

@Shroomeryslearyfan

3 жыл бұрын

Is there video of that? I've never seen it.

@vijayvadlamani6696

3 жыл бұрын

@@Shroomeryslearyfan yes there was. It used to be on KZread. It starts with Ginsberg chanting and then a few minutes later Cassady walks in. There's even a reference to the Kesey bust and Kerouac being in Brittany.

@James523001

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I mentioned that in an earlier post myself. It was here on KZread for quite a long time.

is it possible to add subtitles? In english of course..it's quite difficult to understand what Neal's saying.. :/

@James_Bowie

4 жыл бұрын

It always was!

Neal is fucking insane, isn't he?

@rorz999

Жыл бұрын

I often wondered if he was bipolar

@frankbonarrigo6086

7 ай бұрын

Insane but brilliant

They are having a more intellectual conversation than our politicians do.

@EstraNiato

3 жыл бұрын

Fascinating , I thought politician and intellectual were opposites ;)

The bespectacled guy over Ginsberg's right shoulder looks like Ginsberg from 20 years earlier. I wonder if Allen was content to have Neal blather on and on (when others wouldn't be) purely because his love for Neal was so consuming.

Great. Thank you for posting. Does anyone know WHEN this is from (month/year? approximation?)

@QED_

8 жыл бұрын

+susaninmaine: July 18 1965.

Could folks be overthinking things?, Neal was referred to as a pill-head and I recognize a little of my own ADHD too. Neal followed cerebral writers and poets around for a good patch and I suspect it wore off. Look below at this "gibberish" rant. Some of this is in fact poetic, if you choose to consider that possibility. Well, it’s just you’ve got to get rid of the sloth, you know awful lot of skin there’s a lot of people around that are dead already may as well be dead. Free will’s a great thing. Well all the extremists all the civil rights, all the kitty anybody on any extreme on every side, that’s right. We’ve got to have a panoramic view to this thing. The earth is going to tilt a little bit, the natural catastrophes are happening everywhere, all the forms are dead. I mean uh, you can handle, say you talk to a policeman you know, all forms are known. I come in here yesterday and jump and jittery around and so it looked like I was high so I just let people think I was high. Everybody has forms, if everything’s known then the forms are changing there’s no life in the forms. Life goes where the new forms are. So you’re not going to have uh, I mean all this, this is all hind sight that you’re talking about. Its already too late, the pentagon is taking care of it all, we’re doing this deliberately as far as that goes. some Quotes from Neal Cassady during an interview with Alan Ginsberg

@jazzmanchgo

8 жыл бұрын

I sincerely believe Cassady was bipolar -- his insatiable sexuality, his tendency to "go straight" for a while (hold down the household with Carolyn and the kids, keep a straight job, etc.) and then suddenly "blow his top" and take off across the country in a car he bought on impulse, balling countless women and hustling/conning countless men along the way, certainly indicate a man in the throes of a manic episode.

@MundaSquire

7 жыл бұрын

While teaching in Africa, the village had a bunch of books in boxes that I used to start a library. Oddly, one was letters written by Cassady to his wife while he was in jail. I don't know when they were written, but there was more to him than we are seeing in this video. Maybe at this stage the life of drugs and alcohol had made him something else, but he sure seemed to have a religious perspective taken from the Catholic tradition that showed at one time he was not all gibberish in the way he expressed himself.

beautiful!

what's the song at 1:28? i can only find ginsberg reading this.

@Shroomeryslearyfan

Жыл бұрын

Hmmm, sorta sounds like The Fugs.

Have you read any interviews with Burroughs? Highly recommend. The man was intelligent.

Jerry Aronson misspelled Neal Cassady’s name.

i think of dean moriarty

These dudes were alot cooler BEFORE THE INTERNET. Babbling speed addicts shamming an entire generation

Imagine these guys seeing what their country is like now.

Sure, sure..... Finally i heard this words :D

I don't recall any of those things in the Sunflower Sutra. I would like, totally go on about how beautiful I think it to be, but you seem to just really dislike Allen Ginsberg anyway and that's perfectly okay. because you're a beautiful golden sunflower.

speaking the truth talking about phones in the 60s

They’re talking about the same issues we argue about today… this was not that long ago in the grand scheme of human history

Why thank you.

BUT BUT BUT GINSBERG'S SUNFLOWER SUTRA IS LIKE, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL, ENERGETIC, LIFE AFFIRMING THING IN THE WORLD. HE'S A GENIUS TO ME.

"Balderdash..." -- what...? Howl is - linguistically - the most extravagantly lyrical poem of the last 100 years

I think it's all the more important because they were writing about their lives. Whether morally good or evil they left a lasting testament on a sub culture of America that few today would otherwise know about had they not recorded it. You can disagree with Kerouac's hedonism and Ginsberg's sexual escapades but you shouldn't ignore them

Neal Cassady comes across like an awkward two bit hustler whos afraid his BS will be found out by a wider audience. I think Jack K. had a better commanding presence in front of the camera than Neal.

@brettbillings2987

9 жыл бұрын

TheSololobo I think he was just tweaked out on speed

Its surprising that he mentioned Kabeer of India. His effortlessly becomes transcontinental in his subject matter. Very interesting ! He later came to Calcutta to be a part of Hungry movement as well..

Who is the woman sitting next to Cassady?

Father Death Blues may be one that you would like.