The dislike was the guy who's jacket he stole...

The Jack Keruac delivery..the ol slouch hat!

King of the beats!

God, I love this. You can really visualize everything in your mind while he's reading. Gotta love Jack

@ethanhill9460

4 жыл бұрын

That's a function of specificity of writing. This is a poetic journalism. Specific mention of NYC collegiate clubs juxtaposed with the BOWERY. His mention of drug cures for drug addiction in an old style REHAB is great. The shoplifting journalism is even greater. His jail stays are as specific as the above mentioned material. JK was a decent writer. FACTS. And enough facts to allow the reader to slip the yoke of disbelief and enjoy the entertainment.

Jack had some comedy in him

A great descendant of the romantic poets and the prose masters. His humor and irony. Hidden sarcasm. Total joy listening to him. I found myself in his words. Thank you, ol' brother. Everybody needs to read Visions of Gerard. And Old Angel Midnigbt. His two very best. Much love to all you poets and lovers and enjoyers of life. Those whole blood runs through the Cosmos. Your buddy, Geo. ❤❤❤

@robinshumaker7412

9 ай бұрын

Doctor Sax is an amazing read as well. People always talk about how he was influenced by jazz, but in this book it is clear that he was smote by James Joyce & others as well. His word-play is exceptional.

Saint Jack

Miss You Jack

Thanks so much for posting this

The guy was so beat, like the beatitudes, like Japhy Ryder and The Dharma Bums of Berkeley, working in the old Southern Pacific rail yards with Dean Moriarty, who was beat in his own Denver way chasing his sad, tragic old man around and through the dive bars down on Larimer Street, beat old cowboys with dungarees hanging from slim hips. I saw him once, man, in a vision under the Chinese lights of old Reno, Virginia Street above the Truckee river, and he was gone, solid gone.

@tqnews2

6 жыл бұрын

Thousands of young men altered the way in which they carried themselves in the years after 1957. I had already read "The Town and the Ciry" and had accepted him as a sort of successor to Thomas Wolfe. Then came the 60's and the work poured out of him like a fountain. I spent years trying to discipline myself to take notes as I went, like he did, but the best I could achieve was to do my best to store everything in memory. I must not have done to badly, because one of my friends, before he died, called me "Memory Babe" too. A wonderful compliment. I thank John Sampas for the work he has done in gathering and publishing every scrap of work that came from this man's wonderful mind. The range of what we have available is as wide-ranging as for any other American literary giant. As I aged, I've been more enamoured of his poetry, but there isn't much, if anything, to not like.

@leegregory5403

3 жыл бұрын

@@tqnews2 Inspired by you for you. Still your memory. Of you for you. Wow 1957 all over again. Go.

@ciril6904

2 ай бұрын

I'm in Midtown Reno, I'm going to take a couple L-Tabs and go down to the T-River and see I can see him

@bobphillips3222

2 ай бұрын

@@ciril6904 I dig where you are coming from, man. I lived in Reno for 7 years, 69-76. Trippy Virginia Street with its psychedelic neon. The Mapes Hotel, Jesse Beck's Riverside. Gone now, I guess. Biggest Little City in The World, the lighted archway proclaimed. Maybe not so little now, huh? Peace.

He was a good lyricist

gold gold gold audio!

Can't wait to meet you on the other side

Tomorrow is a draaaaaaggg

I Feel like Everyone has Something Close to The Slouched Hat

💕💕💕

I agree, he's a very visual oriented artist. The ability to convery pictures/images with his words. Now I'm going to have to check out Jack's poetry.

This is from visions of Neil I believe so this is a story from Neil cassady is why it does not feel like jacks life

This sounds like a nod to WS Burroughs. Reminiscent of that ol junk man

@ofaestival

3 жыл бұрын

Junkie boy

Morphine Gods Own Medicine...

Is he reading Burroughs?

@ofaestival

3 жыл бұрын

I think it is from Dharma Bums

@mark-c802

2 жыл бұрын

It's probly Visions of Cody, but not Dharma Bums which I just finished...again...🎶🌀🌏

Great writing but was Jack really a thief? or is he just riffing

@CptEtgar

2 жыл бұрын

good question. was Ginsburg a pedophile?

@eirikragnarsson2223

7 ай бұрын

I'm guessing he really stole the coat as his follow-up attempt landed him in the slammer, which he described convincingly