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Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 11:46 am Post subject:
pianowillbebach wrote:
I never knew this recording existed! Thanks for sharing!
You are welcome friend.
I had an interest in "beatnik" culture in the early '60's, before the filthy hippie era. On weekends we would slip away to Greenwich Village to hangout at coffee houses, smoke pot and troll for women. I wish I could do that today? Those were fun days with sawdust on the floor. In those days I keep a paperback copy of Kerouac's " On The Road" in my pants pocket.
FYI, Something they don't tell you on college campuses. Jack Kerouac was a right winger and conservative. Ferlinghetti on the other hand was a jealous little man who was nothing ever when he was something. Every kid who came to San Fransico wanted to be published by that jerk. And he would use them and abuse them pretending to want to publish them in his little poet series, big deal?
Beat Generation icon Jack Kerouac was more than well-acquainted with heavy drinking. The writer was already famous when he moved to Northport, New York in 1958. The New York Times writes that there, “the locals remember him mainly as a broke barfly who padded about barefoot or in bedroom slippers.” His favorite tipple was a margarita, margarita cocktail with lime and mint, and he was a great fan of tequila. And how much did Kerouac like his booze? He once said: “I’m Catholic and I can’t commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.” Eventually, Kerouac died out of cirrhosis of the liver, in 1969.
"Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road."
Jack Kerouac in New York (1958)
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