“I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.”
Mixtape January 2021 featured a number of poetry readings placed to music, including readings by Beat writers Allen Ginsberg & Jack Kerouac, which I remixed to music by Calexico from Feast of Wire (2003) and Hot Rail (2001).
https://t.co/QJAfxnXLB8
Kerouac knew that he wanted to be a writer by the time he finished high school, so he used to skip classes at @Columbia so he could stay in his room and write. #Kerouac101#JackKerouac#beatgeneration#beatpoetry https://t.co/Pc4RIjy4Fq
He had some marginal passing respect for Ginsberg, but also talked a lot of shit about him, hated Kerouac, had no interest at all in Burroughs. He did like Neal, though, after meeting him one night and realizing he was perhaps the only genuine Beat.
People often make the mistake of thinking Bukowski was a Beat despite the fact that he didn’t like the Beats, didn’t associate with them, and would never have considered himself one, nor would they have counted him as one.
“They’ll compare me to the Beat Generation: Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso. But they were very different. They preferred jazz while I prefer classical music. Drugs fascinated them; I drink cheap beer.”
~ Charles Bukowski
"Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now."
Jack Kerouac on kindness and the self illusion, in a beautiful letter to his first wife turned lifelong friend https://t.co/ZprJn5qWi8
In 1974, Chögyam Trungpa founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, CO (now Naropa University), along with Anne Waldman, #AllenGinsberg, and others. #Kerouac101#BeatPoetry@NaropaU#beatgeneration https://t.co/bKeEvG7agp
This is your chance to get Charles Bukowski and Ray Bradbury’s high school yearbook at a ridiculous price (please don’t buy it though so I can keep it): https://t.co/4Lo2STTN9n