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fuck yeah beatniks

February 2012

30 posts

“Isn’t it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything...”

– Jack Kerouac - On the Road (via theselittlewhitelies)

Daniel Radcliffe told not to trim his pubic hair... →

Mildly belated but nevertheless severely important news.

Anonymous asked: How important was Buddhism to beat culture?

“Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no...”

– Alan Watts (via madaeli26)

Anonymous asked: You must have had an interesting time in high school if you spend this much time researching beats.

Geometry by Ken Kesey

void-of-self-loathing: If you draw a line Precisely safe and parallel to mine, We can sail together Clear on past the stars And never meet. And since the holes between These points of distant heat Are deep and blind, Sight a course for collision And hang on tight! …the precision of our loving Is the lethal kind.

Anonymous asked: I have to come up with a thesis for history on a subject that interests me- I decided to do the Beat Generation. I just need to come up with a cool idea for it. I was thinking of doing one on how the Beats influenced subsequent youth generations (beatniks, hippies, punks, Naropa), but I don't know. I want to talk about all the cool history- like the Columbia years and time on the road, etc....

“Every time I saw him, I thought he was riveting and that he established a kind...”

– Joyce Johnson on Allen Ginsberg (via fuckyeahbeatgeneration)

“I am fifty-two, live alone, considered some mad freak genius  In reality I am a...”

– from “Chasing Kerouac’s Shadow,” Jack Micheline

“We are in the middle of a bloody, heartrending revolution Called America,...”

– from Rant, from a Cool Place by Diane di Prima (via fuckyeahbeatgeneration)

the-mitch-of-living: Words by Hettie Jones are keys or stanchions or stones I give you my word You pocket it and keep the change Here is a word on the tip of my tounge:love I hold it close though it dreams of leaving

January 2012

41 posts

Anonymous asked: This is likely an odd question, but I'm working on an art piece of my favorite authors and I want to include Kerouac. What was his eye color?

Challenges to Young Poets by Lawrence Ferlinghetti →

milf-island: Invent a new language anyone can understand. Climb the Statue of Liberty. Reach for the unattainable. Kiss the mirror and write what you see and hear. Dance with wolves and count the stars, including the unseen. Be naïve, innocent, non-cynical, as if you had just landed on earth (as indeed…

Anonymous asked: Can you share your thesis for your "Jews and Buddhism" paper?

“We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought...”

– Jack Kerouac (via iamapatientboy)

somucholderthen asked: Hi. Noticed the request from the anon about posting more women. Some good resources to learn more about female beat writers and key women players in the beat generation are "Breaking the Rule of Cool" and "Girls who Wore Black." Books by Ronna Johnson and Nancy Grace. They explore work by Joyce Johnson, Diane Diprima, and Hettie Jones (the more well known). And include others-...

Anonymous asked: Can you post more women please?

It appears you all are torn about half and half about the casting of Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg. For the handful of people who have asked my personal opinion, I will say that, with all honesty, I can’t judge until clips or reviews arrive. When I think of an actor to play Ginsberg, “Daniel Radcliffe” would probably never come to mind for me, but he may prove himself as...

Daniel Radcliffe defends casting as poet Allen... →

alesiakaye: Daniel Radcliffe says he has prepared a defence against people who criticise his casting as US poet Allen Ginsberg. The writer was famously unkempt with an unruly beard - a very different look to the clean-shaven Harry Potter star. But Radcliffe said he had no qualms about his looks after James Franco portrayed Ginsberg in 2010’s Howl. He told the BBC: “Any criticism of me not...