patti smith and bob dylan on stage
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Beatniks were artists and writers who started a literature-based sociocultural movement in 1950s America. This Tumblr is all about them, their work, their inspirations, and those they inspired. I also include the evolution of faux beat culture into a 1950s pop trend as well as how the beatniks' influence continues today. I apologize for any reposts; it's difficult to remember what I have and have not shared.
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Neal Cassady & I went upstairs to attic at Millbrook estate Castalia Foundation big house where Timothy Leary and friends were then experimenting with DMT, a half hour trip - here Neal resting eyes closed with Millbrook lady friend (Susan Metzner, wife of Dr Ralph Metzner) in charge of holding the vile of liquid psychedelica. I’d driven upstate from New York City with Ken Kesey & Merry Pranksters in their day glo painted bus recently arrived East crosscountry from California, Neal at the wheel, Fall 1964.
c. Allen Ginsberg Estate
“Poet Joanne Kyger in mirror, her husband Gary Snyder with notebook Peter Orlovsky eating sweetcake, we stopped at chai-wallah’s stand in hill countryside, maybe near Almora or Kausani or small railroad stop waiting train on Pilgrimage to ancient Buddhist sites, India February 1962.”
(Source: duluoz-legend)
(Source: duluoz-legend)
Peter Orlovsky on the Howrah Bridge that spans the Hooghly River (Ganges), Calcutta, Summer 1962. c. Allen Ginsberg Estate.
(Source: thetastedictatorship)
William Burroughs & Peter Orlovsky, Tangier, Morocco, Spring 1957. c. Allen Ginsberg Estate.
“Ginsberg with Barbara Rubin, Allen’s 39th birthday party, Barry Miles’ apartment, London, June 3, 1965. Miles had organised the party, since Allen was staying at his place already. As the story goes John Lennon and George Harrison stopped by round midnight to find a naked Ginsberg with a do-not-disturb sign tied to his penis.”
