crazy dumbsaints, mad ones, and dharma bums.
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn. . ."
Jul 20, 2007
So - who all will be at the Jack Kerouac festival? I'll be there for …
So - who all will be at the Jack Kerouac festival? I'll be there for the big gala event on July 1. So excited.
I can't tell you how many times these have inspired me. I'm posting …
I can't tell you how many times these have inspired me. I'm posting them here in the hopes that maybe they'll inspire you, too. JACK KEROUAC'S BELIEF & TECHNIQUE FOR MODERN PROSE LIST OF ESSENTIALS 1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy 2. Submissive to everything, open, listening 3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house 4. Be in love with yr life 5. Something that you feel will find its own form 6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind 7. Blow as deep as you want to blow 8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of mind 9. The unspeakable visions of the individual 10. No time for poetry but exactly what is 11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest 12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you 13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition 14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time 15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog 16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye 17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself 18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea 19. Accept loss forever 20. Believe in the holy contour of life 21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind 22. Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better 23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning 24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge 25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it 26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form 27. In Praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness 28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better 29. Youre a Genius all the time 30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of "On The …
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of "On The Road." I re-read it recently and loved it again. Below is a like to a YOUTUBE post of Kerouac's appearence on the Steve Allen show in 1959. I'm happy to be a member of this group. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBILjdzpzU
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A group for fans of Jack Kerouac, and, to a lesser extent, any writers of the Beat Generation. Tell us your favorite Kerouac quotes, share any Kerouac-like moments you've had. Share your beat-inspired prose and poetry (or even photographs and music). The only rules for this group are: be open-minded and kind, please. Anyone who makes nasty comments to anyone else will be promptly kicked out of the community. Other than that, there are no rules. Blow as deep as you want to blow.
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