Kerouac drank and had cirrhosis of liver. Opiates/opioids don't ruin your intestines, nor anything else. Burroughs was on methadone from 1980 to rest of his life, before that he was on different opiates, on and off. Ginsberg died to liver cancer and got hepatitis from India or somewhere from his journeys.
Even more amazing that he concludes his comment with a Christian quote, which demonstrates how close they were and how much he respected Kerouac as a cultural icon. Even a sober man could only wish to be so well-versed about anything during his lifetime.
Rest in Peace, Jack. You were misunderstood, taken as a spokesman when you just wanted to celebrate who we are. Sadly, all that road has given way to cloverleaves and Walmarts. It was happening when you and Neil were cruising those roads. The freedom you had was from a beautiful perspective but it was oa changing America.
So true...the counter-culture owes so much to Kerouac's incredible book, its energy was something to be felt indeed, you're one before you read it and one after, as you're one before reading '1984' and one after, and one before reading 'The Great Gatsby' and one after, I can't think of books more influential than those.
@@notimportant8736 I read Naked Lunch, I found it on a book giveaway pile at the laundry under my condo, yeah, its great, but I wouldn't put it on the same level as On the Road, that book has a weird energy around, like its magical somehow.
Many years ago in the mid-80s, while I was hitchhiking around the country, I saw these two plus Anne Waldman give a talk in Boulder, CO. Burroughs didn't say much, but when he spoke, he was brilliant.
Burroughs, Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Sidney Goldfarb, Matthews, Hughes, Robert Creeley, and many other amazing writers flocked to Boulder [I was student there in the 70s], for writers conferences and readings and teaching. Goldfarb was a professor there, he was a brilliant poet who brought them there.
I disagree that the changes these movements brought was only temporary. The Beats and the Hippies changed the course of history. It's true that most of the people involved in the Hippie/Young People movement in the sixties have sold out and in many ways, they have become worse than their fathers and grandfathers in terms of greed, lust for power as well as disregard for society, future generations and the environment. What boomer generation did when they were young, taking most of their ideas from the beats, is still having an effect today in many, many small ways, even if it does seem to be diminishing lately. For me, the best thing about the Beats and the Hippies was the art; literature, the music and the visual arts. Burroughs was smart enough to know that mankind can never achieve a real utopia and that the government will always continue to grow and further exert it's power into every aspect of our lives and that violence will always exist, so you may as well learn to defend yourself. He predicted the world as it is today. Maybe that is why he preferred the Punk movement over the Hippies. The Punks were more realistic. Other than the music scene, they weren't trying to change things so much as to point out, through art (and to some degree, lifestyle) that society is shit. It's decedent and evil. This is all a very simplistic view but at the core of things, the Hippies tried to change society through art, lifestyle and political activism. The Punks were a rebellious artistic movement.
buck mcdirt Jeezzz..You guys still exist today ? Ok just to be clear: fucking a 17 year old is not pedophilia. No wonder most genuine murikan artists would enjoy their time while being in my country. Naked lunch was firstly published in France, and we didn't make a fucking fuss about it (or anything about sexuality actually), Usa is far from being a "free" country,depends of who and what you are.... (even in 2016, no offense dude, but lots of you guys are regressive as fuck)...
Jack was one of the biggest inspirations for Bob Dylan, Hunter Thompson, Ken Kesey, Jim Morrison and more. Ever hear a great writer or artist cite Truman Capote as their biggest influence? I haven't
Great clip, Burroughs seems so sober and perfectly articulate here... He's in his 60s, and I was reading him voraciously tho I saw him as an old man (I would have been in my late teens); now he doesnt look so old in this period, but I sure feel old in many ways. Yet Im still hungry!
Kerouac has been mythologically placed on the pedestal of legend. In reality, he died a hate-filled alcoholic racist who would even go so far as burning crosses on people's lawns. I once very much admired him up until I read Gerald Nicosia's biography. A book that is considered one of the best and most complete biographies on Kerouac.
"On The Road," & "Dharma Bums" - I mean, he was bigger than politics because he was even bigger than economics! He represented FREEDOM in a conformist uptight world. You could live, somehow, without a JOB! Even if it was temporary. You could be homeless w/out being helpless or a victim...the sky was your roof! Sure, it was a little naive & too Buddhist for 1950s-60s-early 70s America, but it gave us some hope for awhile. Look what we've got now.
Yeah, you could live without a job if you got checks from your mum and if the Mexican girlfriend who you later casually abandoned picked most of the cotton and earned most of the money. You could drive across the US of A if you had no scruples about stealing a car or returning a borrowed one trashed to its rightful owner. You could even give old an old lady a gift of groceries she'd probably be horrified to accept if she knew you'd just stolen them. (All of which happen in On The Road.) Kerouac was a great writer, no question, but his characters treat people like shit then whine self-pityingly about how sad the world is.
@@eriamjr I think I read where Burroughs stole & pawned an expensive overcoat just about every day of the year to support his drug habit. No doubt about it: we're not talking Boy Scouts. BUT, they lived in a country where Japanese citizens, some of whom had sons fighting in our armed forces, were locked in internment camps. There were "Negro barracks" speaking of armed forces, and the list of pretty acute injustices from top to bottom were legitimized in the culture. Two wrongs don't make a right, but... Peace!
Mr Burroughs was on the Methadone Clinic at KU Medical Center when he was living in Lawrence, Kansas, he was a gentleman and would always sign books for us, after he was dosed he and his secretary would go Nichols Lunch and eat breakfast, he was just a great guy and very easy to talk to as long as it was about literature or politics , if people asked about drugs he would clam up and excuse himself
@@lastnamefirst4035 Well, Neal was the source. If you read On the Road, (& I think you most likely have), you know that Neal wanted Jack to teach him how to write. Instead, Neal showed Jack how to shine his light.
@@matthewatwood2581 you are right about that. Neal taught everyone alot about a little of everything and he is still teaching us today. "His words do glow with the gold of sunshine"
Fantastic little clip. Father of the Beats and "Hitman for the Apocalypse" with his disdainful, corrosive brilliance on full display. A fine and well deserved tribute to Kerouac.
As far as I know, he did. When told about Dylan being influenced by his writing, Kerouac replied, "Another fucking folk singer". I'm not sure, if Jack had actually heard a Dylan song up to that moment, and he probably was annoyed by his own fame and followers when he said that. I also believe that Kerouac often stated controversial and surprising stuff in order to confuse people (the same way Dylan did). So I guess we'll never know what he actually thought of Bob.
I read that eventually he did hear dylan, and admitted “ok, hes good”, i forget which book i read that in, i think that biography, i think written by a woman, but I’m can’t remember her name, read it twenty years ago. U know allen made him listen to dylan in 62 or 63, before jack turned on allen, allen was all about turning people on to new things.
shot his wife dead while trying to hit an apple on her head. of the eccentrics in literature, he stands out big time.I remember him speaking on Nixon .funny.
@@t-bonebigears makes sense as they were imbibing that nite. in fact, w/ out booze , it probably wouldn't have happened. just remembered he was in the film about drug addict thieves .w/ Matt Dillon, 'Drugstore Cowboy'.
@@tonym994 Great movie, Burroughs was a retired priest junkie, so he really didn't have to act just be normal, he seemed to know every drug there ever was up to that time. I wonder what he would say about oxycodine and fentanol?
What I always find fascinating about the head figures in any movement is that the head figures rarely ever want anything to do with the movement they started. Kerouac was the same. Just watched a documentary on Bob Dylan and he wanted nothing to do with it either. Its never what they mean to start out, yet we hold them in such high regard for starting it. Ironic.
Jan did die young but she most assuredly did not commit suicide. If you're going to pass judgement on a situation you only read about, at least read the informtion correctly.
"Penetrating the arab countries" is something Burroughs would know quite a bit about. Don't get me wrong, I love all the Beats, but Bill was definitley the weirdest of the group. Jack himself thought so many times during his life....read Gerald Nicosia's "Memory Babe" the definitive Kerouac biography.
@@MrResearcher122 ...What a word to use in this context. "Druggy". His "Druggy Mind". Well, thanks for letting us know that you are a pro-establishment boot-licker. Don't know why someone like you would even watch the video.
i have no idea what happened to my copy of naked lunch but i could never get through it... it reads like the ramblings of a person strung out on crank because it was.
Drugs weren’t healthy for Neal Cassady. If you count alcohol as a drug, it wasn’t good for Jack Kerouac either. They weren’t so healthy for Joan Vollmer either.
it might seem quite remarkable he quotes jesus, as he would take literary shots at christianity at times in his work, but he did originate among the upper class in the midwest bible belt.
Stereotype or not, more people knew Maynard than Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Corso, and Snyder combined Yes, Maynard WAS the most influential beatnik!
Don't forget Che Guevara was rolling in Mexico City with Fidelio around the same time period Bill and his wife met up with Kerouac. Curiouser and curiouser the longer I'm alive.
He and William Buckley have similar speech patterns. I wonder if it's a throwback to their Ivy League days or an affectation meant to sound aristocratic.
+LoveFlatfootin1 They're not trying to sound aristocratic. They were, in fact, aristocrats. Both of them from old money. Burroughs an heir to the Burroughs Business Machine fortune, which provided him a trust fund that kept him afloat in his junkie years.
+daddyoyo michael Burroughs never got a sustained trust. He bought a farm with some money at one point, other than that & Interzone he was doing his thing as a junky in the US, broke as a joke.
"The early work was in some respects promising - I refer particularly to the short stories. You were granted an area for psychic development. It seemed for a while as if you would make good use of this grant. You choose instead to sell out a talent that is not yours to sell. You have written a dull unreadable book which could have been written by any staff writer on the New Yorker - (an undercover reactionary periodical dedicated to the interests of vested American wealth)." - Burroughs to Capote.
Burroughs also claimed to have put a hex on Capote which was effective, in that Capote never published a book after that. Not only could "IN COLD BLOOD" have been written by any New Yorker staff writer (or at least one willing to witness hanging executions in Kansas) - Capote contrived some of it.
Amazing that Burroughs outlived Kerouac and Ginsberg, since he did the most drugs.
Kerouac drank and had cirrhosis of liver. Opiates/opioids don't ruin your intestines, nor anything else. Burroughs was on methadone from 1980 to rest of his life, before that he was on different opiates, on and off. Ginsberg died to liver cancer and got hepatitis from India or somewhere from his journeys.
Kinda like Keith Richards...
The longevity inspired by a nasty disposition
Even more amazing that he concludes his comment with a Christian quote, which demonstrates how close they were and how much he respected Kerouac as a cultural icon. Even a sober man could only wish to be so well-versed about anything during his lifetime.
Burroughs was a survivor. He outlived not just the other Beats but essentially everyone else.
I could watch Burroughs talking all day.
though he doesn't have the most mellifluous voice
"By their fruits not by their disclaimers"; damn!
Oh yea...that’s good
Man, Burroughs was so smart. One of my heroes, for sure.
So smart and insanely elegant and cool :)
He was a sloppy drunk; he went to a local grocery store where I lived in Florida ... he reeked of vodka.
schizophrenic..
@@barneyronnie Which helped add to his characteristic likeability 😁
"What Happened to Kerouac" (1986) is a must-see film! ♥ Nice clip.
Rest in Peace, Jack. You were misunderstood, taken as a spokesman when you just wanted to celebrate who we are. Sadly, all that road has given way to cloverleaves and Walmarts. It was happening when you and Neil were cruising those roads. The freedom you had was from a beautiful perspective but it was oa changing America.
Yes.
No
I read the book. Seemed to me that it just glorified being a worthless bum.
@@MrWadsox read The Dharma Bums first, then Desolation Angels. On The Road is not his best, IMO.
He wouldn’t mind. He was pro capitalist.
Sal Paradise's "spirit" is still alive in some modern free-thinking minds.
So true...the counter-culture owes so much to Kerouac's incredible book, its energy was something to be felt indeed, you're one before you read it and one after, as you're one before reading '1984' and one after, and one before reading 'The Great Gatsby' and one after, I can't think of books more influential than those.
Maybe Naked Lunch for simply pushing the sexual envelope.
@@notimportant8736 I read Naked Lunch, I found it on a book giveaway pile at the laundry under my condo, yeah, its great, but I wouldn't put it on the same level as On the Road, that book has a weird energy around, like its magical somehow.
❓ I'm undoubtedly going to come off as dense here, but what do you mean by "you're _one_ before you read it, and you're _one_ afterwards"?
By their fruits ye shall know them, not by their disclaimers. My god he was such a genius. Who else could make an off the cuff statement like that?
He smirked a little on that one lol
A bible freak?
Many years ago in the mid-80s, while I was hitchhiking around the country, I saw these two plus Anne Waldman give a talk in Boulder, CO. Burroughs didn't say much, but when he spoke, he was brilliant.
On some Gettysburg Adress. The guy before Abe spoke for 2 hours, what waS it that he said, it's now ,gone with the wind.
@@altagraciaadames3483 Only the good die young.
Burroughs, Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Sidney Goldfarb, Matthews, Hughes, Robert Creeley, and many other amazing writers flocked to Boulder [I was student there in the 70s], for writers conferences and readings and teaching. Goldfarb was a professor there, he was a brilliant poet who brought them there.
@@rd264 The Jack Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics
*I could listen to these two literary Giants endlessly, especially when they speak of Ti Jean Kerouac!*
Love his Junky Grin.... unmistakable
I need more like this in my recommendations
It's nice to hear Burroughs outside of his poetic character.
Jesus said "By their fruits ye shall know them...not by their disclaimers." (wry smile)
That smile sums up Burroughs personality in a nutshell!
"Not by their disclaimers" is Burroughs' phrase.
I love William Burroughs!
Love his voice!
Hearing Burroughs speak really makes me believe the claim that Dale Gribble's voice was inspired by him.
How can someone so unconventional and eccentric look so utterly normal?
Easily, he was born a rich WASP.
love Burroughs
Burroughs the coolest of the cool.
I disagree that the changes these movements brought was only temporary. The Beats and the Hippies changed the course of history. It's true that most of the people involved in the Hippie/Young People movement in the sixties have sold out and in many ways, they have become worse than their fathers and grandfathers in terms of greed, lust for power as well as disregard for society, future generations and the environment. What boomer generation did when they were young, taking most of their ideas from the beats, is still having an effect today in many, many small ways, even if it does seem to be diminishing lately. For me, the best thing about the Beats and the Hippies was the art; literature, the music and the visual arts.
Burroughs was smart enough to know that mankind can never achieve a real utopia and that the government will always continue to grow and further exert it's power into every aspect of our lives and that violence will always exist, so you may as well learn to defend yourself. He predicted the world as it is today. Maybe that is why he preferred the Punk movement over the Hippies. The Punks were more realistic. Other than the music scene, they weren't trying to change things so much as to point out, through art (and to some degree, lifestyle) that society is shit. It's decedent and evil. This is all a very simplistic view but at the core of things, the Hippies tried to change society through art, lifestyle and political activism. The Punks were a rebellious artistic movement.
you're a little bit too stereotypical in your approach man... Jesus my Lord...
we're living in the world of naked lunch now, basically, right down to the islam problem (i'll repeat that, problem).
Coolest of the cool? Well, maybe apart from the fact that he killed his wife and was a pedophile.
buck mcdirt Jeezzz..You guys still exist today ? Ok just to be clear: fucking a 17 year old is not pedophilia. No wonder most genuine murikan artists would enjoy their time while being in my country. Naked lunch was firstly published in France, and we didn't make a fucking fuss about it (or anything about sexuality actually), Usa is far from being a "free" country,depends of who and what you are.... (even in 2016, no offense dude, but lots of you guys are regressive as fuck)...
Jack was one of the biggest inspirations for Bob Dylan, Hunter Thompson, Ken Kesey, Jim Morrison and more. Ever hear a great writer or artist cite Truman Capote as their biggest influence? I haven't
Who gives a shit? What ax do you have to grind with Capote?
AOB
He famously insulted Kerouac, dummy.
buck mcdirt You'd think Capote insulted you...
You'd think you were Capote with the umbrage you're taking... anyway, more aware posters will understand the reference.
insulted kerouac and proceeded to get himself more n more forgotten....
Great clip, Burroughs seems so sober and perfectly articulate here... He's in his 60s, and I was reading him voraciously tho I saw him as an old man (I would have been in my late teens); now he doesnt look so old in this period, but I sure feel old in many ways. Yet Im still hungry!
It’s awesome that you never lost your hunger, my friend. Exploring our passions is the key to a fulfilling life.
Burroughs didn't drink like Kerouac.That's what killed Jack, no question.
Burroughs always my favourite of the bests. Razor whit
Naked Lunch was one of the creepiest yet most intriguing book I have ever read
The Bunker on the Bowery, bull's last home in nyc
Try Soft Machine next!
Heroin, the book
Couldn't get through the reading of it as was reviled by the Gay sexual taboo sex practices. But I do love Burroughs', Drugstore Cowboy, anybody?
@@michaelgreen5206 hey fuck you
Jack Kerouac is in my Family Tree .
Very cool .!
Never seen this before. Thank you!
You're welcome
Kerouac has been mythologically placed on the pedestal of legend. In reality, he died a hate-filled alcoholic racist who would even go so far as burning crosses on people's lawns. I once very much admired him up until I read Gerald Nicosia's biography. A book that is considered one of the best and most complete biographies on Kerouac.
Gibberish
b was so very eloquent
"On The Road," & "Dharma Bums" - I mean, he was bigger than politics because he was even bigger than economics! He represented FREEDOM in a conformist uptight world. You could live, somehow, without a JOB! Even if it was temporary. You could be homeless w/out being helpless or a victim...the sky was your roof! Sure, it was a little naive & too Buddhist for 1950s-60s-early 70s America, but it gave us some hope for awhile. Look what we've got now.
Yeah, you could live without a job if you got checks from your mum and if the Mexican girlfriend who you later casually abandoned picked most of the cotton and earned most of the money. You could drive across the US of A if you had no scruples about stealing a car or returning a borrowed one trashed to its rightful owner. You could even give old an old lady a gift of groceries she'd probably be horrified to accept if she knew you'd just stolen them. (All of which happen in On The Road.) Kerouac was a great writer, no question, but his characters treat people like shit then whine self-pityingly about how sad the world is.
@@eriamjr I think I read where Burroughs stole & pawned an expensive overcoat just about every day of the year to support his drug habit. No doubt about it: we're not talking Boy Scouts. BUT, they lived in a country where Japanese citizens, some of whom had sons fighting in our armed forces, were locked in internment camps. There were "Negro barracks" speaking of armed forces, and the list of pretty acute injustices from top to bottom were legitimized in the culture. Two wrongs don't make a right, but... Peace!
Mr Burroughs was on the Methadone Clinic at KU Medical Center when he was living in Lawrence, Kansas, he was a gentleman and would always sign books for us, after he was dosed he and his secretary would go Nichols Lunch and eat breakfast, he was just a great guy and very easy to talk to as long as it was about literature or politics , if people asked about drugs he would clam up and excuse himself
The Beat movement is a ripple in still water, with no pebble tossed nor wind to blow.
Eh, more like a hippie grateful dead thing
@@lastnamefirst4035 Or a Neal Cassidy thing.
@@matthewatwood2581 and robert hunter, for he had the words
@@lastnamefirst4035 Well, Neal was the source. If you read On the Road, (& I think you most likely have), you know that Neal wanted Jack to teach him how to write. Instead, Neal showed Jack how to shine his light.
@@matthewatwood2581 you are right about that. Neal taught everyone alot about a little of everything and he is still teaching us today. "His words do glow with the gold of sunshine"
It's wild to me that Burroughs lived till his late 80s and was a dope fiend, Kerouac drank himself to death at what, 47? Goes to show...
Fantastic little clip. Father of the Beats and "Hitman for the Apocalypse" with his disdainful, corrosive brilliance on full display. A fine and well deserved tribute to Kerouac.
Thanks for the praise/validation
His scenes in the Matt Dillon movie "Drugstore Cowboy " are unforgettable.
Yes , they are. I love his Southern drawl.
Cool to see him young and healthy.
As far as I know, he did. When told about Dylan being influenced by his writing, Kerouac replied, "Another fucking folk singer". I'm not sure, if Jack had actually heard a Dylan song up to that moment, and he probably was annoyed by his own fame and followers when he said that. I also believe that Kerouac often stated controversial and surprising stuff in order to confuse people (the same way Dylan did). So I guess we'll never know what he actually thought of Bob.
He was smashed.
I read that eventually he did hear dylan, and admitted “ok, hes good”, i forget which book i read that in, i think that biography, i think written by a woman, but I’m can’t remember her name, read it twenty years ago. U know allen made him listen to dylan in 62 or 63, before jack turned on allen, allen was all about turning people on to new things.
Dylan is a folk singer, so he ain't wrong.
JACK Kerouac was a Conservative Republican who inspired a democratic hippie revolution, that is eternal irony 🙄 🤔 🤣 😆 😜 😉 🙄 🤔
You can see he's a dangerous man for looking at his eyes.
eyes like Van Gogh actually....
By their fruits you shall know them ♥️
What exactly are their fruits?
their results, their works, deeds. @@elkar92
Wondrous mind, Bill!
shot his wife dead while trying to hit an apple on her head. of the eccentrics in literature, he stands out big time.I remember him speaking on Nixon .funny.
It was a shot glass..
I think is was said to be a drink.
@@t-bonebigears makes sense as they were imbibing that nite. in fact, w/ out booze , it probably wouldn't have happened. just remembered he was in the film about drug addict thieves .w/ Matt Dillon, 'Drugstore Cowboy'.
@@tonym994 Great movie, Burroughs was a retired priest junkie, so he really didn't have to act just be normal, he seemed to know every drug there ever was up to that time. I wonder what he would say about oxycodine and fentanol?
@@t-bonebigears that's a good question. all I know is that it'd be said slowly.
Bowles , the Grandfather of the Beats outlived them all.
the Beats is a diminutive perjorative Establishment media tag - I hate that tag. Its such a put down.
ua-cam.com/video/K2tgZCabTzs/v-deo.html I just returned from Tangier ... the Beat myth lingers there.@@rd264 ua-cam.com/video/naAvLequxCk/v-deo.html
I've only ever read 1 book by Jack Kerouac. So you see my life hasn't been a complete waste of time after all.
My Father was a Beatnik, 50's San Francisco Coffee Shop's....
You can see the intelligence in his eyes
You might not know but the lead singer of the stone temple pilots Scott Weiland loved William very much.
the coolest guy ever, he was in lecumberry jail here in Mexico
Kerouac is immortal.
Daniel Anduze and cliche as well as overrated.
Yes
@@chrisconley8583 I could never come to terms with the idea of cliche. With your nonsensical logic calling something cliche has become cliche.
@@bboyafro1 such an edgy retort and well,... very cliche of you.
@@chrisconley8583 Is being alive cliche?
Burroughs fully appreciated Kerouac -quite a contrast to the media and Establishment flunkies who obviously feared Kerouac and put him down .
this is awesome.
What I always find fascinating about the head figures in any movement is that the head figures rarely ever want anything to do with the movement they started. Kerouac was the same. Just watched a documentary on Bob Dylan and he wanted nothing to do with it either. Its never what they mean to start out, yet we hold them in such high regard for starting it. Ironic.
My sense is they recognized the labels acted as shelf life dates and wanted to stay relevant past the movements they started.
The inventor of "cut and paste". "Literary Outlaw" by Ted Morgan, essential reading.
"What do you think of sex on drugs?" "Ya got any drugs?"
love his accent
That's my boy.
He was great in the film “Drugstore Cowboy.”
Jan did die young but she most assuredly did not commit suicide. If you're going to pass judgement on a situation you only read about, at least read the informtion correctly.
True, according to wikipedia she died after surgery.
Kidney failure; she was a dear friend ...
LOL Bill Burroughs never could pass up the opportunity, no matter how unlikely, to wax poetic about Arabs.
esp. penetrating such.
"Penetrating the arab countries" is something Burroughs would know quite a bit about. Don't get me wrong, I love all the Beats, but Bill was definitley the weirdest of the group. Jack himself thought so many times during his life....read Gerald Nicosia's "Memory Babe" the definitive Kerouac biography.
That verb-penetrate- had erotic connotations. It might have leapt on his tongue as an image of his Tangiers days flashed on his druggy mind.
@@MrResearcher122 ...What a word to use in this context. "Druggy". His "Druggy Mind".
Well, thanks for letting us know that you are a pro-establishment boot-licker. Don't know why someone like you would even watch the video.
Have a postcard from this great man....
i have no idea what happened to my copy of naked lunch but i could never get through it... it reads like the ramblings of a person strung out on crank because it was.
same.and i've read Joyce. Beckett told Burroughs that what he did wasnt really writing.
You make good points .
I hope Florida and Texas do not ban his books 📚 from libraries and schools. 😢
The book started it.
What a man,
The only "Satori" Jack ever had, was hitting his eye on a bottle of Scotch. Oh poor Jean!
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom...You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough." - William Blake
Drugs weren’t healthy for Neal Cassady. If you count alcohol as a drug, it wasn’t good for Jack Kerouac either. They weren’t so healthy for Joan Vollmer either.
Why am i grinding my teeth watching this? I feel itchy!
it might seem quite remarkable he quotes jesus, as he would take literary shots at christianity at times in his work, but he did originate among the upper class in the midwest bible belt.
The most influential beatnik was Maynard G. Krebs.
Bullshit, Krebs was just a TV stereotype.
Stereotype or not, more people knew Maynard than Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Corso, and Snyder combined Yes, Maynard WAS the most influential beatnik!
Being known isn't the same as being influential, in fact there's probably an inverse relationship to some extent.
Only in the stupid way that Giligan was influential, but it is a good joke - “Work!”
Oswald Bates was the originator - - - ua-cam.com/video/9ROOi5xagxg/v-deo.html
I'm sure the beats, two of whom I have met, would be very impressed with your advert inclusion. How tawdry!
Brilliant.
herion either kills you quick or makes you live to become an ancient
"By their fruits you shall know them" - Jesus was talking about false prophets. Was Burroughs knowingly doing the same?
No, buy there fruits means by their deeds, the use of disclaimers is only an attempt at humour.
Yes, of course I know what it means. I just wondered if it was a pointed reference, given its biblical context.
Uhhh, context . . .
Watch this at half speed!
When i see this man i think of talking posteriors
"always room for one more"_______ BB
Burroughs and his young boys
Man, Burroughs is brilliant. No, *is.*
254 subs. 364 thousand views. Now that's exposure.
many decades after the drugs had taken hold.
Although he may have been on a drug holiday (which for him meant weed an no booze until 5PM.)
Yes
Don't forget Che Guevara was rolling in Mexico City with Fidelio around the same time period Bill and his wife met
up with Kerouac. Curiouser and curiouser the longer I'm alive.
He and William Buckley have similar speech patterns. I wonder if it's a throwback to their Ivy League days or an affectation meant to sound aristocratic.
isnt it fun to sound aristocratic though?
It's a lot better than sounding like a "valley girl."
+LoveFlatfootin1 very patrician.
+LoveFlatfootin1 They're not trying to sound aristocratic. They were, in fact, aristocrats. Both of them from old money. Burroughs an heir to the Burroughs Business Machine fortune, which provided him a trust fund that kept him afloat in his junkie years.
+daddyoyo michael Burroughs never got a sustained trust. He bought a farm with some money at one point, other than that & Interzone he was doing his thing as a junky in the US, broke as a joke.
A documentary about Keruoac I can't remember the name. Gregory Corso says some HILARIOUS shit on it though it came out about 1994
For reals?!? Kerouac loved to say he was the creator of the movement.
The movement came full when Kurt Cobain stepped into Burroughs orgone box.
I once believed in the purity of literature.
And the one who influenced them all was Lucien Carr
Herbert Hunke
Lucian Carr, Hal Chase, Huncke....even Cannastra. Good point Shourya.
"Lou was the glue."
"That's not writing, that's typing" Capote on Kerouac.
"Capote can suck a lemon." - Me
hahahaha fair enough.
"The early work was in some respects promising - I refer particularly to the short stories. You were granted an area for psychic development. It seemed for a while as if you would make good use of this grant. You choose instead to sell out a talent that is not yours to sell. You have written a dull unreadable book which could have been written by any staff writer on the New Yorker - (an undercover reactionary periodical dedicated to the interests of vested American wealth)." - Burroughs to Capote.
Burroughs also claimed to have put a hex on Capote which was effective, in that Capote never published a book after that. Not only could "IN COLD BLOOD" have been written by any New Yorker staff writer (or at least one willing to witness hanging executions in Kansas) - Capote contrived some of it.
I'd like to tell Capote, "I've read all of Jack's books and one of yours."
Anyone who is beat will never be political
yeah i am! that's why i asked, sounds like somewhere bill burroughs would've loved...
Jesus loves you
“They got the
Steely Dan Tee shirts”
Burroughs quoting Christ: Why not?
Smart man.
reminds me of Dr.William Pierce
Which beats were lovers? I know Burroughs and Ginsberg were. What about Kerouac? Cassidy?
Cassady shagged everyone but kerouac, men and women alike.
@@davidtingley9978 thx
@@davidtingley9978 did kerouac sleep w any men?
Gay?
@@barneyronnie no
I’m not sure I’m going to take the opinion of a guy who shot his wife in the head.