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Notes: 41 / 1 year ago"We had finally found the magic land at the end of the road and we never dreamed the extent of the magic."
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Notes: 198 / 1 year ago from billyjane"There’s a language, I think it’s called Mescalero, in which verbs don’t change tenses.There’s no future or past tense in that language. I was thinking…..if we could learn that language,we could live longer…"-
from Ca.Blues,1981 by Milan Oklopdžić [Mika Oklop]
[translation mine]
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Notes: 89 / 1 year ago from bookmarklet
„Neal Cassady and I went upstairs to Attic at Millbrook Castalia Foundation League for Spiritual Discovery, Leary’s group then experimenting with half-hour trip of D.M.T. Here’s Neal resting eyes closed with Mrs. Metzner who was in charge of the vial of liquid psychedelic Di-Methyl-Tryptamine. We’d driven upstate New York from the city, Neal at wheel, in Ken Kesey’s Merry Prankster’s bus newly arrived in the Apple on crosscountry hegira during Presidential, Fall 1964.”
from grisebach
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Notes: 87 / 2 years ago from bookmarklet
William S. Burroughs looking serious, sad lover’s eyes, afternoon light in window, cover of just-published Junkie propped in shadow above right shoulder, Japanese kite against Lower East Side hot water flat’s old wallpaper. He’d come up from South America & Mexico to stay with me editing Yage Letters and Queer manuscripts. New York Fall 1953.
via PAS UN AUTRE
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Notes: 23 / 2 years ago
All you ever wanted for Christmas must be William S. Burroughs reading The Junky’s Christmas, right?
[Burroughs takes down a book and reads us the story of Danny the Carwiper, who spends Christmas Day trying to score a fix, but finds the Christmas spirit instead.
Francis Ford Coppola produced this short Claymation film based on William S. Burroughs excellent story The Junky’s Christmas. Directed by Nick Donkin and Melodie McDaniel, it opens with live action footage of Burroughs as he begins his tale]
caption from ubuweb
In other news, since I was born and raised as an Orthodox, I should mention the fact that we celebrate Christmas on January 7th , but i still feel obliged to thank again to some of you for your kind messages i got today;]
Sooo…..Have a Merry Christmas Tumblr!
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Notes: 33 / 2 years ago
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Notes: 18 / 2 years ago
![“They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I’ve been doing all my life after people who interest me, because 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 that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn…”
Jack Kerouac reading a Passage from “On The Road ” February 15, 1959
[photo by Fred W.McDarrah]
via Beat Generation: Glory Days in Greenwich Village
[more Kerouac here]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7aafu2n5M1qztk1wo1_500.jpg)
“They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I’ve been doing all my life after people who interest me, because 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 that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn…”
Jack Kerouac reading a Passage from “On The Road ” February 15, 1959
[photo by Fred W.McDarrah]
via Beat Generation: Glory Days in Greenwich Village
[more Kerouac here]
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Notes: 21 / 2 years ago
“Bob Dylan in America,” by the historian Sean Wilentz, will be published in September by Doubleday.
Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Barbara Rubin, Bob Dylan, and Daniel Kramer backstage at McCarter Theater, in Princeton, New Jersey, September, 1964. © Daniel Kramer.
from The Allen Ginsberg Project & The New Yorker -
Notes: 198 / 2 years ago"There’s a language, I think it’s called Mescalero, in which verbs don’t change tenses.There’s no future or past tense in that language. I was thinking…..if we could learn that language,we could live longer…"-
from Ca.Blues,1981 by Milan Oklopdžić [Mika Oklop]
[translation mine]
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Notes: 74 / 2 years ago from i12bent
i12bent:Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 - 1997) was one of the best American poets to “follow Walt Whitman’s beard…”
Ginsberg’s role in the Beat Generation and subsequently in the counterculture of the 60s and 70s was incomperable. His consistently confessional and political poetry will stand among the best of the 20th C.
In Back of the Real
railroad yard in San Jose
I wandered desolate
in front of a tank factory
and sat on a bench
near the switchman’s shack.
A flower lay on the hay on
the asphalt highway
—the dread hay flower
I thought—It had a
brittle black stem and
corolla of yellowish dirty
spikes like Jesus’ inchlong
crown, and a soiled
dry center cotton tuft
like a used shaving brush
that’s been lying under
the garage for a year.
Yellow, yellow flower, and
flower of industry,
tough spiky ugly flower,
flower nonetheless,
with the form of the great yellow
Rose in your brain!
This is the flower of the World.
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Notes: 12 / 3 years ago from bookmarklet
Signed and dated by Allen Ginsberg, 5/29/88
Excerpts from early Ginsberg letters to Kerouac and from journal entries written in the late 1940’s.
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Notes: 37 / 3 years ago from bookmarklet
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Notes: 18 / 3 years ago from bookmarklet
![Happy Birthday dear Jack!
[March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969]
Jack Kerouac on visit to Manhattan, last time he stopped at my apartment 704 East 5th Street, Lower East Side, he then looked like his father, corpulent red-faced W.C. Fields yawning with mortal horror, eyes closed a moment on D.M.T. visions - I’d brought some back from Millbrook where I’d recently been with Neal Cassady in Kesey’s bus, Pre-election 1964 Fall.[Ginsberg’s original caption]
from Allen Ginsberg Project
[more Kerouac here;]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz6cp7AJn41qztk1wo1_500.jpg)
Happy Birthday dear Jack!
[March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969]
Jack Kerouac on visit to Manhattan, last time he stopped at my apartment 704 East 5th Street, Lower East Side, he then looked like his father, corpulent red-faced W.C. Fields yawning with mortal horror, eyes closed a moment on D.M.T. visions - I’d brought some back from Millbrook where I’d recently been with Neal Cassady in Kesey’s bus, Pre-election 1964 Fall.[Ginsberg’s original caption]
[more Kerouac here;]
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Notes: 11 / 3 years ago from bookmarklet
![Elsa Dorfman should be famous for all of her Allen Ginsberg portraits
[some are featured here;]
Allen always had a sense of what makes a picture work. As a subject he instinctively helped photographers get what they wanted. He could concentrate and relax at the same time. he could be THERE in front of the lens. Loss of consciousness. No self-consciousness. No reticense. Vanity reined in by a sense of, yes, STYLE. He could pull together tiny details—a Buddha, a flower, a book, a postcard, a microphone, the right tie (and in the old days, the right political button on his overalls and the right beads) that would anchor the photograph in its hour. The gesture Allen came up with was always very specific and it was always the right one. I felt Allen did my job for me.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyfbkcr3Zf1qztk1wo1_500.jpg)
Elsa Dorfman should be famous for all of her Allen Ginsberg portraits
[some are featured here;]
Allen always had a sense of what makes a picture work. As a subject he instinctively helped photographers get what they wanted. He could concentrate and relax at the same time. he could be THERE in front of the lens. Loss of consciousness. No self-consciousness. No reticense. Vanity reined in by a sense of, yes, STYLE. He could pull together tiny details—a Buddha, a flower, a book, a postcard, a microphone, the right tie (and in the old days, the right political button on his overalls and the right beads) that would anchor the photograph in its hour. The gesture Allen came up with was always very specific and it was always the right one. I felt Allen did my job for me.
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Notes: 38 / 3 years ago from bookmarklet
![Allen GinsbergJack Kerouac wandering along East 7th street after visiting Burroughs at our pad, passing statue of Congressman Samuel “Sunset” Cot, “The letter - carrier’s Friend” in Tompkins Square toward corner of Avenue A, Lower East Side;1953
from National Gallery of Art - Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg
[May 2–September 6, 2010]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kydcr4enaH1qztk1wo1_500.jpg)
Allen Ginsberg
Jack Kerouac wandering along East 7th street after visiting Burroughs at our pad, passing statue of Congressman Samuel “Sunset” Cot, “The letter - carrier’s Friend” in Tompkins Square toward corner of Avenue A, Lower East Side;1953from National Gallery of Art - Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg
[May 2–September 6, 2010]
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