Tag: beats

• Lowell Blues

  Thinking about things Beat after yesterday’s Shakespeare & Company post.  Seems like a good time to share this cool film, found on the equally cool Allen Ginsberg Project blog. “Henry Ferrini’s impressionistic evocative Lowell Blues (2000) is a honeyed melancholic visual poem (somewhat imposed upon in this version by Journeyman Pictures intrusive logo!), with home-town…

  JunkChuck

  October 22, 2014

  art, Commentary, Poetry, video

  beats, Carolyn Cassady, David Amram, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, jazz, Johnny Depp, lowell, poetry, Robert Creeley

• Shakepeare & Company–The Center of The World

  Vanity Fair Magazine has a great article on what might be the greatest book store in the world.  I can’t say for sure–I’ve been to City Lights in San Francisco, Powell’s in Portland, and Rizzoli in New York City, but I’ve never been to Paris.  I’m a book fetishist at heart–as fond of old volumes…

  JunkChuck

  October 21, 2014

  Commentary, link

  beats, books, bookstore, Eliot, fitzgerald, ginsberg, hemingway, Joyce, Paris, Pound, Shakespeare & Company, whitman, writers

• I Saw The Best Minds of My Generation…pinned to a lapel?

  https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/GarboBlues?ref=l2-shopheader-name “All your heroes are here! Jack Kerouac, Alan Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Hunter S. Thomson.” But where’s the Ferlinghetti?

  JunkChuck

  April 3, 2014

  Commentary, Funny and/or Strange, Photo I Like, Poetry, sheer awesomeness

  alan, allen, beat, beatnik, beats, bill, burroughs, ferlinghetti, funny, generation, ginsberg, gonzo, howl, hunter, jack, kerouac, month, national, pin, poem, poetry, thompon