Summer time
This is going to be very stream-of-conciousness.
500,000 protestors in Rome? That's a pretty huge number of anti-war people willing to get up and go out and protest.
Jefferson Airplane does not suck. Jefferson Starship sucks. Surrealistic Pillow is sweet. She has funny cars is one of my favorite songs right now.
On The Road was different than remembered. Still like 4th episode in Mexico, but the rest of it somehow was not that good anymore. I'm realizing that Kerouac was an average writer that kind of got this boost from his common beat language. I found a lot of the parts remarkably inconsistent, notably when every penny is detailed for so long and then Sal just gets 100 dollars from a rich friend and it takes all of 2 sentences. You can definately tell towards the end of the book that he was using a lot of benzedrine.
Since people love coming up with trivia about Jack Kerouac which means little, I'll throw some out myself. Jack used benzedrine and wrote the book over a very short period of time using rolls of typewriter paper taped together at the ends so he could type without interruption. The writing of the book probably drastically shortened his life. When he was told of Neal Cassady's death he didn't blink. By Cassady's death (he was found near train tracks that he had passed out on and he likely died of alcohol poisoning as he died in a coma) Kerouac more or less hated him. Cassady had left Kerouac to travel with Ken Kasey (who wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) and, it being the 60s, they dropped a lot of acid and drove around the country in a hippie bus and then organized a huge party in New York to introduce Kerouac to Kasey, but Kerouac reacted violently when someone mistreated an American flag, folded it, and left. Kerouac had visited London after his book came out, and when he came back he was a monstrous celebrity, loved by everybody except critics who thought he was hypocritical for advocating a lifestyle he didn't endorse. He became a raging alcoholic and died of cirrhosis.
On The Road is worth a read, but I recommend you don't read it twice. It's fairly good, but if you go through again a lot of things will piss you off.
Arovane, Lillies first track Cry Osaka Cry is fantastic.
500,000 protestors in Rome? That's a pretty huge number of anti-war people willing to get up and go out and protest.
Jefferson Airplane does not suck. Jefferson Starship sucks. Surrealistic Pillow is sweet. She has funny cars is one of my favorite songs right now.
On The Road was different than remembered. Still like 4th episode in Mexico, but the rest of it somehow was not that good anymore. I'm realizing that Kerouac was an average writer that kind of got this boost from his common beat language. I found a lot of the parts remarkably inconsistent, notably when every penny is detailed for so long and then Sal just gets 100 dollars from a rich friend and it takes all of 2 sentences. You can definately tell towards the end of the book that he was using a lot of benzedrine.
Since people love coming up with trivia about Jack Kerouac which means little, I'll throw some out myself. Jack used benzedrine and wrote the book over a very short period of time using rolls of typewriter paper taped together at the ends so he could type without interruption. The writing of the book probably drastically shortened his life. When he was told of Neal Cassady's death he didn't blink. By Cassady's death (he was found near train tracks that he had passed out on and he likely died of alcohol poisoning as he died in a coma) Kerouac more or less hated him. Cassady had left Kerouac to travel with Ken Kasey (who wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) and, it being the 60s, they dropped a lot of acid and drove around the country in a hippie bus and then organized a huge party in New York to introduce Kerouac to Kasey, but Kerouac reacted violently when someone mistreated an American flag, folded it, and left. Kerouac had visited London after his book came out, and when he came back he was a monstrous celebrity, loved by everybody except critics who thought he was hypocritical for advocating a lifestyle he didn't endorse. He became a raging alcoholic and died of cirrhosis.
On The Road is worth a read, but I recommend you don't read it twice. It's fairly good, but if you go through again a lot of things will piss you off.
Arovane, Lillies first track Cry Osaka Cry is fantastic.