Comments on: Jack Kerouac's hand-drawn cover for On the Road http://boingboing.net/2007/09/20/jack-kerouacs-handdr.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 23 May 2013 00:41:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2007/09/20/jack-kerouacs-handdr.html#comment-21288 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-21288 Reminds me of the Grandaddy album cover for their final release "Just Like the Fambly Cat" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B000F3AAWU/sr=8-1/qid=1190308911/ref=dp_image_text_0/103-5533174-1463034?ie=UTF8&n=5174&s=music&qid=1190308911&sr=8-1 Reminds me of the Grandaddy album cover for their final release “Just Like the Fambly Cat”
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B000F3AAWU/sr=8-1/qid=1190308911/ref=dp_image_text_0/103-5533174-1463034?ie=UTF8&n=5174&s=music&qid=1190308911&sr=8-1

]]> By: porkbarrel http://boingboing.net/2007/09/20/jack-kerouacs-handdr.html#comment-21293 porkbarrel Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-21293 Wow, just as sloppy and repetitive as his prose. Who'dathunkit? Wow, just as sloppy and repetitive as his prose. Who’dathunkit?

]]> By: jphilby http://boingboing.net/2007/09/20/jack-kerouacs-handdr.html#comment-21558 jphilby Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-21558 "But Kerouac was also tortured, death obsessed, an alcoholic who withdrew, during his last decade, into a bitter, self-contained universe...." If you want to understand that, study the period CLOSE to understand what happened to Kerouac. Skip the art pictures and TV shows. Anybody who tries to understand him, or Burroughs or Ginsberg, without knowing what those times were like, will fail. The 50s were a steaming pile. The rancid, bored, desperate 50s "smelled terrible: boozy, tinged with sweat and urine." Why the fuck you think they wrote what they did? Bukowski wasn't inventing, he was *describing*. “But Kerouac was also tortured, death obsessed, an alcoholic who withdrew, during his last decade, into a bitter, self-contained universe….”

If you want to understand that, study the period CLOSE to understand what happened to Kerouac. Skip the art pictures and TV shows. Anybody who tries to understand him, or Burroughs or Ginsberg, without knowing what those times were like, will fail.

The 50s were a steaming pile. The rancid, bored, desperate 50s “smelled terrible: boozy, tinged with sweat and urine.” Why the fuck you think they wrote what they did? Bukowski wasn’t inventing, he was *describing*.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2007/09/20/jack-kerouacs-handdr.html#comment-22346 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-22346 Even re-reading Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley gives you the sense that the McCarthy-slasch-HUAC era was screaming for a change of subject. Even re-reading Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley gives you the sense that the McCarthy-slasch-HUAC era was screaming for a change of subject.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2007/09/20/jack-kerouacs-handdr.html#comment-21103 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-21103 And why he signed it JOHN Kerouac? And why he signed it JOHN Kerouac?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2007/09/20/jack-kerouacs-handdr.html#comment-21631 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-21631 | If you want to understand that, study the period | CLOSE to understand what happened to Kerouac. Skip | the art pictures and TV shows. Anybody who tries | to understand him, or Burroughs or Ginsberg, | without knowing what those times were like, will | fail. Or, follow his path today. It is easier to understand by comparison, avoiding the pervertion of the thought at the same time... (not recomended) | If you want to understand that, study the period
| CLOSE to understand what happened to Kerouac. Skip
| the art pictures and TV shows. Anybody who tries
| to understand him, or Burroughs or Ginsberg,
| without knowing what those times were like, will
| fail.

Or, follow his path today. It is easier to understand by comparison, avoiding the pervertion of the thought at the same time… (not recomended)

]]> By: aileinduinn http://boingboing.net/2007/09/20/jack-kerouacs-handdr.html#comment-159622 aileinduinn Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-159622 Allegedly, his birth name was Jean Jacques-Louis Lebris De Kerouac, "Jack" was a relatively late nom-de-plume. Allegedly, his birth name was Jean Jacques-Louis Lebris De Kerouac, “Jack” was a relatively late nom-de-plume.

]]> By: huracán http://boingboing.net/2007/09/20/jack-kerouacs-handdr.html#comment-21391 huracán Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-21391 By JOHN Kerouac? By JOHN Kerouac?

]]> By: Shrdlu http://boingboing.net/2007/09/20/jack-kerouacs-handdr.html#comment-21648 Shrdlu Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-21648 I've read most of this stuff, and even attended a speech by Ginsberg. I'm left with the feeling there was nothing to understand. As for Kerouac, the artists he tried to emulate like Céline and Charlie Parker (think improvisation) were worlds beyond him. He knew enough to be infatuated with great artists, but never really synthesized some great literary voice, as he thought. I think he simply didn't have the intellect. Perhaps it was all the "tea" he smoked. In the end, he was just a French-Canadian from Lowell, MA who went to Columbia on the G.I. Bill and fell in with some pretty funky people. Had his literary attempts ended up moldering in his mother's attic amongst vapors of ragout de boulette, the world would be no more the worse off--but then again, we wouldn't have that Snack Attack song from Godley and Creme, and that would be a shame. I’ve read most of this stuff, and even attended a speech by Ginsberg. I’m left with the feeling there was nothing to understand.

As for Kerouac, the artists he tried to emulate like Céline and Charlie Parker (think improvisation) were worlds beyond him. He knew enough to be infatuated with great artists, but never really synthesized some great literary voice, as he thought. I think he simply didn’t have the intellect. Perhaps it was all the “tea” he smoked.

In the end, he was just a French-Canadian from Lowell, MA who went to Columbia on the G.I. Bill and fell in with some pretty funky people. Had his literary attempts ended up moldering in his mother’s attic amongst vapors of ragout de boulette, the world would be no more the worse off–but then again, we wouldn’t have that Snack Attack song from Godley and Creme, and that would be a shame.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2007/09/20/jack-kerouacs-handdr.html#comment-412311 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-412311 To SHRDLU: I think that he just dug everything and was fascinated with life and death and didn't try to understand the things that we all waste our lives trying to understand, but instead just lived life digging all that he could. To SHRDLU:

I think that he just dug everything and was fascinated with life and death and didn’t try to understand the things that we all waste our lives trying to understand, but instead just lived life digging all that he could.

]]> By: Dale Cruse http://boingboing.net/2007/09/20/jack-kerouacs-handdr.html#comment-20935 Dale Cruse Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-20935 That needs to be widely released for us completists. That needs to be widely released for us completists.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2007/09/20/jack-kerouacs-handdr.html#comment-21460 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-21460 Can't get into Kerouac? Sloppy, repetitive? I am grateful to the gods that I live on a higher plain of understanding. Kerouac is the most important American writer since Twain. His creativity is unsurpassed.Obviously, you don't know "jack". Can’t get into Kerouac? Sloppy, repetitive? I am grateful to the gods that I live on a higher plain of understanding. Kerouac is the most important American writer since Twain. His creativity is unsurpassed.Obviously, you don’t know “jack”.

]]> By: Shrdlu http://boingboing.net/2007/09/20/jack-kerouacs-handdr.html#comment-20968 Shrdlu Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-20968 Who can get that into Kerouac? Not the best novel I ever read--in fact it' so bad, reading On The Road can be hazardous to your health. (He, he.) For reasons I cannot recall, I do have the original Rhino Records Kerouac Collection boxed set if anyone is interested. Very attractive packaging, never been played. Who can get that into Kerouac? Not the best novel I ever read–in fact it’ so bad, reading On The Road can be hazardous to your health. (He, he.)

For reasons I cannot recall, I do have the original Rhino Records Kerouac Collection boxed set if anyone is interested. Very attractive packaging, never been played.

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