#jackkerouac — Public Fediverse posts

Pack up the car

None really. I’m not much of a traveler so no book or movie has inspired me to travel. In fact, the first movie I thought of this morning inspired me not to travel and that’s The Wizard of Oz. When Dorothy wakes up in her bed and tells us if she ever goes looking for her heart’s desire again she won’t look any further than her own back yard because if it’s not there, it was never lost to begin with, it made sense to me. Stay home, stay safe. Kind of a sheltered existence, but it works. About the best a book has ever done for me is inspire me to want to travel. Travels With Charley, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. On the Road. I suppose The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the Hobbit books might have to be somewhere on that list too. Maybe, in a way, metaphorically?, the Book of Exodus? If I think about it more I’m guessing more titles will come to mind so I’ll stop thinking about it now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfo0XBrGgI0&list=RDLfo0XBrGgI0&start_radio=1

Pack up the car

None really. I’m not much of a traveler so no book or movie has inspired me to travel. In fact, the first movie I thought of this morning inspired me not to travel and that’s The Wizard of Oz. When Dorothy wakes up in her bed and tells us if she ever goes looking for her heart’s desire again she won’t look any further than her own back yard because if it’s not there, it was never lost to begin with, it made sense to me. Stay home, stay safe. Kind of a sheltered existence, but it works. About the best a book has ever done for me is inspire me to want to travel. Travels With Charley, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. On the Road. I suppose The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the Hobbit books might have to be somewhere on that list too. Maybe, in a way, metaphorically?, the Book of Exodus? If I think about it more I’m guessing more titles will come to mind so I’ll stop thinking about it now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfo0XBrGgI0&list=RDLfo0XBrGgI0&start_radio=1

Pack up the car

None really. I’m not much of a traveler so no book or movie has inspired me to travel. In fact, the first movie I thought of this morning inspired me not to travel and that’s The Wizard of Oz. When Dorothy wakes up in her bed and tells us if she ever goes looking for her heart’s desire again she won’t look any further than her own back yard because if it’s not there, it was never lost to begin with, it made sense to me. Stay home, stay safe. Kind of a sheltered existence, but it works. About the best a book has ever done for me is inspire me to want to travel. Travels With Charley, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. On the Road. I suppose The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the Hobbit books might have to be somewhere on that list too. Maybe, in a way, metaphorically?, the Book of Exodus? If I think about it more I’m guessing more titles will come to mind so I’ll stop thinking about it now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfo0XBrGgI0&list=RDLfo0XBrGgI0&start_radio=1

Pack up the car

None really. I’m not much of a traveler so no book or movie has inspired me to travel. In fact, the first movie I thought of this morning inspired me not to travel and that’s The Wizard of Oz. When Dorothy wakes up in her bed and tells us if she ever goes looking for her heart’s desire again she won’t look any further than her own back yard because if it’s not there, it was never lost to begin with, it made sense to me. Stay home, stay safe. Kind of a sheltered existence, but it works. About the best a book has ever done for me is inspire me to want to travel. Travels With Charley, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. On the Road. I suppose The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the Hobbit books might have to be somewhere on that list too. Maybe, in a way, metaphorically?, the Book of Exodus? If I think about it more I’m guessing more titles will come to mind so I’ll stop thinking about it now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfo0XBrGgI0&list=RDLfo0XBrGgI0&start_radio=1

Pack up the car

None really. I’m not much of a traveler so no book or movie has inspired me to travel. In fact, the first movie I thought of this morning inspired me not to travel and that’s The Wizard of Oz. When Dorothy wakes up in her bed and tells us if she ever goes looking for her heart’s desire again she won’t look any further than her own back yard because if it’s not there, it was never lost to begin with, it made sense to me. Stay home, stay safe. Kind of a sheltered existence, but it works. About the best a book has ever done for me is inspire me to want to travel. Travels With Charley, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. On the Road. I suppose The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the Hobbit books might have to be somewhere on that list too. Maybe, in a way, metaphorically?, the Book of Exodus? If I think about it more I’m guessing more titles will come to mind so I’ll stop thinking about it now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfo0XBrGgI0&list=RDLfo0XBrGgI0&start_radio=1

DAVID MARCUS: Why European soccer fans are going Kerouac on the American road

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” -Jack Kerouac Among the…
#Europe #EU #Americanhospitality #European #Europeans #JackKerouac #roadtrip #roadtrips #SocialMedia #theUnitedStates
https://www.europesays.com/europe/69289/

I am currently rereading The Dharma Bums and disappearing down a rabbit hole discovering the people that inspired it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rP1Gi0ppH0&feature=youtu.be

#GarySnyder #JackKerouac #TheDharmaBums

I am currently rereading The Dharma Bums and disappearing down a rabbit hole discovering the people that inspired it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rP1Gi0ppH0&feature=youtu.be

#GarySnyder #JackKerouac #TheDharmaBums

What Gets Kept

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/what-jack-kerouac-left-behind

#HackerNews #WhatGetsKept #JackKerouac #Culture #Essay #Literature

What Gets Kept

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/what-jack-kerouac-left-behind

#HackerNews #WhatGetsKept #JackKerouac #Culture #Essay #Literature

JACK KEROUAC
Readings By Jack Kerouac On The Beat Generation
2024 U.S. MONO reissue

The end of a very long day; spent travelling down island on a day trip to Victoria.

Found a couple gems through my day’s adventures, THIS being my favorite one.

I discovered #JackKerouac when I was 14; the first time I read On the Road, and my whole world opened up. I was hypnotized by Jack’s rhythm and language, & it’s been a life long love affair.

Unlike his legendary album with Steve Allen, there is no jazz piano here. No musical accompaniment.

Just Jack alone, reading excerpts from his various writings, and it’s remarkable.

The aforementioned rhythm and language really takes on a different energy hearing it directly from Jack’s mouth.

Smoky jazz clubs, lovers and drinkers, the heartbeats of San Francisco, the infinite and immaterial.

This is my favorite find of the year.

#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #analog #poetry #beatgeneration

JACK KEROUAC
Readings By Jack Kerouac On The Beat Generation
2024 U.S. MONO reissue

The end of a very long day; spent travelling down island on a day trip to Victoria.

Found a couple gems through my day’s adventures, THIS being my favorite one.

I discovered #JackKerouac when I was 14; the first time I read On the Road, and my whole world opened up. I was hypnotized by Jack’s rhythm and language, & it’s been a life long love affair.

Unlike his legendary album with Steve Allen, there is no jazz piano here. No musical accompaniment.

Just Jack alone, reading excerpts from his various writings, and it’s remarkable.

The aforementioned rhythm and language really takes on a different energy hearing it directly from Jack’s mouth.

Smoky jazz clubs, lovers and drinkers, the heartbeats of San Francisco, the infinite and immaterial.

This is my favorite find of the year.

#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #analog #poetry #beatgeneration

JACK KEROUAC
Readings By Jack Kerouac On The Beat Generation
2024 U.S. MONO reissue

The end of a very long day; spent travelling down island on a day trip to Victoria.

Found a couple gems through my day’s adventures, THIS being my favorite one.

I discovered #JackKerouac when I was 14; the first time I read On the Road, and my whole world opened up. I was hypnotized by Jack’s rhythm and language, & it’s been a life long love affair.

Unlike his legendary album with Steve Allen, there is no jazz piano here. No musical accompaniment.

Just Jack alone, reading excerpts from his various writings, and it’s remarkable.

The aforementioned rhythm and language really takes on a different energy hearing it directly from Jack’s mouth.

Smoky jazz clubs, lovers and drinkers, the heartbeats of San Francisco, the infinite and immaterial.

This is my favorite find of the year.

#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #analog #poetry #beatgeneration

JACK KEROUAC
Readings By Jack Kerouac On The Beat Generation
2024 U.S. MONO reissue

The end of a very long day; spent travelling down island on a day trip to Victoria.

Found a couple gems through my day’s adventures, THIS being my favorite one.

I discovered #JackKerouac when I was 14; the first time I read On the Road, and my whole world opened up. I was hypnotized by Jack’s rhythm and language, & it’s been a life long love affair.

Unlike his legendary album with Steve Allen, there is no jazz piano here. No musical accompaniment.

Just Jack alone, reading excerpts from his various writings, and it’s remarkable.

The aforementioned rhythm and language really takes on a different energy hearing it directly from Jack’s mouth.

Smoky jazz clubs, lovers and drinkers, the heartbeats of San Francisco, the infinite and immaterial.

This is my favorite find of the year.

#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #analog #poetry #beatgeneration

JACK KEROUAC
Readings By Jack Kerouac On The Beat Generation
2024 U.S. MONO reissue

The end of a very long day; spent travelling down island on a day trip to Victoria.

Found a couple gems through my day’s adventures, THIS being my favorite one.

I discovered #JackKerouac when I was 14; the first time I read On the Road, and my whole world opened up. I was hypnotized by Jack’s rhythm and language, & it’s been a life long love affair.

Unlike his legendary album with Steve Allen, there is no jazz piano here. No musical accompaniment.

Just Jack alone, reading excerpts from his various writings, and it’s remarkable.

The aforementioned rhythm and language really takes on a different energy hearing it directly from Jack’s mouth.

Smoky jazz clubs, lovers and drinkers, the heartbeats of San Francisco, the infinite and immaterial.

This is my favorite find of the year.

#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #analog #poetry #beatgeneration

MIST0426/CT-JACK_KEROUAC-ON_THE_ROAD

Mistigram: from one celebrated ’50s typewritten manuscript to another, today we look at Cthulu’s attempt to adapt #BillEnglish’s abstract cover art illustration to #JackKerouac’s influential 1957 Beat novel #OnTheRoad. This screen was included in last month’s books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

Mistodon: from one celebrated '50s typewritten manuscript to another, today we look at Cthulu's attempt to adapt #BillEnglish's abstract cover art illustration to #JackKerouac's influential 1957 Beat novel #OnTheRoad. This screen was included in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

Mistodon: from one celebrated '50s typewritten manuscript to another, today we look at Cthulu's attempt to adapt #BillEnglish's abstract cover art illustration to #JackKerouac's influential 1957 Beat novel #OnTheRoad. This screen was included in last month's books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection.

Damn. I knew, and then temporarily forgot, that "The Nervous Set" was a beatnik / Beat Generation era (inspired) musical, but I failed to pick up on "The Ballad of the Sad Young Men" being a direct lift from F. Scott Fitzgerald - who, while not a Beat author, can definitely be considered to be a Beat precursor. Heck, the whole Lost Generation was a direct influence, once you see it.

I love finding these interlocking webs betwixt different eras and movements. (And feel a little silly for not catching it sooner.)

#ScribesAndMakers ~ Do you dance or move along to music when you listen?

I multitask: wiggling while writing, proving two rhythms can coexist messily. :music_notes_woozy:

As Jack Kerouac wrote... "The only truth is music." ❤️‍🔥

#JackKerouac #Writing

#ScribesAndMakers ~ Do you dance or move along to music when you listen?

I multitask: wiggling while writing, proving two rhythms can coexist messily. :music_notes_woozy:

As Jack Kerouac wrote... "The only truth is music." ❤️‍🔥

#JackKerouac #Writing

[SF Chronicle]: Zach Bryan just bought Jack Kerouac’s original ‘On the Road’ scroll for $12.1 million By Aidin Vaziri, March 14, 2026

https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/zach-bryan-kerouac-scroll-22077310.php

#jackKerouac #zachBryan #onTheRoad

[SF Chronicle]: Zach Bryan just bought Jack Kerouac’s original ‘On the Road’ scroll for $12.1 million By Aidin Vaziri, March 14, 2026

https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/zach-bryan-kerouac-scroll-22077310.php

#jackKerouac #zachBryan #onTheRoad

[SF Chronicle]: Zach Bryan just bought Jack Kerouac’s original ‘On the Road’ scroll for $12.1 million By Aidin Vaziri, March 14, 2026

https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/zach-bryan-kerouac-scroll-22077310.php

#jackKerouac #zachBryan #onTheRoad

[SF Chronicle]: Zach Bryan just bought Jack Kerouac’s original ‘On the Road’ scroll for $12.1 million By Aidin Vaziri, March 14, 2026

https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/zach-bryan-kerouac-scroll-22077310.php

#jackKerouac #zachBryan #onTheRoad

Zach Bryan Buys Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’ Scroll for $12.1 Million

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/zach-bryan-jack-kerouac-on-the-road-scroll-auction-1235530285/

Zach Bryan Buys Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’ Scroll for $12.1 Million

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/zach-bryan-jack-kerouac-on-the-road-scroll-auction-1235530285/

"I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost in the dark when they see and hear them. I want them to shine like beacons of light in a world of overly complicated darkness. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."

~ Jack Kerouac, born today, 1922.

#JackKerouac #Quote #Today

"I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost in the dark when they see and hear them. I want them to shine like beacons of light in a world of overly complicated darkness. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."

~ Jack Kerouac, born today, 1922.

#JackKerouac #Quote #Today

Despite being famous for writing a book called On the Road, Jack Kerouac never learned to drive and envied people who had the skill. 10 facts about him on his birthday.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/03/12-march-jack-kerouac.html

#BirthAnniversary #JackKerouac #Writers

Despite being famous for writing a book called On the Road, Jack Kerouac never learned to drive and envied people who had the skill. 10 facts about him on his birthday.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2026/03/12-march-jack-kerouac.html

#BirthAnniversary #JackKerouac #Writers

‘We all want to know what he was doing in the bedroom’: Kerouac’s unseen archive goes on show in New York https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/09/jack-kerouac-archive-photos-sexuality-grolier-club-exhibition-new-york-beat-generation #JackKerouac #Books #Photography #Art #ArtAndDesignBooks #ArtAndDesign #Culture #AllenGinsberg #WilliamBurroughs #FyodorDostoevsky #ColumbiaUniversity

‘We all want to know what he was doing in the bedroom’: Kerouac’s unseen archive goes on show in New York https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/09/jack-kerouac-archive-photos-sexuality-grolier-club-exhibition-new-york-beat-generation #JackKerouac #Books #Photography #Art #ArtAndDesignBooks #ArtAndDesign #Culture #AllenGinsberg #WilliamBurroughs #FyodorDostoevsky #ColumbiaUniversity

Se vi avanzasse qualche milione di dollari, stanno per andare all'asta chitarre (quella di #KurtCobain 2 di #DavidGilmour compresa la Black Strat, #ericclapton #jerrygarcia #TheEdge #johnlennon #paulmccartney #georgeharrison ...) la batteria di #ringostarr , la Chevrolet di Paura e Delirio a Las Vegas, la prima stesura a macchina di "Sulla strada" di #jackkerouac ... e qualche altra chicca per risolvervi il salotto, nel caso siate alla ricerca di arredamento.

https://www.christies.com/en/auction/the-jim-irsay-collection-hall-of-fame-31269/

`The Hunt is a 1977 jazz album of performances from 1947 by a nonet featuring saxophonists Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray. The title song is referenced in the book On the Road by Jack Kerouac.`

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_(Dexter_Gordon_album)

#DexterGordon #ConnieKay #JackKerouac #music #art #jazz

`The Hunt is a 1977 jazz album of performances from 1947 by a nonet featuring saxophonists Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray. The title song is referenced in the book On the Road by Jack Kerouac.`

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_(Dexter_Gordon_album)

#DexterGordon #ConnieKay #JackKerouac #music #art #jazz

`The Hunt is a 1977 jazz album of performances from 1947 by a nonet featuring saxophonists Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray. The title song is referenced in the book On the Road by Jack Kerouac.`

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_(Dexter_Gordon_album)

#DexterGordon #ConnieKay #JackKerouac #music #art #jazz

#JackKerouac

#Resist

#JackKerouac

#Resist

Jack Kerouac’s 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/30/jack-kerouac-on-the-road-first-draft-scroll-to-be-auctioned #Books #JackKerouac #Culture

Jack Kerouac’s 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/30/jack-kerouac-on-the-road-first-draft-scroll-to-be-auctioned #Books #JackKerouac #Culture

Jack Kerouac started writing on an Underwood 4-bank portable, and used an L.C. Smith 8-10 to write 'On the Road', but he wrote his last book on a Smith-Corona Space-O-Matic.

He wrote a letter in which he says he bought the machine in hopes it would help him meet a publication deadline. https://news.justcollecting.com/jack-kerouac-last-typewriter-vanity-duluoz-auction-university-archives/ #JackKerouac #Typewriters #Writing 9/14

Jack Kerouac started writing on an Underwood 4-bank portable, and used an L.C. Smith 8-10 to write 'On the Road', but he wrote his last book on a Smith-Corona Space-O-Matic.

He wrote a letter in which he says he bought the machine in hopes it would help him meet a publication deadline. https://news.justcollecting.com/jack-kerouac-last-typewriter-vanity-duluoz-auction-university-archives/ #JackKerouac #Typewriters #Writing 9/14

So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry.
-- Jack Kerouac (Desolation Angels)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JackKerouac #Adventure #Discovery #Life #Regret #Travel

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida

So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry.
-- Jack Kerouac (Desolation Angels)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JackKerouac #Adventure #Discovery #Life #Regret #Travel

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida

quixote / bruce baillie. 1965

Co-founder of Canyon Cinema and the San Francisco Cinematheque and one of the godparents of experimental film, Bruce Baillie (1931-2020) has forged a singular path in his visionary explorations of the world, his exquisite treatment of light and fragmented storytelling influencing successive generations of like-minded filmmakers. Shot on a cross-country journey during 1964 and 1965, is the Baillie film most in need of rediscovery. Joining the ranks of Bob Dylan, Robert Frank and Jack Kerouac in chronicling a tumultuous period in American history from the road, Baillie sets out “to show how in the conquest of our environment in the New World, Americans have isolated themselves from nature and from one another”.

#Baillie #BobDylan #BruceBaillie #CanyonCinema #cinema #experimentalFilm #film #fragmentedStorytelling #JackKerouac #onTheRoadInChroniclingATumultuousPeriodInAmericanHistoryFromTheRoad #RobertFrank #SanFranciscoCinematheque #USA #video

quixote / bruce baillie. 1965

Co-founder of Canyon Cinema and the San Francisco Cinematheque and one of the godparents of experimental film, Bruce Baillie (1931-2020) has forged a singular path in his visionary explorations of the world, his exquisite treatment of light and fragmented storytelling influencing successive generations of like-minded filmmakers. Shot on a cross-country journey during 1964 and 1965, is the Baillie film most in need of rediscovery. Joining the ranks of Bob Dylan, Robert Frank and Jack Kerouac in chronicling a tumultuous period in American history from the road, Baillie sets out “to show how in the conquest of our environment in the New World, Americans have isolated themselves from nature and from one another”.

#Baillie #BobDylan #BruceBaillie #CanyonCinema #cinema #experimentalFilm #film #fragmentedStorytelling #JackKerouac #onTheRoadInChroniclingATumultuousPeriodInAmericanHistoryFromTheRoad #RobertFrank #SanFranciscoCinematheque #USA #video

quixote / bruce baillie. 1965

Co-founder of Canyon Cinema and the San Francisco Cinematheque and one of the godparents of experimental film, Bruce Baillie (1931-2020) has forged a singular path in his visionary explorations of the world, his exquisite treatment of light and fragmented storytelling influencing successive generations of like-minded filmmakers. Shot on a cross-country journey during 1964 and 1965, is the Baillie film most in need of rediscovery. Joining the ranks of Bob Dylan, Robert Frank and Jack Kerouac in chronicling a tumultuous period in American history from the road, Baillie sets out “to show how in the conquest of our environment in the New World, Americans have isolated themselves from nature and from one another”.

#Baillie #BobDylan #BruceBaillie #CanyonCinema #cinema #experimentalFilm #film #fragmentedStorytelling #JackKerouac #onTheRoadInChroniclingATumultuousPeriodInAmericanHistoryFromTheRoad #RobertFrank #SanFranciscoCinematheque #USA #video

Malcolm Cowley was an influential #editor #writer and book #critic who helped bring #WilliamFaulkner #JackKerouac #KenKesey and other pivotal figures to U.S. readers / Bettmann/Getty Images

Malcolm Cowley was an influential #editor #writer and book #critic who helped bring #WilliamFaulkner #JackKerouac #KenKesey and other pivotal figures to U.S. readers / Bettmann/Getty Images