MetaFilter posts tagged with jackkerouac

One Fast Move Or I'm Gone.

grapefruitmoon — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:23:26 -0800

One Fast Move or I'm Gone : a documentary of Kerouac's Big Sur features a soundtrack by Ben Gibbard & Jay Farrar.

To Robert Frank I now give this message: You got eyes.

Astro Zombie — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:33:32 -0800

And I say: That little ole lonely elevator girl looking up sighing in an elevator full of blurred demons, what’s her name & address?” The unnamed girl in Robert Frank's collection of photographs, The Americans, to which Jack Kerouac wrote those introductory sentences, has come forward after recognizing herself in the iconic photograph, republished in the SF Chronicle. (Previously: 1, 2, 3)

Beat Generation Cover Scans

dhammond — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:52:17 -0800

Book nerds everywhere will enjoy these scans of cover art from the works of Beat Generation authors William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and John Clellon Holmes. CDN: Burroughs, Kerouac, Cassady, Holmes

The beat goes on...

veryape — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 04:18:48 -0800

Looks like Buk is b a c k and Jack is On The Road again.

Ginsberg's Celestial Homework

Satapher — Fri, 21 May 2004 11:29:11 -0800

Ginsberg's Celestial Homework is the reading list Ginsberg handed out on the first day at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics as "suggestions for a quick check-out & taste of ancient scriveners whose works were reflected in Beat literary style..." Founded in 1974, Ginsberg taught at the school until his death in 1997.

Kerouac bobblehead

beagle — Tue, 29 Jul 2003 06:52:29 -0800

Kerouac becomes a bobblehead. From the sports promoters in Lowell, Massachusetts, to the literati, everybody thinks it's a terrific idea. "Certainly, Jack would love it," says the executor of his estate.

Vout-aroonee with a Floy-Floy

turbodog — Mon, 03 Mar 2003 16:20:10 -0800

Vout-aroonee with a Floy-Floy. Slim Gaillard was immortalized by Jack Kerouac, wrote great songs, was a jive pioneer and even appeared in Charlie's Angels.

serafinapekkala — Thu, 29 Aug 2002 07:48:54 -0800

On The Road... coming to a theater near you (scroll down in link). Francis Ford Coppola is working on a film adaptation of Kerouac's classic (?), starring Brad Pitt. Genius? Heresy? I can see the Barnes & Noble tie-ins now...