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#Kerouac Society
rolloroberson · 1 year
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“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, from the Great American Novel…On the Road
Photographed by Allen Ginsberg.
Happy New Year!!!🎊🎆🎈
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hiyutekivigil · 28 days
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"…the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn…" — On the Road, Jack Kerouac Art by Glimmersmith
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lolx123456789 · 3 months
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Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
-Jack Kerouac
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stardiveatnight · 2 years
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imagine the library scene in kill your darlings (the one at night where they break into the library and wolf like me by tv on the radio starts playing you know you know) but it’s with the dead poets society characters… i’m getting so excited just thinking about it
i know there are more characters in dps than kyd but it could still work i think and also if the dps characters were set in like a university setting they would totally do something like that
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shoezuki · 1 year
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writing my final essay on the Beat Generation rn and that whole literary movement in america. and my essay topic is basically me arguing that bob kaufman Fucks and was the best beat. because tbh he was
but this also like. contains a lot of my distaste for the beat movement and that this course has really made me more.... like. i dont really like the beat movement much? i mean the biggest aspect of it, of the idea of freedom and no responsibility or consequences is somethin i dont like. most the other shit, bout sexual freedom and movement and anticapitalist n antimaterialist notions are all good. but the beats are just so inherently American. the underlying idea of freedom is SO inherently american in terms of like... the idea of it. its so very 'i can do whatever i want, whenever i want, and i dont care if it hurts other people because i value my freedom over the consequences or responsibilities i would be expected to assume.' its this idea of freedom in terms of absolute individuality and its far too self absorbed for me.
but another Issue i take w it was like. the movement was heavily inspired by black culture, and all about defying social norms and rejecting conformity. but there was still a major issue with norms in the movement itself or at least in terms of how media perceived it. like yes it was about liberty and freedom but also all the most well known beat writers are white dudes. many of them like kerouac held views of women as inherently lesser still.
and like. in that regard most of the most known beats who are like. THE beat writers. were kinda hypocrites. like kerouac didnt think women could write and when he met one woman who was a good writers he saw her as an exception. and with burroughs he was like, from an extremely wealthy family and was given an 'allowance' his whole life and never had to work and so his rejection of capitalism and the job market feels flat in that he can say all that from a place of privilege.
i mentioned it to my professor when we'd talk bout it but honestly the most authentic beats who didnt seem hypocritical or make the movement feel hypocritical to me were those who were marginalized and didnt have a choice in rejecting society. like allen ginsberg was one the Big Beats as well and to me he is the most Beat out of the main three of him and burroughs and kerouac. cuz ginsberg was an openly gay man in a long term relationship, he was jewish and lived on the fringes of 'acceptable' american society as an outlier.
it especially goes for bob kaufman. he was always left out of the beat movement and ignored and even in modern times doesnt really get the credit and recognition that he deserves. but holy fuck if anyone was ACTUALLY beat it was him! he was a black man with a jewish father. he created poetry without ever really writing it down besides on napkins and would 'perform' his poetry on streets and yelling out poems or sticking his head in peoples cars. he did not ever seek out publishing his work and he purposefully would confuse any publishers and would lie about himself and his life so even now some of the aspects of his biography is confusing. he wanted to be forgotten! he was never concerned with actually carrying on his work or creating it and there was something beautiful in that. he was constnatly accosted by police to the point that specific officers would harass and abuse him whenever they felt like it. he actually experienced a lot of the bullshit and hardships the beats rejected and criticised. many white beat writers chose to reject social norms, but he had no choice! theres something so much more authentic about the rejection of society when you by virtue of existing cant even exist within societal norms itself.
he was just. such an interesting dude. and the beat movement abandoned him because he was too far on the fringes of society that the public couldnt accept him. motherfucker wanted that, in a way, though. like he took back his silencing by silencing himself. he wasnt being forgotten or silenced or ostracized anymore, because he wanted to be forgotten.
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ghostwithwings · 1 year
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Hello!
I created this account in order to find a place of my interest, see that the most famous socials are more a circus of influencers than anything else...
Hope to find an "oasis in this Wasteland" in here!
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ecrisettaistoi · 2 months
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Toiser Gibraltar
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Tanger
ville des chats couchés,
des chats alanguis, indolents,
indifférents au bruit,
aux pétarades, cris,
à la vie
Tanger, ville rêvée
de Burroughs, Kerouac,
Ginsberg
et leurs rêves enfumés.
Tanger partagée, conquise,
reprise, libérée.
Tanger, rebelle, et animée,
possédée à jamais
par les mêmes maîtres à la démarche
légère,
félidés fiers de ne rien faire
de la journée, attendant la nuit
pour clamer leur royaume
en miaulant sous le croissant
de miel de lune.
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flamingcraniumb · 2 years
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I’m right there, swimming in the river of hardships, but I know how to swim.
♡Jack Kerouac
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paizleyrayz · 2 years
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"I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right." -Jack Kerouac
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rolloroberson · 1 year
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“'I don’t know, I don’t care, and it doesn’t matter' will be the final human prayer.”
― Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels
📷: Jerry Bauer
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joytri · 4 months
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“A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on the right track, no matter what any of his fellow men say. In his eternal search for truth, the poet is alone. He tries to be timeless in a society built on time.”
Jack Kerouac
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urbanshaman30 · 4 months
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“A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on the right track, no matter what any of his fellow men say. In his eternal search for truth, the poet is alone. He tries to be timeless in a society built on time.”
― Jack Kerouac, Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings
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theverybestofbea · 19 days
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academia films & shows 🩶 🎬
— the holdovers (2023)
a cranky history teacher at a prep school is forced to remain on campus over the holidays with a grieving cook and a troubled student who has no place to go, set in 1971, during christmas time.
— the umbrella academy (2019 - present)
a family of former child heroes, now grown apart, must reunite to continue to protect the world, science fiction meets preppy academia.
— mona lisa smile (2003)
a free-thinking art professor teaches conservative 1950s Wellesley girls to question their traditional social roles, gives off a similar vibe to the dead poets society.
— the goldfinch (2019)
a boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the met, in a rush of panic, he steals 'the goldfinch', a painting that eventually draws him into a world of crime.
— dead poets society (1989)
john keating returns in 1959 to the prestigious new england boys' boarding school where he was once a star student, using poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression.
— a series of unfortunate events (2017 - 2019)
after the loss of their parents in a mysterious fire, the three baudelaire children face trials and tribulations attempting to uncover dark family secrets.
— mary shelley (2017)
life and facts of mary wollstonecraft godwin, who at 16 met 21 year old poet percy shelley, resulting in the writing of frankenstein.
— tik, tik...boom! (2021)
on the brink of turning thirty, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out, about art students during the 90s.
— the ministry of time (2015 - 2020)
a warrior from the sixteenth century, the first female university student from the nineteenth century, and a paramedic from the twenty–first century join a secret agency to prevent people from changing spanish history using time-traveling doors.
— romeo + juliet (1996)
shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of verona still retaining its original dialogue.
— jane eyre (2011)
amousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he's hiding a terrible secret.
— little women (2019)
jo march reflects back and forth on her life, telling the beloved story of the march sisters - four young women, each determined to live life on her own terms.
— the dreamers (2003)
a young american studying in paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a french brother and sister, set against the background of the '68 paris student riots.
— my policeman (2022)
the arrival of patrick into marion and tom's home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previously.
— deadly class (2018; cancelled)
a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of late 1980s counterculture, which follows a disillusioned teen recruited into a storied high school for assassins.
— shadow and bone (2021 - 2023; cancelled)
dark forces conspire against orphan mapmaker alina starkov when she unleashes an extraordinary power that could change the fate of her war-torn world, at the same time, a group of thieves gather for a new mission.
— kill your darlings (2013)
a murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: allen ginsberg, jack kerouac, and william burroughs.
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thestylesindependent · 10 months
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We haven’t seen an artist like him since David Bowie
I’ve always considered myself to be somewhat of a music purist.
I still listen to albums from front to back, usually on an old record player I keep next to a collection of EPs that produces a lovely scratchy sound as original masterpieces from Revolver to The Queen Is Dead turn on its table.
Those albums aren’t just important because they are musical triumphs, they’re important because they had a profound impact on the industry and influenced cultural movements that impacted society as a whole.
Without the Beatles there is no Pixies, Nirvana or Oasis. Without The Smiths there is no Stone Roses, Radiohead or The Libertines. But what those bands did for women’s liberation, gay liberation, environmentalism and working class movements is equally profound. Both are bands whose popularity was supplanted by their artistry, giving them a unique position in the annals of music history.
For me, ever since the X Factor aired on our screens, fronted by Simon Cowell with his pearly white teeth, pristine T and Twickers jeans and shoes combination, it has been the absolute antithesis of all that.
The public flogging of people out to chase their dreams has seen huge audiences flock to the show over the years as they crown acts who manage to not butcher classic covers. As Michael Rosenberg (AKA Passenger) once put it, the show “murdered music” at the altar of a few “money-grabbing pricks”. It robbed us of an original Christmas Number 1 for decades until a countermovement propelled Rage Against The Machine to the top spot. And quite right, too.
But the show has, quite miraculously, given birth to a musician who, in my view, belongs in the same category as The Beatles, The Smiths and, pertainantly, David Bowie in status.
Harry Styles, formerly of One Direction fame, is quite obviously a popular bloke. He is about to perform in front of 90,000 people at Wembley for the fourth night after completing the highest selling Scottish stadium tour ever. He has 48.9 million followers on Instagram and his 2022 hit ‘As It Was’ was the most streamed Spotify song that year.
But his popularity should not be confused with his artistry.
Styles is more than just the hoards of screaming teenage fans and strings of celebrity endorsements we’ve come to know him for. He’s actually an icon both in music and in style, and increasingly an icon in modern movements of inclusiveness and self-worth.
During a concert in Houston, Texas, in 2018, he interacted with a ten-year-old boy in the crowd who had become overcome with emotion. Styles assured the young boy, “Crying is very manly. Being vulnerable is manly”. That is fucking classy, man.
His debut album artwork, which depicts the least tattooed area of his naked body half-submerged in a pastel pink bath, similarly conveys vulnerability, femininity, reflection, and intimacy, all of which are buzzwords for new youth movements that will only grow in acceptance and popularity.
When I look at his Love on Tour show I don’t see a teenage heartthrob. I see the Beatles. I look at his fashion and I see Bowie. I look at the messages he’s sending out to kids and I see Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation. And I see the fact that nobody is talking about him in those terms as proof that he is actually woefully underrated.
Now bring on the hate…
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poppletonink · 1 year
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6 Dark Academia Films Everyone Should Watch
Dead Poet’s Society
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John Keating changes a group of boys lives when he starts teaching English at their school - Dalton Academy. In a pursuit of teaching the boys to be free thinkers and to live their lives to the fullest, he causes them to reignite an old group he was in when he was at Dalton Academy: The Dead Poet's Society.
Enola Holmes
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Enola Holmes, follows the sister of Sherlock Holmes. After her mother goes missing, her life begins to fall apart - Mycroft wants to put her into a finishing school, and Sherlock is not objecting. But Enola is smart, and good at puzzles, so in an attempt to save her own future, she travels to London to find her mother. However, on the way she gets pulled into an exhilarating adventure, filled with just the right amount of mystery.
Kill Your Darlings
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A story of the college days of Allen Ginsberg, and Lucien Carr; the murder of David Kammerer, brings together the early members of the Beat Generation of poets: Lucien Carr, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Boroughs.
The Imitation Game
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Based on true events, The Imitation Game is a wonderfully acted and beautifully directed film that tells the life story of Alan Turing - the man who invented the machine that cracked the Enigma code during World War II.
Educating Rita
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Educating Rita tells the story of a young woman with her life set out for her: she has to have kids with her husband, continue working as a hairdresser, and go to the pub every week with her family. However, when Rita (Susan) decides that isn't enough for her, she enrolls in a college, in pursuit of knowledge, leaving the mundane life she led behind her, and entering the world of academia.
Little Women
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Little Women relates the story of the March sisters (Amy, Jo, Meg and Beth) - four young women each with different passions and different ideas of how they wish to live life, as they pass from childhood to adulthood.
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