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Biographics

3y↑21

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Héctor 1001

3y↑3

Can you do a Biographic episode about Jack Kevorkian “Dr.Death” “Dr.Life”

Leigh Powell

3y↑2

Could you do a biography of David Lloyd George please

Brian Mayer

3y↑2

@Leigh Powell I second this

Brian Mayer

3y↑1

Here is an idea James Cook

Skizzy

3y↑1

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richard hakes

3y↑54

He was one of the three people that genuinely changed and affected my entire life.

Mrs X

How so?

BoloBuddy

3y↑5

Who were the others

Acoustic Motorbike

2y↑1

The other 2 were?

Ozy Mandias

This merely the recitation of a hipster mantra.

Sly Agent Swy

3y↑27

"It's often at our lowest point that we turn to new things"
That definitely stood out to me, especially since the last two months were up and down for me mentally and emotionally.

The AdvoCATe

3y↑33

His books had a major impact in my life, as a Québecois, a man living in america....i went to Lowell to try to find a link when i was in my 20's....i still think of him almost every days...he had something....His books filled my younger self with meanings....he lighted something in me....Salut Jack!

Subnormality

2y↑8

"On the Road" is one of those books that people who haven't read it, and don't know the backstory, feel they completely understand and can relate to, based wholly on the inside-cover blurb that they read in high school while trying to cobble together a book report at 3AM.

Ethan Ramos

3y↑71

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry”
Jack Kerouac

Motown 222

2y↑3

Behind every smile is a row of teeth
-Jack Kerouac

Paul Matters

1y↑1

Sure. He lived with his mother. LOL

TheWebkilroy314

3y↑41

I'm so glad you covered Kerouac. A personal favorite of mine.
I love weird writers.

excelsior999

2y↑1

Is there any other kind?

cLaYmAn

@excelsior999 SellOuts ?

Henry Shelton

3y↑75

You did not! I literally searched for this video a few days ago, as i’m really into his books right now. You’re the best Simon!

Gr×nd D×D

3y↑3

😂😂😂 Great Comment

Kirk Seltzer

Read subterraneans and Tritessa

Chris Chambers

Literally 😂

Motown 222

Jack finds his people

Doug

3y↑59

I read On the Road in my early 20s and I'll never forget the feeling of joie de vivre it gave me. It encapsulates the spirit of youth and the sheer excitement of life.

Genifer Price

3y↑6

I felt the same when I read it all those years ago. I revisited it again in my 40s and I felt very different. I read the pointlessness of it, how they were doing drugs with their kids running around, then abandoned those kids. I became a mum not long after I read and was so inspired by On the Road, ironically. I even went on to date a jazz musician and decided I hated jazz. I can appreciate the Spirit of the book tho, and the Way Kerouac wrote it is inspiring!

Doug

3y↑2

@Genifer Price good point. I may have to give it a re-read with the benefit of my advanced years haha

Theo Russ

3y↑3

@Genifer Price It has different impressions at different ages.

Doug

3y↑2

@Carol B I am indeed but I would be keen to hear the female perspective on the book?

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Ian Stradian

3y↑62

After writing Desolation Angels Jack was supposed to meet Henry Miller but he never left the bar he was in to go to that meeting.
The world missed a great story that night.

John Butler

3y↑3

O that's too bad. I imagine Miller might be the empathetic sort who would help someone who had lost their way.

JamesKohler🎵

3y↑1

They did meet.

Ian Stradian

3y↑5

@JamesKohler🎵 but the night I am speaking of would have changed Jacks life I think.
It might have sparked something in Jack that would have kept him from going down the road he went.

Josey Bryant

3y↑7

Nah, a better literary meeting is when Proust met Joyce. They both admitted they'd never read each others work, and then talked about their illnesses.

John Butler

3y↑2

@Josey Bryant I think they are both worthy events, given their members, and times.

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Ignition [FR] n2

3y↑39

1:25 - Chapter 1 - Faith & family
4:15 - Chapter 2 - New york blues
6:45 - Chapter 3 - On the road
10:00 - Mid roll ads
11:20 - Chapter 4 - The scroll
14:25 - Chapter 5 - Lonesome traveller
17:50 - Chapter 6 - Decline & fall

Tendai vushe

Thank you

Mike Fannon

3y↑16

I first read "On the Road" at age 17, a few months before Kerouac died. That book and Dylan's music changed my life. RIP Saint Jack.

Mrs X

3y↑1

I see a lot of ppl that say that. I'm curious how did the book change your life?

Mike Fannon

3y↑10

Mrs. X, thanks for your question. Will try to shorten a long story.
In1969, two weeks after high school graduation, I entered a large state university, experiencing my first taste of freedom and escape from my loving but repressive Southern Baptist family. There at age 17 read "On the Road." Led to Ginsberg, Henry Miller, many more.
Caught up in the civil rights and anti-war movements of the time, also inspired by Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" and having little money, began travelling by thumb. Hitchhiking was common and fairly safe in those days. Met all kinds of people, made lots of friends, had several adventures.
Years later, married with a daughter, after working all kinds of jobs, finally worked my way to the profession that suited me: on-the-road salesman. Customers became friends, traveled hundreds of miles each week, came home weekends. With a large measure of independence, traveled 3 states, visiting my friends, enjoying the seasons, making a good living.
Retired now, enjoying nature from my back porch, reading Kerouac again.

Joe Bing

3y↑2

Steinbeck, Kerouac, and Thompson. Their writings on traveling the open road, especially about the Pacific Coast Highway area south of San Francisco, continues to inspire to this day. The Big 3 of 20th Century Americana writing.

WannabePoet96

3y↑6

Besides Hunter S. Thompson and Charles Bukowski, Kerouac is among my favorite writers. As a 25 year old, currently unemployed student barely scraping enough to make through my monthly rent, Kerouac’s poetry and other writings hit me, and I mean hit me, deeply. Thanks for this vid!

Scoop

3y↑2

17MAY2021 - Nice job on this one. My mother was a novelist, poet, etc. and I ended up with a degree in writing and editing. Jack's life was sad for sure, another misguided (misdirected) talent who could have done so much more with the correct assistance. I would like to encourage you to consider doing a piece on the author of "Trout Fishing in America," Richard Brautigan.

Jackaloopt

3y↑5

I’ve watched many of your videos and this one really was one of your best work. Thank you.

Erich Shuler

3y↑4

These are so damn good! Do you have a staff of writers/researchers? I love these biographies!

Biographics

3y↑5

Hi Erich! Yes, we do! You can find the writer in the end credits. Our writers are responsible for doing their research and providing their resource which are found in the SHOW MORE section.

Robert Schott

2y↑1

You ought to do a video on the greatest musician that you never heard of, Flaco Jimenez. He plays the accordian. He has won 6 Emmies, countless other awards, played with the likes of The Rolling Stones, member of the Texas Tornadoes, Countless lifetime achievement awards and honorary degrees. Considering that he is a virtuoso playing the accordian, an instrument quickly going the way of the lyre and harpsichord. I actually got to meet him and spend a few hours with him. He's a great story teller. He is reserved and respectful. If you want to see his performances there are videos of him performing on Austin City Limits. I really believe that he is perfect for your biographos channel

TheLammacus

Hey Simon love all of you and the others who work to create this channel! I'm wondering Simon, do you have any hero or someone who particularly inspires you from history, and have you done a video about them?

James Gould

2y↑1

Thanks for that, I’ve just finished reading On The Road, as a writer myself, and my father is a writer, it has thoroughly affected my perception especially of American life.

Michael Cooper

3y↑10

My favorite author aside from Huxley. My words don't do justice to how great his writing is

Paul Matters

He couldn't write a note to his milkman. Tolstoy he is not.

Michael Cooper

@Paul Matters give me Pushkin and Dostoevsky over Tolstoy

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AlphaVirgo91

3y↑2

Hey just dropping by. I am a podcast subscriber on your channel and I have been driving and keeping busy while listening, but I want you to know that I absolutely love the channel and podcast. All your channels are incredibly interesting. You’ve made my quarantine through 2020 tolerable. I listen to you contentment daily. Keep it up love from Vegas.
PS please don’t stop updating podcast.
Olaf

Ktlemongrass

3y↑3

Thank you, he was always just a name for me before. I was a homeless teen and everyone would suggest I read him - now I know why!

Jason Kerouac

As a Kerouac, I read quite a bit of his work growing up (not all), but never did much research on the man himself. Interesting video. Thanks!

Alix Wolf

3y↑11

Kerouac changed my life, I've been travelling for 6 years now thanks to his work. "nowhere to go but everywhere, so keep on rolling under the stars"

Mrs X

3y↑1

But soon you will have to put down roots and start a home for yourself. Find a good woman to civilize you. Or maybe not. . . 😉

cLaYmAn

there are some poets around here

cLaYmAn

& who will civilise the broads

Juliana Niño

3y↑2

Love these videos sm but can we please see more female writers??? Jane Austen? The Brontes? Flannery O’Connor? Virginia Woolf? Emily Dickinson? Sylvia Plath? Toni Morrison? Octavia E. Butler? Maya Angelou? I’d love to learn more about those talented writers (:

ParsleyPalace

3y↑1

Thank you for this. I live near Lowell and have taken part in Kerouac weekends there. It makes me remember a great but fragile soul.

Walter Fechter

2y↑1

My uncle graduated high school in 1957. He was bound for college, but; like so many young people (then and now) he wanted to travel. My uncle had read "On the Road" in December 1957. By Spring of 1958, he had saved enough money to buy a then brand-new Harley and to cover traveling expenses. He also worked along the way to California. Years later; on the night I graduated high school; my uncle handed me a battered and dog-eared copy of "On the Road." After giving me his copy of "On the Road," my uncle said to me, "The Bible and this book are the only road maps you'll need -- go West until you meet the Pacific, as I did." Thank you, Jack Kerouac. Special thanks to my uncle.

Rachelle Silver

3y↑14

Funny coincidence im literally in the middle of reading this book and reading up about all the beat characters. Interesting to see the contrast of how these people lived during their travels vs the lasting effects afterwards

jake misskelley

3y↑2

Read electric acid kool aide test. Next. OTR follows neil cassidy “dean” 1940s-1950s. EAKT features cassidy at the center of a second counterculture in 60s.

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Paul Scott

3y↑3

An extraordinarily good review. . I thought I knew a lot of Kerouac's life and being but I had to reconsider my entire memory, and I saw the author here has a good understanding of alcoholism.

David O'Reilly

3y↑3

I first heard of Jack Kerouac from Tom Waits, and my god, this man is a wordsmith

Rhonda Gallardo

You did well in looking the expression of this man. The intake of what I got out of this was that Will Smith still processing this with himself and having to do now with his team is to mend this with him really not ready but wants to make it right but has to follow their guidelines. If people can remember how he has explained how he was raised can answer a lot of the questions. In his head he was taught to protect his family and trying to work through of why it went this far.
Will as a star has also been under a lot of stress with his kids and wife and even his wife had or having a talk show. He’s had to go a long with a lot of things. There it just snapped. So some of it was processing, some of it was I am me and I do apologize ,some I having to follow my team hoping they are doing the right thing.

Jake Weber

3y↑21

Please make a biography on
William Burroughs his life was insane!

Stephen Widger

3y↑1

He needs to do all the Beats. Burroughs, Ginsberg, etc.

Patrick Mullaly

3y↑6

Burroughs was a cold blooded murderer and woman abuser. Even worse he was a mediocre writer

Jake Weber

3y↑1

Exactly ; )

Marquart Doty

3y↑1

@Patrick Mullaly hahaha loved this comment

Lissa Haddock

3y↑1

I'd love to see a video on Mary Todd Lincoln, especially her later life. I just read a poorly written version and I'm horrified her son treated her that way and just fascinated by her.

Mrs X

What way?

tracey yeoman

3y↑2

Jack Kerouac, loved him. loved the book, wow did not know that he had an affair with another great Gore Vidal, incredible man. Actually could you do a biographic on Gore Vidal, the man was possibly the most articulate man who ever lived. Really enjoy your biographics they are everything I need . Thank you this was superb made me all excited again, I going downtown tomorrow to find that book and read it again and Big Sur yes. Brought back a wonderful feeling that book got me travelling and I looked for the romance everywhere I went , loved his spirit. He was definitely an American Great.

Fromulus

3y↑5

Despite the tragic end to his life, you still have to envy him living in America in that time, really for him, the perfect time.

Mrs X

Imagine what he would think of America in 2021

Ryan Rizzo

Great video! What an interesting man! As usual, I'm here to request a Biographic on Ip Man, the martial arts mentor to the late, great Bruce Lee! A bunch of over the top action movies just can't do such a great man the justice that Biographics can! Thank you I'm advance, as always! -A Loyal Subscriber

Bubba Gump

3y↑1

Jack, Neal, and Allen stood for compassion, freedom, and joy.

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J-Train

So excited every time I get a push notification from biographical. Simon and crew you guys are amazing.

501 212

3y↑2

It’s very interesting that his childhood home isn’t a museum or something. I understand he didn’t spend the bulk of his life there, but it would still be a good idea to try and do something special with it besides a plaque that states “Jack Kerouac was born here”.

Nathan Nakonieczny

3y↑2

I suggested this years ago. Thank you biographics, I'm sure it wasn't just for me but this is awesome.

A.J. DeBellis

3y↑1

I enjoyed the video but I think you missed some major events in Kerouac’s life including his television interview with Steve Allen and his subsequent album with Allen. His later recording with some of his jazz heroes can safely be considered one of the low points in Kerouac’s life and should have been covered.

I tend to think of Jack Kerouac and Charles Bukowski as being two sides of the same coin. Alternatively, I sometimes think of Bukowski as being Kerouac’s evil twin. Can you please cover Charle’s Bukowski?

Jay ONeill

Great episode Simon, thanks for the insights.

bargepoled

3y↑2

I wrote my University thesis on the Beat Generation. I'd argue his best book isn't On the Road but Dharma Bums.. It encompasses the beat vision much more succinctly than OTR.
Whats not mentioned in this video is his huge benzedrine use while he was writing OTR. It wasn't just coffee that fueled him... 😂😂

Heads up to Carolyn Cassady and her book Off the Road - the real truth behind Kerouac and Neal Cassady's relationship. (violence, extreme mysogonistic tendancies, alcoholism).

Jason Garfield Bardy

Same! My uni advisor and I shared a love of Beat and road literature. I'd email observations that I had about Kerouac/ Road years later.

Alexus Bratva

3y↑3

Before I watch this, I want to say, On The Road a 2/3 year period of Kerouac's life, was supposedly written in 6 days while he was on speed ...so awesome

stella

Yeah that happens, i'm surprised it didn't turn into incoherent nonsense and word salad towards the end of the six days. That's a long time to stay awake

U.SonomaBeach

Actually he wrote it in 3 weeks and he was on the road for 7 years. To back this up you can hear Jack explain it himself if you search his appearance on the Steve Allen show where he is interviewed by Allen before reading from On the Road. Steve Allen, after Jack explains he wrote it in 3 weeks after being on the road 7 years, quips, 'I was once on the road for 3 weeks and it took me 7 years to write about it. Sort of the other way around'....

Alexus Bratva

@stella i wrote my 28 pg thesis on Adderall, then went to a job interview, landed them both

primesspct2

I enjoyed this immensely ! Thank you Simon!

Coyote Hinderstein

3y↑1

I'm 20 now i read Electric Koolaid acid test when I was 15 shortly after I first tried lsd, than one flew over the cuckoos nest a short time later, and my grandpa one of the beat generation told about on the road and I finally read it last year, and it not only showed me how every perspective every influence on and in the world is interesting and unique, it showed me a form of writing and a culture I could very much get down with, all these people and ideas and movies they watch it all became so much more interesting, gave me hope to branch out beyond my little society to find others everywhere. things today seems different more tight ass more categorized at least it had to me only what I've come to realize is that the beatnik adventure is still accessible and their to anyone willing to push past their niche and find it. I don't think it'll ever be the same but I don't want it to cause even better it'll always be different and that's where lies fear and hope, the thrills that bleed into adventure and freedom. Just using myself and my perspective as an example for any other who may feel walled into their societal niche like the judgement of your few peers surrounding you cascades into all others that society is not an IT, that is their is no singular society but a fluid thing an ocean with waves that go off in all directions and meaning to be derived shifting perspectives that can sink or rise with the ebb and flow of its tides, and infect influence them, create more. Today the internet gives us unprecedented access to all variety of opinions and easy to see just a word or two and in common and categorize them in strict groups to pass over as a means of saving time that never seems to change, but I just wanna say to embrace the chance of uncertainty, to waste some of that precious nothing time, and create space for more to see more to learn and hope for that's an opportunity right there in front of you and anyone can take hold and be cast out into infinite ocean, you just gotta dig it.

Simon Shaw

3y↑1

Absolutely fantastic day when I saw the title of this video :) love kerouac his books made me fall in love with literature

Matthew Stork

3y↑8

I found out about Kerouac when I was younger researching all of the events in We Didn't Start the Fire.

Dylan S

48w

I read on the road I started reading the book when I was in a real bad mental health time period. It really healed me a lot I just ordered Dharma Bums it’s suppose to arrive this week!

Robot Jack

Like a lot of Americans, I read On The Road when I was eighteen or nineteen. I loved it. But I also had mixed feelings about it as well. I didn't like the characters who would treat women so terribly. But it moved me regardless.
These days I think Kerouac's best work is his spoken word albums. The best I think is the first, Poetry for the Beat Generation. Steve Allen, who was a co-creator and host of the Tonight Show from it's inception until 1957, played improvised piano. I think that record in particular, and the other two to a lesser degree, mostly captured what he was trying to do as well as put his speaking voice and personality on display.
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James C. Murray

Thanks, Simon, for slipping William F. Buckley Jr./Firing Line footage into this Biographics on Kerouac. (Mr. Buckley took an interest in the poet at an early time in Jack's 'career', and Mr. Buckley had Jack on as a guest several times, throughout the history of his Firing Line broadcast. [Thus, one can witness the terrible change in Jack Kerouac over time on film, due to his out-of-control alcoholism. Shame. Eventually, Jack was always "as drunk as a poet on payday", and then soon thereafter would leave this world.]) Next stop for you within the literary world and a possible future Biographics topic, Bret Easton Ellis (though he is still relatively young, and thus he may not have created his own Magnum Opus, yet).

Thomas Kittock

Wonderful video! If I may provide a critique, I would avoid using some of that modern stock footage when attempting to visualize a concept or topic, it appears very cheap. Not only that, but it makes the presentation appear less authentic and elevated compared to other amateur channels. Keep up the good work, I find these videos comforting and informational!

Jeffrey Hunt

One major thing that was left out - "On The Road" was also made possible by the use of large quantities of amphetamines sustained over a period of several weeks.

It's perhaps the main reason why the story was written like one continuous stream of consciousness. It's because he sat at his typewriter for several hours at a time, uninterrupted, hacking it out in several day-long sessions of typewriting, on speed the entire time.

He definitely paid the price for it, though, as it took a significant negative toll on his physical health, and presumably on his mental health too.

I'm not trying to glamorize drugs. Amphetamines can be very dangerous and potentially deadly in the wrong hands and/or the wrong situations. But it's an essential part of his story.

Kirk Seltzer

3y↑2

Love Kerouac. I can do without the gay stuff but that's just me. Subterranean and Tritessa I thought were amazing. For me it was relatable and truthful. First time I read on the road I was in my 20s and in prison. Took me away uptown.

groofay

3y↑1

I had some fun times reading Kerouac in high school behind my conservative '00s high school teachers' backs. What a sad, senseless loss his death was.

Mrs X

Why would you have to hide your leisurely reading from a teacher?

Marc Goulding

Now I feel like a jerk because I do love your content, Simon!

Meserbee C.

Just settling and being a good person was the alternative. I think once your turned on you cannot help but want to take credit for being a certain kind of person. Whether it is to catch the eye of the opposite sex, embrace a dream that is limitless, or just lose yourself -- he was not content in being classed as typical. He was atypical and needed to expend rather than keep. That I believe is the choice he made. That and gambling on risk and throwing caution to the wind.

Morg Ellon

3y↑10

I was just talking to someone about this Neal Cassady book I bought but haven't read yet. Seems a lot of people are getting synchronicity on this one, today. A sign. The world is finally coming around to the Beat vision. Cops actually going to jail for murder instead of getting away with it. Psychedelics getting legalized. Good times.

Larry Grecko

3y↑1

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Eric Dahlstrom

He was friends with my favorite writer,William Burroughs,thats how I got into Kerouac. Burroughs was so forward thinking for his time,and even now.i think Burroughs came out guy bc of what happened with his wife.they say he was ultra guilty about what happened,rarely spoke of her,and did love her.patti Smith said he had hard time admitting he loved someone.also it caused the distance between him and his son.

Malcolm Archibald

3y↑3

Saved this one for tomorrow. Kerouac was my favourite of the Beat Generation when I was younger. Gotta hit the sack, but 'Thanks for this.'

Hanskah

3y↑62

Fun fact: he hated beatniks, the very generation he created, because they took the wrong message from his novel.

I hope Allen Ginsburg is the subject of a video in the near future. Freud would have loved for him sit in his chair.

Nature frc

3y↑6

Freud was more suitable to be sitting in that chair

Trey Heller

3y↑4

What was the wrong message, and what was the right (according to him)?

Mrs X

Jessica Jujubean I can believe that.

Mrs X

3y↑2

@Trey Heller Kerouac was more conservative and spiritual than that generation gave him credit for.. they treated him like he was some sort of "outlaw" bad@ss. He never saw himself that way.

Mrs X

Jessica Jujubean I can definitely believe all of that. Every interview I've ever seen of him he seems really . . . off. Not all there.

Pete Garofalo

3y↑1

Excellent. Suggestion box: Next up: Henry Miller. This would be epic. A hell of a life literally to the very end.

michael andrew salomone new jersey

Thank you for bringing up the lost novel I never knew about.

Christina Cascadilla

3y↑9

Darn...you got so close to mentioning the Hotel Chelsea. That’s where the Kerouac/Vidal encounter occurred. And trust me...it was more like Vidal convincing Kerouac to have the encounter. I’m sure he got Jack good and drunk.

MikeyMorrison27

3y↑1

Read On The Road two years ago, stuck with me. Plan to get more into him after this!

Justin A

3y↑3

Yes! Great choice! One of the main guys I've been requesting. Please do Emile Zola and HG Wells at some point, I love the writer videos. Thanks

Nikki Griffin

pretty sure he already did HG didn't he?

Justin A

@Nikki Griffin Not yet! Hopefully soon haha

MrLoobu

Easily the best book Ive ever read.

Luke Hammond

3y↑6

Was just ordering some of his books, and this came up. Thanks for reading my mind biographics

Brandon Orgeron

3y↑1

Could you do a biography on Eugene V Debbs? I’d love to see that!

Mrs X

That would be great.

Dustyn_Live_and_in_Color

3y↑1

Yo, Simon! Can you guys do a video on Quanah Parker last great comanche warchief oooor someone like Sitting Bull or Geronimo? Honestly any great figure out of Native American history.

Christopher Stephen Jenks, BSG

3y↑2

Well done! I knew two of Lucien Carr's sons as a schoolboy, though I didn't know how important their father was until I was an adult.

By the way, you're pronouncing the city of Lowell, MA, incorrectly.

Jeffrey A. Smith

I discovered Jazz in NY after college after a mostly whitebread upstate NY existance. My college buddy from Queens took me to all the village dives, and showed me all the secret spots where the best musicians played for cheap (still do). Where to get the best Chinese and best pizza, etc. How to ride the subway. To this day, I'm still blown away by the disparate culture of NYC when I visit. Since traveling all over, I've learned there's nothing like it in the world. Going back in late June, cant wait!
Read On The Road back in 2000. Loved it.
I live on the road doing a 'Nomadland' type of thing, & I'm a jazz drummer too.

greg y

huh! as a fellow upstater, i'd have to say, there's more genuine human existence in upstate than in all of nyc. just as a serious writer is far more likely to come out of some small town than from "the village" or hipster brooklyn. nyc always lures the pretentious and shallow though. lemme guess - you live in a LOFT!? oh and tell lena dunham upstate says hi!
and OF COURSE you like jazz - or very much want to think you do. but you wouldn't know the difference anyway:)

Jeffrey A. Smith

@greg y No. Just grew up in what is White & Westchester. Back in the 70's and 80's before there were "lofts". And probably before you were born. Exploring the city in the early 90's before NY got too gentrified.

Jeffrey A. Smith

@greg yTook drum lessons from Joe Morello, Dennis Chambers and Dave Weckl in 1991/92. And can keep up with the big boys on any sight reading session.
Any Questions?

greg y

@Jeffrey A. Smith ha. westchester upstate? yeah right. you are a cliche. so was kerouac. and so are his admirers

Jeffrey A. Smith

Private lessons at Weckl's house in Mt. Vernon, at the time, right after he left Chick.

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Kiran Pandit

3y↑8

We need Cassius Marcellus Clay biography. The legendary abolitionist from Kentucky!

Michael Zieschang

In the higher grades German school we discussed 'The catcher in the Rye' which I hardly understood. Maybe Kerouac would´ve been a better choice or maybe I should re-read that stuff today (aged mid forty) and the others mentioned here as well...

Dudepool

3y↑1

I legitimately lived in Lowell Mass for like, 5 years, and don't know Jack lmao. There are some placards and the like around the city, but they never drew my attention. Now that it's been over 5 years since I lived there, it's time to learn about him lmao.

The Renewed Poet

Kerouac's stories about Lowell are his best. Low-well

tomahawkthrowa89

3y↑1

You should do King Zog of Albania. Probably one of the oddest leaders ever.

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William Pitsenbarger. First enlisted airman to be awarded the Metal of Honor. He also was awarded an Airman's Metal for a previous mission. Died at 21

Dharma Bum

3y↑3

My name is my favorite Kerouac novel. Love that he did him!

Alex Castro

I was in a rock band for a while called Dharma Bums

Edward Gregory

3y↑6

King Crimson's "Neil, Jack and Me" is about Cassidy and Kerouac and a Studebaker Coupe.

Rubi Brazil

Thank u very much for shared this 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I love jack Kerouac ❤

Bärserker

I really need to read more of Jack than only On the Road.

U.SonomaBeach

Yes! Read Tristessa. Also Visions of Gerard is some of the best prose ever written. Lonesome Traveler is a great collection of stories. Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels should be read together. I also recommend the recording of his reading titles Blues and Haikus. Search YouTube for Northport tapes on YouTube for some good reading by him

michael andrew salomone new jersey

We must keep in mind that Jack Kerouac had the influence of Thomas Wolfe, the fellow from North Carolina, and before that, well before that, Walt Wittman

Micheal Kelly

3y↑2

PLEASE do a vid on William S Burroughs!! Kerouac one of my major hero's as well

Tom Degan

Very well done!

_paidporter

Why doesn’t anyone ever mention The Town & The City? His best work imo

james massey

3y↑1

Simon. Please do a video on Edward Jenner, inventor of the vaccine

I feel that now is the perfect and most relevant tune to showcase his life and the gift he gave to the world.

Brandon Ashley

A little late to this video, but would be really nice to see you make one on Ernst Jünger.

Merit Coba

3y↑1

Thank you for this. I like the insights.

Corinne Irwin

Interesting. I've always been so curious about Jack.

Risbo Turbide

3y↑19

"Big Sur" and "Satori in Paris" are, for me, Kerouac's masterpieces.

Skunk Ape

3y↑6

Too hard to pick any as a favorite for me. Jack was a visionary genius. He and Pollock were my motivation to start dabbling in art. I'm nowhere near as talented as either of them, but their brilliance gives me the inspiration to keep cranking out work. Something to aspire toward, if you will.

David Hayter

3y↑3

@Skunk Ape I think with Pollock his genius was that he created his own genius in art. The mindset he approached with his work was his genius not so much the physical art itself. I hope that makes sense. Lol

Skunk Ape

3y↑2

@David Hayter absolutely! On the surface his work is something that could be overlooked in any corner gallery. It's the story of the man himself and his willingness to go "against the grain" that truly define his brilliance. Giants of that stature are meant to be revered.

Oh, and nice work on the MGS series. Long live Solid Snake.

bargepoled

3y↑4

Dharma Bums is his best novel by miles

David Hayter

3y↑2

@Skunk Ape you said it better than I could. Exactly.... On the mgs level I feel like Vito Corleone when they shot Sonny on the causeway. "Look how they massacred my boy" when I saw MGS Survive.....

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Andy Fairhurst

3y↑9

Do Bukowski. Seriously, he created and defined a literary movement.

Dan Sharpe

Yes, this. Do it now.

Dudepool

3y↑2

Wow. After seeing this video, I actually have a bit more insight into my older cousin, who is a huge fan of his.
We're both the "nutjobs", or "mental" members of the family. We have different, but still potentially "crippling" issues. He's "spiritual" or whatever, whereas I'm as religious as the Fact Boy. He did some time in the military, lying about his mental issues, yet I did not. I even embraced my "problems". He self medicates with booze, and was addicted before he was 30, and I'm simply a wicked stoner. We're both on social security because of our issues, yet he sees no way out, and I'm working on getting myself off of it. It really is quite interesting to see this video, and note these, and other differences, seeing as how I never enjoyed Jacks writings. Hey Simon, chalk 1 up for Tolkien over non fiction lmao. Pipe-weed saved my ass from a miserable life. Now if you excuse me, I'm going to go enjoy some more of that wonderful plant, while listening to renditions of songs about Tom Bombadil, and his lovely wife Goldberry. Man, I'm jollier than any depiction of Saint Nicolas these days. I love it!

Cris Thomas Z

Would love a video about Witold Pilecki aka inmate 4859. That would be interesting to watch.

Sierra

3y↑54

The second I read this title my brain just went, "Hit the road Jack, and dont come back. No more, no more, no more, no more."

Dudepool

3y↑3

And now it's stuck in my head lmao.

nineteenfortyeight

Indeed

Dudepool

@nineteenfortyeight Teal'c? Is that you buddy?

nineteenfortyeight

@Dudepool nopes! 🤷‍♀️

Dudepool

@nineteenfortyeight damnit... I guess I have too high hopes that the S.G.C. is real...

Pou

Can you please do a biographic on my hero Alexander Theodore Shulgin!!

shangrila73eldorado

Your account of his last ten years was too dark. He did break away from his old friends, he did fall further into the bottle, BUT he also got married to a new woman, traveled, had friends. He even wrote sports for a local newspaper. He had a couple of nice houses. Spent a lot of time in Florida. Was he ever really out of print and becoming irrelevant? How did he suddenly resurface? Hmmmm.