. Beat & Prankster fans rejoice! A new firsthand memoir has just been released of life with one of the Mount Rushmores of both the Beat Generation & the Merry Pranksters. That doesn’t happen very often, and there aren’t many options left. Anne Murphy (who later reverted back to her birth name Anne Marie Maxwell) […]
Entries Tagged as 'Kerouac and The Beats'
Anne Murphy’s “Tripping With A Viper” about Neal Cassady
May 4th, 2024 · 15 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Merry Pranksters
Tags: Acid Tests·Allen Ginsberg·Anne Marie Maxwell·Anne Murphy·Arthur & Kit Knight·Carolyn Cassady·Diane Di Prima·Edie Kerouac·Gavin Arthur·George Walker·Helen Weaver·Hettie Jones·Hunter Thompson·Jack Kerouac·Joyce Johnson·Ken Kesey·La Honda·Lu Anne Henderson·Merry Pranksters·Mountain Girl·Neal Cassady·Spit In The Ocean·The Beat Generation·The Beat Museum·The Grateful Dead·The Trips Festival·Tom Wolfe
Taylor Swift, the Grateful Dead and The Beat Generation
November 30th, 2023 · 28 Comments · Grateful Dead, Kerouac and The Beats, Music
. Why this Deadhead Beatnik Beatlemaniac loves Pop’s Princess I’ve been into Taylor Swift since a New York Times profile in 2008 talked about her confessional songwriting and use of social media — at the time, MySpace. (!) Her second album Fearless was set to come out (and would go on to win Album […]
Tags: Allen Ginsberg·Beyonce·Bob Dylan·Dave Grohl·Deadheads·Grateful Dead·Greta Gerwig·Jack Kerouac·Jerry Garcia·Joe Biden·John Lennon·Margot Robbie·Paul McCartney·Robert Hunter·Saturday Night Live·Swifties·Taylor Swift·The Beat Generation·The Beatles·TIFF
Jack on Film: Take 2 and Lowell Celebrates Kerouac (LCK) 2023 videos
October 31st, 2023 · 11 Comments · Brian on YouTube etc., Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Interviews, Kerouac and The Beats, Movies
Jack on Film: Take 2 at Lowell Celebrates Kerouac . Here’s a YouTube playlist with great video of the entire Jack on Film show — . =========================================== Here’s a riffing interview with WCAP in Lowell about all things Kerouac — and the new “Jack on Film: Take 2” show — with nearly a hundred photos […]
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Writing “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac”
February 20th, 2023 · 13 Comments · Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Kerouac and The Beats, Weird Things About Me
You wake up one day and your whole life changes just by the chance seeing of a picture. Much the way it might with a chance spotting of a poster on a bookstore wall. As Jack says, “My books are my children.” And as Mama always preached — pregnancy can happen in an instant. Unlike […]
Tags: Allen Ginsberg·Jack Kerouac·On The Road Kerouac Conference Boulder 1982·Robert Frank·The Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac·writing books
David Amram & Brian Hassett On-Stage Collaborations
November 30th, 2022 · 6 Comments · Brian on YouTube etc., Kerouac and The Beats, Real-life Adventure Tales
David Amram and I have been performing together since we first started hanging in 1994 after an introduction by Teri McLuhan, Marshall’s daughter. It was the big NYU Beat conference — I write about it in Blissfully Ravaged in Democracy — I first saw him unloading his congas from his Farm Aid jeep on opening night, […]
Tags: Dave Amram·George Walker·Holy Cats! Dream-Catching at Woodstock·How The Beats Begat The Pranksters·Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!·On The Road with Cassadys·Teri McCluhan·The Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac
Lowell Celebrates Kerouac (LCK) – Videos, Stories & Photos – 2015–2022
October 30th, 2022 · 7 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Real-life Adventure Tales
Stories, videos and photos from the annual Kerouac hometown festival over the last several years I’ve been going. Edie Parker-Kerouac called and told me about the the initial commemorative dedication in July 1988 — which birthed LCK — saying that she, Henri Cru and “Big Tim” Moran were driving up for it, and that […]
Tags: Andy Clausen·Beat Angel·David Amram·Edie Kerouac·Frankie Edie Kerouac Parker·George Walker·Henri Cru·How The Beats Begat The Pranksters·Jack Kerouac·John Allen Cassady·Kerouac Centennial·Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!·Merry Pranksters·Michael McClure·St. Mark's Church·The Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac·Vincent Balstri·Wireless Mike Flynn
“Jack on Film” sample
September 29th, 2022 · 5 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Movies
Here’s a little taste . . . My “script” notes for the first dramatic portrayal of Jack . . . . Pull My Daisy (released Nov. 1959) One of the Big Five to focus on MY THESIS HOW THIS IS THE GREATEST BEAT GEN CREATION. Filmed in their prime . . . . Kerouac’s best […]
Tags: Alfred Leslie·Allen Ginsberg·Barney Rosset·Carolyn Cassady·D.A. Pennebaker·David Amram·Gregory Corso·Jack Kerouac·Jonas Mekas·Larry Rivers·Maysles brothers·Peter Bogdanovich·Pull My Daisy·Robert Frank·The Beat Generation
The Making of “Jack on Film”
August 28th, 2022 · 13 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Movies
The Making of “Jack on Film” . . Believe it or not this whole thing started when I got a call on January 12th, 2021 — six days after the Capitol insurrection (!) and still deep in the pandemic lockdown daze. A musician friend I’ve known since 1976, Will Hodgson, was home with his kids […]
Tags: Big Sur·Frank Tabbita·Jack Kerouac·Jerry Cimino·Kill Your Darlings·Lowell·Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!·On The Road·Pull My Daisy·Route 66·S.A. Griffin·The Beat Museum·The Last Time I Committed Suicide·The Subterraneans·The Worthen in Lowell·Vincent Balestri
First Live Shows After the Pandemic Lockdown
July 31st, 2022 · 1 Comment · Brian on YouTube etc., Kerouac and The Beats, Poetry
The Magic Genie’s Happy Place — Saturday July 9th, 2022 . The matinee show (4PM) stemmed from a massive reorganization of all my performance pieces — many dating back to New York in the 1980s and ’90s. A bunch of them still held up — and since nobody’s heard me do them in 20 or […]
Tags: Bernie Sanders·Frankie Edie Kerouac Parker·Jack Kerouac·Jerry Garcia·Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!·Merry Pranksters·On The Road scroll·Rolling Stone Book of The Beats·Wayne Gretzky
Kerouac in Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start The Fire” Podcast
May 31st, 2022 · 1 Comment · Interviews, Kerouac and The Beats
Billy Joel Interview Story . I was contacted by this Since The World’s Been Turning podcast production out of New Zealand to talk about Kerouac. Ever since Peter Jackson’s masterful recreation of The Beatles: Get Back, and watching a thousand interviews with him with his New Zealand accent and sensibilities, I developed a real […]
Tags: Billy Joel·Jack Kerouac·New Zealand·Peter Jackson·Temp Survival Guide·The Beatles Get Back