. Let There Be Songs To Fill The Screen . . I remember when I first saw the long-in-the-works Beat Generation documentary “The Source” at its premiere in Manhattan with McClure, Amram and all these other luminaries and we all went to the afterparty at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and everybody was freaking out that […]
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Long Strange Trip – Grateful Dead doc review
May 2nd, 2017 · 16 Comments · Grateful Dead, Movies
Tags: Grateful Dead·Jack Kerouac·Jerry Garcia·Ken Kesey·Long Strange Trip doc·Merry Pranksters·Neal Cassady·Robert Hunter
Going Furthur film review
June 3rd, 2016 · 6 Comments · Grateful Dead, Merry Pranksters, Movies
. On The Bus and On The Road . . “Put your good where it will do the most,” …….. as Ken Kesey said, and Wavy Gravy recounted in the luminous new documentary, Going Furthur. This movie is really funny — and not in a you-had-to-be-there way. A huge part of the Merry Band of […]
Tags: Acid Tests·Jack Kerouac·Ken Kesey·Merry Pranksters·Neal Cassady
Best of Enemies film review
August 30th, 2015 · 6 Comments · Movies, Politics
When Conflict Television Was Born or . . . “I’ll sock you in your goddamn face.” . . 1968 — The year so much changed . . . Martin and Bobby . . . North Vietnam’s Tet Offensive galvanizing Americans’ opposition to the war . . . The Beatles open their Apple Core . . […]
Tags: Allen Ginsberg·Democratic Convention 1968·Gore Vidal·Jack Kerouac·Philip Glass·The Subterraneans·William F. Buckley
The Wrecking Crew film review
February 8th, 2015 · 10 Comments · Movies, Music
Pet Monkees & Other Oddities . . So … hold on — the guys who made Pet Sounds were the same people who made the The Monkees’ “music”?! And the goofy band on those Sonny & Cher albums were the same cats who played The Byrds’ Mr. Tambourine Man? What?! Crazy! But true. And they […]
Tags: Brian Wilson·Frank Zappa·Pet Sounds·The Wrecking Crew
Johnny Winter: Down and Dirty movie review
October 19th, 2014 · 17 Comments · Movies, Music
Up and Clean – How “Down & Dirty” Captured Johnny Winter’s New Spring . . Johnny Johnny Johnny … where for art thou, Johnny? In the long strange lineage of tragic rock n roll irony — see: Keith Moon sitting in the “Not To Be Taken Away” chair on his last album cover — Johnny […]
Tags: documentaries·Edgar Winter·Johnny Winter·Muddy Waters·Rock n Roll
Makin’ Movies — Carolyn Cassady, On The Road, and the Pranksters at Woodstock
September 21st, 2014 · 23 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Merry Pranksters, Movies, Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me
. Here’s some early songs in sound and light . . . My tribute to the late great Carolyn Cassady on the one year anniversary of her passing … . Or “The Pranksters Invade the Woodstock Museum” . . . . Or here’s opening the Marry Prankster Reunion weekend in 2016 . . . . […]
Tags: Carolyn Cassady·Jack Kerouac·On The Road·On The Road premiere·The Merry Pranksters·Woodstock
Seinfeld and The Beatles and The Beats and such
July 29th, 2014 · 9 Comments · Movies, Music, New York City, Weird Things About Me
. Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld were the Lennon & McCartney of comedy. That’s the way I see it, anyway. Larry was a Lennon — mercurial, opinionated, sharp tongued, bull-headed, idea generating, creatively uncompromising, a supremely gifted artist born to his medium, with an enormous elaborate expansive vision. And Jerry was the McCartney — an […]
Tags: creating Seinfeld·Henri Cru·Jack Kerouac·John Lennon·Kerouac and Seinfeld·Larry David·Larry David and John Lennon·Michael Richards·Neal Cassady·Seinfeld in Massapequa
Kill Your Darlings movie review
September 11th, 2013 · 21 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Movies
Allen & Lucien — I mean, Radcliffe & DeHaan — sharing a laugh at the premiere gala at TIFF, next to Michael C. Hall (Kammerer) and Jack Huston (Kerouac). . Just home from “Kill Your Darlings” — the second of three movies based on Jack & the Beats being released within a few months of each […]
Tags: Daniel Radcliffe Kill Your Darlings·Frankie Edie Kerouac Parker·John Heard Jack Kerouac·Kill Your Darlings movie review·Kill Your Darlings premiere·Kill Your Darlings TIFF
Beat Movie Guide
January 9th, 2013 · 30 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Movies
Beat Movie Guide (dramatizations — not documentaries) Last Updated: Feb 19th, 2023 With not one, not two, but three movies based on Jack Kerouac books coming out this year (2013) it makes sense to make sense of the world of cinematic dramatizations based on Beat works. Since real people are given different fictional names in […]
Tags: Allen Ginsberg·Big Sur movie·Carolyn Cassady·Hassett's Beat Movie guide·Heart Beat·Jack Kerouac·Neal Cassady·On The Road movie·Pull My Daisy·Quantum Leap·Route 66·The Subterraneans movie·Vincent Balestri·Walter Salles
“On The Road” Comes Home — The New York Premiere
December 24th, 2012 · 19 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Movies, New York City, Real-life Adventure Tales
“On The Road” Comes Home — The New York Premiere The day of the “On The Road” premiere in New York (Dec. 13th, 2012) I was up at the NYPL trying to get through the doors of the hermetically sealed vault of the Berg Collection, home to a gazillion literary papers from Emerson to Shelley […]
Tags: Al Hinkle·Ann Charters·Debbie Vazquez·Garrett Hedlund·Hal Wilner·Jack Kerouac·Kirsten Dunst·Kristen Stewart·Michael Stipe·New York premiere·On The Road·On The Road in New York·On The Road movie·On The Road premiere·Patti Smith·Regina Weinreich·Sam Riley·Steve Buscemi·Top of the Standard·Walter Salles