Here’s part of the script I’ll be riffing from when I introduce the movie “Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search for a Kool Place” at Lowell Celebrates Kerouac on Sunday October 13th. We might have it streaming live on my YouTube channel if you can’t be there — https://www.youtube.com/@BrianHassettVideos/streams ============================================ This is the original Merry Prankster […]
Magic Trip movie — Introduction and Background
September 29th, 2024 · No Comments · Merry Pranksters, Movies
Tags: Alex Gibney·Alfred & David Maysles·Bob Dylan·Chuck Workman·D.A. Pennebaker·Ethan Hawke·George Walker·Grateful Dead·Jack Kerouac·Ken Kesey·Larry McMurtry·Merry Pranksters·Neal Cassady·Pull My Daisy·Robert Frank·Robert Stone·The Beatles·The Warlocks
Anne Murphy’s “Tripping With A Viper” about Neal Cassady
May 4th, 2024 · 15 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Merry Pranksters
. 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) […]
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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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Beat Versus Beatnik
March 3rd, 2021 · 29 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats
21st Century Beatniks versus Hieroglyphic Caricatures . There’s long been a debate about the word “beatnik” — originally coined by a sensationalist San Francisco gossip columnist in 1958, playing on the Yiddish suffix “nik” and the first Russian satellite launched in September ’57, colloquially known as “Sputnik.” Jack and Allen & company hated the word […]
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The Loopy Luvey Longtime Lowdown Lockdown Rap
August 31st, 2020 · 19 Comments · Poetry
. Here’s a live stream version . . . . for Andy Clausenand all the poets of eternity wrapping a present of the past for the future .Sleeping three or four times a day,An hour or two a shot;Vivid dreams in shutdown streams —Solo swimming in sunlight — Surreality surfing in twilightas Adventures soar when […]
Tags: Andy Clausen·Charlie Parker·Dada·Neal Cassady·Robert De Niro·Rod Serling·Twilight Zone
Kerouac in Provincetown
December 4th, 2019 · 37 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats
How History Could Have Been Different Kerouac’s and Otherwise . It was a quiet day in Facelandia when my Beat / Deadhead friend Steve Silberman posted: “Social media is amazing sometimes. In response to my posting a Cape Cod Times article about Kerouac’s time there, a woman posted a previously unseen photo of […]
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Ode to Neal
October 31st, 2019 · 14 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats
. Neal Cassady — by Carolyn Cassady (courtesy of the Cassady fam) . From Dean Moriarty . . . to Dead immortality, The street-kid who read . . . was a legend in bed, But more than the lays . . . he inspired a blaze In the hearths of the writers . . . […]
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Ode to Jack
September 30th, 2019 · 11 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats
. . Jack fights back from off the Beaten track still alive at 100 as if any of us ever wondered if THAT would happen after his track star sprint — through the pages of history, seeing around corners like Neal at the wheel, knockin over grammar cops and blowin past the door stops to […]
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Brian Hassett Set Lists
May 31st, 2019 · 12 Comments · Hitchhiker's Guide to Jack Kerouac, Kerouac and The Beats, Merry Pranksters, Weird Things About Me, Woodstock
Midwest Tour — May 2019 . Thomas O’Shea House Party — Berea, outside Cleveland Ohio – Friday, May 10th, 2019 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac – the Marin Epiphany – from ch 26 – The Airplane Hanger in Marin The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac – ch. 3 – Dancin’ to The Boulder Boogie […]
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Bill Cannastra & Joan Haverty’s Loft
April 21st, 2019 · 37 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, New York City
The Home of The Scroll & The Girl Newly uncovered photos and corrections to history. “Bill felt completely at home on the rooftops of Manhattan.”Joan Haverty-Kerouac on Bill Cannastra I knew I loved this guy! 🙂 . To all in Beatlandia — Pretty much nobody’s ever seen these buried Beat family photos in a hundred […]
Tags: Al Aronowitz·Allen Ginsberg·Beat Generation·Bill Cannastra·Dylan Thomas·Jack Kerouac·Jan Kerouac·Joan Anderson·Joan Haverty·John Clellon Holmes·Lucien Carr·Neal Cassady·On The Road