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 […]
First Live Shows After the Pandemic Lockdown
July 31st, 2022 · 1 Comment · Brian on YouTube etc., Kerouac and The Beats, Poetry
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
The “On The Road” Scroll’s 50th Birthday in L.A.
May 31st, 2018 · 5 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Real-life Adventure Tales
An excerpt from my upcoming book (Sept. 2018) — On The Road With Cassadys & Furthur Visions — This bit is about 2001’s 50th anniversary of Kerouac writing his On The Road scroll — and a show we put on for the occasion in L.A. on the day he finished it, April 22nd, after one held […]
Tags: Carma Bums·Charlie Parker·Chuck Berry·George Shearing·Jack Kerouac·John Cassady·Neal Cassady·On The Road·On The Road scroll·Slim Gaillard
Jack Kerouac’s novella “Pic” Reconsidered
September 25th, 2016 · 13 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats
. I Pick Pic . Thirty years ago I remember saying to my Beat brothers at the Cedar Tavern in Greenwich Village that I thought Vanity of Duluoz was right up there with Jack’s greatest works. And they all looked at me like I was crazy and said, “Yeah, but nobody else thinks that.” 🙂 […]
Tags: Big Sur·Catcher In The Rye·Dharma Bums·Duluoz Legend·Huckleberry Finn·Jack Kerouac·John Lennon·New York·On The Road scroll·storytelling·Vanity of Duluoz
Wailin’ at The Whitney
January 26th, 2013 · 12 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, New York City
Wailin’ at The Whitney (a feature story from 1995 on the historic Whitney Museum show) Communities of creative minds exchanging ideas has been a dream of artists from the moment they first walked away from the other apes and got back to the land to set their soul free. The Lost Generation café klatch […]
Tags: Allen Ginsberg·Beat Culture at the Whitney·Beat Whitney Show·Dennis Hopper·Gregory Corso·Jack Kerouac·Jackson Pollock·James Dean·Michael McClure and Ray Manzarek·Neal Cassady·On The Road scroll·Pull My Daisy·Rebel Without A Cause·The Beat Generation·The Living Theater
The “On The Road” Scroll Auction
October 14th, 2012 · 22 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, New York City, Real-life Adventure Tales
Part I, The Author’s Song The passing of the scroll … It’s gone to a good place … . . . with an iconoclastic, white-tie wearin’ John Lennon lovin’ “huge Bob Dylan fan,” spirit of the 60s, buddy of Brinkley’s, crony of Thompson’s, and owner of the Indianapolis Colts (my new and forever favorite […]
Tags: Ann & Sam Charters·Christie's·Corso lives·Doug Brinkley·Jack Kerouac·Jim Irsay·Michelle Esrick·On The Road·On The Road Anniversary readings in New York and LA·On The Road scroll·On The Road scroll auction·preserving the On The Road scroll·Regina Weinrich·Ronna Johnson·Rosebud Pettet·Sterling Lord·the most ever paid for a manuscript·Tom Waits