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 […]
The Making of “Jack on Film”
August 28th, 2022 · 13 Comments · Kerouac and The Beats, Movies
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
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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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