May 2013
5 posts
March 2013
2 posts
3 tags
1 tag
“Being beat was far more attractive than staying chained to a brand-new kitchen...”
– Brenda Knight, Women of the Beat Generation, on the appeal of the Beat movement to women of the 1950s
February 2013
1 post
2 tags
December 2012
3 posts
2 tags
3 tags
November 2012
3 posts
6 tags
Allen Ginsberg - On Neal’s Ashes
3 tags
“That ain’t me, that ain’t my face. It wasn’t even me when I...”
– Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
October 2012
5 posts
4 tags
“Sometimes I sits and thinks. Other times I sits and drinks, but mostly I just...”
– Neal Cassady - The First Third
“No love
No compassion
No intelligence
No beauty
No humility
...”
– believed to be Elise Cowen’s last poem before her 1962 suicide
September 2012
6 posts
“Dear Allen,
Thanks a million for the mescaline.”
– William S. Burroughs’s introduction to a letter for friend, Allen Ginsberg
3 tags
July 2012
7 posts
4 tags
4 tags
3 tags
3 tags
4 tags
“Naked we come
& bruised we go
nude pastry
for the slow soft worms
below”
– Jim Morrison - The American Night: The Lost Writings, Vol. 2
3 tags
6 tags
June 2012
4 posts
5 tags
4 tags
Tom Waits - Wrong side of the road
May 2012
4 posts
April 2012
5 posts
1 tag
“all theories
like clichés
shot to hell,
all these small faces
looking up...”
– Charles Bukowski
3 tags
“Sometimes I have the feeling that we’re in one room with two opposite doors and...”
– Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
3 tags
“One fast more or I’m gone’, I realize, gone the way of the last...”
– Jack Kerouac, Big Sur
4 tags
4 tags
March 2012
7 posts
3 tags
2 tags
4 tags
5 tags
