Garry Corbett posted a photo:
The Barber Institute at Birmingham University is currently hosting an exhibition based around Jack Kerouac's Beat novel 'On the Road' which features among other delights the original manuscript for the novel...
Garry Corbett posted a photo:
The Barber Institute at Birmingham University is currently hosting an exhibition based around Jack Kerouac's Beat novel 'On the Road' which features among other delights the original manuscript for the novel...
Eric J. Lubbers posted a photo:
Something tells me Jack would not be driving a champagne-colored Lexus convertible through the ritziest part of Denver.
goldsardine posted a photo:
And there they'd be in the little room, sax on the edge of the bed, while somebody only a little more lonely sighs in a different room down the hall. -- Jack Kerouac
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rebecca * posted a photo:
i like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. this is the night, what it does to you. i had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
( view on black! )
Thomas Hawk posted a photo:
boldaslove521 posted a photo:
true dat jack kerouac. i hope it's not too tacky to post a super pickniky picture on flickr, but i like it.
i'm wearing a vintage girl scouts dress in this that i love to bits.
poster is from the beat museum in north beach, san fran.
AndYaDontStop posted a photo:
"What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind."
- Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Part 3, Ch. 11
How many people, dead or alive, could lay claim to the fact that they helped begin a literary movement? Not many, obviously, but among those who could is Jack Kerouac.
When I first read "On the Road", I immediately wanted to pack a bag and just walk out of my apartment and never come back. Of course, I didn't, but what I did do was run to the bookstore and buy another Kerouac book. His writing helped to inspire the Beat Generation, and together with Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, he began a movement that actually changed not only the thoughts and ideas of many writers, but changed the notions of what could and could not be published in the 1950's and 60's. His influence is spread among not only writers, but musicians as well, with artists as diverse as Bob Dylan and The Beastie Boys citing his work.
So this one's for you Jack, me being as anonymous as I can be while trying to draw attention...wishing you were still around to bring that Beat back.
For Theme Of The Week - Book Interpretations.
*photo notes - this shot was taken in monochrome mode, brightness and contrast were upped in RAW mode and then a red filter put in place to achieve the sepia look without changing background color. oh, and Fiddy....'nuff said.
buy2andsave posted a photo:
oil painting on canvas. Subject: Jack Kerouac, Starbucks store. Inspired by composition of Manet's "Bar at the Foies-Bergere."
j.e.s.s.i.c.a. posted a photo:
Garry Corbett posted a photo:
Bryan Corbett, trumpet - Pete Harris, guitar - Chris Bowden, alto saxophone - Neil Bullock, drums - Ben Markland, bass
Ben Werdmuller posted a photo:
Lowell_Mariannika posted a photo:
Here in Lowell, behind the Franco-American School is the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes. Jack Kerouac and his mother prayed here when he was a child and it is one of the major settings in Dr. Sax. It's kind of a wacky place.
