Jack Kerouac Videos

From the electric bowels of the Black Mountain College, tinged with the bohemian hedonism of Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Burroughs, comes the projective verse of the beat down, beatific anti-conformist youth culture warriors: Howl and Opiate Bellevue!

don't own the copyrights - for entertainment purposes only *manipulating photos of jack kerouac

We film & document, support & promote different musical scenes such as the punk & hardcore scene, the indie scene, the roots rock scene, the jazz scene and more. We cover record conventions, record collectors, music history teachers and everything else in between that ignites passion in us. "The whole punk ethic was DIY. When they said that anybody can do this, i was like: Ok, that's me" -Michael Stipes, R.E.M. PUNK EMPIRE videos are being watched 1 million times per year by people from all around the world on YouTube. Our work is free, for your viewing pleasure. Our activities generate no financial gains. We take pride in being an honnest Do-It-Yourself organisation. We lead by example. Our method is simple: A one-shot angle, a tripod and a modest video-editing technique. "I think the media is art" -Andy Warhol The one-shot angle is not that simple. It is truely a challenging artform to master. Anyone can improvise but improvising well is difficult. We are not professionals and that is the beauty of it. This is the DIY way. We do our best to film passion live on stage, in the street, when we see and feel it. The one-shot angle allows us to document reality with uncut authenticity. "First thought, best thought" -Jack Kerouac Record collectors often say that holding an original piece of vinyl is the closest they can get to touching Rock & Roll history. We hope our videos may make you feel the same way. Every passing day turns our videos into music archives. The camcorder captures the true, authentic moment, as if you were there yourself. "Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind -Mike Watt" PUNK EMPIRE follows these philosophies. For us, the internet revolution has turned PUNK EMPIRE ideas into lifelong projects. We will continue to capture moments that shaped our lives and the musical activities of the cool people of our time. Yes, that means you ! If you're reading this, you're already fueling this revolution. One things is for sure, you are passionate about the same thing as us: Music. Being part of a music scene is special. For the first time in history, it is possible for us to film our entire lives on video. To film our friends, our environment, the world we live in and share it with the world of tomorrow and in our case, the music lovers of the future. "Start your own band, paint your own picture, write your own book, poem" -Mike Watt Millions have watched our videos since the day they first appeared on YouTube in 2006. Without sounding too ambitious, we hope more people will watch them for generations to come, for decades to come, for hundred of years to come, if the technology allows it ! Which it certainly will. Even long after we're gone, bored on a cloud in heaven or BBQ-ing in hell with our favorite artists. Or neither ! Screw that ! Let's pray we all go to hell ! "In heaven, all the interesting people are missing" -Nietzsche If you didn't get that, loosen up. The youth of today are living through exciting times. Don't miss the boat, get with the program ! The future is yours, take it, grab it !! A life worth living is a life worth documenting. PUNK EMPIRE members are more than music fans, they are music missionairies. "If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done" -Wittgenstein So let's not forget to not take ourselves too seriously and have fun. This is a punk channel afterall ! "The revolution will not be televised" -Gil Scott-Heron That's right, it's on YouTube. Now, subscribe to our videos ! "I figured out that the interview and the media was a way of teaching. If you talk to people as if they were future buddhas that any bad karma coming out of it will be their problem rather than yours, so you can say anything you want, and you talk on about the highest level possible."-Allen Ginsberg

on the road

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Basil takes her funnel out on the town.

Balade dans le jolie sentier de Parlee Beach, Shediac, N.-B. - photos et montage inspirés par la "Pratique de la poésie" extrait de la Complaintes du continent de Gérald Leblanc - imagerie bercée par le cantique Etideo puelle extrait de la Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations de Hildegard von Bingen. Gérald Leblanc (1947-2005) est un poète acadien originaire de Bouctouche que l'on prénommait le "Jack Kerouac de l'Acadie". Voici un extrait de son entretien dans le cadre du thème « L'écrivain sur l'écriture » (été 2004): "La lecture m'a ouvert tout un autre champ d'exploration. À l'école, les Fables de La Fontaine me remplissaient de joie. La découverte de Rimbaud a été déterminante. En apprenant l'anglais, un autre continent s'offrait à la lecture : James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Diane DiPrima, Jack Kerouac, Amiri Baraka, Don DeLillo, Adrienne Rich... Et enfin, chez moi, les poètes Raymond LeBlanc et Guy Arsenault qui m'ont appris l'importance d'inscrire notre réalité acadienne dans nos textes. Un apprentissage continu dont l'écriture à la fin du compte sera l'épreuve d'en arriver à trouver sa propre voix." Comme un otage du quotidien. Moncton : Éditions Perce-Neige, 1981. Géographie de la nuit rouge. Moncton : Éditions d'Acadie, 1984. Précis d'intensité. En collaboration avec Herménégilde Chiasson. Lèvres urbaines 12 (1985). Lieux transitoires. Moncton : Michel Henry Éditeur, 1986. L'Extrême frontière. Moncton : Éditions d'Acadie, 1988. Les Matins habitables. Moncton : Éditions Perce-Neige, 1991. Complaintes du continent. Moncton/Trois-Rivières : Éditions Perce-Neige/Écrits des forges, 1993. De la rue, la mémoire, la musique. Lèvres urbaines 24 (1993). Éloge du chiac. Moncton : Éditions Perce-Neige, 1995. Méditations sur le désir. Livre d'artiste avec Guy Duguay. Moncton : Atelier Imago, h.c., 1996. Moncton Mantra. Moncton : Éditions Perce-Neige, 1997. Je n'en connais pas la fin. Moncton : Éditions Perce-Neige, 1999. Géomancie. Ottawa : Éditions L'Interligne, 2003.

Jack Kerouac talking to person at piano, talking about writing method.

I believe Perry Como was possibly the first singer to have a hit with Andre Previn's "Like Young"...not sure hope you enjoy Vince Jone's rendition he's quite a jazz legend in Australia & some places abroad many albums to his credit; including soundtracks

David Amram discusses the making of Jack Kerouac's Pull My Daisy on News Close-Up. Includes excerpts from Pull My Daisy.

David Amram discusses the making of Jack Kerouac's Pull My Daisy on News Close-Up. Includes excerpts from Pull My Daisy.

David Amram accompanies Keir Dullea reading the opening passage from Jack Kerouac's book "On The Road"

David Amram accompanies Geoff Carpentier reading "On Hearing Shearing" by Jack Kerouac

David Amram accompanies Adira Amram reading Jack Kerouac's poem "Children of the American Bop Night"

David Amram talks with NY 1 News about Kerouac and poetry readings in 1957 to the present day. Adira Amram is featured reading Kerouac

An unfinished project from the old college days combining narration, music, and animation.

Jack Kerouac's Belief & Technique for Modern Prose The Essentials

* I didn't understand at all, but it's geograficaly meaning "on the other coast". Ne 14.prosince 2008 22:00 Na plovárně s Michaelem McClurem Rozhovor Marka Ebena s americkým beatnickým básníkem a dramatikem. American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets (including Allen Ginsberg) who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955 rendered in barely fictionalized terms in Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums. He soon became a key member of the Beat Generation and is immortalized as "Pat McLear" in Kerouac's Big Sur. Source: Wikipedia

This is a movie about the Beat characters starring Daniela Tahara as Neal Cassady- David Moshe as Jack Kerouac- Vida angelina as Allan Ginsberg- Zana Peterson as William Burroughs and my dear friends who were so willing to help and who are also actors/guests in our crazy movie...

Excerpt from a broadcast program we produced for Tele5 Munich featuring Jerry and me talking about Jack Kerouac, Ferlinghetti and the Dead, among others. Enjoy!