bethwid Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 Had to post this shout out from the New York Times appreciation of On the Road, equating our beloved songwriter with the Beat great. We Wilco fans know that plaintive, restless hum well. "Above all, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WaronWar Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 Got to love Kerouac. I am reading The Dharma Bums now, and then most likely Big Sur. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mkush001 Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 both fantastic books, especially dharma bums. i like to recommend maggie cassidy to everyone who likes kerouac because it seems to be forgotten by most and it is probably my favorite kerouac book, and i've read them all. the most perfect descriptions of high school crushes you'll ever read. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilco LP #7 Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 nah. read john steinbeck and then get back to me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
oatmealblizzard Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 Yeah... I saw that quote when I was reading the paper earlier tonight. I wasn't expecting to see Tweedy referenced there. Kinda cool, though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mkush001 Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 i stand by jack but what do you suggest there, inglenntion? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Synthesizer Patel Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 i stand by jack but what do you suggest there, inglenntion? Tortilla Flat & Cannery Row beat, for me, anything that Kerouac ever wrote. There is something very similar about them to the works of Kerouac too. Not that there is any point in comparing, as they are both authors worth reading. I'm quite a fan of Dr. Sax by Kerouac, and The Dharma Bums (as mentioned) is fantastic. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 Don't forget "Visions of Gerard" also.... Steinbeck was my favorite author growing up. Of Mice and Men and Cannery Row are excellent. Both are great authors. Nice to see the original version of OTR finally make it to print. LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KevinG Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 Man, I was hoping that this would be a thread about Tweedy covering that awesome 10,000 Maniacs song. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
quarter23cd Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 Tortilla Flat & Canary Row beat, for me, anything that Kerouac ever wrote. There is something very similar about them to the works of Kerouac too. Not that there is any point in comparing, as they are both authors worth reading. I'm quite a fan of Dr. Sax by Kerouac, and The Dharma Bums (as mentioned) is fantastic.Maybe, but I think they're trying to achieve different things with their writing. There's plenty of room on my shelf for both. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
uwmryan Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 Got to love Kerouac. I am reading The Dharma Bums now, and then most likely Big Sur. I just re-read "Big Sur," amazing and sad book. He really is going insane/out of control - yet, captures it all. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
owl Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 Got to love Kerouac. I am reading The Dharma Bums now, and then most likely Big Sur.Kerouac is most interesting for his writing method, and for On the Road. I once read some of his poetry, and it was pretty terrible. nah. read john steinbeck and then get back to me.Steinbeck is good when he's trying to be cute. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oil Can Boyd Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 Man, I was hoping that this would be a thread about Tweedy covering that awesome 10,000 Maniacs song.Me too, and now I have that freakin' song in my head ... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yermom Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 I'm on a Bukowski kick now and I'm finding that I much prefer him to Kerouac. Burroughs was always my favorite of that Beat inner circle anyway. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
W(TF) Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 To go back even a bit further....for the spirit of living on the road and making music, I'd highly recommend the 2005 biography Ramblin' Man: The Life And Times Of Woody Guthrie. Fabulous reading, it captures a side of Americana we rarely think about nowadays. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Three dollars and 63 cents Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 Speaking of Kerouac (but not of Tweedy), I was interested to read this article about the new edition of On the Road being released soon: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070818/en_af...ks_070818083434 On the Road was one of the first books that was really important to me when I started writing seriously and when I started studying English in college. I haven't read it in a few years, so I'm looking forward to picking this up when it comes out, though I do hope they inserted some paragraph breaks. I'm a bit skeptical about the movie being any good, but I said that about the film adaptations of Michael Cunningham's The Hours and Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake and both were great. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dannygutters Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 I'm not sure if I get the refrence. Is he comparing kerouac's writing to tweedy's voice as some kind of idea of imperfect perfection? That the cracks tell you more than a perfect pitch would? In that case I'd agree, I guess, but I don't know if tweedy would be the first voice to spring to mind for that point. I always thought the neat thing about kerouac was that he thought of himself as a musician, like these jazz guys he idolized. Truman Capote called on the road 'typing' not writing, and he was right, but it wasn't the insult he ment it to be. It was this awesome improvized book, like a peice of music, all swooping all over and the parts that don't work make the parts that due all the better. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Good Old Neon Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Thanks for the link - excellent article. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 The article was okay, but the book that is reviewed sounds like crap. At least the original version of OTR has finally been released. (when is the movie coming out???) LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Good Old Neon Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 The article was okay, but the book that is reviewed sounds like crap. At least the original version of OTR has finally been released. (when is the movie coming out???) LouieB According to the IMDB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yermom Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Dep is an obvious choice for Sal/Jack Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Good Old Neon Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 You know that Cross is already playing Ginsberg in that Dylan movie, right? GET OUT!!! I really had no idea, and, if I did, I forgots about it. Weird. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yermom Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 GET OUT!!! I really had no idea, and, if I did, I forgots about it. Weird.Right over here is a clip.Not bad, I guess. It has been posted around these parts before. You might search for the thread about the movie. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wilco LP #7 Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 East of Eden is the most excellent book I've ever read. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bobbob1313 Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 I'd like to read On the Road. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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