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SOULS WITH MALEDICTIONS
”‘Moloch’ certainly, despite the horror it holds for Ginsberg, is after all only the comfortably unreal reality of bourgeois America. It is as much ‘invisible suburbs’ as it is ‘monstrous bombs’, and even the poet admits that it ‘entered my … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Aaron Taylor, Allen Ginsberg, Ary Scheffer, Beat Poetry, Beat Poets, Carl Solomon, Dante Alighieri, Fra Girolamo Savonarola, Ginevra de Benci, Giotto di Bordone, Howl, Jack Kerouac, Leonardo DaVinci, Lorenzo Medici, Savonarola, Warren Ginsberg, William Adolphe Bourguereau
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DANTE & DIVINE COMEDY of EXILE
”in every man … a demon lies hidden — the demon of rage, the demon of lustful heat at the screams of the tortured victim, the demon of lawlessness let off the chain. (The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky)” Dante lived in … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Beat Poetry, Beat Poets, Botticelli, Carsten Svennson, Dante, Dante Alighieri, Delacroix, Dostoevsky, Henry Holiday, Howl, Italian Renaissance, Joseph Conrad, Michelino, Rennaisance, Salvador dali, The Divine Comedy, William Blake, William Carlos Williams
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REVOLUTION OF THE SEXY LAMB
” it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing. Duke Ellington’s 1931 composition in reverse.Were there Subliminal messages in Beatles songs when played backwards? The famous dead-man messages contained within the marketing and the more subliminal experiments … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Beatles, Carl Solomon, Duke Ellington, Ezra Pound, F.Scott Fitgerald, George Harrison, Gertrude Stein, hemingway, Henri Matisse, Howl, J.Brahms, Jerry Saltz, John Cage, John Lennon, Kurt Weill, Matisse, Musique Concrete, Pablo Picasso, Patum Peperium, Paul McCartney, Pierre Schaeffer, The Beatles, Thornton Wilder, Village voice
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Poet as Con-Artist: LIBIDO OVER CREDO
”They sat down and Corso asked K., ”Would you like to ball with me, baby?” There was no surer way to K. ‘s heart. She declined with a small secretive, pleased smile and at once exerted herself to be charming. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Albert Camus, Allen Ginsberg, Camus, Don Moraes, Edith Sitwell, Felix Guattari, Gary Lindberg, Gilles Deleuze, Gregory Corso, Herman Melville, Howl, Jack Kerouac, Joseph Heller, Leaves of Grass, My Father's Son, Norman Mailer, On the Road, Paul Simon, R.Z. Sheppard, Richard Hauck, T.S. Eliot, The Naked Linch, Walt Whitman, William Blake, William Burroughs
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Beaudelaire & the ''Beats''
Take a phenomenon. And then de-fang it. Commodify it. Beatnik, a media stereotype of the 1950s and early 1960s, was a synthesis of the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s into moralized and unflattering … Continue reading
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