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Tag Archives: Jack Kerouac
mutilated english: decode it man
If one is searching for springs of language undefiled by pedantry, politics, or motivational vector analysis, what more likely place to look than the domain of belles-lettres? For is it not reasonable to assume that poets and novelists- craftspeople who … Continue reading
cannabis: our reefer sadness
Life with a spliff more surreal, exciting, profound? Recapturing the moment before the soul came into the world when it was sky-high. Maybe cannabis and other psychotropics open doors as Aldous Huxley asserted or Carlos Castaneda, but its a high … Continue reading
patchen: painting poems
by Art Chantry: seemingly forgotten and long overlooked is kenneth patchen. this guy is one of those american originals, a guy who hacked out his own path through the wilderness and just kept hacking away his entire life. people either … Continue reading
beatnik lettering
by Art Chantry: est we forget …. this is what ‘beatnik’ lettering looked like. this is also what early ‘psychedelic’ lettering looked like until wes wilson discovered the wonders of art nouveau typography in an old art history text book … Continue reading
jack of all roads
by Art Chantry: jackie boy – hitting THE ROAD again. that snazzy suitcase is crammed full of toilet paper manuscripts and amphetamines.
breakfast in america: pass on the second helpings
Obama and those “new democracies.” They have to loosen up, chill out, get down and let if flow. But what about the old dogs in the area, or are they granted a free pass, a get out of jail card, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alan Dershowitz, Allen Ginsberg, Dershowitz Formula, Iggy Pop, Jack Kerouac, jerry seinfeld, jim jarmusch, Larry Rivers, mahmoud abbas, Malcolm Hoenlein, Mohamad Morsi, Morsi at Hooters, Noam Chomsky, Robert Wexler former U.S. Congressman, Roger Hodgson Supertramp, thomas friedman new york times, Tom Waits
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books of dreams
by Art Chantry: what i’m reading right now. (cover photo by lester krauss) …what i’m reading right now. (photo by robert frank/design by m. e. cranston)
on the roll
by Art Chantry: jack kerouac writing “on the road” on a roll of restroom paper towels (supposedly done in one sitting.) …actually, if you’ve ever seen early restroom paper towel material from that era, it has a cheezy “tracing paper’ … Continue reading
exile: angels in b&w
by Art Chantry: this is a nifty photo of the original pasted up ‘artwork” (such as it is) of the rolling stones’ “exile on main street” LP cover. it belongs to the permanenet collection of the EMP (experience music project) … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, art chantry, Diane Arbus, Edward Steichen, EMP Seattle, Exile on Main Street, Experience Music Project Seattle, Jack Kerouac, John Van Hammersveld, robert frank, Robert Frank photography, Robert frank The Americans, The Rolling Stones
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one day there time will surely come
Nothing like a little heresy to reinflate the sagging body of the church. The heresy of twenty plus centuries, as infinite as private choice , is hardly random, but keeps to certain well-defined channels. Past the multitudinous polysyllabic channels to … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albert Camus, Alfred North Whitehead, Anabaptism, Carl Jung, Christian Heresies, Christian heretics, Franz Kafka, G.K. Chesterton, Gnosticism, Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Durrell, Orson Welles, Peter Gay, Sigmund Freud, Socinianism, the Aga Khan, the Albigensians, The Protestant Reformation, the Umiliati, The Waldenses, William Blake
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