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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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