Hey kids, what time is it?

[jack_babalon]

"When you return to this mundane sphere from your visionary world, you would seem to leave a Neapolitan spring for a Lapland winter - to quit paradise for earth - heaven for hell! Taste the hashish, guest of mine - taste the hashish!"
~ Alexander Dumas

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wiki Beatnik

[domestikgodess.livejournal.com]

"Beat Generation" sold books, sold black turtleneck sweaters and bongos, berets and dark glasses, sold a way of life that seemed like dangerous fun—thus to be either condemned or imitated. Suburban couples could have beatnik parties on Saturday nights and drink too much and fondle each other’s wives.[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatnik

Re: wiki Beatnik

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that, good for a first laugh of the morning. One can only imagine what they'll say about us in the future. I must confess though - a Saturday night Beatnik party does sound like a lot of fun (though w/out the wife fondling).

Highly recommend you check out a fabulous documentary called The Source (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181833/). Which has some really cool readings of Beat classics - such as Dennis Hopper doing William S Burroughs and one of the best renditions of Ginsberg's Howl I've heard (short of the original) by John Turturro.

I will check that film out

[domestikgodess.livejournal.com]

did you read the whole wiki article? Did you catch this on stereotypes:


~~~~Thus, what came out in the media: from newspapers, magazines, TV, and the movies, was a product of the stereotypes of the 30s and 40s — though garbled — of a cross between a 1920s Greenwich Village bohemian artist and a Bop musician, whose visual image was completed by mixing in Daliesque paintings, a beret, a Vandyck beard, a turtleneck sweater, a pair of sandals, and set of bongo drums. A few authentic elements were added to the collective image: poets reading their poems, for example, but even this was made unintelligible by making all of the poets speak in some kind of phony Bop idiom.~~~~~

Re: I will check that film out

[jackbabalon23.livejournal.com]

No, not yet... but I hope to later today. My thanks again for the link.