"Roosevelt After Inauguration" by Willy Lee a.k.a. William S. Burroughs

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Great scanned images of an original copy of "Roosevelt After Inauguration" by Willy Lee a.k.a. William S. Burroughs, which begins: "Immediately after the inauguration Roosevelt appeared on the White House balcony dressed in the purple robes of a Roman emperor and leading a blind toothless lion on a gold chain, hog-called his constituents to come and get their appointments. The constituents rushed up grunting and squealing like the hogs they were."

Various Artists - Jazz Canto Vol.1 - An Anthology Of Poetry And Jazz

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Various Artists - Jazz Canto Vol.1 - An Anthology Of Poetry And Jazz

This is one I've wanted to get my hands on for quite a while. Basically what you have here is a collection of guys reading other peoples poems with jazz in the background. Man, even Dylan Thomas sounds hip with some frantic jazz alongside. This is where you'll hear Bob Dorough reading Ferlinghetti's "Dog" and Roy Glen reading Philip Whalen's "High Song For Somebody", both of which appear on the Pictures From The Gone World comps that came out in maybe the late 80's or early 90's. Not everything here is exactly "beat" but it's all very interesting. John Carradine reading Lipton's "Night Song For The Sleepless" sounds like it could have come from the dialog of a b-movie he may have done back then.

Enjoy!

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Ken Nordine's Beat-inspired, Dr. Seuss-like word-jazz record from 1966, "Colors"

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Ken Nordine · Colors

1. Olive 2. Lavender 3. Burgundy 4. Yellow 5. Green 6. Beige 7. Maroon 8. Ecru 9. Chartreuse 10. Turquoise 11. White 12. Flesh 13. Azure 14. Puce 15. Magenta 16. Orange 17. Purple 18. Muddy 19. Russet 20. Amber 21. Blue 22. Black 23. Gold 24. Crimson 25. Brown 26. Rosy 27. Hazel 28. Mauve 29. Fuschia 30. Sepia 31. Nutria 32. Cerise 33. Grey 34. Coral Bueno esto es un real flasheo espero que se diviertan y se caguen de risa de lo que este loco dice de cada color, es un flash. gracias a majo que me lo hizo escuchar DESCARGAR

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FLicKeR: The Dream Machine

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Sunday, November 7, 2010

The Dream Machine

We must storm the citadels of enlightenment. The means are at hand.

~W.S. Burroughs~

I've been thinking alot about Burroughs lately. W.S. Burroughs was my indroduction to the beat generation. I can remember picking up Naked Lunch which I read in it's entirety while working the night shift in a noisy factory. The setting was perfect, the repetitive machine sounds made the perfect atmosphere for what my mind was consuming. So it was interesting to me that just as I was thinking about him, I see the film FLicKeR sitting on the shelf at the local video store.

Now, I have to say, as a Canadian, it bugs me that I don't even hear about this stuff before it's finished. FLicKeR is a National Film Board Of Canada production and I search for stuff like this all the time. How am I missing it?! I digress, I've literally just finished watching it and it was brilliant, very insightful. It's actually much more of a doc about Brion Gysin, who's always been a bit of a mysterious character to me, and the dream machine, and cut-ups, which I was under the impression where a creation of Burroughs'. Great interviews with Marianne Faithful, Genesis P. Orridge, Iggy Pop and more, as well as archival footage of Gysin and Burroughs. Now my desire for a dream machine has been renewed. I have to have one. I'm on the hunt now. Gysin and Burroughs together were so much further ahead than...well everyone it seems. These guys were operating on a whole different level.

Couldn't find a trailer but here's a clip.

The DVD also includes Antony Balch's experimental films The Cut-Ups and Towers Open Fire.

I did a post about Towers Open Fire some time ago and now just found out that they are both on youtube in their entirety. so here they are. Enjoy.

Nothing Is True. Everything Is Permitted.

~Hassan I. Sabbah~

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Pull My Daisy (1959)

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Pull My Daisy
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A short 1959 film that typifies the "Beat Generation". Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of a never-completed stage play entitled Beat Generation. Kerouac also provided improvised narration. It starred Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers, Peter Orlovsky, David Amram, Richard Bellamy, Alice Neel, Sally Gross, Delphine Seyrig and Pablo Frank, Robert Frank's then-infant son. Based on an incident in the life of Neal Cassady and his wife Carolyn, Daisy tells the story of a railway brakeman whose painter wife invites a respectable bishop over for dinner. However, the brakeman's bohemian friends crash the party, with comic results. Originally intended to be called "The Beat Generation" the title "Pull My Daisy" was taken from the poem of the same name written by Kerouac, Ginsberg and Neal Cassady over the 40's and 50's. Part of the original poem was used as a lyric in David Amram's jazz composition that opens the film. SUBTERRANEAN CINEMA http://subcin.com THE SUBTERRANEAN COLLECTION http://subcin.com/subvid.html«

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Alfred Leslie & Robert Frank- Pull My Daisy (1959)

A short film that typifies the Beat Generation. Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of a stage play he never finished entitled Beat Generation. Kerouac also provided improvised narration. It starred Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers, Peter Orlovsky, David Amram, Richard Bellamy, Alice Neel, Sally Gross and Pablo Frank, Robert Frank's then-infant son.

Based on an incident in the life of Neal Cassady and his wife Carolyn, Daisy tells the story of a railway brakeman whose painter wife invites a respectable bishop over for dinner. However, the brakeman's bohemian friends crash the party, with comic results.

The Beat philosophy emphasized spontaneity, and the film conveyed the quality of having been thrown together or even improvised. Pull My Daisy was accordingly praised for years as an improvisational masterpiece, until Leslie revealed in a November 28, 1968 article in the Village Voice that the film was actually carefully planned, rehearsed, and directed by him and Frank, who shot the film on a professionally lit studio set.

Pull My Daisy has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. -- Wikipedia