And 36-year-old Cari is quite amused, too.
Look! Oh, the wonders of the Internet! Pull My Daisy! The whole short film! (Via Stupefaction)
I was completely obsessed with the Beats from age 15 to 18. Now, mostly I just retain the kind of fondness for them that one does for any long-ago teenage crushes. Some of the work holds up (Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs). Some of it really, really does not. (Kerouac, my love, I’m looking at you.)
Besides being great fun, this video proves what I have always believed: Gregory Corso was the overlooked heartthrob of the Beat Generation. Oh my.
I’m trying to remember what I was obsessed with when I was 16. Bauhaus and anarchist punk bands like CRASS and also the Romantic era poets and Camus. God, I was a twit.
Kerouac used to bug me, but I do like him now. I told you about the crazy old math dude and how he used to live downstairs from Ginsburg, right?
Hey…thanks for the link. I like your comments on the beats. I agree.
My 16-year-old self had, not a crush, but a fierce interest in Ferlinghetti. Through an essay of his I moved backwards in time to Hopkins (“shining like shook foil”) and the idea of the artist as sufferer. Ferlinghetti was almost fatherly, appreciated again in the late 60s, riding the accessibility of “Coney Island” into a lather. Looking at it again I wonder if it had a less accessible title we would be thinking of it now. “A Far Rockaway of the Heart” indeed. Thank you for the stroll into the past.