the cleaning of the toilet

[marycigarettes]

i'd like to show you my video

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Most entertaining and creative

[alan_lake]

I remember seeing that Jack Kerouac and Steve Allen film in Minneaopolis many years ago at an exhibition about the beats. There's a version on YouTube, but they've cut out Steve Allen's freeform noodling on the piano, and apologising in advance "for some square questions" which I found rather endearing.

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[marycigarettes]

thanks alan......i love the footage you talk about...although i wasn't even aware of it till pretty recent...i've got this kerouac cd box set...had it for nearly ten years...and last week i was just walking past the downstairs toilet and thought....mmmmmmmmmmm.

i was quite disappointed about jack when i read the barry miles thing on ginsberg [a great biog]...seems that jack was a real mammys boy and a bit too apple pie....its that guy gregory corso,along with ginsberg who really interest me.

glad my little clip gave a moments fun.

And here's the very clip

[alan_lake]

http://www.videosift.com/video/Jack-Kerouac-Steve-Allen-On-the-Road-w-Jazz-Piano

Re: And here's the very clip

[marycigarettes]

i like the way he says colorado .... 'coliradah'

i read this thing on the guy who published all the beats...lawrence ferlingetti..amazing man...he studied at the sorbonne under the GI bill,which is interesting enough in itself..but then they sent him out to hiroshima to see the hellish aftermath of that big bomb....he described'bits of hair stciking out through the concrete.....a childs arm poking through.....it went on and on in pure grimness....so anyway..the effect on lawrence was it turned him into this full on extreme passivist ..so the beats really hit a nerve with him...which was why he was motivated to published them......and i'm pretty sure very few others would have bothered....and really it was the very books themselves that crystalized that movement....funny how a few small nice things are born out of some previous huge horror

be prepared

[anonymous]

good to see a man fully prepared and kitted out when there's cleaning to be done. it'll pop up everytime i hear bill evans now. in a nice way obviously.

ally
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[landers]

Nice!

[marycigarettes]

thanks..sorry about the concussion...hope your eye sight sorts itself sooner rather than later...
you do fantastic work.

i know your part of the word...i saw joh martyn sing in roisin dubh...and enjoyed the blue note cafe a lot.