Jack Kerouac, Interview (doc, subtitled in italian)

[@tonyjp83]

I'm amazed how in schools Kerouac is portrayed as a crazy hippie just wanting to have some kicks, but actually he was a very devout catholic.

[@georgealderson4424]

...and sometimes Republucan?!

[@tonyjp83]

@@sunkintree This is a non sequitur. Being a Catholic does not entourage you to become a drunkard.

[@kalevala29]

@@tonyjp83 I was raised Catholic, altar boy and all. I'm surprised we're not all drunks.

[@ajsztehlo]

Very sad to see Kerouac in this condition I hope he is at peace now...

[@starshaped41]

Jack Kerouac is one of the best authors...his style was unique back then,he created a whole generation...he was a genious! If someone doesn't like his beliefs and his way of living that's has nothing to do with his talent!

[@kervilou5905]

genius; but alcoolic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@paulgentile1024]

👍

[@ernestpicasso7729]

​​@@kervilou5905 Same with many great writers. So what? What's your point?

[@ТуратНурбеков-к9ц]

Jack Kerouac was a real MAN

[@Mookiethedog]

Турат Нурбеков fk yeah

[@balwc147]

😂😂😂

[@marcpadilla1094]

I doubt writers know the well spring of their own creativity or inspiration. Whatever makes the work so profound is as much of a surprise to them as it is to anyone else. Like discovering a natural talent for the first time,every time. You're a natural born expert in suffering and pain. A master of expressing both with a little digging.

[@youvandal411vm]

Dude is 46 and looks 70.

[@stevencoffin328]

He was dying from liver failure at this time.

[@tedcantu1]

He drank a quart of brandy a day which is insane...his stomach exploded with internal bleeding.

[@jmanning6620]

No he doesn't. He looks 50. Remember people look younger nowadays. For 1960s, he doesn't look far off 46.

[@wertheriano]

what a pair!!!. Burroughs and Keroac, great friends and great writers.

[@jjjunglejim]

Kerouac was a genius. He invented a new genre of art that lives on to this day. Sadly, he was also a human train wreck.

[@kervilou5905]

alcool !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@MrDanty64]

@@kervilou5905 r u rn haow tu spel. Keeech. Yes. I know. This is bad.

[@goback3spaces]

To hear Kerouac's voice in this clip is to remember his voice over narration in the wonderful PULL MY DAISY.

[@steezbird]

William Burroughs is represented through Old Bull Lee in 'On The Road'. His mannerisms and the way he speaks are depicted perfectly by Kerouac!

[@Jager1984]

Yeah. I read recently that chapter where they meet Old Bull Lee in New Orleans. After the sentence telling about fictive marriage with Belarus woman I understood that the character is based on Burroughs. So it was fun to explore about him through that character in the book. And yeah, things I already knew matched perfectly

[@SeattleBlythe]

I can't wait to see the article John! Interesting that Johnny Depp is reportedly doing a film on Kerouac as well.

[@decleafs4]

Jack certainly had spirit. God love him.

[@AlongtheFarClimbDown843]

*In July 1957, Kerouac moved to a small house at 1418½ Clouser Avenue in the College Park section of Orlando, Florida.*

[@AllBobsAllTheTime]

I love that final line "I'm arresting you for decay."

[@michaelkraemerman2009]

Drunk as fuck he was.

[@1adadada]

+asdf ghijk .. and yet a genius still.

[@andrewptob]

Extremely smart, but his intelligence was awash in a sea of booze. Quite sad.

[@PoliteTia]

So true. This is hard to watch, even for a few minutes

[@velvetunderground1343]

Meraviglioso.

[@cimonak]

What an absolute fucking legend

[@nogthedervish]

Jack drank his way through most of his life; it's dubious this was a direct result of celebrity status or sadness. And he stayed with his mum, probly like many alcoholics cause noone else will have them and they can't/don't want to care for themselves. His early work is genius, but later on you can see the speed and booze slaughter the script. Don't romanticise an illness that eventually destroyed one of our best writers.

[@kervilou5905]

genius, but-and- alcoolic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@kelman727]

Best typists...

[@jakefromstatefarm1363]

You don’t like Big Sur?

[@guinnesstrail]

On The Road is a brilliant novel.

[@busterbiloxi3833]

Agreed. And most of the rest are unreadable crap.

[@kelman727]

No it isn’t.

[@leadbellymidnightangel]

@@busterbiloxi3833 nope the dharma bums is even better

[@nikkiejanee1972]

i wish we had interview shows like the ones from the 70's....and bunch of intellectuals just hanging out talking about complex and current issues,,,,

[@busterbiloxi3833]

"Hoodlums"! Love it.

[@tnimbus]

he became a sad drunk - a victim of his own success which killed the world he lived in

[@busterbiloxi3833]

He was a confused French-Canadian who couldn't deal with anyone in a serious manner. A fuck-up with one great book under his belt. A financial doofus. Gotta love the guy!

[@tnimbus]

@Raja Palaparty can't wait for the film 🙂

[@tnimbus]

@@willcuster7067 er yes I have - and probably before you were even born. It's a shame you don't seem to understand what I said. Maybe you should read it properly - & maybe also Kerouac while you're at it.

[@closetome]

I wanna hug him and kiss him...not on the lips but just too let him know i care...

[@bailinnumberguy]

Depressing to see Kerouac here starting to come apart.

[@allienato]

it's "What happened to Kerouac?" by Richard Lerner

[@MrLovington]

2:45 Oh my Kerouac.

[@lainlain327]

just really like his book

[@Jimney00]

Thank you David.

[@zampieritto]

Just because he felt old 46 he didn't care about the hippie movement. Ginsberg at 40 he really cared

[@bostonboyo]

It's such a shame how alcoholism can slowly change ...and ultimately kill you ...look at pictures of Kerouac just 8-10 years earlier ...He was a good lookin' cat ...In '68 ...He was a bloated caricature of himself ...A truly great mind destroyed by his fame and own self destructive tendacies....

[@kervilou5905]

yes !

[@readmelancholystrumpetmaster]

Did you get your insights from Wikipedia? One would think. Jack was depressed because he was depressed. Nothing makes a depressive depressed. He simply is that way, and this mental-spiritual condition is what has made so many great writers what they have become (in print).

[@andrelebaron]

you know, he was on to something. The first time I went to Vietnam I did notice that there were a lot of old US military jeeps around. The cops had refurbished a lot of them and were using them in Saigon.

[@akatripclaymore.9679]

Coffee Shop Speed freak's! My Mom + Dad were part of that movement in "Frisco" 1950's

[@thebigfatmonkey]

Yes, it's really depressing to see him like this. He's obviously quite drunk, but it's probably mostly the permanent damage the alcohol had already done to him. 'On the road' and 'Tristessa' are of such overwhelming beauty and sadness, always with one eye pointed to the sky, waiting and hoping, "mad to be saved". But the man we can see here is just an ordinary alcoholic. Very depressing indeed.

[@Bluenosegrows]

the brilliance of what was between the lines, has a price.

[@elaine31347]

I saw this live on TV 42 years ago while living on the lower east side of Manhatten. I remember that Jack was drunk and Ed Sanders of the band the "Fugs", sitting all the wayKon the right of the panel, kept making disgusted faces at him, because he was so drunk...It was actually a little bit embarrassing to tell you the truth.

[@notaticket]

did it occur to anybody that his conspiracy theory was just a joke?

[@Illcastashadow1]

Id love to just get Jack's opinion on a few things. Young and strapping Jack or old and bumbly Jack. Both versions would have great answers

[@georgealderson4424]

Intersting. Do you think "the old Jack" has anything with "the young Jack" or for that matter do any of "the old us" have anything with "the young us"?

[@nikkiejanee1972]

salutai.....what's that mean in italian? hello

[@MrDanty64]

Of all the lines let alone WORDS! to end this with.. Decay. GOOD GOD. How frigging. insightful. Especially now. In 2020. With a President with nothing but. Even tjough he tested...damnit. Ok KZbin you win. Meh. I love you Kerouac. Rack 'em up.

[@holden1787]

In his letters, Kerouac believed Ginsberg should have kept his nose out of politics and saw him as an attention hog who politicized prose and poetry. Ginsberg ignored his insults and even visited Jack in Long Island in the 60s but Jack and his mother didn't answer the door.

[@jeffhegarty]

A touch of an older William Shatner about him as well, but not just at the point you mentioned.

[@cannand81]

"Why not?" was already the last question of Timothy Leary. There must be a sense under those words, somebody knows?

[@ginoatam9940]

not only a proud catholic but also a real sufic dervish...

[@2lostbikes]

Great clip. Do you know if the full interview with Buckley is up anywhere on the web? There's bits and pieces on the UMass website but that's all I can find.

[@Oscar301]

Eerie: at 3.00 Jack's held face to me is Brion Gysin. ...anyway it seems sad Jack was hauled in as apologist for everything he became the figurehead for, seeing as he was never political, never a captain of men - let alone captain of his own soul; Jack was always a seeker, of freedom - and in a world decimated of freedoms, he became a hero, a beacon of light; but his freedoms were spiritual, he searched after redemption; but he knew it was futile... that I think was why he felt sad and betrayed

[@jjmalone1966]

Kerouac the only real man on the set.

[@kelman727]

He was a sozzled mama’s boy.

[@donaldmartin5685]

@@kelman727 yeah right...he's just an alcoholic broken down

[@edeneye808]

This interview doesn't have a single interesting remark from Kerouac. Look at the way he presents himself, slouched in that chair, hiding behind that invulnerable "Roman Catholic" label. He certainly doesn't seem "desirous of everything at the same time" or "mad" to live and talk. Every word that comes out of his mouth here is a "common place thing."

[@claudioorlandi73]

Genius

[@crowebroke]

@cdphatty He was never actually very old. Sadly ill health was his cross in those final years.

[@raouldukey8]

if im not mistaken it means 'greeted'

[@jozinhobass]

That guy fly the Airwolf?

[@Runawayslave2023]

@dionusos2 I am sure his mom was comforted by his faith when she got off of a 12 hour shift.

[@vincentvancraig]

Satiori in Paris and pic are two amazing works, I think he had more to.contribute, his body just gave out, that bar fight he got into the last few weeks of his life didn't do him any good either ......obviously

[@bill210858]

whats this accent he has

[@kkennedy3466]

Kerouac was in the final throes of alcoholism by this stage and would be dead within the year. What’s even more remarkable is that he was only 47 and get looked easily 15-20 years older. Sweaty, ugly, fat…quite a contrast to what he was perhaps a decade or so earlier. Just another reason to quit or seriously curtail ones drinking if it’s becoming a problem

[@nicoheckens1]

adamite;adomite? adammm? What is an ad(t)om(am)ite?

[@rdisalvo5544]

He is obviously on the decline here- he had already contributed everything he had to contribute. Part of the problem is Buckley's line of questioning...he was a devout Catholic for years- painting pictures of the Pope, putting crucifixes on every page of some of his manuscripts...it just adds to his intrigue in my opinion.

[@AlongtheFarClimbDown843]

*It's sense-around sound in a two inch wall; I was waiting for the communist call; I didn't ask for sunshine and I got world war three; I'm looking over the wall and they're looking at me - Sex Pistols, “Holidays in the Sun”*

[@imtv]

Cap. James T. Kirk...

[@horsedoctorman]

@Smic3 you don't know what you're talking about. kerouac's just wrote about his friends like burroughs and neal cassady who were all cooler than him. he lived with his mom! look it up

[@myroncope]

He reminds me of an old Sinatra.

[@Edgarsopper]

and who are you?

[@Misserbi]

Kerouac did great things but he did not finish what he started. The academics attach themselves to him and all know about him and he is a drop out. I keep saying -- what if he graduated from Columbia? He was among others (Burroughs) who did finish what they started. Most wonder how he was so close to his mother and not a "go getter" who does not give up. I think that is what people admire the most and what led to his doom.

[@jjpme92un]

how about William Burroughs there? just a little cameo, ha ha

[@dionusos2]

@thedavidwilson He had faith that he'd pay her back through a novel--and he did

[@swlabr123]

Buckley and Kerouac went way back to school days, and Buckley was being kind having him on his show interviewing him in his state. No one ever seems to point this out, just that he was messed up and what they talked about, and how strange it was. It's strange but they were school chums.

[@Lario]

Before you watch this, one should have several drinks...

[@RollingOrmond]

Bukowski a poor man's Henry Miller, writing shit prose about shitty people and scenes. Kerouac and Ginsberg wrote circles around him.

[@goodvibesallround]

and died the following year.......

[@ladedalounge]

RIP guys 2021 is here with some cancel culture, I don't vote so I ain't playing

[@jeffreyrichardson]

dougy?

[@hmahmo]

@nikkiejanee1972 Seriously. Instead, we're constantly plagued by the likes of "reality shows" that do nothing more than numb the senses. I fear the world my children will have to face.

[@horatiodreamt]

Buckley was pomposity personified.

[@vincentvancraig]

all great artists have faults, usually serious faults

[@WestPawProductions]

2:20-2:25 ... fucking freaky

[@Runawayslave2023]

"his alcoholism stemmed from his sudden celebrity status and sadness at the way the world was headed, " Was that the cause of him mooching off of his mother in his 30's while she worked 10 hours a day in a shoe factory while he pursued his "art" with Ginsburg and got drunk every night? Read a biography. He was not a man and is not someone to emulate.

[@jeremyfoster8726]

WTF? but she didn't have to work after he found success with OTR.

[@jeffreyrichardson]

scotts poet aster

[@Kamiufford99]

Jack dated my aunt LMAO

[@dionusos2]

He spoke well for someone who was shitfaced.

[@kapverde2]

to get Jeeps in the Country!!! holy jesus what die the Taliban and Afghanistan soldiers get, billions of Dollars in arms and helicopters in their Land now, never laugh about war

[@sohooded]

@dionusos2 hahahahaha

[@LazyGigolo]

Yeah, Jack talks exactly the same way he wrote: to bore the audience

[@derachteton3316]

You mean idiots

[@monumentofwonders]

Buckley was such an ass.