Jack Kerouac - "San Francisco Scene"

[@irishelk3]

i would highly recommend a large dose of Jack kerouac every now and then

[@PaulReed-lj2ym]

You got that right.

[@iadorenewyork1]

"Tortured by sidewalks". Poetry, natural, imperfect, and holy.

[@harryputang5352]

✌

[@zabarisquest9508]

I visit this video occasionally just for that line.

[@Pocky_Fox]

Every line is "that one that guys me".

[@ryanbrown3283]

Listening to this gives it entirely new meaning to me than just reading it.

[@dang2443]

I agree. Hearing Kerouac reading his own work is so much better than reading it.

[@stephenbyrneireland]

Cheers for posting this

[@obbeauty23]

passion pit is such a genius for thinking to put this in sleepyhead so much symbolism

[@dang2443]

I proudly have no fucking idea who/what you're talking about. But it was 9 years ago anyway, so whoever that was has long ago faded back into obscurity.

[@TMS-Viper]

Passion Pit made a song called Sleepyhead, and they took “And everything is going to the beat” and put it in their song. Along with a part from Oro Mo Bhaidin by Mary O’Hara. Recommend giving it a listen, it’s really good

[@tiffanyribbons]

​@@TMS-Viper and everything is going to the beat, and everything is going to the beat.

[@captnwebb4669]

I have read this though never got this, till now.

[@jaredawashburn]

Read 'Desolation Angels' (which is the Kerouac novel this selection is taken from) last summer...such a fantastic, beat book...dig it.

[@tb-xb7rv]

Oh Jack. Originator of new way of telling the seeing. Spontaneous Prose, Jack's Rose. Sketching all you saw in little pocket notebooks w pencil. Trudging roadside forward knapsack filled with few essentials mostly manuscripts your books six (or was it seven?) already written before ROAD was finally published in '57... Oh Jack, SERIOUS WRITER and seeker of life ALIVE, searcher for life ESSENCE in the bulging miles of the curve of this continent and its American towns and traditions and BOP and babes and the "fellaheen", the simple folk of hard work and earth and community.. Oh Jack, vulnerable and sensitive soul, reminds of Van Gogh. Oh Jack, vibrant beat brother mine, creator originator of a way a writing a novel form of the novel, truly something NEW, a way of not just expressing but of EXPRESSING... but, can they hear? OH YES , even the haters heard Jack, else it would not be known that they hated. You Jack, creative genius truly. The Great Rememberer. Memory Babe. Boy of two languages, surely a key in what unlocked within you. Poet of sights and sounds and sensations poured on the page as only you and you only. This is mere acknowledgement of the sweet beat search and Mexico Paris Frisco Railroad any every road you drank and died to roll and to write oh Jack, and whatever your faults and flaws as many as mine as many as man, you knew them too... Much Love and Gratitude Jack. Peace dear brother.

[@higherlevel28]

Jazzual Suspects- this beat.

[@EBBsk8Norge]

what will happen, indeed

[@cjfennell850]

I used this as the introduction to a short story I'm writing. I wonder how Jack would've felt about that?

[@drewcheesman9268]

Beautiful Baby,Thankyou.♠️🙏👁

[@Dkc3]

0:23 I replayed that over and over trying to be cool and mix my own beginning to 'Sleepyhead'.

[@TheJediJoker]

"...and everything is going to the beat."

[@sampsonofrock]

He mentions 'Dean' so is this from On The Road? As in Dean Moriarty, (or Neal Cassidy, as thats who it represents) or he actually talking about someone else called Dean from that group?

[@thestack141]

yeah this is in on the road

[@raouldukey8]

No it isn't, it's from a record of readings called Reading by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation

[@davidblainepoet]

Tried to follow the link to your wordpress blog but couldn't view it without a password.

[@andrewrothery435]

The Jazzual suspects - This Beat is a much better song than Passion Pit and it samples this whole poem.

[@UpUpDnDnLtRtLtRtBAStart]

Andrew Rothery it’s so good

[@zabarisquest9508]

Thanks I'm about to check it out

[@ericthompson3255]

Mark farina does a good one called this beat

[@ElijahThomasJay]

& everything goes to the beat. --- passion pit, sleepyhead. (i feel like that song was some how influenced by this)

[@russellrenaldo5746]

elijah thomas Jackson that song actually samples this recording

[@dang2443]

No fucking idea what you're talking about,...proudly.

[@californiagrace6868]

​@dang2443 no need to be a dick about what you're ignorant of

[@jetsxmonsterz]

@druxka everything is going to the beat 0:23

[@druxka]

Which bit is sampled in Sleepyhead? O.o

[@dang2443]

nobody cares

[@SlippyLegJones]

0:23 weird isn't it

[@cosycleaner]

Only 53 Likes? the world's gone to hell...

[@leegregory5403]

Row.Row.Row.

[@cquinnable]

Yeah, Passion Pit.

[@dang2443]

who?

[@cquinnable]

No...I didn't make the mix, pretty sure Passion Pit did all the work.

[@dang2443]

who? who gives a fuck?

[@RQBtv]

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[@RQBtv]

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[@ShanOakley]

Help me out. I just don't dig Kerouac anymore. I was among the most ardent admirers 30-years-ago. He just ain't all that I thought was that. Is it youth that dug Kerouac?

[@mooreenglishpls]

I tend to agree with you. I remember reading Dharma Bums when I was in high school and LOVING it. Looking back, I tend to find it a bit juvenile. Funny what time does, eh?

[@ShanOakley]

Thank you for validating my thoughts.

[@bendavidson8549]

Shan I dont know shaun. State of mind. He was good. We hoofed it to a chet baker album. Good stuff. Good imagry. Who hooves it to chet baker albums these days? He captured a time and a place. He hated himself for it... But it was always be there. This is why kerouac will endure even though his sad liver gave out way too soon. Obuadhaigh.

[@johnkmatsch]

As the oild yellow stars fade and move onto outer ranges the blue stars find the blowing vortex of the brief beat movement and burn, burn, burn their light on expanding planets of eternity

[@sammyscotch9945]

I thought it was just me. Afraid to say Im not hip bc I dont get it. Ya gotta like the beats, man. I just dont and Im tired now of trying

[@DEATHOROOGGOO11]

/watch?v=QVMXZ5CbUK4 better than Passion Pit's use of this song imo

[@RQBtv]

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