TV Beatniks

[@GodEmperorSuperStar]

0:56 "enamored of fire escapes" is from Frank O'Hara's "In Memory of My Feelings" 1956, three years before this episode.

[@theanthonyhowell]

Thank you for posting this gem.

[@johnaccurso3849]

"Jelly-covered invaders.." -- Fantastic!

[@DesignsbyJonathanUSA]

Im here for the Meat Beat Manifesto... Radio Babylon

[@TiBiAstro]

they said it's the music... it's the music!

[@robbiekassell8264]

The beat poet does look like James Cromwell....but more than likely it's character actor Paul Wexler..

[@VanRamsey]

That really looks like James Cromwell reading the poem. He'd have been about 19...

[@weetbutt]

Burning with ecstasy

[@internationalicon]

I dig them beatniks. The dawn of psychedelia is 5 short years away ...

[@hebneh]

I'm headin' for Cloudsville...

[@lennykoss8777]

❤❤❤❤

[@maureencora1]

Beatniks, Like Cool, Man. You Dig? (smile)

[@bonniebaldridge1248]

Gad, that was Mike Kellin?! By God, he was a brilliant actor!!

[@richardranke7878]

There is a difference between true poetry and aimless rambling. (Like too much of what I wrote in High School was dumped by their groovy magazine. They dug me but they didn't call me a poet. Man,what a bummer!)

[@cynthiahawkins2389]

(:56) The beat poet: That's a very young James (BABE) Cromwell...

[@massvt3821]

I think it might be Paul Wexler, actually...

[@TeaParty-qh1py]

Ive got libe copies of all JS shows. Groovy, baby. Direction tight as a stripper's ass. The city was dark. I stumbled into a lamp post. "Hey, why dont you look where youre, going?!" the lamp post said. "So I can be surprised when I get there," I replied, snapping my fingers and adjusting my pork pie hat. The beat and the beats rolled on...

[@TomasPabon]

TeaParty Ba Boom I read somewhere that there was a Peter Gould poem in here

[@TeaParty1776]

"Peter Gould?" he queried, snapping his fingers and chewing gum.

[@TomasPabon]

TeaParty1776 The king of eccentrics

[@patbest7057]

When ppl SAT and listened now hurried times

[@youtubeaccount2736]

Back in the fifties hipsters were about poetry and art, today they are about buying expensive hipster clothes... Perfectly describes modern american brain dead culture. I wouldn't be surprised, if modern "hipsterism" is purely Madisson Avenue creation...

[@MarkSeibold]

KZbin Account - Yes, you hit the nail on the head. I had just turned 5 years old in mid August 1959, and was soaking it all in. I hadn't quite started first grade until September 1960. I was soon labeled as the class artist in my second grade class in Early Autumn 1961. We only had two or three TV stations in Portland at the time, but I was still building Crystal radios by age 9 or 10. Neighbors sold me an Old Scenic transitioning shortwave table model vacuum tube amplified radio. I could not have quantified it then but as I began to tune in World radio stations on the radio, in the summer of 1965 just before starting sixth grade I accidentally picked up some very astute British gentleman speaking about what had gone wrong in America with its hippie generation. I found later that I was listening to the BBC. I became enthralled with this and lost all interest in watching American commercialized television at that point, and never again. I soon bought my first astronomy telescope by age 13 and within a year I began taking night sky photographs with my parents Kodak box camera strapped to the top of the telescope and following the eyepiece one of Orion's Belt Stars for a 5-minute time exposure to capture the Great Orion Nebula beneath the Belt Stars. Little did I know that one day I would be working as a background extra actor on Hollywood movie sets for the past 20 years. I witnessed the whole process of artificially made images to entertain a movie going audience. Sorrowfully today these kids only know, what will we call it?,... counterculture of electronic-push button-techno-wizkid-gadgetry-of plastic fantastic nothing. It's so sorrowful when I dial across a radio while I'm cruising at night and almost every pop music station sounds like it's fed through an auto-tune machine with some warbling Max-Headroom faked image singer wishing they could really imitate the true fifties beat poets, musicians such as the Beatles, the Stones, The Kinks, all of the great rhythm and blues, and soulful black musicians, or the early inceptions of the first fusion artists combining great Rock and Jazz music, such as Larry Coryell and John McLaughlin. It's sad today that many of the new generations kids, will soon know nothing but computers producing music with no real human pain and soul any longer. But with all that said there are a few good young kids today that are rediscovering great jazz music and learning to play instruments instead of wasting their time steering video screens and video games that teach nothing. My daughter is one of those kids today at age 41. She was born in 1980 so experienced somewhat of an earlier culture before the 90s and 2000s. We have her tutored by an Oregon symphony violinist lady for 10 years so our daughter does have some understanding of classic Music Theory. I used to sketch with her when she was four or five years old to show the creative artistic process, adventure how to use a film camera, and she later became a great visual artist and although she gave up her violin at the end of high school she still showed her children and a little bit of piano techniques which she has in her home. When you wrote 'Madisson' Avenue, the spelling made me laugh a little. I thought of another metaphor - Mad- uh-Son ...

[@justafellow5859]

It's closely tied to image, consumerism and the social status that it grants, you reap no benefits from that, emotionally, intelectually, economically nor situationally. But you might find community of like-minded people, which is what everyone needs at a certain point in their lives

[@UnanimousDelivers]

2:00 longest Airplane style joke ever.

[@joebob2572]

beatnik stereotypes from squares. Becomes a window of impression for 21st century hipsters. Like kids who didn’t grow up in the 90s trying to dress like the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. We wore hoodies and baggy jeans and Will was wearing some goofy stuff by people who weren’t or knew hiphop.

[@JA-xp7bp]

Were Beatnik's so self-righteous like that one guy was?

[@joebob2572]

1950s hipsters laughing at beatnik stereotypes from squares. Becomes a window of impression for 21st century hipsters. Like kids who didn’t grow up in the 90s trying to dress like the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. We wore hoodies and baggy jeans and Will was wearing some goofy stuff by people who weren’t or knew hiphop.

[@martinzelaya2927]

Hip hop , hipster, hippie...

[@NelsonMontana1234]

Pretentious hipsters are ubiquitous throughout history.

[@Nudnik1]

Lol hipster s Grandparents.. Stalin would put them to work..they loved USSR. No beatniks allowed though.. oooopps