http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpOeZzkwPC0
Ballad of the Skeletons
with sound by Paul McCartney
Edgar, Ima have to keep a closer eye on you. That was very cool...
Thanks Edgar, those clips are so interesting. I never realized JK wrote On The Road in three weeks.
Sglass wrote:Thanks Edgar, those clips are so interesting. I never realized JK wrote On The Road in three weeks.
I bet the three weeks doesn't include the rewrites the publisher asked for.
This gets better all the time.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jBILjdzkpzU
First page of On the Road, read by Kerouac himself.
There's a recording of Ginsburg reading "America," somewhere. I'm too lazy to find it on the internet now, plus I don't got no sound card here at work. But he can barely get through reading it for laughing so hard. I love it. The comic angle is the best angle to approach that poem, I think. It softens his accusations, yet makes them more palatable and effective.
Best line? "Why can't I go to the supermarket and buy what I want with my good looks?"
I know that poem. Maybe I can look it up.
Excellent. I'll have to check that out when I get home tonight.
