Ginsberg (1926-1997)
Patterson - New Jersey - Ginsberg lived at 83 Fair St., Jewish Neighborhood
River St. (1921)
Family moves to Graham Ave., ivy covered apt. building on corner of Broadway, downtown (1937)
Paul Roth - first love (Columbia entrance persuasion)
*Aeschylus, Herodotus, Thucydides, Sophocles, Aristotle, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plato, Virgil, Tacitus, St. Augustine
*Zola, Dante, Rabelais, Machiavelli, Montaigne
Van Doren (prof @ Columbia) - "Collected Poems" 1940
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Van_Doren
Raymond Weaver (prof.) - found "Billy Budd"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Budd
David Kammerer - stalked Lucien Carr (Celine Young, gf)
*Rimbaud
Edie Parker, gf. of Jack Kerouac
West End Bar - Allen's hangout West End Bar
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The West End, also known as the "West End Gate", was located on Broadway near 114th Street in the Morningside Heights (New York City) neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. From its establishment in 1911, the bar served as a popular gathering place for Columbia University undergraduates (its slogan was "Where Columbia Had Its First Beer"). The bar was also a meeting place for many Beat Generation writers as well as many 1960s student activists when they attended the university.
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In the early 1940s, in the formative days of the Beat Generation, students including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Lucien Carr spent hours at the bar discussing their studies and their futures. In the 1960s, the bar was host to student activists upset about racial discrimination in the area and US foreign policy regarding Vietnam. Mark Rudd, who led the Columbia branch of Students for a Democratic Society and was a prominent member of the Weather Underground after his expulsion from the university in 1968, spent time at the bar while a student.
After closing for a year and a half, it was bought in 1990 by Katie Gardner, a graduate of Columbia's School of Journalism. She and her family installed a back room for beer pong, a basement area for parties, and a side room for dancing, and the bar became popular, especially among university freshmen. It became notorious, however, for allowing underaged drinkers, with or without ID. However, the bar began to crack down on underage drinking since it was shut down by the police in February 2005.
In late 2004, the bar began brewing its own brand of "Ker O'Whack" beer. The bar also served food, including a widely popular Sunday brunch. It installed flatscreen monitors for advertising, and had several televisions showing a regular stream of sports coverage. As a result of these improvements, Playboy Magazine featured The West End as "College Bar of the Month" in its February 2005 issue.
"New Vision" - since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art is true expression and true art."
-Kerouac - awareness of a soul in space and time
-Ginsberg - Everyone has the same soul, we're all here together at once in the same place, temporarily, with a total poignant tearful awareness that we're together
-Kafka's "The Castle," Cocteau's "Opium," Celine's "Journey to the End of the Night," Baudelaire's "Poesies," Blake
"Ox-Bow Incident" Clark - Charters cited this as the only way to calm down her class in Oakland
"Nightwood" Barnes
"Folded Leaf" Maxwell
"Dead Souls" Gogol's
"Maiden Voyage," Welch
Burroughs
Decline of the West, Spengler
Collected Poems, Crane
Proust
Gide
"Blue Boy" Gainsborough
Yeats, A Vision (New Vision)
Baudelaire's "Invitation to the Voyage"
"Drunken Boat" Rimbaud
Verlaine
Herbert Huncke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Huncke
Phil White
Stravinski
Prokofiev
Wolfean vs. Non-Wolfeans
Jack Keroauc Burroughs
Hal Chase Ginsberg
(normal values, America, family) (sinister European fairies)
"On the Road"
-Ginsberg - Carlo Marx
Holmes, "Go"
Bill Cannastra - danced on broken wine glasses barefoot - killed in train accident http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cannastra
Ruth Goldenberg - "Louis's Bar" frequenter the San Remo bar - "talked continuously 70 hrs."
schlupping - merge into one entity
On peyote - St. Francis Hotel
W.H. Auden
England
Dover - "The cliffs of Dover"
West End
Picadilly Circus
National Gallery
Peter Orlovsky - "Turner"
St. Paul
Salisbury Cathedral
Magdalen Bridge - "The Bridge" joint
Tristan Tzara - "Dada Manifestos"
The Dada Painters and Poets, Motherwell
Un Chien Adalou, movie, 1928
Celine, Death on the Installment Plan
"Bomb" - Gregory Corso
Crane, "Atlantis"
Thomas
Mayakovsky
Esenin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esenin
Artaud
Smart, "Rejoice in the Lamb"
Lorca "Poet in New York"
Shelley "West Wind," "Adonais," "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"
Leary, "Flashbacks"
Robert Lowell (psilocybin)
Burroughs, "Minutes to Go"
Ginsberg, "Journals Early Fifties/Early Sixties"
"Raja Yoga for Americans"
Hare Krishna
lotus position
ayahuasca - yage
William Carlos Wiliams
John Ashberry
Yeutuschenko
Andy Warhol, 1963 films:
"Kiss, Haircut, Eat," "Sleep," http://www.youtube.com/watch#playnext=1&playnext_from=TL&videos=doycWM3LN8k&v=pkQMJBlO0v8
"Blowjob,"http://www.youtube.com/watch#playnext=1&playnext_from=TL&videos=--3T3fBtGpQ&v=l-0xDa4-fi0
Tarzan and Jane Regained...sort of"
Naken Lunch July 7, 1966 not found obscene
Kafka, "The Trial"
"100,000 songs of Milarepa"
"Wichita Vortex Sutra"
last innocent, idealistic hippie event - January 19, 1967 - Golden Gate Park, San. Francisco
http://www.youtube.com/watch#playnext=1&playnext_from=TL&videos=gNXSwqYiDvE&v=yHZ4-4f2rUI
Ezra Pound, "Cantos"
Timothy Leary's The Psychadelic Experience
T.S. Eliot
Chogyam Trungpa, Naropa Institute of Boulder
"Jack Kerouac School"
Lowell, Mass. - Jack Kerouac (Ti Jean, John L. Kerouac) He Honored Life
Bob Dylan, "Reynaldo & Clara"
*Village Voice
"As Ever: the Collected Correspondence of Allen Ginsberg & Neal Cassady"
"Mind Breaths"
"The Fall of America" Allen G.
Allen Ginsberg, "Collected Poems 1947-1980"
Williams, "Patterson"
Holly Solomon Gallery, 57th St., N.Y.
Bob Dylan
Bound For Glory, Woody Guthrie
Big Jim - "Lily, Rosemary & the Jack of Hearts"
Edie Sedgwick - "Like a Woman," "Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat"
"Eat the Document," Pennebaker
Biograph
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3
Drawings, Drawn Blank, Bob Dylan
Kerouac
35 Sarah Ave., Lowell, Mass.
"Dr. Sax" Kerouac
Horace Mann Junior College, NY
119th St., Morning Side Park
Count Korzybski's Science and Sanity
"The First Third"
"Season in Hell" Rimbaud
"The Function of the Orgasm" Reich
Pull My Daisy, film 1959
25th of June - Jack Kerouac Day, Lowell
Norman Mailer's "Armies of the Night"
Put a kiss and a tear
In a letter,
And I'll open and cry
over you.
Put a sperm and a wink
on a paper,
And I'll come when I read
I'm so blue.
Put a throb of your heart
In "yours truly"
With your names writ in blood
"Neal and Jack"
And I'll open my palm
with my penknife
And send you a bucket
Full back
-A. Ginsberg
Ginsberg Movies
"Ginsberg - Egy Kolto a Lower East Side ro'l" (1997)
"Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg" (1993)
Kerouac, Jack movies
I'd rather be thin than Famous, Jack Kerouac and His Legacy
Jack Kerouac's Road, a Franco-American Odyssey (1989)
Burroughs movies
William S. Burroughs: Commissioner of Sewers (1989)
Nova Convention, Revisited (1998)
"The Beat Generation" 1959
"Beat Generation, An American Dream" 1987
Timothy Leary "Confessions of a Hope Fiend"
hometown: Indian Orchard, Mass.
Cuernavaca, Mexico - sacred mushrooms, teonanactl, "flesh of the gods"
Aldous Huxley, "Doors of Perception," "Heaven and Hell,"
-inspired by Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) - grandson was Charles Daarwin, grew first (England's) marijuana plant (cannabis indica)
Lysergic acid - the morning glory seed (Rivea corymbosa)
Peyote - Lophora williamsii
Junk - Papaver somniferum
Coke - Erythroxloin coca
William Burroughs
Nova Express 1964, Soft Machine 1966, Ticket That Exploded 1967, Exterminator (1973), The Last Words of Dutch Schultz 1978), Cities of the Red Night 1981
Carlyle, Wordsworth, Coleridge - nitris, hashish, opium
LSD - Cary Grant, Jack Nicholson, Jimmy Coburn 1962, Kubrick
E.E. Cummings "The Enormous Room"
"The Teachings of Don Juan" Castaneda
Ludlow - The Hasheesh Eater
Transcendentalist - Margaret Fuller - "The Dial"
Brotherhood of Eternal Love
Albert Hoffman - derived LSD from rye fungus - lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25) 25 mg of LSD - memorable bicycle rides in history - synthesized psilocybin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann
"Gravity's Rainbow" Thomas Pynchon
Fitz High Ludlow Library - Largest collection of books, manuscripts, artifacts - about drug use in the world.
The Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library is a library of psychoactive drug-related literature created in 1970 by Michael Horowitz, Cynthia Palmer, William Dailey, and Robert Barker, who merged their private libraries. It is the largest such library in the world and was based in San Francisco, California; the Ludlow Library is now part of the Ludlow Santo Domingo Library sarl, in Geneva, Switzerland. It is named for Fitz Hugh Ludlow, author of the first full-length work of drug literature written by an American, The Hasheesh Eater, (1857). During the 1970s the library grew rapidly and operated out of San Francisco as an international resource for psychoactive drug research, and for the study of psychoactive drug use in contemporary and historical societies. The Ludlow Library flourished during a period of perhaps the most intense media interet ever focused on the personal, social, scientific and political aspects of drug experience. The library was curated by Michael Aldrich, holder of the first Ph.D. ever granted from an American University in the history of cannabis, and included on its board of advisors a number of eminent researches and writers, including Chauncey Leake, Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann, Alexander Shulgin, Andrew Weil, Oscar Janiger, Ralph Metzner, Laura Huxley, Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Felinghetti.
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