December 2009
25 posts
“As we rode the bus in the weird phosphorescent void of the Lincoln Tunnel we leaned on each other with fingers waving and yelled and talked excitedly, and I was beginning to get the bug like Dean.”
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Jack Kerouac (On the Road)
That’s my favorite three-word phrase in all of literature - “weird phosphorescent void.”
(via thisisfurious)
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify them, or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
—Jack Kerouac (via samsaramotel) (via petersantiago)
… a world full of rucksack wanderers, Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that crap they didn’t really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, at least new fancy cars, certain hair oils and deodorants and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume, I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of ‘em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures…
Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
—Jack Kerouac (via quotewhore) (via idealistically)
“Mankind is like dogs, not gods — as long as you don’t get mad they’ll bite you — but stay mad and you’ll never be bitten. Dogs don’t respect humility and sorrow.”
—Jack Kerouac, Some of the Dharma (1997)
Jack Kerouac Reads on the Road →
depositfiles.com
tracklist:
1. Ain’t We Got Fun (Album Version)
2. On The Road (jazz Of The Beat Generation) (Album Version)
3. On The Road [excerpt] (Album Version)
4. Come Rain Or Shine (Album Version)
5. Orizaba 210 Blues (Album Version)
6. When A Man Loves A Woman (Album Version)
7. Leavin’ Town (Album Version)
8. Washington D.C. Blues
9. On The Road [excerpt]
