Beat generation tattoo

I tend to forget people do not know the face or name of the poet Allen Ginsberg. I am showing my age when I post a photo of Ginsberg and assume my readers recognize Ginsberg's face. Sorry. I am old and forget people today do not know/read the poetry of Ginsberg or Beat literature. the late American…

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness::Allen Ginsberg

One of a set of photographs taken in September 1956 to illustrate an article in Mademoiselle magazine on "The Lively Arts in San Francisco". The article, by Michael Grieg, appeared in the February 1957 issue of the magazine, although this particular photograph was not used there, but made its debut alongside a review of Kerouac's book "The Dharma Bums" in the October 5, 1958 issue of "The San Francisco Examiner." "The other night Mademoiselle magazine took our pictures (me and poet buddies…

Videos by American Songwriter Jay Farrar (Son Volt) and Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie, Postal Service) are having a go at the old indie-folk side project. While Farrar was finishing up American Central Dust and Gibbard had some downtime, the pair laid down some tracks last year for the Jack Kerouac documentary, One Fast […]

Hello friends, Samm Bennett here. This is a collection of old photographs of one man bands I've collected from here and there around the web. I have a special place in my heart for these guys, partly...

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Robert's black-and-white prints immediately reminded me of Jack’s word pictures in On the Road. Here was the reality beyond the sidewalks of New York that I hoped to see one day with my own eyes, if only Jack would take me along on one of his cross-country road trips. I didn’t know that he was becoming far too famous to make them anymore. Years later, the images I saw that day would become famous themselves: the trolley in New Orleans with the lineup of white and black faces in its windows…