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This wild Irish heart has been making great rock 'n' roll for (can it be!) more than 25 years now, and this two-CD set is another great chapter in a musical autobiography that combines influences as diverse as James Joyce, Sidney Bechet, Jack Kerouac and Muddy Waters into a seamless, eccentric and wholly original sound. As Van the Man once put it himself, "Fantabulous...
This wild Irish heart has been making great rock 'n' roll for (can it be!) more than 25 years now, and this two-CD set is another great chapter in a musical autobiography that combines influences as diverse as James Joyce, Sidney Bechet, Jack Kerouac and Muddy Waters into a seamless, eccentric and wholly original sound. As Van the Man once put it himself, "Fantabulous...
...movie welds snippets of scenes from the novel to elements of the writer's life: his accidental shooting of his wife Joan; his friendships with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Paul and Jane Bowles; his own sepulchral charisma. With his cracked voice and deadpan insolence, Burroughs was the Beat Generation's W.C. Fields -- a raconteur of depravity, a cracker-barrel coroner. Weller gets the haunted look right, but he can't get inside the junkie's pocked skin. Burroughs lived and nearly died there; Cronenberg and the actors are only visiting. The movie is way too colorful -- cute, in a repulsive...
...blues line like John Lee Hooker. It's a daft and reckless mix, but Morrison makes it work through sheer force of spirit, what he once called, in a memorable song, the "inarticulate speech of the heart." His rhythms are irresistible, his lyrics like an amalgam of Yeats, Kerouac and Chuck Berry. The Irish tenor John McCormack said what distinguishes an important voice from a good one is the indescribable but crucial quality that he termed "the yarrrrragh." The yarrrrragh, critic Greil Marcus points out, is "a mythic incantation . . . To Morrison ((it is)) the gift of the muse...
...noted that Cassady had a surplus of erotic energy. Carolyn recalls he was not an especially sensitive lover. Sex, it appears, was less a private act between two people than a plot element in the crowded drama he lived from day to day. Carolyn played her part when Jack Kerouac moved in. With her husband's tacit urging, she became the novelist's lover. "I provided for whichever of them was in residence according to his individual preferences," she writes of that arrangement...