Word: kerouac
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...Jones was unique and wholly left field even when she had a surprise hit, Chuck E.'s in Love, from her debut album back in 1979. She sounded like a saloon singer with Listerine in her shot glass and wrote songs that came off like juke joint Kerouac. This is only her third full album, and she seems bent on proving, quite unnecessarily, what she has already established: she is the most enterprising woman writer making records today. The Magazine, a spiraling cycle of songs organized around themes of loneliness, defiance, memory and renewal, seems...
SOME OF THE better writing, though, lies in the "texts" themselves. The parodies of Helen Gurley Brown and of Jack Kerouac (in the form of Camille Cassidy Cassady, who writes On the Rag) are particularly funny, because the humor is aimed more at the society that fostered Cosmopolitan and the Beat generation than at specific female stereotypes...
...thought is momentarily interrupted as a graybeard Kerouac beat screams past on a Harley, one of the 174,671 registered motorcycles in town. One of the things he no doubt likes best about the place is that it does not require you to wear a helmet. California recognizes a man's right to bare his brains at all times...
Culture Clash. Touches of Little Italy and Chinatown. The Beat-era City Lights Bookshop, where Jack Kerouac gave drunken poetry readings, and the Purple Onion, the takeoff nightspot for Phyllis Diller and the Kingston Trio. Iced Campari among jet-setters at Enrico's Sidewalk Cafe, and hamburgers among Oriental teen-agers at Clown Alley. White-shod tourists and Mohawked punks. Saints and sinners bathed in the garish glow of strip joints. This is the cultural clashpoint known as North Beach. Here, on a three-block stretch of Broadway, the barkers compete hoarsely for the business of the leery...
...front of other people, and although he was hungry, he never allowed me to buy him food. He also makes it a rule never to bum cigarettes from his friends--he gets them from strangers or finds them, half-smoked, on the sidewalk. His heroes are Jack Kerouac, Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan, and his favorite joke is "Could you spare a quarter? I have to get my mother out of the pawnshop...