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...emotionally driven compositions. Jason, who joined the band just last year, played his heart out. Nick danced wildly and soaked up every minute on stage. Chris, jumping from guitar to Rhodes, dazzled the room with precise riffs and flowing rhythms. And Ben, sweating like a wild animal, put his soul into every note he played and every word he sang. These guys are honest musicians; yet they use their position for political and social messages as well...
...embarks with his compatriot, Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) on his travels—powered, initially, by the namesake motorcycle, of course—bound for the southern tip of South America. He is a far more accessible figure, and his journey radiates a certain lost-soul aura to which even a hardened capitalist could relate...
Naturally, this got me wondering about my cinematic soul mate (what was his name, was he better looking than me, etc.) But soon after, I was thrust into a period of monkish introspection. Randomness alone could not possibly account for such an odd episode. There must be some link, some pattern, binding my movie choices: The Insider, Quiz Show, Erin Brockovich...
Naturally, this got me wondering about my cinematic soul mate (what was his name, was he better looking than me, etc.) But soon after, I was thrust into a period of monkish introspection. Randomness alone could not possibly account for such an odd episode. There must be some link, some pattern, binding my movie choices: The Insider, Quiz Show, Erin Brockovich...
...might assume that Kerouac was as wild as Dean Moriarty, the human jackhammer at the book's center, who was based on Kerouac's soul mate, Neal Cassady. On the Road made Kerouac the spokesman for the Beat Generation, an icon of hip. But that's not the man you meet in Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954 (Viking; 371 pages), a poignant selection of Kerouac's diaries edited by the historian Douglas Brinkley. The journals begin with Kerouac at 25, anguishing over his first novel, The Town and the City ("Why doesn't God appear...