Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) Howl For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and [...]
Cult Of Luna’s epic 2008 album ‘Eternal Kingdom’ is one of the most compelling and fascinating concept albums of recent times (with the grand exception of Fall Of Efrafa’s peerless Watership Down trilogy). When the band were scouting for rehearsal space in the run up to recording, they chanced upon the site of a demolished [...]
It would seem like China Mièville’s foray into crime fiction has paid off. It was a risky departure, abandoning the much loved Bas Lag universe (after the astonishing trilogy of Perdido Street Station, The Scar and Iron Council) and inhabiting an apparently (initially anyway) more grounded one. The result of this endeavor is ‘The City [...]
Bear with me for a moment. It’s the 1960′s and Jack Kerouac is in a bad way, several decades of alcohol have taken their toll and he is distraught with the state of the world he lives in. He decides to leave his Big Sur hideaway and seek out Neal Cassady (his real life inspiration [...]
Gregory Corso & Allen Ginsberg interview WIlliam S Burroughs in 1961
Above is the cover of Scroobius Pip’s new collection of illustrated poems, entitled ‘Poetry In (e)motion’. It is released in a week or so by Titan books and you should most definitely all buy yourselves a copy.
Covering the period before Hunter’s escapades made it onscreen in ‘Where the Buffalo Roam’, a watchable but far from classic interpretation starring Bill Murray, this is a superb little piece that offers some unique and insightful material.
The most powerful influence on the arts in the West is – the cinema.
As I have mentioned here on several occasions, I am a ridiculously early riser. I am also not fond of going to bed early, but at least I have gotten part of the nursery rhyme correct. Usually between the hours of 6.30 and 8am, I allow myself to wallow in the coffee/internet wilderness stage of [...]