MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
Franco stepped into a stoner persona for “Pineapple Express,” and now he’s set to explore his even more hippier side as the legendary poet Allen Ginsberg. The actor gave the news exclusively to MTV News, revealing that he’ll be tackling the writer for a new movie called, appropriately enough, “Howl,” after Ginsberg’s famous poem written [...]
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
in post The Sick Sick Six: 6 Things You Did Not Know About Pantsy (Psst ... it was his birthday) from Pirates of the Bargain Bin .
rediff News (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Arthur J Pais writes on a fascinating book that limns Beat poet Allen Ginsberg's attempt to find, in Indian mysticism, an antidote to Western materialism
Politics in the Zeros (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
... Denver Mint. Another protester began shouting “Kill Michelle Malkin.” Y’know, when Abbie Hoffman, Allen Ginsberg, and the Fugs “tried” to levitate the Pentagon in 1967, they got hordes of reporters and made worldwide headlines. It was a fun event, and they weren’t screaming “kill” at anyone, either.
Noise Pollution (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
... musical performances , a collaboration with composer Phillip Glass on their mutual friend poet Allen Ginsberg , Glass will also be presenting a piece based on the writings of Leonard Cohen, the Dream Of Life film documentary on her life and work, an exhibition of photographs and objects inspired by the movie and her own installation and exhibition of her photography and personal artefacts....
Gossip Central (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
... by Jack Kerouac , Rivers , as Milo a railway brakeman reminiscent of Neal Cassady, cavorts with Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso, Delphine Seyrig, Alice Neel, David Amram, and other downtown art figures. The up-tight bishop and family visit his bohemian artist's loft with hilarious results. But the object of the satire is social, liberating American culture without a...
Brit Lit Blogs (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Steve Finbow is a Londoner (but plans to move to Tokyo). He has worked for the artist Richard Long , the biographer Victor Bockris , and was researcher/editor for the poet Allen Ginsberg . He blogs as The Glass Hombre , runs the show at Red Peter and is 3:AM Magazine ’s newest editor. To celebrate, Steve tells us he is currently listening to: 1. ‘Mykonos’ - Fleet Foxes 2. ‘I Don’t Want To Die (In...
Politics in the Zeros (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
... – a culture so detached and disconnected that it has stopped giving birth to anything new. Didn’t Allen Ginsberg say the same thing, better and more impassionedly, over 50 years ago in Howl? Well, of course he did. Hipsters. You didn’t invent being alt-, or jaded, or part of a deliberately separate subculture standing apart from the norm. The punks, hippies, and beats did the same...
Gridskipper (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... New York City, which is reflected in their best writing. Kerouac, Neal Cassady, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and other influential Beats spent some of their most productive and destructive years in New York, shuttling between mad parties and bop joints and drinking and drugging their way to literary infamy. And while there are many Beat landmarks throughout the city, it seems...
lotusinthemud (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... The suffering itself is not so bad, its the resentment against suffering that is the real pain. ~ Allen Ginsberg, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Vol.II, No.1
The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... Raw sales, though, only tell part of the story. Along with Jack Kerouac's On the Road and Allen Ginsberg's Howl, Ferlinghetti's classic helped lay the artistic foundation for the counterculture movements of the 50s, 60s and beyond, to the point where even today it's a standard entry point for many wishing to explore the serious literary underground.But it's far more that just a cultural...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Louise "Gypsy Lou" and Jon Edgar Webb were the force behind Loujon Press, which published works by Kenneth Patchen, Henry Miller, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs and introduced Charles Bukowski to the literary world.
Indian Express (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Allen Ginsberg's search for his personal brand of salvation
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
"Everyone was a censor at the BBC in its Golden Days. I recall getting a pile of transcripts of interviews I'd recorded in San Francisco in 1965 with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Rexroth et al, in which every few lines the secretary making the transcription broke in with the capitalised observation: 'THIS IS UNFIT FOR BROADCASTING'."...
COOL HUNTING (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
... a mix CD of avant-garde music that includes writers, artists and musicians such as Nam Jun Paik, Allen Ginsberg, Iggy Pop, Gertrude Stein, Aphex Twin and Sonic Youth, it's a must for anyone interested in the ways technology influences culture. For those in NYC next Thursday, 21 August 2008, you can catch DJ Spooky in conversation with author of the book's forward and Boing Boing editor...
