Items of interest
Jami and I have been invited and are now involved in the 7th Annual Santa Cruz Film Festival. This year the film, "One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur" will have it’s World Premier at the opening of the festival on May 9t, 2008 at the Del Mar Theater, Santa Cruz, Ca.
Carolyn, John and Jami were asked to be a part of this project by the film makers, Tango Pix. If you visit our "archive" section for July 2007, you can see the pictures of our experience at Lawrence’s Big Sur cabin during the filming. Please visit: kerouacfilms.com.
| OPENING NIGHT One Fast Move Or I'm Gone : Kerouac's Big Sur
Enter Big Sur. Big Sur was Jack Kerouac’s last major work that many critics and literary scholars site as his most intimate and introspective. One Fast Move Or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur moves the audience along on a visceral ride of raw emotions and dramatic events on which the book is based. The story is told in several ways through the narrative arc of his own prose. First-hand accounts and recollections of Kerouac’s contemporaries, whom many of the characters in the book are based on such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Carolyn Cassady and Michael McClure are interviewed. Reflections of artists, poets, actors and musicians who have been deeply influenced by Kerouac’s unique gifts like Tom Waits, Sam Shepard, Patti Smith and Donal Logue give their own interpretations of Kerouac’s cathartic writing style and fragile reality.
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American novelist and poet, leading figurehead and spokesman of the Beat Generation. Kerouac's search for spiritual liberation produced his best known work, the autobiographical novel On the Road (1957). The first beat novel was based on Kerouac's travels across America with his friend Neal Cassady. Its importance was compared to Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises, generally seen as the testament of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. 
Mom had a nice interview in a newspaper in England called: "Notes From The Underground" (a free paper). March Edition.
Her interview was by Will Orr-Ewing and was recorded as a podcast. Tom Kingsley is the artists responsible for this cool collage.
"Carolyn Cassady (b.1923) is closely associated with the so-called 'Beat Generation' through her marriage to Neal Cassady and her close relationships with Jack Kerouac and Allen Gins berg. Kerouac's On the Road is a partially autobiographical account of their time traveling across mid-century America and has been almost universally acclaimed as one of the defining novels of the 20th Century. It has also been seen as the clearest expression of the Beat Generation's ideals, but Carolyn has a quite a different take, both on the novel and the time that it describes." To read the complete article, view a larger version of Tom Kingsley's graphic or listen to the podcast go to: www.notesfromtheunderground.co.uk
John was invited to Denver to plug a documentary called "Neal Cassady; The Denver Years" that mom and John had gone to film last year. Now it is ready for distribution, so he was on the local Public TV Station: View the video
John had a gig with Jerry Cimino (owner of The Beat Museum) at the UCSF Auditorium, Laurel Heights Conference Center March 11th. It was a great audience and John and Jerry did a reprise of their popular college tour show Beat Museum On Wheels  |
Randy and Jami are now able to offer prints of artist Frank Ware’s pen and ink lithograph of Neal Cassady (taken from one of Carolyn’s photographs). The drawing of Neal is the famous "Joan Anderson Letter", the letter Neal wrote to Jack Kerouac, published in Neal Cassady’s book, The First Third. The letter is hand written by Frank, starting at Neal’s right eye and continuing.....The original lithograph was signed by both Frank and Carolyn dated 9-19-82.
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The prints are the same size as the original, 18" x 24". The price is $25.00 which includes shipping.
Click on the eye ...where it all begins to see an exploded image. To order a copy by mail, Click here to view and download the order form in PDF. |
We are also delighted to offer on line sales of John Allen's chapter book, "Visions of Neal" for $12.00, which includes shipping
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