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Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard Announce Additional Kerouac Dates
Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard have added a couple more shows and special screenings to the tour backing their collaboration project, One Fast Move Or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur, due out Oct. 20.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsJay Farrar and Ben Gibbard Announce Kerouac Live Dates
Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard have lately been devoting their artistry to converting Jack Kerouac's spirited prose into song and verse, a collaboration album known as One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur. To support their project, which is slated for an Oct. 20 debut, they'll be hosting a special series of four concerts around the U.S. where they'll perform songs from the record along with other surprise material.... read more
Found in: Books, NewsJay Farrar and Ben Gibbard Talk Kerouac Project
The Death Cab for Cutie and Son Volt frontmen explain to Paste the creation of One Fast Move or I’m Gone... read more
Found in: Music, NewsJay Farrar And Ben Gibbard Collaborate on Jack Kerouac Project
Jack Kerouac's writing holds an integral spot on many a musician's required reading list. The late writer pioneered and documented the Beat movement, paving the way for much of the writing and music that would come in the latter half of the century. Perhaps his most celebrated work, 1957's On The Road captures the spirit of the cross-country tour and the floundering and frenzied lifestyle of an artist. Channeling the essence of Kerouac's life and canon, Son Volt frontman Jay Farrar and Death Cab's Ben Gibbard are working on a project that Farrar told St. Louis alt-weekly The Riverfront Times... read more
Found in: Music, NewsUpcoming biopic to examine Beats' dark beginnings
Lucien Carr, now famous for his volatile mentorship of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, died without ever clarifying the murky details of his early life. Carr was convicted for the manslaughter of David Kammerer in 1944, and though he was pardoned, a haze of uncertainty still surrounds the incident. However, director John Krokidas and producer Christine Vachon hope to shed some light on Carr's life in their upcoming biopic Kill Your Darlings.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsWalter Salles talks about his On the Road adaptation
Although it was stuck in development for three decades (with Francis Ford Coppola owning the rights at one point), the film adaptation of iconic Jack Kerouac novel On the Road is finally inching toward the big screen.... read more
Found in: Books, NewsJack Kerouac manuscript unrolled at Columbia College
“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.” - Jack Kerouac, On the Road... read more
Found in: Books, NewsThe Road Giveth, The Road Taketh Away
I have a yellow Polaroid photo of myself in the streets of Juarez, Mexico, 1972. I’m sitting on a life-size plaster horse, wearing a straw sombrero, holding a beat-up copy of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. I’m drunk and happy and three-quarters through a 7,000-mile odyssey across the continent. I’d purchased a... read more
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