Si vous avez un crush sur Kerouac (à l’époque on disait avoir un crush sur qqn au lieu de béguin), je vous suggère d'écouter :
Sur les traces de Kerouac
Le vendredi de 14h à 15h
Du 21 novembre au 12 décembre 2014
Sur ICI Radio-Canada Première
L'animateur Franco Nuovo, l'auteur Gabriel Anctil et le réalisateur Jean-Philippe Pleau se sont intéressés à la quête de Jack Kerouac pour retrouver ses origines québécoises et françaises. Le trio est donc parti sur les routes du Québec et des États-Unis à la rencontre des personnes qui l'ont connu ou qui ont été marquées par l'oeuvre de l'auteur américain. Leur périple a commencé dans le Bas-Saint-Laurent pour se poursuivre à Lowell, au Massachusetts, et s'est terminé par une découverte à New York.
Si vous n’avez pas accès à la chaîne radio, vous pouvez télécharger gratuitement le livre numérique sur iBooks ou en format PDF :
Créé autour du documentaire sur Jack Kerouac, ce livre numérique permet d'explorer un peu plus l'univers de cet écrivain marquant et de comprendre sa quête identitaire. Concept original de l'équipe de contenu et de design d'ICI Radio-Canada.ca, ce récit, enrichi de photographies et d'illustrations, est divisé en cinq chapitres. Il comprend des extraits des livres de Jack Kerouac, des documents d'archives radio et télé, et les épisodes de la série radiophonique.
J’ai feuilleté rapidement le PDF pour avoir une idée : excellent visuel et contenu.
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/emissions/sur_les_traces_de_kerouac/2014-2015/
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Une vidéo dénichée sur Brain Pickings http://www.brainpickings.org/
“More than half a century after Kerouac penned that beautiful letter, director Sergi Castella and filmmaker Hector Ferreño transformed the writer’s words into a magnificent cinematic adaptation for Dosnoventa Bikes, with a haunting, Johnny-Cashlike voiceover by James Phillips and beautifully curated music by Pink Floyd and Cash himself. As an intense lover of both bikes and literature, it makes my heart sing in multiple octaves.”
~ Maria Popova (Brain Pickings)
WE WERE NEVER BORN
By Dosnoventa (dosnoventabikes.com) Superbe pub de vélos en tout cas!
“I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night. It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don’t worry. It’s all like a dream. Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever. Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, which was taught in immense milky way soft cloud innumerable worlds long ago and not even at all. It is all one vast awakened thing. I call it the golden eternity. It is perfect.
We were never really born, we will never really die. It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere: Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes into everything is one thing. It's a dream already ended. There's nothing to be afraid of and nothing to be glad about. I know this from staring at mountains months on end. They never show any expression, they are like empty space. Do you think the emptiness of space will ever crumble away? Mountains will crumble, but the emptiness of space, which is the one universal essence of mind, the vast awakenerhood, empty and awake, will never crumble away because it was never born.”
(D’une lettre adressée à sa femme)
Il a également dit à son sujet : «Mon amour pour Maggie est si fort que j'accepte même l'idée qu'elle puisse un jour ressembler à sa mère, devenir grosse.»
(in Maggie Cassidy)
Une autre vidéo dénichée sur http://www.openculture.com
Jack Kerouac – AMERICAN HAIKUS
In the spring of 1958 Jack Kerouac went into the studio with tenor saxmen Al Cohn and Zoot Sims to record his second album, a mixture of jazz and poetry called Blues and Haikus. The haiku is a traditional Japanese poetry form with three unrhyming lines in five, seven, and five syllables. But Kerouac took a freer approach. In 1959, the year Blues and Haikus was released, he explained:
“The American haiku is not exactly the Japanese Haiku. The Japanese Haiku is strictly disciplined to seventeen syllables but since the language structure is different I don’t think American Haikus (short three-line poems intended to be completely packed with Void of Whole) should worry about syllables because American speech is something again . . . bursting to pop.
Above all, a Haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and make a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi Pastorella.”
The opening number on Blues and Haikus is a 10-minute piece called “American Haikus.” It features Kerouac’s expressive recitation of a series of poems punctuated by the improvisational saxophone playing of Cohn and Sims. The video is animated by the artist Peter Gullerud.
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Liens d’intérêt :
The Kerouac Center at UMass Lowell
http://www.jackkerouac.com/
The Jack and Stella Kerouac Center for the Public Humanities
http://www.uml.edu/Research/Kerouac-Center/
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