“Kerouac taped together twelve-foot-long sheets of drawing paper, trimmed at the left margin so they would fit into his typewriter, and fed them into his machine as a continuous roll. Holmes visited his apartment while this version of On The Road was in progress and was amazed at the thundering sound of Jack’s typewriter racing … Continue reading “Blog Fight Song, pt. 5”
From a profile on Barry Michaels, the Hollywood therapist who treats screenwriters, actors and movie execs: “By far the most common problem afflicting the writers in Michels’s practice is procrastination, which he understands in terms of Jung’s Father archetype. ‘They procrastinate because they have no external authority figure demanding that they write,’ he says. ‘Often … Continue reading “Blog Fight Song, pt. 4”
Film director Elia Kazan, from an unpublished letter to Tennesse Williams. Kazan is asking Williams to add a speech in praise of bohemianism to his liberal-leaning script for “Camino Real”: A dying race call them what you will: romantics, eccentrics, rebels, Bohemians, freaks, harum-scarum, bob-tail, Punchinellos, odd-ducks, the out-of-steps, the queers, double-gated, lechers, secret livers, … Continue reading “Blog Fight Song, pt. 3”
From David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech to graduates of Kenyon College in 2005: “Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. … Continue reading “Blog fight song, part two”
Hooray for those who have invented nothing! Hooray for those who destroy nothing! But who in awe give themselves up to the essence of things. Ignoring surfaces, but possessed by the rhythm of things Heedlesss of taming, but playing the game of the world. – Aimé Césare