Tag Archives: Allen Ginsberg

cannabis: our reefer sadness

Posted on January 26, 2013 by Dave

Life with a spliff more surreal, exciting, profound? Recapturing the moment before the soul came into the world when it was sky-high. Maybe cannabis and other psychotropics open doors as Aldous Huxley asserted or Carlos Castaneda, but its a high … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, Allen St. Pierre NORML, Carlos Castaneda, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jack Kerouac, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Malcolm Muggeridge, Pamela Anderson, Peter Hitchens, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

nash

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Dave

As a postscript to the series on America in 1939: the anatomy of change. Ogden Nash was a specialist in what could be called light verse Americana that fir squarely into the canon of the The New Yorker with his … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Ferdinand Pecora, Jack Morgan banker, Lya Graph midget, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Ogden Nash, Pecora Commission, Senator Carter Glass, Senator Duncan Fletcher | Leave a comment

patchen: painting poems

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Dave

by Art Chantry: seemingly forgotten and long overlooked is kenneth patchen. this guy is one of those american originals, a guy who hacked out his own path through the wilderness and just kept hacking away his entire life. people either … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Allen Ginsberg, art chantry, Charles Mingus, E.E. Cummings, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, John Cage, Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Rexroth, Langston Hughes, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog | Leave a comment

tunnel vision: in like flynn

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Dave

There are lots of days when the earth stands still. Motionless. Inert. Lifeless. Of course, its not for pleasure, or sport, or enjoyment; it has a revelatory characteristic, inextricably linked to the divine. It is holy and in the service … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Baruch Goldstein, bela lugosi, Bela Lugosi Jesus of Nazareth, Eid al-Adha, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mick Green Guitarist, Paul Coelho, Paul McCartney Run Devil Run, PETA religious animal slaughter, Philip Coppens, Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, Stephen King The Shining | Leave a comment

one that got away

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Dave

Must have felt good for him to drop the f-bomb. Inside all that vague space of harmony has to be a seething mass of rage somewhere within. Buddhism has been so commodified by American pop culture, it has spawned an … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Adam Sandler Anger Management, Allen Ginsberg, Dalai Lama swearing, Gregory Corso, Jack Nicholson Anger Management, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Steven Pinker, Tony Trigilo | Leave a comment

back to the futurism: cleansing joy of combat

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Dave

F.P. Marinetti and futurism. The grand effort to wipe out every vestige of the past. As the poet Guillaume Apollinaire wrote in 1913, it was the first collective effort to suppress history in the name of art… While Filippo Marinetti … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Battle of Adrianople, Bob Dylan, Charles Bernstein MOMA, F.P. Marinetti Futurist Manifesto, Filippo Marinetti, Futurist aesthetics, Guillaume Apollinaire, Isotta Fraschini car, Italian Fascism, Italy World War I, Kenneth Burke, Le Corbusier architect, Mussolini newspaper editor, Pierre Bourgeois, Rene Magritte, Sant' Elia futurist architect, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Walt Whitman | Leave a comment

breakfast in america: pass on the second helpings

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Dave

Obama and those “new democracies.” They have to loosen up, chill out, get down and let if flow. But what about the old dogs in the area, or are they granted a free pass, a get out of jail card, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alan Dershowitz, Allen Ginsberg, Dershowitz Formula, Iggy Pop, Jack Kerouac, jerry seinfeld, jim jarmusch, Larry Rivers, mahmoud abbas, Malcolm Hoenlein, Mohamad Morsi, Morsi at Hooters, Noam Chomsky, Robert Wexler former U.S. Congressman, Roger Hodgson Supertramp, thomas friedman new york times, Tom Waits | Leave a comment

millenarian: deprivation madness

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Dave

In times of stress, look for the Prophets of an earthly paradise. Is America ready for its own millennial cult? The United States today is plainly in what Anthony F.C. Wallace termed the period of cultural distortion. Statistics do show … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Alvin Toffler, Anthony F.C. Wallace, Barack Obama 2012, Cargo Cults, Diane Arbus, James Mooney anthropologist, Leonard Bernstein, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Millenarian movements, Paul McCartney, Philleo Nash, ruth orkin, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

a rising tide sinks all ships

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Dave

The velocity of money. a rising tide sinks all ships. That is, capitalism and democracy have always had an uneasy relationship. They are not partners naturally suited to one another for the most part. Something of an artificial idea; like … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, Bob Diamond Barclays, Gauss Kaspersky Lab, Georges de La Tour, Harry K. Thaw, Joe Nocera, jon corzine, joseph heath, LIBOR scandal Barclays Bank, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, MF Global scandal, Oscar Wilde, Peregrine Financial Group, Russell Wasendorf Sr., Standard Chartered scandal Iran, Stanford White, William Burroughs | Leave a comment

exile: angels in b&w

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: this is a nifty photo of the original pasted up ‘artwork” (such as it is) of the rolling stones’ “exile on main street” LP cover. it belongs to the permanenet collection of the EMP (experience music project) … Continue reading →