beat generation

Stuff
I Tried to Trip on Light With My Homemade Dream Machine
All you need for a psychedelic trip is a utility knife, some cardboard, a lamp and a faint memory of maths lessons.
Kristian Nielsen
8.19.16
Music
How Composer Howard Shore Brought the Sounds of Tangier to William S. Burroughs' ‘Naked Lunch’
Mondo will bring three Shore scores from David Cronenberg films to vinyl this summer.
Derek Scancarelli
6.30.16
Food
Hunter S. Thompson Tried to Get Paid in Cocaine at My Tequila Bar
A day before I opened my first London bar, a magazine asked to interview Hunter S. Thompson there. I remember him, he was everything you thought he’d be—petulant, temperamental, a bit violent.
Tomas Estes
2.26.16

Stuff
Remembering My Friend Carolyn Cassady, Late Queen of the Beat Poets
Carolyn, who died last Friday, September 20th at the age of 90, loved throwing rocks at the Beat industry from the sidelines. She was an arch Anglophile, who was the widow of the man who inspired On the Road and Allen Ginsberg’s early poetry...
Phil Hebblethwaite
9.25.13