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Tuesday, May 30, 2006

How well do you know the Beats?

let's see if you dig this...
  1. You have to know this. Who's the father of the Beats?

  2. Allen Ginsberg
    William S. Burroughs
    Walt Whitman
    Jack Kerouac
    Neal Cassady
    Gregory Corso
    Herbert Huncke
    John Clellon Holmes

  3. "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness"

  4. Oh yeah?
    Corso's "Bomb"
    Orlovsky's "My bed is covered yellow"
    Bob Kaufman's "On"
    Ferlinghetti's "Constantly Risking Absurdity"
    Corso's "Marriage"
    Ginsberg's "Howl"
    I have no idea, man...

  5. The greatest ecologist and also a ranger among the Beats was:

  6. Gary Snider
    Michael McClure
    Frank O' Hara
    Diane Di Prima
    Jack Kerouac
    William S. Burroughs
    Ken Kesey
    dunno

  7. Who wrote "The ticket that exploded"?

  8. Creeley
    Levertov
    Welch
    Kerouac
    Burroughs
    Waldman
    Rexroth
    Bukowski

  9. Dean Moriarty is

  10. Neal
    Gregory
    Peter
    William
    Kerouac's brother
    Allen
    Kerouac's publisher
    a name?

  11. You have to know the Jazz terms. Who's Bird?

  12. a Jazz band
    Miles Davis
    Louis Armstrong
    Ella Fitzgerald
    Charlie Parker
    John Coltrane
    Nina Simone
    pass

  13. Inspired by Kerouac's "On the Road" a band made a song called "Cassady". Which band?

  14. The Beatles
    The Rolling Stones
    King Crimson
    The Allman Brothers
    The Byrds
    The Grateful Dead
    Pink Floyd
    Eagles

  15. My witness is...

  16. God
    the universe
    fear
    the sheltering sky
    the empty universe
    the empty sky
    the whispering universe
    the rain

  17. Which is not Burroughs' quote?

  18. "Word is a virus"
    "Madness is confusion of levels of fact...Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels"
    "Shoot the bitch and write a book. That's what I did"
    Burroughs?
    "It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now"
    "Confusion hath fuck his masterpiece"
    "I'm running out of everything now. Out of veins, out of money"
    really don't know

  19. Where did the term Beatnik come from?

  20. from a famous novel from the 19th century
    from a poem written by Corso
    from the Russian satelite Sputnik
    from the word "putnik" (traveller)
    from a 50's commercial
    It was invented by Ginsberg
    It was invented by William Carlos Williams
    dunno

see if you're a good cat, hip and beat.

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