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Beatsville - Rod McKuen
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Beatsville, Swingville!
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Carefully hidden in plain sight inside a huge scrapheap, the community of Beatsville lives as a commune of beatniks simply calling themselves ‘The Beats’. Even though most would consider their living conditions an utter trash heap, the Beats aim to bring the people of the Commonwealth out of a dark age and into an age of enlightenment by spreading new art, music, and literature as far as possible. Over the years, residents have learned to craft incredible objects from repurposed junk—plastics intricately woven into clothing and fabrics, cans reshaped into unique jewelry and helpful gear, dirt and clay fired to make beautiful ceramics, and old objects illustrated over with new paintings. Their pacifist lifestyle and egalitarian attitudes have not prepared them for the harsh winter ahead. Their secondhand creations once provided a source of caps and supplies, but the harsh winter has halted the efforts of the settlement’s sole traveling trader, Dead Drop Dave. Soon, they’ll run out of manuscripts to burn—and what then?
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I'm a big fan of the beatnik lifestyle. This includes the writings of Jack Keroac (my favorite is Darma Bums), coffee houses, St Germain de Près, speaking french, living in Paris, dressing in black with a béret (haha!), Bohemian living, poetry, jazz, anti-conformism, bongos, art and anti-art, candles in wine bottles, books, jive talking and stickin' it to the man. I don't like pigs, especially the pig in the tree. Dig it Daddio. #jackkerouac #beatnik #bellbookandcandle #beatsville #wowsville #outregallery #blackberet #angelheadedhipster #holybarbarians https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs5uS6ygdsw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wn43tpu5n28e
#jackkerouac#beatnik#bellbookandcandle#beatsville#wowsville#outregallery#blackberet#angelheadedhipster#holybarbarians
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Here's a pretty excellent article digging into the somewhat forgotten superstar poet of the 1960s-70s, Rod McKuen.
He was sort of a gateway poet for me, as his shmaltzy love/wonder stuff did jibe with that early teen life moment when I was figuring out who I was. He was already pretty forgotten when I first came across him. One passage here happened to me exactly, as my first girlfriend, Sondra, bought me one of his books for a birthday present and inscribed it.
"That ability to express emotions that might otherwise go unsaid seems key to a phenomenon several people I interviewed noticed: that lots of their old Rod McKuen books sport handwritten inscriptions in the front. Think of them as the mixtapes of their day, said Erik Noftle, also a professor at Willamette: “They were given, you know, to men, to help them understand the internal world of feeling, or they were given to women to acknowledge that world.”
I seem to recall liking the way, mentioned in this article, McKuen didn't always reference exact gender, and I tried to do that in my lyrics, though there were a few influences for that, though this article shook that cobweb out...
I always loved that Beatsville album McKuen did, and heard Richard Hell's "Blank Generation" song about the same year I first heard McKuen's "Beat Generation" novelty track. I got the first CD release of that during the flood of "bachelor pad music" reissues in the latter '90s, and it came with cool downloadable "beatnik" fonts.
The second-to-last paragraph is a good encapsulation of the increasingly lost art of stumbling on weird shit, like I used to do a lot more at thrift stores...
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For your dancing pleasure, the strange’n’sleazy sounds of Lobotomy Room return to the basement Bamboo Lounge of Fontaine’s bar on Friday 28 February!
Lobotomy Room! Where sin lives! A punkabilly booze party! Sensual and depraved! A spectacle of decadence! A night of Vintage Sleaze-o-Rama! Beat, Beat Beatsville Beatnik Rock’n’Roll! Bad Music for Bad People! Rockabilly Psychosis! Wailing Rhythm and Blues!! Punk cretin hops! Twisted Tittyshakers! White Trash Rockers! Kitsch! Exotica! Curiosities and Other Weird Shit! Think John Waters soundtracks, or Songs the Cramps Taught Us, hosted by Graham Russell. Expect desperate stabs from the jukebox jungle! Savage rhythms to make you writhe and rock!
Admission: gratuit - that’s French for FREE!
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Bathroom reading. (C)waynemichaelreich.com #readingisfundamental #booksarelife #beatsville
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The eyes have it. Rod McKuen's Beatsville. 1959 HiFi Record R419. A smooth addition to the canon of Beat Poetry. #beatsville #rodmckuen #1959 #beatpoetry #beatpoets #vinyl #vinyigclub #recordcollection #recordcollector #vinylcollector #vinylcollection #vinyljunkie #cratedigging #cratedigger #regap3 #duckonthewall
#beatpoetry#vinyigclub#vinyljunkie#regap3#beatsville#1959#recordcollector#cratedigging#duckonthewall#vinylcollector#cratedigger#recordcollection#vinylcollection#vinyl#rodmckuen#beatpoets
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Time to see a brand new show! #beatsville #thebeatnikmusical #theatre #musicals #veryvintage (at Asolo Repertory Theatre)
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とても気になるシンセサイザーを見つけました。
NM-4 "beatsville deluxe edition" https://beatsville.jp/products/nm-4-beatsville-deluxe-edition
ドローン系とグリッチ系を別々に操作できるというのは、この種のシンセサイザーとしてはあまり見ない設計です�� 興味があります。
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Never before shard on social media, see YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem "I'm A Record Now" live in her "the Cycle of Life" show at the DvA art gallery 9/12/03 in Chicago through The Beatsville Cafe, accompanied by background music and 2 changing tv image displays (this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). https://youtu.be/iYeTDCMcLlo #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetryshow #janetkuypersinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B_AYHgGFTp0/?igshid=ebpqyggaszwr
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Revel in sleaze, voodoo and rock’n’roll - when incredibly bizarre dance party Lobotomy Room returns to the basement Bamboo Lounge of Fontaine’s (Dalston’s most unique nite spot) on Friday 8 November 2019! Lobotomy Room! Where sin lives! A punkabilly booze party! Sensual and depraved! A spectacle of decadence! A night of Vintage Sleaze-o-Rama! Beat, Beat Beatsville Beatnik Rock’n’Roll! Bad Music for Bad People! Rockabilly Psychosis! Wailing Rhythm and Blues!! Twisted Tittyshakers! Punk cretin hops! White Trash Rockers! Kitsch! Exotica! Curiosities and Other Weird Shit! Think John Waters soundtracks, or Songs the Cramps Taught Us, hosted by Graham Russell. Expect desperate stabs from the jukebox jungle! Savage rhythms to make you writhe and rock! Admission: gratuit - that’s French for FREE! Lobotomy Room: Faster. Further. Filthier. It’s sleazy. It’s grubby. It’s trashy - you’ll love it! A tawdry good time guaranteed!
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Flamingo Club, 1960s
#lobotomy room#fontaine's bar#dalston#london#graham russell#vintage sleaze#tiki bar#tittyshaker#punk#exotica#rockabilly#gay greaser#greaser punk#songs the cramps taught us
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Winter of Atom new major settlements
Mirage, a moving casino that is shuffled along by a herd of brahmin.
Big Top, a circus run by ghouls who calls themselves the Freeques
Beatsville, a commune of Beatniks trying to bring the wasteland to a new age of enlightenment
Mechminster Abbey, a former church repurposed by the Sisters of the Forge
so ok so.... i learned about about these in a live q&a i failed to record properly. the forged are getting a badass nun abbey...
but i just realized the forged were the raiders at dunwich,,, so,
the canon dunwich abbey,
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Did you know I did this painting after my first trip to Paris? "Beatniks in the Catacombs" acrylic on canvas 24 x 24 It was featured in Martin McIntosh's "Beatsville" book put out by @outregallery It was a dream come true to be in that book, I'll be forever proud. #lowbrowart #lowbrow #juxtapoz #beatnik #blackwidow #spiderwoman #frankenstein #electricfrankenstein #howl #coneyislandofthemind #skeletonsdancing #dancingskeleton #booklover #beatgeneration #freud #totemandtaboo #bongos #catacombs #magiccarpet Thanks for looking and for your support all these years, to live my artistic dream in Paris. Big kisses! https://www.instagram.com/p/BsPug1JAS1R/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=9s0u6n3710ao
#lowbrowart#lowbrow#juxtapoz#beatnik#blackwidow#spiderwoman#frankenstein#electricfrankenstein#howl#coneyislandofthemind#skeletonsdancing#dancingskeleton#booklover#beatgeneration#freud#totemandtaboo#bongos#catacombs#magiccarpet
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Rat your hair up like a teenage jezebel and come to incredibly bizarre rock’n’roll dance party Lobotomy Room!
Yes! For your dancing pleasure, the strange’n’sleazy sounds of Lobotomy Room return to the basement Bamboo Lounge of Fontaine’s bar on Friday 28 February! Lobotomy Room! Where sin lives! A punkabilly booze party! Sensual and depraved! A spectacle of decadence! A night of Vintage Sleaze-o-Rama! Beat, Beat Beatsville Beatnik Rock’n’Roll! Rockabilly Psychosis! Wailing Rhythm and Blues!! Twisted Tittyshakers! Punk cretin hops! White Trash Rockers! Kitsch! Exotica! And Other Curiosities! Think John Waters soundtracks, or Songs the Cramps Taught Us, hosted by Graham Russell. Expect desperate stabs from the jukebox jungle! Savage rhythms to make you writhe and rock! Admission: gratuit - that’s French for FREE!
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/ Photo by the great Swiss photographer Karlheinz Weinberger /
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#karlheinz weinberger#lobotomy room#tittyshaker#vintage sleaze#graham russell#rockabilly#punk#london#dalston#fontaines bar
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