On the New Road

In starting a new journey, it would be remiss not to recognize the words of those who have inspired me in the past.

"... I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!' What did they call such young people in Goethe's Germany?"

- Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Embracing Your Crazy

First, we live in a medicated society of sheep.

Most people are so caught up in their rat races, that they have lost the forest through the trees.

Call it maybe, a modern "Confederacy of Dunces" in the spirit of Tooele.

Call it maybe "Gonzo Blogging" in the spirit of Hunter S. Thompson.

Call it perhaps, "21st Century Beat" in the spirit of Jack Kerouac.

What's going on here is not new. On that same thought, past is prologue. What might be new is not to simply copy the modern geniuses described above but to present their ideas and hopefully augment them in a new way and in an interactive way. Anybody may post comments here.

So I guess we'll see how it goes.

I have some youtube videos that might be entertaining. My next post will be an annotated list of my youtube videos now available for viewing.

- Tily
Posted by Jack Schaeffer at 7:26 PM

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