Surrealdom (A surrealist's side quests)

  As mentioned previously, by 1995 I started to explore more extensively other genres of music besides rap music. There was a series of documentaries which started to get broadcast on TV. I had VHSed most of them. This is episode 3 of the series in the American version from PBS.     And here is the British version of that same documentary. It's quite interesting to look at the differences between the two, how some elements are highlighted in one and rendered much more softer in the other one. The titles of the British Dancing in the Street version are all mixed up for some reason. The following episode, I didn't VHSed it. As a teen (and for many more years), soul music wasn't my thing. Gospel music has never been very appealing to me, but more than that, the church aspect of it will always remain alienating and just simply bizarre to me. That said, obviously with time and all I came to have a better appreciation for soul music. It's a music which does do something to y...

  It was a bizarre period. More and more hip-hop artists started to enter the movie and TV industries. And the next step was this: I guess it's now time to meet the Olympic Committee of just say no . Going for a Kool-Aid Acid Test in the mid-1960s. Conference given by Jack Kerouac at the Kaye Playhouse, Hunter College, New York City, on November 6, 1958. The event was sponsored by Brandeis University. I knew about this film since the mid-1990s, when I started reading the Beats. But it's only since using youtube at some point between 2019 or 2020 that I finally saw it for the first time. Look at the woman in the thumbnail. That's Delphine Seyrig. Jack Kerouac interview from The Ben Hecht Show, New York City in October 1958. The first Coen brothers movie I've seen was this one, when I was a teen.  Another French dubbed version broadcasted on Télé-Québec. And another one I finally saw in its original version during the pandemic. What if instead of being inspired by William...