David Given Schwarm

This book blew my mind. When Lynch uses the word film he means life. When he talks about the need for abstraction, I really really get it. The book is a cry for increased meditation. The book presents Lynch reflecting on a lot of his career. The book is a very quick read full of…

This is a great beatnik book. A collection of writings by Jack Kerouac from journals–some dream writing, some composed stuff, some journal like reflections–all very adverby and far out. Some of it very buddhist and tremendously strong. There is some blatent bigotry–homophobia, racism, etc.–which like much of Kerouac’s writing is problematic, but overall this is…