You have GOT to hear this.....

[Scootertrash]

...here's a real gem and an instant classic that was released to the world on 12/6/06:

Bob Dylan reading an excerpt from Kerouac's On The Road.

If anything can be possibley cooler than this, I'd like to know what it is.

It's uploaded for you to either play once or keep in your audio files for as long as you want it-orooni.

http://download.yousendit.com/5E8D0DEC33DD5F2A

.... one night we suddenly went mad together again; we went to see Slim Gaillard in a little Frisco nightclub. Slim Gaillard is a tall, thin Negro with big sad eyes who's always saying 'Right-orooni' and 'How 'bout a little bourbon-arooni.' In Frisco great eager crowds of young semi-intellectuals sat at his feet and listened to him on the piano, guitar and bongo drums. When he gets warmed up he takes off his undershirt and really goes. He does and says anything that comes into his head. He'll sing 'Cement Mixer, Put-ti Put-ti' and suddenly slow down the beat and brood over his bongos with fingertips barely tapping the skin as everybody leans forward breathlessly to hear; you think he'll do this for a minute or so, but he goes right on, for as long as an hour, making an imperceptible little noise with the tips of his fingernails, smaller and smaller all the time till you can't hear it any more and sounds of traffic come in the open door. Then he slowly gets up and takes the mike and says, very slowly, 'Great-orooni ... fine-ovauti ... hello-orooni ... bourbon-orooni ... all-orooni ... how are the boys in the front row making out with their girls-orooni ... orooni ... vauti ... oroonirooni ..." He keeps this up for fifteen minutes, his voice getting softer and softer till you can't hear. His great sad eyes scan the audience.

Dean stands in the back, saying, 'God! Yes!' -- and clasping his hands in prayer and sweating. 'Sal, Slim knows time, he knows time.' Slim sits down at the piano and hits two notes, two C's, then two more, then one, then two, and suddenly the big burly bass-player wakes up from a reverie and realizes Slim is playing 'C-Jam Blues' and he slugs in his big forefinger on the string and the big booming beat begins and everybody starts rocking and Slim looks just as sad as ever, and they blow jazz for half an hour, and then Slim goes mad and grabs the bongos and plays tremendous rapid Cubana beats and yells crazy things in Spanish, in Arabic, in Peruvian dialect, in Egyptian, in every language he knows, and he knows innumerable languages. Finally the set is over; each set takes two hours. Slim Gaillard goes and stands against a post, looking sadly over everybody's head as people come to talk to him. A bourbon is slipped into his hand. 'Bourbon-orooni -- thank-you-ovauti ...' Nobody knows where Slim Gaillard is. Dean once had a dream that he was having a baby and his belly was all bloated up blue as he lay on the grass of a California hospital. Under a tree, with a group of colored men, sat Slim Gaillard. Dean turned despairing eyes of a mother to him. Slim said, 'There you go-orooni.' Now Dean approached him, he approached his God; he thought Slim was God; he shuffled and bowed in front of him and asked him to join us. 'Right-orooni,' says Slim; he'll join anybody but won't guarantee to be there with you in spirit. Dean got a table, bought drinks, and sat stiffly in front of Slim. Slim dreamed over his head. Every time Slim said, 'Orooni,' Dean said 'Yes!' I sat there with these two madmen. Nothing happened. To Slim Gaillard the whole world was just one big orooni.'

--Jack Kerouac on Slim Gaillard and Neal Cassady from On The Road

[Scootertrash]

Soooo let's listen to what all all the excitement was about, shall we?

(and here's where you say) "Oh Yes Scooter, lets!!"

Slim Gaillard / How High The Moon

http://download.yousendit.com/3E49594D6181DD7E

[judih]

don't know how you know, but you always do, mister s-trash. Lovely gift for this fine day.

how ya keepin?

[Arcadia]

now I realize how orooni Kerouac's prose is...!!
thanks!

[Scootertrash]

how ya keepin?

It's all goodoroonie, Pretty Mamaroonie.
Howz it goinoroonie with youoroonie?

[mnaz]

What a great passage,
like I was there-- bongos nearly untouched, in rhythm,
and traffic noise through the open door.
Yes.

[stilltrucking]

I got it thanks

Have you ever been over Bear Camp Road?

[Scootertrash]

I got it thanks

Have you ever been over Bear Camp Road?

Hmmm,..maybe I have..and maybe not...not sure....just where is it?

[stilltrucking]

Thinking about flat landers that wander into the mountains on sceenic routes in winter. James Kim a hero and a fool.

Thinking about short cuts that look so inviting on a map.

I suppose there will be a made for tv movie about it.

The Bear Camp Road (Forest Road # 23) is opened with the recent completion of a snow removal project by the Oregon Department of Transportation.
http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/rogue-siskiyou/ ... open.shtml

[Dave The Dov]

I think I'll just stick to my Bob Dylan on tape reading his poem "Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie." Too much of a pop up ad trap for my computer to handle.
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[Doreen Peri]

rightaroonie, scooteroonie!
loved it! Thanks!


(dave, i didn't get any pop-up ads... maybe you can block them...try your browser preferences settings )