Neal Cassady

Nacimiento : 1926-02-08, Salt Lake City, Utah

Muerte : 1968-02-04

Historia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Neal Leon Cassady (February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968) was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic movement of the 1960s, perhaps best known for being characterized as Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road. Description above from the Wikipedia article Neal Cassady, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.    

Películas

Magic Trip
Magic Trip
Himself
A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster’s fabled road trip across America in the legendary Magic Bus. In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” set off on a legendary, LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip to the New York World’s Fair. He was joined by “The Merry Band of Pranksters,” a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers, including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac’s “On the Road,” and the driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus.
Love Always, Carolyn
Love Always, Carolyn
Himself (archive footage)
Documentary about Carolyn Cassady, her life and marriage to Neal Cassady, her relationship with Jack Kerouac and how she takes care of the literary legacy from both.
La última vez que me suicidé
La última vez que me suicidé
Book
Relato de las peripecias de un grupo de amigos que aun hoy son conocidos como la generación "beat", unos jóvenes inconformistas que renunciaron a todo lo establecido, el consumismo y los convencionalismos, creando un nuevo estilo de vida. Una generación venerada por su excentricidad y su obra literaria, que buscaba la perfección a través del sexo, las drogas, el zen y otros métodos socialmente "incorrectos". La película refleja la vida de Neal Cassady, el ídolo "beat" por excelencia, y las aventuras que hicieron de él una leyenda.
The Acid Test
The Acid Test
Sound and image captured by the Merry Pranksters in late 1965 and early 1966: the bus on the road, the Grateful Dead playing an Acid Test, Kool-Aid ritual, etc.