Tuesday, 4 November 2014
London 'Ghost Station' Underground Map
'Ghost stations' is the usual English translation for the German word Geisterbahnhöfe. This term was used to describe certain stations on Berlin’s U-Bahn and S-Bahn metro networks that were closed during the period of Berlin’s division during the Cold War. Since then, the term has come to be used to describe any disused station on an underground railway line, especially those actively passed through by passenger trains.
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Omar Souleyman to play at The Corner Hotel in Melbourne on January 19 next year
Omar Souleyman at the Northcote Social Club in 2011 was Exile's gig of that year and I have just got tickets for him playing at The Corner the night before my birthday next year. An early pressie from Angela X
(Photo & video by TimN from NSC 06/03/11)
Monday, 3 November 2014
Herbert Huncke reads @SUNY Buffalo Spring Festival 1966
Herbert Huncke reads 'Whitey' & part of 'Detroit Redhead' at the SUNY Buffalo Spring Festival in 1966. Only known recording—transferred from cassette. Sound quality pretty good—some clipping & distortion.
Student Q&A after 'Whitey' has Huncke fielding questions like: "What's hash?" "What's 'cracking a crib'?"
Photo: Louis Cartwright
Herbert Huncke reads part of 'Detroit Redhead' at the SUNY Buffalo Spring Festival in 1966. Only known recording—transferred from cassette. Sound quality OK—some clipping & distortion. Cuts off before the end of the piece.
Photo: David Sands
Herbert Huncke's 'Elsie John' read by Leslie Winer
Scan of full text of the 1979 Pequod Press release of 'Elsie John and Joey Martinez' here: huncketeacompany.com/elsie-john-joey-martinez
Elsie John was a (self-described) hermaphrodite carnival performer who Herbert became friends with as a 15 year old boy in Chicago 1929.
Born in 1915, Herbert Huncke died in 1996. He had a direct & long-lasting influence on Kerouac, Ginsberg & Burroughs (according to all 3) & originally coined the term 'Beat'.
Kerouac called Huncke “the greatest storyteller I know, an actual genius at it, in my mind.”
Check out HunckeTeaCompany.com for more photos, letters & writings of Herbert Huncke.
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