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Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard
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Friday Oct 23, 2009 (8pm)
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$28
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"I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'"
This dazzling bit of prose surfaces within the first several pages of Jack Kerouac's On The Road. The 1957 book chronicles the budding Beat movement and has been a model for countless artists and adventures chasing after rich living ever since. Amongst this throng are Son Volt's Jay Farrar and Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard, who, united by reverence for their artistic forefather, will release a collaboration inspired by Kerouac's wild, winsome prose this fall. Titled One Fast Move or I'm Gone, the record was written almost entirely by Farrar, who adapted Kerouac's writing into lyrics. The project was born when the writer's nephew, producer Jim Sampas, asked both musicians to contribute to a documentary about Kerouac's life during the years he penned the novel
By Catherine Prewitt
