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Belief and Technique for Modern Prose by Jack Kerouac ( March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) 1.Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for your own joy 2.Submissive to everything, open, listening 3.Try never get drunk outside your own house 4.Be in love with your life 5.Something that you feel will find its own form 6.Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind 7.Blow as deep as you want to blow 8.Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind 9.The unspeakable visions of the individual 10.No time for poetry but exactly what is 11.Visionary tics shivering in the chest 12.In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you 13.Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition 14.Like Proust be an old teahead of time 15.Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog 16.The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye 17.Write in recollection and amazement for yourself 18.Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in languag...

The following post has not been rated by the MPAA. I recently had one of those little reminders of the place and time that we're living in.  You know, one of those little nuggets of truth that you often find buried way in the back of a news story, though this particular excavation did not happen in a straight news article. I was reading a New York Times review of "The Killer Inside Me", a new film based on the Jim Thompson novel of the same name.  I haven't read any of Thompson's work though I am aware of it from friends who have recommended it and also through the Pere Ubu album Why I Hate Women which was inspired by Thompson's writing.  Jim Thompson's novels are, to my understanding, very dark and extremely violent almost to the point of absurdity.  The film review seemed to confirm this but when I got to the end where the Times puts the MPAA rating and a brief description of the reason for said rating I found this little satori: "Rated R for...