Courtney Barnett or Jack Kerouac?
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Courtney Barnett is On The Road.
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Seeing as Courtney Barnett is on the road let’s play a little game.
Our own poet laureate, prolific-slacker, game-changer, garage-rock southpaw Courtney Barnett has been compared to Bob Dylan recently…but I think she has just as much in common with the foremost Beat Generation writer from the ‘50s.
Who’s words are these: Courtney Barnett or Jack Kerouac?
1. a. “A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”
b. “I was busy underwater seeing how long I could hold my breath. A drowning flower caught my eye and I had to come on up for air. Just because you’re older than me, doesn’t mean you have to be so condescending.”
Author Jack Kerouac yelling out “YOLO”.
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Courtney Barnett not yawning, raving.
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2. a. “I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility”
b. “I got lost somewhere between here and there, I’m not sure what the town was called.”
Jack Kerouac perfecting his lean.
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Courtney Barnett perfecting her legs-reclined-like-she-is-actually-comfortable anti-pose
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3. a. “Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heaven-going.”
b. “Let’s start an anonymous club, I’ll make us name badges with question marks.
Come round to mine, we can swap clothes and drink wine all night.”
Jack Kerouac punching one out.
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Courtney Barnett not squatting, thinking.
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4. a. “Her little shoulders drove me mad; I hugged her and hugged her. And she loved it.
‘I love love,’ she said, closing her eyes. I promised her beautiful love. I gloated over her.”
b. “You always are the one that most abhors Me and my tendency to the indoors But I know You always take the madness when you go.”
Jack Kerouac loved a meaningful durrie.
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Courtney Barnett loves a fund time.
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5. a. “I had nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.”
b. “Don’t ask me what I really mean. I am just a reflection.”
Jack Kerouac giving good side-eye.
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Courtney Barnett giving good thousand yard stare.
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6. a. “Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries
b. “A possum Jackson Polluck is painted in the tar.
Sometimes I think a single sneeze could be the end of us”
Jack Kerouac’s stream-of-consciousness masterpiece.
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Jack Kerouac as a wee one.
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7. a. “Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.”
b. “We drank green margaritas, danced with sweet señoritas, and we all went home as winners of a kind. You said “i guarantee we’ll have more fun, drink till the moon becomes the sun”
Courtney Barnett with that pretty baby face.
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8. a. “I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I’d never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel.”
b. “How’s that for first impressions. This place seems depressing, it’s a Californian bungalow in a cul-de-sac.”
How’d ya go?
All a. On The Road – Jack Kerouac
All b. Various songs by Courtney Barnett except 4.
1. Out of the Woodwork
2. Scotty Says
3. Anonymous Club
4. When You Go – Darren Hanlon (Respect – Ed’s note.)
5. Kim’s Caravan
6. Dead Fox
7. History Eraser
8. DePreston
The Forum, 154 Flinders St, May 14-16. Sold out.
