Are you a potential Beatnik?

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I'm already a Beatnik - at least that was my nick-name back in the 1950s and 1960s - not sure about now however. . .

When you've seen this vid-clip you'll understand why the Yanks just don't have a clue about anything - especially youth culture then and now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxYHLoEXh...

The Beatnik 'cult' started in the States and quickly established itself in the coffee bars and jazz clubs of London. . . .

http://www.retrogalaxy.com/culture/beatn...

Beatnik - Myspace

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fus...

Beneath the Paving Stones: Situationists and the Beach, May 1968 - Google Books Resultby Guy Debord, Dark Star (Firm), Dark Star Collective - 2001 - History - 120 pages

Some tried their hand at analysis, but only communicated the incomprehension of a man suddenly caught in quicksands: "The San Francisco and London beatniks, ...

http://www.books.google.com/books?isbn=1...

The Windmill Brixton

http://www.artrocker.com/node/1438

Ultra Swank - Playful lifestyle, music and design adventures ...16 May 2008 ... Beatniks and Hipsters '71. Digg Digg; del.icio.us ... Welcome to the Electric Psychedelic Swingers Pussycat Club downtown London, ...

http://www.blog.thirdphaze.com/2008/05/b...

. . .and there's me thinking that Beatnik culture had died out somewhere back in the 1970s or 80s - but it looks to be going strong.

What goes around comes around etc. . . .

After viewing this next vid-clip, I'm off back to Paris, obviously a city with some real life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV57bpatz...

Last time in Paris in Montmartre [the red-light district of Paris] my partner and me were sitting down to dinner most night at around mid-night - now that is a city with some real nightlife and plenty of beat.

Go there and be englightened. . . .have fun, and remember, life's too short etc. and we're all a long time dead.