On Jack's Road

If you're only joining us now...

newkatinka — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 06:42:23 -0400

The journey is officially over and our writing and posting will be coming to an end as well. If you haven’t been following us from the start, this blog may be a little confusing to navigate. Who are all these people that post here, you ask? Why were they travelling? What’s the deal?

Well may we suggest you start at the beginning? In our case, that would be the end. If you follow this link http://onjacksroad.tumblr.com/page/14 it will take you to the first entries we wrote here. Read the pages from the bottom up and then click on the link “previous” on the bottom left of the page. That way you can retrace our footsteps from the beginning until today!

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Falls Sie gerne von Anfang an sehen und lesen möchten was wir erlebt haben und es Sie irritiert, dass Sie hier nur die letzten Seiten und nicht die ersten Worte finden, dann folgen Sie doch einfach diesem link http://onjacksroad.tumblr.com/page/14 und lesen Sie von unten nach oben. Danach klicken Sie unten auf der Seite auf “previous” und kommen so auf die nächste Seite wo Sie wieder von unten nach oben lesen können und so weiter und so fort… Viel Vergnügen!

On Jack's Road continues!!

newkatinka — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 06:39:00 -0400

On Jack's Road continues!!:

Hello all!

We can hardly believe it, but it’s actually happening: Starting this Friday, April 5th, the SIX part version of our documentary will be airing on ZDFkultur! That means never before seen footage of our protagonists on the open road. More adventures, more music, more USA traveling!

We really hope you tune in or watch it online!

05.04.2013; 19:15 Uhr :Folge 1 - Jack is back
12.04.2013; 19:15 Uhr: Folge 2 - Die letzten Urgesteine der Beat Generation
19.04.2013; 19:15 Uhr: Folge 3 - Leben und Sterben in Lowell
26.04.2013; 19:15 Uhr :Folge 4 - Trennung auf Zeit
03.05.2013; 19:15 Uhr :Folge 5 - Wüstenzauber
10.05.2013; 19:15 Uhr :Folge 6 - Zeit des Abschieds

Get all the details here: http://www.zdf.de/ZDFkultur/On-Jacks-Road-26374054.html

Thank you for the music!

newkatinka — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 05:51:00 -0400

A lot of people have been asking about the soundtrack of our films so here, finally, is a list of the songs! Enjoy!

Title Artist

3 Songs Away Anna F.

50 Watt Hooverphonic

A Love Supreme - Pursuance John Coltrane

Albatross Fleetwood Mac

America The Nice

America Simon and Garfunkel

American Pie Don McLean

Ashokan Farewell Goldmund

Autumn Leaves Stan Getz

Bad Seamstress Blues Cinderella

Bitter Sweet Symphony The Verve

Black Earth Fazil Say

Black Magic Woman Fleetwood Mac

Cafe de Paris Angelo Debarre

Chicago Clueso

Chimes Of Freedom Bob Dylan

Continuity of Good Goldmund

Dixie Goldmund

Empire State of Mind Jay-Z

Enjoy The Ride Morcheeba

Everybody Hurts REM

Fly Anna F.

Good Girl Anna F.

Goodbye Jack Kerouac Ralph Alfonso

Gypsy Curse Calexico

Here Comes The Sun The Beatles

I’m oldfashioned John Coltrane

Jack Kerouac Brooke Fraser

La Bamba Los Lobos

La Vie en Rose Grace Jones

Mad Blues Big Joe Turner

Memphis Underground Herbie Mann

Nightswimming REM

Oh Well Fleetwood Mac

On The Road Again Bob Dylan

Opus 23 Dustin O’Halloran

Paris Swing Ballad Angelo Debarre und Ludovic Beier

Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid Main Theme Bob Dylan

Reach Inside (A Night at the Playboy Mansion Album) Bah Samba

Return of the Grievous Angel Gram Parsons

Rewriting the History of Elevator Music The Mariachi Garage

San Francisco Scott McKenzie

San Francisco Bay Blues Eric Clapton

Sane Men Surround Up, Bustle and Out

Shine On Pink Floyd

Shut Up Anna F.

Somebody that I used to know Gotye

Subterranean Homesick Bob Dylan

Sunday Morning The Velvet Underground

The Bookends Simon and Garfunkel

The Crow DJ Food

The Emperor of Wyoming Neil Young

The Great Gig Pink Floyd

This Dream Of You Bob Dylan

Two For Tuesday Dan Baird and Homemade Sin

Und die Gitarre war noch warm Farin Urlaub

Vertigo U2

Washington D.C. Blues David Amram und Jack Kerouac

Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd

Jack is back - watch our film online!

newkatinka — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 03:22:35 -0400

ARTE’s online service Arte+7 allows you to watch our film for one week - until October 6th. So if you missed it last night or don’t receive ARTE, here’s your chance!

Part 1: http://videos.arte.tv/de/videos/on-jack-s-road-1-2—6950586.html

Part 2: http://videos.arte.tv/de/videos/on-jack-s-road-2-2—6950592.html

Enjoy!

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Auf Arte+7 können Sie unsere Doku nun eine Woche online (wieder)sehen! Bis 6. Oktober können Sie sie unter den folgenden links finden:

Teil 1: http://videos.arte.tv/de/videos/on-jack-s-road-1-2—6950586.html

Teil 2: http://videos.arte.tv/de/videos/on-jack-s-road-2-2—6950592.html

Tonight's the night!

newkatinka — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 05:34:00 -0400

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girl, beats and up-beats - the day has come! Tonight at 10.10pm ARTE will be broadcasting our film for all the world (well, Germany, France and most of Europe at least) to see. And we couldn’t be more excited! Several German papers have deemed our film worthy of a mention in today’s edition. Some of them doubt whether what we tell them in the film is really true, whether we really happened to run into Charles Plymell by coincidence, whether that couch was really just standing there waiting for the garbage truck right outside Kerouac’s house, whether we were truly spontaneous. They may doubt, but we will know. We will know that those two weeks were some of the craziest, most spontaneous times we have lived and that for all of us it was a crazy, fun, exciting ride.

So now it’s your turn to voice an opinion! We would love to hear what you have to say after seeing the film. Leave us a comment, send us a message via facebook (http://www.facebook.com/onjacksroad), shout it from the rooftops. Was it all worthwhile?

But first: sit back, relax, grab a drink, turn on your TV and enjoy the show!
Tonight, September 29th, 22.10 on ARTE

If you're only just joining us now...

newkatinka — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 05:33:00 -0400

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The cast and some crew at the movie premiere… 4 days and...

newkatinka — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:11:52 -0400

The cast and some crew at the movie premiere… 4 days and counting!

Three of our Four and director Hannes Rossacher pull up to the...

newkatinka — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:49:23 -0400

Three of our Four and director Hannes Rossacher pull up to the cinema premiere in style!

YAY! Our official trailer.

marlenmueller — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:55:15 -0400

YAY! Our official trailer.

All right, y’all. As the air date draws ever closer we are...

newkatinka — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:05:59 -0400

All right, y’all. As the air date draws ever closer we are now giving you a first sneaky peek at what we have produced. Please enjoy our official trailer!!

It all started in New York City and this month it will be...

newkatinka — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 05:27:47 -0400

It all started in New York City and this month it will be ending on your television screen! On the 29th of September at 22.10 we will all be sitting in front of our televisions. Be advised: This film is best watched surrounded by friends, because it is about friendship, about adventure, about life.

We recommend you have a cool drink in hand, because the late summer sun that shines throughout made us all thirsty. We also recommend you hide your carkeys from yourself, because every time we watch a few minutes we want to head out on the road again. We recommend you turn on the good speakers, because the music in the film will have your feet itching and your ears smiling.

Once the final credits have rolled through, just after midnight, we have a very different recommendation: Find those car keys and get the hell out of your apartment. The story we are telling is true and the truth is: There is no place quite like the road. It’s where all the most interesting people are, it’s where all the most exciting things happen, it’s where you might find someone that turns out to be the real you and it’s where we spent some of the most strenuous but also the happiest weeks of our lives last year. Tune in to see what it was like!

SENDETERMIN: 29. September, 22.10Uhr auf ARTE

The morning after...

newkatinka — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:27:51 -0400

When you come home after an insane shoot like our roadtrip and finally get a few hours of sleep and start to think like a semi-normal person again and then sit down to deal with the post-production process and are confronted with 236 hours of material (yes, no kidding, that’s actually what we have) … then you finally realize just what you have gotten yourself into. Phil said on the trip that he came to realize “just how lunatic a lunatic Neal Cassady was”. Well, we came to realize just how lunatic we lunatics must have been to think that we could handle this.

Don’t you worry: This is not the post where I tell you that what happens next is that we give up. Actually: quite the opposite. What happens next is that we realize that we are absolutely insane enough to pull this through til the end. The reason that we shot all this material is that we really did meet that many amazing people, that we really did see that many unbelievable sights, that we really did drive that many miles, that we really did it. So the question is not whether there is a story here, because there so definitely is. The question is whether we will be able to pick and choose and compile and combine and connect and layer and mix the material to tell and sing and show and illustrate and transport this story to you, our audience.

So what do we do? Well we start by watching the material. All of it. Every single second of wobbly camera-adjusting, of driving past the picture car instead of alongside it, of the protagonists sleeping in the car or chewing gum and looking bored… Someone has to sit down and watch it all, because you never know when the shot will look awesome despite the camera still being adjusted, you never know when the sun will come out and reflect on the hood of the car with unbelievable beauty as we slide by, when Anna will pull her gum out of her mouth and stick it into Phil’s (true story!). These are the moments that weren’t planned. But they are also the moments that will tell the real story of a group of mad-men driving across the country. And the mad ones are the real ones. As Jack wrote:

“They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and 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…”

And so we burn to present you very very soon with a film. A true documentary film, that documents what happened, what we saw, what we experienced, what we loved, what we lived.

Stay tuned…