史上最酷的課！

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開學第二天，回家的路上遇到可愛的香蕉男，我替他照了兩張相，對香蕉男有興趣的人，可造訪他的網站The Banana Monologues。

今天的課程是我從暑假就開始期待的The New Bohemia – American Art & Counter-Culture Since 1945。

This course deals with the novels, poetry, films, music, social politics and the hippness generated by being an outsider, by being ‘cool,’ by being ‘Beat.’ The term Beat or Beat Generation comes from street talk of the late 1940s. In the drug world it meant to be robbed or cheated, as in ‘a beat deal.’ By 1945 it was a down term. ‘It meant beaten. The world against me,’ said Herbert Hunke, who introduced the term to William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. Ginsberg said: ‘You get beaten down to a certain nakedness where you actually are able to see the world in a visionary way, which is the old classical understanding of what happens in the dark night of the soul.’ New Bohemia studies the growth of the Beat counterculture in America that gave rise to satirists like Lenny Bruce, jazz performers like Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker and poets like Diane De Prima, Leroy Jones (Amira Baraka), Kerouac and Ginsberg. Other hipsters covered in the course include John Cassavetes, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Laurie Anderson, The Fugs, Anais Nin, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, The New York Dolls, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Tom Waits. Dig it.

講師是一位非常非常酷的歐吉Art Perry，他是一位攝影師，曾經攝過無數知名人物如Lou Reed、Allen Ginsberg、Robert Doisneau、Laurie Anderson、Joe Strummer等等。我必須說，這堂課有我看過最酷的Syllabus！（Art居然還看過John Lydon的電影Copkiller！還很愛！我還是第一次聽到有大學講師看過那片的！天啊！）

三本必購書籍。

課程內容。

這學期我們要讀Hubert Selby Jr.的Last Exit to Brooklyn，體驗好多好多的舊紐約，讀藝術，聽音樂。（呵呵，我當然還是要維持大二那全A的紀錄啊！）而今天最美好的事，莫過於坐在講堂裡，一片漆黑中，邊看著Coney Island的黑白照片，邊聽著Art放的Coney Island Baby。

Lou Reed – Coney Island Baby