Archive for the ‘Beatdom Pieces’ Category

So big things in the land of Jones. As many of you know by now, I’ll be a subject in the upcoming documentary Finding The Beat. The film is the brain child of director Trina Dematti and producer Jinx Rhodes. These two ladies will set off on the road in Kerouac like proportions to discover  the BEAT [...]

Good Day Mr. Jones, My name is Trina DeMattei, I am currently in pre-production on a feature length documentary that I am directing entitled “Finding the Beat…” I wanted to clarify that I received your contact info from David S. Wills at Beatdom Magazine. I happily stumbled on Beatdom in my research of everything Beat. [...]

Writers and alcohol have gone hand in hand as long as words have been written and things have been fermented. Absinthe fueled many a poet, Bukowski made a career out of being a barfly, and Kerouac showed us the ugly side of a love affair with booze, just to name a few.  There is a [...]

Crushing Kerouac It recently came to our attention here a Beatdom that our very own Edaurdo Jones’s grandfather actually played High school football against Jack Kerouac. It’s an actual historical fact go look it up. So we got Gramps to sit down and answer some questions about playing football against one of America’s most influential [...]

So early this morning on a warm spring day I set out on the road with my grandfather to pay my respects to one of the greatest American author’s who ever lived.  It was kind of ironic because I’d never been before, but I used to work at the cemetery Kerouac is buried in. I [...]

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That’s right we are proud to present Beatdom Issue 6. Available @ Beatdom.com and LULU.com. As always downloads are free and hard copies are reasonably priced. Issue 6 features my newest piece LSD 25000, a previously unpublished short story by Aleene Lee or as many of you know better as mardou Fox from Kerouac’s the subterraneans  [...]

Edaurdo Jones is the Voice of the Doomed. His stories shock and enthrall. They draw readers into a painful, depraved world they prefer to imagine doesn’t exist. That’s fine. You just think that… If it makes life easier, if it makes you feel safer, then you go ahead and think that. It’s probably best you [...]

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