A message from the eternal damnation of
Jack Kerouac to Charlie Sheen
On this day of
“I discovered a new Beat generation a long time ago, I hitchhiked and starved, for art, and that makes me the Fool of the Beatniks with a crown of shit.
Thanks, America
"Bi-winning" ... Charlie Sheen. Illustration: Michael Mucci
Here are some highlights from the article
"Straight Talk from a good-time Charlie"
by Paul Sheehan
by Paul Sheehan
"Is it time to look past the cocaine binges, prostitutes, porn stars, death threats and narcissism to see that most of what Charlie Sheen has been saying during the past week is true,
after allowing for poetic licence?"
"In less than a week,
three freshly minted Sheen terms -
''bi-winning'', ''tiger blood'' and ''Adonis DNA'' -
have slipped into
ironic commonspeak."
Question: what about the last time you took drugs?
''I probably took more than anybody could survive . . . I was banging seven-gram rocks and finishing them because that's how I roll. I have one speed, I have one gear: go!''
Question: how did you survive that?
''Because I'm me. I'm different. I just have a different constitution.
''I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man.''
Question: you don't worry that you're going to die from drugs?
''Dying's for fools.''
Question: aren't you disgusted with yourself?
''No, I'm proud of myself. It was radical . . . I exposed people to magic. I exposed them to something they're never otherwise going to see in their boring, normal lives.''
"In the same way that a home video of Paris Hilton having sex in thigh-high boots made her a superstar
instead of ending her career,
Charlie Sheen's brand just got much bigger via the medium of brutal honesty."
Charlie Sheen is Hip.
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