Classical and industrial goth music akin to both French baroque music and Nine Inch Nails set the tormented tone borrowing from Lynch, Burroughs, and Artaud.
Lucien Carr wasn’t just the person who brought Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs together in New York, he also provided a “New Vision” the name of his manifesto around which this circle could initially unite, before they became known as the Beat Generation and long before Neal Cassady arrived on the scene. Carr was also at the center of the one tragic event that would forge the lifelong bonds of the Beat circle.
For much of the 20th century, before the dawn of our own wellness-focused era, madness and substance abuse were often considered prerequisites for great art.