{"id":4620,"date":"2022-01-10T22:17:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T22:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/?page_id=4249"},"modified":"2025-06-05T22:06:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T05:06:53","slug":"preview-university-of-montana-1999","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/research\/performance-reviews\/preview-university-of-montana-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOne wrist in heaven, one ankle in hell\u201d: Jim Carroll to Speak in Missoula\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

University of Montana (Missoula, MT)
8 November 1999
Nate Schweber, Eye Spy Reporter 
Kaimin Online<\/a>
19 October 1999<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I discovered Jim Carroll a week before my 20th birthday, it took me 30 seconds to adopt the last sentence of the first chapter of his book \u201cForced Entries\u201d as a personal motto. After a diary entry about taking the $20 his grandmother sent him for his 20th birthday and buying heroin with it, Carroll writes: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you haven\u2019t died by an age thought predetermined by your abuses and excesses, what is there left to do but start another diary?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is that inspiration to write or what? When I found out that this hero of mine was coming to speak at UM, I flipped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carroll\u2019s life is the stuff of urban legends. His hair-raising tales are autobiographically chronicled in his books, including \u201cThe Basketball Diaries,\u201d \u201cForced Entries: The Downtown Diaries,\u201d and \u201cThe Book of Nods.\u201d Carroll also achieved rock stardom when his song \u201cPeople Who Died\u201d was a No. 1 hit in 1980.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in New York City, Carroll went to Catholic school and used his graceful, 6-foot-3-inch body to become a star basketball player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also blossomed into a renowned poet. At age 13, he published his first book of poems. It was so well heralded that the late Jack Kerouac commented, \u201cAt age 13, Carroll writes better than 89 percent of authors out there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The collected works of Jim Carroll<\/strong>
Jim Carroll Bibliography:
\u201cOrganic Trains<\/strong>,\u201d 1967. Poetry.
\u201c4 Ups and 1 Down<\/strong>,\u201d 1970. Poetry.
\u201cLiving at the Movies<\/strong>,\u201d 1973. Poetry.
\u201cThe Basketball Diaries<\/strong>,\u201d 1978. Autobiography.
\u201cThe Book of Nods<\/strong>,\u201d 1986. Poetry.
\u201cForced Entries: The Downtown Diaries<\/strong>, 1971-1973,\u201d 1987. Autobiography.
\u201cFear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems of Jim Carrol<\/strong>l,\u201d 1993. Poetry.
\u201cVoid of Course<\/strong>,\u201d 1998. Poetry.
Jim Carroll Discography:
\u201cCatholic Boy<\/strong>,\u201d 1980. The Jim Carroll Band.
\u201cDry Dreams<\/strong>,\u201d 1982. The Jim Carroll Band.
\u201cI Write Your Name<\/strong>,\u201d 1984. The Jim Carroll Band.
\u201cPools of Mercury<\/strong>,\u201d 1998. Jim Carroll, music and spoken word.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Carroll\u2019s life and art turned when he began experimenting with drugs. At 15, he took his first shot of heroin (thinking it was safe and that marijuana was the addictive stuff). Soon he was a walking laboratory of every substance, chemical and idea New York had to offer in the 1960s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carroll hooked up with Andy Warhol\u2019s Factory, hung out in the club Max\u2019s Kansas City and was a huge Velvet Underground fan. He schmoozed with drug addicts, drag-queens and genius artists. He rubbed noses with folks like Allen Ginsburg and William Burroughs, thereby making him one of the last surviving writers with direct ties to the original Beats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the early \u201870s, Carroll moved to California to kick his drug habits. While there, his New York girlfriend Patti Smith and her band came to play in San Francisco. Smith\u2019s opening band quit right before the show, and as a replacement, Carroll went onstage with Smith\u2019s backing band and rapped his poetry over a rock beat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carroll was so inspired by rock \u2018n\u2019 roll that he returned to New York and founded The Jim Carroll Band. Their hit, \u201cPeople Who Died,\u201d was the most requested song in 1980, second only to \u201cImagine\u201d \u2014 because John Lennon died earlier that year. (Factoid: \u201cPeople Who Died\u201d is what\u2019s playing on the radio in the opening scene of \u201cE.T.\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Jim Carroll Band released three albums between 1980 and 1983 on Rolling Stones records. Just as Time Magazine dubbed Jim Carroll the Bob Dylan of the \u201880s, he stepped back from the public eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A decade later, he came back when a movie was made of his book \u201cThe Basketball Diaries,\u201d starring Leonardo Di Caprio. Then, in 1998, Carroll came out with a new music\/spoken word album. Now he\u2019s doing a spoken word tour, which includes a stop in Missoula on Nov. 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, Carroll is a man not to miss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jim Carroll will speak in the Urey Underground Lecture Hall on Monday, Nov. 8, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available from all TIC-IT-E-Z outlets and are $10 for the public, $8 for students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The original article was found here:\u00a0<\/strong>http:\/\/www.kaimin.org\/oct99\/10_19\/eyecarroll10_19_99.html<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a9 1999 Kaimin Online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

University of Montana (Missoula, MT)8 November 1999Nate Schweber, Eye Spy Reporter Kaimin Online19 October 1999 When I discovered Jim Carroll a week before my 20th birthday, it took me 30 seconds to adopt the last sentence of the first chapter of his book \u201cForced Entries\u201d as a personal motto. After a diary entry about taking the … Continue reading \u201cOne wrist in heaven, one ankle in hell\u201d: Jim Carroll to Speak in Missoula\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":3985,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"folder":[38],"class_list":["post-4620","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9VlUH-1cw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4003,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/works\/literary-works\/diaries-and-fiction-by-jim-carroll\/","url_meta":{"origin":4620,"position":0},"title":"Diaries and Fiction by Jim Carroll","author":"catholicboy.com","date":"January 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The Petting Zoo: A NovelPublished:\u00a0November 8, 2010By:\u00a0Jim CarrollPublisher:\u00a0VikingCarroll was putting the finishing touches on his first novel,\u00a0The Petting Zoo, when he passed away in 2009. 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