Anton Rosenberg was actually a forerunner in all pervasive modern culture. The fact that he was cool or is known in other terms as hip, he was in fact best known to simply doing nothing at all.
Rosenberg had been a student of inaction and detachment and that he was also the embodiment of the beat movement's ideal of being a hipster and is a model who played Julian Alexander in the subterraneans (1958) by Jack Kerouac's.
He also was a painter and that he played the piano with Zoot Sims, Charlie Parker as well as other jazz figures in his time. He remained to be an obscure figure as well in the beat movement due to the reason where he found his calling early.
Following with Ginsberg's lead, Kerouac also recognized Rosenberg during his twenties to be an unshaven, thin, quiet and a strange young man with good looks and was the epitome of aesthetic who shunned enthusiasm and scorned the ambition. Another thing is that he adopted Ginsberg's title on his book, but then he moved to San Francisco for him to avoid risks of getting libel by the Greenwich Village regulars who actually populated on the pages on some fictitious names. This in fact is why Rosenberg became Julian Alexander who is actually a man that Kerouac termed as "the angel of subterraneans".
Another thing about Rosenberg is that he served a year in the Army as well and studied at the University of North Carolina as well. He spent a year in Paris after being discovered by Ginsberg to where he go to experience the Left Bank bohemian atmosphere of Cafe Flore as well as Cafe Les Deux Magots together with James Baldwin, Terry Southern as well as other figures that engage on the process of perfecting the attitudes and the inflections of cool.
In 1950, he then go back to New York. He then opened a print shop in Greenwich Village and lived in a tenement that Ginsberg called to as Paradise Valley and at an industrial loft in a bad neighborhood before becoming fashionable.
Drugs were the stable scene of Rosenberg and on one occasion, he and his friends in San Remo bar had intercepted a shipment of the Hallucinogen peyote which actually came from the Exotic Plant Co of Laredo in Texas and was congregated in his loft for an all-night party and a good jazz jam session. But when marijuana was common to hipsters, it was the opiates which set the subterraneans apart. Rosenberg also was a heroin addict to most of his life and he appeared also in William Burroughs' book in the Junkie (1953).
Because habits of Anton did not lead him to a productive life, he had married a schoolteacher who remained charmed by his ways in supporting his family while still continuing on playing music and painting.
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