Recent content by hrjorgan

Thanks for the info about the music choices of Bukowski. I am just finishing a book called Twentieth Century Music by H. H. Stuckenschmidt and it covers Mahler and Richard Strauss as. being about the last composers before the rejection of tonality. It is a very good guide to the cultural...

I was reading something Bukowski said about liking to listen to modern classical music while he was writing and wondered what were some of his favorites. I remember he mentioned Mahler.

I prefer the term window dancer to cam whore. Or laptop dancer. In peep shows there was an actual window and the panel would roll down so you could see the dancers. The customers were called coin droppers and the coin operated slots took quarters. Later, they updated so they would take bills...

I am a character in a novel about a curmudgeon who hooks up with a window dancer with literary aspirations. On a tour of Los Angeles literary landmarks she notices a busker playing ukulele. He has a tablet computer with blue tooth speakers--his back up band. She has a ukulele that she sometimes...

What library was most frequented by Bukowski? If someone wanted to go there and channel vibrations from him, where would that be? Was it on 5th St? What is the cross street? By the way, it was 20 years ago and a day that Charles Bukowski passed away. No wonder I am hearing his voice calling to me.