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If only Ponder! I make Buk look like an oil painting so rarely have any luck with the ladies in my local area!

Hmm, let's start with the hard one. CD i bought? I know recently I went out and went a little mental in a record store and bought a few things... Neil Young's Zuma, 13th Floor Elevators Easter Everywhere and Temptations Psychedelic Soul. All GREAT and the last book I just finished reading is...

This week I've mainly been listening to Bob Dylan on my I-pod, Neil Young's Zuma on my record player - damn good record, not quite as great as After The Goldrush though - and yesterday online a bit of Bruce Springsteen which lead onto me remembering the new record by the great Gaslight Anthem...

That's one of the things with where I live that I still love as much as when I first moved here - loads of great, indie record stores. The list could take up half a page but for me the really best ones are Wax Factor on Trafalgar Street who also do a fine line in books as well as relatively...

Is it too obvious to say City Lights in San Francisco - what a shop that is, loved the poetry section upstairs and got a fair few pieces up there, or Strand in NYC. I remember going in there about 2000 and buying Septuagenarian Stew whilst wearing a Buk t-shirt and the assistant behind the...

I vaguelly remember it as being years ago and I was working in a punk record shop and one of our regular customers bought in one of Buk's books and practically begged me to borrow it. I hadn't read anything in years since I finished my A level English but I borrowed it, read it and then the...

Hey Voltaire, I'm from Brighton too... glad to find another on here although I guess the amount most of drink down here it is kinda inevitable that someone else likes Buk. I think I prefer the Sounes bio to either of the others but hey each to their own and what not! Anyway, welcome.

Just joined as only got online about three days ago and wanted to say hey to everyone out there. Been a big fan of Bukowski for years - read most of his stuff but hope to find out about some of the stuff i've missed out on - but as you can guess keen to find out more. Anyway, that's enough of...