Recent content by conl

Nice to know there' still a few things left in the vaults.

Is the other one that's coming out poetry or letters?

Stumbled on it last night. Didn't want to start a separate thread if there was already one going, but couldn't find anything when I searched the site for the title.

Am I really the first person to post anything about this? "The Bell Tolls for No One is a book of previously uncollected short fiction by everyone's favorite dirty old man, Charles Bukowski. Beginning with the illustrated, unpublished 1947 story, 'A Kind, Understanding Face,' continuing through...

Thanks - Never heard this one before.

Here It Is, Complete http://www.ubest1.com/index.php?video_user=13137|Rikiai|Rikiai_1272244478_video.flv I think it's probably better without subtitles, as even with the ear piece Buk didn't know what they were saying either.

Burroughs' cameo is the best part of TWISTER. He's on a firing range & tells a story about a guy that got kicked in the head by a horse. Crispin was supposedly trying to get funding for RUBIN & ED when he went on Letterman dressed like that. (The pants, the glasses, the shoes, and wig are all...

The movie was "Rubin & Ed." It's not widely available, but you can get it straight from the director online, and it's worth checking out if you like bizarre humor, or Mahler's Symphony No.1. (Howard Hesseman's in it too, as well as a dead cat.) http://www.echocave.net/rubin_ed.html

The Crispin thing was great - unbeknownst to most people, he came back two nights later without his "Rubin" costume with short hair & a suit to apologize & say he did it "just to give people something to talk about" - but Harmony Korine's three appearances kill me. (Tom Waits is always good with...

I was surprised that Letterman was familiar with Bukowski, but he's got strange tastes. (He likes Tom Waits, Zevon, and Beefheart, so he's hipper than you'd think.) Mickey's so weird looking these days that he might be better suited to play Chinaski now than he was back then. (Jack Hirschman...

Mickey Rourke was on Letterman the other night, and Dave brought up BARFLY. Just a brief aside, but laced with profanity, and fairly funny, even if Mickey does seems a bit dismissive of Buk. It comes in at the 9:26 point. [This video is unavailable.]

When PULP first came out, it was like reading this strange & beautiful goodbye letter. It's absolutely hysterical - I especially love when Red, who was another of Buk's friends, shit talks Chinaski in the bookstore - but there's a definite sadness throughout the whole thing. He also references...

I thought Buk explicitly said he called it that because he felt like a piece of meat stuck between his parents.

I agree that the posthumous books aren't as good as the ones from his lifetime, but I can usually find at least one or two poems in them that work for me, and to get anything "new" from a man who's been dead so long is still pretty amazing. Buk always gave the impression that he didn't care...

Check out SEX & DEATH TO THE AGE OF 14. All his early monologues. (There used to be a great audio version of him reading it on cassette, but I'd be surprised if it ever made it to digital.) He had always been the depressive type - his mom killed herself too - but he was in a car crash a few...