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Days and nights of bottles http://blogs.suntimes.com/foreignc/2011/04/days-and-nights-of-bottles.html

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Belgian documentary "Wie schrijft die blijft" on writer Charles Bukowski. Interview by Martin Coenen. [This video is unavailable.] [This video is unavailable.] [This video is unavailable.]

"Buk... rhymes with puke..."

Taylor Hackford documentary on Charles Bukowski from 1973. This is a 46 minute version of the film shown on PBS.

Wow - that's a great find!

I'm a long time Van fan. In fact my username (connswater) is from a Van song. I've seen him over 50 times in past 20 years. Is he cranky? Not chatty with audience? Yes. But I believe he is the best improvisational singer of the past 30 years and certainly one of the best songwriters ever...

If you read Hollywood - this will be of interest:

Teachers Whisky

Fave scene in Lebowski: [while dunking the Dude's head in the toilet] Blond Treehorn Thug: Where's the money, Lebowski? Where's the f*cking money, sh*thead? The Dude: It's uh... uh... it's down there somewhere, let me take another look.

The problem I have always had with Sean Penn as actor, director or as a person is that he's too serious. He lacks the ironic humor that Hank could convey or reveal in a tragic situation. Penn, I do not think, could do that - he would play it serious and have it come out as tragic. Really hope...

Wonder if they'll bury him in his clown make up and 25 inch shoes?

Welcome to the club!

Excerpt from a review of Bukowski: Born Into This (July 16, 2004) From ROGER EBERT website: He drank with dedication and abandon for most of his adult years, slowed only by illness toward the end. And he chain-smoked little cigarettes named Mangalore Ganeesh Beedies. "You can get them in...