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Good to hear the brain surgery in 2005 hasn't set him back. Perhaps it had the opposite effect... what doesn't kill me makes me stronger :rolleyes: Anyway, did your concert sound anything like this?: http://blog.patrickcrosley.com/2008/03/12/neil-young-rai-theatre-amsterdam-20-february-2008/

So true Rubyread. I came across the poem "safe" from Pleasures of the D (p.306 also in Bone Palace Ballet p.313) shortly after browsing this thread. Seemed to sum it up pretty good. I guess maybe the workers of the world still need to unite...:rolleyes:

Excuse me (deep breath - then another) but does this mean STORY as in SHORT STORY? Or more accurately PREVIOUSLY LOST BUT NOW REDISCOVERED SHORT STORY? (pause - another deep breath) Oh, I get it, must be an illustrated story in a letter. Not a SHORT STORY. No, couldn't be that. I look...

No problem Roni, just as long as you don't "pretty him up". The text you selected shows you didn't. :) By the way: I got the library at the school where I work (ahem) to buy all books by Bukowski that have been translated into Norwegian. Guess what happened to them... Right, the same...

Good find C. Strange power in these few lines. On "pass": reminds me of cowboy-movie slang: "Lets cut him off at the pass." Classic Buk-use of words if you ask me... unpoetically poetic :p

No go in Scandinavia: The latest news on the release of Barfly in Scandinavia: this has been canceled due to a dispute over the film rights. Maybe someone read my message on this forum and stopped it? ;)

Due for release in Scandinavia! Barfly is due for release on DVD in Scandinavia it seems. Release date is 6-Feb-2008, or so it says on this site: http://www.lydogbildeshop.no/index.php?m=300&SCREEN=item&sid=9OCRpIpSGRxWtdC6&item=155532&department=51 Doesn't say anything about extras though...

Congrats MJP! You were the catalyst that set this Buk-synergy in motion. No turning back now - the beast is loose!

Totally hooked on http://www.last.fm Try out this Brazilian station: http://www.last.fm/listen/artist/Zimbo%2520Trio/similarartists The possibilities seem limitless. You can even hear Buk here: http://www.last.fm/listen/artist/Charles%2520Bukowski/similarartists

Yeah, Xmas can make a man want to stock up and hide away. Ever feel like you can't take anymore, just like you're the only human left alive? Xmas can do that to you. Check out what it did to Vincent Price here...

I'm fairly sure I've read/heard this one before. That part about the Indian pennies rings familiar. Maybe he re-worked it into another poem? Thanks Jason ..and Merry Maximus to you all as well. Hope you pull thru as unscathed as possible. ;)

Me too. Actually, I thought it after Recrab had put it into words. I'm gonna remember that.

I agree - remember the same ending.... There's also a poem where he mentions both Hitler & Dylan, isn't there?:D

Here's an article dated the day after the one quoted above. The title gives me the feeling the author has been on this site. Note the reference to John Martin. Very good point from him: Now that is rhetoric on par with Clinton: exchange the N-word for "contrarian". And we all know its true. Way...

I first thought I'd read something similar before, but then it hit me: this poem reminds me of Robert Crumb's "headless women" cartoons. Now did Robert get it from Buk or vice versa? Maybe its just a common trait all "leg-men" have in common? :D Thanks J.

Fine's comments in the CNN-article made me curious about this book: http://unevadapress.com/books.asp?ID=2238 Has anybody read it? What does it say about Bukowski?

I think the lowlife lawyers are satisfied every time the word is mentioned. It is very much a war of connotations. Gotta learn from Bill Clinton: "I did not have sexual relations and I did not inhale!" :D Also: the CNN article was fairly objective, wasn't it? But then again, they only covered...

So booooooring: Here's a suggestion: If you, like me, think the false accusations against Buk are absurd, ignorant, and downright cowardly, then stop fueling this thread. Its OK if Hindenwood keeps us posted on the progress of the thing, but why not put it in a thread with a different...

good point.

He also quotes Buk on the jail-theme program, you know the one that goes:

Hear, hear! The poem was where he excelled. He created his very own type of poetry - his very own "special blend" of verse, short story and a "bar talk"/spoken word type of language. The novels were his meal ticket. (That's where the money is in writing, for some odd reason.) Funny...

Yeah, I guess Buk's early, lyrical style has something in common with Celan's imagery (like this: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fugue-of-death/). What do you think of Buk's shift from imagery over to a more "spoken word" type of poetry? I think his decision was right. We are simply bogged...

I may be going a off-topic here, but I've seen both the Ibsen and Strindberg (cool author!) apartments in Oslo & Stockholm, and they're alright. Worth a visit if you're interested in the author. The Ibsen one has a shop, but its a far cry from Disneyland. And I confess: I bought a t-shirt! One...

Hmmm, I don't get your logic there. Would you like to explain why you think the these two opposites go good together? I'd say the poems of Bertolt Brecht would interest a Buk-fan more than Celan's. Like this one: Contemplating Hell Contemplating Hell, as I once heard it, My...

Good song lyrics ARE poems. Basta. ;) (Been there, done that...)