Bukowski-Exhibition in Germany in summer 2014

[skiroomalum]

I believe you are holding a San Francisco Review. 1959? Also a Coastlines in the other hand from 1965?

 

[hoochmonkey9]

lower right is the 'confessions...' thing from OLE.

 

[zobraks]

which specific items can you spot in this picture?

Er... What picture?

Is this the The Emperor's New Clothes kind of routine? :confused:

 

[roni]

an outsider, [...]
hot water music, probably includes the best painting Buk ever did.

yes, most defintitely.

(Outsider is #3 with our very own 'Outsider of the year' on the title-page)

the Bukowski Special, 2004.

right!

another outsider, a yearbook,

nope.

crucifix and cold dogs...

yes, yes.

San Francisco Review. 1959? Also a Coastlines in the other hand from 1965?

close. it's San Francisco Review #1 (1958) / Coastlines #14-15 (1960) and Coastlines #21-22 (1964).

lower right is the 'confessions...' thing from OLE.

yep.


anything else?
maybe if you see the table (with slightly different items and in different order) from a better angle?

Is this the The Emperor's New Clothes kind of routine?

not really.
maybe your firewall rates pictures with Buk-items as 'porn'?

 

[hoochmonkey9]

Stack of wormwood, stack of laugh literary, penguin modern poets, collected manuscripts, German fuck machine(?).

 

[d gray]

BACK TO THE MACHINEGUN!!!

 

[skiroomalum]

Ain't that the LA High yearbook, the winter edition, 1939? And the Buk tribute second coming.

 

[roni]

Stack of wormwood, stack of laugh literary, penguin modern poets, collected manuscripts, [...]

yesss.

BACK TO THE MACHINEGUN!!!

you got it.

LA High yearbook, the winter edition, 1939?

both. the winter and the summer edition.

the Buk tribute second coming.

exactly.

Now, is this a line-up or What?

 

[mjp]

BACK TO THE MACHINEGUN!!!

Now, is this a line-up or What?

Ha - perfect.

 

[zobraks]

Hey, I see the picture now!
But it's upside down :acb::

 

[roni]

German fuck machine(?).

we Do have a German First of Fuck Machine, but it's not been on this pic.

Hey, I see the picture now! But it's upside down

that's an improvement. now turn your monitor 180° and everything's fine.

 

[zobraks]

now turn your monitor 180° and everything's fine.

All right, I did that and some parts fell out. Is that OK?

 

[Black Swan]

Very nice, Roni!
Thank you, show-off! :DD

 

[roni]

these two seem to be tough cookies to spot.
the experts please?

 

[hoochmonkey9]

top, new year's greetings, BSP.

bottom.......?

 

[roni]

bottom.......?

hint:
BoS should definitely know.

hint #2:
what are the other 2 items just there?

hint #3:
of what exceptional material could this cover possibly be made?

 

[hoochmonkey9]

It catches... In aBoSP clamshell.

 

[roni]

and the winner is ...
The HOOCH!

 

[roni]

[...] German fuck machine(?).

Looking at the pic now, I seem to see, where you thought you'd spot the German 'Fuck-Machine', being yellow with a white sqare on the cover.
Damn, how you deserve to be titled as 'The New Sherlock'!

here's the 'book' (a chap) you've spotted [ - on the left]:

these two have been publications in the GDR (German Democratic Republic) [ = East-Germany =DDR] at the times of communism.

That's what makes them so special:
it's been extremely unusual for the GDR-times, to let an author, who is Against All Autocratic state-power, speak out. (But then - they sure could use his rants against the bosses.)

Anyway. These are special.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

What's the ~6"x6" chap w/ what appears to be a reproduced signature near the stack of Wormwoods?

 

[hank solo]

The yellow one? Thats the House of Books Ed Blair LouJon catalogue.

 

[roni]

that's a catalog by 'House of Books' (1994) listing the Ed Blair collection for sale.

 

[roni]

Literary Times - A Special Interview Edition
Vol 4, No 2, December 1964 [!]

yes, there are obviously also musicians (Chet Baker) and painters (Jasper Johns) in the 'Literary-Times'. [so you wouldn't take the "Literary" literally.]

 

[hoochmonkey9]

Lennie Tristano!

 

[mjp]

You can read the interview (his first) here.

 

[Ponder]

You can read the interview (his first) here.

Kaye: This is a corny question. Who is the greatest living poet?

Bukowski: That is not corny. That is tough. Well, we have Ezra...Pound, and we have T.S.,[Eliot] but they've both stopped writing. Of the producing poets, I would say...Oh, Larry Eigner.

 

[5:28am]

You can read the interview (his first) here.

Things like this are why I come here.

 

[zobraks]

If you prefer to read offline, holding a (pretty heavy) book (and sniffing the paper

), it's also in Sunlight Here I Am (page 19).

 

[Bukfan]

I guess us cold dogs in the courtyard do like to sniff books.

 

[roni]

it's hard to impress you kids.

 

[roni]

a drawing he did during visiting his town of birth: Andernach (Germany) in 1978:

(note: the dog's tail's going UP STRAIGHT.)

 

[Ponder]

What does the 60 mean, is it a page of a book?

 

[roni]

no, that was just my way of labeling the items to catalog them. This one was #60. It's been removed since.

 

[roni]

oh, btw: meanwhile, the exhibition has OPENED!

here's me talking at the opening:

 

[mjp]

It looks like Mozart conducting.

 

[Bukfan]

What's with the hands in the 3rd photo?:p

 

[roni]

It looks like Mozart conducting.

that's also what it felt like.


[more screenshots attached]

 

[roni]

btw HERE's a short trailer to our Bukowski-Exhibition.

(still going on till Jan 31, 2015)

 

[Black Swan]

Very well put together, Roni.
The music was very well chosen too.
What was it?

 

[David]

Sounds like Beethoven's Ninth, Scherzo, Second Movement....