from the LA Freep, March 8, 1974 (4 Viewers)

[Digney in Burnaby]

Looking at the email notes it finally came back to me that I was only sending prose entries to Cirerita back in 2007. He had done the poems already. So I just added poem titles to the email notes. That is what this and the next word doc included in the zip files are all about. Mainly.

1974 la freep.

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[roni]

"Have I told you lately that I love you ..."

 

[Digney in Burnaby]

I only do scans. Last one. Can't remember if the underground press collection stopped around 1976 or Bukowski stopped writing for the Freep or what.

1975-1976 la freep

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Happy New Year and all that good shit (a day early but tomorrow looms darkly).

 

[Bukfan]

Still more great stuff? To quote Mae West, "Too much of a good thing is...wonderful!".
What a great way to start the new year, by reading all the Dirty Old Man columns.
Thanks a lot, Digney! Happy New year!

 

[mjp]

What's interesting and cool to learn is that he also had "columns" that were made up of poems. I never dug too deeply into the weeklies. So the myth of him typing away madly to meet a weekly deadline sometimes meant throwing some poems at them instead. He didn't always make the deadline, is what I get from that. "Oh, hell, it's Friday - here's some poems, run them instead."

Also a good way to introduce people to the poetry who might not otherwise buy a collection of poems. Crafty bastard.

 

[Bukfan]

There's even a story in one of the last two batches about him missing a deadline. First he misses a deadline and next week he writes a story about it. Pretty clever.

There's also a bunch of drawings in those columns we have'nt seen before!

 

[hank solo]

Many thanks for sharing all of these DiB. Happy New Year!

 

[Stavrogin]

Indeed, thanks much for all Digney.

 

[Rekrab]

What a fantastic collection -- thanks for sharing it with us, Digney.

 

[Harald]

Thanx Digney, for your sweet trying, a new original Buk-world is popping up for us, heard a lot about these notes, now, first time we really can see them,

now I'm gonna sound like a spoiled brat, but could we please get the poems too?

 

[capt.co]

wtf?!
how did 2 lines from my post end up in
Harald's post?
ok. maybe I'm just gonna pretend it was his request...

 

[Harald]

looks like Burroughs wanted some cut-up action. we're flattered, having attracted his attention, didn't know yet - him strolling around forums posthumously, though

 

[mjp]

This forum is run by idiots. It was probably one of them.

 

[Digney in Burnaby]

now I'm gonna sound like a spoiled brat, but could we please get the poems too?

Approximately three years, three weeks and 3 hours since the last scan, and those last three hours were crucial, here they are. Done.

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[Bukfan]

Thanks a lot, for giving us the poems too. Digney!

 

[roni]

Man, u r cool!

 

[BudaTheStone]

Been reading Buk for 15 years. Why the hell I did not join this awesome place sooner, or at least last december?! :mad:

 

[miyavi]

Unfortunately all the LA Freep downloads are dead. Is someone willing to upload/share them again?

To contribute something, here are some scans I just made:

"Notes of a Dirty Old Man" LA Free Press - June 2, 1972


"800 Come - Drinking through a reading by Bukowski" LA Free Press - September 29, 1972


"Notes of a Dirty Old Man" LA Free Press - October 6, 1972


"Notes of a Dirty Old Man" LA Free Press - December 15, 1972

 

[zobraks]

Thanks for the scans, miyavi.

Unfortunately all the LA Freep downloads are dead. Is someone willing to upload/share them again?

Request heartily seconded.

 

[Ponder]

@miyavi
Thanks for the scans. Can you upload the column of september 29?

 

[roni]

[...] Is someone willing to upload/share them again? [...]

Request heartily seconded.

I'd be available to do so, but the size of the whole paket is too big to have it stored on my free Dropbox (or anywhere free) forever.
Only thing I could offer is a temporary upload. But then, I guess our master here has much better capabilities to even store the whole bunch without any time-limitation. mjp?

 

[zobraks]

the whole paket is too big to have it stored on my free Dropbox (or anywhere free) forever.

How big is it actually (in MBs/GBs)?
I think you can store pretty much stuff back at MediaFire (for a long time and it's free).

 

[mjp]

I have the files here somewhere. When I find them I'll put them up.

Those file upload/download sites are not a long term solution. And some of them will drop things onto your computer that you don't want to be there. None of them are motivated by altruism.

 

[roni]

[...] I'll put them up. [...]

That's Our man!

 

[zobraks]

I have the files here somewhere. When I find them I'll put them up.

Great, thanks!

Those file upload/download sites are not a long term solution.

I guess it depends on what you believe a long term solution is.
Some (huge) files I had uploaded at 4Shared & MediaFire back in 2008 are still live and kicking. Just saying.

 

[mjp]

I believe a long term solution doesn't break forum threads like this one.

An attachment stays with the forum, a link dies eventually. Every one of them.

 

[zobraks]

An attachment stays with the forum, a link dies eventually. Every one of them.

I agree, but the snag is most forums do not allow huge attachments.
:((

Spoiler: disclaimer

I am in no way affiliated with/to any of the file-sharing sites mentioned. :D

 

[miyavi]

I have the files here somewhere. When I find them I'll put them up.

I don't wanna be a pain in the ass, but is there any news on this?

In the meantime, here's another one:

"Notes of a Dirty Old Man" LA Free Press - September 22, 1972

 

[zobraks]

Thank you for the scans (and for pulling mjp's ears bumping the thread ).

 

[miyavi]

Here's one more with 6 poems. It's possible, that 3 of them are uncollected or were retitled. I can't check that by myself because I don't own any pdf versions of the BSP books. At least I can't find them in the database. These are "Upon the landslide victory of Richard Nixon", "The Adding Machine" and "Charlie".

The other 3 ("The chicken", "The Violin Player" and "TV") were collected in BSP books.

As for "The Violin Player" it is worth mentioning that the line "I forget who won the 2nd, but he was still playing his violin" is missing in Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit - pg. 61 - 1979. I checked the hardcover and the paperback version and I guess this is a typo and just for once it wasn't Martinized.

"Notes of a Dirty Old Man" LA Free Press - November 17, 1972

 

[mjp]

Charlie is renamed Charles in Burning in Water Drowning in Flame (and the rape/gang bang reference is removed).

There are a lot of examples of lines being dropped in Black Sparrow books that don't look like they were dropped on purpose. Transcription errors maybe, but at this point who knows.