Henry Miller Library interview at Fashionbeaver.com (1 Viewer)

[Fashionbeaver]

Hey all. We just interviewed Magnus Toren, director of the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, Ca, for Ocbtober's edition of Fashionbeaver.com - we hope you like!!!

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[Fashionbeaver]

In an effort to get to know everyone, here's a little about myself. Maybe some of you all dig some of the same shit:

Favorite records:

The Cows - Sexy Pee Story
Surgery - Shimmer
Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Greats
the Icarus Line - Penance Soiree
High On Fire - Blessed Black Wings
Heroine Sheiks - Siamese Pipe
Easy Action - Friends of Rock N'Roll
the Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
the Cars - Candy-O
Van Halen - Fair Warning
Faith No More - King for a Day
Failure - Fantastic Planet
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Mt. Sims - Ultrasex
Gram Rabbit - Music to Start a Cult By
BRMC - Baby 81
anything and everything by Ween
Moistboyz - III and IV
everything by Turbo

Books:

the Price of Loyalty by Ron Suskind
Death on the Installment Plan - Louis Celine
most all of Hunter S., Henry Miller, and Bukowski
A Fan's Notes - Fred Exley
Ringolevio by Emmett Grogan
I read, but can't say I loved Infinite Jest


Movies:

The Fog of War
Bully
Fletch
Lost Highway
Gummo
Irreversible
Fear and Loathing

 

[Father Luke]

Ever hear about this dude called Chinaski?

 

[Fashionbeaver]

Notice I mention in my favourite books my love of all things Bukowski?

 

[Father Luke]

I notice you mention Bukowski, yeasssss.
(trying to recover what little dignity I don't have)

That MacNamara. What a guy, eh?
(The Fog of War)

I could bingo on a few of the lines you wrote:

Fan of The Good Dr.

I like a lot of the same records as you, but not all
(I Like Ween, f'rinstance)

Irreversible almost made me start smoking again
Wild fucking ride

Henry Miller. You into Steve Richmond?
He has a great story about meeting Henry Miller
written in Spinning off Bukowski

etc., and so forth.

- -
My usual line of bullshit goes here

 

[Fashionbeaver]

I'm not sure I know who Steve Richmond is. Any details about his meeting Miller? Have your heard the new Ween yet? Hai Karate!!!

 

[Father Luke]

Steve Richmond is a poet. I won't try and tell his Miller story, but it is in his
book: Spinning off Bukowski. He treats Henry well, and portrays him (Henry
Miller) kindly. It's a great anecdote.

Haven't heard ween's new one. Not a true fan, but I enjoy their stuff. Them
Wisco fucks are crazy/brilliant. Insanity filtered into something marketable, and
enduringly psychotic.

 

[Fashionbeaver]

I'll have to get the Richmond book Lickety Split. You a Celine fan?

 

[Fashionbeaver]

PS - did you get the chance to check out the interview at Fashionbeaver.com?

 

[Father Luke]

I'll have to get the Richmond book Lickety Split.

It's a very short anecdote.

You a Celine fan?

There's a thread here, on the forum. C L I C K

PS - did you get the chance to check out the interview at Fashionbeaver.com?

I have. Nice work.

P.S. There is a link here somewhere to a copy of the Letter Miller wrote to
Bukowski.

Somewhere.

here you go: C L I C K

 

[Fashionbeaver]

Holy Hell!!!! Thanks so much for the link to the letter!!! Did you ever see anything Bukowski had written to Henry?

 

[Father Luke]

I was driving a truck for about a year. I was away from the forum, and I'm slowly making
my way through all the old threads.

One
post
at
a
time.

If I see something, I'll post it.

 

[Black Swan]

I'll have to get the Richmond book Lickety Split. You a Celine fan?

For Richmond
someone had referred me to
w.w.w.hollywoodinvestigator.com/2007/richmond.htm

By the way "Death on the Installment Plan" blew my mind
and I don't want to recover

 

[Fashionbeaver]

I'll check out that link. I haven't yet read Journey to the Center of the Night - does it compare to Installment Plan?

 

[Fashionbeaver]

We just did an interview with David Yow from the Jesus Lizard/Qui yesterday, and of course, Bukowski had to pop up!!!!

 

[roni]

Did you ever see anything Bukowski had written to Henry?

I'm not at the place now, where I have my Buk-books, so can't look up. But I think in at least one of the Black-Sparrow(now HarperCollins)-volumes of Buks letters, he at least REFERS to his correspondence with Miller.
Ain't sure if the letters to Miller themselfes are in (i THINK i remember ONE).
All three volumes have an appendix with people named in the letters. (and btw they are worth reading anyway!)

 

[Fashionbeaver]

Shit - if anyone can point me in the direction, I'd be most grateful.

 

[Fashionbeaver]

Hey dudes - the new issue of Fashionbeaver is up with interviews with Monster Magnet, Turbonegro, David Yow from the Jesus Lizard, and Shannon Selberg from the Cows/Heroine Sheiks. Enjoy!!!

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[dogdice]

Feb 13, 1976. Bukowski received a letter with Henry Miller's return address on it, but the message was actually from his son Larry Miller.

There was also a fake Henry Miller blurb for the German edition of Notes of a Dirty Old Man which read "Each line in Bukowski is infected by the terror of the American nightmare. He articulates the fears & agonies of the vast minority in the no-man's land between inhuman brutalisation and helpless despair"

 

[roni]

There was also a fake Henry Miller blurb for the German edition of Notes of a Dirty Old Man which read "Each line in Bukowski is infected by the terror of the American nightmare. He articulates the fears & agonies of the vast minority in the no-man's land between inhuman brutalisation and helpless despair"

This line is still published sometimes. There are still many kids here who think it was a real quote. one of these never-dying urban myths. In fact, Carl Weissner made the quote up to raise sales.

 

[bogthing]

Black Sabbath eh?

Don't you mean Sack Blabbath?

 

[MULLINAX]

The Cars. Yowza! Went to Cape Cod in 1977 or 1978 or 1979 and The Cars were all over the radio that summer. "My Best Friend's Girlfriend" and all that. Pretty simple "fun" band, composers of little ditties about love, loss and the usual subjects of angst. I cringe when I hear them now.

They didn't last long and their concerts were savaged by the rock press, if I remember correctly, but the band BOSTON was lambasted even more for their hopeless stage act.

RIC OCASEK. Yeah. It's coming back to me now.

I've never seen a Miller letter addressed to Bukowski.