Well I am a pack rat keeping too many things. Helps the memory which fails me constantly. And those mags also fill in blanks, etc.
Can't remember the first book I read by Bukowski. Or even the article/story. Maybe it was the jaggernaut piece a year later in
Creem. By 1976 I was at a college that had published Bukowski in their little lit mag,
Event. Bukowski books, signed and numbered on the library shelves. I even copied the Penguin poems long hand. Still have that note book.
Funny, a couple things in those old
Creem issues jumped out at me. The New York Dolls playing Vancouver in 1974 and a review of
Good to see you again, Alice, a concert/comedy of the Billion Dollar Babies tour. I remember the Dolls playing town, but only finding out about it after the fact. And I was at the Vancouver BDB show in 1973 but never saw the movie until
now. Pretty fucking bad.
