Previously unknown Bukowski interview (1 Viewer)
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Just stumbled across this old thread and visited the deepfreeze site. Not a mention of the Buk DVD, but plenty on one of my all time favourites from the 70's Leon Russell, so I've asked him about the supposed 2009 re-release of that resurrected videotape, the fascinating story of which is well documented on that site.
mjp
Founding member
Waaaahhhh, I need funding! Help me! Help me!
Fuck this guy. The Bukowski thing is not a documentary, it's a god damn tape of a cable TV show.
Jesus christ, you can get 100 DVDs duplicated (DVR) and packaged for less than $350. You can get a glass master and a stamper made and make 1000 real DVDs (not DVR) for $900. Sell them real cheap (by "real cheap" I mean like $5.99 and a couple bucks for mailing) if you want to move the whole 1000. Make a few thousand bucks and be done with it. Relatively small beans if you price them to sell, but it's a small audience. Or you could price them at $15.99, sell a couple hundred and sit on the rest for 20 years. When no one will be able to play a DVD.
This guy sounds like Linda King waiting for the world's biggest publisher to come and write her a million dollar check for a book that 2,000 people will read. At most.
Everyone wants funding. It's a wonder most of these people can wipe their asses without venture capital interceding somehow. This isn't ART waiting for the NEA, it's COMMERCE. So get capitalistic, fucker, make something happen.
The world has turned into a bunch of frightened worms wiggling around in the freshly turned dirt.
LickTheStar
Sad Flower in the Sand
I'm actually to blame partially... I built an asswiper with investor money.
Of course, it remains a better investment than most stocks these days, so I'm rolling in dough.
Of course, it remains a better investment than most stocks these days, so I'm rolling in dough.
--Jeezus Christ, I never said it was a documentary.
It IS a goddam tape of a cable TV show. That's exactly what it is.
I said that I'm working on two docs right now.
Those two are pumping me dry.
---Yeah, that's what I do all the time, but the difference is, I learned a little something in the twenty-five years I've been doing this.
Sitting on a bunch of discs don't pay the bills, and I know a lot of people sitting on boxes and boxes of DVD's that aren't selling.
Sorry if this isn't smiley happy news but costs are costs, and they pile up, and the discs take up space and eventually wind up in storage, which means they eventually start costing more to just sit there than they bring in, which means that eventually they wind up in a public storage AUCTION.
Well, I don't actually know who Linda King is, but what I won't do is wind up sitting on a bunch of discs that don't sell. Done that already.
---I'll make something happen when it doesn't wind up losing me money and when Fred Havens decides he's ready to move on it.
I'm really sorry that it's not sooner than later.
I'm the first person who would like to see it out there, but I'm not a big publishing company. I'm just a working camera guy and editor, I pay my bills, I feed and clothe a small family and keep a roof over our head.
It doesn't work as well when you're lighting hundred dollar bills on fire, and I already have a couple of those going already.
Oh...almost forgot to mention that I received a phone call from FRED HAVENS a few months ago. This is the guy that everyone told me was DEAD.
No, he didn't come back to life.
He just disappeared into obscurity from everyone he used to know in LA.
He now lives in New Orleans.
That put me at another "slight" impasse, because I then had to try and convince Fred that going ahead with this is the right thing to do.
He finally agreed but he's broke and therefore can't finance the pressing either.
Sorry, I gotta draw the line somewhere.
I've put out about eight grand on a film about a guy who made guitars for Prince and another four grand on a film about a quadriplegic veteran who took on the Iron Man Triathlon. Neither one is finished and neither one will probably make dime one for me.
I gotta eat and feed the fam.
I'm not a big record company or a big publishing house.
I'm just a working camera guy and editor.
So yeah, fuck me I guess. :-)
No, he didn't come back to life.
He just disappeared into obscurity from everyone he used to know in LA.
He now lives in New Orleans.
That put me at another "slight" impasse, because I then had to try and convince Fred that going ahead with this is the right thing to do.
He finally agreed but he's broke and therefore can't finance the pressing either.
Sorry, I gotta draw the line somewhere.
I've put out about eight grand on a film about a guy who made guitars for Prince and another four grand on a film about a quadriplegic veteran who took on the Iron Man Triathlon. Neither one is finished and neither one will probably make dime one for me.
I gotta eat and feed the fam.
I'm not a big record company or a big publishing house.
I'm just a working camera guy and editor.
So yeah, fuck me I guess. :-)
mjp
Founding member
You must have stopped reading very early on (understandable, you were probably angry), because that's exactly what I said not to do.
I said make a small run of cheapo DVRs and sell them. Done. Otherwise this is just another lost videotape. It would be interesting to see, but not the end of the world if you just sit on it forever.
Why would you come onto a Bukowski forum not knowing who Linda King is and the tricks she's pulled?
He wants you to send him a money order to help out the project and get one of the first off the production line.
chronic
old and in the way
Why should he know anything about Linda King? If someone comes across an previously unknown bit of Bukowski video should they just keep their mouths shut about it because they had never heard of Linda King? C'mon...
He's stated in the past that he does not want anyone to pre-order this.
He's said that he hasn't had the money to do this and, I would imagine that it might not be a the top of his list of things-to-do. I hope that at some point it does see the light of day in one form or another, but that's up to him. I seriously doubt that being shitty about it will get it done any more quickly.
mjp
Founding member
Nope, not angry...just cut me a little slack, okay? ?
Surely you must know that some of these projects sit and sit forever...things aren't always under my control.
My first wife was business mgr for the guy who wrote Lonely Teardrops: The Jackie Wilson Story.
Suzanne dePasse wrote him a nice check, optioned it and then put it on the shelf.
That was thirty years ago and the author probably won't be alive next year, which is probably when Ms. dePasse will finally decide to get the movie made, maybe.
This is small potatoes by comparison and you wouldn't believe the number of projects like this that sit and sit and sit.
I know!
Okay, it's not like I call Fred up day after day, but he remains convinced it's an awful idea and I remain convinced it's the best idea ever.
Okay, it's not like I call Fred up day after day, but he remains convinced it's an awful idea and I remain convinced it's the best idea ever.
It makes me crazy to know that I can't get through to him on this.
Very off-topic but...about that:
I will understand if the mods feel compelled to delete this post, and please forgive if I unknowingly broke a rule.
I probably don't have much time left.
I had a heart attack this week and I guess I am trying to wrap up my loose ends.
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Father Luke
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Yeah. Same thing happened to me. Good luck.
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