I like got my copy of the Bukowski Tapes a few years ago in NYC at a place called Kino Video. My favorite episode of the Bukowski Tapes is Number 15. They should have put that episode in Born Into This instead of the one where he kicks his girlfriend.Number 15 goes something like this:
It's late, the camera is close up in Bukoski's face. He's appears pretty lit(at least in my opinion), eyes are slits, anyway, this is what he says-
"This whole place is diseased with the presence of everybody but myself.
"I don't like people" Bukowski says,
"There is something wrong with me...I don't know what it is...but I'm not going to try to cure it.
(Staring straight at the camera(cameramen?))You smell a rose up your asshole, your asshole is dead shit to begin with, it doesn't matter if a rose is up it or a thorn's dick. (snickering camermen)
"God, you kids don't understand any inventive decency of any sort...Your just so subliminal (says the word a couple of times) to what ever occurence..... you just ride the tender little wave of nowhere.
You have no original courage of definition.
You're all flat pancake mamas with syrup spilled over your heads.
You have nothing...you have no direction....you have no motive.
All you want is money.
You don't even know what money is, you want it, but when you get it you wont even know what to do with it...just smear it up your asshole and swallow it....out your nostril of death.(ha ha ha ha )
And I know less than you either, even though I talk about it.
At least I smooth it out and dance it around which makes more sense than letting it sit still. (ha ha ha )
I'm pretty clever, in spite of my dumbness, don't worry.
