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That's probably it! Thanks, either way.

Barfly is still one of my favorite movies. All I had at the time to compare it to was Buk's poetry, which, for me at least, was hard to come by. The bizarre thing about Rourke in that time period is that in his next 3 or 4 movies he seemed to play that same character. The difference, for...

I've never been a Rollins fan, though I do watch his show. I've always thought that Keith Morris was the definitive Black Flag front man, not Rollins. As far as his own band, it just doesn't do anything for me. But I don't dislike him or anything. When he said that Johnny Rotten (PIL and the...

Just dropping an introductory line. How did I come across Bukowski? Believe it or not, my high school poetry teacher, Ms. Span, was the guilty party. That was 20 years ago. In fact, the reason I came to this site is that I'm looking for a poem the teacher had us read all of those 20...