Since I missed Buk by just a couple of days when I visited Baroque Books, I told Red "I'd really like to meet him some day." Red replied "Maybe you'll meet him here. Just bring a bottle of something for him and you'll be in." :cool:
Baroque was one of those fuckin' HIP bookstores in Hollywood... and fewer of them exist now. I was honored to meet Red and spend some time there with him and all of that literature. I was amazed at all of the rare, hardback Buk books, including his large picture-book wedding album documenting...
The day I was there at the bookstore, Red said "Yeah, Hank was just in here a couple of days ago with his wife Linda. My wife and I went to see a movie with them that night. He hated it." Thanks MJP for the signing stats. My copy is a paperback with a plastic cover which the...
Back in the early 90's, I went to Baroque Books on Las Palmas in Hollywood. The place was filled with Bukowski books, many of them hardbacks which Buk had done some paintings within the inside covers. These were going for $$$ at the time, so I couldn't afford them. Speaking at length with the...
A scathing, dark sense of humor is always welcome... and not taking every goddamn thing so fucking seriously is a fairly good approach. :cool:
I wasn't aware that hopeless alcoholics are dancing to a strong beat.
If you hate these "art-music" pieces, if they bore you or make you puke, then I have achieved my goal. 8-))
Buk and I collaborated. He just doesn't know it cuz he's dead.
You folks are nicer than I expected!
Yeah, Buk wasn't really on top of his game that day. I yelled at him for being mediocre and broke a Miller's Genuine Draft quart bottle on his ghostly tore-up haid.