Recent content by sgraham

Beyond the obvious Beats? What else scratches the itch? As far as poetry, so much of it out there seems so sunny and life-affirming which is fine I suppose sometimes but it's hard to find stuff that gets down into it like Bukowski. One person I have found was the late d.a. levy, a Cleveland...

The way he goes off about the Neely Cherkovski (sp?) bio in the volume of letters I just finished sure makes that one look like the WORST book on Bukowski. Hilariously, it's the only Bukowski bio I have read and didn't think it was bad but when I read it I had nothing to compare it to.

He seemed to have a good handle on the current pop music though, in concert reviews he was able to reduce the Rolling Stones fans to their base components/onstage hierarchy/bullshit factor based on just seeing how they behaved in concert.

Bukowski seemed to use booze + sex + job stress to get his motor running. It could be in writing or painting or just in an aesthetic way of putting a vase on a shelf but what gets your mental gears grinding? As much as I have tried to wish that a positive mental outlook and sunny...

I harbored a strange sort of resistance to him for a large part of my life because I've struggled with hard drug problems all my life and the Burroughs vs Bukowski dichotomy was like an odd "Beatles vs Stones" mental block that I had, always looking down on alcoholics because of this inherent...

I didn't think this deserved it's own thread (didn't find anything in the forum by searching) but on the online clips where he pukes before going onstage I wonder if that is nerves or from alcohol? I'm not bringing this up to make fun of him, I'm bringing it up because I just watched a clip of...

A half-dozen or so years ago at an Estate Sale I bought a huge stack of classical lps for 99 cents, they were selling some deadperson's records by the yard, and somebody had bought up all the jazz and rock but nobody was taking the classical so I figured that I coolect records and sometime in my...

Just watched this last night, it has been interesting watching Factotum, Barfly and Tales of Ordinary Madness within a week. I dunno, I like Ben Gazzara but the way he played the character clashed with the looseness I see in Bukowski. He just seemed too rigid and self-controlled. Maybe...

Speaking of typewriters, springtime is coming around the corner and that means YARD SALES and my objective this year is to find a nice working manual typewriter. I had an electric one but gave it away because it just wasn't the same. I imagine buying a typewriter on Ebay can get pretty spendy...

I wonder if his choice of beer or wine helped his creativity, verses drinking hard booze just to get wasted the fastest. I know he drank whatever was around but in his interviews he mostly nurses a beer or wine. My drink of choice is Scotch on the rocks and drinking that gives a very small...

Hi all, newbie here from Minneapolis MN with only one post in the classical music thread. I had Tales of Ordinary Madness for years and liked it but kind of dismissed because I just wasn't in the right headspace to appreciate it correctly. Then a few years ago my 14 year marriage broke up and...

Hi all, Bukowski newby just starting to really dig in. I come at this as an aspiring writer and there is something that nobody has really touched on and it's just pure speculation on my part as to how this pertains to Mr. Bukowski. Writing (or any kind of creative process) for some people is...