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    1963 skin mag appearance? at $195 I ain't going to find out

    yep, that doesn't read like Buk at all!
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    Bukowski's funeral

    Buddhists don't believe in souls. Physics is magical thinking? oh, right. And Richard Fenyman is a grand wizard. And Newton did a spell to make the apple fall from the tree. Buddha can't be angry, he died a long time ago. He was just a guy. I'm not fighting the truth. No one has worked out...
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    Bukowski's funeral

    As I said, belief in concepts, such as reincarnation, are not compulsory. Some believe, some don't. It's a choice. It's in the nature of Buddhism to question and investigate if a hypothesis is true (and reject them if they're not). I have Buddhist leanings and I'm an atheist and I don't...
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    Bukowski-Symposium - Andernach 2009

    Cool, I think I'll go to this; I'm only a four hour train ride from Andernach.
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    Is Buk your favorite writer?

    Buk was certainly my favourite writer when I was in my 20's. At one point he was all I read; no one else came even close. But then I didn't read him for years. I don't think I have a favourite writer as such, but Buk would be definitely included in the top 5 without hesitation. The writer I...
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    Rare Bukowski mag 1966? Some/Thing

    Yes, I own it; it was given to me by a generous and thoughtful friend so, to be honest, its monetary value doesn't mean that much to me. A couple of people were interested in a scan of this mag, so I got hold of a scanner. I didn't scan the Buk page because I didn't want to damage the spine of...
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    Bukowski's funeral

    Let us not quibble, brothers and sisters... after all, we're all Bukkhists... Be thankful he didn't have a Tibetan Sky Funeral, wherein the body is dismembered and left out on the mountain side for the vultures... Actually, that sounds too much like life to me... For those with strong...
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    Bukowski's funeral

    Not strictly true. The definition I have of fundamentalism here is: "The interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth" Buddhism doesn't operate out of blind faith like Christianity. Buddhists, lay and monk, test Buddha's theories to see if they actually hold true. If they...
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    Bukowski's funeral

    I wouldn't really call Buddhist monks (who, incidentally, appear to be Theravadan) zealots or fundamentalists, though I can understand someone's anger at a religion presiding over someone's funeral who wasn't a believer - If there was a representative from any of the three monotheistic religions...
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    Rare Bukowski mag 1966? Some/Thing

    The auction I found was here: http://www.pbagalleries.com/search/item.php?anr=173587&PHPSESSID=eeb941&PHPSESSID=eeb941 However, one of the Hanoi 'stamps' has come loose (though, luckily, not lost) from the issue I have here. Otherwise it's in a little better condition than the pic on this...
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    Rare Bukowski mag 1966? Some/Thing

    so far I've found a copy that sold in auction for $747. And I found another seller who is selling 4 copies of the magazine incl. the Buk issue for over $3k... perhaps it's the Warhol cover that makes it so rare... or maybe I'm missing something.... thanks for all the help and guiding...
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    Legit signature?

    Great, Thanks guys.. I'd read about the fake autographs that had been circulating and I got concerned... R
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    New Trivia Thread - First with the correct answer asks the next question.

    Linda and Pete Townshend were both devotees of Meher Baba. Buk thought she and PT were having an affair. The infamous argument between Linda and Buk in The Bukowski Tapes is after Linda had come home from a Who concert ( i think) I don't have loads of Buk info at my fingertips, so my...
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    Rare Bukowski mag 1966? Some/Thing

    wow... I've been looking around the internet and the only references I find to this magazine suggest that it is quite rare and sought after! :D
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    Post Your Bukowski Collection

    Most of my copies are just normal trade copies, unfortunately. Maybe one day I'll have the money to be a real collector... The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills Post Office Mockingbird Wish Me Luck South Of No North Burning In Water Drowning In Flame Factotum Women Play The...
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    Rare Bukowski mag 1966? Some/Thing

    I just came by a copy of a magazine called Some/Thing (issue three with a cover made by Andy Warhol - stamps/stickers that say 'Bomb Hanoi'). Bukowski has a poem in it called Drawing of a Band Concert on a Matchbox. The mag also contains poems by poets such as Ginsberg and Malanga...
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    Legit signature?

    You decide... Any help analysing this will be greatly appreciated. I know you're all experts when it comes to this kind of thing. :) best, R
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    Heavy Metal

    ....and blues comes from West African vocal music, African American work songs, early spirituals and European harmonic forms. Blues elements were even included in pre-blues music "English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's "A Negro Love Song", from his The African Suite for Piano composed in...
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    Heavy Metal

    who would you say was original?
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    Heavy Metal

    wow. I guess that apart from the Stones, other British bands such as Led Zepp, Pink Floyd, Kaiser Chiefs, Cream, The Who, the Sex Pistols, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Queen, The Libertines, Genesis, Yes, The Police, The Stone Roses, Dire Straits, Pulp, King Crimson, Arctic Monkeys, The Kinks...
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    Heavy Metal

    Heavy metal is the wrestling of the music world. Slipnot is Hulk Hogan dressed as a witch at the birthday party of a child with special educational needs. British bands don't really do anything original? Be serious.
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    Forgot to introduce myself

    Hi there, I joined last week. I'm from the UK but I've lived all over the place - Russia, Germany, Ireland, Poland, the US and travelled all over, too - China, South Africa, Canada, etc etc. I'm a writer (and poet), too; not as good as Hank, of course, but I've had a couple of things...
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    The best beers (not the so-called king of beers)

    I was actually in the Läwenbräu brewery in Munich recently. There's a big bar attached to the side. And up the road there's a great English language cinema.
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    favorite novel / book

    I'm a big fan of Women, too. Then I'd turn to Ham on Rye.
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    Non-commercial Buk readings/video

    "We don't link to free downloads of things that are commercially available, and most of the Bukowski audio recordings are still available". just to clarify, sites such as Dimeadozen also disallow commercially released material. Strictly unreleased material only. There was an interesting...
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