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"Not the best reading in my opinion." But the only one where Buk talks about the cheerleaders for Utah shaking their pom poms. So I say get it.

BOOYAH!! Viva La Ganja!

Buk liked boxing, and I just read a good boxing biography called "Irish Thunder - The Hard Life And Times Of Micky Ward." He's a lesser known junior welterweight from Lowell, Mass., and the Dropkick Murphys song "Warrior's Code" is about him. It's a good working class story with people like...

"If you look over more of the posts, you will see that there are people on this forum that corresponded with, drank with, & slept with Buk." OK, I see what you mean. And I'm jealous of you. "Pleasants wasn't "wondering."" You know, maybe that was me. I can see that I probably took...

I don't think Pleasants explicitly says Bukowski was a Nazi, and I while I was reading it I didn't think Pleasants was attacking Buk or mischaracterizing him or lying. I heard in the book was Buk possibly exaggerating the Nazi angle, maybe revealing some latent or halfhearted sympathies, and...

I am a librarian so I run across people who know him, but almost nobody who likes him. When they find out he's one of my favorites, they start to wonder about ME, so I've become more careful about who I mention it to. When I've recommended him to people who haven't read him, they're giving me...

Anyone read Visceral Bukowski by Ben Pleasants? I just finished and really liked it. One thing that struck me was how often Buk mentions Marvin Malone and how much Buk compliments him, yet Malone is mentioned just one single time in the Sounes bio. In Visceral, Buk practically says Malone is...

I agree there was no reason to edit the videos to make them unique -- we want everything don't we? The duplicate poems are even more valuable to the listeners like me who like to compare the versions. And about the CD's and poetry reading, man, I LOVE my Bukowski CD's and I have them all. I...

Viking Inn I received my Viking Inn CD, and it's great. I don't know about the Ebay seller -- I got mine from this place: http://apoprecords.com/ Turns out some scenes in the video Born Into This are from this Viking Inn show, including the opener: "Dennis, for God's sake get him a...

Hunt is over And I bagged my prey. I got a Terror Street CD via interlibrary loan through my library, and copied it. Allll right. Not to mention I found the Viking Inn reading, too. Double all right!!

All right!! Glad you like it. Coincidentally that was the first Buk album I got, too. It didn't take long till I needed them all. Have you got others yet? I think I got King Of Poets next, which was just as great but with a completely different personality.

I'd never heard of it before, but it sounds interesting. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/132588/The-Killers/overview Apparently no video version ever made. Thanks for the tip. I don't recall Buk mentioning this in the many interviews I've read, anyone else?

Underwater Poetry at CD Baby "Where did you get this?" I got my Underwater Poetry Festival at CD Baby - http://cdbaby.com/found?allsearch=bukowski For the great price of 10 bucks. And I reiterate the correction to my bad review -- I was wrong, this CD is not bad, it's great. Most of...

Thanks! Well, the hunt is on.

Hey TDJazz, what did you get, and how do you like it? Does anyone out there know if the Terror Street CD is different than King Of Poets and 70 Minutes In Hell? The most I could find out was that there are "40 poems and stories," but no title list. If different, is it completely different, or...

And thanks for the article!! You put the reader there very well. Good job. But if you ever do find the tape ...

Booker White Hey how about Booker White (aka Bukka)? There's a guy who wrote straight out of life like Bukowski, no worn out old lyrics and cliches there. And ditto for Furry Lewis on the humorous side. I have a mix tape where right after Buk reading "The Night I Killed Tommy" I put Furry...

I just got a new, legitimate DVD of this on Amazon, and the sound and picture are out of sync. I looked for this topic on the forum but didn't find anyone mentioning it, though I could have missed. Has it happened to anyone else or does anyone know if this is a common problem? I guess I'll...

I first heard of John Fante from Bukowski, so I read 1933 Was A Bad Year because it happened to be the easiest of his books to get when the mood struck me. I think it's a great book, has feeling and is truly hilarious, too. I laughed out loud alot. It's a short novel published after Fante's...

I found the CD on GEMM -- says "Viking Inn, Vancouver Oct. '79," the reading that is also on video but hasn't been released pending a DVD distributor.

Underwater Poetry Good - Me Wrong I take it back -- never mind. Underwater Poetry Festival is fine. I shouldn't have judged it on the first listen, and I listened to it 3 more times over the weekend, and I like it, so fuck me, and get any CD you want to start with. Underwater has poems not...

bongobill, my first impression is that you are ALL RIGHT, man. personally, though, I prefer the term ganja. i find that it turns one into a genius, grasping poetry, songs and movies with such beautiful, comfortable ease. it is a warm blanket around my soul. Viva NORML, viva GANJA!

I know you're right, I need plenty of work, don't we all? But you reminded me of this: Where is the best place for a woman to hide money from a man? Her forehead.

I agree about the deleted scenes, and the one I liked was when the hat blew off Pierre's head and the girl ran and got it. I don't know all the reasons producers and directors choose scenes, but maybe the movie had to be shorter and they had to cut things they didn't want to. I'm just glad...

Dory Previn, Candye Kane. I think Buk would appreciate their work in different ways, maybe some of you all, too, like that Nina Simone fan, maybe.