Bukowski: Born Into This

cirerita

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Richmond wrote a book on B called Spinning Off Bukowski. Spining Off Bukowski II was in the works back in 2001, but it seems it never materialized.
 
mjp

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Richmond also had a poetry book, Hitler Painted Roses, that was recommended to me by many people. He had many books of poetry, but for some reason this one is always recommended.
 
Charlie

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Here's what Amazon has to say about the US extras:

  • Available Audio Tracks: English (Unknown Format)
  • Commentary by: director John Dullaghan Unknown Format
  • Sneak peek at previously unpublished poems & "Dinosauria, We"
  • "Born Into This": behind-the-scenes featurette
  • Bukowski's final home footage from 1992
  • Deleted scene
  • Extended interviews with Bono, Linda Lee Bukowski, Taylor Hackford and Publisher John Martin
  • Tom Waits and Bono read Bukowski poetry
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reasonknot

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yea steve richmond and robert creely
and if you have not read foreword to
steve richmonds 'hitler painted roses' by bukowski
then you are missing out.
 
cirerita

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maybe someone with the French version could rip the Apostrophes episode and torrent it! Let's ask the TMF, just in case :D
 
zoom man

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I just got it on e-bay, the American version,
And he said this is no pre-order....
He's got 11 in stock,
Well 10 now :>
Seller User ID jbkablercom
 
Charlie

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Man, I pre-ordered this thing, and it said it would be delivered, at the latest, by today. Right now its saying it hasn't even begun shipping. Fuck.
 
hoochmonkey9

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I was just on amazon to see when my order would be shipped, and Born Into This has a sales ranking of 93...not bad. Cracked the top 100.
 
Charlie

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Not bad? That's excellent for such a seemingly unknown title. Its amazing, in fact. It was in the 500's no more than a day or so ago.
 
HenryChinaski

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Indeed. I just want my damn copy so I can see what all the fuss is about.

damnit i just checked my balance at amazon
AND ONLY SENT PAYMENT FOR BORN INTO THIS and not buk @ bellvue
and they SENT ME BUKOWSKI AT BELLVUE ALREADY
now i gotta send em twenty more bucks.

i hate amazon.
 
mjp

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You won't be disappointed. The documentary is excellent. And I don't think many things in this world are excellent.
 
HenryChinaski

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billyroberts is the highbidder once again.

i'm waiting untill he graces us with his presence on here.
or has he already...DUH DUH DUH
 
hoochmonkey9

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hoochmonkey9 said:
I was just on amazon to see when my order would be shipped, and Born Into This has a sales ranking of 93...not bad. Cracked the top 100.
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That must've been a mistake, went back today and it was 694...
 
mjp

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HenryChinaski said:
billyroberts is the highbidder once again.
i'm waiting untill he graces us with his presence on here.
or has he already...DUH DUH DUH
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He may be lurking around. I told him about it some time ago.
 
zoom man

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I just got mine, and it's only one disc.....
Hope I'm not missing some deluxe version or something.
Can't wait to fire it up
 
mjp

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May be time to start a new thread to talk about the movie, once more of you get a chance to see it. This thread is getting too long to follow...
 
Bukfan

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"The law is wrong; I am right"
Have you noticed the error John Martin makes in "Born into this"?
At one point he talks about "Ham on rye" and says that Buk went to the school prom with his head wrapped in toilet paper, so that no one could see his acne problem. But Martin remembers wrong. There's nothing about the toilet paper in "Ham on rye". But in the film "Crazy love" - loosely based on "Ham on rye" - there is a scene where the Buk character (Harry Voss) wraps his head in toilet paper before going to the prom. So Martin is getting the book mixed up with the film! - Go check for yourselves ...
 
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Charlie

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Details fly in and out, BF. He tells the same story a million times, and sometimes some insignificant thing comes and goes, like the toilet paper.

Good movie, by the by. A really good biography, although they left out Jane Conney Baker (or did they?) And I know there was more info. Like they didn't mention that he was into Sumo wrestling and sake in the end. And there was no fucking reasion for Bono to be in the movie. I mean, Penn was more a friend to Buk than Bono and it was Bono that got more screentime. And there was no interview with Harry Dean Stanton. Oh well. He was the best reader of them all. Fantastic biography, good movie.
 
Bukfan

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"The law is wrong; I am right"
Charlie, I agree with you. Bono should'nt be there. The only reason - I think- he's in the movie, is to give the it some "celebrety clout". Same thing with Tom Waitts. He did'nt knew Buk - as far as I know.
Sumo and sake? Where do you have that bit of information from?
 
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I just rented the dvd. In my humble opinion, I think it was extremely well done. As far as Bono or Waits or anyone else being in it, what the f---!!?? "Celebrity clout"? this is a film about a great poet's life. And PLEASEEEE, at least it you are going to be critical over some ridiculous crap about celebrities, spell Tom Waits name correctly. He's up there with Bukowski, as far as I'm concerned.
 
Quigley

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hoochmonkey9 said:
I was on the Canadian Amazon site and you can pre order it with a release date of March 21, 2006.
So I did, of course.
I'm sure the U.S. release date is the same.
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Yeah, my copy from Amazon got here on 3/21/06. This isn't the first time I've pre-ordered a DVD and Amazon mails them early enough that they actually arrive at your home on (or very near) the official release date. I really like Amazon!

Hank Solo,

Could you forgive a really newbie question but where does your quote come from?:

"What a stinking age. What a set of ass-lickers."

Thanks :)
 
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