Last CD you bought/ Book you read

[Bukfan]

Last cd?s : The best of the blues brothers
John Lennon: Working class hero - the definitive Lennon (2 cd?s)
Canned Heat: Greatest hits live. Recorded Long Island, N.Y. in 1979.
Last book: Fito de la Parra: Living The Blues - Canned Heat?s story of music, drugs, death, sex and survival. (Yes, I?m a big CH fan :D )

 

[MarkDB]

Man: It's been a long time since I heard anyone mention Canned Heat. It's amazing how technology makes things spring eternal. Just finished: Things Gone and Things Still Here by Paul Bowles, Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell and Sifting Through the Madness. Am now in the middle of Atonement by Ian McKuwen (sp?) and The Flash of Lightning. Latest CD - Rufus Wainwright - I can't get over the fact that I'm listening to Rufus after spending my formative years listening to his father, Loudon.. My favorite song by Loudon was "Rufus Was A Titman". Now, I listen to Rufus' "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk" over and over. His sister, Martha was just on David Letterman a few nights ago and did the most amazing version of Leonard Cohen's "Tower of Song". Da do ron ron...da do ron ron..

 

[Bukfan]

Just bought "Come on in" and "Barfly-the movie" yesterday. There?s still a handfull of Buk books subtitled "New poems" that I have?nt got yet. But then there?s something to look forward to :)
The "Barfly" manuscript looks interesting because you get to read all the deleted scenes and then there?s all the fotos. I have?nt read either book yet of course, just flipped through them.
I see in the Ecco listing of Buk?s books that there?s a title called "You kissed Lilly". Does anyone know what?s in it? Is it short stories from "Erections..." or poems or what?

 

[mjp]

You kissed Lilly is one of those short-run* Black Sparrow special editions that never came out as mass market softcover. It's a short story, you can find it in Hot Water Music.

*Krumhansl said;

87 signed copies each with an original hand-colored cover were published 14 April 1976: 75 copies numbered 1-75 plus 12 copies, 7 marked "Presentation Copy" and 1 each marked "Author's Copy," "Publisher's Copy," "Printer's Copy," "Binder's Copy," and "File Copy."

210 signed copies were published 8 February 1978: 200 copies numbered 1-200 plus 10 copies marked "Author's Copy."

 

[hank solo]

If anyone has more illustration scans from You Kissed Lilly, could they post them?

See https://bukowskiforum.com/showthread.php?t=211

 

[Bukfan]

Thanks for the info guys! I've got "Hot Water Music" so I guess I won't need Eccos edition of "You kissed Lilly" right away, but maybe later since I am a completist. Has anyone seen the Ecco edition? Are there Buk drawings in it?

 

[mjp]

I would be surprised is Ecco had a version of You Kissed Lilly. Where did you see that?

 

[bospress.net]

Bukfan,
Ecco lists it in the front of the book at the "also by the author" section, but they will never reprint that title as it is already included in South. It is a great Limited book, but there would be little or no mass market demand for that title in a later, reprint edition....
Bill

 

[steve freyne]

just read/favourite music

just read Asolute Beginners by Colin McInnes about 1950's London from a teenage point of veiw. OK bit obvious stuff really but an easy read. Now struggling with thus spoke zarathustra, halfway through most of it over my head but might as well finish now Ive come this far!

Music, changes from week to week always got time for the long ryders and green on red more recent stuff the lost riots, franz ferdinand etc..

steve

 

[Bukfan]

I would be surprised is Ecco had a version of You Kissed Lilly. Where did you see that?

I saw it in Eccos "Come on in". They list a number of Buk books, You Kissed Lilly being one of them, and it says "Also by Charles Bukowski available from Ecco" before the listing starts. So I thought it was a new edition since I never saw it in Black Sparrows listings in their Buk books.
Bill is probably right. Like Black Sparrow, Ecco lists titles although not all of them are reprinted.

 

[bospress.net]

Hi Bukfan,
That is a mis titling. It should say "also by Charles Bukowski". They should leave off the part about Ecco. It was probably someone working with a list of pubs and somehow they did not realize the nature of that one.

Bill

 

[Olaf]

'Parallel Text Italian Short Stories' - Edited by Dimitri Vittorini
'The Book of Gods and Devisl' - Poetry by Charles Simic

-I am trying to learn more italian reading with english and italian in one book is a great way to help pick up words phrases and a bit more of an understanding for the language-Charles Simic is a great poet, he is deceptively simple and well worth a read to get your thoughts turning on thinking and mystery-

Sigur Ros ( ) - Great Album, very moody, very slow...in the right mood this music as reassuring as like the womb to a newborn.

I get lots of C.D's (I do a lot of reviewing of music in Glasgow) plus I have a large collection, last C.D. I bought was Sigur Ros but I also bought Talking Heads Greatest Hits.

 

[txjack]

Latest CD's bought: Ace of Spades by Motorhead,
Filth & Fire by Mary Gauthier, Transformer by Lou Reed,
and Lipstick, Lies, & Gasoline by Fred Eaglesmith.

Latest books: Cranial Guitar by Bob Kaufman and
Tell Me by Kim Addonizio.

 

[mjp]

Ace of Spades by Motorhead

I saw Motorhead in '78 or '79 and my ears are still ringing...

 

[hoochmonkey9]

some vinyl at my favourite used store this week...
Tom Verlaine - Tom Verlaine
Tom Verlaine - Dreamtime
Jim Carroll - Catholic Boy
World Saxophone Quartet - Plays Ellington
book...You Have To Be Careful in the Land of the Free - James Kelman. an excellent Scottish (I think) writer.

 

[Chris]

i just bought Green Day-Warning, Patti Smith-Horses and Johhny Cash at Folsom prison. The last book i bought was Post Office but ive got Cannery Row by Steinback and Mooch by Dan Fante coming from amazon.

 

[SamDusky]

Last cd?s :...
Canned Heat: Greatest hits live. Recorded Long Island, N.Y. in 1979.
Last book:.... Living The Blues - Canned Heat?s story of music, drugs, death, sex and survival. (Yes, I?m a big CH fan :D )

Not to date myself (I mean, not to make explicit how ancient a lineage I?m from; not the other kind, being candle-lit dinners for one or walks alone in the park), but I played in the band (the Dali Llama; (yes, unfortunate name, but it was the seventies, and we were quite stoned)) that served as the opener act for Canned Heat concert at the Earl Warren Showgrounds in Santa Barbara (I think Martin was in the audience in bell bottoms; maybe not). Funny story (perhaps): our guitar player bought a Robert Johnson 78 (probably pressed in the 20's) from Bear Hite for a couple hundred dollars (they were both avid collectors of old blues records). As he carried it out to his car, the thing fell to pieces in his hands. Bear said, of course, "You bought it; you own it." But they shared a joint as compensation, and he left semi-happy, at least. What the hell; it was a kinder, gentler time.
SD

 

[Brother Schenker]

Just bought 3 copies of It's No Joke: We Live in Hell, http://www.lulu.com/content/314054,
as there is a tv show in Australia who wants to profile books by that author and two online aquaintences who'd like signed copies.

It's the truth. That's the last book I bought.

I am currently reading a book with the initials of A.T. by an extraordinary writer who has yet to publish said book. It's a book unlike any I've ever redd. Very dense and over-the-top. By "dense" I mean: very rich with abundant asides & digressions & parentheses & brackets, and yet it all holds together in a magnificent way. Definitely a classic and I'm honoured to have had the privelege to read it before everyone else. Think of Miller's Tropic of Capricorn meets Tom Robinson's Still Woodpecker.

The last cd I "bought" was: Led Zeppelin's Tympani for the Butter Queen, a great show recorded in Texas in 1973.

 

[ESMoist]

Last book I read was "THE THIRD MIND" by William Burroughs (with Brion Gysin - Viking, New York, 1978)

". . . I don't know about where fiction ordinarily directs itself, but I am quite deliberately addressing myself to the whole area of what we call dreams. Precisely what is a dream? A certain juxtaposition of word and image. I've recently done a lot of experiments with scrapbooks. I'll read in the newspaper something that reminds me of or has relation to something I have written. I'll cut out the picture or article and paste it in a scrapbook beside the words from my book. Or I'll be walking down the street and I'll suddenly see a scene from my book and I'll photograph it and put it in my scrapbook. I've found that when preparing a page, I'll almost invariably dream that night something relating to this juxtaposition of word and image. In other words, I've been interested in precisely how word and image get around on very, very complex association lines."

-- William Burroughs

Just ordered "Bukowski in Pictures." Can't wait to check it out.

Music . . . The last CD I bought was called "Crime & Dissonance" by Ennio Morricone.

Fantasic album!

 

[emef]

last book was haruki murakami - south of the border west of the sun
last cd was gary numan - living ornaments 80


hello everyone btw, this is my first post, great website 4 buk stuff :)

 

[jerry]

last book: locked in the arms of a crazy man
last CD: leatherface : cherry knowle

 

[SamDusky]

last book: locked in the arms of a crazy man

Who wrote that? Couldn't find it with google.

SD

 

[jerry]

Who wrote that?

Okay, I need to look at what type before I press post.:eek: Sorry.
Its: Locked in the arms of a crazy life by Howard Sounes

 

[SamDusky]

Got it. I thought it was something that had been written by one of Buk's ladies (not a bad title variation, by the way).

SD

 

[hoochmonkey9]

cd's New York Dolls - One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This.
a surprisingly good cd considering it is 30 years since their last studio release.
Dirty Pretty Things - Waterloo from the ashes of the Libertines. well, basically, the Libertines without Pete Dougherty. he's not missed.
book The Judges - Elie Wiesel. a philosophical novel in the vein of Camus.

 

[mjp]

cd's New York Dolls - One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This.
a surprisingly good cd considering it is 30 years since their last studio release.

32 years, but who's counting?

I saw Johansen and Sylvain on Henry Rollins IFC show and it didn't suck as much as I expected it to. It's good that they put together a decent album.

But they are not the New York Dolls. That's like calling Steven Tyler, Brad Whitford and a few 30-something year old side players Aerosmith. Sure, the singers may have every right to pimp themselves under the original name, but there's something desperate and shitty about it.

The Dolls were the first live band I ever saw, at, of all places, the Minnesota State Fair (at the "Teen Center" - a tiny, broiling shack that probably housed chickens in a previous life). Go figure. Summer of '74?

If you don't have it already, get All Dolled Up, Bob Gruen's DVD release of the best of the 40 or so hours of black and white video he shot of the Dolls on and offstage in the early 70's.

The documentary about Arthur Kane, New York Doll is also very, very good.

Now back to your regularly scheduled program.

 

[hoochmonkey9]

I have the Arthur Kane doc coming via Zip.ca (the Canadian netflix). The Gruen dvd is excellent.
Good point about it not really being the New York Dolls anymore, but Sylvain Sylvain does a nice job of filling in for Johnny Thunders as main songwriter. Though he's hard to replace. L.A.M.F. is classic.
Johansen was always the primary lyricist, I think.

 

[mjp]

Yeah, I didn't mean to denigrate the contributions of Sylvain and Johansen. I just don't like it when any of these bands do "comebacks" without all the members. If half your band is dead or not participating, put the name to rest. Without Johnny and Jerry, there is no Dolls (are no Dolls?).

But I realize that not everyone buys that, and I wouldn't begrudge someone who wasn't born when the Dolls were a band the opportunity to see Johansen and Sylvain.

 

[hoochmonkey9]

OT, a little bit, mjp, but I know you mentioned the Clash in another post...did you ever see them live?

 

[mjp]

Yes, several times, and when they were on their game, their shows were like a direct tunnel to the big rock and roll gods in the sky. But when they were bad, they were really awful. Ha. No middle ground with them, and I doubt they would have it any other way.

I spent about a half an hour walking along the banks of the Mississippi river with Joe Strummer once, pestering him and being an annoying twat, I'm sure. He was very gracious and friendly, asking me questions about the river and the cities.

Another time a couple years earlier I was talking to him backstage after a show and I sort of casually said, "I'll never write a song as good as yours." Strummer grabbed me by the collar (literally) and said, "Of course you will!" and some other tough love pep talk stuff.

He was a passionate fucker, and I was really sad to see him go.