Was Bukowski a well read man?
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Digney in Burnaby
donkeys live a long time
From a June 12, 1992 letter to Jon Cone:
Well, on e.e. cummings, he came at a time when I was reading everything and had many half-heroes. It was not so much his content as his tricky and lovely and easy and funny way of using and placing his words. That was it. No content, say like Jeffers. But somehow I had this strange Romantic feeling about him. And Auden, Spender, Pound. Sherwood Anderson, etc. These bastards simply gave me the old thrill. It didn't last but it was good while it did. And I look back at them and probably feel that they were much better than they actually were. But they did their work for me: they carried me along while I worked with my own madness and failure.
Then he goes on to William Saroyan.
Well, on e.e. cummings, he came at a time when I was reading everything and had many half-heroes. It was not so much his content as his tricky and lovely and easy and funny way of using and placing his words. That was it. No content, say like Jeffers. But somehow I had this strange Romantic feeling about him. And Auden, Spender, Pound. Sherwood Anderson, etc. These bastards simply gave me the old thrill. It didn't last but it was good while it did. And I look back at them and probably feel that they were much better than they actually were. But they did their work for me: they carried me along while I worked with my own madness and failure.
Then he goes on to William Saroyan.
Digney in Burnaby
donkeys live a long time
Don't know where to put this film clip. Los Angeles circa 1948. At around 3:50 someone has said the big building is the L.A. Public Library, a place Bukowski spent some time at.
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2011/09/post_303.php
And in a Dec. 29, 1991 letter to John Martin, Bukowski was happy that Black Sparrow was reprinting D.H. Lawrence's Birds, Beasts and Flowers collection of poetry. A Google preview of that book can be found here.
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2011/09/post_303.php
And in a Dec. 29, 1991 letter to John Martin, Bukowski was happy that Black Sparrow was reprinting D.H. Lawrence's Birds, Beasts and Flowers collection of poetry. A Google preview of that book can be found here.
mjp
Founding member
Oh man, I love old film of Los Angeles.
The first part is filmed on the old Bunker hill (which is now flat and covered with skyscrapers). The car starts at 2nd & Olive, then turns left onto Grand Ave. The second part of the clip follows the same route, but takes a right on 5th St., then right onto Flower St. The library is on 5th and Grand, so what you see at 3:50 or so is indeed the library.
(I see that I could have just read the comments for the video and saved myself the trouble of mapping/typing that, but there you go. Someone even mapped it! Ha.)
Notice at the very beginning of the third part you get to see a Mobilgas sign with the winged Pegasus logo, referenced in Barfly.
The first part is filmed on the old Bunker hill (which is now flat and covered with skyscrapers). The car starts at 2nd & Olive, then turns left onto Grand Ave. The second part of the clip follows the same route, but takes a right on 5th St., then right onto Flower St. The library is on 5th and Grand, so what you see at 3:50 or so is indeed the library.
(I see that I could have just read the comments for the video and saved myself the trouble of mapping/typing that, but there you go. Someone even mapped it! Ha.)
Notice at the very beginning of the third part you get to see a Mobilgas sign with the winged Pegasus logo, referenced in Barfly.
mjp
Founding member
Black Swan
Abord the Yorikke!
Here is a short film inspired by Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment'. The technique is explained in an article that I have read. It consists of a painted slab of plaster which is sanded and scratched to bring out the lighter part the images. Some other parts are highlighted with a brush with reds and darker browns. None of the imagery is kept, only photographed.
http://www.openculture.com/2012/12/dostoyevskys_crime_and_punishment_animated_by_piotr_dumala.html
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http://www.openculture.com/2012/12/dostoyevskys_crime_and_punishment_animated_by_piotr_dumala.html
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