When did you discover Bukowski?

Rekrab

Rekrab

Usually wrong.
In high school, about 1965, his column "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" in the L. A. Free Press. I wasn't a collector back then and didn't keep any issues. Didn't know he wrote poetry until a few years later, when I was in college. I thought he was literally a crazy old man, a dirty old kook. But I liked his column.
 
Rekrab

Rekrab

Usually wrong.
bospress.net said:
PS is right, the dates look wrong...

Open City 1967-1969
NOLA 1969 -1973
LA Free Press 1974

Bill
Click to expand...

What ????

I thought I read LA Freep in High School, in the bedroom I grew up in, in my parent's home. I moved out of there when we got married in 1968, never moved back, so I had to be reading whatever it was in before August 1969. Must have been some other underground newspaper. I always figured it was the Free Press, but maybe it was Open City. Those dates fit. I could have read "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" in 1967 to mid-1968, when I was still at home. I don't remember that paper, personally, but that must be what I was reading. I always figured Open City was one of those underground papers I missed. There were many of them in L.A. Thanks for the dates, Bill. My own damned life is a mystery to me. I graduated high school in 1966, so I didn't first read Buk in high school, 1965; it was in college 1967-68. I stand corrected, as they say.
 
Lolita Twist

Lolita Twist

Rose-hustler
zenguru said:
Maybe he thinks you can work your way up to under-age relationships.:D
Click to expand...

But I read Lolita before I was introduced to Buk!
I understood some of the French :(.

Haha. Kidding. Lolita is one of my favorite novels and I was taking French II in high school during the time that I read it, so it wasn't that bad when Humbert went on in French.
 
Lolita Twist

Lolita Twist

Rose-hustler
roni said:
sorry for the off-topic:

Lo: do you prefer the picturization by Kubrick or by Lynn?
Click to expand...

Lynn. The Kubrick version is great if you're looking for comic relief (which there is much in the novel, depending on how one interprets it) and dry humour from James Mason... but the Lynn version touches on a different, more empathetic perspective of Humbert's character, in my opinion. And I dig the different-theory thing.
 
Digney in Burnaby

Digney in Burnaby

donkeys live a long time
The only reason I know is that I looked for stuff for cirerita a year or so ago in an "underground press" microfilm collection at a local university.
 
Pessimist

Pessimist

In the summer of 1992 I met a guy in a bar who was carrying around a copy of the Roominghouse Madrigals. From what I remember I don't think he was really interested in Buk- it was more of a prop, a fashion accessory. But I liked the poems. So the next time I went to the library I took out a copy.
 
blackberry wild

blackberry wild

first bukowski

I was about 18 in 1982 and was into the L.A. band X. They were being interviewed on tv and mentioned that Charles Bukowski was one of their influences. I went to the library and they had Erections.....I checked it out (and still have it, actually) and then starting buying everything connected to his name over the years. It was the first time i heard, read or saw anything that mirrored the way i felt and looked at the world. He is definitely one of the main influences of my life. His honesty, humor, sensitvity and courage is just not to be found anywhere else. You all have excellent taste...;)
 
blackberry wild

blackberry wild

erections...ha ha ...he said erections....anyway

here's another thing to snicker at! tomorrow night at someplace called the Elephant Theater...the 1st annual (!) Bukowski Festival. Has anyone heard about it? you won't find it at their website, but here are some of the details:

Sat. 3/28
Elephant theatre
6324 w. santa monica blvd.
90038
9pm or so...
linda king's bust of buk on display
terence's buk doc
locklin
cherkovski
etc.

bring your flasks just in case...
 
ESO9

ESO9

mjp said:
That's funny, shortly after reading Bukowski for the first time I went out and snatched up all I could find too. Which, of course, becomes quite a few books on through the years if you keep up the hunt.

Is that a common experience among others here?
Click to expand...

Yeah, absolutely. I was a Buk junkie from day one after reading my first two, "Burning In Water Drowning In Flame" and "Tales of Ordinary Madness" when I was about 15 or 16.
 
zenguru

zenguru

After I read my first Buk book, "Sifting Through the Madness...", I had to buy up all the Buk poetry I could find. I've got quite a few books now. I may just get a few of the books of his letters down the line.
 
Sine Qua Non

Sine Qua Non

My former boss gave me a copy of run with the hunted after a particularly bad day at work which ended with me throwing an empty keg against a wall. At first it was like diamonds to a pig, but i came around.
 
M

mikeypants

A friend of mine lent me "the most beautiful woman in town" and "notes of a dirty old man''. "you'll probably like it. It's pretty (and) dirty though''. "just as long as it's not religous.'' ive been an addict ever since.
 
tango tiger

tango tiger

1986 os so. teenagewerwolf i was, writing ans writing without aim, after "jumping" with my girl ... she said:
"you write poems, read this."
and i got my first bukbook in hands.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top