YouTube Video - One for the Shoeshine Man

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mikeypants

Sorry Post Toxic, but It's a rule of mine not to piss off any germans, especially one that has failed at painting. All I really mean is that it seems wrong to discourage someone from doing something that they enjoy and which is harmless. Anyway, Bukowski wrote an okay poem, but Yossari really brought the LIFE out of it. I guess Yossari might be a little bit of a masochist if he posted that here,( or he didn't read much of the forum) but come on. I guess computers and T.V. have made everyone into self-loathing elitists.Way back when, anyone who could play an instrument was cherished, now everyone's brains are rotting because they're afraid to create any type of art because it's not gonna be the best, well, there can only be one " best" and there's always gonna be someone better than the "best".

Greasy glove!
 
Mark73

Mark73

But Anton Schlickelgruber was from Austria, mikey. Anyway... Peace, Love and Pitbulls.

Ambreen, dear. I'm abnormaly normal as always. Read with full attention and you will see how it makes sense and includes fun. And stop teaching what you think is good behaviour, there's no need to hit on my morals because I have none.

War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength. Who said that... wait, I'm thinking... ummmm.... it was... pfffff....ehm...
 
mjp

mjp

Founding member
mikeypants said:
I guess computers and T.V. have made everyone into self-loathing elitists.
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Bullshit. Having an opinion doesn't make someone an elitist.

That the form our friend chose to use is lazy and devoid of creativity isn't the point. I didn't like it, said so, and was taken to task, as is pretty common around here when I don't like something. I accept that, and I know it's coming as soon as I hit "submit" button on the post. If my dislike is stated in terms that are too strong for some of you, that's unfortunate, but it's not going to change.

The only difference between "not my cup of tea" and "piece of shit" is degree. To me they both mean the same thing, but one is couched in pleasantry.

Peace and love!

Rekrab said:
listen, mjp, I've got five years of work and god knows how many gallons of white glue into this toothpick house, and you come along and knock the wind out of my sails. Actually, it's a Bukowski Tiki Village, wth surfboards leaning up in a row along the fence, and umbrellas over picnic tables, not that you'd be interested.
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That I would like to see. That's genius, there.
 
Gerard K H Love

Gerard K H Love

Appreciate your friends
This forum has a history of not being very fond of using Bukowski in your own medium. Like playing a recording of his poem while anything else is pictured. So the more you try to drive it home the more likely we are to grab the pitch forks. I love everyone except Hitler.
 
Purple Stickpin

Purple Stickpin

Leaving the histrionics aside, just leave Buk to what he did. Verbal, videoed, written, painted. It's enough. To take anything further makes no real sense. It's his; and ours if we decide to procure it. But then, it's still his.

So, leave it alone. So very simple.
 
Rekrab

Rekrab

Usually wrong.
mjp said:
That I would like to see. That's genius, there.
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When I was a kid we used to build Tiki huts and entire Tiki villages out of toothpicks. They had tiny surfboards carved out of icecream sticks. The huts had straw thatched roofs. They were very elaborate. So when you mentioned "toothpick houses" of course all those happy memories flooded back. I kind of like the idea of making one dedicated to Bukowski. I ran across some photos on Flicker of a diarama that some guy had made out of Legos illustrating a scene from a Richard Brautigan story. It was pretty good. Too unexpected to be just another dull rip-off. Do kids still make toothpick houses? I guess I could Google that and find millions of them.
 
mjp

mjp

Founding member
I doubt if kids still make toothpick houses, but I'm old enough and from a hick enough town to have done it. I never got as elaborate as you did - I'd only seen surfboards on TV - but I could still make a good square wall if you need one.
 
Billville

Billville

Rekrab said:
So when you mentioned "toothpick houses" of course all those happy memories flooded back.
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See, this is why I come here everyday; while one poor soul gets his artistic hopes and dreams pummeled to smithereens, another finds all the joy and comforts of home!
 
Rekrab

Rekrab

Usually wrong.
mjp said:
I doubt if kids still make toothpick houses, but I'm old enough and from a hick enough town to have done it. I never got as elaborate as you did - I'd only seen surfboards on TV - but I could still make a good square wall if you need one.
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I grew up in Southern California -- hardly a hick town -- and all us kids made toothpick houses. Maybe it was a 50s thing. Surfboards were everywhere, as were Tiki themed bars. It was a natural choice to go Tiki village with the toothpicks. None of which has anything to do with Bukowski. I did a quick Google search and didn't see any toothpick Tiki villages and only a few toothpick houses. Maybe I should build a new one for the cultural record. I'll just add that to the long list of stuff I don't have time to do.
 
nervas

nervas

more crickets than friends
Well, I must just add, that this thread was one of the funniest I've read. I'm not sure I have ever laughed as hard, while at work when the $500.00, goats, and beans comment was made. Classic.
 
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mikeypants

Yeah, but most of the posts where consisted of petty, somewhat enjoyable bickering, and toothpick architecture discussion more so than how much the video sucked and was a waste of anyone's time who took part in it's creation, and anyone who was forced somehow by Satan to watch it, and anyone who directly or through a second or third party or by Satan was then so inclined to have to think about watching this queef of a vid.

Peace and Love and Conformity!
 
mjp

mjp

Founding member
I know this thread is older than the Cheetos stuck in Courtney Love's underpants, but I just noticed this:
yossari said:
and putting his work to music can't be a bad thing as he did so himself in his album "bukowski lives"
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Just a note for Google, eternity and the ages; Bukowski did not make an album of his poems set to music.

So please don't point your Apple pocket-beamer at some site and download Bukowski Lives! thinking it's a project that Bukowski had anything to do with.

That's better. Carry on.
 
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