he looks like a sea turtle someone stumbled over on the beach and awakened. this dude is a testament to how far you can make it on the basis of being contrary for the sake of not having to think too hard. not a fan.
Comparing Bukowski to a random youtube blogger is like comparing Zeus to a shoe salesman. You clearly have little understanding of his work. I've seen plenty of Henry Miller, and he's just dandy. But to say this about Buke, displays ignorance...
bukowski è il mio dio. a 0:40 in poi mi son pisciato addosso dal ridere... aveva iniziato a bere con i suoi amici con il proposito di stuprare un' insegnate di inglese, per quando sono arrivati a casa sua era così ubriaco che nemmeno se lo poteva tenere in mano XDXDXD
What he says in this video is entirely meaningless. I appreciated his writing before seeing this video, but I do not think that I can accept his writing after listening to his malevolent philosophy. Listen to someone like Bertrand Russell - an atheist who truly believed in the human race and knew what he was talking about.
I don't understand his contempt for the human race. He calls himself an atheist and a humanist, yet can't stand to be bumped by another human being in a crowd. How can anyone say that the government should be secular when secular leaders like Bukowski do not value other humans and their lives...
@Lauren3356785 he NeVeR calls himself an atheist or a humanist. WTF is wrong with you? If you don't have a contempt for humanity how can you read Buk. You must be an idiot!
@Lauren3356785 I don't think this is the Bukowski you're thinking of. I think he was too busy being drunk, selfish, and horny to worry about the human race. He's definitely no Bertrand Russell, you're right. Closer to Nietzsche, but not much closer.
@zayneinsane So, what IS he trying to do? Tell ONE thing he said that's... even remotely interesting. He may have been a great writer (I wouldn't know, not interested) but this... is pure garbage. There is a difference between nihilism and drunken... shitiiiiism. Go get some sleep grandpa... :)
Oh, maybe it was a mistake to watch this after a few clips with Vonnegut.
this could be you, write down your drunken thoughts, only few need apply, positions limited to those who think outside the fuckin box, then analyze it... and then question it`s relevence to what spelling is and....... ah........... fuck it, only those with third eye may apply and i didnt qualify,..... but i am an analyst
raised catholic, never believed in God, until I read Bukowski. Motherfucker spits purple rotgut honesty and hardboiled truth. I wish he wasn't dead. I would write him a letter.
Anyone offended by his opinions are stupid fucks. When real genius speak you should Keep Your Fucking Mouth Shut! because your worthless, boring, inhuman, illiterate piece of shit of a life are Polluting Humanity. Fuck you. Go back to your vegan, zen and eco-friendly corporate way of life you shit stained puppets.
@CroissantOrange You seem to believe that engaging in wrongly spelled four letter words, topics of commercial sex and substance dependency makes a person a genius.
Well, anyone is entitled to his/her own opinion. No prob.
@nevernohijab More boring and worthless observations from yet another boring empty flesh-shelled little cunt who can't understand the underlying humanity and intelligence in what seems to be rude and mundane. "Commercial sex"?! "substance dependency"?!! pffff Gimme a fucking break you pretentious yuppie fuck. Go rally up more corporate cheerleaders so you can politically correctly suck each others travestied dicks to the melody of pussified euphemism in a healthy cage.
It's such a shame that people saw this. Look at all the commotion that has ensued. If you don't get it, it's not for you to get. He always spoke to a different person, and I am grateful that he wrote his words down. He was both good and bad. Ask yourself...are you?
i live in a place of green trees and green trees and green trees, our air isnt polluted, we provide ur lumber,we have the best bud in the states (ask any true pot smoker) ...fuck bukowski!!! only thing good to come from that is Modest Mouse's song "bukowski"
I was born and raised in NYC. When the hookers, pimps winos and whores left the city lost it's fucking soul. Dam you Guiliani, the mob should have blown your fucking tight ass away. Bukowski Rules!
@nevernohijab "It doesn't mean anything unless you want to make it mean something." For me, it's relatable to people who see no true reason in life when death is the end result. For example, I make music and love it very much. What difference does it matter whether I make it or not? I'll die. The people who hear it will die. The Earth and Universe will cease to exist. So why would I put so much stock in it? Hank never made an attempt to rationalize the doing or not doing. It's futile. My $0.02
@nevernohijab Pretty much. Although Buk wasn't always this way. He just wanted to do the things he enjoyed. Many people are so worn out by the pressures of society and the feeling of being force to work jobs they don't like and put up a front in order to achieve something.
@nevernohijab That sure is a tough pill to swallow. Alcoholism is a terrible affliction, for sure. It is good that you have found sobriety, I understand that it is a lot of hard work.
@prumpa42 It's okay, but I consider Modest Mouse to be a bit of a one hit wonder that played in their window of time. They don't seem to have much staying power. I can understand the minimalistic sound, but it seems quite homogeneous with other bands within the same genre.
@sweetfly66 i know it was from modest mouse and i wasn't trying to hide that either. also i have another comment stating that the line was from modest mouse and to check out the song.
I wish Bukowski had lived to see youtube comment threads. I think they are the materialization of why he hated people. Not saying I'm any better (Duh winning) but ahhhhhhh. They have made me hate people a lot more.
his voice really caught me off guard the first time I heard it. I thought he'd sound more like Marv from Sin City, but he sounds more like a pissed-off Mr. Rogers.
"A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal." — Ted Turner of C.N.N., as quoted in the "McAlvany Intelligence Advisor," 6/96
Elitism = death to self-sovereignty, redress of grievances against the govt., & free speech. Atheism {sans quotes} is the religion of the animal world as animals don't contemplate the Heavens nor wage planetary war.
ANGIE BOWIE vs. MIKE TYSON—I'd pay to see Angie Bowie fight Mike Tyson or even Godzilla. Like a monkey: Angela Bowie has evolved into a talented & innovative musician.
Charles Bukowski never felt he measured up so he urged himself on to take down everything around him...Out of his pathos he developed the mastery of poignancy that became his excellence in the art of disappearing . A genuine gift for many.
Charles Bukowski.....Never could feel good enough, so he urged his self on to take the world around him down....And the magic he created through in doing so. He is a great poet...[And the epitome of the need to separate the artist from his work.]
Vomiting at gay weddings can never be a team-sport, for it to be as such a coach would have to organize vomit teams in coordination with engaged homosexuals. The logistics of which are incalculably complex.
And the people will say, in blue days after us, the truth will get right and the wrong will get nothing. What wrong is will get away, although it reigns today, what true is that will come, although it is dead.
He's always curiously exploring humanity. "An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way." Read "Bluebird" - if you don't fall in love check your pulse
@downbeattheory thx for answering seriously, not like everybody else who think im a hater. im not. i just dont know him. bluebird will be the first thing i read about him.
@bonjour123456789 "Every sentence he is saying is obviously off track nowadays...?" Does that strike anyone else as a statement that is obviously off track?
He is sadly dead wrong about the importance of nature and ecology, after all that is what the earth is(learn about it, its pretty interesting). Although I really like his spirit and hatred of our cultural lame ass norm(yuppies).
@mannster23 maybe you're talking about something in another video of this interview (I've only watched this one so far, and half of it at that), but.. I don't think that poets can really be wrong; they just express themselves. He's not talking about facts, he's saying that nature bores him.
He always showed his worst, not like many others who are hiding their real personalities so other people wont be able to see how vulnerable they actually are. Bukowski had his dark side, as all of us do, it's just that he didn't care of others attitudes toward that. I admire him and I believe that there's no point in feelin sorry for him, especially cause he tried to live his life the way he want, I know my father did and never regretted it. So what if he died? Everyone does in the end... :)
@lyndyyy ....................every man born has the right to march in the parade he chooses......al fountain, aka, john turturro (actor) in the flick BOX OF MOONLIGHT
UNLEASH YOUR DOG-TRAINING ABILITIES NOW BEFORE YOU DIE! Rather than toss 'em into the nearby river: puppies should be remanded to the Human Society where the caring dog-lovers in lab jackets will humanely, and immediately, "euthanize" them in decompression chambers.
my opinion about him is that he is a very sad andpunished human beeing (referring to his life as a "frozen Man" because of his childhood and everything)
hearing him talking about nature that way just shows the sickness of his frozen mind. inable to recieve love.
his writings are awesome. but the price he had to pay for his genious is horrible
but you make a hero out of him just because you want to justify your own antisocial personality. he does not deserve to be misunderstood
@manifatzigula On the one hand you're talking about him being "misunderstood" and "made a hero", but on the other hand you're picturing him, quite romantically, as "very sad and punished". Paying the price for genious is a very silly concept... I think Buk would have laughed straight in your face for your sentimental ideas.
@manifatzigula I hear you. I just don't think he would agree. Of course he had a difficult life, but in the end he got all he wanted. Drinks, a place to sleep and women. Plus he became famous. He knew what he had and wouldn't complain about him being punished, he was too much of a realist for that. I lived my whole young life in the city and I couldn't care less about nature. What is a fucking tree? It depends on how you look at nature. For me nature isn't beauty, it's violence. Boring violence.
If I wanted to hear some old drunken man rambling like an imbecile, I'd go down to the local American Legion or VFW. You assholes think Bukowski was so fucking brilliant, but he just sounds like some drunk talking out of his ass to me.
@PedoLouie Sounds more like you're talking out of your ass than anybody here really. Bukowski was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century - probably you just feel offended that someone can speak the raw truth so well and you can't handle it.
@PedoLouie that is so true what you wrote ...and the best part is... im positive
bukowski would be the first to agree with what you wrote ! strange stuff. thing is..we need a Brando,a Depp,a Dean,a Morrison,a Bukowski..etc,etc We love the disfunction !
@poolpig yes. that is all i see and hear. i wasn't saying that as a joke i was entirely seroius. i actually believe that he was just a drunk, he had no talent and everything he wrote was just a product of alcoholism.
@Yorranne1 Your snide sarcastic remarks are hard to understand in type when theyre so similar to the usual troll how dare someone strike up a conversation with comments you post on a public discussion board. Your ego is a laugh get over yourself!
One can find realness wherever they are - not just in sordid hotels and bars.
There are plenty of REAL poets for young people to admire - poets that are real.
You don't have to revel in the sordid side of life to be REAL.
Chuck's reality is one of depression - that is how HE sees the world. Yes, there are many sides to life: The Sordid and happier - it is up to you to be REAL - but, that does not necessary mean ONLY to revel in the worst side our human nature.
@Clarissa2424 wow.. um, that is such a .. flat (?) way of viewing someone. yes, bukowski did have his similar themes of women, booze, depression.. skid row etc.. but he actually wrote quite a number of uplifting poems. many poems reflected the human spirit.. the enduring.. infallible human spirit. he wrote not only of the frailness and flaws of man but of of their strength. we are gods in ways. please read "the laughing heart" it's a mixture of both...
@7twatwaffle7 Yes, that was a flat way of viewing someone, since after watching many videos displaying only his themes of booze, depression, skid row and people touting him as saying that THIS type of life is the only reality.
But, I am not surprised at all that Bukowski actually wrote a number of poems reflecting the enduring strength of man. Bukowski, indeed, needed strength to endure the extreme violence and humilitation of his youth. I WILL READ "THE LAUGHING HEART" and get back to you.
@Clarissa2424 Well you missed the point. There is for sure brighter side of life than in the Bukowski novel. But he notice things about people that are real. He was alienated but still what he wrote it's true, even i don't live in US but here where I live, It's pretty much the same. The better side of life you are talking about....Charles tried to say it's fake, people hate each other, run over each other, it's cover, they never experienced pain, real pain in life, like Bukowski felt.
@Dullence92 My point is this Dullence, "The better side of life is not fake;; It COEXISTS with the worst of humankind" One side is not MORE real than the other. And I come to that knowledge from lots of pain over decades of life. One does not have to deluge themselves into the pits of misery just to be real. Misery WAS real for Bukowski. So that was HIS REALITY. Indeed, there are fake people who hate and run over each other - but coexisting are real people who care for humanity. Both real
I wouldn't take everything Hank writes or says as gospel. Tree after tree may be boring, but, call me old fashioned or whatever, but I enjoy oxygen. I don't see how the green movement's 'silver bullet' is a drunk Bukowski confessing his love of toxins.
In 100 years kids will be reading Chuck Bukowski in High School like they make us read Shakespeare today..."You gotta love smog.Ya walk out (ya smell it) and you're part of it!". Thats the green movement's silver bullet right there. XD!!! Go Buk!!!!
what the hell... hi's definitely the God of the troglodyte.. gosshh his hahaha his very friken idiot, this old man seems to achive the highest level of stupidity... PEOPLEEE What the hell is wrong with you?? are you retarded or what?? there are some real writers... he looks like "the master of literature decay" i mean ... this got to be for amatuers of literature, DUMB amateurs by the way
@abaris123 Read " Factotem" by Buckowski and if you can't relate to at least part of the book, then you MUST be some sort of Home Schooled Recluse Nerd who has never stepped outside of society's boundaries... just a sheeple standing in line for death to take you ASAP.
I saw the movies "Bar Fly" and "Factotem" and have read some of his poetry and watched his interviews. I don't think the typical high school or even college kid can really "get it". I'm not saying that in a snobby way, just that it takes a certain mind set, an experience of being an outsider, a bit of pain, a little bit of rebellion....out I don't know exactly. But you either get it or you don't.
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let's be honesy. everyone. poor guy. acne out his ass. weird relationships with his parents. but at the ned of the day, the guy was a cunt. he was selfish. it was always about him. fuck him. he did write some really good stuff, but he wrote a lot of bullshit as well. and he mistreated many people. TRUTH?
that sums him up. He had many many character flaws but at least he was real, it would be great if more people were just honest about who they are like he was.
The BBC made a documentary about Hank a few years ago. It was very good, with lots of interviews and archive footage. I taped it. Then I taped over it. All you need is the books.
he looks like a sea turtle someone stumbled over on the beach and awakened. this dude is a testament to how far you can make it on the basis of being contrary for the sake of not having to think too hard. not a fan.
backwoodsterrorist 1 week ago
An old drunk man rambling on.
TheEskimosPantry 1 month ago
ah shit, bukowski was my favourite novelist until i started watching youtube videos of him
kmitch92 1 month ago
i thought his voice would be deeper.
kmitch92 1 month ago
charles bukowski is a lot of things...but handsome sure ain't one of them
bboypaul13 1 month ago
I had no idea my favorite author was that fucking ugly. Respect.
Nervousification 1 month ago
@Nervousification when i read "ham on rye" i can´t imagine that he is good loking:D (btw this is my favorite book by CH. B:)
arrlete 3 weeks ago
@arrlete I haven't read Ham on Rye yet, just Post Office, Factotum, and most recently, Women.
Nervousification 3 weeks ago
i didn't imagine his voice like this... anyway, i love him. :))
PinkyPooch25 1 month ago
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@Blunic
Comparing Bukowski to a random youtube blogger is like comparing Zeus to a shoe salesman. You clearly have little understanding of his work. I've seen plenty of Henry Miller, and he's just dandy. But to say this about Buke, displays ignorance...
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TheFringefilms 1 month ago
bukowski è il mio dio. a 0:40 in poi mi son pisciato addosso dal ridere... aveva iniziato a bere con i suoi amici con il proposito di stuprare un' insegnate di inglese, per quando sono arrivati a casa sua era così ubriaco che nemmeno se lo poteva tenere in mano XDXDXD
fullmetaljaco 3 months ago
What he says in this video is entirely meaningless. I appreciated his writing before seeing this video, but I do not think that I can accept his writing after listening to his malevolent philosophy. Listen to someone like Bertrand Russell - an atheist who truly believed in the human race and knew what he was talking about.
Lauren3356785 3 months ago
@Lauren3356785 Bertrand Russel is an agnostic. Bokowski and Russell are my favorite writers. Russell's the shit.
butladaballa 3 months ago
@Lauren3356785 are you serious? You must not really understand art
Tab2120 1 month ago
I don't understand his contempt for the human race. He calls himself an atheist and a humanist, yet can't stand to be bumped by another human being in a crowd. How can anyone say that the government should be secular when secular leaders like Bukowski do not value other humans and their lives...
Lauren3356785 3 months ago
@Lauren3356785 he NeVeR calls himself an atheist or a humanist. WTF is wrong with you? If you don't have a contempt for humanity how can you read Buk. You must be an idiot!
Tab2120 1 month ago
@Lauren3356785 I don't think this is the Bukowski you're thinking of. I think he was too busy being drunk, selfish, and horny to worry about the human race. He's definitely no Bertrand Russell, you're right. Closer to Nietzsche, but not much closer.
Nervousification 3 weeks ago
Pls, subs in spanish!
alfrecatorce 4 months ago
@Blunic He wasn't trying to impress you or provide you any substance.
zayneinsane 5 months ago
@zayneinsane So, what IS he trying to do? Tell ONE thing he said that's... even remotely interesting. He may have been a great writer (I wouldn't know, not interested) but this... is pure garbage. There is a difference between nihilism and drunken... shitiiiiism. Go get some sleep grandpa... :)
Oh, maybe it was a mistake to watch this after a few clips with Vonnegut.
PrZemek44 5 months ago
crazy manmen make good authors .
PsychedelicSexDream 5 months ago
this could be you, write down your drunken thoughts, only few need apply, positions limited to those who think outside the fuckin box, then analyze it... and then question it`s relevence to what spelling is and....... ah........... fuck it, only those with third eye may apply and i didnt qualify,..... but i am an analyst
retoryx 5 months ago
"you love the inflation" I totally cracked up
NoSoundMind 5 months ago
raised catholic, never believed in God, until I read Bukowski. Motherfucker spits purple rotgut honesty and hardboiled truth. I wish he wasn't dead. I would write him a letter.
snarby21 6 months ago
Your father's poet..
kenrben 6 months ago
@MosCraciun1923 I'm with you.
pedrofernandes1 7 months ago
I can see a little bit of Moody in there.
jonnyosterman 7 months ago
@jonnyosterman hank moody?
Good eye ;)
maybenot363 6 months ago
@maybenot363 I love you, sir or ma'am.
jonnyosterman 6 months ago
after I red the book "women" and saw the movie "factotum", he became my alltime hero
MosCraciun1923 7 months ago 2
Anyone offended by his opinions are stupid fucks. When real genius speak you should Keep Your Fucking Mouth Shut! because your worthless, boring, inhuman, illiterate piece of shit of a life are Polluting Humanity. Fuck you. Go back to your vegan, zen and eco-friendly corporate way of life you shit stained puppets.
CroissantOrange 7 months ago
@CroissantOrange You seem to believe that engaging in wrongly spelled four letter words, topics of commercial sex and substance dependency makes a person a genius.
Well, anyone is entitled to his/her own opinion. No prob.
nevernohijab 7 months ago
@nevernohijab More boring and worthless observations from yet another boring empty flesh-shelled little cunt who can't understand the underlying humanity and intelligence in what seems to be rude and mundane. "Commercial sex"?! "substance dependency"?!! pffff Gimme a fucking break you pretentious yuppie fuck. Go rally up more corporate cheerleaders so you can politically correctly suck each others travestied dicks to the melody of pussified euphemism in a healthy cage.
CroissantOrange 7 months ago
@CroissantOrange wow!
another genius of obscenity...chapeau! LOL
nevernohijab 7 months ago
@CroissantOrange de gustibus non est disputandum
et
suum cuique
there are people who love filth.
nevernohijab 7 months ago
"whores are natural"
God bless this man, God bless him.
slangshotstudios 7 months ago
It's such a shame that people saw this. Look at all the commotion that has ensued. If you don't get it, it's not for you to get. He always spoke to a different person, and I am grateful that he wrote his words down. He was both good and bad. Ask yourself...are you?
harrythehogusa 7 months ago
Honestly, what kind of pussy doesn't find bukowski fascinating? Go buy some hair gel.
TheBornnaked 8 months ago
i live in a place of green trees and green trees and green trees, our air isnt polluted, we provide ur lumber,we have the best bud in the states (ask any true pot smoker) ...fuck bukowski!!! only thing good to come from that is Modest Mouse's song "bukowski"
Peace out everyone
Sprauer135 8 months ago
To Bukowski, poetry was a way of putting himself into an audience. It was a form of mental painting.
He's fuckin' awesome.
doktordm 8 months ago
I was born and raised in NYC. When the hookers, pimps winos and whores left the city lost it's fucking soul. Dam you Guiliani, the mob should have blown your fucking tight ass away. Bukowski Rules!
rjplamf61 9 months ago 3
Please someone help me see the cultural achievement in this...
nevernohijab 9 months ago
@nevernohijab "It doesn't mean anything unless you want to make it mean something." For me, it's relatable to people who see no true reason in life when death is the end result. For example, I make music and love it very much. What difference does it matter whether I make it or not? I'll die. The people who hear it will die. The Earth and Universe will cease to exist. So why would I put so much stock in it? Hank never made an attempt to rationalize the doing or not doing. It's futile. My $0.02
DrunkLikeChinaski 9 months ago
@DrunkLikeChinaski
charmingly nihilistic :)
nevernohijab 9 months ago
@nevernohijab Pretty much. Although Buk wasn't always this way. He just wanted to do the things he enjoyed. Many people are so worn out by the pressures of society and the feeling of being force to work jobs they don't like and put up a front in order to achieve something.
DrunkLikeChinaski 9 months ago
@nevernohijab You wouldn't understand. Go back to whatever it is you were doing.
harrythehogusa 7 months ago
@harrythehogusa I understand his mindset all too well and probably better than you, because I am a dry alcoholic.
Soooo bored with whatever a good and healthy life holds and so excited about the genius one fancies to be....
No, thanks.
It sure has its sick charms but it's the pleasure of suicide by installments.
nevernohijab 7 months ago
@nevernohijab That sure is a tough pill to swallow. Alcoholism is a terrible affliction, for sure. It is good that you have found sobriety, I understand that it is a lot of hard work.
harrythehogusa 7 months ago
@harrythehogusa thanks! It IS hard work and i fighting for survival, but well worth it.
nevernohijab 7 months ago
@harrythehogusa it's true.
even digging my nose on th toilet would be more meaningful than listening to that sort of nonsense.
nevernohijab 7 months ago
god who'd wanna be such a asshole
prumpa42 10 months ago 11
@prumpa42 Who wouldnt want to be? That takes balls!
FormulaWarbrain 9 months ago
@prumpa42 you get life.
roadsideflowers 9 months ago
@prumpa42 Apparently not you, nice guy.
harrythehogusa 7 months ago
@harrythehogusa it's lyrics from a song by modest mouse called Bukowski. its a good song. you should look it up.
prumpa42 7 months ago
@prumpa42 It's okay, but I consider Modest Mouse to be a bit of a one hit wonder that played in their window of time. They don't seem to have much staying power. I can understand the minimalistic sound, but it seems quite homogeneous with other bands within the same genre.
harrythehogusa 7 months ago
@prumpa42 ... nice job lifting that from Modest Mouse .... asshole
sweetfly66 7 months ago
@sweetfly66 i know it was from modest mouse and i wasn't trying to hide that either. also i have another comment stating that the line was from modest mouse and to check out the song.
prumpa42 7 months ago
@prumpa42 fuck you, don't like it? find a hole and crawl in it forever!
victoralpha72 7 months ago
@prumpa42 ur a fag for sayin dat
crapsk8r 7 months ago
@crapsk8r someone's never heard of Modest Mouse....and also takes things too seriously....and may quite possibly want to control other peoples lives.
dumbcanuck42 7 months ago
@dumbcanuck42 please give me a break ok?
crapsk8r 7 months ago
@prumpa42 Modest mouse!
datchknee1 6 months ago
@prumpa42
maybe people like you made people like him....please read, what he wrotes...nice greetings Jürgen
mudgola 6 months ago
@prumpa42 ...like you? Nobody I guess... :)
VasilisBotoulas 1 month ago
@prumpa42 me
Tab2120 1 month ago
@prumpa42
fuck you, hank would beat the shit out of you.
treid100182 1 week ago
buk is crazy i don't think i aggree with what he saying in this
aaronamccoy 10 months ago
he looks and sounds like me after a three day drunk...maybe, i could be published
jethro035181 10 months ago
He better on paper
fergusmckee 11 months ago
I wish Bukowski had lived to see youtube comment threads. I think they are the materialization of why he hated people. Not saying I'm any better (Duh winning) but ahhhhhhh. They have made me hate people a lot more.
Laviedusurrealisme 11 months ago 26
his voice really caught me off guard the first time I heard it. I thought he'd sound more like Marv from Sin City, but he sounds more like a pissed-off Mr. Rogers.
scandiumtrioxide 11 months ago
Just saw BARFLY. Had mixed feelings about it. Endless self-congratulation, but very funny and honest. A moving experience.
goback3spaces 11 months ago
"A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal." — Ted Turner of C.N.N., as quoted in the "McAlvany Intelligence Advisor," 6/96
CelestialEmbodiment 1 year ago
Elitism = death to self-sovereignty, redress of grievances against the govt., & free speech. Atheism {sans quotes} is the religion of the animal world as animals don't contemplate the Heavens nor wage planetary war.
CelestialEmbodiment 1 year ago
Legenda!!!!!!
TheBajkela 1 year ago
ANGIE BOWIE vs. MIKE TYSON—I'd pay to see Angie Bowie fight Mike Tyson or even Godzilla. Like a monkey: Angela Bowie has evolved into a talented & innovative musician.
CelestialEmbodiment 1 year ago
whores are natural
cbarrett34 1 year ago 2
Charles Bukowski never felt he measured up so he urged himself on to take down everything around him...Out of his pathos he developed the mastery of poignancy that became his excellence in the art of disappearing . A genuine gift for many.
saintjoe14 1 year ago
Charles Bukowski.....Never could feel good enough, so he urged his self on to take the world around him down....And the magic he created through in doing so. He is a great poet...[And the epitome of the need to separate the artist from his work.]
saintjoe14 1 year ago
wow, he talks like that too.
TheMrCorvax 1 year ago
Any law repugnant to the Constitution possesses the mere color of law.
CelestialEmbodiment 1 year ago
Vomiting at gay weddings can never be a team-sport, for it to be as such a coach would have to organize vomit teams in coordination with engaged homosexuals. The logistics of which are incalculably complex.
CelestialEmbodiment 1 year ago
@CelestialEmbodiment Keep telling yourself you're a madman genius little man. Douchebag loser is closer to the truth.
ioport 1 year ago
he's fuckin wastedd :)
mravtges 1 year ago
Baudrillard is my philosopher. Bukowski is my poet.
AirplaneRadio 1 year ago
what's he on about when he's talking about raping a teacher... o.O ?
robertsc95 1 year ago
I MISS HIM
82kurty 1 year ago
And the people will say, in blue days after us, the truth will get right and the wrong will get nothing. What wrong is will get away, although it reigns today, what true is that will come, although it is dead.
oldbullifats 1 year ago
charming...
helpful...
beneficent...
Scapegoating, in fun or in rancor, is So endearing, and famous poets may say Anything they want.
right
anastasia22266 1 year ago
rape an English teacher?
oh how... cute...
anastasia22266 1 year ago
I betcha if i take that drink out of his hand it will mean something
shangrila73eldorado 1 year ago
@shangrila73eldorado perfectly said my friend
cholulasaucehot 1 year ago
what a leg
RohanSimpsonBlack 1 year ago
wonder what he was like sober
jwalky1 1 year ago
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every one of his words are poetry
schawalski 1 year ago
what makes you people love this guy?!?! Every sentence he is saying is obviously off track nowadays...? seriously im curious.
bonjour123456789 1 year ago
@bonjour123456789
He's always curiously exploring humanity. "An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way." Read "Bluebird" - if you don't fall in love check your pulse
downbeattheory 1 year ago
@downbeattheory thx for answering seriously, not like everybody else who think im a hater. im not. i just dont know him. bluebird will be the first thing i read about him.
bonjour123456789 1 year ago
@bonjour123456789 "Every sentence he is saying is obviously off track nowadays...?" Does that strike anyone else as a statement that is obviously off track?
subsamadhi 1 year ago
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"what makes you people love this guy?!?! Every sentence he is saying is obviously off track nowadays...? seriously im curious."
@bonjour123456789 - "Off Track" In what way? Just curious. He makes sense to me.
Fleeced247 9 months ago
how admirable, Chinaski!
zinico20 1 year ago
He is sadly dead wrong about the importance of nature and ecology, after all that is what the earth is(learn about it, its pretty interesting). Although I really like his spirit and hatred of our cultural lame ass norm(yuppies).
mannster23 1 year ago
@mannster23 maybe you're talking about something in another video of this interview (I've only watched this one so far, and half of it at that), but.. I don't think that poets can really be wrong; they just express themselves. He's not talking about facts, he's saying that nature bores him.
andrew49247 1 year ago
He always showed his worst, not like many others who are hiding their real personalities so other people wont be able to see how vulnerable they actually are. Bukowski had his dark side, as all of us do, it's just that he didn't care of others attitudes toward that. I admire him and I believe that there's no point in feelin sorry for him, especially cause he tried to live his life the way he want, I know my father did and never regretted it. So what if he died? Everyone does in the end... :)
lyndyyy 1 year ago
@lyndyyy ....................every man born has the right to march in the parade he chooses......al fountain, aka, john turturro (actor) in the flick BOX OF MOONLIGHT
cholulasaucehot 1 year ago
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LovingKimiKatkar 1 year ago
*hearing him TALK.....german xD
manifatzigula 1 year ago
my opinion about him is that he is a very sad andpunished human beeing (referring to his life as a "frozen Man" because of his childhood and everything)
hearing him talking about nature that way just shows the sickness of his frozen mind. inable to recieve love.
his writings are awesome. but the price he had to pay for his genious is horrible
but you make a hero out of him just because you want to justify your own antisocial personality. he does not deserve to be misunderstood
manifatzigula 1 year ago
@manifatzigula On the one hand you're talking about him being "misunderstood" and "made a hero", but on the other hand you're picturing him, quite romantically, as "very sad and punished". Paying the price for genious is a very silly concept... I think Buk would have laughed straight in your face for your sentimental ideas.
benski81 1 year ago
@benski81
What makes you sure about that?
Have you ever written the passage Iam talking about? If yes you surely must have misunderstood it.
And i never wanted to picture him a s beeing somewhat romantical.....would be a silly concept, right (Your interpretation)
But paying a price for genious is indeed a very realistic concept......just think about Beethoven, Mozart, Büchner, Dalì ect....
manifatzigula 1 year ago
@manifatzigula I hear you. I just don't think he would agree. Of course he had a difficult life, but in the end he got all he wanted. Drinks, a place to sleep and women. Plus he became famous. He knew what he had and wouldn't complain about him being punished, he was too much of a realist for that. I lived my whole young life in the city and I couldn't care less about nature. What is a fucking tree? It depends on how you look at nature. For me nature isn't beauty, it's violence. Boring violence.
benski81 1 year ago
is he being interviewed by Mcbain?
RadioScarecrow 1 year ago
huh. how are you supposed to rape. isnt that what he said?
aaronvespro 1 year ago
@all the haters maybe youve noticed that he never stutters although being totally drunk (?)
hes talking poetry in a flowing, harmonicly streaming melody, only the sense is the whole opposite of his singing: brutal, harsh, ugly, direct
But also: creative, sensitive, hopeful, forgiving, conceding
he´s seeing a lot
must be a great mind behind that drunkard
bigbrownheapof 1 year ago
Some artists should let their art do their talking and just shut the fuck up.
pretorious700 1 year ago
@pretorious700 deep.
plutoplatters 1 year ago
If I wanted to hear some old drunken man rambling like an imbecile, I'd go down to the local American Legion or VFW. You assholes think Bukowski was so fucking brilliant, but he just sounds like some drunk talking out of his ass to me.
PedoLouie 1 year ago
@PedoLouie Sounds more like you're talking out of your ass than anybody here really. Bukowski was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century - probably you just feel offended that someone can speak the raw truth so well and you can't handle it.
DadaCohiba 1 year ago
@PedoLouie that is so true what you wrote ...and the best part is... im positive
bukowski would be the first to agree with what you wrote ! strange stuff. thing is..we need a Brando,a Depp,a Dean,a Morrison,a Bukowski..etc,etc We love the disfunction !
plutoplatters 1 year ago
"It's like green trees, green trees, green trees, green trees....ok ....alright, what you gonna do with it?" lol
WRATHWALO 1 year ago
he was just... drunk
Yorranne1 1 year ago 6
@Yorranne1 is that all you see and hear? maybe you need to look/live deeper!
poolpig 1 year ago
@poolpig yes. that is all i see and hear. i wasn't saying that as a joke i was entirely seroius. i actually believe that he was just a drunk, he had no talent and everything he wrote was just a product of alcoholism.
you. caught. me.
Yorranne1 1 year ago
@Yorranne1 Your snide sarcastic remarks are hard to understand in type when theyre so similar to the usual troll how dare someone strike up a conversation with comments you post on a public discussion board. Your ego is a laugh get over yourself!
poolpig 1 year ago
@poolpig sounds like a plan pool pig. thanks for the wisdom.
Yorranne1 1 year ago
@Yorranne1 lol
poolpig 1 year ago
Буковски гениален...жаль, что в России его так плохо знают...
MrRamaz1985 1 year ago
he raped an english teacher? what the hell...?
cobaltandlies 1 year ago 2
He was pretending most of the time. But he wrote some fine verses...
KalakaSLP 1 year ago
One can find realness wherever they are - not just in sordid hotels and bars.
There are plenty of REAL poets for young people to admire - poets that are real.
You don't have to revel in the sordid side of life to be REAL.
Chuck's reality is one of depression - that is how HE sees the world. Yes, there are many sides to life: The Sordid and happier - it is up to you to be REAL - but, that does not necessary mean ONLY to revel in the worst side our human nature.
Clarissa2424 1 year ago
@Clarissa2424 wow.. um, that is such a .. flat (?) way of viewing someone. yes, bukowski did have his similar themes of women, booze, depression.. skid row etc.. but he actually wrote quite a number of uplifting poems. many poems reflected the human spirit.. the enduring.. infallible human spirit. he wrote not only of the frailness and flaws of man but of of their strength. we are gods in ways. please read "the laughing heart" it's a mixture of both...
7twatwaffle7 1 year ago
@7twatwaffle7 Yes, that was a flat way of viewing someone, since after watching many videos displaying only his themes of booze, depression, skid row and people touting him as saying that THIS type of life is the only reality.
But, I am not surprised at all that Bukowski actually wrote a number of poems reflecting the enduring strength of man. Bukowski, indeed, needed strength to endure the extreme violence and humilitation of his youth. I WILL READ "THE LAUGHING HEART" and get back to you.
Clarissa2424 1 year ago
@Clarissa2424 Well you missed the point. There is for sure brighter side of life than in the Bukowski novel. But he notice things about people that are real. He was alienated but still what he wrote it's true, even i don't live in US but here where I live, It's pretty much the same. The better side of life you are talking about....Charles tried to say it's fake, people hate each other, run over each other, it's cover, they never experienced pain, real pain in life, like Bukowski felt.
Dullence92 1 year ago
@Dullence92 My point is this Dullence, "The better side of life is not fake;; It COEXISTS with the worst of humankind" One side is not MORE real than the other. And I come to that knowledge from lots of pain over decades of life. One does not have to deluge themselves into the pits of misery just to be real. Misery WAS real for Bukowski. So that was HIS REALITY. Indeed, there are fake people who hate and run over each other - but coexisting are real people who care for humanity. Both real
Clarissa2424 1 year ago
I am having a beer and watching this on Friday night,life is good.
tubesteakbooky 1 year ago
werner herzog feels the same way about nature. great minds think alike.
wegotmarriedinafever 1 year ago
Horrible old drunk.
anvilofcrom 1 year ago
I wouldn't take everything Hank writes or says as gospel. Tree after tree may be boring, but, call me old fashioned or whatever, but I enjoy oxygen. I don't see how the green movement's 'silver bullet' is a drunk Bukowski confessing his love of toxins.
Jasper6120 1 year ago
what a moron
"nature bores me"
he is a bore
nasafakedit 1 year ago
I was sick one day as a teenager and my father gave me a copy of Post Office. What else can I say
punkyswhips 1 year ago
In 100 years kids will be reading Chuck Bukowski in High School like they make us read Shakespeare today..."You gotta love smog.Ya walk out (ya smell it) and you're part of it!". Thats the green movement's silver bullet right there. XD!!! Go Buk!!!!
RideMyBMW 1 year ago
I miss Hank
rick1968ok 1 year ago
this guy saved my live when i was a kid
FOIIAD 1 year ago
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djodvic 1 year ago
what the hell... hi's definitely the God of the troglodyte.. gosshh his hahaha his very friken idiot, this old man seems to achive the highest level of stupidity... PEOPLEEE What the hell is wrong with you?? are you retarded or what?? there are some real writers... he looks like "the master of literature decay" i mean ... this got to be for amatuers of literature, DUMB amateurs by the way
abaris123 1 year ago
@abaris123 its like you are swearing in a cathedral man!!!
spinjero 1 year ago
@abaris123
Have you read any Bukowski, out of interest?
FidoDido1980 1 year ago
@abaris123 Read " Factotem" by Buckowski and if you can't relate to at least part of the book, then you MUST be some sort of Home Schooled Recluse Nerd who has never stepped outside of society's boundaries... just a sheeple standing in line for death to take you ASAP.
rush1er 1 year ago
@rush1er
I saw the movies "Bar Fly" and "Factotem" and have read some of his poetry and watched his interviews. I don't think the typical high school or even college kid can really "get it". I'm not saying that in a snobby way, just that it takes a certain mind set, an experience of being an outsider, a bit of pain, a little bit of rebellion....out I don't know exactly. But you either get it or you don't.
MrXSpeaks 1 year ago 11
@MrXSpeaks Have you read any of his short stories?
FormulaWarbrain 9 months ago
@abaris123 what planet are you on
bangthatdrumb 1 year ago
Do it all! Charles Bukowski kept it real to highs and lows of being a drunk.
kinglouiethe2nd 1 year ago
id love to be stuck in a ski lift with charles bukowski and tom waits
HabanaBoyJDog 1 year ago 2
Bukowski = god
muri80 2 years ago
RESPECT for this amazing writer. His poetry and novels are legendary and will never be forgotten!
MarionGoesHigh 2 years ago
bukowski wrote some good poetry. nothing great, just interesting. after learning a bit about the man from some friends i lost interest.
vhulheim 2 years ago
What a bitter old man.
w74629 2 years ago
Alcohol may be a method of inspiration but not in a foreseeable poet`s life at the end of 70 years!
HR5308 2 years ago
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let's be honesy. everyone. poor guy. acne out his ass. weird relationships with his parents. but at the ned of the day, the guy was a cunt. he was selfish. it was always about him. fuck him. he did write some really good stuff, but he wrote a lot of bullshit as well. and he mistreated many people. TRUTH?
Jcobb1018 2 years ago
stay off the sauce, kids. Its not worth it.
suford 2 years ago
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1:10 "green tree, green tree, green tree..."
That about sums this guy up. Boring.
suford 2 years ago
and what sums you up...?
loser
beaupeep1 2 years ago 2
Bukowski gives all who appreciate him the ability to understand our flaws. He is the cure for naivety. So much so I'm questioning what I just typed.
Jacobcreek 2 years ago 11
He was just... real.
tofster666 2 years ago 47
that sums him up. He had many many character flaws but at least he was real, it would be great if more people were just honest about who they are like he was.
MrMrIhopethisworks 2 years ago
just as bitter as his writing, gotta love it.
Buju561 2 years ago 4
this old fuck is one of the greats genghis, ghandi, aint got shit on hank!
teemuselanne 2 years ago 4
The BBC made a documentary about Hank a few years ago. It was very good, with lots of interviews and archive footage. I taped it. Then I taped over it. All you need is the books.
ZenBarracuda 2 years ago 6