The Ordinary Madness of Charles Bukowski - Part 1

[LingoFlurry]

Sexy is kicking death in the ass while singing-Bukowski

[billycarr]

Sean Penn is really the best !

[johntechwriter]

Bukowski, the misanthropic crusader against the shit sandwich that is life. But then, what could be more full of shit than romanticising alcoholism?

[Caspar33]

Thanks for posting this. One of the few things the BBC got right I think. Loved the treatment of Piano Player - the poem itself, (which was new to me) the clips, everything!

I mean the BBC has dumbed down considerably since then and still the movement is down, down, down.

[kelliekazamm]

Bukowski, Sagan, Dawkins, Darwin, Einstein. Just a few people future "humanity" will actually remember. To hell with Bush, Obama, the police, congress, or any other human who puts themselves in charge of another. INCLUDING priests, pastors, etc.

[kelliekazamm]

Bukowski, Sagan, Dawkins, Darwin, Einstein. Just a few people future "humanity" will actually remember. Fuck Bush, Obama, the police, or any other human who puts themselves in charge of another. INCLUDING priests, pastors, etc.

[ukusapillage]

bukowskis wish will come true civilization will brek apart resources will end and man will have to open its eyes for reality and what really matters and how much it matters human emotions nature how valuable this planet is there might be more planets like earth but we cant live in any of them virus and slightest atomic diff will kill us all, but for now i hate ppl too i hate their cars their roses and their hair dues

[chingchangchongfly]

You can say what you want about Bukowski the Poet, but he was one of the most amusing interview subjects ever and wrote some goddam funny novels. If you are on this page with negative comments, let me give you some advice: Start fingering your asshole while you masturbate: You obviously are bored and need something to do.

[DoctaDualist]

it's OK, Hank. I don't like their automobiles either. and you're still dead.

[Lonelywreckage6]

I fucking love the BBC.

[MckyMseNTarotCrds]

A question for the big Bukowski fans out there: I've read Ham on Rye, loved it. Where should I go next?

[urbunkery]

@MckyMseNTarotCrds Anywhere.

[adoggz19]

@MckyMseNTarotCrds Read Post office, then women, then factotum its an agreeable sequence...

[MckyMseNTarotCrds]

@adoggz19 Thanks. I've read Post Office since I posted that. Great book.

[RosalindaeLopez]

<3

[MrTootler]

The ordinary madness of the human race.

[MrBecomingBadass619]

@tanjapippi your just another cock sucking idiot.

[booriley781]

man, I've seen alot of biographies but this is the one i keep coming back to. Thanks for the upload

[LudwigZiffer]

thanks for uploading!

[slovakmath]

the only person I know who could write about a piece of dried vomit on the ground for pages and pages

[jcmangan]

Sean, where`s Madonna and where`s your house?

[tanjapippi]

bla bla bla. he looks ridiculous in the beginning, with his shit opened and his big stomach. can just laugh at his words.

[Geldie1988]

I´m a fan from germay, I wish I could speak english to real understand this

[jcmangan]

@Geldie1988 What is it what you want to know? We can not translate the whole documentary. But perhabs you wanna know what`s spoken in a special scene?

[jahamahana]

bla bla WHAT ABOUT MY SUBTITLES?

[williamrafe1]

my last step dad has always looked like al pacino. now that he's in his late 60's he looks alot more like bukowski.

[CHAIBOI21]

Awesome guy, i love his lifestyle, but I gotta admit, his poems suck!!

[williamrafe1]

@CHAIBOI21 with his poems, u have to interpretthm sometimes. others, he just writes about whats happening around him. when u write as many poems as he did, some are bound to suck. i love bukowski, but i like maybe 3 for every ten he wrote

[CHAIBOI21]

Barfly.

[jahamahana]

does anyone have english subtitles to the ordinary madness of charles bukowski? i need them to translate it correctly into polish. OR POLISH SUBTITLES, WHICH I HARDLY DOUBT

[bohemianwriter1]

I look forward to meet the bastard in a bar in Heaven and punch his ugly face out.

Don't ask me why!

[fedorwand]

what is it at 1:42 runing behind him,i heara dog but it looks strange

[apocalypticjo]

@fedorwand cigarette smoke?



[2JOHNNYT]

Hollywood tough guy Penn wishes he was a tenth as real as the B-man. That's why he worships him so. Jackass

[HeavySabre70]

@2JOHNNYT And you don't worship him? You're just having a gripe at Penn cause he knew Bukowski personally and has these great memories of the guy.

[2JOHNNYT]

@HeavySabre70 The biggest star in my universe is I - although I do appreciate the sparkle of others - I worship no man.

[2JOHNNYT]

"Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me." (Factotum)

[VENGEVENGE]

4:10 the man at the piano a casing filled with the stuffing of society.....

[wojtekbev]

even when he talks it sounds like he is reading poetry. true master.

[badsign1980]

factotum is a great book, but i loved- women... most ppl dont like it i did... also ham on rye, actually i have lots of books from him, except pulp

[n0thank7]

@badsign1980 Women is tragically underrated

[lordjulius00]

Thanks Sean for using bukowski to make yourself feel great. He wouldn't give a stinking shit what you think of him and he wouldn't want this laughable celebrity endorsement of himself.

[shamuswinston]

@lordjulius00 ...Just what I wanted to say, but you said it first. Just like the piano player...the actor says words that aren't his, and plays lives he never lived. I have a hunch Charles would agree...maybe.

[AmideLanval]

Sa voix, c'est comme une baume pour l’âme.

[Racefreak1976]

This man is speaking out of my soul. The very first sentence hits the nail.

[mindstormsabrewin]

Here's one of the last genuine people in the world. Then I have to hear Sean Penn "explain" him to us. Thank you Sean for enlightening us peasants. Where would we be without Hollywood egomaniacs to let us know what to think. Bukowski would have puked on him.

[Racefreak1976]

@mindstormsabrewin Sean Penn in my opinion is one of the few genuine hollywood "stars". All of his movies, which I saw had at least some message in them. I mean, imagine Drew Barrymore doing this! Come on.

[shimokita2]

@mindstormsabrewin: You're a fucking idiot and a sycophant. Seems to be a lot of them on here.

[mindstormsabrewin]

@shimokita2 Go fuck yourself.

[andygray]

Thanks for sharing this, great clips, very insightful. Poor Buk his father was a real bastard.

[Racefreak1976]

@andygray Maybe, if his father wouldn't have been such a bastard, we might have never heard or read anything about this man. Think about it.

[MrLeGardien]

Ham on Rye is legendary.

Factotum, Women, Pulp, Ordinary Madness, Post office and Hollywood are also fucking great. You never get tired of reading Bukowski.

[sydneydowful]

Ham on rye is the only book i've yet to read..

[TheAdultChild101]

@sydneydowful Ham On Rye is incredible. You will not be disappointed!

[HARKE90]

@sydneydowful wow i started with ham on rye, great one. i just finished post office few days ago any suggestion on what i should read next??

[sydneydowful]

@HARKE90 try Love is a Dog From Hell, its a book of poems. Very tasty. Im in very bad shape I need new books bad, this chick years ago stole most my book collection and its killing me. All my burroughs all my Bukowski, my poe, and im sure some shit novels I can't remember... She was so dumb Im sure she never read them, nor could she take the cock.

[sydneydowful]

@sydneydowful The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993 is also one of my favorites, I loved it dearly

[HARKE90]

@sydneydowful thank you i am gonna read that next i just ordered factotum today. after that i will get that one. that chick will burn in hell forever.

[100waystodie]

This is awesome!  Thanks.

[gardenvarietypenis]

bukowski a phake fony as is penn.

[Sartre180]

@gardenvarietypenis i think at least both of them would've spelt fake and phony correctly

[gardenvarietypenis]

@Sartre180 hey, jean paul, bukowski prided himself on sounding uneducated and purposely mispronounced words just to bust phaux intellectuals' balls. relax and have a drink, jean paul.

[Sartre180]

@gardenvarietypenis haha fair enough

[MrAdee28]

one of my all time favorites. i remember reading him for the first time and thinking "wow, im not the only person that looks at the world in this sort of way"

[vinnynumbnuts]

love john thomas reading buk's stuff. thomas was a wrestler and one tough sonofabitch. also a poet.

[backseatdriversyo]

where the fuck can i get a copy of this? ive been searching for a while.

[houndogray]

Goddamit Sean Penn was a friend of Charles Bukowski and none of you were. So knock him if you wish. He was just telling a story.

[djodvic]

Teaser Trailer for Charles Bukowski short film - ALL THE GREAT WRITERS - on youtube...

Check it out...

[pooputt23]

hank is the man. he struck fear in the hearts of the sheep that call themselves "normal", and he did it better than most. he told it like it was, and he was famous for just that. well, that and some of the greatest lines ever written by any writer that ever lived.

[embraful]

Very interesting!!

[ping392garr]

Anyone know the music behind the titles at approx 1.10 ?

[Papeversomniferum]

Sean Penn thinks everything is about him...

[josefabdon]

drunk and talking shit. he needed people like everyone else. ol' hank could really put on the drama for such a 'desensitized' individual.

[Flea817]

He just said what he felt. That's not drama. If you think it's drama, you're probably more offended by it than you should be.

[zchwise523]

@josefabdon Just because you are in NEED of people doesn't mean you should knock the ones who don't. That's not drama. Drama is when you get on your facebook for 23 hours a day and constantly have to know what people think about you. Hank just didn't give a shit. Completely void of drama.

[Nigelxman]

I realize Sean Penn means well but he's annoying as fuck here. It's almost as if he thinks this documentary is about him.

[JimmyVonJim]

this is great. thanks for uploading.

[Focoist911]

What is it about short ass people and being famous? They just bitter or some shit? I mean, what? is it easier to manage the stage? Less money on lengths of steel frames and small coffee cups to make them look bigger? C'mon, Sean Penn is like a Kylie Mingoue midget.

[ShaskaOcelot]

I consider Ham on Rye one of the best book ever. Normally I would be like "Yeah its you're problem, you have a choice, you must do this or do that." But when you read that book, man everything was against Buk. He was fucked since the beginning.

But at least, he ended rich and very respected.

RIP Hank. We miss you.

[Nigelxman]

@ShaskaOcelot I could not agree more Shaska. Ham on Rye is the most powerful and HUMAN book I have ever read.

[bapyou]

What a cute little boy he was. (7:53) I wonder what would have become of him had he not been abused. I feel so terrible for abused children. It's probably the worst thing that can happen to a child. Kids are so helpless.

Anyway, Bukowski was a great soul. I've always loved his writing. My favorite story is one the pieces in Notes of Dirty Old Man, an untitled story about Buk living in New York, renting a small room where the train stops outside his window every ten minutes. Brilliant.

[bapyou]

Jumbo's Clown Room (1:18) is a disgusting place. It's a strip joint where they charge you $10 for a watered-down glass of coca cola. Disgusting. The people who run it are complete idiots. Idiots and thieves. And the strippers are disgusting, ugly & think you owe them something.

Strip joints today are a far thing from what they were in Bukowski's time. Back then they were a refuge. Today they are hard sell hard sell hard sell. Inhuman & disgusting. Especially Jumbo's Clown Room.

[pvelectric]

Talked to John Martin of Black Sparrow last thursday, he told me the great American poet Steve Richmond, an "American Rimbaud" Ben Pleasants calls him, has died. Harper collins now is Buk's publisher.

Too bad I never recorded or filmed Steve. He emailed me about 8 years ago thanking me for comparing his "Earth Rose" to Ginsberg's Howl on Amazon. He and Bukowski were very close friends.

[pvelectric]

Buk didn't hate the human race, or people either. Read all his books, he's just putting everyone on. can't you see the smile behind his words, like on his face even?

[AristYdes]

bukowski was a cocksucker

[teemuselanne]

you have a tiny penis

[Moshpitscum]

damn i hate sean penn

[PeanutButterMan3]

All these fuckin actors.

[Moshpitscum]

@PeanutButterMan3 and how happy he seens that buk fucked his mother, crazy mofo..

[sambalbei]

what are u bitches bitching'bout?

[caramelizeme]

you are human; therefore, you are part of humanity. to say you don't like humanity is to say that you wish you weren't a part of it.

but you'll never be separated unless perhaps you kill yourself. but probably not even then will you be free from whatever you dislike in humanity. it's just depression. the man is trying to escape his pain. and the people- at least some of them- who listen to Bukowski galvanize their own melancholic travails with his depression.

[eat0the0earth]

"I don't even like myself." This he has said.

[NielsVE07]

I might be wrong here, but I think Bukowski didn't dislike humanity as a race, because they are human but because humans are destructive, they destroy what they don't understand. he perhaps tries indeed to escape pain, though pain caused by humanity in the first place. All he asked was to be left alone and not even that was given to him.You might say it's just depression. didn't you just judge him without ever knowing him? Isn't that enough reason to want to get away from someone?

[caramelizeme]

no.

[TheodorBjork]

@NielsVE07 he hated people because his father abused him, he was mocked for his acne, he was mocked for being poor and an outsider

[killphil1986]

you can be seperated from culture, but its hard, i think bukowski does it well and doesnt care. and sees everyone as too inferior to identify with.

[azurenscens]

@caramelizeme quit being ambivalent, and stick to one opinion.

i don't like humanity, but i do like myself. if i had the choice, i'd be some lesser life form.- simple, irrefutable proof that your initial statement is wrong.

to say you don't like humanity does not mean that you wish you weren't a part of it. plenty of people hate the human race, but they still contribute to its reform- proof that people hate themselves along with the rest, but still attempt to better things for us all.

[caramelizeme]

@azurenscens yourself is human

[LessonFromMidas]

Why's not liking humanity stupid?

[caramelizeme]

is that a rhetorical question? if you don't like humanity, leave.

[LessonFromMidas]

It's a legitimate question. If you have no reason to state, there's no reason to get all hostile.

[caramelizeme]

it's not a legitimate question. it's not a question at all. to say you don't like humanity, is to say you don't like yourself. you are humanity. and the fact that you think i'm being hostile is funny to me. the fact that you're defending your inane position is funny to me. i don't think there's a thing you could say that would not be funny to me.

[LessonFromMidas]

"If you don't like humanity, leave." That's not a very friendly thing to say so it's easy to take it as hostile. So how exactly is not liking humanity not liking yourself? And why is that a bad thing? Really in a persuasive paper that statement wouldn't have held up. All you're really doing is elevating your opinion above another's. That's not rationality, that's bigotry. The fact that you're laughing at me is further proof. Its funny as well, because I haven't stated anything before this.

[LessonFromMidas]

Yet you claim I was defending an inane position. All I did was ask a question and you didn't really answer it.

[Moshpitscum]

i like chinaski, but i dont like sean penn

[keltyk]

Ugh... I feel exactly like that too... I think it's better to try and overcome those feelings without drink. I know the temptation to write about those feelings too.  He makes compelling reading- very much so... great to read, though it can feed into your discontent and add to negativity. That's my own experience though

[johnyard]

its not all like that. bukowski could be uplifting too. read the laughing heart.... "it's a beauty."

[caramelizeme]

drink or no drink you're going to feel

[jovando25]

i have a bukowski shirt, its the my dearest shirt,

[SgtBastard101]

Ive got a Buk shirt too.Its a black n' white photo of him drinking a scotch on the rocks. Its my favorite shirt.

[samcatsam]

wow! thanks so so much for uploading this, PaulKuK0

[ShaskaOcelot]

Yeah, thanks. This guy is a fucking legend. I consider him with the greatest of all. Houellebecq, Camus, Steinbeck, Orwell, Hugo.

[stinkriverstudios]

PaulKuko-God bless you!!! Ive ben waiting to see this again.

This looks fantastic. Thanks again, big fan of your stuff-Tim Detroit