Bukowski - Sleep Experiment

[laurarox80]

Gonna try this.  Four days sleep...we'll see.

[cheesynounou]

But who the hell can do it cause you need a dollar

[keepitwitmine]

shit... ive been trying this experiment for years.. but i can't hold down a job!!!

[DamoEmuSmall]

For some people drinking is a sport. it works and it makes you feel proud. 'Enlightened' to quote the great man. Good for a while, great.

[walmartian]

piss on these lil 20 some year old college fux hating on bukowski.. the dude was a rockstar your nothing but an armchair critic on youtube- this mofo roamed the streets in poverty while you eat the rainbow bread your mom buys for you and your fratboy roomate

[tuxy56]

Quite the narcissist.

[chingchangchongfly]

@tuxy56 Yeah, I'd much rather hear Johnny Depp pontificate than this old drunk. Or Bono

[Supertramp1966]

"The less I say the better I feel". Yet he's giving an interview. Go figure... So I say every man's ego get's in the way of his ultimate happiness. And so it goes.....

[cuntmuscleify]

@jimbobklyn1963 its not sad man only the truly enlightened and sharp watch this video and thats how bukowski would want it .

[monster8myhouse]

"Bukowski knew." Words to live by...

[nycitalia4]

i agree, this man is way more profound than any pop culture video....

[shawnme08]

I'm doing this right now without the beer tho.

[Merc7Destroy12]

@jimbobklyn, what's the difference b/w Jay-z and Bukowski? they both do poetry about less than talked about issues in society. The only real difference is that Jay-z is a multimillionaire and likes to flaunt his success, whereas Bukowski would rather be left alone and out of the spot light.

[PunkymickBlah]

@Merc7Destroy12 lol jayz ain't a poet

[Merc7Destroy12]

@PunkymickBlah whatever dude. I made points as to why he is, and all you can say is he isn't with no reason why. Classification of a hater

[PunkymickBlah]

@Merc7Destroy12 The problem: Any attempt to equate hip hop with poetry ignores the defining characteristics of each genre. Both are musical, but the music of rap is external to the words. That means its wordsmiths have much more in common with songwriters than they do with poets.

[PunkymickBlah]

@Merc7Destroy12 Poetry, by contrast, must generate its music solely from poetics alone. No DJs. No beats. No samples.

[Merc7Destroy12]

@PunkymickBlah Poetry can be created independently as you say, but it can be used in forms of lyrics or hymns. RAP is an acronym for Rhythm and Poetry. If you read the lyrics of any rapper, you'll see it is poetry. The fact that more elements like a beat or DJ scratches are involved doesn't take away the integrity of the stanza's as poetry

[tompouceful]

Wakeup, wash, shave, eat, run, drive, run again, drive harder, speed up the heart, shake the nerves, stretch the muscles, bang the wall, bang the time, grab your work, hold it, bite it, throttle the bread, the money, a stowaway, the whiplash of immunity, be absent material, of course a car, a house, a swimmingpool, mortgage, three children, a cat, a dog, a divorce, but sorry, I have to go, no time, busy, busy, shave eat drive run run again drive harder to the end, the eternal sleep.

[SHADOW10621]

I seriously think there is no difference between Bukowski and Oprah. They're both selling different types of bullshit. He's fortunate enough to have enough money to sleep for 4 days. He's a fraud himself and he would like my bullshit comment.

[chat099]

Bukowski wasn't concerned with popularity, unlike the rest of America, he wouldn't care abt the number of views.

[cbarrett34]

this guy was a horrible human being

[MrLeGardien]

@cbarrett34 Fuck you prick. Even Sartre, the greatest french philospher said Bukowski was the greatest american poet of all time. Read Ham on Rye, one of the best novel ever. Have a little respect or go back to you're child rapist priest asshole.

[TheRiteOne100]

@MrLeGardien OH MY GOD I JUST PUT DOWN HAM ON RYE I WISH IT NEVER ENDED

[iLaurock]

@MrLeGardien Yeah, Bukowski was a great writer. Full Stop.

But he wasn't really a good person was he? So cbarret34 has a point. And you insult him and tell him to have a little respect? What is wrong with you? (no insult intended)

[iLaurock]

@cbarrett34 You've got a point, but Bukowski was also a good writer. Don't take insults like that from MrLeGardien. Cheers mate

[cholulasaucehot]

this guy is an asshole.........he thinks marijuana use is worse than being an alcoholic enuff said

[radicaledward40]

Bukowski knew...

[TDP788]

sleep for 4 days, get up shit piss, drink a beer, go back to bed, hahahahaha awesome

[jackinla8]

He's right. I've tried it and it works. Feeling down? Stay in bed.

[ooooorigin]

soo fucking good!

[sonicboyPT]

I bought this film /documentary after watching all clips on youtube, thank you for posting this stuff.

[foxifox1975]

lol... WTF!?

cheater!

he doesn't smoke!

poor guy...

no beer and no whiskey too (maybe...)

[someone1480]

@Jimbobklyn1963

your so right; its like you type "b" in the youtube searh box and you get Lady Gaga shit instead of getting Bukowski or Beatles or something

[solargesture]

@someone1480 bieber, justin lol

[Zenb0nes]

Well put Hank.

[jimbobklyn1963]

it's sad there are only 2,200 views. yet 2 million for a jay z video...

[OrTheThirdPerson]

some world, huh?

[BAEism]

@jimbobklyn1963 more power to us.

[jackmosley06]

@jimbobklyn1963 no its called industry.

[flowerdoodle]

@jimbobklyn1963 Per your sadness about bukowski not getting enough YOUTUBE views: Whatdya care if people are watching him or Jay Z. This aint a competition. Whats sad about it? You're talking about the tastes of the common masses. Look at the typical Jayz or rap fan as compared to a literary, underground type of personal taste. There in another realm. grow up

[frenchkids]

@flowerdoodle I think that's a little harsh telling him to 'grow up.' His point is that if more people were exposed to such wisdom, then maybe we'd be a little less moronic. YouTube is only the medium; it's not important how we are exposed, but that we ARE exposed.

[jasonfinancier]

@jimbobklyn1963 Its not sad......its that we are rare and not hypnotized.

[mabepako]

@jimbobklyn1963

how right you are

[jamesandjackproducts]

@jimbobklyn1963 dont hate on Jay Z

[whbevan]

@jimbobklyn1963 Jay-Z has mass appeal... If 2 milli were on Buk like they are on Jigga, the world would be that much more bleak and sorrow, and bitter

[LesterMartin]

@jimbobklyn1963 its up to 15,000 now

[thesuntheneonlight]

@jimbobklyn1963 whats wrong with jay z? dont compare these two characters.haha

[Awaveinyourocean]

Sounds bloody good to me!!

This is coming from a perpetually tired shift worker!

[DiamondSoul]

Fantastic.

[CollectingIdeas]

you can also go in jail for a week - it´s the same!

r.i.p buk

[holden1787]

Thanks for posting this.

The gurus of pop new age want us to meditate, but of course such must be done after work, or on a retreat. Go, get away for a week. Take a plane, rent a hotel---5 Star, of course, you deserve it. It's the Chi Retreat going for five grand, you'll be saved.

Bukowski was right. Thanks Buk.

[cranberryjog]

Bukowski got into meditation too in his last years of leukemia.

[holden1787]

Really? I never read that anywhere. Did you read that in any of his later poems??

Listening to this clip I'm still struck by how honest Bukowski is and how writers or celebrities won't go near a subject matter like this in public. It's taboo, they don't want to scare anyone off. Ooh.

We're all burning in water, drowning in flame.

[cranberryjog]

What subject matter, sleeping? I love bukowski but I don't think what he was talking about here was that revolutionary, more like poetic drunken rambling with a tinge of truth.

[cranberryjog]

But I read an interview with his last wife who was with him in his last year hospitilized from leukemia (during which he would still write profusely). They had a buddist monk come and show him how to deal with the pain through meditation. Before long Bukowski would be very disciplined in meditating daily. To him it was a similar experience to his daily horse-betting ritua,l both forms of meditation but he became very fond of it.