Bukowski Reads Bukowski | Artbound | Season 5, Episode 6 | KCET

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Artbound presents a KCET flashback episode offering a rare, intimate look at iconoclastic writer and poet Charles Bukowski, whose gritty works have become an integral part of California's literary canon.
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  • @quinnrsligo
    @quinnrsligo5 жыл бұрын

    19:55 "Its not the large things that send a man to a madhouse...its the continuing series of small tragedies"

  • @AnnaLVajda

    @AnnaLVajda

    4 жыл бұрын

    I feel the opposite as if you develop a higher tolerance and become immune to the madness.

  • @srishtichopra5871

    @srishtichopra5871

    4 жыл бұрын

    ‘Not the death of his love, but the shoe lace that snaps with no time left’

  • @damienholland8103

    @damienholland8103

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AnnaLVajda It can go either way. You can develop a higher tolerance or it can break you down. Depends on your biology.

  • @ismaellooaros4288

    @ismaellooaros4288

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AnnaLVajda what doesnt kill you makes you stranger- Nietzche

  • @noklarok

    @noklarok

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ismaellooaros4288 'stronger'

  • @arnonym113
    @arnonym1139 жыл бұрын

    1:41 "My name is Bukowski. Buy my books." You gotta love him :D

  • @IETCHX69

    @IETCHX69

    6 жыл бұрын

    Rhyme's with puke .

  • @micklenehan4278

    @micklenehan4278

    6 жыл бұрын

    Deina Mutta xxx

  • @Lunarvandross

    @Lunarvandross

    5 жыл бұрын

    Gotta love the angle.

  • @MellowshipRighteous

    @MellowshipRighteous

    5 жыл бұрын

    That was absolutely beautiful

  • @q-q-qiah

    @q-q-qiah

    4 жыл бұрын

    IETCHX69 seeing it written out makes it so much better

  • @jonathanheidenreich8565
    @jonathanheidenreich85653 жыл бұрын

    The opening interaction speaks volumes: -I'm a poet ~You're a what? -I'm a poet, you know what a poet is? ~A cola? -No, I'm a poet. ~A poet? You're the poet? -I'm the poet ~What are you? -....'what am I'? I'm the poet... ~What kind of a poet? -Modern. I've been in this neighborhood for about 10 years. ~I never saw you before. This is the detachment that still exists today between people and poetry. If he had said "I'm a wizard" it would have received the same response but likely with less confusion.

  • @anne5761

    @anne5761

    3 жыл бұрын

    we live in an increasingly commodified society. There is lot less value assigned to art, poetry and truth than there used to be.

  • @ClayFrankk

    @ClayFrankk

    2 ай бұрын

    Thought she said Polak

  • @JustsomeSteve

    @JustsomeSteve

    Ай бұрын

    A Cola? I would have just answered with "yes.....yes I'm a Cola. Have a nice day"

  • @moserfugger6363
    @moserfugger63633 жыл бұрын

    "Im a poet." "A what?" Classic.

  • @joshingtonbarthsworth631

    @joshingtonbarthsworth631

    2 жыл бұрын

    A cola?

  • @moserfugger6363

    @moserfugger6363

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@joshingtonbarthsworth631 A Hefeweizen.

  • @Milton..

    @Milton..

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@joshingtonbarthsworth631 A Classic

  • @greenvelvet

    @greenvelvet

    Ай бұрын

    "I said a Pollock! Are you DEAF!?"

  • @nicko3272
    @nicko32724 жыл бұрын

    In honor of Bukowski I thought up this quote "to be rebellious as a teenager...thats just natural, but to be rebellious as adult, that takes courage"

  • @djtall3090

    @djtall3090

    4 жыл бұрын

    not bad, not bad at all

  • @mylesprobus1253

    @mylesprobus1253

    4 жыл бұрын

    Bad at all

  • @aprilpenname5494

    @aprilpenname5494

    4 жыл бұрын

    This seems to be true

  • @mylesprobus1253

    @mylesprobus1253

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nick O you are literally everything Bukowski would hate

  • @nicko3272

    @nicko3272

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@mylesprobus1253 Oh darn! Well I appreciate being informed of this!

  • @vishansingh7641
    @vishansingh76414 жыл бұрын

    Gets a $20 dollars check Bukowski: the gods have been good to me

  • @nagato4287

    @nagato4287

    4 жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂

  • @smittoria

    @smittoria

    3 жыл бұрын

    To be fair, 20 dollars was quite a bit of money in the 70s

  • @shinzontheta

    @shinzontheta

    3 жыл бұрын

    Around 1970 one dollar was about equivalent to ten dollars today. So it was a decent chunk of change back then.

  • @eduardonobrega9395

    @eduardonobrega9395

    2 жыл бұрын

    @UCyBxJ_8WRL63m1mipXUxN9Q to be fair, shut the fuck up

  • @greenvelvet

    @greenvelvet

    Ай бұрын

    Just enough for a strong drink, and a loose woman. $20 can make you feel like a god.

  • @jeiyoung4581
    @jeiyoung45817 жыл бұрын

    Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. - Charles Bukowski

  • @njoyingtube1

    @njoyingtube1

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Evan Hoback honesty, truth. Both can be denied, they're still always what they are , lots of honest people are LYING to themselves .

  • @qwetf4755

    @qwetf4755

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Evan Hoback "abuse" lol

  • @iyotakedazhai7986

    @iyotakedazhai7986

    3 жыл бұрын

    It is no coincidence you are reading this. Have you read the short book "The Present" yet? It's available free here. Just go to the website: globaltruthproject.com- click on the entry called “The Present.” What it says will turn this world around if it reaches enough people. You will see what I mean when you read the first page.

  • @extantia

    @extantia

    3 жыл бұрын

    "I became insane, with long horrible intervals of sanity" - Edgar Allan Poe

  • @Shelley550

    @Shelley550

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Jeff Sylvester l guess that's the "norm" for "some" however not for "ãll" !!

  • @mikidomeny1677
    @mikidomeny16773 жыл бұрын

    "Everybody can be a genious at the age of 25. Try it at the age of 50." Bukowski

  • @womprat3681
    @womprat36812 жыл бұрын

    Does anybody else revisit this video every couple of months? I can’t help but come back and listen when I find myself alone. Alone with myself, and with a couple bottles of beer. It’s nice to share a beer with Bukowski, and nicer with his poetry. If you’re reading this you’re a true romantic, peace and love ✌️

  • @stinkycheeseman1723

    @stinkycheeseman1723

    Жыл бұрын

    I write a lot. When I hit a block, I come to this reading. Amazing stuff. Hope you're good, my brother.

  • @womprat3681

    @womprat3681

    Жыл бұрын

    Bukowski is a great inspiration for sure. I’m doing alright. it’s time to write and re-visit this vid haha, it usually lifts my spirits. Hope you’re doing well as well my man 👍

  • @emenike1907

    @emenike1907

    Жыл бұрын

    Man it is strange and very nice to come across this comment at the very moment I am doing exactly what you mention... Cheers there

  • @alexcaminiti

    @alexcaminiti

    11 ай бұрын

    I can finally enjoy being alone without alcohol. Never thought it would be possible. The addict demon on my shoulder is always there.

  • @chrisramirez990

    @chrisramirez990

    8 ай бұрын

    Just to get centered

  • @perlefisker
    @perlefisker4 жыл бұрын

    "I think the gods have been good to me, kept me where I belong - not too much - just right..." Razor sharp as a true poet, humble as a true philosopher.

  • @quogir1

    @quogir1

    2 жыл бұрын

    So long...

  • @Star_Dusting
    @Star_Dusting8 ай бұрын

    I love this part he’s gushing over how lovely LA is and how much he loves being there, forward straight to him having a mild episode of road rage in LA traffic. 😂

  • @beatricemaude4426
    @beatricemaude44267 жыл бұрын

    I am reading Bukowski's book "Women" right now. This is the first time I have viewed film footage of him reciting his poetry. Now I know why people paid to hear him. He was great. His words are very honest and moving. His pain is obvious. He makes me want to cry.

  • @lisakay2320

    @lisakay2320

    7 жыл бұрын

    the better the writing - the greater the pain

  • @ApoorvaaC

    @ApoorvaaC

    7 жыл бұрын

    Beatrice Maude yes he makes me cry too! Did you like women?

  • @Tabish29

    @Tabish29

    6 жыл бұрын

    Beatrice Maude pulp is maligned but I adored it. Women. Ham on Rye. The Post Office. Beautiful stuff.

  • @Budapestpatiypami

    @Budapestpatiypami

    5 жыл бұрын

    I hope you finally cried.

  • @appletongallery

    @appletongallery

    5 жыл бұрын

    Bukowski moves in part because each line shifts in consciousness from the last. He is our Shakespeare, our Van Gogh of words. It is that visceral intimacy coupled with the Universal that makes his work so great.

  • @sylkiegrape2729
    @sylkiegrape27297 жыл бұрын

    his voice is so satisfying

  • @chamade166

    @chamade166

    4 жыл бұрын

    silky noodle soup Don’t get it...these days a person like this would at least get some therapy/yoga. He is obviously mentally unwell.

  • @aarondoodles3380

    @aarondoodles3380

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@chamade166 He wouldn't be a poet, if he didn't have a traumatic childhood which causes depression.. Which you then medicate with drugs of your choice.. He probably apprected the misery he went thru. I don't know very about him.. Apart from his a poet. Alcohol and hated his dad.

  • @brianyoung3

    @brianyoung3

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@chamade166 Listen Chamade, if you lived in the world, you would be unwell too

  • @jimwolabaugh3608

    @jimwolabaugh3608

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yet, the woman at the beginning who said “cola” had a very dissatisfying voice

  • @pierrebridenne8870

    @pierrebridenne8870

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@aarondoodles3380 Hi ! Not sûre , many people had a sad and violent childhood and don't become poet after.

  • @thebushmaster1276
    @thebushmaster12764 жыл бұрын

    "the city dumps fill the junkyards fill the madhouses fill the hospitals fill the graveyards fill nothing else fills.”

  • @jamesdebaca6878

    @jamesdebaca6878

    3 жыл бұрын

    Emptiness fills... a woman’s smile fills ...Bukowski fills...the ever expanding void fills. I love you Chuck

  • @annalisavajda252

    @annalisavajda252

    23 күн бұрын

    Alone with everybody?

  • @abrandnewasshole6042
    @abrandnewasshole60424 жыл бұрын

    "Find What You Love And Let It Kill You" Charles Bukowski

  • @Pohlolol

    @Pohlolol

    4 жыл бұрын

    or grow up, go through all the pain that there is when you experience life undazed and it will eventually make you free. a spiritual awakening renders drugs rather unnecessary and makes them a possible to use tool instead of the hell an addiction means. or - you know - miss that

  • @142nun

    @142nun

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Pohlolol if i could lend you 1000 likes to bring attention to your comment... People; not everything someone that is famous for saying things, says, is true. Not for everyone and certainly not for most

  • @thomyoung17

    @thomyoung17

    4 жыл бұрын

    bukowski never said this it's by Kinky Friedman

  • @orphansparrow2

    @orphansparrow2

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Pohlolol He's referring to the ego. He means give your all to what you love until it humbles you.

  • @Liza33650

    @Liza33650

    3 жыл бұрын

    orphansparrow hm i actually like the litteral and morbid lecture

  • @Tk1NE
    @Tk1NE Жыл бұрын

    “What matters most is how well you walk through the fire” -Great Bukowski. And I am an African black man, who fell in love with his art while in LA. Despite some of its prejudice. This rare Barfly is that Universal. I love him. Bless his heart.

  • @josephedwards4325
    @josephedwards43253 жыл бұрын

    I could watch that interaction in the shop all day long. That was poetry in itself.

  • @jarrettthomas4865
    @jarrettthomas48656 жыл бұрын

    A poet. A what? A poet. A cola? Hahaha I can only imagine what was going on in bukowskis head right then. LOL

  • @marcofluijt2331

    @marcofluijt2331

    5 жыл бұрын

    Jarrett L 🤣🤣

  • @Jason-ji4sy

    @Jason-ji4sy

    5 жыл бұрын

    He was thinking of banging her.

  • @NH4Ukraine2

    @NH4Ukraine2

    4 жыл бұрын

    “Yeah, that’s it. I’m a fucking cola”.

  • @lukesalazar9283

    @lukesalazar9283

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Jason-ji4sy more than likely.

  • @bluesborn

    @bluesborn

    4 жыл бұрын

    I thought I heard that...

  • @William.H.Bonney
    @William.H.Bonney4 жыл бұрын

    He seems like he was a time traveler from our time when he interacted with people of his time. He just has the disposition of someone who knew something that they didn't know. Maybe he did?

  • @BazzTriton

    @BazzTriton

    4 жыл бұрын

    Mike H. O loved WhatsApp you sais, Mike. Greetings from Brasil

  • @realtorvivian

    @realtorvivian

    2 жыл бұрын

    He has a very old soul, special souls like that are rare, and they are like time travellers. They are free.

  • @bufficliff8978

    @bufficliff8978

    14 күн бұрын

    Meyers Briggs INFP

  • @TrueMakaveli50
    @TrueMakaveli50 Жыл бұрын

    “One more beer.. I’ll take you all, all of ya” so glad we have these interviews and readings

  • @AurelianKashmir
    @AurelianKashmir11 ай бұрын

    Bukowskis style was raw & simple. Something a lot of poets struggle to replicate.

  • @grantrogers5429
    @grantrogers54299 жыл бұрын

    Bukowski: Shakespeare of the down and out! Hands down my favourite writer and poet.

  • @b.r.a.a.d6870

    @b.r.a.a.d6870

    5 жыл бұрын

    Grant, well said!! He's my favorite also.I live my crazy life like his poems.

  • @salvandorum

    @salvandorum

    5 жыл бұрын

    Rubbish.....Shakespeare indeed!

  • @TheIkaika777

    @TheIkaika777

    4 жыл бұрын

    He was a multi-millionaire, not down and out.

  • @CLICKEROFTRUTH

    @CLICKEROFTRUTH

    4 жыл бұрын

    Bukowski never wrote plays, so I dunno.

  • @jarretjordan3837

    @jarretjordan3837

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@TheIkaika777 sources?

  • @neyraeshalomi4419
    @neyraeshalomi44192 жыл бұрын

    Seeing him interact with the crowd was so comforting. As a kid, he felt so alone and rejected. He probably never thought that he would read “suicide kid” in fromt of a bunch of people who paid to see him. This makes me believe if he can do it, then so can i. So inspirational and relatable

  • @ast3077

    @ast3077

    5 ай бұрын

    well said

  • @jimw.4161
    @jimw.41615 ай бұрын

    Authentic genius. There aren't many guys like Charles Bukowski walking around anymore - and that's a goddamn shame. 😳

  • @GamerOnAThrone
    @GamerOnAThrone5 жыл бұрын

    Bukowski kind of night. Bukowski kind of life.

  • @ml92222

    @ml92222

    4 жыл бұрын

    Denis Bolic whenever I buy a fresh bottle of Jameson whiskey I have to get drunk with my old pal Hank Chinaski

  • @sadebilly6943

    @sadebilly6943

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bukowski kind of vibe💯❤️

  • @machtrebel

    @machtrebel

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ml92222 I often watch that Belgian interview from 1987 while drinking Jameson

  • @landryprichard6778

    @landryprichard6778

    2 жыл бұрын

    While my continuous string of small tragedies try to take me down...i think of this man.

  • @poem
    @poem2 жыл бұрын

    This makes my day! ❤️‍🔥 “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside - remembering all the times you've felt that way.” ❤️‍🔥 ― Charles Bukowski

  • @thafunktapus

    @thafunktapus

    11 ай бұрын

    "it's not how many times you go down. it's how many times you get up." - George Foreman

  • @richdegraff8883
    @richdegraff88835 жыл бұрын

    I wish I could thank this guy for the things that he wrote.

  • @stinkycheeseman1723

    @stinkycheeseman1723

    Жыл бұрын

    You can. Just keep it going.

  • @MetalGearTenno
    @MetalGearTenno3 жыл бұрын

    Lady - "I dont know you" Charles - "I guess we have different hangover times". Best pick up line ever. 🤣🤣🤣

  • @DarkFictionFactory
    @DarkFictionFactory Жыл бұрын

    Bukowski was so profound in his own way. Brutally honest and darkly comic. As someone who struggles with alcoholism I really relate to this dude and as much as he writes about the depressive state of humanity I still find hope in his words.

  • @FMRebs
    @FMRebs8 жыл бұрын

    "Liquor's like a symphony, or like a classical song or something. You don't use it as a downer; you use it to leap up into the sky when you're in pain or when you have depression. You use it to get youreslf out of the common.I'm so tired of people who are sober everyday. I can't understand people who are just walkin up and down sober, they live and they die their lives and they never get drunk, they never get sick, they never have hangovers... Just go around drinking fruit juice eating eggs, bacon, cauliflower. They never get up, they never get down. They never get sick, they never get high, they never go crazy."

  • @dusterss6290

    @dusterss6290

    8 жыл бұрын

    I am older, I am degenerating alcohol, I am father and give, I gave already so live,

  • @appletongallery

    @appletongallery

    5 жыл бұрын

    His words celebrate alcohol - it’s true but also it makes you drink!

  • @skyluke9476

    @skyluke9476

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@appletongallery nothing makes you drink, except alcohol. What makes us NOT drink is what we should wonder. The fact life has a grasp on us harder than drug induced hysteria, suicide, and bliss. We should stop marveling why we stay in bed and rather marvel at why we ever wake up AGAIN

  • @EricHrahsel

    @EricHrahsel

    4 жыл бұрын

    Alcohol killed him so.. its best everything is moderate

  • @stupidchicken1155

    @stupidchicken1155

    4 жыл бұрын

    Eric Hrahsel he died of leukemia. not related to alcohol at all

  • @TysonWelchlin
    @TysonWelchlin6 жыл бұрын

    It's amazing to me, he really feels like a friend to me. Complete honesty. I love poetry like that. RIP Charles. Awesome post. peace and love. ty

  • @snippy9469
    @snippy9469 Жыл бұрын

    "I kept writing. Not because I was good, but because they were so damn bad."

  • @junkettarp8942
    @junkettarp89425 жыл бұрын

    Why do I feel like drinking every time I watch this guy??

  • @-ipf8978

    @-ipf8978

    4 жыл бұрын

    i was drinking before I discovered him. Cheers!

  • @-ipf8978

    @-ipf8978

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Charles Jones I'll drink to that. Cheers!

  • @dischargesummary8794

    @dischargesummary8794

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lis Skelsey lol

  • @aswascreates

    @aswascreates

    4 жыл бұрын

    or reading

  • @jarretjordan3837

    @jarretjordan3837

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Charles Jones ...... Two sides of the same coin.

  • @robertchamlingrai6729
    @robertchamlingrai67294 жыл бұрын

    "You want a poem,beg me!!" I would surely and happily:')

  • @jamesdebaca6878
    @jamesdebaca68783 жыл бұрын

    One of the most brilliantly natural geniuses of our time. Thank you

  • @anuragparvekar36
    @anuragparvekar366 жыл бұрын

    the moment he starts pouring his poems, the camera angle and light on his face and eyes makes it look like he giving the death stare to the entire drama of the society that has been bestowed upon him... Frieghtning and calm

  • @strangcousin1289

    @strangcousin1289

    6 жыл бұрын

    Those are his eyelids

  • @gregsmith7949
    @gregsmith79493 жыл бұрын

    If Jim Morrison had lived, I can see him evolving into a Charles Bukowski where he's sitting half drunk reading poetry.😆

  • @annalisavajda252

    @annalisavajda252

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah well Charles was California certainly people think of California just as pretty beaches glamourous Hollywood etc. He's the dark side the seedy bar scene representative of which there are probably many and Jim Morrison would drink in places like that and maybe Charles even listened to the Doors too but he said he liked classical music to drink too. Both very talented but Jim was beautiful for many years worshiped adored Charles I'm not sure would even want to be adored he loved reclusion it was genuine.

  • @bluewendigo672

    @bluewendigo672

    Жыл бұрын

    Definitely....Jim could love 💕 this kind of expression of poetry

  • @williamwoody7607

    @williamwoody7607

    Жыл бұрын

    He’d have been too wealthy to be anything other than immune.

  • @thafunktapus

    @thafunktapus

    11 ай бұрын

    Jim couldn't carry Chuck's jockstrap. He was a spoiled pretty boy Air Force brat. He never knew distress.

  • @carolynwestlake7670

    @carolynwestlake7670

    10 ай бұрын

    LA Woman- they shared

  • @TheGor54
    @TheGor544 жыл бұрын

    I didn't realize that my life and thoughts were normal until I discovered Bukowski. 👍😊

  • @ryanfatal

    @ryanfatal

    4 жыл бұрын

    still doesn't make them normal!

  • @justinedse3314

    @justinedse3314

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ryanfatal Actually it makes them very normal

  • @GG-yn6jw
    @GG-yn6jw4 жыл бұрын

    "I guess we have different hangovers at different times!!!",,,what a brilliant response! Lol

  • @fatimamelo3858
    @fatimamelo38589 ай бұрын

    He was the real poet,no pretense ,amazing human!

  • @DamionHamilton1277
    @DamionHamilton12778 жыл бұрын

    Awesome stuff. Love the sound of his voice. Seems like a cool dude.

  • @AAGI23
    @AAGI234 жыл бұрын

    His vibe & energy is infectious. Just like a nostalgic broken hearted love song - wicked games - Chris Isak; that'll make you feel like a bottle of wine & a packet of cigarettes - bless his tragedy

  • @care4animals114
    @care4animals114 Жыл бұрын

    So glad I looked up this admirable, honest, clever, experienced man genius

  • @HEADLINEZOO
    @HEADLINEZOO4 жыл бұрын

    Charles Bukowski and John Prine worked for the post office. Mundane repetition gives a man time. To think. Wonder and ponder. Plan his escape. Escapism as refuge. A Bukowski devotee took me on a tour. Autographed books. Barkowski’s watering hole-filmed in Bar Fly-where he romanced the bottle. I wonder how many Barkowski’s and Prine’s deliver our mail.

  • @ktothec24

    @ktothec24

    2 жыл бұрын

    I deliver your mail and I’m a god damn genius

  • @numerum_bestia

    @numerum_bestia

    2 жыл бұрын

    @HEADLINEZOO I think Albert Einstein said something similar when reflecting on his time working as a clerk in a patent office. I found a song by John Prine that I really like a little while ago. Do you have any recommendations?

  • @HEADLINEZOO

    @HEADLINEZOO

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@numerum_bestia In Spite of Ourselves

  • @deenibeeniable
    @deenibeeniable4 жыл бұрын

    26:15 This is absolutely incredible. The entire next paragraph is spontaneous poetry. In fact his riffs between poems, it's hard to tell where the poem stops.

  • @plusfour1
    @plusfour15 жыл бұрын

    Of course I have a knife in my heart. I am a man. You're awesome Charles. Keep telling it like it is.

  • @tomasandersson2930
    @tomasandersson2930 Жыл бұрын

    Read his books my early 20s, i'm a totally different person now but it's nice to come back to his masterpieces..

  • @Mazurka1001
    @Mazurka10015 жыл бұрын

    .Buk:.. I’m a poet, see. Woman: You what, a Cola? 😂🙄

  • @supertzar
    @supertzar9 жыл бұрын

    Buke it rhymes with puke. haha i loved that.

  • @gothling1955
    @gothling19559 жыл бұрын

    A brilliant, timeless piece of film-making, chronicling Bukowski as being just the way so many of us like to remember him. It was a real pleasure to revisit this. Many thanks!

  • @setpunks13
    @setpunks138 жыл бұрын

    read a lot of his poetry in college. just read Ham on Rye and Post Office. Wonderful writer.

  • @yawetlettuce2107

    @yawetlettuce2107

    6 жыл бұрын

    t .byrne I just finished The Post Office man class book

  • @adriankingdon3055

    @adriankingdon3055

    4 жыл бұрын

    I read ham on rye in Hay-On-Wye The Welsh lilt made me realise It is not what it seems But nothing ever is...

  • @multiversossaltamontes7374

    @multiversossaltamontes7374

    3 жыл бұрын

    he was a story teller of that time. not a try hard with lots of instrumentals. just a story and time to spend.

  • @mikevaldez7684
    @mikevaldez76844 жыл бұрын

    I'll never forget the day my father brought home a book of Bukowski's poetry in 1972; I was 12 years old & taped recorded my reading of "What a Man I Was". I loved that poem; it was the first poem in the book. God Bless Charles !

  • @Tabish29
    @Tabish294 жыл бұрын

    Life ain't easy. When things get tougher than usual i always come back to the Buk. He is literature's god.

  • @stormtony631

    @stormtony631

    Жыл бұрын

    good answer buddy,the same as yours

  • @isaross2710
    @isaross27107 жыл бұрын

    the man put fire in my belly! alcohol has not relieved him of his wit he is totally with it. A mould breaker. Big kiss .

  • @70sbush41
    @70sbush416 жыл бұрын

    my man Buk, a beautiful presence in an indifferent world - love and tears my man

  • @isaross2710
    @isaross27107 жыл бұрын

    I love this man because he is REAL and his own man. funny, effing hilarious !

  • @namelessgrace6319
    @namelessgrace63192 жыл бұрын

    I just want to soak up everything Bukowski. Truly a gem. 💚💚💚

  • @arkantika3927
    @arkantika39274 жыл бұрын

    I must’ve watched this a hundred times but it never gets old .

  • @brunobailly7013
    @brunobailly70133 жыл бұрын

    First time hearing his voice. I expected it to be like Tom Waits. But it's actually a nice surprise and interesting to hear how suave and soft it is. It makes the shouting stand out even more... "What are you sitting at for !? Go to Chicago!" 😁

  • @thepoetrykingdom6307
    @thepoetrykingdom63073 жыл бұрын

    "you should buy my books" what a hustler!

  • @niloyjana
    @niloyjana3 жыл бұрын

    this guy...this guy made poetry much more realistic, his poems don't show you dreams and love but the reality that is there is in society with words that are simple yet powerful enough to describe life.

  • @Scorchy666
    @Scorchy6667 жыл бұрын

    That slight grin over to the camera at 1:14 when he keeps having to pronounce "poet" to that dense woman in the liquor store. The Genius of the Crowd.

  • @patconlon7835

    @patconlon7835

    5 жыл бұрын

    scorchydense666---Dense Woman?-----Bukowski seemed to like her--

  • @sailorholiday
    @sailorholiday Жыл бұрын

    I just love this town, the lights, Sunset Blvd….and then yells at a car in front of him! 😂😂😂😂😂😂 AWESOME

  • @davescott9062
    @davescott90626 ай бұрын

    Thank you for posting this, it's so respectful and beautiful at the same time. What a wonderful soul he was. So glad to hear the applause and the crowd giving him recognition, that warmed my heart. @4:46 Sums up his story so well.

  • @soulfill4292
    @soulfill42927 жыл бұрын

    Why his voice makes me cry😍I love him

  • @tonywalton1052
    @tonywalton10527 жыл бұрын

    6:39 'I've been around, I know this town"

  • @Banani264
    @Banani2643 жыл бұрын

    I don't know anything, but I can see everything. Fascinating.

  • @RaymondMorii-gs5vr
    @RaymondMorii-gs5vrАй бұрын

    buk sent me a box of his books in 1986 while i was encaged at the vicious vicinity of Soledad. NO CHARGE and a letter the master wrote at 3am in the LA area. A truly decent man whom I with thousands of others paid close closer attention to. He wrote simply and hit HARD on subjects most would not wish to visit.

  • @neyraeshalomi4419
    @neyraeshalomi44192 жыл бұрын

    This is the first author that ive ever resonated with. I read my first book by him in the 10th grade and it’s so refreshing to come back to this video years later and still get the same comfort i got from it before. I feel so understood when i hear him speak. And it’s so nice to see how much he’s overcome.

  • @cardemiopoffal9102
    @cardemiopoffal91024 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for the English Subs, it´s very important for who are not native English speakers. Greetings from Atacama´s desert (Chile).

  • @paulbrimble8204
    @paulbrimble8204 Жыл бұрын

    I thought i'd seen it all from Bukowski. Outstanding.

  • @ooLevityoo
    @ooLevityoo3 жыл бұрын

    "I guess we have different hangovers, at different times..."

  • @antoniosmith7310

    @antoniosmith7310

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ever get work hangovers? They call it burnouts

  • @KD-jb9pq
    @KD-jb9pq7 жыл бұрын

    "Garcia Lorca had style" -Bukowski. Thank God he's from L.A., cause being from here and being a lover a poetry. Buk is a person I can relate to so much.

  • @TaraBara27
    @TaraBara276 жыл бұрын

    He makes me cry because I know what he's talking about. "Christ, I've got it."

  • @nukepizzaa

    @nukepizzaa

    4 жыл бұрын

    For all the intrigue bukowski has, your comment is retarded

  • @TheBoris777777

    @TheBoris777777

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sharing is caring.

  • @eatpeople4204

    @eatpeople4204

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Rinske Raphael elbow deeeep.

  • @e-tones2638
    @e-tones263811 ай бұрын

    This dudes just a natural. Everlasting.

  • @william6084
    @william608410 ай бұрын

    Pain is the substrate, the building blocks of empathy and Hank is one of the greatest interpreter's of the being human to ever walk the Earth

  • @finnmccool684
    @finnmccool6843 жыл бұрын

    Just finished 'Post Office.' Reading 'Women' now. Waiting for 'Ham on Rye' to arrive.

  • @andygray
    @andygray7 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant, thanks for the upload.

  • @eucliduschaumeau8813
    @eucliduschaumeau88132 жыл бұрын

    I used to play sections of this particular spoken word collection on my radio show in 1980. Good times.

  • @helainecka2852
    @helainecka28528 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing this!

  • @reneharde3459
    @reneharde34592 жыл бұрын

    Amazing to hear him read his own work - so powerful,,,,

  • @drralph100
    @drralph1003 жыл бұрын

    I was first introduced to Bukowski's writing by High Times magazine in the 70's. I forgot all about him until recently and now I have read a half dozen of his books. I'm surprised at his voice I imagined him sounding differently. He makes me feel normal, lol.

  • @dylanretief9111
    @dylanretief9111Ай бұрын

    Thanks for making me feel better . Thanks for not being happy... Thanks for being alone. Thanks for making me notice that I'm not the only one who's alone.

  • @cfcreative1
    @cfcreative14 жыл бұрын

    Oh man this is so gold.

  • @gleelee2008
    @gleelee20083 жыл бұрын

    John Malkovich would be a great pick to play Hank. he could do that voice really easily.

  • @elkmeatenjoyer3409

    @elkmeatenjoyer3409

    11 ай бұрын

    Doesn't have the same face complexion

  • @hihatjas9477

    @hihatjas9477

    Ай бұрын

    Mickey Rourke in Barfly.

  • @emrahkorkmaz87
    @emrahkorkmaz872 жыл бұрын

    So much experience in live he had!

  • @matthewhirst7640
    @matthewhirst76404 жыл бұрын

    26:08 Wow! What a great little speach 👍

  • @LenHummelChannel
    @LenHummelChannel8 жыл бұрын

    the fascination with this man is over the honesty and pain and angst that is tough as nails in the hands and feet and heart.

  • @laflamdo9569
    @laflamdo95694 жыл бұрын

    this made my day !

  • @ifoundthistoday
    @ifoundthistoday4 жыл бұрын

    I lived in LA for years back in the 80's and it still looked like in film, there was still Mels drive in restaurant and the Flippers Roller ring on La Cienega

  • @mingonmongo1
    @mingonmongo13 жыл бұрын

    As a struggling writer, will always remember his advice to make sure that everything you write should always have 'juice'... thank you, Charles!

  • @joshingtonbarthsworth631

    @joshingtonbarthsworth631

    2 жыл бұрын

    Remember not to try

  • @stormtony631

    @stormtony631

    Жыл бұрын

    @@joshingtonbarthsworth631 yeah so it‘s kinda like a balance,if you think about ‘juice’ too much, it's gonna be a pretense

  • @johnnyx9892

    @johnnyx9892

    5 ай бұрын

    Drink a lot and say "fuck the world".

  • @marianne22222

    @marianne22222

    Ай бұрын

    Wym juice

  • @ivanbonet4
    @ivanbonet45 жыл бұрын

    I dig this alternance between the reading and interview. Interesting. Love "The rat" poem.

  • @rogue8059
    @rogue80594 жыл бұрын

    I had first read his works when i was maybe 15yrs old and i had goose bumbs all over me. That was a life changing experience in my life because for the first time in my life i had someone who understand me, someone who knows how it is.

  • @Sophuriouspoems
    @Sophuriouspoems5 жыл бұрын

    What a gift, what a real gift.

  • @tommykalahan3362
    @tommykalahan33627 жыл бұрын

    The reason to quit writing. The reason to keep drinking. The reason to despise a career. A celebration of freedom.

  • @Schurik72

    @Schurik72

    5 жыл бұрын

    there is no absolute no reason for quit writing and to keep drinking. If you can't balance it out, choose writing. Never mind the career or you will end up drinking without a single line written and without career at all.

  • @teecee3866

    @teecee3866

    5 жыл бұрын

    He was his own man.

  • @stacyblue1980

    @stacyblue1980

    4 жыл бұрын

    I will never quit writing. Ive been writing since I was a kid. I will never stop. I have been drinking for longer than I remember. I have always had very funky factory jobs. I am a worker. I am working class. I have no one to pay my rent and bills and insurance. But Bukowski is enlightening. Yes. He is. He is always a welcome ray of sun. I kid you not. I can get lost in his books and I swear I dont wanna come back. I hate my job. I hate getting sick from alcohol. But its alreet. Cause Im older now and life aint fair and its not supposed to be. Bless.

  • @winniehall5569

    @winniehall5569

    4 жыл бұрын

    This man has a life to write about. A life that's around us, that is us but most of us are pretending to live a fairer life. I wish more people would write their lives out for us to read and feel a little normal. Have you ever read "Everybody's Normal Till You Get To Know Them by John Ortberg?" Try. Understand yourself better by reading it. It will give you a chance to begin to understand others too. I wish Charles read it to only understand his parents differently. They were stuck too to an unknown. We don't know of their upbringing??

  • @sal2417

    @sal2417

    2 жыл бұрын

    You either gotta write something worth Reading or do something worth writing

  • @jerlinvinso246
    @jerlinvinso2466 жыл бұрын

    johnperkins: There is tragedy in every human life. Accept that and you will be able to deal with your tragedy and survive it.

  • @return2innocence221

    @return2innocence221

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes acceptance is key 🗝️ xxxxxxxxxxx

  • @richfuturebydsk2562
    @richfuturebydsk25622 жыл бұрын

    Thanks a lot for Charles Bukowski 🙏 Much support from 🇿🇦 ZAR - Kwamashu Rich Future by DSK Clothing ❤️

  • @voicegirl555
    @voicegirl5553 жыл бұрын

    Happy 100th Birthday Mr. Bukowski! I have recently started reading your poetry and find myself really liking it. I wish I had met you! You were something else!!!

  • @misterwhitman4368
    @misterwhitman43688 жыл бұрын

    Groovy!

  • @BlackKaweah
    @BlackKaweah6 жыл бұрын

    Anybody who drinks Michelob has a lot of poetry in them

  • @jarretjordan3837

    @jarretjordan3837

    4 жыл бұрын

    Schlitz....... No poetry in Michelob. Theyake diet beer for Christ's sake.!!! "Ultra"? Gag!!!

  • @ronfroehlich4697

    @ronfroehlich4697

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jarretjordan3837 Michelob lager in the hourglass bottles was nothing like Michelob Ultra.

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