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

He makes me want to cry every time he talks about life with his unedited honesty. Such a sad man who had a sad and very hard life who has done nothing but enrich my life because of who he was and how he lived his life. That is the sign of a great writer, one who enriches other people's lives. The greatest of the greatest, writer or otherwise.

I don't feel like an alien any more.

@greenbanana311

4 жыл бұрын

Too bad you are one, though.

@comanchedase

3 жыл бұрын

@@greenbanana311 your punctuation sucks

@greenbanana311

3 жыл бұрын

@@comanchedase You must be simple. Well, obviously.

@freeghost5084

3 жыл бұрын

Aliens cannot be alienated. The only risik they bring to the earth is - to make it a better place, instead of destroying it like the alienated do. Feel hugged ! ❤

@volumesofrelativeobscurity

2 жыл бұрын

I felt my stepfathers kicks in the womb.

He even spoke poetry. It just rolls out of his mouth and he tells the damn TRUTH! Ive always agreed with what he says about other people. I dont like them either,,,,,,but we have to deal with them dont we? Sucks

Bukowski is not dead, he's just hiding in some place away off this shitty world, drinking, writing, and enjoying watching this shitshow. He's the one of few things that keeps me going day after day. Thanks Hank, you old, beautiful toad.

Raising my glass to Charles!

Brilliant genius supported by the legendary editor John Martin.

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.

@Taofik953

3 жыл бұрын

It is the worst thing that can happen to a child, but probably the best thing that can happen to a writer

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

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.

Thanks so much, John Martin !! from Black Sparrow, who took a chance on Buk, and allowed us all to experience his genius!!

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

@TroufakosGeorge

3 жыл бұрын

If we take in consideration mr Elas that he always speaks the truth then we have to accept that “My father was a great literary teacher, he beat the hell out my pretentious self” ... More or less these were his words.

@andygray

3 жыл бұрын

@@TroufakosGeorge By own account, his father was a child abuser who beat him mercilessly.

PaulKuko-God bless you!!! Ive ben waiting to see this again. This looks fantastic. Thanks again, big fan of your stuff-Tim Detroit

excellent collection!

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

Only one writer ever and that’s Hank.Forget the rest.He’’s the best.

thanks for uploading!

this is great. thanks for uploading.

That's how you stop a sadist, you don't scream when they torture you. They hate silence as though you can stomach their bs and just keep staring at them in disgust.

i can relate to him now as i get older

This is awesome! Thanks.

I read most of his books. Pulp was written much later in his life i think. I was pleasantly surprised he hadn't stagnated one bit as a writer.

@MarcCreedon

7 жыл бұрын

I agree. He changed as a writer as he aged but he never stagnated.

@jcmangan

7 жыл бұрын

True. He kept it going. Even he had become famous he still had it what drove him from the start.

@yusufbanna

5 жыл бұрын

he said himself i think, about this. poetry being the absolute psychiatrist.....to keep om writing no matter what happens is motto and mojo of life and being.

@IETCHX69

5 жыл бұрын

DIDN'T stagnate ?? Wrong . Read The Captain ship mutiny one . He talks about cutting toenails for half a fucking chapter .

@Tabish29

3 жыл бұрын

@@IETCHX69 his novels were all great except Hollywood. Dont know this piece youre speaking of.

It was a whole different time that Bukowski wrote about here...a whole different place too. America has changed so much since the ‘60’s & ‘70’s.

wow! thanks so so much for uploading this, PaulKuK0

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.

Dad and the razor strap gave him the zEn hits to become a writer like that. An outstanding one amongst puny typers .•°

@farrider3339

3 жыл бұрын

@Steven : maybe born 😏 brilliant 🤭 hehe Albeit remember - it takes quite some decades , until an acorn 🌰 becomes an oAk 🌳 and finally is able to cast a respectable shadow 🕳 °•.• ° • . • . . 👋.•°

@farrider3339

3 жыл бұрын

@Steven : true "he nEVer gave up" ! Just imagine how many thousands of other BooCowsKees whither away unread , unheard 🤔 .•°

Chuck showed us the beauty and divinity inherent in the grotesque

Mr. Bukowski explained it perfectly. Keep your distance and I will feed you and you do the same back. That is part of good writing -- observing and not intruding on others for a reaction. Socializing is done for that purpose. Why would you go out of your way or else lazily annoy someone into a fit in order to sit or stand and attract false attention? That is pure ignorance.

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.

This is so somber, I love it

great clip

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?

Bukowski.....eternal.

One of the few who found and stood at the top of the mountain. There, he saw truth- and was able to distill it into a language that other truth-seekers can understand as a sort of 'mental map' to the top of our own individual mountain.

@johnroumpos4138

5 жыл бұрын

alexia nunyabusiness

@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??

Sean Penn isn't, like in Born Into This, ACTING like a 'Bukowski-Guy". Ya wanna smack em in that one, not to mention Bono, who ya just wanna start kicking-hard.

intro music sounds like boards of Canada.

The Senseless, Tragic Rape of Charles Bukowski’s Ghost by John Martin’s Black Sparrow Press by Michael Phillips June 18th, 2013 If you’ve ever read anything by Charles Bukowski, you no doubt remember the feeling you had the first time you came across his work. For better or worse, Bukowski is one of those authors who you don’t easily forget or ignore. Very few people are ambivalent about him.

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

drink or no drink you're going to feel

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.

I share most of his feelings about the human race, but I do like their dogs and cats.

Where is the documentary with the German guy(s) where Bukowski is driving and show them the post office he used to work in, and his windshield is cracked and he's got the Iron Cross dangling?

@Goblin-ee4og

6 жыл бұрын

Harbinger The Bukowski Tapes my freind. Both parts are on KZread

I always thought that :-D

I fucking love Bukowski.

@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.

“I do not like the human race.” Charles Bukowski

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

We got beat till we broke, i know what he means when he said he stopped making the noises and the beatings stopped my parents only stopped until then

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

that was very funny! cracked me up..

Does anyone know why Martin gave in to Ecco?

Anyone know the music behind the titles at approx 1.10 ?

❤

dude!

-- Sean Penn is a great actor, director, and person. Why are you calling him names?

@joenavanodo3780

4 жыл бұрын

BullittMcQueen1 : Jealousy!

Who’s the piano player??

we comingle with strangers we d rather not know while enjoying a night on the town. whereis his replacement?

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?

@freeghost5084

3 жыл бұрын

He spoke of "human race" instead of "human being". You see, there is a essential difference of perspective. I suppose the spiritual distance he needed to the "human race", urged to be spoken out, was, on the one hand, more or less the only possible way for him to create the impossibile works while making the deep pain bearable on the other hand.

I'd have to think awhile before nailing it down perfectly. His comments are superficial. And too much time is taken up with him, time that would be better spent with Bukowski, or with the women in his life, or even with the people who knew him at the Post Office. I'd love to hear from them. Too much Penn, and what he brings to the table is mediocre.

@TroufakosGeorge

3 жыл бұрын

Time spent with him is his book...

so CUTE when talks about humans :D

he's like ... a literary marlon brando ... lol

Where are the Bukowski tapes?

and now i'm the "bad" person for saying that (typing)

What happened to Sean Penn's house?

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

Alienation, isolation, addiction, seething rage in ones imprisoned deadening mind...and so it goes.

@MckyMseNTarotCrds Anywhere.

Bukowski would probably hate this lol

I want whatever drugs sean penn is on

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

bim bim bim bim!

@ShaneBermingham616

4 жыл бұрын

Bim bim bim

@badsign1980 Women is tragically underrated

@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?

Penn’s young years, before he decided to prey on Haiti

The black swan burns?

Agree with those pointing out that Sean Penn in the same sentence as Bukowski is like a homemade Neapolitan pizza fresh out of the oven, topped with steaming dog shit. Sean Penn is a fucking poser from the word GO, and has about as much creative vision and insight as a stuffed doll. Artistry and Ego have nothing in common. Penn is self-aggrandizing; Bukowski: human. The End.

@jcmangan

7 жыл бұрын

True. But don`t be so hard on the kid.

But I like their dogs and cats

@sammyscotch9945

5 жыл бұрын

You do?

@fedorwand cigarette smoke?

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

@azurenscens yourself is human

bla bla WHAT ABOUT MY SUBTITLES?

I don't like them either. What a fucking legend

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

When you cant face your feelings sober, youd damn well better take some drugs.

@TroufakosGeorge

3 жыл бұрын

Undiscovered genius my friend !

no.

-- Sean Penn was a good friend to Charles Bukowski. It is right that Sean Penn is in this documentary about Bukowski. What do you have against Sean Penn?

poor mr penn throat and lungs savaged by cigs ironic: the voice the actors precious intrument.

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.

He thought his father taught him how to write?

Try again.

I wish I could punch John Martin in the face. He allowed Bukowski's work to be butchered, defaced, and eviscerated after his death.

@MrAtomicDon

4 жыл бұрын

How's that?

@anxietycelery1732

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrAtomicDon All of Bukowski's posthumous work was heavily edited (except for the recent Abel Debritto compilations), and the only one who had the authority to allow that was John.

@MrAtomicDon

4 жыл бұрын

@@anxietycelery1732 I didn't know that. Thanks.

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

How clever you are to predict negative votes. I dig Sean and he dug Bukowski. That's about it!

@jackshitthelastamericanher4139

5 жыл бұрын

It's not hard to see what's coming if you're paying attention.

I don't like them, Sam I am...lol

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.

I skipped the 3 minutes of Sean Penn. Seeing some pampered Hollywood thing really took me away from the spirit of Bukowski

So he hates himself

@SubconsciousGatherer

8 жыл бұрын

Why do you say that?

@doublefeature

5 жыл бұрын

@@SubconsciousGatherer hes a human..

@SubconsciousGatherer

5 жыл бұрын

@@doublefeature All humans hate themselves?

@buddyparrish4356

5 жыл бұрын

@@SubconsciousGatherer Yes

@joenavanodo3780

4 жыл бұрын

marissa : The man is consumed by hate, but it’s a slow dead hate. He only likes life a little bit, when he is writing, otherwise, he seems to stay drunk , or at least , working on being drunk all other times.

i like chinaski, but i dont like sean penn