Bukowski Reads Bukowski | Artbound | Season 5, Episode 6 | KCET
2014 ж. 13 Қар.
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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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19:55 "Its not the large things that send a man to a madhouse...its the continuing series of small tragedies"
I feel the opposite as if you develop a higher tolerance and become immune to the madness.
‘Not the death of his love, but the shoe lace that snaps with no time left’
@@AnnaLVajda It can go either way. You can develop a higher tolerance or it can break you down. Depends on your biology.
@@AnnaLVajda what doesnt kill you makes you stranger- Nietzche
@@ismaellooaros4288 'stronger'
"Im a poet." "A what?" Classic.
A cola?
@@joshingtonbarthsworth631 A Hefeweizen.
@@joshingtonbarthsworth631 A Classic
"I said a Pollock! Are you DEAF!?"
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. - Charles Bukowski
@Evan Hoback honesty, truth. Both can be denied, they're still always what they are , lots of honest people are LYING to themselves .
@Evan Hoback "abuse" lol
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.
"I became insane, with long horrible intervals of sanity" - Edgar Allan Poe
@Jeff Sylvester l guess that's the "norm" for "some" however not for "ãll" !!
1:41 "My name is Bukowski. Buy my books." You gotta love him :D
Rhyme's with puke .
Deina Mutta xxx
Gotta love the angle.
That was absolutely beautiful
IETCHX69 seeing it written out makes it so much better
Gets a $20 dollars check Bukowski: the gods have been good to me
😂😂😂
To be fair, 20 dollars was quite a bit of money in the 70s
Around 1970 one dollar was about equivalent to ten dollars today. So it was a decent chunk of change back then.
@UCyBxJ_8WRL63m1mipXUxN9Q to be fair, shut the fuck up
Just enough for a strong drink, and a loose woman. $20 can make you feel like a god.
A poet. A what? A poet. A cola? Hahaha I can only imagine what was going on in bukowskis head right then. LOL
Jarrett L 🤣🤣
He was thinking of banging her.
“Yeah, that’s it. I’m a fucking cola”.
@@Jason-ji4sy more than likely.
I thought I heard that...
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 ✌️
I write a lot. When I hit a block, I come to this reading. Amazing stuff. Hope you're good, my brother.
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 👍
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
I can finally enjoy being alone without alcohol. Never thought it would be possible. The addict demon on my shoulder is always there.
Just to get centered
his voice is so satisfying
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.
@@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.
@@chamade166 Listen Chamade, if you lived in the world, you would be unwell too
Yet, the woman at the beginning who said “cola” had a very dissatisfying voice
@@aarondoodles3380 Hi ! Not sûre , many people had a sad and violent childhood and don't become poet after.
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.
we live in an increasingly commodified society. There is lot less value assigned to art, poetry and truth than there used to be.
Thought she said Polak
A Cola? I would have just answered with "yes.....yes I'm a Cola. Have a nice day"
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?
Mike H. O loved WhatsApp you sais, Mike. Greetings from Brasil
He has a very old soul, special souls like that are rare, and they are like time travellers. They are free.
Meyers Briggs INFP
"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.
So long...
I could watch that interaction in the shop all day long. That was poetry in itself.
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.
the better the writing - the greater the pain
Beatrice Maude yes he makes me cry too! Did you like women?
Beatrice Maude pulp is maligned but I adored it. Women. Ham on Rye. The Post Office. Beautiful stuff.
I hope you finally cried.
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.
"the city dumps fill the junkyards fill the madhouses fill the hospitals fill the graveyards fill nothing else fills.”
Emptiness fills... a woman’s smile fills ...Bukowski fills...the ever expanding void fills. I love you Chuck
Alone with everybody?
"Find What You Love And Let It Kill You" Charles Bukowski
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
@@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
bukowski never said this it's by Kinky Friedman
@@Pohlolol He's referring to the ego. He means give your all to what you love until it humbles you.
orphansparrow hm i actually like the litteral and morbid lecture
"Everybody can be a genious at the age of 25. Try it at the age of 50." Bukowski
“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.
Bukowski kind of night. Bukowski kind of life.
Denis Bolic whenever I buy a fresh bottle of Jameson whiskey I have to get drunk with my old pal Hank Chinaski
Bukowski kind of vibe💯❤️
@@ml92222 I often watch that Belgian interview from 1987 while drinking Jameson
While my continuous string of small tragedies try to take me down...i think of this man.
Bukowskis style was raw & simple. Something a lot of poets struggle to replicate.
Bukowski: Shakespeare of the down and out! Hands down my favourite writer and poet.
Grant, well said!! He's my favorite also.I live my crazy life like his poems.
Rubbish.....Shakespeare indeed!
He was a multi-millionaire, not down and out.
Bukowski never wrote plays, so I dunno.
@@TheIkaika777 sources?
“One more beer.. I’ll take you all, all of ya” so glad we have these interviews and readings
I wish I could thank this guy for the things that he wrote.
You can. Just keep it going.
"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."
I am older, I am degenerating alcohol, I am father and give, I gave already so live,
His words celebrate alcohol - it’s true but also it makes you drink!
@@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
Alcohol killed him so.. its best everything is moderate
Eric Hrahsel he died of leukemia. not related to alcohol at all
"You want a poem,beg me!!" I would surely and happily:')
.Buk:.. I’m a poet, see. Woman: You what, a Cola? 😂🙄
Buke it rhymes with puke. haha i loved that.
Why do I feel like drinking every time I watch this guy??
i was drinking before I discovered him. Cheers!
@Charles Jones I'll drink to that. Cheers!
Lis Skelsey lol
or reading
@Charles Jones ...... Two sides of the same coin.
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
well said
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
"it's not how many times you go down. it's how many times you get up." - George Foreman
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.
One of the most brilliantly natural geniuses of our time. Thank you
I didn't realize that my life and thoughts were normal until I discovered Bukowski. 👍😊
still doesn't make them normal!
@@ryanfatal Actually it makes them very normal
"I guess we have different hangovers at different times!!!",,,what a brilliant response! Lol
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. 😂
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
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.
I deliver your mail and I’m a god damn genius
@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?
@@numerum_bestia In Spite of Ourselves
Of course I have a knife in my heart. I am a man. You're awesome Charles. Keep telling it like it is.
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 .
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.
Read his books my early 20s, i'm a totally different person now but it's nice to come back to his masterpieces..
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 !
I love this man because he is REAL and his own man. funny, effing hilarious !
6:39 'I've been around, I know this town"
Life ain't easy. When things get tougher than usual i always come back to the Buk. He is literature's god.
good answer buddy，the same as yours
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"
not bad, not bad at all
Bad at all
This seems to be true
Nick O you are literally everything Bukowski would hate
@@mylesprobus1253 Oh darn! Well I appreciate being informed of this!
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
Awesome stuff. Love the sound of his voice. Seems like a cool dude.
my man Buk, a beautiful presence in an indifferent world - love and tears my man
"you should buy my books" what a hustler!
Why his voice makes me cry😍I love him
read a lot of his poetry in college. just read Ham on Rye and Post Office. Wonderful writer.
t .byrne I just finished The Post Office man class book
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...
he was a story teller of that time. not a try hard with lots of instrumentals. just a story and time to spend.
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!
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!" 😁
If Jim Morrison had lived, I can see him evolving into a Charles Bukowski where he's sitting half drunk reading poetry.😆
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.
Definitely....Jim could love 💕 this kind of expression of poetry
He’d have been too wealthy to be anything other than immune.
Jim couldn't carry Chuck's jockstrap. He was a spoiled pretty boy Air Force brat. He never knew distress.
LA Woman- they shared
John Malkovich would be a great pick to play Hank. he could do that voice really easily.
Doesn't have the same face complexion
Mickey Rourke in Barfly.
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
Those are his eyelids
He makes me cry because I know what he's talking about. "Christ, I've got it."
For all the intrigue bukowski has, your comment is retarded
Sharing is caring.
@Rinske Raphael elbow deeeep.
I must’ve watched this a hundred times but it never gets old .
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.
I just want to soak up everything Bukowski. Truly a gem. 💚💚💚
"I guess we have different hangovers, at different times..."
Ever get work hangovers? They call it burnouts
The reason to quit writing. The reason to keep drinking. The reason to despise a career. A celebration of freedom.
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.
He was his own man.
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.
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??
You either gotta write something worth Reading or do something worth writing
So glad I looked up this admirable, honest, clever, experienced man genius
johnperkins: There is tragedy in every human life. Accept that and you will be able to deal with your tragedy and survive it.
Yes acceptance is key 🗝️ xxxxxxxxxxx
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.
scorchydense666---Dense Woman?-----Bukowski seemed to like her--
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.
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.
Authentic genius. There aren't many guys like Charles Bukowski walking around anymore - and that's a goddamn shame. 😳
Anybody who drinks Michelob has a lot of poetry in them
Schlitz....... No poetry in Michelob. Theyake diet beer for Christ's sake.!!! "Ultra"? Gag!!!
@@jarretjordan3837 Michelob lager in the hourglass bottles was nothing like Michelob Ultra.
Amazing to hear him read his own work - so powerful,,,,
Thanks for sharing this!
I wonder what he'd have to say about LA and the world today. We have been blessed with so many talented people in America and the world, if people could just slow down and let themselves immerse themselves. He is so real and so raw and so relatable. I think his realness was what still draws people into him.
“Don’t push me around baby, I’ll de..nevermind...one beer...I’ll take you all on, all ya! Hahahahaha”
Just finished 'Post Office.' Reading 'Women' now. Waiting for 'Ham on Rye' to arrive.
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
"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.
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).
26:08 Wow! What a great little speach 👍
As a struggling writer, will always remember his advice to make sure that everything you write should always have 'juice'... thank you, Charles!
Remember not to try
@@joshingtonbarthsworth631 yeah so it‘s kinda like a balance，if you think about ‘juice’ too much， it's gonna be a pretense
Drink a lot and say "fuck the world".
Wym juice
For the man who is alone and not lonely, Bukowski is like a good friend you can really relate to, but you would never hang out with each other. Mainly because if you relate to being this way and understand it, you wouldn't have a good reason to seek company.
Brilliant, thanks for the upload.
"WE ARE HERE TO DRINK BEER! WE ARE HERE TO KILL WAR!"
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.
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.
Bukowski is an interesting, but offbeat kind of man. I’m just starting to read his stuff.
oof
Same
I don’t know how to explain how much he means to me! How much he explains my life, I’m just worried he died before I met him
What's there to worry about? It already happened.
I just love this town, the lights, Sunset Blvd….and then yells at a car in front of him! 😂😂😂😂😂😂 AWESOME
....and the girls still spit on my shadow.....
Always
Ouch 🤔
It hurts. Everything hurts. It all hurts.
It always will.
You sound like a 14 year old
@@keylupveintisiete7552 pussy
Does everything still hurt?
@@werovivero9219 Yes
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!!!
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.
I dig this alternance between the reading and interview. Interesting. Love "The rat" poem.
The world has no imagination or courage anymore. Waiting for the ice...
Or the fire
during the mid 90's, bukoswki saved my soul from the madness of civility. i wouldn't be the writer i am without his influence and books. thanks hank!!
When people had the attention span to listen, just listen. I just discovered him, and I'm 61 years old. Love his voice monotonously, melodic.
Late than *never 🤪
I've left the grit for the dirt, the black top streets for the sage bush and the sea shore for the desert and its mountain range.
Say what you want, and this might not even be a compliment anymore: But I don't think you can find a much realer person than this in history, at least amongst who is heard of.
i was reading his book, but this guy is EXACTLY as he described. ive read his 'women' twice im still shocked (in a good way)
You know Joe?
Einstein was realer.
@@vinayseth1114 Einstein once said that God doesn't throw dice. Turns out that's pretty much what he does.
@@rackelhahn8645 Nope. The debate between determinism and free will is far from over.
I don't know anything, but I can see everything. Fascinating.
I used to hang out with Southern Poet Charleen Swansea Whisnett. She was the Secretary for Izra Pound and Buckminster Fuller of all people but she started Red Clay press in Charlotte NC. But I mentioned Bukowski he's a prisoner of his own depression. But she said never put anything in a poem you couldn't say at a party. So he follows this rule too.
I just realized the comic Mitch Hedberg delivered many of his lines as if he'd listened to a lot of Bukowski.
Hedberg ends his jokes with a punchline that trails down. They both end their sentences trailing down