To any writers/artists who use Bukowski as an excuse to fuel your alcoholism, I just want to say that once he got sober he realized he wrote just as well as he did when he was drunk. A quote from a letter he wrote 2 years before he died: "Sober tonight. I think I write as well sober as drunk. Took me a long time to find that out." I love Bukowski, but I see too many creative people use him as fuel for an addiction that destroys most, and only takes from you, if you believe its giving anything to you...well...really think about it more.
I don't understand why you're preaching perhaps you feel alcohol has hurt you, someone used alcohol as an excuse for their behaviour towards you. I'm not pro alcohol Im an alcoholic it really damaged me especially since it was a coping mechanisms for lack of support from a sick society that encourages sick behaviour especially toward children. I don't blame alcohol it's a useful tool. many a days i would have killed myself and worse someone else if not for alcohol. I'm sure it saves more lives than it encourages to end. like I say alcohol isn't bad show you use it is. I wish I could drink because I need that relief at this stage in this hell existence now I'm t total, it's people who can be bad and do bad things I'm tired of people hiding behind alcohol/drugs. no take responsibility like alot of us had to. no doubt you won't care for the reply I'm just trying to help you see it's not so black and white. suffering tends to create greatness and bukowski suffered enough then added to his own suffering by drinking but then he wouldn't have had such high times either. this world is horror the way the sadistic cowardly nature of humans have elevated the worst of us to make the decisions. like bukowski said it all in "born into this" poem - "where the masses elevate fools.into rich heroes
Moderation is key my friends. I've tried writing while blind drunk; felt all the right emotions but ended up trashing the place. I've tried writing sober; although easier to write, harder to bleed out the emotions. So it's a matter of the individual themselves in the end and how they go about it.
@@ZootedUchiha I was writing before I became a alcoholic and before I even found Hemingway, Steinbeck, Faulkner and Fante. I started drinking heavy after losing someone I loved and I started reading more and found Bukowski and all those other writers I mentioned because I would read at the bars I would go to alone and then talk to random people and kinda use stories of experiences I heard from them for my own short stories I wrote. The point I'm getting to is I sucked at writing drunk, none of it ever made sense, I'd just rant on the type writer going off subject but when I use to experience alcohol withdraws, oh man I had a tiger on my back like bike would say and a monkey as well. I'd sit and write for hours and chain smoke, it was the only thing that would keep my mind off from going crazy because withdraws mess with your head. I don't drink anymore thank God, still write here and there. Mostly just read a lot more now. Good luck to anyone who ever is working on a piece rn. Never give up. I got a hell lot of short stories.
I like the way you explain it. It’s like poetry. Quite literally, he was a drunk and his writing became upon his condition. Bukowski had a lot to say about absolute oblivion. His verbal lense was always skewed by his binges or his hangovers. He sounds real and refreshing because seldom do people understand completely what he’s about. Anyone can give themselves to alcohol, completely and sound similarly. As long as you commit to the novelty of the experience.
As real and raw and yet polite. Very rare combination. It's like a stick of dynamite with a flame just far enough way that it won't light. It could possibly but probably won't lol
I was a songwriter that worked with a label very recently and burned myself out real bad, got diagnosed with very severe depression and I couldn't write at all, I thought I'd die. So I quit music altogether. Then I got interested in Hank's poetry - and before I knew it, I've written about 50 poems in two weeks. It's like a long held in early morning piss - the words just flowed on the right spot. I feel alive again thanks to this absolute genius of a writer.
Well put, and grand to hear you're back at it. I'm also a musician and in the hiatus stage, trying, trying, slowly and shyly to peek out of this damn depression. This..'mud'. I miss the challenge and flow, outcome and pride. Best of luck. 🎩🪶
@@pure_awareness ? Making a living is the perverted thought and beliefs of the diseased. The sold souls and enslaved. There allegedly is some paradox of not trying to even do so and an unwanted side effect is it happens; organically & naturally if you are referring to career type living. I’m also the radioactive flesh enslaved to the fear of psychopaths with the loudest mouths and stuffed shirts.
I've read post office, ham on rye, women, Hollywood, Pulp, hot-water-music and currently in middle of Tales of Ordinary Madness. Love the ugly beauty of his novels.
Bukowski emerges as a prophetic figure, offering solace and guidance to those who find themselves adrift in the chaotic and unforgiving realm of existence.
"Do you drink when you write, or do you write when you drink" I love Charles's books. Only read the two first of his 4 part story. He writes in a way that I wanna write my books in the future. Not too much detail, explaining every scene.
its the vagueness that gives the impression of juice that creates the intrigue to finish the poem. Like food on a stick and you're used to not caring how provocative it can be. That's boomer shit tho, but then again. It's just adults trying to not care to have a good time, it's a timeless thing but people like us use Bukowskis style to smell our own farts.
What I meant by “it’s finished now” is that public television as it was just a few yrs ago in the Netherlands is dead… if docus are still getting made they are not being shown on tv… tv sucks ass here now… all a bunch of pure horsesh-t…
14:52 when Bukowski invites you to drink a beer with him, you don't answer 'Oh, yeah, why not, we might ....", but instead you smile and consider yourself really lucky
The coolest thing about Charles is his honesty. Ive known many legit alcoholics but none of them ever admitted that the bottle helps them with their craft.
You think he made up all of his stories ? It is said his novels had biographical elements, they weren't exactly 100% true, something like "The Most Beautiful Girl In Town" had a lot of fictious stories, but then "Women" and "Post Office" seemed very true (to me at least)
@@bgggsht They were largely autobiographical. Like you said not everything is one hundred percent true, I mean its fiction, of course some events needed to be altered or created altogether, but overall they were drawn from his life experience. Howard Sounes's biography on Bukowski is a good read if you want an in depth look at his life story.
my guess I Do drop in .... as in saying ' do drop by and visit me ' and Dewdrop is some type of little white wild flower. that is my understanding, if this does help you. Dewdropin and reply to my answer, is a sentence that expresses this word ? my opinion only, virtual friend
Feel like they didn't talk about any of the meaty stuff he's better at talking about. Seems like they danced around smalltalk, nonsense we won't remember that's already been talked about
the last two minutes defines women at their best, defending their man at all costs when the outside world tries to play a dirty game using the vulnerability of a woman just to exploit any probable chance to disarm him. They try to ridicule a man in the presence of his loving dedicated woman hoping to capitalise on it by pretending she might be delusional or under his spell if she cant see what the {real better men} have to offer and how much she is missing out. Pretty disgusting move from the lowers that manifest continuously throughout a life of a real man. This is a lessen to meditate about the right woman by your side.
Hey, he was functional while he wrote. That's good enough for me. After that, I don't give a fuck about why or when he hit the bottle. He lived his life his way, which is the base for most of his writing. Take something from it.
Read most of what CB wrote and thought him amusing but extremely repetitive. Since listening to him speak my estimation of him has waned . He's boring and overestimates himself. He got lucky finding a publisher. Read one of his books and you've read imall.
@Danny Dove "that's the SPIRIT!" Lollollollollol. The slob was a SWINE , i.e. when Bukowski kicked his wife on a video interview for POSTERITY....granted Bukowski was severely outdone by Zionist SWINE Norman Mailer who stabbed his wife in front of witnesses. Both extremely over rated hacks...who knew how to make moolah .
To any writers/artists who use Bukowski as an excuse to fuel your alcoholism, I just want to say that once he got sober he realized he wrote just as well as he did when he was drunk.
A quote from a letter he wrote 2 years before he died:
"Sober tonight. I think I write as well sober as drunk. Took me a long time to find that out."
I love Bukowski, but I see too many creative people use him as fuel for an addiction that destroys most, and only takes from you, if you believe its giving anything to you...well...really think about it more.
I’ve been thinking about that alot. Ever since i started drinking to improve my writing and creativity my life quality has dropped.
I don't understand why you're preaching perhaps you feel alcohol has hurt you, someone used alcohol as an excuse for their behaviour towards you.
I'm not pro alcohol Im an alcoholic it really damaged me especially since it was a coping mechanisms for lack of support from a sick society that encourages sick behaviour especially toward children.
I don't blame alcohol it's a useful tool. many a days i would have killed myself and worse someone else if not for alcohol. I'm sure it saves more lives than it encourages to end.
like I say alcohol isn't bad show you use it is. I wish I could drink because I need that relief at this stage in this hell existence now I'm t total, it's people who can be bad and do bad things I'm tired of people hiding behind alcohol/drugs. no take responsibility like alot of us had to.
no doubt you won't care for the reply I'm just trying to help you see it's not so black and white.
suffering tends to create greatness and bukowski suffered enough then added to his own suffering by drinking but then he wouldn't have had such high times either.
this world is horror the way the sadistic cowardly nature of humans have elevated the worst of us to make the decisions.
like bukowski said it all in "born into this" poem - "where the masses elevate fools.into rich heroes
@@jimgilmour1221 stephen king blacked out on coke and alcohol and wrote the entire book to cujo.
Moderation is key my friends. I've tried writing while blind drunk; felt all the right emotions but ended up trashing the place. I've tried writing sober; although easier to write, harder to bleed out the emotions. So it's a matter of the individual themselves in the end and how they go about it.
@@ZootedUchiha I was writing before I became a alcoholic and before I even found Hemingway, Steinbeck, Faulkner and Fante. I started drinking heavy after losing someone I loved and I started reading more and found Bukowski and all those other writers I mentioned because I would read at the bars I would go to alone and then talk to random people and kinda use stories of experiences I heard from them for my own short stories I wrote. The point I'm getting to is I sucked at writing drunk, none of it ever made sense, I'd just rant on the type writer going off subject but when I use to experience alcohol withdraws, oh man I had a tiger on my back like bike would say and a monkey as well. I'd sit and write for hours and chain smoke, it was the only thing that would keep my mind off from going crazy because withdraws mess with your head. I don't drink anymore thank God, still write here and there. Mostly just read a lot more now. Good luck to anyone who ever is working on a piece rn. Never give up. I got a hell lot of short stories.
You can tell by his voice how real he was. I think that's what comes out of his writing: something real. hard to explain, but something like this.
I like the way you explain it. It’s like poetry. Quite literally, he was a drunk and his writing became upon his condition. Bukowski had a lot to say about absolute oblivion. His verbal lense was always skewed by his binges or his hangovers. He sounds real and refreshing because seldom do people understand completely what he’s about. Anyone can give themselves to alcohol, completely and sound similarly. As long as you commit to the novelty of the experience.
This guy is real as they come
not sure about his wife though, what did you think?
Unfortunately, my friend, they don't come like that anymore
@@danif.9414 I disagree.
There's always someone out there.
Always.
@@Edgesofnowhere008 sure man, I know. It's just very rare is all. It may be you, it may be myself,
who knows..
As real and raw and yet polite. Very rare combination. It's like a stick of dynamite with a flame just far enough way that it won't light. It could possibly but probably won't lol
I was a songwriter that worked with a label very recently and burned myself out real bad, got diagnosed with very severe depression and I couldn't write at all, I thought I'd die. So I quit music altogether. Then I got interested in Hank's poetry - and before I knew it, I've written about 50 poems in two weeks. It's like a long held in early morning piss - the words just flowed on the right spot. I feel alive again thanks to this absolute genius of a writer.
Nice metaphor
Well put, and grand to hear you're back at it. I'm also a musician and in the hiatus stage, trying, trying, slowly and shyly to peek out of this damn depression. This..'mud'. I miss the challenge and flow, outcome and pride.
Best of luck. 🎩🪶
How making a living from poetry
@@pure_awareness ? Making a living is the perverted thought and beliefs of the diseased. The sold souls and enslaved.
There allegedly is some paradox of not trying to even do so and an unwanted side effect is it happens; organically & naturally if you are referring to career type living.
I’m also the radioactive flesh enslaved to the fear of psychopaths with the loudest mouths and stuffed shirts.
“Early morning piss” Yeah you’ve been reading buk 😂
Hank a legend, and his wife absolutely great and adorable
This man‘s words are touching my soul
"whiskey? after an hour and 10 minutes the writing gets shitty".
I've read post office, ham on rye, women, Hollywood, Pulp, hot-water-music and currently in middle of Tales of Ordinary Madness. Love the ugly beauty of his novels.
Ham On Rye was a such a great book. A real page turner.
Bukowski emerges as a prophetic figure, offering solace and guidance to those who find themselves adrift in the chaotic and unforgiving realm of existence.
but his own inspiration requires alcohol which might work for a few fans of nature like him but not for most people and not for me.
may I propose a courtship with Mary Jane to the likes of you who are averse to moonshine @@JimLovell-np4pv
Hank nailed himself to the cross for our benefit, because nobody else could do it, cheers Hank 🍺
Rest in peace 🖤 an amazing writer and a true personification of our dark, real ,unadulterated self
"Do you drink when you write, or do you write when you drink" I love Charles's books. Only read the two first of his 4 part story. He writes in a way that I wanna write my books in the future. Not too much detail, explaining every scene.
its the vagueness that gives the impression of juice that creates the intrigue to finish the poem. Like food on a stick and you're used to not caring how provocative it can be. That's boomer shit tho, but then again. It's just adults trying to not care to have a good time, it's a timeless thing but people like us use Bukowskis style to smell our own farts.
@@treldee You mustn't let it upset you so
@@treldeewhere do you get this crap, baby?
@@Sleeveusalonegottim
it's funny because his poetry is something you want to dip into now and again with a nice glass of wine.
It is so great that there is so much video footage of this man for us to watch and listen to. Thanks for posting it.
Hank doesn't know how many lives he has saved including mine
True.
And how many he destroyed by convincing people that you can be successful and famous by just being drunk
My brother always liked Bukowski because his writing was easy reading and he was real,yet artistic..
He wants a beer
It’s interesting to see him being as vulnerable as he is here. He’s working to add some warmth to his legacy.
Bukowski is such a character. It looks like a skit and he is committed to the part.
14:50 if Charles Bukowski asks you if want a beer, you say yes. Simple.
This is incredible to see
you're always crazy until you trust your own genius and run with it
What a beautiful person
Haha they bribed him with wine...
Still remembers the Shakey's up the street 😆😆😆
Are there translations of what the interviewer is talking about during the interludes? I don't even know if it matters.
Dutch interviewer, the Dutch used to make the best documentary-style pieces. It’s finished now.
That's true. I have watched many a great Dutch documentary
Belgium
What I meant by “it’s finished now” is that public television as it was just a few yrs ago in the Netherlands is dead… if docus are still getting made they are not being shown on tv… tv sucks ass here now… all a bunch of pure horsesh-t…
can suggest something?
@@zakur0hako what subject?
14:52 when Bukowski invites you to drink a beer with him, you don't answer 'Oh, yeah, why not, we might ....", but instead you smile and consider yourself really lucky
Indeed. Very lucky
The coolest thing about Charles is his honesty. Ive known many legit alcoholics but none of them ever admitted that the bottle helps them with their craft.
just screaming out
what a genius
When you have that talent and intellect, you have to have buffer. All the greats do.
true writer
how is this documentary called i cannot find it anywhere
"Yeah, I'm thirsty. Shakys is over here" (now I am editing god. - F*** ya)
One of the many problems Bukowski (and all of us) would have today is that there’d be no possibility of a made up past.
You think he made up all of his stories ? It is said his novels had biographical elements, they weren't exactly 100% true, something like "The Most Beautiful Girl In Town" had a lot of fictious stories, but then "Women" and "Post Office" seemed very true (to me at least)
@@bgggsht They were largely autobiographical. Like you said not everything is one hundred percent true, I mean its fiction, of course some events needed to be altered or created altogether, but overall they were drawn from his life experience.
Howard Sounes's biography on Bukowski is a good read if you want an in depth look at his life story.
the final interaction is a bit fucked, but also quite transparent.
A real man
The rude interviewer needs a slap
Si quelqu'un pouvait traduire cette interview ce serait bien..
The way my job carreer is going, i have so much story-baggage i could easily become a writer ... but first a tik tok video. ;-)
L.A., México; great.
Wish the interviewer wasn’t so awkward, bud lol
anybody know the song near the end?
ruclips.net/video/f7UHd7NVegE/видео.html
@@jackhicks8935 legend
@@jackhicks8935 do you also know the song starting at 5:48 ?
@@maxmiliankula8714 It's a Tom Waits song called Solider's Things.
get off your arse a Shazam it.
it is a free app. do your own research, if your that interested.
I tell you this for free
The quality of light is so obviously San Pedro/RPV
¿What’s the meaning of the word DEWDROPINN?, it’s in the wall of Bukowski room. Minute 5:44
my guess I
Do drop in .... as in saying ' do drop by and visit me '
and
Dewdrop is some type of little white wild flower.
that is my understanding, if this does help you.
Dewdropin and reply to my answer, is a sentence that expresses this word ?
my opinion only, virtual friend
Anyone know the music at around 8:44?
That's "Potter's Field" By Tom Waits From "Foreign Affairs"
Suddenly the journalist became a comedian, Charles didn’t suffer fools gladly
what neighborhood in LA was his house in?
Gaspard de la Nuit, watch this poem too if u wish findable as Dreamer - A Visual Poetry - Travel & Poetry Awaj !
San Pedro
Drinking is dangerous
That's why you gotta know how to do it.
Moderation, long as alcohol does not control the person
Does anyone know what language the interviewer is speaking?
Dutch I think
Sounds like Afrikaans
Its dutch/ Flemish because the interviewer is from Belgium
he's speaking idiot
Bullshit
Vincent Gallo would be the perfect choice to play elder Bukowski. See so many similarities.
it took him 27 years of hell to just beeing able to write. And olny that. Just read Postoffice to see what hell looks like.
The interviewer's hair is just unforgivable.
I like it. Better than the shaved-headed drones we see everywhere today.
I have forgiven his hair.
Forgive Interviewers Hair 2020
@@kraken138 Lmao you killed me
His outfit is reckless
Alcoholtadrinky
Heineken ...... i ' m so disappointed ..
Its the worst beer ever
Its ok its not good but it gets you drunk
Trevor wallace interviewing bukowski
True legend.
It wasn’t luck Buk. Your writing was magnificent.
👁This man is in Heaven...🦅44.144
Red wine is best
I drink whiskey ... I guess thats why I don't write
That's called an afro mullet
I can translate the word "Bukofsky"...wait, I forgot that one....let me look it up...
Bukowski, a Slavic surname, deriving from the words buk or bukva which translate to beech in English.
@@theincorruptiblefellini743 beech isn't a word, my friend.
You have women in Belgium? :D :D
Feel like they didn't talk about any of the meaty stuff he's better at talking about. Seems like they danced around smalltalk, nonsense we won't remember that's already been talked about
Amazing how they can make such a boring interview out of such an interesting person.
This man is a modern tantrik
6:18 pm. A coincidence? Don't think so. Fibonacci retracement.
anybody who knows the song 5:50
Ramstein -du hast
@@onurguner6594 that was not too funny joke
Soldier's things by Tom Waits
DRANK
I disagree about writing on whiskey. To slowly sip a fine whiskey is brilliant. You can write for hours on the right dram.
Wine and beer does make you better a writer. Bukowski knows.
the last two minutes defines women at their best, defending their man at all costs when the outside world tries to play a dirty game using the vulnerability of a woman just to exploit any probable chance to disarm him. They try to ridicule a man in the presence of his loving dedicated woman hoping to capitalise on it by pretending she might be delusional or under his spell if she cant see what the {real better men} have to offer and how much she is missing out. Pretty disgusting move from the lowers that manifest continuously throughout a life of a real man. This is a lessen to meditate about the right woman by your side.
He’s obviously a very wise man BUT surely HAVING to use alcohol to function creatively isn’t wise !
It looks to me like he was willing to make the trade off
H B agreed.
@@hb3528 beautifully worded !
@@Shuteyetn I dont see whats so goddamn beautiful about it
Just kidding..heh
Hey, he was functional while he wrote. That's good enough for me. After that, I don't give a fuck about why or when he hit the bottle. He lived his life his way, which is the base for most of his writing. Take something from it.
What an inspiration to become an alcoholic!
Dutch/Belgian people are so rough and brutal, i guess Bukowski appreciated that interviewer.
Read most of what CB wrote and thought him amusing but extremely repetitive. Since listening to him speak my estimation of him has waned . He's boring and overestimates himself. He got lucky finding a publisher. Read one of his books and you've read imall.
@Danny Dove "that's the SPIRIT!" Lollollollollol. The slob was a SWINE , i.e. when Bukowski kicked his wife on a video interview for POSTERITY....granted Bukowski was severely outdone by Zionist SWINE Norman Mailer who stabbed his wife in front of witnesses. Both extremely over rated hacks...who knew how to make moolah .
You really don't know what you're talking about. Misplaced not smart comment
Did he shag your grandma?
Bukowski is overrated and alcohol is bad for you.
08:19 WELL 🤓