Charles Bukowski: Why most Writers are Boring.

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  • @kablouielouie
    @kablouielouie Год назад +1730

    'If you do dull shit, it doesn't matter what you die from.' Simply brilliant.

    • @annalisavajda252
      @annalisavajda252 Год назад

      Well he died of bone cancer not liver disease or alcohol related illness anyone can get leukemia and lots of alcoholics live a long time some are better writers than others some don't write at all was his point. Think if he were young and nice looking instead he could have been an alcoholic like Jim Morrison and been too exciting harassed by cops at his own shows charged with being lewd overdosed at 27 just not his fate.

    • @Chicanery_Artifice
      @Chicanery_Artifice Год назад +59

      he said, "if you write dull shit, it doesn't do any good what you die from"

    • @nikolausgerszewski2086
      @nikolausgerszewski2086 Год назад +14

      not brilliant at all. his own shit is so boring. but maybe not to him. the most important thing is that he has fun writing, I guess. and of course it sells.

    • @Godloveszaza
      @Godloveszaza Год назад +30

      ​@@nikolausgerszewski2086 we do not care what you think

    • @nikolausgerszewski2086
      @nikolausgerszewski2086 Год назад

      @@Godloveszaza who the fuck is 'we'? are you demanding the Pluralis Majestatis, Sir?

  • @jonquilcat7945
    @jonquilcat7945 Год назад +801

    For Bukowski to say he likes someone as a person seems, from his writing, to be a high compliment indeed.

    • @kevinoshea557
      @kevinoshea557 Год назад +21

      He likes his lines juicy.

    • @billyb4790
      @billyb4790 Год назад +1

      and so what does that mean? Nothing. The man's entire career was built off nothing.

    • @lovrboi
      @lovrboi Год назад +1

      what

    • @crackbaby4444
      @crackbaby4444 Год назад +6

      maybe he just said it to make the situation less tense

    • @commandercaptain4664
      @commandercaptain4664 Год назад +1

      He is strong in his "get off my lawn" energy.

  • @TheArtofGuitar
    @TheArtofGuitar Год назад +329

    "I yawned myself to shit!" Loved that.

    • @TheArtist-v2j
      @TheArtist-v2j 6 месяцев назад +4

      Oh you like Charles Bukowski?

    • @flysterious2938
      @flysterious2938 4 месяца назад +1

      It’s such a unique curse, I don’t think he meant to steer this way but it’s such a hilarious concept, yawning so much you shit lmao

    • @Losrandir
      @Losrandir 4 месяца назад +2

      @@flysterious2938 Shitting yourself at least breaks the dullness!

  • @elichilton7031
    @elichilton7031 Год назад +1196

    We should call Bukowski's approach to writing the "The Bim Principle."

    • @Southsayer.
      @Southsayer.  Год назад +23

      lol

    • @Mooseman327
      @Mooseman327 Год назад +87

      More like "The Bim-Bim-Bim Principle."

    • @scepticalchymist
      @scepticalchymist Год назад +7

      @@Mooseman327 Bimcubedski's principle :)

    • @cioran1754
      @cioran1754 Год назад +9

      Bim bim bim ... bim bim bim ... in this atomic age , for juicy flavour and not yawning yourself to shit 😅

    • @SuperMrBlaze
      @SuperMrBlaze Год назад +3

      Why not? 😁😁😁

  • @Alter_Ego247
    @Alter_Ego247 Год назад +449

    "He wasn't even a professional drunk" ..proceeds to describe how to get wasted without swallowing vomit. This completely cracked me up hahaha

    • @_Mitya
      @_Mitya 8 месяцев назад +1

      Ага не был ..цвет лица...

    • @Lili-Benovent
      @Lili-Benovent 7 месяцев назад +1

      Yes, he was a real low class act.

  • @CastleHassall
    @CastleHassall 23 дня назад +43

    "we are tough men together! .. through the horrors of life!"
    it is very touching that he tried to show the interviewer love and, maybe how to live and experience, to try to help him to feel JOY and accepted, more fully in that moment
    a veteran trying to help the rookie feel more comfortable in the situation and process called life

  • @vilentman111
    @vilentman111 Год назад +621

    He's right about seeing patterns and 'repeats' in life. It happens early too; you hear the exact same things, see the exact same scenarios play out.

    • @JustGresh
      @JustGresh Год назад +30

      Yep, I really started noticing it at the age of 28.

    • @noodle845
      @noodle845 Год назад +5

      So frikkin depressing to talk about. I love it 😂

    • @posteroonie
      @posteroonie Год назад +5

      Yes, people have been saying that forever.

    • @vilentman111
      @vilentman111 Год назад +3

      @@posteroonie Ironic... When you think about it

    • @vilentman111
      @vilentman111 Год назад +2

      @@noodle845 It's not depressing I don't think.

  • @ochubacollins3181
    @ochubacollins3181 Год назад +62

    So this is why I like Bukowski's style, I've been trying to figure it out. I summed it up as its simplicity but now I'm seeing this I understand. The juice. He has it in his sentences. Its direct. Sometimes there's no need for all the extra things.

    • @Shagamaw-100
      @Shagamaw-100 7 месяцев назад +1

      The answer is simple. You just didn't realize it at first. So now you do!

  • @jessestinkman
    @jessestinkman Год назад +68

    "sir how do i write"
    "bimbimbim"
    "cool but sir how do i write"
    "i throw up on the floor!"
    "mr. bim how the fuck do i write"

  • @HenryChinaski614
    @HenryChinaski614 Год назад +122

    Bukowskis genius is in his honesty and simplicity. A clear son of John Fante but completely original himself.

    • @unstablehand
      @unstablehand 5 месяцев назад

      he is so shit you're all coping

  • @_Jay_Maker_
    @_Jay_Maker_ Год назад +278

    As someone who takes particular interest in Fantasy and Sci-Fi, both genres suffer from a severe dearth of decent poetry - not _poetry_ as in verse, but poetry as a practical method and an exercise in creative flow. I can't tell you how many celebrated authors have bored the total shit out of me over such a lack. Don't describe your world, make me live in it. Don't write your characters, make me know them.

    • @farshimelt
      @farshimelt Год назад +1

      That's the truth!

    • @discipline-my5hi
      @discipline-my5hi Год назад +9

      Read Gene Wolfe

    • @ximono
      @ximono Год назад +16

      Ursula K. Le Guin is one of very few authors who redeem the otherwise poor reputation of sci-fi, an amazing author in her own right

    • @MrBandini27
      @MrBandini27 Год назад +14

      "Don't describe your world, make me live in it", exactly. I'll probably steal that. 😁

    • @StrongScholar
      @StrongScholar Год назад

      @@MrBandini27 but the question is how?

  • @johnanthonycafe2993
    @johnanthonycafe2993 Год назад +229

    Regardless of his life philosophy
    Bukowski makes good points about writing. He definitely had
    a gift to go mining for the right words instead of talking around a
    subject. He showed fortitude persevering in shitty jobs
    and situations then writing at night. No wonder he hit the booze.

    • @cindyo6298
      @cindyo6298 Год назад +6

      Poets do that

    • @nicholaskearney678
      @nicholaskearney678 Год назад

      Same lol.

    • @Noway-sg8md
      @Noway-sg8md Год назад +4

      he most likely was a boozer and a writer for the same reason(s). most great creative minds are all troubled in some way.

    • @johnanthonycafe2993
      @johnanthonycafe2993 Год назад

      @@Noway-sg8md I'm a genius and I don't even drink. Do you have any idea what I'm going through ?

    • @Joaquim-nz9vp
      @Joaquim-nz9vp Год назад +1

      @@johnanthonycafe2993 Who even started talking about you? 💀

  • @boity-fromthemilkygalaxy2504
    @boity-fromthemilkygalaxy2504 Год назад +204

    That's why the book thief is my favourite of all time. It's not about the punchline being set up but each line stands on its own

    • @kools67
      @kools67 Год назад +2

      is The Book Thief by Bukowski?...I can't seem to find it

    • @boity-fromthemilkygalaxy2504
      @boity-fromthemilkygalaxy2504 Год назад +20

      @@kools67 no no. It's by Markus Zusak

    • @deathfeel
      @deathfeel Год назад +5

      Try "The Shadow of the wind" you ll have better results.

    • @kools67
      @kools67 Год назад +2

      @@deathfeel The Shadow of the Wind
      Carlos Ruiz Zafón?

    • @GinaGreenlee
      @GinaGreenlee Год назад +2

      @@deathfeel Thanks for the recommendation. Just reserved it from the library.

  • @Avalonanon
    @Avalonanon Год назад +94

    Everyday should be like this, love this guys energy and perspective

    • @lampad4549
      @lampad4549 Год назад

      Nah, the world would be shit with snobbish people like this.

    • @gonufc
      @gonufc Год назад +1

      ....So you haven't seen the domestic violence then? Bukowski wrote some very good stuff but he wasn't a good human being it seems.

    • @sunkintree
      @sunkintree Год назад +8

      @@gonufc I dont think anyone on earth would say he was a good human being. Why would you even think he should be? He's a famous writer, not a famous "good human"

    • @Avalonanon
      @Avalonanon Год назад +6

      @@gonufc good juman/ bad juman, he’s allowed to have a good thought or frame of thinking come out of his mouth I don’t know much about him but based off my life experiences obviously not relating to domestic violence it resonated with me.
      It’s hard to move through life getting stuck on that shit learn to appreciate

    • @godflow2854
      @godflow2854 Год назад +4

      ​@@gonufc You haven't seen the domestic violence his dad gave him either. Shit happens and then it keeps on happening.

  • @TheodoreDorado
    @TheodoreDorado Год назад +656

    I love this guy. He is so real yet ultimately subjective and full of shit. His words bring me to tears, and his interviews make me grin or drop my jaw. Very wise of him to welcome death, btw, as it is very natural.

    • @unfortunatebeam
      @unfortunatebeam Год назад

      If he's full of shit, he's in a world full of shit.

    • @natesvibin3937
      @natesvibin3937 Год назад +35

      what do you mean by “ultimately subjective and full of shit”

    • @eternity8811
      @eternity8811 Год назад +53

      Everyone's "ultimately subjective".

    • @logia7
      @logia7 Год назад

      indeed but what comes after death

    • @TallSexyHumble
      @TallSexyHumble Год назад +4

      @@logia7 life

  • @giuseppebonsignore4397
    @giuseppebonsignore4397 Год назад +80

    Reading Bukowski made me understand what true writing is. Difficult to put it in words but when you read it you know it's the thing. And art appart, his stories are so fun and so bright, great guy

    • @Graanvlok
      @Graanvlok Год назад

      Hemingway got it.

    • @nikolausgerszewski2086
      @nikolausgerszewski2086 Год назад

      I doubt that - you understand what 'true writing' is. this is just phony. there is no honesty in it.

    • @Samuel-oq8gn
      @Samuel-oq8gn Год назад +6

      ​@@nikolausgerszewski2086 Ach there's honesty even in the Ach I wrote through text
      Everything is honesty, even if linked and chained by lies and whatnot, it conducts to the same person, to the same mind. Fuck all and have a beer is what I think, that could cheer people up. Introduce more syncopation in our mainstream music.

    • @giuseppebonsignore4397
      @giuseppebonsignore4397 Год назад

      @@nikolausgerszewski2086 what do you mean genius? What are you talking about?

    • @nikolausgerszewski2086
      @nikolausgerszewski2086 Год назад

      @@giuseppebonsignore4397 this is all just bragging and boasting and judging without any basis. Lowry is obviously a way better writer, or as I would rather say: a writer at all. Bukowsky is just boulevard.

  • @1manorgy
    @1manorgy Год назад +80

    Feels almost like a crime now not to have read a single thing written by this guy at my age.

    • @stevevitka7442
      @stevevitka7442 Год назад +19

      Yer breakin the law, get thee to a Library, I hooked up w/a librarian once after she confessed to me she had stolen the Bukowski book I was lookin for.

    • @jamesbrough6805
      @jamesbrough6805 Год назад +4

      read 'Tales of Ordinary Madness'

    • @rocketbun5413
      @rocketbun5413 Год назад +1

      You're honestly better off reading literally anything else or hell watching a movie

    • @alleygh0st
      @alleygh0st Год назад

      not missing much tbh

    • @mrpussinboots4252
      @mrpussinboots4252 Год назад +7

      @@alleygh0st I deserve a taste of bim bim bim in my life at least on one occasion

  • @ronniechilds2002
    @ronniechilds2002 Год назад +268

    Bukowski occupied an interesting position among writers. If you surveyed 10 American English professors, seven have never heard of him, two think he's a pornographer, and one thinks he is the greatest literary genius since Shakespeare. I even like his poetry. His poems are his stories written vertically, and his stories are poems written horizontally. He is the best at what he does, but nobody else is in the exact same category; he's kinda like the Keith Richards of literature.

    • @Honestly__now
      @Honestly__now Год назад +5

      Beautiful

    • @croulantroulant3082
      @croulantroulant3082 Год назад +38

      "If you surveyed 10 American English professors, seven have never heard of him" : really ?? Professors ? He's pretty famous over here in France, I'm sure every litterature professor knows him.

    • @torgeirgimmingsrud2439
      @torgeirgimmingsrud2439 Год назад +7

      I provoked two housewifes on a local train in Italy, and they tried to disrespect me by comparing my looks to Bukowski. So he’s no hidden gem anymore over here.

    • @ryanlynch290
      @ryanlynch290 Год назад

      @@croulantroulant3082 You'd be surprised. Thankfully his popularity had a resurgence in the 90s and 2000s, but academia doesn't pay him much mind.

    • @ryanlynch290
      @ryanlynch290 Год назад +2

      I'd say he's a lot like Picasso. He's able to take things down to their most essential elements, and make them fun and bright while still retaining depth and definitely a good punch.

  • @kevinkelley4376
    @kevinkelley4376 Год назад +178

    Love his writing. I finished Factotum last week. All six of his novels are great. His writing style is so much fun and his stories capture a different era, bringing to life the streets of LA from a poor man's perspective. 🍺🥃😏

    • @oinkooink
      @oinkooink Год назад +1

      They are all as good as Ham on Rye you reckon? I tore through that book, short as it is. But really good I thought.

    • @kevinkelley4376
      @kevinkelley4376 Год назад +2

      @@oinkooink, I agree, Ham on Rye is a good one because he opens up about his childhood. The others I would recommend are Post Office, Factotum & Women..

    • @lovrboi
      @lovrboi Год назад

      personally my favorite is love is a dog from hell

    • @noodle845
      @noodle845 Год назад

      ​@@kevinkelley4376they're all pretty funny, but perhaps repetitive. A legend nonetheless

    • @Deevious26
      @Deevious26 Год назад

      I loved Ham on Rye. Need to get to the others. The stories and characters are so vivid, alive. And I love his humor.

  • @victorhuizar2279
    @victorhuizar2279 Год назад +15

    Such a beautiful broken man... Bless his hearth. A unique voice.

    • @johngoldsworthy7135
      @johngoldsworthy7135 6 месяцев назад +2

      He wasn’t ‘broken’

    • @CaldonianDude
      @CaldonianDude 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@johngoldsworthy7135 exactly, at least, no more "broken" than any other human. :)

    • @30yearsoldiam1
      @30yearsoldiam1 19 дней назад +1

      From that lame comment it's clear you don't know what broken is

  • @IosifDrovin
    @IosifDrovin Год назад +51

    0:08 "Why, you have have a nice wife?" Wow, I didn't know Borat Sagdiyev actually got to interview Bukowski

  • @Natedawg38
    @Natedawg38 Год назад +41

    Great ending to a great video. Man was real and very very cool.

    • @ronmackinnon9374
      @ronmackinnon9374 Год назад +3

      'We're tough men together, through the horrors of life.' [Clink] 🍻

  • @scottwebster695
    @scottwebster695 Год назад +21

    Tom Waits music at the end was a nice touch.

    • @freakingevilgenius
      @freakingevilgenius Год назад +2

      What song is it?

    • @Southsayer.
      @Southsayer.  Год назад +4

      @@freakingevilgenius The song is called Tom Traubert's Blues by Tom Waits

    • @freakingevilgenius
      @freakingevilgenius Год назад

      ​@@Southsayer. Thanks, mate. I've only recently started getting into Tom Waits and I'm now a fan.

    • @Southsayer.
      @Southsayer.  Год назад

      @@freakingevilgenius You're welcome!

  • @Tarantula33222
    @Tarantula33222 Год назад +10

    If you are unfamiliar with Bukowski's work. He wrote several novels and several collections of poems. One of my favorite poems is The Man With The Beautiful Eyes. There's a great narration/animation of it on RUclips

    • @LinkEX
      @LinkEX Год назад +2

      Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check that one out.

  • @parth5511-w5t
    @parth5511-w5t Год назад +8

    We couldn't hear to Dostoevsky, but Bukowski is there to fill that gap

  • @RWSCOTT
    @RWSCOTT Год назад +78

    agree 100%. so many modern writers just seem to try to wrack up pages, like if it's not a 1000 page book, you did something wrong.

    • @unfortunatebeam
      @unfortunatebeam Год назад +1

      And who's gonna read a 1000 page book these days except the kind of sophistic snobs who write them in the first place.

    • @BriantWebster
      @BriantWebster Год назад +1

      agree

    • @bigape5502
      @bigape5502 Год назад +3

      Old timey writers were arguably worse with writing filler. Even the great Tolkien, you can cut entire sentences out of a page without changing any information passed on to the reader.

    • @kilianlang3316
      @kilianlang3316 Год назад +2

      @@bigape5502 I'd say you can cut entire pages...

    • @silversnail1413
      @silversnail1413 9 месяцев назад +3

      Genre authors who write fantasy and sci-fi are bad with that. They complain about not being taken seriously by the literary establishment but bloat their books with so much meaningless drivel and pointless world building. A lot of them should just stick to playing D&D instead of writing novels.

  • @CastleHassall
    @CastleHassall Год назад +15

    He really lit up when he started talking about the process of writing bless him.. i like how he got fed up with the analytical but dead host

  • @fotinus
    @fotinus 9 дней назад +1

    So much truth packed into 4 min. What an amazing clip. Thank you for posting!

  • @designmarcial
    @designmarcial Год назад +32

    Orwell talked about this on his rules for good writing. Do not embelish excessively a sentence to say something or it will lose its power. If you can say something in 4 words instead of 10, go for the first option.

    • @greyeyed123
      @greyeyed123 Год назад +2

      He stole that from Aristotle a few thousand years before.

    • @farshimelt
      @farshimelt Год назад +4

      @@greyeyed123 He borrowed that from Aristotle, and it deserves to be said, over and over.

    • @greyeyed123
      @greyeyed123 Год назад +3

      @@farshimelt The best writers steal. (I stole that from you-know-who.)

    • @mrpussinboots4252
      @mrpussinboots4252 Год назад

      Wouldn't an expanded vocabulary aid in conciseness?

    • @greyeyed123
      @greyeyed123 Год назад

      @@mrpussinboots4252 No one said it wouldn't, least of all Orwell.

  • @michaelegan3522
    @michaelegan3522 Год назад +45

    The thing about Bukowski though is that his writing reflects that repetition that he complains about it this interview. If you read more than a few of his stories or novels they all kinda blend together, it's all Henry Chinaski drinking and screwing or drinking and getting in fights. Factotum and Post Office are basically indistinguishable in my memory except for the fact the in one of them he's working as a mailman. Then there are some short stories of him going to the racetrack to place bets and those are some of the dullest things I've ever read, even when I was reading a bunch of Bukowski a few years ago those racetrack stories would make my eyes glaze over.
    That being said, I've always appreciated his novel Ham On Rye

    • @farshimelt
      @farshimelt Год назад +2

      It's his poetry that is significant. He keeps it terse and to the point.

    • @justdev8965
      @justdev8965 26 дней назад +1

      Do as I say, not as I do. Of course, anything that any human has thrown towards another human in the form of criticism, has also been committed by the critic as well. 10/10 times this has proven true.
      Humans are a joke, myself included of course. The difference is I get to see it and call it out, as I don't allow ridiculous self pride to blind me.

    • @vojkofau
      @vojkofau 21 день назад

      ​@@justdev8965 "I don't allow ridiculous self pride to blind me." Are you proud of that?

  • @duanekilgore9130
    @duanekilgore9130 Год назад +6

    So real and authentic. Love this guy would pay to have a beer with him.

  • @eugeneslaven9291
    @eugeneslaven9291 Год назад +32

    "If you write dull shit, it doesn't matter what you die from." This is infinitely wise.

    • @danstella6996
      @danstella6996 Год назад

      If you write good shit, it doesn’t matter what you die from. He was just being a disrespectful jackass.

    • @terrysmith4889
      @terrysmith4889 Год назад

      you are infinitely gullible. that is a profoundly stupid thing to say. for Gods sake just think about it.

  • @TheOneHundredPercent
    @TheOneHundredPercent Год назад +7

    Hank had a calm psychosis about him. His words more so. A great writer of poetry and prose.

  • @WastingTime1878
    @WastingTime1878 Год назад +109

    I agree a hundred percent. I find myself being bored to death when the writers spend time beating about the bush with exaggerated phrases to describe a simple thing to sound more profound.

    • @ryanlynch290
      @ryanlynch290 Год назад +1

      @Nazara R That's not what Mukul said though.

    • @ryanlynch290
      @ryanlynch290 Год назад +20

      There's this idea of being a writer-- it's a certain pretentiousness that goes with it, grand entrances and gestures. Vocabulary words to create a mirage of intellect. It's pompous and ever so boring. Write like you've lived.

    • @Hashpotato
      @Hashpotato Год назад +2

      ​@@ryanlynch290 💯 nothing but facts

    • @MrBandini27
      @MrBandini27 Год назад +1

      I highly recommand Paul Auster. Though I think most of you probaby know him. His writing is, at least to me, the way Bukowski describes the "Bim-Bim-Bim effect". Sure, he doesn't write about the stuff Buk did. But that doesn't matter. It's simply great writing.

    • @mrpussinboots4252
      @mrpussinboots4252 Год назад +2

      @@MrBandini27 bim bim bim 😂😂😂

  • @thisistimwoods
    @thisistimwoods Год назад +5

    Jack Kerouac also thought the same about writing. Every line must full of life

    • @farshimelt
      @farshimelt Год назад

      Sometimes there's a gap between what should be and what is.

  • @inveteratecrusader4882
    @inveteratecrusader4882 Год назад +58

    The essence of American writing

    • @DomPedro3o
      @DomPedro3o Год назад +1

      Yes: not very great.

    • @MIB_63
      @MIB_63 6 месяцев назад

      ​edromorais6826 That's your option, you're mine.

    • @greatcoldemptiness
      @greatcoldemptiness 20 дней назад

      Not even fucking close

  • @eoinMB3949
    @eoinMB3949 Год назад +119

    "There is nothing new under the sun, its all been done before" -King Solomon

    • @redsol3629
      @redsol3629 Год назад +6

      Not in the same way, once you choose to pursue ceativity, you join a fraternity of similar creators. They influence us as we will the ones who come after.

    • @metsrus
      @metsrus Год назад +14

      @@redsol3629 I think create is a misnomer. What we term create is just us assembling and re-arranging preexisting ideas that are we taught. As someone said before, there is no original or unique idea.

    • @redsol3629
      @redsol3629 Год назад +6

      @Abe McGee Just because something is built on the foundation of history does not mean it is not unique. You speak like someone who has never created anything. There is something intangible the new apprentice brings to the craft. His own spirit and sovereignty as an individual.

    • @metsrus
      @metsrus Год назад +2

      @@redsol3629 "There is something intangible the new apprentice brings to the craft. His own spirit and sovereignty as an individual."
      That intangible is still not unique, for the individual has long been shaped by the ideas of his environment. stick an individual in a room devoid of any knowledge or experience from birth, the first idea he comes up would be more original than anything the so called creators you speak of, can come up with.

    • @redsol3629
      @redsol3629 Год назад +3

      @Abe McGee Ah yes the empty room argument, your point collapses on itself with that perspective. You argue that artists move things around, yet you put your example in a room with no pieces. Are you a creator?

  • @johnisaacdavey
    @johnisaacdavey Год назад +2

    I fully agree with Charles about every line needing its own life.

  • @flutebasket4294
    @flutebasket4294 Год назад +124

    I no longer care for Bukowski's nihilism, but he's totally right about exciting writing

    • @kreg27
      @kreg27 Год назад +35

      I actually don't think he was a nihilist, but a self-loathing romantic that is misunderstood. It comes through a lot more in his poetry.

    • @flutebasket4294
      @flutebasket4294 Год назад +10

      @@kreg27 Well, that explains it: When it comes to poetry, I'M a nihilist!

  • @BUGZYFANG
    @BUGZYFANG 5 месяцев назад +2

    At least he enjoyed life before social media! God bless you Buk

  • @sarahs5340
    @sarahs5340 Год назад +3

    I must be living on a different level because life continues to surprise me even in late middle age. I learn and grow every month, sometimes even in the space of a week! But times are different.

    • @farshimelt
      @farshimelt Год назад +4

      I'm 84 and feel the same. I sit down to play music, and something different comes out every time. It's not all worthy, but the search is worth the effort.

    • @honban
      @honban Год назад +1

      @@farshimelt I agree. I love Bukowski and his writing played a major role in my life, but there is more too it than described in this one perspective.

  • @letteracura
    @letteracura 4 месяца назад +1

    Thanks for sharing! I get the impression that it's easier to write like he said. To write each sentence interesting means that you can't predict a long chain of setting phrases to a big emotion. Anyway, he is indeed an interesting writer

  • @wolfwilliams
    @wolfwilliams Год назад +20

    'Under the Volcano' is a dull read, but Hank's a poet applying poetic judgment to literary prose. He sounds like a poet looking for like effects in all the prose he tried to read. There's a place for rapid-fire, rat-a-tat-tat writing, but that's what '40s detective noir novels were for (and some others, of course). 'Dull' doesn't equate to 'bed' if by 'dull' the critic means 'It didn't snap and crackle like a poem.'

    • @kallenijs
      @kallenijs Год назад +3

      well in this comment every line holds its own so if you can apply it to youtube comments, writers can apply it to southern porch verandas.

    • @unfortunatebeam
      @unfortunatebeam Год назад

      Equate to "bed" who even said that? And as if the style of prose he's describing is exclusive to 40s noir novels. Hes 100% correct about literary fiction being (mostly) boring.

    • @oinkooink
      @oinkooink Год назад +2

      Dostoyevsky was wordy and highly detailed but boy his books are damn good reads. They don't exactly bim bim bim. Crime and Punishment was a ripper book.

    • @sunkintree
      @sunkintree Год назад +1

      @@oedipamaas2067 It's really only boring for people with defective brains. It's like people who think classical music is suppose to relax you or help you fall asleep

    • @farshimelt
      @farshimelt Год назад

      That's the insight I was waiting to read. My first thought was he was applying poetry to novels, but I didn't have the rest of it. Thank you.

  • @geoffroymb
    @geoffroymb Год назад +2

    0:22 I like how the interviewers must think he's asking if the filming has ended or ssomething while he's just making his point

  • @benified6920
    @benified6920 Год назад +24

    i love the story he tells about the guy who pulled a gun on him at that apartment party

  • @yushamush9849
    @yushamush9849 Год назад +2

    I keep seeing this clip over and over again

  • @Zebred2001
    @Zebred2001 Год назад +14

    Be nice if the interviewer had the presence of mind to ask Bukowski who he thought were good or even great writers (present company excepted)!

  • @Jokervision744
    @Jokervision744 17 дней назад +1

    Surprisingly chill take in the end. Just slide on.
    Finding that beat is just one way to play out, but it's better just face the grave in the end.
    10 seconds limit of the game, thats about what people can hold through was held on here.
    P.s. I'm not English.

  • @krel3358
    @krel3358 Год назад +13

    The professional drunk line is my favourite and most savage and hysterical comment ever made on this planet. You died choking on your own vomit? Amatuer! What you do after a big drink is position your head over the bed so you vomit on the floor, fucking idiot!. What a glorious person and i like his wit as it feels half serious. If you are going to be a fuck up in life and do stupid things like drugs or alcohol abuse, you better have some sort of plan in place on how to deal with that stuff and not just go into it willy nilly.

    • @farshimelt
      @farshimelt Год назад +1

      Until you experience the experience you don't know what plan you need.

  • @Theacademyofselfhelp
    @Theacademyofselfhelp 5 месяцев назад

    One the greatest interviews I’ve ever seen.

  • @jonvia
    @jonvia Год назад +3

    I always click on Charles' interviews. He doesnt hold back on his opinions like most are afraid to do, especially in the entertainment world.

  • @meanwhileinespoo1265
    @meanwhileinespoo1265 4 месяца назад +1

    Brilliant honesty...no bullshit

  • @SteveJubs
    @SteveJubs 19 дней назад +10

    Don’t forget the “juice,” and “say the thing.” Got it. Very helpful.

  • @BoreasCastel
    @BoreasCastel Месяц назад +2

    Reading history does this. It's maddening.

  • @TByronK
    @TByronK Год назад +3

    Charles Bukowski was all about the harsh truth most of the time, but he had a Poet's heart and sometimes a flower bloomed out of that mire. What he is talking about here is a good contrast between poetry and prose really, but there are boring poets too of course.

  • @Voodoochil111111
    @Voodoochil111111 Год назад

    Thanks for the Tom Waits at the end.

    • @Dpunxxx
      @Dpunxxx Год назад

      Waltzing matilda

  • @alanna4858
    @alanna4858 Год назад +22

    Love him roasting this man’s death hahaha

  • @flurmpf9110
    @flurmpf9110 Месяц назад

    He wasn’t being mean he was trying to ignite some fire in his belly. Very admirable

  • @stojannikolov4340
    @stojannikolov4340 Год назад +7

    Yesterday I wrote some beautiful poetry:
    bim bim bim
    bim bim bim
    bim bim bim
    bim bim bim

  • @blakechildress944
    @blakechildress944 Месяц назад

    That ending to the interview was oddly wholesome and uplifting.

  • @PerfectHandProductions
    @PerfectHandProductions Год назад +16

    This is fantastic.

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      @Southsayer.  Год назад

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  • @user-iy6rm6pm4j
    @user-iy6rm6pm4j 8 дней назад

    On the other hand, you know an artist has the smoke when you still feel it after repeated viewings. Like the old Honeymooners show. I know not just every single line, every joke, but every nuance by Art Carney and Gleason. I might have seen it 100 times but every time, I get the zing. That's mastery!

  • @BookClubDisaster
    @BookClubDisaster Год назад +6

    He's a tired old drunk but he's right. If you're doing everything to set up a climax, no one will even care about it if you've bored them along the way to get there.

  • @hermanhandbrush4402
    @hermanhandbrush4402 Год назад +16

    It seems "Mr. McGillicuddy" is translated as "Meneer Huppeldepup" a 2:54

    • @Jman16007
      @Jman16007 12 дней назад

      Dat is in dien trant.

  • @Dreamcorp.Inc.
    @Dreamcorp.Inc. Год назад +11

    His approach to writing can and should be applied to any creative medium.

    • @b_delta9725
      @b_delta9725 Год назад +1

      not really. that'd make things just as dull. you can pick up art you like that follows other structures, because art is about your own expression. even dull art can be called art because it came from a dull person expressing their dull feelings on a canvas.

    • @farshimelt
      @farshimelt Год назад

      @@b_delta9725 It's not the "approach" that would be dull, it's the result that may be dull. That depends on the insight and skill of the artist. Artist as in all forms of artistic expression.

  • @Dr.Jacuzzi
    @Dr.Jacuzzi 2 месяца назад

    It would be an honor to have a drink with this man.

  • @davy_K
    @davy_K Год назад +12

    His writing is lively all right. Really easy to read. Quite like Hemmingway. Short punchy sentences. Sterling Hayden's autobiography was similar.

    • @rustybeltway2373
      @rustybeltway2373 2 месяца назад

      I was thinking Hemingway too. I enjoyed Vonnegut for same reason.
      It's almost like songwriting advice he's giving. But he wrote poems too, so he gets it all the way around.

  • @ttakamiorama
    @ttakamiorama Год назад +2

    This is so cool. Honestly I thought there was something wrong with me that I couldn’t get with the kinds of writing that he was criticizing and that I could only keep my interest with writers who do bim bim bim. Nathaniel West comes to mind as one of my favorites who totally exudes that style in Miss Lonelyhearts. So glad I came across this!!

  • @paulyplatinum127
    @paulyplatinum127 Месяц назад +2

    “I like you as a person, though.”

  • @sudeshkiriella-sc4wq
    @sudeshkiriella-sc4wq Год назад

    "" Enjoy this man. Forget this interview. "" ❤❤

  • @Woudloper
    @Woudloper Год назад +17

    The Belgian reporter interviewing Charles, was Fernand Auwera (1929-2015), this interview was taken in 1980, my year of birth by the way. Fernand was a brilliant, yet troubled mind. Same goes for Bukowski, probably why Charles liked Fernand so much.

  • @brevenbell
    @brevenbell 11 месяцев назад

    I love you, Henry

  • @oinkooink
    @oinkooink Год назад +4

    Ham on Rye was a seriously page turning book. Really good reading.

    • @buschovski1
      @buschovski1 Год назад +1

      It is. I read it a few times a long time ago.

    • @Steven-uh7lx
      @Steven-uh7lx Год назад

      Post Office is amazing, too.

  • @carlofiorletta
    @carlofiorletta Год назад

    pace, life, sunlight, flavor, , delicious, juice such direct wisdom

  • @tcrijwanachoudhury
    @tcrijwanachoudhury Год назад +93

    As an english major I have such mixed feelings about what I'm hearing..
    But I'm dropping out so I guess in the end he must have some kind of point lol
    This killed me 3:55 💀💀

    • @TheManodeep
      @TheManodeep Год назад +9

      as a person who dropped out of english masters, I approve.

    • @mirouu13
      @mirouu13 Год назад +2

      Same thoughts and feelings

    • @tcrijwanachoudhury
      @tcrijwanachoudhury Год назад +1

      @@TheManodeep sending hugs ♡

    • @bobpowers9637
      @bobpowers9637 Год назад +4

      Dropping out of post secondary isn’t a bad thing. Just keep busy work or volunteering. Bim bim bim

    • @tcrijwanachoudhury
      @tcrijwanachoudhury Год назад +1

      @@bobpowers9637 ty ♡

  • @udomatthiasdrums5322
    @udomatthiasdrums5322 Год назад +1

    still love your work!!

  • @geedee7463
    @geedee7463 Год назад +3

    We're tough men TOGETHER through the HORRORS of LIFE

  • @joshuakincaid9300
    @joshuakincaid9300 2 месяца назад

    I miss him, I wonder so much, what he would think of me? I got many sparks, processing boredom little suffering, and lit loopy endings. I miss you buddy

  • @vlachyna
    @vlachyna 5 месяцев назад +3

    “OK baby… its time… its good”

  • @ricardovosse3841
    @ricardovosse3841 Год назад +2

    Most celebrities emerge from Borat interviews looking ridiculous. Not Charles. CLASS act ❤

  • @colingram8785
    @colingram8785 Год назад +4

    Bukowski, hahaha. This was great, explaining how to vomit properly as a 'professional drunk'. Can't help but smile at that

  • @rasheedrashad6831
    @rasheedrashad6831 5 месяцев назад

    As I age into my mid 60's soon to be 70. I couldn't agree more. At this age things do start to become very meta.

  • @indepthliterature
    @indepthliterature Год назад +8

    The bim bim bim technique is good sometimes but not always. Thomas wolfe was not a bim bim writer and I love him but I also love bukowskis minimalism

    • @ronmackinnon9374
      @ronmackinnon9374 Год назад +1

      I wonder what he thought of Kerouac, who also seemed to be striving for that style, with every line needing to be alive on its own.

    • @indepthliterature
      @indepthliterature Год назад +1

      @ronmackinnon9374 Kerouac was rather prosaic and experimental though which seems more of a contrast to bim bim style but good question

    • @unfortunatebeam
      @unfortunatebeam Год назад +1

      ​@@indepthliteratureIn what sense do you mean prosaic?

    • @indepthliterature
      @indepthliterature Год назад +1

      @unfortunatebeam by prosaic I mean epic, grandioise and poetic. Much different technique than bukowski. Not that bukowski wasn't poetic but he definitely wasn't grandiose or epic lol

    • @BoloBouncer
      @BoloBouncer Год назад +1

      Wolfe was at his best when he went full bim with his philosophical deep dives. Those moments were always better than his often plodding scenes. The intro lines to Look Homeward, Angel are brilliant. But then the story begins, and it's just ok.

  • @Clsctorp123
    @Clsctorp123 28 дней назад

    The way they click glasses at the end is both precious and hysterically ironic if Bukowski is claiming they're truly tough for doing that.

  • @eltoneagle8136
    @eltoneagle8136 Год назад +4

    The man was a genius RIP 🙏

  • @infinitejest441
    @infinitejest441 Год назад +2

    In the movie “Barfly”, Mickey Roarke had a blast playing this character

  • @kendrickjahn1261
    @kendrickjahn1261 Год назад +7

    I definitely relate to his sentiment on things taking on a repeat. I'm already tired of life in my 40's.

    • @posteroonie
      @posteroonie Год назад +3

      I like the Alan Watts quote "The meaning of life is just to be alive."

    • @blaccomnia7680
      @blaccomnia7680 Год назад +4

      Feeling like this in my mid 20s as well.

    • @farshimelt
      @farshimelt Год назад +2

      I follow Ezra Pounds dictum; "Make it new." No matter how many times I play a piece of music, I'm always listening for the one phrase that will lead me somewhere different, or a "mistake" that will send me in a different direction.

    • @kendrickjahn1261
      @kendrickjahn1261 Год назад +1

      @George Neidorf Yeah, that's good. I am trying to do that myself. I realize that even in the mundane existence of repetition, there are some gems within it if I pay attention enough.

    • @mikehemens9359
      @mikehemens9359 Год назад +1

      Get a dirt bike.

  • @sivazona44
    @sivazona44 Год назад

    jesus I'm 25 and it's been like this since forever. idk how did this come up to me?????

  • @GordonCaledonia
    @GordonCaledonia Год назад +2

    On the back of the next reprint of, _Under the Volcano_ should be,
    *_"I yawned myself to shit."_*
    - _Charles Bukowski_
    😁😄🤣

  • @eternaldoorman5228
    @eternaldoorman5228 Год назад +1

    Absolutely priceless! Thanks!❤

  • @kickliquid
    @kickliquid Год назад +7

    as I get older this unfortunately speaks to me in a very profound way

  • @nykki21
    @nykki21 Месяц назад

    His statements on writing were a continuation of his comments about death. Life is here. Right now. That urgency - the awareness of it, is to respect the fullness of life. Write and live as if you know you are going to die

  • @depotemkin
    @depotemkin Год назад +6

    Буковски - это автор для особого настроения, но я бы не назвал его слишком "грязным", потому что в его описаниях есть своеобразная поэтичность

  • @thesecret111
    @thesecret111 Год назад +2

    In perceived many here at coment session never read Charles Bukowski because they're talking non-sense shit. bukowlski was very famous even from his time, and an excellent writer who catch you in every line of his books.
    Read the book first folks and comment later, trust me it will be worthy

  • @cbalan777
    @cbalan777 Год назад +5

    It's a good thing I loaded my pen up with fresh word juice.

  • @Wowjustwow37
    @Wowjustwow37 Год назад

    There was a bar in Boston named after this genius. One of the best burgers I’ve ever had. Wonder if it’s still there?

    • @Max-kw2hp
      @Max-kw2hp 6 месяцев назад

      He died 30 years ago

  • @badeugenecops4741
    @badeugenecops4741 Год назад +8

    Bukowski waz a fkn genious that did not suffer mediocrity well, in anything.

  • @MaxShoham
    @MaxShoham Год назад

    the end of this video is so awesome

  • @driesvanc8764
    @driesvanc8764 Год назад +6

    I wonder if Bukowski appreciated Nabokov. His lines are good.

    • @tcrijwanachoudhury
      @tcrijwanachoudhury Год назад +2

      Same here, there is something very descriptive but also fiery about Nabokov that couldve appealed to him, but who knows though

    • @lampad4549
      @lampad4549 Год назад

      Probably not

  • @SkyliCyrus
    @SkyliCyrus 5 месяцев назад

    My all time favorite writer!