Actually its quite a poetic summation of him. And I don't think Bukowski cared much for grammatically correct, so long as it stirred you, so long as the line stayed with you.
I fucking love how he just doesn’t seem ashamed about any aspect of his life. Just flat out admitting he was a virgin until 24 and lost it to a “300 pound whore” like it’s nothing to be at all embarrassed by is really the sort of honesty and self-assurance I truly admire.
You believe all men admit it when they get older? A lot of people take stuff like that to their graves. It just feels like it cause of few minor celebrities talk about this stuff on podcasts novadays
Yeah, the interview could've ended there, honestly, and it still would've encapsulated Bukowski perfectly. Never watched a video that made me laugh in the first 2 or 3 seconds of runtime.
Ken S. I can relate I’m a bit older nowadays, and i don’t hop on just any woman anymore, also this is one of the main reasons I don’t drink to much anymore anyways when he’s talking about how she was laying on her back snoring sleeping it reminded me of pale white rolls in the moonlight.
Holden Morrison to many beached whales the ones with fat asses are okay but girls used to be self conscience (if I eat that it’ll go to my hips) but there’s a difference between a fat round booty and a square cellulite type. Big girls used to have awesome personalities, now there allowed to act just as stuck up as anyone else. Watch all the hate this comment gets. My friend had an older sister when we where teenagers and she made the comment “well big girls need loving too” and he says “yeah but they should have to pay for it” lol
He’s had a couple of films about him but only small segments of his life. In Barfly he was played by Mickey Rourke and in Factotum he was done by Matt Dillon, the latter was better but a lot of people would fight me on that. I’d personally love to see a decade-spanning biopic with William H. Macy, Ben Mendelsohn or perhaps Willem Dafoe playing his part
Ben Gazarra played a Bukowski character in "Tales of Ordinary Madness." I just saw a RU-vid clip of the movie. I'd love to find it on DVD, but it's rare and very expensive.
+MsJavaWolf He's a monster on the surface. The kind of guy who abuses not only women but people in general relentlessly. He abused the prostitute because he believes she didn't love him (odds are she didn't, he had to pay for her love after all). But behind that surface is a man who wants to dance in the field with a woman who loves him, caress her hair lovingly as she drifts off to sleep in his bed. More so than that, he was a man who wanted to feel appreciated and loved by just about anybody. Man or woman, friend or lover, it didn't matter. He's the type of man who turns himself into a monster because he wants to believe that he is rejected by society due to a monstrous personality as opposed to features that he simply can't control (looks, wealth etc). That gives him false hope. He tells himself that his life is a mess because he is a monster and he can change that anytime he wants to. He doesn't want to face the fact that the truth is more despairing than that...
+Oscar Hayden (Perdition Bound) And the truth is that society rejected him before he rejected it and it rejected him because he was ugly and poor. Society was the problem, not him. That's the reason why so many people turn themselves into monsters. Hope.
That is quite profound, I suppose we all have to be good at something to grasp at some semblance of control. Perhaps no one is born wanting to be the villain.
@@seanmatthewking Hank was the nickname of Bukowski. He was known as Charles Bukowski but his name was Henry Charles Bukowski (or better, Heinrich Karl Bukowski). Henry was the name of his father too, so everybody called him Hank from his childhood, but he didn't use the first name "Henry" because he hated his father.
I always hated books my whole youth, but when I heard of this brutally honest man who does not hide anything at 20 years old, I had to buy his books. And now I love reading.
Bukowski always made me feel better about my life when I was in the shit. Great sense of humour - his short stories are some of the most entertaining pieces written.
Ok so hey listen I have to tell you what happened last night. I went to a bar with some cocaine looking for some strange and as I’m sitting at the bar drinking and plotting who I would approach and offer cocaine too a couple ladies approached me and said hi. One of them told me I had a “Tom Hardy vibe” going. So at that point I knew I had not only one but two potential ladies I could have sexual intercourse with. So I tell them I could get us a bottle and go to the Motel 6, where I have a room that I’ve been living in ever since my wife threw me out cause she found out I was sleeping with her sister, and I mention the cocaine I have in my pocket. And they say yes. I like to offer to get a bottle cause that saves me money from having to buy a lot of drinks. I also put a lot of baby laxative in the cocaine to make it last longer cause it’s really expensive and I don’t have a lot of money and I still need to be able to pay for the room at the Motel 6 or else I’ll be living in my car again. So I take the ladies to my room and I bring out a vodka bottle. And it’s like the cheapest vodka. But I take off the label so they don’t know. So they start drinking and doing lines and I go to the bathroom to use my German made penis enlarger pump. I read somewhere online that the pumps from Germany are the best. So I’m in the bathroom pumping but it’s not working. I couldn’t get it up. Meanwhile I have these two fairly attractive ladies waiting on me. I must be drinking too much and snorting too much cocaine and it caused me erectile dysfunction. So I’m in the bathroom feeling bad and I hear them snorting more and more coke and I wanted them to stop cause I need that coke. So I came out of the bathroom and told them I couldn’t get it up and I asked them to leave. I didn’t even bother lying to them. I was too depressed to care. After they left I was missing my wife so I called her but her new boyfriend picked up the phone and he told me that if I ever called her again he would beat me up.
funny how a really huge percentage of ppl who claim they lost their virginity at a certain age either didn't at all yet or not until much later but this guy is 100% truthful lol, rest in power.
It may not be important to you ,but it is a very frustrating thing ,my first time at 18 was very painful ,it was in the bathroom with my GF while her mom was downstaris ,for some reason a got burning in piss for a week.I seriously regretted having sex
Yes because now everyone wants to look and show a perfect life. We live in the most narcisistic era in civilization. We all have to look good, be fit eat healthy be good looking and expose our "perfect" life in social media. Dont you dare to be autenthic or have flaws.
I feel like broken people admire this guy. And we all go different ways of life. I'd day I'm middle class? But if the world went to shit? I'd say people like Charles would lead a great world, making sure we understand pain, but making sure that love is there. And there it is. Love isn't reserved for a romance.
This is almost exactly my first experience. She was big and after it was done I was just like “this is it” loved watching this cause it made me feel less embarrassed about it lol
everybody just looks at bukowksi as such a mysogisinistic pig and they cant see how fucking endearing he really was. the most tender drunk soul out there
So funny how everyone seems to think they knew these kinds of people on a personal level. We have no idea who he really was,only what's on tape and in books. He's a stranger.
One thing you can learn from the latent wisdom in bulowski's words: You can compromise on the partner but never on the time you choose to loose the scarlet 'V'. A great answer to give to anyone when being subjected to peer pressure. Are all the guys and gals in highschool listening to this?
I am 24 and virgin went many times up to brothel house but my heart didnt give permission to have sex by offering money. what a lunatic heart do i have.
Now I'm gonna play devils advocate... Find a cute one that you resonate with, tell her to make it special. Always cover up. Put your heart on your sleeve, and tell your dick he's in charge for the next couple of minutes. *then leave a depressed little shit realizing that life is still shit. whether your a virgin or not, a good women just makes the blues more bearable you know*
He wrote it and it was published on Notes Of A Dirty Old Man. If you search on internet you'll find the first published version with a drawing of a fat woman in the middle.
Listening to this as a 24 year old virgin myself and hearing the interviewer being shocked by Bukowski admitting that he was a virgin until 24 just makes me fucking depressed man…
Man you're not alone. People that judge a person by the age he/she lost his/her virginity are the most ignorant beings on earth. They don't consider that not every one is lucky enough to meet the right person in a young age. The fact that someone loses his virginity younger is most of the time a matter of luck and coincidence, that has nothing to do with personality or capabilities. Explain to me why so many geniouses such as Nicola Tesla died virgins. In this case, the interviewer is both ignorant and disrespectful, non taking into account that "Really?" can become an offensive response, just as much as telling it to someone who got his driving license at 20+
I read somewhere in the comments that someone felt pity for Charles Bukowski. Are you kidding me?! You pity Charles Bukowski?! Well, I pity you for not knowing who to spend your pity on. Why on earth will you pity someone as complex and self-aware as him?
Well it’s one of the best recommendations. I hope RU-vid suggests me too people and things that gave so much to humanity instead of cringe ass time wasting loads of attention seeking crap
I feel like that, when I was younger I was a weirdo, in the end I learnt to mimic the normal I guess I was never happy till I lost everything and found myself
Bukowski is actually a leader of a whole art movement, there are others very similar to him like the impressionists were all similar. He is actually the last 20th century artist, that movement included Crumb and other cartoonists and also writers,
Well i am also not so devilishly handsome and im definitely an outcast, its so mesmerizing when you realize all these experiences as we feel as humans have all been experienced by our predecessors a century ago, a thousand years ago and possibly from dawn of humanity. Its fascinating.
Me too; I cannot put it down since I randomly found it a few days ago lol. It is hands down the greasiest, grittiest book I have ever read, and yet it is amazing.
He was a "cool guy" as you say when he became old, but if you met him when he was 30/40 y.o. he would treated you like shit if he was drunked. He hardly had self control while he was drunked, he became just like his angry father when he was drunked.
This is a good and honest man. In contemporary society he would be ridiculed and deemed a sexist. However, if you take the time to actually listen to him, his truthfulness shines through. Most men who lost their virginity at such an older age wouldn't readily admit it like Bukowski does. Also, he demonstrates sincere guilt for the things he did and said to the girl.
24 is hardly an “older” age. You make it seem like 24 is old, it’s certainly not too old to be a so called male virgin”. Should everyone have sex at 12-13? Smh