Mentions (9)
"I guess the fake macho guys of the 40s and 50s (Kerouac, Burroughs, Bukowski) tried to compensate by becoming degenerate drug addicts or temporary hobos, but that's long gone."
"You're not some kind of punk blend of Charles Bukowski and Ernest Hemminway; you're Rob, the 36-year-old chef at a Steak and Shake."
"Roll the Dice by Charles Bukowski
if you're going to try, go all the
way.
otherwise, don't even start.
if you're going to try, go all the
way. this could mean losing girlfriends,
wives, relatives, jobs and
maybe your mind."
"The man reading Dostoyevsky at the coffee shop? Performative. The woman reading Bukowski on the train? Performative. This notion is purely driven by people's resentment of the fact they haven't read a book since high school and feel bad about themselves for it in my view."
"L-R Yukio Mishima, Tennessee Williams, Patricia Highsmith, Françoise Sagan, Charles Bukowski, Ursula Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Edward Gorey, Doris Lessing, Williams.S.Burroughs, Ernest Hemingway, Haruki Murakami"
"At least Bukowski made art. People that aren't creative and aren't even real alcoholics trying to be like Bukowski 🤮"
"That is, they both craft aesthetic personas to tell stories that make the trashy glamorous in a quintessentially American way—LDR as the 'hip-hop Nancy Sinatra' and Tom Waits as the Bukowski-meets-Captain-Beefheart Beat poet barfly."
"But I exercise, eat clean, don't really drink or smoke. But I still manage to fail at everything -- jobs, school, relationships. How is it possible to be this boring and still suck at everything? Maybe I'll just go full Bukowski and see what happens."
"Tom Waits as the Bukowski-meets-Captain-Beefheart Beat poet barfly"