Charles Bukowski Talks: The Worst Hangover Ever
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- Опубліковано 17 бер 2013
- Henry Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski; August 16, 1920 -- March 9, 1994) was a German-born American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles.[6] It is marked by an emphasis on the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women and the drudgery of work. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over sixty books. In 1986 Time called Bukowski a "laureate of American lowlife".[7] Regarding Bukowski's enduring popular appeal, Adam Kirsch of The New Yorker wrote, "the secret of Bukowski's appeal. . . [is that] he combines the confessional poet's promise of intimacy with the larger-than-life aplomb of a pulp-fiction hero."
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During the worst hangover of my life I felt so stupid to have done that to myself, so helpless in my misery, that I made a vow that day which I have kept to this day: Never get drunk on the really cheap stuff again.
Atta boy
It absolutely makes a difference, people say vodka is vodka etc but that's not true. Drinking a bottle of $5 Vladimir or a bottle of Smirnoff you'll know that it ain't worth saving that $15 lol.
@@JesseSprague-cc3sy ehh i don't know about that but fundamentally one does get what they pay for...i can't tell.
LOL
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I love how he can state the most horrible things so plainly.
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It’s called desperation
The majority of his life was horror and suffering, so it was all normal to him.
When you feel like all is lost and you are in your darkest hours, know Bukowski was lower than that and he turned those lemons into lemonade. So can you
Lemons into a 'lemon drop..' Cheers!!
Lower than anyone else? I know you mean well, but if you actually think that then you've gotta open your eyes.
demons into demonade
Thank you
Bro he kept those lemons, there's no juice just you Bukowski and those lemon trees. That's what made him great he told it how it is.
His storytelling is exactly the same as his poetry. I cannot distinguish one from another and it feels good.
Thats one of the reasons I love Bukowski, he cant help but spout poetic verse. Some people just speak in poetry
🤔 nothing exceptional about this story telling
That's why i like him
@@papa_pt maybe what makes the story exceptional, is
the fact that it persuaded you into wasting your precious story telling time,
just so you could try to virtually put others down for connecting on what they love.
@@monstro6039 tastes/art are beyond criticism eh. If anything it's a critique of the piece and Bukowski not ad hominem
No idea why this is in my recommended but I guess UA-cam knows my current situation
You will be well
Stay strong brother. Please.
Hang in there man. We’re really all in this together. Best
they do. I have been going through a lot of shit and my recommendations are all recently on theme.
@@alexgalloway9310 If your youtube is connected to you're gmail and google then thats why
Bukowski's so profound, that when he feels like he is dying from a hangover, someone else actually kills himself.
So contagious
This is a great take ... very insightful.
hahahaahhahahahahaha
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Great comment.
...great comment.
He has the strangest charisma and a very enticing way of story telling.
The way he modulates his voice and paces the words is just like the way he writes. Miss ya' dude.
His head was on top and the feet with the...and he was all lined up. He dropped right by the window.
"...and that's all there is"
*piano*
I love Buk, once in awhile, especially in his early work, he could write such agonizingly beautiful stuff. I totally agree with him about the professor/intellectual types killing the poem, and writing's joy in general. I think Mr. Pelton there had an alcoholic parent. If writing is to be read by the masses, and not just aristocrats, then it should be written in common language that anyone can understand an be touched by. Just an nobody's opinion.
Lisa O. Davis Fair point, but what about Shakespeare, James Joyce, TS Eliot? They’re not written in layman’s terms and they are Gods of Literature?
@@liambutler9427 God's write like Gods, and drunks write like drunks. I agree with both of your points. And I love Bukowski's writing, the poetry particularly. It is possibly one of the greatest tragedies that illiteracy is rife amongst the working class. And, by antithesis, reading is a cornerstone of "Aristocratic" life. If this were to change, we would very likely see the class system itself dissolve, as the bias ignorant mentality that holds it up would be no longer.
The Script Writer get off your horn, blowhard. God your dull. The exact soul that should forgo the pen awhile and take up drink instead, level that big head.
@@thescriptwriter824 dude I agree but c'mon drop the thesaurus. "be no longer" why not just say disappear? There's something to be said for brevity you know
@@MrDawnRise Life not working out for you huh? You sound like every fucking You tube response I've ever heard. Petty little reactive kid whose only talent is hate. ....lol you maggot, seriously don't ever think about writing.
Outside: body flying past
Bukowski: short story material
not very good material
@@tonywellington7854 Good enough to include in "Factotum".
@@AnthonyMonaghan they cant all be winners now can they?
Very short.
@@tonywellington7854 What do you mean?
Here you go UA-cam: I'm watching it.
Me too haha. I don’t know why!
This is where it happened and that’s all there is. Life.
You fucking ruined it adding "Life"
Weldon Mix Agree
@@readmelancholystrumpetmaster highly agree
Wine hangovers are particularly brutal. ☝️🥴🍷🍷🍷
Lol yes, they are. Whiskey hangovers are probably the worst kind, though.
Tuna sandwich the fucking headache whisky gives you the next day. Fuck that. Never again.
@James Darmor Well worth it.
Ron Bacardi's hangovers are also pure hell
It’s all about PRE hydration. Very little you can do next day hangover raging. Maybe aspirin and shit loads of sleep
Charles Bukowski was a brilliant poet. His subject was always TRUTH. He had a unique view of life from the bottom up. A literary giant. RIP CB...
Would have been kinda nice for one of them to call 911.
Empathy is not a long-term effect of extreme alcohol consumption.
BrianNIL : Empathy for anyone, is not a virtue of Hank, unless for himself of course.
How would that help? The guy's dead.
I'm sure there were plenty on the ground to see him
Only 50% of the population was covered by 911 in 1987, might not have been able to. Certainly wasn't an immediate reaction of people yet...
The only author that's made me cry with laughter
Try Hunter S. Thompson, too if you haven't already! I read "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" on a plane and was cackling like a hyena the whole flight. 🙃✈️
"I went to the refrigerator and got a beer" lol :)
Of course he would do that.
This man is an inspiration to me. Im not exactly sure why, but he is. I think its because he's proof that no matter how shitty life could get, you can power through it and be successful.
Here's to f**kin up!
With style.... 😎 👌 ✨️
@@mr.jazzbodkelsey58 Lol. Cheers my friend! :)
What makes this story believable is the ending when he says, "I still didn't look out the window because I was feeling bad."
right after he said he got a beer and felt better lol
@@sinane.y LOL But "better" after the worst hangover ever still sucks
I can listen to him describe anything! His delivery was one of a kind, much like Hunter S. Thompson! R.I.P. to both MEN!
and R.I.P. to the guy who jumped out the window
I love Bukowski!
He talks exactly how he writes.
When people say ‘They’re just born with IT’
This is what they mean.
Nothing will ever produce a worse hangover than cheap wine. Wild Irish rose, box wine, thunderbird... Worse than death.
Best way to cure a hangover is to carry on drinking
What a great story.
👍 brilliant. reading, listening to this guy is always a treat.
Adam Kirsch (of the New Yorker) is Exactly the type of "literary person" Bukowski attacked in many of his poems.
And he didn't care much for New York either.
Don't be a victim. Be a survivor. God bless!
First book I read of his was Women. It took off from the get go and I was hooked.
My worst hangover was when I drank whiskey with a couple of friends mixed with Dr Pepper. My girlfriend was away for the weekend visiting her mom. The next day when she got home around 4 in the afternoon, I was still in bed. The hangover lasted for about one and a half day. My head would just not stop pounding and I had some trouble breathing.
imagine being so low down u just look out the window watching someone die and just saying fuck it ill get a beer
I dry heaved today for hours and then this shows up for recommendation, OK sure
The way he talks and tells the story, I see myself talking. Great genius!
I somehow just found bukowski at 33. I love this guy.
I'm glad this is back up to view.
When it comes to alcohol, you get what you pay for. So true...
The worst hangovers are the ones when you literally wish (and think it actually might happen, kinda wishing for it) you died, out of nausea, "he said steel" something, well, I call it "an axe in the head", that's it, not being able to get out of your bed for 12-14 hours (after waking up), except maybe for puking and going to toillete, with great effort..... Then second day you're still tired. And I'm 33 now, I was around 20-25 then. It happened to me only 3 times in my life, the worst kind you can get. ..and I was seasoned, putting many people "under the table", they just couldn't follow.
I like how Bukowski can tell a comical story about a horrible day.
Ham on Rye is one of the great works of American literature. I think it will outlast the work of many better known writers of our time.
Somehow this makes me feel a bit better too. (I’m having a terrible hangover in concert with food poisoning 🤢)
In high school all I read was bukowski. I use to go into book stores and read his poetry books. Later in life, my wife gifted me his entire collection.
Drink lots of water and sugar
@@kwader_1404 So Gatorade will be a good choice of hangover cure?
@@Saturnia2014 the feeling you get when you are hungover is the same feeling you get when you're about to die of thirst. You're body is dehydrated that includes the small veins in the brain that's the cause of headaches. So drink lots of water. And sugar is just pleasant for the stomach in case you're so hungover that your stomach can't even hold water and you throw up OR like our buddy here with food poisoning ... That's what I know for a fact but what I don't know for a fact is what other ingredients and chemicals Gatorade contains so I can't tell you about that
I still didn't look out the window you know.
that is the funniest line, come to think of it
The only thing you can do for a hangover is to drink a couple beers and puke it all out. Order an extra large pizza and drinks tons of soda and eat every bit of the pizza the crust everything. Gives you a little bit of sugar for the blood rise and then a crash of more sleep. Thats about it, thats all i could figure out and i drank for years on end.
Winter in the UK..Buk is a good tonic.
LOL! Henry is the author I've read the most about. Really funny and exotic for me, his stuff.
Telling a painful story has a healing effect...watching someone commit suicide would require many tellings to heal...that was probably the hundredth time he told that one
Interesting
I watched this many years ago, searched for it with the exact title to the video to no prevail. Couple years later here I am & it finally popped up. It must have been removed for a while or something.
"I felt better, maybe because I was right." Haha.
Awesome 😎
Great post Lizbeth!!
Was I the only one laughing when he said he felt better because he was right? Lol That was like a mini victory for all boyfriends and husbands!
'''and thats all there is"
lol it kinda reminded me of the ending of a looney toons cartoon
BIM BIM BIM
Rishi The Great ew.
i am laughing so hard right now, because of your comment :D
Just because "guess what" ? good lord !
What’s bim
Yes
How can anyone drink so much and live so long?. My brother-in-law was an alcoholic, he died in his 50’s. Maybe they are too mean to die, too despicable, self entitled...life owes me life, therefore I refuse to die.
I have read some Of his work....so raw, pitiful, disgusting...yet, I find it somewhat enlightening, I love him...then I hate him. perhaps this is what we all are, perhaps this is what I am. I just don’t have the cajones to accept it, to realize it in an honest way. And if I did , then what?
How edgy
Joe Navanodo You just explained what it is like to own an Italian car.
Ask ol' Keef.
@@danhalfhill9169 yes ahahhaha.
@@danhalfhill9169 LOL FIAT= Fix It Again Tony!!
he just described a suicide in a well dressed man floating and sinking down in the air...'because a body doesn't fall very fast'...so i am sure they look at each other, both confused..one because of the hangover, the other because he didn't expect to see someone he doesn't know, but still as if he was his last friend...
then the feeling of relief when Jane believes him..
In a second or two, there are so many different feelings...if he was sober, he probably didn't have the time to feel all of them..
I told you so.😂😂😂
Anybody thinking like damn this a story about a awful hangover then all of a sudden this guy fully dressed jumped off the roof damn.
Fuck i wish people would stop glossing Bukowski with shitty music.
nightmindr the piano music was so brief that I couldn't tell what or who it was but I do know that Bukowski was a classical music fan.
nightmindr i think the music fits the movie
Thanks Bukowski, very cool
great!
I love his voice.
I love how he says he didn't look out the window because he was feeling bad due to a bad hangover, yet there was some man that fell two stories onto concrete that was having a way worse day. 😆. I watched this video years ago & tried finding for months even though I found it typing the same title into the search bar that I did before. R.I.P. Bukowski! 😁🍻.
Five stories. I know the building he's talking about across from MacArthur Park
@@readmelancholystrumpetmaster That's so cool. I'd like to visit there one day. I'm sure the area is totally different now.
Cheap wine doesn't pass my lips...anymore.
All I see is him laughing at everyone. Just a drunk who doesn't give a $#&$ about anything but getting drunk, has a talent for writing, and amusing himself with how they fall over themselves to share in his talent. Still, I'd have a beer with him.
I can see why this was recommended after all the David Lynch and Cormack McCarthy interviews I watched. A new hole to crawl into.
JANE!!!
Great story
I wonder if he drank often, he looks like an athlete
Bukowksi never had the makings of a varsity athlete.
Ian small hands that was his problem
Small shine box that was his problem
@@rickybobby4949 small balls, that was his problem.
He had great legs
This is what it looks like when you decouple yourself from the suffering of earthly existance.
I've had all the worst hangovers ever
That's where it happened and that's all there is.....too right, the most existential statement ever.
"I got a beer and then felt better. I don't know why." Yeah, that's because you're heavily alcohol dependent and were experiencing withdrawal. Alcohol will relieve your withdrawal symptoms temporarily. Simple as that.
Thanks for the information doctor! I'm sure you know exactly what cures everybody's problems internal or external whether they state which part of themselves felt better or not
@@the-engneer I actually do know a little about alcohol dependence and its effects.
I also know a little guitar so I am confident in telling you that you suck at it.
Weird. His voice is so far from the one I hear in my head when reading his work
Agreed! I thought he'd sound a little rougher.
I wanted him to sound like Mickey Rourke in Barfly.
siulumlion That was a good film. Though I preferred Factotum where he’s played by Matt Dillon
in my head his voice was just a motorcycle revving
Listen to him reciting some of his own poems. You will never hear a different voice in your head again reading Buk, i promise.
Brutal honesty
When I was a child, a man nearly landed on my mother and I, downtown SLC. I think the asshole tried to land on us. Heres what's I said, "his head must hurt"
I love a Life Affirming story....
Holy shit the way he described that story had me crying laughing
this clip used to be a part of a longer video, it was like a collection of clips that all started off with that piano jingle. does anyone know where I can find this longer version?
It's on tubi
Mucho wine will give a bad damn hangover...worst I ever had though was after a night starting with 8 Budweisers , then a bottle of Boone's Farm , finishing up with a fifth of Smirnoff..came to next afternoon and would have sworn i had a knife in my head..
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It's a freezing December morning in Columbia MO. I'm laying down in my bed in a cheap motel, couple hundred yards from a gas station. I am shaking, covered with sweat, vomiting. Blood pressure is over the roof. I stink like shit. The only thing I want is to sleep, but I can't. After 6 hours of the fight, I stand up, dress, and trail to the gas station to buy Jack Daniels. I know that it will certainly kill me, but I can't function without it. I am back to the motel, not much money left, but I want only one, be able to sleep. I drink a little bit of whisky, but it goes straight to the sink, I vomit. But some part of it came to my system. It's getting a bit better, but not much. After half of the bottle I blackout. I wake up in the night, shaking even more. I am dying... I hear voices, I see images. It's hell. It was the New Year of 1997. I supposed to go to Pennsylvania from Manhattan KS. Greyhound round trip ticket tool me only till MO.
A huge collection of these clips used to be available on one video, but it’s since disappeared. Anyone know where to find this? I’d buy it if it was for sale.
In all the years of reading bukowski, drinking and enduring the hangovers. I can never understand why in every poem short story or novel he always has beer in the fridge the day after the night before.
It's making the hangover at ease; but they can easily get the hair of the dog.
LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL... if you've never had ONE of these... I don't want to know you.
Charlie tell the audience the story about the lady with the legs
Amazing that he could drink like that so much and survive so long and be creative... he must have a liver the size of his Cleveland. Whenever I have been in the habit of overindulging there is always this nagging voice telling me to cool it... I can't imagine just self-destructing and at the same time remaining so creative. It boggles the mind.
Hes a seasoned alcoholic. Some people can just manage that lifestyle.
Blessed by Dionysus.
Stomach like a falling brick and a head like one when it hits the concrete. I'll never drink again so long as I survive this hell. 6 hours later right as rain, 9 hours the rain is rinsed and repeated, another vodka bottle under the bed, one more won't hurt.
I have a eerily similar story which involved gallons of Boone's Farm Wine and my upstairs neighbor' cat.
Kind of puts that hangover in perspective.
I am very glad I don't have a story like that to relate to you. However, when it comes to monster hangovers... pour yourself a drink,
this might take a while.
His voice was nice
He used to haunt local watering holes in my town. His poetry is, I dunno, visceral.
What how!?!?!?!?!?!
can get a beer, cannot call an ambulance
what's up with the opening and ending music???
Aaaaogh that is the Dark Comedy ✌🏻🍺
What's that piano piece? Does ANYBODY know? I'm desperate :-D
Google it....what have you got to lose? 😁
This is a charming American tale
A real man
I hear you brother, Don't remind me. Sober 27 years now.
12 years for me, sometimes I revisit Bukowski to remind myself never again.
for those who got this in their recommended and have no idea who charles bukowski is, go check out his poems
Micky really picked up on some of his speech delivery’s. First time I noticed it . Barfly ‘