Charles Bukowski Talks: The Worst Hangover Ever

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."

[@AlexColberg]

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.

[@lazylazenbyproductions]

Atta boy

[@JesseSprague-cc3sy]

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.

[@blobcity3591]

@@JesseSprague-cc3sy ehh i don't know about that but fundamentally one does get what they pay for...i can't tell.

[@pl3bx]

@@JesseSprague-cc3sy At some point of getting fucked up, it doesn't really matter if it's cheap or expensive, the hangover is gonna be deathly

[@taxesrtheft]

LOL

[@jackiespaceman]

“Cheap wine, many bottles” Suddenly I can feel the hangover myself

[@TheKitchenerLeslie]

He's talking about Night Train, Ripple, or Thunderbird. Those give you an instant hangover. They all taste like Wine + Clorox Bleach, but they're cheaper than a beer and get you messed up fast.

[@chiefenumclaw7960]

Charles Shaw sends his regards.

[@SaintLawrence777]

Red Mountain wine at $1.60 a galleon was a hell of a whak to the head the next morning. 😢

[@SaintLawrence777]

​@@TheKitchenerLeslieRed Mountain was $1.60 a galleon around the time. 😢

[@cynamonstudio]

His storytelling is exactly the same as his poetry. I cannot distinguish one from another and it feels good.

[@Nantosuelta]

Thats one of the reasons I love Bukowski, he cant help but spout poetic verse. Some people just speak in poetry

[@papa_pt]

🤔 nothing exceptional about this story telling

[@messianic_scam]

That's why i like him

[@monstro6039]

@@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.

[@papa_pt]

@@monstro6039 tastes/art are beyond criticism eh. If anything it's a critique of the piece and Bukowski not ad hominem

[@gothcaillou]

I love how he can state the most horrible things so plainly.

[@lcf3335]

🍷 🍷 🍷 🍷 🍷 🍷 🍷 🍷 🍷 🍷😰

[@elijahmedrano2068]

It’s called desperation

[@crawlingamongthestars3736]

The majority of his life was horror and suffering, so it was all normal to him.

[@Kittycats-s]

Self pity, 😞.

[@claymore9032]

😂😂

[@TheVatonaught]

The way he modulates his voice and paces the words is just like the way he writes. Miss ya' dude.

[@davidholguin2532]

His head was on top and the feet with the...and he was all lined up. He dropped right by the window.

[@ConcreteRiver]

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

[@edmundsenterprises9786]

Lemons into a 'lemon drop..' Cheers!!

[@mcsneezelaloop4922]

Lower than anyone else? I know you mean well, but if you actually think that then you've gotta open your eyes.

[@MYNAMACHEF]

demons into demonade

[@nickjonas2775]

Thank you

[@redsol3629]

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.

[@testikuskitestdrivr6012]

Bukowski's so profound, that when he feels like he is dying from a hangover, someone else actually kills himself.

[@louisemercer3]

So contagious

[@lifecloud2]

This is a great take ... very insightful.

[@Alexios_CV]

hahahaahhahahahahaha

[@MedranoHijo]

😂😂

[@maxcady9071]

Great comment. ...great comment.

[@Sebastian-Tickleberry]

No idea why this is in my recommended but I guess KZbin knows my current situation

[@scottcirclepark5064]

You will be well

[@thealchemist7819]

Stay strong brother. Please.

[@ReubenStump]

Hang in there man. We’re really all in this together. Best

[@alexgalloway9310]

they do. I have been going through a lot of shit and my recommendations are all recently on theme.

[@davidzshit]

@@alexgalloway9310 If your youtube is connected to you're gmail and google then thats why

[@crippleized]

"...and that's all there is" *piano*

[@jimw.4161]

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...

[@Mmmznznnxnxnnx]

Ah yes my dear friend, I too sip tea on a Sunday afternoon and read some of my favorite passages of his, listen to this: "In the pallid light of the moonless night, beneath the shadow of mountains long dead, I inscribed their names with trembling hands. The air quivered with whispers, the tongue of Those Who Dwell Beyond. I could not unhear the cries of the unborn, their weeping was a torrent that clawed at the confines of my sanity. I saw in my dreams the cyclopean cities rising from oceans blacker than the abyss, their spires dripping with ichor of a time before time. "The veil between the worlds is thin, oh wanderer, thinner than the membrane of an unhatched egg. And in the hours when the stars align in wicked angles, they seep through-the Formless, the Nameless. They carry neither mercy nor malice, only the blind hunger of eternity. To call upon Them is to strip oneself of all that binds mortal flesh to the world of the living. Yet I did so, driven by madness and greed. I shaped the glyphs, the elder sigils taught to me in a language spoken by throats now long turned to dust. "Fools call me mad, but I tell you, there is no madness like understanding. For in the black depths of comprehension lies horror absolute. The crawling chaos came to me, amorphous and infinite, and it spoke. It spoke not with words but with a resonance that shattered my will and fused my soul with shadows eternal. ‘Speak our name no more,’ it commanded, ‘lest you awaken the sleeper beneath the waves, whose breath is a storm and whose gaze is oblivion.’ Yet I had already spoken, and the gates are now unbarred. What I saw beyond them cannot be unseen. "Take heed of this, o seeker of things forbidden. Beyond the thresholds lie only despair and the churning, formless ones who crave what little light remains in this decaying cosmos. Close your book, burn your maps, and pray that the ancient winds carry my words away. But if you must persist, know this: The price of their knowledge is not your life-it is far, far worse. And the words, etched in blood upon the stones of my delirium, are these: Iä! Shub-Niggurath! Yog-Sothoth! Cthulhu fhtagn! They are awake, and so too shall your end be." Isn’t it lovely my friend, I have soon to discover more, chery ho!

[@rileygraham8952]

He has the strangest charisma and a very enticing way of story telling.

[@AL_THOMAS_777]

Beside being a heavy drinker, Henry was a very based man. Amazingly straight and based ! I mean . . . he believed not in god but in HIMSELF - and got success with it . . . finally . . .

[@jamiehovis7722]

Well he’s a writer. They specialize in beautiful narrative

[@rubievale]

I'm 57. I haven't drank alcohol in years because the medication for my opioid addiction just stopped me enjoying a drink, but I remember my worst hangover vividly. I found a drink called Night Train Express in an off licence, so I bought it and drank it before someone brought out a bottle of 4 Roses Bourbon. That was 30 years ago, and I can remember the horror of the hangover in Tecnicolor.

[@19Marc79]

@@mloc-u8u That album which has Night Train on it, is an iconic album ! I did not know, that this song was about cheap alcohol, though.

[@johnfogarty91]

Guns n roses wrote a song about Night Train

[@sandhill9313]

I well remember Night Train, I'm rich enough now that I don't even know if they still make fortified wines with ironic names. I had two careers first with the Post Office Department and then with the Postal Service, and so somehow feel that I am a better person because of the identity I feel with him.

[@sandhill9313]

@@johnfogarty91 Fortified wines, think 40 proof and $1.00 a pint last I bought any, Thunderbird, MD 2020, a whole world of drunkenness. No apologies from folks who drink them, looking down on the Sterno folks though 🙂

[@chuckzimmerman3711]

Sub?

[@LisaODavis]

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.

[@liambutler9427]

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?

[@thescriptwriter824]

@@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.

[@MrDawnRise]

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.

[@bear5945]

@@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

[@thescriptwriter824]

@@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.

[@joeldavis5815]

Here you go KZbin: I'm watching it.

[@TheRubberStudiosASMR]

Me too haha. I don’t know why!

[@SimonRobeyns]

imagine being so low down u just look out the window watching someone die and just saying fuck it ill get a beer

[@crackthefoundation_]

Bro I can hardly imagine feeling any other way hah

[@williamdixon-gk2sk]

​@@crackthefoundation_same, bro, same.

[@njuham]

Perhaps the one dying looked like a democrat.

[@RubyMarkLindMilly]

The only author that's made me cry with laughter

[@mr.jazzbodkelsey58]

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. 🙃✈️

[@flanno]

This is where it happened and that’s all there is. Life.

[@readmelancholystrumpetmaster]

You fucking ruined it adding "Life"

[@user-sj5rb7dc3c]

Weldon Mix Agree

[@zeevon9907]

@@readmelancholystrumpetmaster highly agree

[@EnlightenedRogue24]

Wine hangovers are particularly brutal. ☝️🥴🍷🍷🍷

[@Saturnia2014]

Lol yes, they are. Whiskey hangovers are probably the worst kind, though.

[@JonJonJonJonJonJonJonJon]

Tuna sandwich the fucking headache whisky gives you the next day. Fuck that. Never again.

[@Saturnia2014]

@James Darmor Well worth it.

[@tristanquezadadiaz4508]

Ron Bacardi's hangovers are also pure hell

[@JonJonJonJonJonJonJonJon]

It’s all about PRE hydration. Very little you can do next day hangover raging. Maybe aspirin and shit loads of sleep

[@gregorcollins]

"I went to the refrigerator and got a beer" lol :)

[@sepijortikka]

Of course he would do that.

[@readmelancholystrumpetmaster]

What makes this story believable is the ending when he says, "I still didn't look out the window because I was feeling bad."

[@sinane.y]

right after he said he got a beer and felt better lol

[@readmelancholystrumpetmaster]

@@sinane.y LOL But "better" after the worst hangover ever still sucks

[@TheKitchenerLeslie]

If you know the area he's in, it's not too surprising. People used to get thrown off roofs in that area all the time when I lived there.

[@BrianNIL]

Would have been kinda nice for one of them to call 911.

[@carlodave9]

Empathy is not a long-term effect of extreme alcohol consumption.

[@joenavanodo3780]

BrianNIL : Empathy for anyone, is not a virtue of Hank, unless for himself of course.

[@matteframe]

How would that help? The guy's dead.

[@NeonFireFly-uu2tj]

I'm sure there were plenty on the ground to see him

[@WilliamDavidHobbs]

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...

[@poem]

👍 brilliant. reading, listening to this guy is always a treat.

[@gilbertcuevas9483]

Man, those hangovers get worse as you get older, too. I’m in my mid 40s and a hangover feels like a medical episode.😂🥴🤢🤮😵💀

[@hornjan8258]

Without Hank, I wouldn't have started reading as a teenager for the sheer joy of it. And I still believe today that Bukowski is completely underestimated by critics as a storyteller.

[@ronenmargolin5701]

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!

[@myshkinmusic1349]

and R.I.P. to the guy who jumped out the window

[@arveyilleszender5809]

To be quite honest, despite what people say, even if you drink a lot of a very HIGH quality alcohol, you’re still going to feel like shit. I’m not so sure that sticking to expensive stuff is a means of avoiding a hangover.

[@musicisbrilliant]

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.

[@mr.jazzbodkelsey58]

Here's to f**kin up! With style.... 😎 👌 ✨️

[@musicisbrilliant]

@@mr.jazzbodkelsey58 Lol. Cheers my friend! :)

[@AL_THOMAS_777]

Yep. - - -> see Hermann Hesse -> ABRAXAS !

[@bungle0261]

​@@musicisbrillianthow are you going a year later music is brilliant ?

[@Beechgoose1]

Winter in the UK..Buk is a good tonic.

[@user-vg5rv5xf4u]

What a great story.

[@jkmagnetic]

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.

[@scorpiorising3741]

Don't be a victim. Be a survivor. God bless!

[@giomalvisto3737]

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..

[@benzielke7149]

When it comes to alcohol, you get what you pay for. So true...

[@jamesbueker11]

He was all lined up and falling through the air. Love it

[@Patrick-od2bd]

I love Bukowski!

[@hammer44head]

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.

[@mikeage1024]

I dry heaved today for hours and then this shows up for recommendation, OK sure

[@davidmulhall2710]

This is one of the reasons I’m on KZbin/ the internet; for random gems like this ! 👍😭🤔🤣3:17 ‘ this where it happened, and that’s all their is. ‘

[@lukebonner4231]

First book I read of his was Women. It took off from the get go and I was hooked.

[@arbin.m.5089]

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.

[@MarkRockwell-d3u]

Wonderful date! She wasn't a keeper - neither were you. But love's like that. Great clip. Thanks for posting this new art for the world to see.

[@anthonyfoutch3152]

This guy drank heavily everyday of his adult life plus he chain smoked. He still lived to 74. Since I was a Dilaudid and morphine addict for 30 years I should at least make 80.

[@stanleyhape8427]

🤞

[@aleksandardjordjevic2729]

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.

[@KT-Buf69]

I somehow just found bukowski at 33. I love this guy.

[@PHILD0]

You're 36 now and I'm the next 33 year old just finding Bukowski!

[@lennardg]

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.

[@hangedups2608]

THINK HE SAID THEY TALKED TO FAST

[@chipworkhard4777]

When people say ‘They’re just born with IT’ This is what they mean.

[@Mmmznznnxnxnnx]

Eh , what is this about ?

[@tom66909]

I’ve only had several catastrophic hangovers- Covid felt exactly like that.

[@ezzystarr]

What a profound vow. Highly spirit-ual.

[@mikeyoung5609]

Awesome 😎

[@pauliecopez2683]

He talks exactly how he writes.

[@Mmmznznnxnxnnx]

And writes just how he talks 😢

[@benpowell4733]

He grabs a beer but never a thought to call the paramedics.

[@manuproctor8986]

Thanks Bukowski, very cool

[@SaintLawrence777]

Bukowski's hangover was so bad the other man could feel it and decided the pain was too great to carry on. RIP David Lynch 🌹 today he passed...and RIP Chuck's hangover ❤

[@giddeo]

There's a strange honesty in the way he talks. Most people would emphasize how dramatic the moment was, the way it affected them personally. It would be filled with this heady sense that they were some how afflicted by it and played some moral role in letting people know it had happened. He just matter of factly says he saw it, told somebody and then went to get a beer. It just removes the inflated sense of drama, brings it back down to earth, makes it human, makes it that little more real. To me, at least.

[@davidstemmler1836]

I've had a few terrible hangovers. Hair of the dog was something i never considered. Usually I wouldn't touch a drink for weeks.

[@JesterMax24]

Same here

[@patrickmcg123]

+2

[@thomassinha5301]

It's an alcoholism thing- this means you likely didn't/don't have a dependency on alcohol. It's actually fascinating from a physiological perspective

[@BigBadJerryRogers]

Well you have to have more to drink the next day, it revives the corpse. Just not enough to make it into a corpse again.

[@gamayun6102]

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.

[@BigBadJerryRogers]

Soda really is bad for you

[@gamayun6102]

@@BigBadJerryRogers I never drink soda.

[@solarplexus4003]

LOL! Henry is the author I've read the most about. Really funny and exotic for me, his stuff.

[@RataStuey]

Henry?

[@101intellectual]

@@RataStuey haha he must be referring to his name Heinrich

[@roquegiler]

this was fun to watch and listen to. he was a great poet.

[@ultreiasnyggovic2354]

'''and thats all there is"

[@hcpiano]

lol it kinda reminded me of the ending of a looney toons cartoon

[@Broke_Stacker]

1 drink - 1 8oz glass of water

[@Lord_OTD]

My favourite author and poet.

[@jeffbrandt6429]

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.

[@arbin.m.5089]

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! 😁🍻.

[@readmelancholystrumpetmaster]

Five stories. I know the building he's talking about across from MacArthur Park

[@arbin.m.5089]

@@readmelancholystrumpetmaster That's so cool. I'd like to visit there one day. I'm sure the area is totally different now.

[@christopherhasty8697]

I'm glad this is back up to view.

[@JesseSprague-cc3sy]

Nothing will ever produce a worse hangover than cheap wine. Wild Irish rose, box wine, thunderbird... Worse than death.

[@the_gilded_age_phoenix8717]

Adding sugar/sweeteners to alcohol is generally a bad idea.

[@crackthefoundation_]

It's all the same eventually. But yeah, Whole Foods $3 wine is the worst thing I've ever drank.

[@rozzer8290]

Absolutely, different level

[@sagatuppercut2960]

I like how Bukowski can tell a comical story about a horrible day.

[@muuuzaklistener]

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?

[@Ruffwun]

It's on tubi

[@lawrenceallen8096]

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.

[@guerrilla5002]

I still didn't look out the window you know.

[@Jamie-js3qw]

that is the funniest line, come to think of it

[@ronenmargolin5701]

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!

[@RolandDuke]

Great post Lizbeth!!

[@lastone3926]

I still didn’t look out the window… best line ever

[@peteclarke]

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

[@rev.jimjonesandthekool-aid4488]

Interesting

[@rishikumarsingh2926]

BIM BIM BIM

[@trollyrollz5476]

Rishi The Great ew.

[@amygrindhouse4193]

i am laughing so hard right now, because of your comment :D

[@KingCrimson82]

Just because "guess what" ? good lord !

[@airbornestoner3077]

What’s bim

[@messianic_scam]

Yes

[@shawnpringle8191]

Great story

[@BigBadJerryRogers]

One time I was walking home from a bar after it had closed and just vomited all over the front step in front of a law office door nearby. I bet they were used to coming in to work and finding something like that there. That memory always makes me laugh hysterically 😆

[@phaandorpertwee6981]

This is what it looks like when you decouple yourself from the suffering of earthly existance.

[@lvn4x]

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.

[@jamesbueker11]

This is where it happened and that’s all there is. How beautiful

[@buddha1736]

I told you so.😂😂😂

[@dogman615]

beautiful words and spoken well, pour one for the homies

[@joenavanodo3780]

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?

[@shondizzy6370]

How edgy

[@danhalfhill9169]

Joe Navanodo You just explained what it is like to own an Italian car.

[@AFO_AnalyRics]

Ask ol' Keef.

[@dnlsdd]

@@danhalfhill9169 yes ahahhaha.

[@monel58]

@@danhalfhill9169 LOL FIAT= Fix It Again Tony!!

[@Heavilymoderated]

Even the way he said, “And she ran to the bathroom, and puked, and puked…”

[@Jesse-qk6wn]

The key to avoiding hangovers is to urinate all the alcohol before you fall asleep.

[@llongdong]

Hee HAH!! This is funny as all hell. LOVE to listen to this guy.

[@johnnymcnoodle27]

That's where it happened and that's all there is.....too right, the most existential statement ever.

[@dario6253]

Wow! What a story.

[@n0isyturtle]

I can see why this was recommended after all the David Lynch and Cormack McCarthy interviews I watched. A new hole to crawl into.

[@KursiiGjermanishtesGratis]

The way he talks and tells the story, I see myself talking. Great genius!

[@shemholmes7353]

I love his voice.

[@tunesmith86]

Great storytelling. It's like Bob Dylan but without the acoustic guitar and harmonica

[@Aussiebloke311]

the cheap wine hangover is by far the most excruciating

[@haggaisimon7748]

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.

[@AMERICAFIRST54]

A hangover by cheap wine is horrendous, takes more than one beer to feel a little better.

[@efilperpenfuhrer]

JANE!!!

[@skumsters2323]

i wish i could have gotten wasted with this man, even if it was for just one conversation. love from Rotterdamn woman

[@lukedoyle3002]

Weird. His voice is so far from the one I hear in my head when reading his work

[@rjbenson9621]

Agreed! I thought he'd sound a little rougher.

[@siulumlion]

I wanted him to sound like Mickey Rourke in Barfly.

[@lukedoyle3002]

siulumlion That was a good film. Though I preferred Factotum where he’s played by Matt Dillon

[@yoink2k]

in my head his voice was just a motorcycle revving

[@andreaskubel9545]

Listen to him reciting some of his own poems. You will never hear a different voice in your head again reading Buk, i promise.

[@lewcrowley3710]

I love a Life Affirming story....

[@bramsanjanssan4908]

it's strange to jump from a building facing the building.

[@papichefitup]

Cheap wine Is the devil