Charles Bukowski Talks: The Worst Hangover Ever

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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*

[@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.

[@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 . . .

[@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.

[@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...

[@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

[@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

[@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. 🙃✈️

[@poem]

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

[@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 !

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@mikeage1024]

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

[@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...

[@jamesbueker11]

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

[@solarplexus4003]

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

[@Beechgoose1]

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

[@scorpiorising3741]

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

[@KT-Buf69]

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

[@user-vg5rv5xf4u]

What a great story.

[@chipworkhard4777]

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

[@manuproctor8986]

Thanks Bukowski, very cool

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@gregorcollins]

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

[@sepijortikka]

Of course he would do that.

[@Patrick-od2bd]

I love Bukowski!

[@mikeyoung5609]

Awesome 😎

[@roquegiler]

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

[@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.

[@benzielke7149]

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

[@pauliecopez2683]

He talks exactly how he writes.

[@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.

[@ultreiasnyggovic2354]

'''and thats all there is"

[@hcpiano]

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

[@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.

[@guerrilla5002]

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

[@Jamie-js3qw]

that is the funniest line, come to think of it

[@shemholmes7353]

I love his voice.

[@christopherhasty8697]

I'm glad this is back up to view.

[@shawnpringle8191]

Great story

[@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

[@johnnymcnoodle27]

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

[@jamesbueker11]

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

[@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.

[@buddha1736]

I told you so.😂😂😂

[@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!!

[@JesseSprague-cc3sy]

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

[@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!

[@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....

[@sagatuppercut2960]

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

[@tombryan1]

I wonder if he drank often, he looks like an athlete

[@fullofcrapiam]

Bukowksi never had the makings of a varsity athlete.

[@Vmh1717]

Ian small hands that was his problem

[@rickybobby4949]

Small shine box that was his problem

[@MrHousetronic]

@@rickybobby4949 small balls, that was his problem.

[@Max-kw2hp]

He had great legs

[@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.

[@TheMarct707]

I have a eerily similar story which involved gallons of Boone's Farm Wine and my upstairs neighbor' cat.

[@User73698]

Wine hangovers suck. It's a special type of hangover. The bitter "had too much sweet" hangover.

[@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

[@skumsters2323]

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

[@plutoplatters]

LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL... if you've never had ONE of these... I don't want to know you.

[@efilperpenfuhrer]

JANE!!!

[@RolandDuke]

Great post Lizbeth!!

[@JB111-b4d]

Charlie tell the audience the story about the lady with the legs

[@phaandorpertwee6981]

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

[@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..

[@llongdong]

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

[@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.

[@isaacchoukrounguindi5853]

Brutal honesty

[@Saturnia2014]

Does anyone remember Thunderbird or Ripple wine? Before my time but I always here the old pissheads talk about those two. The one wine that they still sell are the big jug wines with the old Italian man smiling on it, holding a vine of grapes.

[@benzielke7149]

I remember Thunderbird... Had friends that drank it in the early 90's but that was the last time I saw it.

[@armenalexanian]

Thunderbird and also Night Train, in the early 90s

[@clintcalvert9250]

Fred Sanford drank Ripple

[@Saturnia2014]

@@armenalexanian Wasn't there one called Mad Dog or Irish rose?

[@armenalexanian]

@@Saturnia2014 I think both. They were usually surprisingly tasty.

[@AL_THOMAS_777]

His voice was really nice ! 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 . . .

[@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.

[@williamjc7195]

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.

[@jeffdoyle4703]

Kind of puts that hangover in perspective.

[@beatdareaper]

Holy shit the way he described that story had me crying laughing

[@RyanAnthonyDigitalMedia]

This is a charming American tale

[@whelpdog1]

I hear you brother, Don't remind me. Sober 27 years now.

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

12 years for me, sometimes I revisit Bukowski to remind myself never again.

[@KursiiGjermanishtesGratis]

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

[@dailyNetUser]

great!

[@carolf9302]

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.

[@willemowen2515]

Hes a seasoned alcoholic. Some people can just manage that lifestyle.

[@Tribophopic]

Blessed by Dionysus.

[@nightmindr]

Fuck i wish people would stop glossing Bukowski with shitty music.

[@bluesborn]

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.

[@blisterpacman]

nightmindr i think the music fits the movie

[@alexday4118]

how to write eloquently and be remembered for isnt that all that life is when maybe to be forgotten and to let go may make you realise what really is its just you

[@gxulien]

He used to haunt local watering holes in my town. His poetry is, I dunno, visceral.

[@midguy4265]

What how!?!?!?!?!?!

[@AL_THOMAS_777]

[@rayallen7016]

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..

[@samtraygis1337]

🥃🥃🥃😦😱🤕🤕

[@Martiiin2008]

cool story bro

[@01bizet]

Not one word mentioned about calling an ambulance haha cold as fuck

[@waynemichaellindeman667]

Prose and prosecution mixed with heart and immolation

[@zoomintrackout1]

"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.

[@the-engneer]

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

[@zoomintrackout1]

​@@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.

[@papichefitup]

Cheap wine Is the devil

[@blueocean2058]

Aaaaogh that is the Dark Comedy ✌🏻🍺

[@taimeuppe6174]

I've had all the worst hangovers ever

[@julioc8875]

I'd do anything to drink with bukowski.. it must have been so fun!

[@19skidoo46]

Why did the man do it and why is this guy so funny

[@mdgcwood]

No thought of calling an ambulance I suppose.

[@stubkar]

_"I could have called 9-1-1, but.... you know. "_