Very good work, Paul.  I have a feeling the ol' bastard would be grudgingly proud of what you're doing with his readings.

Another great piece and thanks for connecting me to this late great poet...

I had thought about making a "beer-drinking drumset" but you beat me to it ;-)

Thanks for putting this back up... as dark as the man himself, perfect !!..

You sure Frank ain't around? Who's the bartender?

Selection of poems and important writers.

Poetry (others)

Charles Bukowski - Voice
http://soundcloud.com/user7828480 - Drums (Part of "Inspiration Revelation)
Deeply Dazzled Omnisphere and Guitar ( Cort MGM)
Old Speckled Hen - Liquid refreshment 

To the whore who took my poems

some say we should keep personal remorse from the poem,
stay abstract, 
and there is some reason in this,
but jezus;
twelve poems gone 
and I don't keep carbons and you have
my paintings too, my best ones
its stifling:
are you trying to crush me out like the rest of them?
why didn't you take my money?
they usually do
from the sleeping drunken pants sick in the corner.
next time take my left arm or a fifty
but not my poems:
I'm not Shakespeare
but sometime simply
there won't be any more,
abstract or otherwise;
there'll always be money and whores and drunkards
down to the last bomb,
but as God said,
crossing his legs,
I see where I have made plenty of poets
but not so very much poetry.

To The Whore Who Took My Poems (Charles Bukowski, Steve Mauro, Deeply Dazzled)

Hold On - Emily Kinney & Tom Waits

LET IT BE KNOWN (CHARLES BUKOWSKI)

TO KNOW YOUR OWN DEATH
IS TO DIE 
TWICE

ONCE REALLY
AND THEN HARDLY AT ALL

(Hardly at all)

LET IT BE KNOWN THAT THERE IS
NOTHING AS UGLY
IN ALL IT'S TANGENTS
AS THE HUMAN
BEAST

A TRICK
SET AGAINST THE BLOOD OF YOUR SOUL

(The blood of your soul)
LET IT BE KNOWN THAT
SOLITUDE IS THE ONLY MERCY
AND THE ONLY
(Lover)

LOVER

Lover)

LET IT BE KNOWN THAT 
A MAN NEED NOT BE CHRIST TO BE CRUCIFIED
LET IT BE KNOWN THAT
A MAN CAN BE CRUCIFIED EACH DAY
EACH MOMENT

EACH BREATH

(Each moment)

TO SLEEP AND AWAKEN AND BE TORMENTED AGAIN

LET IT BE KNOWN THAT
A MAN CAN DIE AND DIE AND DIE AND DIE 
AND STILL FEEL THE PAIN AND KNOW HE IS DEAD
AND STILL FEEL THE PAIN 

(Each breath)

LET IT BE KNOWN 

(Each moment)

LET IT BE KNOWN 

(Crucified)

LET IT BE KNOWN 

(Each day)
(Each breath)

THAT THE TEMPLES ARE NOTHING
AND THE BELLS ARE NOTHING 
FAME IS NOTHING
VICTORY IS NOTHING 
SEX IS NOTHING 
AND THAT SOLITUDE BRINGS MADNESS AND THE CROWD
BRINGS MADNESS AND DRINKS AND EATS THE BODY LIKE A TIGER

(Like a tiger)

LET IT BE KNOWN THAT
THERE WILL BE OTHER MEN SUCH AS I

(Crucified)
LIFTED FOR THE LION'S MOUTH

(Crucified)
BURNED DOWN BY FALSE LOVES


(Crucified)
TRICKED BY KINDNESS

MISLED BY INTELLECT

DIZZIED BY POESY

SACRIFICED FOR PROFIT

USED AS CHEAP LABOR

(Sacrificed)

AND THESE WILL BE
THE KINDEST OF THE HAPPENINGS COMPARED TO WHAT
WILL ENTER THE EYE AND THE EAR AND THE BRAIN

(Eyes, ears, brain)
AND SEEP TO THE INNARDS TO BEGIN THEIR DEATH-WORK.

I PITY ALL SUCH BROTHERS OF MINE WHO WILL FOLLOW ME
IN THE CENTURIES

(To know your own death)
UNABLE TO LOVE BECAUSE THERE IS
NOTHING TO LOVE

(Is to die, twice)
UNABLE TO KILL BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING ALIVE

(Once really)
FOREVER HANGING AND BLEEDING AND DIZZIED 
BY THE BEAST-HUMAN

(And then hardly at all)

THE WALLS, THE GARDENS
THE SUN, THE FLOWERS
THE KISSES, THE FLAGS
THE SEAS, THE ANIMALS
THE FOOD, THE LIQUORS
THE PAINTINGS, THE SYMPHONIES
 ALL USELESSNESS.


LET IT BE KNOWN THAT
THESE MEN NEVER EXISTED 
AND THAT THEIR FUNERALS WERE EXTREME FARCE

AND ALSO THE DEAD TEARS FOR THE ALREADY DEAD

(Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead)


LET IT BE KNOWN THAT
BIRTH IS NOT HOLY, THAT DEATH IS NOT HOLY
THAT LIFE IS NOT HOLY

LET IT BE KNOWN THAT
I DO NOT DIE FOR MANS SINS
(Sins)
THAT I DIE FOR WHAT MAN IS
(Sins)
AND FOR WHAT I ALMOST WAS


DO NOT TAKE AS PERSONAL
WHAT I SAY ABOUT LIFE

UNLESS ON ANOTHER PLANE
YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF
A DEFENDER OF LIFE AND MAN

WHICH IS ONLY ANOTHER NATURAL 
WEAKNESS OF THE SPECIES

(Weakness)
(Of the species)

LIKE A RAT GUARDING IT'S NEST

(Weakness of the species)

LIKE A RAT GUARDING IT'S NEST

(Let it be known)
THE ONLY SOLITUDE IS DEATH
(Let it be known)
BUT NOT THIS DEATH
(Let it be known)

NOT THIS DEATH
(Let it be known)
(Let it be known)
(Let it be known)

Let it be known (Bukowski, Dazzled)

Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus

Before I joined Sound Cloud I used to record tunes on a Tascam Neo 24 track machine. I  don't use this machine anymore so I am going to sell it. This afternoon I went through the tracks recorded into the Neo in 2011 and picked two of the best ones to save. This is the first one, with added Bukowski..
I didn't have Omnishphere back then so the tracks were more guitar based. I think this is my Koa Telecaster and Fender precision bass.

I couldn't find a transcript for the poem online so I have written what I think I have heard., correct me if I am wrong.

Song for sadists without a place to sit down (Charles Bukowski 1969)

I'm still here............

Song for sadists without a place to sit down

Positively grieve no more
Altimo altimo

Marcheli,Borgrassi
Hold still bitch

The evergreen leaves showered with brocoli love
Heaving like a rabitt in a wolfs mouth

Now if you play my flute

Not if you play my flute

Brocolli

Perchavi Perchavi
Save me, thunder
Elephant moth of everything

I think, think and stink in saliva

Domino, Domino, ST's, volgimo

Taurus, pissimo, shitimo ock

I'm still here..........

The seller is a Pope,
the Pope is pious, i am not
I wear hob nail boots
up the sides of virgins
drinking buttermilk

Please  Popillo, please Popillo
Sesame drag


The winter chances of nude victory divide the singers
from the papal singular sueths

Sit down

If eels can climb mountains
men can be eels

If eels can fornicate
men can be eels

Lay sperm like dice in the centre of my brain
see what comes out

Walt Whitman staring out the window
at the sailors

The hard crane, done in and robbed
discussing the bridge with Osh

No. that is not me

Domino populi Domino

In Spring the heather says swish

In Summer the heather says wish

In Autumn the heather says die

In Wintertime she dies

Domino pop

I am still here

I'm still here............

Songs For Sadists Without A Place To Sit Down (Bukowski, Dazzled)

The Laughing Heart (Written by Charles Bukowski, read by Tom Waits)

your life is your life
don't let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can't beat death but
you can beat death in life, 
sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight in you.

You are marvelous and the Gods wait to delight in you (Bukowski's Laughing Heart read by Tom Waits)

West Of The Wall

Tom Waits - The Piano Has Been Drinking

For more information see http://bit.ly/BWJ_4968 

God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson is an eleven-track all-star tribute album that features inspired interpretations of the iconic slide guitarist/vocalist's most seminal material. Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi, Cowboy Junkies, Blind Boys Of Alabama (accompanied by Jason Isbell on guitar), Sinéad O'Connor, Luther Dickinson with The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band, Maria McKee, and Rickie Lee Jones all deliver deeply moving reinventions of Johnson's otherworldly "gospel blues" music.   

From Tom Waits' virtual embodiment of Johnson himself on The Soul Of A Man and John The Revelator to Derek Trucks' and Susan Tedeschi's reverent reading of Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning to Lucinda Williams' slide guitar-fueled lament in Nobody's Fault But Mine to Luther Dickinson's spirited take on Bye And Bye I'm Going To See The King (with The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band) to the Blind Boys Of Alabama's soul-baring Mother's Children Have A Hard Time, this record is packed with incomparable recordings that speak as much to the greatness of the performers as they do the enduring legacy of Blind Willie Johnson. 


God Don't Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson

Order from Alligator

Tom Waits - John The Revelator

De steel-Live 1977-Tom Waits-Waltzing Matilda

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A LANDMARK COLLABORATION BRINGING TOGETHER LEGENDARY AND EMERGING ARTISTS INCLUDING PETE SEEGER, TOM WAITS, MERLE HAGGARD, JIM JAMES, ANDREW BIRD AND MORE FOR A CELEBRATION OF NEW ORLEANS MUSIC

During 2009, more than 20 of American music's most exciting artists traveled to Preservation Hall in New Orleans to collaborate with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band on classic New Orleans repertoire. The end result is a timeless and joyous celebration of New Orleans music. Proceeds from the sale of the project will benefit Preservation Hall and The Preservation Hall Music Oury, Buddy Miller, Paolo Nutini, and Tom Waits.
utreach Program. The album was released on Fat Tuesday, February 16, 2010 in standard CD.

The mission of Preservation Hall, to showcase and nurture one of America's greatest indigenous national, cultural treasures - New Orleans Jazz, is as important today as it was when Preservation Hall officially opened it's doors in 1961.

The complete roster of artists includes: Louis Armstrong, Andrew Bird, Terence Blanchard, Pete Seeger, Dr. John, Blind Boys of Alabama, Brandi Carlile, Cory Chisel, Ani DiFranco, Steve Earle, Merle Haggard, Richie Havens, Jason Isbell, Jim James, Angelique Kidjo, Amy LaVere, Anita Briem, Del McCo 

Tootie Ma Is A Big Fine Thing feat. Tom Waits

Tom Waits & Bruce Springsteen - Jersey girl

Tom Waits - Temptation

1979, Apr 27, Paris France, Palace Theater

Tom Waits - Jersey Girl

Charles Bukowski - Beer Bottle

‘A very miraculous thing just happened
My beer bottle flipped over backwards
And landed on its bottom on the floor
And I have set it upon the table to foam down
But the photos were not so lucky today
And there is a small slit on the leather of my left shoe
But it’s all very simple
We can not acquire too much
There are laws we no nothing of
All manners of nudges set us to burning or freezing

What sets the blackbird in the cats’ mouth is not for us to say
Or why some men are jailed like pet squirrels
While others nuzzle enormous breasts through endless nights
This is the task and the terror and we are not taught why

Still, yes still, it’s lucky the bottle landed straight side up
And although I have one of wine and one of whiskey
This foresooth somehow a good night
And perhaps tomorrow my nose will be longer
New shoes
Less rain
More poems’


Beer Bottle (Charles Bukowski, Deeply Dazzled)

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Beer Bottle (Charles Bukowski, Deeply Dazzled)

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