Bukowski
"THESE WORDS I WRITE KEEP ME FROM TOTAL MADNESS."
-Charles Bukowski
'If God takes life, then he must be an indian giver.'
["Bukowski's Post-Absurdist, Post-Hemingway, Post-Porn stories are required reading for drunks, dropouts, writers, would-bes and has-beens."]
-Quoth some site I found on Charles Bukowski.
Taken from an interview with Bukowski by a correspondent from the Chicago Literary Times, March 1963:
Kaye: To get down to more serious matters, what influence do you feel Mickey Mouse has had on the American imagination?
Bukowski: Tough. Tough, indeed. I would say that Mickey Mouse had a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovich, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which say "What?" about the American public. Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.
Chew me out. I suppose I never really had a thing for my childhood movies. Cynicism ensues. I fancy doing the Frida Kahlo thing and taking an eyeliner and creating a unibrow. Idleness takes its toll. God, who'd wanna be such an asshole?
I think that I fucked up the last line.