Pearl Jam and Bukowski

MAS
MAS Posts: 630
edited August 2009 in The Porch
Being fanatical of both, I wonder how deep the influence is. I know In Hiding was Bukowski inspired, yet I am curious if there are other connections and if there are other PJ fans into Buk as well
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  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    I started readin Tales of Ordinary Madness, not long ago and within the first couple chapters there were a few things that made PJ pop into my head.
  • LiteTheMatch
    LiteTheMatch Posts: 1,208
    As he sang, Eddie likes to read Bukowski buck-naked as well as intellectual conversation.
    A child's rhyme stuck in my head...
    It said "Life is nothing but a dream."
    I've spent so many years in question
    To find I'd known this all along.
  • Tenzing N.
    Tenzing N. Posts: 466
    He's also been thinking about rap music in general and he feels bad.
  • say_hi
    say_hi Posts: 313
    Until a few months ago I worked at HarperCollins Publishers and I was responsible for all the Bukowski titles, so if you bought one of his titles in the past few years, I was the person who order the printing of the book you own! Bukowski is great! I have, like, over twenty of his books!!! I really like the novels the best, Post Office, Ham on Rye, Woman and Pulp. Does anyone have the Black Sparrow Press editions? They are "rarer". Also, has anyone read any John Fante? I was also responsible for his titles and he was a huge influence on Bukowski! John Fante is also really good!
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  • MAS
    MAS Posts: 630
    If you reccomend Fante I will check him out. Most of my stuff is Black Sparrow, my goal is to eventually collect all Buk's work. I'm almost there! just a few poetry books to go...Didn't Sean Penn get an opportunity to hang with him? That must've been some interesting drunken conversation...
  • brainofe
    brainofe Posts: 264
    I'm on the porch because I lost my house key.
    Pick up my book, I read Bukowski.
    Down in the hole, Jesus tries to crack a smile beneath another shovel load.

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