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almost dawn
blackbirds on the telephone wire
waiting
as I eat yesterday's
forgotten sandwich
at 6 a.m.
an a quiet Sunday morning.
one shoe in the corner
standing upright
the other laying on it's
side.
yes, some lives were made to be
wasted.
A casual shot in London town, as I was ambling thirsting for L. who I think had palanned to dump me from the start. I should have shown her more shots.
if you’re going to try, go all the
way.
otherwise, don’t even start.
if you’re going to try, go all the
way. this could mean losing girlfriends,
wives, relatives, jobs and
maybe your mind.
go all the way.
it could mean not eating for 3 or
4 days.
it could mean freezing on a
park bench.
it could mean jail,
it could mean derision,
mockery,
isolation.
isolation is the gift,
all the others are a test of your
endurance, of
how much you really want to
do it.
and you’ll do it
despite rejection and the
worst odds
and it will be better than
anything else
you can imagine.
if you’re going to try,
go all the way.
there is no other feeling like
that.
you will be alone with the
gods
and the nights will flame with
fire.
do it, do it, do it.
do it.
all the way
all the way.
you will ride life straight to
perfect laughter,
it’s the only good fight
there is.
Bukowski
I’m sure that a lot of people could relate to this quote by novelist Charles Bukowski on New Years Eve. This is on the side of a bar in downtown Lubbock.
British postcard, no. FA 223. Mickey Rourke in Angel Heart (Alan Parker, 1987).
American actor and former boxer Mickey Rourke (1952) received critical praise for his deep, tortured characters in the Charles Bukowski biopic Barfly (1987) and the horror mystery Angel Heart (1987). In 1991, Rourke left acting and became a professional boxer for a time. After returning to acting, he had supporting roles in the remake of Get Carter (2000), and Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003). Rourke made his mainstream comeback with lead roles in Sin City (2005) and The Wrestler (2008), for which he received a Golden Globe, and an Oscar nomination. Since then, Rourke has appeared in blockbusters as Iron Man 2 (2010) and Immortals (2011).
Philip Andre 'Mickey' Rourke Jr. was born in Schenectady, New York, in 1952, He was the son of Ann (Cameron) and Philip Andre Rourke, a bodybuilder. He has a brother, Joey, and an older sister, Patricia. The nickname Mickey was given to him as a child by his parents, who thought he looked like a mouse. When he was six, his parents divorced. A year later, his mother married Eugene Addis, a Miami Beach police officer, and mother and son moved to Miami Shores, Florida. There, he went to the Miami Beach Senior High School. At that time, he was more interested in baseball and boxing than in acting. Rourke joined a self-defence course at the Boys Club of Miami. Here he learned to box and began a career as an amateur boxer. At the age of 12, he won his first match in the 51-54 kg category. He then called himself Andre Rourke. Later, he moved to a gym on 5th Street in Miami and joined the Police Athletic League. In 1969, he briefly became a sparring partner of Luis Rodriguez, who at that time was the world light heavyweight champion. In 1971, he suffered a concussion during a boxing match, so doctors ordered him to stop boxing for a year. After working for a short time as a busboy at the famed Forge Restaurant on Miami Beach, Rourke moved back to New York to seek out a career in acting. he attended acting classes at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. Rourke says of himself that he was a shy and reserved student, but very comfortable with improvisation. His teacher Sandra Seacat convinced him to move to Los Angeles. After a few small roles on television, Rourke made his film debut in the small role of Private Reese in Steven Spielberg's war comedy 1941 (1979). A year later, he appeared in Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino, 1980), one of the biggest commercial failures in film history that meant the end of United Artists. A year later, he appeared alongside Kathleen Turner and William Hurt as a pyro expert in the thriller Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan, 1982). This is generally regarded as his breakthrough.
In the 1980s, Mickey Rourke began to claim the lead role a little more often. He was one of Steve Guttenberg and Kevin Bacon's young pals in Barry Levinson's Diner (1982). He appeared as the sensitive and protective older brother of Matt Dillon in Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish (1983). Rourke had his first lead role in The Pope of Greenwich Village (Stuart Rosenberg, 1984), co-starring with Eric Roberts. He reunited with Michael Cimino for the violent police film Year of the Dragon (1985), based on a scenario by Oliver Stone. Rourke gave a bravura performance as police captain Stanley White, fanatically determined to eliminate John Lone, the crime boss of New York's Chinatown. The film was hotly contested in the United States, however, with critics denouncing the negative portrayal of Chinese people and the overtly racist nature of its central character. He gained the status of sex symbol with the erotic drama 9½ Weeks (Adrian Lyne, 1986), which became one of Rourke's best-known films. He plays John, a man who starts an affair with Elizabeth (Kim Basinger). A year later, he played the lead in Angel Heart (Alan Parker, 1987), opposite Robert De Niro. The film was once again controversial in the United States, initially rated X (under 17) because of the sex scene between Rourke and the young Lisa Bonet, fresh off The Cosby Show. The sequence was eventually censored in the cinema and Rated R. For his next film, Barfly (Barbet Schroeder, 1987), the actor received rave reviews for his role as the alcoholic writer Henry Chinaski, based on Charles Bukowski. These rebellious anti-hero characters were especially well-liked in Europe and especially France where Rourke was a popular film idol.
Mickey Rourke wrote, produced, and starred in Homeboy (Michael Sereesin, 1988), a film about a near brain-dead prizefighter. It skipped theatrical release and went straight to home video. Rourke joined Walter Hill's Johnny Handsome (1989), then appeared in Wild Orchid (Zalman King, 1990). Divorced from his first wife Debra Feuer in 1989, he met actress-model Carré Otis on the set, who became his wife in 1992. The film was mocked by critics for its overall weakness and its sex scenes considered too explicit, some of which were cut to avoid the film being classified as pornographic. Rourke played another anti-hero in Desperate Hours (Michael Cimino, 1990) but was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Actor of the Year for his performances in The Wild Orchid and Desperate Hours. He worked with David Bowie on his album 'Never Let Me Down'', but his film career had taken a turn downhill. Another setback was Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (Simon Wincer, 1991), with Don Johnson. Rourke later admitted that he only made the film for the money. He decided to take up boxing again. He felt that he was self-destructive and had no respect for the actor Rourke. His boxing career did not go smoothly. Under the supervision of his coach, Chuck Zito of the Hells Angels, he was often injured. In retrospect, he would admit that he was too old to return to boxing, but that he had done so anyway for personal reasons. In 1995, he continued to work on his film career but he had to make do with supporting roles. In 1997, Mickey Rourke appeared on screen with his face surgically altered, his features enlarged and his body thickened in Double Team (Tsui Hark', 1997) opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme. Rourke also reprised his role as an s&m fetishist in Another 9 1/2 Weeks (Anne Goursaud, 1997), a virtual remake of the original, only sans the redeeming presence of Kim Basinger. He had a small part in Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of John Grisham's The Rainmaker (1997). There were also quite a few roles that barely came to light. In the critically-worshipped The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1997), his role was edited out. Unemployed and broke, he had to sell his motorbike collection and his Los Angeles mansion to pay off his creditors, and was temporarily committed when his friends became concerned about his suicidal tendencies. In 1999, he played an important role in the Flemish film Shades (Erik Van Looy, 1999). He also appeared as a transvestite prisoner in Steve Buscemi's Animal Factory (2000), and opposite Sylvester Stallone in Get Carter (Stephen T. Kay, 2000). The latter film, above all, enabled him to straighten out his financial situation, thanks to Stallone.
Mickey Rourke gave an impressive supporting performance in Sean Penn's police procedural-cum-harrowing study of obsession, The Pledge (2001) opposite Jack Nicholson. After Rourke played a role in the music video for the song 'Hero' by Enrique Iglesias, he appeared in Roberto Rodriguez' hit Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003). As a harbinger of things to come, a powerful creative bond formed between the weathered, iconic Rourke and the tireless director on the Mexico set. In 2005 they again teamed for Rodriguez's and Frank Miller's eagerly anticipated big-screen adaptation of Miller's Sin City comics. Bruce Lawton writes at AllMovie: "Cast as lovelorn brute Marv, Rourke delivered an impressive performance as an imposing beast of a fellow bent on avenging the death of an angelic prostitute in this stylish noir comic book come to life, which gave him cult status among a new generation of fans." In 2004, Rourke delivered a memorable supporting performance in Tony Scott's Man on Fire alongside Denzel Washington. It marked the first film in a two-picture creative partnership between Scott and Rourke, the second half of which came to fruition with Domino (2005) starring Keira Knightley. In 2008, he collaborated with Darren Aronofsky on the film The Wrestler. Rourke was widely praised for his role as Randy "The Ram" Robinson, a wrestler who is way past his prime. Besides the typical elements of a sports drama, the film also contains some striking similarities with Rourke's own career as a boxer and actor. Mickey Rourke won a Golden Globe in 2009 for this role. Rourke would enjoy sustained success in the years to follow, appearing in films like The Expendables (Sylvester Stallone, 2010), and Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau, 2010) with Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson. The latter brought in more than $312 million in the United States. His later films include Immortals (Tarsem Singh, 2011), the thriller The Courier (Hany Abu-Assad, 2012), and the Western Dead in Tombstone (Roel Reiné, 2013).
Sources: Bruce Lawton (AllMovie), Chase Rosenberg (IMDb), Wikipedia (Dutch, French, and English), and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
The most beautiful girl in the city we read in Bukowski in a story edited in 1972 (which Anagram published in 1978) -Cass was the youngest and the most beautiful of five sisters. Cass was the prettiest girl in town. Middle Indian, with a flexible and strange body, a fierce serpentine body and matching eyes. Cass was moving fire and fluid-
We had to wait until 1988 to hear another story from Cass with Mas Birras ( www.masbirras.com/ ) through Of a beautiful song composed by Gabriel Sopeña and José Luis Rodriguez.
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La chica más guapa de la ciudad lo leemos en Bukowski en un cuento editado en 1972 (que Anagrama publico en 1978) -Cass era la más joven y la más guapa de cinco hermanas. Cass era la chica más guapa de la ciudad. Medio india, con un cuerpo flexible y extraño, un cuerpo fiero y serpentino y ojos a juego. Cass era fuego móvil y fluido-
Tuvimos que esperar hasta 1988 para escuchar otra historia de Cass con Mas Birras (www.masbirras.com/) a través de una hermosa canción compuesta por Gabriel Sopeña y José Luis Rodriguez.
-Nos gustaba Cass, la chica más guapa de la ciudad,
su forma angelical de pisar la nieve mientras tatareaba la última estrofa de Dylan.
Su manera tan dulce de guiñar como si estuviera recitando un poema o pintándose los labios en el espejo de cualquier fotografía.
Nos gustaba que tuviera las piernas morenas y se riera como un sábado, pobre Cass, tenía que morir como una diosa nuestra.
Arrollada por un Chevrolet de un repartidor de Coca-Cola
y ahora un policía nos robo todas las lágrimas.
Ahora la lloramos todos y enviamos violetas a direcciones inventadas... todas dirigidas, todas dirigidas, todas dirigidas a Cass... la chica más guapa de la ciudad...
Pero hoy solo hemos aprendido a silbarte una nueva canción; es para ti, Cass, que estabas tan harta de la vida...
Que te tumbabas desnuda bajo el sol de las cinco de la tarde, es para ti, que nos reprochaste tantas veces nuestro aire de perritos derrotados.
Y ahora la lloramos todos y enviamos violetas a direcciones inventadas... todas dirigidas, todas dirigidas, todas dirigidas a Cass... la chica más guapa de la ciudad...-
I hate lawns because everybody have a lawn with grass, and when you tend to do the things that everyone else does, you become all the other - Charles Bukowski
Detesto i prati perché tutti hanno un prato con l'erba e, quando si tende a fare le cose che fanno tutti gli altri, si diventa tutti gli altri - Charles Bukowski
“I am too sick to lay down
the sidewalks frighten me
the whole damned city frightens me,
what I will become
what I have become
frightens me.”
― Charles Bukowski, Mockingbird Wish Me Luck
Italian postcard by World Pictures, no. P.c. 182.
American actor and former boxer Mickey Rourke (1952) received critical praise for his deep, tortured characters in the Charles Bukowski biopic Barfly (1987) and the horror mystery Angel Heart (1987). In 1991, Rourke left acting and became a professional boxer for a time. After returning to acting, he had supporting roles in the remake of Get Carter (2000), and Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003). Rourke made his mainstream comeback with lead roles in Sin City (2005) and The Wrestler (2008), for which he received a Golden Globe, and an Oscar nomination. Since then, Rourke has appeared in blockbusters as Iron Man 2 (2010) and Immortals (2011).
Philip Andre 'Mickey' Rourke Jr. was born in Schenectady, New York, in 1952, He was the son of Ann (Cameron) and Philip Andre Rourke, a bodybuilder. He has a brother, Joey, and an older sister, Patricia. The nickname Mickey was given to him as a child by his parents, who thought he looked like a mouse. When he was six, his parents divorced. A year later, his mother married Eugene Addis, a Miami Beach police officer, and mother and son moved to Miami Shores, Florida. There, he went to the Miami Beach Senior High School. At that time, he was more interested in baseball and boxing than in acting. Rourke joined a self-defense course at the Boys Club of Miami. Here he learned to box and began a career as an amateur boxer. At the age of 12, he won his first match in the 51-54 kg category. He then called himself Andre Rourke. Later, he moved to a gym on 5th Street in Miami and joined the Police Athletic League. In 1969, he briefly became a sparring partner of Luis Rodriguez, who at that time was the world light heavyweight champion. In 1971, he suffered a concussion during a boxing match, so doctors ordered him to stop boxing for a year. After working for a short time as a busboy at the famed Forge Restaurant on Miami Beach, Rourke moved back to New York to seek out a career in acting. he attended acting classes at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. Rourke says of himself that he was a shy and reserved student, but very comfortable with improvisation. His teacher Sandra Seacat convinced him to move to Los Angeles. After a few small roles on television, Rourke made his film debut in the small role of Private Reese in Steven Spielberg's war comedy 1941 (1979). A year later, he appeared in Heaven's Gate (Michael Cimino, 1980), one of the biggest commercial failures in film history that meant the end of United Artists. A year later, he appeared alongside Kathleen Turner and William Hurt as a pyro expert in the thriller Body Heat (Lawrence Kasdan, 1982). This is generally regarded as his breakthrough.
In the 1980s, Mickey Rourke began to claim the lead role a little more often. He was one of Steve Guttenberg and Kevin Bacon's young pals in Barry Levinson's Diner (1982). He appeared as the sensitive and protective older brother of Matt Dillon in Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish (1983). Rourke had his first lead role in The Pope of Greenwich Village (Stuart Rosenberg, 1984), co-starring with Eric Roberts. He reunited with Michael Cimino for the violent police film Year of the Dragon (1985), based on a scenario by Oliver Stone. Rourke gave a bravura performance as police captain Stanley White, fanatically determined to eliminate John Lone, the crime boss of New York's Chinatown. The film was hotly contested in the United States, however, with critics denouncing the negative portrayal of Chinese people and the overtly racist nature of its central character. He gained the status of sex symbol with the erotic drama 9½ Weeks (Adrian Lyne, 1986), which became one of Rourke's best-known films. He plays John, a man who starts an affair with Elizabeth (Kim Basinger). A year later, he played the lead in Angel Heart (Alan Parker, 1987), opposite Robert De Niro. The film was once again controversial in the United States, initially rated X (under 17) because of the sex scene between Rourke and the young Lisa Bonet, fresh off The Cosby Show. The sequence was eventually censored in the cinema and Rated R. For his next film, Barfly (Barbet Schroeder, 1987), the actor received rave reviews for his role as the alcoholic writer Henry Chinaski, based on Charles Bukowski. These rebellious anti-hero characters were especially well-liked in Europe and especially France where Rourke was a popular film idol.
Mickey Rourke wrote, produced, and starred in Homeboy (Michael Sereesin, 1988), a film about a near brain-dead prizefighter. It skipped theatrical release and went straight to home video. Rourke joined Walter Hill's Johnny Handsome (1989), then appeared in Wild Orchid (Zalman King, 1989). Divorced from his first wife Debra Feuer in 1989, he met actress-model Carré Otis on the set, who became his wife in 1992. The film was mocked by critics for its overall weakness and its sex scenes considered too explicit, some of which were cut to avoid the film being classified as pornographic. Rourke played another anti-hero in Desperate Hours (Michael Cimino, 1990) but was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Actor of the Year for his performances in The Wild Orchid and Desperate Hours. He worked with David Bowie on his album 'Never Let Me Down'', but his film career had taken a turn downhill. Another setback was Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (Simon Wincer, 1991), with Don Johnson. Rourke later admitted that he only made the film for the money. He decided to take up boxing again. He felt that he was self-destructive and had no respect for the actor Rourke. His boxing career did not go smoothly. Under the supervision of his coach, Chuck Zito of the Hells Angels, he was often injured. In retrospect, he would admit that he was too old to return to boxing, but that he had done so anyway for personal reasons. In 1995, he continued to work on his film career but he had to make do with supporting roles. In 1997, Mickey Rourke appeared on screen with his face surgically altered, his features enlarged and his body thickened in Double Team (Tsui Hark', 1997) opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme. Rourke also reprised his role as an s&m fetishist in Another 9 1/2 Weeks (Anne Goursaud, 1997), a virtual remake of the original, only sans the redeeming presence of Kim Basinger. He had a small part in Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of John Grisham's The Rainmaker (1997). There were also quite a few roles that barely came to light. In the critically-worshipped The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick, 1997), his role was edited out. Unemployed and broke, he had to sell his motorbike collection and his Los Angeles mansion to pay off his creditors and was temporarily committed when his friends became concerned about his suicidal tendencies. In 1999, he played an important role in the Flemish film Shades (Erik Van Looy, 1999). He also appeared as a transvestite prisoner in Steve Buscemi's Animal Factory (2000), and opposite Sylvester Stallone in Get Carter (Stephen T. Kay, 2000). The latter film, above all, enabled him to straighten out his financial situation, thanks to Stallone.
Mickey Rourke gave an impressive supporting performance in Sean Penn's police procedural-cum-harrowing study of obsession, The Pledge (2001) opposite Jack Nicholson. After Rourke played a role in the music video for the song 'Hero' by Enrique Iglesias, he appeared in Roberto Rodriguez's hit Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003). As a harbinger of things to come, a powerful creative bond formed between the weathered, iconic Rourke and the tireless director on the Mexico set. In 2005 they again teamed for Rodriguez's and Frank Miller's eagerly anticipated big-screen adaptation of Miller's Sin City comics. Bruce Lawton writes at AllMovie: "Cast as lovelorn brute Marv, Rourke delivered an impressive performance as an imposing beast of a fellow bent on avenging the death of an angelic prostitute in this stylish noir comic book come to life, which gave him cult status among a new generation of fans." In 2004, Rourke delivered a memorable supporting performance in Tony Scott's Man on Fire alongside Denzel Washington. It marked the first film in a two-picture creative partnership between Scott and Rourke, the second half of which came to fruition with Domino (2005) starring Keira Knightley. In 2008, he collaborated with Darren Aronofsky on the film The Wrestler. Rourke was widely praised for his role as Randy "The Ram" Robinson, a wrestler who is way past his prime. Besides the typical elements of a sports drama, the film also contains some striking similarities with Rourke's own career as a boxer and actor. Mickey Rourke won a Golden Globe in 2009 for this role. Rourke would enjoy sustained success in the years to follow, appearing in films like The Expendables (Sylvester Stallone, 2010), and Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau, 2010) with Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson. The latter brought in more than $312 million in the United States. His later films include Immortals (Tarsem Singh, 2011), the thriller The Courier (Hany Abu-Assad, 2012), and the Western Dead in Tombstone (Roel Reiné, 2013).
Sources: Bruce Lawton (AllMovie), Chase Rosenberg (IMDb), Wikipedia (Dutch, French, and English), and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Autorretrato con una historia de Chinaski
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The Bluebird - Charles Bukowski
There's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see
you.
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he's
in there.
LAVA - Los Angeles Visionaries Association hosted Twenty Years After - Charles Bukowski Memorial Gathering (1920 - 1994) . At the King Eddy Saloon where Bukowski, John Fante and many other witers of Los Angeles gathered and drank. Exterior scene of this famed LA Bar.
startled into life like fire
he walks around and around
with
electric tail and
push-button
eyes
he is
alive and
plush and
final as a plum tree
Charles Bukowski
Illustrations by R. Crumb for Charles Bukowski's short story, Bring Me Your Love. Black Sparrow Press, 1990.
Artwork: Gris1
Photo: Trz
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Quotation response: Intelligent people are full of doubts because there's always a possibility to explore, expand, research and find out more, as for stupid people - just follow blindly what the previous person said!
Charles Bukowski: Los Angeles, 9--16--79:
The wind is
blowing, it's
smoggy and I'm
sober. Things
will get better.