First of all I think you have a valid question. My interpretation is that the individual whom society saw as a "bum" was seen through the unbiased honest childrens' eyes as a person truly living how a real man "should," that he didn't have fear like everyone else, he did what he wanted, and his eyes were beautiful because he was filled with real life, instead of the repressed superficiality of mainstream society. And the kids thought all their parents must be jealous of this man.
I'm shocked your comment does not have more replies, I agree with you the fear and fake vibes children pick up on are because "adults" are so focused on remembering to pay the bills and put out the trash that it alters reality, Alan watts talked about the spotlight consciousness vs floodlight, yes paying bills is important but it's not everything in life, freedom and the pursuit of happiness is a journey a musical dance, I love this poem, I am this man and I have bamboo all around me, the neighbors don't come here on Halloween lol I hope you all have a beautiful night ☯️
“And we were afraid then, that all through our lives things like that would happen. That nobody wanted anybody to be strong and beautiful like that, that others would never allow it, and that many people would have to die.” Sums it all up these days.
Bukowski was prolific and versatile and wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories 5 novels many essays, thousands of letters, hundreds of paintings, and someone should compile a book titled “ The Best Of Bukowski” comprising a selection of his best poems, short stories, extracts from novels, essays, letters and a few of his unpublished poems in small lit mags that have never been included in any of his published books. This would eliminate a lot of his stuff that was really inferior that Martin and lit mags published when Buk became famous. They published almost anything that Buk sent out in the last decade of his life. When I was editor of “ The Sole Proprietor” Buk sent me a poem that was inferior and I sent it back to him but it did begin a correspondence because of our kinship with the race track and handicapping, culminating in 28 letters in the late 1970s. And at one time I had the largest Bukowski collection in private hands including the Target offprint ( one of 5) inscribed by Buk to Corrington ( I purchased it from Corrington) and remains today as the rarest of Bukowski items( an unsigned copy was listed on Abe for $28,000 so my copy was probably worth double that amount because of the inscription). Sadly, I sold my collection in 1982 to Joseph The Provider a Book dealer in CA due to financial woes and the breakup of my girlfriend. Sold my collection for $15,000, today’s replacement value $300,000 OUCH!!! Oh well, it is as it is. All love in isolation from Surfside, Fl Al
A rare breed. i think that this mans soul was truly beautiful and I love his meaning. It inspires me so much to stay strong but to never forget my heart
Reading his work helped me a lot as a lonely adolescent. It gave me comfort and made me realize that it's fine to be alone sometimes, that it wasn't all my fault
The man, unlike others, sacrificed his external beauty in order to retain the beauty within his spirit.....Something most of us will never have the courage to do. We, beautiful to the eye, but shallow to the soul. Aspiring to a waterfall, envying it’s immediate power and glory, without ever realising that we must first become like a single drop.... 💧
that is a good point. perhaps bukowski understood this or perhaps not. I think he did, and that he felt the need to question the lives of his parents because he recognized that that life would not make 'him' happy. a life such as one belonging to the man with the beautiful eyes appealed to him more, and as a child he couldn't see why anyone would choose the life his parents had chosen instead of the one this man had chosen. and so he supposed his parents must be jealous of the man
Fuck this is so good. The second time i listened to it i shivered and got goosebumps from the narrators calm emotionless voice. its perfect. I do find it funny that the shops name is chinaski after Bukowski's alter ego henry chinaski. The end also has so much meaning to it and makes me think about life for a while.
I feel like this poem has something to do with the fact that as a person grows older, that that innocence and "color" washes away so that we become little balls of conflict. As adults, we're not sure what's happened or what's happening, how did it become this way? We go from these balls of warmth to these things of hate and distrust. Often times we don't know what's happened. Which I kind of think thats what this poems trying to say, we hurt the others that have that same childlike spirit, because we miss it, we crave to have it, we want it to be back to the way it was. Because what do adults do? They search for a purpose.
It's necessary to become that way unfortunately The world and this life of ours is not a Disney movie Life is terrible and hard So we must grow to be hard
@ Alien Intention - it is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it .... you are so smart! your mother is so proud of you
What an incredibly well done piece - the tone, pacing, voice, animation and color just fits the poem beautifully. Thoroughly enjoyed. Damn. Thanks - - - again, so well done. Creative and brilliant piece.
@Ligeia D.Aurevilly To say there is nothing there when referring to the content of Bukowsky novels is insane. It may not be pretty or flowery but it contains all the emotions the average person fears. Hate, anger, resentment, anarchy etc. Is it chaos? Perhaps. It is in this chaos we must face ourselves...our own demons. I urge you to read more of Bukowsky. Is he Lorca? No. Machado? No. Neruda? No. If your life is nothing but rose petals you're missing the emotions of light lurching through a window pane at 5:00 AM.
Bukowsky was beaten countless times as a child by his father, the shadow of those experiences made his character. It´s just some anecdotic thing. What Bukowsky seemed to understand is that a bleeding man like him wasn´t able to be cured by a society in wich most people often are comfortable with their simple happy lives. Pain is an eye opener, that´s what bukowsky shows, it eye opens to the reality of a society of emptiness beyond mundame things.
This was absolutely beautiful. This animation did such great justice to Buk, and in all truth, filled me with such joy. Very nicely done, I would like to see more of these.
Hilarious and terrifying, humous and poignant, that's why I like Bukowski. This is a very well done animation video that captures innocence and coming of age. I love the part about "we went home and talked about it". Classic. Cool Raw.
a old guy would let us skate on his front steps and he would drink and smoke and play music and yahhoooo us ,then the next owner was a jerk lawn maintainer so we pissed on his grass . end
+Johnny Alias "He was the greatest writer of the English language." Wouldn't you say that's a matter of opinion? Take a look at this list: americanprofile.com/articles/list- of-americas-top-20-authors/
Matter of opinion? Maybe. If the opinion is from somebody who matters they'll agree with me. The reason he doesn't come up much is that American literature is largely curated by the sort of people he hated. Stuffy, pretentious wealthy people.
It could be more than simple resentment. More likely Bukowski is seeing the way the world is. I'm in NZ and in a way. as a poet, I think I resent the strong, macho, ALL Blacks - although it isn't a conscious resentment of this kind of "wildness". Usually they are seen as heroes. It is almost something inside people. The idea maybe is that we are killing that naturalness. I am in a working class area and I knew a youngish man with (in fact) quite intense blue eyes, quite macho and handsome, European, and with a Maori wife. When I saw him he was always half cut. He would borrow money and leave something. But he still had a kind of dignity. He was the kind of man women go for, despite drinking so much, he was like Bukowski's man (who as someone says might be Bukowski) - this is an interesting poem. I like his poems in small doses, then I go back to Ashbery or Berryman. But it is true I've probably never heard a bad poem. But when he's too drunk (as with the recordings of poor old Berryman) he isn't so good to watch. But he is good for sure Is Ed Dorn in his range? I think Bukowski overdoes the anti-academic anti-intellectual thing. But he - is he still with us? - is or was a force to be reckoned with: in the film he is in 'Barfly' he is Chinaski. Yes. Yes.
I'm conflicted re Bukowski. He was an unusual genius but his attitude, his anger at intellectuals is childish. Also his incessant drinking and so on attracts people as does the other nonsense of say 'The Beats' and such as 'Junkie' by Burroughs. But then I am interested in the latter's innovative approach: especially as Kathy Acker was a fan...But 'Junkie' is really just sad and a bit sick...The film here is good. What was wrong with 'Barfly'? With all of Bukowski's faults there are aspects of the boozing brawling character that one admires despite everything. And re the Beats, 'Kaddish' for me is still one of the great and very moving poems about Ginsberg's father. 'On the Road' is good also, as much for what it did for the 'tradition' so to speak as its subject: which is 'realist' and filmic - or something like that.
Barfly was just superficial, ham-acting by the lead actor. But that kind of stuff impresses a lot of overprotected youngsters, unfortunately (not directed at you)
A homeless man and I crossed paths walking in Philly one night. As he passed me on the sidewalk on Broad Street, he said in a weary but sarcastic tone “ You’re hot!” And, after a beat, “…That’s your god.” It’s been ten years and I think about that regularly. It was so perfectly funny and acutely cutting at the same time. I envied him in that moment.
Perhaps his eyes were not full of "real life" but full of a firey passion and intensity he had never seen. He has a house so he cannot be classified as a "bum" per say, to the first man. I don't think his parents necessarily represent a superficiality, but rather normality and in general, fear. Esp. fear of intensity or greatness, such as he saw in the man who came to represent (at least imo) what Buk believed to be a great man's life, looking past treating that woman really poorly & drinking.
Never been interested with poetry before knowing Sir Bukowski which I find very very inspiring... wait a minute it’s not poetry isn’t? Well, let’s say it’s very well written prose
First of all I think you have a valid question. My interpretation is that the individual whom society saw as a "bum" was seen through the unbiased honest childrens' eyes as a person truly living how a real man "should," that he didn't have fear like everyone else, he did what he wanted, and his eyes were beautiful because he was filled with real life, instead of the repressed superficiality of mainstream society. And the kids thought all their parents must be jealous of this man.
Precisely.
Finally, a proper analysis.
I'm shocked your comment does not have more replies, I agree with you the fear and fake vibes children pick up on are because "adults" are so focused on remembering to pay the bills and put out the trash that it alters reality, Alan watts talked about the spotlight consciousness vs floodlight, yes paying bills is important but it's not everything in life, freedom and the pursuit of happiness is a journey a musical dance, I love this poem, I am this man and I have bamboo all around me, the neighbors don't come here on Halloween lol I hope you all have a beautiful night ☯️
@@salteddata9704 You aren't this man, because you throw in words like 'vibes' and openly refer to Alan Watts.
Seems to be very obvious and what most people have took for years from this story. You make it as if you discovered something. Weird.
“And we were afraid then, that all through our lives things like that would happen. That nobody wanted anybody to be strong and beautiful like that, that others would never allow it, and that many people would have to die.”
Sums it all up these days.
One of the most beautiful things I've seen on the internet.
I hope you're saying that about the words.
@@jackhammer111 I'm curious to what else he could be referring too?
@@pauliecopez2683 The animation, perhaps
@@jackhammer111 relax snobbo
"And we were afraid then ,that all through our life's things like that would happen ."
and it came true .•°
Bukowski was prolific and versatile and wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories 5 novels many essays, thousands of letters, hundreds of paintings, and someone should compile a book titled “ The Best Of Bukowski” comprising a selection of his best poems, short stories, extracts from novels, essays, letters and a few of his unpublished poems in small lit mags that have never been included in any of his published books.
This would eliminate a lot of his stuff that was really inferior that Martin and lit mags published when Buk became famous. They published almost anything that Buk sent out in the last decade of his life. When I was editor of “ The Sole Proprietor” Buk sent me a poem that was inferior and I sent it back to him but it did begin a correspondence because of our kinship with the race track and handicapping, culminating in 28 letters in the late 1970s. And at one time I had the largest Bukowski collection in private hands including the Target offprint ( one of 5) inscribed by Buk to Corrington ( I purchased it from Corrington) and remains today as the rarest of Bukowski items( an unsigned copy was listed on Abe for $28,000 so my copy was probably worth double that amount because of the inscription). Sadly, I sold my collection in 1982 to Joseph The Provider a Book dealer in CA due to financial woes and the breakup of my girlfriend. Sold my collection for $15,000, today’s replacement value $300,000 OUCH!!!
Oh well, it is as it is.
All love in isolation from Surfside, Fl
Al
Are you jewish
A rare breed. i think that this mans soul was truly beautiful and I love his meaning. It inspires me so much to stay strong but to never forget my heart
What a beautiful story written by a beautiful man.
Why now? I am crying. Poems of Bukowski are good for every moments, I like them very much.
Wow. I've never heard an isolated man talked about in a positive light before. So many men could benefit from taking in Bukowski's work.
Yup
Bukowski is a fan of solitude so he would view it in a positive light
Reading his work helped me a lot as a lonely adolescent. It gave me comfort and made me realize that it's fine to be alone sometimes, that it wasn't all my fault
The beautiful eyes represent unadulterated, pure vision. The vision of one who's not dedicated to subduing the world.
A freeman...not one of society's machines,sheep mannequin's A man that used this own mind & that's what made his eyes so BEAUTIFUL.
The man, unlike others, sacrificed his external beauty in order to retain the beauty within his spirit.....Something most of us will never have the courage to do. We, beautiful to the eye, but shallow to the soul. Aspiring to a waterfall, envying it’s immediate power and glory, without ever realising that we must first become like a single drop.... 💧
" the strongest man is the most alone"
interesting, your interpretation
I guess when the world is saying get married and have kids........anything different is frowned upon.
I feel Bukowski himself is "The Man with Beautiful Eyes".
***** me 2
Rob Bach his writing was always autobiographical. Good eye, Rob. He was a dirty rough beautiful man.
It was about his grandfather, read book 'Ham in the rye'
.. how this child’s frightened and frightening point of view turned him into what he beheld ..
that is a good point. perhaps bukowski understood this or perhaps not. I think he did, and that he felt the need to question the lives of his parents because he recognized that that life would not make 'him' happy. a life such as one belonging to the man with the beautiful eyes appealed to him more, and as a child he couldn't see why anyone would choose the life his parents had chosen instead of the one this man had chosen. and so he supposed his parents must be jealous of the man
The nature of the animation suits Bukowski's poem brilliantly.
Fuck this is so good. The second time i listened to it i shivered and got goosebumps from the narrators calm emotionless voice. its perfect. I do find it funny that the shops name is chinaski after Bukowski's alter ego henry chinaski. The end also has so much meaning to it and makes me think about life for a while.
This is so good I remember it ten years later.
I feel like this poem has something to do with the fact that as a person grows older, that that innocence and "color" washes away so that we become little balls of conflict. As adults, we're not sure what's happened or what's happening, how did it become this way? We go from these balls of warmth to these things of hate and distrust. Often times we don't know what's happened. Which I kind of think thats what this poems trying to say, we hurt the others that have that same childlike spirit, because we miss it, we crave to have it, we want it to be back to the way it was. Because what do adults do? They search for a purpose.
Most insightful comment. I enjoyed the read.
It's necessary to become that way unfortunately
The world and this life of ours is not a Disney movie
Life is terrible and hard
So we must grow to be hard
More of this please this is raw beauty the way to express something like that it is pure and refreshing
the most beautiful form of art- human soul
Eloquently put
@ Alien Intention - it is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it .... you are so smart! your mother is so proud of you
So much said in so few words. It's like a miracle. The last few lines are amazing. Profound.
What an incredibly well done piece - the tone, pacing, voice, animation and color just fits the poem beautifully. Thoroughly enjoyed. Damn. Thanks - - - again, so well done. Creative and brilliant piece.
How is it possible that a man so ravaged by life was able to write something like this? This is exactly the way I felt as a child.
Right, eh!! ;))
It was precisely because of he was 'ravaged' by life that he was able to write like this.
Exactly...he was so alone in his alcoholism, but then again all great art is born of pain.
@Ligeia D.Aurevilly To say there is nothing there when referring to the content of Bukowsky novels is insane. It may not be pretty or flowery but it contains all the emotions the average person fears. Hate, anger, resentment, anarchy etc. Is it chaos? Perhaps. It is in this chaos we must face ourselves...our own demons. I urge you to read more of Bukowsky. Is he Lorca? No. Machado? No. Neruda? No. If your life is nothing but rose petals you're missing the emotions of light lurching through a window pane at 5:00 AM.
@Ligeia D.Aurevilly Henry Miller was great, no question...with a bit more depth than Bukowski. Do you like art, music, movies?
Bukowsky was beaten countless times as a child by his father, the shadow of those experiences made his character. It´s just some anecdotic thing.
What Bukowsky seemed to understand is that a bleeding man like him wasn´t able to be cured by a society in wich most people often are comfortable with their simple happy lives. Pain is an eye opener, that´s what bukowsky shows, it eye opens to the reality of a society of emptiness beyond mundame things.
Only people who read Bukowski would be got the subtext of your video. Great work man.
You did a remarkable job in animating the poem. The narrators voice couldnt be more spot on
The sound and animation is very well done.
Cy Porter: Are*
something about this keeps bringing me back!
Stunning
absolutely stunning
its brilliant how much substance is in this. and for thouse who dont get it or dont want to get it. thats the whole point. ha ha brilliant!
This is why I like sharing between Minds..!"!! Thx so much..;.-)
thank you for this powerful and beautiful animated translation, really blew me away
This was absolutely beautiful. This animation did such great justice to Buk, and in all truth, filled me with such joy. Very nicely done, I would like to see more of these.
beautiful poem, beautiful film and animation
This is my favorite poem...Perfect voice , sound and animation...
Thank you !
this is so beautifully created. thank you
Thanks. This poem and film like a last, final truth on the earth.
I'm a happy man.
I couldn't agree more. Absolutely brilliant.
Wow...
Are? You? Fucking? Kidding? Me? That was most awesome and well done. Thank you! Thank you for sharing your talent alongside Bukowski.
An Amazing piece of art I found here!!! There are still few people with beautiful eyes.
Very very beautiful and sad.
The words, voice and animation merge in a perfect combination.
Super!
Amazing!! This it's really good animation so well combined with Bukowski's poem. Congratulations!!
Hilarious and terrifying, humous and poignant, that's why I like Bukowski. This is a very well done animation video that captures innocence and coming of age. I love the part about "we went home and talked about it". Classic. Cool Raw.
lovely feel to the animation. the perfect balance of melancholy and biting edge. true buk fans know youve nailed it. should do more of these.
I can touch his sadness.
Soulful stuff Mr Hodgson....a beautiful lens with which we can admire Bukowski's work. Thank you and I hope you're having a good time.
That...was amazing.
a old guy would let us skate on his front steps and he would drink and smoke and play music and yahhoooo us ,then the next owner was a jerk lawn maintainer so we pissed on his grass . end
Truly a beautiful film. One of the best i've ever seen and i've seen many.
And no one notices the man with the beautiful eyes, lying in the alley.
Very well done film. I wonder if Charles Bukowski will be remembered?
Of course he will!!!
He was the greatest writer of the English language. He will be remembered.
+Johnny Alias
"He was the greatest writer of the English language." Wouldn't you say that's a matter of opinion? Take a look at this list:
americanprofile.com/articles/list-
of-americas-top-20-authors/
+Kris K
He's seldom brought up in conversation with the greatest American writers.
Matter of opinion? Maybe. If the opinion is from somebody who matters they'll agree with me.
The reason he doesn't come up much is that American literature is largely curated by the sort of people he hated. Stuffy, pretentious wealthy people.
I'm in love with this.
This is wonderful
how beautiful is that
Oh how true this is in this soft generation
peter blegvad's voice is so soothing..
amazing video too
I dreamt this once. Incredible
Beautiful
The System frowns on Individuals who have potential and shine.
You mean people.
It could be more than simple resentment. More likely Bukowski is seeing the way the world is. I'm in NZ and in a way. as a poet, I think I resent the strong, macho, ALL Blacks - although it isn't a conscious resentment of this kind of "wildness". Usually they are seen as heroes. It is almost something inside people. The idea maybe is that we are killing that naturalness. I am in a working class area and I knew a youngish man with (in fact) quite intense blue eyes, quite macho and handsome, European, and with a Maori wife. When I saw him he was always half cut. He would borrow money and leave something. But he still had a kind of dignity. He was the kind of man women go for, despite drinking so much, he was like Bukowski's man (who as someone says might be Bukowski) - this is an interesting poem. I like his poems in small doses, then I go back to Ashbery or Berryman. But it is true I've probably never heard a bad poem. But when he's too drunk (as with the recordings of poor old Berryman) he isn't so good to watch. But he is good for sure
Is Ed Dorn in his range? I think Bukowski overdoes the anti-academic anti-intellectual thing. But he - is he still with us? - is or was a force to be reckoned with: in the film he is in 'Barfly' he is Chinaski. Yes. Yes.
The wild things live in the cracks and there are always cracks.
skekze Yes. It is a great poem.
Barfly is one of the worst films I've ever seen. If you want to see a good movie on Bukowski, watch 'Factotum'.
I'm conflicted re Bukowski. He was an unusual genius but his attitude, his anger at intellectuals is childish. Also his incessant drinking and so on attracts people as does the other nonsense of say 'The Beats' and such as 'Junkie' by Burroughs. But then I am interested in the latter's innovative approach: especially as Kathy Acker was a fan...But 'Junkie' is really just sad and a bit sick...The film here is good. What was wrong with 'Barfly'? With all of Bukowski's faults there are aspects of the boozing brawling character that one admires despite everything. And re the Beats, 'Kaddish' for me is still one of the great and very moving poems about Ginsberg's father. 'On the Road' is good also, as much for what it did for the 'tradition' so to speak as its subject: which is 'realist' and filmic - or something like that.
Barfly was just superficial, ham-acting by the lead actor. But that kind of stuff impresses a lot of overprotected youngsters, unfortunately (not directed at you)
A TH-cam treasure! thanks!
Beautifully done. Excellent!
one of my favorite bukowski poems. eva!
all of his poems are so moving
excellent !!!...When difference becomes a threat by the ordinary ones...
This is too beautiful.
This struck me.
amazing work, I love it. It's on my favorites.
That nobody wanted anybody to be strong and beautiful, that others would never allow it and that many people would have to die.
Masterpiece!
Absolutely beautiful. That is all there is to say.
The Genius Of The Crowd.
I love this one.
Beautiful!
Wow
Thank you, it's heartbeakingly beautiful.
Outstanding!
Story of my life.
It's beautiful
A homeless man and I crossed paths walking in Philly one night. As he passed me on the sidewalk on Broad Street, he said in a weary but sarcastic tone “ You’re hot!” And, after a beat, “…That’s your god.”
It’s been ten years and I think about that regularly. It was so perfectly funny and acutely cutting at the same time. I envied him in that moment.
just great
Amazing...
Excellent
still love your work!!
amazing...
gorgeous. this is one of the best things I've seen. thank you.
Perhaps his eyes were not full of "real life" but full of a firey passion and intensity he had never seen.
He has a house so he cannot be classified as a "bum" per say, to the first man. I don't think his parents necessarily represent a superficiality, but rather normality and in general, fear. Esp. fear of intensity or greatness, such as he saw in the man who came to represent (at least imo) what Buk believed to be a great man's life, looking past treating that woman really poorly & drinking.
I enjoyed this. Old Hank was the man. Thanks for sharing.
Never been interested with poetry before knowing Sir Bukowski which I find very very inspiring... wait a minute it’s not poetry isn’t? Well, let’s say it’s very well written prose
WOW a fantastic video for a great 'poem'/story. and the sound effects where great also. clicked this as one of my favorites.
delightful
SO GOOD ...LOVE THE STYLE OF ANIMATION .... BRILLIANTLY READ TOO!
Fantastic
I love Mr. Bukowski!
Very nice animation and story... Artistic.
Talkin heads.....Bam!
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The sad Man behind blue eyes...oppression springs immortal. So be it.
Freaking awesome.