“Bukowski,” at the inaugural Bukowski Festival: A Celebration of Literature, Poetry, and Art, Elephant…

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1st Annual
Bukowski Festival [printed "Fesitval" on the text version]
Celebration of Literature, Poetry & Art
Sat. March 28th 2009 @ 8pm
The Elephant Theater at:
6324 W. Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90038
1 Bk W. of Vine

Featured Poets:
Neeli Cherkovski
Linda King
Gerald Locklin
Joan Smith
Fred Voss
Paul Vangelisti
SA Griffin
Raymond King Shurtz

Bukowski inpired [sic] art by:
Matt Sesow
Linda King
Bill Dambrove
Mike Stilkey
Bruce Rubenstein

8PM - Opening
9:20pm - Bukowski by: Taylor Hackford (1973 - Award Winning Documentry [sic] - 40 Mins)
All the poets were Bukowski friends and knew him personality [sic].
All the Art is inpired [sic] by Bukowski.
Open mic after featured poets.
"To do a dull thing with style-now THAT'S what I call ART." - Bukowski
"Lets All Get Drunker Than Shit..." - Bukowski
$10 Donation · Special Thanks: David Fofi
More Info: midasman88@yahoo.com

[Picture version:] 1st Annual Bukowski Festival · Celebration of Literature, Poetry & Art · Saturday, March 28th 2009 @ 9:00pm · Scott Dylyn Hall Productions

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justine
stop the penistry
Mar 9, 2009
#1
joan jobe smith asked me to post this on her behalf:

hello you guys... hoping this is the right email address to tell you abt the 1st Annual Bukowski Festival celebration of literature, poetry & art to be held Sat., Mar 28, 2009 @ 8pm at The Elephant Theatre, 6324 W. Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, Ca (1 blk west of Vine)... more info: midasman88@yahoo.com.. along with Neeli Cherkovski, Linda King (Buk's First Linda, not Widow Bukowski), Fred Voss, Gerald Locklin, i will be a featured poet reading some of my Bukowski poetry; will hype chance press upcoming issue... love, joan jobe smith.. p.s. my computer won't let me access internet anymore; cd you pls post the above info on Buk.net?... today is 15th anniersary of Buk's death; this afternoon am visiting his grave to place some pink camellias and a bird of paradise and pour some cognac across his topper grass...

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Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
Mar 9, 2009
#2
Thank you Justine;
Was planning on going out there.

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hank solo
Just practicin' steps and keepin' outta the fights
Reaper Crew
Moderator
Founding member
Mar 9, 2009
#3
Also the topic here.

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mjp
Founding member
Dec 11, 2008
#1
Bukowski landmark dedication / Bukowski Festival - 28 March

This was part of an email from painter Matt Sesow:

BUKOWSKI/LA: "Bukowski Undigested" lives... looks like we (Linda/Scott King) will be part of a show around a Bukowski landmark dedication in March. stay tuned... get the book by clicking HERE.

So apparently they (the self-congratulatory city hall types) will be breaking a bottle of champagne across the bow of 5124 DeLongpre some time in March.

I wonder if Linda will show, knowing her general distaste for the landmark status...

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Father Luke
Founding member
Dec 11, 2008
#2
mjp said:
I wonder if Linda will show, knowing her general distaste for the landmark status...

I wonder if they both will show.

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mjp
Founding member
Dec 11, 2008
#3
If my busy schedule as Barack Obama's new barbeque czar permits, I will attend the solemn ceremony and report my findings to the scientific community here.

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Bukfan
"The law is wrong; I am right"
Dec 11, 2008
#4
So City Hall is gonna celebrate "The Laureate Poet Of Skid Row", together with Linda King, outside his DeLongpre bungalow. Buk would've gotten a big laugh out of it...:D

Next, they'll erect a statue of him outside City Hall - made by Linda King! :rolleyes:

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Pessimist
Dec 11, 2008
#5
Bukfan said:
Next, they'll erect a statue of him outside City Hall - made by Linda King! :rolleyes:

They've already put up a statue of his buddy Al Purdy here in Hogtown.

Write good poetry, get shit on by people, live in poverty, die, get shit on by birds.

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Bukfan
"The law is wrong; I am right"
Dec 11, 2008
#6
Well, it's the shit that brings us food on the table...;)

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roni
Dec 12, 2008
#7
mjp said:
...I will attend the solemn ceremony...

pleeze tell me about the exact date asap.

could be, I'll be in LA next spring.

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mjp
Founding member
Dec 12, 2008
#8
As soon as I hear anything I'll post it here. Or if someone else gets the info first, let us know.

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chronic
old and in the way
Dec 12, 2008
#9
Bukfan said:
Next, they'll erect a statue of him outside City Hall - made by Linda King! :rolleyes:

You know, a life-sized statue of Bukowski sitting on a park bench with a bottle and a cigarette, in the right location... maybe Pershing Square(?), would not be a bad thing.

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Bukfan
"The law is wrong; I am right"
Dec 12, 2008
#10
Or in MacArthur Perk where he used to hang out with Jane.
I think he would've had one already if he had been Canadian, just like Purdy have one.

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chronic
old and in the way
Dec 12, 2008
#11
It would probably just get destroyed or stolen from MacArthur Park. Unless things have changed recently, that area is gangland.

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mjp
Founding member
Dec 13, 2008
#12
MacArthur Park? Yeah, those fuckers would haul it away on the first night and a scrap metal dealer would have it cut into a hundred pieces before the sun came up. They will steal the wiring out of your car for a few cents worth of copper. Things are getting a little crazy in some parts of town.

If you think a bronze statue would be too heavy to steal, think again. You'd see them rolling it out of there balanced on top of a dozen rusty bikes, and you'd wonder, "How the fuck?..." Ha ha.

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Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
Dec 13, 2008
#13
Think about it, if they have a dedication ceremony at Delongpre where will anyone park?
I'll go but I'll need a ride home.

Didn't someone write a song about MacArtur Park? Many years ago.

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CRBSMILE
Dec 13, 2008
#14
Richard Harris(yes, the actor). It's the "Someone left the cake out in the rain..." song.
Now I don't know if he wrote it, but he sang it and it was quite popular way back in the day. CRB:)

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slimedog
Dec 14, 2008
#15
The song MacCarthers Park, I like the song when I was a wee lad and my mom could not get the idea about the cake in the rain though I understood, I guess it was my first experience with "metaphor."

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Digney in Burnaby
donkeys live a long time
Dec 14, 2008
#16
Gerard K H Love said:
Didn't someone write a song about MacArtur Park? Many years ago.

Jimmy Webb wrote the song, Richard Harris had the hit. Webb wrote "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and "Galveston" amongst other songs.

More than you'll ever need to know on the song. The immortal cake out in the rain line coming from Auden? Why not?

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Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
Dec 14, 2008
#17
Thank you D in B now someone needs to show up to the dedication with a sound system to play that song MacArthur Park. I'm sure it will be easy to convince the city council weasels that it was Bukowski's favorite song while he lived at DeLongpre.

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Father Luke
Founding member
Dec 15, 2008
#18
mjp said:
As soon as I hear anything I'll post it here. Or if someone else gets the info first, let us know.

I wrote to Matt and asked him.
Just got this letter from him:

howdy...

i am not for sure about much of anything with the march show
yet.. but i had been emailing scott king back and forth about it
earlier in the year. here's the info i have:

Charles Bukowski's house on 5124 De Longpre is now a City of
Los Angeles Historic Cultural. Landmark #912 named
Bukowski's Court.

This is where Charles Bukowski lived when his publisher John
Martin of Black Sparrow Press put him on a $100 monthly
stipend for life. This offer was his impetus to quit the Post
Office, where he had worked for almost 12 years straight, and
devote himself to writing. With a many beers and a fear of
writing, he produced Post Office in a few weeks. Experiences
with women on De Longpre would also inspire his watershed
novel, Women.

i'll email scott in the beginning of the year to figure out if it' a
go...

my best,
matt

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Lolita Twist
Rose-hustler
Dec 16, 2008
#19
Bukfan said:
So City Hall is gonna celebrate "The Laureate Poet Of Skid Row", together with Linda King, outside his DeLongpre bungalow. Buk would've gotten a big laugh out of it...:D

Next, they'll erect a statue of him outside City Hall - made by Linda King! :rolleyes:

Hey, if they can erect a statue of a fictional boxer in Philly, they can erect one of an erect old man outside city hall.

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A/N: Re: "Poet Laureate of Skid Row"

Q: Does no one find it odd that in Ham on Rye, Buk notes that he thought skid row and the people on it were disgusting???

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bospress.net
www.bospress.net
Dec 16, 2008
#20
Lolita Ginsoski said:
Hey, if they can erect a statue of a fictional boxer in Philly, they can erect one of an erect old man outside city hall.

I know. Isn't that embarassing? For those of you that do not know what we are talking about, they actually put up a life size statue of Rocky Balboa at the bottom of those stairs to the Philadelphia Museum of Art (These were the stairs that he ran up in the movie).

I cannot imagine a sillier idea. This really is a sad embarrassment to a really great town.

Bill

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Bukfan
"The law is wrong; I am right"
Dec 16, 2008
#21
Jezuz! What's next - a statue of Rambo outside West Point? :rolleyes:

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Lolita Twist
Rose-hustler
Dec 16, 2008
#22
Y'know, I liked the Rocky movies just as much as the next sap... infact, my grandfather reminds me of Mick. But a statue? C'moooooonnnnnn nowwwwww...

And yeah, Philly holds some good memories for me. Went down there in like, 2006 or something with a few friends and just walked around and stuff. Like the town. But don't turn the wrong corner ha.

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bogthing
Dec 18, 2008
#23
mjp said:
If my busy schedule as Barack Obama's new barbeque czar permits, I will attend the solemn ceremony and report my findings to the scientific community here.

Barbeque Czar, man that's a sweet deal. How'd you fall into that bed?

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mjp
Founding member
Dec 18, 2008
#24
B.O. owed me a favor, if you know what I mean.

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Father Luke
Founding member
Mar 3, 2009
#25
Got an email from Matt Sesow. Here is a glimpse of his excitement:

good news... very good news.
the buk show is a go... march 28th...
more info coming... but for right now, march 28th, 9-12am... the elephant theater... 6324 santa monica blvd...i'll be there.
hope to seeya,
matt

March 28th, 9-12am... The Elephant Theater,
I'll bring more news when I have more.

- -
Okay,
Father Luke

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roni
Mar 4, 2009
#26
thanks for the info Father and welcome back home.

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hank solo
Just practicin' steps and keepin' outta the fights
Reaper Crew
Moderator
Founding member
Mar 4, 2009
#27
This appeared a little while ago - but I haven't seen it posted on the boards, so can't be 100% sure that the details are set in stone...
(click to enlarge)

EDIT: See Father Luke's post below for the UP TO DATE and CORRECTED details.

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roni
Mar 4, 2009
#28
Who is Gerald Lockland?

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hank solo
Just practicin' steps and keepin' outta the fights
Reaper Crew
Moderator
Founding member
Mar 4, 2009
#29
I guess he's the author of 'Charles Buckaroo: A small pet' and 'The Case of the Missing Blue Wienerschnitzel' :D

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bospress.net
www.bospress.net
Mar 5, 2009
#30
Yeah, I know that Soheyl Dahi (misspelled Sohey) will not be there. I doubt that A.D. or Neeli will be there. Is this a confirmed list or a wish list?

Also, what about the poets mjp and S.A. Griffin, who are both in LA?

Bill

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mjp
Founding member
Mar 5, 2009
#31
Bill, your elevation of me to the status of a poet anyone would want at a public gathering is flattering. But I wouldn't attend that little fiesta for all the bourbon in Kentucky.

Okay, that's not true. For all the bourbon in Kentucky I would certainly go stand there and watch people do whatever the hell people do at those things. But I wouldn't go for one drop less.

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Father Luke
Founding member
Mar 5, 2009
#32
For all the bourbon in Kentucky, I'd join ya.
I'd join anyone.

Here is the latest from Matt:

hi Father Luke...
it's big Go!!!!
the show is on... please tell everybody and please come...
promote the dickens out of it if you can.
your pal,matt

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Ponder
"So fuck Doubleday Doran"
RIP
Mar 6, 2009
#33
Thank you for posting the announcement, FL!

Hey... the Taylor Hackford documentary lasts now 40
minutes instead of the original 60 or
the shorten version of 30 minutes.

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chronic
old and in the way
Mar 6, 2009
#34
Don't mean to nitpick, but whoever is writing/setting the copy needs to learn to proofread. "All the poets were Bukowski friends and knew him personality?" Also, Paul Vangelisti's name is mis-spelled.

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roni
Mar 6, 2009
#35
I've noticed that too.
They seem to read here, since the only name I mocked about (Gerry) has been corrected by now.

Anyway, I wish I could be there. Seeing the event, meeting all these people, just inhaling the athmosphere...

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bospress.net
www.bospress.net
Mar 6, 2009
#36
chronic said:
Don't mean to nitpick, but whoever is writing/setting the copy needs to learn to proofread. "All the poets were Bukowski friends and knew him personality?" Also, Paul Vangelisti's name is mis-spelled.

S.A. Griffin did not know Buk personally.

Bill

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chronic
old and in the way
Mar 6, 2009
#37
Ah, but did he know him personality?

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BukHead
Mar 21, 2009
#38
Bukowski Celebration - Sat. March 28th on Flavorpill.com

http://flavorpill.com/losangeles/events/2009/3/28/bukowski-festival

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hank solo
Just practicin' steps and keepin' outta the fights
Reaper Crew
Moderator
Founding member
Mar 29, 2009
#39
Okay, did anyone go to this shindig?

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Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
Mar 29, 2009
#40
I would think it's a little too early here to ask that question. I was diverted from going by a spousal veto and the trump card. I wanted very much to attend but I had a wonderful time at home.

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nervas
more crickets than friends
Jan 28, 2010
#1
I found this on artist Matt Sesow's website:MARCH 28th 2009: LOS ANGLES, CA
1st Annual Bukowski show
sesow will be there. paintings and poetry group show... more info coming
Was that already mentioned on here?
Does anyone know anything, or have any info on this?

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hank solo
Just practicin' steps and keepin' outta the fights
Reaper Crew
Moderator
Founding member
Jan 28, 2010
#2
Here
https://bukowskiforum.com/showthread.php?t=5378

and here
https://bukowskiforum.com/showthread.php?t=5373

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nervas
more crickets than friends
Jan 28, 2010
#3
ahhh, I missed that. So did those shows take place? Why does this one, on Sesow's website say 1st annual?

Thanks, as always hank solo.

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mjp
Founding member
Jan 28, 2010
#4
nervas said:
Why does this one, on Sesow's website say 1st annual?
"First annual" often means "only."

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Bukfan
"The law is wrong; I am right"
Jan 28, 2010
#5
Why does this one, on Sesow's website say 1st annual?

Because it sounds much better than just "Bukowski Show". ;)
They couldn't possibly have known back then if it would turn out to be an annual event.
I guess we'll find out for sure in March.

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