Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts

Sunday, April 03, 2011

"Photographs" by Charles Bukowski


Photographs

they photograph you on your porch
and on your couch
and standing in the courtyard
or leaning against your car

these photographers
women with big asses
which look better to you
than do their eyes or their souls

-this playing at author
it´s real Hemingway
James Joyce
stageshit

but look-
there are the books
you´ve written them
you haven´t been to Paris
but you´ve written all those books

there behind you
(and others not there,
lost or stolen)

all you´ve got to do
is look like Bukowski
for the cameras
but

you keep watching
those
astonishingly big asses
and thinking-
somebody else is getting
it

“look into my eyes,”
they say and click their cameras
and flash their cameras
and fondle their cameras

Hemingway used to box or go
fishing or to the bullfights
but after they leave
you jerk-off into the sheets
and take a hot bath

they never send the photos
like they promise to send the photos
and astonishingly big asses are
gone forever
and you´ve been a fine literary fellow-
now alive
dead soon enough
looking into and at their eyes and souls
and more.

(Bukowski, photographs, in: love is a dog from hell)




Sunday, May 23, 2010

"Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity" by David Lynch

Today I finished reading "Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity" by David Lynch. I read it in 3 days. The book is divided by themes, such as "Ideas, Drugs, Creativity" and so forth. He talks about how Transcendental Meditation has changed his life in the past many years.


I thought it was an OK book. Besides learning that Transcendental Meditation brings bliss to life, and like this we have more room for creativity and no stress, I didn't learn much. I did though, learn about Lynch, his life-style and persona.

He donates all the money he gets from selling his book to help school teach their kids to meditate since an early age:
http://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/


I do want to start meditating! :)