Another One from Charles

[jackshoegazer]

Oh Yes

there are worse things than
being alone
but it often takes decades
to realize this
and most often
when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than
too late.

- Charles Bukowski

Comments

[redwitchesbrew.livejournal.com]

Excellent Bukowski quote.

[enodia.livejournal.com]

Did you see the film about his life? It is very interesting to say the least.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't. Do you know what it's called? My roommate just picked up a DVD that is an old video shot in Seattle I think, at a college at Bukowski's 4th public reading EVER, way before he was famous for his poetry. It's in very grainy black and white, but it's strong Bukowski, gravely voice and warbling monotone inflection with a hint of buddha behind the eyes.

[enodia.livejournal.com]

http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=60033352&mqso=60184434&OVRAW=Charles%20Bukowski%20film&OVKEY=bukowski%20film&OVMTC=advanced

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

(Sometimes I get the impression I knew you in the late 1700's... I keep seeing you dressed from that time period, aristocratic of course, and a big, big wig, almost beehivish, with lots of curls.)

TMI?

[enodia.livejournal.com]

How fancy that would be. My only definitive past life "memories" have involved being a tibetan monk and a young hindu woman. In addition to these I must add that the language of sanskrit came to me absurdly easily, and my yoga practice goes back to early childhood without any external encouragement to speak of, but that is a complicated tale. Most tantric philosophy and sacred texts of both hindu and buddhist ilk strike me as being a reminder of previously mastered information even when absorbing material that should be new, unfamiliar, or that which is notoriously difficult to grasp. Culturally, while I should have undergone a shock adjusting to life in India, the shock instead came each time in adjusting to being back in the US. I have strong feelings of attachment to all things from the ancient middle east as well. I also have had an inexplicable anglophile streak since early childhood that seems suspicious. Of course, these other attachments may be tendencies toward attraction that have no cause in past lives at all but simply appeal to aspects of my own intrinsic nature. But what is a life if it isn't an expression of some aspect of one's intrinsic nature? Wouldn't it be lovely if things were that simple. ;-) Who knows? *shrugs* How about you? Any impressions or memories?

Re: TMI?

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

How odd, I felt the same way about Hinduism in particular. Once at a museum, on a lot of LSD with some friends, we got separated and I ended up in India, while my friends found their way to China. I met Shiva Nataraja and communed with him (though presented to me as a female.) I have had past-life-esque visions of a sort of prehistoric time, sitting on a wolly creature, carrying a spear, at the top of a cliff overlooking a massive glacier. I had a vision of sitting in the balcony of a large opera hall in Austria, the fashion appeared to be late 1600's. I have a very strange affinity for 1960's northern California. I read histories of that era and part of me just says, Yea, yeah, been there, done that.