Nonculture

 Finally ordered the Bukowski Tapes DVD.  Been waiting a while to get that shit.  It is as good – or better – than “Born into This”.  It is by a filmmaker who just sat and filmed Buk in his backyard doing impromptu interviews for an entire 2 discs.  They are done in snippets, which is perfect, and are totally candid.  Hollywood has been trying and failing to capture him for decades, but the Mickey Rourke film (Barfly) and, to a lesser extent, Factotum (Matt Dillon), failed.

On another note, all of the books my father sent me were stolen by the postal system, for which I can not offer any out; basically it is totally shady shit and unforgivable.  Everything that I have sent insured has always arrived.  My father, in his typical economical way, sent several books to me.  The box arrived completely empty, with the postman offering his apologies and the fact that he had added some tape to help keep the box in a “box like shape.”  The sad fact is the box held some semi-valuable contents; mostly Ludlum hardcovers that were pristine.  If you look on E-bay, those fuckers go for over 30 bucks each, at the cheapest.  Especially the Bourne ones.  Postal workers – I thought you were paid pretty well.  Maybe that is an incorrect assumption, so now you steal.  Hey, thanks.

Ultimate Bet just emailed me and said that they are giving me a free ten bucks.  Later.  This post was stupid as fuck anyway.