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October 03, 2005

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jx2pz

GLOSSY BUKOWSKI

Relieved to finally find a review where someone speaks the truth.

With “Love, Bukowski"'s great actors, fantastic stage craft/lighting, and Bukowski’s inspired seedy verbiage, it’s a shame the production didn’t work.

The “Love” in “Love, Bukowski” dripped with sentimentality like a Hallmark Valentine’s Day card: Sure Bukowski SAYS he wants to thrust his cock in and out of your cunt while his fingers pull your fleshy ass slapping into his lap, and his greasy pores sweat booze and bile, BUT… DEEP DOWN… He’s just a guy who gets his clean white Ts and freshly pressed khakis from the GAP, washes his hair with Herbal Essence, and would like nothing better than to bring you a dozen red roses, sip a little merlot on the beach at sunset, and serenade you on the balcony with a Michael Bolton love ballad.

Blehhhh!

You'll never guess where I saw the cleanest, freshest pair of tighty-whities I have ever seen in my life... That's right, on an actor playing Bukowski. (???)

Yes, the honesty that Bukowski mines from deep inside the dark lonely wanton corner of his soul is what elevates his carnality and bile into the realm of beauty and art, but… who wants to see Fabio play Bukowski? Or Alan Alda? Bukowski for the whole family? Disneyland Bukowski? Instead of “Love, Bukowski”, the sensibility of the show should have been “Fuck Bukowski” (And The Stinky Cunt Smell On His Filthy Fingers).

Bukowski (the man) was like a potato pulled right out of the earth: All natural and covered with dirt. This production, in recognition and admiration of the artistic beauty of Bukowski’s work, has mashed the potato and smothered it with sour cream.

Maybe this is the artistic director's sentimental love note to Bukowski.

I don’t need or want anyone to tell me how beautiful Bukowski’s work is. I want to experience it! In all its seediness!

I found all those glowing reviews disturbing. I’m relieved to stumble upon your blog of sanity.

shannon

thanks so much for the kind words and a review that speaks the truth as well. who were all those people giving it a good review anyways???!!?? hope you enjoy the rest of the site.

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