Who kept you company in the dark times?

Me, Leo Kottke, beautiful fingers, crappy voice. Kept me company through some of the darkest times of my live.

His voice is as sweet as honey.

but before him, comics, books...and Metallica....

we have been friends for...14 yrs now...he is the only other human being, besides my wife, whom i have full confidence, and i confide deeply in both of them...

Just my stupid opinion.

during a period of loss here recently.......

Their love and caring helped save my sanity then.

These people are the BEST.....




:grouphug:

About 3 billion more just like you, and we've got a good world.

I've had people do bad things to me as well as good.....

But I still maintain that most are good, if you let them, and encourage them......and love them....


:loveya: :hug:

They are good for the bright times too.

Wish I could write like tolkien.

Read it many times since when I've lost hope for human kind. Another good author is Lois McMaster Bujold. Miles is a hoot.

who never read the book. Ah poor Rhaganast the brown, Glorifindel,and of course tom bandil (sp) never graced the silver screen.

In retrospect, he's a bit of a weirdo.

were probably the best people I ever knew. My loss for adhering to a stupid criteria for who can and cannot be my friend.

have me as a friend, they wouldn't have too many good friends. Some people found them intolerable. But they were INTERESTING, even if they were assholes, so I tolerated them. Got a lot back from them too, I must say.

Hemingway, museums, my partner, friends, and Del Frisco's cigar bar and the Heartland Brewery on 51st, sitting outside smoking cigars in the rain while a guy downtown got killed by lightning when he was on the roof.

how did the poor soul on the roof's death help you thru the dark times? There has to be a story here. I'm a sucker for a good story.

But that was the kind of storm we sat outside, under a large umbrella, drinking a shitload of beer during.

Said he'd be back one day when he needed help.

What have you ever done that he'll be back to find you? Probably none of my business.

He will be back for my soul.

as I tried to sleep a couple hours after the phone call before rushing to the airport. My cat helped me a lot that night and others.

Now I'm a believer. How the hell do they know? Still flabbergasts me.

Maybe she should be nominated for sainthood.:shrug:

It is unique.

But my favorite piece of all is the instrumental "A Child Should Be A Fish." That is one incredible piece of music.

Sounded like a groan married to a creak. Now Leo's voice just sounds like home.

Still does.

Most links to him have been disconnected it seems.

At least that's my view. Bukowski's life was it's own; he truly went his own way..

Check the links out on this page; it'll give you a good overview on the man..

http://www.levity.com/corduroy/bukowski.htm

I'm sorry but they all ripped off Neil. His motor mouth stream of consciousness way of talking, and writing on toilet paper. Then they left him to die on the train tracks.

Not in the least; his idol was John Fante, who was one of the first who wrote about L.A. Fante was one of the great undiscovered writers:

http://members.tripod.com/~Fante/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fante


Bukowski met Cassidy once in the early 60's, and he wrote a hilarious, yet very touching account of it in his "Notes Of A Dirty Old Man" column in the LA Free Press a few years later. If you can find it, it's well worth reading..

Most steadfast "friends" I've ever had. That's why it's so hard to be giving them up.:(

Who really loves you when your alone on the side of the road, flat tire, in the middle of nowhere? A lighter and a pack.

Reds for the average days, cut down the filters on really bad days, menthols when I had a cold... I would've rather given up most of my food than my cigarettes. Why do they have to be so damn bad for you? :-(

It calms the nerves a bit to smoke one, but I'm worried I'm starting a habit here.

I hear ya.

named Kim

:rofl: I'm sorry if I'm stomping on your dark times, but,:rofl:

Maybe poorly-lit times. :D

:thumbsup: ;)

A few other artistic comforts I could mention if I wasn't so fried from pre-Fitzmas celebrating.

I have been wonderfully blessed.

And I've tried to be there for them (except Tori...I don't actually know her).

Khash.

Is she really that good? In my saddest times I go to Motown. Maybe time for a change.

That was EXACTLY what I needed in the black, dead period of American media known as late 2002. I think it's her best record, although the ones I have the most personal attatchment to will always be "Under the Pink" and "From the Choirgirl Hotel" because those CDs remind me of my happier times. Also, "Scarlet's Walk" is a bittersweet listen for me because my evil ex claimed to have liked it.

Please tell me she's not a whiner though. My ex is a big Sarah McLachlan fan, and she just grates on my last nerve.

"Boys For Pele" will always be my personal fave (the anger, the humour), but "Scarlet's Walk" was brilliant. "Wednesday", "Virginia", "Another Girl's Paradise", "Pancake" what can I say? I have a really hard time listening to "Strange" though - for the first time since it came out I listened to it again. Hurt just as much.


What I love about her is her honesty - she'll say anything. I also love the fact that she doesn't just complain and feel sorry for herself, she runs an organization that helps rape victims, she has openly talked (and sung) about her miscarriage. She walks the walk.

Khash.

I don't like "The Beekeeper." It's the first record she's done that I've collectively disliked. There are a couple of okay songs on there, but otherwise...it's not my fave. And it's not that the songs are bad, they're not, they're not bad songs...it's weird, though. I don't enjoy listening to them, yet they are so incredibly sad--it took me forever to listen to the entire CD after it first came out, because I kept having to stop and start crying. Still, that CD purchase is one of my most disappointing ever.

With occasional help from...let's call her Mary Jane.

And the kindness of strangers.

podcasting right now

She married right out of college and less than a year later her husband was killed riding his motorcycle. She was hurting; I was hurting. I disappeared every chance I got to her home in Santa Barbara. She even gave me a key. We didn't talk about our pains; we just spent time together. I miss her.

Was it against your will? Sorry, thats nosey.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - the man kept me sane after 9/11, when I thought I was the only one in American who DIDN'T think the resident was up to the challenge.

Dean was another one made me feel like it was okay to speak out in public against the idea of going to war in Iraq, like I wasn't some total loony for thinking we were going to regret it.

hello Mrs Daniels? MRS. DANIELS?

also my own music, Pink Floyd, The Cure, Delerium, mojave3, Sigur Ros, the Star Wars and LOTR movies, and two exes before they became contributors to my darkness

:applause: I've had about 6 of your 11.

Being a geek, comic books, RPGs, video games, etc.

Oh and a lot of Bloody Marys. Drank many of them after my sainted father passed away 3 years ago.

Another Michrat. Good to have you here.

And thanks!

And the music from Phantom of the Opera and Tori Amos...

from Hickman last weekend. Nick Drake and the soundtrack from the Cirque de Soliel offshoot, Cavalia (which I got to see Thursday) are other comforting sounds.

Enjoy him.

Also try out his musical father, John Fahey.

that I'm aware... How are they musically related? I'll have to check out some iTunes samples next chance I get.

Any specific albums/recordings I should start with? I love discovering "new" old talent. The folk singer Odetta was another recent one.

:hi:

He started recording in 1959.

He was a strange dude though. He could ramble for hours in a semi-coherent way about things that seemed to have sense even though they were senseless. He had an obsession with someone known as "Blind Joe Death," and has an album of the same title. (He probably recorded a zillion albums, some of which are out of print and lost forever.) He wrote songs with titles like "The Dance of the Inhabitants of the Palace of King Phillip XIV of Spain," "Revelation on the Banks of the Pawuxent," "Portland Cement Factory at Monolith California," and "Revenge of the Dyke Brigade." Whatever the titles were, they were mostly brilliant music.

He didn't sing at all.

I saw him drink three six packs of beer once in about two hours and play phenomenally and flawlessly without a trace of drunkeness. He played in a white tee shirt with a V-neck that night, and I remember it well after almost thirty years. It was in the old Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach California, a small intimate serious club, and I sat just in front of him the whole time, completely mesmerized.

Early in Kotke's career, Kotke covered lots of John's work, including Fahey's brilliant rendering of the Episcopal hymn "In Christ, There is No East or West," "Last Steam Engine Train," and several others.

Fahey is dead. I believe he drank himself to death.

Sounds like a real eccentric, no surprise.

Is there anything you suggest I start with? Did he ever collaborate with anyone?

It has about 40 songs, including all of those I mentioned above. Lots of his covers of traditional music.

There are many "Best of..." Albums.

I think though, you can buy almost anything you find. It will all be good. He didn't record bad music. Ever. To my knowledge.

What other guitarists whose music you love? Have you ever heard Daniel Lanois? More known for producing than guitar playing, but a great songwriter and performer at that. Do you like Ry Cooder, Chris Witley? Any others of a similar sound you'd suggest?

in this shitty little club in Long Beach. It hurt my head to realize how much talent he had then and still does now.

:rofl:

His CDs have been playing in my car ever since. Thank you, and great thread. :hug:

I thought he was forgotten so I started this thread as a thank you to him.

husband's last deployment. And a lot of opera and 3 Doors Down. Yeah, I know that's a weird combo lol. And a lot of working out. I always get skinny when he's gone lol. Course soon as he gets home, I gain it right back. :P

At times it was excess alcohol, but it just made things worse....

Other times it was Cocaine, and that made it much worse....

But most of the time, when the times get bad, it's my books, being able to take me someplace I couldn't get to on my own...

Films and music that kept me in touch with the humanity of being human....

That's what kept me from sinking under the weight of addiction, defeat, failure and not living up to expectations...

And now, after twenty or so odd years of clean and sober living, it is people that get me through the day....

People react to you in a positive way everywhere you go Chris they can tell that you sincerely care.

It was our lucky day - the day you gave up drinking. :thumbsup:

:hug:

We've been together for over ten years, he and I. I don't know what I'd do without him! I just wish we could get married. :cry:

my cat and my friend Aaron.

Dark times can also be benificial.
I just got kicked in the nutts pretty hard august through mid october.
with my seventeen year Significant other.
But i needed a wakeup call And she gave me one...