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Huh.

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Monday, 26 June 2006 16:03 (twenty years ago)

There is one now, apparently, but it hasn't had much to say, yet.

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 01:03 (twenty years ago)

Kinda like Brautigan.

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 16:39 (twenty years ago)

mayonnaise.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps we could have a violently contentious discussion about mayonnaise; this seems to work well for ILE. Mr. Brautigan could be brought into the discussion briefly for a triumphal cameo appearance, after which we move briskly on to other things vaguely California-and-mayonnaise-related.

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 17:43 (twenty years ago)

God.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 29 June 2006 13:38 (twenty years ago)

Join this list if you're interested in RB. http://lists.riza.com/listinfo.cgi/brautigan-riza.com

Beware though, it's mainly 60 year olds writing poems to each other.

So, Dr Carl Sagan or whatever, what's your favourite Brautigan?

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:40 (twenty years ago)

i still don't much like the abortion.

i bought three others the other day (month). when i get around to reading them i guess i'll let you know!

― tom west (thomp), Thursday, 29 June 2006 23:14 (twenty years ago)

admittedly this sort of thing bugs me as a reader far too much, but: i don't really understand what brautigan's 'status' is. the vonnegut lit departments haven't decided they can take seriously?

― tom west (thomp), Thursday, 29 June 2006 23:15 (twenty years ago)

i think he is too twee and shaggy for people to take seriously. like tom robbins, sorta. i still think some of his poems are a hoot. the hawkline monster was funny. and some of his short stories. i think his later stuff holds up better than the earlier absurdist hippy stuff. unless you are a teen on drugs. then it's all good. but the later stuff has this more modern deadpan absurdist angle to it, that is easier to take if you are not a teen on drugs. and it's funny!

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 30 June 2006 00:47 (twenty years ago)

Dr. Carl: file Brautigan next to the first Bread album in the "better when stoned" category...actually he's even more "that way" than David Gates (who's SO underated IMHO). As a teen-on-drugs I dipped into Brautigan (at the height of my Vonnegut fandom) and couldn't make heads nor tails of him. Seemed so gentle.

Didn't Trout Fishing In America become a best-seller on the strength of unsuspecting Field & Stream subscribers buying it?

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Friday, 30 June 2006 09:18 (twenty years ago)

Strange to think that this (visually) stereotypical hippy wrote these gentle, almost whimsical poems and stories, yet was a depressive alcoholic who suffered electric shock therapy as a child and blew his head off with a shotgun in his forties.

That dark ink was always in his writing, lurking around his sentences and it stops his writing falling into twee.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Friday, 30 June 2006 10:19 (twenty years ago)

ian, you have to find a copy of this:

http://www.popsike.com/php/detaildata.php?itemnr=4730321015

it's pretty cool.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 30 June 2006 11:45 (twenty years ago)

I have the CD reissue of that recording. His voice was higher than I imagined. At one point he stops reading and answers the telephone.

Originally scheduled for release on Apple!

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Friday, 30 June 2006 13:15 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

I'm a big fan; he combines funny and sad so well.
Has anyone seen this
or the original book? (it's a CD-ROM!: called Brautigan, Richard, A Pilgrimage, August 1982 by David Curran)...

that LP is on CD available from Amazon:
listening to richard brautigan

One of my favourite writers, Steve Braunias, is Brautigan-esque. He's well known in NZ (SB that is not RB).
ANyone read his daughter's memoir abt him?

― spectra (spectra), Sunday, 16 July 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

'in watermelon sugar' has been profoundly influential on just about everything i've ever done.

― j fail (cenotaph), Thursday, 20 July 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

I've just read the Tokyo-Montana Express, which was OK, but there were too many stops on the track. A great story about the relationship between toothbrushes and Japanese girls, notwithstanding.

If anyone (London based) is interested in Brautigan's books, Red Snapper Books on Cecil Court (off Charing Cross Road) has plenty of first editions and other Brautigan bits and pieces. If the poet is working, engage him in converstion, he's also a Brautigan fan. As is Jude Law, apparently.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 20 July 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

The Scarlatti Tilt [short story from Revenge of the Lawn] - A Lego interpretation I found via Flickr.

http://homepage.mac.com/senorwences/PhotoAlbum30.html

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

To continue the discontinued theme started by aimurchie, I say the application of mayonnaise should be reserved for cases of extreme unction.

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

I'm a big fan of "Sombrero Fallout." So sad, so funny, so absurd; everything I like in a book, really.

― molly d (mollyd), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 02:45 (nineteen years ago)

Ha - Jeremy the poet suggested and sold me a copy of Brautigan's daughter's biography earlier this year. It was about the only thing I could afford - that place is extremely expensive (though I've learnt subsequently that it's ok to haggle there).

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Saturday, 21 October 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

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