The poem “Something for The Touts, The Nuns, The Grocery Clerks And You” is one of poet Charles Bukowski's best, ripe with bitterness, humor, and images of disenfranchisement which seem especially relevant in light of the escalating Occupy Wall Street anti-greed protests around the world today: "men who walk/as if melody had never been invented, men/who think it is intelligent to hire and fire and/profit, men with expensive wives they possess/like 60 acres of ground to be drilled/or shown-off or to be walled away from/the incompetent" This video via Dangerous Minds, which features Bukowski reading the poem in his unique cadence, is composed of found footage from NYC (some NSFW bits!) and excerpts from the works of Arthur Lipsett and Gregory Markopoulos. You can read the whole poem below the jump as well.
Video: Bukowski Reads Poem With Fantastic Found Footage Of NYC
Elsewhere in the ist-a-verse
Chicagoist is gearing up for this weekend's annual Air & Water Show along the lakefront. In what's becoming an annual tradition around there, staff member Todd McClamroch even got to fly with one of the participants. Chicagoist's decidedly opinionated readership was also appalled that one of their staffers found a popular local brewpub to be a great place to bring a kid. They also think that an unlikely activist for immigration rights should just take her medicine and offered their own suggestions to how the city should capitalize on the local music scene. And everyone thinks that a suggested tax on bottled water is a great idea.
The Cinecultist's Weekly Movie Picks: Serpents In Flight edition
. Hopefully it will be as cheese-tastic as it seems from the trailers and the title. However, whether you're first in line tonight at a midnight screening or not, there's still loads coming up to see at the movies.
The Cinecultist's Weekly Movie Picks: Déjà vu Edition
This weekend is the weekend of movie déjà vu. You will be struck with the nagging feeling that all of the major films new to theaters seem oddly like something you've seen before. But repertory programming out in Brooklyn or in the West Village will provide a much needed shot of creativity to counter balance the same old, same old.
Literati Roundup: B.D. Wong and... Macaulay Culkin?
Maybe it's been a while since you sat down with some Law & Order Franchise and you've been missing your facetime with your Dr. George Huang, portrayed by the preternaturally calm B.D. Wong. We know we've been missing him lately, so tonight's the night to head over to Symphony Space (95th and Broadway) to check out Wong and Stephen Lang read stories from Roald Dahl and J. Robert Lennon, as part of the Selected Shorts series. Wong's a frequent reader for them, so if you can't make it tonight at 6:30PM, there's always another time.
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