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Charles

About Me

A post-modern Boo Radley w/ a guitar & a loud sad song, a noble fool w/ a beer belly, a lover of language & women's undergarments, a sad-eye'd holy epileptic turning tricks for gods & devils, indolent & lazy, a three-chord hero who screams poetry in empty bars, Baudelaire's next of kin, a side-walk saint & church bell sinner, a man who teaches blues to deaf kids, a bad cook, a spoiled dago prince, an afficionado of filth, a hater of obvious rhyme schemes, a complacent drunk, a bum afraid to rob banks for a living...BREAKING NEWS:The SLT CD Dirty Sleep-15 years in the making, is done & available for your purchase & delectation at the Bop Shop, Lakeshore Record Exchange (on Park Ave near Oxford) & the Record Archive. GO BUY IT NOW & THEN PLAY IT VERY LOUD! I hope to have it available online on iTunes this weekend. I'll discuss the record & all things SLT tomorrow afternoon, 5pm, on the world famous Whole Lotta Shakin' Show (89.7 WITR- you can stream the show by clicking on the link found on the station's website) w/ Fab Host & RocknRoll Crazy Man Mike Murray.Enjoy!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Everyone & no one at all...

My Blog

A Man Named Alice

I wanna burn down the RocknRoll Hall of Fame. Who’s w/ me? Come on...I can’t be the only disgruntled son of bitch who’s aching to douse that temple to simpering commerciality w/ gas ...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:51:00 GMT

Wife Beaters & Helmet Heads

Late last summer a friend of mine rolled into town from the dusty, dreamy mid-west. She took a small apartment in a nice neighborhood, hung the OPEN sign on her door- she’s a fine free...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:40:00 GMT

Dear Frank

Or would you prefer Mr. Sinatra? Last weekend I watched a movie w/ your paisan Deano- Rio Bravo- & my god, was he good; better then the movie which somebody somewhere decided to remake ten ye...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:59:00 GMT

To Sir W/ Love

I turn 45 today. How the fuck did THAT happen? Relax, it's a rhetorical question. I know how it happened, & so you do you. I'm told I'm middle aged but that would be pie-in-the sky optimism. I don...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:53:00 GMT

Cheap Beer & Popcorn

It's The Continuing Adventures Of...Friday Style. I'm skint so Bright-Eyes to the rescue- my hero & we miss the previews but settle in & catch an adorable slice of Juno. Bright-Eyes hits the H...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:52:00 GMT

Friends & Exs & Ex-Friends W/ Exs

So Saturday night Bright-Eyes & I hit this neighborhood joint on E. Main St which has a room in the back w/ ashtrays if you get what I mean. We set up camp at a small table & watched the Patri...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:47:00 GMT

And So This Is Christmas

I posted this comment on my brother Mike's blog regarding trickle down economics: "These are the chains I forged in life." "You were always a good business man Jacob." "Mankind WAS my business..." -F...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:40:00 GMT

Coffee, Cigarettes, 4 Walls & A Roof

"Give a man four walls & a roof & he can conquer the world." -Charles Bukowski I'd be happy to attribute the above comment to a particular work if I could remember where it belonged but as age...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 07:33:00 GMT