@the_etrain

My wee mind hyperlinked to #Barfly and #MickeyRourke as #Bukowski's job interview and bar rant:

"Somebody laid down this rule that everybody's gotta do something, they gotta be something ... Sometimes I just get tired of thinking of all the things that I don't wanna do—all the things that I don't wanna be!"

#movies #writing #80s #LA #CharlesBukowski #writer #writing #nonconformism

https://youtu.be/-64Vfh4g2es

𝗢𝗻 𝗻𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗺, 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘄𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱.

It is enormously empowering – even intoxicating – to lose yourself to a #crowd. That is why we need #contrarians.

«Since they have cut off their ties with their #tribe, nothing prevents them from seeing things as they are.»

#society #diversity #nonconformism

https://aeon.co/essays/on-nonconformism-or-why-we-need-to-be-seen-and-not-herded via #aeonmag

📷 Richard Kalvar/Magnum

“Ginsberg read on to the end of the poem, which left us standing in wonder, or cheering and wondering, but knowing at the deepest level that a barrier had been broken, that a human voice and body had been hurled against the harsh wall of America and its supporting armies and navies and academies and institutions and ownership systems and power-support bases.„
—Michael McClure, San Francisco Six Gallery Reading, 1955

#beat #generation #poetry #freethinking #nonconformism #anticapitalism #endwar