why? (hic)

Charles Bukowski
from Factotum (1975)

"Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat."



“Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.”

“One more drink and I'll be under the host.”
― Mae West

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
― Edgar Allan Poe



“Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chamber of my brain —
Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away;
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.”
― Tom Waits

“Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.”
― Martin Luther

“At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!”
― Martha Graham, Blood Memory

“The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken”
― Homer

blue moon wrote:Oscar Wilde

"I don't drink water, fish fuck in it."

Mr Picky inquires: Wasn't that said by WC Fields?

... ...you are correct



"I don't drink water, fish fuck in it."
W.C.Fields.

blue moon wrote:Charles Bukowski
from Factotum (1975)

"Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat."



“Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.”

Some People
by Charles Bukowski

some people never go crazy.
me, sometimes I'll lie down behind the couch
for 3 or 4 days.
they'll find me there.
it's Cherub, they'll say, and
they pour wine down my throat
rub my chest
sprinkle me with oils.
then, I'll rise with a roar,
rant, rage -
curse them and the universe
as I send them scattering over the
lawn.
I'll feel much better,
sit down to toast and eggs,
hum a little tune,
suddenly become as lovable as a
pink
overfed whale.
some people never go crazy.
what truly horrible lives
they must lead.

"I've got more out of alcohol than alcohol has got out of me."
(Winston Churchill.)

Yesterday I had one of those moments in which I only cry and cry after drinking more than I should...

I remember the first time this happenned to me it was a festivity day in a town and it was already morning. I was crying as if I had lost someone and fell asleep on a bench. When I woke up I was alone (how nice... my friend ).

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy".

(Attributed to Tom Waits by Patrick Humphries in his Waits biography, but I suspect that the saying pre-dates Waits.)

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.



Quoted by Frank Harris in Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions (1916)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmEUGD42SfY
Bad Liver and a Broken Heart- Tom Waits.

Well, it certainly relieved Sir William Withey Gull's homicidal symptoms:

http://movieclips.com/2sGVH-from-hell-movie-lobotomy/
From Hell- Lobotomy scene.

What are you ATUers drinking tonight? I don't know yet... they hide the bottles from my eyes

Lager with whisky chasers.

I already had a lager...
where are my whisky chasers?

Vera Cruz wrote:where are my whisky chasers?

There you go, Vera:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TehFZ38kt6o
Whiskey in the Jar- Thin Lizzy.

Thanks for the bottle

It tastes very virtual

Ah, but the song works, no?

Yes... much nicer than metallica's version

You know in Dublin I lived next to the old Jameson distillery... I thought of visiting it but never did

I have had more beer but still no liquor