Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Factorum,

I watched the movie Factorum based on the Bukowski novel by the same name. It was a pretty good movie if you like movies about a drunk who can't hold a job and has rocky romances that mostly revolves around drinking. The part that I really liked was they ended the movie with the main character sitting in a strip bar watching a girl dance and the voice over reciting a Bukowski poem that I believe is titled Roll the Dice;
If you're going to try, go all the way.
Otherwise don't even start.
This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs.
And maybe your mind.
It could mean not eating for three or four days.
It could mean freezing on a park bench.
It could mean jail.
It could mean derision.
It could mean mockery, isolation.
Isolation is the gift.
All the others are a test of your endurance.
Of how much you really want to do it.
And you'll do it, despite rejection in the worst odds.
And it will be better than anything else you can imagine.
If you're going to try, go all the way.
There is no other feeling like that.
You will be alone with the gods.
And the nights will flame with fire.
You will ride life straight to perfect laughter.
It's the only good fight there is.
A bit of fucking brilliance.

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