To the others who allowed me to stuff my back pockets with $842.33 in dirty notes and cheques, my even greater thanks.
On the weekends, look for New Orleans' best offerings in funk music, from Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes to Ivan Neville's Dumpstafunk.
New Orleanians have long been advising me to see Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes, which plays the city's clubs often and had an early-afternoon set on Thursday.
In 1853, John Murray's "Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy" declared Matera "a dirty city" and noted that "its lower classes are said to be the most uncivilized in the whole province of Basilicata".
"Lester Bangs is the only guy who says that it's all a dirty industry," Mr. Crowe has noted.
With the publication of a regular column, "Notes of a Dirty Old Man," in the underground press, he gained notoriety beyond the world of little magazines.
Collections of his stories include Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969), taken from his underground newspaper column of that name, Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (1972), and Hot Water Music (1983).
Some know Bukowski for his novels, like "Post Office" and "Hollywood"; others for his screenplays, including "Barfly"; and still others for his nonfiction, like "Notes of a Dirty Old Man".
Indeed, although Raymond Carver is frequently identified as an example of "blue-collar misery," Bukowski had already prepared the way for Carver in his earliest writings from 1944 (when his first fiction appeared in Story magazine), and in his column Notes of a Dirty Old Man, which began to appear in the underground press in 1967.
His published poems, a fraction of the tens of thousands he scribbled through his squalid decades, sometimes on newsprint, were collected in more than 40 volumes and translated into several European languages — "Notes of a Dirty Old Man," "Love Is a Dog From Hell," "South of No North," "The Last Night of the Earth Poems" and others.
