bukowski is dope, but tom waits is just a good actor. Pink floyd aint shit with out their lunitic lead singer that is gone in never never land, but he's dope and mostly just from being able to handle lsd correctly like the few really good musicians. FUCK MATALLICA! irrelivent to this conversation. and about the beatniks, i'm pretty sure they had a lot of respect for bob dylan, he gave them a face and expanded the teachings to the next generation of hippies to yippies to reality fakers to the few that still want to make a difference. bob's the biggest form of introduction to all of what the beatniks were about. thats atleast how i got introduced to that whole movement and i can imagine many more who'd do the same.

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