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@TheArtofGuitar3 жыл бұрын
I was listening to SH5 on audiobook and scrolling through my phone. Then I realized KV deserves 100% of my attention. So I put the phone down and did NOT regret it. Genius.
@mrdragoon33442 жыл бұрын
Did not expect to see you here! What got you read the book?
@Tangento Жыл бұрын
Did you listen to the version read by Ethan Hawke, or Kurt himself? I reccommend both.
@mr.spaceman7106 Жыл бұрын
Omg The Art of Guitar, so cool! Kurt always deserves our full attention!
@disismeisdatu28576 жыл бұрын
Mr. Vonnegut can say more in one paragraph than most writers say in a whole chapter!
@KimInChains6 жыл бұрын
Not an american hero, a earth hero.
@thomdrolet26243 жыл бұрын
* an
@Ooth9999 Жыл бұрын
You clearly haven’t read him or anything above a 6 year old level.
@KimInChains Жыл бұрын
@@Ooth9999 wtf are you on about?
@Ooth9999 Жыл бұрын
@@KimInChains ….*an
@KimInChains Жыл бұрын
@@Ooth9999 good job, mouthbreather.
@sydthegoat885 жыл бұрын
Kurt handles this needling host with absolute intelligence and good honest intention
@detsudetsu18264 жыл бұрын
He’s so interruptive and rude. Kurt shows a lot of class.
@CourtDreamsАй бұрын
I liked their vibe together, I thought Kirk was getting the right idea about what Vonnegut was saying and being respectful.
@udbhavseth7995 жыл бұрын
There's something about the way he speaks, with those head tilts and the falls of his gaze and random grins, that just captivates you...
@JSTNtheWZRD3 жыл бұрын
I think that is the mating call of the goldbreasted Vonnegut. Boooowheet.....Boooowheet.....🐥
@oldjack-mi8gk6 жыл бұрын
I love Kurt. My favorite writer. He was at Dresden. Respect.
@JSTNtheWZRD3 жыл бұрын
Slaughter house five was in dresden.
@OGCNNDSK5 жыл бұрын
love his humility. some may interpret self-deprecation or self-criticism as a kind of ploy for humor-laced sympathy, but hes just a great dude
@tihsknad407 жыл бұрын
I still think about you Kurt
@ANobodiemyspace3 ай бұрын
The ultimate compliment since you only really have two things to give - your thoughts and your body.
@Bix126 жыл бұрын
I discovered Kurt when I was about 13 years old (1970) when I read "Sirens Of Titan". I was already a reader, and just making the transition from Young Adult selections to Adult. One of my older siblings shoved Sirens into my hands, saying "Read it!" So I got crackin'...and by the time (I think it took me all of 3 days to read it) I'd discovered the incredibly rich Malachi Constant, Winston Niles Rumfoord and his dog Kazak, chrono-synclastic infundibulum, the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent, Salo, the Tralfamadorian, whose penis was something like 3' in diameter and 1 inch long and the Harmoniums, I was absolutely and utterly gobsmacked! KV was a revelation to me! I read everything of his that was available at that time. I followed "Sirens...." with "Cat's Cradle", then "Slaughterhouse-Five" and so on. Within a very short time, I'd become a total V-Head. He so completely captured my mind at that impressionable young age that I'm sure he contributed significantly to the shaping of my world view. Kurt Vonnegut remains my All-Time Favorite, Most Influential Human to this day.
@jackbeagle84586 жыл бұрын
Kurt Vonnegut
@fashionovawigs6 жыл бұрын
Have your read slapstick
@Amazinglyamazing2715 жыл бұрын
I need to connect with you coz I am doing my research on kv
@Amazinglyamazing2715 жыл бұрын
Can u plz contact me
@adrenacrumb5 жыл бұрын
Reading 100 pages a day at 13 is pretty gay.
@Ms.gnomer5 жыл бұрын
‘Nothing I did after 55 is very good’ Galapagos and Bluebeard are in my top 5 Vonnegut books
@lukeamerson36523 жыл бұрын
Reading Galapagos now. Blown away
@Ms.gnomer3 жыл бұрын
@@lukeamerson3652 I’m rereading it right now too!
@spamsickle9 ай бұрын
I believe he's said Galapagos was his favorite, but that may have been when he was promoting it LOL.
@suzyweiss78133 жыл бұрын
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt
@EMDrecs15 ай бұрын
I wish I could talk to him about all of his books, how amazing that would be
@jafafa6 жыл бұрын
The quote of his about "we are what we pretend to be" is something I'm going to use from now on against internet trolls who claim that they aren't really the assholes they make themselves out to be.
@jafafa3 жыл бұрын
@LiveOkie You really just typed that. A person who is an asshole online is an asshole, period. A person who is in denial of that fact is a person who lives in denial... and quite frequently a person who uses "It's not real, it's the internet" as an excuse to deny the fact that their shitty behavior online is who the really are.
@thomdrolet26243 жыл бұрын
@@jafafa maybe, sometimes unpopular opinions need to be voiced. Trolls/tricksters/jesters are important, just because you dislike an opinion doesn't make it wrong. Also being an asshole online is mostly harmless, you can always just ignore them, your attention and outrage is the only power they have.
@passedhighschoolphysics60107 жыл бұрын
And so it goes.
@blindriv3r7 жыл бұрын
just 'So it goes'.... ppl have added the 'and' since then and it has been misquoted for years
@goodun60817 жыл бұрын
blindriv3r there is a song, I forget who the group that sang it was, but the chorus or refrain goes :and so it goes so it goes so it goes so it goes, and where it's going, no one knows: perhaps people have that song stuck in the dark recesses of their mind when they are trying to quote Vonnegut and making a mess of it. for that matter, if I had that silly song stuck in the back of my head I think I'd have some gear teeth missing as well.... a group called Ambrosia did a group called ambrosia did a song version of a poem from one of Vonnegut s books, the part I can remember went like this, oh the Chinese dentist, and the British queen, they all fit together in the same machine , nice nice very nice, nice nice very nice, so many people in the same device....
@andrewking96067 жыл бұрын
It's a Nick Lowe song and it is a reference, abeit a kind of loose one
@charlie.something6 жыл бұрын
busy busy busy
@TxxT335 жыл бұрын
Hahaha
@kzinful5 жыл бұрын
Listening to him here and other interviews always pains me, why you ask? Listen to the rasp emitting from his lungs, he was a heavy cigarette smoker ( as I was ) and I pass no judgment, they passed them out like candy during WWII knowing the boys needed something for the stress, and one only has to watch the old talk shows and see the tobacco sponsors. My father also fought in WWII against the Nazis and in reading Slaughter House Five it resonated a bond with me to this day. Kurt Vonnegut was a unique voice and I miss him terribly ( as my father also). I believe only America could have produced this voice ( Twain, Poe, Melville, etc) as those of other countries: Dostoevsky in Russia, Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Columbia, you get the picture. With Peace As the old beats would recount: Kurt was One Cool Cat, you dig?
@tonyturiano2872 Жыл бұрын
Timely even today, God bless you, Mr. Vonnegut
@MrTsetso4 жыл бұрын
The film is a masterpiece. I saw it 10 years after I read the book. This is one of Nick Nolte's best characters!
@JohnPaul-le4pf3 жыл бұрын
Both book and film are personal favorites. Both are overlooked and underrated.
@mck76464 жыл бұрын
"I love you sons of bitches." Love you too Kurt. Rest well.
@taylorgerths36967 жыл бұрын
Billy Pilgrim came unstuck in time
@stephenclements61586 ай бұрын
The movie is phenomenal, makes me want to read the book.
@andrewsoligo9337 Жыл бұрын
Happy 100th birthday Kurt Vonnegut!
@grantdickey5 жыл бұрын
We miss your human form...Kurt you are alive in Nashville 2019..."So it goes"
@3SIDEGOOF5 жыл бұрын
Grant Dickey where in nashvile ? Im here now
@grantdickey5 жыл бұрын
@@3SIDEGOOF @BNA all day everyday!
@3SIDEGOOF5 жыл бұрын
@@grantdickey omg lol i may be flying back home to MD from that airport this coming week !
@modaljazz592 ай бұрын
It is insane how self-honest and transparent he is about his own work. He says, heres the didactic lesson... ...wow
@julesthomas34426 жыл бұрын
Charlie Rose just never really takes the time to actually listen to his guests, does he? god damn
@neogauntlet10085 жыл бұрын
Fuck em. Jk. Maybe he reflects
@thomdrolet26243 жыл бұрын
He's a tool of the cathedral. It's his job to not understand.
@mikecarone72076 жыл бұрын
The only summer reading list I didn't mind reading
@SP-mf9sh5 жыл бұрын
I think Slapstick is one of his best
@fredericlebel67885 жыл бұрын
Im into ir right now, and i like the beginning so much that im just starting it over and over again.
@mavisbavis4 жыл бұрын
I love Slapstic! The prologue alone is beautiful. I read it a few years ago and still regularly crack up at the image of him hugging his son/rolling on the floor with a great dane. He's so full of fun and empathy
@macandrewes5 жыл бұрын
Listen. Genius. Absolute genius. Poo-tee-weet.
@lynchburgva81185 жыл бұрын
the movie clips are so fast. I guess I blinked.
@kirbycairo5 жыл бұрын
Interestingly, Henry James wrote his three greatest novels (The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, & The Golden Bowl) in quick succession around the time he was sixty.
@TrixieTrickx Жыл бұрын
exactly
@pgonzo986 жыл бұрын
a great book by my favorite author...
@waltersolomon90494 жыл бұрын
The character Howard W. Campbell, Jr. is in both _Mother Night_ and _Slaughterhouse-Five._
@jeanneves1776 жыл бұрын
he remains as a legend
@meowzic6 жыл бұрын
who cares if it was a bestseller. or what sells the most.
@Bix123 жыл бұрын
an unemployed 47 year old writer with so many bills, a growing family, another growing family (his dead sister's), a huge mortgage, and dogs. /
@peterlee48566 жыл бұрын
The Karass always delivers just what you asked for probably not what you expected, "Hey Jerry didja bring me a movie? " "Oops gosh gee I didn't aw heck."
@SteveSilverActor4 жыл бұрын
I've read a lot of Vonnegut's work, though not all, and I'd agree with him that his three best are Mother Night, Slaughterhouse Five, and Cat's Cradle.
@brianalquist42387 жыл бұрын
Mother night is a fantastic book. The movie wasn't bad either
@g.w.stanley28162 ай бұрын
He never mentioned my favorite, "Breakfast of Champions".
@detsudetsu18264 жыл бұрын
The way he handles the ignorant schizophrenia question at the very start shows his class.
@ora44282 жыл бұрын
what a wonderful man
@rayminthecat6 жыл бұрын
Breakfast of champions
@myautobiographyafanfic14136 жыл бұрын
I adored Player Piano. I really want to know what grade Vonnegut would give it.
@akshaysundaram18366 жыл бұрын
My Autobiography A Fanfic He gave it a B. There’s a chart online of what he graded his books
@maxryder9952 жыл бұрын
I'm Drinking Freedom Fighter Beer!! Love You Kurt!
@bsharporbflat837811 ай бұрын
A really bright man
@dmartin32boiler6 жыл бұрын
I really do not think Kurt believes he is getting "dumber" with age. I think the interview took a path after a confusing/foggy statement/answer and he just rolled w/ it.
@dave1990102 жыл бұрын
Loved Cat's Cradle
@TreesOnTheBeach11 ай бұрын
Man, I wish Vonnegut had lived to see Donald Trump as president. I imagine I know what he would have thought.
@ginfizzz2895 Жыл бұрын
Mother Night is not mysterious at all and a page turner, it plays on modern American virtues, and doesn’t waste any breath. If someone I knew would read, I would tell them to read Mother Night. I have never seen the movie, but the Howard in the book does not seem too distraught about his Nazi affiliations, but is simply over the whole business of living.
@brianYYZ8 ай бұрын
I just listened to Ethan Hunt read Slaughterhouse Five. I kept thinking of Gaza. A group of innocents paying the price for their wicked leaders. And so it goes.
@hammbannana1038 Жыл бұрын
This was a great film.
@user-fd7ex8vm6e9 күн бұрын
yeah, c.o. . I cant leave Vegas til I get that library science degree. gotm it.
@oaxaca9114 жыл бұрын
“He had just emptied his seminal vesicles into Valencia, had contributed his share of the green beret”
@mazeckenrode7 жыл бұрын
“Charlie Rose”, PBS, 19 Nov 1996
@emilram6 жыл бұрын
A+= Sirens of Titan, Breakfast of Champions and Slapstick. A= Timequake, cats cradle and slaughter house5.
@fabiobonetta54542 жыл бұрын
Legend
@esme86087 жыл бұрын
love you more and more and more, and more, and more and more and more.. see you soon. all my love
@caramason562 жыл бұрын
Awesome human 😊❤️☀️
@samuelirwin44613 жыл бұрын
Breaks my heart to hear he didn't rate slapstick higher. That book changed my life and I'll be eternally grateful
@maxryder9952 жыл бұрын
I read Slapstick in One Day my birthday Jan 13th..2004
@DENVERTZ0074 жыл бұрын
Μια σπανια συνεντευξη του συγγραφεα Κουρτ Βουνεγκαντ,σχετικα με το βιβλιο"Μητερα Νυχτα"το οποιο εγινε κινηματογραφικη ταινια με τον Νικ Νολτε,και που σε αυτη,υπογραφει μια απο τις καλυτερες του ερμηνειες,εστω και αν η ταινια οπως και το βιβλιο ειναι καπως..."αμφιλεγομενα"σχετικα με το θεμα που παρουσιαζουν:Τον ΑντιΕβραισμο.1:23:Μονο...3.000 δολλαρια(;)πηρε ο συγγραφεας για να το γραψει,και μαλιστα το εμπνευστηκε σε..."κοκτειλ παρτυ"(;)στο 1:30.2:36:Δεν το ηξερα οτι η "General Electric"ειχε οικονομικα συμφεροντα στην Ναζισιτκη Γερμανια.Φανταζομαι ομως,οτι και αλλες Αμερικανικες εταιριες,θα ειχαν συνεργασια με το...3ο Ραιχ,ετσι δεν ειναι κυριε Βοννεγκαντ;13:17:Μου αρεσει που ο Κουρτ Βοννεγκαντ,εμπνεεται και απο την...Λυσιστρατη του Αριστοφανη!Γενικα ενδιαφερουσα συνεντευξη...
@trentwilson75075 жыл бұрын
I can't stand Charlie Rose. He always interrupts his guests.
@geoffburton8222 жыл бұрын
I loved "Slapstick" !!!
@EMDrecs15 ай бұрын
Wrong, Hocus Pocus and Bluebeard are actually close to the top of my faves
@hahnfurst21952 жыл бұрын
"I figured out how to keep humanity from hurling itself off the cliff. To start, we're all going to post our favorite Rant(s) on 11-11 at 11:11. ~ xoxo Hahn Furst” #FLICKiT #HappyBirthdayKurt #HappyBirthdayFyodor #HappyBirthdayLeo
@Gurkengraeber118 жыл бұрын
das ding von hoboken ging gegen alle
@morganjones64012 ай бұрын
Anyone see this and think about what's going on today?
@yuelinli35273 жыл бұрын
it's much better than I did in college.... HAHAHAH
@ANobodiemyspace3 ай бұрын
i picture Mr Vonnegut on a walk, stopping, looking up and saying to himself - I am going to tell the truth to whom ever will listen. How preposterous.
@onepunch92034 жыл бұрын
I know he's a famous guy and I should know his name, but I don't. Who is the interviewer?
@stevegordon6952 жыл бұрын
Charlie Rose
@jimmeehan55567 жыл бұрын
Lord Haw Haw ( William Joyce) was Irish.
@anevilgoose10345 жыл бұрын
He was actually American with an irish background
@kevito6666 жыл бұрын
These are bizarrely padded suit jackets ...
@HonkyMonky3 жыл бұрын
These are the 90s very wierd to appreciate closes from this era in suits for exemple
@lennarthagen3638 Жыл бұрын
This guys name is Kurt.
@EcclyBV7 жыл бұрын
Ting-a-ling, you son of a bitch!
@millsixstudios Жыл бұрын
Charlie Rose not a match. Not here, not in most of his suave interviews that are carried by his brilliant guests. Charlie uses his arrogant face and gestures to want to compensate, but he only turns bullyish and dismissive. Bah. -- BUT KURT! Thanks for being you, thanks for everything.
@rabokarabekian409 Жыл бұрын
Hocus Pocus is often not appreciated for its unstated message. He gives a wide range of illustrations how we all trick ourselves into believing whatever we feel we want to believe. So from war ,to adultery, to wealthy entitlement, to contracting out our country, to whorehouses, to insanity, to bells, we are given examples to consider about the "Hey Presto" ploys we innately rely upon. For instance, Kurt's narrator described a rich guy on the college board who spoke Chinese if he wanted to impress people, as if ten million idiots in China couldn't do so. Another person would quote Shakespeare out of context. And the motto that fits today's world all too well, "The complicated futility of ignorance." And so it goes.
@Bongofurry Жыл бұрын
¿¿ I'm all in .
@charlie.something6 жыл бұрын
now that we know about charlie rose, kinda weird. rose is a child compared to vonnegut. tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly, man got to sit and wonder why, why, why?
@rikinshah7 жыл бұрын
"Alright...lets have an American" ...genius
@camronme9177 жыл бұрын
King Louis VIII relax, he's no hoosier
@isaactaylor55313 жыл бұрын
We need to make a Unicorn trap!!??....
@aaroncomo76317 жыл бұрын
Timequake was better than a B-
@MrWelfle6 жыл бұрын
Agreed! It's in my top 3 Vonnegut novels!
@rikinshah7 жыл бұрын
This nigga is an ARTIST
@jacobhartwell82117 жыл бұрын
Rikin Shah This nigga is most definitely an artist.
@Gurkengraeber118 жыл бұрын
his last interview ( ?)
@kevgh38697 жыл бұрын
No plenty of interviews after this one. He died in 2007.
@jacobhartwell82117 жыл бұрын
Rene Boenki This was 10 years before he died; there's plenty of other interviews.
@mikeglory91796 жыл бұрын
Kev G. So it goes
@JSTNtheWZRD3 жыл бұрын
Kilgore Trout 🐟 Goodbye Blue Mondays
@TrixieTrickx Жыл бұрын
very interesting, vonnegut was one of my favorate writers when I was in my teens I think it is very telling that he didn't mention female writers when he talked about hitting your prime at 55. A bit of a masoginist old f$%^ ain't he. or maybe I may be misreading it but he did come off like he only male mater... like female writers are not worth mentioning. I think i will write him into my next short story ...that should be fun
@alexanderacostaosorio11 ай бұрын
If you think that he had an obligation to address every inequality in the world then you're misreading him entirely.
@brunocoelho19595 жыл бұрын
That's definetely the worst interview Charlie Rose ever made. Such terrible questions. He'd should've read at least a bit about Vonnegut. WTF
@ericchristen2623 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, he finally got the recognition he deserved but for more than half his life he struggled to be heard. How many brilliant minds got rejected by the putrid trash that makes up the publishing industry?
@ChilliCheezdog2 жыл бұрын
7:55 Writers don't enjoy writing. I write short stories. I don't enjoy writing.
@ParappatheRapper Жыл бұрын
I find that writing is this very necessary and often irritating tool I use to express my feelings, or perhaps what I want others to feel from my point of view. The writing itself is actually quite irritating at times. I wish I could just take my thoughts and feelings and fling them at people and they just instantly understand me. Instead I have to explain using words, and craft an image solely around a common language which can so often lose so much of the nuance and detail in translation. Or you take it too far, and explain with such excruciating detail that nobody wants to suffer reading through it all. It's sort of a dreadful thing to have the need to write, especially if you're not all that gifted like me.
@ChilliCheezdog Жыл бұрын
@@ParappatheRapper Very well said. I shall leave you with the words of songwriter Neil Innes: "Ladies and gentlemen, I have suffered for many years as a result of my music. Now it's your turn."
@ParappatheRapper Жыл бұрын
@@ChilliCheezdog Gave me a good chuckle. Cheers.
@IssyIsCrazy7 жыл бұрын
I don't like this interviewer
@emmarose42346 жыл бұрын
IssyIsCrazy Charlie Rose is gross.
@charlie.something6 жыл бұрын
and now we know why
@brianhaggerty19946 жыл бұрын
IssyIsCrazy Rose says "but that's not me on the inside!"
@edwincamarena66976 жыл бұрын
He's entirely too aggressive. I always thought so, he tries to force the conversation in the direction he wants despite where the interviewee attempts to take it.
@neogauntlet10085 жыл бұрын
Same, he should have let kurt rap
@mr.t6142Ай бұрын
Vonnegut has been a big inspiration on my writing as an author. Please consider reading my novel. "Dashboard Daydream" By Thomas C. Stuhr A m a z o n. 💀
@joycekoch57465 жыл бұрын
Gerald Celente should have gotten the lead for Mother Night over NIck Nolte.
@plasticweapon2 жыл бұрын
who?!
@isaactaylor55313 жыл бұрын
His books were not promoted or displayed much in my high school in the 80s??..maybe would off givin us the wrong idea about things???... Us X-gen saw a lot of things trying to be X-out right in front of our FACES???... Truth cover-ups??... The kids need hear and understand what he's talking about... Laughing to understand life can bring tears to your eyes... It'll help U fix what needs to be fixed sometimes??... Bearable... Bare .. Yourself... Bare.. IT.. And become a bear... From poo to yogi to gentel Ben to the care bear ... Bear with me... We're just Barely legal?...
@flowerdoodle24385 жыл бұрын
Huh..He’s a much better writer than talker.
@adamazzalino52472 ай бұрын
This just reminds me Charlie Rose never knew how to shut the fuck up and listen.
@averycardosia24867 жыл бұрын
He thinks Tennessee Williams is greater than Eugene O'Neil. I disagree
@richardtofield99594 жыл бұрын
nice tshirt
@thewolf18015 жыл бұрын
WTH this gut looks like my English Professor lol
@Gurkengraeber118 жыл бұрын
+kilgore trout trauert
@user-nq9gz4xf7f Жыл бұрын
Charlie Rose has a very flippant almost aggressive style, almost seems disrespectful because his tone is so different than the authors. its very annoying but Vonnegut tolerates it. I guess because its promoting a movie and his book that the author is giving the interview and Charlie Rose is so abrupt and cursory in this interview. When is an interviewer not being alive when he is banned from his own tv show. Its a sad ending but maybe he was doing bad stuff when he wasnt interviewing. His persona here in the interview doesnt seem very agreeable.
@DeepfriedBabyАй бұрын
I hate Charlie Rose. He LOVES to interrupts guests.
@stepaushi6 ай бұрын
Charlie Rose's smirk and fake interest is annoying.