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Hunter Thompson's Deathiversary today

limped to las vegas in a broke down Datsun b210, car died on the way, some richies picked me/us up, we did a boat load of coke and i gave them LSD, he let me drive and it was surreal, we never made it to LV, but they ended up taking me home,these folks had never seen morro bay,and they ended up staying for weeks, but the whole trip reminded me of one of his novels , wel ove you hunter, a gift to the world and a life changer
 


my favorite passage of his writing

"The edge, there is no honest way to explain it, because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others, the living, are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, then pulled back or slowed down. But the edge is still out there."
 
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My chest. First real tattoo ever.
 
May I ask what everyone respects him for the most?

His drug use? His antics? His writing? His lifestyle? His spirit?

For me his writing and spirit will always be why I love him. Everything else feels like a part of my own self that is sometimes a blessing but usually a curse.
 
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Negentropic said:
May I ask what everyone respects him for the most?

His drug use? His antics? His writing? His lifestyle? His spirit?
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His writing, first and foremost. He wrote with such intensity. And his spirit and lifestyle was quite captivating and entertaining.

I'm reading the Screw-jack collection tonight in his honor. Maybe I should do some drugs as well.
 
I think one of H.S.T.'s benefits (we can only tell so much nobody here met him), is that his spirit seemed to almost thrive on drugs, it fueled everything he was made for in this universe... or so it seemed.

I often wonder about the man behind the words.... behind the drugs...

I can write and become a totally different person. Alcohol certainly influences most of my own work. I noticed I write a lot differently when I'm sober. I wonder how much drugs influenced his work. I know he was probably both drunk and on coke for a lot of his work... I just wonder about HIM

I wonder who he really was. He had to put on that persona... Before his crazy persona he seemed like a totally normal guy. I think that's part of the mystery for me.

I really want to know who he was deep down.... because he certainly had a very unique mind and unique way of looking at the world through his writing.

I think he was a very smart man, who used drugs to both dull and create.

Genius and madness are nearly inseparable!
 
Hunter's daily routine:

3:00 p.m. rise

3:05 Chivas Regal with the morning papers, Dunhills

3:45 cocaine

3:50 another glass of Chivas, Dunhill

4:05 first cup of coffee, Dunhill

4:15 cocaine

4:16 orange juice, Dunhill

4:30 cocaine

4:54 cocaine

5:05 cocaine

5:11 coffee, Dunhills

5:30 more ice in the Chivas

5:45 cocaine, etc., etc.

6:00 grass to take the edge off the day

7:05 Woody Creek Tavern for lunch-Heineken, two margaritas, coleslaw, a taco salad, a double order of fried onion rings, carrot cake, ice cream, a bean fritter, Dunhills, another Heineken, cocaine, and for the ride home, a snow cone (a glass of shredded ice over which is poured three or four jiggers of Chivas)

9:00 starts snorting cocaine seriously

10:00 drops acid

11:00 Chartreuse, cocaine, grass

11:30 cocaine, etc, etc.

12:00 midnight, Hunter S. Thompson is ready to write

12:05-6:00 a.m. Chartreuse, cocaine, grass, Chivas, coffee, Heineken, clove cigarettes, grapefruit, Dunhills, orange juice, gin, continuous pornographic movies.

6:00 the hot tub-champagne, Dove Bars, fettuccine Alfredo

8:00 Halcyon

8:20 sleep

I just love this:
"9:00 starts snorting cocaine seriously"
 
And I agree @Negentropic - I wonder who he was, off the drugs and without hiding behind his work.

I definitely notice a difference in my writing whether I'm on or off drugs. The one thing I miss about being sober is the productivity drugs gave me.
 
He was a raging alcoholic all the time.

Did you guys know that he once accidentally shot his assistant (a woman) and then claimed to be aiming at a bear that was behind her that she never saw? Lol.

I once fired a shotgun indoors, in the direction of people I cared about, at a shadow person. I completely disintegrated a fan and one of the pellets ricocheted off the floor and hit my buddy in the leg. It didn't break the skin though. Lol.

Thank God no one was seriously injured other than the fan. MDPV is a bitch!
 
Fire&Water said:
I bet they were all your
fan afterwards
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Haha, no. Actually they were pretty pissed. I dunno if you've ever heard or seen a shotgun go off indoors before but it's extremely loud. Scared the shit out of my female friend especially.
 
Hunter Thompson and myself are from the same hometown. Actually in one of his books he wrote about attending sunday night youth groups as a teenager at a church that I attended for 12 years. I thought that was pretty cool when I read it.

I never went to the Sunday night youth groups only Sunday school.

My cousin used to own a house down the street from where Hunter grew up right near Cherokee Park.
 


he sounds drunk/high as hell but still good, just to hear it in his voice, once he gets going...

you can tell easily when his drunk mind vs his writing takes over in his voice, it's clear (around 2:00)

I wonder what age he was here in this recording, sounds later
 
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simstim said:
Hunter Thompson and myself are from the same hometown. Actually in one of his books he wrote about attending sunday night youth groups as a teenager at a church that I attended for 12 years. I thought that was pretty cool when I read it.

I never went to the Sunday night youth groups only Sunday school.

My cousin used to own a house down the street from where Hunter grew up right near Cherokee Park.
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It's just so funny how relatively straight-laced and preppy he purportedly was growing up. It really wasn't until F&LILV that he went full-on deviant.

simstim said:
He was a raging alcoholic all the time.

Did you guys know that he once accidentally shot his assistant (a woman) and then claimed to be aiming at a bear that was behind her that she never saw? Lol.

I once fired a shotgun indoors, in the direction of people I cared about, at a shadow person. I completely disintegrated a fan and one of the pellets ricocheted off the floor and hit my buddy in the leg. It didn't break the skin though. Lol.

Thank God no one was seriously injured other than the fan. MDPV is a bitch!
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Yep, this right here. He was wildly alcoholic most of his life, certainly from when he joined the airforce on.
Honestly, I think that his "legend" as a raging drug-fiend is overblown. If you read his whole corpus, the only works off the top of my head that are significantly about drug use are F&L and Hells Angels. It would be a shame for the Dr. to only be remembered as the guy with the briefcase full of drugs :)

Buy the ticket, take the ride.
 
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