Hunter s. Thompson

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Love gonzo journalism. Love HST. I have his quotes on my pc.

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. "

"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."

"In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: Not necessarily to Win, but mainly to keep from Losing Completely. "

"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity"

 

[Negative]

im a huge hst fan,,,i have read most of his book and think he was brillant writer... there was a documentary called "Breakfast With Hunter" that i have yet to see , anyone see it?

I saw part of an old BBC doc about him on youtube the other day, might be it . . . it was interesting, he was lamenting about how he could many times not be himself because people were expecting Duke (the main 'character' from the vegas book, for those that don't know) . . . I suspect that is the same problem lots of actors have with stupid people, lol . . .

 

[plurMONSTER]

I am still anxiously awating the film adaptation of The Rum Diary.

Yes! Glad someone mentioned it. His first work of fiction, adapted for the silver screen. Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Hartnett and Nick Nolte are set to star in the film. It is being directed by Del Toro, and is scheduled for a 2008 release. It's currently in pre-production. They are waiting for the third film in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series to wrap before filming "The Rum Diary".




Here, boy. Rent this car.

 

[EbowTheLetter]

Actually, I believe the Kemp character was in his early thirties. . .that will be the character Depp is playing. The Yeoman character, who was in his twenties, will be played by Josh Hartnett, if I recall correctly.

All you Hunter fans be sure to check out "The Joke's Over", Ralph Steadman's memoirs of his times with the Gonzo Journalist. It's out in October.

 

[sis4nh]

Hail HT

Something I found in my archives, related to HT so
I thought I'd share-strictly IMO. My ex husband really followed more closely than I, but it would've been impossible not to be affected.I think he was "a trip"


Yahnn Wenner talks to Charlie Rose about Hunter Thompson and he expresses the man as he knew him.
He says that HT wrote in such a stylistic fashion that he made thoughts come together like music.
I can interpret this in combination with what I knew from reading and reports of the man.
In my view I see HTs work and life like a never ending piece of art, a painting of the world according to Thompson.
Rich in stroke and color. Without strict form settling into it’s own unique swaggar. The abstract approach that just flowed into an expected delivery, yet not becoming conformity.
Just when you thought you knew where the story was going, it would wind and shift like smoke on the water and take you off into a seemingly, different direction. Gaining a new perspective and still coming to the same conclusion in the end.
Hunter always ended up where he wanted to go, he went there from many directions all along the same walk Such as his life culminated. He knew he was going to where he ended up, and he lived vibrantly and made his work a great visual and surrealistic adventure, that he had to share with the world, we had to be able to see the writing on the wall, and HT gave it to us like murals and graffiti. But I believe the truth that lie within that mosaic offering. My children have grown up to believe in that also
We learned in the HT expression to look beneath what’s apparent, to hear the music beneath the script.
To stand back from the din and see the world for what it is within the images a greater number may want us to see.
And further just a little more, to be able to scope our own opinions and speak our hearts and stretch our minds to share that which we see of the world with others, in such ways that it can be seen and heard and FELT.
Never will there be another HT
But the inspiration and the example has been well received.

 

[Obyron]

All you Hunter fans be sure to check out "The Joke's Over", Ralph Steadman's memoirs of his times with the Gonzo Journalist. It's out in October.

I'm re-reading the Gonzo Papers, and I'm laughing my ass off at an interview with HST about Steadman where he talks about getting him fucked out of his mind on psilocybin and putting him on a plane to NYC, and no one shows at the airport to pick him up, and things just get crazy from there. Steadman emphatically declares in a letter that he will never come back to America as long as HST is still there.

The day he committed suicide I hadn't heard the news. A good friend of mine from college-- actually the person who introduced me to HST way back when-- called me long distance out of the blue from 6 or 8 states away to break the news to me, not too long after it happened. He wanted to make sure I heard it from him, someone else who would understand the agony and sorrow of my inevitable reaction, rather than some other swine who'd toss it out as a piece of current events trivia.

I've read several threads here where people say they don't understand the fascination; that he just seemed like an irresponsible child of the 60s who did crazy shit and got away with it. If they don't get it I can't explain it to them, but I have to agree with the sentiment from the quote in the post above. Hunter lived his entire life like it was a piece of art. His writing was second to none. It shows you the absurdity of all the things the world takes so seriously, whether it's politics in his writings about Nixon, or high society in his coverage of the Kentucky Derby. He may not write the things he was sent to cover, but he wrote things that people need to read. In a way he reminded me of Puck from A Midsummer Night's Dream, and dismissing Puck as irresponsible and crazy misses the point of the character.

It'll be three years this February, and I still miss the guy. I can't help but smile every time I read something of his, or something that reminds me of his work. The world seemed like a more exciting place back when I knew he was still out there somewhere.

Rest in peace, man, and thanks so much for everything.