Hunter S. Thompson - and support thereof [Archive]

Danton

4th July 2003, 12:33

yes..we must celebrate the original outlaw journalist. Better late than never.....The proud highway...? I found it a little dull trawling through his personal correspondence it diluted the myth of the man somewhat....his collected gonzo pieces, gathered fiction and stream of conciousness bits like "Songs of the doomed" are a better bet....on Ratsafari's sound advice I began grappling with his autobiography yesterday "Kingdom of fear" shit there goes the weekend....his Bush baiting and church bashing have me in hysterical fits already...feel the fear...

"There may be filies on me and you but there are no flies on Jesus" - HST

Rastafari

4th July 2003, 15:01

Yeah, I have Fear and Loathing in America, 500 pages of personal letters and such, it was a long read, but still slightly enjoyable

canikickit

4th July 2003, 18:48

I read both the Proud Highway and Fear and Loathing in America, I enjoyed them both a great deal.

I know what you mean, Danton, some of the Proud Highway was a little dull, but I did find it interesting. His style of writing is very personal anyway, and each of his letters was like a little piece of journalism. Fear and Loathing is much better, I think, especially the correspondance with the guy who his Attorney (in Fear and Lothing in Las Vegas) was based on (I forget his real name).

I really enjoy his quest for a "fort", and piece of land where you can get away from all the bullshit.
I also admire the fact that he kept his letters in a stubborn belief that he'd somehow be famous enough for people to give a shit some day.

Hell's Angels is a great read, as his the Rum Diary, which I only read recently.

He has this amazing talent for describing the enormity of a society out of the blue. In the Rum Diary, he goes from a description of a mad piss up, to suddenly criticising the tourist industry's effects on Puerto Rico.

Rastafari

5th July 2003, 05:51

All of the Gonzo papers are the best, as well as The Great Shark Hunt and, of course, the Hell's Angels and Fear and Loathing

mentalbunny

6th July 2003, 12:26

Please can you add a list of his books to the reading list! I can't wait to get some of them, they sound great, thanks for the thread people!

Urban Rubble

8th July 2003, 02:50

Honestly, I thought Hells Angels got a bit boring in parts, but I love the rest of his stuff.

I'm reading the Rum Diaries right now, I think I've read just about everything else of his.

Rastafari

8th July 2003, 18:19

http://www.gonzo.org/books/index.html

Danton

10th July 2003, 10:13

The attorney, one of many Hunter used but a truly unique specimen was Oscar Acosta, a Chicano "brown power" affiliate portrayed brilliantly I thought in the film by Benicio del Toro, accurately or not I dont know or care
but bloody funny...

Yes CANI, he veer's from incoherent rambling into profound statements and wild prophesies which usually prove true.....A chapter in "Kingdom of fear" - The Lion & the Cadillac - had me in such hysteria yesterday on the train as to cause concern to my fellow commuters...

"WHACKO! Meet the sausage creature"

Rastafari

10th July 2003, 21:29

Yes. I just got finished with that chapter as well, oddly enough

"Song of the Sausage Creature"

I think the chapter I am on now is about the Grenada fiasco, but I am very tired and cannot remember

Rastafari

14th July 2003, 21:03

bump this sucker up!

Danton

15th July 2003, 15:08

Let's do that...

Hampton

15th July 2003, 19:01

http://www.student.smsu.edu/s/san232s/hardfunnypics/bumpmario.gif

Danton

18th July 2003, 10:11

Reading "Kingdom of fear" HST seemed to mention that on his trip to Havana he and Johnny Depp were making some kind of film, will this footage ever surface?

"Jesus hated bald pussy"

Danton

22nd September 2003, 12:58

And you people ignored me like I was an overexited child....

Sabocat

22nd September 2003, 13:31

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail
Screw Jack

Rastafari

22nd September 2003, 20:54

Sticky this topic-I compell you!!!

Urban Rubble

23rd September 2003, 03:54

I just bought this special edition of Fear and Loathing on DVD. It was $40, kind of extravagant, but worth it. There is some great "special features" stuff.

Rastafari

23rd September 2003, 13:06

Capitalists throw out the bait
We bite the hook

Just kidding, I'm starting to sound like Nagasaki. But "Special Edition," "New and Improved," and "Now with Lemon" are the three deadliest phrases a capitalist knows.

canikickit

23rd September 2003, 16:48

What special feratures are on it?

Alejandro C

24th September 2003, 09:47

i think he's talking about the critirion collection. i had to go to hell and back to get that, for some reason every store in my city orderd only one copy and they were all sold out at like 10 in the morning when i was done with class. i spent all day looking and finally got what i'm sure was the last copy at like 6 at night.

it's two disc.
the first one has the movie but with commentaries also. the commentaries are hunter; johnny and benny; gilliam. the hunter commentary is worth every penny of the 50 i paid for it.
the second disc has 2 parts- the film and the source
the film part has a short documentary called hunter goes to hollywood that was about hunters day on set. its pretty fucking choice. it's got the usual stuff too- storyboards, etc.
the second part has a really good documentary that was made in the 70's. its a BBC show that features hunter and ralph steadman traveling to L.V. from owl farms. this is the best shit on the second disc by far. thouh if you're expecting a crazy motherfucker like played in the movie you might be dissapointed. i wasn't, i was expecting hunter at his finest and it delivered. shit is awesome.
this second dvd also hunter talking about oscar, very good. it also has a video of oscar reading from his book- the brown buffalo. very interesting to actually see him, he looks nothing like that picture.
the criterion collections are usually good and this one didn't dissapoint. if you've got some extra money and can find it, i'm sure the rest of you would flip shit for these two dvds.
also the packaging is beautiful and the overall design of the dvd is great. it also comes with a short booklet that is hilarious. i'll copy some of it later.

canikickit

24th September 2003, 18:36

Sounds amazing, thanks Alejandro.

Danton

25th September 2003, 11:49

Youv'e come up trumps again Alejandro....Are you in advertising?
I would kill to get hold of Acosta's book...

Alejandro C

26th September 2003, 07:01

fuck, i hate advertising.
i'm going into politics.

in this country its the same things right?

Alejandro C

26th September 2003, 07:09

but speaking of advertising...

you are going to owe me one murder danton, because i have for you, for a limited time only:

not only brown buffalo

but, acosta's acclaimed political bombshell revolt of the cockroach people.

that's right both books for the low low price of just $20. you heard me right, for just a lousy twenty dollars you can get not one, but two gems from the man himself.

offer may not be available to some areas. void where prohibited. $20 price tag does not include shipping and handling which may cost you your pet turtle's first born child.

just visit amazon.com

Z he lives.

Urban Rubble

27th September 2003, 07:08

That's funny, because the DVD was lemon scented.

Or, uhhhhh, maybe it wasn't. Maybe I'm just drunk. But seriously, that special DVD was good shit. I reccomend buying it. Or maybe, I recommend buying it.

Vinny Rafarino

27th September 2003, 07:51

Originally posted by [email protected] 23 2003, 01:06 PM
Capitalists throw out the bait
We bite the hook

Just kidding, I'm starting to sound like Nagasaki. But "Special Edition," "New and Improved," and "Now with Lemon" are the three deadliest phrases a capitalist knows.
Don't forget the new advert poppin' up on everything now...EXTREME!

Rastafari

27th September 2003, 22:46

das ist sehr ganz genau
mein liebeste frau
Entlang ist gekommen Joao
und hat es alle weg gefickt! (damn german rhymes! I was almost there, too).

anyway, your exactly right RAF. You crazy bastard

Vinny Rafarino

28th September 2003, 00:24

I'm not crazy....I'm EXTREME!

Rastafari

28th September 2003, 01:15

Now you know why I'm not in Advertising!

Urban Rubble

30th September 2003, 02:51

As a skateboarder, I not only share your contempt for this Extreme bullshit, but I have it ten times as bad.

Read this, it's pretty funny.

[URL=http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=xtreme_bullshit[/URL]

Rastafari

30th September 2003, 03:06

so I guess you didn't like my advert then... :(

seriously though. This page is so goddam true.

Alejandro C

1st October 2003, 20:01

got a question for all you

is john ritter in Fear? i watched it the day after he died and right before the scene where duke leaves the first hotel i turned to my friend with eyes wide and said 'your boy john in about five' (we had been wearing t-shirts about ritter- mine said -osama killed john ritter 9-11-03, phase two is complete and then on the sleeves i wrote staytuned) but when he came on i couldn't tell if it was him and my friend called me a dumbass as usual and the other people at the party said it wasn't him. Is it? the guy that has the telegram for duke and says something about 'my manager mr. heem would like to meet you, nothing unusual, just a chat and a handshake he likes to meet all our big clients'

it would make me very happy if it was.

by the way i was watching that at a party with a bunch of people, mostly (white) girls who had never seen it before. they were terrified!

Urban Rubble

2nd October 2003, 02:00

I know what part you're talking about, but I can't picture the guy's face. I remember what he's wearing. I don't think it's Ritter though, I think I'd have noticed. I should know, I've watched that movie 3 times in the last 2 weeks.

The hitch hiker kid they pick up is Tobey Maguire, that kid that played Spider Man.

Rastafari

2nd October 2003, 03:00

yeh. That crazy fuck Gary Busey is the cop.

Alejandro C

2nd October 2003, 06:28

there's lots of cameos
camron diaz, vern troy, kerri russell, busey, maguire, hunter, cristina ricci, flea, lyle lovitz, and that guy that plays the judge though i can't remember his name. i guess lots of people wanted to be involved in that movie. i'll have to look at the credits i guess to see if ritter was one of them.
oh and L Ron bumquist of course that guys fucking cool.

Alejandro C

6th October 2003, 00:40

it wasn't jon ritter

and don't forget the new EXTREME HISTORY premiers on the history channel tonight.

Urban Rubble

6th October 2003, 02:41

Is that the show with Roger Daltrey from the WHo ?

Alejandro C

6th October 2003, 03:34

yes... can you believe that

Rastafari

9th October 2003, 22:28

hey... I bet if we keep filling this up with new and interesting HST topics they will Sticky it. But they, of course, I mean the new mods.

Danton

10th October 2003, 16:51

Fuck'em, we'll just keep dragging it up through the muck..
What's the senile old bastard up to now?

canikickit

12th October 2003, 02:08

I'm reading the Great Shark Hunt at the moment. Great stuff. Every time i'm reading through one of his books, there comes a time when I say to myself "this guy's my hero". He is my hero.

The only problem with it is the fact that I've no idea what he's talking about half the time. Primaries and New Hampshire and delegates and McGovern...what's a Tim Conway?

Rastafari

12th October 2003, 02:20

http://members.tripod.com/~CARIART/Tim_Conway.jpgTim Conway is a washed-up comedian

as for HST, I think a quote of yours works quite well:"That Crazy Fucker is an International Hero."

Hampton

12th October 2003, 05:37

Tim Conway washed up? That's Dorf you're talking about you sick fuck!

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000690OJ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Rastafari

12th October 2003, 15:22

I fucking hate dorf. My brother and my grandparents think its so funny, but its dumb as hell, Leonard.

Danton

21st October 2003, 19:50

It's slipping...

http://www.randomactsofgonzo.org/pages/3/index.htm

Urban Rubble

12th December 2003, 05:46

It's back.

So has anyone watched the documentary that is on the Criterion Collection DVD ? It's fucking great. Ralph Steadman travels around with Hunter and some guys from the BBC film them. I think it's from the early 80's, it's called "Hunter Goes to Hollywood". Seriously amazing shit. My favorite part is when Ralph asks Hunter why he does drugs, Hunter's reply was something like "I think it's better for me, you and really, the whole crew of us if sometimes I just relax and smoke a joint (except his reply was far more eloquent and funny) then it cuts to clips of him smoking joints and snorting coke behind the little thing they click when they say "action!".

Also when he spills his drink into the grass and jokingly goes into this rant about how he always rubs his ice cubes into clorophill (sp?) before drinking his whiskey.

Rastafari

13th December 2003, 04:29

did anybody ever see him that time he was on Conan? That'd kick ass.

Alejandro C

13th December 2003, 07:45

i've seen both the above mentioned.

rubble- i thought the best part of the that documentary was when hunter got bill murray and brian doyle-murray to do that rally for pardoning nixon. it wasnt' really laugh out loud funny, but there was something very cool about seeing those people do a mock political rally. it reminds me of that part in fear and loathing, hunter says 'there was the universal understanding that whatever we were doing was right, you could spark something anytime, anywhere' i liked it because they just got the idea and went out and did it. there are other scenes that you can really see the genious rolling around in that man's head. he talks as well as he writes, something rare. hes got a lot of anger too, or at least he did in those younger days. if you really watch him you can tell he fucking hated those bbc guys. he even threatens them a couple times, in that same scene with the chlorophil.

rasta- in my time stealing music on kazaa i have downloaded three video files. the last one i got was hunter on conan. i really think thats the finest hunter i've ever seen. he was in rare form that night. talking about those nikes! 'what i made these shoes' conan-no you didn't 'yeah, i made these! the firing range was classic too.
the first video i got was a radiohead video, but you'll never guess what the third video was!- fucking dahlre mehndi! dil te shurian! thought i'd mention that because its strange that you would name two of my three most obscure movie clips in as many days.

Urban Rubble

13th December 2003, 18:30

Yeah, you could tell he wasn't enjoying the BBC crew. My favorite is when he's hiding out in Hollywood. "If you bastards don't do something about this I'll be gone in 13 seconds". Then in the scene where he drops his ice cubes and he's talking about how he can't tell whether people want him to be Raoul Duke or Hunter. The guy says "well I only know you from your books", which Hunter takes offense to. The they guy says something about how he thinks him and Duke aren't that different and Hunter says "Jesus Christ... 2 times in a row". He seems really pissed. I don't really get why, I don't think that comment is all that far from the truth.

I'm going to download him off Conan right now. I love Conan O Brien, that man is a comic genius.

canikickit

20th December 2003, 23:57

I watched the bit on Conan - pretty funny stuff, but far too short. He didn't get the chance to talk about anything really.
I was somewhat surprised at how old and doddery he looked, but I guess that when you get old and doddery, you start looking that way.

Danton

22nd December 2003, 07:57

What is all this I've missed?
Hunters face is a concern, it's just not symmetrical..

Rastafari

1st January 2004, 07:12

Perhaps we should initiate a movement:

oh fuck, I forgot the rest of the mantra!

Urban Rubble

1st January 2004, 20:42

Perhaps we should initiate a movement: Storm Hunter Thompsons ranch crosses Christmas day ?

Rastafari

1st January 2004, 21:01

Danton

2nd January 2004, 09:34

ONTO STREET!

[email protected]

Rastafari

11th February 2004, 03:46

impossible to walk in this muck
no footing at all.

Danton

12th February 2004, 14:41

Tell me you brought those fucking golf shoes!

Rastafari

12th February 2004, 15:47

There he goes, one of God's own failed prototypes

Danton

12th February 2004, 15:58

One of these days I'll toss a fucking bomb in this place...

canikickit

12th February 2004, 19:56

{insert witty remark from when the attorney is talking on the phone in the resteraunt near the start (I can't remember the line)}

Who's this "Danton" guy anyway? That other guy left, and there's no way the other one would have given in. No way!

Rastafari

12th February 2004, 23:35

haha. Natty don't surf.

I don't know what's going on, man.
This guy is a NARC, i bet

Danton

13th February 2004, 12:03

Your crude jibes bare certain truths, the guerilla Danton was siezed by uniformed agents - fascists of some description and hauled off to good old Guantanamo bay FOR HARDCORE INTERROGATION and possible penetration - though this is speculation..

Well, he squealed like a cheerleader when they applied the electrodes to his 3 hairy nipples..

His cover was blown compadre's, I had no choice but to club him to death with his own rotten shoes - out of pity, they left him a quivering wreck the bastards, cowering in a pool of piss gibbering about Lizards..

Ah well, he left me his personal effects and his Commandantehood, and I am a reasonable man - my background in the vice squad should'nt worry you...

Tis a strange day in the catacombs indeed!

Rastafari

13th February 2004, 23:47

I love you, man.

"We are all slaves to the water," Skinner told me. "It is the last pure thing in the world."

Urban Rubble

14th February 2004, 19:26

Background in the Vice Squad ? That isn't supposed to worry me ?

FOR HARDCORE INTERROGATION and possible penetration - though this is speculation..

:lol:

Rastafari

18th February 2004, 01:33

sticky as the spider's web, baby

Rastafari

12th March 2004, 16:11

fucking A

Urban Rubble

13th March 2004, 02:29

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Xvall

13th March 2004, 05:47

Hell yes!

http://www.gonzo.org/books/gp/90/pix/typewrit2.jpg

He is most certainly THE WIN.

Rastafari

13th March 2004, 20:47

isn't that from one of the Songs of The Doomed Covers?

Danton

15th March 2004, 07:32

On my copy he's shooting a magnum or something at the blessed machine..
All in all that's my favourite book of his, I have though spilt on it's pages curry and other foodstuffs as well as ash, and my own jism - I need a new copy..

canikickit

15th March 2004, 07:48

Hunter S. Thompson is a regular writer for ESPN's Page Two internet column.

Wenty

15th March 2004, 13:02

I've read Hells Angels, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and the The Rum Diary (which is being turned into a movie soon). I also have Generation of Swine waiting to be read. He is a talented author well worth reading. If you like him and haven't yet discovered his inspirations check them out, i.e. the beat generation jack kerouac, allen ginsberg et al. All v. influential on me.

Alejandro C

16th March 2004, 04:04

One of the things i love most about HST's writings is the timeless character. If you read his writing from 40 years ago it sounds as fresh and inovative today as it must have been back then. also if you pick up any part of the second or third gonzo letters and read randomly a passage it is damn near accurate to what's going on today. for example i finished confessions of a politics junkie recently and all his talk about just getting bush the fuck out of office and not really caring about who takes his place/ then they realize what a creep clinton was and practically decide to give up on politics. that was tragically funny at a lot of parts. also nearly the same thing happens in the gonzo vol. II with nixon, they try so hard to get that half wit carter in, that they don't even no who he is; just what he isn't. Those parts are the short moments that i don't like hunter, but what the fuck, we all make mistakes.

oh yeah and i just read his trying to get rum diary made into a movie in 68, which is another perfect echo of this year. thats strange

Danton

16th March 2004, 13:31

That rum diary, it must be the bane of his life..

Rastafari

17th March 2004, 04:25

Originally posted by [email protected] 15 2004, 04:48 AM
Hunter S. Thompson is a regular writer for ESPN's Page Two internet column.
I wouldn't say "regular," but yeah. If you look at all of his picks, he is Horrible at betting on sports.

holy shit Danton, now I can start calling you Arthur Rock. I guess that whole penetration deal is over now.
Was it fun?

Danton

17th March 2004, 07:19

It was Arthur all along, he had me tied up in the basement in stress positions, force fed me peanut butter and cheese and made me listen to white noise 24/7, I think the white noise was RATM..??

Now I come back and find out the pricks been posting pictures and talking filth in my good name, the penetration was fine though..