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- jaylarson0
awesome!
- robotron3k0
haute!
- The_CCG0
Picked myself up a nice photo of his at an opening for his AMMO book. Big fan...
- BattleAxe0
fucking A
- harlequino0
*gets into the ether
- going for a binge?TheBlueOne
- i hear there's nothing more depraved or irresponsibleharlequino
- don't forget to bring cash so people will let in where ever you gojaylarson
- *rev's up the sharkharlequino
- My attorney has advised me this is something we should start immediatelyTheBlueOne
- gonna need some Hawaiin shirts and a tape recorder (which is hard round up at 5pm on a Friday in Hollywood).harlequino
- harlequino0
Huh. It just occurred to me that if you shaved Ted Allen's (queer eye food guy) head, he'd look a lot like a young Dr. Gonzo.
http://www.tedallen.net/Photos.h…
- capn_ron0
I am so going to see that movie.
- BattleAxe0
I had to
- ********0
I can't even begin to explain how much I loved Hunter S. Thompson's work, and the way he lived life.
- i am with you. he makes me aspire to do more drugs.capn_ron
- Well, I meant from the kind of I don't take shit from nobody aspect and I do whatever the hell I want.********
- Despite popular belief I don't do any drugs outside of teh booze.********
- yeah, i hear you. I like that about him too. But I do appreciate his open drug policy.capn_ron
- ...long as you can make it work, it's all good.epigraph
- stoplying0
Nice! I'm down with that.
- TheBlueOne0
"The decline of the American Press has long been obvious, and my time is too valuable to waste in an effort to supply the 'man in the street' with his daily quota of clichés."
- Hunter S. Thompson, as related by William Kennedy
- capn_ron0
Ralph Steadman has the craziest (in a great way) art.
- That Self Portrait is thru a UV Damage Microscope actually.********
- That Self Portrait is thru a UV Damage Microscope actually.
- harlequino0
If you haven't, read his collections of letters. He rambles on as he would in real life, as opposed to a book (which aren't terribly far off anyway I realize). real gems.
- ********0
My one friend's friend who was living in Colorado at the time (the initial friend used to live there) found a stumbling, mumbling Jack Nicholson on the side of a road and picked him up.
"I got to get back to Thompson's" were his first words and was getting into the car without being asked - he would have gotten into a ball of fire if it stopped and looked like it was going to pick him up, hahah.
- Awesome.TheBlueOne
- I used to live outside of Aspen post college, waiting tables...at one of his fav resturants in Basalt. DespiteThe_CCG
- +1 for story contentphilipdrumman
- how great a place he had in history, he could barely talk... ever.The_CCG
- He asked me for grass in the middle of the restaurant after getting him a pint of Crown Royal, VERY LOUDLY.The_CCG
- Fescue?epigraph
- jaylarson0
I really want this book. But $200+ is a bit much.
- The_CCG0
Buy that book (above). Really beautiful, great design (http://smogdesign.com/ did it), and you get a nice print too.
And to top of off, the publisher (www.AMMObooks.com) are really great people.
- They have a Popular Edition outside of their Limited Edition.
:D********
- They have a Popular Edition outside of their Limited Edition.
- ********0
this is cool.... i also just noticed the new youtube player is embedded now.
- jaylarson0
Just got back from it. It opened here in MPLS on the 4th of July. Fitting. He is truly missed and needed.
- boobs0
I'm sorry, but Hunter S. was just another poor, depressed, sorry-assed, drug-addicted motherfucker.
The only good shit he did was written on speed. After his (brief!!) good period in the mid-1970s, he suffered a long, steady, boring decline. His early stuff (about the Hell's Angels, and all that) was utterly pedantic. His later stuff made no fucking sense at all. The middle period was sweet, but very, very short.
I feel sorry for the widow and family.
- you're an idiot. he was a genius.forcetwelve
- Do you have a movie boobs?TheBlueOne
- you are irrelevant.********
