Hunter S. Thompson

WITCHMAN666420 · 10-04-2010, 04:12 PM

Hunter S. Thompson The man, The Legend.
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wellfleation · 10-04-2010, 04:47 PM

My REAL e-mail sig:
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me".
Hunter S. Thompson

wellfleation · 10-04-2010, 04:47 PM

I think I ripped that off from a member here, actually.

So kill me.

maszac · 10-04-2010, 04:54 PM

bang

**SageTree** · 10-04-2010, 05:03 PM

We were some where in the middle of this thread when the drugs began to take hold!!!

Man in Black · 10-04-2010, 05:08 PM

who?

Waves · 10-04-2010, 05:12 PM

hunter was a great communicator. within himself, with others, with the pen, that dude knew himself and his convictions and held to them in a way that most people wish they could, deep down within themselves. sort of a devil-may-care attitude, except he genuinely did care and love what he was doing. i think thats sort of an attitude most people are scared to adapt due to the actual experiences that it would lead to. its scary and difficult to genuinely get out in the world and grow as a person. hunter faced the world with the attitude of some mad scientist, and its fascinating to read his work and get a glimpse inside his gonzo mind.

tl, dr: cool bro, that hunter.

Grieves · 10-04-2010, 11:27 PM

I always liked the dude until I found out about his love of professional football and that he was an guest analyst for espn up until the end then I knew he had no equal...

hijabihippie · 10-05-2010, 06:20 AM

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. A classic that will edure forever.

adventure · 10-05-2010, 06:49 AM

you might be up for the come back kid award

hijabihippie · 10-05-2010, 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Waves

hunter was a great communicator. within himself, with others, with the pen, that dude knew himself and his convictions and held to them in a way that most people wish they could, deep down within themselves. sort of a devil-may-care attitude, except he genuinely did care and love what he was doing. i think thats sort of an attitude most people are scared to adapt due to the actual experiences that it would lead to. its scary and difficult to genuinely get out in the world and grow as a person. hunter faced the world with the attitude of some mad scientist, and its fascinating to read his work and get a glimpse inside his gonzo mind.

tl, dr: cool bro, that hunter.

The film Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson does a nice job of that too. If my memory serves me, Johnny Depp lived with Dr. Thompson while making it. I remember seeing a GREAT picture of Thompson cutting Depp's hair to get him ready for filming.

José · 10-05-2010, 11:24 AM

I do appreciate his work, but I can't respect anyone who kill themselves. That's just the pussy way out. I mean I realize he had a lot of health problems, but still. Did drugs have anything to do with his health problems? I'd guess probably...

Qui-Bong Jinn · 10-05-2010, 11:59 AM

the fuck is Hunter S. Thompson?

SmokeaJoint · 10-05-2010, 12:18 PM

^Foul! :redflag:

Hunter S Thompson is the shit. Fear and Loathing was the first I had heard of him, dude was pretty amazing!

hijabihippie · 10-05-2010, 03:41 PM

What other books of his have you read?

Waves · 10-05-2010, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by SpankyMcLankey

I do appreciate his work, but I can't respect anyone who kill themselves. That's just the pussy way out. I mean I realize he had a lot of health problems, but still. Did drugs have anything to do with his health problems? I'd guess probably...

i see it the opposite. the pussy way out is letting yourself rot and suffer in some third rate nursing home for 20 odd years until you kick the bucket, scared of death and wondering what the fuck is going to happen to you when you finally do go. like waiting in line for the ultimate rollercoaster. he was also a guy who battled with depression his entire life and of course the drugs were his way of coping and shit.

i think hunter, through his experimentation with psychedelics, was convinced, as i am, that death isnt the end and that it is very much his choice as a living conscious being not only when hes born, but when he goes. he had been on the rollercoaster many times already. its just a matter of hes done here, hes done all hes come here to do, the world is going to shit, hes getting too old for his pleasure of drugging and fucking and living life, and hes just like "alright im ready."

its the same reason i hold a deep respect for doc kevorkian and the incredibly brave patients who choose to use his services.

i watched that particular documentary that someone posted and hearing from his relatives it was something that everyone actually expected from him for awhile and when it did happen they were just like "yep, thats hunter, alright. had to go out with a bang." he didnt leave any family stranded without money, they will be taken care of the rest of their lives and their childrens lives, and he left behind a legacy that only a small small number of people will achieve.

i hate to get preachy i just think hes one of the better minds of our time and i dont think he was a pussy at all. the dude was on 'the next level.'

**SageTree** · 10-05-2010, 05:09 PM

Beautiful.....

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Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era — the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run . . . but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant. . . .
History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time — and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights — or very early mornings — when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour wearing L. L. Bean shorts and a Butte sheepherder's jacket . . . booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland and Berkeley and Richmond, not quite sure which turn-off to take when I got to the other end (always stalling at the toll-gate, too twisted to find neutral while I fumbled for change) . . . but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that. . . .

YouTube - the wave speech

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .

And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting — on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark — that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

Roach · 10-05-2010, 05:32 PM

He could write while tripping.

big woot.

Cheech and Chong have more memorable quotes.

Tommy Chong did acid when it was just called, "hey try this".

José · 10-05-2010, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Waves

i see it the opposite. the pussy way out is letting yourself rot and suffer in some third rate nursing home for 20 odd years until you kick the bucket, scared of death and wondering what the fuck is going to happen to you when you finally do go. like waiting in line for the ultimate rollercoaster. he was also a guy who battled with depression his entire life and of course the drugs were his way of coping and shit.

I just feel like all the drugs he did and lack of exercise put him in a position that he felt he had no other choice. After looking at this thread late last night I was watching interviews of him. His health really declined the last 5 years of his life. I just can't come to appreciate that lifestyle. Like I said, I appreciate the things he accomplished as a journalist and a writer. I just can't appreciate his lifestyle choice, that's all. Exercise is a way to decrease what is called, terminal decline. It's the last years of your life and the cognitive decline.

If you stay in shape throughout your life it is strategy to not only stay healthy and live longer, but also to decrease the length span of terminal decline.

kitch · 10-05-2010, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by wellfleation

I think I ripped that off from a member here, actually.

So kill me.

that was me.

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Waves Duderino Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: chiburbs Posts: 15,405 Thanks: 991 Thanked 4,036 Times in 2,224 Posts	hunter was a great communicator. within himself, with others, with the pen, that dude knew himself and his convictions and held to them in a way that most people wish they could, deep down within themselves. sort of a devil-may-care attitude, except he genuinely did care and love what he was doing. i think thats sort of an attitude most people are scared to adapt due to the actual experiences that it would lead to. its scary and difficult to genuinely get out in the world and grow as a person. hunter faced the world with the attitude of some mad scientist, and its fascinating to read his work and get a glimpse inside his gonzo mind. tl, dr: cool bro, that hunter. __________________ On this life that we call home The years go fast and the days go so slow

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Grieves The Worst Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Interstate 8 Posts: 12,084 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 2,569 Thanked 3,114 Times in 1,709 Posts	I always liked the dude until I found out about his love of professional football and that he was an guest analyst for espn up until the end then I knew he had no equal... __________________ "And no matter what they said dollar is not your friend and it's the feelings that are hard to know are the feelings that all come slow No matter what they said dollar is not your friend and these feelings that so hard to know are the feelings that wont let go No don't let go, till you find a home World Unite and I'll love you forever"

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hijabihippie YaHookan Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,481 Thanks: 1,152 Thanked 655 Times in 515 Posts	Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. A classic that will edure forever.

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Qui-Bong Jinn Jedi High Council Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Kingston, Ontario Posts: 2,127 Thanks: 907 Thanked 497 Times in 369 Posts	the fuck is Hunter S. Thompson?

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hijabihippie YaHookan Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,481 Thanks: 1,152 Thanked 655 Times in 515 Posts	What other books of his have you read?

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Roach Victoria Aut Mors Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 7,182 Thanks: 2,372 Thanked 1,984 Times in 1,507 Posts	He could write while tripping. big woot. Cheech and Chong have more memorable quotes. Tommy Chong did acid when it was just called, "hey try this". __________________ לזיין את הקופים

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