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The godfather of gonzo journalism, Hunter Thompson, is dead.
PostPosted:Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:51 am
by Shellie
PostPosted:Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:11 am
by SineSwiper
Oh man. The guy was a legend. A true hero to how journalism should be: raw, truthful, and gonzo. His writing was starting to wane, but seems like a bad way to go.
PostPosted:Wed Feb 23, 2005 12:21 am
by Nev
i saw fear and loathing in las vegas and couldn't finish it because it looked so strange and out there. maybe i should give it another shot.
PostPosted:Wed Feb 23, 2005 2:04 am
by SineSwiper
The book is really good, but I think both medium have their good qualities. (Despite a book's detail, you can't really grasp your head around visuals of the situations. Gilliam did a great job with that.) The movie shifts events here and there (it's sorta like an acid-trip of the book) and it had to end it a little short, but overall it captured the spirit of the book.
Of course, the man isn't about doing drugs all day. Though the amount of drugs and things he got away with are staggering, he'd just be another Cheech or Chong or Timothy Leary if thats all he did. He's very good at getting into the depth of a situation, analyzing it, being a part of it, and exploring the reasons why it exists. Hell's Angels is a good example of this, and it's a very good read.
PostPosted:Fri Feb 25, 2005 2:17 am
by SineSwiper
PostPosted:Fri Feb 25, 2005 5:40 am
by Torgo
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=1992213
This is interesting. It's last column, which was about converstions he had with Bill Murray on "Shotgun Golf."
PostPosted:Fri Feb 25, 2005 8:08 am
by SineSwiper
Murray had played him in "Where the Buffalo Roam", though I haven't seen it because I heard that the movie wasn't that good. I might need to check it out anyway.
Depp was just too much like HST in F&L, though.
PostPosted:Fri Feb 25, 2005 8:00 pm
by Tortolia
I'm sure he had his reasons.
The one thing I can't reconcile is the fact he killed himself with his young grandson in the house. That's just all kinds of wrong, and I feel sorry for the poor kid.
PostPosted:Sat Feb 26, 2005 7:50 am
by SineSwiper
There was talk that the whole thing was planned for a long time. His son came to visit, since he normally didn't come there. His wife was at the gym at the time.
Another good article from LEO's editor (Louisville Eccentric Observer):
http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art ... 2/50223009
Very messed up coincidence
PostPosted:Tue Mar 01, 2005 7:34 pm
by ManaMan
I was in Colorado at the time when he killed himself, I was only about a 1/2 hour away from where he died (he was in Aspen, I was in Glenwood Springs). I think that he did it between 6-6:30PM, this was the exact same time that we were in Blockbuster and we saw a Hunter S. Thompson movie called "Where the Buffaloes Roam" starring Bill Murray... We had also been talking about HST earlier in the day.
A *very* odd coincidence! Then the next day we were walking through downtown Glenwood Springs and we saw an Aspen local paper that said "Hunter S. Thompson Dead", we were a bit weirded out. It's not like we talked about HST that much, if ever! and there we were talking about him and finding his movie within minutes of his death.
:shock: