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Post by John E. on Oct 11, 2017 10:32:10 GMT -7
In my list of top 5 favorite movies, but my girlfriend still won't watch it with me.. Any more Hunter S. Thompson fans here?
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Post by purpletele on Oct 11, 2017 11:03:07 GMT -7
In my list of top 5 favorite movies, but my girlfriend still won't watch it with me.. Any more Hunter S. Thompson fans here? I am a fan, I met him twice. It was right after he came back from a long fishing expedition in Kona. He wrote a book about that experience as well.
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Post by djcakadave on Oct 11, 2017 13:50:54 GMT -7
Read the book when I was.....oh never mind
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Post by John E. on Oct 11, 2017 14:15:27 GMT -7
In my list of top 5 favorite movies, but my girlfriend still won't watch it with me.. Any more Hunter S. Thompson fans here? I am a fan, I met him twice. It was right after he came back from a long fishing expedition in Kona. He wrote a book about that experience as well. I bet meeting him was interesting!
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Post by purpletele on Oct 11, 2017 17:42:31 GMT -7
I am a fan, I met him twice. It was right after he came back from a long fishing expedition in Kona. He wrote a book about that experience as well. I bet meeting him was interesting! It was very interesting to me. He is just like you imagine. He was quite pleasant to me both times. I had interesting questions. When end I saw him Berkeley you had to hold a flash light in your face so everyone had a freaky view of your face. The curse of Lono was the book he had just released. He liked my question and wanted to talk after the show. We had a drink and talked golf. He thought I had coke for some reason and keep asking me to show. I wasn't into coke and didn't have any, I don't think he believed me We invited him for golf at Tilden Park, he said he would show but didn't. it was fun to talk with him.
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Post by ME on Oct 12, 2017 3:37:24 GMT -7
I always found the books more interesting than the movies. I should try and watch them again. ME
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Post by nmz on Oct 12, 2017 4:15:44 GMT -7
Here! Where the Buffalo Roam is one of my favorite films. I never liked the J. Depp version of Hunter.
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Post by The Bad Poodle Experience on Oct 12, 2017 8:40:23 GMT -7
I first read Fear and Loathing in 10th grade. In 11th grade I worked at a convenience store that had The Great Shark Hunt and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail sitting on a paperback rack in the corner collecting dust. So, I bought and read those two and eventually read most of what he published. Huge fan. Lono was a great book, too.
I think the Gilliam version of the book is very well done and as close as you could probably come to depicting it on the big screen.
I've never done Vegas the way Hunter did but I think he had the right idea. I would never want to be too sober in that town.
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Post by ineedtherapy (Stuart) on Mar 13, 2019 21:23:19 GMT -7
I’ve met Depp, but not HST. Both are great fellow Kentuckians though! I’m more intrigued by HST than actually a fan.
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Post by jimmysmith on Mar 21, 2019 14:23:38 GMT -7
sure read his stuff years ago in high school,, over the years I felt he catapulted somewhere into a very dark side of life. met David Carradine one time in Tulsa in the early eighties, he was doing his Black Elk Speaks show. rather dark chap frankly, never met HT, but, frankly never wanted to. call me a square hillbilly, but I been around the block a few times and he struck me as the same sort of , well, I don't know, rumors about them both and their clandestine, so to speak.,activities have run rampant for quite a while. . so if this is negative for ya, just move to the next post,, ahem
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 16:51:30 GMT -7
Saw HST give a talk years ago in Chapel Hill--kind of a famous event. It was apparently a contractual deal that he had to have a fifth of Jack and a big water glass and a bucket of ice on a table next to the podium when he did an event. So he comes out and pours about half a glass of Jack and throws in a few ice cubes and starts to do his thing, which was pretty incoherent even to me, and I was probably just as toasted as he was. Then about twenty minutes in he stops, says "Excuse me for a second, be right back," and walks off-stage. A second or two later we hear the sound of a big metal exit door opening and closing, then a little after that we hear BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, and then he comes back and finishes his talk, the details of which escape me. So everybody's wondering what the hell he went out and did, and it turns out he'd walked outside the arena, pulled a big damn revolver out of a shoulder holster, and fired off a few rounds at the moon and stars, then came back in as if nothing had happened and picked up where he left off. So, I mean seriously--what's not to like?
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Post by purpletele on Mar 21, 2019 17:07:47 GMT -7
Saw HHT give a talk years ago in Chapel Hill--kind of a famous event. It was apparently a contractual deal that he had to have a fifth of Jack and a big water glass and a bucket of ice on a table next to the podium when he did an event. So he comes out and pours about half a glass of Jack and throws in a few ice cubes and starts to do his thing, which was pretty incoherent even to me, and I was probably just as toasted as he was. Then about twenty minutes in he stops, says "Excuse me for a second, be right back," and walks off-stage. A second or two later we hear the sound of a big metal exit door opening and closing, then a little after that we hear BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, and then he comes back and finishes his talk, the details of which escape me. So everybody's wondering what the hell he went out and did, and it turns out he'd walked outside the arena, pulled a big damn revolver out of a shoulder holster, and fired off a few rounds at the moon and stars, then came back in as if nothing had happened and picked up where he left off. So, I mean seriously--what's not to like? Look Familiar
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 17:09:43 GMT -7
Yup.
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Post by The Bad Poodle Experience on Mar 22, 2019 8:34:17 GMT -7
I read, absorbed and embraced a lot of HRT and Kerouac between the ages of 16 and 20 but i never had the self-destructive tendancies. I've always been drawn to "characters", while at the same time, keeping them at arms distance.
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