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[Nov. 16th, 2009|07:04 pm] |
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I was sick for most of October, which only put me behind for half of November! Allrightey, what's on the menu today...
The Guardian takes a look back fifty years after the murder of the Clutter family.
Anonymous left a link to the Michael Hoppen Gallery which has a few pictures of HST that I haven't seen before. Love the self-portrait in the Great White Shark. Thanks Anon!
Speaking of Las Vegas, we went there recently! I'll have to write it up later. It was a mix of oooh and aahh and gosh, isn't the Circus Circus dumpy. I'd wager that there's very little left from 1971 these days.
Bloombury Auctions recently had a self-portrait of HST that went unsold. To be honest, it looks more like a doodle than anything.
Gadfly Marty Beckerman )(![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) martybeckerman) recently had a story published by Salon called "Hi, I'm Marty, and I'm a recovering Republican". Besides writing many a fine book, Marty also once interviewed HST.
Anonymous2 also asks: Have you heard the song "Human" by The Killers that apparently quotes Hunter? Something about raising a generation of dancers. It sounds like Hunter but I wasn't able to find the exact quote online.
Why no, I haven't heard that song. Wikipedia mentions the HST reference, but doesn't really expound on where it came from. Personally, I can't think of it...but then half the time I can't think of where my glasses either. I seem to suffer lately from some sort of pre-middle age brain fog. Anyone out there that has an idea? |
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| Tap Tap Tap |
[Aug. 26th, 2009|08:47 pm] |
Is this thing still on? :-) Openbooks left me their link to a copy of FLLV that is signed by HST, Johnny Depp *and* Laila Nabulsi! I can't believe the low price it's sitting at. If we just didn't have some home repairs done, I would probably spring for it...but I'm sure there are snipers waiting in the wings for the end. Sadly, my collecting days are so over. I have added hardly a model horse to my collection this year either. Thanks for the tip pal! |
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| It's a Sonny Barger movie |
[Jun. 20th, 2009|06:31 am] |
Believe it or not, the TGTH Update alert still exists in this day of Twitter, and I'm glad for it. As soon as I sent out an update the other day, I heard that it wasn't actually an HST Hell's Angels movie in the works. This blog post tells that it's going to about Sonny Barger, perhaps more autobiographical in nature.
What else is in the news bag...well, if you haven't seen Johnny Depp's smiling mug on the recent issue of Vanity Fair, go get one :-) It's still on Canadian newsstands anyway.
A blog is calling to boycott the Rum Diary movie. Unfortunately the blog turns up blank in either browser I use (here's the link) but I was able to find this description:
Normally I'd admire Depp's dedication to the legacy of his friend Hunter Thompson, a luminary of 20th century U.S. literature. I'd also celebrate Thompson's off-the-hook journalistic style and jaundiced political eye. I hardly miss the point that Thompson presents himself and his colleagues as degenerates, but that doesn't justify a completely degenerate portrait of Puerto Rico, especially considering such views– often linked to imperialist notions ...
The trouble with all art, be it written or visual, is that it's a product of its time and place. I'm readily learning that from the second year art history class I'm taking. Would you believe that European intellectuals had crazy apocalyptic notions about World War 1? They thought it would have a cleansing effect, and I suppose it did, as many an artist was cleansed...but that's not something they teach you in high school :-) |
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| Couple artsy things |
[Jun. 4th, 2009|06:48 am] |
While trying to find the artist behind some bird banners flying on Calgary's bridges, I discovered that she also does fantastic portraits. Check out her and scroll down a little bit to find HST's.
Another portrait can be found on Etsy by Nathan Manire. I'm not sure about the disembodied fingers, but OK. Etsy is like an eBay for handmade items and crafts, and amongst the cowls and Scrabble pendants, there are often truly original things like this. In fact, a search for "Hunter S. Thompson" on Etsy pulls up more cheap than unique actually. I never know how to feel about people that grab an image off the web, tweak it a little and then sell it to put it on a hoodie :S Why not at least use it for reference and make something more original like Nathan? 10 years ago my attitude would have been a little different, oddly enough. |
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| Gonzo news round-up! |
[May. 27th, 2009|08:46 pm] |
Due to problems with my ISP, a bunch of things piled up. Ah, who I am kidding? Everything piles up around here and an online quiz confirmed that I'm a piler, not a filer!
According to this short article Johnny Depp wants a beer belly as an old fogey; it mentions that he is currently on location shooting The Rum Diary and that it will be released in 2010.
Woody Creek now has a community centre.
This past weekend the Etowah Youth Orchestra performed Mike Gagliardo’s tribute to HST, titled "Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die". |
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| Make your own Rum Diary Google Alert |
[Apr. 6th, 2009|10:02 pm] |
So it's looks like there's lots of buzz about The Rum Diary movie right now. I have no idea how it's going to ebb and flow, but you can keep on top of all the chatter with a Google Alert. I usually only pick out notable articles and links to post here, but some people just like to be on the main nerve!
It's easy to create your own alerts - just go to Google Alerts and fill out some parameters such as frequency and your email address. You can then create a rule in your mail software to funnel them as well! Thank you Google, for making life easy peasy like that :-) |
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| Gonzo link round-up! |
[Apr. 4th, 2009|05:55 am] |
This is so long overdue, but the weather we've been having is exhausting. Double exhausting since I slipped and fell a week ago and, well, I must have the back of an 80 year old ;-)
The NYT's Proof Blog has an interesting story called My Fantasy Relapse, where Sacha Z. Scoblic writes about a fantasy of meeting HST.
Apparently The Rum Diary has started principal photography according to this press release. Here's a brief note about Amaury Nolasco joining the cast.
I'm still trying to decide if this is a wee early April Fool's joke...but the Colorado NORML branch is offering $1000 to an attorney to attend an Aspen legal seminar in June.
There's another new book about HST out called Hunter S. Thompson: An Insider's View of Deranged, Depraved, Drugged Out Brilliance. This was really not on my radar but you can read a review here and here.
It looks like HST is also included in a new anthology about Nevada called (drumroll) Literary Nevada. The excerpt is from FLLV, but don't forget that HST also wrote "Fear and Loathing in Elko" back in 1992. Elko, Nevada is the cowboy poetry capital, IIRC.
And lastly, William McKeen, author many books on journalism and HST, has a book blog! |
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| This and that |
[Mar. 5th, 2009|08:14 am] |
For a while I have been reading stories like this one about Annie Leibovitz going broke and putting up her work as collateral for a loan. This morning Salon revealed that the financial woes are due to either a "gay tax" or, as the letters suggest, an estate tax from inheriting properties from Susan Sontag. It would really be a shame for her to lose control of her work :\
Here's an odd nut of news - apparently Louisville natives are appearing on billboards all over town, but one reader (scroll down) would like to know why HST has been apparently omitted from this honour. |
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| Sounds like a bad trip! |
[Feb. 17th, 2009|09:43 pm] |
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I love reading Consumerist, which has a story about one man's horrible experience with a smoking cessation drug called Chantix. From the linked story:
By night four, my dreams began to take on characteristics of a David Cronenberg movie. Every time I'd drift off, I'd dream that an invisible, malevolent entity was emanating from my air conditioner, which seemed to be rattling even more than usual. I'd nap for twenty minutes or so before bolting awake with an involuntary gasp. I had the uneasy sense that I wasn't alone.
I smoked a cigarette, then tried going back to sleep. But each time I started napping, I'd dream that something increasingly ominous—carbon monoxide? Vampires?—was sucking vital essence out of me. Soon the clock on my desk read 3:20 a.m.
The most unsettling thing about sleeping on Chantix is that I never felt like I was truly asleep. Some part of me remained on guard. It was more like lucid dreaming, what I thought it might feel like to be hypnotized. And it didn't entirely go away come morning. As I showered, shaved, and scrambled into clothes, I tried to shake a weird, paranoid sense that I'd just been psychically raped by a household appliance.
That appliance sounds a little familiar (SFW). |
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| News News News |
[Feb. 11th, 2009|09:16 am] |
Do Ann Coulter and HST have a lot in common? This essayist thinks so.
Amber Heard is going to be cast as Chenault in the movie version of The Rum Diary according to this article and this one. Try using Google News to find more stories about the casting.
Lastly, author and roustabout Marty Beckerman is on the radar with a recent online interview.
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