Hunter S. Thompson

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:22 am

Shot himself

Sort of news you don't want to hear on Monday morning. Pretty weird and sad. Will be raising a drink to him later.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:37 am

Sad news indeed.

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:21 pm

'Weird and sad' is a good phrase for what I felt like on hearing this news as well.

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 in particular is a book that I try to keep within easy reach.

shaxper · Post by **shaxper** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:47 pm

Not Hunter!

Is he dead?

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:49 pm

shaxper wrote:Not Hunter!

Is he dead?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainmen ... 282865.stm

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:50 pm

shaxper wrote:Not Hunter!

Is he dead?

Yes, he shot himself in the head.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/boo ... pson.obit/

shaxper · Post by **shaxper** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:21 pm

My wife and I were just talking about him two days ago. Funny how that happens.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:22 pm

shaxper wrote:My wife and I were just talking about him two days ago. Funny how that happens.

Oh...

That must feel pretty weird.

shaxper · Post by **shaxper** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:33 pm

It seems to happen a lot with me. Back in high school, my friend and I randomly sang Ella Fitzgerald songs in school all day (don't ask), and we later found out that she died that day.

There are other examples too, but I can't think of them at the moment. Maybe I have a morbid mutant ability?

Any John · Post by **Any John** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:39 pm

hell he prolly took so many drugs he didnt know what he was doing lol

but I read he used to carry a Magnum in case ne1 tryed to rob or attack him maybe taht was it

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 4:01 pm

Now I get it. It's that guy who invented that different sorta journalism, the one that doesn't rely on facts, but on the personal experiences of the author.

Heard he got his teath kicked out by the hells angels once, and wrote a book about it, "sad saga of the hells angels" or some complicated title like that.

I believe the brilliant Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas is based upon one of his memoirs?

shaxper · Post by **shaxper** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 4:03 pm

Predabot wrote: I believe the brilliant Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas is based upon one of his memoirs?

It's a movie adaptation of the memoir by the same name.

There was also an earlier film based on one of his memoirs starring Bill Murray as Hunter. I think it was called Where The Buffalo Roam, or something to that effect.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 4:03 pm

Yeah F&L in LV was based on the excellent book of the same name, and Johnny Depp is supposed to be playing Hunter again in the Rum Diaries soon. F&L is one of my favourite movies of all time, apparently based on a true story though Hunter himself later admitted that he had made some of it up.

IronHide · Post by **IronHide** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:31 pm

Tis sad news indeed...

His books were so awesome. Trippy, but awesome.

Post by **Denyer** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:12 pm

Trippy and awesome ... words can be more a drug than most drugs.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 7:42 am

Which do you think is Hunters best book?

Ultimate Weapon · Post by **Ultimate Weapon** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:27 am

I have been wearing a Hunter Thompson pin on my jacket 2 weeks prior. This totally ******* sucks!

Post by **Denyer** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:28 am

My favourite is Songs of the Doomed. Best I couldn't say, because I haven't read all of them yet. SotD has a little from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s—I'd advise skipping the 50s bit in particular and reading The Great Shark Hunt for early life recollections, but otherwise it's a good overview volume.

Death's Head · Post by **Death's Head** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:17 pm

I thought he'd go on forever, posessed by the twin spirits of Peacock and Truth, and powered by the fuel of Wild Turkey and fine cocaine, spitting the Truth into the atmosphere for it to disseminate into our synapse gaps like a fine, poisonous mist.

Freak power.

Post by **Denyer** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:52 pm

I've actually been expecting the news since I read the back cover copy on SotD and assumed that it was out-of-date by that time and he was already dead, then discovered it wasn't.

"It is nice to think of him, naked on his porch in Colorado, drinking Wild Turkey and shooting at rocks. Somewhere, beyond John Denver, he smells injustice. Scales grow on his torso; wings sprout on his feet." —John Leonard

And that's how I'll continue to think of him.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 1:07 pm

never heard of him

Post by **Denyer** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 2:33 pm

Wrong country and era. Read him if you want to know what America was like before and during the rot. Or just love words.

IronHide · Post by **IronHide** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 3:11 pm

Personally I liked Fear and Loathing and Better than Sex.

Songs of the Doomed was a alright....

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:41 pm

I wasn't surprised that he died, but I was quite surprised that he shot himself.

This past Halloween, I had a friend who dressed up as Hunter S. Fool shaved a receeding hairline into his head.

Death's Head · Post by **Death's Head** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 2:32 pm

I dress as him regularly, since I share his fondness for flowery shirts and aviator sunglasses.

The Great Shark Hunt is a mammoth read (I still haven't finished it) but by God it's good.

Ultimate Weapon · Post by **Ultimate Weapon** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 7:30 pm

NOTE ON HUNTER THOMPSON'S DEATH

MARCH 2, 2005. I have no way of knowing how serious and accurate this snip is. It comes from an article in the Globe and Mail. To get the whole piece, you need to subscribe.

However, place along side this little piece the reports that Thompson shot and killed himself while he was on the phone talking to his wife. Many people have found that more than odd.

Alexander Pope in a prose convertible
By PAUL WILLIAM ROBERTS
Saturday, February 26, 2005, Page F9
Hunter telephoned me on Feb. 19, the night before his death. He sounded scared. It wasn't always easy to understand what he said, particularly over the phone, he mumbled, yet when there was something he really wanted you to understand, you did. He'd been working on a story about the World Trade Center attacks and had stumbled across what he felt was hard evidence showing the towers had been brought down not by the airplanes that flew into them but by explosive charges set off in their foundations. Now he thought someone was out to stop him publishing it: "They're gonna make it look like suicide," he said. "I know how these bastards think . . ."

end of Globe and Mail snip

Post by **Denyer** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:39 pm

Opportunistic ****s playing off existing interview material.

http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.asp?id=287

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 10:19 pm

Great interview.