Didn't find a thread on him and thought he deserved one.
Rumor has it he didn't committ suicide, but was killed because he had uncovered the truth behind 9-11 and was going to expose it.
Didn't find a thread on him and thought he deserved one.
Rumor has it he didn't committ suicide, but was killed because he had uncovered the truth behind 9-11 and was going to expose it.
Interesting. I will look around and see if I find anything. Thanks for thinking of him.
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Here's an interview with Thompson where he discusses that very thing:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2002/09/03/1446451.php
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In 1970 Thompson ran for Sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado on the Freak Power ticket. He announced that he would spearhead several reforms:
- rename Aspen to "Fat City, Colorado"
- tear up the downtown streets and replace them with bike paths
- decriminalize drug possession
- decriminalize the sale of drugs (but only at cost)
- reintroduce the stocks for drug dealers working at profit
As the Republican sheriff he was running against sported a crew cut, Thompson shaved his head bald and referred to the other candidate as my long-haired opponent. Even so, he lost the election.
Scored a one-on-one interview with Richar Nixon, on the condition that they would only discuss football.
There have been two Hollywood attempts to turn Hunter's writings into movies. The first, Where the Buffalo Roam starring Bill Murray, was an astounding failure. However, it did have one unintended effect: in hanging around with Thompson for a while, it turned Murray into an unrepetant jerk for a good amount of time after production wrapped, affecting his relationship/interaction with the Saturday Night live production.
The second attempt, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, was more successful, with the efforts of Terry Gilliam and Johnny Depp providing a near-exact portrayal of the novel. "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."George W Bush once attended a Superbowl party hosted by Thompson, back in his cocaine days.
supposedyl there going to do "The rum Diaries" with Johnny Depp.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376136/
There's a great doc "Breakfast with Hunter" where among other things almost pulls a gun on the director of "Sid and Nancy" who was the first director attached to "Fear and Loathing" for suggesting that a portion of the flick should be animated.
I loove Fear & Loathing. One of my fave films.
Renowned Death Hag
never heard that rumor but if it is true, why is Rosie and Mr. Moore still walking the earth?Originally Posted by oranjuicejones
seems a bit far fetched to me, I think the guy just had nothing else to live for and BAM!!!! no more Hunter.
Last edited by Jason; 11-09-2007 at 12:05 PM.
I agree with you it's just a rumor, although this rumor says Hunter had the evidence to blow the case open and Rosie and Micheal are just running there mouths. There's also one that has something to do with Hunter helping to get young boys for sex slaves for Bohemium Grove, or making snuff fdilms there with kidnapped child sex slaves.
I don't know that he had nothing to live for he had a young wife was still writing was still relovant, I think he was just physically in too much pain from surgeries and drug use, and went with the ultimate pain killer. However he did tell his illustrator Ralph Steadman that he had no fear because he had an out he could always kill himself.
Renowned Death Hag
Having a young wife and all the external stuff in check doesn't really mean much... that's like saying... "he's gay? BUT HE IS MARRIED TO A WOMAN!!" (ya know?). I never heard of the sex slave stuff, if that is true then that can certainly be a reason but whatever the reason was he must have felt there was no fixing it.
A guy like this could also have felt he already accomplished what he had to... had some health issues and decided why deal with this crap.
Last edited by Jason; 11-10-2007 at 09:09 AM.
I just finished Hells Angels and am about to start on The Great Shark Hunt. He was an American original, that's for sure.
Renowned Death Hag
I loved Hells Angels. I think that would be a good movie for Depp to make.
Listen to Sonny Barger give the story of the BS. His point was to sell books. He in fact went to a few parties and spent some time in bars. To get in the deep with the 81's is not going to happen. Even new members don't get in that deep for a long while.
Renowned Death Hag
Wasn't he talking to his ex qife on the phone when he shot himself? And did they fire him out of a rocket as he requested? I think I read Johnny Depp was paying for the ceremony?
Nonetheless, the parties and road trips are fun to read about. No disrespect to Sonny or any HA (my best buddy growing up was a son of a HA), but Barger was Pissed the HA's didn't get a cut of the book sales.
Hunter S. Thompson realized that the party was over, and he couldn't deal with that. He needed to quit drinking and taking drugs because of his medical condition, and he wasn't up to the struggle.
Each of us has that day coming, the day when you realize that funtime is over. I remember that day myself, and it was mighty depressing, but I dealt with it and found other, more sedentary pursuits. Hunter S. Thompson defined himself by the party going on around him. He was not interested in finding more sedentary pursuits so he took his own life.
I remember being rather angry with him for being a coward, but when I read up on his medical condition I found that he was in a world of hurts, and unlikely to be able to pick up where he left off once his recovery was complete. Who am I to say he was a coward? His physical suffering and his prognosis wasn't pretty at all.
Well I am a proponent of Dr. Kivorkian, If you wanna end it all due to pain thats ok. Besides why let yourself be pimped by the doctors. A doctor once told me he hated working for a certain medical facility because they didnt pay him what he deserved. So I asked him, why dont you move to beverly hills, arent you good enough? He knew he wasnt. But ht blowing his brains out? ouch!
Last edited by disco; 11-11-2007 at 05:14 PM.
I don't believe that. I think he had just reached what he felt was his limit here on earth, and rather than drag it out, he took matters into his own hands.
Hunter S. Thompson had broken his leg almost a year before in a fall in Hawaii and it wasn't healing properly. He was in a wheelchair and was not expected to walk again without a walker. In addition, he apparently had spinal surgery after the broken leg.
Even though many others have managed to deal with these disabilities with grace, being trapped in a chair would not have set well with Hunter S. Thompson. I tend to look at my grandma's recovery from a broken hip as less cowardly than Hunter S. Thompson killing himself over the same basic issues, but then again, my grandma's lifestyle wasn't much inhibited by having to use the walker, as she was pretty old and didn't do much by then anyway. Hunter S. Thompson could no longer do most of the things he really loved. He couldn't handle the idea of watching life go by from the sidelines, and my grandma was already used to it. Also, my grandma was a heavy Catholic and would have been too afraid to consider offing herself, no matter how badly she was suffering. I can't really say that she was braver than Thompson in light of those facts.
yup, they blew his ashes into the atmosphere over woody creek... in august of 2005... johnny depp did pay for the funeral...
Other famous attendees at the funeral included U.S. Senator John Kerry and former U.S. Senator George McGovern; 60 Minutes correspondent Ed Bradley; actors Bill Murray (who portrayed Hunter S. Thompson in the movie Where the Buffalo Roam), Sean Penn and Josh Hartnett; singers Lyle Lovett and John Oates, The Poet Trip Lucid; and numerous other friends. An estimated 280 people attended the funeral. (wiki)
my son is a huge hunter s. thompson fan... we got our pix taken on the carousel bar in circus circus (an homage to F&LinLV movie). we also drove up to woody creek to see the cannon a few weeks before the funeral... we took a bunch of pix of the cannon. and woody creek... will see what i can find to post!
I just read the Vanity Fair article on Hunter and photos, what a dish, he was gorgous and wild and life must have been exeptional for him as he was exceptional. Ageing or death, what a choice!
I agree he was just not willing to accept that he had to live a diminished life with constant pain and decided to do as he always did...handle things his way
As to 9/11 proof ...I think that is a rumour
Renowned Death Hag
thanks mate. pics would be great if you can find them.
cheers
still looking for the cannon/woody creek pix... here is one of the two of us at the carousel bar in circus circus... his t-shirt says RIP HST..
one thing that shocked me about circus circus was the 100s of kids everywhere... i'd never take a kid into a casino... (of course my kid was 21!)
ok, here's the pix
here's the cannon, hunter's newspaper box with my son showing off his tat... the outside of woody creek tavern, where hunter hung out... and pic of the neighbors place, who accused him of poisoning their turkeys, or whatever they were!
this was a week or 2 before they shot off the cannon. we forgot our cameras so these were taken with a disposable from 7-11....
Last edited by susalu; 11-12-2007 at 08:14 PM.
Renowned Death Hag
thanks! wish i could've been there to see it in person but someone else's personal photo's are the next best thing. the one of the cannon from that distance comes across as spooky to me for some reason. i guess it's symbolic of it's raison d'etre
it was so cool... you could see the cannon for miles.... many residents of aspen/woody creek were really pissed off about it... it was an eyesore... they didn't want his ashes in the air, etc... this was his final fuck you!!
we went to the woody creek tavern before we drove out to the owl farm, and they have some cool ralph steadman art on the walls... also a lot of pix of celebs that went there with hunter... the waitresses are thrilled to talk about johnny depp coming in, etc...
when we were parked outside the owl farm, a couple people stopped and were talking... we started talking to them too... one of them was ibby ibbetson of the nitty gritty dirt band... he was a neighbor of hunter's and a good buddy... he was very nice and gave my son his solo cd... he carries a stash of cds around with him, i guess!! one of the few semi-famous people i have ever met...
sus
http://www.hunterthompsonfilms.com/index.php
Hunters personal assistant made three documentaries on him. All good. When I Die is about the cannon.
thanks man! i will tell my son about this one! Sus
well, i bought the 3 documentaries.... we watched one today, called "when i die" it's about the construction of the cannon... the particulars of how it was built, the politics of getting the town to allow it... but the coolest part of the whole thing is the actual shooting off of the fireworks and hunter's ashes... it was quite a production! and of course, seeing it stand after the memorial... (it was shrouded during most phases of the construction so that it would be a surprise to the attendees and the public.) thanks juice!
I read somewhere they shipped his ashes to the firework company to have them put into fireworks..and shipped back to owl farm in a armored truck.
The fist cannon is in storage somewhere now awaiting a place to go.
Jack Nicholson was his neighbor to...
here are some pics i found online
here is a link to a guy who had high tea at owl farm and made a lil video of pictures from inside the kitchen ..where hunter shot himself.
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2006/06/06/175/67872
here is a pic of hunter at his typewriter in his kitchen where he was found dead. you can see it in the video above to.
here is a video of the cannon going off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBWgwyaYd7s
and another of his house
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xifd_IZeGkc
Last edited by Helby; 11-24-2007 at 03:50 PM.
whoops, just found the thread.
Last edited by Lily_Aleister; 10-09-2008 at 07:32 PM.
Cult hero. Genius.
Renowned Death Hag
What a dumbass. And if he had anything to do with child sex slaves I'm glad he's dead. One less waste of space.
Death Hag Extraordinaire
There were many grandiose and far-fetched rumors about Thompson, and that was how he preferred it. I hardly think he was involved with anything illegal in that sense. A lot of what he said - and wrote - was with tongue firmly planted it cheek.
I recently reread 'Hell's Angels', too. Great book!
The most dangerous woman of all is the one who refuses to rely on your sword to save her because she carries her own.
- R.H. Sin
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 is also a great book...and I also love the Bill Murray movie about him...Where the Buffalo Roam.
Last edited by Seagorath; 10-18-2008 at 09:12 PM.
I love Fear and Loathing..Im going to check out Where the Buffalo Roam.
I loved Hunter
RIP Dr.
aaaahhh man I LOVE THIS GUY!! I SERIOUSLY DO..I love your son who loves him!!! Smooches to him and yourself what a cool mom!
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. . . .
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.
My favorite all time qote from him....It makes me get these huge tears in my eyes and I never understand why! Wish I could have known him!!! Hell I have my dad and thats pretty close!
"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of
high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy
of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... also a quart of tequila,
a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls.
But the only thing that worried me was the ether. There is nothing more
irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge..."
-- (Hunter S. Thompson) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
dont ya just love him he was so cool!
yep, yep, then the bats came! LMAO
Would anybody mind please giving me a short story on what this is about,ive not heard of it over here in the UK.Ta :0)
Senior Death Hag
Everybody knows Kyle was responsible for 9/11, anyway.
Just drink lots of Kool-Aid, and take one of these blue pills three times a day.
Renowned Death Hag
I like how Garry Trudeau had him as the character Duke
in the comic strip Doonesbury.
Junior Death Hag
Searched and couldn't find anything. Suprised he doesn't have his own thread.
He does
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