Dr. Hunter S.Thompson - R.I.P [1937 - 2005]

Hunter S.Thompson was an American journalist and author, most famous for his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting where reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become central figures of their stories. He is also known for his use of psychedelics, alcohol, firearms, and his iconoclastic contempt for authority. "I hate to advocate weird chemicals, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone... but they've always worked for me."
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Title	Comment	Year	Mins	MyID
Strange Nights Dr. Hunter S.Thompson Starring... HST Ralph Steadman	Strange Nights Dr. Hunter S.Thompson Strange Nights is a 10 minute song featuring HST and Ralph Steadman (artist). This mp3 can be addede to any other CD order for free.	?	9	201109
Gonzo :The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Starring... [narrated by] Jonny Depp More Actors [imdb.com]	Gonzo : The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Fueled by a raging libido, Wild Turkey, and superhuman doses of drugs, Thompson was a true "freelance", goring sacred cows with impunity, hilarity, and a steel-eyed conviction for writing wrongs. Focusing on the good doctor's heyday, 1965 to 1975, the film includes clips of never-before-seen (nor heard) home movies, audiotapes, and passages from unpublished manuscripts Extras include 5 separate interviews with Hunter and people who know him totalling 150 minutes including lots of Gerald Scarfe drawings. One is a tribute song by - called Waywood & Weary by Tiff Merrit. The final scene is Hunter's fueneral being blasted into space from a giant tower constructed on his ranch for just the purpose. An amazing man and experience.	2008	120
The Rum Diary	The Rum Diary - Unabridged [audiobook] Read by Christopher Lane The Rum Diary was begun in 1959 by a then-22-year-old Hunter S. Thompson. It was his first novel and he told his friend, the author William Kennedy, that The Rum Diary would "in a twisted way...do for San Juan what Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises did for Paris." In Paul Kemp, the novel's hero, there are echoes of the young Thompson, who was himself honing his wildly musical writing style as one of the "ill-tempered wandering rabble" on staff at the San Juan Daily News at the time. The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, Puerto Rico, in the late 1950s. "It was a gold rush," says the author. "There were naked people everywhere and we all had credit." Minimum order when ordering any CDs - £5 (for 2 CD's). Includes postage. CDs will contain mp3 files because of space restrictions [a CD holds 80 minutes maximum regular audio]	2000	6 hours 20 mins
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Starring... Jonny Depp Benicio Del Toro More Actors [imdb.com]	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas An adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's novel of the same name. The film details a whacky search for the "American Dream", by Thompson and his crazed, Samoan lawyer. Fueled by the massive amount of drugs they purchased with an advance from a magazine to cover a sporting event in Vegas; they set out in the Red Shark. Encountering police, reporters, gamblers, racers, and hitchhikers; they search for some undefinable thing know only as the "American Dream" and find fear, loathing and hilarious adventures into the dementia of the modern American West.	1998	118
Songs Of The Doomed Starring... HST	Songs Of The Doomed Doomed is another compilation of HST's writing. It spans four decades - 1950 to 1990 - with fond memories of Jersey Shore, the assasination of JFK, and his rise as gonzo journalist, almost a sort of prelude to TPH. There is a lot of unpublished material - excerpts from The Rum Diary, Prince Jellyfish, "The Iguana Project", letters and memos to famous people, (my favourite) Via Certified Mail - "intercepted mail from the last time HST moved down the mountain", as well as long lost goodies "Bad Craziness in Palm Beach" (Roxanne Pulitzer trial), interviews from Viet Nam, snippets from The Curse Of Lono and FLLV. The last chapter, the nineties, details his infamous lifestyle bust, trial documents and proceedings. While Doomed did not reach the bestseller list, and Thompson admits he wrote it only to fulfill a two book contract, it is a valuable Thompson reader and is more palatable for the first time HST fan than, say, the crazy quilt that Shark is. Sections: Author's Note The Fifties: Last Rumble in Fat City The Sixties: What the Hell? It's Only Rock and Roll... The Seventies: Reaping the Whirlwind, Riding the Tiger The Eighties: How Much Money Do You Have? Minimum order when ordering any CDs - £5 (for 2 CD's). Includes postage. CDs will contain mp3 files because of space restrictions [a CD holds 80 minutes maximum regular audio]	1990	120
Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA. Starring... HST	Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA A lost lecture, this time at Washington and Lee University (Lexington, VA) in 1991 (Feb. 4th?), I believe. Starts abruptly (as though the recorder started taping mid-question) but the rest is all there. Decent quality crowd recording, split into 14 tracks (mp3 files): Minimum order when ordering any CDs - £5 (for 2 CD's). Includes postage. CDs will contain mp3 files because of space restrictions [a CD holds 80 minutes maximum regular audio]	1991	90
University of California Los Angeles Starring... HST	University of California, Los Angeles Minimum order when ordering any CDs - £5 (for 2 CD's). Includes postage. CDs will contain mp3 files because of space restrictions [a CD holds 80 minutes maximum regular audio]	1984	60
Lecture Boulder University, Colorado Starring... HST	Lecture - Boulder University, Colorado Minimum order when ordering any CDs - £5 (for 2 CD's). Includes postage. CDs will contain mp3 files because of space restrictions [a CD holds 80 minutes maximum regular audio]	1977	80
Where the Buffalo Roam Starring... Bill Murray Peter Lazo More Actors [imdb.com]	Where the Buffalo Roam The deranged adventures of Gonzo journalist Hunter Thompson and his attorney Oscar Acosta, referred to in the movie as "Laslo". Thompson attempts to cover the Super Bowl and the 1972 Presidential election in his typical drug-crazed state, but it continually and comically sidetracked by his even more twisted friend Laslow. Allegedly based on actual events Interview at www.gonzo.org [new window].	1980	96	avi-dvd 140809
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