Ive been a fan for awhile... I cant really tell you when I started being a fan of HST, but I know I am. I read in my local paper today (toronto) that since Tuesday all of his books, movies etc have almost tripled in sale and I yell FRAUDS. I hate that **** someone who is underground, imfamous or famous to only the elite few somehow becomes cool after death and I cant stand that. His image is going to be plastered all over shirts, postcards and whatever else is going to get some jackass some money. And you ask who are these *******s who are going to buy it, the same people who ran out on Tuesday and bought up his books and movies. So now for months as I get on my bus route, Im going to see these frauds readig his books and I'll ask myself and maybe even them where were u when he was alive? I guarantee THESE people never even heard of HST last week... And for this I am mad. I ask Hunter, do you really want these fakes reading your book?
Dont let them turn him into another Che, a fad, something that people think they need to do to be cool. I ask again do u think half of these mofo's even know what HST ever did or what he was about. I doubt it... So lets come together to fight the jerks who bought his books on Tuesday
I started reading HST in the 1970s and he influenced me greatly. I have all his books and have read a few of them more than once. He was a giant. But let's face it: His suicide was the ultimate act of destructive self-indulgence by a man who's life has been nothing but destructive and self indulgent for the last 25 years, and that's being generous. During those years, he didn't do much more than take drugs, drink, watch television, rant, fire his guns and live off the fame of an outsized, self-caricature that he ultimately came to hate.
And who could blame him for hating it? In the end it overshadowed his reputation as a writer of monumental talent and integrity. It doomed him. You read his early letters and you can feel his hunger and ambition. He took enormous risks as a writer and a journalist, and he managed to pull it off in his prime. That's what makes reading his later work, begining with Generation of Swine, so sad and disappointing. He was just going through the motions, and it's hard to admire that in a talent like him. He copped out on the hard work of writing a long time ago, and his later years, like his death, were a waste.
you shouldn't be too mad...maybe all the pigs capitalizing off his death suck...but if a new genneration of people read his stuff and are effected by it, I don't personally see it as a bad thing. After all I was born in 73, I couldn't have read his stuff as a kid when it was comming out, i discovered it in highschool...after that the johnny depp movie brought alot of new people into his writing...its a progression...besides an army of Hunter fans regardless of how...are better than a bunch of BUSH freaks. I just know that Hunter would find all this crap funny.
hunter is a cult figure. he is worshipped by legions of pimply camel f uckers that have no clue what he is about. he is the s hit in 9th grade lit class. don't be enough of an ******* to insinuate they have no right to learn from what he had to say.
you are concerned that hunter will become an icon.
he will not.
hunter was/is/will be an iconoclast. pure and simple.
out of respect, before i blast your pathetic ass out of the water, i should respectfully ask if you are on acid of mesc or meth or shrooms or something that might make you post something so asinine.
"Im going to see these frauds readig his books and I'll ask myself and maybe even them where were u when he was alive? I guarantee THESE people never even heard of HST last week... And for this I am mad."
Lindsay,
Your post was so asinine I have to say more.
You are mad at people who have not heard of HST but due to his death have learned of him and are now reading his works.
Should the 'true fans' also hate those who learned of HST through the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?
How and when did you learn of Hunter Thompson? Is that in some way more special?
Is everyone who learns of Dr Thompson after his death doomed to be a fraud?
I learned of him before he was dead. A friend of mine gave me a copy of one of his books. Does this put me in a special club?
Ha so many people are talking s/h/i/t on here, its a MEMORIUM site you dumb f/u/c/k/s. I celebrated his memory last night was bloody crazy, but 5:30 in the morning i had double vision and could barely talk, fantastic night actually. Everybody is saying that he was selfish, well consider this, some people dont care! I dont care iv decided, you lot care more than his family about how 'selfish' he was. He shot himself, good for him he was getting old and in pain. I say good for him and i hope wherever he is hes having a good time. Before any of you right wing christians say it, i am already fully aware in going to hell!
'No sympathy for the devil, keep that in mind...'
Do not be so hateful toward them Lindsay. Some of them might not really be fakes. They might be true fans who just procrastinated until Hunter S. Thompson left us. I agree with you about people exploiting his death. This makes me sick. I still think that some cool Tshirts need to be made though.
i agree i was designing them a few years back, but i never got them produced. i will now, i just gots to dig threw some of my schetchbooks, come up with some money for the print and then find a charity to give the money to
I think what should be looked at is not the guarded jealousy of an admirer, but the fact that the message is getting exposure. Maybe by these "fakes" reading his message they will realize the worthlessness of PC and other foul that Hunter spoke of and become a bit more openminded to the experience of life. Don't be mad when people do what you thought they should have all along, just because people show up late doesn't mean that they get a different message than you or I.
lindsay, dont be mad at the frauds. i agree with you, it will rankle with me every time i see shops that have never stocked stockton suddenly filling up their shelves. on the other hand, i can finally buy the proud highway in my local fopp. of course, when i do buy it the hashish will tell me the shop assistants are s******ing at me for a fraud, despite me knowing i am not (or have been for a long time). another point: i was planning getting the gonzo tattoo last month: a plan that will go down the crapper until i can be sure of not seeing it on the wall ready to be picked in my local tattooist.
i will be saddened if the memory of this great man is turned into just another che or bob marley, with thousands of students buying the poster bag and teeshirt cos its in. but for every fake who buys a book to be cool, maybe his friend will actually get into it and be turned on to a different way of seeing life. and mescaline.
I'm trying to get my english teacher to let us read shark hunt in class. i think he's afraid of getting in trouble tho. Everybody shuld try to do this!
I agree with you Lindsay. I also was a fan when he was alive. When he died, I thought that's the last way that I thought he would have died. He seemed like such a strong person. On the other hand, I mean, who didn't see it coming? Just like his writings, his death was bewildering and unexpected. And as for those ****ers who think that they're fans now because they're "greiving" with us, to hell with 'em.
I also thank you for taking my message as an idea to what may happpen and not so seriously as many others did. Its sad when you state the obvious and it gets people in a uproar. Crazy
