Hunter S. Thompsons „Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved“ turned into a Print
Hunter S. Thompsons erster Gonzo-Essay „Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved“ als Infografik-Print, die Jockeys auf dem Poster sind alles Charaktere und Anspielungen aus Thompsons Text: Acid Trip, Nekkid Horse, Chemical Billy und Staggering Drunk. Großartig! Ich hab’ Kentucky Derby zwar nie gelesen, dafür bin ich allerdings mit seinen Rolling Stone-Jahren fast durch, ganz hervorragendes Buch.
We’ve collaborated with Louisville artist Rachael Sinclair on a decadent and depraved new print. Not just any print, an infographic of kick ass Kentuckian Hunter S. Thompson’s famous essay on the 1970 Kentucky Derby – ‘The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved’. Gonzo journalism’s original gangster essay that appeared in Scanlan’s Monthly in June of that year.
You’ll notice each silk on this print is symbolic of something from Hunter S. Thompson’s essay – Colonel Quick, Nekkid Horses, Whiskey Gentry, Dust Commander, Old Fitz, Chemical Billy, Inbred Horses, etc. Good stuff.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas-Boardgame
Hatte ich vor mehr als drei Jahren schonmal gebloggt, aber mir is’ grade so Fledermausland: Jonathan Baldwin hat ein Brettspiel nach Hunter S. Thompsons Drogentrip-Buch „Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas“ gebastelt. Kommt in einem Koffer, damit man mit dem Ding bequem durch die Staaten reisen und ab und zu im Fledermausland eine ordentliche Portion LSD einwerfen kann.
„A scientifically-accurate, organic chemistry board game based around ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.’“
Dr. Gonzo: Music, man. Put that tape on.
Raoul Duke: What tape?
Dr. Gonzo: Jefferson Airplane, “White Rabbit”. I need a rising sound.
Thompson/Kafka-channeling Bookstore-Commercial
Vimeo Direkthunt, via Colossal
Tolles Commercial mit jeder Menge Hunter S. Thompson und Franz Kafka von Buck für Goodbooks, die alle Gewinne an einen guten Zweck spenden. Gibt’s auch noch mit einem ziemlich beknackt klingenden Voice-Over.
40 Jahre Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Heute vor vierzig Jahren veröffentlichte der Rolling Stone den ersten Teil von Hunter S. Thompsons „Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream“. Hier nochmal der Link zu Zach Baron auf The Daily, der Orte aus dem Text besucht und einen ziemlich tollen Artikel dazu aufgeschrieben hat. Die Illu oben ist eine der Original-Zeichnungen von Ralph Stead aus dem Stone, mehr der Illus gibt’s hier.
“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” was published in two parts in Rolling Stone, Nov. 11 and Nov. 25, 1971. Random House printed the article in book form the next year. The New York Times initially reacted with skepticism, but then ran a second piece reviewing the novel favorably, calling “Fear and Loathing” the “best book yet written on the decade of dope gone by.”
What Thompson had really done was write the decade’s epitaph. At a moment when hippie truisms about LSD and meditation being a path to enlightenment still ruled, Thompson pinpointed “the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody — or at least some force — is tending that Light at the end of the tunnel.” The counterculture of the ’60s, Thompson argued, had maintained a naïve faith that the cosmic forces that seemed to be governing things in those days were fundamentally benevolent. But what if that weren’t the case?
In fact, much of “Fear and Loathing” can be read as a point-by-point repudiation of the psychedelic ’60s dream — from the promise of chemical liberation (Samuel Johnson’s “He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man” was the book’s epigraph) to the presumed decency of one’s fellow travelers, a presumption easily disproved in “grossly atavistic” Las Vegas, where “they kill the weak and deranged.”
Fear and Self-Loathing in Las Vegas – Retracing Hunter S. Thompson’s famous steps, 40 years later
Hunting down „Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas“, 40 Years after
Im November wird Hunter S. Thompsons Artikel/Buch „Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas“ 40 Jahre alt, Zach Baron von The Daily hat Orte aus der Story besucht und einen langen, tollen Text darüber geschrieben. Ich hätte mir ja noch ein Foto-Essay gewünscht, aber sowas kommt sicher noch bis November: „In 1971, Hunter Thompson first published ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’ in Rolling Stone. Forty years later, The Daily’s Zach Baron revisits the piece and the town in which it was born, chasing Thompson¹s ghost through crazy desert car races, a dying local economy and a massive and menacing hacker convention known as DEFCON.“
“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” was published in two parts in Rolling Stone, Nov. 11 and Nov. 25, 1971. Random House printed the article in book form the next year. The New York Times initially reacted with skepticism, but then ran a second piece reviewing the novel favorably, calling “Fear and Loathing” the “best book yet written on the decade of dope gone by.”
What Thompson had really done was write the decade’s epitaph. At a moment when hippie truisms about LSD and meditation being a path to enlightenment still ruled, Thompson pinpointed “the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody — or at least some force — is tending that Light at the end of the tunnel.” The counterculture of the ’60s, Thompson argued, had maintained a naïve faith that the cosmic forces that seemed to be governing things in those days were fundamentally benevolent. But what if that weren’t the case?
In fact, much of “Fear and Loathing” can be read as a point-by-point repudiation of the psychedelic ’60s dream — from the promise of chemical liberation (Samuel Johnson’s “He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man” was the book’s epigraph) to the presumed decency of one’s fellow travelers, a presumption easily disproved in “grossly atavistic” Las Vegas, where “they kill the weak and deranged.”
Fear and Self-Loathing in Las Vegas – Retracing Hunter S. Thompson’s famous steps, 40 years later, hier Teil 2 (via MeFi)
Hunter S. Thompson on The Rum Diary-Movie
Malcolm hatte gestern bereits bei den Filmfreunden den Trailer zum neuen Hunter S. Thompson-Film mit dessen Kumpel Johnny Depp gepostet: The Rum Diary. Jetzt hat Marc von Dangerous Minds einen Brief von Thompson aus dem Jahr 2001 ausgegraben, als der Film schon eine Weile in der Produktionshölle rumlag.
The film version of Hunter S. Thompson’s novel “The Rum Diary” is finally hitting the screen on October 28 after a long and tumultuous trip through development hell. The movie had been optioned by now-defunct production company The Shooting Gallery who never managed to get it off the ground.
On January 22, 2001, in a fit of frustration and anger, Thompson sent production executive Holly Sorensen the following letter:
Hunter S. Thompson
Woody CreekHOLLY SORENSON / Shooting Gallery / Hollywood / Jan 22 ‘01
Dear Holly,
Okay, you lazy bitch, I’m getting tired of this waterhead fuckaround that you’re doing with The Rum Diary.
We are not even spinning our wheels aggresivly. It’s like the whole Project got turned over to Zombies who live in cardboard boxes under the Hollywood Freeway… I seem to be the only person who’s doing anything about getting this movie Made. I have rounded up Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Brad Pitt, Nick Nolte & a fine screenwriter from England, named Michael Thomas, who is a very smart boy & has so far been a pleasure to talk to & conspire with…
So there’s yr. fucking Script & all you have to do now is act like a Professional & Pay him. What the hell do you think Making a Movie is all about? Nobody needs to hear any more of that Gibberish about yr. New Mercedes & yr. Ski Trips & how Hopelessly Broke the Shooting Gallery is…. If you’re that fucking Poor you should get out of the Movie Business. It is no place for Amateurs & Dilletants who don’t want to do anything but “take lunch” & Waste serious people’s Time.
Fuck this. We have a good writer, we have the main parts casted & we have a very marketable movie that will not even be hard to make….
And all you are is a goddamn Bystander, making stupid suggestions & jabbering now & then like some half-bright Kid with No Money & No Energy & no focus except on yr. own tits…. I’m sick of hearing about Cuba & Japs & yr. Yo-yo partners who want to change the story because the violence makes them Queasy.
Shit on them. I’d much rather deal with a Live asshole than a Dead worm with No Light in his Eyes…. If you people don’t want to Do Anything with this movie, just cough up the Option & I’ll talk to someone else. The only thing You’re going to get by quitting and curling up in a Fetal position is relentless Grief and Embarrassment. And the one thing you won’t have is Fun…
Okay, That’s my Outburst for today. Let’s hope that it gets Somebody off the dime. And if you don’t Do Something QUICK you’re going to Destroy a very good idea. I’m in the mood to chop yr. fucking hands off.
R.S.V.P
(Signed)
HUNTER
cc:
Depp
Benecio
M. Thomas
Nolte
Shapiro
Hunter S. Thompson, John Cusack and Johnny Depp riding in a car with a blow-up doll
Hunter S. Thompson, John Cusack and Johnny Depp riding in a car with a blow-up doll, that is all.
Hunter S. Thompson-Doku: Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision
(Youtube Direktgonzo, via Martin)
Jemand hat die 1978er BBC-Doku „Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision“ über Hunter S. Thompson bei Youtube hochgeladen. Von Wikipedia: „Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood, also known as Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision, is a short film produced by BBC Omnibus in 1978 on the subject of Hunter S. Thompson, directed by Nigel Finch. The road trip / film pairs Thompson with Finch’s fellow Briton the illustrator Ralph Steadman. The party travel to Hollywood via Death Valley and Barstow from Las Vegas, scene of the pair’s 1971 collaboration. It contains interviews with Thompson and Steadman, as well as some short excerpts from some of his work.“
Hunter S. Thompsons Fernsehvertrag
Hunter S. Thompson fills out a TV contract. (via Digg)
Ein Kumpel und ehemaliger Arbeitskollege (Oldschool Bleisatz-Schriftsetzer, Illustrator und Kalligraph) von mir hat eine Zweimann-Comedytruppe, denen man mal vor Jahren einen Vertrag beim HR-Fernsehen angeboten hatte, die beiden wurden als die kommenden Badesalz gehandelt, als als es die noch gar nicht gab und der eine Teil von Badesalz noch bei den Rodgau Monotones spielte. Jedenfall hatte mein Kumpel und dessen Kumpel keine Lust darauf, haben sich mit Gitarre nackt in den See gestellt, an dem ich mit 16 im Sommer Eis verkaufte, haben den Vertrag ins Wasser geworfen, sich so fotografieren lassen und das Bild inklusive eines Zettels mit der sinngemäßen Zeile: „Der Vertrag ist wohl ins Wasser gefallen“ an den HR geschickt.
Ist mir insgesamt etwas sympathischer, als der Fuck-Off-Zettel von Hunter S. Thompson, aber der war ja auch in Fledermausland, während mein Kumpel nur von selbstgemachtem Apfelwein high wurde.
Illustration: Tim Tomkinson
Sehr schöne Illus von Tim Tomkinson und ja, das da oben ist Duck Hunter S. Thompson für die Ausstellung „I am 8-Bit“ der Gallery 1988.
(via Gamefreaks)
Hunter S. Thompson Photography & Quotes
The Selvedge Yard hat eine sehr schöne Sammlung mit Fotos und Zitaten von Hunter S. Thompson. Hier das Zitat, das am besten zu meiner Wenigkeit passt:
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
“IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME” | GONZO — HUNTER S. THOMPSON (via KFMW)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – The Boardgame
Jonathan Baldwin hat ein Brettspiel nach Hunter S. Thompsons Drogentrip-Buch „Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas“ gebastelt. Kommt in einem Koffer, damit man mit dem Ding bequem durch die Staaten reisen und ab und zu im Fledermausland eine ordentliche Portion LSD einwerfen kann.
Dr. Gonzo: Music, man. Put that tape on.
Raoul Duke: What tape?
Dr. Gonzo: Jefferson Airplane, “White Rabbit”. I need a rising sound.
