Tom Wolfe on Hunter S. Thompson

[mateocide]

anyone who says fuck tom wolfe hasnt read the electric kool aid acid test

[Grober7]

I wish he was still around (HST that is). I'd love to hear what he'd have to say about Sarah Palin et. al .

[anothercountyheard]

Tom Wolfe wishes he had the status of HST

[H2Raby]

@joesaccountwitstuff how the fuck do you eat 8 banana splits?!?!

[frankangelo1983]

Fuck Tom Wolfe.

[Silenus6]

@frankangelo1983 Why?

[frankangelo1983]

@Silenus6 Conservative hack who writes pompous fiction.

[passivesmoke]

@joesaccountwitstuff you werent there dude what would you know?

[sprots]

fuck off with your ads

[KentAllard]

Wolfes not going to dismiss him, he provided the sound recordings that provided the the material for the electric cool aid acid test

[nongratis1]

I guess you had to be there and smoke alot of dope before, during, and probable after too.

[BlueChipNinja]

I can see the parallels between Thompson and Mark Twain.

[rollingrocks37]

he never did meth u retard

[celebration81]

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[BorgKing001]

old fuck, shit writer

[GDguitarplayer]

his voice is "sticky" sounding...smack smack..he should get a drink.

[thatboyhov]

great, an ad for another shitty movie with shitty dialogue and unrealistic settings and events

[Schultz20]

Ahhhh, Muffin, did somebody rob your inner child of its imagination or was it just a ward of the state?

[Zombpocalypse]

@Schultz20 what a douche!

[rediculousnicholas]

commercials destroy souls

[chelle329]

HST had the best political insight and blows away most of the pundits today. Long live Gonzo journalism.

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[MrBrooke66]

uuuuunnnnforgetable

[Jornev]

@MrBrooke66 I just rewatched that part a few times and couldn't help but

laugh at how I somehow got the idea he did that purposefully.

[MrBrooke66]

@Jornev you may be right on that

[Bongingon]

Well said

[lanser87]

I really wish they would take the commercials off youtube.

[riastrad]

I'm not trying to be funny, does Tom Wolfe have a speech impediment or a strange hesitancy to his speech? RIP Hunter.

[Mparnell451]

RIP My Good Doctor!

[hamickboy]

he was un forgettable qhhahahahhahahahahha

[jeffyvsbilly]

My God, who is that interviewing him? She is unbelievably beautiful. I mean, good interview too, but Jesus.

[Fatlegg]

And Mark Twain was very inspirational to me also. Love that Wolfe quoted that. Love the banana daq story. Great stuff. Long live rebellion! (not sure of spelling...)

[Fatlegg]

To be able to write stuff is so amazing. I am jealous of these guys. Wolfe and Thompson. Both so amazing. Very Inspirational. Its nice to live in a world with these two crazy dudes.

[Fatlegg]

Absolutely. Totally agree with Wolf here. To combine the truth with complete and utter obvious lies. To create fiction. It is the way to go.

[robbtheruler]

Seems like all the great ones have perished.

[slappyabromowitz]

great stuff

[mrb244]

I really do not understand Tom Wolfe. He was/is a huge George W Bush supporter, has never done a drug or drank alcohol in his life yet wrote the "electric kool aid acid test" and loves Hunter S. Thompson. I guess he Tom is your typical republican :)

[joeytrimble]

LMAO dude ate a dozen splits!

[Pomepwns]

pretty sweet. would have been better if hunter was the one describing the night, to be honest.

[goldsmice]

This interviewer is gorgeous.

[jimppqq]

@goldsmice you are weird

[lawrie2]

jodhpurs= no 1 hunter fan..

[tropcis]

la drogadiccion es un comportamiento¡¡

nada que ver con la inteligencia El demostro que se puede llevar ambos¡¡

pero pesan mucho

[anteking1]

lmao hunter had the munchies

[jodhpurs]

There are 2 types of HST fan: those who admire his lifestyle & those who admire his writing.

Whenever I've had anything to do with the 1st type, I feel ashamed & appalled to be associated with them. They are usually dumb adolescents of all ages who conceal their brains in their acne - so naturally their brains leak like puss. They think this is cool, that Hunter would approve of their goofy ignorance.

HST tolerated them, mostly, & the local Sheriff protected him from them.

[bdl218]

I think you're glossing over those who misunderstand his lifestyle. While I agree that Hunter's lifestyle isn't for the every man to emmulate, he's been a bit of a role model for myself as a pro writer.

It goes past his tone, which is why it isn't necessary just admiring writer. but rather the way he approached work and the act of producing material.

[SomaLFM]

@jodhpurs A lot of Hunters writing was about his lifestyle, and I personally read writers who I relate to on a personal level. What is good writing if you cant relate to it? Most authors who people consider the worlds greatest like Tolstoy etc I cant stand, because I cant relate to it, its not my life. Thompsons lifestyle is a bit more similar to my own (not so much these days). When I read, watch films and listen to music I want to relate to what that art is saying,

[brainjesus]

Some of us are mutants, a weird hybrid of both types.

[isetthingsonfire]

@jodhpurs what about those who admire both? I gotta say, I am an adolescent who you speak so scathingly of (im 15) but I think that his writing and his lifestyle were inexorably linked, both as crazy as the other. Admireing someone because they did a lot of drugs and shouted is stupid, but when they turn that shouting and drugs and everything and turn it into great art AS WELL then you kinda have to admire the whole package.

[jodhpurs]

well, any 15 yr-old who can use the word 'inexorably' and know what it means deserves a stay of execution.

For all I know, you may be the next best hope for great new writing in the New Millennium that has started so badly for everybody in the world.

[isetthingsonfire]

@jodhpurs thank you, ill give it a go.

[sketchyfolk]

@isetthingsonfire dont listen to this fool! HST rocks, I met him!!! go gonzo!

[sammanzhi]

So quick to judge on the internet. Please, hop down off your cross and tell us all how we should live. How about the people who can respect how he lived and learn from his writing styles? From your logic I can assume all drug using adolescents are dumb and brains "leak like puss." Your presumptuousness is the exact kind of ignorance Thompson combated, in addition to being the polar opposite of how he lived.

[sarcophyllus]

tell me!

[jodhpurs]

The 2nd type of fan is the only kind worth talking to. It's very important to ignore the rest: it discourages them from breeding.

That might sound elitist, but all I'm really saying is that the 1st fan type (& they swarm all over sites like YouTube) should be extermintaed. That's all I'm saying.

[sarcophyllus]

haha

I do have a bit of a problem with fans in general.. the word fan is derived from: fanatic... I know, there are all sorts of fan(atic)s..

[ManilaSyndicate]

Nice recollection. Tom Wolfe looks like a genial and elegant man. And he's aged well.

[soyFETUS]

was UUUUuUUUnforgetable

[forthompson]

his writing is against the current, more honest than you, mirrors the feelings of possibly the majority of people period and its darkly hilarious and socialy defiant but if you think this is utopia you havent left your estate in a while and to enjoy thompson you will be condemned in certain peoples judgement .but fuc em

[devioussemantics]

check out devious semantics!

[eddiepeeb]

fuck off, if more people listen to Chomsky instead of you maybe a father wouldn't have hold his daughter with half her head blown off. For what, childish men how think they own the world. You're a piece of shit my friend.

[Ironzealot7531]

someone who subscribes to Chomsky's fairy tale worldview has no right to call anyone else "childish"

[SensimillaLove]

everybody has the right to consume whatever substances they choose. he never hurt anybody but himself and that's his choice. it does not take away from his decency in any way; he is still a good person. much more of a (better) person, than an arrogant, judgemental bigot like yourself.

[megaswenson]

I totally agree, SensimillaLove, that everybody has the right to consume whatever substances they choose. But I find it curious that Thompson appears to have become the darling of what today passes as the Academic Establishment. That is, I assume, where you people learned to revere Thompson. Your community college literature instructors, maybe? If not, how on earth did you ever hear of him? Reading Rolling Stone? I'm curious.

[SensimillaLove]

i haven't gone to college yet, im still considering if i even want to, and i dont think i ever heard a thing about hunter thompson in any highschool classes. i learned about him by chance; i picked up his first novel, the Rum Diaries, with no idea who Hunter S. Thompson was. his sporadic writing style and the unfaltering directness in his words captivated me. naturally i moved on to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas after that, and i was hooked. he was and forever is Doctor Gonzo, a true genius.

[malkyalky]

i hear that!

[Tonyoverdrive]

@megaswenson The same way you find most great writers, you simply stumble upon them. I've never come across Thompson in any of my academic studies, yet I discovered him, Bukowski, Kerouac, Hemingway, Ben Elton; either by people coming up and yelling "This is great, you have to read this!" or by quietly flicking through interesting synopses in an old bookstore. Much the same way as most people discover Dylan, Zevon, The Rolling Stones, whatever. It just happens.

[tball95672]

@Tonyoverdrive That is right,they don't teach this stuff because it threatens the system they are a part of and defend because of thier cowardice.

[pocketfullofkush]

@SensimillaLove dude you just explained that excellent.

[menace2sobriety84]

@SensimillaLove He did mace Steadmen twice though!!

[IGLOOGREENHOUSE]

@SensimillaLove He was a loser and a vagrant, nothing better than a suicidal maniac with nothing better to do but smoke meth and write shitty books.

[f0cus711]

@IGLOOGREENHOUSE And you are a troll. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, except you. You probably should get off Yotube and continue chronically masturbating to child porn.

[Schultz20]

I wonder if the judge judging the judgemental is in any position to do so. Kind of like nymphos calling housewives whores. just a thought.

[Ghawdxi]

Ever notice how people have to say more about Thompson's character than his writing?

[guynamedan]

If you knew much about him you would understand his gonzo style of writing is to be part of the story, hence his life, lifestyle, outlook and accomplishments are as symbolic and as much as part of his work as the writing itself. His character, writings, lifestyle, etc are all part and parcel of a complex statement about freedom, government, ignorance, and greed.

[Ghawdxi]

Perhaps, but I think there is a difference in his written work and his "lifestyle." After a while HST became a parody of himself and a lot of critics agree, myself included, that his writing suffered as a result. Almost everything he wrote after 1972 is garbage. In the end all that's left is his writing, and his lifestyle and antics weren't much more than topics.

[guynamedan]

While you are correct that his reputation overshadowed his writing and made it suffer, I still stand that his lifestyle was part and parcel of his writing, even more so after that point. HIs antics may have only been topics, but topics in his writing that reflected his general sentiments towards freedom, life in america, etc. In the end, all thats left isn't just his writing, because his reputation overshadowing it is what started this debate. No one will read him without thinking of his life.

[kronik191]

megaswenson you are just the biggest mood killer

why don't you just fuck off and stop trying to outbrain everyone with your so called intelect

[megaswenson]

TRYING to 'outbrain', kronik191?  "...so-called intellect..."? I don't remember referencing my intellect. Generally, that's done FOR me, as has apparently happened here. Thanks for the validation.

[mooiegarage]

comic writer?

[jakswimmer426]

haha i bet you think your superb vocabulary makes you superior to everyone else. NO ONE'S FOOLED BITCH!

[megaswenson]

Considering that ratings of 'superiority' are entirely dependent upon subjective standards, I imagine that it would be impossible for anyone to be 'fooled' regarding another person's superiority. Depending on how (or whether) one defines and calibrates superiority (or the designation, 'superior'), that quality or status may not even exist.

[punksnotdead15]

fuck off, youre boring us

[skorli]

This dude and I are hanging hard. Hunter was a great writer and an interesting character to say the least.

[phwsomething1]

The substances you do has nothing to do with whether or not you're a decent person. Fuck off.

[MFJVIDEO]

i think i am highly decent as i have taken most substances

[unbornanddeathless]

absolutely killer response :D

[tsbdsd]

doit again lol

[Ou8y2k2]

You shut up, punk. It's been weeks since our posts and you're responding now? I knew what would happen on Nov. 4, and now the dems have no mandate. The media and the neocons would be laughable if they weren't so absurd.

[guccilittlepiggy]

haha, I loved that little anecdote

[Ou8y2k2]

No, you've merely been missing the head of the nail for ages. I'll rely on reality, while you'll continue to ignore the mountain of skulls in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia; the Iran-Contra Affair; and the current housing/financial mess that the veto-proof, Republican, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act brought about. We need a rebel to proceed with four more years of wars and financial incompetence.

Now, I respect Ron Paul and similar Republicans. It's a shame that they are the minority in their party.

[Kazekoge101]

will both of you please shut up and enjoy the video?

[CANNIBALCON]

I agree.

[nkashi]

word!

[Research0digo]

Ou8

Totally agree about Dr Ron Paul. I voted for him in 1988, and sadly had to write him last November.

[Ou8y2k2]

What does "elitist liberalism" have to do with a personal, literary question? Please understand that (neo)conservatives have destroyed the USA (as we used to know it) and are demeaning words and ideas that made us great! Expect the GOP to demean the words "intelligent" and "progressive" for their sole benefit. Look up the many definitions of "elitist" and "liberalism", and study the concepts further.

Given the non-electronic choice, I'd rather have an elitist liberal run things than a putz.

[IG2HI]

The most best dressed author alive comments on the father of Gonzo Journalism. Classic.