Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas The Wave Speech

[edshift]

Props.

Great vid.

I like to think of the wave as part of a tide. It comes in and goes out. There are strong tides and weak tides. We must be about due a strong tide...

[thepunkfish109]

@edshift Without trying to start a huge debate... I think the Occupy stuff is a hint of the wave... Maybe no one has specifics of what they wanna create/invent... but the act of saying "What we have isn't good enough" seems like something the Good Doctor could get behind. Thanks very much for watching/listening.

- Neil

[Necrossmon]

You really do this passage justice. You have a terrific reading voice, and I think the jazz worked quite well to bring across the "lost generation" vibe.

[mcdrunkin]

Very well done sir,I like to think Hunter would appreciate this. and that last line, I was born in '79 never new the 60's but this line strikes me so well. I think less about the "flower Power" movement Hunter was in mourning for the loss of youth... at least that's what it strikes in me.

[DonZabu]

IMO, the jazz gives it too much of a Fitzgerald-Lost-Generation feel, and not enough of a 1960's feel.

[thepunkfish109]

@DonZabu I would suggest that maybe it was a lost generation. Although, who am I to say... I'm only 24. Either way, I'm really glad you took the time to watch/listen. Thanks for clicking :)

- Neil

[DonZabu]

@thepunkfish109

Then again, I suppose there are a lot of parallels to be made between Fitzgerald's time and Thompson's time.

[themagnetc]

@DonZabu this is a smooth jazz version of time after time, both happening in the 80's. jazz in the twenties was much swingier

[themagnetc]

by both i meant smooth jazz and the release of "time after time"

[jtowens55]

I get chills everytime this scene plays in the movie.

[vikasgp]

Your voice sounds nothing like HST, and your accent (Scottish? Irish?) is not like his either. But this video, with your voice (which sounds like HST as a college student), image of the California coast, and the beautiful jazz, is a work of art!

Righty-o man, righty-o!

[thepunkfish109]

@vikasgp Hey thanks for watching! I'm definitely and completely trying to go out of my way to NOT sound like him but still get the feel across. Also, not sure where any accent stuff comes from (I'm from Canada and the speech has not one "aboot" in it) but it could be the 2 hours of drinking at the school pub before I came back to my shift to record this, haha. Thanks again!

[vikasgp]

@thepunkfish109 Apologies for misplacing your accent. I'm sort of a connoisseur of accents and clearly I can't quite identify Canadian yet :-)

I moved to San Francisco just a week ago, and I've been listening to this again and again. I'm too young to really know about the sixties and the summer of love, but I can sense that it must have been a special time from reading HST. I guess it was a time when a small pocket of humanity really believed that all our idealism could come to fruition.

[vikasgp]

@thepunkfish109 The idealism achieved much (civil rights, equality for women), and I admire that greatly. Fear and Loathing shows that the free-spirit fizzled out in the 70s. At first glance his writing seems pessimistic, but looking deeper one can clearly see his hope and his optimism. I believe that only those who can see and accept all that is rotten in the world can truly have hope. The hope of the ignorant is just delusion. HST saw all the rotten things, even Nixon, and still had hope.

[kingcole55]

@zenlovesmaggie i dont see where the humor is...

[DuBistEinHorst]

beautiful man. the picture fits perfect

[RichJ66]

This is very good.

[thepunkfish109]

@RichJ66 Thanks man. I appreciate it a lot.

[sensimiliani]

brilliant

[NyloStar]

I remember watching this movie, hating pretty much every second of it. And then this speech kicked in, and it BLEW my fucking mind. I was like ...wow...that was powerful. It's stuck with me ever since. This movie is one of my favorites specifically just for this profound speech.

[vivienneleblanc]

@NyloStar Same here...profound mind blowing poignant speech

[20296]

fucking brilliant job

[thepunkfish109]

@20296 Thanks!

[Malocosa]

This passage and the way Terry Gilliam incorporated it in his film version of F & L in V was pretty good too

[thepunkfish109]

Definitely. He and Depp are Mighty Kings.

[mattyNY28]

This is the only video/audio that I have found with this passage from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Thank you for posting this.

All of the videos on YouTube are about the drug scences. Which was a part of Hunters life, but this passage shows the real Hunter S. Thompson. A man with a deep perspective of his life and the times in which he lived.

[thepunkfish109]

@mattyNY28 I completely agree my, friend. Glad you liked it. Thanks.

[Misssbehave]

You are such a goofball. Wheres the 3 videos you told me you were going to post??? Hummmmm...

[thepunkfish109]

Soon soon *blink*. This weekend.

[natush]

Amazing

[thepunkfish109]

thanks :)