*What book are you reading ?

[May Kasahara]

Hard Boiled Wonderland is my fave

Hope you enjoy, Papi - Murakami is the tits.

 

[Katzenjammer]

Stephen Fry's autobiography Moab is my Washpot. 10 years old but still a great read.

 

[sojourner]

For my bedtime book, I am reading Innocent When You Dream by Mac Montandon. It's a collection of interviews of Tom Waits, mentioned by someone on here - it's

 

[lunatrick]

just picked up a copy of 'the jokes over' by ralph steadman. Haven't started it yet - but I saw him do an impression of hunter s thompson at a litery festival in plymouth a couple of years ago - and it got me interested in their relationship....the mans an enigma and if anybody knows what made him tick it would be ralph I reckon....

 

[sojourner]

just picked up a copy of 'the jokes over' by ralph steadman. Haven't started it yet - but I saw him do an impression of hunter s thompson at a litery festival in plymouth a couple of years ago - and it got me interested in their relationship....the mans an enigma and if anybody knows what made him tick it would be ralph I reckon....

That's a fucking ace book. I pre-ordered it, and I never do that usually, but it was well worth it if you're a fan of both Hunter and Ralph

 

[lunatrick]

That's a fucking ace book. I pre-ordered it, and I never do that usually, but it was well worth it if you're a fan of both Hunter and Ralph

more a fan of hunter - but interested in a close friend / colleague's opinion as the man himself was deliberately vague and created a self myth...it will hopefully offer a different angle?

 

[sojourner]

more a fan of hunter - but interested in a close friend / colleague's opinion as the man himself was deliberately vague and created a self myth...it will hopefully offer a different angle?

It will - and maybe not one you were after/envisioning - it may even change your attitude towards Hunter, without saying too much

 

[lunatrick]

It will - and maybe not one you were after/envisioning - it may even change your attitude towards Hunter, without saying too much

well I'm sort of expecting that - I mean in some ways his death destroyed the myth anyway....but interesting man all the same..

 

[sojourner]

well I'm sort of expecting that - I mean in some ways his death destroyed the myth anyway....but interesting man all the same..

You think?

How so? (genuinely interested, not a pop)

Very interesting man, yeh. I do/did love Hunter, and that's given how much of a twat he could be

 

[lunatrick]

It just seemed like an unfitting end for such an apparently macho bloke I suppose and seemed a bit undignified. I would have much preferred to hear about him passing away in his sleep

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

At long last: Don Quixote.

 

[Dillinger4]

It just seemed like an unfitting end for such an apparently macho bloke I suppose and seemed a bit undignified. I would have much preferred to hear about him passing away in his sleep

He did get launched in a Rocket afterwards though.

 

[sojourner]

He did get launched in a Rocket afterwards though.

Quite!!

I thought it was very in keeping with him actually luna - he did it HIS way

 

[lunatrick]

Quite!!

I thought it was very in keeping with him actually luna - he did it HIS way

true enough......but was it just a man trapped in the myth that even in death he couldn't be himself? the ultimate sacrifice for the journalistic art and extension of the gonzo mythology? to me it just left a bad taste in my mouth - I admired him and would wish for a more fitting end to an extraordinary life.

 

[sojourner]

true enough......but was it just a man trapped in the myth that even in death he couldn't be himself? the ultimate sacrifice for the journalistic art and extension of the gonzo myth?

Or just one of life's misfits, who fortunately made enough money to live the way he wanted to - and enough space to die the way he wanted to?

 

[Orang Utan]

Dance Dance Dance. I'm a virgin, but I've heard good things.

Ooh, you should have read A WIld Sheep Chase first

 

[sojourner]

I admired him and would wish for a more fitting end to an extraordinary life.

He was very ill

Would you have rather he wasted away, losing his physical health, bit by bit? Been in pain, been vulnerable?

 

[lunatrick]

Or just one of life's misfits, who fortunately made enough money to live the way he wanted to - and enough space to die the way he wanted to?

hmm maybe so......I suppose it has more to do with my own feelings about suicide - you're going to peg it one day anyway so why make it easy on the f*ckers.......like you say he was a maverick and he expressed it even in death.....so yeah respect...........damaged heros eh?

 

[lunatrick]

He was very ill

Would you have rather he wasted away, losing his physical health, bit by bit? Been in pain, been vulnerable?

plenty of people would have probably argued he was very ill mentally a long time ago....(not me) I don't wish anyone pain obviously but agree with the adage ' of do not go gently into the good night'.......

 

[Chilliconcarne]

Ive just picked up (for about the 5th time lol) T.A.Z. (The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism) by Hakim Bey.

I've tried to read it a few times now but its pretty heavy going. Perhaps this time I'll get more than half way through before giving up

 

[Orang Utan]

Isn't he a dodgy paedo?

 

[sojourner]

plenty of people would have probably argued he was very ill mentally a long time ago....(not me) I don't wish anyone pain obviously but agree with the adage ' of do not go gently into the good night'.......

Yeh, they probably would/did


Well quite - shooting your own head off and then having your body fired out of a rocket is NOT going gently into the good night (is that what you meant? It's what I mean )

 

[Kidda]

Ive just picked up (for about the 5th time lol) T.A.Z. (The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism) by Hakim Bey.

I've tried to read it a few times now but its pretty heavy going. Perhaps this time I'll get more than half way through before giving up

ugh *shudder* burn it.

im reading Granny made me an anarchist by Stuart Christie

Good so far

 

[Orang Utan]

Isn't he a dodgy paedo?

http://libcom.org/library/leaving-out-ugly-part-hakim-bey

 

[Voley]

It will - and maybe not one you were after/envisioning - it may even change your attitude towards Hunter, without saying too much

Sounds good. I've always been interested in the myth / reality thing that goes with him.

 

[lunatrick]

Yeh, they probably would/did


Well quite - shooting your own head off and then having your body fired out of a rocket is NOT going gently into the good night (is that what you meant? It's what I mean )

true - hadn't thought of it like that.............I just expected him to fight unreasonably to the end and when he didn't I was a bit shocked. ah well raise a glass to him and look forward to more insight in ralph steadmans book.....

 

[sojourner]

true - hadn't thought of it like that.............I just expected him to fight unreasonably to the end and when he didn't I was a bit shocked. ah well raise a glass to him and look forward to more insight in ralph steadmans book.....

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did

 

[Chilliconcarne]

http://libcom.org/library/leaving-out-ugly-part-hakim-bey

OMFG

I had no idea

 

[Orang Utan]

Of course, lots of writers are probably paedos....

 

[Dillinger4]

Of course, lots of writers are probably paedos....

I think thats obvious. Writing stuff, its not normal is it? They should all just get over it and watch the X factor like the rest of us.