Hunter S. Thompson
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Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) – was an American journalist and author. As a writer he is remembered most for his flamboyant and humorous style. He enjoyed employing action verbs to comically spin outlandish tales that were completely unbelievable, yet provided a unique viewpoint to accurately describe the underlying reality at hand. Thompson almost always wrote in first person narrative, and his stories became so colorfully contrived that they easily slipped into the realm of fiction; however
Top songs
- Letter to William S. Burroughs & Ode to Jack Hunter S. Thompson
- On the Road to Las Vegas
- Strange Medicine in the Desert
- Savage Lucy
- A Savage Invitation from the Police
- Overture (My Old Kentucky Home)
- Letter to William S. Burroughs & Ode To Jack
- A Terrible Experience With Extremely Dangerous Drugs
- Breakdown on Paradise Boulevard
- I Got Off The Plane Around Midnight...
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- Another Day, Another Convertible and Another Hotel Full of Cops
- A Night on the Town... Drug Frenzy at the Circus-Circus
- Covering the story... Ugliness and Failure
- America's New Trinity Of Love: Dean Brando Presley
- Entr'acte
- End of the Road...
- Paranoid Terror... A Flashing of Knives and Green Water
- Some Local Nazi
- The Great American Dream
- Heavy Duty at the Airport...
- Keeping Jesus in Reserve
- Things in Common with Nixon
- Brain Damaged Geek
- Getting Down to Business... Opening Day of the Drugs Convention
- At The Airport Newsstand
- A Balance of Terror
- Feelings On Disco And Herpes
- Our Vietnam Fixation
- Waiting For Trudeau
- Jesus Freakdom
- AAWW, Mama, Can This Really be the End... Down and Out in Vegas with Amphetamine Psychosis Again
- The Next Day Was Heavy...
- On Our Way Back to The Motel
- Really Ugly Bastards
- Canada And The Other Trudeau
- A Potential Menace
- The Governor, A Swinish Neo-Nazi Hack...
- Strange Medicine In The Desert...
- Richard Milhouse Nixon
- The Great American Slide
- What Do I Mean By Gonzo
- On The Road To Las Vegas...
- Sometime Around 10:30 Monday Morning...
- Meeting Steadmann
- Exit Stage Left
- In A Box Not Far From Ours...
- Heavy Duty at the Airport
- Still Broke And Not Quite Sane
- Cant Go Back To Vegas
- Three Wishes
- They Like Me
- It Was Saturday Morning, The Day Of The Big Race...
- Thompson Interview (Excerpt 1)
- Run Real Fast And Never Sleep
- Fear and Loathing In las Vegas (Unabridged)
- Setting Hamilton Jordan On Fire
- Rollingstone Magazine And Jann
- The Grateful Dead And The Neut
- The Trilatteral Commission And
- Setting Hamilton Jordan On Fir
- 01 Intro
- Tom Wolfe
- Fear and Loathing In las Vegas (Unabridged) Part 1 of 3
- America's New Trinity Of Love: Dean Brando Presley
- Thoughts On Acid And Dairy Cow
- The Grateful Dead And The Neutron Bomb
- 01 The Book of Revelations, The War in Iraq, Friendly Fire
- Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride (Documentary)
- The Mind Of A 40 Year Old Accountant
- The Pending Release Of The Great Shark Hunt
- AAWW, Mama, Can This Really be
- "Shit, it's only 11 o'clock here."
- The Mind Of A 40 Year Old Acco
- Bass Lake Run: "Shit, it's only 11 o'clock here."
- Thompson Interview (Excerpt 3)
- A Night on the Town... Drug Fr
- Grateful Dead
- letter to william s. burroughs and ode to jack
- The Trilatteral Commission And Sand Niggers
- Trudeau, Running For Office
- Ode to Jack Kerouac
- Fear and Loathing In las Vegas (Unabridged) Part 2 of 3
- Bass Lake Run: "All the empty cans and beer cartons are up on top of the car."
- Bass Lake Run: "We're up at Bass Lake."
- Terry The Tramp Interview #1: "It's August 5, Thursday night. We're on the freeway now."
- Intro, American Dream, Tex Coalson
- Thompson Interview
- The Pending Release Of The Gre
- More Kesey, Avoiding Jail
- Bass Lake Run: "No notes after two days of this Hell's Angels thing."
- Evil As Nixon?, Uganda, Degeneracy
- Carter Argument
- A Savage Invitation from the P
- Another Day, Another Convertib
- 04 Press Coverage of the War, the Difference Between Baghdad and Saigon, A Four-Line Phone
- 02 The Four Horsemen, The Kuwaiti Royal Family, Stomping George Bush
- "We're up at Bass Lake."
- Letter to William S. Burroughs
- We Have Seized The High Ground: "It's Monday afternoon, We have a white Cadillac convertible."
- Amphetamine Psychosis Again
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