gonzo: the life and work of hunter s. thompson

somehow i doubt the film will do him justice…

“it was a dark and stormy night when i set out from my house to jack nicholson’s place far away in the valley on the other side of town.  it was his birthday, and i had a huge raw elk heart for him.  i have known jack for many years, and we share a certain sense of humor among other things, and in truth there was nothing inherently strange in the notion of bringing a freshly taken elk heart out to his home on the night of his birthday.

okay.  so i set out to see jack and his children with all kinds of jokes and gimcracks in my car.  in addition to the bleeding elk heart, there was a massive outdoor amplifier , a tape recording of a pig being eaten alive by bears , a 1,000,000-watt spotlight, and a 9-mm smith & wesson semiautomatic pistol with teakwood handles and a box of high-powered ammunition.  there was also a 40-million-candlepower parachute flare that would light up the valley for 40 miles for 40 seconds that would seem to anyone lucky enough to be awake at the time like the first blinding flash of a midrange nuclear device that might signal the end of the world”

white rabbit by jefferson airplane