Tom Wolfe on Hunter S. Thompson | TIME
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16 жыл бұрынTom Wolfe shares a typical night out with Hunter S. Thompson.
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Tom Wolfe on Hunter S. Thompson | TIME
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@gabegordon5150 11 жыл бұрын
Actually humans do have the right To consume whatever substance they want as long as they are not hurting anybody else. It's called liberty
@jackieradley1025 4 жыл бұрын
Yes yes! I can be as belligerent as I want, in my home where it's safe. Gimmie all the drugs.
@SensimillaLove 15 жыл бұрын
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.
@Dogsineed 2 жыл бұрын
Do you mean that Hunter is Raoul Duke? Isn't Doctor Gonzo, Oscar Zeta Acosta?
@dowhatiwantc7637 Жыл бұрын
Honestly sad he is not taught more he was such a freethinker just found him off chance as well and watched everything on KZfaq check the gonzo tapes they are real it’s crazy.
@brianrapp2883 6 жыл бұрын
1971. 11. ME. RIP TOM WOLF canyonlocalfilmscom
@MorrowSind Жыл бұрын
Every Hunter S. Thompson story is interesting. You never know what to expect.
@chelle329 14 жыл бұрын
HST had the best political insight and blows away most of the pundits today. Long live Gonzo journalism.
@kimdurig1322 11 ай бұрын
Can you imagine what Hunter would think of the current goings on in political arena in 2023
@mariolee2776 Жыл бұрын
A great man speaks about another Great Men
@laminage Жыл бұрын
The man was so brilliant. I read The Bonfire Of The Vanities in my 20's and then A Man In Full in the 1990's. I wonder if in some way was Charlie Croker was based on Donald Trump when he had financial problems in real estate. He still did his novels on Typewriters and not computers. I also realized that Novelists have some amazing rituals when writing. Patricia Highsmith wrote Novels on her Rolltop Desk, and John Steinbeck did alot of his Novels in Mexico. Tom Wolfe's Suits were done by the same tailor of Italian background admitting the White and Cream suits were the hardest because he had to find the white chalk line.
@Fatlegg 14 жыл бұрын
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.
@happyscrappy370 3 жыл бұрын
You can do it. Just give it a go and revise and keep practicing and keep reading, you will get better and better each time. Don’t judge yourself too early. Just keep writing. And watch yourself grow as a writer.
@Mparnell451 14 жыл бұрын
RIP My Good Doctor!
@guccilittlepiggy 16 жыл бұрын
haha, I loved that little anecdote
@NoahSpurrier Жыл бұрын
This is awesome!
@malkyalky 15 жыл бұрын
i hear that!
@johndaugherty4127 2 жыл бұрын
Kentucky's own, Hunter S.
@Fatlegg 14 жыл бұрын
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.
@Forrthetrees 15 жыл бұрын
Ever notice how people have to say more about Thompson's character than his writing?
@idicula1979 10 жыл бұрын
Necessity is the mother of innovation, and that was certainly the case with Hunter S. Thompson. He was a hedonist always in the search of his next high and journalism, altough he was great at it when we wanted to be, and he loved it ( I think a favorite story of anybody the loved him is how he rewrote Classic books, just to see how it felt to write them), he had writing in his blood, but he had many other things, litrally in his blood. And so in order to make deadline he slapped together some of his writting along with the markers of a certain event and time,I love how when I love reading (his better stuff atleast) Fear and Loathing "72, or Better then sex a book about the "92 campaign .I can almost feel what like I was there .A bit overrated, but he made journalism and storytelling true to him, and that will always be his charm, He did it his way, baby, and who could argue with that. We need more people like him people who can take journalism and make it there bitch, that is way good journalism that is ever worth anything will never be handled by the corporations of CNN, Fox news or MSNBC but in a grass roots level. And I would Just like to call out Stephanie Miller of Air America and Peter Levall and Tim Kirby of RT News, and Mellisa Harris Perry of MSNBC of being the biggest hacks of Journalism.
@Joeri20cm 11 ай бұрын
Hahaha! I have heard a similar story about Alfred Hitchcock, but I can't remember who told it, I want to say Mel Brooks or Orsen Welles but correct me on that. Anyway the story is pretty much the same only Hitchcocks order was waay more and did it also twice by saying "I still feel a bit peckish, let's do it again". I believe he even had a little guillotine to chop his cigars 😂
@MrBrooke66 14 жыл бұрын
uuuuunnnnforgetable
@Fatlegg 14 жыл бұрын
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...)
@VoteJamesAsSecretary 4 жыл бұрын
Hey, you spelled everything right. You’re missing a *”the” thought. Good job!
@wyattrussell7496 3 жыл бұрын
Whenever I hear Wolfe say “great comic writer”, all I hear is... He was better then the rest of us. The pier without peers.
@oscarsalesgirl296 Жыл бұрын
Well it's not what he said or meant lol
@wyattrussell7496 Жыл бұрын
@@oscarsalesgirl296 and you know
@wyattrussell7496 Жыл бұрын
@@oscarsalesgirl296 imagine lifting someone’s research verbatim and calling them funny, like Hunter was the one wearing clown suits.
@slappyabromowitz 14 жыл бұрын
great stuff
@gonzalosierra2393 12 жыл бұрын
bukowski puts wolf and hunter in a little nutshell by the side of the house
@thomasjordan5578 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Tom. Hunters idiosyncrasies leave him vulnerable to disparagement and devaluation by those who like to do that and it’s good to appreciate the light of Truth that prevailed through his surface deviance and disorder, his credibility is left totally in the heart of his readers and never imposed or commanded.
@unbornanddeathless 15 жыл бұрын
absolutely killer response :D
@Tonyoverdrive 14 жыл бұрын
@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.
@mikefannon6994 3 жыл бұрын
Came upon Wolfe's Electric Kool Aid Test as a teen wandering in a used bookstore. Led me to Kesey, Kerouac, Ginsburg, and on. Thanks to Tom Wolfe.
@Research0digo 15 жыл бұрын
Ou8 Totally agree about Dr Ron Paul. I voted for him in 1988, and sadly had to write him last November.
@kentallard8852 13 жыл бұрын
Wolfes not going to dismiss him, he provided the sound recordings that provided the the material for the electric cool aid acid test
@danielleblakeman7066 2 жыл бұрын
Micheal Trevino from the vampire diaries?
@Grober7 13 жыл бұрын
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 .
@cibriosis Ай бұрын
Hunter was an alien who nearly inhabited human form so he could drink,take drugs and breath tobacco while at the same time entertain the hell out of us all on earth...he will be missed
@stonerman15 2 жыл бұрын
Wow only 450 likes
@bronneberg315 11 ай бұрын
Didn't Thompsons secretary say he listened to a recording of a rabbit dying for weeks? And that he got angry with her for not being enthusiastic about watching a snuff film with him? And wasn't Johnny Depp portraying a real life scene of Thompson taking adrrenochrome in fear and loathing? And isn't adreno chrome derived from adrenaline from living human hosts? Didn't Thompson say he likes to kill people on the letterman show?
@MrBrooke66 14 жыл бұрын
@Jornev you may be right on that
@goldsmice 14 жыл бұрын
This interviewer is gorgeous.
@IG2HI 16 жыл бұрын
The most best dressed author alive comments on the father of Gonzo Journalism. Classic.
@2cool4fluoride 13 жыл бұрын
@SensimillaLove He did mace Steadmen twice though!!
@lanser87 14 жыл бұрын
I really wish they would take the commercials off youtube.
@Gulassarian 14 жыл бұрын
Seems like all the great ones have perished.
@megaswenson 15 жыл бұрын
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.
@TomWolfeMovie 12 жыл бұрын
See more Tom Wolfe videos in our channel, which is full of behind the scenes footage from our new documentary on Mr. Wolfe, Tom Wolfe: Blood Lines
@megaswenson 15 жыл бұрын
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.
@megaswenson 15 жыл бұрын
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.
@devioussemantics 15 жыл бұрын
check out devious semantics!
@brothermurmur 12 жыл бұрын
Its great, read it two times, but man, into the second I found his voice to be that of a pipsqueak poser superimposed upon a revolutionary ride. I mean, who let that guy on the bus? In my opinion, Hunter should have been the one. But, alas he was busy boozing with Hell's Angels and writing one of the more notable pieces of Anthropological writing in American History, so as for badassery, the thing seems obvious. Tom Wolfe has his place, but his voice has none to do with LSD and the 1960's move.
@SensimillaLove 11 жыл бұрын
You've the right to choose what foods and things that pass as 'food' you will or will not consume, do you not?
@mooiegarage 15 жыл бұрын
comic writer?
@H2Raby 13 жыл бұрын
@joesaccountwitstuff how the fuck do you eat 8 banana splits?!?!
@GoldFaceFella 6 жыл бұрын
H2Raby drugs and booze
@thomasjordan5578 2 жыл бұрын
Id like a Jordan Peterson take on Hunter.
@Forrthetrees 15 жыл бұрын
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.
@passivesmoke 13 жыл бұрын
@joesaccountwitstuff you werent there dude what would you know?
@annalisavajda252 Жыл бұрын
Too weird to live too rare too die.
@joeytrimble 14 жыл бұрын
LMAO dude ate a dozen splits!
@mrb244 14 жыл бұрын
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 :)
@sketchyfolk 14 жыл бұрын
@isetthingsonfire dont listen to this fool! HST rocks, I met him!!! go gonzo!
@cmmmmmmmw 2 жыл бұрын
Richard Dawkins is right.
@MrFalconford 12 жыл бұрын
personal perspective not imagination?
@DaniboyBR2 11 жыл бұрын
Electric Kool Aid was kind of a rip off from Gonzo, they discussed this in a letter, but he's a good writer, also, George Bush was right when he attacked Iraq, it was the right thing to do, unfortunately they didn't attacked and overthown the Saudi regime, the Iranian regime as well, but maybe in the future right, we can always hope for the best.
@Robertodette 3 жыл бұрын
Teddy roosevelt made a pact with Ibn Saud over 100 years ago that America would support his family as long as Arabian oil flowed west
@riastrad 14 жыл бұрын
I'm not trying to be funny, does Tom Wolfe have a speech impediment or a strange hesitancy to his speech? RIP Hunter.
@jimppqq 14 жыл бұрын
@goldsmice you are weird
@cibriosis Ай бұрын
sorry who trully inhabited that body till he decided to end his stint on earth
@michaeljordan5630 4 жыл бұрын
Well of course We're gonna fling poo at him
@Schultz20 13 жыл бұрын
Ahhhh, Muffin, did somebody rob your inner child of its imagination or was it just a ward of the state?
@GDguitarplayer 13 жыл бұрын
his voice is "sticky" sounding...smack smack..he should get a drink.
@DaleRobby 10 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised that Tom Wolfe always admired Hunter S. Thompson as a person so much. Most of Wolfe's fiction seems to try and expose the superficial. I don't know why he is impressed with dumb antics. Ordering four banana splits seems like the exact behavior of a bohemian in a Tom Wolfe novel. They must have been close friends because I don't see Wolfe reminiscing over obnoxious attention seeking behavior with anyone else.
@jipmaster55 9 жыл бұрын
Show some respect, Thompson is one of the greatest writers of modern times. Unlike you, Tom Wolfe is smart enough to see past his quirkiness as a person and view his writing for what it was, pure genius.
@namesshmames 8 жыл бұрын
its obvious that thompson was much more self-destructive than he was histrionic. he liked playing pranks due to his chaotic and almost sadistic nature, not for show. lighten up
@kelman727 8 жыл бұрын
+garp At his best. But too often Thompson succumbed to his own myth, got lazy, and it showed in his work.
@jipmaster55 7 жыл бұрын
kelman727 On occasion for sure. But to denigrate his legacy and not acknowledge him as one of the best, is totally wrong.
@mrb244 11 жыл бұрын
LOL. Grow up ;)
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