We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like
"I feel a bit lightheaded. Maybe you should drive."
Suddenly, there was a terrible roar all around us, and the sky was full with what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, and a voice was screaming
"Holy Jesus. What are these goddamn animals?"
"Did you say something?"
"Hm? Never mind. It's your turn to drive."
No point in mentioning these bats, I thought. Poor bastard will see them soon enough. - Raoul Duke
Well did it, the King of Gonzo actually did it, blew his brains out whilst talking to his wife on the phone..................................I guess we shouldn't actually be suprised by this, he was always gonna go out in a less than ordinary way!
I can't think of anything to write about Hunter, I mean how do you write about someone who writes like him, best to leave it to him, so i'll just leave you some memorable Hunter S quotes.
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. "
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
"Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!"
"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of uppers, downers, laughers, screamers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon."
"Did you see Bush on TV, trying to debate? Jesus, he talked like a donkey with no brains at all...It was pitiful...I almost felt sorry for him, until I heard someone call him 'Mr. President,' and then I felt ashamed." -on Bush's 2004 debate performance"
"You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye."
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