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# everything's shit
ultimately they want your money

a website that goes 'listen to this band mp3! they are playing live at [location]' is probably a lot better
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:38, archived)
# Hahahah
yeah, I guess. But I still like my mags. Can't get the NME over here, but I do get Rock Sound. Rolling Stone has gone a bit shit lately. I mean, they put Barack Obama on their cover! Lame. But Hails and Horns is okay, as is Paste (sometimes it's a bit pretentious, though) and a few others over here.

:]
(I helped save b3ta! Killerkitti Like my coffee black, just like my metal, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:41, archived)
# Rolling Stone
has always been a supporter of Democrat politicians. Reading some Hunter S. Thompson might be a good idea.
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:43, archived)
# Hunter S. Thompson?
I've heard the name...but...
(I helped save b3ta! Killerkitti Like my coffee black, just like my metal, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:46, archived)
# Read
The Rum Diary
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Gonzo Papers 1-4
The Great Shark Hunt (it's a bit drier than the others, you may like it, you may not.)

also, more recently
Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness: Modern History from the Sports Desk

All written for Rolling Stone, and most, if not all, were published in the magazine at some point.
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:51, archived)
# Wait
that's why I know the name! Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Someone was talking about that once...
(I helped save b3ta! Killerkitti Like my coffee black, just like my metal, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:51, archived)
# The book is great, I highly recommend it
but slightly better if you read the Rum Diary first. If you like those two, then the rest should be enjoyable too.
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:53, archived)
# I don't understand what the books are actually about.
I vaguely gather that he wrote them whilst attempting to write something else and they ended up being the product, but are they actually in the gonzo journalism style and about politics or what?
(Jeru War and Piss, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 1:00, archived)
# yes, well that is one attraction of them
Rum Diary is less political, it mentions some of the politics of South America a bit, as well as documenting an odd period of time he spent there, but is largely to do with his earlier experiences with lefties.

Fear and Loathing is mostly debauchery, chunk of politics and nonsense, but mostly sadness as America moves away from the "love" generation.


The rest of the books, the essays on Aspen etc are heavily political in places, especially the Great Shark Hunt, but to my knowledge, the way they are written is certainly in the gonzo style.

Edit: When I said "it is one attraction of them" I meant that the books are sometimes open to speculation on the meaning of his writing, sometimes he makes sense, and sometimes he doesn't at all. Things don't have to make sense to be entertaining and interesting, after all.
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 1:09, archived)
# Although if it's journalism it is generally supposed to make sense, even if it's all lies.
As I said I know very little of him above the obvious. And that Spider in Transmetropolitan was based on him, except a mad version who seems to blow everything up.
(Jeru War and Piss, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 1:25, archived)
# yeah that's the kind of thing that has some folks in your country screaming about "liberal media" and all that shit
I would never really trust any journalism to be honest

it's all about selling shit ultimately and nothing else
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:43, archived)
# I WILL GIVE THEM MY MONEYS
*consumer zombie*
(I helped save b3ta! Killerkitti Like my coffee black, just like my metal, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:46, archived)
# yay!
I'll give them my debt!

*advanced consumer zombie*
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:48, archived)
# Hahahahah
(I helped save b3ta! Killerkitti Like my coffee black, just like my metal, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:49, archived)
# that the media has a liberal bias
is a myth started and perpetuated solely by the conservative media. all they have to do to make it seem that the media has a liberal bias is to say so. it's quite cunning.
also, it's quite cunting.
(I helped save b3ta! urbane legend i have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 1:41, archived)
# Why did they put Barack Obama on the front
I mean he likes Ludicrous for god sake.
(max0000000000000 jokes, jokes, jokes, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:43, archived)
# He does?
Who should he like?
(I helped save b3ta! Killerkitti Like my coffee black, just like my metal, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:44, archived)
# Some one good
Who has some kind of musical talent.
(max0000000000000 jokes, jokes, jokes, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:49, archived)
# Like what?
You're not giving me much to work with here. For all I know, you could be thinking about someone like...I dunno...Britny Spears.
(I helped save b3ta! Killerkitti Like my coffee black, just like my metal, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:51, archived)
# Kindly refrain from bothering Britney.
(I helped save b3ta! the_rhyme_minister has a little bit of gold and a pager, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:54, archived)
# Is that like not feeding the animals at the zoo?
Should I withhold her food?
(I helped save b3ta! Killerkitti Like my coffee black, just like my metal, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:55, archived)
# LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE
(I helped save b3ta! the_rhyme_minister has a little bit of gold and a pager, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 1:09, archived)
# LEAVE JOULIE MOULT IS AN IDIOT
ALONE.
(I helped save b3ta! Carlossus, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 1:23, archived)
# haha, is that a crime like "sheep worrying"?
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:56, archived)
# Sheep worrying?
(I helped save b3ta! Killerkitti Like my coffee black, just like my metal, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 1:10, archived)
# yes, it's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad
it's when one worries sheep with their fiendish antics

:)
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 1:22, archived)
# Awwwww
:[
(I helped save b3ta! Killerkitti Like my coffee black, just like my metal, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 1:24, archived)
# I don't really care
But:
John Coltrane, Saxophone
Paul Gilbert, Guitar
Keith Jarret, Piano
Genesis, General Pop
Led Zepplin, Rock

e.t.c
(max0000000000000 jokes, jokes, jokes, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:59, archived)
# You're so nonchalant.
(I helped save b3ta! the_rhyme_minister has a little bit of gold and a pager, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 1:08, archived)
# It's cos he's cool.
That's why he's nonchalant.
(I helped save b3ta! Killerkitti Like my coffee black, just like my metal, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 1:11, archived)
# After looking up the word, I have decided I'm unconcerned if I'm nonchalant or not.
(max0000000000000 jokes, jokes, jokes, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 1:14, archived)
# Ludacris
jeez, get a spell-checker.
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:45, archived)
# I have one and it put that
And spelling isn't my strong point.
(max0000000000000 jokes, jokes, jokes, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:49, archived)
# haha
I was joking. More taking the piss out of his shit name.
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:52, archived)
# Your claiming you were joking?
That's Ludacris
(max0000000000000 jokes, jokes, jokes, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:56, archived)
# NME put John Prescott on the front cover last month.
He was in a mosh pit. Though it was entirely by accident due to his poor eyesight.
(Jeru War and Piss, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:43, archived)
# was he on fire?
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:43, archived)
# this question made me laugh
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:46, archived)
# No
He was looking for somewhere to vomit
(asciifaceofbob bob bob bob bob bob bob bob, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:46, archived)
#
John Prescott David Blunkett
(I helped save b3ta! the_rhyme_minister has a little bit of gold and a pager, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:44, archived)
# was he on fire too?
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:45, archived)
# No.
But his dog was.
(I helped save b3ta! the_rhyme_minister has a little bit of gold and a pager, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:47, archived)
# haha! not only blind but with a burnt dog!
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:49, archived)
# I bet it went
whoof

and disappeared in a puff of smoke
(Cluck needs a holiday, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:49, archived)
# The joke wouldn't really work then.
Given than David Blunkett isn't known for his consumption of monolithic quantities of food.
(Jeru War and Piss, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:49, archived)
# No,
but he is known for his poor eyesight.
(I helped save b3ta! the_rhyme_minister has a little bit of gold and a pager, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:51, archived)
# and his skilled tractor racing
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:53, archived)
# Hahaha yeah why not?
(I helped save b3ta! the_rhyme_minister has a little bit of gold and a pager, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 0:55, archived)