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“Too weird to live, too rare to die” being a quote about him is crazy because he never officially died, since his disappearance is still a mystery. What a legend
Pretty safe to assume he's dead @ this point...Most likely ran into some rival. dealers intent on ripping them off...Sailed right into an ambush, tried to run, then got followed/killed on an obscure island in the keys. Buried them in the sand, sunk their boat, then took off with their drugs...
Can we take a second to appreciate how fucking insane and alarming his character was in the movie? Benicio del toro absolutely owned that role. Dr gonzo stressed me the hell out for the whole film.
There he goes, one of God's own prototypes, some kind of high powered mutant, never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, too rare to die.
got that quote on my wall ... framed ... most think its about me ... the cultured know where it comes from and laugh .. only one writer could have written that ...
@@mikehughes4969 and a great one it would make ... gets a laugh on my wall every now and then . got photo of me next to it fresh outta prison tattooed up ...edit .. im 60 .. photo of me im about mid late 30s ...
😂😂 thru the whole movie he kept saying (as ur attorney I advise u to take) & then mentioned a different drug everytime💀 this is the best movie to watch trippin on shrooms💯 u see & notice much more shit lil details hidden in the background & the highs of each drug they take were a lil exaggerated at times but really on point. Natural Born Killers takes 2nd & is another great movie to watch on shrooms🍄 but nuthin beats this one. Fuçk watching it sober, drunk or just high on weed. Once you’ve seen it shrooming it’s like watching a completely different movie for the 1st time
How much is a slice of lemon meringue pie? 0.35 cents Three dollars? Four? Five? ..... That's fifteen slices? She got off easy with that prosthetic ass.
Thank you for giving Mr. Acostas story light, I very much enjoy fear and loathing but it makes a caricature out of him, and he deserves to be known outside that light, I'm going to keep an eye out for his books now and hopefully I can read them one day
@@kelleycondon6504 the movie with Bill Murray? I think it's just as good as Depp's movie, but in its own way. Depp definitely worked with HST and studied him closely.
When i rewatched the F&L movie after reading the novel, I was surprised how faithful it was and how many lines they actually took directly from it I wonder how many other movies based off books are like that
Look up the gonzo tapes. It's a set of 5 CDs. I got it years ago and haven't listened to it in a long time but probably will again soon..there are 1 or 2 CDs that are Thompsons recordings from when he was in Vegas.
Read his books as a younger man. I appreciated his creativity and madness. Didn't agree with everything he wrote about his Chicano experiences and conclusions but those were HIS experiences. I still respect his creativity and legacy. One of a kind and I'd recommend him to anyone looking to read something off the beaten path.
Is anyone actually familiar with his sports writing, especially his ESPN writings? Some sports writers are amazing, like Bob Costas. I just wonder if Hunter even liked sports and what his takes were like.
Oscar went on a boat and never came back. His story is findeable in Thompsons writing. He gives him an epitaph and famously hated speaking on the subject. Ralph (Stedman) wrote in the Jokes Over that Hunter would make a stabbing motion to his stomach when asked about zeta. Ralph felt it wise to not ask further and felt Thompson knew the fate of his friend. Somethings are better left alone.
'Strange Rumblings in Aztlan'. Over the decades, small gems like this article led me to picking up any of Thompson's books I chanced upon and reading them from cover to cover.
If he was smuggling drugs from Sinaloa during the 70's, he was most likely murdered by one of the cartels. Considering his body was never found it makes alot of sense.
@@listrahtes Didn't the guy DISAPPEAR? If so, he could very well have started Zeta. The point would be anonymity. Of course, he's probably dead by now, unless he's hooked up to some kind of evil genius type contraption.
I read this book by chance without knowing anything about hunter, back in the late eighties. I was 13 yrs old. Told my friends about it but they didn’t get it.
As a long time Hunter fan and addict to his work, I sincerely thank you for this video. I didn't know a lot of the information in here and it made my day to learn something new in the world of Thompson. Heartbreaking and strange at the same time.
Wow, thanks for doing this. I've been wondering why in all those years no one ever made a video about Oscar Acosta's mysterious disappearance. Weren't his last words supposedly something along the lines of "I'm boarding a ship of white snow" in a phone call with his son? I could be misremembering. But I hope I'm gonna find out when I watch the video now.
Honestly, I thought Dr Gonzo didn't exist. I thought he was just a personification of Gonzo Journalism. That definitively changes my thoughts on Fear and Loathing.
Fear and Loathing is one of my favorite movies and I've been a fan of Thompson since the 70s. I'm so glad you're focusing on Acosta, he should be celebrated! We don't even have a mural of him here in San Francisco.
I swear, this is hands down my favorite book ever. There was really something there. Hunter put his soul in that book and you can feel it. Fear and loathing in Las Vegas,that is.
Same praise to you too for excellent writing! I think I can see why you devided this video in five chapters... Thank you for sharing his story which otherwise would have been just the character to so many people who all know him as Dr. Gonzo. “If asked if you care about the world's problems, look deep into the eyes of he who asks, he will never ask you again.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Glad I discovered your channel. This is an excellent video! Keep up the fantastic work. I especially like the facts of how "Gonzo's" books came to be, how they came to be republished and ultimately that something that almost never was, turned out to be important. Very eye-opening. All around great!
We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously... All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody... or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.
That was the interesting thing about Hunter. He was older than most of the hippie generation so he had a more objective lens on who they were and the 1950s beatnik culture that it came from.
I recall reading the book and was super excited to see the movie. Depp's interpretation felt cartoony and forced to me, Del Toro's, on the other hand, really scared me, amazing role!
@@randalthor6872 he was a hardcore civil rights activist and counterculture figure. he disobeyed the law when i saw it as unjust. being a lawyer was simply a means to his larger goal as he was not beholden to the law but to the liberation of his peoples
Thank you for a video that was interesting, entertaining and edifying - superbly edited and narrated - about a legendary, enigmatic character who entered the iconography of modern American literature in a supporting role but who seems to have been larger than life.
Great piece my friend. This history is falling through the cracks. OZA's contribution to his time and our history have nearly been fogotten. Thanks for keeping it alive. Maybe the younger generations will hear or see this and it'll spark an intetest and bring about a revival. His books are truly worth the read and It'd be a shame if they were swallowed by time.
I remember Robo-Tripping at the State Fair as a young, dumb man, and likening it very much to some of Thmpson's experiences in F&L. I recall feeling as if the midway was a river, and the current was made out of people- an inescapable circuit of dread. I remember walking on the dead yellow August grass desperately trying to find my car to hide in, and believing that the ground we were walking on was actually horse hides stretched out in some sort of gruesome automobile graveyard. I've taken mushrooms and LSD since but neither one really produced the hallucinations like Robitussin did. I didn't really mess with it too many more times after that.
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
😎 Thanks Selador ⚓️ I was 15 in ‘70… a bewildered occupant of a Central Valley existence, groping thru an inadequate high school library. Finding a lightning rod on a shelf…. Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs, Hunter S Thompson. I checked it out and read the well worn pages… now I had context to the rows of cycles lining the streets of Hayward, Oakland, El Cerrito next to foreboding bars. What did it mean to have this a part of my knowledge? A small person, I never really could communicate my bewildered understanding of those men, why? Thanks to Hunter for letting me see and not have to get hurt, my voyeur satisfied and I put the book back on the shelf.🐔
if gonzo ever came by hunter thomas’s house… do we really think he would tell us? i assume he liked the mystery of the brown buffalo as much as everyone else . it would of only been once but i don’t think we would ever hear about it if he had visited again
I think the mint 400 was covered in "Dirt bike" magazine. I don't think "Sports Illustrated" ever covered such things. I'm pretty sure I had subscriptions to both mags at the time, coincidentally.
Oscar Acosta's other son is named Jaime, who later became a journalist and in turn was hired by CNN under the screen name of "Jim" Acosta. And so, an open ending loosely associated with non-related facts which may or may not really be considered related and/or facts at all, perhaps those are precisely the type of "alternative facts" that people speak of which may or may not lead someone to believe something that indeed may in all seriousness just be a rumor. But the hard truth of the matter is that this video was a great video full of information of which I was not aware. I now feel the need to go down that rabbit hole and find more information regarding Dr. Oscar "Gonzo" Acosta, regardless of what rumors might have been started by fools such as myself. Great video indeed. I knew very little regarding Hunter's lawyer even though twice in my lifetime I've dressed up as him for Halloween, TWICE. The latest time being at the Hollywood Bowl Halloween of 2021 for an awesome party hosted by a great Dead & Company band, when one of my friends dressed up as Hunter S T while I was his lawyer. At the time I was not aware of what the lawyer's REAL name was. Oddly enough, I just found out that the REAL name of Hunter's lawyer is Oscar, which just so happens to be my first name (REAL fact, not alternative fact).
man it reminds me of people my parents knew growing up or even me at different ages, like you grow up with some folks and then there gone for 3 years and all of a sudden they go through hell and back and it shows.
I read "The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo", great read highly recommended, if you can find it. Brings true light I to his life, and his life with Thompson. He's the Chicano version of Jimmy Hoffa.
Nah dude was killed over $86 dollars of cocaine! Lots of things end up never found that get lost in the desert and this includes bodies sometimes, especially when people are looking in the wrong place.
"In my mind I was swaddling back from the pencil sharpener in the very first grade classroom where an over empowered teacher labored systematically programing children to react anxiously to red ink" -My made-up Hunter Thompson quote while watching this video
Very good documentary for a person who's not even American! You must be able to feel the energy! Of The WEST! Theres another good video by a brit about the Luxor Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas
