Any Hunter Thompson/Charles Bukowski fans here?

[enigmatic]

If so, my station is playing Charles Bukowski's "Hostage" and an audio dramatazation of Hunter Thompson's "Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas" tonight at 9pm ET/6pm PT; you can listen here:

http://www.radioenigma.com

And if anyone has requests for future spoken word show lay them on me; I play everything...

[Swede]

1. Cool.

I love Hunter Thompson's stuff.

[enigmatic]

3. This is a good one..

Full-cast recording of "Fear And Loathing...."; I'll find the cast and post it..

[enigmatic]

6. Here is is:

http://www.gonzo.org/books/fl/flcdrev.html

[Hans Delbrook]

2. Love HST!!

Anyone else love The Curse of Lono?? (Though Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas will remain forever my favorite.)

[enigmatic]

5. I had the book years ago..

Swiped by an ex-girlfriend, dammit! I need to get another copy..

[Hans Delbrook]

9. I found mine, used, on line

I can't remember if it was ebay or Amazon but it was one of the two. It's in pretty good shape and I only paid $12 + shipping. Well worth it; Steadman's illustrations alone are worth that.

edited for spelling

[enigmatic]

12. I love Steadman's stuff..

I'm going to have top go look for it now..

[CrownPrinceBandar]

13. That's a great book!!!!!!!.....................................

I love the interplay between Thompson and the increasingly homesick Ralph Steadman. Priceless!

[davsand]

4. Do you have any audio of Bukowski

When he's reading from Love is a Dog From Hell? That is still my favorite all time collections of poetry, and I have never heard him read any of them. I have always wanted to hear his voice talking about some of those subjects...

Thompson rocks, and he is a lot of fun to listen to. He reminds me a lot of that guy who played the villan in the original Robo Cop film (and later the dad in That 70's Show) Good choices for a Sunday night!

Laura

[enigmatic]

8. I've got most of the Bukowski audio out there...

Let me look around and see what I have. If you've never heard "Hostage", it's a Bukowski poetry reading from 1980 where both him and the crowd get progressively drunker as the reading goes on..

It's got most of his "greatest hits" from that time period, and Bukowski's always hysterically funny to listen to. The guy is my hero, so I guess I'm a little biased..

[davsand]

14. I just about gave my college adviser a stroke with Bukowski.

I was in the teaching of English program at that time. I needed to develop a series of lesson plans for the teaching of poetry to "tough to reach" high school kids. I put together a list of poems I wanted to work with and submitted it to my adviser so we could review it together before the project went any further.

We were going over my proposed list and this poor old guy looks at some of the poets and the names of their works, and gets a bit twitchy in his chair. (I swear he had to have been at least 80 years old and I don't think he'd ever set foot in a bar or been laid in his entire life..)

He gets to Bukowski on my list, and quite literally goes pale. He starts sputtering, "You can't TEACH that..." He almost stroked out.

I did teach a couple of Bukowski poems later on in a lab class. The kids loved them.


Laura

[spanone]

7. That's Dr. Hunter Thompson. Fear & Loathing in the DU lounge.

[enigmatic]

10. My apologies!

Heh;)

[Zuni]

11. I love HST

He is one of the most interesting writers around

[enigmatic]

15. For anybody listening right now..

I have to reset the feed at the top of the hour before the show so if you get kicked off, just click back in and youll be ok..

[Hans Delbrook]

16. This is surreal - he killed himself tonight

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050221/ap_en_ot/obit_thompson_4

[Swede]

17. This is awful.

Awful awful fucking awful.

[enigmatic]

18. I can't believe this...

I'm going to scrap my overnight show tonight and play "Fear And Loathing..." all night in his honor. And get roaring drunk, too...

Goddammit, Hunter..

[Swede]

19. This still hasn't sunk in yet.

I told my nephew who is a huge fan,he said Johnny Depp is making another movie based on HST's books.