HST is amazing

The American Dream has simply died with hst. I read a few of his books and understand his life, and the dream, but once he died every little light of hope died with it.

HST was a psychopath. His brilliance is nothing more than a hard stop on the evolutionary path of slapstick comedy. What he wrote was real life stuff, sure he exaggerated, but it was real, there were witnesses. Slapstick always involves schadenfreude, there has to be victims for his kind of humor to work. Gonzo, by its very nature, must leave real-life victims in its wake!

well then, this is the dividing line. in the beginning rs was a subculture mag that made it’s reputation on reporting cutting edge music (mostly rnr & roots & branches), young culture, and was looked to for it’s intentionally alternative view of a world controlled by a very different generation. hst was a big part of that.

today, rs is alive as a pop music (read:top 40) and people magazine. i don’t know anyone (older than 16) that is serious about music that considers rs a relevant mag (unless you are referring to something printed before 1980). i would recommend paste (amazing- even comes with a sampler disc), or even spin well above rs.

unfortunately, the days of cameron crow and hunter thompson are well behind us. if i were rs and i wanted to get people like me to buy a current issue (or spend 20 minutes writing on message boards), i would probably put hst or zeppelin on the cover, to remind us of what was once a great resource for music, culture, and the gonzo reporting of the savage journey into the heart of the american dream. i won’t buy a subscription, but i might pick this one up on the news stand.

RS does NEED some work. Trying to make pedophiles look like the victims, talk about a case of Head-up-the-Ass!

But you can never have too much Hunter!

fucker? what a filthy mouth on you!

Cazart! I can’t wait for this issue. I’ve read everything I can find Hunter has ever written and look forward to reading more. The man was brilliant. It is a shame it ended as it did. Thank God RS doesn’t feel the need to cater to you fuckers that can’t stop and think about where we came from and how we got here.

and that is not to take anything away from Thompson who is my favorite journalist/author/crazy fucker ever

it really does feel like rolling stone either covers something from the 60’s/70’s OR some uninspired crappy pop music as far as current bands go. why no my morning jacket, wilco, kings of leon, arcade fire, etc? these are the real rock bands making good music these days and other than a short quarter page blurb or mention on an online post, they’ll never been seen within the pages of this rag, let alone on the cover. give the real music fans what they want!

why the hell does Rs ONLY Cover OLD stuff. How bout some smashing pumpkins?? What abou0t the White Stripes, or Nine inch nails. RS is too stuck up its ass in the 60`s that it no longer covers CURRENT popular music. I am going to have to wait 30 years to hear about Rock/ALTERnative bands that are on my CURRENT playlist? Peace. When this comes in the mail, im just skiping the cover story.This guy may be amazing, but ive never heard of him.

HST was the fucking man. Period. If you don’t appreciate his work, you either don’t know anything about it or are more likely a sheep.

The GRIM REAPER has come to TAKE YOU AWAY!

Hmm, so I still have another year of my sub left. So that’s good for, what, like 10 more Hunter stories? Way for Jann to put the book he helped write on the cover. Fuck this magazine. And you know, Hunter may have been a great writer, but fuck him too. We’re celebrating a suicide over and over again, and I’m so sick of reading about it.

Will you guys ever stop it with this nostalgia stuff?

YES, absolutely, Hunter S. Thompson is one of the handful of most important connections that Rolling Stone has ever had. And yes in some sense he is ‘literature’ and did important work. But you guys glamorize this ‘gonzo’ journalism and NEVER look behind it. You’ve done this for years and it’s about as fresh and interesting as a Bob Marley poster being on every dumb fratboy’s dorm wall.

A *little* education is a dangerous thing. It’d be nice if the journalistic side of Rolling Stone would ever grow or expand outside of its late teens. Sometime.

(Wonders if the article will have the same anti-Nixon points that EVERYONE has learned by now… I know it will.)

This guys was such an amazing writer. Its insane how good he was. I dont know how people who are so head and shoulders better than contemperaries function in normal society. It boggles my mind. No wonder Hunter did so much drugs…

I agree, more people should find worth in this man’s works, call them that. Yuk, terrible.

Oh wow. Was I ever wrong. “Someone awful” this is not.

But Fall Out Boy and Hunter S. Thompson should not be in the same company in any scenario. So yeah, RS, cut that shit out.

You’re a sick man, Joe. Good for you!

Hunter should be as ingrained in American culture as baseball, apple pie, Chevrolet, and rape.

hunter s thompson is the only writer that i know of who was never not entertaining with his words. in other words, he was fucking amazing

I actually am reading The Rum Diary right now. Its terrific. To everyone complaining. Pick up Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Read it. Your mind will defintley change on the current issue of this magazine.

It’s a terrible shame more people do not find this man’s work to be worthwhile.

My ye gods of the written word still look upon Hunter with great pride.

The rest of you can pound sand.

This is supposed to make me want to get the next issue? RS is really sucking lately.

Thanks RS! I can now forgive for your Zac Efron cover. Can’t wait to receive the issue.

It only took me 2 minutes to realize why I canceled my RS subscription years ago and never come to this site.

*out*

Boring.