One of the great writers of our era, Hunter S. Thompson - dead on his own terms and at his own hand at 67.
In a strange and ironic turn of events, two days after I wrote my review of his recent essay collection Hey Rube, Hunter S. Thompson took his own life at his home Owl Farm in Woody Creek, Colorado. So far there is very little hard news about Thompson's death, except that it was suicide and the body was found by his son Juan and his new wife Anita was out of the house at the time. Thompson's close relationship with Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis means that very little info about his death is getting out besides a basic AP report which all the newspapers are picking up for their late editions.…
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26 - alienboy
Nalle: never heard of New Order? If that's not some subtle attempt at humour (unlikely!), you need to spend a lot more time in Receive mode, rather than Transmit.
In addition to the above mentioned, BOTH fine albums, you can find "Movement" or, for a quick introduction, go for the non-stop fun remixes and 12" versions found on the "Substance" compilation.
Then you might want to consider exploring their ancestor band Joy Division - but if you do, please don't say that their best song is "Love Will Tear Us Apart" as most people do. It isn't, not by a long way.
*wanders off, muttering to self...*
27 - Aaman
Not sure if the suicide connection (JoyDiv/NewOrd and HST) was intentional in Jim's choice of band to berate Dave.
Natural comparison to bloggers, Dave
28 - Dave Nalle
Ok, Joy Division I'm familiar with. Is 'hate' too strong a word? Can't stand their music. Though I did see an amusing and bizarre biopic on the guy who started the record label they were on. And I have heard of New Order, just known nothing at all about them and haven't really heard their music to my knowledge. But if they're like Joy Division I haven't missed much.
BTW, I am familiar with OMD and the Gang of Four - does that help?
Dave
29 - Eric Olsen
New Order is considerably less dark than Joy Division if for no other reason that Bernard's high, thin vocals couldn't be much more different than those of Ian Curtis. New Order is also, strangely, both more electronic and more organic than Joy Division.
Bill Sherman reviewed a best-of collection here
30 - Dave Nalle
Bleh, MORE electronic than Joy Division? Not my bag of fish.
Dave
31 - alienboy
The Factory Records label was one of the great artistic successes of the Manchester punk and post-punk scene.
Itwas actually run by a group of people but I'd guess Nalle saw something featuring Tony Wilson, who is one of the more interesting brains of that scene. He was a journalist and TV presenter before the punk scene started. The fact that he got involved rather than simply maintaining journalistic disconnection always struck me aas impressive.
If you listen to the first Joy Division album, Unknown Pleasures, on some dark angry night of the soul, really really loud, you will hear some of the most pained rock since iggy and the stooges first bled!
And Olsen is right, New Order are both more Electronic and more Funky than JD
32 - Jim Carruthers
I was actually thinking more Martin Hannett.
But all I really want is if I want somebody to die, I'll suggest Dee Nalle graze their work, process what he can, and expell the methane cloud of death.
Feel free to read Bukowski and Burroughs or Kathy Acker because they are already dead.
If you go anywhere near Harry Crews, I will slap a retraining order on you. The same with Terry Gilliam.
Courtney Love, on the other hand ...
oh, who am I foolin', she's got diseases which would kill you with a sneeze.
You could probably try to bugger Tucker Carlson to death or give Coulter a blowjob.