I think he was talking about tv with the cruel and shallow money trench,
but one could substitute...
I always liked this H.T. quote:
"We had two bags of Grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets
of
high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole
galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers.... also a
quart
of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether, and
two dozen amyls... but the only thing that worried me was the ether.
There
is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the
depths of an ether binge..." --- HST '71
from "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
One of the funniest, yet most sage books ever written. Never failed to
make me laugh when I didn't feel like laughing. Keep loaning it out -
never get it back.
Others I love for the same reason,
"Slaves of New York" by Tama Janowitz (sp?)
"Hieronymous Bosch and the Oranges of Big Sur" by Henry Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 05/29/2000 12:38:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> << > "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench,
> > a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free,
> > and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
> > --Hunter S. Thompson
> >
>
> >(It's maybe curious why this truism isn't expressed in backwater-urban
> >artworld-circles.) Why trust an 'artist?'
>
> It isn't? Seems like it's discussed plenty in this neck of the woods.
>
>
> >"To be truly radical, one must make hope
> possible, rather than despair convincing." >>
>
> And a sense of humor helps too.
