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777, The Qabalistic writings of Crowley and the upcoming Christian calendar date: 07/07/2007 harmonize with several interweaving themes observable in society, such as the mindless gambling halls in Las Vegas offering 777 as a lucky jackpot win, Hollywood films like Aronofsky’s The Fountain, the Wizard of Oz, and the thoughts of America’s most honest an talented Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. An interesting discovery I found related to my Walt Disney research is the Tree of Life at the center of “The Animal Kingdom” theme park. The occult and Epcot-like architecture of Las Vegas has also undoubtedly lured Wacko Jacko there as he is to make it his new home.
Link: Fear and Loathing, 777, and the Tree of Life
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Link: Hunter S. Thompson interviews Keith Richards
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Hunter S. Thompson lives on. In the play, Gonzo: A Brutal Chrysalis, performer and writer “B. Duke” incarnates the Last Free American Writer as he was during the intense and difficult years 1968-1971.
The play’s publicity package tells it like this: “Fresh from his breakthrough success chronicling — and nearly being beaten to death by — the Hells Angels, Thompson embarks on a one- and two-man war on the Death of the American Dream. From Big Oil and the Big Three to the NRA and the Kentucky Derby, Richard Nixon and the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the usual suspects are strafed and castrated by the Man Who Would Be Raoul.
“What he could not conquer from without, he co-opted from within by becoming the single greatest and most effective danger that anyone before or since has been to the bipolar establishment that is American politics.”
I would only add that on November 11, 1971 Rolling Stone published the first installment of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. And in the following year, they ran his Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ‘72. A generation was thus given an opportunity to learn the truth about America in the only way it could truly be told, through a cracked acidic lens that blurred fiction and fact and came to be called “Gonzo Journalism.”
Link: Raising Hunter S. Thompson
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4764643604852321182
Link: Was Hunter S. Thompson murdered? A documentary