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Ether is referred to in Hunter S. Thompson's 1971 novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas for its drug effects, pointedly describing it as having the most powerful and depraved of possessions on men who take it. Thompson's descriptions of ether's effects in his novel are exaggerated and somewhat fictional.
Other songs from the album reference the title "Fear n Loathing" such as "Black Belt." and "Oh Lord." with the ending of the final song "Brand New Tn'$" possessing a tribute to the film, sampling the audio spoken by Duke "Too weird to live, too rare to die." Japanese electronicore band Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas is named after the book and ...
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a 1998 American black comedy adventure film based on Hunter S. Thompson's novel of the same name. It was co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam and stars Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro as Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo, respectively. The film details the duo's journey through Las Vegas as their initial ...
It is included as a special feature on the second disc of the 2004 Criterion Collection DVD release of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and labeled as Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood. According to his widow, Anita, the $3 million funeral was funded by actor Johnny Depp, who was a close friend of Thompson's.
Songs of the Doomed is mostly made up of pieces written between 1980 and 1990, but there is also some older material, including excerpts from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, his unfinished first novel, Prince Jellyfish, which is still unpublished, and The Rum Diary, which was not published in its ...
He is portrayed as a cynical, mentally unbalanced, Gonzo journalist [citation needed] whose daily life is a near-perpetual state of intoxication on whatever drugs happen to be available – ranging from cannabis to amyl nitrite to adrenochrome – in an attempt to keep the spirit of the 1960s, a time which he speaks of romantically in Fear and ...
A Samuel Johnson quotation serves as an epigraph in Hunter S. Thompson's novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man." Stephen King uses many epigraphs in his writing, usually to mark the beginning of another section in a novel.
The Fear and Loathing Letters, Vol. 1: The Proud Highway: The Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman 1955–1967. Random House, 1997, ISBN 0-375-75020-7 (Trade Paper) Random House Publishing Group, 1997, ISBN 0-679-40695-6 (Trade Cloth) Random House Publishing Group, 1997, ISBN 0-679-45285-0 (Trade Cloth)