Brush With Fame Double Whammy: Johnny Depp and Hunter S. Thompson

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December 1996, Louisville, KY. USA

I was a corpulent just twenty-one year aged art tyro with a mohawk as well as a love for solitaire a night of a The Hunter S. Thompson Tribute in Memorial Auditorium. we went with my mom. Behind us sat my psychiatrist who we secretly despised, cuddling with his mother in a approach that disgusted me. we was astounded to see him there. On theatre were Hunter Thompson as well as a bizarre group of people there to honor him including, if mental recall serves, his wheelchair-bound mother, Warren Zevon, as well as Johnny Depp.

Thomspson wore a shawl with ear flaps. Ron Whitehead, a poet as well as MC was playing up their connection in front of a packed house, his skinny body bending as well as swerving as he speed-read his poems with an enthusiasm normally indifferent for sixteen year olds losing their virginity. Thompson drunkenly hollered, Slow down! Slow down! It was obvious he was blitzed from a impulse he walked upon theatre as well as by a finish of a night he was hardly means to have himself understood. My shrink as well as his mother clutched during any other, stroking, comforting, terrorized. This satisfied as well as repelled me.

Thompson was accompanied by Johnny Depp. It was a duration before a release of Fear as well as Loathing in Las Vegas (the movie) during that Depp was watching Thompson for maximum fidelity.

After a show, we buckled myself in to a automobile with some other photography students as well as we sped through a streets in a mauve sedan upon a approach to a Bristol. Everybodys starting there! pronounced Cathy.

At a list in a Bristol sat a really aged Raoul Duke, packed in by fans a! s well a s more than a single beautiful lady he seemed to be ignoring in his stupor. we systematic a solitaire as well as tonic as well as hung behind a notation before coming a list to get a module from a show sealed for my mother. He seemed small as well as thin as well as his glasses magnified his large, watery eyes in a rootless candle light. Something about him reminded me of a frightened rabbit.

My mother just loves you. She got me to review Fear as well as Loathing when we was twelve.

You look similar to a plant of domestic violence, Thompson growled during me.

What creates we contend that?

Oh, lighten up honey. Its a joke. He scrawled something upon a module that covered a entire page as well as was completely illegible.

Thanks, we said. Dismissed.

My friends were sticking around, but we could travel home from there. Another splash competence have been nice, but we didnt have a cash. we sucked a rest of my bubbly beverage up through a tiny straw, as well as once upon a path in front, alone, we let a monster burp resonate in to a cold night air upon a empty street. To my left we listened someone say, Nice one. we looked. Johnny Depp was station in a shadows, smiling.

One as well many solitaire as well as tonics, we said.

I know a feeling.

Holy shit, we thought. Then we walked home by myself thinking of domestic violence.

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