We were somewhere around Barstow

[EstimatedProphet]

on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas just started on IFC!

[Cleita]

1. I f you were there more than an hour, drugs help a lot.

:-)

[LeftCoast]

2. Ain't that the truth?!

:)

[camero]

6. Question

Do the Barstow cops still like to hang out near the I40-I15 split?
A speed trap if I ever saw one.

[Cleita]

7. That I don't know because the last time we broke down there

was in 1998. There are a bunch of speed traps in small towns though including the one I live in now. :-)

[camero]

9. 2001

was the last time I was there and I just stopped for dinner and left. Any more than an hour and you do need a sedative to be there. :)

[EstimatedProphet]

3. One of the things I always liked about this movie

is how thoroughly Johnny Depp becomes Hunter Thompson. He really has his voice and mannerisms down pat!

[markus]

4. I remembe saying, "I feel a bit light headed. Maybe you should drive"

and suddenly the air was filled with hundreds of bats driving and swooping around the car which was driving with the top down to Las Vegas."

Or words to that effect, my last copy is loaned out again.

[Elidor]

5. There is nothing more depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge

[Gman]

8. "A drunk person can cope

with seeing their dead grandmother crawling up their leg with a knife in her teeth..."

[theoceansnerves]

10. you should

check out the dvd. it's got an older bbc documentary on thompson that rivals the movie itself.

[Earth_First]

11. I'm a big Ralph Steadman fan too...

you should check out his stuff in depth,

[Old and In the Way]

12. The opening passage of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is classic.

I liked the way some of the pages and bolts and smears on them...a very messy manuscript....

Gawd, those were the days...