When I watched The Rum Diary it made me wanna read the book on a beach, somewhere nice and hot. And when I read the book it made me wanna go to Puerto Rico and drink Rum and swim in a bay…

Heres a quote:

‘The scene I had just witnessed brought back a lot of memories – not of things I had done but of things I had failed to do, wasted hours and frustrated moments and opportunities forever lost because time had eaten so much of my life and I would never get it back. I envied Yeoman and felt sorry for myself at the same time, because I had seen him in a moment that made all my happiness seem dull’

Hunter S Thompson is a unique kind of writer. I love his messages; he gives them so straight. I hope no one tries be like him. Sad to know he’s dead; but then they always seem so much greater when they’re not alive to proclaim themselves as anything.

I loved Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Johnny Depp is cool. For me, its part of a collection of films that I’ll always be able to watch and enjoy like the first time. I just started the book, and the perfect quotes are all there again:

‘Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. But no explanation, no mix of words or music can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time in the world. Whatever it meant…’