Prison V040 By The Red Artist Repack
Note: I assume “Prison v040” refers to a release (mod, repack, demo, or album) titled "Prison v040" associated with an entity called The Red Artist and specifically a “repack” version. Because the name could point to several different mediums (music album, demo-scene release, game mod, software crack/repack, or visual/interactive art piece), I’ll treat the subject as a cultural release and document its origins, versions, technical details, artistic intent, distribution, reception, and legacy. I assume the reader wants an exhaustive, historically grounded narrative rather than a short summary.
“this is alas just another film that panders to the image Thompson himself tried to shirk – the reckless buffoon that is more at home on fraternity posters than library shelves. It is a missed opportunity to take the man seriously.”
This is an excellent summary on the attitude of the seeming majority of HST ‘admirers’.
It just makes me think that they read Fear and Loathing, looked up similar stories of HST’s unhinged behaviour and didn’t bother with the rest of his work.
There is such a raw, human element of Thompsons work, showing an amazing mind, sense of humour, critical thinking and an uncanny ability to have his finger on the pulse of many issues of his time.
Booze feature prominently in most of his writing and he is always flirting with ‘the edge’, but this obsession with remembering him more as Raoul Duke and less as Hunter Thompson, is a sad reflection of most ‘fans’; even if it was a self inflicted wound by Thompson himself.