Hunter S. Thompson wrote this in 1976, when he was 40 years old - I thought it was fitting:
"So there is no rational way to explain, now, just how strange and profoundly unsettled I feel at the prospect of living to be forty years old - under any circumstances; but certainly not with a wife, a son, my own valley fortress in the Rockies, and the genuinely rotten task of lashing together a book of my own writings.Which is weird, folks, so try to bear with me. I might have some trouble making a case for the bedrock-strangeness of things like having a home and a family and somehow managing to live past the age of thirty... Because a lot of people have done those things and survived a lot longer than I have, for good or ill; but the factor that queers my equation is the one about living ten years longer than anybody would have bet on, in a free-falling high-speed limbo I was never prepared for, and to look back on it now and realize that I got paid real money all that time for just wandering around in the world and writing about whatever got in my way..."
And another fitting quote:
"The Edge...There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
Hunter S. Thompson committed suicide yesterday - shot himself in the head. Damn. I've read 3 of his books in the past month and a half, and just yesterday I burned a vcd for a friend of Hunter on Conan Obrian. He lived a hell of a life.
Today I went to my Grandma's memorial service. Saw a lot of relatives I haven't seen in many years. People recognized me because I look a lot like my dad, I got called Ken a couple of times. It was kind of awkward but I'm glad I went.
I went to see Million Dollar Baby today. This is bar none the best film I've seen in the past year, perhaps several years. For about the first two thirds it's basically a female Rocky, but then it takes a dramatic twist. The trailers won't give you any idea of what kind of movie this ends up being. Great acting by Hillary Swank, Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman, and a brilliant story.