Thompson's Hell's Angels bio is one of my faves.

It's a good one. Seen this footage where he talks more than in the book about why he was stomped? Perhaps not surprisingly Hunter comes off better than the mouth-breathing biker.

I don't know. If you could still "beat your wife like a rug" it would be easier to get through some of marriage's rough spots. Hunter and the Angel both seemed to have more problems with the dog kicking.

Having spent a little time as a friend of a friend of a friend of some Angels many years ago, I think the problem was he got too comfy around them and figured he could say whatever he wanted. That just isn't the case.

My bafroom reading is a Courtney killed Kurt Cobain thing. She's a sociopath, but he...well, was in over his head and didn't know any other way out.

My take everywhere Kindle reading is Hunger Games. I'm only a little ashamed. Post apocalyptic shenanigans are right up my alley. And it's not horribly written like a lot of the teen books are.

Barry is it this?. http://www.btinternet.com/~teppic2000/KurtCobainCase/TomGrantCaseManual.pdf

that's by tom grant. he's the p.i. courtney hired to find kurt and tom subsequently began investigating kurts death as a murder, not a suicide.

courtney comes off as the true psycho that you thought she would be.

No. It's by 2 Canadians. They're big Grant fans, but things go deeper than that. Like they always do.

Yeah, I just never read On the Road. Picked it up at a used book store and glad I got it. Chose it over Desolation Angels.
RE: Thompson. I read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as well as Hell's Angels. Preferred the history of the H.A. There was a Jeopardy question where the answer was "Who was Sonny Barger?" You never know when stuff like that is going to be useful!

I've never understood why the HA, or any 1% organization, fly colours and tattoos that scream "hey, look at me!! Organized criminal here!".

Fear and intimidation. When I go to a titty bar and see a biker carding at the door, and a large contingent hanging out, wearing colors, I drink a lil more moderately, and my eyes are always scanning the joint. I also know that I may have to share my drugs in order to save my ass. I prefer to trade drugs with them, like the explorers giving indians beads and rum.

Plus, they're just good ole boys who happen to ride motorcycles. And deal crystal.

There was a clubhouse in the Valley years ago that could be rented out as a location. I forget the club. Outlaws, maybe?

Aren't Bandidos the ones that share Cali with the Angels? I'm having to Google it. It's whatever club Billy Queen infiltrated. Mongols. They went to war with the Angels in a casino in Laughlin (jondra?) a few years ago.

Is it just me, or would renting a 1% clubhouse to shoot in be kind of asking for trouble?

i'd like to check that out...

barry..you seen THIS?.

courtney is accusing grohl of sleeping with frances bean. god bless her crazy ass.

He certainly has way too much sense and taste in women to sleep with her mother.

I'm still trying to figure out if I would do her or not.




She's legal, right?

The daughter? In a heartbeat. Yes. Legal. I'd heard the Grohl thing. I thought it was funny Bean's reaction was "gross!". Was that aimed at the idea of banging Uncle Dave?

The daughter seems amazingly well adjusted for losing her dad, not to mention her "mom". Basically lost both parents. Here's hoping she breaks the cycle and gets away with her head intact.

But, yeah. She's really really fuckable.

It's Mongols/HA in Cali. One of the Bandidos up here went nuts here and murdered all his bros. The lead gunman used to troll homos at the parade.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shedden_massacre

The current HA prez in my hometown is an ex-Bandido.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Blotter/6436065/story.html

I remember the guys found in the car. Bikers be nuts.

Bean is 19 and denied the whole story. I just saw that blurb, didn't read the story, because Courtney Love has less credibility than Mom or Mammy.

I heard all I needed to about Courtney Love when I read that she worked up here in Anchorage at a strip club called PJ's. It was the most disgusting, shitty place you could imagine. All the girls working there were druggies and hookers. In a review I read of the place online, someone summed it up quite well by saying it was one of the only strip clubs around where you can see 3 generations of women from the same family all dancing together.

The place got shut down by the Feds for distributing cocaine. That sounds about right because it's the only bar I've ever been in where someone offered to sell me coke in the bathroom. It was one of those disgusting bathrooms, too. With a community trough rather than separate urinals.

Alaska must be quite a different place than the midwest. I'm not even a bargoing type, or even that social in general, and I've lost count of the number of times I've been offered to buy coke in a large public bar setting.

I don't think coke is a big deal up here. Heroin was becoming popular for a while there and there are always pockets of meth-heads here and there. And, of course, everyone smokes weed. I needed a light for my cigarette last night and flagged a guy down simply because he was wearing a matching coat & hat with marijuana leaves printed all over them. "Hey man, I KNOW you have a fucking lighter!"

Hows the meth and pill situation up there ? It's rampant here.

There are pockets of meth here and there, but it seems to be a bigger problem outside of Anchorage, in the smaller towns. I know this spot where I go fishing and it used to be mostly cool people at the clubs down there. Now, after 1am, everyone looks like a fucking zombie. All the normal people go home and the crazies stay out getting drugged up, fucked up, and riled up.

As far as the pill situation goes, it'd be worse here if the prices weren't so exorbitant. The prices are INSANE!!!!.. and not in a good way like at the mattress store or used car lot.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera)

^^ What's your opinion, Mr. Irons? I haven't read it myself and am still doubting if I should.

It's actually one of the few books ever assigned in a literature class that hasn't bored me to tears. Might be because I can really relate to the theme of it. I've never seen the film.

Read "The Joke," by Kundera. I enjoyed it immensely.

Reading some short stories by Clark Ashton Smith. Like Lovecraft on acid.

Second in the Hunger Games series. They're not the typical sappy tween writing. Certainly not on a (place favorite fiction writer here) level, but pretty readable.

The woman keeps nagging me to read those. I guess I kind of have to, as she reads every book I suggest.

They're not bad. I'm no fan of fiction or tween writing, but these are just a nice, empty calorie snack. You won't take any grand philosophical epiphany from it, but you won't have to put much effort into either.

Great Journeys
Travel essays on the Silk Road, Polynesian Triangle, Pan American Highway, Burma Road, Baltic to the Black Sea, The Salt Road, and The Ho Chi Minh Trail.

A lot of photos? I love a good travelogue.

Not many photos. Just a few. The book was produced in conjunction with the BBC and they made a tv series about it, too. Didn't see it. Book was worth reading.

Reading this article about the weed business in California. As you know, I can't smoke pot because I absolutely hate it, but this is a well-written piece involving everything from the unique business that is legal marijuana sales, the sub-culture of the people working in it, and the plight of said industry.

http://www.good.is/post/after-the-gold-rush

This has been sitting on my night table for a few weeks. I don't read as much fiction as I used to, but if you like Pulp Fiction or Snatch, then Moist, Delicious, Salty, and Baked, by Mark Haskell Smith, are definitely for you.

Smart-Aleck Kill by Raymond Chandler

The hate for 50 Shades of Grey runs strong with my friend Chilled_Stoli and me. She sent me this tumblr for it. I've no fucking idea why this book is #1.

http://50shadesofsuck.tumblr.com/page/40

My friend has heard that this book is a Tritone fantasy: A young black billionaire paying for the services of naive white girl in a "consensual" BDSM relationship. I can't seem to find any reference to fact that he is black, so I don't know where my friend got this info. Even it is not correct, it is fun to wind Tritone up about shit like this.

Any casting suggestions seem only to include the current crop of young, white, ectomorphic pretty boys that have been clogging up our cinemas for the past couple of years.

The SNL commercial parody about it on Saturday was pretty amusing.

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/amazon-mothers-day-ad/1400037

The Book of Deacon on my Kindle Fyre. Joseph Lailo

^^^Read parts of it over peoples' shoulder on the train in NYC. Yep, guilty pleasure. So many new books I discovered on the subway!

Ok, currently reading Going Raw. The author lives in L.A. and I took one of her classes last year. She had drinks and samples before class began, and they were OFF THE CHAIN DELICIOUS. Nice to see she has a book out now. Fun fact: Judita Wignall is also the hottie Judy Nails from Guitar Hero III.

Malachy McCourt's memoir A Monk Swimming. He's the brother of Frank McCourt, who wrote Angela's Ashes.
He frequented whorehouses, calling them "fleshpots." He had a wild life. He was once a gold-smuggler to India.

those mushroom top things in the right hand corner look good.

just finished this



sin city vol 6:booze broads bullets

great read and only 10 bucks.lots of little short stories,a few of which have characters youre familiar with from the movie i.e. marv,gale,manute,and nancy.

i think even the guy from the big fat kill was in this one but im not sure.i have to go back and watch the movie again.i just need 3 more and ill have all the stories(not including the movie ones,except for the hard goodbye which came with the dvd,but im not sure if i want to get those since i already know what happens and have the first one).

They're all quite good and worth reading - I read most of them after having watched the film.

yeah i came to that conclusion after readin the hard goodbye which came with the dvd.i love the art work/style too.who knows i might end up getting all of them.cant wait for sin city 2 the movie to come out.

One Steppe Beyond: Across Russia in a VW Camper (Wheeler)

For One More Day (Albom)

you really like reading huh brandon?did you finish the panzer land book already and then start this one^?


gonna start on this soon after amazon ships it.hardcover edition 500 pages,not the twinky 200 page one.

finished this last week in one sitting:

I don't know that I would ever go "all in" on a diet like this...however I am curious. Gia, did you say you actually get way more energy from this diet? What other benefits can you attribute to this type of diet as well?

Also, just looking at some of those photos... looks difficult to maintain a diet like that. Your input would be appreciated.